Death Awoken: A GameLit Series (Death God System - Book #1) Page 5
“Hey, kid, do you know how to talk?”
I nodded my head, I was thinking so much and being so confused, clearly, I properly said hello, I noticed my mouth moving according to what my thought was. I tried to say something again.
“%&%$%.” Ye Qing heard the weird sound again, oh god. This kid is dumb, no wonder the weather was so nice today. Clearly, the gods played a joke on me today. Sighing, he moved closer to the kid...
I was so confused in that moment, why the hell does it seem like he doesn't understand me? I clearly understand him talking! Suddenly the man was attempting to grab me, I was thinking too much about this strange situation that I didn't notice him being so close to me. Avoid it! I tried to do what my instinct told me—To Roll!
Ding!
Passive Rolling, Rolling, Rolling updated: Only takes effect being in the Death Core form.
Oh God, stupid me, I have a human body now, why did I attempt to roll, and what is this Death Core form?
Ye Qing saw the kid doing weird movements, the kid fell to the floor, sighing Ye Qing picked the kid up from the floor. What a retarded kid, was it necessary trying to avoid him like that?
“Kid, listen to me I mean no harm. Do you understand me?” Ye Qing said with a face full of smiles and warmth.
I saw the man’s face smiling at me, no harm? Who will believe you with that wicked smile on your face!
“Hey kid, stop ignoring me, don't you know how to behave and listen to your elders?” Ye Qing was starting to get impatient, clearly, he didn't want anything to do with the kid.
Finally, I nodded with my head, I will listen to this weird man, if he tries to harm me I will activate my poison, I bet he will die. While thinking about this I should...
“System Inspect him.”
Human Race, Trash Devil Bloodline, Peak Mortal Realm.
Hisss, what bad luck, the first human that found me and it’s at the Peak Mortal Realm, hmmm, maybe it’s not that bad? I can perhaps take advantage of him, he must have a good backer in the city to get a job like this. I need someone to give me shelter until I find my new path. Good, it’s decided then, I will comply with him for the time being.
“Kid, where are your parents? Are they nearby?...” Ye Qing kept asking the little kid many questions.
Three hours later, it was all clear; after all, the kid could only nod or deny with his head, so it took a bit of time asking so many questions.
“Okay, it seems that I’ve got it all clear now kid—so you have no parents, they got killed, you got abducted and they used you as a test subject for a drug experiment then you managed to escape after a few years. Also, you have no name, is this correct?”
I nodded with my head, honestly, with so many questions he asked, the timing of nods wasn't perfect due to my new body which I wasn’t used to, also I had to think of the best answers... for my bullshit story about how a naked three-year-old kid appeared on the executions grounds.
“Good, kid, I'm a good person so I will bring you to the orphanage, they will manage you there. Maybe since you are young, someone will adopt you.”
No! Orphanage no, shit, I will be under watch all the time, I need to be independent otherwise I cannot grow strong in my abilities. My mind was spinning really fast thinking.
“Brother Ye! It's almost time for the first execution of the day, what are you doing with a kid?”
A few guards came, grabbing a woman around thirty years old, the woman wasn't in good shape, her hair and dress were totally messy. Though even with how she looked now, it was clear the woman had above average looks.
Ye Qing turned around looking at the woman.
“A lady this time? What has she done?” Ye Qing asked while gazing and analyzing the woman the guards just brought in to the execution grounds.
“She poisoned her husband to death, so she could marry an elder from a clan that had a liking for her, clearly she has a poisonous heart.”
Chapter 12
Settling
“Alright, after executing her, I will be bringing you to the orphanage.”
I must do something, think, think.
The guards were moving with the woman to the execution platform. Ye Qing went inside a tattered building, it seems it had been some years since someone took care of it. Actually, Ye Qing was the one responsible to manage the building, but due to his laziness and that he loved to live where he lived with his dead wife, after a few years the building fell to ruins. People didn't really care after all, the executions ground was a place to execute people; also who would dare complain to Demon Ye about a building, it was not worth it to offend this kind of lunatic. Another reason why Ye Qing was also called Demon Ye, was because his methods of executing people were rather uncommon.
After a few minutes, Ye Qing appeared again, with a notebook and a brush. The woman was already set and prepared on the platform by the guards.
Ye Qing appeared before the woman and asked, while looking at her with a total indifference as if he didn't care at all, that this woman was going to die by his hand.
“Name.”
“Song Mei,” replied the woman softly, her body was shivering.
Ye Qing opened the notebook and wrote down the name of the woman.
“Any last words, wish or whatever you want: anything you say will be noted down.”
“None,” replied the woman. She stopped shivering, she had accepted her fate, she will die today.
The woman kneeled to the ground, ready to be killed.
The guards were used to this kind of situation, yet they chose at this moment to leave, they didn't like the way Demon Ye handled the executions, it was too much for them.
“Brother Ye, remember tomorrow there is another execution. We will be going ahead. See you tomorrow.”
Ye Qing moved closer to the woman, soon he noticed that the little kid was next to the woman, and he was looking at him. What's wrong with this kid?
I honestly didn't care whether the woman died or not, she was sentenced to death, plus she was guilty. That is what I told myself, yet deep inside me I knew the only reason why this woman was going to die wasn't because she was guilty or sentenced to death, it was because all of this was related to me somehow.
I had no way to avoid this man bringing me to the orphanage, unless it was killing him, which will give me a lot of trouble instead of benefits. So I thought of a good way to avoid killing Ye. If I killed the woman myself, the man would not bring me to the orphanage, who would want a three-year-old murderer that has just killed someone?
With that in mind, I jumped on the platform, moved closer to the woman before this man could kill her. I looked at the man and said the only word that I had in my head.
“KILL,” I touched the woman’s neck and activated my Death Infusion skill, I infused just the right amount of my poison. The woman’s eyes turned white, blood was flowing out from her mouth, before she knew it she was already dead.
Ding!
Killed a normal human. +1 XP.
This time Ye Qing properly understand what the kid said, “KILL.” Ye Qing stood there with his mouth open like a fool. Did a three-year-old kid just kill a person? He didn't care about the person being dead at all… but how did he do it, just touching the body like that and then she died. Too many thoughts were in Ye Qing’s head.
Maybe I overdid it, I didn't think my actions through properly, the idea sounded better in my head. Well what is done is done. Let's see what happens now. Here it comes...
“Hey KID, what the hell did you do to her? Are you out of your mind? Do you know it's not good for a kid to be killing people? How did you do it? How come now you know how to talk? Are you some kind of abnormal...” Ye Qing started to ask questions nonstop to the kid.
I tried to nod and deny all the questions this man kept asking me, honestly there were too many! I didn't know if this time the result would be better than the last time he started to ask questions... This guy has too much imagination, he even asked if I was some
kind of sage from another realm under a spell with the form of a kid.
“I think I understand.” Ye Qing was summarizing in his head the many questions he asked the kid.
“You got a poisonous body because of the drug experiments and you only know the word KILL, as they tried to also raise you as an assassin trying to brainwash you, so you killed her because the brainwash and because you didn't want to go to the orphanage because you are afraid to hurt people.”
Well... I think I ended more or less with the same kind of bullshit story... for god’s sake who the hell asks a three-year-old kid so many damn questions! Why he is not offering me shelter at all, I am a kid for god’s sake! Help me out here...
I could see him murmuring something and thinking about some seemingly important stuff.
Ding!
Found a Death Aura. Wish to absorb it?
“Yes.”
Death Points +2
I didn't have time to check the System after creating my body and seeing the man still murmuring to himself, I decided to sit and check the System.
Death God System 1
Name: Unknown.
Race: Unknown.
Age: 3 years
Life Span: Unlimited
Body Cultivation: None. Evolve?
Qi Cultivation: None
Death Core: Lv 1 (201/10,000)
Soul: Spirit Soul Realm (0/3,000).
Status: Dead.
XP: 10,251
Death Points: 1,050
Functions: Inspect: On, Quest, Inventory.
Passive Skills: Advanced Soul Resistance Lv 1 / 10 (1/5,000), Rolling, Rolling, Rolling Lv 8 / 10 (10,000/40,000), Death Sense Lv 1 / 100 ( 0/10,000).
Active Skills: Death Infusion
Traits: Poison Immunity, Poison Knowledge,
Bloodline: Death Common Bloodline (Evolvable) (5/50 Uncommon or greater).
Death Body: Transform the main body, powered by death. All Death Attack, Darkness Attack, Time Attack, Poison Attacks, damage +50%. Consumes 1 Death point per second.
Death Tempering: Tempers the main body through death. Consumes 1 Death point.
Death End: Able to know the time of the death of any living being. Able to know the cause of the death.
Wielder of the Death: Unlock Death Talent. Death Talent: 1-Orange.
Wielder of the Darkness: Unlock Darkness Talent. Darkness Talent: 3-Red.
Wielder of Time: Unlock Time Talent. Time Talent: 3-Red
It seems there have been a few changes made, oh... body cultivation, evolvable? Before I could ask the System about it the middle-aged man talked.
“Okay, you can stay with me.”
Chapter 13
Learning
It's been one month already staying in the Skyfall City, during this time I learned a few things. The first thing I knew about this city was about the man called Ye Qing, who also goes by the name of Executioner Ye or Demon Ye. No wonder they call him Demon Ye, the way he executes people is a bit terrifying, I was able to witness the process with my own eyes the next day after I met him. He strangles them with both hands—the neck of the person being executed—until he separates the head from the body; I was quite shocked when I saw the process. The woman I killed back then, should have been grateful to me she didn't feel anything before being killed.
The second important thing that happened to me this month was that Ye Qing arranged for me a teacher so I could start learning how to properly talk, right now I can say a few words already, but this language is quite complicated.
Right now, I'm staying at the teacher's house because Ye Qing is fixing the Executioner Ground building. He wants me to stay living there, a three-year-old living on a death ground? Really this Ye Qing is truly a demon, how can he treat a kid like this? Well, I really don't care. I love the death feeling, I'm death after all ha-ha! Also when I'm there I can absorb death aura to gain death points from all of the dead bodies.
I can say that everything was going smoothly until an accident happened... I was trying to escape the teacher’s house, yeah in my previous life I didn't like to study, this life is the same. The teacher is annoying and boring, so when he wasn't paying attention I escaped his house to roam the streets. I was daydreaming about how strong, handsome and deadly I will be when I grow up, when I suddenly bumped into an old man. I tried to apologize but I didn't know the right words and it seems by mistake I made fun of the old man. The old man yelled at me, telling me I was ‘a useless kid not knowing how to properly talk,’ and ‘Who was the one teaching me?’ and that kind of stuff an old man will yell at a kid. In the end, I wanted to scare the old man, so I used Death End on him, I really didn't think about it and just yelled at him, “You will die in one day.” Death End allows me to know when any living thing will die. The old man, one day later, in fact died!
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, it wasn't my fault I was just telling him the truth, it can also be considered as a favour towards him, if he did listen to me he could have arranged everything to properly pass on...
Of course, who will believe in such a divine ability? This is when I noticed that my bloodline is truly amazing. However, after this incident I didn't earn a good reputation, right now I'm known as the ‘cursed kid.’ As the saying goes, “Every cloud has a silver lining,” the System gave me a title.
Title: Cursed Kid
Cursed Kid: Allows seeing curses on anything.
Two more months passed by, I was almost finished with the Teacher teaching me most of the language, I can already defend myself during conversation.
Today I'm moving to my new home!—The Execution Grounds.
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At the Execution Grounds, Ye Qing was waiting for the kid to arrive, he was standing there waiting with a man, this man was Uncle Tian.
“Benefactor Ye, why don't you adopt the little kid you talked to me about?” said Uncle Tian to Ye Qing, Uncle Tian had a good relationship with Ye Qing, since he came back to his hometown, he cared a lot for him. After all, in the beast tide fifteen years ago, he saved his life, he was his benefactor. He didn't like that the Su Clan cut all ties with him, it wasn't his fault, his wife had died. He protected thousands of people in that battle but it seems every other person forgot about it.
“That kid is strange. I'm already giving shelter to him what else do you want me to do? Besides, it's too troublesome to care about a kid.”
“Seriously, we are talking about a kid here, a three-year-old, have at least some common sense, will you?” said Uncle Tian.
“Common sense you say? You didn't see the cold face on the kid when killing a woman, he didn't look at her at all. That kid is dangerous. I don't want any more trouble!”
“At least give him a proper name Ye, people can't go calling him the Cursed Kid around the city.”
“Okay, Okay, don't bother me anymore, I will take better care of him.”
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“Uncle Ye, I'm here!” Anxiety filled me, my new home made me so happy that I couldn't help myself but raise my voice, death points without doing nothing! How great!
“Oh, you little bastard you are here already? When are you going to repay me for my kindness? How many years are you going to freeload here?”
“You shameless old man! Taking advantage of a little kid!” This Ye Qing! He doesn't like me at all!
“What a little kid! More like a little devil!” After that Ye Qing started laughing really hard, it seems he was venting his feelings, he really didn't laugh like that in many years.
I didn't want to talk anymore with him, so I decided to make myself home and I rushed into the building. Ye Qing had repaired the building and had everything ready to live there. Two rooms, one kitchen, the courtyard to practice martial arts...
Ye Qing saw the little kid going inside the fixed building, he kept smiling while looking over his back, maybe it's not a bad idea having this kid around after all.
While I was checking every corner of the building, making sure it had
all I needed, I heard the voice of Ye Qing.
“Your name is Ye Bai.”
Chapter 14
Growing
Ding!
Updated Name: Ye Bai (Unacknowledged).
Really? This dumb Ye Qing gave me a name, and the System updated my name? After forming my body, I tried many times to recall my name from my previous life but without success. I also tried to give myself a name but every time I tried to say a name for me it was not suitable, so I just didn't say it anymore. I think my real name must be related to my soul or something like that. Well at least now if people ask me for my name, I can answer Ye Bai until I figure out my real name.
“For the time being it's Ye Bai, but I will find a better name for myself! Yours sucks!” I replied back at Ye Qing.
“Ha-ha what a proud kid!” Ye Qing walked away laughing.
Now that I have a home and a body, it's time to properly check the System stuff I have been putting off. I had some troubles in my previous life with some decisions I had made, I better check things out properly this time, every detail is important!
Death God System 1
Title: Cursed Kid.
Name: Ye Bai (Unacknowledged)
Race: Unknown.
Age: 3 years 3 months
Life Span: Unlimited
Body Cultivation: None. Evolve?
Qi Cultivation: None
Death Core: Lv 1 (201/10,000)
Soul: Spirit Soul Realm (0/3,000).
Status: Dead.
XP: 10,251
Death Points: 1,050
Functions: Inspect: On, Quest, Inventory.
Passive Skills: Advanced Soul Resistance Lv 1 / 10 (1/5,000), Rolling, Rolling, Rolling Lv 8 / 10 (10,000/40,000), Death Sense Lv 1 / 100 (0/10,000).
Active Skills: Death Infusion
Traits: Poison Immunity, Poison Knowledge,
Bloodline: Common Death Bloodline (Evolvable) (5/50 Uncommon or greater).
Avatar of Death: Transform the main body, powered by death. All Death Attack, Darkness Attack, Time Attack, Poison Attacks, damage +50%. Consumes 1 Death point per second.