2 First Trial

[Feat: Another World +5SP]

[Feat: Contact with the Supernatural +5SP]

[Tutorial Quest: New World Clear +Skill: Dimensional Storage]

Huh, I'm in the air.

When I said 'fall into another world' I didn't mean it quite that literally.

Will fall to death in

3…

2…

1...

I am not particularly fond of clichés like these, but I can't complain when someone just saved my life.

"You can let go of me, Kendo-san," I spoke in Japanese. Soon enough I felt the ground below my feet. "Thank you." Once again, in Japanese.

My surrounding was filled with tall buildings, yet one would see they were all empty under heavier scrutiny. The street itself was filled with three different kinds of robots spread all around this mock-city populated by none. There are young people around my age rushing about seemingly hunting down those robots all around. Many of these people have some form of mutation in their bodies. From simple staples such as bladed arms, drill arms and four arms. To more complex abilities like fire-breathing or wind-manipulation.

My Hero Academia. Also known as BNHA in Japan. It seems the teleporter sent me across to a fictional universe instead of a random indistinguishable one. BNHA is not a bad place to start honestly speaking. Within this condition, one can train and improve within the safety of the school and still have ample trials that can be used as self-evaluation and for attaining some true combat experience under their belt. Speaking of self-evaluation though…

Do I have a status screen?

The moment I had those thoughts a blue screen appeared before me. Thought-commanded status screen. That sounds pretty swell to me. This status screen of mine was different from the Gamer status screen I know from a webcomic of the same name. This seems more like a utility-based [System] found in Chinese wish-fulfillment addled web novels.

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Rank 1

SP: 10

[Planeswalker]: [Dimension Travel(2+)] [Hundred Gauntlets(1)] [Dimensional Storage(1)]

[Tutorial Quest: Upgrade a dimensional Skill]

[Rank Quest: Reach Rank 2]

[Limit Quest 2: Have 2 Rank2 Skill]

]

This status screen raises a few questions concerning how it works, but for now, there is no time to waste as there is a need to use this System properly or this entrance exam would end within a flash and I will be left in the dust by other student-candidates. Assumedly SP is some form of consumable points that could be used to buy or upgrade stats and/or skills.

[Affirmative. They are Skill Points which can be used to upgrade Skills]

[You currently have three Skills: Dimension Travel(1+), Hundred Gauntlets(1), and Dimensional Storage(1)]

Interesting. Then please upgrade my skill Hundred Gauntlets.

[1 SP spent to upgrade HG(1) into HG+(1)]

The process only took one SP, which means I still have eight upgrades left. Upgrade HG once more, please.

[2 SP spent to upgrade HG+1 into HG++(1)]

So the more I upgrade it the higher the cost. Though I do wonder upgrade how the cost is calculated. Nevertheless, please upgrade HG one final time.

[4 SP spent to upgrade HG++1 into HG+++(1)]

So the costs double down with every upgrade. A rather steep cost but to be expected considering how the System works. I still have no intention of forgiving the system for giving me Hundred Gauntlet instead of All-Fiction. That was a blatant rip-off if I ever saw one. It's like promising me any brand car I want and then giving me an off-brand Chinese rip-off car instead.

Still, not like I can complain of being given a Skill for free. Someone promised to get you any car you want for no real cost on your part, then gave you an off-brand for whatever reason instead of the car you wanted. Not something you can get mad about, even if it disappoints you a little in the heart.

Nevertheless, hopefully Hundred Gauntlet can let me pass the test without taking any serious injuries. Things will go real bad real quick for me if I don't manage to impress Nezu, the principal of the school along with his staff.

I do not have any form of identity within this world nor any friends or relatives to be relied on. My only way of escaping living on the streets would be to impress the staff and get a scholarship or the likes out of them. Heh, a high school dropout now trying to attain a scholarship. The irony is beyond belief. However, such truly is the easiest way I see myself coming out on top of this troublesome situation.

[Please note a + equates a single upgrade, which enhances a skill by 50% each]

Roger that. So upgrading HG thrice means the Skill almost tripled in terms of pure performance. I should be a bit more serious here as once again there is a need to prove my worth to this school right away or the situation will get rather tricky. Better work my ass off and hope for the best. I picked up a piece of rubble–

HG: A robot will malfunction when hit by this rubble.

"Eh?"

–And threw it at a robot sneaking right behind Kendo, hitting said robot through the gaps in between plates of metal. The machinery stopped moving, and soon enough a minimalistic explosion took place inside the robot. Whoa, the thing was probably unrecoverable at this point. I wonder how much money they spent on these robots and mock-town. Probably a fortune. It makes me feel a bit abashed for destroying one just like that.

However, it cannot be helped, please be destroyed for the sake of my scholarship. Honestly, I could not help but wonder why all those money were spent on this test when they could have been used on more useful stuff. It's not like money can grow from trees. There is no real need for them to burn through so much money just for this entrance test alone. Then again maybe it was just Nezu being a softie, trying to create the best possible test of worth for these young hopeful children.

Ah well, not like it matters all that much. My gaze landed towards Kendo who stared at me straight in the eyes, with a smile on her pink lips.

"Now we're even," I said towards the girl before picking up random rubble and moving away. Kendo is cute and all but I need to prioritize clearing these robots and show off my talents to the school staff. These rocks are useful projectiles when used in tandem with my Skill.

After another half a minute I managed to spot a different robot. A thrown rock at the machine luckily caused its inner machinery components to clog. Two robots down and the mental ticks aren't harmful or at most merely hampering.

Hundred Gauntlets, bluntly put is a wish-granting skill. Imagine a result, and probability manipulation will try to make it work. A very useful skill, though I would still rate this Skill losing if compared to straight up having good luck, mainly because of the limits to its power. The main weakness is the fact HG will only make your wish 'likely' to happen.

As an example, I could wish for Kirito to die, and he would be unlucky for as long as HG is active. Things like falling off the stairs, meeting old enemies, or 'accidentally' encountering a girl bathing when he intends to use the bathroom. Chances of him dying, on the other hand, is almost nonexistent. However I could wish 'Kirito will die from brain damage by a thrown rock' and then throw a rock at Kirito, then the chances increases from nonexistent to probable.

Another weakness is the fact this skill is an active ability rather than a passive extreme luck effect. The passive has the advantage of being constantly active rather than merely temporarily like my HG, and passive luck also means it does not cost you mental strain to utilize it. So HG is a probability manipulation that has to be activated, rather than a passive Chance-You'll-get-something-incredibly-unlikely-to-happen ability. This also means I would be done for if I were to be ambushed, defeated before I could activate HG.

But there are no worries of getting ambushed for now as there shouldn't be a case where such a thing occurs within the BNHA world. Real threatening conflicts are rather rare within the BNHA series, which is one of the many reasons I am glad I got teleported into this world rather than a gruesome place like Berserk.

Ah well, contemplating deeper about the many weakness of mine could be done later when I have more leeway in terms of time. For now, there is a need to attain enough information to work with. Better hurry considering I need to get my scholarship.

A high school dropout trying to attain a scholarship at a prestigious academy, my sides are killing me right now.

The thought brings the tiniest bit of smile to my lips. During this whole monologue within my brain, I had since defeated around a dozen robots. I'm currently just evading the rest since the strain from using HG is starting to sting. Guess that is another weakness of HG1. Maybe it is because I am abusing it though. If my demands were more reasonable I probably wouldn't be so tired from just using it ten times or so.

There is likely some means of determining the amount of strain I get whenever I use HG, more than likely based on how ridiculous my wish is. I could barely jump a meter high. If I used HG to increase it to two meters I would barely feel a strain within my brain. If I wish to jump three meters however I would probably get dizzy very quickly.

Well, those are merely assumptions of mine. There will be time to confirm whether they are true or not later, but for now, let us make progress under the assumption my theory is correct and proceed to act accordingly.

It seems there is a power button hidden behind each robot. My current plan is to snipe these power buttons from afar with my throwing capability boosted with probability manipulation from HG. That should take much less energy than destroying each robot I face.

The first one, second, and third. My throwing technique was simply horrendous but they all hit the marks I wanted them to. Often the rock 'luckily' bounced off of walls or the ground when my aim failed me, hitting the power button of a robot after a bounce or two. Soon another ten kills went under my belt. My dizziness is not lessening but at least it is not increasing either. I think I could easily pass the school test if this were to continue. The scholarship is still doubtful though.

Hmm, there has to be some angle I can play. Maybe helping other test-takers so much to the point the principal is impressed enough to take me in?

I looked towards the scrapped robots in my surroundings. There were three types of robots around. A large bulky one, a thinner and quicker one along with an all-rounded compact one.

Oh yeah, there are four types of robots on this exam were there not? I have encountered the normal first three, but robot type-4 is a special giant robot that I'd rather not face.

I idly wondered what kind of reward would be given were I to solo the lone type-4 robot. It sounds very lucrative, but then again said reward could only be earned if I managed to defeat the type-4 robot. We are talking about a walking doom-machine weighting in tons here. I would rather avoid that thing as straight up fighting it would be a suicidal course of action long as you don't have monstrous strength like Midoriya.

*Craaank*

Ah, speak of the devil and it shall appear. The big fish has finally shown itself. I still have zero intention of fighting it but decided to change my approach to this giant mechanical beast.

From now on I intend to sneakily follow the giant robot from behind. The reason is that many of the heroes-wannabe will get in over their heads and fall victim to robot type-4 here. Following this giant Mecha will allow me to help and save those heroes-wannabe, earning myself some 'saving others' point for the effort—

[Quest: Giant Moving Steel is Nothing Impressive]

…Screw you blue screen. Screw you and your tempting offers.

[I have higher standards than that]

Great, my blue screen is alive, sentient and probably has common sense since it said it has high standards.

[Tres Bien! And please note a woman don't like to be called 'it']

Roger that. Please allocate my 3SP to upgrade my newest Skill: Dimensional Storage1 which could be vital against that walking pile of metals. Upgrading DS1 could mildly decrease the cost of transferring items between reality and my dimensional storage or maybe increase the size of items I could store. Either way, the upgrade will serve to be useful for the current me.

[1-2SP spent to upgrade DS(1) twofold into DS++(1)]

Nevertheless system, any suggestion on how to destroy that mecha which weights a fuckton?

[Tutorial Quest: Upgrade a Dimensional Skill + 1 EVO]

[Considering what you are doing right now, I think you're on the right path]

I know that but this would be a rather stupid method to defeat a giant robot, not to mention how risky it could be. I am not enthused to take dangerous gambles so early in the game. Risking my life isn't exactly my fancy.

But the rewards for doing such a feat…

I licked my lips.

Can't be helped then. I probably won't die even if I fail, unless overtaxing HG can give me actual brain damage.

I stopped hunting the robots and started searching for giant rubbles instead. They are rather easy to find considering so many buildings were wrecked by robot type-4. Whenever I found any they would be sent into my Dimensional Storage1 after a simple touch. I continued until the moment I felt that risking pushing more boulders into my Storage might break it.

Afterward, I spat all those boulders out from my Dimensional Storage into one road. That done I continued to search for more boulders, rinse and repeat. By the time robot type-4 got near me I have since built myself a wall almost as large as the robot itself, taller than the other building surrounding it. Right now I am on top of this tall mock-wall considering how I simply needed to be there to build the wall below me.

It was a pain stacking them above one another and making sure they don't fall as things usually do whenever you try to stack them. Even now the boulders are wobbling a little bit. This wall is undoubtedly weaker than the walls of the buildings they originated from, but the important thing was the fact I used HG while gathering and stacking them all together. My intention was simple.

HG: I will create a wall robot type-4 will stumble on.

That's right, I was creating a wall. I will make this town great again. However, unlike one certain controversial figure, I have no intention of using them to block people from different countries. This mock-wall of mine has the sole purpose of simply making the large robot stumble. You might wonder why I didn't just use HG1 to wish for the type-4 to stumble upon any random building and went out of my way to create a mock-wall which is certainly weaker than the building around here, and if so the answer to your question would be the contribution.

Contribution. I worked extremely hard to make this wall of mine, and assumedly the strain from HG will be lower than usual thanks to said efforts I went out of my way to make. The reason is for justification. If I wish for something then I must put efforts to reach it myself or otherwise the result would be lackluster. Therefore maybe putting more effort into it might make HG more impactful. This wall was entirely created by me, so the HG should be more effective. Again this is merely an assumption of mine, but I think it is worth checking out.

Others might complain that a little bit less pressure in my mind (assumedly) isn't worth going out of my way to create a mock-wall.

Well to hell with those people.

It hurts like hell to use Hundred Gauntlet okay? And I am no masochist. I detest feeling pain. That is why those feelings are called pain because you don't want them to occur to you. If you derive happiness from getting hurt then it should not be called pain but rather a form of pleasure.

Nevertheless, I readied myself as the type-4 slowly walked towards my blockade. This might or might not be completely useless, but I still want to do this with my best shot. I watched the collision between the gigantic robot and my tiny wall. Seemingly through a lucky break, the giant robot stumbled and had a hard time fixing its balance.

HG: The robot will fall after stumbling

HG: The robot will fall after stumbling

HG: The robot will fall after stumbling.

I repeated the same HG activations multiple times in a row. The effect will probably become stronger but the strain on my mind is no joke at all. Soon enough I could feel blood dripping down from my nose. Huh, been a while since I gained one of those. This is already making me dizzy, and going beyond this might risk a lot but fighting while assuming your loss ensures your defeat.

Therefore I continued to preserve while activating HG once more. This was a high-risk play no matter how I look at it, yet my determination never wavered.

I want to win.

I need the victory.

I don't want to become someone who smiles when losing.

Backing down now will probably mean I will back down again in the future as well. I do not want to become a man who simply cannot take a risk because of fear. My ego will not allow that. And yes it is fear that is holding me back. The chance of me dying is almost nonexistent, but I am sure there could be injuries, and I am afraid of getting hurt.

I am a very weak-willed boy. If I were forced to fight then my first reaction would be to run with my full power. Then when that fails I will fight, even though I have determined myself to fully running away previously. Then after inevitably losing the fight I would cry and maybe ask for forgiveness. Being dependable is not one of my virtues. Self-loathing is though, and in fact, I can say my happy attitude though I am in a constant state of self-loathing is my best quality.

Ah, can't get distracted right now. I have to focus on my HG or I'll lose once again. That one line of thoughts rang loud within my mind. Forget about other robots, forget the hero candidate, forget about yourself, and just believe in Hundred Gauntlets.

[You- did you just-]

[Limit Quest 2: Cleared]

[Feat: First-Evolution +EVO]

[Feat: First Rebound +5SP]

[Feat: The bigger they are… +5SP]

The robot fell, yet I can't faint at this point, or what happened will come to waste. I still need to finish the job before falling. I was rather jealous of this mindless robot whose miserably short life is about to end.

HG: I reached the internals of the robot by walking there

Ahh, can't stand it anymore.

Everything is growing darker and darker.

HG: The robot was deactivated because I have taken an important part of the machine with dimensional storage.

[Quest: Giant moving steel is nothing impressive Clear +10SP, +SCS]

[Feat: Giant Killing +10SP]

[Feat: Mecha Disabled +10SP]