Opening his eyes, Flint groaned. He felt pain all over again followed by a sense of déjà vu.
'How long was I out for' said Flint and so he looked at the nearest window, he saw that the sun was still high in the sky, thinking 'I was unconscious for a few hours? No, that's not right. It could've been days.'
"Oh, congratulations on waking up first."
Flint looked around him to find where the voice came from, yet he only saw the bodies of his still unconscious schoolmates.
"Over here."
Flint was astonished at who talked, what greeted his eyes as he was looking up was a mannequin! Well to be exact, it was a faceless mannequin wearing a butler uniform standing on a floating platform.
'What the fuck?! Could've sworn nobody was there before...' Flint was terrified to say the least.
"M-mind telling me wh-what happened h-here and outside?" Flint said to the wannabe-butler while stuttering out of fear.
"Hm, well since you woke up first, might as well tell you. His Majesty simply wished to no longer be bored, so he simply made every human part of his new 'game'. He, well, took 'inspiration' from features found in games on Earth and made them a reality. For example, features such as earning 'exp' from killing or doing certain tasks will now exist." The mannequin stated while looking at Flint to see what his reaction will be.
"Will Fox Girls appear?" Flint blurted out. 'Shit.'
"W-wait ignore what I said, I meant will humans still have one life? Or will the revival feature in most mmorpgs exist?"
"I think you know the answer to that."
Sighing to himself, 'So realistically speaking, us humans are now fucked, by this 'king' and by monsters that I presume will pop up after we wake up or they already popped up. I mean sure, we get to become powerful and grow stronger and all. But now criminal organizations and corrupt politicians will now become more powerful and power-hungry so it wouldn't be that surprising if a war would problably break out. Not to mention we now have to live next to fucking dragons and most cities would be destroyed and the climate would also problably change. A practically unwinnable game.' Flint rubbed his temples while thinking about his future, a sudden realization dawned on him and so he asked the butler mannequin, "You said that it's a 'game' right? So how can humans win? Kill some demon lord or something?"
"You will know the answer if you can survive until we meet again that is, I believe we have to stop this conversation now." The butler replied and pointed at the people in the auditorium as they slowly woke up.
Confusion, fear, and shock were written on almost all the now awake students and faculty members, with some having amazed expressions or even none at all.
Clapping his hands to get everyone's attention, the mannequin told everyone most of the things he already told Flint, with some exceptions. Such as 'classes', certain commands like 'Status', 'Inventory', etc... Most things you'd find in a typical rpg.
"Now then, I believe that covers everything. I hope we'll be able to meet again after the 'Tutorial'." After the mannequin butler said those words, it bowed saying "Have fun." And so it disappeared, leaving a bunch of confused students, wannabe hero students, teachers with grim expressions, and a principle who was having a mid-life crisis.
[Quest log updated]
[Tutorial Quest]
It's the tutorial, how hard could it be?
Quest clear conditions:
-???
-???
Rewards:
- 5 extra inventory slots
- 1 week's worth of food and water
- 300 experience points
Penalties for failling the quest:
-The shame of failling the tutorial
- You die. (But you knew that)
'Great, I'm now forced to risk my life just to satiate an unknown person's boredom.'
'Might aswell see what class I got, first priority is see what's happening outside, try and figure out the prerequisites of beating this 'Tutorial', leave the school and finally find if that old man's still alive.' Mumbled Flint, formulating his next course of actions while his mind is still jumbled up from all the stress of how to even survive in the current state of the world was extremely hard, harder than making good puns, even HARDER than when my "little brother" gets when he sees a real-life milf. 'Ok, maybe it isn't THAT hard, but still, thinking rationally while cities are possibly getting destroyed is still damn hard.'
'*Sigh*, now's not the time to ramble about milfs damnit, eyes on the prize Flint. Actually maybe if I lucky I might get an epic skill early, get a girfriend and lose my virgini- F*CK, curse this damn horny body. Focus dangit, you just have to say a single fucking word. Status,' Flint mumbled to himself. He looked like a lunatic to those around him due his rapid change of expressions.
A blue holographic screen appeared infront of him after he said status.
[Command to show HUD (heads-up display) set to 'Status']
[If you so desire to change it, please visit the 'Settings' function situated at the upper right hand corner of your HUD with the icon of a wrench]
'Huh. Neat. Does that mean I can change it to 'Open Sesame' ?'
After swiping away those messages, his status bar (or HUD) appeared before him.
[Name: Flint Wright Birthday: 4th of April]
Class: Cardmancer (Unique)
Title: The Fool (Tap to see details)
(Stats)
STR (strength): 7 (+2) CON (constitution): 7 (+2)
DEF (defense): 6 (+2) DEX (dexterity): 14 (+2)
INT (intelligence): 16 (+2) CHA (charisma): 8 (+2)
WIS (wisdom): 14 (+2) WP (willpower): 11 (+2)
PER (perception): 12 (+2) LCK (luck): 0
Unused stat points: 5 (Note that you can not raise you luck by spending stat points)
[Skills]
(Active)
Summon a random skill card of any class by spending unused or used stat points:
Chances of getting a common class skill: 60% (one-time use) 20% (permanent)
Chances of getting an uncommon class skill: 30% (one-time use) 15% (permanent)
Chances of getting a rare class skill: 10% (one-time use) 1% (permanent)
Chances of getting an epic class skill: 0.1% (one-time use) 0.01% (permanent)
Chances of getting a legendary class skill: 0.00001% (one-time use) 0.0000001% (permanent)
(If you spend 1 LCK stat point, you will receive 10 cards with one guaranteed skill)
(If you spend 5 stat points, you will summon 5 cards with one guaranteed skill)
Note: 10 is the average stat for a human (the only exception being luck).
'What.The.Fuck.' Flint was thoroughly confused with his class. 'Now it's also a gacha?! It's like a game within a game, a gameception? Also what the hell is with this title?'
'Eh, since it problably gave me +2 to my stats I won't complain, after all who doesn't like free stuff. Also why is my physical stats below average? Although I'm not good at PE (physical education), I'm also not bad at it. Maybe by "the average human", it means the average human adult? But why not just tell it instead of making people think that they suck ass... or maybe I suck.'
After he tapped the title, a new holographic screen appeared before him.
[The Fool]
A brand new life awaits you, take hold and brace yourself for the leap of faith.
Title Effects:
- +2 to stats (except LCK)
- Gain an extra unused stat point after every Level Up
- ??? (Locked)
- ??? (Locked)
- ??? (Locked)
'Talk about vague huh.'
But rght after he closed the screen a new one appeared.
[You have aquired the skill ]
Author's note: the numbers with parentheses represent the stats he gained with items/titles, while the ones without are his 'base stats'. Also it doesn't mean he had an original strength stat of 5 but then got it raised to 7 due to his title.