Rock the House
Hayashi nods at Nishiwaka before going back inside. "I trust you to keep your word, talk to you later" Hayashi waved as he went back inside, then went to his room, looking at the box full of "marbles time to make more ammo...and maybe a crossbow" Hayashi looked in his inventory, "Damn, I've got no scrap metal" Hayashi made a face like he was about to cry "I don't have the materials to make it...I'll have to find a way to gather more..." Hayashi looked at his slingshots [Hornet Emperor]and[Unnamed] as he stared at his weapons, picking up [Unnamed] and staring at it.
"PING!" Would you like to name [Unnamed]?
"Yes..please name this weapon..." He stared at the blade and smiled "Ronin"
"PING!" Weapon:[Ronin] has been named. Once the system window closed, he looked at his skills:
[Hunter's Physique]:LVL 2 > LVL 3
[Eye of the Hunter]: LVL 2 >LVL 3
[Harvest]:LVL 3>LVL 7
[Strong shot]:LVL 4 >LVL 7
[Munitions Crafting]: LVL 2>LVL 8
[Create Arms]:LVL 1> LVL 5
Alright then. dear God, these skills got some boosts! show me my stats!
"PING!" The system opens another window.
Name: Hayashi Tetsu
Age:16
Profession:Hunter/Munionist
LVL:9
STR:27
DEF:14
INT:14
DEX:34
AGI:20
VIT:12
"Sometimes I wish I was a warrior" Hayashi pouted "but anyways..." He looked at the Dungeon Key for Dark Manor reading the last line of its description "ThIs kEy wiLl guIld yoU To tHe maNor oF shaDowS..." He read the glitched description and then put on a black hoodie and sweat pants and put on some shoes before jumping out a window and sprinting towards the shadow manor, the key vibrated intently as he got closer until he stood at the gates, a lock-hole emitting a black and red glowing aura.
"...Here it is..." Hayashi took out the [Ronin] and [Hornet Emperor] slingshots and unlocked the gates.
"Here we go" The manor gates open up and he walks in dual-wielding the dagger ends of both slingshots, his right hand holding it in a reverse grip, his left holding the Ronin slingshot's blade in a normal hold walking in he's greeted by a mutant, no other beasts were there, but a chest was behind it, he put away [Hornet Emperor] and armed himself with [Buster] rounds.
"Eye of the Hunter...Strong Shot.." Hayashi took the initiative and attacked in the dark, his first shot making a <Critical hit> on the monster, hitting it in the eye as it roars"
"RAUUUGHHHH!!!" The monster shrieks in pain and charges trying to claw at him, but Hayashi ducks and rolls out the way looking at the dust cloud getting a good look at the beast who attacked him, looking at the claw marks, and his lock on crosshair disappeared as he was surprised and taken aback as it rushed out at him, a yellow-green blur jumped out at him knocking him off his feet as he coughed and his breathing became harsh, his <VIT> and <DEF> stats weren't as high as his other stats as he remembered this then flashed back to an earlier memory of a blurred person "Remember, The hunter is the brainchild between an Archer and Thief classes, remember, it has the good and bad of both..." The memory ended there abruptly as he rushed into the fight, going by instinct high <AGI> and <STR> supporting him in this fight. The mutant counter-attacks, but Hayashi's strength and speed countered the green mutant as he finally got a good look at its face.
"Steel Orc..." Hayashi glared at its face, slowly pushing it looking at the stunned orc
"GUUUH!" The steel orc was surprised to be beaten in a battle of strength as Hayashi strained himself until he was blown back by the steel orc sliding on the floor his breathing getting heavier.
"Come on...[Eye of the Hunter] [Strong Shot]!" Hayashi shoots at the Steel Orc's eyes again but this time it blocked the shot. Hayashi felt a bit dumbfounded and charged at the orc as it retaliates by smashing down on the floor, Hayashi is once again blown away by the sheer force but this time into the air. Hayashi risked everything he had left.
"[Strong Shot]!" He switched from the [Ronin] Slingshot-Dagger to his signature [Hornet Emperor] "[Create Munitions]! [Eye of the Hunter]! [Strong Shot]!" The strengthened shot doubled its power output past the normal and also boosted in piercing power. "AHHHHH!!!"
The shot was released as he felt all his stamina drained from his body and the shot pierced through the orc's chest as it prepared to punch him out of the air, Hayashi's body dropping onto the orc's and rolling onto the floor.
"Ugh...hah hah..." Hayashi panted while crawling over to the Orc "H-Harvest..." Hayashi's inventory space flooded with resources, even healing a bit and reinvigorating him, as he lost consciousness, waking up two minutes later gasping as he breathed harshly. "I nearly just died...no, no time for regret" He opened up the chest to find a few mutant cores, a skill book compatible for the [Assassin] and [Hunter] class quickly opening the book as a golden flash of light assaulted his eyes and disappeared.
"PING!" A new skill has been learned: [Chain Rush]
Hayashi looked at the skill for a second looking at the description of [Chain Rush]
"Dagger Skill: [Chain Rush] makes the user able to attack multiple targets at blinding speed." Hayashi reads and smiles. "This skill will come in use," he said walking into the second level of the Manor to be met with two doors, the first door leading to a room of spikes with platforms he'd have to jump to get to the end, the second door revealed a room of medium strength mutants, none of them were as big as the first level's mutant: Steel Orc but rather these looked like Hobgoblins each of them holding weapons. He thought for a while and chose the room of spikes and entered.
"I need as much power as possible...If an apocalyptic dungeon helps, then so be it! [Chain Rush]!" Hayashi tested the speed of [Chain Rush] by targeting the platforms, quickly making it across and breaking the door to the exit down by dashing multiple times with [Chain Rush], noticing another reward, this time it wasn't a skill book, but rather a map and a small box, as he picked it up, it instantly went to his subspace, now on the third and final level, he looks up at the boss mutant, it was made of stone as it slowly cracked revealing purple skin.
"Gargoyle...High physical damage resistance, but your weakness is your wings, eyes, and any other fleshy part on your body." Hayashi started taking out the [Ronin] slingshot again and armed it with a [Buster] round and prepared his shot, aiming at the Gargoyle's eyes. "I'm Ending this... [Eye of the Hunter][Strong shot][Create Munitions]" All skills called on activated and Hayashi took aim at the Gargoyle's eyes and fired but the Gargoyle dodged it narrowly and it looked at the silver-haired hunter and charged him, it's wings blocking his view.
"No way! I missed!?" Hayashi tried to duck and avoid it, looking as if he dodged successfully but the Gargoyle grabbed him from behind and slammed him into the wall.
"A-AUGH!" Hayashi let out a pained scream. "I'm going to end this...fast.." Hayashi's silver eyes glowed, making eye contact with it. "[Chain Rush]!" Hayashi's body began to have a faint white glow as his [Hornet Emperor] was brought to his hand by the inventory and Hayashi's movements stopped being his own, as he felt as if something else was guiding his movements letting the flow take control he sliced through the mutant making huge cuts across its stomach, face, chest, and legs."Too shallow...[Chain Rush!]" Hayashi attacked again but this time nothing was guiding his moves this time, but the gargoyle tried to grab him but Hayashi cuts his underarm with [Hornet Emperor].
"This is the end! [Chain Rush!]" Hayashi stabbed down and stabbed downwards into the Gargoyle's skull as it dropped down cracking the floor under its own weight. "[Harvest]..." The Gargoyle's skin turned purple to grey, its muscles had grown weak and its wings were now as fragile and flimsy as paper as Hayashi gained many resources and items He then picked up a larger chest before getting kicked out of the dungeon and sent back to the gates of the [Dark Manor] Dungeon. "Wild ride...But it was worth it all..." He puts the chest into his subspace and smiles "Let's get back home..." He walked back to [Ground Zero] where he could rest and recuperate and get ready for his next mission, soon making it across the bridge he looked around seeing no one outside.
"Everyone seems to be asleep... It's still late out here too...It seemed I was in there for hours...."
In the city, some prisoners had gotten free noticing the large zombie they shot it in the head with a loud-sounding pistol.
"Hey! Stop wasting our ammo! Dolt!"
"Sorry Hyung-nim, I felt the need to kill somethin' " another prisoner licked his lips as the rest celebrated seeing as they were finally out.
"Freedom at last! YEEHAW!" one shouted out
"Look over here! Normal clothes!"
"Nice! now we can establish our own order over this place!"
Elsewhere Hayashi was looking at the chest of resources, as well as his inventory space.
"I have a lot of pelts...I didn't know large mutants could give pelts...I could turn this into leather, or even Kevlar like in those survival games. I'll have to get to crafting tomorrow...for now, I need rest..." He turned on his side and began to fall asleep after putting the chest back in his inventory.
-IN THE MORNING-
Most of the crew had woken up, as usual, Hayashi doesn't get up as he was out at night, so he took a little extra time to wake up and take an actual shower, he showed up with a change of clothes and went into the locker room where he encountered one of the Shuang-Gao Tricksters
"Hey..your one of those kids, with the Hook swords!" Hayashi seemed to recall memories of fighting the zombie waves along with the swordsman as well as his sister.
"I- Don't call me a kid! I'm 16! Hight isn't always equal to age!" The trickster said turning on the water.
"Sorry, I forgot to ask, what's your name?" Hayashi now turned on his water and was one spot away from where the trickster showered.
"Hasn't your mother taught you any manners? you introduce yourself first." the trickster closed his eyes letting the water soak him.
"Hmph. Apologies then, Name's Hayashi Tetsu" Hayashi let the water soak into his hair.
"Mizuki Kenji at your service." He nods.
"Nice. I'll get straight to the point." Hayashi was washing with soap. "Would you like to join our combat team?"
"If it's with my sister, and we don't have a crappy leader I'm all in." Mizuki gave him a look.
"Deal, you start today. I'd like to see your swordsmanship in action" Hayashi washed himself off.
"I'd like to see you fight as well, it's unique." Mizuki was shaking water off himself like a dog.
"Sure and thanks." Hayashi was washing the soap off himself and drying the water off before putting on a change of clothes.
"We move out in a few minutes, don't be late, we have breakfast from the school freezers."
"Wow, you certainly planned everything out" Mizuki retorts seeing how calm Hayashi was.
"I guess in a way." Hayashi left the locker room and went to his own room.
"That guy isn't half bad, I hope his swordsmanship is as good." Hayashi looked at the door and checked his ammo pouch. "Nearly empty?"
"PING!" The system begins to glow showing a storage capacity for the pouch, looking at the system dumbfounded.
"Did this system just magically upgrade this thing into a black hole?" Hayashi asked himself seeing as the pouch held a stack of 42 of the same ammo type, but it only had two slots.
"Sigh...allocate <stinger> and <Buster> rounds into these slots." Hayashi gave the command.
"PING!" the command went through, Hayashi nods going to the combat team.
"The Foraging team is going around the city and the forest that's developed during this last week of the apocalypse. We have our own job to do. We will clear out as many zombies in the town as possible."
Most of the combat team nodded "But...we're not wearing armor like last time..."
"No need for the armor this time around" Hayashi had a menacing grin as he throws down a plastic bag filled with some sort of light, durable fabric armor. "Light armor for everyone." he grinned noticing the dumbfounded team. Fueki looked at him and grabbed him by the shirt
"Fueki-"
"Who are you?... What are you?"
"Remember? I'm Hayashi Tetsu"
The kendo team looked a bit frantic as Fueki gave Hayashi a deep and threatening stare before she lets go of him.
"Yep...you're our Hayashi."
"Well speaking of being me, we also have new teammates. The Shuang-Gao twins I only remember one of their names, Mizuki Kenji and there's his sister."
A young woman dressed in a red top and jeans shorts with black hair and brown eyes walks out of the building, her Shuang-Gao swords shine in the sunlight as he sheaths
"I'm Hayashi Tetsu and this is my combat team to which you've been assigned by the student council president. May I know your name?" Hayashi remembered how the last conversation went with the first Mizuki twin he talked to.
"I am Mizuki Ichika nice to make your acquaintance..." The girl offers her hand in which Hayashi shakes in mutual trust. "Likewise" he nods as now Mizuki Kenji has joined the group, his own Shuang-Gao looking different from his sister's own.
"Let's get going everyone!" Hayashi led the combat team to the part of the city where he always went to go in or out of the school as they had a clean-up to do.
TO BE CONTINUED...