The First Day
His last day on Earth was quick and unexpected, the young male student died from the hands of his classmate, a girl who believed in reincarnation and killed three of her classmates in the night of October 23rd in 2069 in order to prove it. None of that matters anymore, her superstition is true.
The young man hated socializing, he always feared what others would think of him, he didn't want to become trash like the society from this era would have said, it was a stingy world.
The other two persons were unknown to him, he'll be missed by his family as much as them.
And now, the young fella wakes up next to a mirror in the green grass, he took it and a voice of the voice called him.
- Activation.
Proceed to install.
Installation complete.
Operating system.
Welcome to the Perfection Protocol !
He saw a menu bar like in a game.
Name : Jérémy
Age : 18
LVL 1 : 0/100xp
Race : Human
Class : Mage
Skills : [Thunderbolt], [Arrow Rain], [Scan]
Intelligence : 10
Agility : 10
Dexterity : 10
Strength : 10
Mana : 10
Charm : 0
Luck : 0
Need to reach LVL 10 to obtain new skill.
At first he didn't believe in it but took the mirror regardless, he met blue looking round creatures called slimes and used the skill [Scan].
A red light analyzes the monster slowly and once it ends, a description appears upside the blue creature.
LVL1 Slime
HP : 10/10
Jérémy then tried to use the skill [Thunderbolt] by pressing on the air.
A thunderbolt attacks the slime, making it lose 5HP, the slime jumps fast and try to escape, he use [Thunderbolt] again and kill the slime.
[+10 XP, 90xp left before reaching LVL2]
And so he searched everywhere and found 9 other slimes close to the end of a forest on that sunny day, he repeats it over and over [Thunderbolt] on them as the skill is single target and doesn't draw any attention from the other mobs.
[LVL Up, you are now LVL2
+5 bonus stats to upgrade.]
He thinks a lot about what he could upgrade and put all the points into luck thinking it might help drop more loots.
He didn't know where he was but enjoyed his life more than his previous one, where he was just a lazy students who didn't approach anyone. Now that he could beat monsters, one of his dreams came true. There were no more enemies left in the forest, but right in front of him was an Academy, he walked straight to it to find a place where he could rest.
He was arrested by an elf young woman with blonde hair and purple eyes, the kind of eyes he could only see on anime shows. She was a little taller than him and wore a school uniform with a special symbol drawn on top of where her heart beats, she gazed at him her eyebrows down and pushed him softly.
- Who are you and what do you want ?
The young man doesn't answer, uses his [Scan] skill and walks past her, she didn't let him go like that.
- I repeat, who are you and what do you want ?
He still didn't answer, he was lost, he was thinking about a lot of questions that popped in his mind like ads would on a website and left the girl alone, only reading what infos his skill gave him about her.
LVL1 Renka
Race : Elf
Class : Mage
Skills : [Water Droplets], [Double Jump], [Scan]
Intelligence : 10
Agility : 10
Dexterity : 10
Strength : 10
Mana : 20
Charm : 0
Luck : 0
Jérémy found that interesting that it seemed like a game at first, when a group of people ran past him and hurt him in the process, he felt the pain. He was told to go to the academy by the Perfection Protocol and he met a petite girl with grey or white hair he couldn't tell and red eyes with a school uniform like the previous girl, inside the academy it was a little dark but with enough light for anyone to see. She stared at the boy while doing nothing, her legs crossed and her back stuck to the wall.
- Hello, welcome in Last Hope Academy. Are you lost ?
He nods.
- Well, the world of Esteria has lived an historical pandemic. 77% of us died, 11% became monsters and we are the 12% left. Our mission is to exterminate all monsters from further destruction.
He didn't feel that good of being here now that he learned the truth about this world, but he wouldn't just give up and become a man the academy can be proud of.
- By the way, go see the director. There is a sign on the door.
She didn't seem to care that much about him and he left to find that said director while she stood there for about an hour, drinking orange juice.
The young fella found the door after a few minutes of [Scan] and got a success for it.
[Success : ◇Beginner Scanner◇
+5 bonus stat to upgrade.]
Intelligence : 10
Agility : 10
Dexterity : 10
Strength : 10
Mana : 10
Charm : 0
Luck : 5 -> 10
After his luck stat reached 10, he started wondering what it was really about since the Perfection Program didn't describe the effects of any of the stats but based on his experience with video games Intelligence is Intelligence, Agility is how quick he is and help dodging skills, he never cared about Dexterity, strength is the ability to make him into a muscle monster, mana is his amount of magical energy.
He thought it was pointless to ever upgrade his charm stat while his luck stat is something bad when you have so little but can still come in handy.
The voice called his name and announced something.
Objective : Reach Luck 100 to gain Secret Skill.
The code name of the girl with white hair was Edna Shul, the heir of a wealthy family and at that she is the only survivor. Everyone knows it at the Academy and because of how cold she is, no one approaches her outside of assignements and that gave her the nickname Edna Shul the name of a monster said to have been attending at the same academy but she mysteriously disappeared out of nowhere, no one ever found her or the monster she may had become.
The young fellow met with the director, not a man like he expected but a woman of great dignity, young enough to be one of the students, she was sitting on her chair, her beautiful blue (cyan) hair that made her even more attractive to him, he couldn't speak because of having a hard time finding words and she looked at him.
- Hello and welcome to Esteria Academy, I am miss Esteria, nice to meet you.
He takes a deep breath, taking his time before answering in a low pitched voice.
"Jérémy."
"You'll join the 4th division. Here in this world we lacked power to fight the disease and these monsters, that's why the academy was built. To form every survivor to annihilate them."
He nodded completely stunned by her pretty face, remaining calm and looking everywhere in the room with his eyes, nothing in particular took his attention aside from a clock.
- I will make sure each one of you passes the test. It's a matter of survival. Do you understand Jérémy ?"
He nodded and left after scanning her but no info came out of her, he thought it was weird that the girl he used it earlier on had informations.
- Is she like me ?" he thought. "That means...
The girl in question thought he was creepy for touching her arm, he didn't notice until she told him to stay away from her.