"Haha, ten years? Do you think you can make it even after hundred years?" The voice asked me with a mocking laugh.
With the way the voice laughed at me, I began to doubt myself. 'Could I do it? Can I make it even after the ten years I've said?'
Discouraging thoughts filled my head at the thought of how impossible my claim is.
But you know what? 'Fuck it!' I screamed in my head. Who cares if I fail? The highest thing that would happen to me if I fail will be having to die again.
At least, this wasn't going to be the first time such a thing happened to me, nor will it be the last. My first death was when I had to die due to being hit by a truck Kun. I was then given a choice to reincarnate in another world in the form of an animal or get reborn in the same world and start all over again.
Who the hell will want to become an animal and so I had to choose the second option without knowing that fate had prepared the worst life for me.
I got reborn in the same world but unfortunately, I was made an orphan at a very young age, I had to live all by myself in the streets. Hustling and trying to make ends meet, still, nothing was working.
Other street lads looted me, people hated me, and I was seen as a curse, a reason behind my parent's death. Even the street began to chase me away. I had nowhere to go, I wished I had powers — Powers that would make everyone tremble under me. I even went as far as regretting why I didn't choose to become an animal in another world.
One day I had enough of it and did the unthinkable. I rushed to the expressway and stood before the approaching truck Kun and then 'Boom!' I felt my head rolling on the ground.
I was closing my end and I had only one wish which was a chance to be given an option to choose again. And I swore to never make the same mistake I made during my first death.
The voice noticed that I was absentminded and then stopped laughing, he let out a deep sigh and spoke again. "I see you have made up your mind on this, who am I to refuse?"
I was standing in a dark empty place and so after the voice had said this, I saw dim light approaching me. It flew towards me until it rested on my forehead and then vanished totally. I was still wondering what had just happened when the voice spoke again.
"I wouldn't want to be the cause of your failure and so I prepared a system for you which I have just given to you. With the help of this system, you might succeed or not, the choice is yours to make!"
Upon hearing that I have been given a system, my eyes shone brightly. I have read so many books about systems and had imagined having one. I could not just contain the happiness flowing through my veins.
"I must surely succeed!" I almost yelled out.
While I was still excited about the system, something clicked on my head and I had to ask. "How should I use this system to become a God?" I asked, earning a chuckle from the voice.
"That question is yours to figure out!" I heard the voice say with a slight chuckle.
I frowned lightly, 'how could he give me something that I don't know how to handle?' I inwardly asked with a deep sigh.
"Or do you reject the system?" The voice asked, noticing my change of mood.
"No, how can I?" I asked back. He has already given me the system I need to achieve my goal, how and when to use it depends solely on me.
The voice laughed for a while and spoke again, "Then I wish you good luck in your adventure!"
At the last words, I felt the world spinning and then I lost my consciousness.
When I opened my eyes, I saw myself in the centre of the road. The same expressway where I had committed suicide. Before I could process what was going on, I heard a loud piercing sound coming from my right.
And when I turned around, it was the same truck Kun, coming right at me at a speed not measurable.
!Ding!
[Stop the truck Kun by using your mind or you'll die]
I heard a mechanical voice in my head say. I didn't have to panic because I knew what it was, the only problem was how I was going to stop the truck Kun from hitting me. But there was nothing I could do, I had no other choice and so I just had to try.
I watched it come at me at a very high speed and immediately, I closed my eyes. The system said I should use my mind and so I began to focus on my mind.
As this was my first time doing a thing like this, it was pretty hard but I had put in more effort, I tried to not get distracted because once I do, it'll become a disaster.
After focusing on my mind, I placed all my attention on the truck Kun and began to imagine it stopping on its own. The truck Kun was still coming, it was as though its speed multiplied. It was closing in on me and yet nothing was happening, then I started to doubt myself again if I could actually become who I want to be. I didn't want to die again, I had a new reason to now live and so I wanted the truck Kun to stop at all means.
And that is when I subconsciously screamed 'Stop' at the top of my voice. After shouting, I stared at the incoming truck Kun and watched it speed towards me, it was not stopping but I believed it would and in the end, it did.
!Ding!
[You have successfully stopped the truck Kun from hitting you, say 'status' and the system will show you your stats]
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