New Beginning: Road To Conquest

Stat:

Str: 7

Vit :4

Agi:5

Sta:2

Int: 13

Free stat: 15

Skill: Grip (absorb some of the subject stat to be allocated as free stat to the user. Need to have direct contact with the subject – skill ready - cooldown 7 days)

Observe (obtain basic details on each object based on the user d.e.s.i.r.e)

*average human value is 10

The sky is still dark and there is will be time before the sun will rise.

Once Eliah find and sit on the secluded spot, he quickly look into his information's and found out that there is 15 free stat absorbed from the thief.

'The thief total stat is 54 and I had absorbed around 30% from his total' Eliah doing some calculations in his mind.

'There might be some other factor that need to be take into to maximise Grip skill, but this will need some experiment but the cooldown of this skill are very long. So I will need to minimize the risk of getting low stat and can only research vigorously once I am capable enough to be consider as superhuman'

'Since I have free stat now, I will need to allocate it later based in situations and since my priority is to secure some income urgently.' Eliah starting to plan his future positively since he can see his dream life are within reach if he exploits his skill correctly.

Because of his excitement, he unable to sleep and start to dream on his bright future. Big house, big car, everyone calling him boss and become of top and look the world from his feet.

After several hours of dream, the sun finally rise and sky are become bright. People are starting become more abundant and car starting to fill the road. Since Eliah locations is quite secluded, most passer-by did not notice him and the one that do, only glance and continue with their life. Homeless people is a common sight in city even though it is in the downtown area.

Eliah get up from his locations and now is looking for public toilet or any place that he can use to wash his face to improve his appearance. His missions for today is to find a job that able to provide longing and food to remediate his situations. Or if his lucky, a miracle can happen and he can find a big chunk of cash in the road side.

After walking for several minutes, he located a fast food restaurant that open 24 hours. He go into the restaurant to wash his face in their washroom. The environment in the restaurant is clean and there is not much customer are on house. Hence he manages to avoid awkward situations. The worker did not give any staring as they focus on their work.

Eliah appearance cannot be consider as handsome but not ugly too. His height around 178cm can be consider as normal in this country. But he is skinny due to bad diet and harsh work place. However, when he focuses on something and knit his brow, his face will become quite scary and will look very fierce. Hence for most of the time, strangers will create some distance from him as they will feel uncomfortable.

He was his face and straighten up his shirt to look more presentable. Once he satisfied, he walks out from the washroom and the restaurant.

As the day is still early, no shop yet to be open except for some cafe or bakery shop. Since he had freshened up, his next step is to have breakfast. He did not yet feel hungry since he normally did not take breakfast due to limited funds. But he knows that food is very important as of now since he did not have any money in his possessions.

He unable to come out with any plan to get breakfast except to beg to some road stall for it.

He just need to look for stall with good business since normally the owner will be quite generous plus the owner will be on good mood.

'It's all about survival' Eliah giving some excuse to himself that what he does is necessary to live.

After quite few block of walking, he finds a road stall that sell some cookies and bread with quite a number of customer lining up to buy their food. Eliah search for a place that quite far from the stall but the locations will not visible to the owner. He is waiting in the place until the stall will have less customer since he will need to wait the right time before he can ask for free food.

After quite some time of waiting, the crowd is become lesser and the owner are become more relax as of now. Eliah motivate himself and walk to the stall. For person with high pride, actions of asking for free food can be consider as shameful since it reveals your weakness but for Eliah that had seen the life, pride is only a word and nothing more than that.

"Excuse me sir..sorry to disturb, but I would like your generosity to give me some free food since I had lost my money and now left with nothing at all." Eliah spoke to the person that he assumes as the owner. The owner is a middle age man with sturdy bodies, gentle face and having some aura that will make person comfortable to look at him.

"Hi. Sure no issue. Let me give you some food. Don't worry we have more than enough. Besides normally there will be not much new customer will come after this time and most of the food will become excess. Just sit in any chair available and we will bring you the food" the owner replied.

"Honey, please prepare the food for this man" the owner asked his wife.

His wife just smiles and prepare the food which is bread and some cookies.

"May I know what drinks you would like to have" the wife asked Eliah gently.

"Just warm water" Eliah replied.

"Here is it is. The food and drink, young man" the owner speak to Eliah while bring the food.

"My name is Bill. How about yours, young man" the owner tries to start the conversations while sit down together with Eliah.

"My name is Eliah, sir. Many thanks for the food. I am really appreciate it. Let me help you with the stall operations once I done with this" and Eliah continue to have his food.

The owner walk away since there is customer that need to be entertain.

Eliah thinking if he can ask the owner if he required assistant at his stall as he can see that his stall is popular.

Once done, Eliah went to help the owner as much as he can but being refuse by the owner.

"Many thanks sir for the food."

He walks away from the stall and planning to find a job at the city.

After several minutes of walking, he manages to locate one shop selling furniture that offering job opportunities as the ad was hanging outside the shop.

He approaches one of the worker to confirm and was guided to meet the shop owner.

"If you are willing we will pay you 12 dollars per hour. We can pay cash as you required. Lodging provided but we will deduct from your pay. When you can start to work?" the owner agreed to hire Eliah.

"Many thanks sir, I can start to work immediately." Eliah replied.

He glads since the owner agree to hire him plus to provide lodging. Food are not provided but since the owner willing to pay the salary on daily basis to him for the first 2 weeks, then it should be no issue for food.

Since he expected the works will require him with some harsh works, he allocate the free stat to improve his body.

Stat:

Str: 11

Vit :8

Agi:7

Sta:7

Int: 13

Free stat: 0

Skill: Grip (absorb some of the subject stat to be allocated as free stat to the user. Need to have direct contact with the subject – skill ready - cooldown 7 days)

Observe (obtain basic details on each object based on the user d.e.s.i.r.e)

*average human value is 10

He added 4 to Str and Vit, 5 to Sta and 2 to Agi to ensure he will able to carried out his job perfectly.

After several day working in the shop, Eliah found that his life now on the right track plus the current job is not too harsh. Beside the owner is very generous with his employee that always bring free food for them.

Eliah feel very thankful as most of the person he found in this city is kind and generous. In fact, his colleagues did not bring him any difficulties to him. They also did not feel disdain to associate with him when they know his situations, but most of them feeling sympathise. But of course no one offering monetary assistance since Eliah situations is something that he need to resolve on his own.

Now, his body conditions become better and look healthier since he no longer need face all the previous stress. His appearance had become more tidy where he had shave his and trim his hair.

Since his living alone, he had more free time after work and able to plan his future more thoroughly to exploit his abilities. At first, he planning to have his path using Intelligence as foundations, but after several round of thinking he decides to goes for more physical or combinations of them since his dream is to be the top of the world.

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Since his Grip skill is no longer in cooldown, Eliah plan to meet his target once his work is done. During this several days, Eliah had identified several of his target on some thugs that available in the city. The thug information is very easy to obtain since lack of authority in this city. The only thing that keep the city in order is due to most of the resident is well behaved and only small minority that causing trouble but their actions is limited as there will be a lot of samaritan in this city.

Jack is one of the thugs in his list which known as 'One eye' since he having one eye tattoo in his face. The tattoo was applied in the hope to bring manly affect to him which is kind of true at some certain. But still no woman is yet fall for him.

He is part of the underworld gang and work as bouncer belong to them. Jack is not big shot but always involve with fight since he loves to brag his manly act. Hence he can be consider as an easy target by Eliah.

Around 10 at night, Eliah visiting the night club to meet his target. However, Jack is not available in the entrance and only his partner,

'Did Jack is not working today. Then I will need to change my target. As long as it part of Jack gang should be enough.'

Eliah walk into the club while looking for potential target. However, his actions was done in discreet to avoid suspicions.

Suddenly Eliah spotted one man that look familiar in one corner in the club sitting with some other guy. Eliah manage to identified that person as one of Jack gang, Donald which also in his list target.

Stat:

Str: 16

Vit :13

Agi:11

Sta:9

Int: 5

Free stat: 0

Skill: NA

*average human value is 10

Eliah walking towards them while pretending to be tipsy.

"Hello. You look familiar to me, are you Chris Mealt?" Eliah asking Donald.

"No I am not. Please I am not gay. Stop flirting with me you bastard" Donald replied arrogantly.

"Oh sorry my bad." Eliah try shake hands with him. Donald subconsciously shake Eliah hand back.

During the shake, Eliah activate his Grip skill and remove his hand once he detects that the skill has been activated.

"See ya again man" Eliah walk away from them and not looking back. Since he is looking drunk, he manages to avoid suspicion since people can do anything when they drunk and his behaviour consider as normal.

Since he already achieved what he looking for, Eliah did not waste his time and out from the premise. Since it costly to take taxi, he decides to walk from the club to his lodging which normally will take around 20-30 minutes. He sometimes jogging on the way back as feel impatient to see his harvest. He manages to held his curiosity and plan to see his stat information once he back to his room. Since his room is not situated in slum area, his journey back to his room was smooth without any hiccup.

Once he reached to his room, Eliah look in this detail without delay.

Stat:

Str: 11

Vit :8

Agi:7

Sta:7

Int: 13

Free stat: 23

Skill: Grip (absorb some of the subject stat to be allocated as free stat to the user. Need to have direct contact with the subject – skill ready - cooldown 7 days)

Observe (obtain basic details on each object based on the user d.e.s.i.r.e)

*average human value is 10

Eliah feel shock with the amount of stat he manages to absorb from Donald since expected to have around 15 same as previously as the target are having quite similar of total stat with his first one.

He ignores the reason and focus on his next actions which is to obtain money as fast of possible using his advantage, hence he did not allocate the stat yet. He goes to nearby internet cafe to look for information. Since most of the cafe is operated 24 hours, he easily spotted an internet cafe which only a few block from his room.

His aim is to search if there is any tournament around his area that did required a lot of physical ability rather than skill since skill will take time to improve. He manages to find one marathon tournament which are schedule next week sponsor by one of the biggest sport company in the country which is Petrading. Since this is an open tournament to promote their company, no registrations are required, however if you manage to be in top 10, your detail will need to be passed to the organiser.

They offer 5k dollar for the winner which is good amount for Eliah. He decides to join the tournament as the date is during his off day and also his Grip skill is available just one day before the tournament. Hence he is confident that he will have big chances to win once he manage to upgrade his stat once more.

Eliah allocate most of the stat into Sta and Agi to improve his chances to win the tournament.

Stat:

Str: 11

Vit :8

Agi:15

Sta:22

Int: 13

Free stat: 0

Skill: Grip (absorb some of the subject stat to be allocated as free stat to the user. Need to have direct contact with the subject – skill ready - cooldown 7 days)

Observe (obtain basic details on each object based on the user d.e.s.i.r.e)

*average human value is 10

Now Eliah satisfied with his plan and will only wait for his skill to available and join the tournament.