1 The Thug
Edward Linx is a fallen noble who lives on the street now. He is a thug, life as a thug, and dies like a thug.
For the first time, he has been kicked by his uncle from his own house, making him angry and sad. His other relatives just offer sympathy without an act. He looked at the sky and murmured, "Why did this happen to me? My parents are gone and all their inheritances have gone too."
He walks on the street like a homeless man, no, he's really homeless. He just has a set of clothes he wears now. No money at all.
Suddenly rain comes down like him being mocked by his fate. When he wants to take refuge with his former acquaintances, they refuse him flatly. At this time, he feels that the world seems to want him to suffer.
He finally found a closed building and rested under a building overhang.
Within a year, he gradually becomes a street thug and learns to do some little crime. Pickpockets, extort, blackmail and other crimes are just his everyday food. He also learns a strange martial art from Indonesia, Silat. Not like Judo, Karate, or similar martial arts, Silat has a spiritual part. If he focuses on his eyes and holds his breath, he can see spiritual beings like ghosts or devils. According to his master, ghosts are nonexistent. It's just the devil who impersonates a dead person.
When he blackmailed shopowners or high-class prostitutes, he occasionally used his abilities. The devil around him is very excited when he does some crime and wholeheartedly helps him. Some large street ganks have even become wary of his existence: an expert thug.
No one wants to offend him. Long ago, a thug boss wanted to force him to be his underling. Edward is very pissed with the boss's attitude. He calls his spirited friend and tells them to make him suffer. In three days, the thug boss entered the hospital but the doctor said that he doesn't have an illness. He dies for one week.
.....
Right now Edward wants to vent his emotions on his high-class prostitute. After 3 years he becomes a badass thug, he just takes a prostitute business as his property. Every prostitute or red district in the city is his possession. With his protection, no one dares to mess with a prostitute.
He created some rules in the underworld to protect his possessions, and no one dares to mess with it, even if officials won't come to find trouble.
He knocks on the apartment door.
Knock! Knock!
"Who?" A woman's voice rang inside.
"It's me," Edwards said.
She opens the door and grabs his hand. She drags him inside happily.
"Boss, you have not visited this little sister in a long time. Look, I feel very lonely." She began to use her boob and pressed on his arm. She knows that her current boss is really capable and really care to the weak prostitute. She really feel grateful for his protection. She won't ever suffer again.
He just smiles and flicks on her forehead. He sits down and orders her to pour some wine. She obediently pours good wine on the glass and sits down beside him. Edward drinks it ad his other hand feels her voluptuous boob.
"Your boob is soft as before."
"Of course, if not, I can't gather easy money again," she said.
He laughs at heart and starts to tease all her sensitive spot one by one and begin their one-night stand.
On the morning, he wakes up and looks for the prostitute, but no one inside the room except him. The room also looks different than her apartment.
[Notification! Host successfully transported to Azure Divine Continent. Congratulation!]
[Scanning Host body and soul. Please wait.]
[Scanning complete! Host can look at your status now. Just say status on Host mind.]
'Huh? Is it a prank from God? Status!'
Name: Edward Link
Level: 1
Grade: 1
Soul EXP: 0/10
Title: None
Job: None
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 2,3
Intelligence: 4
Spirit: 5
Vitality: 4
After he confirms that the imaginary status on his mind is real, he sighs on his fate. He just adapts his life as a thug; the god, sends him to the unknown world; Azure Divine Continent.
He walks out of the room and looks around. What he saw was the European middle-age building style. Some people walk in the street and look at him weirdly. Edward knows that his clothes are very different from this era's clothes. But whatever, he will not die if he doesn't use the same style of clothes, right?
He was surprised that he could understand all passersby. He smiles, at least God still gives him some benefit.
According to his gaming instinct, what he needs to do is level up and find a job. When he still thinks about his future, notification rang inside his head.
[Notification! Host has a good affinity with darkness. We recommend Host to be a dark magician.]
'Dark Mages? I feel all dark-related things are bad and taboo for a certain era.'
[Host is right. Dark Mage is regarded as taboo in this continent. Many Dark Magus spells are wicked.]
'Wicked eh? Then how can I get the Dark Magus job?'
[Host needs to level 10 to get a chance.]
[Gently reminder. Kill monsters and humans will give some EXP. But this world is dangerous. We hope Host will be careful.
He nods his head and asks some passersby about this place.
The city's name is Phoenix City. One of the central districts of Helio Kingdom. Count Dilo is the noble who oversees this district. Phoenix City has 7 towns and 3 villages. The city is guarded by a private army of counts and a small garrison of the Kingdom Army.
Because of constant threat from monster outside, kingdom encourages citizens to become army or adventurer. And the king personally gives a decree to create adventure guild. Everyone can join the adventure guild and become a solo adventurer or create a mercenary band.
Edward admits that this world looks more interesting than his former world. And mercenary band... he really wants to create it. As a thug, having capable underling is a must.
With native direction, he manages to enter adventure guild. He walks to the counter and asks "Morning sir. I want to join an adventuring guild. Can you explain the procedure?"
A middle age man looks at him and nodded. He picks registration form and gives it to Edward.
Name: Edward Linx
Gender: Male
Job: -
Age: 23 years
Ability: Street brawl
When Edward give it back to the receptionist, he just receives it and pick a metal plate and carve some rune and give it to me.
"Drop your blood on the plate."
He bit his finger and drop his blood on it. Suddenly information flood to his mind.
Name: Edward Linx
Job: None
Age: 23
Grade: One star bronze
"As the king decrees, every new adventurer will receive a starter pack." He picks a box and gives it to Edwards.
Edward nods and opens the box. Inside the box are a sword, a knife, and a map. The swords and knives are of fine quality. As for the map, the picture is roughly made and not detailed enough. But it's sufficient for now.
After saying thanks to the middle age man, he goes to the quest board and looks for a suitable mission.
Bronze Mission
Mission: Catch wild boar cub.
Reward: 100 copper coins. 3 Guild Points
Repeatable
.....
He picks a mission to pick wild herbs in the wilderness and is repeatable. He got a guidebook about herbs.
"Purple Lotus, grow in a water pool or lake. Usually guarded by water serpent."
The serpent itself was also very delicious according to the guild officer. The water serpent corpse price is surprisingly high; 3 silver coins each. As a parameter, the normal dish price is 5 percent copper, and the normal lodging price per night is 40 coppers.
1 gold = 1000 silver
1 silver = 1000 copper
He decided to search for it now and get familiar with the world.
After showing his guild plate, the gate guard let him out.
