Red the Gamer
LV 0 xp to next 1xp
HP 20
ST 20
MP 0
STR 4 Physical power
DEX 4 Physical precision
VIT 4 Physical health
END 4 Physical perseverance and ST
AGL 4 Physical speed and reaction time
INT 12 Learning rate
WIS 4 Mental Utility
MAG 0 Magic Power and MP
SPRT 1 Soul power and all forms of spiritual manipulation
Once upon a time there were Billions of humans living on a planet. They warred, killed, and spoke of peace but nothing came of it. Then came the gods. They rose from the immaterium created from our controversies.
They were created from a pure desire, to bring about an end. One was there to witness the end his name was Red Fulvus. He was just another guy who met their destruction head on. The gods blasted him and many others with magic designed to destroy.
Many billions died but he and a billion of others did not. Mana from the gods mixed with their souls. The mana when merged with them acted as a catalyst. They became like the gods. They were thrown through the multiverse landing on worlds and were reborn. It was on the new worlds, that they were given a task by the world engines. Dungeons, have plagued the multiverse. Where they come from none know. This is Red's story as a human who has become like the gods.
Red folded down the intro page. Was that really all his journal had on him and his people. He survived the destruction of his species, surely there was more to him than one of many. Changing to his stat page he found that he was age 15.
This was disconcerting, he was 25 when the big magic bomb dropped. Would he have to go through school again. Hopefully he would be spared the trouble.
At the time the sun had just set, the last of the orange rays painted the clouds pink and red. He walked through towards a park. The park was filled to the brim with teenagers. Many teenagers were there just talking. Including a blue haired chick with one of her eyes covered.
Before he freaked out he remembered that this was Japan. Cosplayers existed here in great numbers. It wasn't until the scan ability popped up that he realized how much trouble he was in.
Touka
Species Ghoul
Kagune Ukaku
Status time of the month
Not only would he have to deal with the tough exterior of this chick, if he moved forward. She was having her monthly. The op ghoul was on her period.
She was chatting with a blonde-haired chick that he could only guess was Yoriko. If he went any farther, then he was bound to either make a friend or die.
He liked those odds, not. Walking up to them, he thought about what to say. Rolling a few possible questions in his head, he started walking in baby steps as he made his way forward.
When he got in close, she turned up and glared at him. While Yoriko, merely smiled. Thoughts of what to say left him, as he stared into her eyes. "Hey, your hot, I hear you work at Aenteku, I am an extreme coffee lover, and would you like to go out on a date with me some time." If his face could get any redder, he would be a tomato.
He saw her eyes twitching, perhaps his smooth entrance wasn't the best approach. Yoriko started laughing. His face went even redder as his body heat increased. "Wow Touka looks like you have an admirer. An American one too. Lucky, nothing ever happens to me like that." At this point, Red just wanted to crawl under a rock and die.
"What's your name?" Touka said with a sigh. Was he really going to get a measure of success already.
"It's Red miss. Sorry, I get nervous easily. I'm new here and wanted to blunder through the introduction phase with as much dignity as I could." The blue haired chick smiled a bit.
"I'm Touka Kirishima, the laughing blonde over there is Yoriko Kosaka. So, what's America like? I can't say we have many American's move into here. Once they hear about the ghouls they seem to run off. The braver ones get eaten." Touka said.
"Touka, you will scare him, if you start talking about that." She turned to Red. "You really don't have much to worry about ghouls. With the CCG, most wards are safe enough. Just stay away from the 11th and you will be fine." Yoriko said.
Taking a deep breath, Red let it out. It seemed that Touka wasn't such a scary person on her period after all. That or she just turned it down around Yoriko.
"America is probably whatever you heard on the news except not blown out of proportion. The government likes to feed us all the media it can shove down our throats while they hide what's really going on. Oh, and I am sure there are vampires there somewhere. At my home town, there were corpses found drained of blood all the time." That was utter bullshit I had no idea what America was like in this world.
"Well that's nice, will we see you in class Red?" Yoriko asked. Red shook his head sadly.
"I'm sorry but no, I'm homeschooled. I'm just here in Japan until I'm forced to move." Yoriko frowned. Well here is my phone number. She handed him a slip of paper with her and Touka's numbers on it. The numbers were recorded in my phonebook tab. If I called them, I could think my replies.
"Well, I'm going to get home before it gets too dark. I advise you to do the same." With that she left. Touka watched her until she was gone.
"You have some guts to just walk up and talk to me. Were you serious about asking me out? If you weren't, I will kill you." Ah, there was that period temper, I had missed earlier.
"I was serious you seem really interesting. Any place you would like to go?" She shrugged.
"Tonight, is a school night and I have to work in an hour, so I can't really go anywhere today. Call me tomorrow we can hang out I guess." I nodded.
"Mind if I walk you to your job?" She rolled her eyes.
"I would rather you not. Being seen with you around here might give some of the other guys a reason to pick on you. Best to call and meet up and see if things get serious. Later Red." She said with a wink then walked off.
Red waited there in the park. The stars must have come out but the lights from the city blocked them. He sat on a Jungle Jim and stared at the sky. The moon made an appearance, much larger than the moon he remembered.
Bringing up his stat screen he looked at himself. He had black almost silver hair. Maybe this time he wouldn't go bald. Small white blond hairs mixed with his ebony making his hair look silver. His eyes were blue and his skin was a white as freshly fallen snow. An after effect of being reborn most likely. His build was small only lightly muscled. Yet he was tall much more so than in his other life. Before he was maybe six feet tall. Now he stood six and a hair.
He wore a simple red hoody and blue jeans. Fila shoes and dress socks covered his feet. On his face, he wore a simple pair of frameless glasses.
Bringing down his stat screen, he waited for a phenomenon to occur here in the park. It was here that massive amounts of negative emotions naturally accumulated. To put it simply, here he stood upon a gateway. As the moon continued to rise the door revealed itself.
Once the moon was so high a black door way burst open. Skeletal hands fired out from the darkness and wrapped around him. They dragged him in as the doors shut.
After rolling on the ground for a few seconds he finally stopped. Taking a deep breath, he put his arms under him and pushed himself up. "This place is a dungeon created around a gem of darkness. Monsters spawn around here made from negative emotions. Be not fear good gamer because you are a dungeon's predator." Small shapes roiled in the darkness. Tentacles rose and then formed humanoid shapes.
"These creatures are called lesser daemon. They are the weakest form of creature, the immaterium can produce them as foot soldiers. Slay them to gain xp. Be warned, the heart of this dungeon will also feed from your kills growing stronger. There is a point where it is advised to destroy the dungeon gem, before it surpasses your ability to handle. For now, hunt and grow strong dear gamer." It didn't have to tell him twice.
The creatures produced from the darkness looked like small children, with over grown white claws, and bald heads. Their eyes were golden and their mouths were filled with black fangs. They moved and danced around lazily.
He looked up to see nothing, but swirling purple clouds. With no weapon to combat the daemons, he would have to use his fists. The game gave him no weapons yet and he had not brought so much as a pipe with him. The only thing he did have was a pencil, he had found on the street.
Walking up behind one of the little daemons he prepared to stab it. Only when it looked back at him he couldn't do it. It just looked too innocent.
Was there no other way? It was then that he felt a painful slash cover his back. His eyes opened wide as his blood dropped to the floor. The ground seemed to drink his very life force. He turned to see the one he had spared. It raised its claws to slash at his face.
With a quickness that only an adrenaline rush could give, he punched the daemon. It shrieked at him and he just kept on hitting it. When he noticed the pencil still in his right hand the pain in his back settled things. He stabbed the creature in the eye repeatedly until the darkness it was made of covered his skin.
The others watched the encounter they had stopped their dancing. He pulled his pencil from the skull of the corpse. "You have received 10xp lv+ 5 stat points to spend and you are awarded 1 randomly selected skill based on a stat of your choice." Red wasn't paying attention he only wanted to get the pages out of his sight. Why hadn't he figured out how to make them transparent yet. "You have selected MAG the stat chosen has increased by one due to now having a lv1 skill in that stat. The stat that you have gained is called Nurture lv1. To activate a skill either think or say the name of the skill. Since this is a new skill a mandatory description will now appear." He clocked exit as fast as he could. "Nurture lv1 – This skill takes MAG * LV =xp to any target. At the cost of 1MP per second of use. Nurture empowers anything the user can comprehend using. This includes items, people, daemons, and celestial objects. The only thing this skill cannot be used on is yourself." The pop up finally closed after, I finished reading.
Only the stat menu was still open. It demanded that is implement my stat points as a twisted tutorial command. Red hit MAG by mistake he meant to hit STR. His MAG went up to six instantly and he couldn't take the points back out.
He only just managed to dodge a set of claws as one launched itself in a superman towards his face. Armed with only a pencil he decided that his only weapon needed to be nurtured.
Red couldn't comprehend what this skill would really do to a pencil of all things. He just knew that he couldn't take on ten daemons with a simple pencil. Green light emerged from his hand at a thought as he ran from the daemons. His ST went down quickly another stat he needed to work on if he was to survive here. Wait how was he going to pay for a date with Touka without any money.
He rolled to the side as a pair of claws, just nearly one shot him. They were getting close and nothing was happening with the pencil. He had to have put over 150xp into it and still nothing. Looking down at the writing employment he saw a small golden glow appear around it.
Red used scan what else did he have to lose. "Pencil lv50 evolution in progress. 8,7,6,5,4,3,2, and 1," the pencil changed in his hand. From a simple writing instrument, to a staff. "Due to extreme xp increase the pencil has evolved into something mightier than the pen. A staff to whack and cast spells with MAG +2 when carrying staff +50%MP regen. When staff is not needed will it and the staff with return to that of a pencil." Taking his mighty staff in both hands he began to beat the daemons with it.
Claws and speed mattered little when your opponent had a longer reach. When he killed them, their bodies vanished giving him more xp. After he killed the tenth he received another lv+. "Killing low level daemons has increased your level +5stat points and 1 random stat based skill to choose has been awarded." This time red closed the menu. A chest appeared in the center of the room. He scanned it.
"Dungeon gems when they learn to be generous often live longer perhaps this dungeon gem is worth keeping." Grumbling about the lack of information he walked over to the chest. He tapped it twice with his staff and it opened. Inside he found a switch blade, a gold Rolex, and three stacks of yen. He placed all of it in his inventory. The chest vanished in a plum of darkness and something else came forth.
Instead of more of the child like daemons a massive black rabbit with wings showed up. "The dungeon heart would like to thank you for your participation. Now is the chance to either go forward and face the next level of the dungeon or leave. Make your choice." He was a cautious guy so he chose to leave. The rabbit nodded to him and darkness overtook him. When next his eyes opened, he was in the park.
With a thought the staff turns back into a pencil. "Nurture lv up +1MAG." He closes the page. Placing the pencil in his hoody pocket he glares at watch. Red had thoughts about what it could become but decided to focus more on what he had. At 7MAG 9 if he held the staff he was doing rather ok. He checked how much Yen he had. All in all, he had 50,000 or 500 bucks. Luckily cash was always accepted in Japan.
Taking a switch blade from his inventory. He started to use Nurture. After he maxed out its level of 100 it changed. Instead of a switch blade he now held a wakazashi. Like the staff, it could be altered back into its previous form. "Nurture LV+"
Red continued for a while, until he got the Nurture skill up to 5 he would need it for later. As he walked through the streets of Tokyo careful to keep in the public eye he wondered if anyone else was having so much trouble.
In the Dungeon.
10 teenagers and 13 adults appeared in the dungeon. They looked around unsure of where they were. The daemons walked out, they clawed the ground with their long claws, and devastatingly faster reflexes made killing the humans so easy. The lazy movements they displayed before was gone. It was like they finally had enough energy to move, as they were meant to.
Unarmed and unused to such an event, some thought it was a dream. The daemons slaughtered them. When their bodies and belongings vanished, some new daemons formed. They were tall red skinned and covered in bone spikes, unlike the former daemons of the first floor they wielded weapons.
A new level was built within the dungeon. The second floor would house the new daemons while the first floor housed the old. The third floor that held the rabbit was the last line of defense protecting the heart.
The large amorphous rabbit stood at the ready guarding the gem. Without the gem, it would not have the sentience it did now. So, it would guard the gem with its life even if that meant disobeying the gem.
While it guarded the gem the rabbit held the body of one of the girls in its arms. The daemon opened its lupine mouth and began to devour the flesh. It was one of the few times it could get away with feeding. The gem was busy upgrading the others and creating chests for the victors.
Why it had to obey such a creature obsessed with reward and punishment she would never know. So, she consumed what physical prey she could hoping for freedom.
Back with Red.
The sun was just coming up the sky was lit with orange. He was beyond tired. It would be a while before Touka or Yoriko woke up. It was a Friday so they would go to school. That left him with nothing but time to kill.
He walked into a tourist shop. It was filled with knickknacks and junk covered in kanji. It was all over priced but he bought a few manta beads and paper fans. It took out about 10,000yen but he would live.
Swinging by the park again he watched a few children play. Going on he found a secluded alleyway. His hand glowed green and the beads leveled up. The mantra beads had the kanji for spiritual caliber on them. When leveled they gave him 200% mana regen. The fan turned into a massive war fan the he left on the ground.
Weeb shit aside it was a pretty good find. Now if he could just find a cross somewhere around here he would be in business. Maybe if he had eight rings he could up his stats.
Around four he called Touka and she asked him to meet her at Anteiku. He made his way to the café. When he opened the door, he found her sitting at a table. She waved him over.
"Sorry, about asking to eat here but I have a few food allergies and Anteiku is one of the few places that has what I can eat." He let the lie wash over him.
"It's no problem. I'm Allergic to glutton gives my arms hives and I swell up. So, what are you going to order?" Touka looked through the menu.
"I think I will have the special. Since your allergic to glutton you should order the, huh not much on the menu for you. Salad maybe I don't really see anything that doesn't have bread in it." She turned to a hefty man who had snuck up on us. "Enji do we have anything glutton free?" She yelled.
"Yea the special but I don't think he would want that." The man chuckled. "Let's see I think we do have a few glutton free loaves of bread in the back so any sandwich is fine." Red nodded and ordered the roast beef.
The sandwich was descent no worse than any other he had from his earlier life, could have gone heavier on the spicy mayo. It's just he didn't feel hungry or even the need to eat. Red hadn't since he came here. It was then that he saw another purple haired woman walk in. She stared at him and Red shied away.
"If that woman isn't a ghoul I will eat my hat." Touka stared at him.
"You aren't wearing a hat, Red." Red stared at her and smiled.
"Then there is no reason to eat it. Well, I'm done eating want to go see a movie." She shrugged so he took that as a yes.
"So, you think she is a ghoul, why?" Touka asked. She seemed troubled. Red made to hold her hand but she wasn't having it. He huffed and kept walking with her.
"Well it's not that I think she is a ghoul. It's that I know she is a devourer of virgins. When she looked at me I could just tell she wanted to chew me up and spit me out. Unless she was a ghoul then I guess she would swallow." Touka let out a strangled chuckle.
"Rather vulgar don't you think. Though, you are a rude America so, I guess I can forgive you. Well we're here." We were at the theater. Here they would show one of the more popular movies corpse party six.
We went in I paid for the tickets and Touka got the drinks. She chose water giving the excuse she had to watch her figure. What played out in the movie was the classic horror cliché. The monster that was once a normal ghoul, five movies ago, looked more like Godzilla. Somehow the final girl survived and managed to use a quinque to kill the beast. Only for the ending credits to reveal that the creature lived and was growing even bigger for the sequal.
"Well that was boring." Red said. Touka snorted.
"Yea, as if a Kakuja would die by the hands of some middle school girl. I doubt she could even lift that weapon." Red nodded. He walked her back to Anteiku where she lived and he deposited her at the back entrance.
"Well I had a descent time. The movie was at least hilarious in how bad it was. So, thanks it was a good Friday night." She pecked him on the cheek, then went inside.
He felt someone watching him as he walked towards the park. Even as he waited there for hours the presence never left. Instead it just kept creeping closer even as he was left alone. When the last of the teenagers making out left. "Hello there," a tall man with blonde almost white hair greeted. He was tall and built like a tank.
Red continued to look at the moon but nodded in greeting. "Most return home at some point after they take a young woman out but you returned here. Why? Do you have nowhere to return to." Red shook his head.
"There is nowhere to go. My home was destroyed, now it is forgotten, and replaced by one of the many fantasies created from it." The man was quiet as Red spoke so he went on. "I don't need to sleep anyway. Not like I trust the world to leave me be while I dream. So, I am waiting for a door to open." The man said nothing for a time.
"My manager is prepared to offer you a job. If you are interested you will work with Touka." Red shook his head. He couldn't do that he didn't have the patients for it.
"What did you say your name was?"
"Renji Yomo, what are you waiting for. What door will open from your waiting?" Red considered the older man's words. The teenagers left just before this time from a survival instinct. Subconsciously they know if they wait here any longer they will disappear. Touka knew this too. The door is about to open. You shouldn't be here.
The moon reached its highest point, at that moment, and the door opened. He and Yomo were quickly taken into the dungeon. This time instead of falling he rolled and landed on his feet. Yomo fell on his hands and flipped back up.
The purple clouds now gave way to a white sky with black stars. The stars were souls that the gem has taken in or that's what scan said. The floor now shined like black obsidian. Just like before the child like demons gathered. Only they no longer looked like drunks lazing about. Their bodies were longer now their claws sharper. When the moved the jerked about as if their bodies couldn't handle their reflexes.
Red put his five extra stat points into MAG and chose it as his new skill. If the first was a winner, why not the next one too. Yomo stared at him as he tapped invisible screens. "You have chosen MAG for your new skill the randomly selected skill MAG Cannon lv1 has been chosen. Mandatory description as followed. MAG cannon lv1 –Condense MP and unleash it as a concentrated beam. Skill levels by use. damage = lv * MAG *(%=MP)." That just changed the game. He had 16MAG right now. He took out his staff and suddenly he had 18MAG with extreme MP regen.
"They are daemons created from the negative emotions of the people living in Tokyo. They congeal around an object, called a dungeon heart. When we kill them the heart gains extra power and upgrades them. When people die down here the heart devours their souls and uses them like currency to upgrade its demons. From the looks of it a ton of people died here recently. If we kill everything on this level we can exit or go deeper into the dungeon. Is that enough information for you?' Yomo nodded. He didn't reveal his Ukaku to Red. More than likely he didn't trust him enough.
Red pointed his staff at the approaching daemons. In his quick dialogue the little bastards had snuck in quietly. A few more seconds and they would have been ambushed. MAG Cannon rang out through his mind as half his mana disappeared for a blast that lasted a second.
Yomo stared at him while he unleashed blast after blast his expression was neutral. When the daemons got too close he punched them quickly shattering the human flesh strung together by darkness.
Red held his head when his MP reached 0 it gave him a head ache that made casting impossible. With his staff and mantra beads he almost had 4MP recovered per second. There had to be a stat that governed MP regen he realized. But it was too late to scour the tutorial menu to find answers.
He dodged and swerved out of the way of claws as he waited for his MP to recover. "MAG cannon lv+," his MP increased by five and the damage he could deal just doubled. 95MP wasn't enough to keep the creatures back. One didn't die until he blasted it with a 40% powered attack. Holding a 2sec 20% powered attack didn't cut it. An idea came to mind. He could hold it for 2 seconds of constant beam.
"It's over." He called out proudly. 80MP disappeared as he swiped a 40% powered MAG cannon over his enemies. "They are hardly stronger than last time." He boasted. Darkness swirled and the bodies didn't vanish, instead the darkness moved like smoke and combined. When the darkness cleared, a massive knight formed out of the darkness. It had kakugan in five of its eyes and tentacles spread from its back. This new daemon had a rinkaku.
"Did you have to open your mouth." Yomo grumbled. Red sighed and nodded to the older guy.
"Sorry, about that I thought we were done here."
"Do you have any other weapons on you?" He asked. Red pulled out a switch blade and it transformed into a katana. Yomo snatched it out of Red's hand and took up a fighting stance. "Stay back and get ready to use another on, of those blasts I will try and get you a clear shot." He let the older man take the lead.
He took out a second pencil and forced his mana into it. The first injection of mana he found is the most important. When he put more in it the weapon often came out more powerful. This time he had the skill up to five and had more mana to use.
A new staff appeared in his hand. This one was blue and seemed to pulse with mana he checked it with scan. "Blue staff of battle rank Uncommon – this staff increases the user's WIS by 6 and MP regen by 200%." He watched his MP increase by 7 every second now.
Yomo seemed to be playing with the knight. Four tentacles and two arms covered in claws just couldn't touch the ghoul. If not for the armor plating around it Yomo could have finished it with the sword. Even so Yomo managed to score tiny wounds in the joints of the armor. Using scan Red saw that the creature was called, "Unperfected cursed knight – A creature forged from daemons souls trapped in metal. The forging was clumsy causing the knight to fall under numerous penalties. HP 180/300 MP 0/0."
Red's MP had returned to 100% MAG Cannon lv4 was no fully Operational. He channeled 100MP into his skill and fired off a bright blue beam of mana. As the beam flew he could see dark blue specks of mana rotate within the corona of mana just before his spell hit the night. In a second his spell ended 5MP was all that stood between him and a massive head ache. Yomo looked no worse for wear easily able to dodge the Knight's attacks. "Unperfected cursed knight HP 96/300 MP 0/0," Red cursed, his attack just didn't have the bite he needed. "MAG Cannon lv+," next time then. The Knight slumped to his knees for a second and Yoma went for the eyes plunging his blade in and out of them while dodging the rinkaku tentacles. "Unperfected cursed Knight HP 50/300 MP 0/0," The daemon began to do the unexpected it started to run away.
Yomo wasn't having it. He dashed forward and cut the creature's Achilles tendons. The daemon stumbled and Red stole the kill. A blue beam of mana slammed into the Daemon this time the creatures armor shattered. The cyclone of mana drilled through the creature and out the other end. The rinkaku dispersed and the boss daemon dispersed into shadows.
"LV++++ you are now LV6 20stat points and 4 stat based skills have been awarded MAG Cannon lv6 please allocate wisely." Red stared at that strange message.
"What do you see when you do that?" Yomo asked. Red stared at the man. He put all 20stat points into MAG.
Red the Gamer
LV 6 xp to next 1,400xp
HP 20
ST 20
MP 210
STR 4 Physical power
DEX 4 Physical precision
VIT 4 Physical health
END 4 Physical perseverance and ST
AGL 4 Physical speed and reaction time
INT 12 Learning rate
WIS 4 Mental Utility
MAG 42 Magic Power and MP
SPRT 1 Soul power and all forms of spiritual manipulation
skills
Nurture lv5
MAG Cannon lv6
That felt better, he could kill that creature in one attacks or hold a fully powered MAG cannon for 2sec. Like last time the rabbit appeared. Only this time she looked different. The large black ears, were still there and she still had red eyes. It was her face it looked more human. Her legs were thicker and her arms seemed a bit leaner. Right away he could tell, she could kill him before he could attack. It was the way she moved, the way she looked at them, and the way her wings fluttered.
"I assume you are someone of importance here." She turned to Yomo, and nodded once. Then in a blink, she was behind him and he had turned to deliver a sword strike. The rabbit's claws shattered the sword and she scored three slashed across Yomo's torso. Red shot two low powered beams but the Rabbit dodged and they hit Yoma. "Red stop firing." Yomo panted and stood up his wounds healed over quickly.
It was then that Red felt claws at his throat. "Gamer, do you choose to descend to the next floor or to leave the dungeon. Will you choose to follow the rules or will you continue to break them. Non-gamer party members, are not allowed to support you. If you attempt this again every Daemon in the dungeon, will swarm you. Do you understand?" He looked up to the rabbit. Her cheek bones looked just a little bit out of place like they were in the middle of reforming.
"I understand, from now on I will go alone." This was not against any rules and he knew that. It was just the dungeon getting one over on him since he was weak. "We choose to leave. Where is the chest?" Red asked.
"Due to your cheating, this round there will be no chest; leave now or continue alone." The urge to do something stupid was over bearing.
"Very well, we will withdraw." The portal opened. He and Yomo left in silence. Red felt like a failure. Sure, he had leveled up 4 times but still no chest equals no spending money.
They exited the portal, Yomo with his hands in his pockets walked in front of him. "What will you do now that your door is closed? Is there another one that may open soon?" Red walked for a bit then stopped.
"That is the only one near my level of power. More than likely it will swallow some people up elsewhere. When I enter it tomorrow, it will be much stronger. Thank you for assisting me tonight. If I were an experienced gamer that daemon wouldn't have dared to force such a concession." Yomo nodded.
"I could train you, though I don't know if you can compare to a ghoul in strength. You know, don't you? With your powers, you can see things about other people that I can't." Yomo said.
"Training would be appreciated. If I could use a sword like you, then maybe that rabbit wouldn't be a problem. I could use some hand to hand combat training as well." Red said.
"I can show you the forms for the sword, but my hand to hand isn't possible for you. You move like a human, it would be best if you focus on long range." Yomo said. Red nodded and sighed. He would have to get strength, agility, dexterity, and vitality skills if he was to compete with that rabbit.
"Yea, I think I will take you up on that swordsmanship. I will show up at Anteiku tomorrow if you will teach me. For now, I need to think." Red said. With that he walked out of the park. Yomo stayed behind, watching him.
Red walked for a while unsure how to feel. He knew he wouldn't instantly turn into a badass even with the gamer powers. Yet he felt uneasy like he was letting himself down. That boss shouldn't have been anything to him. This wasn't a MMO.
He brought up his stats.
Red the Gamer
LV 6 xp to next 1,400xp
HP 20
ST 20
MP 215
STR 4 Physical power
DEX 4 Physical precision
VIT 4 Physical health
END 4 Physical perseverance and ST
AGL 4 Physical speed and reaction time
INT 12 Learning rate
WIS 4 Mental Utility
MAG 43 Magic Power and MP
SPRT 1 Soul power and all forms of spiritual manipulation
MAG Cannon lv7 – Mana spun until the particles become so heavy that they gain density. When this beam skill is fired, it can level multiple enemies. Damage = MAG * lv *(%=MP)
Nurture lv5 – Artificially created xp formed from mana. Xp = MAG * lv per MP used.
With a few rough calculations, he could see himself killing that unperfected, corrupted Knight with a single blast. Yet he could not react in time to get away from that rabbit's claws. He brought up the skill menu and chose a skill in AGL. "You have received the skill Air Trick lv1 – Harden mana under foot to create a platform to leap from. Uncommon duel skill MAG/AGL increase with every level. 50MP per platform."
Was he really doomed to be a mage at this point. Choosing VIT he used the skill point. "You have received the skill Fibrous Carbon lv1 – Carbon molecules collected and bounded to mana has been implanted into your dermis. Uncommon duel skill MAG/VIT increases with level. 10MP per second of use DEF = (MAG + VIT) * lv."
It was true he was slated to be a true-blue mage with very little variation. If he ran into an anti-mage then it would be over for him. He almost didn't want to but he placed a point in END. "You have gained the skill Recycle lv1 – MP can be converted to ST when needed. Uncommon duel skill MAG/END increases with every level. 1MP * lv = ST."
Red was just about to have it. If his next skill increased MAG even by a little he would get drunk. Yea that was it he would get drunk in a city full of flesh eating ghouls. He put the final point in STR. "You have received Strength of Soul lv1 – The Soul is a mighty unending force and when used correctly can even affect the flesh. Rare duel skill 2SPRT/1STR when leveling. Increase STR= STR * SPRT. When using this skill MP depletes by 10 per second. Once MP is depleted ST is depleted by 10ST every second. Finally, when ST is depleted HP is depleted until only 1HP remains. The skill then turns off and all resources will then begin to recover."
That was OP as fuck and completely game breaking. If he had that in an RPG he would use it to take down rooms of mobs for grinding.
Walking over to a drink machine, he bought a true American Coca-Cola. It was the first thing he drank since waking up here. It tasted like syrup. He poured the bottle out and walked away. There was time to kill and skills to grind.
Red the Gamer
LV 6 xp to next 1,400xp
HP 20
ST 20
MP 215
STR 4 Physical power
DEX 4 Physical precision
VIT 4 Physical health
END 4 Physical perseverance and ST
AGL 4 Physical speed and reaction time
INT 12 Learning rate
WIS 4 Mental Utility
MAG 43 Magic Power and MP
SPRT 1 Soul power and all forms of spiritual manipulation
MAG Cannon lv7 – Mana spun until the particles become so heavy that they gain density. When this beam skill is fired, it can level multiple enemies. Damage = MAG * lv *(%=MP)
Nurture lv5 – Artificially created xp formed from mana. Xp = MAG * lv per MP used.
Air Trick lv1 – Harden mana under foot to create a platform to leap from. Uncommon duel skill MAG/AGL increase with every level. 50MP per platform.
Fibrous Carbon lv1 – Carbon molecules collected and bounded to mana has been implanted into your dermis. Uncommon duel skill MAG/VIT increases with level. 10MP per second of use DEF = (MAG + VIT) * lv.
Recycle lv1 – MP can be converted to ST when needed. Uncommon duel skill MAG/END increases with every level. 1MP * lv = ST.
Strength of Soul lv1 – The Soul is a mighty unending force and when used correctly can even affect the flesh. Rare duel skill 2SPRT/1STR when leveling. Increase STR= STR * SPRT. When using this skill MP depletes by 10 per second. Once MP is depleted ST is depleted by 10ST every second. Finally, when ST is depleted HP is depleted until only 1HP remains. The skill then turns off and all resources will then begin to recover.
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