Assassination System

Grace's shout jolted Natalie awaked from her trance. Swiftly turning around, Natalie's eyes widened when she saw the approaching figure of a man whose eyes shining in a crimson light.

"Hieeek!"

Terrified, Natalie kicked with all of her might, sending the man's upper body flying through the skies. Realizing what just happened, Natalie's terror intensified when she found out that the man's body looked decomposed, filled with squirming maggots and wounds festered with pus.

"Grace... Grace!" Natalie screamed out loud, looking for the source of the voice earlier for respite. There, at a distant alleyway, stood a frightened Grace whose complexion completely pale from fear and terror.

"Stay away from me... Stay away!" Natalie flailed her arms around in a frantic manner as an army of undead surrounded her from all directions. Fear gripped her heart too much to the extent that she couldn't even properly circulate her Spiritual Energy. Sparks of Lightning wantonly manifested around her body, in a frantic struggle to escape the encirclement of the undead.

When the approaching undead saw the sparkle of Lightning, their movements came to a halt, enough that Natalie recovered from her stuper and scrambled away on fours towards Grace's direction. Slipping inside that dark alleyway. The two embraced each other and after checking that none of them were injured. Grace sighed in relief and said.

"Just what is going on here, Grace! What were those creatures? They look like they're humans but their decomposing body said otherwise. It's as if they were living but dead!" Natalie blurted out in a frantic manner and Grace hurriedly closed Natalie's mouth with her palm.

"Don't be so loud, those bastards are sensitive to sound and movement... That's right, they are indeed humans. But they have long since lost all traces of Spirituality. Something or someone within this City is controlling them to consume all living..." Grace revealed her conjecture and Natalie stared at her with disbelieving eyes.

"What do you mean they have lost all Spirituality? Does that mean that although they still look humans, there's something controlling them from within that isn't human?" She asked with a solemn voice and Grace nodded her head, saying.

"I can't say for sure but that's most likely the right answer... Also, judging from their decomposing bodies. They cannot be killed by natural means..."

Her words made Natalie suck a mouthful of cold air as she asked with uncertainty, "In that case, since they cannot be killed by natural means. We could hasten their journey to the underworld with our own hands, right?"

Natalie's killing intent flared up when she remembered the humiliation that she suffered earlier. Staring at her initial location, she scoured for the presences of those living dead, but found nothing within her line of sight. Even her Divine Sense which was far stronger than Soul Sense detected nothing but silence.

"Don't bother trying to detect them with Divine Sense. Remember that they don't have any traces of Spirituality within their bodies. Without any trace of life, they're virtually undetectable with DIvine Sense..." Grace reminded and the two women slowly scaled the unfamiliar skyscrapers around them.

With their weapons strapped on their waists, Grace and Natalie leaped, rooftops after rooftops and as they arrived at the road intersection. Grace movements halted, along with Natalie. Staring at the road intersection, they found the slender figure of Dan holding two handguns within his hands. Dancing amidst the darkness with excitement visible on his visage.

"Hahaha, fuck yeah! I have dreamt of this kind of a world for such a long time... Now that my dream has come true. My gamer self has finally awakened! Come, come to me all of you undeads!" Dan unleashed volleys after volleys of leads towards the heads of the approaching undead. Instead of anxiety as the two women expected. Dan's expression became filled with even more excitement as time passed by.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The reduced visibility brought by the fog did nothing to Dan who kept on prancing around with his handguns in tow. In each pull of his trigger, a head of an undead would explode into meat pastes along with bodies that slowly collapsed onto the ground.

"Come to me, baby! Is that all? Is that all that you bunch of bastards, can do?! More, give me more, give this gamer self more entertainment and opportunity to slaughter you bunch of undead bastards!" Dan roared towards the skies and abandoned a handgun. Replacing it with a dagger, he lunged forward and engaged in a close-combat battle with the undead.

Above a skyscraper's rooftop, Natalie and Grace stared in astonishment at Dan who was in the middle of his fervor. Knitting their eyebrows, they had never expected that Dan had such a crazy side to him that he could transform into such a frenzied state.

Nevertheless, the two women descended from the skyscraper and unsheathed their weapons. Lightning crackled and booming sounds of muffled thunder reverberated out as they rotated their cultivation bases and unleashed their cultivation methods.

"You... Idiots! Don't use your cultivation methods here, or you'll attract more undead!" Dan fiercely scolded when he saw the actions of the two. Natalie and Grace was taken aback by Dan's fierce tone but they swiftly cancelled the activation of their Blessing of the Lightning God.

Upon cancellation, the azure Lightning that manifested amidst the skies of the City, gradually disappeared into nothingness. Unfortunately, the solemn atmosphere that surrounded Dan's body didn't vanish. Instead, he looked even more pensive and serious than before as he said.

"Damn it, those bastards had already noticed our arrival... Grace, Natalie! Stop your attacks and retreat with me!" Dan turned towards the opposite direction and unleashed a magazine of lead before slicing clean with his dagger. Revealing a path that his two wives followed as they escaped.

Above the airspace of the City, one could see the image of a floating creature staring down below. Its eyes that looked as murky as mud stared at the direction of Dan, Natalie and Grace who ran towards the opposite direction while leaving trails of Lightning bolt in their wake.

The creature's hideous face that was covered with innumerable fine snakes that looked as thin as hair threads fell into deep contemplation. But it soon awakened from its thought and disregarded the ants below on the ground as if it was below its dignity to fight against the three.

Turning its gigantic head away, nothing fancy occurred. It's just that at that moment, the creature suddenly vanished out of thin air as if it never actually existed.

Down below, Dan who kept running with his wives in tow suddenly felt a shiver down his spine. Turning around, he glanced at the skies and after finding nothing. He gnashed his teeth and surveyed his surroundings. Directing his gaze at a nearby school building. He urged at the two.

"Turn off your cultivation method and let's take a right turn at the next intersection..."

Natalie and Grace nodded their heads and never dared to delay. After all, the scene that they saw earlier not only shook their minds but their souls as well. With a stomp on the ground, the Lightning that surrounded their bodies, fizzled out before their presences completely disappeared from existence.

Arriving at a classroom, Natalie and Grace didn't have the leeway to admire the mysteries in front of them as they hurriedly sat at a corner and huddled together while breathing roughly. Dan had it worse. Not only his complexion looked completely red but his robes were drenched with his sweat and the mixture of rotten blood and flesh that splattered on his body from the earlier slaughter.

"Dan, just what is going on with the world that you have imagined. I can understand how fantastic and mysterious it is but with those creatures out there... I just can't believe that this is an ideal world like what you dreamed off..."

Natalie asked with a frown and Grace also lifted her head to stare at Dan in curiosity. Towards their questions, Dan couldn't do anything other than bitterly smile. He knew that even if he explained. These two women wouldn't understand the dreams that he had as a gamer back in his previous life.

"Well, how can I put this into words... Ah! This is indeed the world that I have dreamed off but you know... Since the function of this Array is to temper one's mind and body, it wouldn't achieve its purpose without adding dangers, right?"

Dan looked hesitant at first but swiftly clapped his hands together when he found an idea to use in his subterfuge. Looking incomparably solemn yet sly. Dan calmly explained the situation and the two women didn't seem to doubt his explanation.

"Yeah, that explanation is indeed plausible... Now that we have that problem settled. How about we talk on how we can escape this Array?" Natalie nodded her head and presented an issue which plagued all three of them from the start.

When they first arrived, they had already discovered the vastness of the world contained within the Array. It was even huge than the entire Empire of Eternal Faith and Empire of Dawn combined. Without any visible indication for the exit, the three were aggrieved and annoyed.

"Now that's the true problem that we have to face... How about we take turns in killing ourselves? Maybe that'll make us leave this damned world..." Grace jokingly said. Her suggestion made Natalie's complexion turn pale while Dan shook his head and said.

"Grace, did you forget about what I said earlier regarding the fact that we felt the sensation of Spatial Transfer? We may not be inside a simulated world but in reality... If we really did kill ourselves, we would've killed ourselves in reality too..."

Dan lightly chuckled as he explained. His words astonished the two as Grace facepalmed herself. Dan had indeed explained such a conjecture to her earlier, yet she actually forgot such an important matter! What a blunder! She thought in her mind.

"Ermmm..."

Amidst their discussion, Natalie suddenly blurted out with her voice laced with nervousness. Frowning, the two stood up and followed her line of sight but when their gazes landed on the scene that she was looking at. Their eyes widened in shock and panic soon captured their hearts. With the exception of Dan, of course.

Hundreds, no- at least several thousands of undead had swarmed and surrounded the school building where they were in. Banging on the windows, glasses shattered with an ear-piercing noise as the undead slowly flooded in, slowly, yet surely walking towards the classroom where the three of them took refuge.

"Hieeek! What should we do, what should we do? They are coming after us!" Natalie shrieked and flailed around in a frantic manner. In response, Dan flicked using his index and thumb finger at Natalie's forehead. The sharp pain awakened the young woman from her trance and she stared teary-eyed at Dan.

"Calm down, for a moment. Even if they cannot be killed so easily, as long as you completely pulverized their heads, they would fall down and die..." Dan declared and Grace nodded her head in agreement. From her observation earlier at Dan's fight, she realized the same thing as he did.

"That's right, Sis. Just let your stress free and annihilate these bastards out of existence and we'll be fine..." Grace positively said in a cheerful tone and calmed Natalie's anxiety. Staring at the two women who finally looked visibly calm. Dan unsheathed his daggers and said.

"The two of you take care of the southern direction, I'll take care of the north..." He ordered before kicking a window down and running towards the hallway where the undead had gathered.

Natalie and Grace hesitated for a moment but after the gunshots started. They stared at each other for a while before unsheathing their weapons and starting their slaughter.