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Chapter 1

Prologue

"Move to the side! Damnit! Block the attack at least!"

The Beast of the Abyss roared before sinking its fangs into the Aura Soldier. Said construct in the form of the classic knight did not move in time to neither dodge the attack nor block and shattered into pieces as the Grimm crushed it in its mouth.

What's even more insulting is that it was not some great Alpha Grimm that was giving him trouble was not one of the larger and more powerful Grimms but rather a minor Boarbutusk that was recently born that wasn't even half his or his Aura Soldier's size.

Seeing his last line of attack, defence and possible hope of finishing this mission, Jaune Arc gritted his teeth in anger, regret and acceptance that he was not finishing this mission in the end…again. It had been 2 years now since he was first registered as a Huntsman and was now 17 years old, one of the protectors of Remnant and yet he was unable to complete even one mission involving Grimm subjugation.

"God damn it, not again" he groaned before pocketing his hand and pulling out a small ball which he flicked the switch onto before throwing it at the Boarbutusk. A flash of light later and Jaune Arc was out of the area as if he was never there.

-o-

"So you managed to fail yet another missions Jaune?" Gred the receptionist to the local guild sighed.

Jaune had a guilty look on his face and he knew exactly why. Hunters and the Guild has a close relationship together seeing that the former takes missions from the latter who scout and categorise requests into missions for money. When a Huntsman fails a mission then the Guild needs to pay the requester a fee for the failure.

Usually this fee is given to the Huntsman who failed in the first place but since Jaune was broke and barely surviving on the most basic collection and delivery missions, the receptionist who supervises Jaune is the one who has to pay the fee.

The fact that Gred didn't kick him out of the Guild and revoked his Huntsman's status was enough to make Jaune want to do anything to try to repay the man for everything he did for him. Still, it didn't change the fact that he was heavily in debt to Gred and if not him the Guild after two years' worth of failed missions.

"I don't know what I'm doing wrong" Jaune admitted, "I mean I know I'm not a good fighter which is why I use Aura Soldiers but for every one of them to not be able to take a single hit before being destroy?"

In the days past, Huntsmen were once those who used Aura to directly manipulate it in their bodies and use unique effects that comes from their souls to battle Grimm. It had been a long time since and innovations such as Dust, mechanical soldiers and eventually Aura Soldiers appeared to help protect humanity.

Aura Soldiers were just that. A manner of manipulating Aura externally to create constructs in the shape of a humanoid to battle. Their strengths were dependent on many things but most of all the strength of the user's aura and will only grow stronger the more they battle whether they are destroyed or not in battle.

However such a tool was not with its costs as even summoning a single Aura Soldier was straining for all but the most powerful Huntsmen without the use of select and expensive equipment to lower said costs down and even that is limited.

Jaune Arc is one of those remarkable people capable of using Aura Soldiers freely as much as he wants without the use of expensive equipment and multiple times on his own. It was only too bad that he sucks at battling when it comes to it despite his good mind for tactics.

"I don't know Jaune" said Gred, "This is a problem that we haven't been able to solve for years now. Your aura is strong, that we know. And with that your Aura Soldiers should be of a higher quality than most when they start off and only get stronger with time and battle even if you lose all the time with them. The experience should make them stronger with time."

"Like I said" Jaune grumbled, "They can't even take a hit. What experience? Every single battle I go into they can't even move or block and die just like that."

Raising an eyebrow Gred asked, "Are you sure it's not something on your end? I mean its cut and dry of the methods to using Aura Soldiers. Hell, most people are envy you for being capable of even using them despite your reputation."

Jaune let out another grumble to that. When he started off and showed off his capability of using Aura Soldiers, many ran to him to have him in their party. A month later and constant loses thanks to said ability made him the least popular person to party with. For some reason, every single mission he went to always failed when it came to Grimm subjugation.

"Still doesn't matter if I can't use them properly."

Looking the receptionist in the eye Jaune plead, "If you have any information that could help me with this issue I have…"

"I know Jaune. I'll keep an eye out but we already looked over every single basic mechanic that could go wrong and nothing showed up. You're even capable of finishing the simulations on Aura Soldier controls properly and yet we not know of the issue."

Sighing, Jaune muttered, "Thanks" before collecting the 'reward' for the herb collection mission he did on the way on his failed Subjugation mission.

-o-

Flopping to his bed, Jaune took off his armour (old, rusty and useless compared to the new stuff) before looking at the current configuration of his Aura Soldiers.

"Activate A.U.R.A scan" he muttered before he felt the wash of something sliding through his body and a shiver as a result of it.

Name ID: Jaune Arc

Huntsman ID: 341544

Huntsman Rank: F

Stats: [+]

Skills: [+]

Money: 67 Lien

A.U.R.A or Automated Utility Renita Augmentation is the system that all Huntsmen use to track everything from their skills, money and pretty much everything in their lives. Civilians have a lesser version of A.U.R.A called A.R.C (Automated Renita Computer) that was developed by a distinct ancestor centuries ago to replace Scrolls which was upgraded to what Huntsmen know and use today.

Unlike A.R.C, the capability of A.U.R.A were in the areas of stats and skills in particular which are the probably the most important aspect of it that Huntsmen use to track their progress in their skills and shows what their strengths are and what weaknesses they need to fix.

Stats were all the physical aspects that affected a Huntsman while skills were more of the mental aspects that triggers certain reactions to the body allowing them to use abilities that are commonly out of reach most of the time.

"Show my stats."

Stats: [-]

Power: 6/25

Speed: 8/25

Dexterity: 5/25

Perception: 12/25

Reaction Speed: 9/25

Endurance: 9/25

Stamina: 12/25

Aura: 178/25

Looking at the numbers that determined how well he would do in battle, Jaune could not help but sigh at how low his stats were compared to the average of even an F rank Huntsman. The first of the numbers were his stats while the second was what was expected of him to get before being promoted to the next rank.

It frustrated him heavily to think that after 2 years of hard work he was still considered a 'beginner' Huntsman that couldn't be trusted with anything to dangerous. It frustrated him beyond anything else to see that those his age that started off at the same time were gaining ranks over him and were making a difference while he was stuck here doing nothing.

"Should I train my body?" he asked himself.

Ever since he got the Aura Solider skill he was frankly neglecting his personal training in order to master it. And after two years he managed to and yet nothing changed at all. That, most of that frustrated him even more.

But at the same time Jaune noticed that whenever he exercised more, he wasn't becoming stronger nor faster or really anything. It was like his body was on some sort of statis that he couldn't get out of no matter how much he tried to. That was one of the reasons why he was so invested in Aura Soldiers.

"Show skills."

Skills: [-]

Aura Soldier (Mastered): Capable of creating Aura Constructs in the form of humanoid combat units.

· Mastery of skill allows for you to deploy multiple weaker Aura Soldiers or singular stronger Aura Soldier. (Can create 1 at double strength, 3 at full strength, 6 at half strength)

· Mastery of skill allows you to deploy multiple types Aura Soldiers in battle that you can modify at any time.

· Mastery of skill allows you recover half Aura spent on deploying Aura Soldiers when destroyed.

Looking at the sole skill he has, Jaune sighed at how powerful it was. When you obtain Aura Soldiers, it takes a high amount of Aura to even make one Aura Soldier to battle with and the costs only rises the stronger you want them to be. However on mastering the skill itself, such limitations are removed and you consume a pre-set amount of aura per Aura Soldier which allows the circumstances to deploy multiple of them at once if at the cost of lower strengths.

Likewise with more mastery of the skill, you are also able to deploy different types of Aura Soldiers such as ones that have more brute strength, can tank hits or move faster than the standard form that you get at the beginning.

Finally with true mastery of the skill, you are able to recover some aura whenever one of your Aura Soldiers are destroyed allowing you to deploy even more of them. Combine this effect with the ever so expensive 'Double-Recovery' equipment that doubles this effect, you would be capable of indefinitely deploying Aura Soldiers in battle.

The fact that one of the Schnee in the past did so made Aura Soldiers a powerful tool to have when used right.

"Unfortunately I'm not one of them" he said to himself.

It was a waste for him to have such a powerful skill and not only that, mastering it despite being so weak. His Aura Soldiers were not even that good in battle despite all Gred claimed that he perfected his simulations in training of using them. All of that meant nothing when his Aura Soldiers refused to move in battle and die in one hit.

"…."

Remembering the failure fee and Gred once more, Jaune flinched at the thought of repaying the man. Sure he gets out of it most of the time with an ever increasing debt but when he fails too many times too soon then Gred 'requests' for him for certain personal tasks increase.

All of which were pain breaking labour tasks without pay for him for an entire day.

"Wonder if tomorrow will be better for me" he muttered to himself. He needed to pay for his keep and rent was due in a week else he would be booted from his apartment as well.

-o-

"Wait, what do you mean I have a part request?" Jaune sputtered out in shock.

Gred picked his ear lazily but at the same time had a certain glint in his eyes looking at the blonde as he repeated, "Lad, some girl came in yesterday after you were gone requesting for one who can use the Aura Soldier skill. You are the only one in this branch of the guild capable of doing so."

"But…but…"

He wanted to point out his reputation was shitty and he couldn't contribute to any sort of battle without being a burden. He wanted to point out that said girl would be highly disappointed in him in the end and that they were wasting their time.

However he was never given a chance as someone spoke behind him.

"So this is the one Mister Gred? The one that managed to master the Aura Soldier skill? Something that had never been done in decades?" asked the girl.

Jaune was surprised on how…soft and something this girl's voice was and could see the grin on Gred's face the moment he reacted to it.

…No, not in that way. He wasn't a pervert.

"Yes, this is the lad. I ask you to take care of him because he owes me a lot."

Turning around Jaune saw what would be the prettiest woman he had ever seen in his life. Pretty simply wouldn't put it as she was beautiful in a way that all the other woman in his life (he doesn't want to think his sisters and that word together…ever) never were. Long flowing hair, extremely fit body that was surprisingly expose with the Amazon or Spartan type armour and a glowing face or it seemed to so Jaune.

Basically it was an instant crush.

This also led to him panicking which led him to falling back on the only advice that he had with dealing with woman. Namely his dad who somehow only managed to get together with his mum via sheer chance despite how he told his story of wooing her.

To say his dad's advice was bad was an understatement.

Without it, Jaune was sure that he could've gotten at least five dates from those who seemed even a bit interested in him…well until he started talking of course which only drove them off as soon as he said his first sentence.

Too bad he couldn't control his mouth in this case.

"Hi. Name is Jaune Arc. Short, Sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it" he said before he could clamp his hand into his mouth.

If he tried hard enough, he could've heard Gred face-palming himself behind him as well. He really wanted to but Jaune was just frozen at the possibility of the reaction of this girl in front of him and how he humiliated himself quite well in front of her.

He didn't expect for said girl to giggle at him.

"Does it now?" she asked with amusement.

Jaune blushed at the attention and was internally relieved that there were no signs of any looks of disgust being sent his way. He had way too many of those in the last 2 years than he wanted in a life-time.

"Before Jaune here makes himself look even more stupid" Gred interrupted, "Could you introduce yourself to him considering of what you want from him?"

"Of course" said girl nodded respectfully to Gred before introducing herself, "My name is Pyrrha Nikos a C rank Huntress and I'm requesting to make a party with you."

C rank…

That was really the only thing in mind for Jaune. The ranks for Huntsmen and Huntresses are special in that the requirements of reaching the next rank, doubles each time you progress besides Aura itself if you show enough skill to obtain the next rank while having lower than average numbers there.

An E rank Huntsman is at least twice as strong as him. A D rank is four times stronger and a C rank is eight times stronger than him in every single way. Actually it should be sixteen times stronger because he wasn't even average compared to other F rank Huntsmen.

…And this kind of person wanted to party with me?

"I'm sorry but I can't accept" Jaune said with sorrow. Every other bit of him wanted to accept this offer and possibly break out of the F rank using her but there was no point in doing so.

He would still be a failure.

"Why not? Most people would love to party up with those higher ranks than them" Pyrrha looked curiously at Jaune.

Said failure of a Huntsman sighed.

"The problem is that I have never completed a subjugation mission ever. Every time I go out to do such a mission it ends up as a failure because I can't…control my Aura Soldiers to do anything right in actual battles" he explained.

"I'm sorry but I can't party with you. I'll only be a liability" he said again before leaving.

-o-

"Stupid stupid stupid."

It was the chance he needed. If not for possibly gaining a rank that he was striving for a long time but for the money that he could've gotten if he just accepted and did some missions with the girl.

The fact that this Pyrrha was pretty hot was only a bonus.

Jaune needed the money. That was a fact he knew because everything in the world ran on money especially for Huntsmen whose equipment were expensive to the point that they rival buy for houses. He was living off scraps at the moment and was due to be kicked out of his apartment because of his lack of money as well.

He could've sworn he could hear his apartment manager make arrangements on a new tenant when he was gone.

…Still the fact that Huntsmen only got a lot of money was thanks to missions that always involved Subjugation of Grimms in one form or another. Bodyguard duty? A good stable job with limited risks if you're skilled enough. Escort duty? The same things if you're skilled enough.

Jaune Arc was not skilled in the art of combat at all.

But what he was skilled in was the art of controlling soldiers.

"Deploy…activate."

[Aura Soldier has activated]

[Please select pre-set to be deployed]

[Please select number of Aura Soldiers to be deployed]

"Set Warrior-2. Set Knight-1."

Aura poured from his body as white light turned into the shells of two different types of Aura Soldiers. The first was one that looked like a muscular man at first sight especially in its larger than normal arms and legs. He had designed this later to boost the amount of sheer power it had compared to his first embarrassing draft of a skimpy female type warrior.

The second compared to the first was a lot thinner than the former but most distinct is of the armour that it wore. Moreover carrying a large shield on its left hand, a simple sword was equipped in its right hand. He had designed this to take a hit more than to attack. To stall, to block and to halt enemies in place.

"Set Gunner-3."

A third Aura construct appeared. Unlike the first two which were as tall as him, this one was half his height and most noticeably female like in characteristics. His first design of a Gunner was one of a muscular man who could fire off a massive amount of aura bullets. His second was of a tall slim man with a rifle.

Why should Gunners be muscular or tall? They're not the ones who would have to directly battle and take hits. Why should they be stronger rather than fast with the aura used to make them focused on react faster, shoot faster and move faster?

This was his set formation to battle. One Aura Soldier to attack, one Aura Soldier to defend and one Aura Soldier as support with range.

Oh he had many other designs. Aura Soldiers that had maces to make defences, spears to pin down enemies, snipers for long range attacks and even dust users that created effective wide area attacks despite its expensive costs in using them.

He was prepared for most things.

He had to after two years and yet he still hadn't managed to use them correctly despite creating them better than most would. He took time, care and effort to configure them correctly so their effectiveness would be shown in battle but it all ended up as wasted effort in the end.

What use were these Aura Soldiers when they didn't obey him when he needed.

"Summoning three Aura Soldiers…that's impressive especially for someone your age" said Pyrrha who had no intentions of even hiding from Jaune's senses.

Doing such a thing even for Jaune was…difficult when all Huntsmen and Huntresses were trained to be as silent as possible and it showed when they walked without making much of a sound without thinking about it. Stealth was ironically a big thing for Huntsmen when their enemies were Grimm who sense by some sort of emotion tracking.

Taking a glance at said red-head and back to his Aura Soldiers he muttered, "Not really…I can only deploy three of them at once at maximum. Six is pushing the limits and they become a bit unstable when I do."

"Still, not many would have the Aura capacity to do so nonetheless" she smiled and Jaune wanted to accept her offer with just that but he couldn't.

It all came down to him being too weak…no being a disappointment.

"Each one takes around 50 Aura units. Before I mastered the skill I could only make one of them at once so I kind of wanted to focus on it if it means I get more than one out now" he explained with a shrug.

Pyrrha looked at him strangely and said, "You have a lot of Aura don't you? Lots of potential."

He didn't like the predatory look on her face…

It reminded him of the early days when he told people he had a lot of aura and some girls gave him strange looks, the same one that Pyrrha was giving him right now. He had no idea of what that was but he didn't like being looked like meat to a wolf.

"Do you not want to party with me?" she asked again.

"I sorry."

"But that's not a 'no' is it? You're not rejecting because of me but rather…because of you?"

Sometimes, Jaune really hated the fact that women seemed to have this instinct to tell immediately of what was wrong and home into the core points that he didn't want to talk about with other people. Especially by an attractive peer.

"Tell me what the problem is" she commanded.

Sighing again, Jaune decided it was better to just play along to get this over with quickly. There was no point in wasting either of their time and it was better to get things done with than to hope that she wouldn't just leave him when she finds out that he's useless.

"My Aura Soldiers suck. Whether in movement or in taking a hit" he explained simply.

There. He could see the frown on Pyrrha's face right now and he was certain that she was reconsidering-

"How exactly are they moving? Do you just not move at all, do you jerk in place not doing anything or are they moving too slowly for them to react on time?"

He blinked. That was…surprisingly accurate of what was happening.

"They…kind of jerk in place for a second at most before moving too slowly to block while jerking when moving."

"And this doesn't happen in simulations and only in battle?"

He nodded, "Yeah."

"I see" she closed her eyes.

-Then moved.

Shitblockdefend!

Clang~!

Before my eyes, three figures moved in the way to block the strike that was going to hit him. He could see the cracks on Warrior-2's arms from the sheer pressure, Knight-1's shield was completely destroyed by that exchange and Gunner-3 was half destroyed.

"So that's the problem then" Pyrrha muttered to herself as if she didn't just try to attack him.

Jaune breathed in some relief before remembering that she just attacked him and shouted out, "Hey! What the hell was that about?!"

She replied nonchalantly, "Proving a point."

"What point?!"

All that happened was Pyrrha rushing in to attack him, him not having time to think and screaming in his head for his Aura Soldiers to protect-

…Oh.

"Wait…why did they move so…quickly?" he asked looking at his Aura Soldiers strangely.

Pyrrha shrugged, "You weren't thinking so much. That seems to be the main problem for those with a more tactician mind when using skills that require a certain focus for it to work properly."

"Aura Soldiers response from commands from the mind before anything else. Speaking them aloud just makes sure that your mind doesn't wander off when you want them to do something. I bet the enemies that you were facing were quite slow and allowed you to think more than you should" she explained.

Oh.

…Oh.

What?

"Huh?" he let out not sure what she was talking about.

However even though he was mostly clueless of what she was talking about she looked at him calmly with understanding of the shock he was experiencing, "Basically because you were thinking of making them do something else while they were enacting your first order, your orders ran interference with each other."

…He still didn't get it.

"You were thinking too much and made your Aura Soldiers do two opposite things at once."

Oh, now he got it. Basically he was thinking too much and it made it so that his commands were overriding each other every single time he had a different thought to what he wanted his Aura Soldiers to do.

"So how do I fix it?" Jaune asked as the next logical path to take.

"Think less, make the command you want to go through more certain, there are many mind exercises to do though the best one I believe is to think of your Aura Soldiers as part of your body" she replied.

Thinking on that, Jaune was not an idiot despite being a bit slow here and there.

"So I not-think and want them to move a certain way which leaves me with capable of thinking of other stuff without it causing them to jerk and stop when I don't want to?" he pondered.

That…would get time to get used to.

It wasn't like Jaune wasn't adaptable, hell it was the opposite considering that two years ago he switched from a relatively comfortable lifestyle with no hassle and problems to one that was nothing but hassles and problems to a day to day life.

But…

"How do I know this will work" he asked, "The simulations didn't work or matter when I actually went into battle. How do I know that this isn't going to be the same and will get me killed in the end?"

"Well for one" she smiled, "You'll have me with you. I'll protect you until you can learn how to fight for yourself."

Jaune gave her a confused look and yet she didn't seem frustrated or disappointment at his apparent lack of knowledge here and there. He wasn't quite the studious type and preferred to do things on the field rather by the book, even if the results weren't that great to begin with.

"What's not that known, well what people presume is that Aura Soldier users are actually weak in battle on a personal level" she said.

"I actually get that" Jaune interrupted, "I mean I had to focus everything on mastering this skill in order for it to be just this effective. It took me 2 years and all my other abilities didn't improve at all in that timeframe."

"Yes" she nodded, "Mastering a skill and one that isn't exactly a direct combat skill requires time, patience and more time to do so. I believe that it isn't a lack of work as some may say but more like your own circumstances. But what do these people who mastered Aura Soldier do next?"

"Do they continue to just train their ability to use them or do they make sure that the weakness that lies in them as the core part of the skill becomes less so and eventually an asset?"

"The next logical step for Aura Soldier users after managing to master the skill itself is usually on mastering themselves" she tilted her head in compensation, "Or perhaps it's in making the most effect pre-sets that they can think of. I'm not quite sure on all the details of the skill but I heard it was something to do with experience and growth?"

She looked at Jaune as if he should explain that concept to her and he considered not telling her. He rolled his eyes at the thought of not telling the pretty bird in front of him about something that would only take a bit of research to find out.

…At least someone with a Gred in hand.

"Pre-sets are quite literally pre-sets on what your Aura Soldier will look at. But at the same time there are certain types of Aura Soldiers you can use. The three basics are melee, ranged and dust and you can split them up even more if you want the specifics" he recounted of what Gred said.

"Experience and Growth on the other hand is what Aura Soldiers special. With more experience in using them, the stronger they will get. If you make them block an attack, later on they will learn how to make themselves tougher to block said attack" he explained, "It's not like Aura Soldiers will gain more…aura with experience but rather the distribution of aura and the control of it becomes finer in the action that it knows."

Patting Warrior-2 with his hand Jaune look at Pyrrha in the eye, "This guy's pre-set pretty much makes him the muscle of the team. The reason why I made him with those muscles is to better…visualise it dealing powerful attacks. Doing so and being successful in such an attack will imprint knowledge and experience which leads to growth in that particular area."

"Naturally this growth spreads to all Aura Soldiers if I wish or just a certain few if I wish. It makes it easier if I want to train an Aura Soldier to dodge an attack rather than to block an attack if there aren't conflicting…instincts in the way."

He sighed.

"Not that I'm actually able to do so" he muttered jerking his head towards the still crumbling Gunner-3, "All of them can't take a hit and no matter what I try they don't gain any experience and therefore growth in taking a hit."

Looking over back to Pyrrha he asked, "Do you have a solution to that problem?"

"…."

-Only to see that Pyrrha was thinking deeply again and was muttering a couple of things he couldn't hear. Some Huntsmen were trained to listen in like that but Jaune wasn't one of them. Heck, Jaune wasn't many types of Huntsmen out there.

"Interesting. An inability to command Aura Soldiers combined with an inability for them to gain growth after any battle" she mumbled though he could see a hint of a smile on her face.

"Jaune you are truly an interesting one" she simply said and he wanted to believe her, "I can see many others in your circumstances simply giving up on being a Huntsman and instead using such a skill like Aura Soldier as one may use an errand boy."

"Huh?"

Once more Jaune was confused on what Pyrrha was talking about. Why would anyone use an awesome skill like Aura Soldier to carry stuff?

…Wait, that's actually not a bad idea.

"I have a theory on why your…soldiers aren't gaining any growth and it ties in how you operated them from before."

He knew what was coming and he knew now that one problem extended to the other which just made things just worse for him. He slapped his face outright before Pyrrha even said-

"Your Aura Soldiers were 'learning' one thing assigned to different commands. Namely you might have made them learn how to block an attack while attacking and to attack when blocking" she simply stated.

Yep, that sounded pretty bad to him.

"Don't tell me I have to retrain them all from scratch" Jaune groaned.

Poor teaching or not, that was literally two years' worth of effort made null because of countless and many mistakes that he didn't know he was doing. Looking it at an outsider's perspective, it seems that he really had to restart from scratch the teachings he had for his Aura Soldiers.

"Actually I believe you may be able to delete only certain parts of your teachings. I don't wish for you have to spend months retraining them how to move the way you want to. Perhaps there's…a setting for combat data?" she hopefully advised.

"Maybe…"

Flicking up A.U.R.A in his eyes, he moved into the skills section and looked at the options that Aura Soldier had.

Skills: [-]

Aura Soldier (Mastered): Capable of creating Aura Constructs in the form of humanoid combat units.

· Mastery of skill allows for you to deploy multiple weaker Aura Soldiers or singular stronger Aura Soldier. (Can create 1 at double strength, 3 at full strength, 6 at half strength)

· Mastery of skill allows you to deploy multiple types Aura Soldiers in battle that you can modify at any time.

· Mastery of skill allows you recover half Aura spent on deploying Aura Soldiers when destroyed.

"Let's see…show combat data for skills?" he asked with a bit of hope that it would do something.

Fortunately it did.

Aura Soldier Options [-]

Basic Movement Data [Modify Y/N?] [Delete Y/N?]

Advance Movement Data [Modify Y/N?] [Delete Y/N?]

Standard Combat Data [Modify Y/N?] [Delete Y/N?]

Custom Combat Data [Modify Y/N?] [Delete Y/N?]

Seeing the four options he wasn't sure which of the two combat data he was supposed to delete or whatever. At this point he was just frustrated enough to delete everything involving combat and to start over again.

However the thoughtful look Pyrrha was giving him made him not do so otherwise.

He wondered what modifications the standard combat data his Aura Soldiers had.

Standard Combat Data [Modification]

Attack [Attack]

Defence [Block]

Move [Dodge]

…

Listed here were the 20 or so different speech commands he could use to command his Aura Soldiers…and he didn't know about them for 2 years? How the hell did he manage to even start a fight like this?

Dismissing it because he wasn't touching it he moved over to look at what his custom combat data had and hoped that he wouldn't be too bad.

Custom Combat Data [Modification]

Warrior-1

Attack [Set Aura to dispersion setting]

Defence [Set Aura to leg strengthening]

Move [Set Aura to arm strengthening]

…

He didn't even make it down half the list for Warrior-1's combat data before simply closing the entire thing, couching into a ball as small as possible before letting out a whimper of a groan of what a mess his settings were.

Yeah it seemed his Aura Soldiers did gain experience…in the wrong manner. And he knew that even correcting them all was going to take time and even then, his Aura Soldiers wouldn't be without the…influence of his previous settings at all.

Every single Aura Soldier had its own unique flare, its own way to battling based off the commands of the user, the experience from battles and how they connect together in success or failure.

Attacking well will make them eager to attack better.

Blocking well will make them eager to block.

And so on. And so on.

Even if he changed them, even if he reset them correctly, these particular pre-sets were pretty much ruined unless he deleted everything about his brand of fighting from his Aura Soldiers.

"Custom Combat Data" he said, "Delete. Confirm yet, delete it all."

[Custom Combat Data has been deleted]

Sighing he looked up to Pyrrha and let out a strained grin, "Well that's one problem down. Now all I have to do is correctly train them so they're good."

He could see the gears shift in her head and he could see her thinking that she could now recruit him and he knew that he was going to accept this time because Jaune Arc was given a new chance and proper chance thanks to this woman in front of him.

But what he wasn't expecting was her request this time.

"Will you let me join your party Jaune?" she asked with a too sweet smile.

A/N: So brand new series for me to post here...considering I had in the last few months written and discard half a dozen stories that I wasn't fine with. Seriously that habit I developed from writing 'A Looped Story' in 10 pages chapters made my writing quality worse because I was trying to fit everything in 10 pages.

A funny thing about quality, length usually makes it better for some reason.

Anyway if you haven't read the description of this story, this is an AU world of RWBY which has a surprising amount of good fics. The reason for this...simply because the plot of RWBY is a bit too restraining for me. Most fics goes from Initiation to...Cardin beating on Jaune then Forever Falls and so on in a linear line. Boring when you read too many of them in a row with that exact formula.

Therefore I'm going try and do something slightly different. Note that there are some Gamer elements but that's not the main driver of this story.

P.S If you haven't been able to tell already, 'A Loop Story' is kind of dead...haven't even written on that for some months now.

EDIT: Just looked up some terms and found out that it's not 'Hunter' but 'Huntsman'...well I'm now using Huntsman as the male, Huntresses for females and Hunters as a collective for both.