Chapter 18: Space Manipulation: Control
'Is it my lucky day? I got many points and EXP today.'
To be honest, Luke didn't truly think optimist to be able to reach this point after encountering many kind people in this district. He was discouraged upon finding that Tiang not despicable as he looks and the women in this district weren't purely gold diggers.
Wait. Why am I complaining about it? Shouldn't I be glad because of it? This means an evil world doesn't imply its people were also bad. It seems that I'm the one who is wicked here. I even hoped to beat people just for the sake of increase my level up. The system really causes my mind goes astray.' Luke sighed and facepalmed himself.
Finish with his business. Luke turned around only to find Tiang stood rooted in the same position as before.
Luke doubtfully looked at Tiang, "Is your leg really stuck there?" Is this guy's leg really got stuck there? But I didn't see any crack or hole. Weird.
"Ah? I'm fine. The night chill wind freezes my leg." Tiang then jumped repeatedly like a monkey, "See, I'm fine now."
Luke gazed weirdly at Tiang and replied, "Sure. Anyway, thanks for your help earlier, brother Tiang. Let shall meet again if fate allows us. Goodbye." Luke cooly leaves with his hand waving.
Tiang could only watch Luke's departure in silence, then a thought crossed his mind, "Teenager these days really conceal themselves deeply." He never thought beneath that nerdy appearance of his, hidden an immense strength that could topple him easily.
Luke knew defeating those three fellows would cause quite a commotion. So he didn't want to entangle himself with unnecessary trouble and immediately escape the crime scene.
'I need exactly 75 EXP, and it equivalent to probably defeating three people at the same level as those previous fellows. But I prefer weaker targets than those guys. Although the EXP it provided wouldn't as much as them, the battle undoubtedly would go more easily, and I can spare my stamina more. Speaking of stamina, I need to buy some water to restore my stamina faster.'
With that thought, Luke starts searching for a vending machine. He thought he wouldn't find a vending machine in such a place, but the machine turned out to exist. Luke began to walk to it and taking out his phone from the pocket. In this era, physical money was seldom to be used. Not only were they inconvenient, but it also had a risk of being robbed. So, almost all kinds of payment on Aine are already using an E-Money. Luke used the signal that connected both his phone and vending machine to create an order. He ordered mineral water, and immediately a bottle of mineral water comes out from the pick-up box.
'It seems Aine had more advanced technology than Earth in only some aspects. This kind of E-Money was also already famous back on Earth.' Luke thought inwardly while drinking the water at the same time.
After resting for about 20 minutes, his stamina already recovered half.
<HP: 27/40>
<Stamina: 22/35>
Luke slowly stood up from his sitting position. He then gazed at the night sky and silently prayed to make the system grant him a superpower when he reached level 5.
At that moment, a brush of sharp wind suddenly comes from behind Luke. Luke didn't think twice before he swiftly shifted his body to the right side. In a second Luke moved, a palm abruptly appeared in Luke's previous position.
"Found you!" A sinister voice resounded from Luke's left side.
Luke didn't expect a big boss in this district would found him here. He quickly retreated to create a distance. He didn't know what this man capable of, so he needs to observe the man first.
"I've heard a rumour about a certain boss gang on District Black got beaten by a mysterious man. I was curious about his skill and wanted to test it by myself. But no one knew who the person is. Just now, I stumbled upon an interesting scene. Three people got knocked out in a mysterious way. No one knew who the perpetrator is, but since it happened in my authority area, I don't have a choice other than investigating it. But it never crossed in my mind that I'll be able to find the man only in half-hour. Guess God answered my prayer about wanting to spar with that mysterious man."
The man paused and raised his blurry palm, "I'll end your win streak here. Be grateful that you'll end up in the hand of Phantom Hand Yurnero."
The man crushed the ground below him and launched himself like a cannonball toward Luke's direction. Seeing a cannon-man getting closer to him, Luke choose to avoid it since he didn't know what that blurry palm can do.
Seeing his opponent retreat, Yurnero didn't grow impatient and keep jumped agilely at the same pace.
Luke didn't know where to retreat and choose the direction randomly.
Yurnero smirked secretly upon seeing the road Luke took.
Luke didn't know what's on Yurnero's mind since all his attention was entirely focused on how to escape from this dangerous man.
--On the same road Luke took--
Sat four-figure in the ground with a fireplace in the middle of them.
"Big brother, how much money we've gathered today?" A man with a cap covering half of his asked.
"Yes. Please tell us quickly, big brother. I need money badly to have sex with those slut." A man grinned dirtily showing one golden tooth on his mouth.
"On your mind was only sex, sex, and sex. Did you have to be that dirty?" A woman was wearing short pants rebuked from the side.
"Yes. But of course I don't mind if we also had s-" Before the golden tooth man finished his sentence, the woman smacked his head with her palm, "Stop talking or I'm gonna pull that tooth of yours."
"Stop all of you! Be patient, won't you?" A quite good-looking man scolded. He just about to count the money on his hand when his ears caught the sound of hurried steps.
"Who is it?" Shouted the cap-man.
Upon hearing the shout, the steps seem halted for a second before resuming their pace in more faster than before.
"What is it?" The woman said warily.
Before they were able to react, a shadowy figure belongs to Luke suddenly appeared in front of their eyes. Luke didn't want to waste his time and quickly targeted the weakest person on his mind.
Like a flash, he magically appeared before the dirty man and kicked the man's groin with his knee. The man was slow to react and his groin immediately got kicked out by Luke'sknees. His legs went weak and he quickly collapsed in a state where his palm covered his groin.
"Old Gong!" Exclaimed the woman in horror. She wanted to retreat but stopped on the deathly gaze of Luke. As he wasn't that ruthless, Luke only knocked on the woman's nape to make her faint.
Seeing his friend one after another collapsed, the cap-man wanted to run. But unfortunately, Luke didn't plan to spare mercy. His life was also currently in danger. He randomly grabbed the pebble on the ground and threw it with all his might toward the cap-man legs.
"Aaah!!" The cap-man gave out a horrible shriek. Luke didn't miss this opportunity to land a fist to its stomach to knock the man out.
The quite good-looking man is getting paler when he realized he was the only one remaining in his group.
"Why are you doing this, brother? I'll give all my money but spare my life, okay?" The man tried to strike a deal with Luke, but Luke was in no mood for this crap.
"No. The one I need was you." After saying that, Luke didn't hesitate to shorten their distance and swung his fist to the man's face.
"Not my face!!" The man hysterically exclaimed before covering his face with both his palms.
But that palm of his was rendered useless in front of Luke's fist. The man immediately passed out with huge bruises evident on his face.
<You've defeated thug (4)>
<You've rewarded by 15 EXP>
<You've defeated thug (5)>
<You've rewarded by 15 EXP>
<You've defeated thug (6)>
<You've rewarded by 25 EXP>
<You've defeated thug (7)>
<You've rewarded by 20 EXP>
Luke decided to gamble his remaining stamina for this battle. It would be great if he could get sufficient EXP to level up by defeating these guys. But if not, he would resort to another method to escape. Luckily, his gamble this time was a success.
<CONGRATULATIONS>
<You've reached level 5>
<You've been granted 5 Stat Points>
<You've unlocked the skill tab feature>
<You can now access the skill tab freely>
Without hesitation, Luke opened the skill tab and briefly scanned it.
<Space Manipulation: Control>
<Control the space>
<Not Learned>
Without hesitation, he learned the skill since it was the only skill available currently.
<CONGRATULATIONS>
<You've learned skill "Control">
<Rank F>
<AP : 0/20>
<//
Luke didn't have time to read the complete description because at this time Yurnero already arrived before him.
"Die!!" Yurnero yelled.
Luke took a deep breath before raising his right hand as if he wanted to block the attack, then chanted solemnly, "Control,"
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone