The last words from Aldrich were "accepted" while his life was already running out. But the system had already listened to his last command, and so it started.
[System Processing: Command Acknowledged]
[System Initiating: Command Accepted]
[Library of Seraph's Grace: UNLOCKED]
[Host Granted Access: Auto Healing Acquired S Rank]
[System Beginning: Venomous Poison Extraction Using Library of Seraph's Grace]
[Poison Extraction: COMPLETED]
[Host Body Renewed: 100%]
[Library of Hermes: UNLOCKED]
[Host Granted: Speed of Hermes Technique S Rank → God Tier]
[System Limit: 1 Usage]
[System Alert: Human Strength and Speed Parameters Increased +10]
[System Alert: Host Has Been Granted Chainsmile Blade Manipulation - An ability to reshape your weapon IceKing Sword Breaker to any form of your choice]
[System Objective: Eliminate Black Widow Spider]
By this time, the venomous poison in Aldrich's body began to disappear at a rapid fast rate, and his breath came back. His life slowly returned, his eyes began to open back up and His strength had returned, but it was ten times stronger than earlier.
He grabbed the elongated legs that impaled his shoulder and stomach earlier and broke them immediately with ease. His injuries were healed instantly at this point already.
"Thank you, Bookkeeper,I really thought I was going to die there" he said.
He blitzed forward while grabbing his IceKing Sword. The ground where he was at before broke due to his speed impact,The ground scattered just by the sheer force of Aldrich new movement.
By this time, Aldrich was already behind the Black Widow Spider,The black spider had been sliced into two due to his speed the spider couldn't see what had happened but he used his sword to slash during its blitzing moment, it dropped to the ground, making a loud sound,Aldrich turned his head backwards to stare at it but the Black Widow Spider which he had just killed started fading like it didn't exist.
Then Aldrich's system prompted again.
[System Alert: Black Widow Spider Mirage Detected]
[System Alert: Objective - Eliminate Main Target]
[System Alert: Speed of Hermes ACTIVE]
System Alert: Seraph Healing Grace ACTIVE]
Aldrich quickly understood what had happened and what the system prompt had alerted him on,From the ceiling, a monster like sound came out,His eyes lifted upwards, and he said,
"So that one below was a fake of the original,A mirage of itself."
Just then, from the Black Widow Spider's butt, it lifted upwards and faced down since it was using the ceiling as its footing, Then from its butt, hundreds of spider webs shot out, all racing downwards. From the webs, mini black giant spiders just like it came forth, all with six legs each. Then they all extended simultaneously, all aiming for the strike to kill Aldrich who was below.
But unlike before, when Aldrich could only see the attacks but he wasn't fast enough to evade them, this time it was different. He was way faster than them due to the increase the system had granted to his human body,The first six strikes came down on him. He evaded by moving left, then right, and backflipped backwards, landing on the ground gracefully.
Another strike came down again, but he stretched his palm forward. After molding a punch, he struck it instantly, and it broke,Another dropped two in quick succession,He evaded each of them by circling his movement around.
Then Aldrich said, "I have to use that Speed of Hermes in order to swipe this clean."
With that word, the system prompted again.
[System Alert: Speed of Hermes Granted]
[Usage: 1 Session]
With that, Aldrich's feet generated winged sandals,He blitzed forward with his IceKing Breaker Sword. He moved like lightning around, and within a few seconds, all hundreds of the mini Black Widow Spiders were all sliced into two and all iced up, each one of them shattering into pieces simultaneously.
He stared upwards at the ceiling and BOOM, he moved upwards with his IceKing Breaker Sword taking a new form,It was an iced dagger this was possible because Aldrich had thought of it taking a dagger shape.
He pinned it towards the spider's head and moved forward, using the dagger to drag all through the Black Widow Spider's body until he reached its end Then he landed on the ground, The Black Widow Spider was divided into two, and it was instantly iced up in total and shattered into pieces Aldrich was too fast for the black widow spider to react to his new form.
The system alerted Aldrich.
[System Alert: Target Eliminated]
[Host Has Permanently Been Granted: The Library of Seraph's Grace]
[Auto Healing Repair: RETAINED]
[Host Has Permanently Been Granted: The Library of Hermes]
[Speed of Hermes Technique: PERMANENTLY RETAINED]
[Host Human Strength and Speed: PERMANENTLY RETAINED]
[Congratulations, Aldrich]
Aldrich took a deep breath as he said, "What am I turning into? A killer? Do I kill to survive, or because the Bookkeeper system want me to?"
He questioned himself,But just as he did, the underground structure started to crumble and collapse,Aldrich looked up at the hole he fell from earlier and said,
"Shit, this place is falling apart I must escape."
He jumped upwards and with his new speed and strength it was an easy job for him, he landed back on the Realm of Monsters surface level turning back to look at the place he had just gotten out from, but it was slowly being sealed by sand.
His eyes widened, and he said, "That is some weird shit right there."
But that didn't bother Aldrich that much, as there was something more important up ahead, some distance away In front, two figures were fighting, One female and a humanoid figure, From its elbow, something that looked like a bone sword struck towards the female figure, and dust blew everywhere,He could clearly see that this person was being hurt, and he wanted to help,The system immediately prompted something to him.
[System Alert: Realm of Monsters Final Boss Detected]
[Detecting Rank: A Ranked Monster]
[Detecting Monster Type: Humanoid Monster]
[Name of Monster Detected: The Hollow Oni]
[Monster Power Type Detected: Skill User / Essence Devourer]
[Host Friend Detected: Kira In Battle]
[Host Ability Returned: Danger Detection Technique]
Aldrich's eyes opened. "Kira? The arrow sexy girl from the Craft Realm?" He blitzed forward as he hurried to help her without thinking twice.