[You have acquired the skill (Unique)]
'Wha- why did I just get it, tho? Pretty much sure I already had the title
Tapping on his newly acquired skill, a new holographic screen appeared in front of him.
(Passive)
As you venture forth into the unknown, you are bound to find those you can trust and call 'friends'.
The stronger your bond becomes, the stronger you become.
Current Bonds: 0
'F*ck, what do you mean I have no friends!?! Maybe it only counts after I got this skill, and so I have to meet them again so that it registers? Whoever designed this sh*t should go burn in hell, what if I had a friend who had to go to another country? Well not that I do have another friend other than Jake...'
'Hm, by the looks of it, it makes me stronger the more friends I make? I'm so screwed...'
Before Flint could continue to reflect on how he could possibly raise his communication skills without looking like a lunatic, he was pulled away from his thoughts as he noticed a commotion which was happening at the center of the auditorium.
A boy with black hair and glasses was currently yelling with a crazed and manic expression on his face at a girl. He soon grabbed her arm and said, "Tch, if only Irene didn't have an Epic class I wouldn't have had to settle on you. You should be proud to able to be part of my harem!"
Nobody was helping her currently, not because they didn't want to, it's just that four-eyes here spent all his stat points on intelligence (he so graciously kept screaming aloud that he did), and has the Rare class Pyromancer (again, screamed it) so all previous attempts proved futile, especially with the hostage situation essentially taking place, so instead they had silently planned to just gang up on him when he would let down his guard.
'Wouldja look at that? An extremely convenient guinea pig just showed up. Time to test out my luck and pray to RNGesus. Activate
A second later and now 5 cards appeared before him, their backs currently facing him, floating in the air. All of them looked like blank cards.
'Guaranteed rare skill huh, at least I got a trump card now,' and with that thought out of the way, Flint took all five card and heard five 'ding' sounds and looked at the new notifications that appeared.
[You have acquired the Skill Card
[You have acquired the Skill Card
[You have acquired the Skill Card
[You have acquired the Complete Skill Card for
[You have acquired the Skill Card
'Ah, right. I don't have a weapon... so does that means 3 of those cards are currently useless? One can only be used once and is now my trump card and the other is mostly for utility purposes...'
'Well, on the bright side, at least I have a permanent skill, uhh, use the skill card for
[Do you wish to obtain the skill
'Yes'
[You have obtained the skill
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[Deck Inventory has been added to your Inventory]
[
'Wait, what? Open deck #1.'
[Deck #1]
[01/07 card slots have been filled.]
'There's limits to the skills I can use at a given time? Argh, I'll worry about that later.'
'Use
Flint looked at his arms to confirm if the skill worked or not and indeed it did.
'Well, at least I got a backup plan incase Jake failed or got hurt.' Flint knew for a fact that Jake would go and try to save the girl from the hands of this crazy chuuni and so he originally planned to get try to get one magic skill to support Jake from the back but since that's now impossible he'll instead just use
'Just in time,' Flint muttered to himself as he saw Jake go and confront the so-called "chosen one".
"What? Can't you see I'm busy here?" The student said, still focused on the girl and barely paying attention to Jake.
"Dude, grow up man. Leave her alone bro, if you're going to put her in your harem or whatever, don't force her and especially—not in front of the entire school. I mean, you do realize you are severely outnumbered and there are people with better classes here than you, why would they let you just sexually assault a girl?" Although Jake said those words, he knew that his plan would crumble if the chuuni would continue threaten to kill her, so he planned to just be a distraction until backup came.
The chuuni now looked back at Jake and said, "Wait, upon getting a closer look at you, you're starting to look familiar, wait, aren't you that washed up athlete? Hah, do you honestly think I'm stupid enough to make such a commotion with no plan? All I have to do is hold this girl hostage an-" His speech was cut abruptly by a pain he suddenly felt around his nether regions. A pain so great he immediately fainted.
The culprit was not Flint.
It was, in fact, the girl who got harassed. While Jake was distracting the chuuni, she had found an opening and proceeded to kick the family jewels.
Silence filled the auditorium, Flint was glad it worked out and so he deactivated
"Holy hell, man, don't scare me like that. So you got an assassin class or somethin'?"
"Somethin' like that, it was a plan B in case you failed whatever your plan was."
"Well, it worked out in the end. But we probably shouldn't talk about this in the open 'cuz we're currently being stared at and it's starting to give me the creeps."
"What did you expect from pulling that stunt of yours..."
"Yea, yea, let's just go to a corner or whatever and figure out what to do next."
After the two finished talking, Jake waved his hands at the girl and did a thumbs up sign at her, to which she responded by sheepishly nodding her head.
They then went to a corner where there weren't too many students, while they sat down Flint noticed a notification message he received.
[Would you like to form a Bond with Jake Foster?]