While the people he schemed were looking at him with blood thirsty eyes.
A person who seemed to be in his late 40's approached Athan. He was about to go play another game but was stopped by that person, the person had black hair, wore black suit and had a serious face.
To Athan he looked like his old school vice principal who even though talked soft, everyone who knew him well will know how dangerous he was, some people even feared he was a monster in human skin seeing his punishments.
Stranger: Excuse me sir do want to play a game of poker with me.
He would have said yes but he knew that this guy was one of the superior in this casino and beating him would mean him not being welcome sense which businessman in the right mind would get loss instead of profit. So he decided he would just go home.
Athan: Yeah I would love to but you see I have a girl who called me over tonight, she is probably waiting for me. As a gentle man I can't let a girl wait for me too long so l have to go now.
Stranger: Sir it's only a game of poker it won't take too long and also I saw you looking at the poker board and know you wanted to play so why are you leaving all of sudden.
Athan: Are you a true man.
Stranger: Yes of course I am, why would ask such question?
Athan: If you are a man than you should at least be able to tell that I wasn't looking at the poker board but I was looking at the fine lady sitting in the one.
Hearing his answer the man had a wry smile on his face. He was about to ask Athan again but Athan simply left not looking at him at all. Seeing his actions the person looked really pissed. He went to one of the rooms and called some of his men.
After he had called had called them he ordered them to rob Athan of his storage item which he had seen him use a while ago. Soon his men quickly left to search for Athan.
Athan left the casino as quickly as possible sense he knew he would only cause trouble if he stayed any longer and he was tired after his long day shopping and gambling and didn't have enough energy so he didn't get in a mess. Before he left the casino he exchanged his tokens for money in the reception which was done quickly. In the end he had received 92 platinum and 5 big gold coins meaning he had got the profit of 905 big gold coins and he still had 27 platinum and 7 gold coins in his inventory.
All of sudden his eyes activated on its own making him fell the presence of few people coming at him. He could tell that they probably had bad intentions toward him. He could probably beat them easily even if he couldn't he could just use his transformation to beat them all at once using his monster power. But he decided to run sense he didn't wanted to cause a nuisance.
Using his full speed he was running in super fast speed which no normal human could reach. After seeing him run the people following him also ran but after few minutes lost him.
Athan arrived back at the mansion. When he went in he was greeted by his temporary butler Sebastian. He asked him if he wanted to eat something to which he replied no, he didn't talk much and went to his room saying he was tired and wanted to sleep.
He spent his week just having fun doing nothing he just spent his days in the mansion with Alina and also went on another date with her. Alina was a beautiful girl, was also easy to talk too and also listened to others. Even though he hadn't seen her as a live interest yet they had became good friends spending all that time.
He was having a great time, no work, no pressure just doing whatever he wanted it reminded him of his childhood. But all that fun life of his was going to end tomorrow.
Early in the morning he was having a good time eating his breakfast until the door of his mansion was opened and he saw a certain individual.
Lina: Hey there how have you been doing enjoying your free meal.
Athan hearing her didn't knew how to answer her so he decided to look at the other person. Lina had came with another person who looked super muscular but wasn't huge, he was probably around 6,7 feet which was a quiet bit taller than Athan who looked like he had the height around 6,3 feet.
He had gray hair and was wearing a tight clothes, his long hair and his sharp looks even though not comparable to Athan's but he looked handsome.
Seeing Athan look at him, he nodded at him and introduced himself.
Gualterio: My name is Gualterio Van Lucas, the ex-commander of the army of Ereck. I will be in charge of training you for now. Athan am I right.
Athan: Yes my name is Athan it's nice to meet you sir Gualterio. I hope you can make me stronger.
Gualterio: But before I train you I want ask you why you want to be stronger.
He asked with a serious tone. Hearing him Athan was a bit confused how to answer him he was going to say, 'cause I am a man' like in some anime he had seen in his pas life but he remembered his past life.
....Inner thoughts.....
Athan had a flash back seeing himself trying to find a job but no one was agreeing to take him. He was finally accepted but he was accepted in KFC, all his hard work reading to get the bachelor degree which he thought will help him to find a good job. But he had low score due to him not slacking of in the early years so he didn't have any use of the certificate. He thought he could manage but he had to work all week to pay the loan he had taken to buy the house. He could have asked his parents for help but he didn't because he didn't wanted to worry them. His girlfriend had left him because he didn't had time and money to hang out with her.
Seeing his pathetic self made him remember he was given another chance in which he could make his life better no he was given the chance to become a god meaning he could live his life in his own way and no one will be able to do anything but to do that he had to get stronger, stronger than anyone else to not be in control of any one so he had to live his life wisely this time.
...end of Inner thoughts....
Athan: I want to be stronger because I..I want to live a life of free bird, I don't want to hide from anything I want to face them head on and to do that I need strength.
Athan said in serious tone while expressing all his determination in his voice.
Gualterio: Live like a free bird, I guess that doesn't sound bad. I guess far. better than my answer.
Gualterio: You want strength right than let's start your training.