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This really was not good news.

But still, Arthur was calm. He had already spent a whole chapter thinking about what he wanted and what he would do much before the news reached him.

You can't really surprise a dead man with death.

Whether it could have been avoided or not, it did not matter any longer. Since it had already happened, he just needed to live with it.

Arthur shrugged, "Anything else besides me?"

"Plenty."

Carter said: "Colonel Phillips hopes that in your "leisure" time, you would join me and capture a few people..."

"Will everyone be as difficult as Lindsey?"

"Not necessarily... But we must hurry, once they get news that one of theirs has been captured, then their tracks would start disappearing."

Arthur nodded, this time he did not shirk away from this job. Hydra had decided to make him an enemy, and he definitely would not treat it any different.

He will start his own war! And not to mention, he could farm exp while doing these missions in a faster and not so suspicious manner.

- His primary target would be the weapons! And all other materials he can find. Farming is the one true way to increase one's strength. -

While Arthur was monologuing in his head, Carter was waiting for him to speak out his dissatisfaction with the whole situation, after all, Art was quite young. And like that, the two fell in a strange silence.

The two just looked at each other waiting for the other to speak.

After a whole minute, Carter gave up. – This dunderhead has a girl in his house and all time he doesn't even offer her water?! -

Carter stood up and said, "I should be going now."

"You know where the door is."

- Hmph! I'll make him regret this. –

Arthur," Goodbye."

"Have a nice night… YOU JERK!!!"

*BANG*

She huffed and slammed the door and walked away.

Arthur was shocked at the outburst, "Women really do be crazy. Well, at least it's not a 'Good Friend' card, right? Mhmm, this card can be rated as a 4-star card."

...

...

Next Morning.

With the human flag—Carter—leaving, Arthur finally had some good news this morning!

His system had UPGRADED!

But it did not mention anything about what happened during the upgrade. It reminded him of all those apps in GoGool playstroke, that update so many times but the creators never bothered to write what they changed.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

The simplest way to find out what changed with his system is to use it! And he just happened to have two pistols that he took in his recent endeavours. The two P38s were not *disassembled* due to the upgrade and were still kept in the system space.

[Do you want to Disassemble 'Walter P38 pistol' X2? Y|N]

"Huh…I can refine them together?", this was certainly good news to him as he could now save more time for himself.

And after selecting to refine them, in just two seconds, he heard a familiar chime-

[Alert!]

[The equipment has been successfully Disassembled!]

[Obtained:

>Primary: shooting(pistol) Exp*13

>Broken War Soul *2

>Fragmented energy residue*3]

[Disassembling Exp +2]

[Do you want to extract the products?]

Arthur was surprised too. This was too fast. He carefully went through the notification and found that not only was the systems refining speed faster than before, but also the language that the system used changed over time. Not to mention this "Fragmented energy residue" was something entirely new that he never received from other guns!

-EXTRACT-

He brought out the fragment and inspected it.

"What is this?", the fragment was an irregular piece and none of the three were identical. What they did share was that they fluctuated a lot. Meanwhile, he looked at the rest of his loot-- the skill books, the 2 war souls and of course, the fragments.

He looked at them for a long time. And clearly, he could not understand what it was just from staring at it. Regardless, he did what he had always done after using the system, simply absorb them. After all, the system had not harmed him before.

He reached out and touched it…

*SCHREECH* And liketh the fairest maiden, this gent did scream.

The energy fragment travelled along his arm and disappeared somewhere in his body.

- What, in the name of hell, was that? -

His hand had no marks. Nor did he feel any lingering pain. He even closed his eyes and tried to 'feel' where the mysterious energy disappeared in his body exactly as described in wuxia novels. BUT NOTHING!!! It was as if he was hallucinating all along.

Even though he was disappointed, Arthur had to accept that it changed nothing in him. Nothing noticeable at least.

But it did tell Arthur something… His system had potential... Potential to make him a broken character!

This filled him with confidence and brought him immense joy!

There was a knock on the door. And with them, came Dr. Erskine's familiar voice, "Hey, after having breakfast, do you want to go somewhere fun with me?"

"Will there be women?"

"Nope, just one bald old man and you can't say no.", Dr. Erskine's smile was genuine, not at all resembling the drunk and depressed scientist mumbling out his insecurities.

"So where are we going?"

Art carried his own concealed weapon and went out with Dr. Erskine.

After breakfast, the two left in a car directly to the recruiting office.

Looking at the destination, Art knew what they were doing here or rather who they were here for.

Sure enough, a short pale man walked into the recruiting office. Yep, it was who you think it was.

"Look… He is the one I chose!"

"Great, now it's my turn to finally tell the boy what we had decided. I will be going first, wait for me.", the Doctor was certainly excited and so was Arthur. He was watching history unfold and it, in itself, was fascinating to think about.

Arthur watched Erskine catch up with his fellow doctors and go in to meet up with the young man.

He didn't follow them and just waited in the shade observing anyone that could be watching them. He did not have to wait for long, just about 15 minutes, as he watched a little man come hopping out of the door.

"Are you excited?", He couldn't help but ask. Steve was just too happy!

"Of course I am! I will be 'The Super Soldier' !!"

"..."

The doctor had come back by this time. They said their goodbyes and Steve went back to the camp, waiting for the fateful day. And both drove back.

On the way back, the doctor whispered, "Arthur, I don't care what that senator says about choosing a weaker looking kid. I've chosen him and he will be mine,"

-Um… the wordings of this line seem a bit…-

Arthur hesitated before finally saying, "You do know that you sound like… you are going to confess your love?"

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