Chapter 11: A Wandering Soul 2

[You do not have the Privilege to take this soul]

"I'm a Senior Reaper! What's the meaning of this!?"

The Grim Reaper Screamed on top of his lungs he was clearly enraged by the message in front of him.

It was a message window it's been awhile since I've seen it though I have something similar in nature.

The Grim Reaper noticed my eyes staring at the message and quickly turned his rage towards me and scowled.

"You.. you can see the Window!?"

It looked like he was genuinely surprised.

*Isn't it normal though?*

I mean I've been able to see my status window ever since I was a child it's a proof that I've been blessed by God.

Well although that was the case for my world but it doesn't seem to be the case for this one judging from the reaper's reaction.

"Impossible! How can a mere soul see the window!?"

He screamed.

Although I didn't reply to him he took my silence as a confirmation. Am I really that easy to read? I remember both Nicole and Bak keep telling me about it. But seriously?

"You! Tell me why you can see it!"

My thought was interuptted as

He furiously shouted and pointed at me with his finger, the Scythe was now on his shoulder fully formed.

"..."

I wasn't really sure on how to answer, now that I've figured out that this world works differently from mine I'm not sure if I should say that it was a blessing from the God.

I kept my silence and just stood there still battle ready.

The reaper probably found it annoying as he scrunched his face and scowled even more. I could see the wrath on his eyes as he stared at me and it sent shivers down my spine.

*I have a bad feeling about this* I thought as my instincts screamed danger.

I've trusted my instincts as far as I can remember and they've never been wrong before, my instincts have already saved me so many times more than I can count, So when it starts screaming danger I'll trust it 100% at a time. Especially since I could tell that the reaper in front of me is much more different than the reaper I know.

"Fine there's more than one way to get rid of you anyway"

His scythe started vibrating and turning blood red, slowly his suit started melting into black dust covering his body. I've never seen something like this before, even my Grim Reaper didn't transform like this when I fought him.

The Grim Reaper opened his mouth and black particles came out like a breath. It was similar to how you can see your own breath when its cold outside.

"By my status I call for Independent Judgement"

[Independent Judgement Requested]

[Status: Senior]

[Sending Request]

[Waiting for approval....]

A message popped up this time the transparent window was colored dark red. Independent Judgement I haven't heard of it before but I can tell that its bad news for me.

*Maybe I should run? I can't he'd catch up to me in no time. Fight back? I can't do that either if it wasn't for the mysterious power that pushed him back I would've lost an eye by now.*

As I was thinking on how to escape a **ping** sound echoed to my ears.

[Request Denied]

"What!?" The reaper screamed in surprise as if he didn't expect the message to pop-out his mouth was hanging in surprise after screaming.

The Black dust that covered his body slowly dispersed and reformed into his suit and the Blood red scythe slowly returned to its black color like a plant dye being washed away by the rain.

"IMPOSSIBLE! Majority of the seniors approved the request! Who could possibly go against us like that!?"

He screamed like a madman at the window making his hostility clear.

[Independent Judgement has been Denied by: Supervisor]

As soon as that follow up message popped out the reaper suddenly went silent and the hostility that he radiated quickly disappeared. The scythe that he was holding on slowly dissipated like a dust on the wind.

His mouth was hanging open but no voice came out and his eyes which once showed wrath, surprise and frustration now for the first time showed fear.

Whoever this Supervisor is he was clearly above this reaper enough to shake him with fear.

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"This planet is dying, the inhabitants will surely face extinction at this point that means more work"

The supervisor said as he looked alternately at the window with a live feed video in front of him and the small floating window right beside it. The video was showing a Green planet this wasn't earth but another habitable planet in the UNS, it was noticeably 3x bigger than earth and clearly had more land than water.

[Core: 46%]

[MF: Degrading]

[Atmosphere: Degrading]......

The other window beside the video was showing simple statistic reports.

There were more of this statistic reports in the small window and they all kept replacing each other in a span of less than a second.

Despite that unreasonable speed the supervisor was able to follow it all without batting an eye.

"The inhabitants completely exhausted the planet's resources, polluted it to no end and even tried to create artificial resources further destroying the natural flow of the planet's predetermined system"

He flicked his fingers and a floating window appeared in front of him.

It had various incomprehensible data in it, if a Grim Reaper or even a normal soul was to look at the contents they wouldn't even understand a drop of it. Only the supervisor could understand this data and even he could barely keep up with its ever-changing entries.

"As expected souls are still unpredictable not even the program that 'He' created reach 20% accuracy moreover predetermined systems can be affected by souls"

The supervisor stared at the word "Artificial Resources" like he was looking at an annoying bug in front of him.

Normally a planet works on a predetermined system from its size, gravity, core temperature, atmosphere, magnetic field, stability, down to every bits of details. This system allows it to exist within the UNS but if this system was somehow tampered or incomplete the supervisor has to remove it from existence completely washing all data's away.

And in this case the existence of Artificial Resources in the planet means that the system has been tampered to a certain extent.

"The root of this came from the particles present on the planet, for some reason their overall data was somehow overwritten, somebody or some-soul tampered with it and was lucky enough to change the generating/stabilization code"

He kept reading through the data's when he was interuptted by a familiar **ping**.

[Request for Independent Judgement is being distributed]

"Hmm? An independent Judgement?"

Normally harvesting a soul only requires enough power and privilege to harvest and this is heavily regulated by a core system which means its an absolute rule, but sometimes a rule requires an exception and Independent Judgement is one of those exceptions.

Independent Judgement is a temporary privilege given to a Reaper if circumstances prevented them from taking a soul, as Souls are very tricky since sometimes they can resist the scythe of reapers with sheer willpower effectively resisting death, other times they've somehow overpowered the reaper assigned to them and the independent Judgement was created to contain such situations. The

temporary privilege that it gives is the Right to borrow privileges and stacking it all together in order to gain and much more higher privilege allowing them to disregard the system's limitations its very powerful but this kind of power also goes through the Supervisor for a final approval.

"Normally I'll approve of it but..."

He flicked his fingers and another screen opened right next to the other one, the new screen showed two figures one covered with black dust while the other looked a normal person.

"This is Alsyel Talon isn't it?"

The face showed on the screen was one of the foreign souls that illegally entered the UNS. The fact that they were able to enter this UNS from another was an irregular and the very representation of an error in the system and by regulations the Supervisor needs to git rid of irregularity within the system.

"But I can't..."

This was one irregularity that even the Supervisor can't erase for many reasons.

"Overrule all approvals and deny permission by my authority"

He waved his arm and dismissed the floating window and in accordance to his will the window disappeared with one last message.

[Independent Judgement has been Denied by: Supervisor]

Without minding the message the supervisor returned on analyzing data's again.

The video showed a rotating planet and the side window showed live statistics of the planet and only one being stood in front reading through all of it.

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The reaper stopped shaking and turned to look at me

Unlike last time his eyes now showed no emotions and his face had a blank expression.

"Fine your not the reason why I'm here anyway"

Leaving me with those ominous words the reaper suddenly covered himself with black dust and disappeared.

I couldn't see him but I can still feel that he was nearby. I couldn't let my guard down he might have given up but he might still try something else entirely.

Still keeping my guard up I looked around. My skill tells me that his supposed to be here somewhere.

**Crack** **Shatter**

Suddenly a sound akin to glass shattering echoed from above I hurriedly looked up.

The sound came from the same building that I came from and floating in front of that building was the reaper I faced moments ago.

Something fell out from the building window and crashed on the ground head first.

A ran to get a closer look at it but stopped a few steps before actually reaching it.

"It can't be..."

Its head was already squashed like a pumpkin and blood splattered the ground, it wasn't clear due to the blood but it has a long black hair.

The thing that fell from the building was a human body and although it was a fleeting glance I could recognize it.

It was the young girl that I first saw in the building the one that was followed by the young man and the blonde tinged hair.

"H-how?"

I've been through many battlefields I've seen many dead bodies mangled in many ways than one I should be used to this but the shock of seeing a person dying in front of me was strong.

"She was pushed by the other two" answered a cold hard voice.

I didn't even have to look at who it was, I could already tell that it was the reaper that was about to kill me moments ago.

"Wh-why?"

"See for yourself"

The reaper snapped his fingers and slowly something similar to mana oozed out from the dead girls body and formed an orb.

My instincts told me it was something I should be wary.

"What are yo—"

Suddenly the orb rushed towards me in great speed that I barely even manged to dodge.

"What the!?"

The orb missed me but it suddenly made a curve and came rushing back to me again. It was acting similar to a chasing arrow and if there was anything I learned from facing one it was that it will follow me until it hits me.

"I may not be able to harvest you but I can at least see you break" the reaper said in an amused voice.

This guy was trying to do something to me!

Although it was just a split second distraction because of that I was late on dodging the orb, suddenly a heavy impact hit my chest and I felt like I was rammed by a large boar.

My vision faded to black and I lost my sense of touch.

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