As the sun begins to rise on the forest, the orange sky becomes brighter as time flies by, Max enters his home and his mom who is tied up, notices him entering,
"Max.." She said with a smile.
"You've become an Awakened, my son."
Max smiles and begins to untie his mom,
"Now I can finally protect you, like I promised." He said.
They hug each other, basking in each others warmth. They release each other and Max helps her up,
"So what now..?" He asked.
"Well, You will be able to go to school without worrying about bullies."
"Yeah. That's true."
"I'll prepare a large breakfast for this moment!" She said now excited
He snickers "You do that, I'll go hunting."
"Okay, see you when you get back!"
Max grabs his bow from his room and leave the house to look for wild boar,
"I still don't know the extent of this power." He thought
"In that moment, I was just full of rage, and I wasn't really thinking right."
"Now that I think about it, something that looked like a screen did pop up, but I didn't read it."
"I think it wanted me to say [Profile]"
Suddenly a blue window pops up, that displays all of his information.
Name: Maximus Williams
Age: 17
Height: 6'2
Weight: 270
Rank: Myth
World Name: The White Void.
Skills: Super Adaption (Ascended),Hunters Authority (High), Void Wielder(Low)
Titles: The Merciless Hunter(??)
Traits: None
Calling: Strength Over All
"So this is what the Heroes see." He said, now sitting down under on a smooth rock, under a tree.
"Interesting.. What is Merciless Hunter?" Instantly another window pops up, showing information about the title,
The Merciless Hunter - Hunters are people who have abandoned everything to provide for who they love, they hunt for food, for sport, or just because they like it. You are a Hunter, you hunt for a purpose which supersedes that which is human. Absolute Strength to protect those you love.
[Every time you kill something of equal strength or stronger you become stronger in exchange for a random negative emotion.]
"Hm, so negative emotions like remorse, or pity. No wonder I didn't feel anything after killing those guys."
"Hm? This skill doesn't have a rank, Void Wielder?"
Void Wielder - The everchanging Void. This is a mysterious interchangeable Blob that can take form of any thing the user wishes.
"An interchangeable Blob.."
Max uses the skill {Void Wielder} and a black Blob appears in his hand. He shifts the Blob into a sword, then a dagger, then an arrow and then reverts it back to a black Blob.
"Wow, so this power is actually mine..?" He thought shocked of his own potential.
"This is awesome." He said excitedly, squeezing the blob so that it explodes in his hand.
"I should get hunting, school will start soon."
He said getting up from the stone and walking deeper into the forest.
Max sneaks up on a wild boar.
"Hm, I should test this power out."
Max uses his skill {Void Wielder} and shifts the black Blob into a black bow.
Max tries to use his normal arrows with the new bow, but the arrows won't stay on, they go through the blob as if it's not there.
"What is this?"
"Hm." Max begins to think.
"Can I form more than one thing?"
He uses the skill again, and another blob appears in his hand, he shifts that blob into an arrow,
"Nice! But its.. a little flimsy.."
"Maybe I can harden it."
Max tries his hardest to harden the arrow, and it worked, he hardened the arrow.
"Hm, it worked, but it takes an incredible amount of concentration and control to do it. I won't be able to do it often. Max steadies his aim and concentrates, he shoots the boar, and the arrow pierces right through the boar effortlessly. Max looks at the bow.
"This.. has endless possibilities! And it's my own power!"
"I have to hunt more." Max thought
He came home with a large boar and a few small chickens, he sat them on the table.
"Wow. You really went all out this time huh?" She said.
"Yeah, I wanted to make sure this moment lasts."
A few minutes later the table he is sitting at is filled with many different foods like soups, voluptuous meats, and different vegetables. The delicious looking food beckoned Max to be eaten, and so he did, he chowed down on the food as he and his mom began to eat and talk about various memories and funny stories they each had. Soon all of the food was gone and Max had ventured off into the school.
"WHAT?! THEY HAVEN'T RETURNED?" The principal shouted from his office.
"Unfortunately not, sir." Mina said.
"How.. They were at least Historic Rank!" He exclaimed.
"There's no way a weak unawakened defeated them." He angrily said.
"We still haven't heard back from them." Mina said.
"Hm, maybe they got caught up by some wild monsters, considering they do live in the forest.."
"Get me more hitmen. We need to eradicate them before news gets out." He told her.
knock knock knock
"Not now, I'm busy." The principal said.
"Principal, it's me." Josh said from the other side of the door.
"Oh! come in, young lad."
Josh enters the room, seemingly worried.
"What's wrong?"
"That brat is back." Josh said.
"Oh? To think he'd have the guts to show himself after we sent hitmen after him."
"Go deal with him." The principal said, dismissing him.
"That's the thing, His aura is different..its like he's.. changed."
"What?" The principal said in a serious tone.
"Its like.."
"Don't tell me.."
"He's had an enlightenment." The principal and Josh said at the same time.
Max enters the school walking to his class with his hands in his pocket.
"Impossible! The only one in the world whose had an enlightenment was that monster from The Kingdom of Vern."
"What do we do? If he actually had an Enlightenment, then he would make us look weak."
"I got something." The principal said.
Max enters the classroom, and suddenly the lively, buzzing classroom stops and looks at Max as he enters the classroom, Max looks up at the entire class and thinks,
"Why is everyone looking at me?"
Max walks to the back of the classroom and takes his seat, and the class goes back to talking. Max sits back in his seat, looking out of the window, he feels a tap on his shoulder and it's his friends.
"Yo!" Jaku said.
"Oh, what's up."
Jaku sits down at the desk beside Max and Rose sits at the desk in front of Max.
"So.. About yesterday." Max said nervously.
"Don't worry about it man, Like i said, we did it for you. You don't have to repay us."
"i'm really sorry. I didn't mean to drag you guys into this."
"It's okay man, it really is. Stop stressing!" Jaku punches Max on the head.
"Agh! That hurts man!" Max said.
"Good!" Jaku said, crossing his arms.
"I promise I will protect you guys." Max said confidently.
"Oh? Is that so? Well then, Mr Hero. Ill be in your care." Jaku said, mockingly.
A commotion begins to stir in the hallway, silhouettes begin to approach the door, Jaku and rose arise from their seat quickly,
"Not these guys again." Jaku said.
The door flies open and Josh steps into the room,
"Hm.." He scans the room, seemingly looking for someone, and looks on to Rose, Jaku, and Max.
"Ah there he is. The rat and his goonies."
"What do you want, Josh?" Rose Asked
"Same deal as yesterday. Hand over that little freak you're harboring and you two get to walk away freely."
"And if we don't?"
"Well, you wouldn't want what happened yesterday to happen again, in front of the class, would you?"
Jaku and Rose seemed unnerved at his words, their stances becoming weak and they take a step back out of nervousnes.
"What's wrong? Don't seem so frightened."
Josh takes a step forward.
Jaku and rose takes another step back nervously. Suddenly a terrifying aura pours from behind Jaku and Rose, everyone in the room begins to sweat and cower in fear, even Josh is taken aback at this amount of aura. Jaku and Rose begin to turn around in a sweat and see Max standing up, furiously staring at Josh.
"It's okay guys. You don't have to fight anymore." Max said coldly.
Max begins to step forward, with each step he takes his terrifying aura begins to spread further and further throughout the classroom, everyone begins to step back in fear.
"Oh?" Josh said, putting his guard up.
"You finally decided to stand up huh?" Josh begins to sweat in fear, as he takes his hands from his pockets.
"Im done running." Max said, looking at Josh with piercing gaze.
Josh is startled, "What did you say, you little ra-"
Max dashes towards Josh and grabs his face and lifts him off of the ground,
"Agh.. Let go of me, you.. piece of shit."
Josh said, flailing his legs and grabbing Max's arm trying to free himself, to no avail, Max's strength is too much for Josh. Max slams Josh into the floor, shattering the floor boarding and causing a loud BOOM. Josh becomes unconscious and he begins to bleed from his head.
"Pick you're leader up and go, Or you're next."
Max said, looking up at the rest of the gang members standing in the door way.
"EEK! " The gang members shriek as they pick up Josh and scurry away, closing the door on the way out.
Max turns around and looks at the rest of the classroom, his gaze strikes fear into the crowd and they all back away, Max sighs and he begins to walk back to his seat, puts his head down and fall asleep. The teacher enters the room confused at what's going on, so he forces himself into the classroom and
"Max..?" Jaku calls out
"Yeah..?" Max answers.
Jaku breathes a sigh of relief and smirks,
"Never mind."
Max sits at his desk and puts his head down, his friends sit down in their seats as well. The teacher enters the room and notices the aura of the class, and wonders
"What's going on?" He enters the classroom
and sees all the students murmuring and whispering about what just occurred.
"Alright class! Settle down. Now today we are learning about advance level 1 Skills."
A few hours go by and class ends, Max is still asleep so Jaku and Rose wake up Max as he slept through the entire class again.
"Max, Wake up." Jaku shakes Max
"Hm?" Max lifts his head with bags under his eyes.
"Oh you woke up a lot easier this time." Rose said.
"Do i not everytime?" Max asks?
"Nope, you're like a zombie.." She said imitating a zombie.
"Okay." Max said rolling his eyes and getting up from his desk, gathering is things.
They all leave the classroom and begin to leave the school. As they are approaching the door to exit the building, they notice a crowd of people, just beyond the door, they stop infront of the door..
"Don't tell me.." Jaku said.