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The bloodbath finally ended, I stood glued to the monitors. Firstly to see if I find a human and secondly to absorb as many informations as possible, about these weird creatures.
No luck in seeing a living human...just a body part or two among the corpses of those creatures, hopefully some were as lucky as me and survived. But the second part proved to more fruitful, but also disgusting.
After slaughtering one another, the creatures separated into four groups and dragged as many of the corpses as they could. (Seems what they kill doesn't dissipate.)
Three groupsps seemed logical, but one stood out. The group in the North sector was formed out of insectoids, the one in the East exclusively of giant rats, in the South sectoror were the reptilians and in my sector were the slimes with the frogs. (What did the last group have in common?...besides being slimy.)
The functioning cameras prove to be a great strategic asset. I could now locate where the majority of creatures and where their lairs were. ( Need to make a map later ! ). The structure of the building, of a four cornored star, seemed to be a perfect for the creatures to delimit territories.
The previous violence was now replaced with building nests, licking wounds and resting.
(Now what I should do?)
No internet, no signal on my smartphone or the satellite phone I found here and the radio wasn't any helpful. I took a risk and opened the steel door and took a few steps outside with the devices, but no success.
While making a quick inventory of the stuff in here...I remembered the messages I saw earlier! As a gamer, fan of fantastical and sci-fi, my mind expeled the dark cloud that was looming over me before and now was in overdrive.
Jack: ...abilities..."Interface!","Menu!","Character!"...!!!! Finally the last word had an effect!
Jack SilversLevel:3Experience:75%Abilities:Accel; Growth x 3; Down the Rabbit Hole9 status points
I was frozen in time, looking at something that can only be described as weird and awesome at the same time.
Driven by curiosity, I touched each word, the feeling was similar to a flimsy sheet of plastic. No reaction until "Accel"...
AccelRarity:RareType:Physical-ActiveRandom ability granted by the system. Can double the overall speed of the user, consuming the user stamina at the same rate as normal. Usable in short bursts of 1 minute each with a 2 minute cool down.
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It hit me like a lightning bolt. This is the reason I survived. I thought that the situation made me run so fast, being pumped full of adrenaline, but in realty it was a combination of the two.
(I need to test this now!) After putting my smartphone on record and positioning it, I started filming myself. Doing a bit of shadow-boxing was my first idea. Father thought me a few moves and punches when I was little, not much of a fighter or athlete for that matter, but this was something that gave me confidence and something I practiced a few minutes in the mirror everyday. Like breathing air, my body moved naturally and fluidly then I thought "Accel!". Now I felt something like a surge and kept going at an amazing speed it felt longer than a minute, then suddenly I felt slow...and I stopped looking at my hands.
Jack: Wow...
Only these words could describe this feeling. Not waiting a second more I looked at my video. At first it was a normal one-two, an uppercut a bit of swaying, then it came... the speed. I looked like an action hero, that speed was something comparable to World Champions.
(What about the rest?!) Immediately I checked the others.
Growth x 3Rarity:EpicType:Special-PassiveExtra ability granted for being in a dungeon at the system activation. Tripels status points, skills growth,abilities growth and magic growth.
Jack: This is what they call OP,but not to much help at the moment...now let's see the one with strange name.
Down the Rabbit HoleRarity:EpicType:Psionic-ActiveExtra ability granted for being in a grand dungeon at the system activation. Psionic ability of the teleportation branch.
I was surprised by "Accel", but when I tried the last one I was left speechless... I played with it until a headache made me pass out, I probably had a big smile on my face.
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