The Strength of Fear and Panic [C8]

In a room of an unknown house stood cross-legged a young man of the wolf-human race. The young man has white hair and two wolflike ears completely white, together with a tail full of white fur. Right now, the young man has his eyes closed seemingly in contemplation.

"I broke through!" That young man is Shu Himo, who just broke through to Muscle Strengthening phase of the Body Strengthening realm. Feeling his strength to increase a lot he was surprised. "This Legendary cultivation technique is incredible, normally multiple days would be needed to reach this stage, but I started to cultivate from just 30 minutes! Let's see... Status!"

[Shu Himo, 6 Years old]

[Hp: 100%] [Mp: 133]

[Strength: 3.7] [Resistence: 1.2] [Agility: 3.4]

[Dexterity: 4.6] [Intelligence: 13.3] [Wisdom: 14]

[Realm: Body Strengthening] [Stage: Muscle Strengthening]

[Skills: [Intimidation lv_1].]

[State: Still soo weak!]

[The maximum stats for Muscle Strengthening phase is 20!]

"System... what kind of joke is this? A Legendary cultivation technique doesn't even give 1/4 of the maximum stats?"

[Cultivate to a higher stage is not enough, a Legendary cultivation technique advantages are divided in the speed to cultivate, in consolidating easily the foundation and the strength of the Qi! Compared to a normal Muscle Strengthening Qi your is already 4 times better! Effective training is necessary to reach max stats!]

"But still... not even one-fourth... whatever, I should think of a way to break out of here." After breakthrough, Shu Himo now decided to analyze the room to see if there was anything he could use, two of those kidnappers were at the Bone Strengthening phase, while the wolf-man was at the Blood Strengthening phase. This means that in a 1v3 situation it would be hopeless, but if it is possible to assassinate one of them the other two would get put in a state of panic, which could create a chance to achieve a perfect assassination on another and consequentially creating a possible 1v1 situation against the remaining one. Normally a Muscle Strengthening phase would have no chance against higher phases, but thanks to cultivating a Legendary cultivation it could be possible.

Having considered all, Shu Himo then checked every single thing present in the room: a bed, the door, and lastly a wardrobe; Apart from that the room is empty. With all these information, Shu Himo proceeded to make a plan.

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Meanwhile, in the kitchen of the same house, two figures could be seen cooking.

"Jerry, were you serious about what you said before?"

"Absolutely. Shera, I fear that the kid is not as simple as we thought. Now that I think about it, where did the leader went?"

"He said he would go out a moment to check the situation with the Shu family, and once he comes back we will do the trade, he said he will need about 30 minutes... You are thinking too much about it, it's good to raise the alertness but he's still a 6 years old kid, don't worry too much."

*BOOM*

"What was that?!?" Shocked, they both screamed at the same time; Confirming with each other that the sound came from the same room where Shu Himo was currently. "This is bad! Did the Shu family found out this place?" Running instantly toward the room, they opened the door and barged into the room, only to find nothing.

"WHERE IS HE?!?" Both startled and in confusion, they proceeded to run into the room to check under the bed and into the wardrobe, but due to the unexpected situation, they forgot to check an extremely important place: the ceiling, after all, they weren't experts and only did this job due to greed, but this lack of experience proved fatal. On the ceiling there was the figure of a wolf-human desperately holding on the corner trying to not fall could be seen: it was Shu Himo! What was he doing there? His plan was simple! Trow a punch on the door more strong possible to make an extremely high sound to attract their attention and hide in the ceiling to abuse the situation. The strength of the punch was strong enough but the rebounding force from the door caused him to damage his hand, so he now was bleeding!

*Plit*

The sound of a drop of blood falling in the floor could be heard and in that instant, the woman turned above in shock.

"Abo-" She did not make in time to complete the word that a clear sound was heard in the room.

*Crack*

The sound of bones breaking. All she could see now was black, the black from the shadow of the foot of Shu Himo in her face. Shu Himo abused two variables to complete the assassination: the first was the gravity to get higher strength from the fall, the second was the position of the woman: with his kick he completely broke the bones of her neck due to the instant force pressing on it.

The man, extremely shocked by the death of the woman, was about to run toward Shu Himo to revenge her when he noticed that he escaped through the door. But how could he let him escape? In a panic, he frantically started running out of the door, but little did he expect that Shu Himo was not trying to escape: he was hidden on the side of the exit of the door!

Going through the door he suddenly saw a silhouette in front of him, and only a moment later he came at the realization that it was a punch! 'Damn! But if he believes that he can kill me as a Muscle Strengthening phase with a single punch he is surely wrong!'. Knowing that he could not dodge the punch anymore he believed in his resistance and decided to trade a punch with him ignoring the incoming punch. It was a mistake.

*Splak*

The sound of a crushed nose and multiple teeth's flying could be heard. 'This is impossible! How can a Muscle Strengthening phase be this strong?!?' Jumping backward, he tried to regain balance to resist the next attack, but how could Shu Himo let him regain the advantage? Shu Himo immediately jumped towards the man, and gave him another punch!

This time the man was not capable to resist at all, losing consciousness, but Shu Himo still did not stop hitting, until the man was completely dead.

"Huff... huff..." Tired, Shu Himo kept inhaling and exhaling air from his lungs while falling and sitting on the floor. 'So this is the feeling upon killing a person... it's not as bad as said in most novels, but it sure is also not a good feeling.' A normal person would be feeling regretful, scared and confused after killing someone for the first time, but Shu Himo was not like that. He was a novel reader, and dreamed multiple times of getting in a kill or die type of battle, still, while it was different from reality, it still helped him to calm down fast.

[Congratulation to User to winning your first life and death battle!]

"Oh? Did I got some rewards?" Excited, Shu Himo asked the system.

[No.]

"Oh." A disappointed sound came out from his mouth. "Crap! I forgot that there is a third member!" Remembering the existence of another guy, Shu Himo instantly stood up and proceeded to slowly check every angle of the house, all the 3 bedrooms, the kitchen with now burned meat, and the living room, but he did not find anyone.

[Completion of the quest: 2/3 kills.]

With the remainder of the system, Shu Himo thought about the Sky quality weapon that awaited him and started to think of a trap to kill the last man, the Blood Strengthening realm wolf-man like him.

He immediately went to close the door of the room with 2 corpses to stop the stink to go everywhere, then he inspected every angle of the house, and found sharp nails and kitchen knives.

"These guys seemed pretty poor, not even having a weapon..." Murmuring to himself, he started to go toward the entrance of the house in front of the living room, he then put some nails in the floor well hidden hoping that the target would step on it. He then proceeded to move the sofa in front of the entrance, and sit on it in a position as if he were a lord looking down at some bugs.

5 minutes later...

The leader of the kidnappers finally came back, only that upon entering the house he noticed that in front of him instead of his two helpers there was a young man still at Muscle Strengthening phase.

"I don't know how you killed them, but if you believe that you can kill a Blood Strengthening phase at your level in a frontal fight you must be really overestimating yourself." Contrary to his mocking tone, the man was actually slightly scared by the composure of the youth in front of him and ready to fight in any way possible, no matter if fair or dirty.

But the reply that came to him was an unexpected one, mostly because he did not get half of it.

"I think you have understood something wrong... cross-realm battles are only the norm for the main character!"