Raia entered the inside world and walked towards a certain direction.
'I can mover better now because I don't feel uncomfortable thanks to this pants and robe'
The result of his work paid off.
He searched for a place to cultivate and found a small cave under the huge roots of a humongous tree.
Raia began cultivating. His foundation and body was excited because of the dense and pure spirit energy that he was refining while his body was getting stronger little by little for every minute that passed.
Five hours later and he reached mid 8th level Martial Physique State. He stopped cultivating at this time.
'This may be enough for now. I can still run away if I face stronger enemies. People will get suspicious if I get stronger without doing anything.'
He stood up and walked around the forest.
Half an hour passed and he discovered a four-horned goat feasting on the green grass. He observed it for a few minutes.
This four-horned goat was smaller in size compare to the first one but it was still a peak-tank 2 beast.
Raia decided to use the tactic that he used to kill the first four-horned goat. He sprinted and punched the goat.
However, before he even get close to it, an attack came and hit the side of his body.
'Bang!'
Raia felt a wall hit him. His body flew a few meters before falling down. The pain of his broken ribs came in and it became hard to breath.
He lifted his head up and saw another goat glaring at him.
'So there are two of you.'
He can kill one but that is not an easy feat. He would sacrifice his fist just to kill it.
If one was already tough to beat then two would be a much difficult situation. It would be impossible for him to win.
He quickly turned away and fled. He didn't want to exit the place at that time because he was not sure if the goats would not be present by the time he came back.
If they were still there the moment he returned, then it will be the same story of him escaping. It will be better to ran away, hide, and then exit the place.
Fortunately, the two goats didn't chase after him.
He ran and stopped when he felt he was safe. Raia exited the place and took a low-grade recovery pill to heal his broken bones.
'I should buy more recovery pills. This is one of the most important things to me this time.'
He still had some credits left even after giving his mother half of his earnings that day. Low-grade recovery pills were about 400 silver credits, the mid-grade ones at 2,000 silver credits and the high-grade ones were sold at 10,000 silver credits. With the 20,000 silver credits in his pocket, he can buy one high-grade on and a few mid-grade and low-grade recovery pills.
After he recovered, he went back into the inside world.
He was shocked and his eyes widened to what he witnessed in front of him.
'What the..!'
Raia was frozen when he locked eyes with the four-horned goats standing in front of him.
And there were not only two but there were five of them!
They were looking at him with killing intent. These goats didn't look like herbivores but carnivores.
Raia kicked the ground and escaped. He was confused and terrified.
'How did they find me? Or is it a coincidence? Boy, that was really terrifying.'
It was the first time he saw a group of peak-rank 2 beasts. And all these beasts were staring at him like he was their nemesis.
'Is it because of my clothes? It's made out of their family after all.'
Raia stopped thinking about it and secured a place inside the hole of a rotten tree trunk.
It was only a few minutes after he sat down and started to plan his next move, when he heard a rustling sound outside. He peek his head to see what is happening.
'Son of a goat! They really did find me!'
A group of four-horned goats were charging towards his direction.
Raia cursed when he saw that the number of goats doubled. There were now ten of them!
He then noticed a familiar goat in the middle of the crowed. This was the smaller one that he tried to attack just moments ago.
'They were taking their vengeance too far! They were even calling their brothers to hunt me down!'
He instantly decided to run away for the third time.
When he thought he was far away enough from them, he searched for a place where the goats couldn't see or reach him.
A few minutes more and Raia climbed a tree and reached one of the branches. The height where he got was high enough that the goats couldn't reach him.
'I hope I can find weaker beasts. A high-rank 2 beast will be enough.'
He was inside this world for more than half a day now and he only found three types of beast.
The mid-rank 3 spiked-green tiger was the first one he discovered. He named the high-rank 5 beast that shoots beam from the light ball on its forehead a 'starlight wolf'. His latest discovery was these peak-rank 2 four-horned goats.
Even the weakest beast among these three types of beast was enough to give him a hard time.
He sighed.
At this moment, he noticed a movement from one side of the forest. He gulped and waited for a few seconds.
Moments later and the crowd of four-horned goats emerged from inside the forest. There were now fifteen of them and they were sprinting to his direction.
'Holy goat! It looks like the whole gang was here!'
The goats stopped around the tree where he was observing. They circled it a few times and looked up to where Raia was located.
'They can track me so they were just taking their time rallying their group.' He inspected himself.
'It should be because of my clothes.' He couldn't think of any other reason.
Some of the goats tried to climb but failed.
'That's right! You can't reach me so get back to you home!'
He wanted to shout and chase away the four-horned goats but held his voice in afraid of alerting the other beasts.
The goats stayed even though they failed on catching Raia. The smaller sized goat stared at him and Raia narrowed his eyes.
'Hmpf! When I get back, you will be the one I kill first.' He stared intensely at the smaller sized goat then exited the inside world.
Raia was going back to school the next day. He was a student at secondary school and will be graduating in the next few weeks. He didn't have classes these few days so he got time to hunt inside the forest.
He took a shower first. His body was a sweaty because of all of that running. Thereafter, he rested on his bed.
…
The following morning, Raia went out of his room and saw Rhea. Rome and Rina were still sleeping this time.
"Did you use the crystal last night?" Raia asked.
Rhea nodded. "It was good. I reached 4th level Martial Foundation State."
"That is good to hear." Raia smiled.
They went down to eat and Raia head to school.
Inside their classroom, a blue-long haired handsome young man approached Raia before he even took his seat. When he sensed Raia's state, he was shocked.
"Yo, you broke through the Martial Physique state! Congrats! Tell me quickly how did you do it in just a few days!" Aaron exclaimed.
"I just bought something really good with all of my money. Nothing surprising about it." Raia rubbed his nose.
"I was going to brag to you the fact that I reached 5th level Martial Physique State and here I am finding that you surpassed me in just a few days! Aarghh! My head hurts…you should treat me to lunch to pay for what you have done." Aaron said while massaging his temple.
He was a close friend of Raia. They both grew up at the same time with a few other kids. The two were friends and classmates from when they were just little and were never separated.
Their parents were close to each other too. They were buddies that helped each other during hard times and celebrated with them during success.
"You should be the one treating me. I spent all my money to reach this state. I don't have any single credit on me." Raia complained with a smile.
Aaron coughed. "Yeah. You're right. I can feel that your body is void of credits. I will treat you as a way of respect to how poor you are."
"The hell did you say you booger-eating kid?" Raia asked with sharp eyes.
"Hey! I told you don't call me that!" Aaron shouted making some of their classmates look at the two of them.
"It was true anyways." Raia chuckled and patted the shoulder of Aaron.
"You bastard. I'll buy you lunch. Please, just don't call me that again." Aaron gritted his teeth but still pleaded with teary eye in the end. He got that nickname because when they were kids, Raia and some of their friends saw a booger on Aaron's lips and he accidentally ate it. He really hate that nickname.
"Of course, of course." Raia nodded happily.
At this moment, their adviser entered the room. The class settled down and they started the lesson.
During lunch time, Raia spent almost all of Aaron's allowance on food that made the latter curse him.
Before the day ended, their adviser, Sir Timothy, talked about their graduation and the university entrance exams.
"You will be taking your final exams two weeks from now. The finals will be divided into practical and written exam. The top twenty students with the highest scores will have a chance to take the entrance examination for any of the top ten universities all over our continent. There will be rewards given to the top one hundred students. I wish you all the best."
He continued and gave some brief backgrounds of the top universities and other universities that the students can enter. Sir Timothy went and explained some other things related to the finals and entrance exams.
"What is your target university?" Aaron asked Raia while walking back home.
Raia thought for a moment and answered. "I haven't decided yet. How about you?"
"I still have nothing on mind too. Maybe I'll look into the universities more like their facilities or something."
"Yeah you should do that. Tell me if you discovered something interesting." Raia said.
"Sure. I'll just call you."
"Oh. Just tell me in school. My phone was broken."
"This poor kid! Just buy a new one!"
"You buy me one!"
The two joked and teased each other and separated.
Raia went to buy some recovery pills. He bought one high-grade, three mid-grade, and the rest were low-grade ones. Now, he really didn't have any credit left.
After he came back home, Raia checked on his father about the weapon of him he was creating.
Hauran was already starting the process and he asked Raia to help him. Raia gladly helped.
The two worked until midnight and only stopped when Rose came and nagged at them.
The father-son ate then head back to their rooms.
"It will still take two days before I get my new weapon." Raia pondered a bit then he changed into his goat robe.
He decided to enter the inside world.
The moment he enter the world, he took a deep breath and inhaled deeply to have a taste of the pure spirit energy.
'Bang!'
At this second, the tree branch he was standing at shook. He almost lost his balance and leaned to the tree trunk. He looked down at the ground and his eyes can't believe what they were seeing.
"What are these guys doing?!"