11 Deliverance

After his pizza was delivered and he paid the delivery boy, Jack took a slice and used scan on it. All he got was Pizza, and a details button which he knew was still locked, so he didn't bother trying to push it.

He ate his pizza with and thought about which other books he could scan. He found some do it yourself books in his father's collection which he thought might become useful in his daily life, but nothing really he would deem worth reading to improve his fighting proves.

After dinner, he practiced some moves and browsed the internet bookstores for books on handling knives, swords and the spear.

He ordered about a dozen of them from local bookstores, and they should be delivered tomorrow or the day after.

He went to bed early since he was mentally exhausted and woke up at 6 am. After eating a disgusting cold slice of pizza, he decided he can't live without a microwave in his life.

Jack checked his phone for the time, and he had 7 hours left before he would be summoned again. He moved all the furniture in his living room into a corner and started practicing karate and krav maga moves. He was limited to practicing movement, kicks, and strikes without an opponent since he could obviously not grapple with air.

Jack's movement and strikes were basically responding to a fictional opponent, so if someone saw him, they would think he had gone crazy.

After two hours he stopped and took a shower.

He went for a coffee to the nearby Starbucks and after went to get some junk food from the local store. He stocked up on some protein bars and chocolate.

As he was walking back home, he met his neighbor. Jack didn't like him. His name was Jim, Jimmy Granger. They were neighbors for as long as Jack could remember and he was asking for trouble with Jack and everyone else even longer.

Jimmy was also the person who started to call Jack doggie. Jimmy was also the person who would try to pull down Jack's pants in the playground. Extort Jack's lunch money and chase him around in high school.

After high school, Jack didn't see him again, and he was not missing him either. Jimmy was a sleazeball, and he looked the part.

He was slightly overweight with a beer belly, wearing a green sleeveless shirt and shorts with dirty white socks and sandals.

Jimmy saw Jack, and he recognized him. He greeted Jack like they were best friends forever.

"Hi there, it's Jimmy remember me," with a broad smile showing his rotten teeth.

"Hi," Jack responded and moved to pass him on the right.

Jimmy grabbed Jack's left hand and said: "I need you to loan me some money."

"No way." was Jack's response.

Jimmy frowned and pulled on Jack's hand harder and started squeezing his wrist: "I guess you have forgotten what you owe me. Let me help you remember. Do you remember by now or should I apply more strength?"

Jack was gritting his teeth and replied: "I remember."

Jack then squeezed his fist tightly and with all his power hit Jimmy in the nose. Since Jimmy was holding him by his wrist, they both staggered as he was about to fall. Jack remembered some judo lessons and managed to move behind him twisting Jimmy's arm around to his back and then pushed him towards the garbage cans. Jimmy dove first into the garbage cans and by the time he picked himself up Jack was already home.

Jack was not worried the police would come looking for him for assault or anything similar since Jimmy was guaranteed to have a criminal record his word would be better than his and some people would also corroborate his story.

Jack's heartbeat was frantic from the excitement much more than after dealing with the kobolds. Jim could be said to be his nemesis since the day they first met. Right now he was delivered free from the psychological clutches of his childhood traumas as he finally managed to overcome the man who used to embarrass and torment him at every possible chance he got.

Jack swore to himself he will use the trials in his mind for further training and he was now eager to jump back into the arena.

Before noon nothing much happened except the delivery of the new laptop and network equipment which he quickly set up.

He should start with his freelance business again soon, or he would run out of money by the end of the month.

He checked for the available jobs, and he found quite a few he was interested in an applied for some. As Jack was installing the needed software for his business, he munched on the protein bars he bought earlier since he didn't have time for a proper lunch before the arena starts.

Soon there was a familiar flash, and he found himself in a well known metallic environment. He went out immediately since he Jack was pretty much used to dying. He didn't even bring a spear with him since all he wanted was to check on his opponent or maybe multiple opponents.

If it were kobolds again, there would probably be 20 or 30 of them now, and he would go with the kitting tactic. The arena was the all too familiar bushes with trees in the distance and cliffs around.

Nothing much changed as if the creator of this place was a lazy bum which Jack was not willing to mention out loud. On the one hand, he could be cursing at himself and the other option he would be cursing an omnipotent being which could make his life even more miserable than it already did.

To his surprise what came from the bushes was something different. It was still green. It was holding a massive club. It was a humanoid monster which was known to all humans who ever played online games. It was an orc that looked like it was brought straight out from Warcraft with its 2.2-2.4 meter in size it stood watching Jack from 20 m away.

Jack just stood in place and observed the orc, and the orc observed him. It was the most massive living humanoid Jack had ever seen. The green muscles overflowing with bulging veins reminded Jack of Hulk. It was wearing a chest armor and a helmet. It was looking at Jack with almost a smiling expression as if looking at a delicious dish. Its lower jaw was sticking out and showing his lower canines which could practically reach its nose if they were not spaced to the left and right of it.

Jack used inspect on it.

Name: Orc warrior

Strength: 12

Constitution:10

Endurance:8

Speed:6

Dexterity:8

Perception:5

Intelligence:3

Wisdom:3

Willpower:8

Charisma:4

Luck: ???

Jack looked at the name first.

"It's indeed an orc," Jack said. And as he with horror observed the stats, he heard a roar and saw the orc running towards him. He tried to dodge, but he was too slow. The orc with his massive club which was almost 2 m and long large muscular long arms, which made it resemble a monkey, had a reach of nearly 4 meters.

Jack only heard a crunching of bones, when the club finally hit him, and he was back in the metallic room.