Sworn brother

As time went by, Andrew found that a lot of people posted pictures and videos they had captured with the system camera.

Most of the worlds' settings were that of worlds very similar to earth.

Andrew saw scenes of a post apocalyptic earth, a futuristic earth, and a few more others.

The only consistent thing across the board, was that all worlds were "low level worlds", thus meaning that there were very few depictions of supernatural powers.

Although the depictions were few, they existed!

Andrew saw someone smash a huge bolder with their naked fist!

There were also videos of someone running the distance of a hundred metres in 3 seconds!

Seeing such scenes, Andrew felt his blood boil, and he decided that he will higher someone to teach him martial arts when he goes back in game.

Even though these feats could be considered slightly above human ability, which man does not want to experience them?

He also looked forward to experiencing high level world.

Imagining himself as a mage, throwing fireballs and changing terrain at the turn of a hand, Andrew felt his enthusiasm grow.

On the website, there were three accounts that became very popular.

The owners of these accounts actually managed to clear the first stage within the given four days, and they advanced to their second worlds.

When he found out that other people had cleared the first level, Andrew's confidence took a hit.

He honestly thought he was progressing very fast, who would have thought that other people were doing better than him?

Two of the three "experts" had actually made a tutorial post on how to quickly defeat the protagonist, of course the posts were locked and one had to pay to unlock them.

Even though curious, Andrew did not view the tutorial, he felt that it would take away from the fun of doing it with his own ability.

While waiting for the game severs to open, he spent the whole day reading relevant posts.

There were only 500 people who got to play the game, but with their countless posts, the game had actually started trending, and the comments were rich in content.

Many thought that the it was just a promotional gimmick to get people interested in the game, but that did not stop it from trending.

The waiting list on the website had actually risen from zero to more than a hundred thousand, but there was still no news from the game officials.

...

Night time.

After waiting all day, the game severs were about to open.

Andrew lay on his bed with his gaming device already equiped.

He was currently looking at the big and bolded number countdown.

....

[5

4

3

2

1

Starting up game...]

...

Andrew experienced the familiar feeling of passing lights, that made him feel as though he was traveling through the galaxy.

Looking down at himself he found the familiar "soul body" and he could not help but smile to himself.

A few minutes later, Andrew woke up in Mathew's body.

"Aiya, why was I in such a hurry to come back here again?"

Feeling his slightly sore back from sleeping in the uncomfortable bed, Andrew couldn't help but complain out loud, but he was still smiling.

...

Maple city, some widow's house.

Garfield was leaving for work.

Last night, the public security officers dropped by this house, and showed him a drawing of a wanted criminal, asking if he had seen him.

The man had tried to assassinate the city's mayor, and although the mayor survived the assassination attempt, he was gravely injured.

Garfield told the officers that he had not seen him.

Later that night, when the very man who was wanted by the police, showed up unconscious I'm their yard, Garfield did the most rational thing someone would do in his situation.

He hid him in the house, called a doctor to patch him up, and gave the doctor some hush money.

When the man woke up and found that he was actually saved by Garfield, instead of turning him in, he was moved to tears, and insisted on taking Garfield as his sworn brother.

Just like that, Garfield became sworn brothers with a wanted criminal.

They dropped a blood of blood in wine, exchanged the wine cups and made an oath.

" Although I we were not born on the same year, same month, same day, I want to become brothers with Garfield/ Collins, and only hope to die on the same year, same month, and same day."

Then they drank from the cups.

After becoming sworn brothers, Collins took the initiative to hand over his treasured martial art technique to Garfield.

"Brother, I see that you have not practiced martial arts yet?"

Collins asked in a drunk tone.

"Unfortunately not, I was born from a poor family, how could I possibly come in contact with things like martial arts? That is beyond people like me."

The still sober Garfield sighed with melancholy.

"What?! How can that be? I could tell from a single glace at you that you are as talented as a phoenix or dragon!"

"Brother, I can't give you my martial arts technique since it is a sect technique, and you need to join the sect before you learn it, but I have another technique!"

The drunk Collins stumbled to his feet.

Seeing that he was about to fall, Garfield hurriedly showed his worry and care, as he rushed to support him.

"Don't stand up, you will only aggravate your injuries! I don't need martial arts cheat, although the world is chaotic right now, I can still live well as a mortal."

The surface of the words said one thing, but the deeper meaning said another, coupled with the act of actively helping him stand stand up, it was clear as day what was in Garfield's heart.

How could the drunk Collins, who had been bombarded the protagonist's halo, have time to process all of this?

His eyes turned red, as tears threatened to spill out.

"Is this how it feels to have a brother?"

"Is this how it feels to have family?"

"Is this how it feels to be cared for?"

"I Collins, have been an orphan for 29 years, and today I feel the love of family, hahahahaha!"

"All the friends I ever had always wanted to use me or get something from me, yet a sttranger shows so much care for me! Haha!"

Seeing that the situation was good for him, how could Garfield let the opportunity go?

He pretended to be angry and reprimanded.

"What do you mean by stranger?! You are my only family and sworn brother in this life. Now quickly sit down. Should I call the doctor to have another look at you?"

Hearing this, tears spilled out of Collins eyes.

"Hahaha, today is the happiest day of my life."

He refused to sit down, and carefully removed his belt.

On the belt, there were about a dozen small cylinders, and in these cylinders were many folded pieces of paper with densely packed words.

Garfield didn't know how this belt or cylinders were made, but when all the pieces of paper were laid out, they could create a small book.

Collins carefully arranged the pages in the right order as he explained to Garfield.

"You need to follow the right order when practicing the martial arts or you might go crazy, or even become crippled."

Cough!——

Cough!——

"I found this technique on the dead body of an expert who is very well known."

"Although I wanted to practice this martial art myself, but it requires that the person who practices it to have never practiced any other martial arts."

"I was very reluctant, and I practiced it anyway, but I ended up with an internal injury."

When he said this, Collins couldn't help but grit his teeth.

"If it was not because of the injury, how could I have failed to kill that fat pig?"

"Anyway, this technique is called the <<azure dragon fist>>."

"It was said to have been made after carefully observing a hundred and one snakes in nature."

"The practicing of this technique will make you have a very flexible, yet domineeringly strong body, that can pulverize iron with a single punch."

From the look on his face, one could easily tell that Collins really regretted the fact that he could not learn this martial art.

"I was going to pass this skill to my children, but my recent failure made me realize that people like me generally don't live long enough to have children."

When he said this, Collins had a very bitter smile on his face, even though he lived a life dancing on the blade of a knife, he still yearned for a family.

"Ok brother, then I will keep this martial art for your children, if one day, your descendant comes to me, I will give him this martial art book, and impart him with all my knowledge, or I will be hacked by 9 heavenly thunders."

"Hahaha, good, good, good!"

Seeing his "brother" not hesitating to swear such a poisonous oath, Collins felt assured and happy.

Little dis he know that when his daughter comes to learn the martial art in the future, she will be told that women shouldn't learn martial arts but should give birth to children.

Hence, his daughter became a concubine, but his grandson did learn half of the martial art before dying at an early age.

...

To be continued