《Absolute Power》Chapter 4
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All I could feel was a heavy pressure weighing down on me. My body feels so numb. I can’t do anything except getting crushed down by the pressure. I hate this feeling of helplessness. Move! My fucking body please move. I don’t know where this place is, but I can feel it, this place is very dangerous for me. I need to get out of here as soon as possible. If nothing else I have to do it for Valerie. I try my best to move again….with all my willpower.
Suddenly a wave of warm current rises from the centre of my stomach and it overflows through my body. I hear the something in the distance. And suddenly my eyes open. I can feel my body again. But it would have been better if I could not. I have never been in so much pain before and I can assure you that I have had a very colourful life.
I grit my teeth and look around. I am in a very narrow place. I can’t move my body properly. Wait! This seems like flesh.
“Sh…...*cough* *cough*”
Shit! I am inside some animal. It looks like a snake-type animal. I am so glad it’s a snake because if I not, I don’t even know if I would be alive right now. Although my skin seems like a combination of burnt and rotten and it hurts like hell, but I am so glad that all my body parts are joined together.
I must get out of here before the stomach acid kills me. I try scratching its stomach walls with my nails and suddenly the creature starts rolling around. Though it seems like my nail attack was only at the level of irritation. I am so pissed at the company or whatever for not even giving me a noob sword or some other weapon.
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I look at the twisting mass of flesh around me and my mind comes up with a brilliantly gross idea. Let’s see if a reptile sashimi is as good as fish sashimi. I take a deep breath…man, it stinks so bad. I turn my body to my right side as best as I can, and I take the biggest bite I can manage out of this creature’s flesh. It starts to burn my mouth, so I quickly spit it out. I hear a deep rumbling and suddenly the creature starts thrashing around. I try to ignore it as best as I can and stick to my task of biting it to death.
After what feels like an eternity, I finally manage to bite enough of it that it dies. A string of notification sound goes off, but I ignore them right now. I need to get out of this hell first. My teeth have bits of fat and tendons stuck in them. I can taste the hot blood of this creature, it is tangy and feels like a very badly brewed beer. I continue to tear apart the corpse with my mouth until I have enough space to move my left hand around. I make the hole in the corpse big enough for me to climb out.
As soon as I relax, the pain and exhaustion hit me like a sledgehammer. I somehow keep my brain awake and assign points to the endurance stat until it becomes 15.
I hear another notification sound, but I am really not in the mood for this right now. I lay down on the forest floor trying to gain some energy. Slowly but surely, not exactly sure how long, the pain starts subsiding and my conscious becomes clearer.
I look at the notifications finally and…it gives me a big shock. But all of it is pleasant. I don’t know if I should thank that stupid creature for eating me or make it come back to life and torture it to death.
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*Ding*
[Congratulations! You have provided the system with enough energy for it to evolve.]
[Please name the system]
“Uh…RPG system I guess?”
[Please confirm that the system’s name is “RPG system I guess”]
“Wait! No, no no no! The system’s name is RPG.”
[Please confirm that the system’s name is “RPG”]
“Yes!”
[Sir what kind of service would you like right now?]
“What are the things that you can do?”
[I can help you interact with your attributes panel, skills panel, inventory and store in a more user-friendly manner. The system will also minimize the use of props that may distract the user from the real world.]
“Oh……seems cool. Hold up! I have inventory and store! What are those? Why did I never see them before?”
[These are new features added by combing user’s memory, energy provided by the user and the initiation gift. Sir your initiation gift has permanently changed into the RPG system.]
“So how do I store stuff in inventory? Also, introduce its basic features.”
[Physically be in touch with it and think about storing it. Living things can’t be stored in the inventory. Anything longer than 30 meters and heavier than 20 tons can’t be stored. You have 15 slots right now. 10 of the same items can be stacked together. You get 5 more slots each time you reach a level that is a multiple of 25.]
[Is that enough information sir?]
“Yes! I feel that you are more organic…human-like with your thinking and speech.”
[Sir system is a concept given life. As such it has its own attributes. Due to the excess energy provided by you, the system was able to level up and increase its intelligence attribute. The system is an AI like existence and you are its master. It will use the initiation gift provided by the company and the power of law provided by ???#### :Error to assign you quests and rewards. ]
*sigh*
“This got complicated pretty quickly. I still haven't learned anything about this mysterious company but now there is a being out there even more mysterious and horrific than it. I can now kinda understand why those protagonists are power hungry. It really is the worst feeling to have your life controlled by someone powerful and unknown.”
Need more power!
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