Chương 9: Dying

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[Preparing the defense]

"AAAGGGHHHH!!!!!"

Bruce screamed with all his might. Not human power, but the full power of the Hulk. His screams were incredible, like a sound attack. As a result of his screams, Johnny was bleeding from the ear, and his eardrum.

The remaining dust and sparks flew in the air when the system and TOBA clashed.

While the strong player was fighting, Bruce could only scream in pain like a bitch.

This pain was incredible, the cosmic storm before it was nothing compared to this.

Bruce tries to survive as long as possible, but his consciousness starts to blur, panicking that he might faint in an emergency. Bruce can only ask his system for help again.

"System... can you do something about this pain? I almost lost consciousness," he said softly.

[Processing requests. Protocol immediately executed]

[Defense against invasion successfully made]

After that, the pain disappeared completely.

Finally, Bruce was able to think clearly, he saw the crystal in the ghost's hand begin to crack slowly during the power struggle.

* Triingg*

As the cracks that existed on the crystal ball grew more and more, and it couldn't stand it anymore, it crumbled into dust. When the crystal ball shattered, there was an angry roar from behind the plume of green smoke.

"GGRRRROOOOOOAAARRRRRR!!"

[Bruce! To start the escape procedure, the energy has-]

The fairy's voice sounded frantic in my mind.

"Take it! Take my power! Do whatever it takes to escape. TOBA seems offended," Bruce orders quickly.

[Order accepted. Continuing the escape procedure...]

Bruce couldn't feel it, but his height dropped dramatically, to 2 and a half meters from a height of 3 meters more. The density of his muscles also began to loosen and began to deflate like a leaking air balloon when hit by a thorn puncture.

[Escape procedure executed]

[Launching Gate]

His body began to fade, but before he was able to escape, Toba's ghostly hand suddenly pierced his chest with a speed he was unable to respond to.

When Bruce escaped from the Marvel Universe, he still had time to see a collection of green and rainbow lights in TOBA's hands.

Looking down to look at his chest, he saw an invisible hole right in his chest, with green smoke slowly seeping from it. Besides that, his Hulk form is now very sad, with no muscles at all, only bones wrapped in green skin.

He was in shock and unconscious after that.

[Ding! The system has been compromised]

[Scanning…]

[The degree of damage detected cannot be repaired]

[Initiating emergency protocol]

…

[Gate successfully used]

A space crack occurred inside an alley, and the unconscious Bruce simply fell from there to the ground full of dirt and mud. His condition was rather poor, his skin was now pale, like a living corpse. The muscles he had worked so hard to build were gone, and now there lived a thin man, almost like a terminal cancer patient.

From his body came a small winged figure, and the fairy immediately looked at the surrounding circumstances with disdain.

Then she set her sights on the unconscious Bruce, commenting in a sarcastic tone.

[Cih. I have now been permanently damaged, let me see what features are still available for now that can be used]

[So, I guess it's enough for Bruce to survive using the remaining features, I'll overhaul some of them using the remaining energy]

[I don't have much time left because the clash is not only Bruce's disability, but I'm dying too]

Then the fairy snapped her finger, and Bruce, who was sleeping, woke up suddenly.

"Aaarrrggghhhh!"

As soon as he woke up, he looked at his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, the gaping vent hole in his body had completely disappeared.

"Where the hell am I?" he said weakly. He was very tired of the heavy incident that happened today.

Starting with riding a rocket, absorbing cosmic energy, becoming the Hulk, and meeting TOBA.

[Enough with the useless nonsense]

[I have important information that must be submitted immediately]

When Bruce was still undecided and confused by his situation, the static sound of his system suddenly sounded.

In contrast to the energetic and shrill tone she usually wore, she now sounded very weak. What is more important is why he forcibly awoke. Not to mention that the pain he endured was excruciating.

"Wait a minute, why did I suddenly wake up? I wouldn't be surprised if I'm in a coma for the next few days," Bruce asked confusedly.

[It doesn't matter. The most important thing now is-]

The fairy figure didn't care about the question, as if it didn't matter. This made Bruce explode with anger.

"ANSWER ME! NOW!!" sick of being treated like an animal, Bruce shouted in a high tone at the AI projector in front of him.

[Why do you care about useless things?]

[I just control your body to wake up]

"Control, huh? Thank you very much. What's the important information? Quickly convey it," said Bruce, pretending to be indifferent to the way the system woke him up.

- Damn, the system is too dangerous-he thought in fear, thinking that he was controlled by the system, which was sickening.

[Listen to this carefully]

[We, the systems, were created by a very powerful creator. As the original owner of the system, he has a direct connection to the system he created]

[For example, like a kite, a thread connects the service above the sky and its owner, who is below. Now the thread has broken due to TOBA's intervention. If the thread doesn't break, I can ask for help and recover. But that's not possible. The damage done is permanent, meaning it cannot be restored unless I am reborn]

[ Just like when you woke me up. The difference is, that the energy required increases several hundred times]

[The features have been broken, and I only have a few that still work properly]

[When I die. The system will follow the emergency program and run it like a simple program run by the computer]

"Wait, you? Dead?" Bruce asked, confused.

[Not as dead as you think. I will only be deactivated and can be reborn once the energy required is sufficient]

[So your task is to kill other system users or go to a place that has a lot of energy. The required energy will then be absorbed by my essence. The more energy absorbed, the shorter the time I need to be reborn]

The projector in front of him began to malfunction.

Sometimes some parts are deformed to turn into dust and begin to see through as we speak.

"User of the system? Is it from the same creator?" Bruce asked with some hesitation.

[No. There are various systems out there, and their creators are also different. For example, martial arts systems, hentai systems, daily login systems, and such]

Bruce thought seriously and answered with a smile.

"Alright, how many system users do I need to exterminate for you to be reborn?"