[Welcome host!]
[I am the gift from lady cosmos. A powerful ai system. I will help you in your daily life.]
"Thank God. One system at least I got."
" So What do you do?"
[I am a exchange system. I can exchange Products in exchange of lifespan.]
"What? Lifespan? You mean I will have short life if I exchange?"
[Yes! Host!]
"Is there no way to gain lifespan?"
[That! You will have to find yourself.]
"What? So no help?"
[But if you exchange a long lifespan! More than at least 100 years, I can use 100x return for first time. But after this you will have 10x return until you use 1000 years of lifespan.]
"Wow! How much again? Ahhh! Why? Why am I so unlucky?"
[....]
"No answer! Well! Ok! Where I am anyway? It seems this cave is big!"
Arjit said and start to walk towards the dark side. But he didn't notice that water rippled a bit.
"Big cave… too big," he murmured.
He took a hesitant step toward the deeper, darker tunnel. His footsteps echoed softly. Plip. Plip. Plip.
Behind him, the surface of the pond rippled quietly—just once.
But Arjit didn't notice.
He walked deeper. The air grew colder.
The darkness thickened.
His breathing felt loud—too loud.
Then—
Grrrrr…
Arjit froze.
"What… was that?"
He strained his ears. A faint tapping sound. No—scratching. Something was moving above him.
He slowly raised his head.
Two red dots glowed on the rocky ceiling.
Before he even processed it—
THUMP!
A rabbit slammed onto his shoulders.
But this was no normal rabbit.
Its fur was matted with blood.
Its eyes glowed like burning coals.
Its teeth—long, serrated, yellow—were dripping fresh saliva.
"W-What the—?!"
He raised his hand instinctively.
CRUNCH!
With one savage bite, the rabbit tore off a large chunk of flesh from his forearm. Blood sprayed across the ground.
"AHHHHHH!" Arjit screamed, stumbling backward.
The rabbit chewed. Chewed. Then swallowed.
Arjit's body trembled in panic. Instincts screamed RUN! He turned and bolted back down the tunnel.
But the growls behind him multiplied.
Grrr. Grrr. Hrrr. Prrr.
Dozens of them.
Arjit sprinted, but in the darkness something slammed into his calf.
Another rabbit—no, two—latched onto his leg.
RIP!
A chunk of muscle tore clean off.
His scream echoed off the walls.
He staggered forward, only for another rabbit to leap from the left, slamming its horn—yes, a horn—into his ribs.
THUD!
Air shot out of his lungs. Pain flared.
They weren't just biting.
They were hunting.
He reached the pond area again—the faint light from the glowing moss reflecting off the water.
"Help! Someone! Anyone!" he screamed, voice cracking.
But the rabbits didn't stop.
They chased him relentlessly, claws scratching on stone, teeth clicking like blades.
One rammed him from behind—
He fell forward.
Another jumped, spinning midair—
WHOOSH—SLASH!
A sharp wind pressure sliced across his back.
Arjit froze.
Warmth spilled down his legs.
He collapsed onto the stone floor.
He didn't yet realize—
His legs were no longer attached.
Blood poured out onto the rock, mixing with the cave water, turning it pink.
"A-Ahhh… my… legs…"
He tried to move—nothing responded.
More rabbits surrounded him, their breaths ragged, hungry, excited. They pawed forward slowly, savoring their prey's terror.
One rabbit slammed both its hind legs onto his stomach.
KRAK!
His ribs caved.
Another clawed his cheek, ripping skin.
A larger rabbit—the size of a wolf—stepped forward.
Its ears twitched.
It growled softly.
Then it lunged straight into his abdomen.
RRRIPPP!
Blood and organs spilled onto the floor.
Arjit coughed violently. Red foam bubbled from his lips.
He felt his vision blur. His body felt cold. The cave tilted.
And then—another rabbit, crazed with bloodlust, rammed into him violently.
SMASH!
The impact knocked him backward—directly into the pond.
Cold water swallowed him.
Bubbles rose.
Everything slowed.
His vision dimmed.
"Am I going to die?" This was his thoughts again.
Again he was before death.
But then he saw something that make his blood boil.
[Host is loosing lifespan.]
[Extracting lifespan to survive..]
Even in his last moment he was so much with regret.. again..
"Hello! Boy! You seem to be from my bloodline."
He suddenly hear some words. But he lost consciousness.
3rd person pov;
A water figure made out of the water inside the water. He carried Arjit's wounded body in water.
He carried the body in the deepest parts of the pond. There he laid him on a stone table. It look like ritual table. It have many strange kinds of patterns.
Then he control the water and cover him in a strange water ball.
Inside the water ball Arjit's body start to heal.
[Error!]
[Error!]
The system start to panick.
The figure frowned.
"A parasite on my son's body?" The figure said and grab something invisible in the water. He pull it with force.
A small green ball comes out of Arjit's body. He breaks it immediately and gather the energy in his hand and put it in Arjit's body.
"There! Now everything is good!" He said with a satisfying smile.
"My son! But why my bloodline is here? After I died what happened?" The figure wondered.
But then he suddenly he noticed something in Arjit.
" What? Why didn't he evolved even once? Why he also not have any soul bones?"
The figure frowned, " His body is strange! His lifespan is low! Someone put something on him! I need to help him! I the great pond god, if I can't even help my descendent what it matters to help others?"
"Don't worry my child. I will help you. I will give you many things. No one will be more stronger than you in this era. This ritual was waiting for a capable man. I didn't think that someone of my bloodline will inherit my king's and my comrade's will."
As the figure continue saying, his eyes became numb.
Suddenly he stop himself and start to chant. The Ritual stone tablet start to trambled. As it slowly started to glow.