Managing to complete the 100 squats before Garuda's group arrived, the system rewarded Ash 100 points, where he manage to purchase the most basic dagger that costs a thousand points.
[Ding!]
[1,000 points has been deducted successfully.]
[Ding!]
[A basic rank enemy has been slain. 100 points has been added successfully.]
"Huh? So, the system also give points if I kill a human?"
Ash thought after reading the system's notification.
[Only the bad ones. If the user killed an innocent human, twenty thousand points will be deducted to the user's accumulated points, and 10 levels will be deducted to the user's level as well.]
"What!? That wasn't fair!"
[Killing innocent human is unjustifiable, so don't complain about this rule.]
"Sigh! Whatever!"
Ash was in the middle of conversation with his system when suddenly a knife flew toward his face. But with a swift move, Ash caught the knife.
"Don't throw your weapons away, here you might need it!"
Ash throw back the knife in a very fast speed, hitting its owner in the middle of his forehead.
[Ding!]
[A basic rank enemy has been slain. 100 points has been added successfully.]
"Hmm, there are 9 people in his group including him and the other two lying on the ground, that's 900 points in total! Sweet!"
Ash was having a blast in his thought, when Garuda shouted in anger.
"Now you've done it! You will pay for it hundred folds you piece of trash!"
Garuda yells and all his underlings dash toward Ash.
Unsheathing their weapons, they simultaneously attack Ash from left to right, and front to back.
"O-oh! I might end up dead if one of their attacks landed on me."
Ash thought when he saw that all of their weapons were coated in poison.
"Not so cocky now, are you? Well, even if you apologize now, it won't matter because I will still end that puny life of yours!"
One of Garuda's underling yelled, slashing his twin daggers toward Ash's neck.
"Do your worst!"
Ash ducked, avoiding the attack, and stabbed his opponent right in the chest before kicking the other one behind, and then jumped a few meters backward.
"That makes it three!"
Said Ash before dashing forward.
The other member of the group was furious after Ash toyed with them. They launch an attack altogether, but Ash continue to avoid them.
"You're like an annoying fly kid! Why don't you just die already!?"
Another member of the group who wears face mask scream in frustration.
"Why don't you make me? Y'all are the ones who're trash, ganging up against one kid. Where are all your dignity!?"
Ash knee kick the person wearing face mask in his face. Throwing him back at Garuda's feet.
"Tsk! Go back there and finish your job!"
Kicking the man back to the fight, Garuda was infuriated by how strong Ash really is.
"I have never seen him do some dirty works before, let alone kill someone. But, today? He seems like a new person. The usually frail Ash Freak Maggot, was actually killing my men in front of me!? If this goes on, he's going to destroy all my hard work, my pride, and my dignity. And I don't want to see myself starting from the bottom again!"
Garuda clenched his fist as he prepares to launch himself into the fight.
Ash was slowly ending the lives of his opponents, one by one.
"I didn't know you guys were so weak! Ganging up on one small kid make sense to me now, because you guys couldn't fight without cheating, and being honest. You are worse than a monster, and dirtier than an animal!"
Ash stabbed the one with a face mask in the guts, then sliced it outwards.
"That makes it six! Anyone else willing to take the risk!?"
Ash continues to taunt his enemies, that's when Garuda finally decides to join the fight, as he couldn't take the insult anymore.
Dashing on his way forward, Garuda got in front of Ash in a blink on an eye.
"How dare you to not only kill my men but to also insult me, such impudence won't take you too far, fool!"
Ash didn't anticipated Garuda to make a move himself, as there are still two more underlings alive.
He met Garuda's kick, hitting him in the face and he was thrown into the pile of trash.
"I never thought that you could kill 6 of my men. I didn't want to kill a small kid today, but for my pride that I have been building up for the last thirty years and for those people that you killed today, killing you to avenge their death and my pride might give me a peace of mind. So, don't be mad if I kill you myself!"
Garuda was so angry that his forehead turns bright red.
"He's so fast and strong! How can I go up against his speed? If only I had more points, then it would like a walk in the park. No! I don't think relying on the system can help me became stronger."
Ash was talking to himself as he tries to stand from the fall, when Garuda swiped the air with his metal claws, which produces a sharp and fast wind blades that are invisible to the naked eye.
"Let me show you how I preserve my pride!"
Garuda yelled.
Ash couldn't figure out why did Garuda made an awkward action until it struck him.
The wind blades from Garuda made a deep cuts in Ash's body.
"Urgh! What… what was that!?"
Ash staggered backwards before dropping on his knees.
He was still in the process of understanding about what just happened, when Garuda attacked again and this time he made multiple wind blades.
Ash still couldn't understand what really is going on but just to be safe, he made sure to jump out of the way to avoid the invisible attacks.
"WAHAHAHA! You couldn't do anything about my blades but evade it? Where is your cockiness from earlier, you little shit!? Now you know that you should have never crossed swords with me! But it's too late now boy, you will die believing that you could take me on!"
Garuda continues to bombard Ash with his invisible attacks as he watch him jumps from side to side.
"You are the first person that has ever last this long against my power, kid. So rejoice, as I deem you the strongest kid I have ever met in my life! WAHAHAHA!"
Garuda hysterically laughed as he saw Ash's struggles.
"Nobody wants to be recognized by a pig like yourselves! Even if I die again, I would never be happy to be recognized by YOU!"
Ash yelled in anger as he continues to jump all around the place.
"Again? You're telling me that you already died once? That make sense! That is why I couldn't recognize you anymore. But still, I will take that second life of yours, kid!"
Jumping from side to side, Ash manage to evade the attacks that travels to the walls and everyone could see the impact of Garuda's attack.
The attacks made a deep and huge cuts to the ground and in the collapsed buildings nearby.
"So, that is what's going on! He could make wind blades by slashing with his metal claws! Now that I understand how his power works. All I needed to do right now is to wait for a perfect timing to launch a counter attack."
Ash thought to himself as he kept on avoiding the attacks.
However, as he was busy jumping, ducking, and tumbling in order to avoid the invisible attacks, he didn't saw Garuda dash towards him and appeared behind. He only noticed Garuda when the metal claws were already buried on his back.
"Wha… How?"
Ash couldn't talk properly as his blood comes out from his mouth.
"Drop dead, kid!"
Garuda removed the claws buried in Ash's back and pushed him.
Ash's body was slowly falling to the ground, as his mind slowly fade away because of the poison from Garuda's claws.
The flow of time seem slower for Ash as if he was experiencing the last seconds of his newly found life.
"The owner of this body is already dead, and I bet this Garuda guy is one of the reason. Me, on the other hand died once as well, but I've been revived and transfer into this body. I… I am not going to die again! Not on the first day of my newly found life!"
[Ding!]
[100 points have been deducted successfully.]
[The user's body has been completely healed, successfully.]
"You should have just lay off from the moment you saw our shadows, but because of your insolence, you experienced your second death almost instantly."
With a great smile on his face, Garuda started to walk away from Ash, thinking that the boy was already done for. Little did he know that in the next seconds, he will be the one to experience the same thing he did to his past victims.
As Ash's body healed completely, he channeled all his energy into his dagger and made a spin move, stabbing Garuda under his jaw.
"Kkkah!"
Garuda couldn't talk anymore as his blood was flowing out of his mouth, nose, and eyes, and the dagger went through his brain piercing all the way through his skull.
"I… am… Ash Magnus, remember that name on your way to hell!"
-End of Chapter-