“let’s see how you survive the ancient blood.”
Was what Iko heard as the beasts of metal started to get near her, she didn’t even pay them attention either way, not when she felt her body and soul were about to explode from the gruesome substance that was entering to her body through the cables in her body, she tried to break them but they wouldn’t budge when hitting them, she noticed one of the beast trying to bite her with… it’s mouth? Iko, scared, decided to use the cable to hit the beast, and for her surprise, it didn’t work, the cable broke and started covering the beast, who now was starting to get a form, and her mind didn’t hurt when watching it anymore.
She didn’t wait for that thing get over that as she did the same with the other cables, the one’s extracting what she guessed was her blood and the ones injecting her with the black ichor, who by the words of the strange man, she guessed it was that supposed “ancient blood” her body still hurt but it didn’t increase, happy with that she turned to the beasts, who were all washed with her and the ancient blood, now the 3 with what is the nearest thing they would get of a form, the left one looked like a tiger of some sort, she could only guess that by how it’s body moved, the center one was kind of a bird? It didn’t have wings, so she wasn’t so sure, the right one looked like a snake, a big snake, but without a head.
Iko, who now could move her body more freely than before, but still hurting like hell, stayed still as the beasts looked like they lost their target, probably the black ichor covering whatever they used to find her.
“Infront of you, dumbasses!” screamed the man who looked a bit nervous now that Iko was seeing him, why was that? She dodged to the side just before the bird stabbed her with its beak, she dodged that but couldn’t dodge the bite of the tiger as it bit her arm off, it hurt, it hurt more than when the soldier did it with it’s pain increasing ability, it almost felt as when Folkur fractured her soul, wait, could it be?
When she turned to the man, she saw him laughing “it hurts right? Hehe, your dumb idea of covering them with ancient blood didn’t weaken them and they become stronger and now they can hit your soul with your physical body too! I must thank you! I was trying this for a long time now.”
Iko, who got distracted for a moment because of the man talking didn’t see the snake go around her legs, making her fall she tried to push it away but even with both arms she couldn’t wait, I have my arm back? Her thoughts were broken when the snake snapped her legs, who started to regenerate before her eyes but it still hurts as hell, she come to a theory, the ancient blood regenerated her body as incredible speeds and since she also had it in her soul… that means her soul is also regenerating? She thought that maybe she will be able to defeat them if she run for long enough to regenerate her soul completely since she still felt a terrible headache and nauseas for being attacked by a souls shattering attack 3 times in her life, when normal people don’t even receive 1 in their entire life.
It didn’t work, pain, again and again, apparently she is only regenerating what the ancient blood thought was her original soul as it wasn’t regenerating what Folkur broke, and she was attacked by the tiger claws and teeth, the bird beak and claws and the snake whip-like tail, her soul and body destroying again and again just to regenerate, the problem was that even if her body could manage the pain by the repeating process her soul couldn’t ever manage the pain, destroying and regenerating for what she felt were days now, after being captured by the snake she couldn’t escape in enough time and was now captured in this process of destroying and regenerating.
Do you want to stop the pain?
She heard a voice, a distorted voice that felt like destroying her mind with just it’s presence, and then another voice came, this one more gentle but more robotic than the last one.
Do you wish to accept the [System]?
It would be impossible to have a coherent thought while being destroyed and healed for the last month, yes a month, the bitch of the man put a counter on the ceiling as she was in the ground, she actually didn’t know how much exactly after all the bird decided to not spare her face and decided to eat all of her face as it could, tongue, eyes, nose, every bit of her face was being devoured by the bird, so she couldn’t see how much time has passed now.
The voices spoke again at the same time.
Say yes and I will help you.
Say yes and you will unlock the [System]
You have 10 minutes to decide. (both bold and cursive and the line means they talk at the same time)
What does that mean? Though Iko, she had heard about the start-up of the system, but normally it doesn’t ask you if you want or not and what is the other voice? Her line of thoughts is interrupted when the bird bites her brain for the third time making her lose consciousness for a moment before it starts regenerating, making her scream in pain when she recovers conscious, not knowing how many time has passed since the warning to choose, expect she do knows, for some reason, she has a timer in her mind and it said that she had 3 minutes left.
Iko didn’t know what to do, she wanted the system but what about the other voice? Was it really safe? She was scared if saying yes would accept both or only the one she wanted, she tried to move, but couldn’t so this time when her eyes regenerated she bite the bird beak, making it jump back in pain, or whatever it feel since it was made of metal and the ancient blood, she then tried to move her arm, who broke itself of the force of the tiger destroying it with it’s claws while it ravages her insides with its mouth, making her organs spill to the side when they weren’t eaten, she then did a punch with her hand and tried punching the tiger off her, knowing the power of the blood she decided to move it over to her arm, which then exploded in the tiger face making it jump back.
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Iko screamed as her arm was destroyed by the blood to then regenerate again but in a different way this time, there were scales in her arm an her hand became a claw, trying to get a thought she used the claw in the snake, which it worked surprisingly well leaving a deep mark in it’s body letting her go, she then made her decision and yelled “YES!”
Integreating the [System] by the user’s request…
Good! I was getting bored of seeing you getting eaten all month!
Words started to appear in front of her eyes, it said some simple words, but with heavy meaning.
[System] integrated…
Please call on your status screen
The other voice didn’t talk this time, but she wasn’t going to ask herself why since the metal beasts were coming closer.
“Status screen!”
Name: Iko
Race: Human
Level: 01
Stats: Physical: 10
Mental: 15
Mystic: 18
Artifacts: None
Skills: None
Unique skills: None
Is this the [system]? Thought Iko, it looked… simpler that she thought it would be, she expected a more sophisticated thing, not just a panel with some numbers… she dodged to the side as she clearly ran out of time to think about that, the metal beasts were coming at her just after the snake jumped at her, Iko, looking at her stats one more time, she remembered that usually first time [system] users had at least 1 skill, and that was identify, but why didn’t she have it? It didn’t make sense. Dodging one more time Iko decided to counterattack the bird, since she had a personal vendetta with it, since it spent a month munching on her head, she used her claw to cut at its neck, cutting it like butter, what are these claws made of?! Thought Iko, she was really just cutting metal like it’s some kind of wheat, thought losing its head didn’t help much since it just… started levitating and attaching itself again.
“Bring it on losers! I’ll take revenge for what you did to my body!”
Then the voice spoke again
Little Iko, let me play with that [System] of yours~
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“Even after 3 months she is still fighting uh?” asked the man to no one in particular.
Jaul was a scientist who had been searching his entire life the origin of that mysterious power, the one that should have never exist yet the world embraced it like a mother to its child, searching for years myths and legends about the only being who was able to wield it, that being it’s origin and the owner of the ancient blood, he really didn’t have a name for it yet he just called it like that since it was blood and ancient, but if it had a real name it will probably be, the origin of corruption.
So Jaul, when he discovered the corruption he decided to try to master it, the power to bend reality itself, he was discovered by one of the gods, who was also interested in this power, who then became his patron god, giving him the metal beasts who were able to meld with everything, that apparently counting the corruption, so he went looking for any being able to survive being in contact with it, and what better than a shattered soul full of hate to take on the corruption? She grabbed the body, which was his only connection to the soul, and created a new body for her, or well not her but him, the real master of corruption… The Dragon at the End of the World.
His plan was to revive him by using this brat new body, one he could guess she hadn’t noticed, or she would be panicking, not everyone would like to have various body parts of other beings on them, but…
Why?! Why isn’t she dead?! Even if her body is full of ancient blood, she shouldn’t be able to survive the attacks on her soul! Her soul should have disappeared already! It’s like is she was regenerating her soul… as he falls to realization, he noticed that Iko soul was also filled to the brim of ancient blood, regenerating what the ancient blood thought was the full state of her soul.
Skill [Eye of the Soul] activated.
With this skill he was able to see into one soul to understand them better, he used it before in the girl to make sure her soul was destroyed but got a backlash from the hate in her soul, now that he used it again he could see how the hate and corruption were fusing with each other making each other stronger, his eye started to drip blood, what the fuck?! Was all he could say at was he was seeing as he saw how she had been chosen by the [System] too, everyone with a system had a special mark in their soul, even if her soul was fragmented he could still see the mark of the [System] on it, but there was something else, something vile, but at the same time, it was was he had been looking for.
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Iko suddenly felt the pain in her head, back and eyes return after disappearing a few days ago, just to see this text in her mind while dodging the beast’s attacks.
[System] being updated by a moderator…
Please wait while the [System] is updated…
“What the fuck?! Is this a joke?” said Iko, not believing that after getting it will disactivate itself, she dodged an attack again and attacked with her claw at the tiger, breaking it’s paw for the tenth time already, she was feeling tired already and didn’t know how much she could hold out, she even tried destroying the cell but it didn’t work, not even a scratch on the glass.
After 10 minutes of hit and run with the beasts a pop-up notification appeared before her eyes.
Congratulations! You are the first being to unlock a specialized [System]!
You have unlocked the corrupted beast system!
Analyzing the user body, blood and soul to create the best [Beast] to give you!
Congratulations! Your race has updated to [corrupted dragon]!
Please summon your status screen to start the tutorial!