System of Grief

[You have gained XP]

The notification from the system haunted Prometheus. Had he heard right? He gained XP?

'From doing what?' he thought, 'For killing someone? For killing Clem? I won't accept it.. I can't accept it. I just killed my girlfriend and this bullshit system is rewarding me. This isn't fair. This world isn't fair. I didn't kill her, the world did.'

[Level Up]

'Hold on now, I leveled up? I was still 400 XP away from leveling up.'

[Level Up]

'Again?'

[Level Up]

"What the hell?"

Prometheus opens his stat menu and noticed the clear level difference.

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[Name: Prometheus Morgan]

[Level: 19 {166/1900}]

[Age: 16]

[Skills: None]

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"I leveled up three times from killing her." Prometheus wipes the tears from his eyes, tears still flowed despite the emptiness he felt inside. What was he supposed to feel? He still had her in his arms as the system continued to reward him.

[New Feature unlocked: Classes]

[New Feature unlocked: Titles]

[New Feature unlocked: Help]

[New Class unlocked: Killer]

That struck a cord with Prometheus, 'It wasn't my fault that I had to kill her. It was Moroccos' fault. If only we had just listened to the tour guide and just left my phone be.'

[New Personal Title unlocked: The Collector]

[Blood-lust Skill unlocked]

'What does this all mean? Why did I unlock this now? I've never heard of a class or title.'

Prometheus fished through his mind, thinking of anything that relates to killing. It's plagued with images of Clementine, which he slumps over her body, and comes to a realization.

'Killing is the death penalty worldwide. Is it because you gain so much XP from doing it. You don't gain this much from regular animals.'

Prometheus rose up, his sadness turned into anger. "The government did this! They kill anyone who kills to gain XP from them and stop them from getting all these new features. What do these features even do?"

Prometheus opened his menu, he checked his stats menu.

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[Name: Prometheus Morgan]

[Level: 19 {166/1900}]

[Age: 16]

[(NEW) Title: The Collector]

[(NEW) Class: Killer]

[Skills: (NEW) Blood-lust Lvl. 1]

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"The Collector, Killer, and Blood-lust. What the hell do they do?"

[HELP HAS BEEN PROMPTED]

[SEARCHING....]

[SEARCH COMPLETE]

[ACCESS TO SOME ARTICLES LOCKED]

[WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROCEED?]

"What exactly is this system."

[WOULD YOU LIKE TO PROCEED?]

Prometheus became extremely annoyed, "Yes!" he was already off his edge and repetition wasn't helping him.

[PLEASE SELECT AN ARTICLE]

[- Class System]

[- Killer Class]

[- Title System]

[- 'The Collector' Title]

"Read them all," Prometheus says, his anger had subsided as his curiosity overcame him.

[The Class System, a feature within the system that allows users of the system to gain new features specific to that class. There are currently only !#!#@$%@ classes. Some classes can be unlocked through other classes. One user of the system can only have one class. However !#$@$&#$@#]

The system stopped speaking, which confused Prometheus, "Why did it-"

[The Killer Class,] the system interrupted, [is a class that is unlocked through the action of killing another system user. Killers gain an XP increase upon killing another system user that is a higher level. In other words, the higher the level of the system user, the more XP you will gain.]

The system stopped speaking again, "Is that really it? Some of the information sounded corrupted. Is it because I haven't unlocked the information yet or is it because someone is stopping me from getting to that information."

[Title System, a feature unlocked through gaining a class. A title grants the system user an ability to unlock new skills, and a passive that relates to their class. Every system user gets a personal title, that is based off of their personality and interests. Some one can !#$^@!$%$#]

The system glitches again, "What kind of information is this hiding from me! I killed someone for this! Just give me all the information!" Prometheus slams the ground, his emptiness shrouded his confusion and curiosity. "I need to know. I just need to know. That I didn't kill her for no reason. That me ending her suffering wasn't for nothing. Please, system, tell me that."

There was a silence, it was broken however by approaching footsteps that sploshed on the dirt ground. It came closer as a familiar voice called out. "I didn't gain any XP. Are you two still alive there?"

It was the scientist, the one that forced Prometheus to kill Clementine. There was no time to grief, he had to fight him. No, he had to get his revenge on him.