Opening his eyes, Flint groaned. He felt pain all over again followed by a sense of déjà vu.
'How long was I out for,' said Flint as he looked at the nearest window, he saw that the sun was still high in the sky, thinking 'Was I unconscious for a few hours? No, that's not right. It also could've been days.'
"Oh, congratulations on waking up first."
"Woah! Uh, what was that just now?" Flint looked around him to find where the voice came from, yet he only saw the bodies of his still unconscious schoolmates.
"Over here."
Flint was astonished at who talked, what greeted his eyes as he was looking up was a mannequin! Well to be exact, it was a faceless mannequin wearing a butler uniform standing on a floating platform.
'What in the actual f*ck?! Could've sworn nobody was there before...'
Flint was terrified to say the least.
"Hey, uh, m-mind telling me wh-what happened h-here?" Flint said to the wannabe-butler while stuttering.
"Hm, well, since you woke up first, might as well tell you. His Majesty simply wished to no longer be bored, so he simply made every human part of his new 'game'. He, well, took 'inspiration' from features found in games on Earth and made them a reality. For example, features such as earning 'experience' from killing or doing certain tasks will now exist. Rejoice, O Humans! Doesn't this seem fun to you?" The mannequin manically stated whilst looking at Flint, eagerly awaiting what his reaction will be.
"Will there be fox girls?" Flint blurted out.
'Sh*t.'
"Excuse me?"
"W-wait ignore what I said, I meant to say will humans still have one life? Or will the revival feature in most games exist? I mean, all games let's you retry, right? It would be pretty insane to remove one of the core features of what makes a game, a 'game', right? Right?"
"I think you know the answer to that. It is the wish of the Supreme One that humans shall bring him a game—with everything on the line so as to encourage everyone to participate in it. Now, isn't that fun?"
Sighing to himself, 'So realistically speaking, us humans are now f*cked, by this 'king' and by monsters that I presume will pop up after we wake up or have already popped up. I mean sure, we get to become powerful and grow stronger and all. But now criminal organizations and corrupt politicians will now become more powerful and power-hungry so it wouldn't be that surprising if a war would break out. Not to mention we now have to live next to f*cking dragons and most cities would be destroyed and the climate would also problably change. A practically unwinnable game.' Flint rubbed his temples while thinking about his future, a sudden realization dawned on him and so he asked the butler mannequin, "You said that it's a 'game' right? So how can humans win? Kill some demon lord or something?"
"You will know the answer in due time if you can survive until we meet again that is, I believe we have to stop this conversation now." The butler replied and pointed at the people in the auditorium as they slowly woke up.
Confusion, fear, and shock were written on almost all the now awake students and faculty members, with some having amazed expressions or even none at all.
Clapping his hands to get everyone's attention, the mannequin told everyone most of the things he already told Flint, with some exceptions. He explained features such as 'classes', certain commands like 'Status', 'Inventory', etc... Most things you'd find in a typical role-playing game.
"Now then, I believe that covers everything. I hope we'll be able to meet again after the 'Tutorial'."
After the mannequin butler said those words, it bowed while leaving behind the words, "Have fun."
And so it disappeared, leaving a bunch of confused students, wannabe-hero students, teachers with grim expressions, and a principle who was having another mid-life crisis.
[Quest log updated]
[Tutorial Quest]
It's the tutorial, how hard could it be?
Quest clear condition(s):
-???
-???
Reward(s):
- 5 extra inventory slots
- 2 week's worth of food and water
- 300 experience points
Penalties upon failure to complete quest:
-The shame of failling the tutorial
- You die. (But you knew that)
'Great, I'm now forced to risk my life just to satiate an unknown person's boredom.'
'Might as well see what class I got, first priority is see what's happening outside, try and figure out the prerequisites of beating this 'Tutorial', leave the school and finally find if that old man's still alive.' Mumbled Flint, who was formulating his next course of actions while his mind was still jumbled up from all the stress of how to even survive in this accursed state of the world.
The situation looked to be extremely hard, harder than making good jokes, even HARDER than what Flint's "little brother" would be if he were to see a real life fox girl. 'Ok, maybe it isn't THAT hard, but still, thinking rationally while cities are possibly getting destroyed is still damn hard. Argh, now's not the time to ramble about your problems dammit, eyes on the prize Flint. Actually maybe if I lucky I might get an epic skill early, get a girfriend and lose my virgini- F*CK, curse this damn horny body of mine. Focus, you just have to say a single f*cking word. Status,' Flint mumbled to himself. He looked like a lunatic to those around him due his rapid change of expressions.
A transparent blue holographic screen appeared in front of him after he said those words.
[Command to show HUD (heads-up display) set to 'Status']
[If you so desire to change it, please visit the 'Settings' function situated at the upper right hand corner of your HUD, the form it takes is that of a wrench]
'Huh. Neat. Does that mean I can change it to 'Open Sesame'?'
After swiping away those messages, his status bar (or HUD) appeared before him.
[Name: Flint Hayzer Birthday: 4th of April]
Class: Cardmancer (Unique)
Title: The Fool (Tap to see details)
[Stats]
STR (strength): 7 (+2) CON (constitution): 7 (+2)
DEF (defense): 6 (+2) DEX (dexterity): 14 (+2)
INT (intelligence): 16 (+2) CHA (charisma): 8 (+2)
WIS (wisdom): 14 (+2) WP (willpower): 11 (+2)
PER (perception): 12 (+2) LCK (luck): 0
Unused stat points: 5 (Note that you can not raise your luck by spending stat points)
[Skills]
Chances of getting a Common Skill Card: 60% (one-time use) 20% (permanent)
Chances of getting an Uncommon Skill Card: 30% (one-time use) 15% (permanent)
Chances of getting a Rare Skill card: 10% (one-time use) 1% (permanent)
Chances of getting an Epic Skill Card: 0.1% (one-time use) 0.01% (permanent)
Chances of getting a Legendary Skill Card: 0.00001% (one-time use) 0.0000001% (permanent)
(If you spend 1 LCK stat point, you will receive 10 skill cards with one guaranteed Rare skill or higher!)
(If you spend 5 stat points of any other type, you will summon 5 Skill Cards with one guaranteed Uncommon class skill or higher!)
Beginner's Gift currently in effect: the first 5 stat points used will produce 1 Rare or higher Skill Card guaranteed! (will no longer be in effect after the first 5 stats points used)
Note: 10 is the average stat for a human (the only exception being luck).
'What. The. F*ck.' Flint was thoroughly confused with his class.
'Now it's also a gacha?! It's like a game within a game, a gameception? Also what the hell is with this title?'
'Eh, since it probably gave me +2 to my stats I won't complain, after all who doesn't like free stuff. Also why is my physical stats below average? Although I'm not good at PE (physical education), I'm also not particularly bad at it. Maybe by "the average human", it means the average human adult? But why not just tell it instead of making people think that they suck dogwater... or maybe I do suck.'
After he tapped the title, a new holographic screen appeared before him.
[The Fool]
A brand new life awaits you, take hold and brace yourself for the leap of faith.
Title Effects:
- +2 to stats (except LCK)
- Gain an extra unused stat point after every Level Up
- ??? (Locked)
- ??? (Locked)
- ??? (Locked)
'Talk about vague, huh.'
But right after he closed the screen, a new one had appeared.
[You have acquired the skill ]
Author's note: the numbers with parentheses represent the stats he gained from items/titles, while the ones without are his 'base stats'. Also it doesn't mean he had an original strength stat of 5 but then got it raised to 7 due to his title, in case there were any confusion.