You have slept in your bed. HP CP are fully stored.
Uchiha Sasuke glared at the floating transparent blue screen in front of him. He had already tried to dispel the obvious genjutsu when he woke up to it on the morning of his 5th birthday. But the thing refused to budge. Granted his chakra pulses weren't very strong with him having just learned to mould chakra, pulsing chakra to dispel genjutsu is the easiest technique possible.
His glaring was interrupted his mother opening the door of his bedroom, with another blue screen on top of head.
Uchiha Mikoto
Matriach of Uchiha Clan
Level: ??
"Sasuke, I know it's your birthday, but that is no reason to be lazy." She chided, as Sasuke stared at the writing. "You're going to miss your father, if you don't get up now. He's leaving for work after breakfast."
Sasuke, who was about to tell her about the strange genjutsu, quickly shut his mouth after hearing his father's mention. His father wouldn't be happy with his failure to dispel a simple genjutsu. He didn't need it to be added to the list of others things about how he was a disappointed compared to nii-san.
He decided to ignore the genjutsu for now. It wasn't like it was very disruptive, and whoever was casting it would get bored in some time.
Ignoring it turned out to be a little difficult as the screen kept moving persistently to be in his visual field no matter which way he turned.
Gritting his teeth , Sasuke decided to listen to his mother and left his bed intent on getting ready for breakfast. A loud chime interrupted him.
Ding!
Quest Alert:
Get Your Birthday Gift: Arrive to Breakfast on time.
You have twenty minutes to arrive to breakfast before your father leaves for work.
Completion Award: 100 Exp, 15 Blunted Kunai
Completion Failure: -500 reputation with Uchiha Fugaku
Despite his earlier decision to ignore the genjutsu, his eyes were once again drawn to the changed text on the screen hovering a few feet in front of him.
Maybe the genjutsu wasn't as simple as he had assumed.
Choosing to ignore it again, Sasuke rushed through his morning routine hoping to catch his father before he leaves. He wasn't following the genjutsu's directive. It just coincided with what he wanted to do.
He stubbornly ignored the timer in the corner of his vision, which was steadily moving backwards from 20:00. Standing in front of the mirror, he graced with another screen, this one on top of his head.
Uchiha Sasuke
The Gamer
Level: 1
The Gamer? What did that mean?
Whatever. He didn't have time to think about it right now.
With 4 minutes left on the timer (No! He was supposed to ignore it), he managed to reach the dining table, fully dressed and only slightly out of breath. As expected his father also had a screen above his head.
Uchiha Fugaku
Uchiha Clan Head
Level: ??
"Sasuke." His father addressed him, sternly. "Be careful not to be this tardy again. I'm alomost tempted to withhold your gift for today if you birthdays allow you to sleep in like a civilian."
"Sorry, tou-san." Sasuke mumbled, looking down at his feet.
Fugaku sighed. "This is your birthday gift from me." He said, sliding a package wrapped with brown paper towards me. "Make sure to practice hard. You'll need it."
Sasuke carefully opened the package revealing 15 practice kunai, exactly as the screen predicted.
Ding!
Quest completed.
Rewards:
100 exp
15 blunted kunai
Sasuke carefully controlled his expressions until his father left the house alongside his mother who wanted to go shopping to get ingredients for his birthday done.
He wished Itachi hadn't gone for a month long mission. He could really use his nii- san's help with his weird genjutsu.
Examining his new kunai, Sasuke frowned as he thought about his predicament. He was starting to have doubts about it being a genjutsu though. It couldn't be a low level one with its complexity and a higher level genjutsu would require a lot of chakra to maintain for a few minutes. And it had been more than half an hour.
Ding!
Through carefully observing a blunted kunai you have created a new skill.
Skill: Observe (Level 1)
Observe lets you glean information about the target with just one look. Amount of information depends on the level of target, level of The Gamer and Skill level.
"Observe?" Sasuke mused, wondering what was going on.
Blunted Kunai
Common Object
DMG: 5
"Is this some strange kind of bloodline limit?" He thought out loud. "But it isn't anything like the Sharingan. My eyes haven't changed a bit. I should try to dispel it again, in case it's a genjutsu. It must have weakened by now."
Sasuke flared his chakra after flaring it for a few seconds.
Through repeated actions, you have created a new skill.
Skill: Chakra Flare ( Level 1)
Chakra Flare is used to dispel genjutsu.
At level 1: Dispels E rank genjutsu
Chakra cost: 50 CP
Sasuke blankly stared the new notification. "This is getting ridiculous." He huffed and started gathering his new kunai, eager to to try them at the practice range.
No sooner had he reached his destination, another chime interrupted his strides.
Ding!
Quest Alert:
Shurikenjutsu: Get 3 consecutive bullseye from a distance of 10 metres in 3 hours
Completion Reward: 200 exp, 200 ryo
Completion Failure: 50 exp, 10 ryo
Sasuke went to stand 10 metres away from, stubbornly holding on to his reservations and ignoring his hope for getting actual money from the task. He was five years old. Even small amount of money was a novelty for him.
Gearing up and imitating the stance he had watched his brother perform, Sasuke threw his first kunai with all his strength.
The kunai completely missed the mark.
"Oh no." He moaned. "How does nii-san make it look so easy?"
The next three hours were gruelling for Sasuke. He kept trying to hit the target and ran forward to retrieve nthe kunai as he ran out of them. He worked up quite a sweat trying to work fast and getting as many hits as possible in three hours. He had subconsciously set the goal for himself, the same one that was provided by the quest.
As he plowed on he was rewarded with quite a few notifications.
Through repeated actions you have created a new skill.
Skill: Shurikenjutsu (Level 1)
This skill allows you to wield and aim throwing weapons.
Chance of hiting bull's eye- 1•/•
DMG: 5* STR
Skill: Shurikenjutsu Level has increased by 1.
Skill: Shurikenjutsu Level has increased by 1.
AGI has increased by 1 due running at fast speed.
Skill: Shurikenjutsu Level has increased by 1.
Skill: Shurikenjutsu Level has increased by 1.
Skill: Shurikenjutsu Level has increased by 1.
END has increased by 1 due to working though fatigue.
As the level of this skill increased, Sasuke could feel himself getting better. His stance improved as if corrected by an instructor. His throwing motion and aim were also slowly showing improvement.
He was able to hit the target almost every other hit and one in twenty even hit right at centre. It still wasn't enough to get three consecutive bullseye at end of three hours, though.
Sasuke tried his best till the last second till the timer ended but unfortunately wasn't successful.
He watched the next notification in disappointment.
Ding!
Quest Failed.
50 exp
20 ryo
He didn't want to feel this disappointed over a goal that the stupid screen had provided it, but it still stung. His gloom was replaced by awe he saw a real 20 ryo note on the ground right in front of him.
He was sure it hadn't been there before. He had just spent three hours in this place running back and forth to retrieve his kunai. How did that note get here?
He gingerly picked it up and crumpled it up a bit. Nii-san had taught him that trick to spot genjutsu on currency notes. The illusion would not crumble along with the note making it easy to spot. But the note in his hand kept looking real.
Did the annoying blue screen actually rewards him with real money for doing the quest?
Sasuke walked back towards his house still deep in thought when he heard the chiming sound again. He looked back towards the blue screen to see the new text only to find the same quest failure notification on it. Come to think of it, this pinging sound was a lot fainter than the others and had come from behind him.
He turned around to see older boy walking a few steps behing him, clearly an Uchiha but a civilian considering his posture.
Uchiha Kai
Video Game Nerd
Level 2
Sasuke fumed. How did a civilian get a higher level than him? They couldn't even access chakra.
"Oi, Kai." He called out, when the boy seemingly avoided walking into him without looking up from the device he has holding in his hand.
Startled, the boy looked up. "Oh, you're the clan head's younger son, aren't you? Didn't know you know my name?"
Sasuke actually didn't. Not without the screen's promt atleast.
"That doesn't matter. What was that pinging sound a few seconds ago?" Sasuke asked. "Did it come form that device you're holding?"
Kai perked up. "You're interested in my video game? It's the most popular one in the market right now. I'm quite close to completing the main game play." He boasted.
Sasuke was about to reply that he wasn't interested in a civilian game when a familiar sound stopped him.
Ding!
Quest Alert:
Understanding the Basics: Understand the concept to video games to gain information about your power.
Completion Rewards: 100 exp, Knowledge about the Game mechanics
Completion Failure: Remain ignorant about the Game mechanics
Sasuke quickly changed his answer. " That sounds interesting. Could you tell me more about video games? I haven't really heard of them."
Kai looked horrified at that and quickly agreed to correct the seemingly glaring hole in Sasuke's education.
"You see, Sasuke-kun, most of these games have a playable character who performs quests and fights monsters. He has a character sheet which you can access though the Character Sheet, like this." Kai explained, demonstrating on his console.
"Character Sheet?" Sasuke asked for clarification, but was surprised to see a wall of text fill the the screen in front of him.
Uchiha Sasuke
HP-500/500
CP-300/300
The Gamer
Title-None
Level-1 Exp-150/200
STR-1
END-2
AGI-2
INT-1
WIS-1
LUC-1
POINTS-0
MONEY- 20 ryo
"Sasuke? You there?" Kai waved his hand, calling for Sasuke's attention.
"Yes." Sasuke replied, still in a bit of a daze. " I'm just wondering what that thing does." He said pointing at a random box at the corner of the screen.
"Oh, that's inventory. The stuff we find during the game is stored here." Kai explained flippantly.
Sasuke resisted his urge to check out his own inventory as Kai droned on about video game mechanics, skills, quests, settings and so on. Sasuke dutifully listened and tried to commit it all to memory.
After an hour of explanations mixed with stories of Kai's own gaming adventures, the quest was finally completed.
Quest Completed.
Rewards:
100 exp
Knowledge about the Game mechanics
You have leveled up!
Uchiha Sasuke
HP-500/500
CP-300/300
The Gamer
Title-None
Level-2 Exp-50/400
STR-1
END-2
AGI-2
INT-1
WIS-1
LUC-1
POINTS-5
MONEY- 20 ryo
