Michael was heading home.
He was badly hurt.
The demons were hard to kill, and his whole body were badly injured. He hope that that his family still has at least one good person, that cares about him. He knows very well that no one cares about him.
He was crying while walking home.
"Why! Why! Why was I born for? For being use for the clan. All I wanted was to be free from this hell." He cried out more.
He stops and looks at his house.
Michael was sick of his family. Each of his family were all upset that he didn't die at arena. They were glad if he didn't survive that arena, they probably be happy if he didn't come back home.
Michael looks at his family.
All of them were showing him smug and sinisterly smile. They didn't bother to hide it. They all wanted him to die at that arena. His grandfather looks at him, he didn't show no welcome or even glance at him.
The grandfather ignored his existence.
His grandmother was hugging Drake. She showed a happy smile while she glad to see his grandson alive and well. When the grandmother looks at Michael, she coldly stared at him.
Michael grandmother was Anna.
She use to show love at Michael back then, and now she was disappointed in him. She expected him to do better, but she didn't see not one improvement of him being the hope for the clan. She was upset that Michael didn't improve or hone his skill.
Now, she looks at him with coldness in her eyes. Despite him being her grandson, she did not give him any unwelcome expressions. Instead, She didn't show any emotion at all compared to Drake. The family also looks at Michael with a disappointment and even the maids were looking down on him.
Michael looks away with upset and hurt in his heart.
Michael walks outside for better breather. He wanted to get away from the his family problem. All his life was just for the clan needs and not by chance but choices.
He walk out of the village.
He headed somewhere far away from the villages. He new there was spot he always goes to when things didn't work out. He ran towards the forest were leafs were ten times bigger then a regular human. Headed to far and deep in the forest away from the villages.
SWOOSH
He jumped leaf to leafs and headed straight on top of the plant head. He looks down on top of the plant and saw how beautiful the villages was. This was his favorite spot to look. He waited there for entire time until it gets dark.
He lays back and watch the view. Then suddenly, someone touch his shoulder from behind him.
"Hey" he was being friendly.
Michael gasp. "What!"
SWOOSH
He jumped away quickly, and give him and the stranger some space. Michael was surprised he didn't know someone got behind him. He was afraid that he was someone from another clan and he didn't have any weapons on him.
He was worried.
But the guy spoke with no harming what's so ever.
"Relax... I was just passing by and I was wondering if you can help me." He said with friendly way.
Michael was still cautious and says, "Who are you?"
The young man said with smile.
"My name is Gon and I'm not here to cause or hurt you." He was being friendly towards him.
Michael was still on guard.
" Gon? Why are you here?"
Carl was trying to see the village but he needed someone to help him. He still didn't find anything about this new map.
"I'm just here to explore new places." Carl was trying to be nice as calmly as he can
Michael still didn't believe him.
"You came here just to explore? Yeah right. You think I'm falling for that." He wasn't gonna believe him but he didn't have any weapons on him.
Michael was sweating.
Michael thinks that the stranger might be a spy from another clan and trying to infiltrate their clan secret scrolls and martial art books. He didn't care about the clan but he was born and raised there. So he might die for the clan today and never give them what they wanted.
He stood in battle formation.
He put his hand ready to fight. However, Carl wasn't trying to start a fight, he just wanted to explore the land and the villages.
Ding!
He got a sudden notifications that pops up in front of him.
[Would you like to teach Michael?]
Carl looks at the screen. He was surprised that the system wants him to teach a npc.
He sighs. "Huh! Oh well. I might as well teach him."
Carl calmly walked towards him.
Michael was thinking about whether he attack or run away.
"Damn! I didn't think he would actually come at me." He panicked and he was shaking from the inside.
Michael kept telling himself that he should run away now but his body was to scare to move. So Michael looks at him and he quickly ran towards him and make the first move. He use his fist and try to hit his face but Carl speed in front of him like he teleported.
Michael was surprised that he got in front of him fast. "Huh!" But he reacted quickly and punched him.
Carl calmly blocked his fist with his arm.
Michael quickly back away and jumped back at him and hit him with everything.
"Ahhh!" He scream at him while attacking him.
Carl Dodges his attacks with ease.
SWOOSH
That's the sounds of the attack but Michael was trying his best. The stranger didn't fight back while he is evading his fist with ease. Michael got mad and hit more and faster.
Carl was able to block his fist and guide him through out the fight.
"Your breathing is too fast. Try to slow your breathing by hitting slowly."
Michael was confused and why would the enemy say that. He's facing him again and again but for some reason, he did not fight back, but he only blocked his fist.
Carl was calm and says, "Now try to release your energy from with in. Don't force it or you might end up hurting yourself."
Michael said with a confused face. "What?" He still attacks him and did not listen to him.
Carl was still invading his fist.
"Try to slow your breathing. Your only using your fist but you don't know how to control your energy. Try to calm yourself and relax your body." Carl grabbed his fist and block it his other fist.
Michael still didn't hit him.
"What are doing?" Michael was furious.
Carl removed his arm and try to talk to him.
"Relax I'm just giving you guidance and that's all."
Michael didn't know why would a enemy help him for.
" What are you playing at?"
Carl chuckles.
" I'm just trying to help you."
Michael didn't get why would stranger help him. What was his true intentions and why would he help him for. He had so many questions to ask but it seems likea person who didn't want to answer him.
Carl looks at him.
"Is something wrong?"
Michael said with serious face.
"Why would you help a nobody like me?"
Carl said with smile.
"Because, you seem like you needed a friend."
Michael was surprised.
He didn't expect that answer from a stranger, of all the people he met, he was the first person to ask him that. He wanted someone to talk to and hangout with but he was the first person ever said that to him. His family treated him like a outsider, a failure to the clan.
Ever since he was born in the clan, none were able to look at him in friendly way. They always looked at him as waste, a weakling that was supposed to rotten somewhere else.
Carl can see his tears falling from his eyes, he can tell that he was hurt badly.
He wanted to ask him why he was crying but it seems like he was experienced something. He didn't know how can he help npc stop from crying.
Michael stop crying and wipe his eyes.
"I'm sorry you to see that." He didn't expect to show his enemy a side of him.
Michael got close to him and give him a hugged. Michael was shaking while on his knees. He didn't know why would an enemy petty him.
Later on, they both sat near a tree and watched the the villages. Michael was explaining everything to him while Carl was listening to his stories.
Carl said "Wow... I didn't know your family were harsh."
Carl was trying to get more information about the story in the game. He knows that the npc was experienced hate and sadness from his clan. He was trying to figure things out and solve the problem. Every game can be some with violence and cruelty but for this new game he needs to hear all the stories first before he decides what to do.
Carl looks Michael with smile and rub his head gently.
Michael didn't care or try to push his hand away. He needs it, he didn't have anyone but Carl. He was the only person he know that didn't try to hurt him.
Michael looks at him.
"So..you said you needed someone to guide you right? I'll guide you to my hometown." He smile and laugh at him.
He was now feeling better.
Carl lays back. " Nah! Let just enjoy this beautiful moment."
Michael was confused.
" I thought you wanted to explore?"
Carl smirks" yeah... But I changed my mind."
Carl got up and told him to get up and follow him. Michael didn't argue and wanted to to see why he was up too.
They both face each other.
Michael looks at his panels. He was trying to look and see if he had any Martial art manual, that he can learn. All he can find were trashy and low grade martial arts scrolls.
"These are trash...This one is also trash." He kept searching and scrolling down further.
Then he stop to curtain point
" There we go." He found it.
Ding! (4×)
[Break through your limits] 100$
[Body enhancement scroll] 100$
[Swordsman book] 100$
[Demon bloodline absorb scroll] 200$
[Bloodlust scroll] 100$
Carl brought 4 different scroll from the system shop. Each were cheaper then the last once. He wanted to help Michael out.
Michael was surprised. "Huh!" He looks at Carl pulling out items outta nowhere.
He saw Carl magically pull a magic scroll in the thin air out of nowhere. He was wondering if knows space magic. He knew he was strong but he didn't know how strong he was and now knows how much a big gap between him and Carl.
He was sweating hard and he was glad that he didn't take him seriously and if he did he might die without even knowing why or how.
Carl hand him the three scroll.
Michael didn't know why would a stranger would give him scroll but he knows there is nothing free in this world.
Michael looks back at him.
"What's the deal?" He wanted to know what he wants. He didn't hand him a scroll for free unless he wanted something in return.
Carl chuckles.
"Be my student"
Michael was surprised.
"W-why though, why me?" Michael wanted to know why would he pick him.
Carl said with smile.
"Because I see you have potential and I wanted to see you rise among your clan." He wanted him to feel better and see his great potential.
Michael looks down and said "Your wasting your time. I'm not good enough, so you might as well find someone great."
Carl didn't know if the kid was joking or he looking down on himself.
He sighs.
" Kid I don't care if your not good enough. It's the effort and the confident that I want to see, not the pathetic upset face you have. So stop with this sorry state and believe in yourself and show the world that they were WRONG!"
Michael was starting to cheer up.
"You really think so?"
Carl smile at him.
"Hell yeah! So go ahead and start now."
Michael looks at the scroll. He now had a choice, Gon was trying his best to make him feel better. Michael open the body enhancement scroll.
He studied all the information from the scroll and the book from top to bottom page to page.
Michael look through it all.
"Wow ..this is... amazing!" He was shocked.
Michael's brain were memorizing the break through your limits book and the enhance body technique of the scroll. He started to see a new things that he never thought it was possible. The technique were detail and giving out bright vision and with that.
BOOM!
A sudden bright light, light up in his body. He started to levitating on air and his mind started to be fully unconscious.
"I understand it!" He felt the energy inside of his body bursting out of him.Carl looks at Michael body, he was about to break through to new level.
Ding! (3×)
Carl saw his notifications popping up automatically.
[Michael leveling up 20 times]
[Michael is being enlightenment]
[Michael is breaking through his levels]
Carl smirks while seeing Michael breaking through a new level in 10 minutes.
The sky started to turn dark, the clouds formed around the area, were Michael was about to break through.
"THUNDERSTORM!" The sound of lighting hitting the ground around Michael.
Baw!
Baw!
The lighting storm were attacking the place were Michael was at. Near the villages, they all looked up in the sky and see the bright light shining above the sky, far away from their village.
"What is that!"
"What in the gods name-"
People in the village saw the light far away from their village. They thought it was some kind of great fortunes.
Michael grandfather and their families look at the bright light.
Qwan Lock looks at the light and said with curious face. "Mmm!... What is that?"
Michael family were all amazed by that light shining above the sky. The entire villages is witnessed something strange and beautiful things.
Carl looks at Michael.
"Damn! I only give him a low grade manual and scroll. Why is it so bright." Carl was wondering if it was a new thing now in the game. He probably thought it was a new special effect of the game.
Michael flew down on the ground and open his eyes. Everything was clear, it's like he awakened a new new body.
Michael looks back at the forest. He use his eyes and concentrate, he can hear and see the animals from 9 miles away from him.
"I can see them and hear them " He was excited.
Michael looks back at gon and he respectfully kneel before him.
"If you wanted me to fight for you, I'll gladly protect you with my life. If don't want me to go east then I won't go east." He now fully committed to his new teacher.
Ding!
[Congratulations! You finally have one students.]
Carl smirks and looks at Michael.
"Now... Read the rest of the scroll."
Michael open another scroll.
At that moment Michael was going through a new strang technique and new movement while learning new things.
Michael quickly buy a protection shield from his system shop and throw it at the ground.
The shield starts to form around Michael. Carl wanted to hide him and don't want unnecessary people know about this. He wanted to hide his students and make him stronger.
He looks back at the village far away.
Michael said with smug at his face.
"I can't wait to see the new world.
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