Alone

The moment Ning saw those words, his heart sunk for a few seconds.

<The System is Shutting down>

Those words almost held a bit of trauma for him. 

"No, calm down," he told himself and started thinking of the situation more critically.

'I haven't done anything wrong. I only did what the system approved, so there must be something else going on,' he thought.

That was when he noticed the first of the notifications he had previously missed.

<Emergency Detected>

"System?" Ning asked as fear grew inside him again. However, this was a different fear. 

Fear of the unknown.

"System, what is happening?" he asked, but he never got any answer. Instead, he got more notifications. 

<Disabling All Energy-related skills>

<Disabling all Energy Absorption>

<Disabling Automatic Absorptions>

<System cautions Host against absorbing any energy manually>

<Do not absorb any energy that you don't already own>