Seeing that the time was currently 11:09 am as he was sitting on a bench near Iron Workout gym, he decided to check his notification.
(Task (AOI bonus) Completed: That guy: Beat a male student up at Reservoir Community College | Reward: A martial art skill from this world and information on it (Check recent notification) | Quest: Create better habits Section (Q2) | Beat up 5 people | Quest progress: 20/100%)
Reading the reward, he opened up his recent notification.
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Earth Martial Art Skills (Choose 1)
-- Boxing
- Description: Boxing is a popular striking martial art that utilizes: footwork, head movement, and body rotation to weaken opponents, defend from their punches and find an opening to deliver as much power as possible through a punch that can knock them out or render them unable to fight.
- Pros: Strong hand-eye coordination, distance management, balance, high punching speed and power, explosive power through legs, great for fighting against multiple opponents and strong defense against other strikers.
- Cons: Only utilizes punches to attack, no takedown defense/offense, no grappling defense/offense, no kick defense/offense, no ground fighting defense/offense and no throw defense/offense.
-- Karate
- Description: Karate is a popular martial art that emphasizes the mind over body and utilizes: Concentration, breathing and control to generate a powerful impact to a small point, whether it's striking or kicking.
- Pros: High mental clarity and focus, conditioned body, high striking/kicking speed, good for defending against a single opponent and good for countering.
- Cons: Bad defense/offense against aggressive fighters, no takedown defense/offense, no grappling defense/offense, no ground fighting defense/offense and no throw defense/offense.
-- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Description: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a popular ground-focused martial art that utilizes: Strategy, techniques and timing to maneuver into a favorable position to control and submit an opponent through various submission techniques.
- Pros: Highly technical, high mental clarity and focus, offers adaptability in any situation, great takedown, throw, grappling and ground fighting techniques, use of full body, strategic thinking and great against a single opponent of any size and skill in any situation
- Cons: Bad defense/offense against multiple opponents, no striking defense/offense and no kick defense/offense.
-- More to be unlocked
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After reading all of this, he thought back to that struggle against the person he choked for money. That person had used Jiu Jitsu, which was used to counter Kubera and nearly got him caught. It was so bad that even Nari had to step in to save him by using Jiu Jitsu against the man as well!
'Also, because I'm not looking to fight multiple people because the chances of me getting caught is very high and being able to take them all down in this environment with any of these skills is very risky, I'll choose this..'
He thought in his mind 'Brazilian Jiu Jitsu' and with that, a new screen popped up in front of him.
('Brazilian Jiu Jitsu' skill added to Skills | 'BJJ Training' added to information section)
Kubera wasn't surprised at seeing he had gotten a new skill, but the information name having 'Training' in it caught him by surprised. He decided to check the skill first before reading into the training.
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- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (passive)(0.1/1.0)
-- Information: Can keep people unconscious longer through successful submissions and can activate 'Match Start'
--- Abilities: Match Start (2 hour cooldown): Find the most optimal BJJ move to start off with against one person you're looking at | Passive: 10 second increase to a submitted opponent's unconscious state
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Reading this, he knew picking BJJ was the right move. With that passive, it would make getting away with submitting someone and taking their stuff a lot easier. He moved on now to the information section.
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BJJ Training
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- First 30 days: 10 forward rolls, 10 backward rolls, 10 granby rolls, 10 breakfalls with technical standup, 1 minute shrimps, 1 minute 3-piece shrimps, 1 minute forward shrimps, 1 minute double leg takedowns and 1 minute s-mount stretches. Repeat 3x a day.
More to be unlocked
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He didn't understand what most of these moves were! Shrimps? Breakfalls? He was lost as to how to do any of these. And then he received a new notification and opened it up.
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New Quests
(Create better habits Section)
- Q3 | Complete the first 30 days of BJJ Training | 0/100% progress | Time limit: 30 days
-- Reward: +0.1 BJJ Skill point and +0.1 Stamina Stat point
--- Punishment for failure: Removal of BJJ Skill
- Q4 | Pumping Iron | 0/100% progress | Time limit: 30 days
-- Reward: +0.1 Strength Stat point
--- Punishment for failure: -0.1 Workout Skill point
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Tasks
(Create Better Habits section Q3)
- Task | BJJ Training: Research | 0/100% progress | Reward: Knowledge on the BJJ training moves | Details: Look up on TwoBoob what each move in the BJJ Training is | Suggestion: Don't watch any other video that catches your eye if it doesn't relate to your tasks/quests
(Create better habits Section Q4)
- Task | Pumping Iron: Iron Workout Gym | 0/100% progress | Reward: +0.1 Workout Skill point | Details: Workout Ever weekday you're at school at the Iron Workout Gym for 2 hours and do this for a total of 10 days | Suggestion: Watch how the stronger people workout in the gym and copy what they do with weights your body is capable of moving
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These new quests and tasks answered some of his questions, 'I believe TwoBoob is an app that my previous owner spent a lot of time on, almost as addicting as social media..' he kept a mental note to not fall victim to the TwoBoob addiction as well.
After rereading the tasks and quests, he decided since he's next to the gym and the time is 11:18 am, he'd go and get a pump.
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"I don't know what happened, one moment I'm studying inside a private study room and next moment a guy is trying to choke me out! I have no idea who he is either since he wore a mask."
The campus police were currently questioning the man who was beaten and robbed in the study area.
"We'll check the CCTV footage, we're sorry this has happened to you. Give us your phone number and we'll give you a call soon. For now, take this note and give it to the office if you wish to go home early, they'll notify your teachers so you don't get in trouble."
With that out the way and everything reported, Jose put his faith in the campus police and left for home with an empty feeling around his neck and his wallet.
"Have you heard of anything like this?" An officer turned to ask one of his colleagues.
The other officer turned to reply, "No, maybe a homeless person or theif would rob someone out in the open with a knife or gun, but this person went ahead and looked for somewhere private."
"They also choked him, risking getting injured just for the sake of having time to get away.. We need to prepare, we can't have another situation like this happening again." Another officer stated her opinion on the matter.
The officer who asked earlier spoke up, "This guy is no amateur, he's most likely a student here since he knew about the study area. He must have set his sights on his classmates for more money since this is the first report of this type of situation."
As the officers discussed everything, they already had someone look into the cctv footage. But to their surprise, they actually couldn't pinpoint anyone!
They saw the masked man walk up stairs then walk out, but because of the camera placements they couldn't see where he went, and they also didn't see him come out the building.
They tried to look through the students that were there, but since it was close to lunch, there were just so many people that it'd be impossible to find the culprit amongst them!
"He got us.. He might've went and thrown his disguise in a trash can or changed after leaving the cameras view." The security reviewing the footage were at a loss of words.
What would happen if this got in the news? A masked student is roaming the campus and hasn't been caught?
They would receive a lot of complaints and lose students, ultimately losing more money!
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*PING*
As Kubera was in the middle of curling 40 lb dumbbells with sweat drenching his entire body, he received a notification.
(AOI Difficulty: E)
*BANG*
Kubera dropped his dumbbells seeing this notification. He immediately apologized to everyone that was staring at him and placed the dumbbells back on the rack.
'Nari, what the hell is going on?! Did I get caught?'
(If that was the case, the difficulty would've jumped to D or C so you should be fine! However.. I believe the school and security are on high alert, it's not everyday a student with a beautiful deity comes around to show everyone who's the boss.)
'Beautiful huh? Yea these words on my screen are very beautiful, just look at how the letter curves here, oh and that space there.'
(Why do I feel like you're making fun of me..)
'Anyways.. what should I do now?' Kubera drank the rest of his water bottle before throwing it away.
(You have my map and the scouting skill, make use of those whenever you're out 'earning' more money.)
Being reminded of his skills, he smirked. It still hasn't even been a day and he's grown so much just by focusing on what needs to be done.
As long as he continued down the right path, even an E difficulty AOI wouldn't be a problem for him. There's still a lot he doesn't know about that he wishes to learn like: this world, his system, Nari, and this entire universe that he wants to explore!
But for now, an even bigger matter needed to be settled, and that was his thirst.
He looked around and saw what he remembered to be a vending machine. It had water bottles and other drinks for sale, exactly what he needed!
He walked over and clicked an icon with a water bottle similar to the one he bought earlier, and the digital screen showed that the price came to.. $2 dollars and 50 cents?!
'Whatever, I got more money and I'll be earning more soon so this is pocket change.'
With that settled, he inserted a $5 dollar bill and got a water bottle with some change back.
He then used that change to buy another bottle since he still had to workout for more then an hour, so he got back to work.