Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 1808: Daywalker

“Okay… I wasn’t expecting that,” Ning said with a surprised look on his face. The woman with the wings had dived below and had long since been obscured by the neighboring building to Ning. “Was that a power of some sort? What’s the Energy here?”

<Hyrron holds a special type of Energy, that hasn’t been named, which the people of this planet do not know about>

<Their powers manifest on their own once they hit puberty, and most of those powers are based on the species they are. Only very few people get unique powers. The woman you saw was one of them>

Ning took in that information. “Oh, wow. Given their technological advancement, I would’ve been sure that they were all humans.”

<Would you like to learn more about Hyrron?>

“You know what? No. I only want a small degree of information, and I have my source already,” he said as he stepped to the side as a man flung himself at where he had been standing just before.

The man had long, unkempt hair, a face with veins all over it, teeth sharp with two fangs coming out. His fingers seemed drained of blood, the nails becoming pointed and sharp.

“Is that a power, or is that your race?” Ning asked.

The man lunged at him, his teeth coming for his neck.

Ning stood there, letting the man topple him to the ground.

The man snarled. “Your leader was stupid to think he could kill me all by himself!” He came down and chomped on Ning’s neck.

Only, his flesh was harder than biting on a rock. The man’s fangs chipped and he reeled back in pain, falling to the ground.

Ning slowly got up.

“What are you?” the man asked. “A Dragonborn? How is your flesh so hard?”

“I’m not,” Ning said as he dusted himself off. “You should clean this place sometime. Or… actually, I should.”

“What?” the man looked, confused. “If you’re here to kill me, just kill me.”

Ning sighed. “I’m not here to kill you,” he said, pulling one of the nearby dining chairs to sit on. “Are you a vampire?”

“No,” the man said.

“But you tried to bite me. Is that not what a vampire does? Or do you use other words? I knew a guy who called himself Lifestealer.”

“I’m a Daywalker,” the man said.

“Oh, so… a half-vampire?” Ning asked. “Anyway, what’s your name?”

The man’s eyes narrowed, looking at Ning for a bit longer. “I don’t recognize your dress from anywhere I know. Your face has features of the southern people, but your words have no accent. You asked me if I’m a vampire, when you should know what I am from the start. And the lock on the door hasn’t moved a bit.”

Ning raised his eyebrows, curious what the man was going to say.

“You have two different powers, at least. One for your strength, another for sneaking in here. No one can have two powers. So, who are you really, because you’re an anomaly.”

Ning chuckled. “Well, how should I say it. I am… an alien.”

The man’s eyes narrowed. “You’re joking.”

Ning shrugged. “I’m not,” he said.

“If you are an alien, then what are you doing here?” he asked.

“I want to integrate into this society,” Ning said. “But I can’t come out of nowhere since you’re technologically advanced. I’ll get caught. Instead, I came up with a different plan.”

The man’s eyes narrowed. “You want to kill me and take over my life.”

“What? No!” Ning said loudly. He then paused. “Well, yes on the taking over your life part, but no for killing you.”

The man stepped backward. “Are you going to take over my body?”

Ning sighed. “I’m not a parasite. Or… am I? No. I’m not. Anyway, I’m not going to kill you or take over your body. I chose you because outside of your work, you have no life. You’re alone, and if I had to guess, you are giving up on life too, aren’t you?”

The man sucked in a deep breath. “So what if I see no point in living? I’m no coward. I’m not going to kill myself. Life is a bitch, but I’m not one. It can throw at me whatever it wants, but I’m not going to let it affect me.”

Ning looked at the man. “That’s good. I wanted someone like you, because I want to give you a new chance at life.”

“A… new chance at life?”

“Do you have any reason to stay in this world?” Ning asked. “Because I can take you to a different world, one where you can restart your life. I do not know what went wrong with your life here, but in the other world, you can be whoever you want. You don’t have to be alone all the time.”

The man stared at Ning for a long time. “You’re joking.”

“You keep saying that, but I’m not,” Ning answered.

“Another world?” he asked.

“Yes,” Ning said.

“Are you really an alien?” he asked.

“I thought I said that already.”

“I didn’t believe you,” the man said, as he slowly fell down. “Oh… my god. Aliens are real. Oh my god.”

“They are,” Ning said. He reached out before him, causing the man to flinch. However, nothing happened to him.

He slowly opened his eyes, confused. “What did you do?”

“Does it hurt?” Ning asked.

“Does what—” the man froze mid-speech. He reached for his teeth, feeling the fangs. The chip was gone. They were back how they were.

“You… you fixed my fangs,” he said in awe. “That would’ve cost me so much money.”

Ning shrugged. “So, what do you say? A new world, unlike this one. Away from all of your problems, all of your loneliness. You will have no baggage there; no past to think about, no future to worry about. It will be a second chance at life.”

The man stared in awe. He didn’t know what to say.

“I… I accept.”