章 8: Old Friend
I hear Lyra shout with fear as she makes a screen pop up in front of me.
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System: Beast tamer system
System host: Cyrus Ryker
Level: 0 [0 exp/50 exp]
Age: Physical 16, Mental 24
Current state: At the brink of death, injured, frostbite, wounds infected
Affinities: Ice SS, Water B
HP: 1/28 G
STR: 7/20 G
DEF: 17/22 G
SPE: 20/30 E
STA: 10/50 E
INT: 479/500 SSS
ACU: 6/30 D
MANA: 30/100 G
M-DEF: 70/70 F
M-ATK: 40/40 G
Tamed beasts: None, None, None x 47
Transformation: unobtained
Skills: Cooking-4, Gun works-6, Ice magic-0=0.4, Herbology-5, Engineering-6, Chemistry-8, Biology-6, Close combat-5=5.4, Mana burst-0=0.6, Carpentry-5, Pain nullification-4=6, Water magic-0=0.8, Scan-1, Brain time-0=1
Inbox-3
Sp-110
Shop
Missions
Inventory
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I look at my stats and a single word echoes through my mind in a loop, numbing down Lyra's shouts (Shit!).
I then hear a scream so loud I thought that a siren attacked me until I saw the system panel in front of me shoot two healing potions at me as if it was a gun.
(Wait this could be weaponized-) I thought with a light bulb forming on the top of my head.
I hear her scream in terror as I looked at the potions.
I then franticly chug down the potions realizing the severity of the situation.
I then felt a warm sensation flow through my body and felt my pain lessen and frostbite receded.
I hear Lyra sigh with relief.
Another panel opens up and I expect it to shoot out like before, only to gently fall on my lap. "Thank you, Lyra." I gratefully tell Lyra as I pop the cork off and gently pour it on my arm.
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Thirty minutes later….
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After Lyra instructed me on how to heal myself up I caught some fish and grilled them hoping to regain my stats back to normal.
While I waited for the fish to grill I made my way over to the jagras corpse and placed my hand on its forehead.
"Lyra scan the corpse please." I ask her hoping to find some use of the corpse.
Out of my hand, a dull fluorescent blue light shined and engulfed the carcass making it glow a translucent blue.
Then as expected a screen popped up.
"Hey Lyra I got a question, am I able to sell the corpse?" I ask her with curiosity.
"Huh, you learn something new every day…" I mutter and spot something strange.
"But why are there three Market prices?" I ask her in confusion.
"So how can I sell the corpse?" I ask with my eyes turning into gleaming dollar signs.
I hear her say in a
(That simple huh?) I was awed with wonder at the simplicity of the process. I tapped the tattoo and a panel opened up.
I swiped the panel toward the jagras and it shot toward the lizard and hit it.
just like that the corpse and the panel both disappeared.
"Lyra ple-" Before I could complete my sentence I heard her speak up.
I hear her say in a bored tone.
"Oh… well then thank you." I thanked her as I made my way to the bonfire.
I passed the time by placing another tarp over the entrance and preparing some niceties like boiled water and moving the fish and some veggies around as it grilled.
Wouldn't you know it exactly twenty seven minutes later as I was about to start my meal a notification popped up.
I hear Lyra excitedly say and I asked her in a surprised tone "You can do that?!".
"Sure you can put them through." I say as settle myself on a log next to the fire.
As Lyra was establishing a connection to the other sentry I picked up a potion vial filled with water and took a small swing.
I saw a panel open up before me with a live feed of a futuristic office with a cyberpunk metropolis in the background.
(Image here)
"Hell-o uh sorry wrong angle!" I hear a friendly voice of a young man come through the video feed.
I then see a silk white hand cover the screen while the voice continues talking "Please give me a sec to adjust the panel" I hear the voice apologize.
"Uh, no worries take as long as you need." I say to the guy not expecting this to happen.
"There we go! Thanks for waiting I appreciate it and sorry once again!" I hear him say in a thick Canadian accent.
I then see a man in a formal suit probably in his early twenties with black hair and blue eyes scratching his head with an apologetic smile.
"No need to thank or apologize to me it's just some manners." I say with a slight smile filled with amusement.
I then see the man have a surprised look on his face.
"What something behind me?" I ask confused with my eyebrow raised as I look behind me.
"Oh uh sorry just I didn't expect a child to pick up the call." I hear him say apologetically.
I sigh "Dude I'm twenty-four! When I became a sentry I was given a younger body." I say irritably.
"Oh sorry man!" I hear him apologize once again.
"Oi, you don't have to say sorry every single time man people will think less of you if you keep doing that. Let's just get done with formalities my name's Cyrus, Cyrus Ryker." I introduce myself.
"Cyrus… Cyrus, where have I heard that name before?" I hear him mumble with his fingers on his chin.
(What the hell is this guy doing?) I thought as he mumbled.
"Wait did you own a company named Ryker incorporated before you became a sentry?" I heard him ask me with curiosity.
"Yeah, why? Do I know you something?" I ask with genuine confusion.
"Dude we're from the same universe! You helped my lab in Canada build a collider!" I hear him shout with excitement.
"Wait are you Darius Greenwood?" I ask realizing who I'm talking to.
"Yeah, that's my name!" I hear Darius laugh.
"Darius my man I haven't seen you since you died in that earthquake two years ago!" I say excitedly at the fact of meeting an old dead friend.
"Yeah, it's been a while hasn't it? Where's that little bugger Logan?" I hear him say happily as he took note of my surroundings.
"Logan's in a coma…" My tone went from happy to grim.
"What! What happened to the little guy?!" I see him stand up from his chair and bang his fist on the metal table denting it.
"School shooting, how did you think I died and became a sentry." I said grimly.
"Right, I forgot you need to die to become a-." He was cut off.
I hear Lyra and an unknown voice ask.
"…. I'm assuming that was your system?" We both say at the same time.
"…." The mood quickly became awkward as both of us and our systems spoke simultaneously.
"I guess we should introduce our systems as well?" I suggested to the three breaking the ice.
"agreed." I hear Darius say almost instantly.
"Well, I guess I'll start, this is Lyra the beast tamer system and I'm her host Cyrus Ryker pleased to meet you." I introduced ourselves.
I hear Lyra skeptically say.
"All right then, I'm Darius Greenwood, host of the necromancy system Nexus!" I hear him say in his usual overly enthusiastic tone.
I hear Nexus say in a similarly enthusiastic tone but Western instead of Canadian.
"Huh, what do you know birds of the same feather flock together…" I mutter with amusement at the two similarities.
I hear Lyra say in a plot hungry manner.
"We've known each other for a few years, you see before we became sentries we were two of the hundreds of scientists that lead our world to a better future." Darius said in a nostalgic tone.
"Yeah back in the good old days when a young Darius started his lab, most of his experiments needed a collider which he lacked. When I saw what he and his team worked on I saw potential so I funded the construction of a collider and other facilities free of charge." I said with a smile reminiscing about the past.
"Yeah and after that he and I did a lot of joint projects between my lab and his company. Eventually, we befriended each other and we got along well to the point we thought of each other as brothers." He said with a small smile.
I hear Nexus say to Darius.
I hear Lyra say with her tone brimming with curiosity.
"Logan is my actual brother he's about four years old and currently in a coma." I say with a tone mixed between sadness and longing.
"Hey, you said something about a school shooting, is it related to that?" I hear Darius ask with sympathy.
"It's complicated *Sigh* but might as well give it a shot." I say with a heavy tone.
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To be continued next time…
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