Warning: You have drained a pool faster than recommended. Putting excess strain on underdeveloped pools may cause permanent damage to your resources. In order for Blood Lust to recuperate it has been locked for the next 24 hours.

Oh great, nothing better than waking up to Mr. Blue telling me I can’t use my main method of attack.

What even happened? Last thing I remember was that weird hairless mole thing charging at me before I completely blacked out….. Wait! Did I do something stupid again?!? I probably fucking did.

Good job past Mark, now Bloodlust is locked and it's all your fucking fault.

As I continue to berate past Mark, another box shows up….

Congratulations! You have defeated one of Sector: D14's Mini Bosses!

Flesh Reaver

You have been awarded a class token!

Similar to when I had bought the spatial ring, a ball of light coalesces in my right hand before quickly disappearing. In its place stands a coin the size of a half dollar….. On one side is a man that seems to be praying towards the sky, the other side has another man, but this one is praying to hell? Kinda hard to explain the last one, the guy is reaching down through the ground so i’ll assume one side is good and the other evil?

Pretty weird inscriptions to put on a coin but who am I to judge…. Ok so how do I use this?

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These things need instruction manuals. Fuck it i’m eating it. Nope, nothing's gonna stop me.

Down the hatch!

Dropping the coin into my mouth, I immediately realize my mistake…. IT'S THE SIZE OF A HALF DOLLAR.

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The next few minutes are spent trying to unlodge the coin from my airway…..

Before I could however….

Congratulations! You have used a Class Token! Choose one of the following.

Mage, Warrior, Archer, Support.

These classes will adapt to the user. Choose the option most similar to your style.

*Cough* *Cough* Oh God why did I do that. I ate a fucking coin, why?!?! There was probably some stupidly simple way if only I had asked Mr. Blue….. SO WHAT MADE ME EAT IT.

Worse yet I had no idea where that coin had been…. For all I know that Flesh Reaver could’ve just had that half digested in his gut…. And I just ate it…. I need bleach. I need a lot of bleach.

I spend another five minutes repeatedly wiping my tongue on my sleeve before I return to the box….

Those classes are all very vague…. So I suppose I just go for the one closest to how I fight… Obviously I have a spear so warrior…...

You have chosen Warrior! Adapting... .... .....

You have been granted the Psychotic Spearman Class!

Psychotic Spearman: Uncommon

Maximum Pools: +1 (3)

Bonus Attributes per level: +2 (6)

Sub Classes: +1 (1)

XP Restriction: 95%

Nice, lots of new stuff I knew nothing about. So apparently there is a cap on the amount of pools I can have, good to know getting a class can upgrade that. More attributes per level is always a plus as well. Didn’t know subclasses were a thing but i’ll definitely take one if I can find it. As for the restriction…. That could either mean I need 5% more xp to level up or I get a 5% xp reduction….. Either way the benefits outweigh the Xp restriction so no complaints here….

Alright, i’ve spent enough time messing around I need to get going. The first destination I had in mind would be a major city…. I think the closest one is Napa… So maybe an hour or two run at best. Why you might ask, would I be going to a densely populated area full of hideous and disgusting humans? I need information.

I don’t think people are able to identify me as a scourge and better yet, now that I have the spatial ring, any dubious or questionable contraband I have can be easily hidden. So I figured before I became famous as an Evil and absolutely amazing spearman, I should try and gather as much intel as possible about how the Gift is affecting people.

No doubt everyone is as clueless as I am about the majority of the system, but there are always individuals that have some slight experience in an area after doing something stupid or trying something no one's thought of. Honestly, that's one of the only benefits of humanity. The ability to pool all of their knowledge together after hundreds of years and after thousands of people have tried and experimented hundreds of different ways.

The majority of those individuals will probably be keeping those things a secret, so I may have to… persuade them to give up their secrets. That's only more fun for me I guess… As long as I leave no witnesses, no one would want revenge!

One of the greatest revelations I had as a reader was the fact that so many problems would’ve been solved had the protagonist simply got rid of everyone.

Alright, enough deliberation. Time to go on an adventure! Grabbing Aiyla I march through the splintered remains of the door I had previously fought. My only worthy opponent to this day.

Navigating the overgrown roads has been a bit of a challenge. Mother nature seriously went in to overdrive when the Gift arrived. The various trees and other flora have taken over much of what was already built, creating an amazingly scenic route. I’ve always loved nature, especially its simplicity. There are the prey and then there are the predators. Nothing more, nothing less.

It never changed, not that I like stagnation, but that only enhanced its beauty. The animals knew they would eventually die, but they kept fighting, kept struggling to their last breath. Humans are different, they will give up over the simplest of trials. Thinking they couldn’t do it, or they weren't able to. Animals had no time to think such things, if they did, they would die. Better yet, nature doesn’t pollute and corrupt everything it touches.

Even the things we know as natural disasters are beneficial to the environment. Those unstoppable forces of nature can hardly compare to the damage a human could over time. Seriously, they barely inhabit the world for less than 100,000 of the Earth’s long billion year lifetime and they already manage to screw up the natural balance. It honestly makes me sick.

Some humans aren’t that bad, even I have to admit that. Unfortunately, those people are the types to be sacrificed or pushed to the side for the greater good and for progress.

The sharks among the populace continually prey on the weak in order to advance in society, honestly the most detrimental thing to humans are other humans. You know a species is fucked when their worst enemies are themselves…..

I wonder if there are races out there that aren’t prone to self-destruction like humanity? Maybe humans are the only ones that are fully able to represent the evil inside themselves and coming to Earth is the equivalent of hell. Although I highly doubt that as well. If there truly is a multiverse there must be many places worse than Earth.

There could be a literally hell somewhere out there. That would be a fun place to visit when i’m stronger…..

My train of thought is halted by the slight rise in the distance. That must be Napa…. From what I remember it was supposed to be a lot bigger than even some of the cities I use to live in so I was pretty excited to see how it withstood the Gift.

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The thing is, I don’t think it was supposed to be on fire.