Chapter 12 : This acting skill...

Before anything else, he messed with Sheila's corpse so that it resembles that she died from a magic attack, for his newly formed plan to work...

With all of this over, Luke had two options: He could either go and help the other people dealing with the remaining hobgoblins or he could profit of that time to visit the shop, after all, he could finally buy mana related potions.

As the kind-hearted person he was, he would of course not go out of his way to monopolize all the points. He had to let others have their share after all he had a big sharing heart. So... he visited the shop

' shop, potions '

* potions: tier one :

vitality enhance: 10 PTS

intelligence enhance: 10 PTS

strength enhance: 10 PTS

agility enhance: 10 PTS

resilience enhance: 10 PTS

healing potion: 10 PTS

mana enhance: 30 PTS

mana replenish 20 PTS *

' details of mana enhance and mana replenish '

* mana enhance: adds 1 point of mana after use.

mana replenish: restores 10 mana immediately after use. *

' buy 5 mana replenish, 10 mana enhance and 2 of each of the others '

After using them, he viewed his status

*status :

name: Luke

Species: tier one human

vitality: 26

strength: 26

agility: 40

intelligence: 36

resilience: 36

mana: 20

Inherited ability: spatial storage ???

skills: dagger mastery B

firearm mastery B

stealth mastery C

poison mastery C

spells: spacewalk tier one

dark hands tier one

money: 004 PTS *

With the enhanced mana, Luke felt a foreign substance that he never felt before, other than when he used his spells. He felt it growing and concentrating on it, he felt some familiarity with it, though he couldn't make it budge...

Letting the matter aside, Luke looked back to the fire and smoke filled battlefield. It was chaotic. Mages were raining down fire on each other. Because of the trees, they failed most of the time but the fire based abilities did great damage because of their consequences. In this forest environment, we can say that they never really fail. Each side suffers greatly from it. Then there are the archers and other people who had single target ability. On the humans' side, they acted as snipers and help while on the hobgoblins' side, they just randomly fired, creating more collateral damage than damage on the humans. On the front, the humans, not used to the brutality of life and death fights tended to be the weaker side. Overall though, humans were winning as the hobgoblins died more. After roughly 10 minutes, the fight ended and a resounding cheer of success resounded from the humans' side. The casualties were 46 dead and 21 gravely injured. These people are still taken care of by healers and other people who had some experience with treating injuries.

Since the fight ended, Luke sighed then after concentrating for a while, his expression became one of endless grief, sadness, anger, and hatred. He roared as if his life depended on it and as the attention of the people got on him, he ran with all his might toward Steven and grabbed his collar. " YOU !!! You piece of sh*t b*stard !!! Argghhhhh !! You killed her! You f*cking killed her !!!! " The more he shouted the harder his hands grabbed Steven's collar and he was even brought off the ground. Of course, the others wouldn't just let him do as he wanted and apart from the confused Steven was already had a hard time breathing, the others quickly tried to separate them and calm him down, in vain. He purposefully used most of his strength to grab the poor Steven who didn't do anything to deserve this.

" L-LUKE calm down please what happened? "

" Yeah, what happened, why are you so angry? "

" Luke, please, let go of Steven and let's talk like adults "

Lots of voices of protest and panic quickly rose. And as they couldn't do anything because of his strength, they tried to talk it out, while suppressing their fear. With his current expression which he copied from his now dead nemesis, he looked scarier than the combined hobgoblins horde.

" Shut up !!!! Shut the f*ck up !!! This b*stard killed Sheila !!! I want to kill him! I so f*cking want to kill him !!! argghhhhh !!!!! " Luke looked like a demented madman as veins all over his body made their way to his skin. He looked like an unreasonable enraged beast as he continued to hold onto Steven's collar. Carl who saw the situation tried to force them to separate with the use of his strength boosting ability but was surprised by his utter failure. In term of strength, with his skill, he was at the same level as Luke but with a primal fear embedded into his nervous system by the aura Luke released, his strength was limited. So he, like the others tried to talk it out

" Luke please calm down! Tell me what happened! Why are you saying he killed Sheila? "

" Why !? WHY !? Because that piece of sh*t shot her with his ability! I saw this b*stard do it! " As Luke screamed this, his now reddened eyes had tears streaming down. He then brought down Steven and began to choke him. The poor, innocent victim couldn't do anything about it. The others were greatly alarmed from this and had trouble imagining the kind-hearted Steven murdering someone else so they came to the conclusion that even if he did it, it shouldn't have been on purpose

" Luke please calm down! I know you are pained from this loss but still, calm down! Steven didn't do anything wrong and even if he did, do you really think that he would knowingly kill her? Please let him go! "

Carl tried to appease him but as he saw that it was in vain and that Steven got nearer to death every passing second, he changed his approach " Please Luke let him go! If you continue like this we will be forced to use force! " As Carl said this, a few people moved in threatening ways or just raised their weapons.

But this didn't deter him, what did was the system's prompt which, like always interrupted him.