"For murdering four innocent people in cold blood, Xavier Crownheart is sentenced for one thousand years of rigorous imprisonment…"
In one of the biggest prisons of Canada with the capacity to house over thousands of prisoners.
A young man with jet black hair and toned body could be seen doing pushups in an isolated cell.
"Ninety-eight…ninety-nine... hundred..Two-hundred.
Beads of crystal droplets slid down Xavier's eyebrows, tracing the sharp line of his angular face before hitting the ground.
Even after doing hundreds of pushups his breathing was stable, a sign his strength was vastly above ordinary people.
Every single muscle in body felt as if it was on fire, a few moments later his arms started to shake like a string stretched to its utmost limit unable to continue anymore.
But Xavier did seem to notice the state of his own body, his eyes were chilling cold, the pain was unbearable, but should he stop just because of pain?
"Continue.. don't even think about stopping…" Xavier muttered under his breath.
Right across Xavier cell, a middle aged man with a smirk on his face watched Xavier working out, next moment the man spat on the ground and said while snickering.
"Trying to act tough, kid! huh.."
Xavier ignored the voice not even bothering to raise his head up, he was already familiar with the man across his cell, it was just another lowly criminal, Not worth paying attention, even though he said this, but how his brows had contracted together to form a tight frown, anyone could tell he was incredibly annoyed.
Xavier didn't like being disturbed especially when he was working out.
The middle-aged man named Mark seemed to have seen Xavier's reaction and sneered. "Kekek…You are no fun kid, but how you have helped me kill time these days, let fill you in on an enticing detail, I heard some so called UN human rights committee had come to examine the situation of prisoners.. and investigate the charges of wild animals kept in prison, and from what i have heard the leaders of the committee is smoking hot babe..by the end the man's voice seemed to have been dripping saliva, a lecherous on his face, the kind of expression that could make any woman uncomfortable.
After a brief pause, Mark continued in a slightly sadistic tone.." kid tell me was it the disappointment from your actions that forced your parents to commit suicide."
He had barely uttered these words, when the sound of something solid hitting the steel bars of the cell reverberated in the hall, attracting the attention of other prisoners.
Xavier's eyes were frighteningly cold, he ignored the blood dripping from his fist, he looked at the middle aged man behind the bars and said word by word.. "Utter one more word about my parents.."
However the Mark reacted as if he hadn't heard Xavier cold words, with a sneer on his face the man raised one his finger toward his ear and said, "Did you say something kid, I wasn't able to hear..hmm but where was I..from what this old man heard you had a sister as well, did she also.."
With a smile that looked not like a smile, Mark intently looked at Xavier's face, wanting to see the anger on the young man's face, the despair in those young eyes.
Mark enjoyed seeing that look, hitting where it hurts the most had become the pastime hobby of the middle aged-man to kill time in this prison.
However, just then a fierce jolt shook Xavier's body, the whole world seemed to shake, the floor beneath their feet shaking, the iron bed flung in the air and showers erupted from the toilet seat, drenching the entire cell.
Instinctively to prevent him from falling Xavier held on the cell bars tightly.
Xavier felt an intense pain coursing though his head, as if someone had pierced it with a sharp knife, making his vision blurry. His face lost all color turning incredibly pale, with his sheer will alone, Xavier stopped himself from falling on the ground.
After about one minute, everything seemed to return to normal, the shaking stopped and the weird feeling twisting the stomach vanished.
However the filthy smell permeated though the air made it clear something had changed, then a strange pressure suddenly descended like the silence before the strom. Then the sound of prisoners screaming in panic came from outside.
The sharp tingling sensation that Xavier felt a moment ago disappeared, the scream of terror and sound of prisoners banging their hands against the wall echoed in his ears. However he could no longer worry about the scream, the pain, or the previous earth shaking.
At some point blue windows had appeared in front of his retina.
[Abyss breach detected]
[Searching for higher sequence to fight the invasion, error no higher sequence warrior detected.]
[Threat escalated.]
[Starting forceful evolution.]
[This world is now under the jurisdiction of Infinite Record, you can now view your status as you wish]
"Abyss..?" Xavier muttered as he studied blue windows flashing in front of his eyes, no matter where he looked the windows followed his gaze. Strangely his vision was not obstructed; he could see directly behind the bars.
He didn't question whether the window in front of him was real or simply something that his mind made up, but he accepted it as reality even if he didn't want, something terrifying had happened or else the prisoners would not be screaming like little girls.
Following the instructions, he muttered in an unsure tone, not really sure what exactly he was expecting.
"Status..?"
The next moment a new text appeared in front of his retina.
[Xavier Crownheart]
[Soul skill: Instant-Kill (????:Grade)]
[Level: 0]
[Race: Human]
[Class: None]
[Title: None]
[Strength: 14(10) / Agility: 13(10) / Health 12(10) / Stamina 13(10) / Mana 110(10)]
He instinctively knew the number in parentheses was what normal humans had, his own vastly superior stats were no surprise, considering how intensely he trained to get revenge.
The word mana didn't surprise him, considering the fact the screen itself was magical.
However, what really caught him off guard, was the field below his name.
Soul skill what is that supposed to mean..
However before he could continue thinking, several terrifying sounds similar to pieces of glass sliding against each other came from outside, the next moment the gate of the cell suddenly opened wide.
This caused Xavier's eyes to narrow, the gate was remotely operated only the prison warden had the authority to open or close the gates. Xavier quickly moved to the cell edge to see what was happening.
Because of the rapidly changing situation he had almost forgotten about the Mark from before.
When he finally remembered and focused at some point Mark had disappeared, probably the time gate of cells opened up, taking it as the only opportunity to run away.
Outside, it was absolute chaos, prisoners were running everywhere in the corridor, people screamed and ran for their life, the few officers who were stationed on the floor were quickly killed, however this wasn't the scariest thing, prisoners with twisted hands and some even missing their arms were chasing the fleeing prisoners, quickly catching up and tearing their body apart.
"Zombies..!" A shocking realization appeared in Xavier's heart.
However it was not the same with everyone, most of the prisoners imprisoned here were not saints but cold blooded killers, who knew how to fight.
A buffed prisoner with the tattoo of a knife on his face kicked the zombie-like creature fairly on the head, twisting its neck. Just as the buffed man killed the zombie, a ball of light seemed to come out of the zombie corpse and merge with the man.
"Hmm.." Xavier's eyes narrowed, he had seen an expression of pure shock appearing on the prisoner's face as soon as the ball of light merged with the prisoner's body..
"Get out of the way, give way to this daddy.."
A young boy with his upper body exposed, came running with an excited expression on his face. The surrounding chaos didn't seem to affect him at all, instead of feeling afraid he even looked slightly thrilled, "The god almighty had blessed me with his supreme blessing…kekeke"
Just as Xavier was about to turn his gaze away labeling the young man as another psychopath, something shocking happened.
A huge ball of fire appeared in the boy's hand before being flung toward the zombie-like creature, slowly burning the zombie head to crisp.
Just then the sound of even more hurried footsteps came from the very end of the corridor, followed by the urgent sound, "Its warden pet tiger, run for your life."
Most didn't understand what the man was talking about, until a few moments later when a gigantic Bengal Tiger with a bloody mouth came charging from behind, the boy who had just summoned the fireball to burn the zombie to crisp, was the last to react by the time he reacted the tiger was already upon him.
Shocked and afraid, he tried to say something, but it was too late, the bloody tiger opened its mouth and bit down, crunch! A shower of fresh blood erupted in every direction, dying the crimson red.
Seeing this, Xavier's expression turned pale, his body instinctively moved back into his cell to avoid the tiger. Maybe it was the sound created by his footsteps or something else, but just then the tiger also jumped toward Xavier's direction.
"No, this is bad!" Xavier was shocked, although he was strong but compared to a tiger he was nothing but a human shaped punching bag.
The tiger moved like lightning, crushing all the prisoners and zombies in its way to bloody pulp.
The prisoner couldn't even blink before dying, the whole corridor was filled with the smell of iron.
Tiger speed was really fast, it was right in front of Xavier cell, with its maw opened wide, ready to swallow Xavier whole.
Xavier could only watch Tiger get close, his heartbeat accelerating, although his chances were close to zero but he was not going down without a fight, with decisiveness, he clenched his fist and punched.
"Die!!!"
Behind the punch was all the strength that he could muster, He had just thought about killing a tiger when suddenly something bizarre happened, the tiger froze mid air and fell on the ground.
The sudden change of events caused Xavier to fall on his butt.
Just then an orb of violent energy shot out of the tiger body and merged with his body.
[You have gained level ten zombie tiger soul power. Strength +4, strength +5, health +2]
[You have reached level 1, acquired two status points to distribute freely]
Xavier did not pay attention to these blue windows, but carefully looked at his own hand, without even realizing his limbs had turned slightly red as if he had just come out of a steam bath, whatever that violet ball of light was, it seemed to be making changes to his body.
At this time, he noticed something lying beside the tiger's body. He quickly stepped forward to pick it up.
[Mana sword (first sequence skill) level 1: you can use the man flowing through your veins to conjure a sword made purely out of mana, the effect of skill depends on mana quality and several other factors.]
A strange violet book with golden edges was in his hand giving off cool energy.
"Light saber..?" The skill description reminded him of the famous light saber from the popular moon wars series.
Meanwhile the prisoners who were feeling for their life stopped and looked in xavier direction with suspicion, some confused and with a strange look in their eyes as they scanned the book in xavier hand.
However, at this moment the books turned into a particle of light before merging with Xavier's body.
Out of nowhere, strange and mysterious information filled his head.
Xavier ignored the information for now and shook his head, "I can't stay here."
The warden of this prison was a strange person. A few metres away from here, the warden had established a zoo of his own; if all of those wild animals…no monster had managed to escape.
Staying in this palace is same as suicide.
Thinking up to his point, Xavier didn't dare to linger around any longer, he moved out of the cell and started sprinting.
Others were not slow and also came to the same conclusion as Xavier, quickly following him.
The d-block of the prison had become one of the dangerous areas.