Chapter 3 - Terror

Metehan turned to Ted and asked. “Ted, do they always stay together?”

“No, they all go to their houses at the evening unless something unusual happens.”

“Nice. How many people are there in the gang?”

“There are 21 people including my dad.”

“Who is the weakest among them?”

“Hmmm, I guess that would be Uncle Samuel.”

“Okay, we will start with him at the evening and you will help me, too.”

“Sure, I would like to help if I can.” Ted said with a happy face.

Ted led Metehan to the valley across Samuel’s house and they started to wait for Samuel to come.

It was a wreck house with a broken glass and some of the yellow painted grouts on the wall had fallen off. It was quite surprising that someone actually was living here. It was no different from an abandoned house. One could even think that it was a haunted house. Moreover its door was opening from inside to outside and its door handle was on the right side as if it was installed reversely by an amatuer architect. It was a weird door design. However that design had given him an idea.

Anyway, it was late afternoon when they came so Samuel came home approximately 3 hours later. Metehan and Ted waited for 5 minutes more before making a move.

“Ted, you will knock the door, I will be hiding behind the door when it was opened. When he opened the door, try to distract him.”

“I understand, Big Brother.” Ted answered with a gentle voice. Ted’s character had changed quite much after he was rehabilitated. He had become quite gentle and obedient now. This was creating a conflict with his appearance. He was a little fleshy and quite tall for his age nearly as much as Metehan. And his face was quite intimidating. One could easily be bewildered upon seeing someone like him talking with such a soft and gentle voice.

After Metehan took his place, Ted knocked the door three times with a certain rhythm. Apparently they had even had a secret door knocking pattern. Anyway, Samuel opened the door after a few seconds. When he saw Ted, he was a little surprised.

“Ted, what are you doing here? Is something wrong with the Boss?” Samuel asked with a surprised voice.

“No, my dad is fine. We came here to help you.” Ted answered with a soft and gentle voice.

“We?” Samuel was tilted. While he was trying to sort it out, Metehan suddenly pulled back Ted and hit Samuel with the door. Samuel was standing right on the doorstep so the door had hit his nose. Samuel was forced to step back a little holding his nose in pain.

+Battle Phase is active.

Metehan felt a power surge after he saw the system notification. His new skill Guide was activated since he was in Battle Phase against a chaotic person.

Without losing any second, Metehan opened the door and landed a front kick to Samuel’s stomach.

“Aughhh!” Samuel had fallen on his knees holding his stomach with a cry in pain. His name was written in red. He was a chaotic red NPC. His level was 8 and his HP was at %95.

‘He is quite tough unlike Ted. He only lost %5 HP with two painful attacks. This is not gonna be easy.’ Even though Metehan’s stats were above his level with the boosts of his title and Guidance Skill, his level could be equal someone with level 5 at most. There was still a 3 levels differences between them.

After a little pause, Metehan drew his sword and attacked Samuel. Samuel had recovered from his confusion in this little break so he dodged Metehan’s attack by rolling on the ground to the table on the right side of him. There was a bat under the table, Samuel quickly grabbed the bat and landed an attack to the left leg of Metehan. He was fighting against someone with combat experience after all. He was different from Ted who only knows how to bully weak kids.

“Augh!” It was Metehan’s turn to cry in pain now. The attack had caused a quite pain no different from reality. Metehan immediately stepped back to the right. He had lost %20 of his HP. It was a quite effective attack.

‘What the hell?! I lost %20 HP with a single attack! Just how high his strenght is?!’

Actually the main reason why he had lost so much HP was due to his low defence. Metehan had only 8 defence even with his skill boost. He was wearing no protective item. So his defence was quite low. His agility stat was only 25 right now. He was gaining 1 defence for each 3 agility stats. So his skill boost wasn’t helping him on defence wise quite much right now. Of course when his level has risen, this skill was gonna provide him an enormous boost but right now with his low stats, it wasn’t giving much boost to his overall power.

They had started to stare each other without doing or saying anything. This was a good opportunity for Metehan to recover a little HP. Thanks to his skill Guidance, his HP was recovering %5 for each 10 seconds. After about 20 seconds, the one who broke the silence was Samuel.

“Who the hell are you?!” Samuel said with a intimidating voice. Samuel was still trying to understand what was going on. In the city, there was no one who would dare to attack them after all. Even the City Guards wouldn’t dare. So just who the hell he was, daring to attack him? This was what was confusing him.

“It doesn’t matter who I am.” Metehan said with a nonchalant voice. He had calmed down now. The pain on his leg had eased off too. He was just caught off-guard before. He wasn’t expecting his attack since Samuel was in so much pain. He had thought he was an easy opponent just like Ted and dropped his guard. He was taking him serious now.

Metehan attacked Samuel with a vertical slash. Samuel guarded himself with his bat and launched a front kick with his right leg. But Metehan had already read his attack and stepped to the right and landed a roundhouse kick to his left leg. Samuel lost his balance and fell on the ground. Without losing any second Metehan made two quick horizontal slashes on Samuel’s stomach and made two vertical slashes both his right and left arms. It was so quick that Samuel had no time to react and he let go of his bat. However after Metehan slashed his arms, Samuel landed a kick desperately to Metehan’s butt which caused him lose balance and disrupted his serie attacks.

Even after these quick successful hits, Samuel still had %80 HP. And the desperate kick of Samuel had dropped his HP to %80 again. Samuel’s attacks were quite effective. So he had to be more careful not to get hit.

After a few seconds, Metehan had recovered his balance and started a serie of attacks on Samuel who was lying on the ground in pain. This time his attacks targeted Samuel’s chest, neck and the X spot which caused critical hits.

+Critical hit.

+You inflicted %200 damage.

+Critical hit.

+You inflicted %200 damage.

+Critical hit.

+You inflicted %200 damage.

With those three critical hits, Samuel’s HP had dropped to %50. Samuel was literally crying in pain now.

‘Hmmm, I guess when you hit his vital points, your critical hit chance increases quite much.’

Samuel couldn’t resist anymore. Metehan had relentlessly started to attack Samuel’s vital points. In less than a minute Samuel’s HP had dropped %5 and surprisingly Samuel had fainted due to extreme pain. Especially the pain which was caused by the attack to his X spot seemed quite unbearable. Nobody could blame him. It was the most sensitive point in a man’s body after all. The extreme reality of the game seems to have applied for this part as well.

Metehan used the chance to tie up Samuel. After Metehan waited for about 10 minutes, Samuel’s HP and his injuries had recovered fully. Metehan kicked Samuel’s face and woke him up. Samuel’s sufferings were just starting.

“W-Who are you?! D-Do you know who I am and wh-what is the Boss gonna do to you for d-doing this to me?!” Samuel was still trying to threaten Metehan with a trembling voice which pissed off Metehan even more.

“Shut up!” Metehan said while landing a punch on Samuel’s face.

‘This bastard still thinks himself so high and mighty. It seems it will take some time to guide this guy.’

Metehan started to torture... I mean guide Samuel. Metehan’s main target was his X spot which caused pain the most. After Metehan tortured Samuel for an hour, he could finally break Samuel. Ted was also terrified but he knew he was trying to help him so he didn’t say anything. He just watched it closing his eyes and ears.

“Please stop, Big Brother. I will do anything. I regret whatever I did wrong. So please stop.” Samuel’s arrogant attitude had finally broken and he had started to beg. During this one hour of torture, Samuel was still trying to threaten him with an arrogant attitude even though his voice was trembling. But now he had started to beg. He even called Metehan as “Big Brother”, even though Metehan wasn’t older than him. He had accepted his superiority.

“Did you finally understand the feelings of the people you harassed and stole from?” Metehan asked with a doubtful voice.

“Yes, I am sorry for that. I won’t do it anymore. I will be a good man. So please stop it.”

However there were still no system notifications about Samuel’s rehabilitation. Which means he wasn’t sincere about what he said. Metehan was also aware of it.

“I don’t think you are sincere about what you said. I guess you still need more guidance of me.” Metehan said with a malicious smile on his face. Samuel had terrified when he heard this.

“Please stop, I am sincere. Please don’t do it anymore.” Samuel begged with a desperate voice. However it was futile.

Metehan continued his torture for about an hour more. Samuel had lost all of his hope. He had fell into desperation. Before while he was begging Metehan to stop, he was planning to escape and tell his Boss so he could take revenge on him. But now he had lost his hope. He had started to think that he was gonna go through this hell for eternity. The person who was torturing him seemed to have no intention of stopping. ‘Maybe this is the divine punishment for what I have been doing so far. This person must have been sent to punish me. I wish I hadn’t done all of those horrible things. I regret.’ Samuel had sincerely started to regret for what he has been doing.

“Please, stop it. I am really sorry. I really regret for what I did in the past. But I will change. I will make amends for them. I will be a better person. So please give me a chance.” Samuel said while he was crying. He had really seemed like he had regretted for what he had done. Suddenly some system notifications had started to pop up.

+Samuel has been rehabilitated. The sufferings he had gone through implanted a divine fear in him. He convinced himself that he was being punished for his evil deeds and unless he changes and make amends for them, he will be tortured forever by you, a Divine Agent. He will not dare to harm anyone anymore. He will try his best to make amends for his past sins and seek forgiveness. He will always fear you and follow you.

+Since you rehabilitated a chaotic red person, you earned 100 Contribution Points.

+Guidance Skill Level has risen to Beginner Level 2.

+Due to the special actions, a new skill has been created; Terror.

‘What the hell?! I gained a new skill again? Moreover what is with this notification? A Divine Agent? It is different from last time when I rehabilitated Ted.’ He was surprised. He was expecting Contribution Points and his Guidance Skill Level to rise but he wasn’t expecting a new skill. On the top of that, Samuel hadn’t actually regretted his sins, he was just scared of the pain he has gone through. And because of this fear of pain, he wasn’t gonna dare to do anything harmful. Metehan wasn’t satisfied with the outcome. But there was nothing he can do for now.

‘I guess even though he didn’t actually regret for his past sins but he was just scared of being tortured again, as long as he doesn’t harm anyone, I will be satisfied.’ After Metehan settled his thoughts, he checked his new skill.

Terror (Active, Beginner Level 1 | %0) : Fear is the most basic emotion that affects one’s actions and it is a very important factor in a battle. So the ability to strike fear into your enemies provides an enormous advantage to bring them to their knees. When you activated the skill, all enemies in an 10 meters radius will be paralyzed for 5 seconds and their attack powers and morals will decrease 10% for 30 seconds.

Mana Consumption : 10

Cool Down Time : 5 minutes.

‘Cool! This will be very useful while grinding and against possible PK players I will encounter.’ Metehan was satisfied with the skill. It was a quite useful skill after all. Paralyzing your enemy for 5 seconds can turn the table during a combat.

“Hey, Samuel. Will you help me on rehabilitating your other friends?” Metehan said with a cold expression.

“O-Of course, I will. I-I will do anything i-in my power to help the D-Divine Agent.” Samuel said with a trembling voice. He was quite afraid of Metehan.

“Good. Ted led us to the next weakest person in the gang.”

“O-Okay, Big Brother.”

“By the way, what is this smell?”

“I-I am afraid it is my urine, D-Divine Agent.”

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