Reaching New Heights

"Hey look, it's that weirdo."

"Careful, you might catch his weirdness."

"He's looking over here. Ewww!!"

All I hear from my classmates is ridicule, all because I like something different from them. All because I don't care about being popular or because I'm not mainstream enough. Why should I be bullied for liking something?

"Found you pipsqueak. How many hits are you going to be able to withstand today? You guys grab him."

As the bully said that, 3 other bullies surrounded me. All having a smirk on their faces. I know I wasn't going to be able to win. Mom always said that I had to stick up for myself, no matter how scary the situation was because there was going to come a time when i had to look after myself. So even though i was surrounded by the four of them, I put up my guard, taking a terrible boxing stance like I had seen in movies.

As I knew I was about to get beaten down, I took the initiative and struck the first bully would did all the talking. Momma ain't raise no b*tch. After the first strike well you can guess the rest. I got jumped by the four of them and after 5 minutes or so a teacher came, sent the four of them to the principals office while she helped me to the nurses office. Soon after that nothing big happened. School ended and i started to walk home since it was only a 10 minute walk from the school to my apartment.

Highschool sucks and is a lot worse than adults make it out to be. If you don't fit in then you become a target. God I wish I was 18 already but I still have 2 years to go.

'I wonder what I should make to eat today. Maybe some ramen? Or maybe some rice with scrambled eggs.' Is what I thought as my apartment came into view.

Right now I live alone due to my parents traveling and since i have school I was forced to stay and endure their phone calls bragging about their trip ad how great and beautiful it is where they went.

Soon, I get home, walk to my room, strip naked because all guys do that when they are home alone, shower, make some food still naked and finally lay in my bed. I turn on the TV and turn on O*e Piece. As I watch, I can't help but wish I was sent to a fantasy world with a system and just go to travel and adventure around the world. Not having to worry about bullies and being OP. Basically, ever otakus dream.

I soon become lost in thought till finally I fall asleep. Suddenly in the middle of the night, I feel a bright light in front of my eyes. A blue screen just floating there. I open my eyes and find that I'm in a pitch black room. All i can see is the screen in front of me.

[Status]

Name: Damien Luna (Age 5)

Race: Human

HP: 25/25

MP: 10/10

Titles: Slave

Level: 1

EXP: 0/50

Strength: 2(10) - So Weak

Agility: 2(10) - So Weak

Intellect: 4(10) - Below Average

Sensory Perception: 3(10) - Trash

AP: 0

SP: 0

"Is this REAL? Did my wish finally come true?" Is all I could say before i did my best to calm myself. Then i just focused on each category so as to understand what each meant.

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[Titles]

Titles are given when you become or have achieved something worthwhile. They can also be bestowed upon you by a great number of people.

[Strength]

This attribute has more to do with your raw power, constitution, and how much damage you can take.

[Agility]

This attribute has more to do with your endurance, muscle memory, and overall speed.

[Intellect]

This attribute has more to do with your brain functions in keeping knowledge and absorbing information. This also effects your mana pool and how easy or difficult it will be for you to do certain spells. (Be warned that should you attempt to do certain spells and not have enough mana for them, you will experience side effects.)

[Sensory Perception]

This attribute has more to do with your reaction time as well as how fast you can perceive things within a distance. This is also effects your 6 senses further bringing out your 6th sense more than is normally perceivable.

[AP]

Each time that you level up, you will receive 4 attribute points.

[SP]

Each time that you level up, you will receive 2 skill points.

'This is fantastic. I can't believe this is happening but wait a second. Why does it say I'm a SLAVE? Also what is with those rude ass comments next to my stats? Plus it says I'm 5 but I'm clearly 16. Is it a glitch?'

Soon after I finished getting a rundown of my attributes, I looked further down and saw that I had 3 skills.

[Skills]

Reading 5, Pain tolerance 3, Inspect MAX

'I'm guessing reading is so high due to me reading a lot of manga, novels, and watching anime subbed. Pain tolerance is probably from all the beatings I took. What about Inspect?'

As I thought that, I focused on each skill.

[Reading]

How quick you can read something and comprehend that which you have read. (Keep in mind that this skill correlates to intellect and as such cannot surpass such attribute by more than one point.)

'Makes sense since intellect has to do with my brain functions so no matter how much I read something, if my intellect isn't able to keep up then it's all for nought. I won't be able to keep the information down. Seems like I'll have to keep that in mind for future references.'

[Pain Tolerance]

How much damage you can withstand before it starts to effect your state of mind. The higher this skill is, the more you can push past your limits before finally breaking.

'This sounds like it's going to come in handy a lot in the future but is going to be a real pain to level up.'

[Inspect]

Able to see the level and stats of people, materials, or even monsters.

'Hooooo, I'll never have to worry about being poisoned. Plus with this, I'll be able to find top tier materials, weapons and armor. This is a huge cheat.'

After making sure I that I had checked everything in my status, i was able to close the screen after a moment and finally my surroundings started to crack? Soon after, I was in a stack of wheat. I looked around and it seemed I was in a barn. The sun started to come up and I tried to take in my environment. I got up and looked at my body. Small hands, small feet, dirty white shirt, pants, and ripped shoes. I looked like a bum or well in this case, a slave.

"Well this is going to take some time getting used to I guess." As soon as I finished saying that, I opened the barn door and almost immediately heard someone yell at what seemed to be towards me.

"You disgusting thing, get over here and get me a bucket of water NOW!!!!"