Slowly walking up the stairs, one step at a time, Alan had his guard up the entire way, his eyes were fixed onto the the top of the staircase all time time as he rose up the stories until he finally arrived at his floor.
And there it was, at the end of the hallway, his own run down apartment room, merely a few feet away from him.
'Alright… let's just… do this.' Alan thought to himself as he walked forwards and took out his key before unlocking the door.
*Jiggle* *Clank*
With a sound, the door to his apartment unlocked as he slowly pushed it open.
*Eeiiiinz*
The old wooden door made a sound that was heard loudly in the silence of the hallway as it slowly was pushed open further and further, revealing the sight inside.
The first thing that caught Alan's eyes… was the utter ruin of his room, his bed looked like it had been smashed to pieces, the walls were covered… in liquid that he didn't want to think about and there… sitting at his desk was the man he had seen for just a brief second days before, right when he had been teleporting to the dungeon.
"Yo, been a while Alan." The man said with a smile, his voice soft and easy going as he raised one of his hands in a mock salute. One of his legs was over the other as he was laid back in Alan's desk chair, leaning back, utterly at ease.
Alan however, wasn't looking at him, his gaze was stuck onto a different sight, on something else that had filled the entire room, on a smell that had hit him as soon as he had opened the door.
Laid down onto the floor of his apartment were three bodies, bodies of people he knew, of people he had talked to, been friends with just a few days ago.
The three bodies were… a far sight from who he had known, the cheeks had sunken in, the eyes looked clouded, there were slight greenish patches on their skin, their stomachs were slightly bloated because of the build up of gases inside of their bodies. And dozens of flies were around their mouth, nose and eyes, where they had already laid their eggs inside.
For a brief moment, Alan felt like he wanted to vomit, to vomit out everything inside of his stomach.
The sight was gruesome, seeing his three friends, Jeannie, the girl who had obviously liked him, who had tried to make conversation with him and who had tried to be as welcoming as she could, Adrian and John who had accepted to help him when he had needed it most, on the very day that he had gotten the damned system even if they hadn't known it. All three of them were now dead, they were just corpses, meat that was rotting on the floor of his apartment. And he could do nothing about it.
"I see… I was too late." Alan muttered softly, the first words that had left his mouth since he had opened the apartment door.
He took a few steps inside as he kept his gaze onto the dead bodies before slowly, he lifted his head higher and higher until he was looking directly into the man's vivid blue eyes with his own.
"I believe I deserve to atleast know your name don't I?" Alan asked softly, as if he was talking with someone he had just met at the mall, not someone that was currently in his apartment, having clearly killed all three of his friends and left them to rot.
"Ah, you're right ofcourse, where are my manner. My apologies, my name is… well the current one that I use is Johan. It's a pleasure to meet you Alan Walker." The man, Johan, said as the corners of his lips started twitching, it was clear that the man found the sight amusing, that he was barely holding himself back from erupting into laughter.
Alan didn't respond, he simply looked at him, his eyes not twitching even once, utterly still for a few moments before his mouth finally opened.
"Tell me, Johan…. Why are you so overconfident?" Alan asked, his voice steady, however his eyes that had been steady until now, weren't looking directly at the man anymore, they were looking at something that was floating right next to the man's head, something that only he could see.
[ Observation Skill has been used! ]
[ Analysis is beginning on target! ]
[ Analysis Complete! ]
[ Name: Johan? ]
[ Race: Enhanced Human ]
[ Age: 23 ]
[ Gender: Female. ]
[ Level: 44 ]
'Level… fourty four, he's above me… but practically none of his detail are actually hidden.' Alan thought to himself as he released a hum whilst he waited for the reply.
"Well… I wouldn't say that I'm overconfident, I'm just… confident in my own abilities. And… do I really need to be on guard? You've got some pretty interesting abilities Alan, I've always wanted to know more about this world, there's so many things that I do not know, and you, you're a mystery to me still. A mystery… that I would be glad to get to… investigate further." Johan said with a small soft chuckle and he or rather she rose up to her feet.
'The gender clearly says that she's a woman… but she looks like a man… did she posses the current body that she's using? A sort of more complete possession where she actually is using it as her own body instead of a doll like she did with the… with those three.' Alan thought as he slowly walked past the three bodies and arrived before Johan.
And in the next instant, without a single drop of hesitation, the broadsword parted the air as Alan swung it with full force directly towards Johan, there hadn't been a single instant where he had hesitated or shown any kind of indication that he would be attacking.
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Here's the first chapter of the day.