THE INCIDENT, FINDING THE CULPRIT
""Jake Grant
Level-3
Strength:24
Endurance: 24
Agility:24
Mana:13"
The process continued for an hour and finally ended with the light withdrawing back into he system.
"The host has gone through his second Mana awakening. An additional mana stat is been granted."
""Jake Grant
Level-3
Strength:24
Endurance: 24
Agility:24
Mana:14"
Leon opened up his tabs to see what MP and HP was.
HP , or helth points was an parameter that indicated the host's endurance. Currently Jake's stats showed 240/240.
MP, or Mana points was an indication of the host's magic power. Currently it was 140/140.
Jake rested for sometime before opening up the mission tab to see the next mission.
"Body Refining Mission: Basic Body Refining
The host needs to complete 20 rotation of the Taoist's 104 steps. The sudden increase is required to the fast growth of the host's man capacity. If you stop midway of a rotation, you will have to start from the beginning.
Objective: 20 rotations of the entire arts(0/10)
Reward: Strength +1, Endurance +1"
Jake looked at the missions and cursed at the difficulty. Moments later though, he fell in and began training in the Taoist's body arts. He continued to train in them again and again.
Around the night time-
"Body refinning mission: Basic body refinning
status: Success.
Rewards are being granted."
""Jake Grant
Level-3
Strength:25
Endurance: 25
Agility:24
Mana:14"
Jake could feel the increase in strength and he stood up and streched his body before going towards the noodles shop.
Jake was hoping to eat 20 bowls of noodles this time. He was extremely hungry from the continous practice of the Taoist body. How muscles were cramping as the Taoist body arts was not a small deal.
He walked down the lane towards the shop, but something looked different about the area. Jake couldn't understand at first, but he soon saw the building which previously stood as the noodle shop was now in shambles.
Jake ran as fast as he could and immediately began to lift and throw all the boards which had fallen down.
Soon enough, a body appeared that was heavily injured and bleeding profusely. It was none other than the old man himself.
Jake immediately felt that the worst case scenario might be happening. He tried to fell his pulse, and to his relief , the pulse was weak but present.
Jake immediately lift the old man's body and rushed towards the nearby hospital at the highest speed he could.
He managed to get inside and after clashing and rushing through a huge crowd he was able to admit the old man into emergency.
The doctors had a look at him and began operating. He had lost too much blood and the possibility of him surviving after the torture he had just gone through, was not high.
It would be a tough fight against the death, and Jake hoped the old man would persist.
Hours later-
The doctor came out of the operating room and found Jake rushing towards him.
"How is he?" Jake asked.
"The old man is a tough guy. Although the complications were too high and he was heavily injured, he not only survived the situation but is estimated to recover soon
His body is healing at a good pace."
The doctor's finally relieved some of Jake's stress. He then looked towards the door of the operation theater and sighed with relief.
The next moment though, his eyes competely changed. They were that of someone relieved, but of someone who was angry and in search of vengeance.
"When I find who did this, I will fucking kill them all." Jake said as he paid the bills before rushing out of the hospital , towards the counter.
...
Infront of the noodle counter, at the foothills of the mountain-
A group of people were scourging through the rubble that was once the noodle counter, in search of something.
"Where is that old man's body? Young master said that we must find the body before anyone else did. This incident shouldn't become an issue in the news. That will be too bad for the young master." The man in charge of the situation said.
His subordinates were looking all around with concern , as they couldn't see where the old man was.
Unknown to the group, a figure soon stood in their vicinity, hearing everything they were saying.
"Were you the ones who did this to the shop and the old man?" Jake asked.
The group looked at him and seeing that it was boy, some chose to ignore while other tried to make him go away.
"Get lost from here boy. This is not a place you should be during the night." One of the people said.
"Were you the ones who did it?" Jake asked again.
The man who just asked him to leave looked at him with a mocking expression and said.
"What if we did?" The man said.
The next moment, a fist landed directly on the man's face, crushing his skull completely.
The group was instantly thrown into alert, but how could Jake allow them to act. He grabbed a small, yet sharp wooden piece and rushed at them.
He stabbed two in thier neck, killing them instantly. Others were stabbed in the body, their stomach and their bones were crushed one after the other.
The leader who initally came here to salvage the situation that his young master has caused, regretted being ever acquainted with him.
He was standing in front of a devil who showed mercy. His subordinates were either killed or completely crippled with most of their bones crushed.
"You are the last one remaining. Any words you want to say about this young master of yours before I kill you." Jake asked.
The head was extremely nervous, but his posture didn't showed any sign of being scared.
"You are quite ruthless boy. To think you either killed or crippled every single one of my people. I couldn't just ignore this as if nothing happened. You will have to pay for your actions." The leader spoke as a layer of light seems to have enveloped him.
"So you are an awakened." Jake looked at the guy without having a single trace of fear in his eyes.
"Combat Mission: Assailant Extermination
The host has been challenged by an awakened. Defeat him.
Objective: Beat the awakened(0/1)
Rewards:Agility +1, Mana +1, A new movement art."
Jake looked at it and smiled. He then toom his regular stance and waited for the leader to rush in. As expected,the leader soon felt uneasy and attacked Jake.
Jake used his movement arts , along with his boxing arts while wearing the steel knuckles in his hands.
Although the leader was more skilled than the last awakened he fought, his stats had grown way beyond that level. This was an easy fight.
Jake managed to break one of the leader's hand while incurring a little damage on himself.
As the fight drew on, the leader's confidence began to drop. The boy in front of him was a normal human, yet he was the one on the disadvantaged side.
He tried to recapture his momentum again and again, but failed to do so.
....
In the middle of the fight, Jake suddenly remembered his mana extrusion art. He wanted to try it out and see what happened. He began to manipulate his mana all around while trying to extrude it from his fists.
A sort of energy began to emit from both his plams that looked like a small layer of light.
Jake wanted to try it out and the next moment began to attack with it.
The very moment his fist made contact with the leader's other hand, it was crushed with pure power.
Jake MP on the other hand was decreasing 1 and the speed was quite rapid.
Jake continued to attacked, until , both the rib cage, and colar bones were completely fractured.
He then stopped assaulting the enemy and grabbed his hair to pull him up.
"Who did this?" Jake asked.
The leader looked at his merciless eyes and the next moment sour on his face.
"Go to hell you mother fucker." The leader said.
The next moment a knife pierced right throught the leader's left eyes and penetrated deep into his brain, killing him instantly.
Jake collected all the wallets, coats, and anything valuable or useful he could find on the bodies including their communication devices.
The mission was completed and he had gained an additional surprise.
"Combat Mission: Assailant Extermination
Status: success
Rewards are being granted."
""Jake Grant
Level-3
Strength:25
Endurance: 25
Agility:25
Mana:15"
"The host has levelled up. New boxing method has been granted. New movement method has been granted. A hidden martial arts is being rewarded for the level up."
""Jake Grant
Level-4
Strength:25
Endurance: 25
Agility:25
Mana:15"
Just when Jake was browsing through the tabs, the captain's phone rang and Jake saw the contact listed as young master. Jake picked it up.
"Did you take care of the problem?" The young master asked.
"Yes." Jake replied without any hesitation.
"Good. Meet me at Pam's Restro-Bar at 7 pm tommorow. I need you to accompany me for the discussion to be made with Ludwig tonight. You need to be at you A-game as you are the insurance policy."
"I will meet you there." Jake replied, before this young master cut the line.
"Let us see who this young master is." Jake said before leaving towards the location where they were supposed to meet.