Professor Arc: The Gamer

by The US Doctor

Okay, okay let me think for a second here. One day I go from living in my parent's house wishing that I could be a huntsman, and the next day I become a professor at Beacon! How! Also who in Remnant is Cosmos and why is she a projection that follows me everywhere talking about some system! A gamer fic starring Professor Arc as the Gamer. More details inside

4. Chapter 4: Trial By Fire

Author's Note: I forgot to do this last chapter but if you go DeviantArt and search for Professor Arc: The Gamer you should be able to find the cover art for this fic it is also where I'll be uploading any future covers, all of them free to download too.

This is where the story will diverge from can for the most part by the way, It's mostly for my sanity because if there is one thing I know is that playing catch up is going to impossible so I will do what I can to fit canon in but if it is just too far off from what I can do then all I can do is just let it be, maybe I'll fit that stuff in as a passing remark from Cosmos I don't know yet. Anyways on with the story.

It's now Friday afternoon as I work on my combat skills in preparation for combat class this Friday, I think Glynda knows that I had no combat skills before Beacon. Note the word had, as I now have the system and an afternoon of trial and error lead me finding out how to best do things in it, turns out combat is much easier if you grind up any combat skill. Either way here's how my week went as I kept a journal of my grueling week-long boot camp, apparently, I found time to write in between reading, shopping, and training.

Tuesday Afternoon: Initiation +1

{Wake up lazy butt!}, Cosmos yelled at me first thing in the morning. I swear if the sun isn't even out yet. I groan and crawl to a sitting position to see that she at least had the decency to let the sun show up first.

I ask her why she woke me up so early and she responds with,{well I figured that you would want to get some combat training in before the end of the week}. I mean she's not wrong if I'm gonna be a huntsman I should know how to fight.

{I mean yea that too but you also have combat class with Glynda this week and she wants you to demonstrate how a 'real' huntsman fights}, she tells me in a mocking tone.

I sigh and speak, "Yea I do have that this week don't I?", I quickly spring off the bed and get dressed. "So what are we gonna focus on today?", I ask for some advice.

{well your combat skills are mostly offense with no room for error, the fact that you defeated those beowolfs with only minor aura loss is impressive. So I recommend you learn to dodge.}, I blink in shock as she gave me a full combat assessment I spoke, "wait you can be more than just an oddball who spews random bits of advice?"

Her avatar facepalms and speaks,{yes, I am capable of being useful for more than passing advice. Before you ask why I was so lazy the first couple of days, it was because there wasn't much I could do, I am a lot of things but I'm not a miracle worker.}

I think for a second and nod in understanding, thinking back I was left with a lot of just social interactions and not really stuff the system could help me with unless it decides to create a skill for it but unless I missed it, {you didn't}, which I didn't I was kind of left with just my 40 something charisma.

I decided to start with furniture shopping so I can get my job started as soon as possible. That and to try not to think about how I kept barely sliding away from death.

I head into town to go furniture shopping for my new office as I now have a small budget for it given to me by the Academy and also technically by the system through the two quests it gave me. I walk into the first furniture store I see and go check out the chairs, they don't have to be fancy be they should be comfy, as according to one of the books I read on the way here I should make the patient, or in my case student comfortable to talk with me.

I spent most of the afternoon doing this going from furniture store to furniture store checking out what seemed the warmest and inviting furniture types, such as wood desks, and how to set up the furniture to make the room feel more inviting. I got a flight back to Beacon in the late afternoon and make my way into the Emerald forest to go train, and I quote 'By the orders of Cosmos', I chuckle a bit at the thought as it seems that she can't do much besides give advice and point in a direction and say good luck. However, she also isn't wrong I should go train for a bit and get better at using my sword and not getting hit, no matter how much aura I may have.

I reach the Emerald forest and go find a pack of beowolfs to go and slaughter/ learn how to dodge, I mean in terms of how hard it is to dodge A beowolf isn't very high up on that list, the award for hardest to dodge Grimm goes to some random Grimm in Mistral. Either way, I need to learn the skill and then I can learn to dodge through leveling.

{Lucky you In a Different Universe you would've needed to do the exact same but though trying not to die to a small Ice cream girl}, Cosmos tells me mockingly

"Well, then I guess I am extremely grateful for the system then.", I retorted.

Out in vale a psychopathic walking piece of ice cream sneezed before pouting in annoyance that she currently has lost her stake of a boytoy to a nonexistent AI '…wait where did that come from?' thought Neo before taking a bite of her tricolor popsicle.

"I don't know who thought that letting me go through with this plan was a good idea but I am severely regretting a lot of recent choices!", I yelled as I dodge another swipe from a beowolf.

{Well you wanted to learn how to dodge I say you're doing wonderfully at the moment}, Cosmos told me in a taunting manner

I kept running and dodging swipes before yelling, "Is the dodge skill nonexistent or something because it certainly hasn't unlocked yet!?"

{oh no you unlocked it but for the sake of your life you're gonna get the pop up at the end of the battle},

"Oh good to know!", I yelled at her while dodging another slash from a beowolf. I'm just gonna kill these beowolfs now and get the skill and see if I have leveled it up any. I rear back and slice the beowolf that just tried to slash me in half with a full force slice down the center. I stood there in shock for a second before charging into a beowolf that was on my right and stabbing it through the head. 'Great three down only ten more to go', I thought as I kill another beowolf with a beheading.

I decided to check the stats of the remaining beowolfs with creator's eye

Beowolf i

Lvl: 20

400/400

Beowolf ii

Lvl: 6

260/260

Beowolf iii

Lvl: 5

250/250

Alpha Beowolf iv

Lvl: 30

500/500

Beowolf v

Lvl: 20

400/400

Beowolf vi

Lvl: 20

400/400

Beowolf vii

Lvl: 10

300/300

Beowolf viii

Lvl: 10

300/300

Beowolf ix

Lvl: 5

250/250

Beowolf x

Lvl: 25

450/450

'Oh joy an alpha beowolf this is going to be so much fun!', I think before making a charge into the weakest beowolfs to kill them. As I kill off the three-level five Beowulf's, the alpha attempts to knock my head off my shoulders. I duck and slice into its arm throwing it off me and letting me gain a footing as I see the other six beowolfs crowd around me. I roar in anger and behead two beowolfs in my rage the other four all slash me on the back taking a large chunk of my aura with them. I get knocked over and roll to a tree, I crawl up and ready myself for the last five beowolfs.

I see that beowolf x and beowolf viii charge me, I bring up my shield and block the charge of beowolf x and stab beowolf viii in the chest in an upward arc slicing it in half.

As the other beowolfs that I've killed turn to dust around me the final three beowolfs charge in and swipe at me with an agility that I thought Grimm in vale didn't have. I blocked most of the hits with my shield, with only minor scrapes to the thigh being what hit taking more of my now somewhat low aura with it. I slash and put a large gouge into the two and make a dash for the Alpha. It swings the arm that I almost cut off the first time to protect itself, I slice the arm off and the beast roars in pain before swinging at me with it'd good arm. I blocked the hit make for a stab into its head killing off the alpha beowolf as I almost collapse in complete exhaustion, I see a pop-up come up.

[Battle complete]

Rewards

1,350 exp

890 lien gained

Alpha pelt found

5x beowolf pelts found

2x beowolf claws found

1 beowolf tooth found

1 beowolf skull found

Leveled up x1

Gain 10 skill points

[collect]

I tap the collect button and go back to Beacon to take a shower and go have a nap, before going to deal with any paperwork I still need to fill out.

Skill Unlocked

Dodge: learning how not to get hit is the first step to not dying. [lvl 3 exp: 500/2000]

"If I have learned anything in life it is that being able to doge is better than being able to land a killing blow in one strike."- Elijah the Rouge

I groan remembering what I just did to unlock the skill, and how much aura I lost in the process.

{not bad though for a pack of 13 beowolfs}, Cosmos noted. I nodded in agreement and sluggishly walk back.

Present day

So yea, for the most part, the rest of the week carried out about the same. I am now level 19 and my proficiency skills are in order from least to greatest, shield at level 10, dodging at level 15, and longsword at level 17. It was a long and painful process but I think that I'm ready now.

{well I'd say that you can at least beat half of the students in an endurance fight if nothing else}, Cosmos said to me, {also who are you talking with?}, She asked me.

I told her that I was talking with her, who else would I be talking to I asked. She simply said,{ never mind I'll just pretend that you weren't talking to an audience and breaking the fourth wall, which is my job by the way.}, I blink in confusion and clean up before heading back to Beacon. My stats are now this,

Stats

Name: Jaune Aurelia Arc

? lvl 19

? Exp 1145/3000

? Title: The Fake Professor [Change]

Theme: Angel With A Shotgun by the Cab

? Hp: 1600/1600

? Mp:250/250

? Sp:300/1000

? Ap: 9000/10000

? Hunger:850/1000

? Fatigue 750/1000

? Injuries

None… for now

? Attributes

Intelligence: 15 ?

Strength: 12 ?

Wisdom:6?

Vitality: 16 ?

Luck: 25 (31)?

Dexterity: 10 ?

Charisma: 19 (38)?

Endurance: 14 ?

? Spare points: 57

Advance stats blocked until lvl 25

I never bothered spending any of the spare points for my attributes, saving them for an emergency, I decided was the better option. It is now 45 minutes before Glynda's class and I am now properly in shape to beat at least one of the students.

Cosmos decided to cut in, {once again, you would outlast one, and not really beat one, I mean you would win but by a small margin as they have had a way longer time training and getting to know their weapons, even with the crutch that is the system. As of now you are probably no better than the average first-year student at Beacon now, and even then only if your smart about how you're fighting, because no matter how much the system may give you a crutch on fighting skills, an actual strategy will always will the battle.}. I groan at the small lecture, I was a common occurrence between me and her, I would say something related to my battle skills improving and she would shoot it down and point out just how unskilled I truly am even with the system. I sigh and walk over to Glynda's class ready to take on whoever Glynda sets me up against.

Author's note: I know that this one is probably shorter than usual and I do apologize as I was working on my reaction fic this week and I had less than 48 hours to write this. With that being said, however, I will be updating both this and the other fic simultaneously. I will still be doing weekly upload for this one and for my other fic The Theater I will update when I can but it is not guaranteed to be weekly, hell it's more likely that it won't be a weekly update. As always have fun and stay frosty.