10. Grinding in "lesser" district

Abraham was lying under a tree. He was wearing his usual hoodie. From the outside, it looked like he was sleeping but currently, he was inside his soul space; the white room. Compare to the last time he was here, there was a third flame present. The flame was red as blood representing his now blood ability. As long as he got a new power before he turned seventeen, his soul would continue to add a flame representing it.

On top of the new flame, the biggest yellow flame representing his Qi power was now bigger in size. For his dragon's flame, it remained identical to the past.

Moreover, Abraham felt something different about the room. There was the feeling that the room has expanded a little and another thing was present in the room. Abraham kept searching the room but it was to no avail. He decided to give it another try in the future.

He opened his eyes and dragged himself to the tree and leaned against it. He was spamming his Inspect skill on every individual that was passing. At one time he detected a group of gang members but none had any ability.

While observing his surrounding, he noticed a woman dressed in black was using a whip to strike two children. Abraham immediately stood and walk toward the scene and activated his Inspect skill.

[Race: Human]

[Ability: Transfrom]

[HP 17/20]

[Blood type O]

"Ohh, based on her hp, she should have a middle-level ability. Such a delicious exp point you are, I can't let you go". Abraham thought to himself while walking.

Just when Abraham was getting closer to the woman, someone shouted the word witch causing Abraham to stop. She immediately turned and instantly regret her decision. A hand full of soil was thrown on her face. Her eyes started to burn while crying curse upon his misdoer.

Abraham exactly what happened. It was another child around the age of 8 who had taken such action. After his misdeed, he grabbed the two crying children on the ground and disappeared into the crowd. Everything happened so quickly, that no one had the reaction to stop the child run evading.

Seeing some gang members approaching the woman, Abraham decided that he could not target the black-dressed woman for now.

[Your hunger has grown]

A system message popped in front of Abraham and he suddenly started to feel hungry. The hunger in Abraham's stomach was very little. It was as if he had just missed breakfast or something. Blood was like a drug, bringing an addiction to consume more. In turn, shortening the duration between each hunger.

Abraham ignored the message for now and continued his search.

If the hunter was not able to find the bear in the forest, he could only go toward its cave. That was exactly what Abraham intended to do. Instead of searching for the gang member, he came in front of their base. It was among the few building that was constructed back. It was a three-floor building and gang members could be seen patrolling.

One of the perks of transforming into a vampire was the highlighted senses of the user. Abraham could see during the night, he could hear someone from afar and smell things better; especially blood.

It was dark, and few lights on the street illuminated the environment, so every gang member had a torch with them. Right now two gang members were leaving the base. Unknown to them, a boy was following them.

Abraham waited patiently the entire night and the perfect occasion happened when two members had finished their shifts. On using the Inspect skill, Abraham found out that both were level two ability users.

When people started to receive abilities, they found out not everyone was equal. Even with the same type of ability, another could be more powerful. For example, if one fire ability user could release bigger and hotter fire than another.

Later it was discovered that the ability depends on the mutant cell of the user. More meant better.

So the military introduced the power level system, which differentiated between a total of eight power levels. These levels indicated how many mutant cells were in the body but not how strong the ability was. The military further divided them into subcategories. 1.1 1.2 ... all the way to 1.9. just to identify everyone.

The ability of levels 1 and 2 was the weakest of the spectrum. They were treated like garbage by higher-ability users.

On the other hand, level 8 represented the strongest. Even among them, there was a big difference.

An individual could receive ability power from either an original or ability book. Humans with greed in their nature, the original didn't share their abilities with the rest. So the rest could only turn to ability and skill books. The price was proportional to the level of the books as such the first two levels were the most common that a user could buy in the market.

Both of the gang members staggered being drunk and intoxicated. Abraham walked to them and stopped just in front of them. Just as both were about to talk, they felt a tight slap on their cheek. Their stunned faces quickly turned into anger as both tried to return tenfold the pain inflicted by the stranger.

[An ability has been detected]

[Initiating battle mode]

[ New quest has been given ]

[1 vs 2]

[Defeat both gang members, Power level 2]

Both of them straighten their arms and solid sand in the form of a ball got launched toward Abraham. Having drawn back a few metres, Abraham didn't have to do anything as both the attacks missed him. He activated his second-stage Qi and slowly approached them. Both feelings irritated having missed their first attack decided to try again. This time, both attacks landed on the target. But they were not happy and decided to bombard their opponent with everything they got.

After a few seconds, both of them stopped, not because their opponent was dead, but far from it, Abraham didn't have a single scratch on him.

"You devil, stop immediately, we we are from the bear gang, youu..". One of them stuttered seeing the little creature approaching. In the darkness with no one around, both of them felt like the devil was here to collect their soul for all the cruelty they did during their lifetime.

With fears taking over their mind, both didn't consider the option to run and took the incoming punch without any defense.

[Quest has been completed]

[50 exp will be rewarded for each opponent ]

[110/200]

With a total of 100 exp from the quest and 10 from his two daily quest, Abraham was now halfway through the experience needed to level up.

Abraham looked at the two fallen bodies and put his hand inside his pocket to take out his knife and flask for the collection of blood.

Just then he felt a little tingling sensation from behind and on pure instinct he bent his body to the side.

He felt a slight pain near his tricep.

[HP 60/63]