The nine students all had different abilities, skills, and runes, all of them had weapon runes they could summon, most of them had skills that increased their proficiency with a weapon, and some had physical abilities that does an awesome attack or increased their strength.
While few had magic abilities, the only two magic users were a healer and a pyromancer.
Unfortunately, one of them was dead. Like Rei, they were all caught off guard by a sudden goblin group rushing into the room. However, unlike him, they didn't react as fast. But they fought when they knew their lives were in danger, and most died fighting the sudden battle.
Only the two lucky students survived, the healer who was at the back, and the cautious but fierce one, and adapted quite well to their surroundings.
And the current two were recuperating. Though hearing footsteps, they suddenly tensed up, this one wasn't light...
'A bigger monster?' Cherry thought while raising her spear to point toward the entrance, an athletic brunette who was wearing a red, black, and white tracksuit that had received some tears from the fight.
And the healer who had dyed her shoulder-length black hair with some light brown on the ends.
Both of them widened their eyes for a moment, seeing another student alive from that massacre, but he wasn't from their group...
"A-another student?" Cherry commented as she lowered her spear.
"Yep."
Rei answered back with a nod, his face still grim due to the scene outside. He was happy that there were people like him, and they could help him out of this place. But seeing as most of them are dead, he assumes he'll have to try his damndest to rescue more students.
It's also hard to see that some of the people he saw most of the time were lying dead with horror on their faces and demise like that.
"Wait... Rei?" The healer asked.
Of course, the student who has been there, along with him in the past few years, would at the very least recognize him a bit. Even if he was quiet, the group projects and his Japanese genes got some of their attention.
"Yep, nice to see that you're doing... Alright, with staying alive at least, Clara."
Rei remembered her due to the numerous group projects they were in together. She was timid, smart, and cute with her petite body. Maybe it's just because she was his type-
"Mhm, the same to you - Wait, are the others with you!?"
Clara immediately asked with some hope in her eyes, and to that, Rei had to crush it a bit with a shake of his head.
"Unfortunately, I'm alone."
Rei's eyes then gazed at the transfer student's wound on the abdomen.
"...Can you cure poison?"
And to that question, the new student answered hoarsely.
"I'm resistant to poison."
Making Rei blink.
'Ah, of course, they get cheat abilities, too. Though not in line with my regression rune, they have helpful ones too.'
"Can I see both of your status screens?"
'Wait, is there even a way to share it?'
"Huh? Ah, yeah, sure." Clara answered it for him, with a screen appearing just above her.
[Records of 'Clara Rosenthal']
[Might: 3]
[Agility: 6]
[Toughness: 4]
[Physical Tier: Mortal]
•Mana: 50•
•Mana Tier: Mortal•
•Abilities: [Touch of Power] [Touch of Haste] [Touch of Hardening] [Touch of Life]
•Skills: None
•Spells: None
•Runes: [Prayer's veil]
'W-woah, that's a lot of mana if those mushrooms only gave one... And abilities, too.'
Rei felt a little bit of envy in his heart before he thought back to his ability, or precisely, [???] ability to make him go back in time.
'I'm even luckier with this power-'
That thought was diminished as he saw the new student's status.
[Records of 'Cherry Asterson']
(5 Stat Point to distribute) [Might: 8] [Agility: 8] [Toughness: 9] [Physical Tier: Mortal] •Mana: 10• •Mana Tier: Mortal• •Abilities: [Sacrelia's Incarnate] [Stinger Spear] •Skills: [Spear Novice LV3] [Defense Novice LV2] •Spells: None •Runes: [Scorpion Spear] [Scorpion Shield] '5 stat points!? Is this because of that class? Runes that are weapons? Skills and that one ability...' "How about you?" Rei snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Cherry. He was a little hesitant... But before he did that. "How?" "Huh? You just think hard about sharing it with us." With that simple advice, he shares his status screen. 'They will question that [???] rune, but they aren't normal themselves. Although an unknown rune sure does look odder.' "Mmm..." The two girls narrowed their eyes seeing the status screen. [Records of 'Rei Anamada'] [Might: 5] [Agility: 10] [Toughness: 5] [Physical Tier: Mortal] •Mana: 0• •Mana Tier: Dormant• •Abilities: None •Skills: None •Spells: None •Runes: [???] "You have... Absolutely nothing?" "No cheat skills? But, you got to Level 1." ...That wasn't something Rei was expecting. He kept looking at their confused eyes gazing at his screen. But they never asked about the rune. "Yeah, I got lucky with one goblin, and along the way, I managed to kill more..." "That's... Something." "Anyway, how about you two? And what happened with the rest of the group, if you don't mind retelling what happened?" "Well..." Clara nods and began telling him what had happened earlier. In short, the group didn't know what to do in the starting room (that they were in right now) But after noticing the records, they started to treat this more like a game and got to know what each other could do. But after they left while still chatting... An arrow came, and goblins ambushed them. Clara tried to save the others, but without poison resistance like Cherry, they still died. Cherry managed to defeat the last goblins after being wounded, so they retreated to the first room to rest. It was just a minute after the battle. 'Maybe I got a lot more time than I thought for my next run?' Rej thought, but seeing as nine students were here, the other students must be around here. 'Hopefully, they'll all be luckier.' "After your wound is gone, I think we should keep moving." "Huh, why?" Cherry asked with narrowed eyes. She seemed hesitant to go out, probably because of the dangers too. "One, we need to find a way out, two, we may find other students, three, we can get stronger. The goblins aren't that hard to kill, alone that is, and with three of us. It'll be easier to level up." "And besides, it'll be better to keep moving anyways." He couldn't just kill himself now and try to do this suicide mission. What can he do against a group of goblins? And to arrive that fast here... 'I wonder...' But before they do go anywhere. "Can I see the abilities' details?" The two agreed, and he saw multiple messages of the abilities and runes details. [Touch of Power/Haste/Hardening] [Touch of Life] [Prayer's Veil] [Sacrelia's Incarnate] [Stinger Spear] [Spear Novice LV3] [Defense Novice LV3] [Scorpion Spear] [Scorpion Shield] 'So much info... And also lore about the world we're in. In any case, I wonder if any God gave me this rune. Or perhaps, the opposite.' [???] ...Still, no luck with the inspection, even after he asked how they inspected their abilities and runes, how they summon it. Nothing at all. 'What a mystery.'