Exploring the System
Chapter 2
After entering the portal, Kazuki was greeted by an unfamiliar but similar scenery. As Law of Ueki anime is still based on japan, he just feel odd for coming back here after he died. Looking at his surrounding it seems that he's located on hinokuni junior high rooftop and it after checking his new information of himself in this world, he realized that the information is align with what he ask as he check his status.
Name : Kazuki Toshihiro
Age : 14
Level : 1 EXP: 0/660
Race : Human
Strength : 100 Attack : 10/10
Perception : 2600 (+5%) Accuracy : 100%
Endurance : 2100 Stamina : 2100/2100 Defense : 210/210
Charisma : 100 Mental : 100% Luck : 500
Intelligence : 100 Mana : 200/200
Agility : 2100 Speed : 100%
Vitality : 100 Health : 100/100
Bloodline : High-Human
E. Weapon : Ebony & Ivory
Abilities
Magic :
Melee :
Ranged :
Passive : Sharingan, Gunslinger, Hoho
Fantasy Jewel : 10.000
[Congratulation lord, for arriving safely as this is the first time you enter this world beside get to control the setting of yourself, you get one gift box from this world! Please open it.]
After the prompt, suddenly a gift box appear before Kazuki startling him before he decide to calm down and open it.
[Receive Hellion Bloodline (7 days)!]
[Hellion Bloodline: Hellion clan is one of many race that live in underworld, at first they're the protector of heavenly beast located in underworld, but they get sick of their job and envy the heavenly being with their sacred weapon. Despite doesn't have a sacred weapon their physical abilities is beyond the heavenly being, making them far exceed the heavenly being. Hellion clan specialty beside their superior physic is they could devour anything and made the abilities and look of what they eat to become their own, making them one become extremely dangerous clan. Hellion bloodline will increase stats by 50 point to all status when level up, +3000 point to strength and vitality]
[Do you wish to integrate this bloodline? Y/N]
!!! Kazuki stood with excitement as he pump his fist unto the air with stupid laughter across the rooftop. 'Shit! I never thought my luck would be so good. At first I just want to get the gift from the god candidate, never thought I would get this lucky!' Kazuki hurriedly press Y button, when suddenly his bodies felt like striked by lightning and feel burning pain all over his bodies.
5 minute pass, and just like that there's a pool of sweat below Kazuki as he gotten at all four and breathing roughly when there's a prompt telling him that the integration was successful.
[Integration success! Remainder, please stay awake when in middle of integration process since with being awake, or it would not work.]
[Because lord is a High-Human, there's a change to the special abilities of Hellion.]
[Devour upgraded by High-Human bloodline, change to Deprive. Deprive is superior Than Devour, despite it couldn't be used to take over the body of the one my lord eat. But Deprive is superior because lord doesn't need to eat the person to took their abilities, and deprive could be used to transfer abilities to other people as well. To strip Enemies abilities, my lord just have to lock your target for 5 second and then choose what abilities you want to retrieve, only could work when the target is inside 5 m radius from my lord. PS: this abilities is disabled if lord mental below 80% or enemies level is 10 level above my lord, so keep your calm and keep Depriving.]
Rolling his eyes, Kazuki could only sigh and curse aloud to god know where, after venting his anger he realize that all of his clothes is wet by his sweat, so he decide to go down to his classroom when he met Mori Ai, the heroine of this series.
"You! What are you doing wetting all the floor, don't you know it's hard to clean it!" said the bluish green haired girl with glasses on her head.
"Ah, sorry! But I really need to change now, its freezing." As Kazuki said while shivering, [Nice acting lord.] the system gave comment to Kazuki, made him smile stiffly and made the system to shut up.
"Goodbye!" Kazuki dashed to his classroom on the second floor leaving the furried Mori behind. "She's just like in the anime, a meddlesome person." Kazuki mumbled while leaving the school ground after school with his sport uniform. He was laughed by his classmate when he enter the classroom, although he doesn't know one of them since his setting he already a student in here, that doesn't mean the other people in here doesn't know him.
Kazuki walk on the street, when he watch Sakura Suzuki chased by 2 burly man with black suit and sunglasses. Then Kazuki remember that this scene is appear in episode 1! Kazuki felt delighted because this is a chance to make his move to change the plot.
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"Kobayashi-san, do you have another candidate for me?" ask a skinny guy with black school uniform and a cool sunglasses.
"Oh! Zero, you still haven't found your candidate yet? Still as bad luck as ever huh…" as Kobayashi laugh while patting Zero shoulder, but he stop suddenly after saw a student running toward the shop, and trip at the front door. Throwing his large body to a green haired student that eating his Ebidon, creating a mess inside the shop.
As the green haired boy, said idiot to the big guy. Sakura Suzuki was mad and want grab him until lifting him from the ground, but soon throw him because Sakura Suzuki is in middle of being chased by 2 black uniformed guy. The green haired boy unknowingly is get stuck with Sakura Suzuki bag, the panicked Sakura Suzuki just run toward the back exit without feeling there's a person hanging behind him.
But after he gone, there's a black haired boy with red eyes smiling like idiot come after the 2 black uniformed guy and knock them out from behind.
"Wow! What is happening, it's happening too fast." Ask Zero to Kobayashi.
"I don't know too, but I must go after my candidate now and if you want a candidate maybe that student will do." Said Kobayashi seriously to Zero while pointing toward the black haired student in front of the store.
"Oh, Zero for consulting cost, pay my food!" Shout Kobayashi while running from the scene.
"EEE!! No way…" cry zero miserably.
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As Kazuki follow the Sakura Suzuki and saw the scene he expected to see from the anime.
[Emergency quest triggered!
Bring trash bag to Mori, so she could pass it to Ueki.
Reward: 10.000 Fantasy Jewel.]
When that screen appear in front of him, just then he finally remember that he have a quest system. And he haven't check it yet! What a blunder. As there are a quest now, and it align with his intention, he stop for a while and took a trash bag from the trash bin near him and bring it to the location. As he come closer, he ran to mori that searching trash here and there.
"Yo, you're from this afternoon. Why are you searching the trash bin?" said Kazuki with shocked face telling Mori why a girl is digging trash can.
"Ugh! I don't have time to explain, I need a trash right now even just one is okay!" she said as she scratching her head, where do she get trash when there's a cleaning day today!
"What a coincidence, I'm here want to throw my trash, you want some?" Kazuki said while showing his trash bag, as he offer it to Mori.
"Really?!" she delightedly grab the trash bag and run while shouting her thanks, "Thank you! I will repay you later."
After she gone, Kazuki just walk slowly with a grin and watch the battle from afar.
[Ding!]
[Congratulation for clearing Emergency Quest, Receive 10.000 Jewel.]
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After watching the scene in real life, he realize that the system is right an Anime world is far more mysterious, because the aftermath of the battle of Ueki and Kuroiwa the evil man that send his minion after Sakura Suzuki is more than what eyes can see. Because in the anime Kazuki couldn't see what would happen to the tree that suddenly growth from the river because Ueki power, but in here he finally know that the tree doesn't disappear like magic or anything, but there's a lot of small people that clean the aftermath of the candidate battle.
Kazuki guess that they are the people employed by heaven to deal with aftermath of this competition.
After he come to his apartment, he greeted with darkness and hungry. Well he choose to set his setting as an orphan and live alone so he couldn't nitpick about this.
First thing he do after get home he decide to warm the water bath, in the bathroom he took a look at his own face at the mirror, he have jet black hair, a sword like eyebrow very neat and beautiful curved by nature, a not so high nose that just felt right and perfect sized, while his eyes is red and have a dot on it.
This whole time Kazuki is using his sharingan, so he could get used to its power and made his body adapt to it so his body could response to even a detail movement that the sharingan see…. Well that's a lie,he just too lazy to turn it off.
'Since it doesn't waste mana, so why not?'
Exiting the bathroom, he start to clean his house when suddenly a growl come from his stomach.
'Oh, now you mention it I haven't eat since lunch, well just take a look the fridge for now.' Kazuki walk to the kitchen and open the fridge just to found it empty. He slap his own face while facing this dilemma, after thinking for a while he felt like struck by lightning as he just remembered that he have MALL in his system!
Just like he thought, there's a lot of food in here and the price is cheap! Ranged between 50-5000 jewel, the food list is already tremendous, not just the food that famous from earth even the food from food wars is exist here!
He scroll the list, and realize that food beyond 3000 points is not your normal food. Because food from 3000 to 15000 jewel have an effect on their description, example like this 3000 meat jerky, although it look just your regular jerky it is said that this jerky could increase your HP and MP for 5% in 5 minute duration.
But as Kazuki just hungry, he just bought the normal food and to fulfill his curiosity he bought Chaliapin Steak Don from Food Wars just for 50 jewel! When he first insert it into his mouth, Kazuki just could cry while eating it, because the food just taste so good! 'From now on, I would only eat food from Food Wars!' Exclaim Kazuki boldly.
After eating, he finally took bath and relax his whole body.
"Fyuuh~ this is how life should be."
After soaking for 5 minute, Kazuki realize that he haven't check his system at all since he get here. First he call the system and check his status,
Name : Kazuki Toshihiro
Age : 14
Level : 1 EXP: 0/660
Race : Human
Strength : 100 + 3000 Attack : 310/10
Perception : 2600 (+5% (130)) Accuracy : 100%
Endurance : 2100 Stamina : 2100/2100 Defense : 210/210
Charisma : 100 Mental : 100% Luck : 500
Intelligence : 100 Mana : 200/200
Agility : 2100 Speed : 100%
Vitality : 100 + 3000 Health : 3100/100
Bloodline : High-Human, Hellion (6 Days left)
E. Weapon : Ebony & Ivory
Abilities
Magic : Deprive
Melee :
Ranged :
Passive : Sharingan, Gunslinger, Hoho
Fantasy Jewel : 20.000
'Hmm, my status is focused on perception, agility, and eindurance… maybe I should use assassin builds for now.'
'What is this 6 days left mean?' Kazuki become curious about the notice that appear beside 'Hellion' Bloodline. He touch the screen to get the detail about the notice.
[6 days left: As Hellion bloodline is gift from the system, it also comes with duration time. Please buy through the MALL system for the permanent one.]
"Fuck, fuck, fuck! I got duped!" Kazuki swore to the system as he just realize that those gift from the system is not a permanent one, but it comes with duration and if one to get the permanent one he must bought it himself! 'Aaaa… there's no free food in this world after all.' Lament Kazuki as he put his chin on the tub side.
After that, Kazuki open his quest tab but when he open it he got dizzy all of a sudden. After a while the dizziness is gone, but he felt scared to look at his quest list now, because there's like infinite amount of it! On the main quest, there's a ton of it that just looking at them he know where his dizziness came.
Thanks god there's a sort option if not than god know where to start this quest. The quest difficulty is split into 10 difficulties, from 1 star to 10 star. After sorting it out, he found that the main quest is a lot because other main quest from different anime, game, novel, and manga is also there, and it still locked so Kazuki couldn't see the detail of the quest.
As for the sub quest, there's just 10 of them, surprisingly there's a pattern to the sub quest. One, there's different type of sub quest, there's one with clear objective which help a lot and easier to clear, but there's also another type that have a long duration but I need to rotate my brain to clear it, since this one is the investigation type, there's also one with short duration but easy quest and the reward also not too small, but not to big too. This one is the repeatable quest and have daily use. But unlike main quest the sub quest is only came from the world that currently he inhibit. Like this one quest,
[Sub-Quest
Objective: Meet your king candidate tomorrow.
Reward: 15.000 jewel, 10.000 exp.
Description: When you chase Suzuki this day, your god candidate is watching you with the other god candidate as you knock the 2 guy in black, you've got randomly pointed by Kobayashi that's why your god candidate choose you, because he have blind believe to Kobayashi.]
'Gawd… Please don't become more unreasonable than this.'
After checking the other mission, he just found there're 5 daily mission in here. That being said it just really simple things to do. Example, picking up trash, do cardio workout 'I wonder why this even here', cook on your own, read a newspaper, read a book. Surprisingly those daily quest give 500 jewel, and 500 exp so basically if I do it diligently for a year, I could get 912,500 jewel and exp! Just thinking about what he could buy with that much jewel his drool already coming out nonstop.
Exiting the bathroom, Kazuki decide to hit the bed but there's one more thing he got curious. He already know some function on his system, but he still haven't tried the HUB yet. It's not like he doesn't want to try it, but he afraid something he doesn't want would happen and makes him miss his goal in this world. Because this path is the only path he could came up after considering what action he must took if he want to become stronger.
"System, is there a recommendation path for how to become strong?" Kazuki tried to ask the system while lying on his bed, he thought that maybe this life would become like the novel he read where godly system exist, that could be asked 24 hours and come up with the most ideal answer. But to his surprise, there's no answer at all. And what is this mean to Kazuki? It's mean that he was alone on this journey, he need to become stronger with his own abilities, his own calculation, and his own hard works!
'There's no system, so be it. Even the MMORPG back on earth there's no system that guide the user, the user must explore and found its own path, and that's how trick and tip is born. The system gives the outline, and the user fill the detail… Ahhh~ I miss forum now.'
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"Yes! You could choose whatever power you want, as long I could grant it that is." Said the skinny man in front of me, dressed in black school uniform with black sunglasses. He scratch his cheeks smiling wryly looking at me while giving friendly vibe, but I don't know why I have a feeling that if he talk to other person like that, the person would definitely call cops immediately. Yes this sorry looking man is my god candidate, Zero.
"Then are there any power that let me to change the size of anything I touch?" ask me with a curious and happy expression, 'Such expected from my acting, I could still pass as middle school students!' posing victory pose inside his mind Kazuki felt really confident.
"Wait a moment, I will ask the administrator first." As he said that, he took a smartphone like device and call god know who, as the talk last for a while Kazuki became bored. He remembered that he haven't finish cardio workout quest, 'For the jewel and EXP!' With such motivation he started doing cardio workout.
"Good news! That ability haven't taken yet, and I could bless you with it. So please be my candidate! Wait, what are you doing?" said Zero while keeping his nervous smile as he keep coat sugar his word. 'Why do I think that this becoming more and more like a kidnapping case.'
"Some cardio workouts. by the way, Deal!" Said Kazuki with stretching his hand asking for a hand shake.
In a hurried state, Zero chant some kind of spell that I don't understand. After he finish chanting, there is this white light that surrounding me, and inside my head was filled with a new knowledge, about how to activate this power and the rule concerning the competition.
"Oh! Thanks God. Now I finally could take pride as heavenly being for I Zero the 'Zero' could accomplish this duty. And you, you are definitely my victory angel!" While putting both of his hands on my shoulder, zero cried with having snot and tears on his face. Even if Kazuki doesn't like to be treated like this with a stranger, he could only accept it! Since with this, one of his goal in this world is completed.
Feeling excitement inside his body, Kazuki could not contain it anymore as a grin crawl out on his face.