East Meet West

Chapter 20: Hiding

20- Hiding

The group of guards are panicking, as they are going to die due to the death of the 'Young Master' and there is no way to get out of this situation. As they were trembling and thinking how to inform the clan, the leader exclaimed

"Damn, bastard who killed the Young master"

Hearing the leader, all the guards were startled

"What!?!?"

"Leader are you sure about that?"

The leader replied

"Look at the throat and the back of the head, it looks like someone stabbed him in the neck area and hit the back of his head with something hard"

Hearing this, all guards saw the wound on the neck and back of the head.

"Look there is stone which has blood on it and it looks like the master was hit with this stone"

Said a guard and ran to pick up it and brought it to show to everyone.

"Yes, it looks like some human killed the young master and robbed him"

Said the leader. Hearing this all the guards were shocked and became angry. Because due to the death of the 'Young master', they will die while someone killed him and will enjoy the wealth obtained; and they will be hanged.

After carefully observing, the leader's face was gloomy and shouted

"Everyone, search in all direction. The young master has been killed recently and it looks like, the killer ran away when he heard us approaching. He might not have gone far and if you guys want to save your lives? go and search properly and don't let the killer escape"

Hearing the leader, everyone felt they can be saved or at least decrease their punishment if they can catch the killer. Thinking about this the guards quickly dispersed in every direction.

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I was able to hear the whole conversation of those people were having and when the leader said that

'the killer might not have gone far and to catch him',

my back was soaked in sweat and my heart beat started accelerating. As he was absolutely correct and due to my lack of strength I did not run much far and hid in the hollow tree. I never thought that the guards would be related to the man I killed. And they can conclude what happened so quickly.

I was trying to calm down so as not to make any noise and hide my presence as much as possible to avoid being detected.

After sometime I felt that, everyone moved away and some guards even passed by the tree location that I was in. But luckily, they did not locate the hole and tree. Although the guards are gone, I feel uneasy in my heart so I did not move out of the tree.

As I was already in a difficult situation, I suddenly remembered about the level ups and the stat obtained, plus the fuckin 'thief' job. And since I feel weak and in a difficult situation, I feel it would be better to adjust and increase my stats. I even have to remove my poison and recover my HP as I might die soon if I don't.

"Status"

I called 'status' in my mind. As I had already read in many novels in my past life that the system can take command even if not called out loud and can respond with my own mind.

'ding'.

As expected, I was right.

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Name: Orochi

Race: Human

Rank: G

Level: 5/100

Exp: 500/600

Title: None

Condition: Poisoned

Stats: (Available Free Stats Points: 65)

HP: 7/500 MP:21/50

Strength: 10

Agility: 10

Defense: 7

Resistance: 8

Sense: 10

Stamina: 8 ------ Fatigue: 5/80

Intelligence: 12

Charm: 10 (can be increased with Free Stats Points, but won't increase when leveling up)

Vitality: 2 (cannot be increased with Free Stats Points)

Luck: 8 (cannot be increased with Free Stats Points)

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Skills: None

Jobs: Thief.

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Actually, when the system introduced the guide, I felt that I know everything and ignored all of it; but it looks like I overlooked something.

I remembered that the system said that the 'vitality' stat represents the life of the host. When I remembered, that I started sweating because I only have 2 points in the 'vitality' stat; which means I can only live for 2 years. Wanting to confirm how can the system calculate that, I asked the system mentally

"System, why is my vitality only 2. And how can you calculate it and how can I increase it"

'ding'

'The host is poisoned with two poisons, and the combination of those two is very lethal. While one of the poisons prevents host from cultivating, and other damages the internal organs. And the host's internal organs are severely damaged because of it. The system calculated that based on the damaged organs, the host can only survive for around 2 years. And if the host does not heal himself (Recover HP) right now then the host will die in 7 hours'

Reading the message, I was shocked and asked

"System, if I can heal myself and recover my HP, will my vitality increase?"

'ding'

'2 years is based on the fact that the host has full HP. Even if the host has full HP, the vitality will not increase. The vitality is calculated by 'life force' available withing the host. Due to the host's organs being damaged due to poison and the 'organs working' also affect the 'life force'; the vitality is low.'

Hearing this my face got ugly and; anger and hatred was filling me. I seriously wanted to kill those bastard friends and Fiance, but right now I had to save my life. Gritting my teeth, I asked

"System how can I increase my 'vitality' stat"

'ding'

'Currently it is recommended that the host can remove the poison. Although the organs will not recover but if successful according to the calculation, the 'vitality' stat can increase by 2 points and the organs can be recovered in future. And the 'vitality' stat can also be increases when the host increases his Rank or if host takes any external medicine or object'

Reading all this, I gradually calmed down. Although, I cannot immediately kill those bastards, what matters is saving myself and solving the poison issue. And of course, right now I have to recover my HP.