Chapter 23: Influencing the game system
Sweat trickled down the face of the boy, despite the cold of night. But Zane wasn’t there to kill the boy. He placed his hand on the boy’s shoulder and asked a question.
"What message did the game system send to you?" he asked plainly. The boy froze when he heard the question. How did an NPC know about the game system?
He wanted to ask how, but as he looked into the eyes of Zane, his fear resurfaced, and he immediately spoke.
"The system said it was a special event, to kill you to win the map to a ruin and also a martial art," the boy said.
Zane’s face changed when he heard that. Those two rewards offered were not something easy to come by, and yet the system offered them for his death.
There was also the fact that the system didn’t give any information about him to the players, so they didn’t know that they wouldn’t be able to kill him easily. After all, he took a shot through the chest and it healed.
’This can’t be the pure work of the game system. Something must have influenced it. Someone that’s inside the Bloodline Realm yet capable of tampering with the game system,’ Zane thought.
It was something similar to hackers. They played the games and used their hacks to make themselves godlike. It would make sense if there was someone like that here, probably the person that had attacked him and run away.
’This isn’t making a lot of sense, but it’s not important for now. I have to leave this city or I’ll be forced to kill a stupid amount of Chosen,’ Zane thought.
The bounty that the non players would receive for him was gold, but the players would get maps and martial arts, so it was sure that they would come.
Zane looked at the boy. "Go now and hide. Do not allow me to cross paths with you, or you might not survive," he said calmly. Those words sounded like the words of an angel. The boy bowed immediately and scurried off the roof as fast as he could, running like his life depended on it—because it did.
After he was gone, Zane returned to Lucy and Grey. "The Chosen, the town’s guards, and adventurers will be coming for us. We will have to move fast," he said and started walking. He opened the system tab quickly as he walked.