Chapter 3: Beast System

A week ago, Rex had recovered his memories of what happened that night through dreams or more accurately nightmares, after a week of his parents death he began having nightmares of that night.

On the brink of death, before he breath his final breath he saw a message within the darkness of his closed eyelids

The Beast bloodline has been reawakened, Beast system is now online.

Beast awakening has begone.

After the message appeared a sudden surge of energy rushed into him, like an explosion was happening right inside him, a new excruciating pain arose within him but with it came a new feeling

HUNGER

With his beaten up body and broken bones all over he still stood up, the surge of energy rushed to his head as his jaw fixed itself back in place and his teeth vegan to grow, the thug who had just peed on him turned around to see Rex up from the ground

"what you want more? stupid bastard it seems you still have life left it you", he threw a punch but before it touched his face Rex leaned forward and bit his neck, the bit was so hard and so sharp that he bit off a chunk of his flesh.

Blood gushed out as he held his neck as he stumbled into the others who where on they're way to leave, when they saw they're comrade spewing blood from the gaping hole in his neck they turned to see a horrific seen, Rex's twisted and broken body was healing itself but not in a normal way, in this world there was magic every living thing, race or species had it no matter how little, there where different kinds of magic but what they saw could not be called magic, there was no spell casted or mana felt at all, this wasn't magic but something else. His arms cracked themselves back into they're sockets, his twisted leg twisted back to normal, his wounds healed and blood stopped flowing out of him, the broken pieces of bottle where heard falling out from his body as it healed and then his eyes changed, shining bright red, his teeth grew and so did his nails, drool came out his mouth as he stared at them.

One of the goons with a broken bottle went forward and stabbed him again but Rex grabbed his collar, bit him in the neck and started munching on him, he screamed in pain as Rex began eating him alive, the others didn't stand around and immediately started attack Rex once again but he took no damage, he grabbed one and with a single hand threw him up in the air, the man landed and his head smashed to the floor with his brains spilling out, he kicked another so hard his ribs broke as his chest caved in, blood gushed out from his out and he died instantly, as the fight went on each of them where dying slowly while at the same time Rex was ripping chunks of flesh from they bodies and eating it mid fight, by the time they stopped attacking him only one of them was left, he tried to run but Rex jumped on him and ripped his guts out from his back and ate his heart. After that Rex went back and started eating the death bodies one after the other, when he was done all that remained was nothing but a few Hands and feet, some accessories they worse , some eye balls, tongue, two heads and bloody clothes that where ripped. He then stood up and a screen appeared in his face

Beast has consumed human flesh for the first time, All stats will be increased by 1

you killed 10 humans, preys stats will now be added to the host

you've unlocked a super skill: Beast Awakening

Beast has leveled up, all stats will be boosted by 1

After that Rex blacked out while standing then woke up and started walking towards his house. At first he thought it was just a nightmare but the dreams kept reoccurring and he had this gut feeling it wasn't just a dream, he could remember being beaten, the pain was too real, and he also remember running into those guys and being chased by them, the blood on his body that wasn't his, his turn clothes, and his strange hypnotic state that led him back to his house, was that all a coincidence or was it coursed by something.

When thinking of the message a screen appeared before him and it confirmed his worst fear.

System activated

Beast system online

LVL 2: 0/2000

Name: Rex Gryphon

Bloodline: Beastman/beast clan

Title: Last survivor

Rank: Youngling

Race: human

Gender: Male

Energy points: 496( Energy points reduce ever hour. The lower the points the more the host looses himself to his primal instincts. once Energy points reach zero the host stats will be dropped to half,no skills can be used except super skills and the host has 12 hours to find food or die

Mana: 920

Strength: 119

Speed: 95

Stamina: 87

Durability: 58

Perception: 80

Beast point: 10

Skill: Healing Factor ( passive skill ): Host can heal from any injury( Drawback: consumes energy )

Super skill: Beast Awakening: This skill activates when a host's heart beat exceeds a certain limit or when the hosts experience strong emotions ( Drawback: Extreme tiredness or blackout )

Ultimate skill: Locked

Rex went through the screen and his worst nightmares where confirmed, everything that happened that night was real because the system he saw on the virge of death was real, a few things caught his eye, first thing was the section labelled bloodline, it showed Beastman but Rex didn't know what that was, he new it wasn't a new race because it showed he was still human so what exactly was that ?

another information that caught his eye was title, it said last survivor, did it mean in his family or among the beastmen?

Then there was rank, it said youngling, what did that even mean?, he also noticed the sections for skills, he had healing factor as a skill which explained why all his injuries had healed but then there was the super skill section, he didn't understand why it was called a super skill and even the skill itself left little to be explained, all it did was explain how or rather why it can or will activate and looking at its description it was a wild card. Then finally, the one thing that feared him the most, the energy points, reading in intensely and thing for a moment rex was horrified to figure out the energy bar was like a timer for when next he would get hungry, like a hunger bar of some sort, when he eats it refills but also reduces by the hour and if he uses his skills, for now it he had well over 400 hours till he got hungry which also explained why he had never felt hungry all this while but the major issue was what would happen when it reached the time to refill it again, would he have to kill another person?

It was too much to think about plus he still had his families passing to recover from. Switching to present day, a month had past and Becky has helped to organize a burial for his parents, that day the detectives visited again but this time it was to drop a box, it was a strange box that had no lock, no where for a key to enter and no openings, they had tried magic and even brute force but nothing worked, it was like the box was indestructible.

"Why are you giving me this" he asked

"it belonged to your parents, they went through a great deal to hide this in your house" detective Connor said before leaving, Rex took the black box up to his room and stared at it for hours, wondering how to open it, there was no key, no pattern or riddle of some sort to open it, at a point he guy frustrated, he tired using his strength but to no avail.

When he was about to give up his system activated, it notified about the strange writing on the box, Rex thought it was just the design but it turned out it wasn't.

system analysing, ancient beatsmen language, translating....

Translation complete: place your thumb on the tongue to open the box

wow, this system might not be so bad after all he thought.