17 Chapter 17: Bloodlust

The thought flow from his mind traveled to his heart. Suddenly, the red gem that was imbued in his forehead, when the system had created his body, came out, while his sight turned dark and his HP turned lower and lower because of his open wound on his shoulder that had been cut off. His HP was already in a two-digit number.

"Will you allow yourself to die?" a voice spoke in his mind, that low sound... it seems that it came from the deep dark abyss.

"Who are you?" Reigan asked toward the vastness of the dark.

"I am you. I can give you the power to kill them and get you out of this predicament." spoke the voice.

Reigan sought where that voice came from, and a red light in the shape of an orb came out. It was surrounded by red, violet, and black mist. He scrutinized the weird thing, never did he remember that he was this red orb. He is a human, ehem, was, but still, he used to be human so how could he turn into an orb! This orb is a big liar! He won't let himself scam.

"I don't trust you! You just wanted to scam me!"

"... I don't"

"See, you take long just to reply to me!"

"Do you wanna die?" the orb asked him.

"I don't want to," Reigan replied with a face full of seriousness. Why the heck would he want to die?!

"Then do you want power?"

"No, I want to be normal."

The red orb: ...

The red orb stared at Reigan. He never met such a being who asked to be normal when he is in a death and life predicament. "So you want to die?"

"No."

"You are about to die."

"Well, you said you are me, so if I die, so do you? Am I right?"

The red orb became silent for a while then chuckled. Amusement on Reigan was the thing it felt. "You're right."

"Then, if you don't want to die, you need to help me," Reigan spoke in a voice full of justification.

"I can't help you if you won't let me borrow your body."

"I see..."

"So let me borrow it."

Reigan smiled at the red orb. He never thought this orb was a fool, easily giving away information he wanted to know with it, which was that this orb wanted his body and controlled him. A playful smile was formed on the corner of his lips. "I don't wanna."

The orb red light became brighter, but its light went into disarray. It was in a fury but then the light turned to normal again, making Reigan raise his vigilance. "I see, then I will take your body once you die." It chuckled then the red orb disappeared bringing the puzzle to Reigan's mind. Isn't it when he dies the red orb will also die? He didn't know the answer, and he didn't want to try to know, cause if he did, doesn't it also mean that he needed to die just to check it.

At the same time, the gem that was on his forehead also went once more inside his skin forehead, while his HP is already in single digits. 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

"The Norman Reigan only had 1HP. Initializing bloodlust." The system spoke in his mind. The next thing that happened was Reigan's body was being covered with red mist, his cut off arm regenerated while it was covered with both dark blood and weird liquid, and the tattoo on his chest started to crawl all over his body, his arms, legs, hands, feet, face, and forehead. His eyes turned red and black, his muscles became more well-defined.

Reigan thought it was to kill and destroy anything that comes his way, don't leave anyone alive, that thought turned to desire. And even crept to his veins, and the desire to hear the scream of living beings in agony and hunger to be coated with blood.

He wanted to kill, kill, kill, kill.

Reigan had no hold on his thoughts and body, his sight turned white, and the living being was black that made him annoyed. The next thing that happened was Reigan getting out of the swamp. No, to be precise the swamp made way for him as if scared of him, giving him a chance to jump out, and then bolt toward the incoming boars. Behind them was a Treant with a lot of delicious-looking fruits, these fruits can make one regain their HP at least to 5. If Reigan was still conscious, he would take those fruits first before killing the treant which has a beautiful face carved on the trunk. Unfortunately, he was already drunk with the desire to kill and destroy, being blind to what was beautiful or what was good.

Reigan used his brute strength to kill every boar that came his way, his strength already raised from 20-100 and still raising only stopping at 1000, while his agility also raised from 20-50 stopping at 750 and also still raising, his level was also raising and stopping to level 49. The treant ordered the boar to attack Reigan, it was surprising that it had its own thought and consciousness, just like a human. If Reigan was still sane he would notice this, but his mind was already muddled, unable to distinguish the reality around him.

The boar started to form a ball-like on the tip of their horns, but before they could shoot, Reigan was already behind them and punched it, while the others were kicked toward the other boar making them stumble and crash on the trees. His speed can't even be seen with the naked eye anymore.

"How can a human... You... Are you a Norman?" asked the treant with her eyes full of greed. "I will be the first to kill you!" Then the Treant attacked him with its vine, Reigan caught it and used it to spin the Treant in the air. After that, he threw it to the land, creating a crack on its body. He did it while dodging the incoming shot from the Boars and sometimes used the treant as his shield.

The Treant lost its consciousness, and with a kick, a white liquid was splattered on the ground. Some boar who seemed like being cut out of control started to run away. Unfortunately for them, Reigan chased them and killed all remaining boars. Some birds that were enjoying eating the fruits of the trees, that had four eyes, and blue and red feathers got scared when Reigan popped out of nowhere. They begin to fly away but Reigan leaped toward the trees and went after them, wanting to kill them. Some were able to escape, fearing the man that was covered with the tattoos and blood will also take their measly life.

Reigan went down the trees, and looked around him, wanting to find more to kill, but couldn't find any. The system on the other hand announced to him that he had leveled up while asking him if he wanted to change the animals and the treant with a reward. Reigan wanted to kill the system, but no matter what he did he couldn't even touch it, making him furious. He jabbed the air where the system was, and accidentally touched the [confirm] while others were canceled until he got tired and fell on the ground. With his body tainted with mud, blood, and dirt.