Exasperate

My eyes grew wide as a smile grew across my face, re-reading the question that appeared before me over and over. "I was starting to think maybe this was all real, but I guess it is a dream After All. I guess it's not bad to have some fun before I go out." I said to myself. As the counter reached its half waypoint, the 30 second mark, two more words would appear directly under the question, "YES / NO".

Quick quiz, what answer do you think I chose? Of course, I chose YES. That's the only correct answer, If you thought otherwise, you're really not going to like my next course of action. The screen then disappeared. Then multiple cards started to appear before me as well as an Experience bar. The bar kept filling up and restarting as it got longer. On top of the bar, multiple achievements that I've accomplished showed up and disappeared moments later each giving +50,000 or more Experience;

Data Transfer - Completed

Death - Completed

Ultimate Anger - Achieved

Weak mentality - Achieved

Desire For Revenge - achieved...

Stat Transfer - Completed

The achievements continued to flow for around 2 minutes until I then got a different messages.

[MAX LEVEL REACHED]

NEW TITTLE: {WRATH THE NEWBORN} [INVENTORY] - UNLOCKED

[MAX CARD LIMIT] - UNLOCKED

NEW TITLE: {RETURNER} {MAX LEVEL}

[STORE] - UNLOCKED.

As those words all scattered across my vision, like every other normal human being, I didn't understand what the fuck was showing up in front of me.

This "system" felt like those you see in video games. The Main menu included my health and skill stats. An inventory, titles that boosted my stats by +3 each and a store, as well as this sort of currency called CP. I didn't interact with the panel much. What I was the most interested in were these "Cards". I would press the expand detail tab and read: Each card contained a skill of a "hero" that used to exist but was either forgotten or is currently dead. The cards would take control of their soul, and temporarily transfer their skills to me. Each card I used would take away 6 months of my life span.

As I finished reading, another window would pop up saying, "CHOOSE THE AMOUNT OF CARDS YOU WANT TO POSSESS".

" 1 year.. take everything and only leave 1 year" The system responded a bit abnormally. A face appeared, surrounded by darkness, i would only see white teeth and a smirk. The panel would glitch out and disappeared seconds later with the words, "PROCESSING PAYMENT... SUCCESSFUL" appearing right after.

" 150 Cards has been Deposited."

As soon as I finished reading those words, time would reverse back to 10 minutes ago and unfreeze. I was tied up again, as I looked at Zeke sitting down on the chair yet again.

I'd smirk, whispering. " Open system."

The System menu would appear in front of my eyes, i'd glance over at Zeke, wondering if he could see the screen as well.. He couldn't. I whispered once again, "use card". As I finished saying those words, time froze once again, but it wasn't entirely frozen, things were just moving at an incredibly slow pace and only my eyes could move to select which famous being in history I could "borrow" skills from.

As i scrolled through the long list of names and the skills they possessed, I smirked as I found the perfect person for this situation.

"The greatest boxer in the world, Muhammad Ali" 

To be Continued...