Thugs

[Boring Guy]

[Race: Human]

[Title: None]

[HP: 130/130]

[MP: 80/80]

[Strength: 12]

[Agility: 14]

[Vitality: 13]

[Intelligence: 8]

[Perception: 15]

[Remark: For any attribute the human average is of 10.]

[Skill: None]

[Ability: None]

[Equipment: Steel Sword, Steel Dagger…]

As he watched his status, Dorian almost felt offended when he saw his intelligence. However, he was quite proud about his other attributes, though he didn't know what perception was about.

Fortunately, there was a little option that allowed him to understand what each attribute did:

[Strength: This attribute will affect your base attack power and raw strength. Along with Agility and Vitality, this will affect your stamina.]

[Agility: This attribute will affect your speed, attack speed and balance. Along with Strength and Vitality, this will affect your stamina.]

[Vitality: This attribute will affect your defense against attacks, resistance against poisons and diseases and your amount of HP (Base HP= Vitality*10). Along with Strength and Agility, this will affect your stamina.]

[Intelligence: This attribute will affect your memory ability, and your amount of MP (Base MP= Intelligence*10).]

[Perception: This attribute will affect your speed of learning and reflexes.]

[Hint: Your body has been changed in inexplicable ways and now perfectly matches your stats. You may want to get familiar with your new body. Good luck.]

Now Dorian was able to understand what all those attributes meant. As for the last hint, it's probably what explained how he got out of that room so quick.

"I'm talking to you!"

Dorian, who was reading his status with his head lowered, was surprised to hear someone shooting at him. He raised his head and was stunned when he saw the situation he was in. Five men were standing in front of him, with one in front of the others, most certainly their leader.

The five thugs all had a sword on their hip, except that the quality was obviously very bad. They were chipped and would probably have trouble going through someone. Moreover, none of them had a sheath. The four in the back had sneers on their faces, and looked like they already expected Dorian to handover his belongings.

Dorian asked "What did you say?"

The thug at the front, the most menacing one, said angrily "Hand over your sword and your bag!"

Dorian looked down with a frown and saw he still had his sword in hand. He looked at the leader and asked "Why would I hand it over to you?"

The thug grinned sharply and took out his sword, and said "You either give it willingly, or I will have to take it by force."

As he said that, one of his lackeys behind said with a laugh "Give it to us boys, our boss was a soldier before, don't think you can take him on!"

Dorian looked carefully at all the thugs, trying to analyze the situation.

The thug leader was the most dangerous of the group, he was the only one with his sword out, and looked like he was the only one who had his sword out, and also the only one who looked like he knew how to use it.

For now, he was Dorian's biggest problem, because as the lackey said, Dorian couldn't hope to defeat an ex soldier who used his sword on the battlefield without having ever fought with a sword before.

Then, if he actually succeeded in eliminating the leader, there were still the four thugs… Dorian couldn't help but lament and doubt his earlier guesses. Was the difficulty really going to go from low to high? Because Dorian couldn't see how the average person would get through this situation.

But as Dorian was thinking about what to do, the thug leader took a step forward and kicked Dorian in the stomach.

Dorian was caught unprepared and felt something hit his abdomen. However it wasn't as painful as he though it would be, before he realized that this was probably from the increase in defense he got from the attributes. Still, he looked at the thug leader with venom in the eyes and all the plans he had to flee disappeared.

The thug glared back at Dorian, ignoring the hatred in his eyes. Dorian unsheathed his sword and handed it over to the thug.

The thug, when he saw how new the sword was, couldn't help but marvel at his luck for having found such a good sword.

He used his free hand to grab the sword, when Dorian suddenly moved. A dagger appeared in his palm and thrust at the thug at a lightning speed.

The thug couldn't even react as the dagger went through his clothes and entered his flesh.

Dorian had aimed for the heart, but because it was his first time doing this, the dagger went slightly off course and pierced through the thug's lung instead.

Dorian didn't bother with him anymore and before the four behind could understand what happened, he made a quick step forward and slashed out with his sword.

His sword was aiming at two of them at the same time. The first one couldn't dodge in time and had his throat slit, but the second one was able to sidestep, only getting his shoulder slashed open.

But Dorian didn't leave them the time to regain their spirit and before they could draw their swords he kicked the injured one in the chest, with a strength enough to cut off his breath for a second.

But the thugs weren't dumb either, and by the time their ally got kicked, they had already unsheathed their sword, placing it in front of themselves. It was obvious to anyone looking none of them ever used them.

But Dorian never did either. The earlier slash was only made thanks to his newfound dexterity which came from his Agility state and the changes made, just like his defense.

Looking at the two in front of him, Dorian was pretty sure he would be able to defeat the two with his superior attributes, but he would undoubtedly suffer injuries, and with how dangerous this world looked like, Dorian would rather not get injured.

So Dorian decided to scar them. He looked at the frozen thug leader behind him, who had a dagger planted in his chest, and stabbed at him.

The thug leader didn't even move as Dorian's sword went through his body, killing him on the spot.

He took out his dagger from the still standing corpse, putting it back where he had hid it first when he was looking at his status, and used his sword to bring the corpse in front of him.

Then, with a kick the sword got out of the body, which was launched toward the two scarred thugs, who jumped to avoid him.

Dorian used the opportunity to rush at one of the two and skewered him on his sword while he was on the ground.

Then, Dorian rushed as fast as he could toward the last one who was about to get back up.

The thug barely got on his feet when Dorian tackled him to the ground, using his rugby lessons at school. The thug tried to brawl with Dorian on the ground, but Dorian's superior fitness allowed him to overwhelm the thug and finally plunge his dagger in his heart.

Although all of this only took a few breaths to happen, Dorian's breathing was ragged with exhaustion. Still, he forced himself to his feet and took his dagger out, resulting in a splash of blood.

Some got on his clothes but Dorian didn't care and went to his sword. He was surprised to see that the last thug was still alive despite have the sword through him.

Dorian took out the sword from the body and slit his throat, ending the fight.

Dorian then proceeded to clean his weapons with their clothes. In the middle of it, he heard many footsteps coming his way. At first he was afraid those were other thugs, but was relieved to see the newcomers had uniforms.

Dorian looked at the surrounding mess and wondered how he would explain to the police what happened. On the other hand, he was surprised at how cold blooded he had been. In all the books and comics he had ever read, the characters would be shocked and would freeze the first time they killed another human, but strangely he didn't feel anything.

Dorian pushed this out of his mind as it didn't really matter for the moment, and smiled at the incoming officers.