The long-awaited X-day had arrived. Why X? A secret.
Just yesterday I bought up shares in what everyone thinks is already a dying company and finished my training. Now looking at my stats, I realise what I was wasting my time on. But still, raising net stats is something for the Chinese, not normal people. Well, I'll be arriving at the warehouse soon. I can take one last look and shed a manly tear.
Name: Ryan Pierce
Level: 12
Experience: 3950 / 4000
Parameters:
«Strength: 53
«Dexterity: 51
«Endurance: 56
«Intelligence: 31
«Intuition: 15
«Free Points: 6
Features: "major", "lab mouse", "hitman".
Skills: "martial arts - 21 level", "shooting - 40 level", "polyglot - 5 level", "psychology - 6 level", "strategist - 6 level", "stealth - 7 level", "player's mind - MAX".
Superpowers: "time acceleration".
I was especially frustrated by the waste of free points. When I was thinking about my future plan of action, I decided to increase my intelligence to 30 in the hope of getting some perks, but not only did I not feel any changes, but after reaching the tenth level, I got a 1 increase in intelligence and intuition.
At the warehouse, besides my weapons, I also had a nice black suit waiting for me - it turns out Martin had one of those too. It would miss bullets, of course, but it would withstand a stabbing. It looked like a wetsuit, so I put on black jeans and a sweatshirt over it. I also remembered to buy a mask. When I put it on the bottom of my face, I felt like a ninja, only I lacked a katana, but I'll replace it with a pistol and sniper rifle.
I went to infiltrate in the late afternoon, as I was expecting a Shield cordon and other problems, but apparently Obadiah was considered not very dangerous and they sent a small group of agents after him, just like in the film. After sneaking past the guards and navigating by memorised maps, I was able to find the building neighbouring Sector 16. Climbing onto the roof, all I had to do was wait for the right moment.
About an hour later, a car with our lovely agents arrived, and led by Pepper and Coulson, they set off in a smooth formation to find Obadiah. How thoughtful. They didn't even leave one agent to watch the entrance. Well, I guess we can leave a couple of presents to test out his upgrades. Fifteen minutes later I see Pepper running out already alone, and soon the concrete starts to break up and our villain is trying to crawl out from under it. Thankfully, my gift bag doesn't get too far away, and with an accurate shot, praise be to my training, I hit the target and the half-crawled out Obadiah gets a good kicking from my grenades. I wonder if it damaged the hydraulics.
«Who's here? Who else have you brought in, Miss Potts? - shouting and looking round angrily at Stein.
Blimey! Looks like the suit's been well made, it's got no problem spinning! The 4 grenades only did a bit of damage to the panelling. Thankfully, he was distracted from continuing my search by the appearance of Iron Man. Oh, they're off exploring the underworld again, so I'll just sit here cold and alone. Finally I see our lovebirds fly into the sky. Stein's suit leaves such a trail of smoke that I can't tell if it's a poorly designed flight system or a tactical fix. It's just that if he flew over an enemy base a couple of times, you could shoot the film "The Darkness" on it.
A couple of minutes later Tony landed on a rooftop neatly close to his clean energy reactor. Stein flew in after him. After setting off fireworks and blowing smoke up the roof, Tony decided to play stealth, and I was glad I'd bought a thermal imager, or I'd have been sitting there hoping for the best. Pepper's heading back into the building, looks like it's about to start.
«Come on, Gulchatai, open your face.
***On the roof of the clean energy reactor.
«I've never done anything like this in my life, but I can tell you, I'm crazy about this toy. You've outdone yourself, Tony. Your father would be proud.
Bull's-eye. Is it just me, or was he giving a speech in there? Oh, whatever. Let's get out of here before Shield's backup arrives.
***Still reactor roof.
«Pepper, shut down the reactor.
«But what about Obadiah?
«He's dead.
«What? How?!
«Sniper did a good job, thank those agents.
20 minutes later.
«Mr Stark, are you all right?
«My whole body hurts, and my nose is the worst. But it would be a lot worse if it weren't for your men. Who's the hero who saved my life?
«Mr Stark, I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about.
«I'm talking about your sniper who took out Stein, where is he?
«All the Shield agents were downstairs during your fight with Abadiah. Those weren't our men. Agents, spread out across the area! There's a third party!
«So who do I thank for saving my life?
Somewhere in a dark alley.
«Well, what did I get?
Zing!
Mission accomplished.
Due to the fact that you have exceeded the goal set for you by more than 10 times, the number of rewards has been increased.
Rewards: new playlist system feature, random playlist system enhancement, one-time ability ticket, permanent special ability ticket, and 50 C. О.
Now that's what I mean by paying off the labour. I need to check out the new feature and its enhancement quickly.
«Playlist, - as soon as I said that word, I immediately saw a gigantic list of tracks that I saw no end to. A couple of seconds later, a message appeared in front of me:
The system's "playlist" feature gives you access to all music tracks, and not just your world. After 3 seconds, a random enhancement will be selected.
3... 2... 2... 1... Done! You have received a "telepathic radio".
Telepathic radio allows you to broadcast audio from your playlist into the heads of surrounding living beings. The range of the ability is 1000 metres.
Awesome! Now use a permanent special ability ticket.
You have gained "lycanthropy": your body can take on a hybrid form, your stats increase by 30%, and you gain enhancement to all six senses. During the full moon, you lose control of your body and will be driven by bloodlust alone... bug... the blood madness effect is blocked by the maximum level of the "player's mind" skill.
Whew, I was getting scared! And why doesn't it say there are abilities with negative effects? Now let's check out the one-time ability.
You get "teleportation": your body can be transported anywhere in the world, the main thing is to imagine the place you want to go to or its coordinates. The transfer takes place within 1/10th of a second.
Best day of this life!!! I was able to get my music back! I got a cool ability! And I got a ticket to save my arse! Whoo! Now I guess I need to fix my shortcomings and spend those points, as they say, "easy come, easy go". I think I'll put 20 points in intelligence and 21 in intuition. I want my own spider sense!
Name: Ryan Pierce.
Level: 13
Experience: 4325 / 4500
Parameters:
«Strength: 54
«Dexterity: 52
«Endurance: 57
«Intelligence: 51
«Intuition: 36
«Free Points: 15
Specialities: "major", "lab mouse", "hitman".
Skills: "martial arts - 21 level", "shooting - 41 level", "polyglot - 5 level", "psychology - 6 level", "strategist - 6 level", "stealth - 12 level", "player's mind - MAX".
Superpowers: "time acceleration", "lycanthropy".