I'm approaching the man besides the exit. He seems like a good person; He’s smiling and talking to the players who have finished training here.

“Hello, Rudy sent me.”

“Hi, this is a little gift for your travel.”

He gives me a little leather pouch. I open it and look inside but don't see anything, I put my hand inside and I can't touch anything, in fact, I can’t even touch the end of the pouch.

“That is a magic pouch, it can have up to 60 items and 10,000 bits. To take something out, you have to think about the item you want, it already has 500 bits so try thinking about the bits you want to take out.”

I imagine 50 bits and something appears in the pouch, I take it out. I see 5 copper coins with a big 10 carved in them. If I'm not wrong there should be, 1-10 copper coins, 100-1,000 silver coins and 10,000-100.000 gold coins. The currency is called bits here.

“Well, that's everything you'll get here so go outside and have some adventures, I recommend you the zone outside this town, there are some easy preys.”

“Thanks, I'll consider it.”

I look at the hall one last time and see a lot of people looking at me, they seem very curious.

I go outside the hall and walk towards the entrance of the town, since it is a small town, I don't take too much to reach the entrance. There is a big sign in front of the entrance “Red beginners' town”. I see lots of people fighting some slimes outside.

I approach the slimes and prepare my abilities. I use [blue hands], [red hands] and I begin moving my fury to my hands. I see a single slime wondering far from the others so I pick him. I run up to him and punch him with all I have, He just wavers and return to its original form quickly. It seems that blunt attacks are not effective. Let's try something different, I try to cut it with my hand open while pouring fury in it. The slime's body is cut into two parts and it begins to dematerialize into light particles leaving just one copper coin behind. I receive a little notification in the upper left of my sight telling me I received 1 XP.

After killing some slimes, I decide to go for something a little more challenging. I travel to the forest in front of the town's entrance. There should be some harder monsters here.

I hear a loud howl; I hid behind some bushes. I see 5 wolves walking in front of me. Should I attack them, maybe 5 are too much for me... What am I saying? it’s a game, if I die, I'll just lose some XP. I make sure to activate my abilities. I go out of the bush and attack the nearest wolf with a close fist. It gets thrown far away but I don't know if it died. The 4 remaining wolves take distance and begin surrounding me. Their intelligence surprises me.

I don't rush, I'm taking special care about my back, it's where they'll probably attack. One of the wolf rushes exactly when it thinks I can't see it, I hit it with my elbow. He falls back howling in pain but quickly enters the pack again. I think I got a plan.

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I run to the closest wolf; it tries to run away and I try concentrating fury in my legs, my velocity increases dramatically, I reach the wolf, grab its leg and I use all my force while throwing it to a wolf in my left. Both of them crash and it seems that the one I grabbed can’t move so it just howls in pain.

I run to another one before they regain their formation, it takes little to no effort to reach it so I try kicking it, the wolf strongly crashes into the tree and dies. I feel a bite in my right leg, one of the remaining wolves is biting it strongly, when I try to stop it. The other wolf jumps to my back, I concentrate all my fury in my hand and try to hit the wolf but the one in my leg doesn’t let me maneuver so I fail, now there’s another wolf biting my back. Aaghh! it hurts.

I try ignoring the one in my leg while grabbing the back one, I successfully grab it but it takes a piece of my skin with him, I cut with my hand open and manage to open its throat. I throw the now dead wolf to the ground and I use my final bit of strength to hit the wolf who is still taking bits of my skin. It releases my leg and I use that opportunity to step on his face, it quickly dies. I fall into the ground due to exhaustion. I look at the wolf who can’t move, I think he’ll die soon because it’s bleeding a lot. I’m wishing that the wolf I sent far away is dead, if it returns, I won’t be able to do anything. I wait a little. I see a little message appear in my sight. “You’ve killed a pack of wolves alone, 400xp” “level up” “level up”.

I feel the adrenaline in my body dissipating. I feel... alive. I’m shaking, I’m shaking from emotion while thinking about my awaiting battles.

I got up 2 levels at once. There are two important things about the XP system. One is that it always gives all the XP at the end of the battle. The other one is that it decides how much XP to give you based in your contribution of the battle (in case of a team battle), the monster fighting and some other special conditions. Since it specifically says I fought them alone, it should have increased the amount of XP originally given by defeating the pack.

I put the points in strength. My body begun slowly regenerating since I ended the battle so I can finally stand on my feet. I grab what the wolves dropped, some coins, four pieces of leather and a little orb. What's the use of the orb? I should go back.

I reach the entrance of the forest. I see three guys approaching me. The one in the middle has a fancy black and red armor while the two at his side have a smaller armor with the same colors, they have an emblem with a lion on it.

“hey, what’s your name!?”

He asks me with a condescend tone. I want to avoid fighting with them since they have more numbers and better equipment.

“I’m Chrys, what’s yours?”

“I’m Blackflame, the one in my left is Redless and the right one is Redder, what are you doing in this place?”

“What do you mean?”

“don’t play dumb!! Why has a veteran like you spawned in this town? everyone knows that this town is Fire Lions territory, from which guild are you from!?”

“I’m not from any guild.”

“Who are you trying to fool, the people from the training hall told us that you finished your training incredibly fast, even if you deny that, who can go to the forest and hunt alone with the beginner equipment?”

He’s getting on my nerves. Even if I can’t defeat them, I should give him a punch in the face.

“And so... what? Why does that matter to you?”

“guys, this little prick is being disrespectful, just because he has a good face, he thinks he’s better than us, let’s show him that nobody disrespects Fire Lion.”

I don’t know what he’s angry at anymore.