[Logged Out]
Upon logging out from the game, the door of the cabin opened and Kaya got out. He checked his phone and it was currently 7 in the evening. He had spent one day in the game which is equivalent to 8 hours in real life.
He was currently hungry so he started eating the cold food on the platter that Keith had left. He didn't mind eating the cold food since he was already used to it. Although he had eaten over a ton of food in the game it obviously wouldn't apply to his body in real life.
As he ate, he contemplated the things that had happened. Everything was going faster than he expected. From what Goodman advised, if he was to grind experience all day, he could reach level 15 the most but if he was being carried by a powerful player, he could even reach level 20 in a single day but he was able to reach level 52 at that far surpassing his analysis which was unheard of. Of course, Kaya didn't know this fact since he believed that there are a lot of experts capable of doing what he had done.
The door of his room opened revealing Keith who currently was shaking in anger while what he had in his hands was another platter of food except it was fresh and hot.
"Young master, please don't eat that! It's already soggy, here, eat this instead."
Keith immediately switch the platters and Kaya despite almost cleaning the other platter didn't bother and resumed on the other one.
"Young master, how was your first day in the game?"
"It's fine. I managed to reach level 20 and I'm now able to enter the city, I plan on registering for the Adventurer's Association once I go back but for now, I'm going to rest and gather more information about the game."
"Wow! You level up fast young master! You're an expert!"
Keith clapped in genuine admiration as he needed at least 2 days of game time to be able to level up that fast.
"Did you hear the news young master?"
"What news?"
"You know what I'm talking about, didn't you see the system announcement that a player was able to solo a hell mode dungeon and a mutated Berserk boss monster? It was unheard of before but only to find out that he was helped by a powerful NPC. And that NPC had just to be my idol, Marielle de Arc! I hated that player named Alon, not only was he helped by her, he also managed to carry her body around like some lover."
Kaya couldn't help but let out a sigh after hearing his words. Nobody blamed Keith that he'd fall for an artificial character. Even Kaya couldn't help but admire Marielle's beauty, he was probably the most beautiful woman he had ever met not even comparable to the videos of female celebrities he watched on their run-down TV.
"What starter town did you pick young master?"
"Greenville Town."
"Oh! So you should've seen the commotion in the town right? You probably had a hard time looking for grinding spots there because of the many PKers. Fortunately, you weren't able to encounter this Alon guy because he'd kill you. I heard rumors that he was a serial killer in reality and has killed over a hundred innocent people. They say that he enjoys torturing them and watching them beg him to end their misery. Just thinking about it gives me chills."
Keith shuddered in fear while Kaya felt infuriated. He held the anger in his body and viciously ate the meat on his platter.
"Woah, you are really hungry young master huh? Well let me check your progress, your grandfather asked me to assist you and give you some advice when leveling."
Keith went to the computer and connected the chip from the cabin to the monitor. He then pressed the files that Kaya had recorded as per request from Goodman.
When he started watching the video, he could switch it from a first-person perspective to a third-person from different angles. Keith's face started as a smile but then his face wrinkled as he saw the ID name of Kaya's character show 'Alon' but he thought to his head ' There's no way the young master is the guy named Alon'. There were a lot of players with the same names in the game and it was hard to tell if one player was the same as the other since even if one had an uncommon name, there should be the very least a few numbers of players with the same name.
But when he continued watching Kaya's progress in the game, he went a full circle in experiencing the 5 stages of grief. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. The clips he had found on the official forum were the same clips that Kaya had except it was from his perspective. He was shocked when he saw Kaya faced off a hundred wolves at once and fight a special elite alpha wolf in a toe to toe fight. He was stunned when he started eating the meat of the corpses of the wolves. Then when he entered the Goblin Farm Dungeon, he was in disbelief that he set the difficulty to hell mode and went in alone. Right after he entered, he watched how he easily defeated the goblins who ambushed him and was also forced not to puke when he started eating the goblin meat. He even watched how he continued eating while vomiting at the same time, it was disgusting to watch.
Right then after, he watched how he defeated the sub-bosses valiantly despite being outnumbered. The techniques he displayed and how brutal he was when defeating the goblins even enduring the pain of getting his arms fractured. It was truly amazing to watch. When he disappeared and reappeared had him in disbelief thinking he was activating some sort of skill but only to find out that it was pure technique. He continued to cringe when Kaya started eating all the corpses of the goblins including the sub-bosses and when he found the Goblin nursery, he fell in utter depression watching a pregnant woman beg to be killed. It was heart-wrenching to watch how Kaya obliged her request. He felt sad watching Kaya hold a pendant and saw the smile on the woman's face that he teared up a bit. Then when he started massacring the goblin babies, it was truly fucked up but he understood Kaya's reasoning.
Then when he went to the next sub-boss and saw Marielle being sexually assaulted by goblins, his eyes bloodshot in anger and yet again fell in despair regretting what he was watching. He thought that Kaya had been helped by Marielle but in fact, it was the other way around. He cheered for Kaya as he watched how he one-sidely toyed with the two goblin champions and saved Marielle from the brink of death to even accepting her request on retrieving her locket. He had a rough understanding of Kaya and how he liked to eat something so disgusting but still maintain a moral judgment as to how he even gave all the human corpses a proper burial.
It was when he fought the goblin king that he was truly amazed and admired Kaya. Easily defeating an army of undead, withstanding a powerful magic spell, assassinating the goblin king in a blink of an eye, and how he tortured the boss with a spoon who begged for it to stop. It was then he witnessed how the undergoing berserk boss monster mutated. He thought Kaya couldn't defeat it and believed Marielle would stand up to help him but he knew that Marielle was incapable of doing that since she was weakened.
That was when he saw how Kaya valiantly defended Marielle from the vines and fought the mutated boss monster head-on with nothing but bones in his arsenal. He watched how he activated an area effect buff and fought in a bloody battle. His head fell and the screen went black and then appear back in a split second and go black again. It was nauseating to watch but when he switched the view to a third person, he was able to see how Kaya fought the mutated boss monster. His head had been lopped off multiple times including the limbs in his body that continued to regenerate instantly as his body parts piled up the arena. Also how he watch Marielle activate life-saving skills in a desperate second giving him a very small buff that was enough to kill the mutated monster with a spoon that beheaded its head off clean. It was only then that he realized the rumors had been completely wrong. He stared at Kaya who was resting in his bed as some sort of monster and now that he recalled trying to carry Kaya did he felt embarrassed.
'This guy, who is he? I've never seen someone as powerful as him, even the high-ranking players wouldn't be a match to him if he reaches their level. Oh my god, imagine if these clips are released to the forum, everybody who doubted the authenticity of his achievements would go crazy in shock.'
"I have to show this to the chairman."
Keith immediately transferred the file recordings to a USB and entered the chairman's office where Goodman and the chairman were currently checking on file reports.
"Keith, what's with the ruckus? Why are you in such a hurry."
"Pardon me chairman but you guys have to see this."
Keith plugged the USB on the giant flat-screen TV and played the 4-hour edited clip of Kaya's first day in the game. After the clip ended, Goodman was in utter shock while the chairman simply laughed it off.
"Hahaha, I told you my grandson is a genius."
"No chairman, this is a whole 'nother level of being simply called a genius. Do you know anyone else who could do that?"
"Other than me, no one."
The chairman answered in a straightforward tone. Goodman couldn't help but sigh, he had seen numerous monsters in his life but never had he seen such a young monster like Kaya. He stared at the chairman wondering how he was able to nurture such a demon, well it was natural since the chairman himself was a demon incarnate.
"Should we post this on our website? I'm sure we'll gain massive popularity once they found out that we had the backing of a powerful figure like a young master."
Keith suggested. He knew very well the situation of the company and if they were not able to improve a few years from now, they'd go bankrupt.
"For now, keep this secret between ourselves. We can't let anyone know about this fact and if our rival companies find out, they'll hunt Kaya down. Just continue checking on Kaya's progress from time to time, and if you find some interesting recordings, send them to me and I'll compile it. I'll find a way to buy some S-rank nutrients for your grandson, maybe you have a way chairman."
"I can ask limping Joe for a few bottles but we have to go there ourselves."
"Limping Joe? Are you talking about Asura!?"
"Asura? What a horrible name."
The old man said ridiculing the man they call Limping Joe. Goodman on the other hand felt like his soul just left his body. He knew very well who Asura was. Just like the chairman, he was the same breed of martial demons like him although subpar at best compared to the chairman, he made up the lacking with his intellect. One of the smartest people in the world, he founded the cure of Gorilla-pox and was one of the leading minds of the Superfluid, a bottle nutrient that enhanced a person's physical capabilities and increase their lifespan. As a result, he became a very successful man and one of the very few trillionaires in the world.
"If it's you chairman we could probably ask some but are you sure we have to go there ourselves?"
"It's fine, I also want to meet that limping bastard. A reunion wouldn't hurt nobody."
"Gulp, fine, I'll arrange a meeting but if their side rejects, don't blame me. The man is very busy and it's already a few decades since you've last met."
"Just call the goddamn phone, tell him that his old pal wants to exchange a few rounds with him."
As ordered, Goodman called a number and when he said that the chairman wanted to exchange a few rounds with the Limping Joe, the call was immediately transferred to another caller.
"He accepted your request."
"That was quick."
"I'm also surprised how quickly they gave their answer. They want us to be there tomorrow, they said that Mr. Asura is eagerly awaiting your arrival."
"Good, I want to check if that limping guy still has the firepower in him."
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The next day, Kaya started gathering information about the game. He entered a private training room and started his daily training routine. Keith was in the training room to train with Kaya. He watched as Kaya remove his shirt revealing the countless scars on his body immediately widening his eyes in awe. Keith taught Kaya how to activate a treadmill and immediately placed the treadmill in overdrive causing it to spin at 30 mph but when Kaya started running, Keith's jaw drop to the floor. Kay managed to keep up with the speed and didn't even break a sweat. After nonstop running for 80 minutes while reading articles about the game on his phone, he started lifting weights.
He immediately placed 700 kilograms in each bar reaching over a ton and he started raising the arm bar with one hand while scrolling through the phone with his other. He did 100 reps with each hand before a drop of sweat could appear on his forehead. Keith who had watched the whole thing shivered in fright, he could barely lift 700 kilograms but Kaya did double that with one arm in ease. He then did a basic plank with only a pinky supporting his whole weight for an hour each. And after a few more unbelievable training, only then did a few drips of sweat cover his body.
"Young master, please drink this, it's an A-rank Superfluid. Once you drink it, you have to control its overflowing energy in your body so you'll feel refreshed and energized, it's also good for healing any torn tissue muscles and strengthening the immune system, and hardening the bones."
"Thanks."
Kaya chugged the contents in the bottle and could feel a cooling sensation spread through his body. As Keith had said, there was energy circulating in his body that almost felt like it lost its track so he immediately controlled this energy and mixed it with his dantian core.
"Nice."
"You're already done, young master?"
"Yeah, it's a great energy drink do you have some more?"
"B-but, sir Goodman said that you must only drink one Superfluid every 12 hours since it might break your body due to its overflowing energy."
"Huh? I didn't gain much energy though."
"Haah!? There's no way young master. One single A-rank bottle is enough supplement to allow one's survival for 2 weeks without any food or water. That's how abundant its energy is but you needed more?"
"Mhmm, if you don't believe me, watch this. I'll throw a one-inch punch at this reinforced punching bag using a fragment of my internal energy."
"Internal energy? As in qi? You can control your qi!?"
"Yes, now watch."
As Kaya had said, he placed his finger at the surface of the punching bag by an inch and in a quick formation of a fist, he punched the reinforced punching bag with his internal energy.
Boom!
A loud bang exploded from the punching bag immediately obliterating it into the sand as the nearby glass mirror shattered to pieces.
"..!"
Keith was stunned. He could barely stand from the powerful repercussions of the blow and he was only indirectly hit by the waves. Just the thought of being punched by that directly gave Keith goosebumps, if he could do this much with only a fragment of his internal energy, then what could he accomplish if he used all of it? He couldn't even imagine it.
"See? Now, will you give me a few more of those bottles?"
"O-okay, but I have to tell Goodman for more since it's really hard to find some of these nutrients in the market since they sell for a very expensive price."
"Fine, I'll contribute too, make me an account and I'll sell some equipment since I don't really need them. They'll only take up my inventory."
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After everything was done. Kaya consumed 8 bottles of A-rank Superfluid and went to the official market and sold all of the equipment and materials he didn't need but kept the more valuable stuff for himself since he also need to try some of them out.
Now that he was done he logged in again.
Ting~
[Welcome Alon]