Chapter 9: Status
When Zena came around, she was in the middle of a forest, with trees that towered into the skies.
'Where am I?' She looked around and saw a pond rippling slightly, giving the forest an almost otherworldly beauty.
She walked to the pond and looked into it and immediately lost her train of thought.
Curly emerald hair that fell to her slim waist, perfectly symmetrical face, cherry red lips, and phoenix eyes with a near divine shade of green pupils.
Her bust however was modest and her legs pale and shimmering in the sunlight streaming down from the canopy of trees above.
Zena smiled slightly while looking at her eyes, noticing they were no longer black and smiled, making her look like a fairy descended to the mortal realm.
She tilted her head and called out to her status while crouching and washing her hands in the pond.
"Status."
<Ding.>
[ Name : Zena Epi
Species : Plague Demon
Rank : ☆ ]
Zena looked at the screen and furrowed her brows.
"What does the star mean? What happened to my rank 10 nucleus?"
<Ding. Host has evolved into a Plague Demon, meaning that a zombie's strength monitor cannot monitor or compare to that of a demon's status.>
<Ding. Host is approximately one hundred times stronger and faster, in other words, in zombie ranking terms, you are a rank 100 entity.>
"Then what happened to my nucleus? Is it still there?"
<Naturally not, that kind of trash core won't sustain a demon for even a little bit, host has a star core, capable of powering a star, all demons wield unimaginable amounts of power, even when young.>
"So my core is like the stars in the skies above? Like the sun?!" Zena gaped in shock, then did a double take and looked at the pond.
Instead of clear and clean water, the water took on a green hue and steam rose from it slightly.
"What is this system?" Zena asked while leaping to her feet with supernatural grace.
<Ding. Host is a walking plague given form, of course beings cannot withstand the curse of Pestilence and will die if host does not deactivate host's passive aura.>
"Bring up all passives, and why didn't you tell me it was active!"
<Ding. Passive are as shown.>
[ Passives :
Great Bewitching Technique : Uses charm to overpower and dominate an entity's soul
Plague God Aura : Descending from the origin of all plagues, you can kill anything that doesn't have adequate resistance
Demonic Soul Steal : Uses demonic energy to seal and consume souls of mortals, banning the soul from reincarnation and tying the demon the soul made the pact with to their pact
Apathy : Emotions are a hindrance to a being such as yourself, so you are not allowed to feel them, only extreme emotions may show in case of extreme peril or danger ]
Besides each passive was an explanation and a toggle button that had a y and n next to it.
"Deactivate Plague God Aura!" Zena screamed inwardly while watching the grass shrivel and die and trees rot and wither away.
A thunderclap sounded out overhead as Zena looked to the sky and cried, causing black tears to slide down her face and hit the ground.
'I'm not a human, I never was, so whatever I must do to find my child, I will.'
Zena's face which showed emotions soon became a mask of calm as she looked at her system interface.
<Ding. Mission alert. Make a human die in despair and consume the soul to empower yourself into a true demon, after all a demon that hasn't killed before isn't a demon.>
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