Regression

The shop menu appeared infront of me, as if it had something useful.

"Skill(Limited Edition):Take It All!

Passive Ability, Certain actions or conditions that the user fulfills can allow him to steal or copy the ability of a user.

Price:550 coins."

"That is pretty expensive, 550 kills for a skill.. How many coins do I have now?"

"Balance / wallet:5000 coins."

"Wait what! I didn't kill 5000 people!"

"No Host, you didn't, that was a gift from the System for certain Achievements."

"Oh!"

"Buy Perk 'Take It All!'"

"Perk has been bought, automatically used up by user, new ability has been activated!"

And the system window dissipated from sight.

"So, Shall I copy the berserker skill?"

"Sure, Conditions have been fulfilled for a copy of Berserker (Owner: Sung Woo).

Conditions: Overwhelm User with your determination, any way possible."

"So that was his name.. I see. And when did I complete the requirements!?"

"Skill is being copied, due to unstable energy levels of the user, The user might suffer damage from copying Sung Woo's Skills."

"Fine, just get it over with!"

The pain wasn't anything I have felt before, it felt like my body was being crushed to oblivion from an outside force.

"You mortal, How dare you try and steal my contractor's skills!?" Said a giant man, it didn't seem like anyone other than me, could see him, but he was the size of a Limousine standing up.

The tall spirit was the spirit of the warrior of Taurus.

"He has the strength of a bull, it was obvious Sung Woo would get something like this." I thought, unable to deduce what other Zodiac abilities the 10 others excluding Sung Woo and Hyeong Shin would have.

"Anastasia has mental skills, and combat abilities, It's tougher than I thought, to find out her zodiac abilities." I said to myself, The giant spirit added, "Reply me, Mortal, How dare you try to steal his ability to make it your own!?" Strong aur blew from all sides, everyone could feel the air, but they couldn't find out the root cause of it.

"Sagittarius might see me, You better not use his ability for evil, I will punish bad guys." He said, as Taurus disappeared.

Normally, it's sign is used with a Bull, but the spirit itself had only the horns and tail of a bull, but a body of a human.

"Skill Copying has successfully finished, 7 days before user can copy another skill, or you might be in grave danger." Said the status window as a new skill appeared.

"Berserker.

Increases your physical strength, Temporary adrenaline, reduced damage felt by User, Cooldown:1 day."

"That is quite a useful ability, Are the 9 other members here yet?" I asked to Timothy, He didn't seem like he was noticing me, it did feel like something was odd, he was talking to someone that is not me, and his attention is diverted.

I slapped him back to his senses, but that didn't help, instead I was pushed aside by an invisible force, Probably the same one that Timothy was talking to.

"Wh- what the hell just happened!? Why did John just fly across the room!?" The soldiers rushed over to lift me back to the ground, "I'm okay, I'm okay, Thanks for your help though." I sent them away with a thumbs up.

"It said that my body wouldn't be able to take on copying another ability, But shall we try!?"

Ego had filled up inside me, I noticed something was wrong, but that wasn't the end of it, it was like I wasn't in charge of my own body.

"That lich! That must be his doing! Pretending to be all weak infront of Jack but attacking us from behind!" is what I initially thought, and that was what I expected.

"Lich, My ass!" It were the association bastards, It hasn't even been half a day, and the association have already gotten their hands of Magic Power and abilities.

"Though their abilities aren't as strong as ours, we still need to be wary of them."

My body wasn't prepared for another skill copy session, it was about time I fainted.

Dropping on the ground, unconscious, the thoughts that arised inside me, had also disappeared.

I found myself in a dark space, with nothing infront of me, there comes the warrior of Sagittarius.

"Child, you have overworked yourself, to grant your mind peace, let me answer your question."

"Huh!? Where am I!? What am I!? No.. most importantly, WHAT ARE YOUUU!?"

"Not these questions, the one question that was deep down in your mind, Why and how did we rejuvenate you 12."

"Right, that was my question, how could I ever forget such bullshit."

"Listen closely, I'm not going to repeat this again. You have not gained the body of your youth, you have returned to the past, the memories of the past are intact, and the memory of how and when you died, this is the same for all of the others.

I will soon change this world, and you will have regressed to the past with all your teammates, this test to beat The Lich, is to find a suitable candidate.

This is just the trial of what we can do, after you beat it, you guys will be regressed back to your original lives, the ones when you were in your early 20s.

Listen to this closer than before, The lich's weak spot is.... A place that holds special memory of him when he had just awakened, this doesn't apply to the others, Now go back, I know you can do it."

He pushes me off the ground, as I see a light infront of me, Running towards it, I finally catch up with it, and regain consciousness in my real body.

"Im still so confused, he granted us the functional body of our past, IN THE PRESENT, and now he wants us to beat a god knows who monster and HE WANTS TO SEND US BACK TO THE PAST WITH OUR MEMORIES INTACT!?"

TO BE CONTINUED