The Drunk poem and the grilled chicken.
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In the middle of the wilderness, a young man was seen dragging a giant chicken by its legs, singing songs with a melodious tone that sent chivers down the spines of the beasts who heard it.
Charlie dragged the heavy chicken with unconcealed happiness on his face while singing with Glee. After getting lost a few times, he finally got to the battlefield.
He looked round in amazement at the thousands of demonic beasts' mangled carcasses lying scattered on the floor.
"You got help but decided to leave me behind? Who does that??" Charlie stood there, wondering why they all left him behind.
He entered one of the tents abandoned by the army searching for water to wash his prey but couldn't see any. He checked the map in his hand and followed it to a nearby lake.
After thoroughly washing the chicken, he made fire and started roasting the chicken.
…
Starlink City, at the demonic beasts'camp outside the southern city gate…
A black ape whose body was riddled with wounds were seen by the scout birds, crawling on all fours as he slowly approached the camp.
The black ape was quickly rescued by the surrounding beasts and he was brought to the tent of the tiger King.
"What happened,Blackie?! How did you become like this?" A yellow striped tiger swaggered out of the gigantic tent staring at the black ape in amazement.
"It was Pascal Wild! I was about completing the task when he arrived… I fell into his illusions and…" the black ape couldn't complete his sentence, knowing what he's done to the army that went with him.
If the Tiger king should know about it, the black ape wouldn't escape death for sure. That's the reason why he personally killed the other beasts who survived the battle.
"Out of all the Awakened out there, you were almost killed by an illusionist?!! What happened to the mental defense training we've been doing all these while?!! How and why did you Fu**ing let your guard down!!!??" The tiger king roared.
"I'm very sorry your majesty. It was a stinky human who got me angry," the black ape sad with a bowed head, " He was abusing you your majesty. He called you a paper Tiger. He said you don't have to balls to battle him, that's why you sent us there… he even called you a chicken."
With gritted teeth, Blackie lied against Charlie and the whole of the human race.
"Where is his corpse!!!??? I'll send someone to fetch him for me and I'll tear him apart limb by limb in front of the human army!!"
"He still alive your majesty…" Blackie hesitated a little before finally speaking.
"You must find him!!"
"Sir, he's with the reinforcement sent from Pierre City. He should be on his way here now, if he's not dead." Blackie replied. Seeing the confusion on the Tiger King's face, he explained. "I sent the flame feathered chicken after him."
"Bad news your majesty!! Lieutenant Flame feathers' son is dead!! And he's on his way here to cause trouble!!" A peak purple ranked turkey rushed in. He didn't even read the room before announcing.
"He was last seen being dragged to the western gates of starlink city by a young human… " the purple ranked demonic turkey was still explaining when a giant chicken that looked like the one charlie killed, barged into the tent.
It released it's aura of the peak rank demonic beast, destroying everything in it's way as he charged at the Tiger king.
"Calm down, and I'll explain how your son died!" The tiger king quickly jumped to the side, evading the chicken's attack. They fought for 30 minutes before the chicken finally calmed down.
The Tiger king asked Blackie to give reports of the battle, and Blackie reported the mixture of half-truths and the lies that he's prepared.
Flame feathers clucked to the sky. With a commanding tone, Said, " Bring me a portrait of that bastard, we attack at dawn.
The flame feathered chicken went to the tent that was prepared for him, to meet with a brown snake that was already waiting for him.
The snake hissed at him a little bit before skittering away from the tent.
The chicken raged and destroyed the tent, incurring silent curse from the green ranked ape's who are in charge of building things in the army.
The chicken then gathered five purple ranked demonic beasts, and rushed towards the deep forest, with the brown snake in the lead.
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At the battlefield…
Charlie cut off one of the chicken laps, washed it thoroughly, then kept the remaining body in the system inventory.
"Assuming there was spices in the system store now, I would have bought some for this chicken." Charlie lamented.
[Ding! A new spices section has been added to the system store, spend 5 seeker's Points to unlock!!] The death seeking system announced.
[Ding! Killing intent discovered, converting to seeker's Points!].
Following the last notification, the seeker's Points began to rise, the number began to change rapidly. From 6 points that was remaining there, it climbed up to 203 Points before it finally slowed down.
[Name: Charlie
Talent: Myriad systems manager (Rank: ???).
Current system: Death seeking system (27 days: 18hrs:06min:00sec)
Ability(s): Earth manipulation
Skills & techniques: The Heart of Heaven Sutra || Death Seeking Manual || Earth escape manual: beginner level || Ghost shadow manual: beginner level ||
Energy level: level 1, Blue rank.
Seeker's Points: 203 +3, +5…
Lottery points: 0]
Charlie looked at his seeker's Points that was slowly increasing, then he shrugged his shoulder, then he opened the system store to check the newly added spices section.
After spending 5 points to unlock the section, he spent another 46 points to buy spices, oil, and some other ingredients. He bought grills and a portable furnace to grill the chicken leg.
[MSM: the gluttony system thinks the host has high potential and wants to nurture the host. Do you want to choose the gluttony system as your next system?]
"Hell no! I want a money making system. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to survive the first month of owning a system… I don't know who I've offended recently, my seeker's Points just kept on climbing…" Charlie lamented.
After setting up the grill, Charlie marinated the chicken leg with alcohol before rubbing it with Honey, oil and spices.
One hour later, Charlie sat down on one of the chairs he bought from the system store while munching on some chicken meat that was cut from the chicken leg on the grill.
"With the liquor as my ink
And the world as my canvas
I wrote a poem on sand
With staggering strokes
My poems stood unsteady
As my brush tripped on concrete floor
Who would believe me?
If I should tell them
That my poem is drunk "
Charlie sang happily as walked to the grill while clutching the beer bottle in his left hand to his side.
He was about turning the chicken leg on the grill when he noticed a few beasts with powerful aura rapidly approaching the place.
He quickly threw away the beer bottle in his hand, spilling the content on the ground as he escaped into the deep forest.
Seeing that the powerful beasts were rapidly closing in on him, charlie paused then placed his right hand on the ground as he loudly chanted some incantation.
"Earth Escape!" Charlie shouted. Then the ground became soft. It split open and swallowed him up.
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