There will be a game that will be released in five days, Karas couldn't play it before due to a certain circumstance, he lacks money.
He didn't want to play to enjoy it, instead, he heard that players could get a huge sum of money from the items there.
It will be one of the ways that he could earn money before all things end, he would need to gather as much as he could, buy all of the things he needs, and, well, the rest will be used to be exchanged for points.
He immediately made his way out of the dorm, as usual, the other orphans ignored him, nobody really liked him at this time.
Jogging, he made his way towards the hardware, he needs to buy some extracting tools to remove all of the things from the Blue Sea Rocks.
It took him 3 hours before arriving, that should only be a thirty minutes travel, he needed to rest for a few minutes before continuing his jog.
He's filled with sweat, he knocked on the store's clerk and asked for some tools like chisels, hammer, etc.
The clerk felt grossed out due to the excessive sweat from Karas, immediately getting all of those that he wishes to buy and taking the gis.
Karas didn't mind, after all, if he himself saw someone like him, he'd be grossed out too.
"Oh!" Karas was midway through his way home, he remembered something, looking from left to right, he found a shady place: "Inventory."
As he spoke, a white window appeared, filled with nothing but blanks, he then lifted the box and made it enter the inventory, immediately, it were spread out quite neatly, each having their own slots.
[Inventory;
Slot: 8/300]
He then saw something, from the very first box; "What's this..."
He then pointed at it, it immediately released a description.
[Name: Beginner's Welcome Box
Rarity: Common
Receive:
Low-grade EXP Potion x1
50 Points Voucher x1
Common Dagger x1
Agility Potion x1
Basic Manual (Assassin) x1
Basic Manual (Hand to Hand Combat) - x1]
"Nice." Karas couldn't help but be thrilled, he had survived and merely used strength, strategy, and the close combat that he learned from the 2 years he was trained by the military.
Mostly, he used boxing when running out of weapons to fight.
He immediately used the box, all of the things inside were placed neatly in the inventory, he then tapped the hand to hand combat manual.
[Do you wish to learn 'Basic Manual (Hand to Hand Combat)' Yes/No]
"Why would I even pick no." As he spoke of this, he clicked yes.
He didn't expect it, but immediately, all of the information about the manual flooded inside his head.
Szzzzzzzzz~
"Kek." A slight pain assaulted his head, but after fifteen seconds, it vanished.
He immediately went to the skill tab, it's divided into three parts, active, passive, and, buffs, the manual didn't land in the active and was placed into the passive tab.
[Skill: Hand to Hand Combat
Lv. 0 (0%)
Form: Close Combat
-Disarming - 0%
-Parry - 0%
-Five Types of Punches - 0%
-Six Types of Kicks - 0%
The description will increase the further one advances.]
Karas felt speechless, all of the knowledge; "And it's even more powerful than humanity's current hand to hand combat training already."
That's with the Rokan Empire, ah, right, there are currently four continents in this world, the one where Karas lived in is the Rokan Empire, the other three are close by, hence, it will appear in the future, will be discussed then too.
Well, usually, when something like this happens...
"Unhand me, you bunch of hooligans!" A sharp voice sounded.
"Please leave us alone!" Another one sounded.
"We'll merely play a bit, what are you being so paranoid about? We will take you to a good place." A man spoke filled with confidence that he could take them greatly.
Karas didn't even look as he merely just increased his pace: "This is just too stupid, can't help everyone I see."
But just as he passed by the tiny alley, one of the females saw him and shouted: "K-Karas?!"
She shouted his name quite loudly, Karas looked back, he then saw two familiar yet faint females: "Oh, two of my classmates?" He muttered quietly.
One of the ladies is wearing a short skirt, high socks, and a tube dress with curly purple hair, and four ear piercings, her name is Rena, mostly, she looks like a tough gangster lady.
The other one is wearing a long skirt all the way to her knees, a long sleeve shirt, in total, she's hiding 90% of her skin, the polar opposite of Rena, her name is Erin.
Karas smirked at the latter before looking at the three hooligans surrounding them.
As he looked at them, the hooligans looked at Karas: "You know them? We're talking here, just go your own way brat!"
Karas looked at the hooligans for a while before nodding: "Sure, enjoy yourselves then."
The hooligans couldn't help but look at Karas speechlessly, the kid is calm, right now, even though he might be in the mood to do it, he actually laughed: "This kid is good, here take this."
One of the hooligans threw a larger gis, it's denomination is clearly 50.
"Oh, thanks." As Karas received the money, he really made his way out.
Rena and Erin looked at Karas speechlessly, normally, when a man knows damsels are in danger, shouldn't it be them that will come to their rescue?
Seeing him really walks away, the Hooligan chuckles: "Yeah, and brat, you don't need to call the disciplinary guards too."
"Gotcha!" Karas made a thumbs-up as he continued his walk.
Rena chuckles and ignored Karas after that, picking up her mobile and was about to use it, but before she could, Erin grabbed unto her and rushed out making her way towards Karas.
Quite clever, using the single second that the hooligans were occupied.
"What the!" The hooligans immediately gave chase, if they are to come out of the alley, it will be trickier to do something.
Rena felt quite speechless, but since they managed to slip by, she too runs with all her might.
Erin passed by Karas and hid in his front, Karas looked at Erin speechlessly and asked: "What are you doing? I mind my business, mind your own."
Rena chuckles hearing him: "Oh, then, we're minding our own business, using you as a shield to run away! Bye~!"
As Rena spoke, she rushed out dragging Erin away, the latter held on: "What are you doing, we can't leave him behind!"
Karas looked at Erin speechlessly; 'What the heck? Just leave, let those hooligans catch you instead!'
But then, he remembered the two's personality, he couldn't help but smile at the 'innocent' Erin and sighed, he planted himself at the wall, to increase the pathway for the hooligans.
Seeing this, Erin finally ran away together with Rena: "Hmmp! Coward!"
As the two made their way out and vanished, Karas couldn't help but sigh.
"Fatty! You should've blocked them instead!" One of the hooligans shouted: "Now, look what you've done, you made them escape!"
"Oh?" Karas smiled, he looked at the three of them and spoke: "You guys are useless, why should I help you do something that even monkeys can do?"
The sudden change from Karas' attitude shocked them, but before they could react, Karas threw a punch at one of them.
Pak!
[+1 EXP - Five types of punches (0.01%)]
"Not good." Karas sighed, his strength wasn't even that high yet he dared to do something like punching.
"What. the. heck?" The one that got punch uttered, he looked at Karas as he glared: "Kill this brat!"
Karas sighed: "Well, nothing much to do then."
He wanted to try using his passive skill, he immediately went to action, but it's not that good with his current physique.
One of the thugs jumped and sent a flying kick, Karas' eyes widened: "Well, this will be good."
He moved two steps left, grabbed the thug's ankle and used his balance and weight, using his enemy's momentum to his advantage!
Tug!!! Tug!!!
His head smashed two times from each wall and was thrown back at the other two thugs.
"Again." Karas muttered as he glared at the two thugs, the other one he threw at them already lost his consciousness due to slamming at the walls two times.
After fifteen minutes, Karas made his way out of the alley, totally bruised up with one of his eyes shut: "D*mn femme fatale!"
He went home limping in one leg, the people he passed by either took pity at him or laughed at his misery.