LordXeenTheGreat: Thanks.
Quathis: I originally thought of changing his MP to Aura kinda like what "ThePhantomScribe" did on their "The Gamer Girl" story but decided against it since Jaune is already incredibly underpowered as he is with his stats not scaling with his level.
Shugokage: Just don't look forward to it everyday, my update schedule is rather shrewd and filled with other things and procrastination.
Kyranol: Thank you for reading!
In the Month of May: I try not to complicate things, I want to be able to utilize ALL if not most of the features the system has. I added the relationship system to give Jaune more incentive to socialize with friends other than receiving quests.
NinjaFang1331:Thank you!
xbamsod: I wouldn't really call it better but I thank you for your opinion!
EDIT: Thank you Micronime for pointing out the mistake.
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-62 HP
Jaune grunted as he took the full brunt of the monster's white pincer and went flying out of the cave along with the Mistralian redhead. The blond took 3 more points of damage as he bounced off of his partner and unto the green grass.
It had been a few minutes ago since his partner had given him his new power. They found a cave and he immediately thought it was the ruin where the relics were held which led to their current predicament. He was just glad he was in the right mind not to grab that thing's glowing pincer.
As a giant bone clad scorpion burst out from the cave, Jaune immediately grabbed his partner's hand and bolted to the side but not before sparing a glance at their pursuer.
"Observe"
Lvl 38 Ancient Deathstalker
HP: 5200/5200
A soulless creature that took the form of a scorpion. Deathstalkers, especially ancient ones, are known for their hard white exteriors and golden stingers capable of piercing anything.
'Oh Oum, that thing is way over our heads!' Jaune thought in panic before turning away, he doesn't know how much health he has left after taking that attack but he knows he can't take another blow. Pyrrha by then had gathered her senses and was now running alongside the bumbling knight. The blond's mind racked at itself for a way to get out of this chase. Thoughts running at a mile per second, his vision started to get clouded before everything suddenly cleared.
'Must be the «Gamer's Mind» skill.' He thought before continuing to run. He knew his health would be around 20-30 points currently and he still didn't know how much damage percentage his shield could negate.
'I really wish I had an active skill!' The blond's breath started becoming ragged as running at full speed finally started taking it's toll on him. The blond knew he needed something if he were to survive this, something new. 'If Aura Healing is about healing then it should heal my fatigue as well right!?'
+1 Wisdom
«Information Update»
«Aura Healing» Max Lvl (Toggle)
The ability to heal and invigorate one's self using Aura.
Heals 100% of Max HP over 10 minutes in exchange for 300 Aura points every minute.
Physical strain will deplete Aura.
This ability will automatically deactivate upon reaching full HP.
'DO I REALLY HAVE TO FIGURE EVERYTHING OUT MYSELF!? What kind of game is this where I can't even trust the goddamn descriptions.' Jaune lamented in his head before a game with the caption 'You will die' popped up in his head.
"Aura Healing" The blond whispered, his body suddenly felt lighter as the fatigue was washed away by his aura and was replaced with strength. With Aura pumping in his veins, the blond managed to keep his pace up.
"Jaune, raise your shield in front!" His partner called out. The blond really didn't feel like arguing so he nodded before whipping out his blade and unfolding his white shield.
"Slanted, forward!" Jaune followed suite before he saw the redhead jump out of sight. Pyrrha landed on the shield for a second before jumping off once again, the blond barely stumbling out of his steps as she did so. The spartan soared in the air, shifting her weapon into it's rifle form as she spun and faced the scorpion behind them and letting off three shots. One shot hit the beast dead in the eye, causing it to stumble.
The redhead didn't even break her stride when she landed, effectively keeping up with Jaune. The blond on the other hand looked back and whispered another observe command.
Lvl 38 Ancient Deathstalker (Dazed)
HP: 5134/5200
The blond dealt with the math and calculated that those three shots did 66 points of damage.
'One shot hit a weakpoint dead on and even then it only did 66 points, where's Ruby with her sniper when you need her! How much health do I have now?'
The blond willed his status window and felt himself blanch at what he saw.
Name: Jaune Arc
Title: Hunter in Training
Lvl: 4
HP: 47/120
MP: 150/150
Aura: 86/500
Str: 15 (+3)
Vit: 9 (+1)
Dex: 8 (+1)
Int: 5 (+1)
Wis: 14
Luk: 11
Points: 3
Money: 2150 Lien
'That drained my Aura way too quickly!' He hoped to Oum that his Aura would at least scale with his level. The young knight toggled the ability off with a quick command before starting to feel the strain of his actions.
'Immediate effect. Aura is such an important resource.' The blond immediately surmised as he continued to run.
+1 Vit
The knight immediately closed the window before focusing on his survival. Reaching a clearing, Jaune saw a good bit of people. Two he recognized to be Ruby and the angel Weiss while the others were blank though the fellow blonde and black haired girl were familiar to him. He saw the eccentric scythe wielder turn back to say something before dashing towards them with a gunshot.
Time seemed to slow down for the blond as his body suddenly moved on it's own. The young knight could only chalk the moment up to his «Gamer's Mind» skill.
'Level discrepancy too high, I am not letting you die!'
The knight's arm extended to the side, the timing enough to catch the girl in red by the hood of her cloak. A squeak came out from the young prodigy as she was thrown to the side. The throw left Jaune unbalanced as he fell to the side, his body turning towards his pursuer only to see it was in front of him with a swing at the ready. The blond would have had enough time for one last word before the giant's claws devoured his HP, and he put it to good use.
"AURA!"
-71 HP
-13 HP
The young knight felt himself smile triumphantly through the pain as he slid down a tree. He successfully saved Ruby and survived without any damage to his health.
'If my Aura doesn't regenerate then I would have around 2 points left' He mused to himself as he stood up, the pain dissipating thanks to the system.
«Information Update»
With the new chapter in your life progressing, a skill has evolved!
«Gamer's Mind» Max Lvl (Passive)
A gamer doesn't choke in the heat of battle, let the fight progress as a battle of skills.
Grants immunity to psychological effects when in battle.
'I am ever evolving!' Jaune laughed with the thought as he closed window. 'No more bursts of intense panic, lets think things through.'
The blond heard a loud screech from above and saw a giant black bird circling from above.
"Observe."
Lvl 32 Ancient Nevermore
HP: 4100/4100
"Nikos move!" Jaune heard Weiss call out. The knight managed to turn his head just in time to see the angel dash towards the giant scorpion, a red glow present on her rapier. Pyrrha sprinted to the side just in time for the angel to pierce the grimm's claw with her rapier before she spun the cylinder on her weapon's hilt and the grimm was suddenly encased in ice.
«Schnee Heiress»
Lvl 19 Weiss Schnee
Jaune jogged up to regroup with the others, carefully eyeing their enemy in the skies.
"Does anyone have a plan?" He heard the buxom blonde say, just in time for Ruby to appear in their group in a flurry of rose petals.
"We kill them obviously!" The reaper in red states as she brandishes her giant scythe once again.
"We don't have to, isn't our mission to retrieve the relics and head back to the cliffs?" Jaune suggests, vaguely remembering the objective given to them.
"Yes it is, we don't need to kill them." His partner followed up, gesturing to the grimm trying its best to get out of the it's icy prison. The whole group agreeing upon it, Jaune and Ruby headed towards the ruins and picked their respective pieces.
"Observe." The blond whispered the command as he inspected the golden chess piece.
«White Rook»
Rarity: Common
One of the corner pieces of a kingdom in chess, can move any number of spaces left,right, forward and backward and can participate with the king in a move called castling. Currently being used as a relic for Beacon's initiation.
'So this IS the relic, but why chess pieces?' He turned his head towards Ruby and found that she had chosen a golden knight piece. The blond couldn't help but feel a bit skeptical about the reasons behind these relics.
"It's circling back!" His train of thought came to a halt at the sound of the white angel's voice. Putting his chosen 'relic' into his pocket, he saw Ruby beckon the others to follow her with her red cape flowing in the wind.
Unsheathing his blade, the blond couldn't help but gaze at the temple growing closer in front of them. Realizing that he doesn't even know the names of his allies, the blond quickly muttered a bunch of quick observe commands.
«Golden Beauty»
Lvl 18 Yang Xiao Long
«Lady of Shadows»
Lvl 20 Blake Belladonna
«Lie Practicioner»
Lvl 19 Ren Lie
«Hammer of Thunder»
Lvl 19 Nora Valkyrie
"SCATTER!" He failed to recognize who shouted but what he did recognize was that gigantic black feathers were headed straight for him. The others ran toward the pillars at the side, but since he wasn't paying attention he was around the middle of the path.
Jaune immediately got to one knee and held his shield in front of him.
"Status" He quickly muttered as a window appeared.
Name: Jaune Arc
Title: Hunter in Training
Lvl: 4
HP: 51/127
MP: 150/150
Aura: 16/500
Str: 15 (+3)
Vit: 10 (+1)
Dex: 8 (+1)
Int: 5 (+1)
Wis: 14
Luk: 11
Points: 3
Money: 2150 Lien
-8 HP
-4 HP
-7 HP
-3 HP
Each feather that struck his shield was sent veering off to a random direction, never sticking into his legacy's white protector.
HP: 45/127
MP: 150/150
Aura: 0/500
'So it's alright if my Aura reaches 0, what matters is still my HP.' He noted, so he managed to solve the functions of 2 of his resource bars but he still had no clue on how to use his Mana.
A screech broke Jaune out of his thoughts, followed by a thundering crash as the giant scorpion burst out from the trees.
'Right! Probably not the best place to think.'
Explosions rung out as Nora peppered the gigantic bird with pink explosives, his head returning to the battlefield once more. Jaune bolted towards the ruins along with the others, the giant Deathstalker right on his tail. The blond felt the earth shake at each step their pursuer took.
Upon reaching the stone bridge, Jaune's eyes immediately caught the sight of the gigantic bird on it's way to destroy their path.
"Watch out!"
But it was too late, the giant bird crashed against the bridge. Sending Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Nora to the other side of the now broken walk way, fortunately unharmed.
He turned around and saw the others already engaging the Deathstalker in battle. Blake leapt forward and spun, her blade carrying enough momentum to deflect the two pincers headed their way before she jumped back and unloaded on the giant Grimm.
Lvl 38 Ancient Deathstalker
HP: 5094/5200
'This is going to take too long!' He couldn't really take the time to read all his skills, he needs to help...but without HP or Aura, one or two hits would be his downfall. Not to mention that thing's seemingly unbreakable armor.
A war scream approached his ears, causing his head to turn and see the blur that is Nora Valkyrie flying on to the scene...literally.
Even with all the momentum her hammer swing carried, and no matter how loud it thundered against the Grimm's armor. The HP bar above the thing barely inched.
'Blunt weapons are useless, we need someway to pierce it!' He thought as Nora squeezed her trigger and used the explosion from her war hammer to jump back, unfortunately hitting Blake off of the bridge in the process.
"BLAKE!" Jaune saw her eyes widen upon his shout but quickly gained her composure as she threw her weapon unto a stone pillar and used it to swing herself unto the convenient giant Nevermore which was flying close.
"Help me get close!" His head turned towards his fellow male in green who spoke. Jaune's eyes wandered to his shield then to Pyrrha, her eyes gazed at his before nodding.
Aura: 3/500
The red and yellow duo charged forward with no hesitation. The giant scorpion screeched before swinging his claw in retaliation but it proved to be for naught as Jaune's white shield blocked it mid swing.
-24 HP
«Shield Mastery Level Up!»
The Deathstalker was undeterred as his other claw aimed for the now exposed blond. It would have struck if Pyrrha had not interfered with a swing of her blade, the force behind the attack enough to knock it away. Bullets hailed unto the Grimm's exposed face courtesy of Ren's twin SMGs. Jaune saw the beast's health bar barely even budge at the barrage. The Grimm regained it's bearing and this time retaliated with its golden stinger.
The stinger shot towards the boy in green but he proved to be too quick as he nimbly hopped to the side before grabbing unto the stinger and unloading unto the base of the sharp stinger even when the beast lifted it up. Nora shifted her weapon to it's grenade launcher form and let off two explosive shots.
The Grimm managed to regain it's bearings in time and blocked the grenades with it's claws before pushing the two shield users away, unfortunately pushing them away means leaving the Grimm's own guard open.
And for Pyrrha, a wasted opening is not in her vocabulary.
The Goddess of Victory quickly shifted her sword to a javelin before throwing it with a rifle shot for extra kick. The rifle struck the scorpion in one of it's many eyes, causing it to jerk due to pain. The tail whipped back, causing Ren to let go and proceed to slam into one of the pillars.
"Ren!" Nora cried out in worry, even Pyrrha looked at the boy in worry but Jaune's eyes lay on the now dangling stinger.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune called, causing the redhead to look at him then to the direction of his gaze. The Goddess immediately realized what he desired her to do.
"Got it!" The Mistralian champion exclaimed before throwing her shield towards the loose stinger, effectively severing it and piercing the scorpion's bone shell in the process.
Lvl 38 Ancient Deathstalker
HP: 3921/5200
"Nora, Nail it!"
"Heads up!" Nora replied as she transformed her weapon into it's hammer form before jumping, sitting on the handle with the head on Pyrrha's shield. In a wonderful show of explosive power, the redhead jumped up at the same time as Nora pulled her trigger. Nora soared through the air before letting of another shot to accelerate her descent, spinning to add more momentum to her finishing strike.
"WABAAM!" Her voice shouted out she smashed the stinger into the beast and sending the two flying due to the bridge giving out at the force of the overhead swing. Pyrrha caught her javelin in time and Jaune aligned his shield towards the grass once more.
-FATAL BLOW-
In big red letters appeared above the Deathstalker as it's health dropped to zero and fell down to the depths of the valley but not before Nora jumped off of the corpse with another explosion.
~You have gained a level~
~You have gained a level~
~You have gained a level~
"ONLY THREE LEVELS!?" Jaune shouted in disbelief, causing Nora and Pyrrah to stare at him in response to his outburst.
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Name: Jaune Arc
Title: Hunter in Training
Lvl: 7
HP: 127/127
MP: 150/150
Aura: 800/800
Str: 15 (+3)
Vit: 10 (+1)
Dex: 8 (+1)
Int: 5 (+1)
Wis: 14
Luk: 11
Points: 12
Money: 2150 Lien
50.7%/100%
Jaune stared at his status window in contemplation as he and his companions walked towards their rendezvous point.
'Apparently, whenever I level up my resource bars are automatically filled. It bothers me how only my Aura scales with my levels and not to mention I only get 3 stats points to distribute every level. Every point of vitality gives me 7 points of HP only and I have no clue how many MP I get for 1 point in INT.'
"That was awesome how you beheaded that giant bird! You were all like zooom! sching! Pam! Pam! Pam!" Jaune's eyes turned towards his companions.
«Golden Beauty»
Lvl 20 Yang Xiao Long
«Red Reaper»
Lvl 19 Ruby Rose
«Hammer of Thunder»
Lvl 20 Nora Valkyrie
«Lie Practicioner»
Lvl 21 Ren Lie
«Lady of Shadows»
Lvl 22 Blake Belladonna
«The Goddess of Victory»
Lvl 24 Pyrrah Nikos
«Schnee Heiress»
Lvl 21 Weiss Schnee
'They all leveled up, The reason I only gained 3 levels despite the huge level difference was probably because the EXP was shared with all of us evenly... Blake got the most levels, is that because she participated in both of the fights?'
+1 Wisdom
'I still don't know enough about this system.' Jaune sighed before he felt a shiver up his spine. Looking around, he saw a pair of golden eyes looking at him in a rather suspecting glint. It was Blake. The blond could only wonder why she was looking at him like that.
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Can anyone guess why Blake is looking at Jaune suspiciously? The next few chapters should free me from a few story arcs for a while which means Jaune can focus on figuring things out.