Giant Rats (1)

'Body tempering : 200 / 200'

'2nd Layer achieved'

"YES! i did it.." Red says while getting up, wears his clothes back and leaves the locker room. heading back to class Red hears people talking around the corner, but when he passes it, no one is there... he's a bit confused, he swore he heard 2 people talking but he can't see anybody.

"Why's he just standing there?" Red hears the voice again. it freaked him out but still can't find the source.

"He's a bit weird, just ignore him," Red hears it again. Then, he sees them. two students at the end of the hall all the way on the other side.

"What?, no way..not them they're too far." red tells himself

"Look, he's looking at us." One of the two students whispers. Even when he's whispering, Red can still hear it clearly, even see what they're holding. one held his phone and the other a pen, blue pen to be exact.

"How the hell can I see that from here... is it the 2nd layers' effects?" red asks. it was fascinating. all his senses are heightened. His hearing, vision and even smell were very amazing. Red keeps walking to his class, joyous with his new abilities. He sits down and starts again... "Body Tempering."

'Body tempering : 1 / 500'

"This is going to take way too long isn't it." says red disappointingly.

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'Body tempering : 76 / 500'

Ding dong ding ♫

The bell rang. in a flash everyone took their stuff and left. red and sam followed, but to their misfortune stan did as well. in front of the school, stood the 5 guys stan sent after red the last time. they were still in their school uniforms, they went to his school. red noticed.

"Hey body, where'd you run off to yesterday?" One of them spoke, he looked a little scary, his hair was in a mess, with a face not very good looking, smoking a cigarette. Red and Sam were blocked off, had nowhere to go but face them. Sam flinched, he remembered them. they were the ones that beat him.

"Oh, hey sam, want to hang out again?"one says while laughing.. Red understands what happened. when they couldn't find him, they waited for Sam and grouped up on him. Red was enraged. "I was gonna come look for you fu**ers" says red..

"Oh, really? yo guys, this guy right here called you pu**ies saying if you weren't grouping up on him he'd have fu**ed you up.." Says Stan while walking up to the group.. they laugh

"ohh you're a tough one, Let me see then.." speaks the same guy again, throws his smoke while walking up to red. Suddenly he throws a punch at red.. or it should have been, to red it was not that quick or surprising to him, saw it and dodged, then throws a punch back, lands on the guy's stomach and sends him back. Red just had a breakthrough and didn't know how strong he was. with just a punch the guy was on his knees throwing up. He couldn't stand anymore. It was way too painful. all couldn't understand what happened. that was no ordinary punch, no high school student can do that... a hint of fear was showing on their faces.

'Achievement Unlocked : First Fight!'

"System updated."

'Reward : Money Withdrawal / 50 XP'

"HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING." a scream came from behind the group. The teachers saw the commotion and came out. "YOU THINK THIS IS A FIGHTING CLUB. ALL OF YOU COME WITH ME.."....

Everyone got yelled at. they knew red and sam weren't in the wrong. they sent them both home while keeping the others and calling their parents. After the boys left the school, Sam spoke "That was so cool, you were abnormally strong, you really are a ranker!!" Sam was happy to see at least one of them hurt. Red responded "haha yeah i know, even i can't believe it." Red and Sam were having a good day, they were sure that those nobodies will never mess with them again..

After they parted ways, Red headed back to that restaurant, and he wanted to see Anita. but unfortunately for him the restaurant was closed. so he turns to leave.

"Hey, it's you right umm.. Red?" a girl's voice spoke. red turns and sees her, Anita walking up to him.. "You came looking for me? hehe" she spoke. red blushed, "Hey, i came to check on you.. did they bother again?" red asks

"Haha no, i never saw them again after that. what about you?" Anita asks

"yeah i'm fine.. they won't bother me again. it's a bit early isn't it why's the restaurant closed?" asks red.

"Yeah, there's no customers at this time anyways so we decided to open in the morning and close at 2 am.. i have something i need to do, i'll see you around" Anita waves to red with a smile... "Yeah. take care" red waves back. He liked her. so he decided to come see her everyday whenever he can..

Red leaves, while walking he remembers the Money withdrawal reward he got.. he heads to the construction site he went to before so no one can see him and mutters "Status."

Name : Red Max Hp : 440 / 440 Max Mp : 120 / 130

Level : 2 To next level : 60 / 100

Class : Unknown Title : Unknown

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STR : 6 (+5) VIT : 5(+6) AGI : 3 (+8) INT : 13 WIS : 6 LUCK : 2

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LP : 0 CASH : 53.37 $ $

"Wow... it's different. Is this my cultivation results? awesome." Red says happily. He reaches with his hand and taps on the CASH word.

"How much is needed?" The same female voice came again. red was surprised then spoke. "50$".

"Understood." it spoke back. Money showed up out of nowhere in Reds hand. "It worked!" said red. (CASH : 3.37 $).

Red puts the money back in the system. He's thinking of testing the Mana bolt skill. He faces a concrete wall and points his open palm at it. "MANA BOLT" screams red. a blue ball forms in his palm in seconds. with blue light reflecting on his surroundings. it was the size of his palm and it shoots. it was so quick that the next thing red noticed was a small flash and a hard slam. He looked, the wall had a small ball shape caved in it with cracks all around it.

"Holy s**t, that was so cool... Status." Red spoke

Max Mp : 110 / 130

"It takes 10 mana per shot huh.." red spoke after looking over the status window. Now he wanted to test the Create Dungeon skill and start leveling up. He looked around. saw a decent sized iron rod placed in a corner. grabbed one, threw the chair leg he had in his inventory and said "Create Dungeon."

'Choose dungeon level.'

"level 1 Dungeon." red spoke

'Level 1 dungeon found, Transporting user."

In a flash red he found himself in a room, it had dirt for a floor and the ceiling was made of rock. with torches on each side on the walls.. it was not a room but a cave. Red was scared, he didn't know where he was and thought about using the Leave dungeon skill, but stopped, he had to do this and it's just a level 1 dungeon. How bad can it be?.

'Welcome. Please proceed with caution' a window popped up, not from his system but from the passageway in front of him. Red started going. He had healing touch and Mana bolt plus the cultivation technique. He was confident, the passage was narrow. not much place to move at. with a weird light source from the ceiling, it was uncommon, like a shining stone lighting his way, then, red could see it. the end of the passage and an opening to another room... suddenly.

'First room.'

"Quest received : Eliminate all the Giant rats in the first room 0 / 5" The female voice spoke.

"Oh, i forgot about the quests command, Giant rats? ugh" red whispered with a sigh

He peeked in, saw 5 Huge rats spread across the room Colored gray, with abnormally huge teeth and long lizard like tail. The space was big and there was enough room to dodge. He pulled the Iron Rod from his inventory and took a step inside. aimed at a solo rat and shot. "Mana bolt".

"..."

Red missed. He should have trained on aiming but he forgot which led him to attracting the enemys' attention; the rat squealed after seeing red, grabbing the attention of 2 more and they charged at him. Red ran back, threw the passageway and looked back. The space like was said before wasn't big which had the rats coming at him in a line."I can't miss now." red spoke then he muttered "Mana Bolt."

*SQUEEEAAAALLLL* a loud noise came from one of the rats. the shot landed, hitting it in the head which has done a lot of damage. blood flew everywhere.

'Quest : Eliminate all the Giant rats in the first room 1 / 5'

And again "Mana Bolt" .... and again "Mana Bolt" ... 2 / 5.

One of the rats was hit in its back, which didn't kill it but it was unable to move. Red looked around, seeing the disgusting remnants of those Things, but for some reason he didn't react, he was calm and collected... "Status." ...... Max Mp : 70 / 130. Red wondered why he was so calm, it was unnatural for him but then thought about a skill he had.

Steady Mind : Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through. Allows peaceful state of mind. Immunity to psychological mass effect. (Level: MAX / Passive)

Red understood, it was a very useful skill, if he didn't have it, panic would have struck him and probably got hurt ... or worse killed. 2 / 5. Red looked at the rat that survived the hit. These things were tough, the wall smashed when he tested the Mana Bolt but it can barely kill them. He didn't want to waste more mana so only one choice remained. to kill it with the iron rod. it was supposed to be a disgusting or repulsive matter to him but he didn't flinch.

He hit it once, it survived. Again, still no notification from the quest. so he did it over and over until. .... 3 / 5. red was different. even he knew that something was wrong, what he did was inhumane but it only made him happier. "I won't be hindered by baseless emotions. with this skill i can hunt and act without hesitation." Red stated. he was not wrong, this can be a very useful skill in hunts and dangerous situations.

'Loot (3 Giant rats) : YES / NO'

Red saw the message. and pressed YES leading to a new message window appearing.

'(2 Giant Rat meat / 3 Bones) Looted'

"Inventory." red saw the loot automatically appeared in the inventory slots. "Good, i don't need to dirty my hands." red spoke.

He moved forward, back to the room. seeing the 2 Giant rats remaining still unaware of his existence.

*Whistle* Red whistled at the 2 of them. his strategy of the Tight passageway was working. before he knew it the two Monsters were rushing at him. He ran in the passageway and waited. "Mana Bolt." and one rat was killed straight away. 4 / 5.

"..."

Red waited, but the fifth rat didn't show up. He waited but nothing happened, so he thought that thing went back after not seeing him anymore and went to look for it.

"UUGGGHHH." Red Yelled in pain.

The rat did not leave. it was waiting for him, it ambushed red. Biting his Leg, taking a big chunk of meat off of it. "Mana Bolt." it hit the rats' side. not killing it, and it jumped...

DIN! DIN! DIN! DIN! DIN! DIN!

Red hit the rat in midair with the iron rod.. when it fell, he kept hitting it over and over again.

"UUUUGH THIS FU**ER." Red Screamed.

'Loot (2 Giant rats) : YES / NO'

"YES YES FOR FU** SAKE..." .... '(1 Giant Rat meat / Lesser Life Stone) Looted'

'Quest Completed: Eliminate all the Giant rats in the first room 5 / 5'

'Reward : (100 $ / 100 xp)'

'Level Up'

"Healing touch" red spoke. his wound slowly started healing. "That didn't do much damage to me but the pain made it seem Worse than it is, that scared me." Red stated. his wound was fully healed. "Status."

Name : Red Max Hp : 410 / 440 Max Mp : 100 / 130

Level : 3 To next level : 60 / 200

Class : Unknown Title : Unknown

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STR : 6+(+5) VIT : 5+(+6) AGI : 3+(+8) INT : 13+ WIS : 6+ LUCK : 2+

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LP : 5 CASH : 153.37 $

"My mana went up? Was it due to me leveling? and it took 30 points to heal the wound. so it's different depending on how big the injury is" red explained.

then he added all the points into INT making it (13 -> 18).

'New skill acquired : Understanding Of Mana'

Understanding Of Mana : Technique that allows the user to become more proficient in handling Mana. (-2%) Mana consumption. (Level 1 / Passive).

"Interesting. leveling this would come in handy" red stated. "Inventory.... Lesser life stone?. this exists in normal dungeons as well, this is used to enchant equipment. it's normally found in normal dungeons, is this place connected with the other dungeons somehow?"

'First room Cleared, Please proceed with caution.' A new window showed up inside the room.

"Fu** no i won't proceed. i'm done for now... Leave Dungeon." red yelled.. suddenly he was taken back to where he first was. in the construction site.

"AHH... WHERE THE HELL DID YOU COME FROM" a man's voice spoke.

"..."