Chapter 17

Peter was walking around with a lot more confidence than he used to. The night vision he got was a lot more useful than the way it was described, there was absolutely no difference between his vision at night and his vision at day.

After a while he managed to find a suitable target and prepared himself for the confrontation.

[Entity class 1]

[Ability: Strength enhancement.]

He could have chosen a stronger opponent, but he didn't do so for two reasons. The first was that he wanted to get home quickly after the day's happenings, the second was that he wanted to test himself. He got a lot stronger lately and he wanted to try out whether he could absorb someone's blessing without them being unconscious.

[Successfully absorbed class 1 strength blessing.]

[Result: STR +0.05, MGC +0.01, EXP +10]

The experiment was a success but Peter couldn't really enjoy it because he was hit in the head by the back of the gangster's hand.

[Health: 95%]

The attack hurt a lot because despite his increased strength he was still a lot more fragile than the average person and he was being hit by someone who had a strength blessing just moments ago.

He did manage to win without further injuries and called the police to pick the man up. A few minutes later three officers arrived instead of the usual one.

He already met two of them in the days prior. The one he hasn't met had a much fancier uniform and was the one coming towards him.

"Good evening. My name is Alexander Jern the local police chief. I'm here to talk about your recent activities."

Peter had no idea what was wrong with his so called activities. Attacking wanted criminals was allowed and as far as he knew he hadn't killed or caused permanent damage to any one of them. He decided to voice his annoyance since he was innocent.

"Why do we need to talk about my activities? I haven't broken any laws."

"You didn't, but what you are doing is causing us a lot of trouble and if you continue, we might not be able to protect you."

As if on cue four gangsters walked around the corner and up to the officers. The two parties seemed to recognize each other and both were irritated by the other's presence.

[Entity class 9]

[Abilities: Corrosive touch, Venomous touch, Antidote]

Their leader alone was enough to effortlessly beat Peter and it was even worse with a group behind him. The gangster's words further increased his worries.

"So, can we take this as you protecting him?"

"Where did you get that idea? We are only here to pick up a criminal."

Alexander was obviously lying in an effort to defuse the situation, but it was very clearly not working, mostly because everyone had a general idea of how the police operated.

"Then you wouldn't have come yourself. It's clear you are trying to deter the kid from working, but we clearly said that we can't accept that. We already lost too many people."

Anthony arrived on the scene around the same time as the gangsters and was ready to jump in at any moment. Because there were people around who he didn't want to beat up he sacrificed his shirt to quickly make a mask for himself.

The officers' and the gangsters' bickering continued for a while. Peter decided to take the opportunity and disappear while the two parties were preoccupied with each other.

Unfortunately, as soon as he was covered by shadows the leader of the gangsters rushed towards him with his fist raised, ready for a punch. Peter raised his hands to try to block at least a single hit.

A loud bang could be heard.

The boy was surprised that he wasn't feeling any pain, so he looked over his hands and saw a half-naked man with a white cloth wrapped around his head, holding the gangster in the air with one hand.

The mysterious newcomer threw the unconscious man on the ground and seemingly disappeared before arriving next to another gang member and knocking them out with a single punch.

Every criminal was out cold after a few short seconds, but Peter did manage to check his savior.

[Entity class 24]

[Ability: General Enhancement]

[Star attribute: <Restricted access>]

Unless there was another person around with that exact description, it was obvious who saved Peter and why.

The officers, including Alexander, were dumbfounded. They didn't have any idea how to handle the situation. They ended up treating the passed out gangsters' injuries as a show of good faith. Peter helped out as well but for a different reason.

[Successfully absorbed class 5 healing blessing.]

[Successfully absorbed class 4 wind blessing.]

[Successfully absorbed class 6 all around blessing.]

[Absorption failed]

[Results: STR +0.15, AGI +0.2, END +0.1, STA +0.25, MGC +0.14, EXP +150]

In the end Peter left without being paid, but after what happened he didn't really care. He was just grateful for the help he got and the opportunity he was given.