The System

'Will I ever break past the E rank and enter the D rank?' Evan thought with a sigh.

He had just finished clearing the E Rank dungeon with a party of 4 other E ranks. His strength was… Adequate for an E rank, but nothing extraordinary. He awakened the most common ability 'Enhanced Strength'

Evan entered the 'Freelance Guild' that was for hunters who couldn't get into any privately owned guilds and sold parts of monsters and minerals to earn a living. Only being able to clear a E rank dungeon with 4 other E rankers, he barely made a living off of $50,000 USD a year. Living as a hunter in New York City, $50k a year was jackshit when putting in apartment rent and healing potions into the mix. Let alone everything else.

Evan was originally a Canadian living in Ontario with below average grades. He happened to awaken in his fourth year of highschool just before his graduation. And since his grades couldn't get him into any university OR college, he decided to move to America's dungeon hotspot, New York City.

He was also turning 20 in 2020 and had only been a hunter for just under two years, initially coming to NYC in 2018.

Evan approached the receptionist desk of the Freelance Guild and put three goblin horns on the desk.

"Slow day?" The kind old lady said behind the desk.

"Yeah." Evan sighed exhausted. He was fairly tall, 6'3.

Evan ruffled his right hand through his short black hair in hope to relieve some of the mental stress he had pent up.

The kind old lady took the three goblin horns and said "$20 for each goblin horn for a total of $60. Since you're an E rank hunter, you'll be exempted from any tax." she said transferring $60 to his bank account.

At least the government knew how broke most E rank hunters were.

"There we go, all done. You should receive your money soon. Be careful out there alright Evan?" she smiled warmly at Evan. Knowing the handsome young man before her for just over a year, she had grown to be attached to him and so didn't want him to over exert himself and find himself gravely injured in a dungeon.

"Yeah I will don't worry Martha" Evan chuckled and left the guild hall.

Evan was fairly handsome. He was the type of handsome that people presumed he was a hunter higher than an E rank. But once they found out he was actually a E rank hunter, everyone who displayed previous interest in him either mocked him, pitied him, or ignored him. Ignoring him being the most common and mocking him from afar being the 2nd most.

It was already almost night time and it took Evan 20 minutes before reaching his apartment.

Entering it, he was met with a small and clean one bedroom apartment.

Evan got himself settled and took a well deserved shower.

After dressing and leaving the washroom, Evan began to think.

'Do I sleep or watch something first? Nah, I gotta get up early for a dungeon to make up for today's shitty pay.' Every E rank hunter was recommended a minimum time frame of 2 days rest between each dungeon raid but with today's earnings, he couldn't afford that 2 day break.

Evan crashed on his bed and closed his eyes before hearing what sounded like a dinging noise.

Thinking that someone was ringing his doorbell he opened his eyes but what he saw made his heart jump.

"What the hell?" Evan whispered seeing the screen in front of him. Reading the slightly transparent grey screens white text, his eyebrows could help but raise more and more.

[Congratulations user Evan Fal for completing your 100th dungeon. The 'Hunters System' is now being bonded to you.]

Sitting up, Evan thought 'Is this a feature to hunting I didn't know about?'

Evan quickly dismissed that idea because there was no way in hell he wouldn't know about something like this.

[10%...]

[30%...]

[70%...]

[The System has successfully been integrated. A beginners gift box has been given to the host.]

"A gift box?" Evan muttered before seeing a new screen pop up over the old one.

[A Beginners Gift Box has been awarded. Would you like to open? Y/N]

"This must be a double awakening right? What else could this be?" Evan whispered while rubbing his chin with his right hand. His heart started to beat in excitement if this was the case. After all, double awakenings were one in a million!

Evan clicked the 'Y' button and the screen closed followed by a new screen.

[The gifts have been deposited into the inventory.]

[The Host has unlocked the ability 'Infinite Armory']

[The Host has gained 1 Class Option]

'Class option? Like a mage or an assassin?' Evan thought.

"Uh… System. Could I see my class options?" Evan said, a bit embarrassed.

Suddenly, all the screens in front of Evan closed and a new screen opened.

(AN: The boosts are the classes initial advantages and the skills are class exclusives.)

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Warrior:

Berserker Ability (increase all stats by 100% for one minute. - 10 health for every second activated

+10 Stamina Boost

+15 Strength Boost

Assassin:

Presence Deletion (Complete erase one's presence. Lasts for 50 seconds. 3 minute cooldown) (variable)

+20 Stamina Boost

+5 Awareness Boost

Tank:

Skill: Immovable Defence (Become invulnerable for 5 seconds. 5 Minute Cooldown.) (variable)

+25 Endurance Boost

Mage:

Skill: Magician's Aura (gain 10% spells boost for the next 20 seconds. 3 minute cooldown) (variable)

+15 mana boost

+10 stamina boost

Evan didn't have to think too long before knowing that he wanted to choose the Warrior class.

Evan liked to fight head on with his opponents, it made him feel like he was actually fighting instead of, well, playing it safe from a distance.

Assassin was nice and all but still, he just preferred the warrior class.

Evan clicked on the warrior class where he was met with a 'Are you sure?' type question. Answering yes, he immediately felt that his body became stronger. His lean muscles that were being developed from years of fighting became more defined and powerful. But instead of feeling energy from the +10 stamina boost he just got, he felt strangely tired.

He laid on his bed and thought 'I can always look at my inventory and stats in the morning' before collapsing on his bed.

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The next morning arrived and rays of lights shun through his blinds and into his eyes.

"God, can the sun get any more annoying?" Evan groaned.

He wanted to sleep for a bit longer, "Was that all a dream?!" Evan shouted sitting straight up on his bed. His eyes were shot open.

"System, open my inventory!" Evan said just barely short of yelling.

A screen appeared in front of Evan making him breath out in relief.

He collapsed back onto his bed, the screen following him down, always remaining half a meter away from his face.

Evan reached out his hands noticing he could actually move the screen around by touching it.

"Cool." Evan said.

Evan wanted to see if he could call upon the system through thought, and it worked.

'System show me my stats'

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Name: Evan Fol

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Rank: E

Class: Warrior

Level: 1

Health: 100/100

Stamina: 110 (+10)

Strength: 29 (+15)

Endurance: 14

Agility: 20

Awareness: 17

Mana: 0 (Locked)

Skill Points: 0

Gold: 0

Skills:

Armory:

Level 1: Basic Armor

+20 Endurance

Level 1: Basic Dagger

+20 damage increase

Berserker:

Gain a 100% increase to all stats.

Condition: -10 to health for every second activated.

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Evan nodded to himself when he saw his stats. He then opened his inventory and saw that there was a key in one of the many inventory slots.

Clicking on the key, a message appeared in front of him.

[Would you like to enter a custom made E Rank Dungeon]

"Seriously? This system can even make dungeons? If this is a custom dungeon then that means i'll have access to all its resources for myself and since there are no strong mobs in E rank dungeons, I'll be fine." usually E rank dungeons required a party of 5+ other E rankers. But that was mainly because E rankers were mostly new hunters and almost all hunters were able to climb to D rank after a year. And all E rankers who've had atleast a year's experience could solo a E rank dungeon for one other main reason, E rank dungeons didn't have many mobs nor did it have a boss.

'Equip Basic Armor and weapon' Evan thought. The system was pretty intuitive and he had played a few rpg's in his days so this system thing wasn't completely foreign to him.

Suddenly, a white light encompassed Evan from head to toe making him look like some divine entity with no physical features.

The light died out a second later and Evan was covered from head to toe in a light weight armor on his body and head. A long bladed reverse grip dagger held in his right hand.

(AN: Picture of armor and weapon in this sentence comment section. Click on this sentence to open it up.)

"This kind of makes me look like an assassin doesn't it?" Evan looking into a full body mirror.

"Aren't I supposed to be a warrior…" Evan sighed. He couldn't really complain since he couldn't afford armor with his income and the shortsword he used was pretty much done for. So having a new weapon and an armor on top of that was very much welcomed.

Evan once again opened his inventory and clicked on the key getting the same pop up message from earlier.

[Would you like to enter a custom made E Rank Dungeon?]

Evan clicked on the 'Y' beneath the message and his body gleamed up into a while light and disappeared. From his apartment.