I start to slowly wake from the abyss of sleep,

"Ow" I tried to sit up but I was unable to due to the pain in my body that feels as if someone took a hammer and smashed every joint in my body. Instead of getting up I decide to look around to figure out where I am exactly and it seems I was drug into one of the hotel rooms.

"Ah! you're awake finally. Kinda an obvious question but how are you feeling after all that?"

Amelia pulled a chair next to bed that I was resting on. She was visibly relieved at me surviving. To answer her question I look at my body and I looks like my wounds healed to the extent that I would stop bleeding and that's about it.

It would seem that I have exceeded my regeneration with the damage I took as apparently my limb loss was permanent this time.

"Well could be worse I suppose, but I am gonna have to figure out how to deal with being one arm short."

"yeah...Hector?"

"Yeah?"

"How come you fought that thing instead of leaving?"

"ah... well, you see I have this voice inside my head that screams for me to fight the monsters sometimes, and my body refuses to run away. I lost control of my body's actions for the most part. It has happened twice now, but the extent I lost control wasn't as bad this time as it was last time it happened."

"I guess that makes sense. I am surprised you are alive at all after the number of wounds you received from fighting."

"Yeah, it seems that my regeneration stopped at some point though. How far away is this room from where I fought that thing?"

At hearing my question she looked somewhat embarrassed.

"Unfortunately, we are only a couple rooms down from the fight, as I struggled to drag you into a room before anything else showed up."

"Don't worry about it, I didn't figure you would be able to drag a limp body that far, as it would be kinda hard. Also thanks for coming back and distracting the thing for me, quite frankly I didn't expect it."

"You're welcome, it's just I once had someone who I was close to protect me from a couple of thugs years ago and the unfortunately ended up dying from the injuries they received to the head. I wasn't able to do anything for him them, but I wanted to at least help you."

hmm, that would make sense why she would do something like that. I wonder if before this all happened would I have stepped forward in her shoes? Probably not I don't think.

After my parents died I didn't really care what happened to others.

"I appreciate it nonetheless, how long was I out cold btw?"

"A day"

That isn't too bad but we need to get up to my place as we don't really have that many supplies on hand. Wait, I got stronger the last time I ate that rock thing from the monster's body. I wonder if it dropped any? Maybe I will get my arm back. I sure fucking hope so as I am gonna struggle to fight with only one arm.

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"Can you help me up?"

"no, you should rest more, your body is still in bad shape."

"I need to check that monster's body if he dropped something, and if he did I might be able to heal up by eating it. I have eaten something like it before and it made me stronger than I was and that is why I lost so much weight."

"Okay"

Amelia helped to get out of the bad despite every bone in my body yelling at me to stay down and helped me to the door.

"Wait, check if there is another thing out in the hall before we leave."

Amelia nodded her head and slowly cracked the door open and peaked her head out the door to check and she gave the thumbs up so we left the room and headed to the massive dead body in the middle of the hall.

Let me see if that bastard had any drops hehe.

Luckily after plunging my fist in his chest I managed to find another rock and this time it had a tinge of silver in the center. Hmm, weird though I guess this is only the second one I have found.

I proceeded to consume it and I immediately got a mind-shattering headache that lasted roughly five minutes before I heard the voice that was telling me to fight again, but this time it was more human-like though still gritty.

'Congratulations human, you have earned the right to mutate into a higher form of undead.'

'huh, what do you mean, and why are you more... civilized in your speech.'

'well, at first you simply weren't strong enough, and the only way I could get you to be is forcing your body to fight those monsters and luckily you found a stone of a level 2 monster.'

'Level 2 monster? Are you talking about that big fucker that almost killed me. Also, why do are in my head, what exactly are you?'

'Honestly, there isn't much I am allowed to tell you right now except that you were lucky enough to survive being infected, and that's why I am here. Also, my purpose is to help you get stronger. I will provide something that should help you along the way.'

*system booting up*

"Ah!" I almost jumped at a black window with white letters showing up in front of my face.

"What's wrong? Is the rock not helping?" Amelia asked as she was worried that maybe it hurt me.

"Oh, no I am fine it just felt weird going down."

"I see" Amelia looked as if she didn't quite believe but didn't have any reason to say otherwise

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Level: 1

Life Energy: 30

---- numerical value of how much damage you can take before death

Stats:

Strength: 15

-----affects physical strength

Agility: 10

-----affects your ability to dodge things and how fast you are

Life Force: 15

-----affects how

Instinct: 8

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Skills:

(Unique Passive)Regeneration: novice

----- allows you to heal from injuries. Speed and how often you can heal is affected by the life force. Each time you regenerate you use a portion of your regen points depending on the severity of the damage you took. Current points: 15

----- regen points also naturally restore over time and that is increased by the level of Regeneration you have

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'Wtf is this. Did you give me a system?'

'Yeah, that is the easiest way for people to... wait I can't tell you that. Anyways yeah you have a system that will guide and assist you in getting stronger and plus you won't have lose control of your body anymore. Also, you won't hear from me again until you mutate to level 5 so good luck until them'

'wait....' and he is gone isn't he. Fuck, I guess I'll be able to ask him more later. I wish he could have told me how to get to level 5 in the first place.

*Congratulations on consuming a level 2 chaos crystal, you have obtained enough chaos energy to mutate to level 2*

*level1-level 2*

*You gained 4 points to distribute among your stat points and gained a static +4 to life force because of the stats of the creature you killed*

Nice, I might as well distribute the four into my strength since I am already getting a plus in my life force. Also, I wonder what those other stats are? Maybe I will see them when I get stronger.

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Life Energy: 30-38

Strength: 15-19

Life Force: 15-19

Regen points: 19

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"Ahem"

Oh, I probably look crazy staring off into space like this. Oh boy, I guess it probably isn't a good idea to bring up this system I have obtained.

"Uh, sorry, I was just absorbing the energy from the crystal and I was distracted."

"Okay"

'Fwoosh'

My body started to regenerate again and then my arm started to restore itself as well. Honestly, it is both disgusting and fascinating watching my arm piece itself back together. After it's done I give my arm a couple of swings and squeeze my hand to make sure everything is functioning again.

"Good as new haha, I guess it's time to head up now don't you agree?"