"What the fuck! My mom will kill me if she sees this!" Vendross groaned as he tried to cover up the tattoo. " why a tattoo and why on my neck of all places" He grumbled.
"What is your ability then?" asked Allen and he shrugged "I have no idea". "When you woke up from your coma did you feel anything weird?" Allen tried to grasp the right word "like as if you were very energized or feel stronger than you remember?" asked Allen. Vendross shook his head, "Nope, but i do feel something alright".
"And what's that?" Allen asked curiously. "I feel like going home" answered Vendross with a dumb grin. "What the fuck dude could you be serious about this?" said Allen. "Hah! If i was ever serious, I wouldn't be me anymore." Vendross said with a playful tone.
"Whatever, hand me your phone." said Allen. He started to check Vendross's information in the game. "What in hell's blazes, why is your ability not listed here on your profile?" he muttered to himself, "Does that mean you are a low ranker? But no, that should be impossible, with your physique you should have the same rank as me and Jordan." said Allen. "Uh, I'm not sure I follow, could you run that by me again?" replied Vendross. Allen clicked his tongue, "Aren't you supposed to be a gamer? Fine, i'll explain."
"You see, this game has 10 ranks, the best rank is the god rank or known as rank 1,the second highest would be the demon rank or rank 2, the third highest would be dragon rank, which would be rank 3. You are with me so far?" Vendross nodded, and prompted Allen to continue. "As we go on, we will reach the fifth rank, which is where me and Jordan are." A bead of sweat rolled down Allen's face. "This is where it gets bad, from the sixth rank down, people like those are considered extremely weak."
He pointed at Vendross , "You seem to be at the tenth rank, the lowest of the low. Which would mean that you are essentially free points at the moment." Allen exaggerated.
"That sounds like some serious bullshit." replied Vendross. "Yes it is bullshit since you can't possibly be a tenth ranker from the start." said Jordan as he entered the coffee shop. "What? How do you know?" said Vendross. "Yeah man how do you know ?" said Allen.
Jordan sighed as he shook his head "Did you forget, Allen? what our senior Alex said, if the player passes out for a day they are automatically a low ranker while a player that passes out for a week or more is guaranteed to be a rank 5 or higher." Jordan raised a finger "Vendross passed out for two whole years, and he's high on the bounty list too."
"Bounty list?" Vendross questioned. "God, do I have to explain everything to you?" Jordan groaned.
"Have you even opened the app yet?" he pointed to a button in the app, titled "Bounty list'. "In the app there is a list that ranks you by how much you are worth, and at the moment you are worth enough for anyone who kills you to get a boost to at least rank 8."
Jordan pointed his finger at Vendross as he spoke "And there are thousands of players looking for a quick way to the top, even him." Said Jordan.
"Who's him?" Vendross asked. Jordan groaned and looked at Allen as if asking 'did you even explain anything?'. "Afel, who else?" scoffed Jordan. Vendross shook his head "Now you are seriously getting on my nerves, why would he do that?"
"He's no longer the friend you knew, he is now a power-hungry beast who will stop at nothing to rise to the top." Jordan said with pure disgust painted across his face.