I once live in a modernized world where people lived comfortable lives, not thinking about tragedies and the fear of losing someone important to you right in front of your eyes while the people around you seem to not noticing something, ignoring your cries for help, saving their skin selfishly, this age is where people tend to be scarier than the people from the old age.
You know what the sad part is?
I was once a part of it and when it is my time to experience the feeling of those who I ignored, I too was ignored and it was mortifying.
I had no family left, my parents died of old age and I didn't have any relationship with women that lead to me never having an offspring but the good part was that I was a successful businessman which I built a multi-billion franchise on gaming industry by creating triple-A games that the players loved since my company didn't bother on doing micro-transaction with the players, 'All contents are inside when bought'.
Crappy, yes but that's our company motto well the downside is that the price for every game we release is at skyrocket price which made some of the consumers mad but well they were satisfied so win-win.
Anyway, after all the craziness to create my empire, I was struck by a sickness that no famous and expensive doctors can treat which made me reach for help but no one and I mean no one even in my company's board of director which I treated like a family helped me.
When they heard that I was dying and no one is to inherit the company, they started fighting each other over the vast amount of money that they can have if they are to inherit my seat as the CEO but I know all of their shrewdness but still I didn't know that it is to this extent.
Showing their true selves to me who is dying from an unknown disease, so I planned that since I don't have anyone to inherit my massive amount of money. I decided to redeem myself and hear those seeking help like me and do honorable things before my life is extinguished on that Earth.
I donated to anyone who is critically needed something like a heart transplant, a marrow transplant, and any massive operations that needed a massive amount of money to proceed.
I also donated for forest preservation, animal preservation, schools, housing for the poor and gave them cash for them to start any business they want.
The consequence of my little project caused the board of director to go on a rampage since I used a ton of money doing things according to them as 'Wastes'.
Well, since I'm about to die I might as well go all out and let them do the all the troubles of them throwing lawsuits from here and there at me.
For 5 years of me doing all the things that I deem that needed help, I finally died in my sleep at the hospital bed alone.
After that, it was all dark, I fell nothing and my sense of time distorted. I didn't even know what is what, my reasoning leaves with the darkness, some of my memories are fading, and now I'm like what the others may say an empty soul just a type of energy flowing through this darkness but even if my reasoning and all of my sense are all gone, my conscience isn't, it's still there waiting for it to be lost just like the others.
Then when my conscience started to fade, something or someone pulled me out of the darkness of the void and then light came through my eyes even though I know I don't have a body to say it but the brightness of that light still blinds my empty soul's imaginary eyes and then for what it feels like an eternity, I blacked out finally having my everlasting peace.
Or so I thought when I suddenly woke up from a large explosion and loud screams of people's pain, fear, and unwillingness to die.
So, suddenly waking up in an event like this my adrenaline shot up through the roof and my body was just moving on its own by opening the window of my room.
It seems to be I'm on the second floor of a house but what I focused on is that everything on the outside of the window is on fire! Everyone young, adult, old and women are running everywhere and then I noticed that the place I'm staying on is on fire too so tried exiting through the door but the door won't budge!
It seems to be blocked by something heavy, so I came back to the window and tried to look at the medieval-looking town that seems to be fairly large so if I want to escape this place I must plan a way to get out of here but numerous blue colored armor and orange colored armor are having a battle not far from where I am saying and someone noticed me looking at the battle and readied his bow and arrow and targeted me.
Well, I didn't notice it when suddenly my brain warned me plus the adrenaline I'm experiencing I miraculously dodged it by diving left on the floor that resulted in me having scalded wound on my elbow but thanks to that arow, the door that I can't open a moment ago was blasted to smithereens with the heavy wood that's blocking my door and now I'm free to get out of this goddamn establishment but still my 'spidey sense' or what I would like to call it tells me that the archer is still locked on to me.
So I decided to wait for a moment even if the heat above my head is increasing and started to burn my room, I waited until the archer dropped his bow and lost his interest in me.
I crawled my way out of the room and when I know Its safe to stand the roof or maybe the third floor of the place I'm staying at suddenly got engulfed by the flames that its intensity started to burn on my skin so I quickly escaped for my life and exited the floor until I reached a place that looks like a lobby.
"Seems like I'm in a hotel or something"
After having my monologue, I heard an angry shout outside the hotel so I immediately deemed that the front door is the wrong place to exit and that outside is just dangerous for anyone right now but still the place is on fire and sooner or later the fire will engulf the whole place.
So I hurriedly tried to find a map of this place but there's nothing on the walls but just some piece of shit paintings that won't help my situation and then an idea came to my mind and gone straight through the main lobby and searched the reception to look for some maps and when I was a piece of paper containing the map, I scolded my self why not search from there at the first place.
"Anyway get some weapon from the kitchen that would let me feel some security then get the hell out of here and find a safe place to stay"
Having a rough sketch of a plan, I started to rummage through the kitchen and found a butcher knife, a bag, some dried meat, fruits, and a belt for holding a lot of knives.
My clothes are comfortable enough to run out of this place and the bag is small enough to not have an effect on my speed.
Reaching the back door of the hotel, I found out that the door was open so I carefully tread the door if anyone is waiting for a prey to come out but no one's around so I came out the door and got out in an alleyway.
Looking around, the whole goddamn place is on fire so I run to a place that I remember when I looked from my window that has the thinnest horde of fighting armored guys plus it's quite near the blacksmith shop that I recognized and I don't know why but still since I thought that leaving this goddamn city is hard since I remembered that there is a lot of armored guys fighting there.
So I decided to go there and try to enter the place to arm myself and praying that the place isn't in flames yet since the last time I saw it it is still in pristine condition but then an army of armored guys came and started fighting near there.
After I exited the alleyway, the screams are louder, dried blood and detached limbs are everywhere which made me vomit everything I ate prior to yesterday and after relieving of myself's food, I tried to strengthen my will to continue as planned and finally after dodging every type of armored army on my way there, I finally reached the place but still can't get near it as well as go inside it.
The blacksmith's shop is surrounded by the blue armored army and is trying to enter it by kicking the door but the door is sturdy and won't give in but the blue army came prepared, they fished out a thing that looks like a sledgehammer and pounced it on the door's handle and with a loud crash the door opened with a smashed knob.
'NO! NO! NO!'
'How am I gonna get some weapons now?!'
This blacksmith is the only place that sells weapon and heavy-armor and the leather-armor is bought on the tailor shop and it's just right in front of the blacksmith and after opening the blacksmith's door, they are now opening the tailor's door which they successfully did and made my plans go awry.
'How am I gonna protect myself now?!'
Ding!
System's Host Recalibrating
'What?'
Ding!
Recalibrating Complete!
Welcome, Host!
Please say 'Status', to see your information.
Not knowing what to do, I deliberately followed the order by saying it while whispering.
"Status"
Name: Dan Core Stage:1(1/10)
Exp: 0/10
HP: 85/100 MP: 20/25
Physical Attack: 5 -10 Physical Defense: 5
Magic Attack: 1 - 2 Magic Defense: 1
Movement Speed: 10-20 Km/H
Luck: 10 (Pretty Lucky) Comprehension: 10 (Quick to Learn Things)
'What is this?'
Ding!
For opening the status panel for the first time, rewards are given.
You leveled UP
5 Skill Point (SP) Available
'Why am I having a hallucination right now? I know, I own a freaking game company but what the hell? I'm quite in turmoil right now!'
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Ding!
Skill Points or SP are available, please say Skills to view available skill.
'Hah~ let's just get this over with'
Sighing quietly because of this hallucination of mine, I'm forced to continue this farce and said while whispering.
"Skills"
Ding!
Skills Available:
1. Sword Mastery Lvl. 1 Cost: 1 SP
2. Staff Mastery Lvl. 1 Cost: 1 SP
3. Dagger Mastery Lvl. 1 Cost: 1 SP
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48. Stealth Lvl. 1 Cost: 2 SP
49. Gale Step Lvl. 1 Cost: 2 SP
50. Backstab Lvl. 1 Cost: 2 SP
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98. Knowing Eyes Lvl. 1 Cost: 100 SP
99. Elemental Affinity Lvl. 1 Cost: 100 SP
100. Martial Talent Lvl. 1 Cost: 100 SP
Looking at the long list of Skills, I was surprised by the line up as some of it are default for a game but some of them have some skills that are related to cultivation like in one of the many books I read in my past life.
Before I forgot my objective in this place, I glanced again at the blacksmith and the tailor's shop and it is currently being ransacked by the blue armored guys, obviously they are the invaders and having no other choice to believe this hallucination of mine and thinking that maybe this is the so-called 'System' or Help when you get reincarnated to another world by the fiction writers community, I might as well believe them since I don't have the strength to battle these guys.
"I pick Dagger Mastery, Stealth, and Backstab"
Ding!
Learned Dagger Mastery Lvl. 1
Description: Has the understanding of a novice Assassin on how to handle Daggers.
Learned Stealth Lvl. 1
Description: Has the ability to become invisible to the naked eye, decreases movement speed by half.
Learned Backstab Lvl. 1
Description: Attacking the enemy's back while in stealth will produce Physical Attack * 3 and with a chance of 50% Critical Strike(Skill Damage * 5).
'Okay? But this is real world and one can easily die when slit to the throat by a knife and Backstab will just help me to have some burst damage'
"Status"
Name: Dan Core Stage:1(2/10)
Exp: 0/20
HP: 200/200 MP: 45/50
Physical Attack: 10 - 5 Physical Defense: 10
Magic Attack: 2 - 4 Magic Defense: 2
Movement Speed: 20-40 Km/H
Readying myself for the battle against a horde of blue armored guys, I activated Stealth and approached the guy who's taking a piss away from the sight of the other 4 armored guys.
Carefully approaching this one guy while in Stealth made my mood's sour since my movement speed is so slow and that I need to be crouched while moving is so frustrating and that this guy is almost finishing up his peeing.
Fortunately, before the last drop of his urine dropped I reached his back, thankfully he's not wearing his helmet on which made the job easier so I slowly stood up, readied to cover his mouth with my left hand and gripping tight my Butcher Knife on my right hand to slit his throat.
Successfully killing the guy I donned his armor and tried to search for the carriage that these blue armored guys brought to carry the blacksmith's weaponry but when I came near it, one of the guys talked to me.
"Hey, let's change! I want to take a piss too"
Since obviously, I'm in disguise I neatly answered a nod to him and he blasted away to the place where I killed the other guy which made me panic so I chased him to that place and didn't bother to use Stealth and used Backstab while covering his mouth and then slit his throat.
Doing it like this is so inefficient, having this Butcher Knife is not helping me as it is not a weapon suited for assassination but well it can still kill so no complaining.
Killing the both of them while their guards are lowered is easy but I need to act fast and gather the things I wanted before the other blue armored guys feel something is wrong.
Going back to the carriage, I looked for a decent Dagger and thankfully these guys are quite organized and they filtered out which is which so with the Dagger Mastery, I picked the daggers that felt the best to use and has the efficient way to kill.
Picking my daggers, a blue armored guy came out of the tailor shop and saw me sheathing the daggers at the knife holders I got from the hotel.
"Hey! What're you doing?"
"...."
"Not speaking eh, well we worked hard to get here so I'll let it go this once. Go to the tailor shop and carry more leather armor for our scouts to use."
Releasing a sigh of relief inside my mind, I nod at the guy who ordered me and entered the tailor's shop but what I saw was horrendous. It seems that while I am having my episode earlier, the tailor's shop has a family inside and the armored guys seem to rape and killed the two young sisters and their mother while beheading the father.
'This...'
Having my experience of detached limbs and dead people on the way here, I didn't vomit this time but the rage I have right now is burning to the point I want to kill all of these bastards.
Why would these scumbags do these horrifying thing?! and that guy who ordered me to enter here has the balls to laugh while trying to talk to me?! do they even have a conscience?!
'I'll kill them all for sure, I swear!'
Passing the tragic scene of the family, I entered the workshop of the tailor and in it has a lot of leather armor and in there was one of the blue armored guys. Thanking my luck, this guy has no idea that I entered and he doesn't have his helmet on so I carefully used Stealth and sneaked behind him but it seems that this fellow is more experienced than the other two and he dodged my hand and unsheathed his dagger from his chest and slashed at me.
Surprised by the failed attempt to kill the guy, I was perplexed and didn't avoid the slash on time and thankfully I had the armor and I only got a scratch on my chest but know this, it is painful.
"Who are you?!"
"That hurts, old man"
"Hmph, with your skills it's an easy feat to kill you if not for the armor"
'Tch! What to do?!'
"I see, you're one of the Assassin's Guild from the Lawson Empire"
This old man keeps on speaking, well I'm not gonna speak you know? thankfully I had the helmet on so he can't see my face who was having trouble in this situation.
"Hmph, still not talking? I'll have your head then and then I'll search for your family and kill all men and then rape all of your young women relatives! ugly for the dogs and the beauty for us brothers!"
Okay, that's it! You fucking disgusting human! I'll rip your eyes out and I'll pull your tongue out for the worms to eat!
After having that thought the guy I'm facing suddenly charged at me with an incredible speed and with his sword at hand slashed at me, having a strength of a noob I don't have a choice but to dodge the attack by rolling at the side which is a bad choice as I hit a machine and slightly dodged the blade but my left shoulder is bleeding real bad as blood flowed like a dam and I can see my bone sticking out.
He almost cut my left arm off but he got 1/8th of flesh off on my left shoulder and is now unusable, gritting my teeth I charged at the guy and stabbed him at one of the openings of his armor with my newly acquired dagger but was blocked by the sword.
"Hahaha! No, you're not from the Assassin's Guild! You're just a kid who thinks he can fight a knight like me!"
'A knight?! This guy is a knight?! Knights are the honorable, valiant, and prideful bunch but these guys are monsters! They're much more like bandits if compared, doing things like that to that family is not a knight!'
"Hmph"
Grunting a hmph, I increased our distances and hid in one of the boxes scattered everywhere and in there I used Stealth and hid somewhere again. Taking my breath off the battle, the adrenaline I'm having is much stronger than the time at the hotel and thanks to that I can't feel the pain on my left shoulder.
Thinking through, I looked around me and planned on how to kill this guy, first thing first the place is full of scattered boxes which would be a great help for hiding and might increase the effectiveness of Stealth.
On the other hand, my loose left shoulder can't be used and I cant use it to cover his mouth and silently kill him but this guy is underestimating me and I can use it to my advantage.
Ding!
Host Leveled UP!
5 SP Available!
"Status"
Name: Dan Core Stage:1(3/10)
Exp: 10/30
HP: 150/300 MP: 70/75
Physical Attack: 15 -20 Physical Defense: 15
Magic Attack: 3 - 5 Magic Defense: 3
Movement Speed: 30-60 Km/H
Luck: 13 (Pretty Lucky) Comprehension: 10 (Quick to Learn Things)
SP Available: 5
Great! I think I saw a healing skill that costs 2 SP and a movement speed technique that would help me avoid attacks and escape quicker that costs 2 SP and a Fire spell that would provide some useful tactic for my plan to work.
Ding!
Learned Healing Hand Lvl. 1
Description: Can heal any wounds continuously by touching. Recover 2HP per 5 seconds, cost 2MP per Minute.
Learned Wind Step Lvl. 1
Description: Move like wind, Flee like wind, and Attack like a wind. Gives additional 50% movement speed for 5 seconds. Cost 20 MP.
Learned Ignite Lvl. 1
Description: Ignites an object on fire, the more flammable the object the more effective it is. Cost 5 MP per cast.
'Oh, that hits the spot!'
Using the newly learned Heal skill, I touched my left shoulder to heal it while contemplating why it didn't give the pop-up while I'm looking for new daggers to use.
'This will have to wait, I still have three guys to kill including this one.'
A minute has passed and the guy is still taunting me but when he felt it was not working, he started to destroy the boxes one after the other he almost got me and sometimes I felt that he has a skill that can see through my stealth and locate me using it so I had to move around while holding my almost healed shoulder but the bad thing is the boxes are decreasing at a faster rate that I can't heal any longer or else I can't launch an attack on this guy.
At the very least, my left shoulder cam now move albeit tingling still with pain, I can easily hold his mouth and kill him.
Seeing that he can feel my presence when I'm near, I can lure him to a place dark enough to augment my Stealth and position myself at box facing his back and finish this once and for all.
Seconds later, he slashed his sword on every box he can slash on then a moment later his back is now finally exposed to me. Leaving the box I'm hiding at I exited Stealth and activated Wind Step to increase my speed which was felt by the guy so he turned around to block the attack coming but I don't plan to attack in front but at the back!
"Ignite!"
Using Ignite at his sword, it made a flash and was ignited for 2 second which made its sharpness dulled a little but with that 2 seconds I bought, I once again used Wind Step which surprised the guy for my speed burst which led to him exposing his back to me I used Backstab which made him growl in pain but he still turned around and slashed his sword at me but I blocked it with both of my daggers but my left hand holding the other dagger gave up, and with me using Wind Step to times and Backstab plus the Healing Touch my mana is on all time low rigth now and my mind is starting to become groggy so I gritted my teeth, tightened my balls and everything that I can tighten with than I used Wind Step again to have a look at his back again but this guy seems to know what I'm going to do but I won't let him.
I ducked at his horizontal slash and like a spring, I sprung right at his esophagus and pierced my remaining dagger. Grunting like an animal when killed, his eyes are wide open is looking at me with a feeling that he can't believe that he was killed by me and the only me, the noob that he was taunting a while ago, the weakling that he thought an easy kill but he was wrong and then there's anger, fear, unwillingness then nothing.
"Feel their pain, asshole"
Ding!
Host Leveled UP
5 SP Available
"Status"
Name: Dan Core Stage:1(4/10)
Exp: 20/40
HP: 375/400 MP: 85/100
Physical Attack: 20 - 30 Physical Defense: 20
Magic Attack: 4 - 7 Magic Defense: 4
Movement Speed: 30-60 Km/H
Luck: 14 (Quite Lucky) Comprehension: 10 (Quick to Learn Things)
SP Available: 5
Finishing his kill, he looked around him to loot the leather armor he wanted in here in the first place and since the battle was so chaotic the organized set of leather was in scrambles so he would search for a comfortable, durable, and easy to move leather armor like in a sale stall.
A minute later the two blue armored guys came inside the workshop and saw the mess around, the dead body of their companion and me having my shopping but a minute is enough to kill these guys without effort since I leveled up again.
I used Wind Step to increase my speed and when they were still in shocked at what happened here they were dead the next, they didn't even register it on their small brains.
So going back to my shopping, after a half an hour I finally picked the suitable gear that has all the requirements I want.
Walking back to the entrance where the family was murdered I prayed to them to have an eternal peace as I already killed the guys who did this to them.
"Our fate has ended here, may you all rest in peace"
Well, that was something from a Chinese novel that I read well it's just a thing about Fate so I felt like it's the right thing to say.
Dawn has finally arrived and there is no time for dallying as I need to get the hell out of this city.
"This is my new life now, I must cherish this and explore this new world!"