Seed decided to take a stroll, hopefully to reach His work place by the end of the stroll.
On his way past there, he decided to take a short cut through an alley way, while walking through it he noticed the sound of cars and the chattering of people had stopped and a sharp silence had swallowed up his surrounding, like he had wandered into some kind of... Otherworldly confinement.
"Oh fucking hell, what now?" Seed exclaimed as he stopped in his tracks and started examining his surroundings.
BOOM!
A gargoyle burst through the walls onto the alley way with a figure jumping out from the hole in the wall—a woman, with a blonde buzz cut and a brown trench coat. Her eyes hidden behind sunglasses, locked onto him as she walked towards the gargoyle.
"End of the line, buddy" she said, as she whipped out a paper talisman, chanted a few lines that sounded like a different language and threw the paper talisman towards the gargoyle, which produced a bolt of lightning that struck the gargoyle, turning it into a pile of ash.
She bent down, picked up something from the pile of ashes and tucked it into the pocket of her trench coat. She then looked back at Seed and walked towards him.
"Hey there, Man. Fine day isn't it?"
"Uhh, y-yeah?" Seed stuttered as she backed him into a wall.
"Yeah yeah, now how the hell did you wander into my confinement field, hmm?" The lady asked, eyeing Seed up to down.
"Con–Confinement field?" Seed asked, puzzled about what she meant, could it be the reason for why he suddenly stopped hearing the sound of any other thing and even now just noticed that he couldn't spot anyone on the street when he looked past the alley.
"Hmm, well, I guess this happens sometimes" The lady Put her hand into her trenchcoat and pulled out another talisman, chanting a few bunch of lines in that otherworldly language again, but this time, seed could here is more clearly and could swear it was Latin.
And if his Memory of Latin was still correct, then what she was saying was:
{{Threads of thought, unbind, unwind,
Slip from soul, slip from mind.
By Azazel's veil and Zachriel's flame,
Erase the mark, Erase the mind}}
"Wait, hold on one sec—" but just as seed was about to plead his case she struck the talisman onto his head and a Magical energy poured into his head, the force making him stumble to the ground.
"Alright then, that should do it". The woman remarked, grinning cheerfully as she flicked her finger which caused a glass shattering sound to echo. Then all the sounds of cars and people came back to reality as she walked away, out of the alley, blending into the crowd of people in the street.
Seed sat on the floor of the alley way, convulsing like he was about to throw up, and then started hearing that devilish voice in his head again—
[Stigma to Divinity Is detecting Divine energy penetrating the user's Mind...]
[Using death energy to Resist the Divine Energy...]
"AARRRGHHHHH"
[Corruption is increasing...]
[Your Willpower is trembling...]
[Resistance is successful!]
[Low-Tier Mind Erasure Divine Magic has been resisted]
Huff huff huff!
"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKK!!??" Seed shouted as he grasped for air, trying to breathe well, staring in the direction that the mysterious woman had walked away in.
"What did this crazy bitch just try to do to me?" Seed asked into the air as tried to get up from the ground, dusting the dirt off his trenchcoat. He stared at the the wall beside him that she had walked out of but the hole was no more there, as if what he had witnessed didn't actually happen but the pile ashes before him that was once a Gargoyle proved otherwise.
"Yesterday I fought a fucking Ghost and today I saw a woman strike down a GARGOYLE with LIGHTINING from a PAPER". Seed exclaimed, rubbing his face with his hand, it felt like getting bound to the book of death now meant he is going to keep experiencing crazy things like this every day.
He walked over to the pile of ash, feeling a strange energy coming from it and attracting him, then he reached his hand out to it and the sting of that devilish voice rang out In his head again.
[Death absorption in progress...]
[Death energy increasing>>>124>>>467>>>666>>>1456>>>2666>>>>3067]
"Whoa!" Seed yelled as The surge of death energy kept penetrating into his body.
[Death energy threshold passed]
[Level increased>>>lvl2]
[Death energy threshold passed]
[Level increased>>>lvl3]
[Death energy threshold passed]
[Level increased>>>lvl4]
[Death energy: 3067/5000]
[Available SP: 15]
"Three whole levels, it must've been at least three times stronger than the Crazy Female ghost them huh?" Seed said, while reaching for his fist that had the Skull mark, where the book has seeped into his hand.
"Alright then, come out let me Modify some stats"
But nothing happened, the book didn't reappear, instead red smoke pulsed out his hand and formed a rectangular screen Infront of his face with the status panel appearing within it.
"Oh wow, now this really feels like a game"
[BOOk of Death: Entry Profile]
[1666th Entry: Seed Wallace]
[Status: Bound Human+]
[Level: 4]
[Death Energy: 3067/5000]
[Corruption: 10%]
[SP: 15]
- Strength: 8
- Speed: 7
- Dexterity: 15
- Constitution: 10
- Perception: 11
Seed thought to himself about Last night, he had put the first 5-SP that he had gotten into dexterity to fight the ghost, but I'm all honest he felt like that was a waste, it didn't really affect much of the fight when he was fighting the ghost.
So this time he decided to really ponder about the best way to grow his stats, that would give him the best results in a long run, while ponder, his Memory went back to when the System was explaining the stats to him.
"oh, hey. Explain constitution again?", seed asked.
[User's Query Acknowledged]
[Constitution:For Every 10-point increase in Constitution, your "status" shall be evolved and your overall stats shall increase with you gaining greater resilience against the Corruption.]
"Aha! That's it!, put all 15-SP into Constitution!"
BOOk of Death: Entry Profile]
[1666th Entry: Seed Wallace]
[Status: Bound Human+]
[Level: 4]
[Death Energy: 3067/5000]
[Corruption: 10%]
[SP: 0]
- Strength: 8
- Speed: 7
- Dexterity: 15
- Constitution: 10>>>25
- Perception: 11
[Constitution had passed a threshold...]
[Status Evolution in progress...]
"Yeahh!! Just as I thought" seed jeered as he felt a rush of power flow through him, his long hair snapped the ribbon that tied it in a pony tail as it flared around endlessly.
[User is evolving from bound human+ to...]
[Status Evolution complete!]
[New status archived: BOUND ADEPT]
[ strength stat incease>>>>by 10]
[Speed stat increase>>>>by 10]
[Dexterity stat increase>>>by 10]
[Perception stat increased>>>by 20]
"Holy shit" seed exclaimed as the voice stopped resounding in his head and his wild hair died down in movement, he stared at the screen before him to see his new changes.
[BOOk of Death: Entry Profile]
[1666th Entry: Seed Wallace]
[Status: Bound Adept]
[Level: 4]
[Death Energy: 3067/5000]
[Corruption: 10%]
[SP: 0]
- Strength: 8>>>18
- Speed: 7>>>17
- Dexterity:15>>> 25
- Constitution: 25
- Perception: 11>>>31