Rock & Roll

"Calm down, huh (breathes heavily)? Calm down, Lucas. It's just a dumb system which, even if you want, you can't kill it, so why bother?" Lucas, after explaining to himself, finally calmed his anger, giving a stiff laugh and shaking his head before turning around to finally head towards the mission area.

Lucas, after moving out of the alley, took public transport from a nearby stop and headed towards Section 4, where the engineer named Zaron resided.

During the journey, Lucas went through the mission data:

Target: The Adamantium Suit known to be kept in the owner's hidden vault.

Owner information: Zaron, Engineer level – 15, Fighter level – 3 (uncertain info)

Conditions: Lethal and non-lethal means allowed.

Countdown: 47 hrs 13 mins.

After collecting this much data, Lucas had already laid down the framework for a plan in his mind. Exiting the public transport, he went to Hotel Rosary, which was the nearest hotel to Zaron's apartment.

Zaron had his own 20-storey building. The upper three floors were his personal living space, while the rest of the floors were for office use.

Lucas, after taking a look at the 3D view of the hotel from his watch, decided to choose the room which gave the best exposure to the target's floor.

Lucas then went to the semi-circular desk where the receptionist was sitting. As he approached the desk, he checked her out and gave her a score of 8/10. But there was something interesting about the girl which Lucas was unable to decipher and finally gave up.

Lucas had seen and played around with many beauties in his past, so the way he gave the score had a very high standard. The receptionist would be a 10/10 for many, but in Lucas's eyes, she was only so-so.

"Hey there, beautiful, I would like to book room no. 263," the girl, who was delighted to be called a beauty, immediately gave a dry smile. "Sir, I am very sorry, but the room has already been booked."

Lucas furrowed his brows but then went ahead and asked about other rooms which he had already marked as 2nd and 3rd options but was amused to know that all of them had been booked already. He started thinking, "Seems like I am not the only hunter. So, a little improvisation. Instead of me collecting info, I will make these fellow hunters do the job for me and harvest it from them later on." After nodding to himself, he turned towards the lady and winked as he said, "Hey, beauty, then why don't you let me stay at your place?" The lady blushed deeply but still answered, "Sir, room no. 222 is one of our best rooms and I can even give a special discount especially for you."

Lucas, being the cool guy, gladly accepted the offer, paying the money looted from the thugs previously, and left towards his room after smiling at the receptionist one last time.

After walking a while, he started thinking, "It seems like that old fellow super system didn't just transmigrate me but also made changes to my mentality. After living for so many years, I never got excited over killing or flirting, but today when I killed those three and even while flirting with the receptionist, my heart was racing. The feeling is like only my old memories have been added to the new me because I feel rather young instead of being fatigued by the mental torture time did to the previous old me."

After coming to this conclusion, his lips rose up in a smile as he saw his current age 20 displayed on the status screen. "I guess this is indeed a good thing."

Making himself comfortable in the lavish room, Lucas went through the weapon and armor harvest more thoroughly this time.

Both D-ranked armors provided light body protection, but one of them caught Lucas's eye. It was complete matte black with silver fine linings which looked very professional. Aside from the aesthetics, the best part was that this armor was custom upgradable up to rank C.

As for the weapons, the E-ranked included a red-colored sharp knife, a heavy-duty handgun, and a flamethrower. The only D-ranked weapon Lucas had looted was the dual laser barrel guns called Bang Bang, which shot out laser pulses rapidly. Lucas immediately fell in love with them.

The following day, Lucas did a thorough investigation and found out that the only suspicious party was living in room no. 263. With the receptionist's help, he also found out that there were actually two people living who had checked into the room. "Hmmm, seems like the ones living in room 263 are the only hunters besides me. If they don't want to meet me, then maybe I should pay them a visit tonight."

Finally, it was night time. Lucas, fully suiting himself up with the black armor, red knife, and Bang Bang, was standing on the terrace of Rosary Hotel. He looked at the dazzling view of the city from the edge, finally looking down at the watch.

Mission countdown: 36 hrs 42 mins.

And he dived down from the top, exclaiming, "It's time to rock and roll, wohooo!!"