Starting With SSS-rank: I Get A New Skill Every Livestream-Chapter 7: God’s Eye

He didn’t know how long he had been out.

A sharp, painful sensation pierced his eyes, and his consciousness slipped away.

Kyle couldn’t tell what kind of virus or affliction had attacked him. He didn’t know whether he should cry out in the hope that someone might come, or try to force his eyes open first.

His heart trembled at the thought that he might never open his eyes again, never see anything.

His eyelids felt sticky, as if hot glue had sealed his lashes together.

In stark contrast to the cold floor beneath him, his eyes burned.

He swallowed hard and forced himself upright.

Darkness had completely engulfed him.

Gritting his teeth, he finally tried to open his eyes.

Crack

His eyes trembled as pain shot down his spine, his lashes pulling apart one by one. What kept him going was hope.

He could see light.

The dim glow of the room pushed the darkness away.

His vision remained blurry at first, making him fear that he might have partially lost his sight.

But slowly, clarity returned.

The frantic pounding of his heart eased, settling into a steadier rhythm.

He remained seated on the floor, breathing unevenly.

Slowly but surely, the blur faded and his vision regained focus... only for his body to go rigid.

"Huh?"

Something was on his knee.

Small. Red. Full of teeth. Inhuman.

For a moment, Kyle thought it was some disgusting stuffed toy, a prank someone had left behind.

But then... the creature’s red, button-like eyes moved.

They locked onto his.

And—

"Ahhh!"

It lunged at his face.

Kyle shot to his feet, jolted by the sudden weight and the vile, sticky fluid spreading across his forehead.

He clawed at the thing frantically, trying to tear it off, and with a surge of strength, he finally managed to rip it away.

DHAK

The creature slammed into the floor, yet it was far from defeated.

It rose again, standing on feet far too large for its tiny body, and turned toward Kyle.

Kyle glanced around and spotted his bat lying on the other side of the room.

The creature grinned. "Kehehehe~" A malicious laugh echoed in his ears.

Licking its lips, it charged once more, its oversized feet moving at an unimaginably fast pace.

Kyle jumped back, his body light enough to avoid tumbling, landing safely on his bed.

The creature leaped as well, this time aiming straight for Kyle’s groin.

But instinct overtook reason. Kyle snapped his legs shut at the last moment, trapping the creature between his knees.

"Khriuk!" The creature thrashed violently.

For a moment, Kyle froze, unsure of what to do next.

Thankfully, the creature wasn’t strong enough to break free immediately, but he knew it wouldn’t stay trapped for long.

Panicking, Kyle shuffled to the edge of the bed. The instant he released the creature, he leapt across the room with all his strength and grabbed his bat.

"KHRIUKK!" The creature spun around and lunged at him.

Kyle twisted his body and swung with everything he had.

BOOOOM

The red thing slammed into the wall and didn’t fall.

It was stuck there, blood splattering across the surface.

For a moment, Kyle couldn’t believe he had just killed something.

The way it went completely still left no room for doubt. He had killed something bigger than a bug for the first time.

His chest heaved, his eyes still wide. Before he could even think about what to do with the body or the evidence, the creature began to fade.

"What... the..."

Its broken form, along with the blood, crumbled into ash, scattering away until nothing remained.

Kyle blinked. Did that really happen?

He lowered his arms, the strength suddenly draining from his body. But as if the world was set against him, he heard another creak behind him.

He turned, a chill running down his spine as something crawled out from under the table.

Another horrifying creature. A small head atop a deformed blue body, veins bulging beneath its skin, an unbearable stench radiating from it.

"Kekekek!"

Another sound followed, this time from beneath the bed. Another grotesque form emerged, two massive arms attached to a thin, pole-like body.

"Ugheughe!"

Kyle snapped to his left.

Another one. Crawling out of the bathroom.

One after another, they began to appear.

From the ceiling. From inside the cupboard. From the kitchen. Even from the fridge.

Kyle’s arms trembled as he tightened his grip on the bat. He didn’t know what they were, but he knew one thing.

They meant him harm.

With so many surrounding him, a single thought echoed in his mind.

’Can I really fight them?’

Just then, a message appeared at the corner of his vision.

[Do you want them to disappear?]

For a moment, Kyle couldn’t tell whether the message was real or just a hallucination born from shock and all the novels he had read, where protagonists awakened systems right when everything was about to fall apart.

He kept backing away as more than a dozen small monsters closed in on him.

Another message appeared.

[Do you want to get rid of them?]

At that instant, one of the larger, more menacing creatures lunged at him, leaving Kyle no time to think.

"Yes! Make them go away!" he shouted, swinging his bat at the charging monster.

But—

SWISH

The bat cut through nothing but empty air.

Kyle blinked in disbelief.

Every single creature had vanished from the room.

For a moment, he wondered if he had been drugged, if everything he’d seen was nothing more than a vivid delusion.

Then another message appeared.

[God’s Eye has been disabled.]

[You have earned 5 Soul Points.]

"...What," Kyle muttered, his mind going blank. "What in the world..."

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A/N:- Add the book to your library.