Stillforce Odyssey

Aaron sat within the prison, a huge smile on his face.

(You made no attempt at all...)

(Your time limit of five minutes is over. To issue another escape time, a sacrifice of a 100 Stillforce is to be offered.)

Aaron wasn't even paying attention to the mechanical voice speaking to him, instead his interest is in the new skills that his Skill had stolen.

~

/Earlier Before/

[Impervious Skill had sensed a Divine Sword summon skill twenty feet away. Do you want to snatch skill from it's owner?]

[Yes or No]

Aaron thought for a while. What does the skill even perform.

What Tier is the skill?

[Issuing Skill info...]

[Skill: Divine Sword Summon(SSTier) an offensive and holy divine sword that can cause total annihilation.]

Aaron smiled.

"Snatch skill!"

[Extracting skill from the original owner, KC Feiling]

(Extraction process... 1%... 2%...23%...85%...100%... Extraction completed.)

Aaron smiled in satisfaction seeing the new skill that stayed occupied at his second ownership skill panel.

[Impervious skill sensed an Unholy Slash skill from it's owner, Kris Jenner. Accept or Decline!]

Aaron made himself extremely useful at this point.

"Lifebloom Circle is an SS Tier skill that focuses on healing while Life's Guardian is a shield to double One's stats, almost like a buff." Aaron stroked his chin rather meticulously before making his choice.

Instead of simply stockpiling skills that might not be any more useful in the future, he would simply select the best so, he quickly declined Life's Guardian while Accepting Lifebloom Circle.

He can protect himself from skills that would deplete his Stillforce energy completely. He would also be safe due to the fact that Lifebloom circle is a passive skill and not an active skill. He would not be needing to activate it or anything.

Another skill suddenly popped into his vision.

'Hmm...'

"Phantom and The Seer?"

"Who picks such useless skills nowadays?" Aaron asked, directly referring to The Seer skill.

He declined the seer and accepted Phantom.

However, under five minutes more skills appeared in his line of sight.

{Shadows} - SSS Tier

{Songs of grief} - SSS Tier

{Greater Magic Amplification} - SS Tier

{Heavenly Burdens} - S Tier

{Spatial Domain} - SSS Tier

{Space Movement} - SS Tier

There were more. However, the next Tier of skills Aaron began to see shocked him.

"What the hell is this?"

- Minor Force... C Tier skil

- Icy breath... B Tier skill

- Assassin... A Tier skill

- Demon Pulse... A Tier skill

- Shiver... F Tier skill

- Omini Vision... D Tier skill.

Aaron was stunned that there were still skills with the A to F Tier.

Aaron shivered remembering the Shiver skill.

What if that skill only requires 5 Stillforce energy?

The very exact amount he had before been sent into the dream curse. Aaron did not understand why the system instead started to show him skills from the S Tier rank instead of from F Tier, knowing full well that his Stillforce energy had been very small.

If there had probably been no way for him to sacrifice his lifeforce, who knows... his skill panel might change and he would have to end up with skills like Shiver. As an F Tier rank.

More skills popped up in his line of sight, but the lower their rank, the lower the chance of Aaron ever accepting such a skill.

Besides, he was giving most of the people here a second chance to pick another skill.

~

/Presently/

Aaron sighed...

It was finally time to exit the Prison.

Quickly, he sacrificed 100 Stillforce energy and then, got another five minutes.

(You've been given another five minutes to escape the prison...)

Aaron was not even listening to the mechanical voice and he activated Spatial domain...

The space around the prison twisted and transformed, and it was as if Aaron had separated himself into several versions or zones.

Quickly, he shifted to the next zone...

Appearing before the guard overseeing the Citadel for that moment.

Ortega immediately grew angry.

"You piece of swine, get ready to die!"

Aaron's eyes widened.

"Space Movement!" He activated the skill and jumped out of Ortega's piercing aura.

"You cannot keep running away through space. I will show you the true meaning of despair!"

"Flipping the Sky!"

Aaron suddenly felt as if the entire Citadel turned upside down. And that was when he applied for the next zone and shifted through it.

He escaped Ortega's wrath.

However, he could still feel the entire Citadel tremble from Ortega's rage.

At the last moment though, his Impervious skill had snatched Ortega's SSS Tier skill.

The next zones twisted, retaining Aaron's essence completely.

Meanwhile Aaron was already at the main base for zombies.

It was time to level up.

Inside this particular base, the place was looking so eerie. In fact, the arena smelt bad of both blood and the stench coming off from the zombies themselves.

Aaron watched a zombie gobble up another Zombie completely, and it's pale green body radiated an even darker green...

It's power had simply intensified.

In this jungle of zombies, most of the lowers were at the bottom of the food chain. Those that are superior are always unto the lowers, wanting to become even more powerful. And they derive this power by eating up their fellow zombies.

At the same time, a battle might erupt from both the lower and the superior and which ever wins takes up the position and becomes superior.

Aaron stood for a while understanding the life that zombies live as a whole, but in retard to the whole process, it still deems Aaron as a higher danger to the Zombies...

Immediately, Aaron leaked out his aura and the air around turned extremely somber.

All the zombies froze for a moment, their instinct still proactive to the sense of imminent danger.

Then, due to their Intent to survive... the zombies instantly formed a defensive circle around themselves to defend their base and at the same time, attack the enemy.

Most of the zombies activated their abilities. And their abilities differed greatly from normal skills and Aaron was unable to snatch such abilities from Zombies.

Aaron took a deep breath and activated a skill.

(Activating Wind Rider)

Suddenly, in a rush of intense wind Aaron vanished and at the same time, space was colliding upon the the zombies...

FWHUMM!!

And then, PLOP!

One zombie was squashed to a bloody pulp.

(You have killed Zombie Ghat!)