Daz was currently sitting on a wooden chair that had a leather-padded cushion attached to it inside of a single bedroom. He had taken his armour off and was now wearing the white tank top and ballistic trousers that he was wearing for work before the apocalypse happened.

  His new muscles looked quite defined under his shirt, but he had a very serious expression on his face while he rested his elbows on his knees and his hands on his chin as he hunched his back over.

  'Death... a person's death. What does it mean?' Daz asked himself in a completely emotionless voice.

  'I took a man's life, but I feel nothing... why? If this was a few day's ago, I'd be full of regret... regret. Right... there're no consequences for killing now. Here, I am the Law,' Daz concluded before he stood up and walked over to a nearby lightbulb.

  He lightly cusped the bulb in his hand and began mumbling, "I see. It's warm and has meaning." Daz then slowly tightened his grasp around the fluorescent sphere, forcing its glass to crack.

  "I have the power to chill that warmth, to envelope its meaning," Daz stated as he crushed the lightbulb. Blood dribbled out of the cracks between his fingers since he wasn't wearing his armour meaning he was far more susceptible to damage.

  "Once again, I feel nothing," Daz said. He then opened his hand and waved it out in a straight motion, making his blood splatter onto the wooden wall alongside the shattered glass.

  "Perhaps this is what it means to be neutral? His death was necessary. He was too far gone into the dark side of this new world, so he would have been a threat to me. He might have shaken my position here in my base had I not ended him right here and right now," Daz said as a smile crept up onto his average-looking face.

  "Yes. This is neutral. This is MY NEUTRAL!" Daz exclaimed as he held his arms out, threw his head back and started laughing maniacally. However, before he fell into complete madness, a blue screen appeared, blocking his view.

  "You're not even giving me a choice. I choose 'Reaper'," Daz replied immediately, coming to the conclusion that the Reaper option would be the one to give him the most power since it had the highest rating by the system and it granted immunity to soul attacks which was the most important part. 'I can probably heal any type of damage with the help of the system's shop except for soul damage, right? Maybe I'm wrong, but Immunity to that sounds pretty amazing,' he thought.

  Immediately, a dark grey cloud appeared out of nowhere and filled the room. Daz stood perfectly still and let the cloud do whatever it was here to do since he knew it must have been related to his evolution choice.

  Daz was right. The cloud of grey energy slowly condensed on top of Daz and began seeping into his skin. He gritted his teeth as he endured the pain that came along with it. His skin writhed and he felt like something alive was crawling around inside of him.

  This feeling lasted for about five minutes until finally the last part of the cloud had entered his body and the pain and discomfort suddenly stopped. Daz wiped away the sweat that collected on his brow and walked over to the mirror that was hung on the wall next to him.

  "This is interesting..." Daz mumbled. He could see no immediate changes except for two things. His hair was now tinted dark grey and his eyes were no longer a dark brown but were a deep grey colour. Looking into his pupils, Daz felt like he would be swallowed up by them.

  He lurched back as several grey screens popped into existence in front of him. "Grey?" he mumbled before he inspected these screens.

  "Wow. So basically, no cons except I take a tiny bit more damage from being hit directly and Holy-based shit hurts me twenty-percent more since the greater magic resistance nullifies forty-percent of that damage... this Species is awesome!... That is right, right, system?" Daz asked since he knew that calculation could go a different way if the calculation was multiplicative instead of additive.

  You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

  "Ah, good to know. I'll test out these abilities later, but first things first, system, please show me my status screen," Daz asked the system politely.

  "What? It replaced my Jewelled Energy, this 'Death Energy'?" Daz frowned at this. "System, please tell me all of the changes that I'm not aware of that my new species did to me," Daz asked.

  "I see... I'm a bit sad to lose that connection to Rimmy, but I'm sure he'll understand. Me becoming a Reaper was definitely the correct decision, I'm sure," Daz said to himself.

  He then redressed himself in Altros's Travelling gear and left the bedroom he had been in for the past twenty minutes.

  My Discord

  [30 chapters] ahead as a patron!

  Give my other novels a read if you have the time, please.

  Main Stories

  [1 weekly chapter (every saturday)]

  [1 weekly chapter (every sunday)]