Returned Ranker - I Leveled Up
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Updates:
Adding proficiency to skills
Character:
MC: Victor Morin
Life Status: Dead Parents, living alone.
Citizen: Filipino
Year: 2060
Earth Status: Infested with monsters from dungeon gates.
Human Population: On the brink of eradication
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Character Status:
[Status]
[Name: Victor Morin]
[Talent: F (0/1,000 "Dungeon Curses" kills to next level)]
[Blessings: -]
[Strength: 86.98 (+43.49)]
[Agility: 55.62 (+27.81)]
[Power: 1.74 (+0.87)]
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[Skills]
[Strengthened] [Level 30 (29/3,000)]
[Makes yourself or weapon amplified.]
[Effect: +40% physical damage to targets]
[Duration: 40 minutes]
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[Miraculous Intervention] [Level -]
[You miraculously came back to the past.]
[Effect: +50% to all stats]
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Plot:
Victor, one of the last humans on Earth to survive the catastrophe brought by the dungeon gates that suddenly appeared in 2024. The world governments collapsed year by year, and population decreased. And now, Victor, along with what's left of humanity, made a final stand against the horde of monsters, in the forsaken lands of the old Saudi Arabia.
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Power Ranking (Low/Middle/Upper):
F Rank Stats: 1/1.5/2
E Rank Stats: 2.5/5/10
D Rank Stats: 10.5/15/30
C Rank Stats: 30.5/50/70
B Rank Stats: 70.5/120/200
A Rank Stats: 200.5/350/550
S Rank Stats: 550.5/800/1200
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Episode 2: Money Maker
My 3rd year high school life began and it started normal, however, many classmates asked me if I'm really only 11 years old as my height is already reaching 5 feet and 2 inches tall, while weighing at 56 kilograms or around 123 pounds.
As usual, I just kept it simple all throughout my school year with some love confessions to get from girls, but what would I do with those? Once the monsters attack from the dungeons, these girls would die at most. I would rather focus on reaching the highest rank I could to at least defend myself and my family.
And so, I did my usual things, to get perfect exam scores. I did not do any extracurricular activities as they were just a waste of time for me. I rather run and do push ups to increase my stat points.
At the end of the year, my stats grew more, however, I was not satisfied anymore, a yearly increase of around 7-8 points isn't enough. I could only reach around the B or lower A ranks at most once 2024 arrives. I need to intensify my training. And since I looked like your average guy and didn't look childish at all, with a height of 5 feet and 2 inches, I asked my mother to enroll me in a gym membership.
At first, my father was against it as I'm still in my growth spurt but I pushed through with a reason that I will not fully exert myself on weights. They reluctantly agreed and let me be.
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Year 2002 started and the allowances I saved up were immediately used up to buy stock prices on Apple. I bought a total of 5,000 shares. My parents were quite scaredy cats when they heard me buy Apple's shares, which was quite unknown at the time. I assured them and they were not able to dissuade me on this one.
Anyway, I will not enter my 4th year of high school and my parents kept pestering me to go to college. I asked to give me a whole year and I'll start boxing. They kept voicing out frustrations on my choice of career. I did not budge an inch and kept moving forward.
Why did I choose boxing? It is quite hot these times and once I make a name for myself, I'll fight those bigger main events like what "Many Pacs" did, earning himself millions of dollars.
I will make sure I will make every fight entertaining. And thus, I registered for a boxing gym and started training there. Although I'm still in my 4th year of high school, the coach in this boxing gym started noticing my training, which consists of power punching and fast jabs during my sandbag routine. Even the other trainees there were praising my power.
Thus, the main coach invited me for a simple sparring session. When he asked my age though, he could not believe what he heard.
"Shit me not?"
Yeah, I answered him and even teased him that I will bring my birth certificate the next day.
He just shook his head and went on to put in the hand wraps and gloves on my hands. When everyone was ready, I saw my opponent, around my height and seemed to have experience already, so what I did was to evade his attacks first and observe.
All I did was evade the whole round which made the audiences whistled in joy. Some even provoked me and my opponent to duke it out. Why would I do that? I want an entertaining fight, even if it is a sparring session! I gotta practice my showmanship so my crowd will keep on buying my fights, and this fight right here is my opportunity to show it.
The second round began and my opponent seemed agitated and came at me aggressively. I did some deflections and evasion and when he went inside, he did not notice my right hand was already waiting, then the "Bam" sound reverberated within the gym. The loud sound echoed and my opponent was already knocked out on the floor. Even the coach went inside the ring to check on my opponent if he was really alright.
I walked on the corner and started taking off my gears. One of the side ring audiences praised me so much and clapped at my skill.
Yeah, in my mind, I uttered "those kills ain't just for show, they are for killing alright."
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At the end of 2002, my stats grew better than expected. With boxing training, weight training, and running, I earned lots of points. My strength was around the lower B rankers of the past!
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[Strength: 63.79 (+31.90)]
[Agility: 42.56 (+21.28)]
[Power: 1.37 (+0.69)]
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This motivated me to keep training.
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The start of 2003, I trained. And when June arrived, I graduated as a valedictorian. I made a speech about free speech and what life should be once entering college or what I called "Semi-Young Adult" life.
No one made it hard for me, because, you know. I made it hard for people who wants to make it hard for me. Thus, no one bothered and my regular school life continued. But as I graduated, these people kept their distance from me and only those nerdy and with crushes on me talked to me.
As soon as we went home, I started training. I ran and did push ups even though it was already late afternoon.
I must not neglect training to gain stat points.
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By the end of 2003, I had 10 non professional boxing matches. Yes, I did what I said to my parents. I will not attend university and will practice boxing as a career. And boy it was successful, even though I am still fighting as a non-professional boxer, just fight after fight after fight, I gained fame, and also the prize pots of these competitions.
So far, I am undefeated, and no one has been able to land a proper punch on my face since my official non professional fight this last summer.
As for my new stats, my strength has entered the middle ranks of class B rankers, while my agility entered the low middle ranks of class B. Not bad for a regressor, right? I still have lots of years to reach my S rank goal as a starting point.
[TBC]
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Rank Up Stone
A reward item after clearing an S Rank dungeon.
Allows awakeners to increase their Talent Rank.
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Skill Up Stone
A reward item after clearing an S Rank dungeon.
Allows awakeners to increase their Skill Rank.
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Skill Book
A reward item after clearing any ranking dungeons.
Allows awakeners to learn additional skills.
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Awakeners
People who awakened their talents.
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Dungeons
A magical door towards a sealed dimension.
Monsters live inside the dungeons.
Gives out rewards once monsters are killed.
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Talent Awakening
Happens when a normal human awakens their talent.
Happens when an awakener upgrades their talent, they get another talent.