Oblivious to Overseer Lie's change in personality, Ron went home and was doing his chores. After having dinner with the old man, he climbed on to the roof and slept there.
In the dark of the night, a few ruffians arrived at Ron's home silently and surrounded it. One of the burly figures locked the door and all the windows so that the people inside cannot escape.
"Number three, go ahead and burn this house down!"
Once the burly figure gave his order silently, they began to light fire to the house, and it started to burn fiercely.
The heat waves slowly quickly reached Ron, who was sleeping atop the house, jolting him awake. Seeing the fire around him, he was shocked, he immediately jumped down, rushing to save his old man. He quickly jumped down from the top, only to find himself surrounded by five men with their faces covered.
"Number two, how can you be so careless, you didn't even check if the target is inside the house? If not for him jumping out, we would've failed this kill!"
"Sorry brother, I'll make sure to make no mistakes next time. But now that he is here, we can swiftly kill him and leave the scene, hehehe…."
Ron didn't understand why they were here for him, but without giving him a chance to shout, one of them instantly grabbed him and covered his mouth. Then he took out a dagger and stabbed it into his chest. Just in a few seconds, Ron lost his consciousness and fell down. The killers thought that Ron had died from that stab and escaped from there.
One of the villagers who was having trouble to sleep, came out to relieve, and noticed the fire, immediately alerted the other villagers. When they arrived at the scene, they saw the bloodied Ron and took him out of there, while the others continued to put out the fire. Unfortunately, by the time the fire was put out, the old man had already lost his life.
They took Ron to the village doctor, and started attending to his wounds. Some of them stayed awake and discussed why and how this happened. Most of them suspected that it was not an accident, as the doors and windows were locked, and then Ron was stabbed right outside the house!
Time went on, and sometime after midnight, Ron woke up. He saw that his wound was bandaged, but he could still feel the pain. He then remembered about the old man.
Without alerting anyone, Ron silently left the doctor's home and went to towards his home. When he arrived there, there was nothing left. His felt a heavy stone in his heart. Tears trickled down his eyes, as he kneeled on the ground.
It took him a while to get back to his senses, he then cleared his tears and walked towards the neighboring town, there was a cold glint in his eyes. He slithered his way in the dark towards Lie's home and entered through the window.
Lie woke up when he heard the noises, but he didn't make any movements, instead he grabbed his dagger by his bed. Then he raised the dagger and pointed it towards the shadowy figure.
"Who are you?"
It was completely dark, so Lie wasn't able to see anything.
Ron stepped forward, revealing his cold face in the moonlight coming from the window.
Lie was not surprised and instead laughed.
"Looks like those fools didn't finish their job; hah, what a hassle."
"Is it just because of that new spirit stone, that you went as far as killing me and my old man?"
"You're calling it 'just a spirit stone'? You villagers are truly ignorant. What do you think it is? That's a mid-grade spirit stone! Even if your entire village worked for 100 years in the mines, you'll not be able to afford it. Just one of these is equal to a hundred low-grade spirit stones!"
"You want to silence me because you want to keep it for yourself? Just because of that, you tried to kill me? You could've asked!"
Lie stood up and kept pointing the dagger towards him.
"Heh, why should I leave a loose end when doing things like this? If the Cheng family finds this, they will kill all nine generations and anyone related to them. What's your life even worth? You should've just died there"
Lie immediately jumped to stab Ron, but expecting this, Ron dodged it, grabbing a porcelain bottle in his hand. Ron smashed it on Lie's head and immediately gained some distance.
Lie wobbled while holding one hand on his bleeding head and the other pointing his dagger towards Ron.
"You punk, stay away from me. If you dare to act any further, you will die an even more miserable death!"
Ron ignored his words and kicked Lie's hand, which was holding the dagger, and immediately pounced onto him. Lie curled himself as he kept taking beatings from Ron.
"Why! If you wanted to kill me, you should've targeted only me. Why in hell did you have to kill my old man? What did he do? He only wanted good for everyone, and you killed him! Why! Why!?"
Ron continued to trash lie, ignoring the pain from his chest, which opened again and was bleeding. Ron stopped in between to get a breath, and just then, as if waiting for a chance, Lie sprang towards Ron, grabbing the nearby dagger and slashing it into his stomach.
As blood gushed out everywhere, facing the unbearable pain, Ron fell to his knees.
"Hahaha…Trash, how dare you low-life injure me?"
Just when Lie thought Ron would die, Ron removed the dagger from his stomach and thrust it into Lie's neck. Without any sound, Lie fell backward, struggling to control the blood gushing out from his neck, but after struggling for a while, he died.
Ron knew he was going to die any moment; he saw the spirit stone in Lie's cabinet. He slowly crawled towards it and grabbed it.
Ding!
[A mid-grade, low-tier spirit stone has been collected. Would you like to convert it to points?]
"Y- Yes…"
[Converting to system points.]
Ding!
[You have gained 720 points!]
[Task Completed: 1710.90/1000 points]
[Congratulations to the host on completing the setup mission!]
[You have been awarded...]
[...…..]
[...]
Ron's vision darkened, and he didn't hear the rest of it. It isn't clear if he is dead or alive.