Life Reaper

Lucas was now very excited to explore this new world. From the super net on his watch, he found out that the city was called Ying-Yang City, as the city was mostly divided into the rich class and the underworld. For Lucas, this was a perfect place to start his adventure, so he immediately went to the underworld part of the city.

After arriving in the underworld, Lucas felt comfortable with the more savage and killer aura present there. After asking around, he came to know of a place called 'The Dark Gloves,' which offered different contracts and paid accordingly for completing them, so he went there.

The Dark Gloves organization had unknown origins but was the most reputed one in the city. Upon entering, Lucas saw a handsome man in a tuxedo sitting at the only large desk present on the floor. After a thorough inquiry, he came to know that the missions were divided into A, B, C, D, E, F ranks with decreasing difficulty, and S, SS, SSS ranks above the A rank. The ranking system was actually centralized throughout all of humanity, which meant it was the same in all organizations, governments, and military.

"Currently, the Ying-Yang branch has only missions available up to the A rank. You can choose the mission you want after connecting to the Dark Gloves network through your watch. Note that you can only accept missions of your own rank or one rank above, and completing them will thus add to your Dark Points, which you can use to increase your rank or get items with them. Of course, you can exchange real currency for them as well. Think of it as exclusive Dark Gloves currency. Wish you the best of luck," though the man was quite friendly, Lucas could sense a tinge of danger from him.

Being a newbie, Lucas got an F rank for himself and finally, after thinking for a while, chose an E rank mission. "I need to increase my rank for better opportunities. Sigh… guess I can do it only step by step."

The mission was to steal the blueprints of a special wearable gear from a local engineer who had recently gained some popularity after designing it. Lucas was interested in this mission because of the wearable gear aspect of it.

After exiting the Dark Gloves, Lucas headed towards the Section 4 region where the engineer resided according to mission data but was blocked by some people. "Well, it would be quite odd if no one made trouble for a rookie here. Seems like underworlds everywhere have this similarity present." He gave an earnest smile to the three thugs blocking him as he pointed towards a dark alley.

The thugs were quite surprised when they saw Lucas making their job easier and followed him, giving a mocking laugh.

"Little friend, it seems you do know your place, so hand over your stuff and we won't make things diff…" Whoosh… Urgh… Thud. The thugs were in a daze as they saw one of their companions vomiting blood and dying just like that. After which, a cold voice rang in their ears, waking them up.

"Spare me the chit chat."

As the thug was blabbering, Lucas had already slain one of them with the throw of a scalpel he had stolen from the hospital earlier. One must not forget that he had gone through so much killing in his early days that drawing weapons and attacking were like natural habits for him, and the killing intent behind them would not be noticed by anyone except the real experts of this world.

After making his first kill, he didn't stop there as he immediately started running towards the other two. As he came near them, he sidestepped on the walls of the alley, giving him the required speed to approach the central target and kicked him with his knee. Bang! The thug who was talking earlier fainted on the spot.

After that, Lucas picked up the corpse of the dead thug and, without anyone noticing, attached a string to the already embedded scalpel and threw it in the direction of the last thug left. After seeing the corpse of his comrade coming towards him, the third thug dodged. But just as he relaxed and was going to commence his offense, poof! Lucas pulled the string back and blood spurted from the corpse's neck like a fountain.

As the now anger-blinded thug looked up in the direction of the poof sound, blood went into his eyes from the shower of blood. This gave Lucas the window of opportunity, and he threw the last scalpel he had with him towards the thug.

Thud!

Three thugs, one asleep, two dead within just a span of a minute.

After that, Lucas first went towards the corpse and didn't know what to do as there was no equipment nor bags, nothing on them. After searching for a while, he noticed their watches which indicated an alert sign.

After looking through it, Lucas saw an option which made him delighted.

Transfer The space storage Y/N

Lucas was delighted and immediately pressed Y. After which, he was prompted by his own watch, "Warning: the owner's watch does not have space storage feature. Would you like a complete harvest of all functions, features, and storage from the other party? Note: The upgrade may take some time; all basic functions will be usable though."

Lucas was completely delighted with this. "It seems like this feature is exclusive to me only, haha."

After harvesting the two thugs, he came to know both of them were actually D-ranked level 4 engineers, level 3 fighters, and had many gadgets with them which they hadn't used earlier or, to be more precise, didn't get the chance. Though Lucas killed them easily, he knew that the reason behind his success was his savage way of killing, making them surprised, and his highly undetectable killing intent. "I might have easily killed these garbage, but in front of an expert, I am still lacking. I should make myself familiar with this world's technology, or next time I won't be so lucky."

After coming to this realization, he turned towards the last one and was surprised to see him already waking up. One must know that as much as two minutes had passed, but as compared to average people, he was already showing signs of waking up.

Lucas grabbed his scalpel and swiftly made deep cuts around the thug's wrists, elbows, and knees, constraining him from doing anything wild.

The thug was so afraid of Lucas after seeing his comrades' corpses and the ruthless way of the so-called 'constraining' that he started convulsing. "My lord, please forgive me. I was blinded by greed, so I did this all. Please, I beg you, my excellence."

Lucas didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing the bullshit when he saw the thug actually approaching the nearby knife as he was begging for forgiveness. "Dude, are you out of your mind? I am not blind, you know. Sigh… dear karmic cycle, this is not on me, okay? His death is his own fault now," and gave a helpless laugh.

After slitting the thug's throat, Lucas went ahead to harvest the thug's stuff. After thinking for a while, he pondered whether he could harvest memories as well and asked Alpha. After receiving the reply that the chances were high, he kept his hand on the thug's head and said in his mind, "Transfer data."

Lucas was surprised to see a transfer taking place on his watch. After the completion was done, he also did the same with the other two thugs.

"Finally, it's time to see the benefits. Alpha, show me the status."

Analysis complete!

Doctor level 2 [15+7(new)/100 lv-2 points]

Engineer level 5 [10/100]

Administrator level 1

Fighter level 0 [3/5 kills]

Farmer Special Ability unlocked:

Knowledge Harvester - Harvest Direct knowledge from Memory (no level constraints)

Life Reaper - Targets get stunned with Life reaper aura (effect corresponding to level)

New Features:

Space storage – D rank (rank as per storage space gets added)

Memory storage – D rank (rank=character rank +2)

Memory deletion – D rank (rank=character rank +2)

Storage:

Armor – 2 x D rank

Weapons – 3 x E rank, 1 x D rank

Special wares – none (more details available)

Lucas was very happy after looking at this. "Did my doctor level go up because I used a scalpel and made three kills? Whoa, engineering level went up too. I guess it's from that Knowledge Harvester skill. Haha, what a blessing." Just as he was engrossed in thoughts, his watch vibrated.