After the main weapon selection, second period is free. Eight students were gathered in a back row. there were few arrogant delinquent-like manner, laughing loudly at even the smallest thing. They stole glance at the one who called them over. But the person in remained silent as he couldn`t care anything.
"Oh right, Horak, isn`t there a gun user in your class?"
One man asked him. Kim Horak opened his eyes narrowly and stared at him.
"... Um, I just heard it from somewhere. Did I hear wrong?"
"I don`t know. I`m not interested in trash."
"R-Right. I`m not really interested either, but I was just curious who the fool was, haha."
"Oh, You sure are curious about the strangest thing~"
A voice cut through. The man turned his head and saw a long-haired girl smiling charmingly. It was Yoo Jinah. feeling his heart beating, the flustered man blushed out.
"O-Oh, Jinah. Y-You know, I was taking about the gun user."
"Gun user? Oh right, What was his name ? Anyways, don`t pay too much attention to him."
"But he sure was pathetic. Why did that son of a bitch come all the way to Square academy, If he was going to choose a gun?"
The foul lauguage came from Kim Joongho. Bulky muscles, an intimidating expression, and a large physique. Even with just one glance, it was easy to see that he specialized in close ranged combat.
"You know him?" the man asked.
"I`m in Horak`s class, idiot. I`m definitely going to destroy him in combat training."
Everyone knew Square academy`s schedule. There were classes five days a week and combat training three days a week.
Classes consisted of Comprehensive Magic power training and physical training, While combat training referred to battles, monster hunts, rescue missions, and more.
"I`ll destroy that son of a-"
"Don`t waste your time."
With a single sentence, Kim Horak cut down his talk. Kim Joongho, Who was growling just a moment ago, fell silent.
"Even If you win against someone so low rank, you`ll be the one losing points. It`s better to challenge higher ranked students who you can win against for sure. For example-"
"Lee Sangah, try fighting her. I`m sure you`ll win."
Yoo Jinah cut in. Kim Horak narrowed his eyes and glared at her, but yoo Jinah continued.
"Fist against bow. It`s easy"
".. Huh? Ah, yeah, I can win,But…"
Challenging her was difficult.
However, he swallowed his words, wanting to look good in front of yoo Jinah.
"But?"
"… It would be too pitful. You know, my opponents often end up half-dead."
"There nothing wrong with that."
"Huh?"
"Stop."
"…"
"…"
Kim Horak stopped their converstion.
Though Yoo Jinah was displeased, She quietly suppressed the unpleasant feeling rising from the corner of her heart.
'Kim Horak liked Yoo Sangah. I`m not so stupid as to be jealous. I just found the situation funny' Yoo Jinah consoled herself.
****
Five minutes away from dorm were a training facility called 'Fitness Center'. This 1000 square meter facility was filled with magical devices and equipment for exercise and training. The amount of money needed to construct such an environment would be well over a hundred million won, there were barely anyone using the facility.
But just because the training facility was empty, It didn`t mean the future heroes was bleak.
While students were would be heroes, they would come to receive the admiration and envy of billions of people, They are still teenagers. Simply put, there weren`t many students willing to go out of their way to train on the first day.
"Ah, I knew you`d be here."
But there are also exception who likes training. Yoo Jinhyuk, the main character.
"Lee Sangah? You`re also here to train?"
"Yeah, but I won`t be as barbaric as you."
With a wry smile, Lee Sangah pointed at the gravitation room. Seeing the terrifying cylindrical room, Yoo Jinhyuk asked.
"That`s a tough one. I can only last long in there for 1 hour."
Yoo Jinhyuk wiped his sweat with a towel he bought.
"Well, that`s not hard for me. I`m an archer, so I need to train in there. I`ve been doing it since I was 8."
"8 years old?"
"Yep. I have one in my house."
Setting up a gravitation room cost several hundreds of millions of won at least. Well Lee Sangah came from a very wealthy background.
Just like Kim Horak, Lee Sangah was also came from richest family. But rather then a twisted inferiority complex , She carried a righteous sense of rivalry. She believed she could surpass her rivals through hard-work and self- cultivation. But in front of the monsters, her belief always seemed to waver.
"Oh, right. There`s another shooter in our class now." Yoo Jinhyuk said.
"Shooter? Oh, that Gun guy?"
"Uh, yeah, him… What`s up with that look? Do you not like him?"
Lee Sangah`s face was stiffening frighteningly.
"He can barely shoot a range of 1km. Shooter my ass. Why the hell he have to change sword to gun, after coming this academy. In this academy, If you don`t get good grades, you`ll fall behind. I think he just going to gave up."
"Gave up? Don`t say stuff like that so rashly."
"…"
For a moment, slight anger emerged from Lee Sangah`s eyes.
"Who are you to tell me what to do and what not to do? I don`t want to hear your nagging!!"
Yoo Jinhyuk`s teaching tone didn`t work because she thinks him as her rival.
"… sorry."
****
Inside my apartment, I sitting on sofa with smartphone in my hand.
'Is someone talking about me? People talking behind my back also increase my MSP!'
I checked my current MSP.
[current MSP: 10,450]
Anyways, since the main character Yoo Jinhyuk had most powerful main ability 'Legendary Swordsman'. So, I have to powerful main ability too.
[The first Main Ability writing takes 10,000 MSP] ⪧(Yes/No)
"10,000 MSP?! I shouted.
'Damn it.'
I clicked yes button.
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[Master sharpshooter]
—[Growth-Type skill]
—[Ability proficiency: 20/100%]
[Null attribute]
⪧Bullet time- You can stop you surrounding 1 minutes with 'bullet time', charging every 4 hours.
⪧Deadeye`s skill- Proficiency in all long range weapons.
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[Your New Main Ability: Master Sharpshooter]
'All long range weapon, Huh… Pretty good. that means not just guns, but bows as well.'
Plus, It`s a 'growth type'. It may be low percentage now, but it can be raised. Well Yoo Jinhyuk ability more powerful than this though.
'…This is much better abililty for extra like me.'
"Huu." I sighed.
"Now I feel ready."
****
Sunday middle of the night, I got out of my apartment. The handgun in my pocket rattled uncomfortably, but I couldn`t do anything about it without holster.
My desination was the shooting range.
The shooting range was dome shaped building consisting of 20 training rooms. The targets were oddly distributed around where the shooter would stand. This was because unlike bullets, magic arrows could easily change their trajectory.
[Rank 920, Kim Hojin, confirmed.]
When held my smartwatch against the shooting range`s entrance, an unfamiliar robotic voice called my names. Well, now that I think about it I`m rank 920 in 1000 students…
"…"
I walked inside. Past the wide circular lobby, there were ten doors evenly separated from each other. I held up my smartwatch against one of them.
The door opened. The shooting range looked simple. At the centre of the 130 –square meter circular space was a scaffolding for the shooter. I walked towards the center. When I placed my feet on the scaffolding, a courteous robotic voice rang out from the ceiling.
[Initializing targets. Choose the number of the targets you want.]
[You must choose at least 4 and can choose at most 20.]
"Ten."
My voice rang through, and insect like blue objects popped up from the ground.
I looked at the targets. A monster that was considered a monster, mole cricket. They were similar to mole crickets everyone knew, the only difference being that they were much bigger.
[Choose your training difficulty.]
[You can choose from stage 1 to stage 9.]
"Stage 4."
First, I set the difficulty to stage 4 and load my magic bullets. If I was skilled in handling magic power, I should be able to compress magic power into bullets without having to get physical bullets, but the current me didn`t have such talents. And even If I could do such a thing, using a bow was much more destructive and efficient.
"Start."
First, I noticed the robot to start and aimed my gun at the targets.
The slowly moving mole cricket seemed to have noticed my hostility as it began to speed up. It scuttled around without a set movement pattern, but I could see its trajectory. It was like I was seeing an afterimage, but of its path.
Predicting its movement by a step, I pulled the trigger.
Bang.
A blue flare shout up from the barrel. There was loud noise like the guns from earth. Leaving the barrel, the bullet should pierce the mole cricket.
I didn`t bother to check the result with my eyes. The moment the bullet went out, I moved on to the next target and fired. My hands moved on its own.
One, two, three, four,… ten.
The trigger was pulled ten times, and the mole crickets that were struck scattered into particles of mana.
Only two targets missed.
"Oho."
I was quite impressed.
Just by writing a ability, I managed to hit all the mole crickets expect from two.
[Your training ended. Time: 1.40 seconds. Shooting score: 80/100]
In just 1.40 seconds?
"… This is pretty fun."
An eternal truth. The better you are at something, the more fun it is. It was fun because you were good at it.
Feeling like I was at an arcade, I shouted 'start' once more.
At about 3 A.M., I stopped my shooting practice.
An another eternal truth. No matter how fun it is, doing it twenty times makes it boring.
****
[Shooting training increases your ability proficiency by 3%]
[Repeated sharpshooting training increases your ability proficiency by 2.9%]
['Luck' applies! Your ability proficiency increase by 0.1%]
…
…
The training was increased my ability proficiency by 24.9%. And the luck also give 0.1%.
[Ability Proficiency: 25%]
"Mm, perfect."
The more I though about it, the better my ability seemed, Especially in how it applied to 'all long ranged weapons'.
Currently, it was easier to raise ability proficiency with a gun than a bow, but since a bow was stronger, I would have to switch to it eventually.
"But what`s up with the MSP?"
[You obtained 1 MSP]
[You obtained 1 MSP]
[An first ability! You obtained 1 bouns MSP]
[You obtained 1 MSP]
After practicing for twenty rounds, I only obtained 5 MSP. Choosing a gun as my main weapon gave me 30 MSP, meaning showing off and standing out gave more MSP than quietly training.
"Tsk, Why the hell I have to showing off and standing out?"
Although I only received a tiny bit of sp, I still had a use for it.
The combat training was tomorrow. To obtain even the tiniest amount of MSP, I need to make up for my lacking physical abilities.
The biggest problem was stamina. My stamina points lower than ordinary person. I don`t know how to increase stats points, well I think I need to tranining.
Well, I think I need to create skill.
I took out my smartphone and began to write skill.
[This skill writing takes 100MSP] ⪧(Yes/No).
I clicked yes.
After 2 mintues.
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[Special Sneakers]
—Special Sneakers. Contains a mystical power.
*Add 3 points into stamina and agility.
*When the wearer desires, this skill gives user overpower stamina and agility for 30 minutes. After use, this skill cannot used again for 30 minutes.
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"Oh, It worked!"
To save MSP, I put restrictions, a 1 hour overpower stamina and agility, this skill takes 30 minutes to charge.