Arin starts following that person quietly. That man crosses the whole market and reaches his house. That man's house is quite big for a non-awaken soldier. Arin went behind that man's house and there Arin saw a window. It's not that high, so Arin enters the soldier's house through that window.
Arin ends up in that soldier's bedroom. Arin saw a massive bed in the middle of the room and a wooden closet and table with a chair on the right side and there is a locker on the left side. A metal glass is on the table beside the wine bottle. Then Arin heard footsteps approaching the room, so Arin hid beneath the bed.
That man unlocked his room and entered. He opens his closet and then he starts undressing himself, he removes his uniform and then wears his normal clothes. Then he picks up a glass from the table and pour wine in it. He seems unhappy and angry.
He drank one sip. "Ahhhh." he threw glass on the wall. "Who does she think she is? She is just a maid and I am an imperial soldier." Then he lay down on his bed and closed his eyes. "I will show her tomorrow what will happen when a mere maid rejects an imperial soldier."
Arin is hearing every single thing from beneath the bed. "(Lyra lost her life for a person like this. He should pay for this.)
Arin quietly comes out from bed then Arin stands on bed then Arin puts his sword with both hands downward to pierce that soldier. "Hey don't you wanna see your killer."
That soldier opened his eyes and saw a man standing in front of him holding a sword and about to pierce him.
Before he can think about anything Arin pierce that man's chest with his sword.
"You don't deserve to be healed by her."
That man dies on his bed, and suddenly the whole bed becomes red with that man's blood.
[First installment: 9,899 lives]
[Absorb 20 years to unlock whole system window]
Then Arin pulls back his sword and gets down from bed. Then Arin put his right hand on that man's face.
[Skill : Life drain activated]
A red aura covers Arin's right hand. After that, the man's body became shriveled.
[Life drain complete.]
[Strength: +2]
[Ability: +1]
[The condition has been met, and now you can unlock the whole system.]
Ding
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Blood Debt System
Debtor: Arin graven Age: 20 years
Lifespan: 100 years Traits: 3
Corruption: 5% Title: Life Ledger
Debt: 1,000,000,000
First installment: 9,700
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Strength: 20 Ability: 17
Mana: 5
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Passive: Blood manipulation (level 1)
Skills: Shadow step (level 1)
Swordmaship (level 1)
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Message
[You have an unread message.]
[Your passive got an upgrade.]
Blood Ledger → Life Ledger
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[Choose a word to activate your passive.]
He gets confused by this message. So he sat down on a chair beside the table. Then he crossed his legs and tried to put hand on chin. He saw some random patterns appear on his left hand. Then he looks at his right hand, and there are also the same patterns. They are white spirals and look like someone uses paint to draw.
"What, who Engrave these paintings on me "
[Word has been chosen.]
[Engrave will activate and deactivate your passive.]
[You can't use your other powers while using your passive.]
"What, at least let me think about it." Then he look towards the message. "Hmm, but at least it looks cool. So I forgive you. But in the future, let me confirm my choice. Yes or no."
[You are not the owner of this system.]
[You can't make changes in the system.]
Arin get furious."What, then tell me who you belong to."
[....]
Arin's face changes his expression into anger. Then he stood. "What do you mean by this message, you idiot."
[....]
Arin sighs. "Haaa, stupid system."
Arin looked at that man's corpse on the bed. Then he picks it up and throws it from the windows behind the house.
"You are not welcome in my house." He shake his hand. "Haa, it's already night. Let's sleep because now I have a job to do."
He looks at the bed and the whole bedsheet is covered in blood. So he opens the closet and tries to find a new bedsheet. He found a new bedsheet in the lower cabin in the closet. Then he changed the bedsheet and jumped on the bed then fell.
"This house is not bad actually."
Yawn
"And this bed is so comfortabl…"
[The owner gives you permission to choose.]
He fell asleep. Arin is sleeping comfortably in the house but in the palace the situation is too different and feared because a meeting is going in the meeting room. The room is massive and a massive round table with seven chairs but only six are filled in the middle. There are many candles on the walls. lighting dimly and a magic stone above the round table. Lighting the whole table and a massive model is placed on the table of the 'Veylor kingdom'.
In the model, the king's palace is in the middle of the whole model and the palace is surrounded by houses and markets. This is the capital of the Veylor kingdom. There is an empty grassland and forest between other cities. Those cities are known as noble cities. Ruled by nobles there are four noble cities in Veylor kingdom in each direction. And a massive wall is covering the whole kingdom. There are massive mana stones on each pillar of this wall. It provides an invisible shield to protect walls and kingdom. This shield covers the whole sky area of the Veylor kingdom.
Kaelor Dravane (general of resistance force) is sitting on right chair of king and Prime minister Jean is sitting on left of king, Lord Vitern (East city noble) is sitting on the second right chair, Dren Malvik (west city noble) on the left second chair, Valtheris Duskbane (south city noble) on the third left chair, And the last chair is empty placed in front of King Atahsaia vire. They all have broad-shouldered massive athlete bodies with fearsome aura. The whole room aura is too cool to breathe for a weak person.
"You all know why I called you here." Atahsaia leaned forward and put his right hand on the table.
"Yes, my lord. I heard there is a Blood Arts Practitioner in the capital. And he is still roaming on roads." East city noble Lord Vitern responded to Atahasia with a sincere voice.
"But I never expected that the General Kaelor Dravane of the resistance force couldn't even detect him till now." Lord Varrow from North city. He has blonde hair with a beard, he looks to be in his 40s.
Still after the attack on Kaelor loyalty. Kaelor is tall with black hair, broad-shouldered, and a scar across left eye. he is in his 30s. Even with scary appearances, his personality is calm. He remains silent and responds kindly. "We are not Debt-Bound Warriors like you, Lord Varrow. I have non-awaken in my battalion, we don't have powers like you. But still supporting our kingdom with our heart."
"Wars can't be won by hearts. And in the year's Eve event, most casualties come from your battalion. What do you have to say on this?" Lord Varrow smirk.
"Silent." Atahsaia cough. "We have other important matters than this Lord Varrow."
"I apologise, my lord." Lord Varrow.
"I apologise, my lord."Kaelor Dravane.
The prime minister is sitting in the left chair of the king. stand up from his chair.
"My lord." He bends then starts explaining the whole situation. "Recently we found two new corpses. They were the imperial soldiers of Veylor kingdom."
Everyone grabbed their chair handles very tightly in anger.
"But we already found out who it is."
"Who is it." Atahsaia vire.
"Who is it." Lord Varrow.
"Who is it." Lord Vitern.
"Who is it." Dren Malvik.
"Who is it." Valtheris Duskbane.
"Who is it." Kaelor Dravane.
"That Blood Art Practitioner is…"
*Knock* *knock*
Suddenly someone knocks on the gate and that person looks like they are in a hurry. Kaelor Dravane stands up and opens the door and there is a maid standing on the door and she is gasping very hard.
"What happened, you really have a good reason to disturb the King's meeting."
"Yes… I have a very good reason… it is here." She looks anxious.
To be continued…