What's a hero in a world where you're paid to be one. Are they really heroes if 99% of them just want a better pay check than other jobs and nothing else. These new "Heroes" not being willing you try and risk themselves to save another if a chance was less than 80%. It was a joke. Sure that 1% who actually cared about the people first were in that group, but that 99%. I could honestly say. I disliked them and hated their hypocrocities. Still what could I say about it. I was just a poor weak normal citizen in this world of heroes.
While most people started developing a power with Element 723, and slowly developed it as they grew into age by 10. I was one of those people in a family unable to afford such luxuries. Also a cheaper alternative that gave me hope was that some people developed them naturally and I might be one of those. However, found at the age of ten with a quick test using Element 848 -which was a whole lot less expensive- Zeshnia, I found that I didn't in fact develop any such powers. I was still a loser in the overall scheme of things.
I would never go around and help those people in need, as my heart wanted me to, in an extraordinary manner of some sort. Still with what I could do; I helped my neighbors, taught people tricks around me, and taught them things to keep safe. It was hero work, sure, but still to my heart that I craved something larger and more exciting. All my effort into all I did was considered nothing.
"Accumulated Hero Points have been achieved. Unlocking the system for full use. Points for the shop are at an accumulation of 100 points. You gain 1 point for each life saved by your direct actions that can directly or semi-indirectly help someone live. Such as a person who would have died if not for your warnings and tips, or say pushing someone out of the way of a car."
While working on larger projects like helping the world's climate and other such issues are also good work. It's not exactly hero work persay and more of a general survival project for human wide existence and as such isn't included in this system. If you're looking for that system. Please come into contact with the planatary survival system through (*^(*()000^6465^&_..."
To say I was confused by the sudden message out of nowhere would be an understatement. At first I thought it was some minor illusionist playing a prank on me. When I could get no response from anyone I decided to just play along with their game and see what they wanted done.
"Inventory!!!"
Of course blank squares on a screen appeared in front of me. Trying to scroll down I found myself at 100 squares before I was forced to stop. At the bottom was a price tag for expanding my storage by another 50 for 100 hero points. Something I definitely wasn't doing as it seemed like a useless upgrade even if my situation was fake. And while I was sure I would get a chuckle out of messing with whoever was messing with me. I knew it wasn't wise to try and antagonize someone I couldn't temporarily see.
Thankfully for me I could also see a quick call menu beside the inventory that allowed me to voice the other pages I needed to go to.
"Heroes!"
Before me a gacha wheel appeared with a blank solid white character on it with different rarities. They followed as such; common, uncommon, rare, ultra, legend, ultra legend, epic, and finally supreme. From what I could see the rarity would somehow affect the character I would summon or create and the speed they seemed to grow, learn, and exceed in the areas they specialized in. It also affected stats but predominantly in a manner that befitted their job. An alchemist would never overpower a warrior even if they were a tier below them. But maybe if it was 6 tiers down they would.
It was interesting to look at. It basically stated that the better the rarity the better the summon in the long term. I actually started to take the screens as some sort of gacha strategy game, and I was actually getting into it. Why fight the situation when you got no proper tools to fight your captivity after all.
Looking at the screen I noticed two things, and they were that one. The button to get a hero denoted that I had one free spin as a first time buff, and two that there was an additional skill/perk spin and item/knowledge spin below these that I could do with the 100 points I had. Deciding which of the two categories to get was a hard thing. The classifications combined in a way that made me waste points if I just wanted to try and get skills and knowledge in bulk that might be usefull for the longterm mixed in with short term benifits so it felt like I was getting something worthwhile while I couldn't focus on short term gain or long-term game. It was purely a money spending feature. Shaking my head in moderate disbelief at the thought outness of a mere prank I continued on.
With a click of a button I prepared myself for some stupid character to pop up only for a semi-handsome red haired man to pop up with a sword symbol stating with a quick tap that he was a Legend level Swordsman. It was the 5th level of 8 so it wasn't that bad but it wasn't that good in the long term. shrugging my shoulder I noticed the next character purchase was now denoted as 500 Hero Points. Nothing I could do about it. I hoped it would be at 100 as well so I could hopefully have two heroes to use in this game.
That thought and action, however is when things began to change. When I was preparing to go for an item to hopefully, and steriotypically get a sword my surroundings began to pick up in speed. Air manipulation on this scale wasn't a common power and for someone like me such a prank wasn't needed in such high detail involving my situation. Looking around for a fight I calmed myself down as much as possible as I watched a figure step out of a portal in front of me. The same one from in the image. My scalp started feeling numb and I wanted to scream in fear, but I knew something much more deeply now. Maybe those images weren't just a joke. And maybe they were real. But the question now was why? Why did I have something that called itself a system, and why did it have powers of at least an A-class warrior in scale.