NOVEL NEXT Chapter 7: Alternatif timeline
Under the moonlit night, Infected passed by on the street and some hid among the darkness searching, hunting for prey to devour.
On the sidewalk, El walked alertly around. The katana unsheathed from its sheath he gripped tightly with his right hand. When the Infected came at him, El slashed their necks with ease.
Suddenly, one of the infected attacked El's back. Without turning around, El thrust his katana right behind him.
Crot!
That stunned the infected for a moment. Immediately, El turned around and cut its neck. Then, El continued with another Infected coming from his left.
Slash!
El immediately cut the infected's neck and continued to kill other infected that approached.
At that moment, Rhinegan's eyes that still retained the eye of insight were able to quickly read the movement, plus control the movement as efficiently and minimally as possible to attack or avoid.
El's movements when slashing the Infected's neck, head and body looked better than before. El was getting better at using the Katana in his hands, like a trained Samurai.
Ding!
[Killed 1 starting level 1 infected, +50 points!]
[Killed 1 starting level 1 infected, +50 points!]
Killed 1 starting level 1 infected, +50 points!]
As the system notifications continued to echo in his mind, El remained focused on killing the infected that approached him to earn more points and practice his combat moves.
Before long, the infected around were gone. El's breathing was labored from exhaustion, even the 6 tomoe on Rhinegan disappeared. Right now, El needed to rest to recover his stamina and Rhinegan's strength.
The corpses of the infected were scattered on the sidewalk like dried leaves in a garden. Blood pooled, forming puddles on the pedestrian sidewalks.
These things made the scenery around like a haunted house ride.
Ding!
[As a result of swinging the Katana frequently and correctly, Beyonder serial number 120,000 gained the Swordsman skill]
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Name: El Ira Adrian
Race: Human
Title : don't have
Profession : don't have
Authority Level: 5
STR: 4
VIT: 3
AGI : 6
INT : 1
(A 20-year-old human has an average of 5 attributes except INT.)
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Abilities:
> Six Tomoe Rhinnegan (Special)
> Swordsman (Lv, 1)
Skill type: Passive
Description :
Physical strength 25%
Attack speed 5%
(This ability level can be increased)
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With the acquisition of this skill, El's physical strength and attack speed grew stronger and faster. Unfortunately, El was already exhausted. Sweat flowed down his handsome face.
"My body feels a little lighter than before. But, I'm exhausted and need to find a place to rest as soon as possible!" El looked around and found a flower shop with an open door.
Immediately, El ran breathlessly to the place. After arriving, El immediately entered it. Not forgetting, El deliberately knocked on the door, to make sure if there were infected in the shop.
5 minutes El waited while preparing to cut the neck of the infected head that would come. But, there was no sign of the infected to come. El breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this shop was safe for her to rest in.
"Apparently, I can rest for the next 1-2 hours here. That's good, because I'm already very tired." El immediately entered it without any sense of burden.
Looking around again, El found a full and sealed bottle of bottled water on the table. El immediately went over and picked it up, broke the seal and drank it.
Glup... Glup... Glup!
"Fyuh, I feel more refreshed already." El said flatly. Then, El deliberately dropped her body, sitting on the floor while holding the handle of the katana that was still out of the sheath.
The bottle of water was finished quickly, El put the empty plastic bottle next to her and closed her eyelids while leaning on the counter.
A thought occurred to him, El opened his eyes again. "Ah, that's right. How many points have I gotten recently?"
Then, El operated the system. El opened the detailed information of the completed missions. El smiled when she saw the points she had earned from killing many infected along the way.
On the hologram screen, there was a nominal number of 8,050 points. After feeling satisfied, El closed the hologram panel and closed her eyelids again.
"Uh, hachi!"
Suddenly, a sneeze sounded very close to his. El opened both eyelids and got up from the floor where He was sitting. El wore a serious expression and held her katana tightly in his hand.
El's eyes sharply scanned the surroundings for any trace of anyone other than herself in this flower shop. "Oi, come out! I promise I won't kill you, maybe?"
"That means I was killed instead! Shit, what did I do!" said the voice that sounded like a girl's milk.
In El's mind, a prank idea suddenly came to her. El smiled, but there was ill will in it. "Come on out, I have some chocolates here, if you want. I don't mind sharing."
"Give it to me!" The figure in the voice was a short girl, emerging from behind the counter with sparkling eyes and a mouth full of saliva.
El looked at the girl. She had cute facial features, long black hair, wore a white dress with a floral print on the skirt and looked at El expectantly.
El's serious expression softened slightly, putting the katana into its sheath. Feeling no threat from the little girl, El lowered her guard.
"I don't have it, I just lied to you. It worked." El answered with no burden and no guilt for lying to the little girl.
The little girl's expression became very upset at being lied to by El. Her cheeks were flushed and puffed up, looking cute and funny to El who witnessed it. "You villain! You lied to me!"
"Is that so? Who told you to lie so easily, little girl." El mocked with a cold, expressionless smile.
"Ugh, I'm not a little girl! I'm 20 years old! You're a crook, a stiff and a liar!" the little girl mocked El by raising her shrill tone of voice.
Hearing the statement that the little girl was 20 years old, the image of 'spinning loading' appeared on El's forehead. El froze in silence because she didn't understand at all. A body like a junior high school student, originally 20 years old.
Before long, El opened his mouth. "Ah, yes, yes, I understand. You don't want to be called a little girl, right? But, your lies are really more outrageous."
The girl grew even more annoyed at El's words. "I'm really 20 years old, you know! I don't know why my body is shrinking and suddenly people are getting weird!"
El frowned his head, seeing that the little girl looked very serious, there was no lie in her words.
In her mind, El suspected that the physical changes experienced by the girl in front of her must have something to do with the Abola Virus meteor. But, in the comics there were no characters of this little girl or people who experienced similar cases.
'The timeline really changed.' El thought.
Then El sat back down on the floor and closed his eyelids. El's behavior made the little girl feel surprised and confused. The girl really wanted to yell at El, but she decided against it.
The reason was simple, if she screamed too loudly, the infected would come.
The girl could only bite her lower lip in annoyance and sat next to El.
"My name is El Ira Adrian, what's your name?" El asked while closing both eyelids and said in a cold tone of voice.
"Tian Li." the girl replied briefly.
After El asked her name, it was quiet again. Between the two of them there wasn't any chatter, it was very quiet and peaceful.
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It didn't feel like 20 minutes passed by with boredom for Tian Li. At this moment, Tian Li was lying on the floor and looking at El with a sense of curiosity.
Over time, Tian Li became uncomfortable with this silence. "Villain, say something. Why is your left eyeball so strange?"
El opened his left eyelid, looking at Tian Li who was lying on the floor with sparkling eyes, demanding an answer. Tian Li was really interested, eager to know some things about the man right in front of him.
"Why do you want to know so badly? And don't give me that look." As usual, El answered him coldly and flatly.
"Just answer my question, I'm so bored! Come on, say something." Tian Li said with great annoyance.
El sighed in annoyance, opened both his eyelids and looked at Tian Li. "How troublesome. Alright, you want something to do? Do you want me to teach you the virus energy breathing method?" asked El.