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Chapter 4

Two weeks. Two weeks, it had been two weeks since he had started seriously training to be a hero, and with less than two months before he had to go through the U.A entrance exam it was very unsettling, especially for the fact that he couldn't do anything even remotely impressive yet.

As it stood, Izuku Midoriya, even with his new abilities couldn't even be considered any more powerful than any other quirkless person. He had thought that he would have had to hide his quirk from his mother or maybe there would have been effects that would be extremely visible to the people who he went to middle school with, but there was nothing, nothing had come from his training.

It meant that he couldn't even go to register his quirk as there was nothing about it he could visually show anyone else, the that he couldn't be physically damaged (although the pain still appeared) was an idea, but Izuku didn't really think that the registration office would appreciate someone stabbing themselves on the floor just to prove a point.

Frankly, he was lost with what to do. Since the first day and excitement of his new abilities and skills he hadn't been able to create any new skills, all he had were Gamer's body, Gamer's mind and Physical endurance. He had had two of those when he had started!

Sure with the training he had put himself through his stats had gone up some, two points in strength, one in dexterity and one in vitality. When those had increased he hadn't felt much different, but unlike with the points in wisdom the fact that he actually did felt and, in fact see something happen was at least good news, even with only the very little increase in strength and vitality changed him, he had gone from being average on all points to ever so slightly ripped, with the hints of a two-pack starting to form on his abdomen and the muscles along his arms and legs becoming a little more defined, nothing that couldn't be achieved with regular training, but the fact that these changes had come about instantly when he got the points was the important part.

In terms of stats, he now looked like this.

Name: Izuku Midoriya

Level: 5 [42.04%]

Title: The Gamer

Race: Human

Quirk: N/A

HP: 101/101

MP: 500/500

STR: 12

VIT: 10

DEX: 13

INT: 34

WIS: 25

LUK: 2

Points to spend: 0

Izuku Midoriya Is a sad shy child who dreams of being a hero, there is absolutely nothing special about him at all, in a world of superhumans with he is without power, but now, with the help of The Gamer He believes that he can achieve his dreams. Can he? Or is it just a pipe dream.

Apart from the points he'd earned and his HP everything else had stayed the same. He had figured out a few things about his quirk from experimentation and the information that had been downloaded into his brain, such as the fact that some of his stats affected his quirk as well as his physical body and mind.

While strength and dexterity would make him stronger, more flexible and more agile, vitality, another physical stat, as well as increasing his stamina and overall health would also increase his HP points, although the fact he had only gone up by one meant that he couldn't tell by how much, at this point it was either one point of HP or 1% of the total. Unfortunately there hadn't been a wisdom point to confirm it for him. Vitality would also increase his HP regeneration rate in tandem although at that moment it was only about 5/HPpm or five health points per minute, which given the amount of risk heroes faced every day and the danger villains represented, was definitely not as high as it would need to be, especially considering the fact he only had one hundred and one points of health, it was harrowing to know how easily he could die. Hell even just punching a tree took out five points!

Other stats that affected his quirk were intelligence and wisdom, he knew that when he got a point in intelligence it would improve his memory retention and speed of thought, but it would also increase the maximum amount of mana. Whereas wisdom would increase his ability to use the knowledge he had instead of just being able to spew out cold facts and logic. It would also increase his MP regeneration speed, something which, at that moment, was rather slow, at the rate of 1/MPpm or one mana point per minute.

Mana was another point of frustration for Izuku, skills were one thing, one thing that could be voice activated; Ignoring the fact that he didn't actually have any active skills that could be voice activated. It still meant that when he got them he'd be able to use them no matter what.

But mana? Mana was, for all intents and purposes, magic, and magic didn't exist, he had no idea how to use it and it wasn't exactly like he could pick up a book and learn how to do so! It would definitely be a useful thing, if it actually acted in any way similar to magic, but for now he had no way to access it. That is, if it could even be accessed, he was starting to think that it was just there to complete the look of his quirk. And wasn't that a depressing thought. Almost as depressing as the fact his EXP hadn't gone up a single percent.

LINE

Another two weeks and another set of disappointments, even with his steady training regimen Izuku had still barely gotten any increases at all. Two more points in strength, three in dexterity, another in vitality and one in intelligence for deciding to build and use a rudimentary obstacle course.

Any increase at all was good, but this was going too slowly, the entrance exams were only one month away, he would definitely fail at this rate, and there seemed to be nothing he could do. Fortunately the point in intelligence let him know that the increase in HP and MP went up 1% with every point increase. He now had 102HP and 505MP and given that it didn't say 102.01HP told Izuku that it only showed the whole number. Good to know.

The urgency of the situation definitely wasn't lost on him and he had decided to take a different direction. That morning, while walking to his usual training area he had noticed a new bookstore on the street, it was a quaint little wooden one that practically screamed nature, and the amount of customers moving around inside proved its popularity.

As he had been about to move on, Izuku remembered the thought he had two weeks back about picking up a book and reading about how to learn magic. The point obviously still stood, no matter how well the bookstore would have fit into a fantasy there weren't going to be any real books on magic in there. Probably a few bullshit ones though.

The fact was, though, the were things he could learn from books, the best ways to train, the science behind and the most common quirks, things that would undoubtedly be invaluable in the future, and finally and most importantly, martial arts.

Even with the inclusion of quirks any good hero still needed to know how to fight, in fact martial arts was some heroes only line of defence as their quirks were supplemental to them rather than any source of attacks, heroes like erasure head stuck out.

His quirk, while powerful as it let him turn off the quirks of others would only allow only that, for them to be unable to use their quirks, and while devastating to nearly all villains it didn't stop them from picking up a weapon and running at him, or just attempting to hurt his with their fists alone, martial arts and knowing how to fight were integral for his hero work.

And since Izuku still hadn't developed anything really useful, they'd be just as important to him. He decided to visit the shop that night after his training. Unfortunately things don't always go to plan.

Izuku panted, his breath ragged and strained as he sprinted across the forest and into town, deftly dodging obstacles and barely avoiding knocking himself out on a low-hanging tree branch. His training had run on longer than he had realised and it was only a few minutes until eight O'clock, the time that all but a few stores closed in town, although, it being a book store might have meant that it closed even earlier than that.

As he entered the edge of town and his lungs started to burn, Izuku considered that he could always wait until tomorrow to get the books before immediately shaking himself of those thoughts, it had already been a month with no progress, he had no time to waste!

He careened around the corner to the high-street, disturbing the few people still walking around that part of town and thanked any god that he could that his ability would take away the pain in his lungs and legs soon after he stopped running.

Finally he made to the front of the shop. Ping! Izuku ignored the noise; it was probably just another point in vitality, good but not important right now. He leaned forward and rested his hands on his knees breathing heavily.

After a few minutes of breathing and waiting for the pain to leave he finally chanced a look at his watch. 7:30. Izuku breathed a sigh of relief; he had made it in time. Finally relaxing he looked towards the box in front of him to make sure which stat it was and close it.

New skill created:

Sprint – Passive/Active – Level 2: [3.02%]

By running great distances and pushing your body to the absolute limit you've found that you can move extremely quickly. Passively increases base speed. Active use will give speed increase of 35% until stopped.

"You've got to be kidding me" Izuku stared, blank faced at the message in front of him, a month. A MONTH of trying to improve himself and he does it by accident? What the hell had he been training all this time for then?

Pinching the bridge of his nose and closing the box Izuku sighed and walked towards the shop. At least now he had a skill he could actually train and with the books on martial arts, hopefully that would make him good enough for the exam.

He pushed the door in. It didn't move, he looked to the window at the side.

Opening times

7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Everyday

Just his luck, his terrible, terrible, two points of luck. He sighed and turned around, leaning his back against the door.

"At least today wasn't completely wasted, I got a new skill"

"Why are you leaning on my shop?" The woman's voice was sudden and unexpected; he hadn't heard anyone walking up. Izuku jumped away from the door and turned towards location of the voice.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I just wanted to buy a book, but you were closed and, I ran really far and-"A giggle cut of his rambling apologies.

"It's alright, I was watching you trying to catch your breath" She giggled again "From the speed you got here I thought you were late to a meeting or something" As she spoke Izuku finally managed to get a good look at the apparent bookstore owner.

Even in the dying light of the day it was easy to see that she was beautiful. She had long black hair in a princess cut running down the majority of her back and pale white skin the contrasted amazingly, every feature of her face was equal parts soft and aristocratic and all her features were emphasized by her gleaming purple eyes. To finish off her look she wore an obviously expensive red and gold kimono, despite there being no festival on.

Izuku thought she might just be the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. And as such, couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation.

"Wow"

Another giggle "Thank you" Her beautiful eyes turned upwards as a smile entered her features.

Izuku's face filled with blood as he blushed a bright red, he didn't think that she would be able to hear him! He remembered why he was there and quickly forced himself to calm down.

"Ma'am" He started before she cut him off once again

"Tera" She smiled again and Izuku's blush returned as quickly as it had gone.

"Tera, I came here to buy some books from your store" He hesitated "Do you think- could you please let me buy them now?" he bowed at the waist to hopefully get his point across.

"You came to buy books?"

"Yes, that's right" Izuku nodded. Tera stood in front of him and glanced to the store and back.

"How about this, you tell me why you were in such a hurry and I'll decide whether or not it's worth it. That sound fair?" Izuku let out a sigh of relief

"Thank you so much, you don't know how much this means to me"

And we're done. Some stuff finally happened, and then I ended it! MUHAHAHAHAHA. Hope you're not too angry. I write these chapters in single blocks, it takes a while to write them, and when I get past a certain point I find a point I can finish it off at, I hope you can understand.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, follow, favourite and review. I would very much appreciate constructive criticism for my writing techniques and advice on how to write gamer abilities. But anything else is cool too. :D See you next time!