Aditya gritted his teeth, maintaining silence as Vinay approached.
"Yo orphan, You escaped last time, huh?"
Vinay taunted, a smirk playing on his lips.
"I'm not in the mood for this. Let me go!"
Aditya responded, his gaze shifting upward while his face remained downturned.
"But I am in the mood to punch your damn face."
Vinay retorted, a smile creeping onto his face.
"Why are you bothering me? I didn't do anything to you. I never even talked to you before."
Aditya questioned, his expression tightening.
"Beats me! I don't know that myself. I feel like punching your face whenever I look at you. Maybe it's because of your damn attitude despite being an orphan"
Vinay spat, anger clouding his features.
"Tch!"
Aditya clicked his tongue, turning his body toward the direction of the school.
As Aditya turned, a sudden kick from the left side landed on his lower abdomen. He quickly shifted his right leg forward to prevent himself from falling. Just as he balanced himself, another kick struck his back, knocking him down in an instant.
"Woah! Vinay, your leg strength shouldn't be underestimated!"
Exclaimed a guy from behind Vinay, chuckling.
"To think he withstood your kick. Practice more!"
Vinay instructed the guy who delivered the first kick to Aditya. Aditya hoisted himself up by his hands from the ground, his determined gaze fixated on Vinay.
"That's enough!"
He declared, his deep red eyes sending shivers down Vinay's spine, startling him. Aditya's eyes burned with a sinister fury, their depths swirling with anger and malice. The darkness within them seemed to swallow the very light around, casting an ominous shadow upon his visage.
"How dare you glare at Vinay like that?"
One of the guy standing to Vinay's left exclaimed, hurling his bag at Aditya's face. Aditya swiftly blocked the bag with his hand, but before he could react, another assailant kicked his leg, causing him to collapse back onto the ground.
"Let's teach him a lesson!"
One of Vinay's accomplices exclaimed, shaking Vinay's arms. With grim determination, the trio descended upon Aditya, raining blows upon him relentlessly.
"How dare he! His eyes!"
Vinay growled through clenched teeth, joining in the assault against Aditya.
The four guys pummeled Aditya, leaving his face swollen and hand broken from defending against the onslaught. His ribs and abdomen bore the brunt, and any normal person would have crumbled. "Enough! Let's head to school," Vinay instructed the others, leaving Aditya on the ground.
"tch...aaa... This is why I despise this life and world. At least beat someone with a purpose, guys. Aaaa... My hand is shattered.."
Aditya shouted in pain while attempting to rise.
"Why? For what reason? I possess the strength to make them rue their existence, but why? I can't even lay a finger on them, while I was beaten to near death"
Aditya's eyes veiled in darkness as he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"...Shall I kill them?"
As Aditya felt the blood trickling down from his head, his hand brushing against his ear, he uttered. The intensity in his eyes left no doubt that he wasn't joking about the notion of ending lives. As anger surged through him, fleeting images of the orphanage and Maya flashed across his mind, challenging his resolve to carry out such a drastic act.
"What am I thin..."
**DING**
**Extreme Rage detected**
Aditya's heart raced as an eerie sound reverberated in his mind, almost as if it originated from within his own brain. Startled, he glanced left and right, searching for the source of the inexplicable noise.
"What's that sound? It was almost like it's coming from inside of my brain"
Aditya muttered to himself, his voice trembling with apprehension.
//Host is advised to wear the pendant for activation//
"What the hell is this? Am I turned into an idiot by that bastards beating?"
Aditya exclaimed, his disbelief tinged with fear.Dismay flooded Aditya's thoughts as he grappled with the implications of the mysterious voice inside his head.
//System repeats again: Host is advised to wear the pendant for activation//
"Pendant? Oh! It's in my pocket! Wait a minute! Aaa... My hand.. mmm!... here, I worn it."
Aditya fumbled, retrieving the pendant and placing it around his neck.
As he secured the pendant, an unexpected surge of dark green energy emanated from it, enveloping him. The pendant pressed against his chest, dissolving into him like sugar in water, leaving him stunned yet strangely invigorated.
//System is activated//
"System! Hahaha! I think I've turned into an idiot instead of evolving into the dominator destined to rule this world... hahaha!"
Aditya burst into laughter, his voice echoing through the street as he exclaimed. He found himself chuckling at the irony of his situation, realizing that he was laughing like an idiot at the thought of becoming one.
//Connected the Host to the pearly gate//
// Analyzed the Host and the system concludes that the pearly gate is linked to a lower-level existence with lower-level intelligence//
"Lower level existence? Lower level intelligence? Is this irritating sound in my brain mocking me as an idiot? But, I hear these perplexing sounds in my mind. What if I am truly an idiot?"
Aditya scratched his head, questioning.
//Concluded: Host is really a lower level intelligence and asking permissions to upgrade the system to deliver clear instructions to the Host//
//Permission received! Upgrading the system//
"Well, I don't know what it is doing, but I am damn sure it is mocking me and placing me below what it assumed"
Aditya said without blinking his eyes.
//Upgrade completed//
//Hello Aditya, I'm the chakra system here to assist you in awakening your power and aiding in cultivation.//
"System? Cultivation? Whoa... is this for real? Did I finally awaken this pendant? Hold on! What caused the pendant to activate?"
Aditya exclaimed, posing a question to the mysterious voice.
//The system is designed to activate in response to the rage emitted by the host.//
"'Woah... That's it? So, all the stunts I've pulled, like meditating above the rock and sitting under waterfalls, are just my delusional embarrassments? Suddenly, I feel like dying!"