"[Welco, Host! You have successfully been chosen to wield the System! With , you can ascend to greatness, reign as the supre villain of this world, and bend fate itself to your will!]"
A pause.
Then, with a much lower, almost casual tone, the system added—
"—or you can die like a dog in a ditch. Your choice, really."
I nearly tripped over my own feet.
"What…?"
"Ohhh? He finally speaks to directly! Progress!" The system let out a delighted hum before continuing, its voice smug.
"Yeah, so here’s the thing, bud. I kinda don’t know how I ended up in your head, but let’s not focus on why I’m here.
The real question is… what are we gonna do about it? Because, uh, spoiler alert? You’re in deep shit, my guy."
I clenched my jaw. "What do you an?"
"Hehe. You’ll see~"
This thing is going to be the death of .
We moved through the woods in silence after that, my thoughts racing.
The system’s arrival wasn’t just an anomaly—it was a threat. A variable that I hadn’t accounted for.
Had soone sent it to ?
Was it a mistake, or was it ant to disrupt the tiline I had been trying to navigate?
I didn’t have the answers.
But I was starting to get the sinking feeling that, whatever this was, it wasn’t going to be as simple as ignoring it and moving on.
Sothing had changed.
Sothing big.
And I had no idea if I was ready for it.
Just as that realization sank in, my grandmother suddenly stopped walking.
I barely managed to skid to a halt behind her before she raised a hand, silencing .
I stiffened, imdiately on guard. "Ma?"
She didn’t reply.
Instead, her sharp eyes locked onto sothing in the darkness ahead.
I followed her gaze—and my blood ran cold.
A pair of gleaming red eyes stared back at us from the shadows, unblinking.
A beast.
A big one.
Before I could react, the system’s voice rang in my head again, more amused than before.
"Oho? First battle already? Man, we are moving fast! Alright, Noah, lem help you out with a few cheat codes—"
"Shut up," I hissed under my breath, clenching my fists.
But the system only laughed.
"Ohhh, this is gonna be fun." It said.
The beast took a slow step forward, its massive fra erging from the darkness.
"Grhhh"
I could practically hear the beast growling inside my ear.
It was loud okay.
Ma tried to shield with her body.
As if—
I snorted.
Realising that she really would throw her life away at any chance she gets.
Ughhh
I glared at Grandma, walking past her as I stood in front of her, crouching in a defensive position.
Gluttony—
I called out, trying to awaken the power of my natural physique.
There were 2 ways a human could gain power in this world.
The first one was to train their mana core.
The second was more related to if you had the funds to buy a hollow.
Then there was the third one.
Being blessed by nature.
Awakening a Heavenly Physique.
I did not know if there were better physique than mine out there.
Glancing straight into the eyes of the wolf like beast, I bit the carrot first; launching myself forward.
What I did know that this was gonna be enough for now.
My hands covered themselves into the pale blue manifestation of my powers, it was like drowning my hands in still water.
The only difference being that the water had taken shape around my hands and covered them.
I knew that this was gonna be a tough standoff.
The only grace being that it looked like a young and immature beast.
Totally unlike the sentient beasts that had attacked our world years back.
The beast itself took a step back and howled out loud, launching a ball of mana coated in an icy aura towards .
Twisting my legs in a certain way, I crouched and held my ground as I cross my arms in front of .
I wanted to test the theory if my powers could actually 100% absorb or negate mana.
I still wasn’t sure how it worked. Was it just blocking mana or what was happening?
I didn’t know.
The sheer bruntof the hurtling mass of mana threw a few steps back but that was it.
Phew*
I let out a cold breath.
I could already feel my body tiring out from the use of my powers.
It must be because I have yet to assimilate to my physique.
It is at monts like these that I feel grateful for not having the ability to train mana.
If it were not for that, I would have never focused on combat skills or trained my body to defend like I had been doing until now.
Guess the 8 years of trying to defend myself from my bullies and learning different combat styles from Ma did help .
I jumped forward once again, pouncing at the beast as I continued punching it with one hand while using the other to hold down its claws.
It seed weirdly easy as the more I hit the wolf like beast with my punches, the weaker it seed to get; until at one point?
It couldn’t even stand on its 4 limbs.
Ma called back, urging to hurry up and leave this place but even as I continued staring at the immobile beast, sothing in my body seed to be urging .
An idea creeped inside my head as I crouched on the dry soil and spread my powers to the figure of the wolf by touching its head.
A pale blue manifestation of the power of gluttony in the form of a liquid seeped out of my hands as it slowly and steadily covered the wolf.
Grandma Sylvie walked closer to as she silently continued observing the whole process.
Shocked at what was happening in front of her.
"N-Noah… is the body of the wolf decaying?"
No.
It was better to say that it was being consud.
It was being eaten.
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