Laughter
It was a day of celebration. The upcoming generation were about to have their awakening ceremony.
The Governor and the rest of his officials are present, along with the director and the elders of the school.
Qilin Academy was one of the best academies in whole of R district. The reason why many prominent people were gathered in one place was because of the rumor of the presence of a once in a lifetime genius, and many wanted to see him in action.
"All this just for me?". A sky blue haired boy said while acting dramatic. Nico Vali was his name.
Well he wasn't wrong he was a genius while many of us were still in the apprentice stage he had already broken through to the general stage, and many people agreed along with him even me but I didn't show it.
" Announcement!!".
Everyone's focus shifted to the speaker up in the stands.
"Those that are candidates for the awakening ceremony, should please kindly move towards the podium.
We all moved towards the podium and stood in a line. I don't like being the center of attention, so I stayed somewhere in the middle.
The first person went up and aced his hand on the rainbow colored crystal ball.
The ball glowed brightly and a picture of a chef hat appeared over the ball.
" Marcus Corwell, Support Class, Chef!!". The voice of the mage in charge of the ball rang out.
Everyone began murmuring. I'm pretty sure that some twisted things have started coming up for the poor boy.
I think its about time I tell you about basic structure of this world and about me.
My name is Leon Damon and I'm a transmigrator. Shocking right? I have been in this world for close to three years now and if I remember correctly, I died because I choked on my food, wait that shouldn't enter the script. Oh whatever .
Anyways the former owner of this body didn't have it easy. He was an orphan and the only reason he was in the Qilin academy was because, anonymous man who called himself the "Good Samaritan" paid for the fees.
When I entered the boy's body he was in a bathroom stall with blood flowing from his head. The memory of that time was fuzzy so I can't actually remember who did it. And hen I found the body it was weak, luckily I have successfully trained this body to be fit if not I don't think I will be able to deal with all the enemies I have in this school.
Now about this world, it's just like earth except a little more advanced than earth and has a mixture of different races. Elves, beastmen, vampires, ghouls, you name it , but majority of the world's population are humans.
Before I forget a very important part. In this world people had innate skills that help them to face threats, such as extraterrestrial attacks and terrorists. The skill are often revealed during an awakening ceremony such as this one.
Skills are split into 2 classes: Combat class and Support Class.
Combat class are skills that are used to fight against opponents and the professions under this skill offers the most lucrative rewards, that's why most people hope to have combat class.
"Nico Vali, Combat class, Dragonwarrior!!!"
*Muttering*
That was surprising , very surprising, when I came to this world I read a lot about the various kinds of skills and the Dragonwarrior skill was very rare and very powerful, for Nico to get such a skill I'm starting tolo doubt myself as the main character.
Well back to what I was saying.
Support class are the skills that are used to support day to day activities such as Marcus' Chef skill. They are very important if not for them this whole place would have been chaotic and nasty.
"Leon Damon,come up the stage and stop daydreaming."
That's me. Time for the main character to make a debut .
I came to towards the crystal ball, it was glowing in different colors as I placed my hand on it, the colors then begand to become violent as if they were fighting each other, after the whole light show, a symbol of a gear and a arrow facing up⚙️⬆️ showed up above the crystal ball.
"Leon Damon, Support Class, Update".
"..."
Everyone fell silent. Even I found it hard to believe. How could this be possible, of all skills. It had to be....
Update skill, grants the host the ability to make anything into an advanced version of its original form but the time limit depends on the host capabilities.
The skill can only be dependent on the host financial capabilities. Meaning that as long as the host can afford a weapon or any other medium it can upgrade it. But the only problem here is that as an orphan, I can't even afford the dirt under any low class family shoe. Even if I would have to work twice the amount of manual labour I'm used to I won't be able to get enough money.
There's only 2 things I can do:
1. Work like a maniac in order to even get E class equipment.
2. Get a loan from a equipment store and try to pay off a huge amount of debt for the rest of my life.
3. Become a rich man's bootlicker to survive.
All these thoughts ran through my mind for the rest of the day, you're probably wondering why I can't ask a friend for help, well the reason is simple, the studious students hate my guts, fuck it, they hate my very existence, the only reason why I survive to this day is because of my decision to keep to myself. My only friend in this world for the former owner of this body was studying elsewhere and I haven't even met her.
The ceremony ended and the big shots in the crowd had already started going round picking students to join their agencies. The lucky ones were chosen by the Djinn Agency. They were one of the biggest agencies in the country. I could see Nico talking with his father and his father then started talking to some of the big shots while looking at me. I wonder what they were talking about, probably about me.
I decided to look for an agency to join, that was an option I didn't think off, well I gave up the idea of me being the main character, at least I got a powerful ability.
Strangely no one came towards me. Then I saw Nico laughing and pointing at me, when he saw me looking , he came towards and whispered in my ear.
"You will never become anyone in life under my watch".
"You , what did you do ?".
He didn't answer, he just laughed and left.
I looked at the sky blue haired, 6 inches with hatred.
" I will pay you back for everything you have done to me 10 folds".
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