System Of The Bone Demon

In a dark silent room, an irritated groan could be heard before light lit up from a lamp by the side, "what is it now system?" a man lying on a large bed beside the lamp asked.

"You have a call Kurtz." A robotic voice spoke in his head.

"Who the heck calls by this time of the day." a man's groaned as he squirmed on his large bed, this was Kurtz.

Suddenly a large screen lit up in his vision.

[Name: Kurtz Blood]

[Race: Unknown]

~Stat~

[Health: 100%]

[Energy: 125,000/125,000]

[Strength: 45]

[Agility: 44]

[Defense: 40]

[Perception: 40]

~Skills~

[Bone Amour – Intermediate Level: Allows the user to materialize a hard carapace over their body. The hardness of this amour is determined by defense stat and it increases strength stat temporarily.]

[Bone Consume – Intermediate Level: Allows the user to consume the bones of enemies on contact and increase Energy stat permanently.]

[Bone control – Basic Level: Allows the user to manipulate the bone of their enemy and make weapons of it temporarily.]

[Mental Control – Intermediate Level: Allows the user to control other people as long as their eyes are in contact.]

~Weakness~

[Sunlight – User's power and perception is reduced by 50% under the sun.]

[Silver – When wounded with silver, user experience great burning and healing is reduced by 50%]

~Quests~

[Streak of perfection: You are a mercenary and the best of them out there! Continue your unrivalled record and become the real definition of perfection, complete a hundred missions in consecutive success.]

[Keep Your Word: You have sworn to fulfill your parents' wishes and free the human captives of the underworld.]

~Quest Progress~

[Streak of perfection: 99/100 missions completed]

[Keep your Word: Pending]

After looking through the system's interface, an act which had somehow became a habit since he got the system, Kurtz looked at the upper corner of the system's screen where a red light could be seen blinking. After staring at it for a while, he muttered, "I will just call him back." Then he closed his eyes sleeping on with a lazy moan.

The screen however, did not disappear from his vision and it changed. Now, a man's back could be seen through it. The man sat on a spiraling chair which swerved right and left but never faced the screen.

"It is me Kurtz your Boss." The man on the screen spoke.

Kurtz stiffened on his bed, before his closed eyes slowly opened and he looked glared into the air, "I didn't remember telling you to put the caller through, system." he said darkly.

"Yes you didn't Kurtz, but you had instructed me to always put this caller on an automatic access link." The system replied.

"Uh, did I? That might have to change soon." Kurtz said, through a groan as he closed his eyes back.

"Do I have your attention now." The man on the screen asked.

"Spit it already, do you need to come clean up your ass again?" Kurtz replied, rolling to another side on his large bed.

"Almost right actually but this is not something to be discussed on screen, I need to see you at the base." the man said and Kurtz eyes slowly opened again, even though he could actually see the system's screen even with his eyes closed, it just felt more natural to glare at it with opened eyes.

"You need to see me?" He repeated, with a brow raised in surprise.

"Ryan died." The man stated and Kurtz face immediately scrunched, "what time should I come Boss." He eventually asked.

"Get here if you can, right at this instant." The man answered and Kurtz sighed.

"Ok then." He said raising an arm up, and the screen turned blank.

In the dim room, Kurtz climbed off the bed walking towards a curtain and pulling it to the side to reveal a glassy wall through which light reflected off his face, revealing his pair of iris which were black as coal. Through the calm eyes, he stared off into the distance.

A mountain range stretched on in his sight, their white snowy peaks slowly melting into little stream and looking into the sky, Kurtz gaze scrunched.

His line of sight was above all the mountain peaks simply because his own house was situated in the very highest peak on this mountain range and he always enjoyed this sight. However, the bright sun in the sky successfully managed to sour his mood, "why does it have to be a sunny day?" he muttered, pulling back the curtain before walking back towards a door.

Moments later, a sleek silver sports car zoomed on across a sandy plain quickly approaching a large wall in the distance.

Reaching the wall, however, the car did not stop and it crash into the wall, or... it was supposed to. In fact the car had not crashed into the wall but instead pass through the wall which shimmered.

The wall was actually not a wall but a perfect holographic façade.

Just behind the holographic wall, the car stopped.

On the ground below the car, a blue circle lit up before sinking into the ground with the car on it.

Soon, the car emerged in a bright underground garage as the platform underneath it melded into the ground while the gap above close as well.

Kurtz exited the car and in a blurry motion, he had reached a door in an instant. He placed his thumb on the door and after a few seconds, the door slid opened. Kurtz walked right towards a stair case which led downward and in a few large strides, he was standing in front of another door below the stairs which slid open after a few seconds as well.

"You are quite fast." The familiar voice of his Boss spoke, as Kurtz calmly took a sit before looking around and his gaze eventually settled on a figure sitting at an end of the large room, this figure's back turned towards him.

"This is like the hundredth time I would hear that from you, Boss, but I appreciate no less. And about Ryan, I offer my condolences." Kurtz spoke.

"You should probably say that to his family." the Boss commented.

"Family, I would be surprised if any of us here have one." Kurtz said, with a grin.

"Well, most of us have a family. We just keep so much from them that we end up creating that inevitable gap, but it is the only way to keep everyone safe." the Boss replied with a sigh.

Kurtz felt strange on hearing that, after all, his own family would probably think he was a pathetic bully if they knew what he was doing, not that they cared anyway.

"I would rather not say my condolences to his family." Kurtz said chuckling.

"That sounds so inhumane." The Boss spoke.

"Inhumane, I guess it sounds right then." Kurtz said with a shrug, "And let's quit the idle talks already, what or who is the problem?" He asked.