The Avarice System

After a few minutes, Alex was ready to lead him around the village. Aron was outsider and people around wouldn"t let him inside of their houses.

The first patient was a blonde woman, she was first to fall ill and her state was most serious. The youth didn"t wait and entered hut with Alex. Woman was lying and her appearance was terrible, pale skin, b.l.o.o.d.y eyes, and spots on her body.

[Name: Samantha]

[State: Sick(Measles), Weakened, Malnutrition, Dehydration, Fever]

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[Measles]

[Desc. Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the measles virus. Symptoms usually develop 10–12 days after exposure to an infected person and last 7–10 days. Initial symptoms typically include fever, often greater than 40 °C, cough, runny nose, and inflamed eyes]

[Treatment: Keep patient hydrated, and fed. A mix of dandelions, chamomile, lime"s flower, and purple gra.s.s with warm water should accelerate the process of immunity development.]

"It"s not looking good. If it"s measles, Amber village is infected too. On Earth, there was a vaccine and some cream treatment. I have almost all of these ingredients, the only thing I am missing is purple gra.s.s."

"I have most ingredients with me, did you see purple gra.s.s anywhere? I will need it, to make a herbal mixture." He asked with antic.i.p.ation.

"Purple gra.s.s... I know where we can find something like this. It"s growing near marshlands, most of the people go around it because of snakes inhabiting this area."

"Can you show me the way?" Asked Aron as the existence of snakes didn"t move him at all.

"I can. Are you sure you want to go there?" Asked Alex with unbelieving voice.

"Do you want these people to die? If we don"t get this gra.s.s, there will be none to care of sick soon!"

He had weak poison resistance and appraisal to counter the effects of the poison.

The surroundings of the village were mostly wetlands and marshlands. There were some quarries too, however it wasn"t most important. There were many different kinds of weird flowers and mushrooms around.

"Not having waterproof boots sucks! I need to find a way to recreate rubber, it will be extremely useful"

A few minutes they arrived, the youth had improved senses, so he could actually hear many hisses and weird sound made by snakes.

"He didn"t bulls.h.i.+t about these snakes."

[Dark Green Viper]

[Traits: Venom Glands, Strong Fangs, Flexible body, Venom Immunity(Dark Green Viper Poison)]

[Skills: Bite, Spring Jump]

"Nothing too useful, getting few to cultivate poison wouldn"t be a bad idea though."

Let"s start from killing this one first and getting immunity to their venom. The most important thing is to get the purple gra.s.s to start treating these people as the entire village will fall sick soon.

The boy picked a small rock from the ground and threw it into the closest snake. Alex was confused, he didn"t have senses and it was an irrational action for him. Aron didn"t stop, he was like a machine gun striking every snake in the vicinity.

His next action was weirder, he just started walking to the purple gra.s.s while tapping the ground with his hand.

"It would be a waste to leave these snakes here."

This place had a high amount of purple gra.s.s, at least enough to treat the villagers for now. After getting his hands on gra.s.s, he signaled and they came back to the village.

Preparation of herbal mixture was easy, so moment later boy was treating woman.

SLAM! A man with a scar on his face entered the house. His sight fell on Aron, feeding his wife and his expression became angry.

"WHO THE f.u.c.k ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY WIFE!"

"I am tr..." Before the boy could finish, the man threw himself with fists at him.

Alex stopped him, middle way and said.

"Don"t fight here with..." He wanted to say about his sick wife but man started struggling and insulting.

"If you are man, get out and fight. Little s.h.i.+t!..."

He signaled Alex to set the man free while pointing at the door. They left the hut, the man didn"t wait long and tried to punch the boy. Youth dodged with ease and looked at him with smile on his face. Punch! Kick!

"STOP f.u.c.kIN DODGING YOU PIPSQUEAK!" Aron expression changed, it was boring. This man had nothing to offer.

"With skill like this... You cannot protect yourself...not saying about your wife...words about being or not being a man from trash like you..it"s an insult to all men!" After these words, man took out a small knife and started attacking Aron with it.

"You cannot win like a man...Do you want to die as coward?" Aron became really annoyed by this person.

"Let"s finish this!" The end of the battle was fast and none could predict it. The boy dodged one of the attacks with a fast sidestep and started a counter attack. Punch! Kick! Punch! Kick!

He barraged this man with attacks. Every one of them stronger than the previous one.

"STOP! YOU WILL KILL HIM!" Alex shouted while trying to catch the boy.

"Ok." He stopped attacking like he was punching a training bag.

"Kid, don"t you think that you are too ruthless?"

"No, he deserved it. Idiots like him, learn through the pain. He should be able to move in a few days more or less." Aron said with carefree voice. This person asked for this fate. His stupidity could kill an entire village. Although sickness wasn"t lethal the malnutrition and dehydration could kill most of the villagers.

The treatment proceeded after treating sick, he gathered the rest of the people and distributed the mixture.

"Mix some of it with warm water and feed it to the sick. All of you should drink the mixture too. This sickness is highly contagious and symptoms will arrive after a few days so developing immunity will be good preventive move."

Most the people didn"t take it seriously but fear of getting sick was stronger by prejudice and stupidity.

It was late evening and going back was out of the option. Alex came and invited him to his house.

"Kid, you are strong. We need to spar someday!" Alex was a weird ent.i.ty, his mix of orc blood made him a warmonger.