Minutes pass and my once swollen knuckles now bleed, my hands tremble slightly, I use fear to resist the pain and muscle fatigue, all the while continuing to kill goblins.
[You have killed a 1 skull monster: +0.20]
[You have killed a 1-skull monster: +0.20]
[You have killed a 1 skull monster: +0.20]
...
"There seems to be no end to this. I'm the only survivor on the train. This is what would have happened to me if I had stayed. Everyone would have died."
[You have killed a 1-skull monster: +0.20]
[You have killed a 1-skull monster: +0.20]
[You have killed a 1-skull monster: +0.20]
...
Time keeps passing, no time to rest. I think after tonight I will hate these creatures.
I keep attacking until a cold wind blows, and I hear some rattles, I think it's a wraith, but my senses are at their limit to try to remember it, the best I can do is to prepare myself to face the threat.
The goblins run away in panic, even these creatures fear what is approaching, usually wraiths are supernatural beings of 3 skull or higher.
"System, How many points do I possess?"
[Fear points available: 32]
"Place all points in fear."
I begin to feel the mysterious energy revitalizing my body.
I concentrate on the sound of the approaching bells.
A bony, bloody hand from which hang five rusty-looking bells rests on the frame of one of the train's windows. Then, a ghostly figure begins to contort, bones can be heard breaking, and enters through the window in no time.
A few meters away from me, in the carriage, floats a being covered by a threadbare, translucent robe, his head covered by a hood similar to the robe. In the deep darkness of the specter's face, only two glowing red eyes are visible.
The specter lets out a bloodcurdling moan.
My body shudders, at this point at least my fear quality must already be in the D rank, if I still feel shivers, that supernatural being must be a 4-skulled specter.
I take a deep breath, feel the energy contained in the dagger, activate the three cutting spells simultaneously, begin to transfer my fear almost intuitively to the dagger. I had understood a little about fear when Sigfreud created a connection between me and the dagger.
I jump towards the specter.
The specter reaches me in an instant and I lunge at the specter's face with all my might, I feel cold fingers penetrating my chest, right where my heart is. I press the dagger with all I have left, I won't give up if I don't die.
Bang!
The dagger explodes...
[Terrifying experience: completed].
[Calculating the terrifying result...].
I wake up and touch my chest, my heart is still beating, now I remember, that specter was a "Heart Devourer", a specter of 3 or 4 skulls.
It is surprising that despite having had a lucid nightmare, my body feels relaxed and rested.
I sit on the edge of the bed, look out the window, the sky is clear dark, the sun will be up shortly.
I get up, take a black backpack in the room, empty it and store inside my 1600+ black tokens and 11 monster cores. I take the spoiled sword, and leave the room, there are some subjects who look with confusion, fear and displeasure, from the doors of their rooms.
[Congratulations: You have survived]
[You will get 10% of the fear points you accumulated or used in the terrifying result]
[You accumulated 117 points of fear: +11.7]
It will take me a while to reach the level I experienced in the nightmare, but now I'm more optimistic, I feel it can even be a fun thing to get stronger, in the end, time will tell.
"System, show me my qualities."
Dan Helsing (Level 2) (Hunter).
Qualities:
Health: 8.9/10
Endurance: 17.1/21.1
Fear: 7.7/11.5
Intelligence: 11
Strength: 19.6
Agility: 20.61
Abilities:
1. Tracking.
2. Stealth (blocked).
[Available fear points: 11.7.]
"I think I should balance the qualities, at least until they reach a useful level and then I can keep focusing on the ones that suit me. I didn't even remember what I was up against when the "Devourer of Hearts" appeared.
"System, place 9 points in the fear quality, 1 point in strength and the rest in intelligence."
[Fear: raised from 11.5 to 20.5.]
[Strength: raised from 19.6 to 20.6]
[Intelligence: raised from 11 to 12.7]
As I walk, I feel my senses sharpen, I get used to it with every step I take.
I begin to walk around, to familiarize myself with the gloomy walled building, I walked around the building, there were only empty rooms and the female dormitory area, and what appears to be the bathrooms, on whose doors is a sign that reads:
"From 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. women bathe."
"From 7 to 8 a.m. men bathe."
Inside, female voices could be heard talking.
I hear a not very loud scream, in the hallway there is a young woman with dark brown hair, wavy and somewhat long, she covers her beige skin and her juicy breasts with a white towel, I look at her pale face in which she has some freckles.
I walk away without saying anything.
"I sure looked like a handsome stalker or rapist to her. What a bad first impression."
I walk out of the building, at the back of the building is a vacant lot whose surface is earthy and even. Beyond are two smaller buildings. One has the word "men" written on the façade and the other "women".
I enter the one that says men and inside there are all kinds of instruments, tools and machines for training, the place has no paint, only some white lights on the ceiling, in the background there is a small combat arena.
After observing what must be the gym I decide to leave the place to then leave the territory of the Z squad building.
"I must buy clothes, I smell like dried blood and sweat, and I have no clothes to change into."