Ch-2 Shivering at the thought

Gym class.

“So what’s your SC now?... mine had already reached 59!”

“Still 41!...you dwarven people has a lot of racial advantages…”

SC, Spirit coefficient is the amount of spiritual energy a person can keep inside his body, which acts like a vessel. Making their spirit coefficient reach at a milestone is something every person yearned for. It increased the life expectancy of a person by 10years.

The only way to raise the spirit coefficient is to exercise and use the brain to outmost of its ability. So a person who reaches the first milestone will be gifted with fruits for his labor.

Dwarves being dexterous race, were able to raise their spirit expectancy at a faster speed than the humans and they being talented in anything related to metal, made them get recruited by companies and guilds all over the federation before they even graduated.

So Sura saying that Brohimir had the racial advantage was not wrong.

“Just keep practicing!..” Brohimir was lifting 60kg weight like it was nothing, he danced with the weights in hands, as for Sura, he only lifted 45 kg of weight and that also was heavy for him, he was never a person of strength, his only way of increasing his SC was to be engrossed in fixing broken stuff and creating new chips for money.

The blankness in Sura eyes has disappeared for good, sometime with his fat friend was enough to make him forget the dream.

“Those in sectionA have it good, they have already reached 100 milestone and become hunters.” Appraise can be seen in Sura’s eyes, the sections were divided not with the amount of an individual net worth, but the amount of individual ability or the rate at which s/he can increase their SC or just the talent of individual, so even a person from slums with great talent in a field can join sectionA.

“They have it good? Except for most of them are drug to the peak, having rich parent is so good.”

Having money is also a skill and the rich will always use their money to advance in society, no one can argue for them cheating their way up the ladder.

Soon the class ended. And another day at the academy came to an end.

Brohimir used to live on academy hostels, so he parted ways with Sura after leaving the main building and as Sura’s body was wracking with sweet pain, he also got on his way to home.

Need to go to old man Han’s place to see if he has any work.

All around him there were people leaving in their ground vehicles or cars and most of them were leaving in civilian usage wing. And as the only boy who used bicycle, Sura stood out.

From afar he can see Yemming stepping into class2 wing with a flowery pattern on it, there was only one thought in his mind at that time. I know it’s not your mistake, but at least say sorry… I got in accident just because I fixed that ancient thing for you.

Sura was the slowest and the last one to leave the campus, he was thinking of going to see if Old Han had anything that needed to be fixed.

After 10sec leaving the campus, he can see some students wearing the same uniform with a sun shining over horizon sitting by the side of the road. They stood out from the rest of the people walking on the pathway as if they were waiting for something.

Sura didn’t give it much thought, he ignored them and went on his usual way to the workshop.

The students that were not moving for a while, seeing Sura riding bicycle, they stood up and created an encirclement around the road, stopping Sura.

“You are Helius from Section D?” one student asked.

Don’t tell me.!

“Yeah! It’s him alright… see that old thing he is riding, it’s got to be him.”

Sura understood from their expression that they didn’t meant him good, in delinquent terms it is called “fielding”. Waiting for somebody on his usual route and seeing the person approach they fielders were first mock the victim and then beat him.

“You must be feeling pretty good right… extorting money from older brother Tommy and then coming to the same school like nothing happened.”

Ah! He paid someone to beat me up. Don’t know the reason but this all feels too familiar.

Sura had a dumb expression on his face, he backed up a little and retorted.” Elder brothers from section B, don’t hurt your hand dealing with me, I am just an ordinary citizen, so please let me go.”

Seeing Sura plead for mercy, the student’s from section B were elated, being from section B their SC was already above 85, they were unhappy at the thought of dealing with someone from section D, if not for being asked by Tommy who belonged to section A and being paid 100 credits each, they wouldn’t have bothered him at all.

Even though Sura was backing up by making excuses but he didn’t know that he was already surrounded in the back also.

“Don’t run… you are already surrounded.”

Before he can look at the back to see the no. of people surrounding him, he was punched in the stomach and thrown off the bicycle.

Sura, being punched in the stomach has all the air from his stomach come out, taking a deep breath and tried to get up.

Need to run. He already forget about his bicycle and looked around to find a way out, only to find himself surrounded by 8 students from all around.

Some broken memories started to play out in his mind. In them, he saw himself beating a group of men in military jacket, cutting the throats of the people one by one even after being shot from all sides, even punching them in the crotch to make people distracted and fell on the ground.

With each stab in the throat, the men would drop their gun’s and use their hands to stop the flowing blood, soon after their eyes went blank and fell on the ground, out of 7 people, 3 had already been dealt with and 2 have falling down crying in pain, they were already out of fight.

The agility of himself in the dream was extremely fast, he dodged every bullet like a butterfly, moving in the blank point of the men, he can feel a sense of superiority well up inside himself, seeing that one man was hiding in the corner and reloading, he jumped in the air and then rolling over stabbed the soldier in the neck again.

*shot

Sura can feel his shoulder collided with something heavy and a hotness washed over it, he fell over, but ignoring the pain he got up and saw that one of the already fallen man shot him with a pistol, he rolled out of the way and soon bullets rained down the place he stood. One of the still standing man shot from the cover.

Forgetting about the assault rifle raining down bullets on him, he threw the knife at the fallen man with pistol on his hand and went into cover.

This kind of dream again! I am not in control but can feel everything and read the thought of this person as myself. He was surprised to know that the person in whose body he was in had only one thought in his mind, to find the optimal way to kill the 2 remaining soldiers, one of them was covering for the fallen soldier from the hiding, soon the fallen man will get his act together and will soon become one more obstacle for him.

As the fallen man got up, he took up his gun and hid over a wall preventing any attack from the possessed man.

Sura was thinking how this man will come out of the situation, he got kicked in the stomach and woke up from his stupor.

“Don’t sleep in front of us… don’t you value your life?”

He was still surrounded by those 8 students, holding his stomach his eyes were red and blankness can be seen in them.

For the first time, Sura forgot about the pain he felt, he looked up with anger in his eyes.

“What’s with those eyes?”

One boy also punched him, but this time he only slid a little before coming to stop. His anger getting deeper.

“I think you kicked him in the head a little too hard… !” Said one boy with mocking expression, they all had SC of 85 and above, even if Sura tried to fight he doesn’t stand a chance against one of them, so seeing his expression, they all thought that he may have gone insane.

They were taking their sweet time beating Sura, even some of them didn’t wanted to beat up a weakling, but seeing their friends in high spirit they also started to have fun. Laughing at others demise is a human sentiment.

They were laughing at him, they didn’t think Sura can harm them.

Before one of the get forward and tried to punch, he felt intense pain in his crotch. He left his soul leaving his body, he fell down and started to shiver.

All the students were surprised at first, and seeing their fallen friend and the fist in the place where their friend’s crotch used to be, they were able to predict what may have happened. Their whole spine shook at the thought.

“Beat him up… don’t hold back.. “

Sura was already surrounded, before he knew it all the students rushed at him with anger. Sura didn’t know what had gotten into him, he ran towards the wall, the students thought that he may have gone truly mad, he will be surrounded easily if he does that.

As all of them were just 5 steps away from his, and Sura being 1 step away from the wall, they thought for sure that this is the end for Sura.

“Punching a classmate in the private part, you shameless fellow.”

Knowing that Sura can’t escape, and with his guard up(one hand on the crotch) he jumped up and punched out at Sura, the surrounding students were already ready to capture him and then give him a through beating.

But before they knew it, Sura kept running towards the wall and his last steps fell wall and running along it for 4-5 steps before jumping and getting out of encirclement.

“WHAT?” They didn’t understand what had happened, before one of their friend fall on the ground, grasping for air and holding his neck.

It hurts! His right hand hurt with every punch, he was not well versed in combat, but didn’t know what had gotten in him, and he ran into the delinquent’s mob like a mad man, he was kicked and punched maliciously, but forgetting about the pain he felt, he kept punching the delinquents in neck and balls.

“This shameless fellow!” The delinquents didn’t wanted to stoop to his level, they all guarded their private part and always tried to throw in an attack.

The more the fight continued, the blacker and bluer Sura’s face got. Even though some of his bones took the brunt and crack appeared on them, Sura’s mind was only filled with one thought. Fight.

Soon all the delinquents were on the ground some holding their crotch and some holding their neck, with only Sura standing up huffing and puffing, he was hunched over and taking deep breath. His whole face was swollen up and blood dripped down his face.

“I want to report a crime…………………………………………….!!”

The people on the street have already taken some distance away from the fight, they all looked at the shameless fellow who fought dirty. But who was to argue. He was surrounded and what he did was self-defense.

Sura can see the eyes of people clicking, meaning they were taking his picture and will probable report to the police, but he couldn’t do anything to stop them.

His body hurt, and pain washed all over his body, he rode on his bicycle to home, he forgot about going to old Han’s place.

What is happening?