The emperor which Blood Hands, currently one of the strongest force that exist, feared the most and labeled as demon incarnate, lazily woke himelf up from sleeping in a cold wooden floor. Stretching his hand, creating a weird bone popping sounds then proceeds to lazily rubbed his eyes as if he was forcefully waking himself up. Such was the Emperor that everyone feared.
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"Welcome to Starlight Fist Academy, an Academy for combat where various people regardless of their social status, learns to fight and defend for the City they belong City A. Of course being a tier 4 combat academy, the requirement for passing is very high, not only you need high level basic skills such as strength, stamina,agilities and endurance, one also need a solid foundation to be qualified in enrolling here. That's just the minimum requirement, if doesnt assure you of graduating in this academy, this is one of the most prestigious academy in the continent, and people who graduated here can only be counted by two hands. After enrolling, this academy requires high caliber of skill and high degree of talent to survive, in this Academy we whole heartedly focuses on improving your combat skills. We assure you that even though you fail to graduate in this academy, you will still gain tremendous amount of strength to protect yourself and this City. "Use the power of the stars to light your fist in upholding peace and justice."
"Wow this academy is serious about this." The "emperor" amusedly remarked as he read the pamphlet that was given by the school entrance. He was now lining to 'enroll' in this so called starlight academy. Of course this is what the 'emperor' meant by taking a break, living life as a normal person. He was already lining up for almost 4 hours before finally reaching up to the registration area. He thought that this academy surely is very famous, lining up for 4 hours under the scorching heat of the sun, while the line reaching up to almost a kilometer, fortunately the academy is humongous enough to accomodate such quantity of people. As he looked back, despite the distance, the 'emperor' laughed as he looked that the line wasnt diminishing at all and in fact it was getting longer and longer. It wasnt just the line was amusing but also the people who were drenched in sweat due to waiting so long while under the scorching heat of the son.
Finally reaching at the front, the 'emperor' pump a fist indicating his happiness in his turn, although he was not hungry nor thirsty, he was craving for something to eat. He was then given some sort of registration form by a blonde 'enroller' to let him fill the information needed. It was just some name, place, and other important background of the person.
As the 'emperor' finished filling up the form, he submits it. The blonde guy was shocked as he looked aghast to the person in front of him. It was because it was written that the guy who just submitted his form hailed from City Z. Who just got recently destroyed yesterday with almost no survivor remaining.
"Mister Worm, are you sure about--" the blonde guy stopped mid way as he saw 'Worm' smiled and nodded in approval. The blondie swallowed his saliva as he slowly regained his composure and returned his amiable smile as if nothing has just happened.
"Mister Worm, thank you for submitting your form. The combative test will start next week on Monday. So please prepare yourself as this test is very hard to pass." As the blondie think of it, the young man might possibly pass this test since he came form City Z which is full of malicious gangster with enough battle prowess to get enrolled of this school if ever they decided to enrol.
Worm nodded in approval as walked out the academy.
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"Of all the City there is City A is probably the largest and luxurious one of all. All the products being sold here are very expensive and almost all people are wearing branded clothes." Worm grudgingly mumured as he entered a low class restaurant and looked at his plain attire, a plain jacket and jeans, both with no brands at all. Entering he restaurant, he observed that almost most, if not all, people here are rich. Not by their clothes but because of eating the food here costing a hundred dollars each plate.
"Damn rich people." he mutteredly cursed as he reached in his pocket only to find out he has only 6 dollars left, and a handgun called Eagle Claw. Whoops, Worm forgot that this City had a strict rule of Guns Law luckily when he entered the city, he had his hood up. Since he decided to live a normal life and is currently lacking money, he decided to sell his only weapon to a Gun shop.
Entering the gunshop, he saw the store keeper skillfully spinning a hand gun in his finger out of boredom. That's not what caught Worms attention though, it was the storekeeper appearance, he has a skull tatoo on his face, a huge hole in his earlobe, a punk hairstyle dyed with color pink.
'People here are not just rich but also very weird and has a weird taste of appearance." Worm thought as he was momentarily shocked, he thought that nothing can surprise him anymore for as he seen many things normal people can never apprehend yet he never expected being surprised by this kind of thing. Now this time he was wondering if the guy was one of 'them' but after carefully inspecting he concluded that he's not.
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"Yo boss, what brings you here? Luckily for you, if you have a license, you can buy the newly brought supplies of the latest guns, Scoped Deagle, Modified Nail Gun and of course the special Eagle Claw. You better decided now since all of these are limited edition." Punky informally endorsed the products.
Worm was amused by how Punky introduced the guns and waved his hands.
"I just want to sell this handgun." He put his hands at the pocket of his jacket as he magically pulled a gun that was not supposed to fit in there.
The Punky eyes sparkled as he witnessed Worm magic and exclaimed
"Boss you're a magician? Cool!!" Punky negelected the gun that was pulled out but later then realized the identity of the gun.
"No way! Boss is this the latest Eagle Claw?!? And you want to sell it here?! Are you sure about that boss?" He was completely shocked at what he saw, despite his sloppy appearance and lack of enthusiasm in this job, he was also very knowledgable about modern weapons and also weapons specialist. He knew that Eagle Claw was a handgun which prowess can rival a common sniper. He thought that no one must be in their right minds to sell an Eagle Claw. He looked dubiously at the person in front of him, being a store keeper for almost a decade, he has experience in observing different kind of customer but this person in front of him exuded an aura of mysteriousness and at the same time nothingness. Wearing a jacket and jeans, coupled with his appearance, now matter what he thinks the person in front of him really look like a commoner, not someone rich.
Worm just smiled without saying anything. His smile contained ordinariness smile of a common person. Punky straightened his back as he finally turned serious. A person possessing Eagle Claw is no way ordinary, despite of it being expensive it needs high skills to operate properly. Only soldiers of higher caliber is qualified to weild this weapon.
"Esteemed Sir, welcome to our humble Shop. You can call me Punky. In regards of the price of this weapon, i can give you a satisfying offer. 1.1 million dollars. That's the limit of my abilities." Punky said as he exuded an aura of a professional.
Worm was shocked, this was the second time he was shocked because of this person, he was not shocked because of the sudden change of aura but because he was on point of his name, Punky.
"We'll settle with this." Worm agreed, he knew that the price 'Punky' offered was below the expected market price but as he was in need of money he agreed immediately. Besides its not his to begin with, he just picked it up yesterday.
"Sir, do you have a card? Or--"
"Just cash." Worm smiled. Punky was momentarily stunned because he didnt see any bags or case Worm brought when he went in but nonetheless he put 1.1 million dollars in cash on the counter. Worm grabbed all of it and seemingly magically put all of it in the pocket of his jacket. He then proceed to got out before looking back to Punky with his astonished face and mouthed
'Magic'. He went out.
Remembering his experience at restaurants, which was full of expensive dishes, he decided to eat food from sreet vendors, although you can now treat him as a millionaire, he doesnt want to spend money carelessly.
He wander through a city that was seemingly different than the average cities, you can call it a lowerclass city where you find a sorts of common people with plain clothing not like where he came from where people are surrounded by jewelries and expensive clothings.
He went to a certian store and ordered 6 barbecues, it didnt even take a minute before Worm ate it all.
"Mmm!! Street foods really are yummy!" Worm exclaimed as he waved his fist up and down as if it was heavenly food came from god itself.
"Help!!! Thief, someone stole my bag!!" A middle aged lady suddenly shouted as she was robbed by a thief using a bike. No one stops the thief, no one is fast enough to chase.
As Worm watched the entire scene, he felt a gush of wind ran past him and saw a woman chasing after the thief, Worm was the only one who noticed while the crowd didnt notice a thing at all.
'Since you're chasin him already, let me help you a bit.' Worm murmured as he bend down and picked up a nail sized rocked and flicked it towards the direction of the escaping thief.
'Boom' a sound sinilar to sonic boom resounded as the rock chased after the theif. Few seconds later another boom resounded indication of the rock hitting its target. Even though the thief was almost a few hundreds meters away, he can clearly see the rock hitting the back tire of the bike resulting the thief flying through the air, then the chasing woman came and catched the thief.
'Good skills' Worm praised as he observed the woman far away saving the culprit. The woman slowly put the unconcious man in to the ground and look at the direction of worm. She clearly knew who threw the rock, as she looked at the average looking man who she identified as the rock thrower, the rock thrower also stares at her cold indifferent eyes, despite the distance she can clearly feel that she was being observed as she looked in to Worms eye like he can see through everything about her but when she observes back, she was slightly stunned, she cant fathomed anything from the mans eye at all, full of mysteriousness yet also nothingness, its like an never ending abyss that no one dares to investigate in. She broke contact and checked the situation of the unconcsious man, knowing that the man was alright, she called the police to handle the rest of the work then looked again towards the mysterious man but he already disappeared. Then for a moment she stood up and started walking towards the Starlight Fist Academy.