Chapter 169 - System Evolution (Part 3)

[Shop] 

[... Shop is open. 

Select your choice... 

1. Consumables 

2. Items 

3. Masteries.. 

4. Weapons <Locked> 

...] 

The shop was still the same which was good since he liked the way it was organised. 

'Number 1' 

[Consumables, Category] 

[Healing Potion (Weak): 50 Coins] 

[Healing Potion (Medium): 100 Coins] 

[Healing Potion (Strong): 200 Coins] 

[Healing Potion (Very Strong) (Rare): 400 Coins] 

[Healing Potion (Epic) (Very Rare): 1000 coins] 

[Healing Potion (Legendary): 5000 coins] 

[Healing Potion: (Mythical): 10000 Coins] 

[Stamina Potion: Same Ranks and Price] 

[Refinement Orb: 400 Coins] 

[Coins Available: 800] 

"Healing Potion, very rare..." He muttered. 

His eyes vision was slowly growing darker. 

Gray knew he didn't have any time to waste, especially since he had just gotten caught. 

[Purchase Confirmed.] 

[Coins: 800 ---> 400] 

A glowing flask with a lid on it manifested in front of Gray. 

He instantly grabbed a hold of the flask and removed the lid, instantly gulping it down after doing so. 

[You have consumed a Health Potion (Very Strong)] 

[You feel the effects taking place.] 

The effects took place almost instantly, Gray could feel his external wounds closing just as fast as his internal wounds. 

He felt relief as the potion also dragged away all of the pain with it. 

He looked at his health bar and watched it quickly rise. 

[HP: 25/40] 

[HP: 29 -> 31 -> 34 -> 36] 

After just a minute, he was back to full health. 

[HP: 40/40] 

Gray got up, the moment it hit forty. 

He looked left and right in order to make sure the guy who he had failed to kill wasn't around and hiding his presence. 

After a few stretches, he continued his journey over to the pans while letting out a deep breath upon doing so. 

"Another close call..." 

"Still worth it... I got two level ups..." He muttered before looking back at the screen. 

He looked at the options and rubbed the back of his head. 

"Three stat points looks like the best bet." 

[SP: 19] 

He had nineteen and had yet to use a single one for a long while. 

A hundred coins was the least interesting, he had already recovered his body. 

He was stuck between the pill which would only bring a temporary boost or the three extra stat points. 

Gray was a sucker for collecting points, it was a bad habit created through his indecisiveness. 

*Growl* 

His stomach rumbled. 

"Maybe I'll figure out the answer after eating." He muttered. 

He looked over at the pan ahead of him, a strange tasty looking soup could be seen through the glass lid. 

At the same time, a few packets of different kinds of foods and treats which he had never seen before were layered out around the table. 

Although there were many eating there was still a lot to spare. 

They had definitely stocked up for war. 

"If what that girl said about her leader is true... And his ability..." 

Gray grabbed the packet and spoon beside it for the soup in the pan. 

"Then I'll have to use all my stat points to have even the slightest shot at beating him..." He muttered. 

Gray opened the lid and dug down on the soup in the pan with his spoon. 

The soup was still warm, there was little to no resistance as he moved the spoon around. 

There were different types of types of coloured herbs inside of the soup but based on the smell alone he could tell it was going to be a delightful treat. 

"Well then... Time to eat." He muttered to himself. 

He took a scoop of the soup with the spoon before placing it in his mouth. 

The instant he did so, the side of his lips curled up slightly. 

A small tear flowed down his face, and dropped into the pan as he took another bite. 

He scooped and scooped up, more and more of the soup, consuming it all until there was nothing left. 

"It's good..." He muttered with his head hung low. 

He looked around at all the corpses around before looking back down at the soup. 

It was honestly good. 

Gray put the pan down after finishing it, the packets had biscuits and other sort of sweets in them. He took them with him and a steel canteen filled with water inside a powered fridge before continuing on. 

Gray didn't know what was powering the fridge, while there technology looked similar, it was completely different. 

They used gems, stones which didn't exist in earth as power stones for many of their creations. 

The entire airship was floating because of said power stone. 

Still, without a doubt they were more advanced than earth in terms of technology alone, depending on which perspective one would look at it from. 

Gray didn't ponder on it, it didn't really matter to him. 

After all, he already made plans on what he was going to do with them. 

"I'll kill them all." He said as he stood ahead of the door the Kessha had leapt at. 

Part of the reason he made sure not to let her know he had killed her was because he wanted to find out which direction to go. 

The plan worked exactly as he expected. 

Gray placed his Katana back in it's sheathe and swiped the card he had gotten from the corpse of the beige red haired Kessho on the door. 

The door opened and Gray walked through. 

"Reinforcements are this way so It likely leads to the upwards..." 

After a few seconds of walking forward in a straight lines, he came to a stop. 

"Speak of the devil." He muttered as he look ahead. 

There, a staircase could be seen leading up. 

Exactly what he was looking for. 

Gray began ascending the staircase, pondering on how he was having such a lucky day today. First the system levelled up and now this. 

[Be careful, the enemy is aware of your existance.] 

[New quest available: Take Over The Airship.] 

"Oh~ You're a lot more talkative now system, is this an after effect of levelling up?" Gray asked. 

[…I am not sure.] 

Gray shrugged his shoulders, at least he had someone to talk to now. 

"You said something about them being aware right?" 

"That works just perfect. Not sure how you found out but if you have any other new features, you'd like to surprise me with, I'm all up for it." 

Gray stopped as he finally reached the top of the staircase.

Ahead of him was another large door, however something felt off about it. It was quite, too quite.

He couldn't hear anything coming from the other side of the door unlike before other than the sound of the gears of the door turning.

'Looks like we have a welcome party set up for us.'