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Chapter 17 - Running Away

THUD...

An incomplete body formed from the gathering light particles in the mid air, and dropped with a heavy thud, kicking up purple dirt.

Ren looked at the half generated limbs, up to the knees of hind limbs, and elbows of his fore limbs. Checking the storage, he took out the [Energy Drink] to boost his healing.

Although it only helped beings up till Level 39, he was not in a situation to be picky. After willing for his bloodline to gather and focus on healing one of his hand, which took another 5 seconds, he held the can of the [Energy Drink] with his newly formed, good as new hand.

Opening the can, he downed the contents, and focused again on healing his legs, to form them completely using all the energy in the drink. Looking back at the shimmering Golden Warding which was rippling like a stone thrown in water of lake, he felt dread rise up.

His instincts told him he was not in the clear yet and not enough time was left for him to make an escape, before the invisible telekinetic tentacle like thingy reached out of the Golden Warding, to mete out some kind of judgement on him for the death of the leader and citizens of the city it was supposed to protect. 

He looked towards the Unlucky Roulette and the Destiny Store. Then he looked at the points he had gained. 

[+3 points, +2points, +15points, ...]

All the points he had gained due to the death of the citizens, Tess, the women and his fluctuating luck. He was left with 35,000 points after the Volcanic Knuckle Busters. 

After the massacre and the encounter in City 05, he gained 100,000 points. Most were gained from the misfortune, almost 75%, and the remaining seemed to be the points due to deaths of the citizen and the points each person had on them before their death.

Making the count reach 135,000 points. He looked towards the Destiny Store, not planning to waste time on the Roulette, because he did not have enough time to spin and get correct item for escaping.

He saw 10,000 points deduct from the total he had, and his suit started to repair, in a second covering all the newly grown limbs.

[-10,000 points, suit repair]

Looking at the final count of 125,000 points, he opened the Destiny Store. He saw only one item like the last time.

[Overdraft Pill*]

Looking at the Overdraft Pill* with the * symbol, Ren knew there was something off about this item. He read the item description, what it did, and how much it would cost.

[Overdraft Pill: The pill gathers all the energy, mana, qi, etc. in the body and energy within 1-2 meters of the consumer's, to violently throttle in decided direction for an unknown distance.]

[Note: Lets go on a long ride]

[Cost: 1000 points]

Ren bought the pill and swallowed the pill straight away. The remaining hand that was almost done healing stopped regenerating, and energy began to leak from the open wound.

The leaked energy did not dissipate, but gathered and formed a spherical ball of energy around his body.

Slowly the ball of energy began to rise and left a patch of round shaped, bare purple ground mark.

The rippling surface of the Golden Warding suddenly formed large waves, pushing the Golden Symbols away from a certain spot, from which the tentacles emerged.

Ren could feel the invisible tentacles making their way to the spherical ball of energy, wrapping around the energy ball slowly. The Overdraft Pill tried gaining the energy of the invisible tentacles, slowly gaining purple streaks of thin lines.

However, before it could try further, after 1-2 seconds, the tentacle started leeching back the energy and taking energy away from the sphere, slowly pushing it inwards.

Ren was slowly compressed in fetal position within the sphere.

When he felt like he was going to become a tangled mess with his limbs and head placed at unnatural angles, the sphere suddenly decreased its size to a round pill and throttled violently in a direction already chosen by Ren.

The small pill of energy left a trail of smoke due to friction with air, which stopped appearing when he gained more speed. The space inside the sphere returned back to size, enough for Ren to untangle himself and stretch his limbs out.

Ren's finally healed completely. All he could do now was wait for the sphere to stop randomly at some point, while he digested what had gone down in City 05 and what he had done.

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