There were about ten men ... puppets holding guns surrounding neto .
"Hands in the air ,we can do this the easy way."
Tilting his head to the right neo seemed confused.
Suddenly, he ran towards one of the puppets he punched with full might.
The slap he took from the gorrila had him lose his weapons along the way.
The attack connecting to it's side crushed it ,more like cracking it open as the hand which was used to defend popped out of shape with a fist type injury ripping open and a dark gust sprayed out of onto his face.
'What is this,dust ?,is this real or a dream ?'
"Shit."
Bullets flew, but Neo took the body of the ..... puppet? tossed it at one and ran towards another punched with full force ripping its torso inward.
The bullets couldn't connect as this professional seemed disturbed by this man ripping apart their partners.
Catching one with both hands, he ripped the shadow in half , completely half with both hands.
"Oh God."
Rather than fight the started to run , apparently they didn't get paid enough to get ripped in half.
But they all met death eventually.
And with the last one, his hand penetrated its head with a punch.
With the last one dead neo could see everything thing normal again ,the buildings were normal and his hand was in the skull of a dead human being brain matter squishy in his hands.
All that he assumed as shadows were actual people,their bodies apart on the floor, and their blood was on his body .
"What was that ,holy shit I .....I killed this people?"
Killing someone is meant to be a life changing point in life where morals stab the person bone deep.
But Neo didn't actually feel any regret of some sort ,he didn't feel anything at all .
'killing someone is meant to be a bad thing right,why don't I feel different?
Is it because I don't remember anything or something else?'
'_Hm_ I'm gonna need new clothes and a bath, I guess.'
"Wow, if that kid in that dream was me ,would that be bad or good? "
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A man wearing black stood atop a broken dilapidated building, watching a group of monsters down below .In his hands were a long sword in one and a dagger in the other .
Down below were a cluster of rank 2 spiders. They had counts in hundreds.
Neto was contemplating if this was a good idea ,if he was unable to escape, he'd be killed by the lot.
Leaving the area, he thought
'Nah, it's not worth it. It's risk ,in the end, I'll just get Exp it won't change much.'
'INTERFACE'
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Name : Neto Amari
Age : 337 days
Race : Human/Nanoid
State : Human
Level : 1
Grade : Rank F
Exp : [60,600/10] ∅%
Hp : 200/200 <1/min>
Energy : 100 <1/min>
Stamina:270<1/sec>
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Status↓↑
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Abilities↓↑
Skills↓↑
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Quests : 1
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' it's been close to a month now, and thereno progress. After absorbing so many crystals, there's so much exp, but it can't be used.
Rank 4 is incredibly hard for me to cause sensible damage than to talk of a rank. 5.'
Along this month period the battle zone close to the city of ojota in jos a black dressed mercenary, thief,hunter it's unknown what the man's job was but all who met him had clothes ,and supplies stolen from them.
It was odd as he seemed to go for men wears ,and he didn't care about power crystals like they were beneath him, nor did he harm women in any way.
This thief had obtained a certain level of fame .He stole from the weak and ran away from the strong. Everyone who met him saw black before all their stuff was stolen
Neo got clothes, food, and even weapons, as he mostly targeted weak people.
After escaping the piles of dead bodies, he stole some clothes and reached the battle zone just before ojota.
Then he saw the city ,entering wasn't considering most people who left the city followed the gate and there seemed to be some sort of barrier or force field at the walls.
"We get to do something after so long it's been boring."
"Shut it , you're too loud."
An enthusiastic voice rang out, putting neo at alert .
'People are here?'
He immediately lay low in the room he was in till the group went past,but not before hearing words from them .
Something about a rank 5 .
'This is my chance, I don't need to kill it. I just need to steal the crystal thingy .
That would be my focus,if they defeat it, they'll be tired, and then I swoop in and grab it as fast as I can.'
He began tailing them ,after a month of hunting beast with stealth in order to get in a sneak attack this was a tad bit easy.
He just had to keep a far distance and not get noticed.
They entered a building that seemed to be crowded with sand .After about five minutes, they came running out, being chased by lizard like creature.... a drake seemed fitting.
It chased them away, but it seemed like they were taunting it to chase them .
After confirming that both the two guys and the drake were gone, he decided to go to the building to check it out,there had to be something it was protecting in there.
Entering the building, it had damp floors all the way up the steps, but after the steps, it was different ,everywhere was a tad bit hot.
There were piles of garbage all around broken weapons everywhere. The creature seemed to be a keeper , scanning through the garbage for something potentially useful he found a blue rock.
It had an interesting glow.
What it was was unknown to him because it wasn't a power crystal but he didn't mind it seemed interesting so he put it in a bag he carried around his waist which he borrowed from a knocked out person.
After another round of searches, he found another interesting thing ,it was a mask of some sort .
It could cover everything on his face from below his eyes, it's edges would reach the ears and underneath the jaw.
After checking it a bit for it's cleaness he put it on ,it had a sticky wear that stuck to his skin but wasn't itchy or disturbing in any way and he could take it off at any time and breathe through it.
'This is perfect,i can't really show my face around, and wearing clothes around my face seems demeaning.'
After this he was a bit happy that he forgot his surrounding after going through the piles again he found a gleaming red sword ,it was broken into three parts it seemed interesting so he took it as well.
After ten minutes of searching through garbage, he found this three things .He then left the pile to check the remaining parts of the room .
At a corner of the room, he found an egg beside another shiny red crystal, giving off immense heat. Picking it up, he could feel that it was something alive.
'This is what it was protecting'
The bag wasn't big enough for it to enter and it was a bit too heavy so he held it in his hand.
'There is a chance that the beast inside this egg is a rank 5, so there is no need for the other one.'
Although he also wanted the red crystal, it was too hot, and he didn't know what it was for.
Suddenly, there was a rapid rush towards the building. It seemed like the mum noticed something.
'Shit'
Taking the egg and his bag, he ran down the stairs, leaving the building he took off in the opposite direction, trying to get as far away as possible.