Darkness envelops and surrounds Arthur. He stands there and a click is echoed and a scene lights up infront of him showing him is fathers death. Then click another light behind him showing him his mothers body in the hospital. Click again showing him Mice body spilling out blood and it starts to fill and go everywhere.
Click Click Click showing everyone he has every cared for die.
A black figure appears infront of him saying "You did this" and it pushes him into the blood. Arthur powerless and defeated slowly drowns, deeper and deeper until he wakes up.
Drenched in sweat and drool coming out of his mouth and tears from his eyes. Arthur touches all over his body to make sure he is okay. He sees shackles on his ankles and tries to grab them to take them off but they are not there.
Arthur sits up and puts his back against wall and his legs up. He puts his head down and tries to curl himself into a ball. "How long have i been out?" he thinks to himself as he tries to calm himself down. Arthur stays like that for awhile and finally looks up. A system notification appears.
[New Skill: Steps of Darkness]
A movement that allows someone to become one with the dark.
All stats are increased when there is more darkness around.
Skill proficiency: 4
He puts his head down again and thinks "If i disappeared right now, what would change?" "I'm weak" "worthless" "Everything i do and nothing ever changes."
Reality finally hits Arthur and the pain inflicted on his mind is insurmountable. "But you just saved so many lives from being uprooted and pained for generations to come." a sweet feminine voice says.
Arthur lifts his head again and looks to his right and sees a Badger bear approaching the cave. Arthur's breathing gets heavier and he starts to panic. As the bear gets closer, it can't see Arthur at all but he doesn't know that. A warm embrace wraps around him and the words
"It's Okay" are spoken.
The bear walks past him and heads towards the pod. Arthur stands up and let's out a loud noise to get the Badger bear's attention and it looks in his direction. The bear charges towards him and attacks him with a claw and Arthur cowers. He waits for a couple of seconds and notices that the bear stopped the attack. He looks down at his body and notices that he used that ability again.
Arthur puts on a stern facial expression and as the bear looks around clueless. He moves closer to the and within stealth, the bear locks on his vicinity and attacks again. This time, he blocks the attack but gets sent flying backwards and into the wall.
The bear continues to charge and attack again the area he sent him flying too, but Arthur evades and stops moving. "If the only thing it has to go off is it's sense of smell then let's confuse it".
Arthur removes his top off of clothing and sends them both flying in both directions at the same time. The bear looks at both areas one after another, but gets stumped. Arthur leaps into the air from exactly where he stood and says "It's over". He uses the blade dagger coated with his blood.
[One Stroke]
As a wave of blood slices it's head off clean and has the body flop to the ground with it's head rolling towards him. After Arthur lands, he falls flat on his ass thinking about how hard that was. Panting and sitting on the floor with his arms behind his back, he look up and sees the system notification
[Congratulations! You have ranked up]
[New rank: E]
As Arthur looks at his stats window, he looks at fighters spirit again and understands why he fought the way he did. "But man i was in darknes for way too long" he says and he is fatigued. Arthur fully lays on the ground and says "Status" and his system window appears.
Name: Arthur Aldridge
Age: 18
Unique ability: Perseverance
Rank: E
Stats:
Strength: 30
Agility: 25
Intelligence: 24
Luck: -40
Mana: 21
Points available: 20
Skills:
Last Stand
Fighters spirit
Art of Sanguine
Steps of darkness
"Wow, that's great but I can't move." Arthur puts 5 points into agility. 6 into intelligence and 9 into mana. Steam comes off his body and says "Ahhhh" in a sense of gratification. He stays like that for atleast 10 minutes.
Another system notification appears, this time it shows that he gets another skill called
[Butcher]
[The breakdown of animals and weak points.]
Skill proficiency: 2
Arthur doesn't see it because he is already asleep.