Chapter 3: first death or first kill? why not both!

(AN:let's get straight into it since I know at least one person has read this so far)

Gray still didn't know how to activate a active skill but due to his current mindset he managed to make a educated guess while trying to push his own disdain at his want for blood to the back of his mind, he did a quick search with his feelings trying to find anything that would tell him how to use his skills he almost immediately found a weird feeling located in his gut where the sword was headed after a moment of observations he realised that it felt like there were multiple switches inside himself all connected to one battery although in different places, some higher on the battery like feeling and some lower, he also could instinctively 'read' what each switch was but now that he understood how to activate his only active skill and deactivate his passive skills (which he was surprised to learn he could) what would he even do to survive this... but while he was thinking about that the part of him he had been trying to neglect once again made itself known it's voice whispering to him.

'Why not just kill him and let him kill you? You're not built for defence... your class SAYS it... so make the trade~'

Before he even had the chance to deny this deadly way of thinking he already found himself activating his only skill |berserk|.

Almost instantly he felt his stats increase and his hand grabbing the sword headed for his gut by the blade forcefully stabbing it through himself then pulling it through along with the disgruntled and now disgusted 2nd persons arm then he angled the man's arm using his now superior stats that only confirmed to him about his guess on their levels being at least close as he forced the man to stab into his own throat a damage number popping up from both Gray and the man before he pushed the sword down catapulting the man's head into the sky like a champagne cork.

Watching this he couldn't help himself from grinning widely.

This was what he wanted to see it was exactly what he needed...

A true awakening of something deep inside of him... the essence of someone truly meant to slay and be slayed, to murder whom he saw fit with no regards to if they murder him right back. This was who he was SUPPOSED to be.

While he was manically grinning there was a barage of notification snapping him out of it and making him terrified of how he feels after what he just did, terrified at the fact it wasn't effecting him much and how his brain was justifying it as 'this is just a game' which despite being true didn't change the fact he had enjoyed feeling the man's neck tear as his head was sent flying.

{[Killed player RabidKnight03 LV 17]}

{[ |Battle Heart| successfully activated gained 1250 experience]}

{[Level up!]}

{[Level: 1 (750/1000)]}

{[due to class being of fate-born origin the player has gained 10 Attribute points instead of the standard 5]}

{[You died ]}

{[Player is not yet high enough level to activate the death penalty and has been exempt from it this time]}

{[Respawning....]}

Due to Gray's little breakdown he hadn't noticed that he was bleeding out with only 25/75 HP left and died because of it. Soon he materialised back on the street he first spawned on. Absentmindedly walking away from the bustling street as his thoughts churned in his head.

He tried a few common keywords to open info panels to try distract himself.

"Menu?..."

"Observe?..."

"Appraisal?..."

"Setting's?..."

After he said the last one there was finally a reaction with a menu opening up.

{[Status]} X

{[Chat]}

{[Freinds]}

{[Personal messages]}

{[Pain resistance: ⬛⬛⬛⬜⬜ }]

{[Quit]}

He slowly read the options before speaking

"Chat..."

Almost immediately a world wide chat opened in front of him and a regional chat option was also present as a tab on the side of the chat.

Kingslayer420 LV4: damn these boars are ruthless man!

Ugly duck LV15: you'll get used to them don't worry

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Frankingking LV17: damn me and my freinds were doing this morally questionable secret quest (no we won't share it) and then this LV 0 noob somehow did these ####### crazy moves and even managed to kill one of us before we managed to kill him! It was crazy! I mean it sucks to get that death penalty and #### his mother for him making one of us get it but #### if his moves weren't crazy! If I didn't know how good this games anti cheat was I would think he was hacking! I even managed to get a video after he kicked me in the face since I activated the recording feature by accident!

{[*attached video file*]}

{[Close chat]}

Seeing this message Gray paled remembering how one of his attempted robbers called the other Frank before trying to correct themselves... this was terrible not because people could see him as a psycho but because someone might get some understanding of his skills and may even give that info to his enemy's for money! Though he was shocked this was where his thought process went he had enough surprises from how he felt about things today to be mostly numb to it at this point.

"Well I suppose it's not that bad I'm probably over thinking it I should just go hunting in one of the beginner areas if I can find one, someone mentioned the boars being tough? Could give them a try-"

At that moment Gray realised a pressing matter.

"WAIT THAT VIDEO MEANS MY AVATARS FACE WILL BE PUBLICLY KNOWN IF THAT GOES VIRAL! I MIGHT GET JUMPED BY PEOPLE FOR CLUES ON THE QUEST THEY HAD OR EVEN JUST BECAUSE OF MY SKILLS... ugh I'm so over today... menu."

The menu pops up.

"Exit"

Slowly the world around him fades to black and he starts falling, waking up in his pod.

*sigh*

"I'm so done with today..."

(AN: dunno how good this is but hey at least it's out now I suppose, let me know about any inconsistencies so I can try fix them please)