Chapter 14 - First Blood

It had been a week since Jack had once again reached his limit in Will.

All this time he trained hard, was busy with brothel affairs, and tried to complete the task.

What happened to him this week? Many things.

Life went into a calm rut.

Beatrice was completely quiet. There seemed to be nothing left of her former temper. She is still arrogant, arrogant, and proud, but within the normal range.

The brothel brought in excellent income and even became more popular. Many said that this was due to Jack's antics, but he denied everything.

In this wave of popularity, Jack took seriously the brothel. All the rest of the time that was not occupied by training, he devoted to this institution.

He slowly replaced all the furniture with new ones and sold the old ones. Some rooms that needed renovation received it. The kitchen got new, better quality tools, ovens, and a large refrigerator, in which it was possible to keep a dozen penguins.

Jack even found and hired a tramp who could play the piano virtuoso, even if he had exactly six fingers on two hands.

Especially for him, he found, through the girls, a supported musical instrument. In general, now in the brothel, there was real live music and a mysterious tramp in a tailcoat, who sat behind him and played.

And even with all this spending, the brothel promised to bring in ten percent more profit than last month. Of course, if only the flow of customers does not decrease.

Yet the biggest change this week was shown by Jack himself.

These changes concerned his character and appearance.

Everyone noticed that Jack began to smile more. These smiles were not strained or fake. In conversation, he almost did not look away during eye contact. His voice became smoother, more confident, and deeper.

Along with this mental transformation, the brothel workers also saw his physical transformation.

In a week of intense training and a protein diet, he lost ten kilos of net fat, and also gained a couple of kilograms of muscle mass.

This result seems impossible to the average person, but luckily for Jack, he was no longer one.

His metabolism sped up thanks to frequent training, and the growing muscles asked for even more energy. Since he was on a diet, the body replenished the lack of energy with fats. It doesn't usually work that way, but he's got a 'Devil's Body' and that's it.

At Jack's weight, ten kilos seems like a small achievement, but it is not, especially when you have such a Modifier as Devil's Body.

The modifier seemed to control the process of fat burning, focusing on those places where it would be optimal to lose fat at the moment.

Also, just yesterday, Jack raised his Strength by one, and today he decided to give his body a rest and instead stubbornly engaged in Agility training.

If he developed Strength by push-ups, squats, and exercises for the press, then Agility by running, gymnastics, and beading.

He was now doing the latter, sitting at the table this early morning and stringing beads on a strong fishing line, resulting in a patterned bracelet.

Such training of fine motor skills additionally trained patience, because even he had already wanted to throw this bracelet with all his might at the wall several times.

- "Calm down. Calm down. Even children can cope with it, you just need to get used to it. " - he said to himself, putting aside the bracelet and closing his eyes - "Inhale and exhale ..."

After resting for a minute, he began to train fine motor skills with renewed vigor. After about ten minutes, Jack saw the long-awaited notice.

Your labors bear fruit

Agility [9 → 10]

- At last! - he exclaimed, throwing back the bracelet

The familiar warmth spread throughout the body, improving flexibility, fine motor skills, and developing certain muscle groups, thereby increasing overall speed.

Next came a notification

Quest Completed!

Objective: Reach 10 points in the Agility trait

Reward: Modifier - "Body Control [Lv - 1]"

Instantly Jack felt ... strange.

The first different thing was the left hand. He was right-handed and not very good left-handed. That is why he easily felt this difference in body control that the Modifier gave because now he could even write tolerably with his left hand. He may even be able to become an ambidexter.

On the whole, he felt his body more clearly than ever.

This also affected his overall strength. With improved control, Jack was able to engage more muscles when he tried to swing the abs, as well as force his body to go a little further than it should. Instead of forty-six repetitions, he was able to master fifty-one.

- Status. - he said with an excited smile, getting up

System of Evil

Characteristics:

Strength - [8]

160 ↑

Agility - [10]

200 ↑

Vitality - [6]

120 ↑

Perception - [15]

↑ 300

Reason - [12]

↑ 240

Will - [10]

200 ↑

Libido - [1]

20 ↑

Evil Points - [0]

Tasks:

(There are currently no assignments)

Modifiers:

Resolute Mind - [Lvl - MAX]

Devil's Body - [Ur - MAX]

Polyglot - [Lv - 1] [500 ↑]

Body Control - [Lv - 1] [1000 ↑]

- "One thousand!?" - Jack exclaimed in a daze, to himself, and mentally focused on the modifier to make sure that he didn't think

Body Control [Lv - 1] [1000 ↑]

It is easier for you to master control over your own body.

Additionally: Control over the body is increased by 10%

Gunter said with a smile - "Did you think all Modifiers would have the same price?"

- "No, of course not ..." - he replied, lying - "But a thousand? Is this ... Is it even possible? "

- "Sure." - O'Dim nodded and spread his hands - "You have already felt the power of this modifier and must understand that the price is even cheap for him. Especially when you consider that you do not lose your modifiers upon rebirth and you can constantly improve them from world to world. "

Jack reluctantly replied, "Yes, you're right. It's cheap with this setup. "

Gunther unpretentiously remarked - "By the way, Jack, a week has already passed since you set yourself the goal of helping people, but you haven't done anything yet ..."

- "You know that while I am too weak for real action, and therefore now I am more involved in charity work. Thank you, by the way, for reminding me. Today I was going to help one orphanage with money. "

- "It's your business." - Gunter threw up his hands and at that moment, at the door of the office, knocked

- "Already gathered?" - thought Jack and went to the door

Opening it, he saw Leah on the doorstep

The girl showed her thumb back - Everyone is already lined up.

Behind Leah, on the second floor, stood all the '' staff '' of the brothel.

- It's good. - Jack nodded and went to the side of the line - Let's go.

After the incident the day before yesterday, Jack introduced a new custom to this establishment.

Now, every morning, before the opening, all the workers of the brothel lined up, and he casually looked at their condition.

So he could control and know who, for example, is abusing his trust and messing around. But that was not the main reason ...

What happened the day before yesterday? And there was a corpse.

One of the girls went over the dose and left for another world.

She spent the whole day dead, in her room, and only when Lola went to collect a percentage of the girls did it come to light.

It was not something very rare, but so that everything had time to smell well, for the first time.

Here many were sitting on a needle or a glass, so this innovation was necessary, as Jack believed.

Standing in front of the line, he sharply felt a strong smell of fumes and led him to the lady who was now on her feet only obviously thanks to the miracle of God

- Margaret, have you drained our entire bar? - he said with bewilderment, putting his hand to his face

The girl now looked more like a zombie than a living person. It was she who, a week ago, stopped her friend Stacey when she decided to suicidal stand up for Hiro.

Margaret opened her mouth to reply, but suddenly burped and Stacey, who was standing next to her, staggered back.

- Khu. Ugh ... This is, boss. I have nothing to do with ... - waving her hand in front of her and wincing at the smell, she said

- Oh really? Jack raised an eyebrow

- Yes Yes. It's all Thomas. - Margaret pointed her finger at the guard, who was also in the line. He didn't look important either, but his condition was better. At least he stood firm. - He got me drunk and fucked me!

Jack sighed and looked at the guard - Thomas, don't you think it's more economical to just buy Margaret than to drink?

"God, boss, your truth. - Thomas shook his head truly regretting and repenting - If I only knew that she drinks like a mare, I would just pay.

- Hey!

Jack shook his head to the chuckle of women and said, "Okay. Everything is in place. We can open up.

With that, he headed back to his room.

Just at that moment, from the first floor, Hiro got up - Boss, I'm finished!

- Well done, at least someone is doing their job well here. - Jack nodded with a slight smile

Hiro also smiled and asked with interest - Will we run in the evening?

- Yes. If you are not tired of accompanying me yet ...

- No, it's fun to train with a friend! - the guy answered with burning eyes

- Then in the evening, as always.

- Yeah. - Hiro nodded with a smile - Okay, while I have a break, I'll go feed the pigeons.

Hiro quickly turned around and walked downstairs to the first floor.

- Don't forget to feed yourself. - Jack said loudly in his back, to which Hiro replied "Okay."

For a week now, Hiro happily ran in the evenings to keep company with him.

Jack had already begun to consider Hiro, almost a little brother.

And he is not alone.

Many in the brothel already considered Hiro their little brother.

...

Returning to the office, Jack immediately went to the shower, and as soon as he washed, he asked Gunther - "Can you give a task for one hundred and forty points of evil?"

- "Can. Just tell me why this particular number? "

As he dressed, Jack replied - "I want to improve vitality and ... libido."

Gunther grinned - "Oh my God, my boy has grown ..."

- "Leave me alone." - Jack dismissed, blushing slightly - "I just realized that I could not run from it forever. So what is the point of depriving yourself, relatively easy, of earning points of evil? "

- "I don't need clarification, Jack." - waved his hand O'Dim - "I'm just glad that you started to get out of your shell."

Jack rolled his eyes

- "Okay, here's your assignment."

First Blood Mission Received!

Objective: Kill a Man

Reward: 150 Evil Points