NOVEL NEXT Chapter 21: Allocation
[False Ability Attempted]
"False Ability? What the heck does that mean?" Zakar muttered to himself and looked backwards to see if anyone was watching him. He saw no one. Everyone seemed occupied, staring at thin air.
"Did they receive the same message? Is this an international issue or what? Damn. I will figure that later from Myia. For now I've got to settle some scores with this dumb ass system." Zakar said and left the hall heading for his room.
Then Horis sipped out of the shadows and a faint grin appeared on his lips.
"Such a sweet boy. Would be really tasty if I had him. Wonder when I will have a chance to get a meal this sweet." he muttered and quickly dived towards Zakar but he was knocked down as quickly as he had moved.
"What the..."
"I thought I told you not to attack him?" a feminine voice boomed in his head. Horis stood to his feet and his eyes rolled backwards.
"Yeah. Just got carried away by how sweet he smelt. Forgive my manners mistress."
"Ok. Change of plans." the voice echoed in again.
"What!? Why?" Horis exclaimed like his life had depended on it.
"I spotted someone following him."
"Wait what? Why?"
"I don't have answers to that which is why you would follow him and see whoever is following him. Wouldn't want our little plan to fail so fast. I hope we are the only ones who know this if not we may be competing with others and I hate competing." she said and her frustration could be felt by her voice and tone.
"Yeah, I get it." Horis said as his face soured a little. He hated being a spy. And now he was going to act as a spy to a spy.
He walked forward before he waved his hand to emit a dark wave of energy that boomed blue.
"Poison Camouflage." he muttered and suddenly the blue energy weaved itself onto the body of Horis. In an instant he vanished off.
"Good. I'm in position. So do I follow the spy or Zakar?" he muttered in the midst of the camouflage veil.
"Hmm. Follow the spy. I want to see who is working for." the feminine voice echoed in his head. He sighed in exhaustion and boredom.
"Okay. Now can you erase the mind connection. I need privacy. Please." Horis begged as he made faces.
"I will think about that. Just go on."
"Fuck. I hate you." he cursed in anger. A sift chuckled from the other side.
"I'm hearing you." her taunting voice rammed but Horis didn't respond. He just made a face and moved on.
Inside the room, Zakar sat on his bed and his eyes roamed around not aimlessly bug he was staring at the message in front of him.
[Two days until next mission.]
"Hmm. That's a long time from now. Wonder what I would be using my time to do within this time." he said and sighed lightly.
"That reminds me. This system still has some mysteries I haven't undercovered. It would be best if I used this private time to dig into it."
"System open Fundamental Stats." Zakar muttered and a red holographic interface popped up.
[Fundamental Stats Initialized]
[Strength:11 points]
[Agility: 6 points ]
[Speed: 4 points]
[IQ:2 pionts]
[Endurance :3 points]
[Recovery:2 points]
[Available Points: 65 points]
"Okay. Seven points to Recovery and 8 to Endurance."
[Changes Implemented.]
[Recovery : 9 points]
[Endurance: 11 points]
[Available Points: 52 points ]
"Ok. Now let's simplify this. Allocate ten points to IQ, eight to speed, nine to agility and ten to strength."
[Changes Implemented ]
[Strength: 21 points]
[Agilty:15 points]
[Speed : 12 points]
[IQ : 12 points]
[Available Points: 15 points]
"I think I did a good one there." Zakar muttered and then he remembered the sudden shut down of the system. He needed to know why that had happened.
"System why did you shut down for a cool down?"
[System can't grant such information but it can be guaranteed that would not happen in a long while.]
"What!? What sort of a guarantee is that? It doesn't make any damn sense."
[Skills tab Available!!]
"Great let's see what we have in here." Zakar muttered and it opened.
[ Stealth( A rank): Allows Player to be invisible for three minutes. Consumes a lot of energy. An assassin skill and would prove handy against numerous enemies.]
"Cool. Any other skill?" Zakar asked in enthusiasm.
[No. For now your rank hasn't allowed that but you can view their costs.]
'Wait.. I've got to buy these skills? Damn.' Zakar touched his forehead as he felt a little radiating pain.
[Alert!!!!]
[D rank has been implemented for 2 days. Do you want to change it!?]
"Fuck. Why is the system bothered about the rank I've been in? And to be notified as an alert does not seem nice." he muttered and studied the words that were displayed before him.
"Yes."
[Order Implemented.]
[Inner Panel Information.]
[Rank:___ rank]
[Type: Death Player]
[What rank do you want?]
Zakar stared at it and smiled. He wanted to begin to use his abilities but he didn't want it to be sudden.
"I'll take B rank." he muttered. He didn't want to use his SSS rank abilities. At least not yet. Using it now would attract attention so it was better he dealt with something more mild.
[Rank: B rank]
[Do you want to change the Outer Panel?]
"Wait what ?" he exclaimed in confusion.
"Wasn't that the Outer panel we were dealing with? Damn fuck."
[Outer Panel]
[Rank:D rank]
[Type: ???? Player]
[Do you want any changes?]
"What? My type is empty? How?"
[Host didn't change it while manipulating his panels.]
"Okay then. This explains why Justin disgusted me. I want it as Assassin Player." Zakar muttered and smiled. That was the only thing close to his real system. Death and Assassin did work hand in hand.
[Changes Implemented]
[2/2 Attempts on change of panel.]
[Cool down: 3 weeks]
"What? How is that possible? Damn. So I can't change this until next three weeks. "
Alert!!! Someone wants entry.
'Who is that?'
Zakar then stood up and walked towards the door and upon opening the door he saw no one.
"..."
"What the fuck did the system detect?" he muttered in annoyance and closed the door. Then he walked to bed and when he opened his hands to touch the bed, a paper dropped off to the ground.
"What the heck...?" Zakar muttered in shock.