Chapter 34: Memories
"Couldn't I have extracted ninety-nine percent of ceteorin? I extracted thirty the last time." Jesse asked the system internally.
[You can't, evolved infecteds are made entirely of ceteorin, they are not just influenced by ceteorin. The day you fought Gary, he was at the brink of evolution, even though he hadn't turned completely.]
"..." Jesse stared down at his healed hands, ignoring the hails from the students as he passed by them.
[You have leveled up.]
[Level - 12]
[Exp - 0/2200]
[A new tab has been created in system's interface.]
[Energy point - 0/350]
[→Energy points can serve as refill banks for health points and using certain skills will now require the use of certain amounts of energy points. Rest of eat to refill.]
[You have gained a new feature.]
[Auto-extract memories.]
[You have completed a quest.]
[Defeat the infected, Billy O'Malley.]
[You have evolved.]
[A new tab has been created in system's interface.]
[Your strength has been scaled.]
[Evolution Tier: Brutes]
[Daily quest has been altered.]
[Searching for memories from extracted ceteorin.]
[...]
[Memories has been found.]
A fleet of messages played in his mind at once, almost blocking his sight.
[You will now enter an unconscious state so as to access extracted memories.]
[Sending extracted memories to host in 2 seconds.]
[2...1]
"What the-"
His voice faded as his vision darkened and he felt his body fall to the ground, the screams in the background all faded into nothing. However, a familiar voice soon penetrated the dark.
"God damn it!"
Jesse could see, his body moved against his will and it didn't take long for him to figure out that he wasn't in his body.
'Is this a memory?'
"Billy!" Jack Efron, a classmate of Billy and Jesse called from behind him and Billy turned.
'I'm inside Billy's body.' Seeing and feeling everything from Billy O'Malley's perspective, Jesse could tell.
The familiar place was the high school they attended, where Jesse was bullied and where Billy lived as a delinquent.
Putting on a smile, Billy picked up a snack bag that he had snatched from a junior and handed it to Jack. The boy had the strongest ability in the school, not strong enough to meet the cut for an immediate admission but strong enough to be part of their group even though he was much younger than the rest of them.
"Thanks," Jack smiled, "Ah, right. Your ability is strength, right? Carrying my stuff when we go home wouldn't be hard, right?"
"Sure," Billy said in between gritted teeth, "But, I have somewhere else to be today."
"Where?" Jack pressed.
"Haha, I'll tell you all about it tomorrow."
"Dude, we graduated like three days ago, we won't meet tomorrow." Jack squinted his eyes.
"Right? We can always meet up, just the five of us... like today." Stating an excuse, Billy picked up his back.
"Heh! You wish, we only came to collect our reports and I'll be leaving for the academy tomorrow, can't take any chances, you know." Jack turned around, opening the snack bag, "See you around...maybe." He turned, and with a taunting link, he winked and left.
Jesse could feel the hatred and anger that Billy felt, unbridled by the system, he had the urge to throw a punch at the proud piece of trash, but Jesse could not control this body.
Unbeknownst to him, his mind was slowly merging into Billy's...
Billy walked out of the school and with the directions that he paid to get, he travelled furthur into the dark slums of the Seventh Wall City. The disgusting stench of various substances filled his nostrils, but he didn't flinch due to familiarity he had with such smell. He walked into a dark alley and stopped at a brown door that blended naturally with the alley wall.
He knocked thrice and murmured, "The fall of the wall."
The door opened immediately and he walked in, greeted by an older woman who sat crosslegged on a leather chair. The large room was lit with dark purple light and various objects were arranged on shelves, including strange colorful viles and weapons made from beast cores, however, none of them caught his attention.
"I want to purchase an awakening serum." Billy said to the woman, his heart was pounding hard in his chest, but he walked up to her anyway.
Her dress revealed her veiny wrinkly legs as she sat crosslegged, her face plastered with makeup in a bid to help her look younger and her fake wavy red hair; all contributed in making her look even scarier to Billy.
She brought a cigarette to her lips, "You know it's called evolution enhancer, it helps the evolution in humans occur quicker, do you understand me?"
"I don't care, just give me the damn thing," Billy spoke despite the fear he felt. He had taken the serum once but it didn't work, however, he paraded the entire school using his physical strength as a cover. He could only hope for this one to work.
"What feisty kid you are," From how young her voice sounded, Billy could now tell that her current look was not real; she probably had a transformation ability, "I have the serum, but do you have the money?"
"Yes," Billy pulled out a bunch of stashed up cash that he had saved up from his bullying and the ones he stole from his grandma.
"That's alot," The woman blinked and snatched the money from Billy before he could count it, "Hmm, let me see," She counted each bill before nodding, "That'll do."
"Fifteen! Bring out the stuff!" She yelled and a man, wearing a mask and a dirty apron came out from behind a shelf, rolling in a crate filled with glass tubes.
"Did I tell you to bring everything?" The woman stood up and smacked the man's heard before picking up one of the tubes, "Here," she handed one to Billy as the man rolled the crate away.
"What is this?" Billy glanced at the purple liquid, he knew that the real serum was orange in colour, "I said I wanted a goddamn serum, not a fucking weird purple liquid!"
"Then get the fuck out," Replying with the same energy, she turned away, "A lot of people already purchased this and they're all in their respectful academies right now." She murmured a lie through her teeth and the young, desperate, naive boy fell for it.
"...wait." He called out after a while, "I'm so gonna report you if this flops."
"Sure thing, sir." The woman faked a salute.
Billy then left the illegal shop with the purple liquid wrapped safely in a handkerchief and stashed away in his pocket.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone