Chapter 101. The System

POV: Enderwoman

My human suddenly stopped his eyes on me which never happened before, then his eyes were wide with fear, and started to run towards the bell in the tall grass, but he didn't manage to get to it before I felt a force pulling him in the invisible space.

Once again he used parts of my people to teleport and I didn't appreciate it.

Fearing the worst would happen I teleported after the trail left behind. It took me a day to arrive at the castle with the noisy humans and I saw my human safe, angry but safe.

He ordered people to dig a tunnel that led to a room. Not everyone was working with pleasure as I usually see them do when my human ordered them, something was different, he didn't manage to befriend them like the others.

I kept my distance not being sure if I would be seen once again.

The tunnel was finished and the room was covered all over with obsidian blocks for some unknown reason.

Before my transformation, I couldn't teleport past those blocks, but now with my new form I was more powerful and I could bypass them with no problem.

After everyone left with the exception of my human that weird friend of his, I teleported into the room.

Just as I got in, I saw my human putting a block down that seemed very familiar to me.

I looked more intensely at the floating glass cube and was shocked once I realized what it was.

How did my human manage to get his hands on something like this, it was made by Father to help create us the Endermans. I've only seen one when I was little and its energy was as powerful as this.

I looked closer and realized that it wasn't the same as in my memory, this one was lighter in color, the glass cube was spinning more than I remembered, the final and biggest difference was the fact that it didn't have any enchanted language written all over it.

This feels like something made by the System, but it's too powerful for the System not to hide it like the others.

How did my human manage to get his hands on one, I looked at him hoping to hear an explanation, but to my surprise, he put more crystals down and kept his distance like it was about to explode.

Sure if it was hit with a powerful enough attack it would explode better than any existing TNT.

But this is not the purpose of those blocks, if used correctly they can greatly impact the life around them, unfortunately, only Father and the System know how to use them.

How ironic that one of the items that helped the war is used as a mare explosive.

I could only smile at this, my human truly knows how to make everything interesting.

Soon, the whole room was filled with those crystals, and even I was scared to stay here in case everything would blow off. I could guess the plan now, and I have to say, only a madman would think of something like this.

Luckily my human didn't choose to go on a suicide mission and decided to make an escape plan. I didn't like what it used for this escape, but I can't deny its effectiveness.

Another day passed, and now we were waiting for the final fight.

For some reason, the other humans didn't want to help my human, which annoyed me. I rather see a thousand humans die them mine to get hurt.

I fear that I'll have to intervene if things don't go to plan.

After a few hours, we heard loud footsteps getting closer, and soon beyond the trees a large figure appeared, it was green, with rotten flesh, eyes covered, and was taller than even me.

The Zombie Lord.

The last time when I saw him he had a great amount of Void within him, a lot more than I ever had.

But now that I look at him, I see that he isn't as powerful as the last time I saw him, he was about my level for some unknown reason.

Did the Hero actually manage to hurt him that badly in their last battle? I had to revaluate her if so, maybe she's not that boring after all.

After the huge Zombie, a group of smaller zombies appeared behind, then some iron golems that emitted a small aura of the Void, once again different than what I know.

But what trying shocked me was the friend of my human. His looks didn't change a lot, but he had the same amount of Void as I did, and it's impossible to hold that much power and not change your body.

Something was not right, this fight wasn't about the Zombie Lord anymore, instead, the new enemy was approaching.

The fight soon started, and from what I could tell my human and the Hero could hold on their own, so I didn't have to intervene.

As I thought, he was weaker than before, instead of continuing to fight he chose to send the army against his enemies.

The zombies were killed with ease which made me smile seeing my human win with overwhelming power, but the golems weren't as easy as the zombies.

The fight continued but my human was slowly winning it, then the Zombie Lord kneeled to the infected human and his powers were greater than before.

I knew this was borrowed power and it had a time limit on it, but still, his punches would hurt now.

Luckily he chose the Hero instead of my human, and they proceeded with the plan of trapping the huge zombie.

At least that's what I thought, because suddenly the infected human was looking right at me and started to speak.

Creature of the Void, why are you here?

His eyes were on me like I wasn't invisible anymore, I tried to teleport in different places and his eyes were always on me.

I felt fear for the first time, I felt a force more powerful and more ancient than even Father.

I had to run, otherwise I would be consumed.

Trees passed by me as I kept teleporting further and further away, after around a thousand blocks I finally felt safe and stopped to rest from using so much of my power.

Why was I afraid?

This is the first time I felt this, why did I abandon my human?!

My chest started to hurt, that was my human, and I would let him die without doing anything.

How dare I be such a coward?

I felt a great battle starting inside me.

On one side I was afraid beyond reason, my pearl trambled just thinking about that voice.

But another side of me was disgusted with the fact that I abandoned my human. What was the point of me living when my soul chose that human to be mine?

Fear was one thing, but that loss of my human would be beyond devastating for me.

I pushed my fears aside and started to teleport back to the battlefield, but this time in smaller sections.

Halfway there I heard a huge explosion, the trap did its job, but I didn't know how my human was holding.

I least I felt he wasn't dead.

I teleported over greater distances than before and soon I was back to see that my human actually managed to defeat the infected human on his own.

I felt great pride rising in my pearl. Look world, you tried to kill him but he managed to get on top. This is my human and there's nothing you can do to take him away from me.

Dark smoke started to rise from the infected human, I quickly teleported and absorbed the fleeing power, there was no reason to waste such a good opportunity.

I smiled as I felt my soul getting stronger.

POV: Merry Paper

Welcome hero, I am the System.

The light spoke with an angelic voice.

"H-hello?"

Was the only thing I could say in my shock.

I've always complained that the System didn't welcome me in this world properly, but I didn't expect to see it now.

Is it because I've defeated the Zombie Lord?

Do I get a reward now?

Hero, I'm proud to see you managed to defeat the great evil, you prevailed in this challenge even at great odds against you. Unfortunately, while the enemy is defeated, he's not dead.

I can't say that the victory is fully mine, most of the credit would go to my teacher Trader.

But what does it mean that the Zombie Lord is not dead?

I'm sure nothing can survive that explosion. It even blew up an obsidian room, and those are very hard to break through.

"W-what do you mean?"

I said with a trembling voice since my emotions were still a mess.

You've fought bravely on your first battle, and while you lost to him initially, you managed to force him to weaken himself to summon an unspeakable being. That time I thought the battle was over for good, but your teacher managed to surprise all of us with his trap. I would prefer if that item would never be used, it can bring great danger in the wrong hands.

Yes, those crystals were pretty dangerous but I can't force Trader not to use them anymore. I don't even know how to make those, if it wants to stop Trader, it has to speak with him for that.

But wait, this doesn't explain why the Zombie Lord is not dead.

"But you said the Zombie Lord is not dead."

Indeed, that monster wasn't born from the darkness like the others, instead, he was born from a block, a spawner block. If the block is not destroyed he will come back endlessly to infect that land, unfortunately, I don't know its location, only of its existence. But there's still hope, I've put a tracker in you to feel the monster's presence when he appears. When he does, find him and kill him for good.

What?!

That monster has unlimited lives?

That's cheating, I've only got three lives from what Trader told me. How can I even fight him now that he knows about the trap?

"How long would it take for him to come back?"

A week should be normal, but you've managed to weaken him so much with this battle that it would take him a few months to respawn. Train more, and prepare for one final battle to defeat him once and for all!

I felt like the angel was trying to encourage me with a final speech, but all the emotions were mimicked by someone who only saw emotions, not understand them.

"But I only managed to beat him because of the trap, I'm sure he'll be worried about me now and won't fall for it a second time. Don't I have a special power to stand a chance, like infinite lives?"

No

"What about a weapon that can kill him in one shoot?"

Such a weapon would be too powerful for this world, and nations would rather kill you for it than help you defeat the monster.

It was worth a shot, but maybe it's not a lost cause.

"What if only I can use it, and it's powerful against zombies only?"

This made the angel think for a little, and surprisingly it accepted the deal.

I shall give you such weapon, anything else hero?

A blinding light appeared in front of me and took the shape of an iron sword.

It was enchanted, but unfortunately, I couldn't see the enchantments in this realm, I'll have to look at its stats once I'm back.

With a good weapon in my inventory, I started to think of any other questions I could ask the almighty system.

But like I was at an exam, no answers came up to me.

What should I do, I can't just waste this opportunity to get some information, I started to think about the books that I read and one thing popped into my head.

"What's my reward once I kill the Zombie Lord for good?"

The angel looked at me with its golden eyes for a minute, which made me worried that I somehow stepped over a line.

You shall be rewarded with two items of your choosing that you can take back to your old world.

Wait, I'm going to be sent back once this is all over?

I don't want to do that!

Sure this is not the fantasy world I expected, but it's way better than my old world.

My shoulders aren't stiff from my breasts, I don't get any periods in this world and I'm actually as strong as a man.

But the most important thing of them all is that I'm someone special here. I can't just go back to being a regular person once this is all over.

I refuse to be another cog in the machine on my home planet!

"You don't need to worry about that, I can live a comfortable life here!"

The angel looked at me intensely once more, before giving me an answer.

We shall see if you have the same opinion once the mission is done. Goodbye hero, and good luck on your journey!

Before I could say anything else I was thrown out of the light plane of existence. I was surrounded by darkness once again before appearing in the real world.

It was the exact place I was before, with the only difference being that the moon was out instead of the sun.

"That conversation took longer than I thought. I hope I wasn't gone for too long."

With this I quickly went towards the castle, the mission was not over yet.