Chapter 4 : Initiation My Ass
[Vale, 9 PM]
As Adam was walking along Beacon while looking at his PDA on what to do next, 'Get to your office'. Adam read off of his PDA seeing that his office or classroom was down a corridor nearby. Adam thought that the PDA was probably the most useful thing in his inventory, right next to… Wait, since when did he have an artifact Detector? Adam looked at his artifact Detector which was to detect 'Anomalies' which are practically spots made only nature herself and radiation to kill off anyone who gets inside one of these 'Anomalies'. Another use of it was to detect unusual objects called 'Artifacts' that gave varying amounts of buffs and debuffs, such as radiation. However, Adam was mystified as far as he could recall, Remnant didn't have any 'Artifacts', or mass amounts radiation for that matter. However, what startled him the most was the fact an artifact was appearing on his Detector!
After heading towards the spot with his newly acquired Svarog Detector (Made by Novikov in S.T.A.L.K.E.R), he found a strange looking artifact which he could only recognize as a 'Bubble' Artifact. Curious, he observed the artifact, holding it within his hand.
[Bubble Artifact]
'A compound of several hollow organic formations, this artifact emits a gaseous substance that can neutralize radioactive particles inside the body. This artifact is extremely valuable.'
[ -4 Radiation from 'Artifacts' and other sources ]
His eyes widened when his saw the text, immediately shoving the valuable artifact within his inventory. How the hell did Remnant get artifacts from S.T.A.L.K.E.R? And how in the hell did it even arrive nearby the Emerald Forest? These were questions for another day however, as a large group of Beowolves appeared from behind him. He quickly checked their stats before scoffing on how puny they were once you knew how weak they were. And after dealing with said Beowolves and gathering the loot they dropped, he returned back to his hotel within Vale to start another day.
[Vale, 2 AM]
[New Updates have been added to 'Gamer']
[The Gamer 1.2 (BETA) Changelog]
'Okay, not too bad.' Adam thought to himself,
- Player's stats are now Debuffed
'Fuck.'
- Leveling is now harder and more experience is needed
'Fuck!'
- Reset Player's inventory and Stats
'FUCK!'
- Some Skills are Debuffed and Buffed
'OH, FOR FUCKS SAKE!' Adam angrily thought before going to check his stats to see it had been true and after a short scan of his stats on the PDA, he curled up onto his comfortable bed and sobbed.
Name : John 'Vladimir' Cry
Job : Professor
Level : LV 20 Next Level : 0%
Title : Cheeki Breeki Bandit - 20% More EXP when battling with bandits.
HP : 2,000/2,000
MP : 2,000/2,000
AP : 0/0
STR : 10
VIT : 10
AGI :10
INT :10
WIS : 10
LUCK : 10
Point : 100
Lien : 10,000
After finally being done sobbing, Adam looked at his Lien to see he was poor as fuck now and weak as fuck. However at least he had the option to use his points again to make it seem more rounded out. Another thing he had noticed was that his his job title had changed to Professor after his trip to Beacon along with his title being nerfed.
Name : John 'Vladimir' Cry
Job : Professor
Level : LV 20 Next Level : 0%
Title : Cheeki Breeki Bandit - 20% More EXP when battling with bandits.
HP : 6,000/6,000
MP :6,000/6,000
AP : 0/0
STR : 30
VIT : 30
AGI :20
INT :30
WIS : 20
LUCK : 30
Point : 0
Lien : 10,000
After finishing spending his points within the certain stats he wanted, he check to see his inventory had been completely been emptied. The only items that were now within his possession was 5 'Tourist's Delight' meal tins, 5 sausages, 5,000 5.45x39mm Ammunition, his half empty vodka bottle, his rifle, his armor, and finally his Detector along with his newly found 'Bubble' artifact which had apparently not been affected by the change.
He looked at his PDA to see that it was now 3 AM, and after more crying and sobbing after his nerfed stats and skills, he finally exited the hotel to go to Beacon Academy. After scrolling through more of the changelog in his PDA, he found he could now change his BGM or Background Music to whatever he wanted to while fighting. Adam thought to himself that he should change it eventually to something better, but for now, he needed some proper attire rather than his Freedom faction armor to wear for Beacon Academy.
[Beacon Academy, 8:30 AM]
After a couple of hours of doing 'chores' and other miscellaneous quests. He finally was on the path for the main campaign, or quest, or whatever you called it. In this case, the main storyline quest currently was to get to his damned classroom as notified by his PDA. However, during his walk to his classroom, he managed to bump into Ozpin,
"Uh, sorry headmaster Ozpin." Adam apologized for bumping into him.
"Please, there's no need to apologize." Ozpin said smiling, "If anything, I wasn't looking in front of me."
"Oh uh, alright." Adam said trying his best to seem professional in front of Ozpin, however it seemed to fail terribly.
"However, I hope it won't be too much of a bother to ask you a question."
"No, please. Ask away headmaster." Adam said with kindness in his voice.
"How does one person not exist yet manage to appear out in the open?" Adam's face faltered, he forgot the fact that Vale and every other country had digital databases on it's citizens.
"Um, well." Adam said scratching the back of his head searching for answers, "It's because I uh, got off the grid?"
"Uh huh, and how does one person not even appear to be in the database?"
". . ." Adam had nothing to say about that, all that he knew was that he was thoroughly scr-
"However, it doesn't matter to me."
"Wh-what?" Adam said astoundedly due to the fact he surely would've been sent to jail, before realizing this was Ozpin he was talking to.
"However, I must ask you." Ozpin leaned towards Adam's face, "Are you up to the task of becoming a professor?"
"Of course headmaster Ozpin." Adam said now in a soldier's attention stance.
"Good, now come with me to the Cliffs."
"The Cliffs sir?"
"Yes, and please drop the formalities. I had enough of it from Ironwood as it was." Ozpin said, still holding his supposedly hot mug with whatever what was in it.
[Vale, 4 PM]
After watching the entire ceremony, Ozpin headed towards Adam to tell him something,
"Adam."
"Yes Ozpin?" Adam looked to see the headmaster watching him.
"You do realize that both Huntsmen and Huntresses are required to go through a test right?"
"Uh, are you seriously saying tha-"
"Yes. You know the drill."
"Ah, piss." Adam sighed before walking towards the Cliff.
"And Adam, do know that all the students will be watching you." Ozpin was desperately trying not to show his grin.
'You fucking bastard.' Adam thought to himself as he walked towards the Cliff.
[Emerald Forest, 4 PM]
Adam's launched compared to some of the other student's was not as spectacular. First of all, he didn't have any aura unlocked so he ended up getting some cuts and bruises.
"Ozpin, why did we send an Auraless person who applied to be a professor?" Glynda Goodwitch asked, standing at the edge of the cliff besides Ozpin.
"Because he is required to go through Initiation as well."
After tumbling through leaves, Ruby watched from the giant screen in the middle of a stadium filled with other students to see Adam's trip. However once they realized he didn't have his Aura unlocked, students started whispering to each other while Ruby on the other hand had a worried expression. However, when he first encountered his first Beowolf, Adam simply fired his rifle at it, killing it completely.
Adam thought for the first time on how having no Aura would affect him, in hindsight, he didn't give a damn about not having Aura. However he needed backup and reinforcement, so he did the one thing he could do. Adam cupped his hand and yelled out,
"Ahh Nuu Cheeki Breeki Iv Damke!"
After a few moments of silence, two bandits came out both wielding Kalashnikovs. Ozpin and Glynda on the other hand, didn't expect this,
"Ozpin, isn't this technically breaking the rules of outside interference?"
"No Glynda, he simply called for help from within the forest. Therefore he is not breaking the rule." Ozpin said holding a smug grin, in truth, he just wanted to see what would happen.
As Adam was walking through the forest with ease, he stopped to see the recognizable chess pieces with the middle one being a silver colored king. Adam thought throughout the entire journey it would be hell trying to get to it, however it didn't seem like it. As Adam reached for the piece, the ground started to shake slightly. Suddenly, a large Grimm Beowolf appeared from the ground, Adam quickly scanned it before nearly fainting at it's level above it's head.
Name : Alpha Beowolf
Level 50
HP :40,000/40,000
Description : This amalgamation of negative human emotion has formed this most powerful Grimm. This Grimm hates any source of emotion.
[BGM : Boss Battle : Two Steps From Hell - Lord Of Chaos]
"Shit!" Adam cried out before barely missing an attack launched by the Beowolf. He took back what he said earlier, he need Aura and he needed it now! Ruby and the students were looking back at the screen with fear evident on their faces. Ruby silently hoped Adam would be alright, he was her friend and soon-to-be professor after all. Ozpin was simply watching with a straight face while Glynda had a slight hint of fear.
Adam was firing his Kalash rapidly, doing some minor and major points of damage with the bandits backing him up. However, one of the bandits had been unlucky enough to be hit by the alpha Grimm before he retreated, only having about 1 point of health from his 1,000 points of health. Adam figured it was time, time to use his 1st last resort weapon. He pulled out a soviet RPG before launching it at the Grimm dealing a whopping 10,000 damage. However, it only seemed to piss it off as it's new status read : Pissed. Adam tried to reload his RPG before he got hit with a critical. Adam went flying backwards before hitting a tree, causing him to have a injured status applied to him.
Adam 'Vladimir' Cry
HP : 3,000/6,000
'Shit! That did over 3,000 points of damage.' Adam thought before coughing up some blood. Meanwhile Glynda was practically yelling at Ozpin,
"Ozpin! Shouldn't we do something about this?" However, the tall man didn't say a single word, however he would intervene if it came to the point if he needed to.
Adam yelled out in rage, he fired his Kalash before having to reload. He was nearly out of rockets having used up three of them during the fight. However the beast still had a good 10K hit points left. Finally Adam yelled out to the other bandit before retreating into the forest, "Ispol'zuyte raketu!" The bandit in question fired a rocket, finally ending the beast before it could do anymore damage to Adam. As the beast dissolved, Adam was quick enough to gather the Lien it had left behind. Checking his inventory in his PDA, he now had over 1,000,000 Lein back in savings before putting his PDA away.
[BGM End]
[500,000 EXP Earned!]
[New Skill unlocks!]
Adam walked over towards the artifacts before realizing something, he had emails on his PDA which he had never checked. Many of them being quest completions and whatnot. However, as he grabbed his artifact, he started to walk back towards the cliff. He really hoped he wouldn't have to deal with more of this crap afterwards in the far future. Oh boy, was he wrong.
[Beacon Academy, 5 PM]
Adam was assaulted by a bundle of questions from the students,
"How did you defeat that Grimm?!"
"Why'd they send you out with no Aura?"
"Who were the weird looking dudes?"
Finally, Ruby Rose showed up, she looked as if she was on the verge of crying. Which Adam hated seeing so much,
"How could you?" Ruby asked in a pained voice, "You could've died without Aura!"
"Rub-" Adam didn't get to finish as he was hugged rather tightly by Ruby. She was sobbing onto his clothes causing it to go slightly wet with tears. He simply let her do what she wanted before saying,
"Ruby, I'm fine. Seriously, I'm nearly 28 years old." Ruby looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Besides, nothing can kill me!"
Adam posed like a superhero, causing Ruby to cheer up slightly.
"Well, I guess not." Ruby sniffled before a yell came from behind.
"Hey you!" Yang stormed up to Adam, "You nearly made my sister depressed!"
"Yang, please don't-" Yang on the other hand, punched Adam in the gut, causing him to
double over and groan,
"Ugh… Why?" He asked before looking up to see Yang's eyes crimson red.
"Because you had us worried!"
"So then why'd you punch me?" Adam stood up clutching his stomach.
"Because I was angry!" Yang said before finally calming down, "Seriously, don't pull that off before you have Aura again."
"So, what now?" Adam asked before Ozpin showed up, all of the student's eyes looking at him.
"Mr. Cry, I believe you have earned you belonging as a Professor." Ozpin said, completely ignoring all of the stares from the students,
"Why did you send him out?" A student asked,
"Because if I knew he was going to die, I wouldn't have sent him out." Ozpin said, silencing the entire auditorium. Ozpin looked at Adam before handing him something, Adam looked at the object in his hand, it was a key for his office.
"Mr. Cry has achieved many feats which are not possible by normal standards, his abilities reflect that. So, it was simply a test of how strong is. Besides, Mr. Cry came willingly without Aura to this school after all." Ozpin finished.
After a moment of silence, all eyes turned towards Adam and his bruised form. He expected them to be angry at him, surprised, or even untrusting of him. Instead, what he got was a wave of clapping and applause. For once in his life, Adam had a genuine smile ever since he left reality. He was a professor at Beacon Academy now, with new friends too he might've added! For now, he had possibly the best friends and many more within Beacon as students. And Adam was content with this.
Ah ha! Surprise double upload Blyad'!
Didn't expect that one didn't cha?
Anyways, If you came to look for the reviews and whatnot, go back to Chapter 3 to review them. -Cloneguy