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I edited the 1st chapter a bit, it's not much. Just about the stats, because many misunderstand about my wording. When I said the EX rank STR and MAG can easily flattens mountains and continents, they are not even serious. Once serious he/she can be a planet buster (literally).
Chapter 2: Learning The System
When Naruto has done with whatever he doing, the sun has already gone down. He stretches his body and fingers as he looked toward the window.
"Fuu...Finally done" He exhaled greatly, and look satisfied with his work.
He sat cross-legged on his bed while reading a small book that filled with newly written plan, as soon as he reaches home, Naruto immediately goes into his room and immediately thinking about his future plan.
The smallest book in his hand full of lists of his gaming strategy, though the newly written strategy is about his real game strategies.
Naruto have already written a list of necessary items that he should buy later, on his way home from school, Naruto purposely goes into the shopping district. By using [Observe] he scan every items available and took notice of items with effect(s).
However, that plan goes for later, there's something he needs first before thinking of buy those items.
Funds.
Yep, money is necessary in real and game. He already has some money that he saves to buy games, it's pretty a lot considering his parents' job which he didn't know.
They never tell him about their jobs, if asked he would only get vague answers, the only thing he knows is that their job needs them on stand-by. It's not unusual when both his father and mother leaving house suddenly and back a few days later, the longest is they're gone for one month straight.
Then suddenly they need to move out of England and taking his sister with them, while he stays in Japan in his relative's care, at least until four years ago when his grandpa died of old age.
At that time, his family told him to come to England, but he refused much to his parents and sister's surprise. He told them that he got attached to japan and he also wants to be independent, while the real reason is his friend, Hyoudou Ichihime.
A week before he got call from his parents, Naruto and Ichihime's childhood friend, Shidou Irina had to move out, leaving them. He can't forget that expression of Ichihime even now, it was the first time he saw her crying openly like that.
As they watched the car that took Irina away, he feels a tug on his shirt. It was Ichihime who still have wet eyes.
"Promise me that you won't go away"
Her voice is small but Naruto can hear it perfectly. She asked, demanded, begged.
"Don't worry, I won't leave you."
A young Naruto said as he pats her head, which for some reason both of his childhood friends always competed to just have him do it.
They just need to ask and he would do it gladly.
He did not say his true reason for not going to live with them, but stated firmly that he won't change his mind. Although reluctantly, his parents finally relent, but there's still one person that not accept it.
His twin sister, Uzumaki Naruko.
Since their parents are always busy, he's the one that always spending time with her, hell, you can even say it was him who raising her instead their parents. Though there's some difficulties and problems at first, but Naruto able to overcome it.
And that's why Uzumaki Naruko is more attached to her brother than her parents.
Thinking about his sister make him feel guilty, ever since he refused to live in England with her, she never contact his again. She hates him, he understands her reason and can only accept it with a heavy feeling.
"What am I thinking? This is not the time" Naruto shake his head at the unpleasant feeling.
He turned his head toward a few items he buy that he already equipped, it was cheap and they don't have that great effect but its good for this early stage.
Cheap Black Leather Fingerless Gloves (Arms)
Gain 5% additional bonus when earns [STR EXP] and [MAG EXP].
Maneki-Neko pin (Accessory)
Gain 10% additional bonus when earns money.
Blue Contact Lenses (Accessory)
Able to spot hidden/shining objects easier.
Thanks to contact lenses, Naruto picked up another set of items on his way home.
Red Grown Seeds
Gain 100 [STR EXP]. Can be combined into [Grown Fruit] if you have at least one of each [Yellow grown seeds], [Green grown seeds], [Blue grown seeds] and [Purple grown seeds] in your inventory.
Blue Grown Seeds
Gain 100 [MAG EXP]. Can be combined into [Grown Fruit] if you have at least one of each [Red grown seeds], [Yellow grown seeds], [Green grown seeds] and [Purple grown seeds] in your inventory.
Green Grown Seeds
Gain 100 [AGI EXP]. Can be combined into [Grown Fruit] if you have at least one of each [Red grown seeds], [Yellow grown seeds], [Blue grown seeds] and [Purple grown seeds] in your inventory.
Food Pill
Recover some fatigue and hunger considerably. Consumes too much can cause [Dizzy] status.
Currently, he got 3 [Red grown seeds], 1 [Green grown seeds], 1 [Blue grown seeds] and 2 [Food pill].
Naruto uses 2 [Red grown seeds] and a pop up appears.
You earned 200(+10) [STR EXP].
DING!
Rank upgraded!
STR: F- upgraded to STR: F
Then he use [Green grown seeds] and once again a pop up appears.
You earned 100 [AGI EXP].
DING!
Rank upgraded!
AGI: F- upgraded to AGI: F
Naruto grinned is satisfaction, with this at least all his stats not at their lowest anymore.
DING!
Congratulations! All your stats are at least F or higher. New Features unlocked: Item World.
And without wasting time, The King of Game immediately opens [Guide] section and searched for [Item World].
Item World: With this feature, you can improve items, by going inside it. Item world divided into several floors, each item has a different number of floors and difficulties. The difficulty divided into six: Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert, Master and Phanstasm. By reaching the deepest floor and clearing the objective, you can gain the reward(s).
[Item World] also filled with monsters that get stronger and stronger as you go deeper. You can also do treasure hunting here as lots of treasure waiting to be opened.
Only equipable items can be explored with [Item World], and they must be in your inventory (you can't explore items that you placed in your equipment slots). You can only exit Item world via: clearing the whole floors, skill, exit portal (White one) and item [Egress stone].
You can only use [Item World] three times per day.
"Just when I was wondering where the dungeons are..." Naruto stroke his chin "Now, time for some real training".
Naruto scanned all his equipable items, for the first time he chooses the easiest [Maneki-Neko Pin] with five total floors and easy difficulty.
Quest (Optional)
Visit and clear at least one [Item World].
Rewards: 1000 EXP, 10.000 Yen.
'Perfect!'
Hyoudou Ichihime just got out of the shower. She wore a plain red pajamas, a towel covered her still damp hair, which she used to dry her hair.
Her mind thought back to strange event she just encountered today on her way back from school.
Ichihime walks in a steady pace, as she walks, she can feel some men's stealing glances at her. She ignored all of that as she already gets used to it, she also won't think bad at them because it was just one of a man's nature to be attracted by a woman's figure.
Ichihime is a member of gymnastic club, a vice-captain to be exact. The gymnast is her secondary hobby (NOTHING BEAT EROGE!) not only it's fun for her, but it also makes her body more flexible, which can be useful in more way than one.
Thanks to that, she is growing nicely with curves in right place.
She never flaunts her body, nor show too much skin, but she still has her share of attention in school or public places. Though she won't mind their stare, she has also had them understand her ground rule.
'You can look, but you can't touch'
Should anyone ignored these rules...
"Hey cutie, what are you doing walking alone like this?" Suddenly three men with bad clothes blocked her road.
"I'm sorry, can you please let me through?" The brunette asked politely, tentatively.
"kuuuh, so cool! So scary" Thug B said with mock fear.
"Don't be so cold, let's spend time together with us, we definitely show you a 'good time'" Said Thug C with a lecherous grin.
At this point, the thugs already circled her.
Ichihime sighed, these types of people sure everywhere.
She glanced toward pedestrians who purposely avoided her and the thugs. Some looked anywhere except her direction, some using earphones as they hummed unnaturally, some pretended on the phone, etc etc.
She let out a sigh once more, why there is so many spineless people in this world? If you think logically, there's only three thugs while more than hundred pedestrians, why they not combined some of their strength to help harassed people are beyond her.
'If it's Naruto, he would do something'
Thinking about her childhood friend bought a smile to her lips, he can't stand still if he saw something like this. She long knows that Naruto had what they call 'Hero Complex', he won't able to leave a person in trouble alone.
Despite this though, he has often thrown into situations that can bring misunderstandment, in the bad way. She almost convinced that he must be having an F rank luck if this is some sort of game.
"Oh, Onee-san's smiling face is so cute" her thought interrupted by the Thug A in front of her. "I knew you understood my charm, now let's go to 'know' each other better".
Thug A tried to reach her shoulder.
Keyword: 'tried'
The brunette spins her body, she switch the way she holds her bag from two hands into a single right hand and then she grab the Thug A jacket's hem with her left hand, trip him then using the momentum to pull her left hand.
And with that, Thug A splendidly doing failed somersault by landing his back to concrete.
Ouch!
Taking advantage of Thug B and Thug C confusion seeing their friend passed out, she ran into a nearby alley.
"WAIT! YOU BITCH!"
"DON'T RUN AWAY!"
The two thugs chased after her, but they didn't find her even after they reach the dead end.
"Where she go?"
"She must be hiding somewhere"
The thugs too caught up by searching left and right, they forgot to look up. On the small pipe, Ichihime stand silently with a predatory grin.
Once the chance shows up, she jumps down behind them with a single sound. The thugs turn around and in that instant they feel something cold touching their skin.
"Good night"
BZZZZZZZZZTTT!
Thug B and C fall to the ground with smoke came out from their mouth.
"A girl can be too careful" She said with blitzing stun guns in both hands.
Ichihime picked her bag and walk away, without turning back, she said to both unconscious thugs.
"This body of mine already reserved for someone else, this is your punishment for tried to touch what's not yours".
After that, she tentatively called an ambulance for them.
It's not the first time she flirted by those kind, after the first time she immediately buy tasers for self-defense.
While that event is unusual, it's not that strange in this kind of place. She wonders about the event that happens after that.
After she finished dealing with those men, Ichihime continue on her way.
At that time, when she passes the cross bridge, she encountered a black-haired girl. The girl looks like waiting for someone as she fidgeting nervously.
'She must be waiting for her date' Ichihime thought and decided to continue walking.
"P, Please wait!"
When she passed the girl, she stopped by a voice.
She turns back and look at the girl, then her surroundings, only her and she on the bridge at this moment.
"Me?" Ichihime asked as she pointed at herself just to be sure.
"Y, Yes" She nodded furiously.
"Do you need something from me?"
"U, um, did you currently dating someone?" The black-haired girl asked while sticking her index finger together as she look down.
While she surprised by her sudden question she manages to answer "No" 'Not for long' She added the last part in her mind.
"Then, P, PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME!" She shouted as she lifted her face to face the gymnast vice-captain,blush dusted her cheeks, and it's not because of sunset.
Ichihime reaction? Well, for a moment she shocked, ceasing all her movements before she recover five seconds later.
"Before I give you my answer, I want to know something first" Ichihime said seriously, which make the girl nod "Are you a bisexual or pure lesbian?"
...It was not something you should ask after someone confessed her love to you, she knew that, but this matter is important for Ichihime.
"Eh?" The black-haired girl frozen, Ichihime could swear that the mysterious girl's demeanor and voice just changed now.
"Let me make it simpler, how do you feel about male?" Ignoring the girl's reaction, she asked once again.
The black-haired girl immediately turned into her meek's persona again "I, I can't stand men,they violent, beasts,..." She continue to list the bad things about men, while Ichihime just stood there, listening to her rant.
After she's done with her mini-rant, she looks at Ichihime who faintly smiled at her "I see..." The girl then smiling(?), thinking her plan is working only it all came crashing down when Ichihime bowed politely.
"I'm sorry, I can't go out with you" With that, she turns away and continue her way without noticing the girl's shocked expression turned into a snarl.
"If only she also likes men..." Ichihime muttered dejectedly.
She didn't hate the girl about her opinion about men in general, everyone is free to think whatever they want after all.
But she still, it's very unfortunate that the girl is not interested in the opposite sex, rather she outright hate them. The girl sure got guts by confessing to the same sex in the middle of public places which empty just by a 'coincidence'.
She sure want to add her as a harem sisters, but with her hatred toward men it would be very hard, there's also that risk of her get in her way toward her goal to make [him] into a splendid harem king just to 'protect' her from being 'defiled' by men.
Submissive Yuri is usually protective about her precious 'Onee-sama', loyality is good, but her loyalty can jeopardize her entire plan.
She won't take that risk that can result her ten years planning goes into the drain.
"It's really unfortunate" Ichihime sighed as she throw herself onto her bed.
Uzumaki Naruto finds himself inside a golden dungeon, 95% of its part made from gold and the rest 5% are flying candlelight.
"I wonder if I can bring these gold home" Naruto said as she touched the golden floor him standing at, even the sensation are that of pure gold.
He needs pickaxe the next time his visit.
When he still is musing to himself, something caught his eyes.
'Did something just move over there?' Naruto focused his vision toward that direction and then he saw a creature that he only ever saw in a game before.
It was a slime!
No way he can mistake those living mud monsters with something else.
"Observe!"
Green Slime
STR: F-
MAG: F-
AGI: F-
CHA: F-
LUK: F-
The lowest rank of Slimes, also the easiest to defeat. Unless you suck so badly you shouldn't had too much trouble dealing with them.
"As I thought..." Naruto put thoughtful face, when he said as he thought, he's not talking about the slime.
"I can't see [HP] bar anywhere".
[HP] A.K.A. [Hit Point]. [HP] are essential system in every game that involves fighting, with it you can determine your or anyone else condition. Once the [HP] dropped to zero, you lose/die.
However, he can't see [HP] system anywhere. Despite being excited at that time, he already noticed that his stats screen doesn't show his [HP].
There's no way that fact won't go unnoticed by The King. Since [HP] system doesn't exist, how should he defeat enemies? What should he do to find out?
Simple, real-live experience.
Naruto thrust his palm toward the clueless slime, ever since this morning, he can feels there's some kind of foreign sensation inside him. Something other than blood streaming all over his being, and it feels so natural to him like it was already exist ever since he was born.
Now, Naruto is channeling those energies and guide it toward his palm.
Naruto pictured an image of fire inside his mind, and then...
Something appears in front of his palm, at first it was small, just a prickle of orange color, then suddenly it became big and formed into a ball that was slightly larger than his palm.
Naruto stared at the flame he created with fascination.
'This is...Magic, huh?' Compared to advanced fire magic he has seen so far in the game, this one is so weak in comparison, but, to Naruto who was just a normal human yesterday to suddenly witness himself able to use magic, it was very satisfying.
"GOOOOOO!"
When Naruto caught in his astonishment, the slime noticed him and approach him with a small roar.
"!" Naruto instantly widened his eyes.
'To think I let my guard down because of sentiment, it seems like I need more training'. Naruto thought to himself.
Fortunately, the slime is slow, so there's still some decent distance between them.
Without wasting time anymore, Naruto launched the fireball toward the slime and hit it directly. The slime melts into a puddle before it disappears into green particles, as the sign it already died like in usual game.
You got:
40(+2) EXP.
100(+10) Yen.
Another pop up appears.
Skill created.
Fireball [Active] (5/5): Form a small sphere of fire. [MAG]
"Umu, not bad for my first offensive skill". The king of game said, as he nodded to himself.
"Well then..." Naruto cracked his neck, his eyes filled with confident determination "Let's continue the exploration".
After Naruto done with his third exploration, he learns many things.
First, the time flow between this world and [Item World] are different. He spend almost two hours inside [Item World] in his first exploration and not even two minutes passed in real world. He guessed that one hour inside [Item World] equal one minute in the real world.
Second, how to defeat the enemy without [HP] system. It's simple really, basically it's just like the real world. You can't see [HP] on real people, but they die if get killed. By using sharp object you can make people bleed, by using fire you can make people burned, by using water you can drown them, etc etc.
Third, This game system can potentially make you into a really, REALLY broken character. This is not reality turned into a game, rather, it's a fusion between real world and game world. What's the difference you say? Let's see...for example, in a game your character has a fire spell and a simple slash skill. If we speak by theory of the real world, it should be possible to combine a move between fire and sword into a fire slash, however, if the game mechanics don't allow it, then it's impossible, fitures in a game isn't limitless after all. Real world, or should he says human's imagination is limitless, but lacks the ways to execute it because of low resources, while the game can execute something that ONLY exist inside the system. This power of him allow its user to turn his imaginations into reality by using game's resource, that mean the variety of skills he can create is almost infinite.
Fourth, instead of becoming a stronger step by step by leveling up, he becomes stronger leap by leap by upgrade the stats. Don't think it's that easy, only the first few are easy before it became harder to get stronger. After the EXP bar is full, his stats upgraded, and the EXP bar resets into zero. To upgrade from F- to F, he needs 1000 EXP. From F to F+, he needs 1500 EXP. From F+ to E-, he needs 20000 EXP. As for the rest, he still didn't know. It's like at first he need to jump over a puddle, then a fence, then suddenly he faces with broken bridge which forced him if he want to go to the other side, he have to do it in a single leap, and he still don't know what kind of obstacles waiting for him beyond the bridge.
"Fuu...That was tiring". Naruto muttered as he falls into his bed, as he lay his back on the bed The King of Game checking his status.
Uzumaki Naruto (The Gamer)
Title: King of Game (Increase the quest reward EXP gained by 20%)
STR: F (655/1500)
MAG: F+ (120/20000)
AGI: F (320/1500)
CHA: F (1100/1500)
LUK: F+ (230/20000)
Incidentally, Naruto meets other types of monsters besides slime. Boar, Wisp and Worm.
Upon defeated, they give specific EXP: A Boar equal 30 [STR EXP], a Wisp equal [MAG EXP] and a Worm equal 30 [AGI EXP]. Boar's charge is painful if he got hit, though it's easy to dodge. Wisp can turn transparent and render all attacks useless, he had to wait until it re-appears to finish it. Worm are annoying, it can move underground like a...well, worm.
Also, he able to reach the deepest floor of [Cheap Black Fingerless Gloves], [Maneki-Neko Pin] and [Blue Contact Lenses]. There's some changes about the items that had it's deepest floor cleared, it was an [*] icon appears at the end of it's name, it's effect also changed.
Cheap Black Fingerless Gloves*(Arms)
Gain additional 10% bonus when earns [STR EXP] and [MAG EXP].
Maneki-Neko Pin*(Accessory)
Gain additional 15% bonus when earns money.
Blue Contact Lenses*(Accessory)
Able to spot hidden/shining object easier. There's a small chance that a random item goes into your inventory automatically.
His equipment also upgraded too.
Worn-out Wooden Sword (Weapon)
Gain additional 5% bonus when earns [STR EXP].
Traveler's cloak (Upper)
Fatigue from walking reduced moderately.
Ramen is Ready! (Card) {It was a picture of an opened steamed ramen cup with ringing alarm clock near it/White Frame}
For every two hours, increase a random skill's usage by 1.
And lastly, he also obtained some monsters drop items such as Jewel Shards, Bones, Tusks, etc.
Before Naruto close the screen, he looked at his upgraded/new Skill list.
Active
Observe (Infinite): Allow you to see the information of an object in more detail. [MAG]
Power Punch (2/10): A punch with greater force. [STR]
Fist of Justice (4/7): A devastating punch that able to launch enemies, but needs charging time and has short reach. [STR]
Triple Slash (1/8): Tri-hit consecutive combos with sword. [STR]
Sonic Arc (0/3): Two high-speed slashes that creating an 'X' shape trajectory. [AGI]
Fireball (3/7): Form a small sphere of fire. [MAG]
Lightning Bolt (2/7): Fires a bolt of lightning at the target. [MAG]
Wind Knife (2/7): Slash the target with blade of wind. [MAG]
Earth Wall (4/7): Form a wall of earth. [MAG]
Refresh (1/7): Heal minor injuries. [MAG]
Invisible (0/3): Prevent from being injured for the next 12 seconds. [STR]
Passive
Gamer's body: Allow user to live in reality turned game. [None]
Gamer's Mind: Prevent user from any mental attack, able to think calm in any situation. [None]
Perception: You can tell if something or someone extra-ordinary within 15 meters distance from you. Able to detect,hide and let out killing intent to an extent. [CHA]
Haste Dash evolved into...
Speedy Dash: As you run, you gain thrice of your current speed. [AGI]
Lucky Bird: There's a chance to increase the quantity gained from monster drops. [LUK] (Got this when [LUK] upgraded to F+).
Boneless Tongue: Able to cast skills that connected with [MAG] faster. [MAG] (Got this when [MAG] upgraded to F+).
After he's done, The King blissfully falls into a short slumber.
Naruto's theory about the difference between Reality turned game and fusion of Real and game is something I came up myself, dunno how much true is it. But hey, this is fanfic after all, the place where we can bend universe at will XD!
A slight about Naruto's past is revealed, and we know more about Ichihime.
I skip the exploration scene in this chapter because nothing special happens except grinding and new common skills, hope you not mad.
R&R