Stress Release

**** Theodore's POV ****

I felt an itch in my ear. Scratching my ear, I approached a phone store near the agency I just came out of. I bought a more up to date phone, getting a smartphone that had a large screen and good battery life. I registered a new phone number, and began to walk towards the bus station again. My destination was the new house I had just bought.

While on the bus, I began to look at the exchange rate of gold coins to dollars. It seemed I could exchange 10 gold coins, for $10,000, and I had to buy it in increments of $10,000. I decided to convert my other 50 gold, and decided I would use it to buy things for my new home.

After I had finished all that, and a bit of planning for the new home, I started to explore the system again. I had a new option that allowed me to enter Dungeons, and I could even choose. I saw the Goblin Cave dungeon available for choosing, with different difficulties. The lowest difficulty which was Easy, would have 10 goblins that would need to be defeated. They would have poor teamwork and be more likely to spread out due to inability for a single Goblin to take control of the group. Normal difficulty would comprise 6 Goblin platoon leaders being added to a total of 30 goblins, meaning they had five groups of 6 Goblins each with a leader to create tactics. Hard is where things become difficult, spawning 70 with goblins being given ranged weapons such as bows and slingshots. Nightmare would then ramp it up more, spawning 140 goblins with shamans being added into each squad. Impossible would have a Goblin King spawn in, who would create a village with a total 280 goblins.

It was truly scary to think about the higher difficulties, and it was also exciting that I would be able to reach those insane heights with my own power someday. I figured the options wouldn't be available if they were impossible, I deduced this because there were limits set to each difficulty, meaning they had thresholds of difficulty.

I got off the bus at this moment, and began walking in the direction my GPS took me. This was one of the reasons I got a phone, I wouldn't have been able to find my own house if I didn't have it. The owner was a balding middle aged man. Smiling, he came up to me and handed me the keys. He took me inside and showed me around briefly, before leaving to attend to some business. He spoke of fond memories he had of the house, which brought a smile to my face. I spoke with the man and we had gotten along well. After he left I began to rearrange the living room to allow more open space.

I would use this room to exercise while I watched television. I began to do some light stretches, and decided to follow along with a yoga program on the TV. I wanted to keep my exercise moderate, because I still had some discomfort while moving my leg. It was fully healed, but after 11 years of moving a certain way, I had to get used to moving it differently.

After about an hour, I had finished my exercise and was drenched in sweat. Yoga was slow, however it was really intense because it was slow. It truly tested your muscle endurance and pushed your boundaries of flexibility. I went and took a bath in the master bathroom. It had a very large tub that was even separate from the shower, which helped me realize that I was truly living in a much better environment than I had for the past eight years, after I had been kicked out of my family home. After my bath, I ordered some food delivery, and ordered some new clothes for delivery the next day.

When my food arrived, I had ordered some fried chicken and a bit of alcohol.

"PAHHHH! Ahhhh this is the life I have been missing out on. My body feels good, I am in a huge house with a beautiful flat-screen TV, and I'm eating delicious food with alcohol. I will challenge the easy dungeon tomorrow. I am now restless..." Theodore became quiet suddenly. His life was almost lost yesterday, he had killed something. Even with knowing that a Goblin was not a human, it was still an intelligent creature, one able to feel fear. It didn't want to die, but neither did he. Theodore felt alone. His family never loved him after his accident, and he had just cut his ties off with his brother. With tears in his eyes, he curled up on the couch and fell asleep crying. Overwhelmed with all the emotions he had suppressed.