Versatile System Online

"Aurora, God damn it",

Ray cried out loud in frustration.

He had been searching for his new abilities for an hour now but to no avail.

But what could Ray do of it, other than shouting at Aurora and searching for the abilities manually? Ray had no one to help him while the system interface was as messed up as ever.

"Okay, I won't train. Just show me my abilities. I will only get a hang of them by practicing for a few minutes", Ray called out in consciousness, believing that Aurora would finally respond if he didn't train right away.

But alas, he heard no reply from Aurora.

On the verge of a mental breakdown, Ray gave up on searching for his abilities and started to practice his other skills.

Half an hour later,

Ray stood in the training room while covered in sweat from top to bottom.

"Huff! Huff!",

Taking in deep breaths to stabilize his beating heart, Ray sat down and tried to initiate another conversation with Aurora,

"Okay, you win. I won't be training the abilities, I will just try them out once and then exit System Online",

With that said, Ray waited patiently for a reply.

5 minutes later,

A voice sounded in his consciousness,

"Promise me that you won't go back on your word and right after you see the abilities, you will exit System Online", Aurora asked skeptically.

"I promise, I won't go back on my word", Ray replied without a second's hesitation.

"No, I don't believe you. Sign a soul contract and then, I will show you your abilities", Aurora replied.

As for the soul contract, its mention caused Ray's expression to turn nasty. It was exactly as they called it, it bound the soul of both parties.

Thus, if someone failed to fulfill the conditions of the soul contract or broke any of the conditions mentioned, their soul would be affected.

The effect also differed as the least could cause mild headaches while some strict contracts could cause outright death of the one who broke the contract conditions in the first place.

As for Ray, he knew that Aurora wouldn't make him sign the death contract but even then, the pain caused to the soul wasn't to be underestimated.

"I accept signing the soul contract", Ray said

"Okay", Aurora replied while she sent the contract through the system.

As Aurora was only a consciousness, to sign a contract she had to use the system and sign through it. Therefore, if one looked at it closely one would get to know that Ray was signing the oath by himself.

After all, Aurora's consciousness had merged with his when he obtained the system.

Ray didn't wait for anything after signing the contract as he excitedly asked Aurora,

"Now that the contract is done. Can you please tell me more about what abilities I unlocked?",

"Why are you in such a hurry? Never seen you act like this before. Even when you get a new beast soul or unlock a new technique. You are never this excited", Aurora asked Ray.

"You won't understand", Ray said.

"Why wouldn't I understand you Huh, do you take me for a fool?", Aurora questioned Ray. This time even more adamant about finding out why Ray was behaving in such a way.

On the other hand, Ray upon seeing that Aurora wasn't going to back down anytime soon, sighed and said,

"To be honest. The reason is a bit foolish. The thing is, since I was young, I wanted to have those cool space-related abilities after I awakened but due to everything happening around me. My desire for all this got snuffed out and only the responsibility of my family kept me going. So when you told me that I had a space affinity and also unlocked two abilities related to it, I got very excited",

"Sigh, Ray. Sometimes I forget you are only a kid at the end",

Aurora replied after she heard what Ray had to say.

Well, she was right. Ray was after all, only 16 years old, and at this age while most kids were doing other things and enjoying life. He was here training nonstop and trying his best to get stronger and help his family.

Not to count the pending apocalypse on their heads, Ray had matured a lot due to these reasons, thus making Aurora feel that he was less of a kid and more of a mature and sensible man.

If there was someone to blame for all this, it would be the era Ray was born in. For the competition to survive was just so immense that normal people couldn't even imagine living their lives.

"Aurora, the abilities please", Ray asked Aurora.

"Yeah, wait a minute", Aurora replied.

Then,

[Ding!: New abilities detected.

Scanning…

Abilities scan complete…

Two new abilities detected..],

Listening to the system prompt, Ray quickly checked the messages and clicked on,

[Abilities],

1.      [Blink: Movement type ability: Element: Space,

Description: Allows the host to teleport in a desired direction 50 meters away from the starting point. Requires 4 seconds to activate and consumes 3 stamina points and 50 mana.]

2.      [Distort Slash: Attack type ability: Element: Space,

Description: Allows the host to use space the element to send forward a space elemental slash that distorts the impacted area. Requires 7 seconds to activate and consumes 10 stamina points and 150 mana. Requires a blade to be used.]

"Nice abilities", Ray said after having a look at the abilities he got.

In Ray's point of view, the blink ability was the most useful one while the Distort Slash seemed less of ability and more of a technique. But Ray didn't fret over that.

He knew that there must be more to it. However, as much as Ray wanted to practice and try out the abilities right away. He couldn't, not unless he wanted nice torture to his soul.

Therefore, Ray simply logged out of System Online.

"Hey Ray, have you seen Sirius?", Tim asked upon seeing Ray walk out of the training room.

"I don't think I saw him today, why is there some matter?", Ray asked.

"Well, I don't know if you know about this or not but yesterday, while coming back to our dorms. Sirius got into a fight with some other students",

"It is just a fight, Tim. Nothing to worry about, it isn't like someone would kill Sirius over a small fight", Ray said.

"No, no one would dare to but those kids said that they would bring over their people today. But that's not the main issue, the issue is that today is a full moon and since Sirius is a Werewolf", Tim didn't have to finish the sentence for Ray to know what would happen to a Werewolf on a full moon night.

Now, Ray understood why Tim was finding Sirius, it wasn't to help Sirius but to help out those idiots who butted their heads with a Werewolf on a full moon.

Them getting away injured would be the least of their worries as an incensed wolf would never leave his prey alive.

"Damn you, bastards. Tim, go gather everyone else. There are still a couple of hours before night. Let's try and find Sirius before that. If not, we could hope that the Academy finds him first", Ray gave his instructions to Tim.

While he contacted Aurora for any useful information that she might know about Werewolfs.

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A/N:- Another chapter up for you guys. Have fun and sorry for the timings messing up. The timing for uploads will be back to schedule from this chapter.