Chapter 3: Level up

Chris was walking happily on his way home.

" Hehe, finally I have a way to breakthrough. But do i need to receive the attack to get stronger? Will I turn into masochist at the end?

His heart suddenly feels cold remembering what happened, he suffered such tortures just to improve his strength. Facing punches from Reynold is like mashing your body like dough.

"Fuck, I don't want to get addicted to being a punching bag. I will look like a psycho."

He had somehow retaliated during the spar, but it didn't even make his opponent flinch from the attack. It is better to say that he is giving a massage to Reynold body.

The pain from the punches was seeping to his bones.

...

While he is thinking, a certain conversation from a far catch his attention.

"Huh, huuh, please don't hit me" the boy on the ground plead, he was covering his head while crying.

The other guys was laughing maniacally while hitting him.

" Mark, mark haha, you see this? Now you know who's the real boss. You have to bow down every down every time you will face me, the one and only Mighty Adrian."

Chris mouth twitched hearing the kid shameless declaration. This boys are around 14 years old and base from their uniform they look like a junior high school student.

The three kids on the side of the shameless Adrian laugh also, they are fawning on Adrian showing that he is their boss.

Chris suddenly have an idea watching them. He smile and walked to the 5 boys direction. He decided to interfere with them.

"You children, stop bullying that kid. That is a bad habit. Your parents will be disappointed by your actions, specially when they learned your attitude outside."

The four suddenly stop hitting the boy on the ground and look at the direction of Chris. They were stunned to see this righteous guy who is wearing a Senior High school uniform.

Adrian smile turn into frown, "uncle, the elderly should not involved in kids quarrel."

Chris was angered by this kid, ' who's the uncle, I am young and still growing. Your hurting my liver by your words kid'. He cursed.

"Im fine with it, since interfering with kids fight makes me feel younger". He retorted, not giving up to be on losing end.

The shameless kid was infuriated by Chris reply.

'steal Int +1'

steal Int +1'

steal Int +1'

steal Int +1'

Four notification , appeared on his panel.

'fuck intelligence, I should just make someone angry just to collect you', he cursed inside.

Chris return his attention to the four. The four boys was furious and wanted to attack him.

"Oh, you want to fight? Come, come let daddy help you turn into a new leaf" he provoked.

This what Chris wanted, he is trying to use this four to farm attributes.

The shameless guy was triggered by chris provocation and immediately move to attack.

"Taste this punch, uncle"

Chris was hit by the punch of the shameless guy.

'steal vit +1'

The other three also started to make their move.

'steal vit +1'

'steal vit +1'

'steal speed +1'

.....

Chris was on the receiving end, he was able to hit twice countering their attack,but his retaliation was not able to do much.

He was facing 8 fist while he have 2 fist on his side. The odds was great, his face starting to get swollen from those punches.

The kid that being bullied before had already runaway without noticing by them, it happened when he was bickering with this 4 guys.

At the same time, series of notification also continued to appeared on Chris panel, but a few moments later the notice stopped. The four who was hitting him was panting heavily drench in sweat, their punches do not have much strength anymore.

"??" He didn't know what happened,

He was also on the ground covering his head to survive, he just switched on the position of the bullied kid.

When he look at the 4 boys, they look so tired.

' did they loose their stamina because of the steal effect?'

He didn't think of it for long and remembered something.

" Kid you look so tired, I think your bones was not already good. This should be a sign of aging. I will massage you guys, gently" Chris was now smiling like an evil, while his fist was creating a cracking sound.

His look was quite funny, there are bruises on his arms and the side of his face was a bit swollen. His uniform has foot shoe marks at the back. Anyone who see this will think that he was like an elementary who rolled on the ground.

The shameless brat face turned darker, feeling the changes of the atmosphere. They loose their strength while beating this guy, this happened for some unknown reason.

Right now, this shameless fellow was smiling and walking towards him. It make his heart to fear this guy as he added a punching in the air action.

"Fuck, you dare to hurt me? I'll call my brother to beat you up. He is already a 3rd stage iron level warrior" the kid threatened Chris. He has no choice but to reveal his brother name, feeling the crisis in front of him.

Chris suddenly slow down his step and pondered for a while, "what if I beat your brother tomorrow? Will you call your parents on the other day? And next week? will it be your ancestors to come next?".

The three lackeys of Adrian cannot hold back their laughter, even though they were exhausted while supporting their bodies not to fall on the ground, they cannot stop laughing.

The shameless guy face turned red from shame. 'Im furious'.

'steal Int +1'

The shameless guy fall on the ground, he didn't know what happened to him. He lose the last bit of strength for unknown reason.

Chris on the other side was happy.

'Confirmed'

He was able to understood why is the shameless guy fall on the ground. He was the culprit, it was due to the effect of steal.

The bystander saw that the shameless guy fall on the ground while Chris was smiling happily on the opposite. One of the middle aged lady suddenly come to Chris.

"You, what did you do to that kid" .

Chris was interfered in his joyous celebration, he look at the woman and turn back his sight to the shameless guy.

"I-I didn't do anything" Chris proclaim.

'steal int +1'

Chris saw the notification on the side and look at the woman expression. The woman was fuming in anger.

"Is this how your school teach you nowadays, you were telling a blatant lie in a broad day light. It was visible that you hurt them. I saw you laughing while cracking your fist towards them. Beside look at yourself, you look like a street thug wearing a school uniform. Your uniform was also for a senior high school. Are you not ashame that you are bullying a junior high school on the street?"

The woman continuously nagged at Chris.

'fuck' Chris cursed, he couldn't take the words of this woman who's mouth was much lethal than his mother. He decided to position his feet on his house direction.

"I'm talking to you kid, why are you looking away. Don't you know ...."

The woman was still talking when Chris run in full speed.

"I didn't really hurt them" he shouted while running at from a far.

'steal int +1'

Another notification appeared on his panel. This should came again from the woman.

Chris sighed , it was hard to collect attributes.

When he was far enough, he stopped running. He check his screen panel

Name: Chris

Power Level: 51/150 ( Normal Human )

Strength: 8

Speed: 12

Vitality: 20

Intelligence: 11

Skills: Boxing(1/10 Beginner)

Do you want to level up?(yes)

He was glad to see that his power level to was able to raise up to its threshold.

He click yes on the side. Unconsciously, he was able to touch the panel when choosing yes in the upgrade.

Chris suddenly feel the changes inside his body, something was forming inside his stomach part. A dot of white was suddenly in the middle. There is a feeling of compressed arcane from the white dot but the connection was weak.

"This should be the storage" he weakly muttered.

Realizing that he become an Iron tier warrior, the display on the screen change also.

Name: Chris

Power Level: 67/150 ( 1st Stage Iron Level Warrior )

Strength: 12

Speed: 16

Vitality: 24

Intelligence: 15

Skills: Boxing(1/10 Beginner)

Chris can not contain his joy, all the wounds in his body from fighting those shameless quadro was completely healed after he leveled up.

This is a refreshing feeling, he can also feel that his boxing skill attack can be increased it lethality using the arcane energy in his body. Sadly, he do not a have any Arcane Energy Gathering Method to refill his stored energy and could only wait to fill it naturally.

He continued to walk happily at home. When he first opened the door, his mother appeared in front of him. She didn't say anything seeing that her son was happily opening the door.

Chris was also stunned, he was still in daze of happiness. Without a word, his mother grab his right ear tightly and pull Chris Inside the house.

" Ouch mother, please have mercy. My ear will be teared off if you pull it strongly" Chris pleaded.

'Steal Int +1'

Chris mother suddenly feel a change in his mood and loosen her anger.

Chris on the other side was nervous, the system steal inflicted his mother, but he noticed that it only reduced her anger.

He sighed, he thought that the reaction will be like those bullies that he encountered. Luckily it didn't take her stamina.

"Now explained, why are you in that look? Look at your uniform it is all messed up, you already look like a dog that rolled on the ground"

Chris was embarrassed remembering his appearance right now. He had forgotten his situation due to his joy.

" Mother, the situation is like this.." he explained slowly what happened on his way, afraid that his system will steal another point of intelligence to his mother if she angered her.

After explaining ,he also tell her about his breakthrough to divert her attention.

"Really? Did you really breakthrough?" Her mother was unconvinced by his son statement, he nod earnestly showing that he is telling the truth.

His mother didn't dwell on the uniform issue anymore and happily proceed to the kitchen.

Chris also move to his room to change, he was relieved that he was able to relieve the anger of his mother or else she will feel dizziness from the system steal effect.