Reincarnated As The Diabolic System-Chapter 125 124. The Fish!
Shane raised his brows upon hearing the voice. This time, he got a girl, a teenager at that.
Wait, the last statement didn't sound right….
Shane shook his head and decided to teach his host something about the menu. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard his host's voice.
"System, why aren't you speaking?"
Shane narrowed his eyes. "How do you know you have a system?"
"This isn't my first world, you know?"
Shane felt it was logical. He stopped being confused about it and turned on the screen. He looked around.
The place where his host woke up was filled with trees and bushes. There was a stream flowing beside his host with clear water inside. Many fishes swimming about could be visible even at a distance. Birds chirped in the branches as they went about doing their work.
On the banks on the other side, he could see a deer drinking water from the stream sip-by-sip.
No matter how you look at the scene, it didn't look like this place belonged to a demonic realm, especially of a world that was about to be destroyed.
Shane frowned upon seeing this scene. He felt that something was definitely wrong here. At the same time, his host leaned back against the tree as she chuckled.
"Let's bet, my dear system."
"Excuse me, are we familiar yet?" Shane didn't know why his host was acting like this.
And why would he bet at this place? Shouldn't they start doing their job?
The girl chuckled louder this time. "You're really adorable little system."
"Hey, I'm not little!" Shane had the urge to go outside and kick this girl.
Sigh. Why was he starting to become a criminal who would go on hitting girls around the world? He shook his head and forced the topic back to the point. The girl was a teenager. Aside from being rebellious, they always focused on petty things that didn't matter.
"Let's see what the mission is this time," Shane quickly opened the taskbar and stared at it for a while. "Sure enough. We have to destroy the world."
"You didn't answer me. Let's make a bet."
After saying that, the girl stood up and walked closer to the river. She smiled and bent. She pushed back the strand of black hair behind her ears and touched the water's surface with her fingers.
"It's cold."
Shane rolled his eyes. "No sh*t."
The girl immediately said, "I'll get attacked once I touch these fishes. Hey, system, what would be the result if they really attacked me?"
This girl was so unpredictable. He had thought she was just kidding or something, but she was actually doing her job like a good host. Shane frowned as he stared at the river.
"I'm not sure," said Shane truthfully.
"I want to bet that…. If I was able to fend them off, you'll control my body and kill a hundred high-level demons for me."
The girl even looked smug while saying that.
"How do you know that I can control your body?"
"Did you forget what I said earlier?" The teenager sighed. "You aren't my first system."
Right. But Shane still felt there was something wrong. He couldn't point his finger just yet.
"What if you can't? What if you need my help?"
"Then simple. I'll be the one killing those demons. Agree?"
"No," Shane said as he quickly disagreed with the terms. "I'm not here to play your little games."
"Ah, you're so uptight and boring."
The girl sighed and directly inserted her finger into the water. Small fish swam up to her finger fast enough and started touching the skin, tickling the entire area. Sure enough. The girl was right, as she had predicted that the fish inside the stream were a group of demons.
It really wasn't strange for someone with brains to figure this out. After all, this was a demon world after all. Everything, including the trees and animals, was a group of demons.
But the question was, how did this girl know this was a demon world? It seemed she had a high IQ.
"What are you thinking, system? C'mon, focus!"
"Right…." Shane stopped thinking and looked at the screen.
The fish grew bigger and bigger enough to cause an injury to the finger. Blood poured into the water that spread around the place. The fish around the finger greedily sucked it all in through their fins as their speed of growth became faster.
"Time starts now," said the teenager as she raised her hand and sucked her injured finger in her mouth.
The fish from the water grew so much that they couldn't even be immersed in the water anymore. More than half of their bodies were out of the water as they glared at the teenager with red eyes. Black aura poured out of their bodies as they continued to stare.
Shane frowned. He quickly opened the host information.
The girl was a teenager called Lia, and nothing else was mentioned here. Not even a single trace of her past. For some reason, this made Shane feel uneasy in his heart.
Lia raised bent and took a few rocks in her hands. "System, tell me. What's the thing that would hurt the group of fish the most?"
"They're cold-blooded creatures, and they can't live on air. But here, we can clearly see them breathing about properly."
The fish even fumed angrily upon seeing the teenager standing there without moving. Lia even smiled, making their fuming stronger.
Shane said, "They can't handle fire." ｆ𝘳e𝒆w𝗲𝐛𝘯𝐨νe𝚕.cｏ𝓶
"Exactly." The girl quickly held two stones in her hands and started making friction between them. "Fire can definitely help me defeat them without any worry."
Shane looked at the zero balance in his host's account and sighed. He should just let the host do what she was doing since there wasn't anything he could help her with.
The girl brightened up a branch with the help of a stone as she picked it up. She used a few branches and brightened them up quickly. Then she aimed one of them at the group of fish that had started coming closer to her. With a swing, she threw a branch toward the fish standing at the center.
An ear-piercing scream echoed in the background at this time. It wasn't of any female or male creature. It almost looked like a fierce animal or something of that kind had been hurt severely. The fire spread around to other fish in the group when Lia threw other branches at that group, creating a messy situation.
Lia quickly clutched her ears as she laughed. "I had forgotten about this."
Forgotten? ｆ𝓇𝘦ℯ𝙬𝑒𝐛n𝐨νe𝙡.c𝑜𝗺
"Eh. This isn't the first time I have come here."
That makes sense, then. His host had come here, and perhaps that was why she knew how to deal with these things. Once the screams subsided, all the fish in the groups were found dead as they fell into the water. The stream seemed to have been blocked as water started flowing in another direction, directly heading toward both West and north directions.
Whether the stream flooded a demonic village or not, this had nothing to do with Lia. all she wanted to do was destroy this place once and for all. After that, she brushed the dust off her hands and raised her head.
"Now, this place will show us its real face."
The beauty of the trees and stream quickly changed before Shane could even say another word. The trees lost leaves and turned darker and empty. The stream that had clear water earlier changed into blood. Even the ground where Lia was standing quickly turned deserted without any beautiful bushes.
The birds chirping changed into crows with ferocious beaks colored black with deep red eyes glancing about.
"So this is what it actually looks like. What we saw before was an illusion created by those demons in water."
Shane nodded as if he understood what his host was saying. These days, he was becoming more and more fortunate as he started getting better and wiser hosts. He quickly looked at the taskbar and squinted his eyes.
"To destroy this world, we have to find the king of this world and kill him," said Shane as he started looking for the radar.
"Oh, him? I know that place. Easy peasy, but first," Lia paused as she started walking toward another direction, deeper into the forest, "let us earn some money, shall we? You might have gotten some Crana. Take a look."
Shane glanced at the host information tab and indeed, the girl was right. A lot of Crana was gifted by the viewers from the system world. He opened the shopping button and looked at the screen.
"What do you want me to purchase?" Since his host was so knowledgeable, he might as well ask her for that.
The girl thought for a while and said, "Choose something related to shadows."
"Shadows?" Shane frowned as he started searching for it.
"Yes, after all, my attribute is the same."
Shane was surprised to see that his host knew about the attribute thing. He quickly glanced at the information tab. Sure enough, her attribute was shadows.
