Ch. 25 FUG Pt. 1

( Zero Pov )

I followed him, believing he would be different than the rest. But it led me here, bleeding on the floor, half conscious as I tried to heal myself and Bam.

At this moment, here and now, I vow to become my own leader. I'm no longer a soldier taking orders anymore. I'm a new man in this world, and I shall act like one.

But Bam isn't my leader, and neither is it his fault. It was my choice to follow him. And now I'm laying the price.

But I couldn't leave the kind-hearted boy to due. It wasn't my plan as instead of following him, it's best to use him for the future.

After all, Bam is irregular like me.

" You look awful. " The red-haired woman with one eye spoke as I looked up at her.

" How does it feel to be betrayed?"

Bam managed to regain consciousness.

" I... don't... know..." he replied.

I smacked his head.

" Bam... I may have sworn to get you up the tower. But it's your decision to believe in that woman... don't put your friends in danger ever again."

I still remember my mission to make Bam forget Rachel, which is yet to be completed, except I managed to complete the other.

" ...." Bam stayed silent as we both laid on the floor in pain.

" Why?.... Why.. did Rachel....betray me...?" He whispered.

" Follow me, I'll tell you. And as for you... don't you want revenge?" She asked.

I stared at her, and it seemed she read my mind.

" Let's go up the tower... what wr all want... is waiting up there." She spoke as she grabbed both of our hands.

' How does she know we were down here? Why does it feel... feel like I'm being... oh....Director Yu....'

[ Ding! Join FUG ]

[ Rewards: ???,???,??? ]

[ Failure: death ]

[ Escape FUG ]

[ Rewards: ???,???,??? ]

[ Time limit: 5 years ]

[ Failure: death ]

' So, it was an organization this whole time. That explains a lot... fuck.'

I had no choice right now since I'm still healing and could barely lift my hand. I had no choice but to join for now and accept the rewards despite my anger.

But... I will learn more about this organization, find its weak points from the inside, and take every knowledge and resources. I'll bleed them dry if I have to.

" We're fucked, Bam." I muttered as he groaned in response.

( ??? Pov )

" Two slayer candidates, huh?" I looked at the papers of the two irregulars. Bam and Zero.

' It seems we lucked out on this one.' I thoight as I looked at our leader, Grace as she finished reading.

" So the son of V and Arlene is still alive..."

" And as for Zero. Did anyone find any information on him?" Grace looked around to see nothing.

I never really bothered to find any.

" Sigh, now we have two irregulars who will be trained to be Slayer candidates, Jinsung."

" Yes?" I answered.

" You will be in charge of these two, now that they agreed to join."

I nodded and accepted the task.

" And the brainwashing project, did you succeed?" Grace looked at a FUG member who jolted from his seat.

" A...a...uhm... it...it failed..." he managed to utter as he looked down.

" Failed? Are you telling me after 245 successful attempts that you failed in brainwashing Zero?" Grace stared at him, who barely managed to nod slightly nod.

" T..this is a monster! Despite the numerous tortures, the less food we give and the more we inject poison, the more he always adapts to it! He's a monster!!" He shouted like an insane person.

' looks like this Zero guys made him crazy.' I thought.

" Sigh, forget it. Jinsung, you'll be mentoring and monitoring Bam and Zero's progress."

I nodded as the meeting was finally coming to an end.

" I'm gonna kill him... kill him...kill... I'm going to use that!" The crazy scientist muttered as he left the room.

" Stop him before we have one slater candidate left." Grace ordered.

" Sigh, I'll do it." I spoke as I walked past the others.

( Zero's Pov )

I am strung up in a dark cell, covered in filth as I am hanged by a chain cutting into my skin as I couldn't move my legs since they too are chained.

Tortured, poisoned, brainwashed and experimented by thay naive scientist who now became more crazier with his ideas.

' I'm definitely killing him once I get out.' I thought as I swung side by side.

My first task today is... to mentally abuse that scientist again and next to emotionally abuse him, and after all that, a little more of abusing him.

Thankfully I managed to survive because of this new skill [ Adaptability].

[ Adaptability]

[ Level 4 ]

[ + 40% learning speed, and creating a new skill. ]

[ Requirement: must be on the verge of death. ]

[ Ding! Pass the administrator's test! ]

[ Rewards: 175xp, and one skill. ]

I guess everyone passed the test despite Bam and I not being able to finish it.

And there was the second mission.

[ Join FUG]

[ Rewards:Stealth, Upgrade ticket, ]

[ Stealth] [ Level 1 ]

[ +10% undetected when sneaking. ]

I would use the upgrade ticket at a later date, but for now, i checked the skills I've gotten thanks to [ Adaptability ] while being on the verge of death.

[ Poison resistance] [ Level 7/10 ]

[ +70% poison resistance and 35% chance poison will convert to HP. ]

[ Pain resistance ] [ Level 7/10 ]

[ +70% pain is nullified. 35% damage boost after taking a lethal blow. ]

[ Mental Resilience] [ Level 9/10 ]

[ +90% resistance to all mental attacks ]

As I hanged from the ceiling, I remembered how much [ Mental Resilience] fixed my mind. No more nightmares, no memories of the dead, everything I closed my eyes, and most of all, I could remember them without feeling guilty.

Click!

Light poured into the room, and I didn't bother to close my eyes as I awaited for the scientist to enter.

" Hihihi!! This time, you'll break!" The scientist muttered as he dragged a table infromt of me.

" What's this? A dinner date? Sorry, I don't...gk!" I felt him digging his scalpel into my ribs.

I could feel it stinging, but not enough for me to shout in pain. He pulled it out before cleaning as he grabbed a worm off the table.

" That again... you kinky fucker." I cursed as I felt the worm biting into the wound that the scientist caused.

" Ah! It's definitely going in! I think this is considered rape!" I felt the worm making its way around my ribs.

Spla!!

The scientist created another cut, but this time, he grabbed an eel like worm.

" Wh...what's that? Your pleasure... ah! It's going in!" I exclaimed as i felt the eel eating my flesh and muscles.

" That's enough. " An unknown man appeared like my savor.

" Huh?" The scientist looked back, and I used this chance.

' There's a reason they tried brainwashing me. It's because I'm an irregular and important. Let's see who they'll choose a scientist or me?!'

I kicked him as he fell over we the table that held his precious eels and worms as they all fell onto of him.

" Ah?! Aaaahhh!" It didn't take long for the worms and eels to start eating on his skin as the man quickly stepped forward the help as he used Shinsu to push them off.

" M. move!!" The scientist shouted as he tried to reach the syringe that held a chemical that made the eels and worms retreated from inside the body.

And it appears some had managed to enter his.

As soon as he grabbed the syringe, I grabbed his head with my legs as he pushed the syringe that was supposed to enter his neck into my legs.

" Ah?" He turned around and looked at me as I gave him a cold stare.

" It was nice playing with you. Idiot." I spoke as I watched him fall to his knees.

He knew what was coming. After all, I experienced the same thing he had, but he doesn't have the mental and physical talorance I have.

He fell to the floor, twitching.

" Hey! What's up with him!" The man shouted as he pulled my hair to look at him.

" His worms or "babies" are parasitic. It's eating him from the inside." I replied as I continued watching the scientist writhe in pain.

" Evil bastard had it coming, and so will you..."

Thwack! I felt a punch landing on my face, but I continued to stare at him.

" I'm your mentor from now on. And you will respect me as such." The man spoke with a serious tone.

I nodded as he released me before going back to his lazy expression.

I continue to dangle in the middle of the room with a man still in agony on the ground.

" My sword... where is it?" I asked before getting a punch in the face.

I saw some blood falling to the ground as I continued to look at him.

" Eberytime, you don't address me as teacher, I'll punch your face." He crossed his arms.

" But to answer your question, it's safe, and it'll be returned to you with your other belongings after you finish your acceptance into here." The man explained.

I sighed and relaxed my body.