Chapter 3

**Chapter 3**

Horace went straight home, but not the orphanage. He ran away from that place 2 years ago.

Horace now lives in an abandoned tree house he found while running away from the orphanage, along with his pet lizard Jin.

He climbed the ladder that broke who knows how many times. And got on the top of the tree house and woke Jin up.

“Jin, I'm back home, I got your dinner.”

Jin looked at him expectantly when he said that he had dinner.

Horace gave him school lunch he smuggled after he ate his.

“What with your look Jin, you looked so excited a moment ago.”

Jin gave him a disgusted look as if he had never been so disappointed his entire life.

“This isn’t as good as those rich pig’s food but it’s still food.”

“It’s less risky that way.”

This gluttonous lizard is Jin, the white back lizard. He is Horace's only family and friend. They met when he was 8 in the orphanage. And Horace snuck outside to play with Jin every night.

“Come on Jin eat up, I'm going to be training tomorrow and the day after so eat as much as you can.”

Jin grumbled and started eating. As Horace prepared the bed for the two of them.

As this is all happening a figure is watching the two intently from a distance.

“Yes, it’s just as you said, they don’t seem like they are a threat to you.”

“I will hand over the entire report once I head back.”

The next morning Horace woke up to the sound of the birds chirping.

He ate yesterday's school lunch, gave the rest to Jin and left for training.

He decided to train in more dangerous environments and what better way to train than to go inside the one part of the forest where no one was allowed to enter.

He jumped up the gate only to be electrocuted by the iron wiring on the top of the fence.

He fell face first onto the other side of the gate.

“At least I made it.”

[+20 Resistance]

He decided to look for a river. One similar to the one in the local river.

He found a similar one and began against the water current.\

While this happened a few piranhas bit onto his skin. But he didn’t notice because of his high resistance stat.

[+8 Resistance]

He found a cave where a starving bear was waiting for its prey.

The piranhas that were on Horace led the bear to chase him.

As Horace tripped, stumbled and got bit by the bear many times running away from it.

[+12 Resistance]

He punched a boulder continuously until his hand bled.

[+5 Resistance]

And jumped off the highest tree he could find.

“Yes, this was the feeling I felt before when getting beat to death.”

“Please let me unlock the health stat.”

He woke up to the sound birds chirping.

He was still in the forest.

(Did I unlock it?)

(Let me check my stats.)

Stats:

Name: Horace (?)

Level: 1

Resistance: 100

Agility: (Hasn't Unlocked)

Health: (Hasn't Unlocked)

Strength: (Hasn't Unlocked)

Mana: (Hasn't Unlocked)

Adaptability: (Hasn't Unlocked)

Unassigned Stat Points: 25

(Damn, all that suffering and I got no stats unlocked)

“Let me try climbing that tree again.”

“Ouch, that kinda hurt.”

[+10 Stat Points]

[Resistance’s Level has been maximized.]

[Level Up to further increase your stats.]

[By spending 100 stat points you can unlock Resistance Plus]

“That’s good to know, but where’s my health stat?”]

[You have not unlocked it yet-]

“Yeah, I know that. How can I unlock it?”

[. . .]

“You won’t tell me the requirements right?”

[That is correct]

“I knew it, either way I wouldn’t call this a complete failure.”

“My new goal is to unlock Resistance Plus.”

I can do that by being a masochist.”

“. . .”

[. . .]

“Great.”

Horace went back to jumping off of that tree, each time hurting less and less.

He decided that he would try the electrical fence he fell on.

He went and climbed the fence and grabbed the wire.

[Resistance +1] [Resistance +1] [Resistance +1] [Resistance +1] [Resistance +1] [Resistance +1] [Resistance +1] [Resistance +1]. . . . . . . . .

After a few hours he found that he was immune to the electricity that he held onto for what felt like hours.

{Electric Resistance has been obtained}