Chapter 2

Half an hour later, Andro arrived home.

When he opened the door, he saw his father Damon Cunningham watching TV on the couch while his mother Seraphine was walking out of the kitchen with freshly-brewed medicine.

"You're home, Andro?" His mother was a little surprised to see him home that early, then quickly added, "Are you hungry? If you are, I'll cook something for you."

Andro shook his head. "No need."

"How are you feeling?" He turned to his father and asked.

His father got injured a year ago and now needed medicine every three days for treatment, but even so, his condition was slowly deteriorating.

"Same as always. If you ask me, we should just stop the treatment. It's useless!" Damon shook his head.

Because of his injury, the family had a very hard time. He kept wanting to stop treatment, but Seraphine adamantly refused.

"What kind of nonsense are you talking about? Do you want to die?!" Seraphine said irritably.

"Let me die. The sooner I die, the sooner I'll be freed."

"Then before you die, go confront the Zeller family and make them compensate you first!"

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When they started arguing, Andro shook his head helplessly and went to his room.

When he entered, he inadvertently looked up at the calendar and froze on the spot.

"March 18th!"

He recalled that in his previous life, he had died on March 25th. Although this world's background was different, the people and the course of events had not changed much.

In other words, when March 25th arrived, he would still die?

His death in his previous life was not an accident, but a murder.

In his previous life, Damon was also injured.

Damon was hit by a car on his way home from work. The driver was Kendrick Zeller, a member of Rovechester City's influential Zeller family.

And in this life, according to Andro's memories, his father had likewise been injured by Kendrick.

In this life, his father was originally a soldier on the front lines. In a battle against Fae Beasts, a captain had unfortunately died. That captain had no family and was very close to Damon.

Before dying, the captain gave Damon his most prized possession: a premium-quality Ferocious Beast Crystal.

In this world, monsters were divided into Ferocious Beasts and Fae Beasts.

Ferocious Beasts were equivalent to Body-Tempering humans. They were similarly divided into four stages: early, middle, late, and peak.

Fae Beasts, like Martial Artists, were divided into nine tiers, from tier 1 to tier 9.

The premium-quality Ferocious Beast Crystal was the crystal of a peak-stage Ferocious Beast, a rare treasure.

It was precisely this Beast Crystal that caught Kendrick's attention.

Kendrick sent someone to buy it from Damon, but the price he offered was only one-tenth of the market price. It was daylight robbery.

Kendrick often did this kind of thing.

Damon naturally refused to sell it. The Beast Crystal meant a great deal to him. Even if the offer was above market price, he would not sell, let alone a low price like that.

And because of that, Kendrick was offended.

Later, Damon was hit by a car and ended up in this condition. Although there was no evidence proving Kendrick did it, Andro knew that the person behind it was Kendrick.

That was because Andro had later confronted Kendrick, and Kendrick had admitted it.

In Andro's previous life, Kendrick himself drove the car that hit Damon, while in this life, he had sent someone else to do it, so the situations were slightly different.

However, that did not change the fact that the culprit was still Kendrick.

Therefore, if Andro was killed by Kendrick in his previous life, he would definitely be killed by Kendrick in this life too.

As for the motive? It did not matter at all.

Of course, he might be overthinking it. Perhaps this world's course would change because of his transmigration, but he would not entrust his survival to that possibility. Besides, he must also take revenge for his father!

"There are still seven days left!" He looked at the calendar.

To take revenge, he first had to live past the 25th, so he needed the ability to protect himself.

"In seven days, not only do I have to become strong enough to protect myself, I also have to place my family in a safe environment!" Andro immediately felt a wave of pressure rush at him.

Gaining the power to protect just himself was definitely not good enough. After all, he could not guarantee that when Kendrick failed to hurt him, he would not go after his family.

"The only way to prevent Kendrick from hurting us is by becoming a Martial Artist!" A fierce determination flashed in Andro's eyes.

In this world, even a 1-star Martial Artist had a high status and could be considered a noble.

That was because every Martial Artist was of great significance to humanity's safety.

Therefore, if Andro became a Martial Artist, even a powerful family like the Zellers would not dare to attack him rashly.

Moreover, after he became a Martial Artist, his family would receive heavy protection.

After all, Martial Artists fought for humanity's safety. No Martial Artist could tolerate their family being harmed while they were fighting on the front lines. Therefore, whenever a Martial Artist's family member was harmed, there would be a strict investigation.

Once it was discovered that it was not an accident, all Martial Artists would treat the culprit as an enemy. Even if the culprit was a city lord, they would absolutely take the culprit down.

Therefore, you better not make a move on a Martial Artist's family member unless you're powerful enough to ignore all Martial Artists, or you can prevent anyone from finding out.

Thinking of this, Andro walked out of his room. "Dad, where's that Beast Crystal?"

He remembered that the Beast Crystal the captain gave Damon was a fire-element crystal. He wanted to find out if his talent skill could devour that Beast Crystal and make him stronger.

"The Beast Crystal?" Damon was surprised at first, but he did not think much of it and pointed to his bedroom. "It's in the cupboard."

"Keeping it there isn't safe. We should keep it in my room!" Andro headed straight for his parents' room.

"You little brat!" Seraphine scolded irritably.

Ever since Damon got injured, their family's income had been very limited. They also had to pay for Damon's treatment, so life had become extremely difficult.

Therefore, Seraphine often suggested selling the Beast Crystal, but Damon was adamantly against it.

When Andro suddenly said he wanted to keep the Beast Crystal, Seraphine naturally thought that Andro was doing it to prevent her from secretly selling it.

Andro quickly carried a wooden box back to his room and slammed the door shut with a bang.

Damon smiled. "My son understands how I feel!"

He was very happy that Andro was willing to protect the Beast Crystal.

Andro opened the wooden box in his bedroom and saw a red Beast Crystal inside, emanating waves of fire aura.

He took the Beast Crystal out of the box.

Immediately, a piece of information appeared in his vision.

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Ferocious Beast Crystal: Fire-Element (Premium-Quality, Devourable)

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Seeing the information, Andro was delighted, and a weight was lifted off his chest.

Originally, it was a gamble. After all, it was known that devouring Beast Crystals had an adverse effect on human cultivation. However, since the system had given him a prompt, he was not worried anymore.

Without further hesitation, he swallowed it in one gulp.

The talent skill Devour instantly activated on its own.

The Beast Crystal quickly melted inside him and spread all over his body. Mere seconds later, he felt his body changing. His strength kept growing, and his five senses were also continuously enhanced.

[Ding! Fire-element Beast Crystal successfully devoured. Your fire-element Body Tempering has reached 60%.]

"That's… middle-stage Body Tempering!" Andro was overjoyed.