3 Chapter 3

Volume 1 chapter 3 beginning

Shattered dreams

Dumbfounded, everyone was looking around, trying to look for clues as to where to were and what to do now.

Intrigued by what the, what he assumes was God, -said to them about a status, he tried to open it.

"Let's see, according to the God dude, we just had to think about opening the status, to open it."

As he thought about it a transparent Grey rectangle appeared before him with a small 'pling'. On the rectangle, white text appeared, almost as a pc booting up.

[Status Board 2.0] [First time start up. Click OK to start assigning unique skill on random]

{Huh so, we get skills at random? Well we're supposed to kill the demon lords with these so all of them are probably really strong combat based skills. Let's just continue I guess}

As Kane was about to reach for ok, his hand spasms, resulting in him clicking OK twice in a second. Booting the status twice.

{OH shit, I might've broken it}

It took 20 seconds for the status window to finish calculating. All the while the status window was booting, Kane was eagerly waiting on what skill he would receive.

It was about then when suddenly…

'pling'

"Hey, the board is finished! Let's see what I got."

[Obtained appraisalexpmultiplayer]

{That's weird, there's 2 skills, but they're smashed together? Is that supposed to be like that? Is it 1 skill or 2?}

'ping' [Updating]

{Oh it changed}

[new skills

Appraisal lvl 1

Exp multiply lvl 1]

"Oh shit I actually got some good ones!" he shouted

"Huh? You got multiple?" some people around him asked

"Uh well yea I guess, it looked really weird at first but then it just… idk updated, since then I had 2." Kane exclaimed.

"Huh. Weird." the guy replied, and started focusing on his own status again.

{Well I guess it's on me for hoping he'd praise me a little bit more, but at least people seem to have forgotten about my fiasco with Asahi.}

It was then that he heard a familiar voice, shouting his name on his right.

{Ahw fuck, speak of the devil}

"Kane! Where the fuck are you hiding!"

Kane turned around to face the voice that was shouting his name and at that moment the monstrous bully stepped into the light.

"There you are. Trying to hide in all the commotion huh? Sadly for you that didn't work. I still have something to finish with you"

Asahi pulled back and hit Kane in his face with all his force. Kane desperately tried to dodge his fist but he just wasn't fast enough. The impact smashed him backwards into the ground and rolled over twice until he was stopped by a tree with his back.

All the attention from the onlookers was now aimed at him and loud gasps could be heard.

Kane's nose had started bleeding from the impact, his head hurt from the hit and his back started bleeding from bouncing off the tree. As he sat there in disbelief, Asahi drew closer to the confused Kane and started to trash talk him.

"Hahahaha nothing can be done against my strength enhancer skill. No one will ever get as close as my strength so choose your opponents wisely idiot."

"ooooh he got a strength enhancer skill?"

"duuuude I'm so fucking jealous."

"bruh he got that while I got some potion making skill? That's unfair"

"Well actually…." Kane mumbled

"Well actually what now huh" Asahi replied sharply

Kane who was still recovering from his numb back gathered some strength and replied to the bully

"I actually have some overpowered skills!"

"Oh? What did you get then? Do you actually have a skill that's better than mine?"

"As a matter of fact, I do."

He could feel the curiosity in the people around him spike. So much that they were almost begging to hear!

As he got up from the tree he started thinking up ways to reveal the fact that he got 2 skills instead of 1.

He walked over to the guy standing right in front of him and exclaimed;"I actually have 2, you know. Appraisal and xp multiplier. Way better than your than your skill, only suited for a muscle head like yourself"

"Those are totally cheat skills!"

"He'll totally finish all of this without even needing our help!"

"Hey Kane-Sama, want to party up? They must have something like that in this world!"

Shouts like those were shot at Kane with speeds that he couldn't keep up with. His life started to look like one of those out of a op protagonist novel.

The nervous looking Asahi was fidgeting in his place, until he suddenly corrected his posture regained control of his voice and a mischievous grin appeared on his face and said:

"They sound pretty good indeed. Every skill has its ups and downs, at least mine does. It enhances my strength by 50% for 5 minutes. But his has a cool down of 10 minutes, in which my strength actually halves until the cool down is over. I bet your skill has its downsides too hehehe" He laughed.

"uh well I guess it doesn't hurt to give it a look."

"Knowing Kane-sama, his skills probably have almost no downsides."

"Yeah! I bet his skills are totally overpowered. " People sighed.

Kane opened his status and took a quick glance at his skills.

[Name: Kane Fujimoto]

[Sex: Male]

[Age:16]

[Class: hero]

[Health: 7 (+)]

[Strength: 8 (+)]

[Mana: 12 (+)]

[Agility: 9(+)]

[Sp: 1]

{there are plusses behind my stats, does that mean I get to choose what to level up instead of fixed values? These stats also seem to be the average human male in this world, listening to other people. Unless Stats of non-heroes are different. Anyway, let's get to the skills.}

{for now let's just take a look at my skills as Asahi asked me to.}

Kane proudly recited the description of his skills.

"Alright, these are my skills. Pay attention as I will only say this once."

"So cool!" Some girl said.

Kane blushed lightly as he continued on.

"Skill appraisal. Show the name of 4 objects within 2 meters range, or 1 object within 5 meters range when activated. Cool down of 5 minutes. Skill can be leveled up by repeated use"

"That's pretty useless dude. Who wants to know just the name of an item? You can just look at what it is and be even faster. That's pathetic man."

"Yea what the hell, that's not op at all. I don't know if I really want to be in a party with you."

"dude there is no way to form parties in this world" his friend replied softly but sharply.

Kane got flustered by the commentary of both Asahi and some people in the crowd. He could feel the surrounding air drop to his disadvantage. He was losing his support, while Asahi was gaining it. Even his so-called friends seemed to be against him, as none of the 3 helped him.

"W-well yeah, b-but I still have my xp skill!" With recovered conviction he shot his reply at Asahi, who seemed to be winning in support.

"Knowing your fiasco of an appraisal skill, this one must be quite a let down too." Asahi said."

"Yeah, even though you have 2 skills, you're still inferior to Asahi-Sama!"

"Oh come on guys, you're flattering me."

"Let's go Asahi-Sama, this guy isn't worth your time."

"Yeah! Leave this poser for what he is, trash on the side of the road."

"That'll teach him to never go up against you again!"

"If you ever get close to me again, I will kill you, you got that Kane!? The next time we meet you're dead!" He looked one last time at Kane, spit in his face and turned around.

"Come on everyone, follow me if you want the best chance at survival"

As everyone started to walk away, Kane felt completely left out, his pride was shattered, his feelings were broken and his heart was in pieces. One moment he had it all, and no seconds later had he been tossed aside like an old phone replaced by a new one. But then he remembered his second skill. His one and only hope. In his longing to get back what he lost he shouted at the crowd;

"But wait! There's more!"

Everyone turned around in unison. They all remembered Kane saying he had 2 skills. wasn't that why they all praised him? Why they all had high expectations of him?

Kane slowly started reading his skills out loud.

"[xp enhancement. Upon activation of the skill, xp gain will be multiplied by 10]"

Gasps could be heard from the crowd as they slowly regained their trust in their fellow new best friend. until he recited the last bit of the skill.

"The skill lasts for 10 seconds. After the 10 seconds have ended, a cool down of 2 days will commence."

"What the fuck? so he can use it once each 2 days? for 10 seconds? you can't even kill something in 10 seconds. How utterly unusable is that? that's just fucking trash." Asahi shouted.

Everyone around him agreed. insults could be heard from literally everyone in the crowd. 38 voices could be heard, each slinging insults to his head, hitting his heart as stones to his head. Even his friends had turned against him. At this point, it seemed he was all alone in this world.

He had absolutely not a single friend any more. The 3 people he had considered his friends had left him for someone who absolutely did not deserve the praises. Some dick head who only knew how to be better than others and beat the competition to a pulp, was being put on a golden plate and held up as if he were a God.

It was then that his heart snapped. With his heart to shreds and his pride in the gutter, that he swore to get revenge against Asahi, revenge against his so-called friends and revenge against his school mates for breaking everything he had.

He'd practice and train so hard he'd overshadow everyone and kill the 4 people who ruined his life.

He would overcome his challenges, better himself and tread the steps of his long and impossible journey of becoming. Overpowered.

Volume 1 chapter 3 end