ESCAPED BY A WHIFF
"Man, what do I do?" Ira' was thinking to himself, worried as the men in front of him were very angry and about to lunge towards him. At that moment, Ira' remembered that the system was not only given to him to help but also to make him stronger.
In that second, he shouted, "INCREMENTUM, HELP ME!!!"
Suddenly, everything around him stopped. Incrementum appeared in front of him and asked:
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YES, SIR IRA'. WHAT MAY I ASSIST YOU WITH?
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"Help me get out of this situation now!" Ira' exclaimed.
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OK, SIR. I WILL LET YOU CHOOSE A POWER THAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GET LATER IN THE STORY. NOW PLEASE CHOOSE:
1. EYE OF TIME: Slows down everything for you as much as you want, but you go blind for the same amount of time you used it for.
2. NO PHYSICS: Physics do not apply to you, but your body becomes paralyzed for the same amount of time you used it for.
3. DEVIL'S LUCK: Gives you an immeasurable amount of luck, but you get unlucky for the entire day after using it.
4. MUSCLE ENHANCEMENT: Your muscles increase as much as you want, but your bones break the more you use it.
5. IRREGULAR BODY GROWTH: You can change your body parts into anything you want, but you lose all your muscles the next day.
6. BLOOD BATH: Literal hell will be unleashed, but all your senses—other than touch—will be numbed.
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"BLOOD BATH!" Ira' said without hesitation.
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YES, SIR IRA'.
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Time around him resumed, and Ira' called forth his new power.
"BLOOD BATH!"
Ira's eyes turned red. His hands grew nails sharp enough to cut through a mountain with a single slash. All his muscles turned into white muscle fibers, and his movements became spring-like. With each step he took, shockwaves crumbled mountains that reached the clouds.
Ira' lunged toward the guards who had taken him to the carriage, grabbing them by their heads, crushing their skulls, and holding their eye nerves, dangling them like yoyos.
Laughing maniacally, he screamed, "Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! You fuckers, I'm going to kill you all in the most grueling way possible!"
The guards were agitated by this. One summoned fire out of nothing, while another manipulated the mountain's terrain to his advantage.
But Ira' had a huge grin on his face. "Oh, so this is how you guys use your powers," he said mockingly.
He lunged toward the last guard, but then his body gave out. His legs went numb, his hands limp. His vision blurred to near blindness, his hearing dulled, and exhaustion consumed him.
He could barely move a muscle, and the guard he was charging at laughed nervously.
Ira' thought he was fated, until he realised something. A half-broken wooden plank under his arm.
In a last ditch effort, he shifted all of his weight to his right elbow, causing the wood to shoot up and… hit the guard in the family jewels. The man dropped his weapon in anguish, and Ira' managed to catch the spear by his teeth as it was falling.
He shifted his body, kept it on the damaged plank, and then to his right leg, which made the plank flip and the spear pierce the guy's stomach.
"I... sigh... I win, bitches..." Ira said, using the last of his limited energy to flash a gang sign toward the sky. With that, his body gave in, and he drifted into unconsciousness.
When he woke up three days later, the stale, damp air of a closed cave greeted him. The dim light from glowing moss cast shadows across the cave walls, revealing three sleeping kids nearby. Two of them he recognized immediately: Fidus and Furor. The third was a stranger—a kid he didn't recognize.
Groggy and disoriented, Ira sat up, rubbing his temples. "Yo, System," he muttered under his breath, his voice echoing faintly. "How long's it been since I passed out? Where am I? And... who the hell is that extra kid over there?"
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1. IT HAS BEEN THREE DAYS SINCE YOUR REST SIR IRA'.
2. YOU ARE IN A CAVE THAT WAS OPEN UNTIL A MOUNTAIN GOAT CLOSED IT WHEN THE KIDS TOOK YOU IN THERE.
3. THAT KID IS AN 8 YEAR OLD BOY. NAMED DAKO MA NYAKU. HE DECIDED TO STAY BACK BECAUSE HE FELT IN DEBT TO YOU.
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"I see… well, I'm kinda hungry, what is the nearest source of food?" Ira' inquired, holding his stomach.
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THERE ARE A FEW MOUNTAIN GOATS AROUND THIS AREA, HOWEVER, I DOUBT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO KILL THEM WITHOUT USE OF YOUR POWERS.
SOME OTHER SOURCES OF FOOD INCLUDE POISONOUS BUGS, ARANEA, SNAKES AND A FEW VESPERTILLIONES.
YOUR SAFEST OPTION, THOUGH, WOULD BE TO CONSUME YOUR HUMAN FRIENDS.
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"HEY HEY HEY BUDDY! Chill~ I may be a morally degenerate guy but not even I'am that bad okay!... so how can I kill this snake?"
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WELL SIR YOU CAN FIND IT IN THE CRACKS OF THE CAVE TRYING TO MAKE ITS WAY OUT OF THE CAVE BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM THEY ARE BLIND SO YOU COULD BE ABLE TO KILL THEM WITHOUT YOUR POWERS BUT THOSE SNAKES TEETH AND BONES HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO BREAK TROUGH THE MOUNTAIN BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR THOSE SNAKES THEIR HEART IS OUT OPEN WITHOUT ANY PROTECTION FROM THE BONES SO ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS CRAFT A SPEAR FROM THE STONES AND STICKS TO KILL IT.
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"ok cool got it but i really can't do this myself so..." after that Ira' goes up to gladius and wakes him up.
"uh.. oh sir Ira' what do you need?"gladius said after waking up.
"I know a way for us to get food and I need your help" Ira' said with a wink
"re-really how?"he asked curiously
Ira' grinned, stretching his stiff limbs. "There's a snake in the cave, blind as hell, but with bones and fangs strong enough to break through a mountain. Its heart, though? Wide open, no protection. We just need to craft a spear and strike it before it knows what's up."Gladius gulped. "A snake that can break mountains? And you want us to fight it with a spear?""Exactly." Ira' patted him on the back. "Don't worry, dude. You do the crafting, I'll do the stabbing."Gladius stood there and thought for a while until... "ok sir i'll do it"Ira' grinned saying"good that's what I thought"
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