Re: Blazing Gamer Ch.1 A New Start
Revised A/N: Probably going to be the easiest chapter to edit. Fixed some grammar mistakes and changed some wording around. I also removed some text that was unnecessary and some overused punctuation. I used commas WAY too much. A minor detail also got removed that won't really effect much. As a result this chapter should have less words and flows better than previously but overall stayed the same. Enjoy!
Welcome to your new life!
Nate's head slammed back in his seat, surprised by the unwarranted pop up in his face. The chair itself made a resounding clang from the head-butt, he looked around to see if it caught anyone's attention, but it went unheard from the rest of the people in the train car. He released the breath he unconsciously was holding, he did not want to be seen as suspicious right now.
Nate looked back at the screen as a new message appeared.
[New Quest added!]
[Tutorial 1]
You have been reborn as a RPG character! But what does that mean exactly?
Objective: Open your status menu.
Reward(s) upon completion: Iron Sword.
He was glad he was not going to get absolutely thrown in blind, hopefully he will get enough time to practice this new power before this train makes its stop, wherever that was. Sitting back, Nate felt confused at the reward, no exp. or anything, just some normal weapon. It was still only the tutorial though, and he would like to actually have a weapon to use should something attack him, so he let it go.
"So how does this work, some kind of hand motions?" Nate did some basic hand gestures but none had worked, "Okay, how about...Status?" A long and slender screen appeared, "so it's thought activated, that could be useful." He looked the blue window over, hoping to get a bearing on what he had.
He certainly didn't expect this.
[Status]
Name: Nathan Bellew
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Class: Adventurer
Level: 1 Exp: 0
Health: 18/18
Stats:
Strength 5
Skill 4
Speed 7
Luck 1
Defense 5
Resistance 1
Constitution 7
Move 5
Skills:
[Gamer's Body]
[Type: Uni.]
Your body has turned into that of a video game character, damage done to you is taken from your Health, should your Health ever fall to zero, you will die.
[Gamer's Mind]
[Type: Uni.]
Your mind has taken a similar effect to the mindset of a video game character. Any negative statuses that effect the mind are nullified, also protects against direct mental attacks on the brain.
[Beginner's Luck]
[Type: Class]
Some people prefer their own skills over luck, but hey, it never hurts to have some.
+ 5% Critical Rate
Weapon Ranks:
Sword - E
Nate's head recoiled back slightly in shock, these stats were clearly fucked up! Where was the stats like endurance, charisma, or intelligence! Why was his health so low, no normal RPG had their character's health like that! The only game that came to his mind that used these kinds of stats was...
Fire Emblem.
His head fell into his hands, giving a deep sigh. Of course, the game his ability had decided to emulate was the one where all the stats were combat orientated. He could not rely on increasing stats like charisma to talk out of situations, or intelligence to get smarter easily, everything normal was going to have be left up to his own personal skills. At least his stats were pretty balanced, and he had a five percent critical rate bonus as well. This had also raised some questions, if this was Fire Emblem orientated, could he switch classes, and if so, how? A sudden, short jingle played as a screen appeared, drawing his attention.
[Tutorial 1] Completed!
Reward Gained: Iron Sword
Reward placed inside inventory.
"Inventory" Nate thought, now somewhat used to using his thoughts to control things. A new screen appeared.
[Inventory]
[Iron Sword]
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[Key Items]
[Train Ticket]
Flexing his hands, Nate had wondered if he could also manipulate the windows physically , tapping the word 'Iron Sword' caused a smaller window to appear with 3 choices, Equip, Drop, and Cancel. Pressing on Equip, three small balls of light floated into Nate's open hand, before glowing brighter and forming the shape of a sword. Once the light show had stopped, his new weapon was in his hands. Leather straps covered the handle, letting him have a firm yet comfortable grip, the rest of the sword was, of course, iron. A leather sheath had appeared, leaning against the side of his seat. Inspecting the sword had lead to yet another window to popup.
[Iron Sword]
An affordable sword that is easy to wield.
Sword - E Range - 1 Weight - 5
Might - 5 Hit - 90 Crit - 0
Uses - 50/50
Getting out of his seat, he grabbed the leather sheath and put the Iron Sword inside it. It was a weak sword, but it was quite durable. Although, he doubted that fifty uses was going to last very long. He just hoped he could find a weapon sto-
Tremor's rocked the train car, interrupting his thoughts and knocking him flat on his ass, waking up everybody in the train car as well. The rocking died down as fast as it came, leaving nothing but surprise and apprehension in its wake. Nate had thought that something large had been run over on the train tracks, but a new window appeared to prove him wrong.
[New Quest Added!]
[Tutorial 2]
An explosion has happened on the train, could this be the beginning of something terrible?
Objective: Investigate where the explosion came from.
Reward(s) upon completion: ? Class, immediate level up for class Adventurer, Vulnerary, 200 Lien.
Getting up off the floor Nate peered out the nearby window, if there was an explosion it should have produced some kind smoke right? Looking towards the front of the train yielded no results, but towards the back there was a small trail of blackened smoke. Moving away from the window, he headed towards the backdoor leading outside, then he paused.
This was likely to be his first time inside combat, it was only the tutorial but he couldn't help but hesitate. He had no way of healing, making his measly pool of eighteen health seem even smaller. He was beginning to have second thoughts before his [Gamer's Mind] ability activated, calming him down. With his own mortality reflection out of the way, and a weird power suppressing his nervousness, Nate turned the handle and exited the train car.
His short hair was blown back due to the speed of train, with Nate at the intersection between two train cars. With nothing truly of note, he opened the next door and headed into the next area.
The train car was threadbare, no seats or anything, with the exception of five robots that were powered off, taking a few steps closer Nate examined the closest robot. It was in the shape of a normal healthy human, its head seeming to have a visor, which was slightly glowing red. It's chest plate had a symbol that resembled the letter U engraved on it. The robot did not seem to be carrying any weapons either. A new window had appeared, showing off a stat list just like the one his 'Status' window had.
[Atlesian Knight-130]
Level: N/A EXP: N/A
? 0/0
Health 10/10
Strength 8
Skill 3
Speed 5
Luck 0
Defense 4
Resistance 8
Constitution 15
Move 5
"They are really fragile and slow, but hit harder than I do. I should just leave them alone" Nate thought, taking a step back. An alarm had blared inside the train car, looking down, he had tripped some laser wire that was placed low to the floor. Cursing, Nate withdrew his Iron Sword as he saw the Atlesian Knights powering up. Not allowing them to get the first strike he gripped the handle hard and gave the closest Knight an overhanded swing, lodging his sword within the shoulder. A second slice had torn the Knight in two. Another window popped up at the corner of his vision, just enough he could see it but would not be immediately distracting.
Nathan dealt 6 damage to Atlesian Knight-130
Nathan finishes with 6 damage to Atlesian Knight-130
Atlesian Knight-130 dies
Exp 0 - 20
"Hostile Intruder detected!" Turning his body, Nate got into a defensive position as the remaining four Knights charged at him, slender blades appearing where their arms had been previously. He quickly sidestepped to avoid one of the knights swinging at him, a swift kick sent it tumbling. Turning back, he ducked down too fast, making him lose his balance and stumble below another's blade. Immediately locking swords with the third one, the fourth had to stop from running into its friend and took time to run around him. Nate used those seconds to unlock blades with the current knight, letting it cut into the ground. With two cleaves he cut the third Knight in two like the first one. Unfortunately this allowed the Fourth Knight to slash his arm-blade into Nate's side, cutting shallow but deep enough to draw blood. His Battle Log, he called it, displayed a new message.
Atlesian Knight-130 dies
Exp 20 - 40
Atlesian Knight-130 dealt 3 damage to Nathan
Suddenly Nate had felt power surge through his body, with a roar he raised his sword above his head, he slashed downwards at the Knight currently stabbing him. Putting all his force into the downwards motion, his blade had ran through the robot like it was butter, cutting it in half with one strike. The powerful feeling had subsided, one look at the Combat Log had confirmed his thoughts.
[Critical!]
Nathan dealt 18 damage to Atlesian Knight-130
Another blade raked across his back, dealing another three damage, dropping his health down to twelve. He had really needed to stop checking out his Battle Log, while in battle. Quickly turning around and taking several steps backwards, he spotted the last two knights side-by-side, having recovered from his dodges. He had to seriously take to the defensive, four hits and he was done for. He slowly approached the duo, keeping the Iron Sword close to his body. One Knight took a step forward swinging in an straight arc towards his chest, ducking down he thrusted his sword like a rapier, hitting the Knight in the abdomen. The other Knight had leaped, swinging his sword overhead. Moving his body out of the way, Nate gave a quick slash to its arm before putting his weight on the arm blade with a foot. He had underestimated the Knight's strength as it easily pulled the blade up, knocking him off balance. Two quick slashes came from the duo, one Nate blocked with his sword with the other running across his leg and draining three more health.
Instead of backing up he rushed forward, hoping to use his slight speed advantage to his benefit. He rushed at the Knight that cut him, instead of using his sword like normal he smashed its metal face in with the end of the sword hilt. Glass shards fell to the ground as the Knight lost power and fell backwards. Turning around he swung downwards, hitting the other Knight as it stabbed him with it's own blade. The now offlined Knight slumped forward, while Nate took a few steps back, breathing heavily.
Notifications came in swiftly, most notably, he had reached one hundred exp.
Exp 80 - 0
[Level Up!]
Adventurer Lv. 2
Health 19 + 1 (+)
Strength 5 (+)
Skill 5 + 1 (+)
Speed 8 + 1 (+)
Luck 2 + 1 (+)
Defense 5 (+)
Resistance 1 (+)
You have 1 free stat point to distribute, press the (+) symbol to increase desired stat.
Without even questioning it he placed his free point into defense. His strength could wait till after he got the free level up from the quest when it was completed. Besides, if he had to fight anymore during this mission he needed the extra protection since he only had 6 health. Traces of blood leaked from his wounds, thankfully concealed by his clothes which had at most mere slits. His sword durability had also dropped by nine points since the fight, leaving it with forty one uses.
The dead Knights had nothing on them that Nate could use, so he placed his Iron Sword back in its sheath and slowly proceeded to the door on the opposite side of the train car.
The now opened door led to a flatbed, boxes stacked high in front of him. Big Snowflakes adorned most of the boxes, labeled 'Schnee Dust Company'. Nate made to move around them when he heard fighting coming from the other side. Someone was clearly fighting more of those robots he encountered in the previous area. "what if they caused the explosion?" Nate thought. He decided to play it safe and cautiously move towards the end of the row of boxes.
Ducking down he peered around the corner to look at the fight, specifically the end of it. On the next flatbed a masked man with red hair had sheathed his sword, the remains of a giant robot spider littered the field as well as bits of destroyed boxes. the next train car had a huge hole cut out of it likely caused by him as well. "He killed that thing!?" Nate thought terrified. If he struggled with five normal robots he was certainly no match for that guy.
What he noticed next was a black-haired girl standing on his side of the flatbeds, facing away from him, she was holding onto a black sheath in her right hand. He did not look at her too closely as the Masked Man ran up to her, stopping at the edge of his flatbed. The two silently stared at each other.
Then the Masked Man looked directly at him.
"Behind you!" Was all that Nate heard before the Man's sheath had fired a bullet at him. Quickly moving away from the boxes towards where he came, he heard a rumble. Looking behind him he saw the boxes raining down towards him, the bullet hitting whatever was keeping the boxes secure. He didn't even have time to think before the boxes landed on him, they had dealt no damage to his health but they pinned him to the floor. While the boxes fell around him, he heard a shout from the girl and the sound of metal being cut.
Nate quickly took to moving the boxes that trapped his legs, they were not as heavy as he thought but were still a pain to move. He had just finished pushing off the second box when he realized that a shadow had loomed over him. He twisted his body around and looked up at the person behind him.
He looked directly into the girl's amber eyes.