"Hey! Stop there, what are you doing?"A guard said to a black haired boy with a fit body and light blue eyes.
"What do you think I am doing?" Karl was annoyed, he always was bullied by the guards before entering his school, and they took pleasure in messing with the weak. "Don't you see that I am entering the building or are you blind? Or a degenerate?"
Anger could be seen in the guard's face, he was ready to chew Karl's face off. "Now, calm down Jeff" said the other guard placing his hand on Jeff's shoulder.
"Young man, we are just asking for what business does you have for the visit?" the other guard said.
"It's the last day of the school, I just came to meet some friends" Karl lied, he didn't had friends and he came for his personal reason and the surprising thing was that the guard was being actually polite and of all people to him.
"Sorry but we have not seen you here before and facial recongnisation system has not identified you" guard said.
Karl then realized that he looked different from his old self, and that's why the system failed to recognize him. Karl didn't want them to realize that he was Karl, wanting to avoid unwanted attention.
"maybe, there is a mal-function, see" Karl then put his finger on a scanner and took out his identity card, scanned it too and quickly put it away so, the guards may not recognize him.
The screen beside the scanner displayed 'Identity verified, STUDENT-19567. You may now enter."
'Sorry, young man" the guard said "it must be the error in the facial recognisation machine. You know it happens sometime, its model is way too old and your school is way too cheap to buy a new one" Jeff said explaining his behavior earlier.
"Now go on, enjoy your last day of school" the other guard said with a smile.
Karl smiled back and went on his way. Karl walked his way towards the library and could hear whisper of people around him, especially by girls who were wondering who he was and how come they have not seen such handsome student. Karl ignored the comments about him and moved on. He didn't had time for idle chit-chat.
Arriving in front of the library, Karl saw a small group opposite to the library; he ignored them too and went inside the library.
Inside the library were three section, first section consisted of books, second section consisted of digital books and third section was for people who had smart gadget in form of wearable accessories like bracelet, rings and such. They could download the audio file of digital file there.
Third section was of no use to Karl as he didn't own any smart gadgets which are very expensive for Karl.
Karl walked to the digital book section, and sat on a sit placing his hand on the screen below his hand. Karl clicked the search icon and typed dragon on it, soon some results come out and Karl started to go through them one by one. All the result were the name of the books available in the first section of the library that may contain information about dragons. "no wonder I have not heard about them" Karl said, all the teaching in his school were by digital format and books about dragons were in paper format that took credits to check out and Karl didn't had credits to use on physical copy when he could just read on the digital platform.
Karl walked to the door of first section, at the side of the door a screen displayed ' 30 credits to enter and for any one book to take' Karl took out his payment card which only had 30 credit left for this month and the end of the month was couple days ahead.
'Well it is more important to live than starve' Karl thought and swiped the card. Once the payment went through Karl entered the room and could see the luxury to be here. This room only contained stories, novel and other material for enjoyment and that's why it costed so much. Karl could have had meals for 5 days with the credits that he used to enter this place; Karl shook such thought out of his head and started to search for the information regarding dragons.
After a while of reading he could only find some information and pictures of dragons in stories and novels. Karl was really impressed by the pictures of dragons but didn't find much about dragons or his dragon system.
'Maybe I will transform in a dragon or something, but why every information about them is so outdated.' Karl thought.
Karl heard a robotic voice in his head and then a screen popped up in front of him.
[The host has gathered information about the great dragon race]
[5 exp obtained]
Karl was surprised that he got exp just as in game, 'status' Karl thought and a blue screen popped up.
<Status>
<Karl locklan>
<Race-Human>
< Level-0 >
< 5/25 exp>
<HP 10/10>
<Strength 5>
<Agility 5>
<Stamina 5>
Karl again checked his status and conformed that he had gained a 5 exp point and was still a human. His earlier quest was still not completed, he had searched all he can and found nothing much about the dragon race.
'It is not one of the main races or fallen races.' Karl thought 'maybe dragon race has not revealed itself or became extinct before humanity fought the war.' Humanity had found out 100 year ago about how wrong they were about the existence of magical beasts, demons, elves and many other races. They suffered many losses at the hand of those who only before existed in stories, and then humans started to awaken with the ability to wield mana and started to raise, gain power and restore the peace that was before humanity knew of those that only lived in shadows. Ever since the end of war humans had gained the title of one of the superior races. The tension between certain superior races remained, thus causing fight every couple of decade.
'Maybe the fall of dragon race had caused the war' Karl thought. He was not making this theory up, he read it in a particular story about how dragons protected the humans from shadows and the fall of them had brought war upon humans. Karl had checked for the author's name but couldn't find any. Karl decided to check out this book and was walking out the library when he noticed the small group opposite to the library had more people. A large group of students were surrounding someone and noises of moaning with pain could be heard from afar.
Karl went to the group of students and at the center of the group he could see a blond haired guy, with circular face and a nose too big for his face, which was now red with anger.
"Huh, don't you have something to say?" asked nose guy looking at the body near his foot. He kicked the body covered in bruises with his leg as hard as he could. A cough came out from the person lying in the ground with little bit of blood.
"Don't you find it funny anymore? Say it! Doesn't my face remind you of a joker" the blond guy started kicking him more and cries of pain started to sound louder and louder. Lying at the ground, crying with his gut, he looked at students surrounding him asking for help.
Help help Hel…
"Nobody is gonna save you, you little piece of shit" blonde guy said. He lifted the injured guy by his neck "because I am an ability user and you are not so, I can do anything I want" he said pulling his other hand back, a swirl of air formed in his hand and the glove started to light up. Once the glove become bright yellow he threw the punch straight at the stomach of the injured student. A smile appeared on his face seeing the expression of horror on his prey but that smile soon dropped as his punch stopped midway, he looked down and saw his punch blocked by a black haired boy.
"GET YOUR HAND OFF HIM!" Karl said, anger boiled from every word he spoke.
[YOU HAVE TRIGGERED THE DRAGON'S RAGE]
[ALL YOUR STATS WILL INCREASE BY 15 FOR 30 SECOND]
[YOU HAVE TRIGGERED A QUEST]
[DEFEAT YOUR OPPONENT]
[REWARD: AUTOMATIC COMPLETION OF THE FIRST QUEST]
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