Everyone was silent and shocked, their eyes filled with confusion and mockery, all thinking the same thing as Amadeus. The girl, a bit afraid of Jax, kept talking, "Please, can you stop? He had..." But she was cut off mid-sentence by Jax''s menacing smile. "No.99998, didn''t I say, no one cuts me off?"


    The girl shivered, knowing what was coming next. But Amadeus intervened at the last second. "Calibrator Jax, if you excuse my interference, No.99998 didn''t cut you off since you weren''t talking for a while."


    With each word from Amadeus, Jax''s silent smile grew more menacing. But Amadeus finished with complete confidence. "And are you even allowed to do this? Since you''re only a manager of this tutorial, does that give you the right to kill the participant?"


    Jax remained silent, his smile unfaltering, as Amadeus closely watched his reaction. "Now show me how much you can interfere in this tutorial," Amadeus thought.


    Jax''s expression suddenly lightened up. He then looked at the boy and said, "Of course, I won''t kill him, because that would be against the rules."


    With that, the boy stopped trembling and returned to his original state, puking and coughing. Jax started laughing loudly, "Look, he''s alright, and you could say I haven''t touched a hair on his body."


    "So he''s really just an observer, and what he did to that boy wasn''t supposed to happen," Amadeus thought. "Good, then I won''t have to worry about him toying with us in the tutorial."


    The girl looked at Amadeus with confused eyes, "Why did he do that? Maybe he''s just a good guy."


    Jax turned to the boy, "Are you alright? Can you listen to what I am going to say?" The boy barely managed to nod, which pleased Jax. He continued, explaining the tutorial.


    The mission is to survive three monster waves that will get harder each time. You need to contribute at least 10%, which means dealing 10% of the overall damage. The tutorial has two main areas: The Barrier, which is safe, and the Deep Forest, filled with monsters, and staying in the Deep Forest at night is considered suicide, finally This is a team-based tutorial were participants have to help each other.


    Amadeus''s mind filled with thoughts as he tried to make sense of the situation.


    This tutorial was designed for ten or fewer participants, forcing fierce competition for monster kills due to the 10% contribution requirement and The ability reward based on performance will only make things more intense so if a person claim 40% of the contribution and dominate the tutorial.


    4 places will be taken by a single participants stealing the chance of other participants to complete the tutorial.


    So, Calling it a team-based tutorial was laughable, as it felt more like a battle royale for contribution points.


    Jax then said " Now i will give you chance to looke at your stats "


    Jax snapped his fingers, and the system screens appeared.


    [User Amadeus Stats]


    Health: LV 0 / 10


    Mana: LV 0 / 10


    Endurance: LV 0 / 10


    Strength: LV 0 / 10


    Agility: LV 0 / 10


    Intelligence: LV 0 / 10


    "Level 0 in everything! Is that normal?" Amadeus thought. Everyone was confused about their levels, and Jax noticed their confusion so he explained to them.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    Jax said "It must be hard for you to understand these stats".then he explained to them.


    The levels indicate how you compare to the average human. Level 1 means you''re equal to an average human. Level 2 means you''re twice as strong as an average human, and This applies to all stats.


    And the reason why the level is based on humans and not elves, beast men, or any other species is because humans are the most numerous and generally considered the weakest among all races. So, it makes sense to use them as the baseline for comparison.


    Amadeus was shocked, "Wait, he didn''t mention level 0. Does that mean the minimum is 1? Then I have half the stats of an average human!"


    The elf girl asked, "How do we raise our level?" Jax smirked, "With points, of course."


    "Points? What''s that?".


    "For now, just know it''s something you''ll be rewarded for killing monsters. For more information, you can look at your database later ".


    Amadeus observed the others'' reactions.


    The beast man was happy and shouting, "That''s what I expected from my body!" Others had poker faces, hiding their reactions.


    " that''s is expected, the weak dont want to let others know his weak and the strong dont want to show there true power " thought Amadeus completely ignoring the idiot beast man that clearly got good stats.


    " now all i have to do is hide that my stats are all level 0 as much as i can, because if they found out, i will be everyone''s primary target ".


    Jax smiled demonically, "Look at them trying to hide their stats. But that won''t do because this is a team-based tutorial."


    Jax looked at the participants and thought " maybe there just shy people, and as the one responsible for this tutorial i have to help them, right".


    Jax clapped his hands, "Everyone, I have seen that you''re struggling, so I decided to help out of my kindness." Amadeus thought, "No, don''t tell me he''s going to do that."


    Snap!


    Jax snapped his fingers in Bothe hands, making the system screens that were blank, now became full of visible informations. "Isn''t this much better? Now you can easily get to know each other and create teams."


    Jax waved his hand, and a system screen appeared with a 1-minute countdown. "I will give you 1 minute to get familiar with each other, then I will go, and the tutorial will start."


    Amadeus clenched his teeth in frustration, "Get familiar? He''s clearly pushing us to kill each other."


    He looked back at the others, all staring at him with both confusion and mockery, which was expected because now he was the weakest of them all.


    Amadeus thought, " I have no time to waste. First, let''s look at their stats and find a plan."


    from what Amadeus concluded that level 1 is truly the minimum since none of the 14 other participants had a stat lower then level 1 but some of them even had stats that are level 2 and even level 3 which to Amadeus who was level 0, there power was incomparable and the chance of him wining in a fight against them is 0.


    Amadeus began memorizing the other participants'' stats. Most had level 1 stats, but some stood out:


    -Vegaz, the beast man, had level 3 Strength and Health.


    -Nienna, the elf girl, had level 3 Mana and Intelligence.


    -Albus, the lazy gloomy boy, had level 3 Agility and Endurance.


    these three were the strongest between all the participants.


    then came the ones just blow the strongest.


    -Ixer, the boy punished by Jax, had level 2 Agility and Health.


    -Lexia, the pink haired noble girl, had level 2 Strength and Agility.


    Then there were the weak, 5 participants with just one level 2 stat, and the weakest, 4 participants with all stats at level 1.


    finally, the weakest of the weakest.


    there was only one, a participent who had all his stats at level 0 his name is Amadeus.


    Jax suddenly said " think of this is a gift from my to you" then he snapped his fingers and everyone get a random weapon in there hand, the weapons were normal iron swords, axes, bow, dagger, magic wand.


    - Vegaz got a dagger which he seemed unhappy about.


    - Nienna got a sword which she was barely able to hold with her level 1 strength.


    - Albus got a dagger which he immediately started doing trick with showing his familiarity with that type of weapon.


    - ixer got a bow that seemed perfect for him since he started adjusting it to suite him.


    - lexia got a long sword that she started examining it a bit then she praised it quality showing here experience with swords.


    and finally Amadeus who get a small wooden club " is this a joke " he thought and suddenly the system appeared.


    [Notification]


    -Since you don''t meet the minimum stats requirements for using the small wooden club, you will be unable to deal damage with it until you meet the stats requirements.


    -Do you want to unequip the small wooden club?


    "Things are just getting better and better," Amadeus thought as he unequipped the club.


    Ten seconds left.


    Jax said as he was getting ready to leave "I guess you all got to know each other, then My work here is done."


    Amadeus thought keeping a calm mind "As soon as he leaves, they will start. But if everything goes as I expect, I will survive the beginning of the tutorial."


    Jax started turning into rays of white light, slowly disappearing with everyone awaiting the moment he will leave.


    all that was left from Jax was his face as he smiled and said " i am whishing you the best of luck, because you will need it " with that Jax completely despaired.


    The timer reached 0, and the tutorial officially began.