Origin of Evil 4 Deal

Charles was in a bad mood recently. The Red Scorpions had recently become more and more brazen, but most importantly increasingly influent.

The total number of gang members went from half a dozen to more than a hundred in less than a month, and there was no sign of stopping. The local officers already had trouble dealing with them, so if their number were to surpass those of the police then that would become a true calamity.

Recently those thugs always seemed to escape from him, and he failed to catch any this week.

Right now, Charles was running around with his squad searching for the culprits of the huge explosion that just took place. The Red Scorpion Gang had burned the shop of someone who supposedly refused to pay protection fees.

The flour inside created a small explosion, very quickly followed by another one, a bigger one, but of unknown origin. It seemed the gangsters only meant to create the small explosion but the big one wasn't supposed to happen because two of them died in the explosion.

And as Charles was patrolling with his troops, panicked civilians alerted them of an aggression. Of course, they rushed at the scene, hopping they would get to catch the gang members.

But when they arrived, Charles felt chills when he saw the scene. Five body on the ground, all covered in blood, with expressions of fear on their faces.

Next to one of them, a youth who didn't even look like an adult yet was calmly cleaning a sword, using the clothes of the victim. The youth was smiling at him, and that made him nervous.

The youth, was Dorian of course. He had tried smiling because he felt this was the best thing to do to avoid any misunderstanding, but it seemed his lack of social skills came to bite him.

He got up and sheathed his sword, before making his way to the police officers, hands in the air. Then, with a colder face this time, he said "I was attacked by those thugs and was forced to defend myself."

Charles looked at the bodies behind Dorian and said "Defense huh… Where do you live?"

Dorian made a helpless smile and answered "My hometown was destroyed by the war, and I was forced to come here. I don't have a home for now."

Charles nodded and asked "What do you do in life?"

Dorian almost answered he was a student before realizing school in this world probably was only for nobles. So he said "I was about to become an apprentice under a blacksmith, but I never got to actually learn anything."

Charles nodded and said "We won't charge you for killings those scums, we should probably reward you to be honest. But now you will have the whole Red Scorpion Gang after your ass. For your information, they are the biggest gang in the city. I have a deal for you, would you be interested in hearing it?"

Dorian looked at Charles' sincere face and said "Sure, but why don't we get out of here before that? I don't think staying here is a wise idea for me."

Charles nodded and said "Follow us to the station. But first, we need to bring those corpses back, we can't let them here."

Dorian nodded and said "I'll help." He went next to the nearest corpse, which happened to be the one of the leader, and as he squatted down to pick him up, Dorian noticed a book was hidden beneath the corpse, shining with a weak light.

Dorian suddenly became excited as he had a good idea of what this book was, and decided to put it in his bag. Once done, Dorian picked up the corpse and followed the police.

The city wasn't very big so they arrived quickly to the station, but on the way Dorian had the time to think about a few things.

First, his clothes. He hadn't noticed it until now but his clothes had changed to match the era he was in. But his bag hadn't, which resulted in the thugs calling it strange. It meant that in the future he would have to be careful about what he revealed to others in the world.

Secondly, Dorian believed that this encounter with the thugs wasn't a coincidence, but something arranged by the Dreamland. No matter how the situation was solved, he would end with enmity with the gang.

Had he handed over his sword and bag, the police would have arrived and arrested them, and they would have blamed him for some reason.
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Had he decided to fight, but if he was unable to deal with them, then the result would be the same, except that he could have kept his stuff.

So this encounter was probably a test of sort. Fail it, and he would have lost his belongings, and maybe his life if he wasn't careful. Succeed by surviving, then he would get to keep his stuff and would be asked the deal.

But for him who had succeeded perfectly, by killing all of them, he needed another reward. This reward was the loot. The book he had picked up was most certainly a skill or an ability, that would only be rewarded to those who could kill the group, or at least the chief.

So in the end, the probability to die was minor, only the results would change. Though, Dorian was curious about what would have happened if he didn't bought anything in the shop and arrived empty handed.

Lastly, Dorian had some time to think about the world he was in. This obviously wasn't some normal middle aged world, there were some elements that didn't belong here. For example, the police. It should have been the army owning the city.

Also, the city he was in was in the middle of a fight, between the Red Scorpion Gang and the police. His mission may be to survive, what he had to survive against was the gang, so the conflict was closely related to him.

So it didn't take long for Dorian to understand what the captain's deal would be. This conflict was the most obvious way to hand out side quests.

Finally, as they made their way to the station, apart from scheming Dorian also checked on something he was curious about: the legendary observe skill. And after some tries Dorian actually succeeded in using this 'skill' on his sword. It had displayed everything about the sword.

Then, he tried to observe the different on the thug he was carrying. Unfortunately, none of the equipments on him could be observed, meaning they had no special attribute.

The only thing he was able to observe was the sword, and the only thing he learned was that this was called a chipped sword. But it had no stats.

When Dorian arrived at the station, he was finally able to drop the dead guy on his shoulder. He may have benefited from his new attributes, carrying a dead body was still exhausting, moreover he had just gotten out of a fight.

At the station, Dorian followed Charles to his office. The fact he had one showed the importance Charles had as there were only three offices in the whole station. Actually the rest of the station was more of a temporary prison than a working place.

As Dorian expected, once alone Charles said to Dorian "The deal is simple. You look like you know how to defend yourself, and you already have enmity with the Red Scorpion Gang. If you join us as an officer, then you will be admitted in the dorms. In exchange, you have to help us keep this city under the law."

Dorian and Charles looked at each other, before Charles asked with a smile "Are you in?"

Chapter end