"He really is a cultivator I am not lying! I saw him catch all the fruits and vegetables in an instant!" The aunt who bumped with Ceceada tried to deny the questioning gaze of the people around her.
"Is this your new gimmick?! You're probably just trying to get money from us, thinking that we will give discount to your accomplice since he is a so called 'cultivator,'" A middle-aged man sneered and disdained this money gathering 'gimmick,' and left the show right after saying this, prompting other onlookers to divert their attention back to their already busy life.
The aunt is speechless when she heard and saw this...
Thinking about this, she probably also won't believe when someone says there is a cultivator among them; she is very well aware that the chance that someone awakens the cultivation ability is only one in a thousand and can only happen during teenage years.
Ceceada just smiled when he saw this commotion that is already starting to settle as the temporary onlookers started to leave. He doesn't have any desire to impress the people around the marketplace that he is a cultivator.
"Catch the thief! Please stop him!" A panicked shout of a panting girl sounded on Ceceada's ears and he stopped walking, turning his head in the direction, assessing the situation.
The people nearby looked at the source of the shout for a moment, but they just sighed while shaking their heads, immediately returning their attention to their respective business.
Thieves are really common in this place!
Even if it is not real thievery, it's most likely a gimmick.
In a distance, he can sense that a kid is being chased by a girl, but what made him frown is that the kid being chased is not even holding anything and is just laughing every time when he look back and see the girl chasing him, easily passing miscellaneous marketplace hindrance.
'There's something more to this...'Ceceada instinctively thought while looking at the scene.
His perception spread further, his eyes contracting, making it easier to focus and see much more farther in this bustling marketplace.
He then suddenly saw two other two kids fighting for a leather pouch.
"This is mine! I planned this!"
"You didn't even do anything! You just planned it!"
They are having a tug-of-war. Ceceada still heard the clanging of coins in the pouch even at this distance and the noise around him.
The kid being chased by the girl looked in the direction of the fighting kids and saw the leather-pouch. He then looked at his hand and saw that the leather-pouch that he is holding earlier is not on his hands anymore. Instead, it is replaced with a wood branch!
"You tricked me!"
The kid being being chased shouted in anger as he had been tricked by his accomplices. He then changed his direction and ran towards them, while the girl chasing him is still having a hard time keeping up.
"Please stop him! That's for my mother's illness!" The girl cried weakly, losing hope as the distance between her and the kid widened, her legs almost giving up from exhaustion; She doesn't even have any idea that the kid he is chasing now doesn't even have her pouch anymore.
One of the kids having a tug-of-war suddenly punched the other kid in the nose, knocking him out to the muddy, wet ground of the market place. The former didn't even look at the kid he knocked out and immediately ran away while holding the leather pouch.
"Stop! Give me that!" The kid being chased by the girl saw this scene and kept running, determined to get that leather pouch again!
Seeing this scene, Ceceada couldn't help but shake his head. This is really a normal scene here... the amount of times his family were subjected to robbery in his memory are countless.
A streak of light appeared on his eyes and he started to run towards the thieves in a relatively slow manner, not even a percent of his actual speed.
But this speed is enough to surprise the people around who earlier labeled him as an accomplice in a gimmick.
Whoosh!
Ceceada ran so fast, they can only hear the sound of air parting as he ran forward, much, much faster than the fastest man alive on earth!
The hindrances along the way on this commotion-inclined marketplace are being used as parkour materials by Ceceada gracefully.
Duck here, jump there!
He even avoids bumping to the crowd better than introverts on earth!
At this moment, a tailor-made pure information entered his mind!
[Ding! Mission: Return the leather pouch to the girl.]
[Reward: Your breakthrough time will be cut in half.]
Ceceada's eyes lit up and an upward arc formed on the corner of his mouth when he heard these notifications in his mind.
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"Convenient!"
Who wouldn't want such reward?! This is such a good motivation for helping others.
Ceceada's goal isn't to help all the people and harm himself like a hero, but if he can do it without a hitch, he will. It will be better understood when you put into the equation that he have a relatively good morality since he is a person from Earth.
This running didn't take a minute and he jumped in front of the kid who is holding the leather pouch, blocking the path of the kid to move forward.
"Move away!"
Seeing the bare-chested lean man who blocked his path, the kid took out a small knife from his pocket and aimed it at Ceceada's liver while still running forward, unfazed by his refined muscular body.
'What can your muscle do in front of this knife?' The kid thought. He had seen it many times, people acting like a hero, yet still failing miserably in front of a simple knife.
But Ceceada didn't move away and firmed his position, unfazed by the sharpness and glint of the blade. It isn't even worth comparing to the red sword.
The kid sneered and his grip on the knife strengthened, ramming the tip of the small knife violently towards Ceceada's torso with all his might!
His sword came into contact with Ceceada's skin, but it's tip curled like it hit an impenetrable wall!
Clang!
"Argh!"
The kid groaned in pain as he slipped on the muddy soil, head first! His wrist got dislocated and he directly lost consciousness!
Ceceada didn't feel anything from what the small knife and he didn't look at the miserable kid who slipped, focused only on catching the knife and leather pouch that the kid accidentally dropped by the kid when he slipped.
Even if he didn't get the system and remained at level 1 of Body Refinement realm, at most, it will only show a scratch.
That shows the gap between non-cultivators and cultivators.
Seeing the knife and leather pouch mid-air, he swung his arm horizontally, catching the knife and the leather pouch.
The then-accomplice of the kid who was chasing the kid who just slipped saw what happened and got scared. He immediately ran towards different direction.
"Damn it!"
The kid shouted in frustration as he ran away! He didn't know they attracted a cultivator!
Ceceada saw the kid run away, but didn't chase him.
"A cultivator..."
A passerby saw everything that happened and couldn't help but gasp...
"F*** me... so this is how strong a cultivator is?!"
A rather young passerby who also saw everything shouted in enlightenment, wanting to become a cultivator too. The cultivator in front of him didn't even get a single scratch from the knife!
A commotion resounded as more people stopped what they are doing and gathered around Ceceada, asking him how he did all of that, but unfortunately for them, Ceceada didn't speak.
Seeing a powerful cultivator, some girls secretly revealed more skin, wanting to sexually attract the strong cultivator in front of them.
Maybe this is their only way out of poverty...
"F***ing thots!" Many men saw their wives and girlfriends do this and couldn't help but exclaim in rage when they saw this, but they are also secretly trying to find a way to curry favor from the cultivator.
Ceceada ignored the murmurs around him and fought the urge to look at this adultery. He then breathed out sharply as he looked in the distance.
He saw the young girl who just chased all this time, and noticed that she can't even sweat anymore. Her thin legs cramping, making her grit her teeth as she tried to move forward, despair apparent in her eyes.
She can't even find the kid that she chased anymore...
Her mom is bedridden and in a coma because of an unknown illness. The pouch that got stolen contains all the hard-earned coins that she saved up for months to get a cultivator who specialize in medicine.
"Please stop him..." She tried to shout when she thought of this, but no sound came out from her mouth that is already heavily hoarse.
Ceceada saw this and deftly moved through the plethora of people around him.
"Where did he go?!"
"So fast!"
People exclaimed, when they found out that Ceceada suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Whoosh!
In an instant, he appeared in front of the young girl who is looking down, her tired eyes devoid of hope.
Ceceada couldn't help but sympathize with the girl in front of him...
'Such a cruel world,' He thought in his heart.
He then gently placed his palm on the young girl's back and released a small amount of mana from his core, spreading it towards his palm and urging it to enter through the girl's back.
After a few moment, the girl felt wonderful euphoric feeling slowly spreading from her torso to her whole body.
Tiredness slowly being replaced with rejuvenating feeling.
"This is the power of mana," Ceceada said while smiling when he saw the girl slowly returning to peak state.
Not only mana can help you to become stronger, but it can also help heal you faster. That's why yesterday, when he accidentally leaked his aura which contained mana, he immediately wanted to restrain it; not allowing any bit of mana to escape.
Because the girl does not even have a Low Mortal Physique, less than a percentage of mana can be absorbed. That's why mana is being constantly exuded from the girl's body, forming a thick outline of mana around her, showing the mana the she can't absorb.
Ceceada is prepared and just instinctively took in the mana again that escaped from the girl's body.
Fortunately, with Ceceada's physique, the quality of his mana is improved several times, and the capability to rejuvenate also increased, that's why it didn't take long for the mana to revitalize the young girl.
"Hey."
After a moment, Ceceada retracted his palm and called out the girl who is too mesmerized in the wonderful feeling of mana.
The girl, completely revitalized, raised her head and saw her leather pouch on someone's hand!
"Please give that to me!" The girl pleaded to the lean young man in front of her, her eyes rekindled with hope.
"There you go," Ceceada immediately gave her the pouch, making the young girl's eye tear up in joy.
[Ding! Cultivation time is cut in half.]
Ceceada saw this information from the system and waited for a moment before he bade farewell to the girl, "I'll go, be careful."
"Thank you so much..." The young girl can only say these words, not knowing how to repay the cultivator in front of her.
He is about to walk away when the girl realized something.
Isn't he what she needed to heal her mom?
"Wait!" She shouted, this time, not hoarse.
Ceceada stopped on his tracks and then looked at the girl kindly, "Yeah?"
"Please heal my mom..." The girl resolutely said as she extended her hand that is holding the pouch.
"I will pay you... Please just heal my mom," The girl continued then told Ceceada about her mom's unknown illness.
Ceceada heard this and hesitation appeared in his eyes. He didn't have any knowledge of medicine here. Even on earth, he just slack off and didn't finish high school. That's why he have the idea that he will not be able to extend any help.
Although he can help rejuvenate other people with mana, it doesn't mean he can heal the sick.
Aside from that, he also have no idea what is the illness of the girl's mom.
'Rejuvenation is very different from healing the sick,' Ceceada thought in his heart while looking inside the ring, trying to find a treasure that can probably help the girl's mom.
After a moment of exploring the ring in his mind, he saw a lot of healing pills, but these pills will not work on non-cultivators.
Ignoring the pouch and seeing the young girl's resolution, determination and pleading gaze, he said expressionlessly without a promise, "Let me take a look."
Hearing this, the girl's eye lit up immediately!