Everyone Else Has a System

"Okay. So tell me, young challenger, has our lord's son, Dion Tempest, taken his rebirth on that planet yet?"

I looked at that twin headed dragon before rummaging through that name throughout my brain… hmmm…

"I only know one kid named Dion… but I don't know if it is the same person which you are talking about," I said as I looked at them and they observed me with a curious expression.

I then began slowly describing that kid's description and with each word that I spoke, they looked at me with a really bright expression.

"Yes! Yes! Exactly that person. That power to manipulate time, that uncaring attitude that masked the feelings he held inside." Flak spoke with an excited expression.

"Reminds me of our King, Vladimir Tempest," Fulminate spoke with a pride filled expression.

"Huh?" my body shook a little at that name… and a tear came out of my left eye. For some reason, hearing that name made my heart ache… there was a strange burning sensation in my stomach and I felt a strange hatred coming out of nowhere…

My breath became heavy and I couldn't hear the dragon's words anymore before I Was transferred to the next floor where I saw about a thousand S3 class monsters standing in line in front of me.

I was at the 34th Floor but my emotional state was in panic mode and I felt a suffocating feeling inside my chest. It hurts… I looked at those monsters and my eyes turned deep red before I took out my sword and began moving towards those monsters without any plan in my mind.

I let my instinct take over me for a few moments and began the killing spree without heeding any warning to those monsters. I simply jumped and killed one… another.. Another…

They were attacking me and I was getting injured but for some reason I didn't give a f*ck about the injury I was getting… I was charging like a mad man killing every monster I could see…

Perhaps I went berserk, but… why? How?

By the time I came back to my normal emotional state my eyes turned white as I lost most of my power… the monsters were all dead and I was still at 34th Floor doing nothing but standing in an empty plane with where the bodies of the monsters were slowly vanishing.

I was on my last leg with my powers at its lowest point… What just happened?

Soon the water started filling the whole area and before I knew it, I was deep into the sea with the light barely reaching the area where I was floating like a lifeless body.

I was already on the 35th floor now.

Because of the Breath Fragment, I was able to breathe freely without any restriction but… 𝑓𝗿𝐞𝘦𝘄ｅ𝘣n𝘰𝘷eƖ.c𝘰𝗺

'Those sea monsters should be coming anytime…' I thought as I saw a shadow coming towards me…

'What next? If I use any sacrificial move right now, I'm not sure I can last until the next floor… wh-'

But before I could completely think of anything, I saw the person appearing in front of me… she wasn't a sea monster…

'Who?' I thought as I saw those scarlet hair on that pure white skin… she was beautiful… way more beautiful than anyone I had ever seen…

"Not yet… you haven't suffered enough yet… you can't die yet," she said before I saw her kissing me and then filling my breath with hers and then taking me back… back up to the shore…

I slowly lost my consciousness when she kissed me and by the time I woke up… I was at the shore… it wasn't the 36th Floor… it was actually the 40th Floor which was more like a safe zone.

But it only made me confused… who was she? I don't remember anyone like her in my life?

[You haven't suffered enough yet, you can't die yet]

I recalled her words… she didn't save me because she wanted me to live, but because she wanted me to suffer? Did I hurt someone in this timeline enough to seep that deep sorrow?

'This is too confusing… first, that Dragon's King's name… hmmm… what was his name again? Huh? I can't remember! What?' I thought as I tried recalling that name to the best of my ability, but I couldn't…

'...'

Then my eyes concentrated as I recalled my only clue,"Dion Tempest… just who are you?" I mumbled, as I decided to look into him after I moved to Avalon at the end of Netherream's journey.

In any case, I hope not much time has passed since I was unconscious.

Thinking that, I moved even faster than before. I realised that my powers were full and so was my health… Did she heal me too? Or was it my own body to heal itself back up to normal? Nope… I was in bits back then… it would take years to get myself back into this shape and if that were the case, I would have either died or woke up somewhere in the middle where my health was still regenerating and not when it's completely full.

"What was on the 41st floor again? Hmmm… yeah, it was another Puzzle Floor," I thought as I moved down another floor.

From there, I kept moving down without much obstruction. Though even after beating another 10 floors in the next 2 weeks, I still couldn't shake what happened on the 33rd, 34th and 35th floors. Those words, those sudden unexplainable events… they kept running inside my brain over and over.

This whole thing, for some reason, really scared me.

That girl… I feel like I would have fallen in love with her if I had interacted with her even once… It wasn't just my feelings… it felt like my body was craving for her…

The feeling I had for her reminded me of… Lucia… the previous timeline Lucia…

And it made me even more confused than before….

…

On another side of Netherrealm,

Rheo and Reeve were practising to control the death energy.

The same scarlet-haired woman who saved Zero moved towards Reeve and Rheo as she spoke with a bright smile.

"Excuse me… are you a friend of Reaper?"