Systematic Survival

54 - Demon

Matt was excited. He had never really gotten a chance to test his abilities if you didn't count the encounter he had with the beta testers. This was the first time he was actually using his strength, although only a portion of it. If he went all out, they wouldn't end up in a good state.

He didn't like harming people so every hit he made on the thugs was calculated to just incapacitate them. He just guessed how much strength he needed to use and it seemed about right.

'4 more left.'

He had been taking them out one after another to the horror of everyone there, besides him. Ned was staring with his mouth open. In reality, it had only been around 10 seconds since Matt started his assault, which barely gave Ned or the other criminals time to react in any way.

In just a few seconds, he had taken out over half of the entire group. This was the scary power of a system user. Even Matt was a bit surprised. He had acted so fast that he had only just noticed a notification flashing in the corner of his view.

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[New Quest]

Defeat Ned's group [5/9]

[Reward: +1 Skill Shard, +5 Unassigned Stat Points, +60xp]

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'Decent rewards, maybe too good for how easy this is.'

As he said that, he heard a gunfire. He felt a sharp pain in his shoulder as a bullet hit him.

[-10 HP]

'Shit, I forgot about the guns.'

Matt looked over and saw one of the men pointing a gun at him, shaking with fear. He must've gathered enough of his senses to use it. Matt saw the man aiming at him again with trembling hands and quickly put up his storage in the way.

Like before, the bullet quietly sunk into his spacial storage, which only struck more fear into the man, not understanding how it didn't hit. He dropped his gun and ran away shouting and crying.

'No, you don't, I can't lose out on the rewards'

Matt zoomed after him, only causing the poor criminal more terror. Before Matt could even reach him, the man collapsed, having fainted.

'Well, I guess that works.'

He turned back to the rest of the group, but something caught his eye.

Defeat Ned's group [5/9]

'It didn't change?'

He was about to get really confused, but the answer came quickly. One of the men he had knocked down was slowly getting up.

'Ah, makes sense. So, theoretically, if I take them all down, even if temporarily, I still get the rewards. Strange system.'

He zoomed back toward the group, and at this point, everyone was running. Even Ned. He had lost all of his earlier bravado and realized he had basically dug his own grave. He was running as fast as he could, not even thinking about his co-criminals.

Matt observed the group around him. 2 of them had dropped their weapons and ran, 1 he had knocked down before and was now up and running as well, and finally Ned had made it the farthest, sprinting like there was no tomorrow.

'I feel kinda bad for hunting them down like this...'

Matt knew they attacked him first, but he felt silly feeling bad. But he didn't like to think of himself as a ruthless type. Though, he wasn't going to miss out on the rewards. Either way, he wasn't hurting them that bad.