Quest

*7 years later*

"Haha, you guys can never catch me. Sucker"

"Come back here, Sun Zhen"

7 years old Sun Zhen ran across the village street while being chased by older children. The adults didn't care because seem like they were playing a game of tag.

"Boss, he is too fast"

"I don't care, he dropped a bunch of dung in our secret base for no reason at all"

"I think we stuffed trash at his into his dest yesterday so he come back for revenge"

"Catch him, beat him up then we call it even"

"Wait, he is running into that alley. that place only has one way out. That kid is doom. Let catch him"

They soon followed him into the alley but they didn't find him anywhere, Sun Zhen just disappeared.

"Where is that kid? I thought you said there isn't any way on the other side"

"There isn't, boss, look. There is a very tall wall"

"Hum that kid can also climb, let go to other side of the wall. Also, I want every gang in this village to look for him"

There wasn't any gang in the village. there were only 13 people in his group and only 5 people came after Sun Zhen. He only said that because it felt cool and he enjoyed the chasing despite his group's secret base got filled with animal dungs.

A few seconds after they left, the wall "opened" its eyes. If the group were still in the valley, they would get scared to death because the wall had eyes. The part of the wall color slowly changing and a human-shaped shadow appeared on the wall. The shadow was Sun Zhen and he just used a skill, it called Camouflage.

The skill let him blend into the environment around so that nobody could see him. There were 2 weakness for using this skill, he couldn't move and easily got noticed if someone was near.

The skill evolved from Hiding. A skill he picked up when he trying to hide from his grandfather's rage. That time, he broke a valuable vase that his grandpa bought from the city. Unfortunately, he still got found and got spanked in the butt. His mom stopped the spanking and yelled at his grandpa for hours.

He then decided to use this skill to its max potential. He used to hide from anyone who he pissed off, from studying in class and from bullies in school. Eventually, the skill evolved to Camouflage.

--Sun Zhen's house--

"Mom, I'm back"

It was afternoon so he went back to his house.

"Sun Zhen, you little rascal. Did you leave school early today? Your teacher complained about you how undisciplined you are. Not only you left school early, you even trying to create trouble with other kids"

His grandpa came out with a rod in his hand, today he must discipline this grandchild of his but Sun Zhen's savior stopped him.

"Stop trying to hit my son Dad. I am sure he has his reasons. Darling, can you tell us why did you do all of that"

"Mom, can I not go to school? It is boring, I am ready knew the answers from the lessons. And because I am smart so other children are jealous of me"

With his Mathematics, the math wasn't that hard and his Language was high lvl so the Literature class wasn't hard either. The problems he only had in school were his dumb teachers and bullies in school.

He wouldn't call that a school, it was just a small class with over 50 children and 2 ignorant teachers. Also, the children were much older than him, he was only 7 while others were 8 to 15.

"You see Dad. He is a genius. A normal school will not suit him"

"But we can't send to a better school, we don't have enough money for that and those schools are in the city"

While they were arguing, Sun Zhen sneaked back to his room.

"Man. What a day"

He got his revenge on the bullies despite his action was a bit childish for him but he was only a kid in the end so his action was justified.

"Let see now, seem like Camouflage lvl increase"

As soon as he opened Skills. A long list of skills appeared on the interface. There must be over 20 skills but most of them were lvl 3 at most.

SKILLS:

{ Dance lvl 2 }

{ Write lvl 3 }

{ Farming lvl 1 }

...

{ Camouflage lvl 18 }

{ Movement Speed lvl 5 }

{ Eating - Passive }

{ Reaction lvl 89 }

{ Fighting lvl 2}

He have 2 advanced skills while one of his skills became passive.

Movement speed was skills that advanced by combining Walking and Running. Those skills were on the same branch so the system decided to combine them. But this skill was way harder to lvl up.

He ran around the village for a day and the skill only lvl up once. He would imagine how hard it would be to lvl the skill to 10.

As for Eating skill, it didn't have any advance skill and become passive for him. But that the good part, he could literally eat anything without damaging his teeth and organs. He tried to eat a wooden piece and it tastes weird but filled his stomach very fast.

Eating-Passive: Eating is your nature, anything is food to you.

The description of the skill appeared after it became Passive and one hell of an OP skill. He could eat anything but considering eating something dangerous would harm him. Bad or dangerous "food" may even kill him.

Reaction skill was also hard to lvl so he decided to stop and caught mosquitos or flies were too easy for him.

The Fighting skill was picked up after he got a fight with one of the bullies in class. He was a child so his strength wasn't that great and fighting wasn't his thing.

"What should I do tomorrow? Going to school is so bored"

When he turned back to menu. He felt something different about his system.

"The quest system is open!!...7 years, 7 whole goddam years. Now you finally open"

He opened the Quest section and he got another message.

"The quest system was delayed because it took a long time to gather all the information related to your world. Now it is open, enjoy :)"

After the message gone, he saw only one quest appeared on the screen.

QUEST:

Gather 10 silver grass in Great Wolf Mountain.

Difficult Grade: Hard.

Reward: 10 LVL up a chosen skill.

"Hard? Are you serious? my first quest is hard. Great Wolf Mountain is just near here but I never heard of Silver grass. Wait, maybe grandpa know"

His family income mostly came from his grandpa's works. He was a herb seller and he usually went to the mountains outside once a week to get some herbs for his shop. It wasn't dangerous for him because he had been doing herb picking since young ages and he knew almost every grass and herbs around.

"Grandpa, can I ask you something?"

"You rascal, you better not ask about my other vase"

"No. I just want to ask, have you ever heard about Silver Grass?"

"Silver Grass?! That some rare herb, it can be only found in Great Wolf Mountain. Why do you ask?"

"My friend asked me about the herb because I am your grandson. Do you have any Silver Grass?"

"It is too rare, it can only be found deep inside the forest so it can be dangerous for me. But I have seen one when I was young. Silver Grass just like its name, it is grass with silver color but it also can glow a bit"

"Thanks, Grandpa"

"Ok, now go away. I am busy"

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"This mission is ridiculous. I am only 7, I have never gone into deep into a forest before and I pretty sure don't know how to fight wild beast"

He came up with many plans but most of them would fail or take too long to ready. He only had 1 plan left and it would be the best for him but he had to ask his mom.

--Dinner time--

"You want what?"

His mom and his grandpa both stood up when they heard Su Zhen.

"I want to join grandpa on his herb collecting day"

"No way in hell, I will not let you go with grandpa. Do you know how dangerous outside"

"Right, I will not allow you to go with me"

"But he only goes to the mountains once a week and studying is so boring in school"

"That is not a good reason"

After trying to convince his mom and grandpa, they finally agreed with his idea. He could go to herb collecting day if he obediently attended class from tomorrow until Saturday.

*Next day*

"We are done here, class. Remember to do your homework"

Sun Zhen had to endure 4 hours of studying from morning to noon because of his deal with his mom but mostly he would just attend and sleep in the class. The teachers didn't care about him because knowing how smart the kid was and afraid of getting insulted by him.

When he was about to leave class, the group of bullies blocked him after other children and teachers already left.

"Sun Zhen, you really do have the gut to go to class today"

"Hello, Retard. Do you like how I did to your base? The decoration must be better now. You can thank me later"

"YOU..."

"Sun Zhen, today we have the boss and 5 people here. You are going to get beaten"

The boss of this group was 11 years old and others were around 7 to 10. He was outnumbered but he wasn't worried.

"Oh please, you guys are weak"

"Don't be cocky. Take this"

The boss went forward and punched at Sun Zhen but he easily dodged it then stick out his leg. The boss got tripped and fell down on his face.

"My nose, it hurt so much"

When the others saw the boss's broken bleeding nose, they were shocked.

"You guys, get him"

Following the boss order, they started attacking from every side. Despite only 7 years old, his reaction was so much faster than a normal person and his legs moved so fast that they couldn't react fast enough to dodge.

He dodged all the attacks without much effort and he started to attack back with his leg.

All of them got kicked in the stomach and felt down.

"Its hurt"

"My stomach..."

"I want my mommy" *Crying*

Last time he didn't have Fighting so handle one of them's was hard but now, he could overwhelm them with just Fighting Lvl 2.

"See, you guys are weak. Now leave me alone"

Suddenly, something came at him with incredible speed but he caught it before it hit his eyes. It was a small pebble. Someone was aiming at him.

It was the boss, he used a slingshot as last resort to harm Sun Zhen. When he saw Sun Zhen caught the pebble so easily, his face gone from angry to terrified.

He walked slowly to the boss and took the slingshot away. The boss didn't fight back at all, he was too afraid.

"Thanks for giving me this, now scam"

The word "Scam" was super effective. The group hurried ran away from him without the boss's order.

"A slingshot!!! I can use this as my weapon"