Hey there fair warning I began writing this immediately after finishing chapter 1 so I'll keep it brief I hope you enjoyed the previous chapter and I'll do my best to respond to reviews so if you don't see yours this is probably why.


Time is 7:06am, Day 1 of The Gamer. I've already succeeded in running from my house. It's a simple one story building my room happens to be one with a window so opening it and slicing through the screen outside of it made for a simple exit that shouldn't set off either of my parents to my disappearance until 10 am at the earliest.[Skill "Stealth" has been created] I'm usually left alone in my room for a good bit of the day which'll only prove in helping me.

I've already spent the time making my way to the city library. Earning 2 points in Dex and 1 in Vit for the sprint over here. 'It's closed! Damn you weekends my parents will know I disappeared if I sit and wait for the place to open! Fuck, I can't risk breaking in either. Okay just follow the waypoint to New York, then find a place either on the way or when you're there.'

I took of in a dead sprint. Almost immediately boredom swooped in… This is going to be a long week. I thought willing on one of my playlists on my phone[Playing-Mirror Mirror by Jeff Williams] 'God I love RWBY's soundtrack.'


Time is 1:27am, Day 2 of The Gamer. I've made it through my playlists about 30 times over now. Dex increased to 26, Str is 19, Vit made it to 16, and I've made skills in Free Running and Physical Endurance and leveled both skills to level 3 with the near constant sprint I've been keeping up. I had made it into a town called Paris and it's a pretty nice looking town all things considered. It was still early and this was the first decent looking town I'd come across in my travel so with little to do and skills still to obtain I searched for their public library. 'Looks like I can sleep near here until it opens proper then continue my mindless run. Alleyways a no sleep zone for the sole reason of I don't know if I'll wake up to defend myself if someone tries something.' Looking around I found a flat roofed building across the street from the library and went to it an idea from another Fanfic coming to me.

Focusing my mana I sprinted the last few yards to the building and unleashed the magic as I went skyrocketing into the air landing well over the lip of the roof and forcing myself into a roll keep fall damage to a minimal. [Skills "High Jump" and "Tumble" have been created] 'Huh, negate fall damage and jump VERY high seriously that was like a tenth of my Mp and I made a jump that was well over this twelve foot tall building if I had to guess. That seems broken but considering I'm going to a place with literal skyscrapers that I could very well get forced off of in a fight I'm not gonna complain.'

Cracking open my eyes the sun directly in my eyes forcing me to strain to keep them open. I sat up from the flat roof of the store I was set up on top of. 'Time is 11:26am, good that means I the library should be open and I can look about getting some different close for NYC.' I thought as I hopped down into the alleyway, leveling my Tumble skill as I did so.

I quickly made my way up to the fairly large building that was the public library of Paris. It was nice inside rows upon rows of books greeted me alongside the smell of ink and paper. I made sure to keep my eyes out for security cameras since they'd be the one thing I'd truly worry about catching me. Thankfully it seemed my absurd Luck stat was paying its dividends since without any thought on my part I got a notification for the skill Perception. Which for all intents and purposes put friendlies, enemies, and the aforementioned security cameras on my minimap. 'Thank you Gamer, now I believe it's time I went kleptomaniac mode on this library.'

Knowing fully well I wouldn't be coming back here anytime in the near future I leveled Observation to 10 by the end of the two hour I spent looting through the shelves and slipping every skill book related to fighting, making weapons, making armor, repairing said weapons and armor, firearms, and even a few magic based skills from the titles I could find. All in all I came out with 21 skill books that could prove useful, levels in Observation, the now level 8 skill Sleight of Hands, and the newly created and level 5 skill Steal.

With my looting done I made my way out of the library and into the alley I had come out of earlier in the day. Absorbing every skill book I could with my stats. [Skills "Firearms Mastery" "Unarmed Mastery" "Drunken Fist Style" "Weaponsmithing" "Elemental Mastery" "Scythe Mastery" "Knife Mastery" and "Crafting" have been created] [Skill "Scythe Mastery" has leveled up] [Skill "Scythe Mastery" has leveled up] [Skill "Scythe Mastery" has leveled up] [Skill "Scythe Mastery" has leveled up] [Skill "Sleight of Hand" has leveled up] [Skill "Free Running" has leveled up] [Skill "Free Running" has leveled up] [Skill "Crafting" has leveled up] [Skill "Crafting" has leveled up] [Skill "Crafting" has leveled up] [Skill "Crafting" has leveled up]

'Woah, that's…that's a lot of skills…' I thought flipping through the seemingly endless stream of pop-up screens. 'Okay note to self find more RWBY manga for scythe skill, any book that involves making something grab it, and loot one or two more libraries on the way. That was sooo worth it!' I thought as I began making use of that new Elemental Mastery skill. Firstly working on making a speed spell reliant on electricity. This resulted in my accidental creation of Thunder Thighs basically strengthening the muscles in my legs a la chibi Nora style. Though it did speed me up I quickly realized I'd either shatter windows if I leveled it enough because at level 1 it used up about 60 Mp in the span of 10 seconds and my first step resulted in cracks spider webbing along the pavement. Try number two resulted in intended effects requiring me to focus on the electrical current in my nervous system and speed it up allowing me to create Bullet Time effectively speeding the user up enough to result in time seeming to move slower.


After some testing as I made my way out of town and towards NYC I realized I could keep bullet time up for well over a minute and double the distance I would normally travel in that time. Sadly it left me exhausted after draining my Mp so I settled into a rhythm of 30 secs on a few minutes off for bullet time. Allowing my Mp to recover, Bullet Time to level, and my travel time to New York getting shot at the ankles.


Time is 12:04am(A/N: Midnight to clarify) and some drunk idiot under a bridge has stopped me. It's Day 3 well 4 technically and I was in some small town called Harrisburg. I think I'm in Arkansas but I might've hit Louisiana or Tennessee by now. Needless to say I've reached the point with Bullet Time as in Level 7 that I can keep it up for almost five minutes so at full sprint I've estimated I move at about 50 MPH during those 5 minutes with a simple 1-3 minute walk to regain my Mp(depending on if I drain my Mp or not) This idiot caught me on the tail end of my Mp walk again Luck stat paying its dues.

"I want all your money, kid!" The older man said as he pulled a switchblade out of his tattered old duster. "Hand it over and I won't keel ya!" From the way he talks he's either been pulling the mugging for booze gig a while if the stench of alcohol was anything to go by or he'd drank a bit more than he meant to and is one of those violent/abusive drunks. Gamer's Mind did it's best but I really couldn't help the smile that came onto my face as I stared down the level 6 Bozo in front of me.

"No, but I'll be taking your coat though. See I forgot to go shopping at the last town I stayed at and I need a coat for later on." I said doing my best to not cackle like a B-list supervillain. The guy obviously looked taken aback and if the notification reading something involving the word Intimidate was anything to go by the smile on my face was less joyous and more sadistic.

"Look k-kid I'll tell ya once more, wallet, NOW!" The drunk bastard yelled at me. A quick observe told me he had a decent Hp: 650/650 seems the guys been in his share of fights. 'Might be fun.' I thought before the man rushed me with the knife in his hand throwing a clumsy overhead swing.

Even without the massive amount of Dex I'd accumulated in my running the attack was slow and easy to simply sidestep in my opponent's drunken stupor so I did the one thing he never expected I pulled my Iron Scythe from my inventory though I made sure to hide it with Sleight of Hand so it seemed I simply pulled it from behind me. The results was level three for Intimidate and a drunk man cowering in fear on his back crawling away.

Needless to say I didn't kill him. I may be able to pull off the sadistic scare act for a while but I'm not a murderer. Though I did make my point very clear by spending something like ten minutes turning the air around him into a storm of steel slowly but surely I sent his Hp into the low tens before I decided to simply smash the blunt end of my scythe into his temple with a resounding crack. Though besides the possible concussion he had small cuts across his legs and face as well as being on leather duster short of what he was before. 'Note to self wash and repair my new coat when the chance arises.'

[Gained 700 EXP]

'Of course it is, because a drunk idiot twice my level though someone easily dealt is still twice my level.' I thought settling into my honestly meditative trance of super speed to walking recovery and back to super speed. Before I nearly face planted when an icon appeared on my HUD. It looked something like a bank icon on Google Maps. A simple Town Hall like building with a large dollar sign taking up the middle. I try focusing on the icon to see if I can activate whatever it is for my phone to buzz in my pants pocket.

Pulling it out three things were made pretty clear with only mild help from Observe. All the data on my phone's been reset meaning no apps, contacts, nothing, second whatever I had was replaced by two icons one being the same "Bank" icon the other being a pair of white headphones over a black background with the letters BGM in red underneath it. 'So music and… WAIT THIS IS THAT AUCTION HOUSE?!' I mentally screamed having opened up the app to be greeted by an entire profile for myself. It even had a picture of myself with my eyes that same brown that (my friend's words not mine) reminded people of chocolate, hair that looked like it couldn't decide on being black or brown that was slowly reaching the point of reaching past my chin, and neutral look that I've been told far too many times for my liking reminds people of "a cyborg/robot(depends on the person) that's being told to sit there and try to solve a complex equation while blending in with society… and failing" (A/N Sad part is multiple people have told me this and I actually got them in here to quote it) Tapping the picture resulted in what equated to the profile picture jammed into the corner of my phone screen with a full body image of myself in a T position with my legs together arms outstretched to either side that had an eerie semblance to a mugshot with the background marked with lines indicating my height at about 5' 10". I gave the rest of the profile cursory look. It seemed to be my current stats as well as skills.

Cole Flannchadh

LV: 3

EXP: 700/3000

Hp: 325/325 [Regen: .225/sec]

Mp: 247.5 [Regen: 1/sec]

Str: 23

Dex: 31

Vit: 19

Int: 22

Wis: 20

Cha: 9

Luck: 23

STAT POINTS: 0

Money: $226

[Skills]

{Gamer's Mind}LV:MAX

{Gamer's Body}LV:MAX

{Gambit's Gig}LV:1

{Adrenaline Rush}LV:49

{Unarmed/Scythe/Knife/Firearms/Elemental Mastery}LV:1/5/1/1/1

{Intimidate}LV:3

{Bullet Time}LV:15

{Thunder Thighs}LV:1

{Stealth}LV:4

{Free Running}LV:8

{High Jump}LV:2

{Tumble}LV:2

{Observation}LV:4

{Perception}LV:MAX

{Physical Endurance}LV:1

{Crafting}LV:5

{Sleight of Hand}LV:9

A quick jab at the confirmation button at the bottom of my list of shit I've pulled out of my ass- I mean skills and I was in the proper Auction House. It was a fairly simple set up with images of the most popular item on the "Home" screen with tabs to narrow what you're looking for alongside a search bar. Everything from the basic tabs of weapon, armor, skill books, etc. to furniture, generators, even Instant Dungeon modules! One look at the cheapest thing under armor had me quickly closing the app for the fact the cheapest armor was literally some chick's underwear… that costs 200 dollars!

'Ok back to your regularly scheduled run, Cole.'


Time is 9:48am, Day 6 of The Gamer. God damnit! Why did I have to pick the place that's halfway across the fucking country! Look quick rundown I'm in a real small town named Linnville only reason I'm stopping here for a day or two is because it's right next to this mostly forested wildlife area. Large amounts of anything without buildings or a road to follow screams "enemies here" to me. So I'll be taking the time to go hunting for some creatures to grind my skills and hopefully level with.

For now though I'm sifting through my skills making sure I know what I need to practice before I get into all the possible trouble that a place with the possibilities Bobcats, Coyotes, Bears, and possibly Wolves

A quick peek at my quests revealed I had crossed well past the halfway point for New York from Texas in less than a week so I was making damn good headway. Not to mention I had passed the most of the requirements for the Gearing Up quest. Only let was to level crafting and collecting money through killing things that'll probably end up being above what I had signed up for will more than likely bring something interesting to work with in the crafting department.

'So play of the game, Stealth. Find the mobs before they find you, hit hard enough to take them down with a sneak attack and if there's more alive or it survives the hit then I move to the ultimate plan used by the likes of the Aincrad Liberation Front of SAO: Abridged.'


"FUCK!" I yelled as I used the massive paw of what might as well be an M rated Yogi Bear as a springboard for a backhand spring. Seriously what the fuck is this thing! It's a standard black bear for how it looks except it puts URSA MAJORS TO SHAME! So I'm stuck running around the forest hoping a pack of coyotes doesn't slow me down enough to get backhanded through a few trees. 'What's its health? Observe'

Brother Bear

LV: 29

Hp: 3120/3775

"Fuck my life fourteen ways to Sunday!" I cried out putting every bit of my Dex to use in simultaneously using High Jump to get about ten feet up a tree trunk before launching myself up and over the head of 16 foot tall mass of flesh that's been chasing me. Finally launching four more playing cards into the back of this things skull.

'Damnit I'm down almost half my Mana! At least for the most of this fight I've avoided being harmed. Yogi over there has shattered a few trees in the opening of the battle. The bastard's slow so the shrapnel from the trees it the only big risk for me being hit.' I thought reading myself for what amounted to a suicide bombardment.

I'd run my options dry. I'm down to my scythe, speed, and half a mana bar. I've avoided trying any elemental attacks because though their uses such as Bullet Time have shown to be incredible I can't risk drying up all my mana in one attack. And no I don't count an anime style one vs one resulting in a both opponents at near exhaustion before one falls just before the other does a single attack. Usually it's many attacks in quick succession.

"SHIT!" I yelled rolling under the attempted bear hug and between the legs of the large beast. 'Stop getting side-tracked! You'd think Gamer's Mind would help with this but nooo.' I quickly reset myself and prepped for the inevitable exhaustion of dealing… 'Your fucking kidding this things still has Hp 2875 I'm pretty sure those attacks counted as crits as well!'

"Damnit!" I shouted charging at the monstrous Black Bear I'd have to kill before everything slowed and I could feel the electricity in my system. Every shock, every signal and I dumped as much Mana into it as I could. Brother Bear was all but frozen having lunged at where I was now they were at the mercy of gravity. Which meant more time for me to slice him to ribbons!

I small spin of my scythe and I had all but spilt its guts onto the forest floor. Ducking just under my first cut in the follow through I let my scythe slice through the loose dirt and with a simple half spin of my torso I let the momentum of the first strike slice through the tendons and sinew of its back leg before bringing my scythe blade down into a deft swing at the back of its skull for time to suddenly speed back up on me and the inertia of Yogi's corpse dragging me with it and nearly pulling my arm out of its socket.

I let out a low groan as I brought myself off the bloody corpse of the mutant bear I'd just dueled before I saw the notifications pop-up in front of me. Which I promptly ignored in favor of looting! Screw you I'm a gamer even if I didn't have THE Gamer and my first instinct is loot, loot, and LOOT. THEN worry about levels.

'Note to self skinning animals is a long and tedious process with a scythe. Look into obtaining a knife.' I thought double checking my spoils $1,125, a book I've yet to Observe, two health potion, one mana potion, and enough bear hide and meat to make some nice shit out of it. 'Okay now for… the… holy shit.."

[Gained 12,500 EXP]

{Level Up}{Level Up}{Level Up}

'Save for a rainy day or use now that is the immortal question of Skill Points… Fuck rainy days!' I decided as I quickly pulled up my stats to see I had 15 Skill Points to allocate. 8 points to Int, 1 point to Vit, and 3 points to both Luck and Str. Humming a cheery tune I began making the fairly short trip out of the forest and back into town. "This is why you choose speed over strength, if it moves fast enough it can puncture skin, hide, scales, and such."