The moment Bernard opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the series of notification messages that were popping up one after the other in his line of sight.
[You shall die]
[Your body shall rotten]
[Your Hp decreases]
[Your hunger shall grow endlessly]
[-15 has been lost]
[Your Hp shall continue to decrease until Your soul dies, and Your body rottens]
At first, when he saw this he immediately got goosebumps since it sounded to his hearing like someone was after his life, making tried backing away, quivering as though seemingly like he had been struck by lightning however he ended up hitting his head on the end of the bed tube he was lying on.
'What the…' He thought as he stared at the notifications in front of him astounded, it was almost like he was been cursed while he was sleeping and was wanted dead not by anyone else but by the system itself. At this moment he was still staring at the characters in front of him with a dumbfounded and horrified look.
'Am I dreaming?' He asked himself rhetorically, finding both the notification messages a bit funny and dreading at the same time.
Bernard raised his head to stare at the messages again, this time with a much calmer look and without his freaked-out expression.
'Is this because I am hungry?' He thought muttering these words to himself, in self-doubt as he held his stomach to feel the tremendous pain he was feeling.
'System interface Host attributes.' He thought with a frown on his face.
[Hp:5/20]
'Hmm?' Seeing the hp before his eyes, Bernard's expression hit rock bottom immediately. He seemed to have realized just how much he had underestimated the hunger he was feeling to a large extent.
Because he had lost about 80% of his Hp out of the blue his mood turn sour immediately, at this point he had no intention of completing the daily quest until he was sure he was longer feeling hungry. After losing such an amount of Hp, he realized everything, and everywhere he looked it was as if an emergency alarm was on, he could even see red beeping color in his line of sight covering his vision.
It was a very strange yet different feeling he had never felt before, at this point he felt he was just like a ticking bomb waiting to explode.
"Hey, Bernard whatsup man?" He could hear Ryan's voice calling from behind, but he quickly ignored his callings as he kept rushing forward to no other place than the cafeteria.
Ryan was a bit surprised, this was the first time he had seen Bernard rush out like that. Most importantly he felt bumped out for being ignored like that and wondered if he somehow had provoked him.
"Is he alright?" Ryan muttered softly to himself, before going back to his room tube.
As he rushed down the hallway to the cafeteria, Bernard began to think about everything so far. While he had not expected this to happen, he had thought if push came to shove he could just ignore it and the system would automatically mark the quest as failed and besides losing exp it wouldn't affect him much.
However, upon thinking about his previous thoughts, he realized he had been rather childish to have thought that way, it was much different from what he had thought and way out of anything that had come to his mind, the only thing he could think about was that this was the system penalty for ignoring the quest.
He was beginning to dread the thoughts of what might happen if he were to allow his Hp to reach zero, he suddenly thought about Dave maybe…just maybe he could lure him out to a dark alley and drink a little from his blood after all a little wouldn't hurt right? A little would not make him die right?
Bernard thought, but soon he snapped out of these thoughts, he knew even if wanted to give it a try it was easier said than done.
Soon he managed to pull his thoughts away towards the cafeteria, as he pondered what time breakfast would be ready since shower time was from 6,7 to 8. After which it would then be time for breakfast, and till 9, which then would be followed by long lessons.
And if he wanted to eat something during classes, he would have to wait for the ongoing class to be over to be able to leave for lunch.
In other words, he wouldn't be able to go out for the next couple of hours and would be stuck in class, listening to the lecturers' long and boring lessons.
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