《Divine Hack System》 Chapter 1 01 - Awaken Chapter 1 01 - Awaken "Go boy, you just need to cut off his head," a 30-year-old man dressed in a military uniform told an 18-year-old next to him as he pointed to a mutated cow lying panting on the ground. The boy looked at the cow and took a deep breath. He thought he was prepared for this life. He had tried to prepare himself as best he could by watching videos of people killing monsters like this beforehand, but having to do it in person waspletely different from seeing an online video of someone doing it. After 5 seconds of taking deep breaths, the boy finally squeezed the knife in his hand and approached the half-dead cow on the ground. Without even blinking, the boy drove the knife into the cow''s head as he forced his eyes to stay open and see exactly what he was doing. Finally, 4 seconds after he stuck the knife in the cow''s head, she stopped breathing. [You have sessfully killed a monster. Your talent will be decided based on your life experiences within 2 hours.] A message appeared on a floating screen in front of the boy, and as soon as that message appeared, the boy finally cracked a smile on his face as he turned to look at the surrounding soldiers. "I can tell from your smile that the message appeared, right?" the soldier who spoke to him earlier said with a smile. "Yeah," the boy responded excitedly. "Very well. How long until your talent will be decided?" the soldier asked, as hispanions began to dismantle the cow to remove any valuable materials. "The message said it will take two hours," the boy replied. "Two hoursˇ­ is neither long nor short; hope it''s something useful," the soldier said before helping hisrades to cut up the cow for materials. The boy watched from afar, watching them doing this to learn as much as possible, since the next time he was going to go through something simr, he would have to do it alone. The boy''s name was Leonardo, although almost everyone called him Leo. The world Leo lived in began to be invaded by monsters hundreds of years ago, causing the world to descend into chaos. To deal with this, governments began to start calling in reservists to help deal with the monsters, but while weak monsters would die to ordinary knives and ammo, the more powerful monsters were tougher and needed something different to be able to kill them. Years passed and the world economy began to deteriorate, until 3 years after the emergence of monsters, some soldiers who killed monsters managed to awaken special abilities, and these abilities were able to evolve enough so that these people could kill the most powerful monsters. So the governments of the major countries began to call these people "Awakened", because they managed to awaken powers to protect humanity. Even people who weren''t soldiers could be empowered through awakening and be able to fight monsters. To encourage such people, the governments started buying valuable monster parts to create weapons capable of killing the most powerful monsters, thus giving rise to an extremely dangerous new job, but equally profitable. Children who once dreamed of being singers, doctors, or judges now dreamed of bing powerful "Awakened" so they could kill monsters and be famous. Leo was one of those kids in this generation, who was caught up with the idea of ??bing a powerful, famous, and rich Awakened one day, mainly because his older sister had be a powerful Awakened One with high rank in the army. However, she had mysteriously disappeared while invading a tinum Level Area of Danger (P.L.A.D). Both Leo and his family were horrified by this news, but it only made Leo''s conviction grow even greater to be an Awakened One, no longer for fame and glory, but rather to discover the truth of what had happened to his sister. Sadly, because of the tragedy of having lost their daughter, Leo''s parents died a few years after his sister disappeared, leaving the boy alone in this world, with only the conviction of finding what became of his sister one day. Now, Leo has taken his first step towards bing an Awakened: kill a monster. He would need to wait two hours to know what his quirk would be, but since his sister had received a powerful quirk, he knew he could too. While normal people had to venture out of cities alone to kill monsters, or pay Awakened to protect them, army soldiers had a duty to help other soldiers'' families awaken, so for Leo it was much easier. Usually this is a task given to the family members themselves, but with what had happened to Leo''s sister, other soldiers were sent to help him in her ce. The soldiers'' job to disassemble the cow was quick, as this was just a Bronze 1 Star monster, one of the weakest monsters out there, which made this type of monster ideal for helping ordinary people awaken. The only truly valuable thing on this cow was the horns, which could be sold for around $100 a pair to anyone interested in making a weapon; the rest was practically useless. Monster meat was not edible for humans, but other monsters could eat it and get stronger, so they just left the cow corpse there so as not topletely mess up the monster ecosystem in that location. After all, it was one of the best ces to awaken people. After the soldiers finished dissecting the Mutant Cow, the three returned with Leo to the city. "Remember, even if your Awakened quirk isn''t that powerful initially, don''t give up and build your strength little by little. One day you might be able to be a Silver Awakened, or even a Gold Awakened," the Soldier said to Leo with a smile on his face. That soldier was a Bronze 5 Stars Awakened. After reaching 5 Stars, a person would only need to make one more advancement before moving up to a Silver 1 Star Awakened, which would give a significant improvement to that person''s strength, as well as the ability to call up their Status and many other bonuses afforded to humanity, but most people never managed to achieve this in their lifetime, obliged to remain a Bronze 5 Star for the rest of their lives. "Alright, I''m in no hurry," Leo said with a calm smile on his face, pretending not to worry too much about it, but deep down he knew he needed urgent strength, as every second he spent weak here meant his sister was more likely to die wherever she was. "Very well boy, good luck. If you need me you can call me. Your sister already saved my ass once a few years ago. As my strength wouldn''t help her much, I couldn''t repay this debt to her, but with you I can still be a little helpful, haha," the man said as he waved his arm and left. Leo smiled at the man and returned home with his heart warmed by the man''s concerns. The youth lived in a rented apartment, the rent on the apartment being paid by the army because of his sister, but aside from the rent and a small allowance, Leo didn''t have much money left. All these years he had lived alone without much luxury, just studying about awakening: how to improve, get stronger, efficient ways to evolve, that kind of thing. But after experiencing a real fight, he knew that everything he''d studied wasn''t as useful as he originally thought. Curious, Leo looked at the screen he could now call up again. [You have sessfully killed a monster. Your talent will be decided based on your life experiences within 1 hour and 12 minutes.] It only took the group 50 minutes to get back from where they were until they got home, so there was still a little time left. In that remaining time, Leo decided to take a hot shower and watch some videos about Awakened to make the time go by faster. Unfortunately, his anxiety wasn''t letting him. Every 30 seconds Leo kept looking at the screen seeing how much time had passed to see what his quirk would be. After what seemed like an eternity, Leo couldn''t take it anymore and tried to y a video game he''d bought. He was toozy to think too much while ying and didn''t like to focus too much on getting better at an online game, so he just bought a hack for that game and was killing people through cheating to pass the time. p??d? n?ve? By the end of the match, Leo had killed 46 people and had not died once, earning him the MVP of the game. In the game chat, people were cursing him for knowing he was using illegal programs, and saying they would report him so he would lose his ount, but none of that affected Leo. If he really had the free time to dedicate himself to this game to improve at it, he''d do better to stop ying it and use his time to study Awakened to get stronger in something really worthwhile. Finally, the message changed drastically while he was ying. [You have sessfully killed a monster. Your talent will be decided based on your life experiences within 3 minutes.] There were only a few minutes left. Leo was excited, but when he looked again, the message changed to something strange. [You have sessfully killed a MoNsTeR... Your tnt will be DeCiDeD... based on your efil.... experiences... within 2 minutes.] "What''s going on?!" Leo yelled in shock. Without thinking twice he searched the inte about this phenomenon, but there was no response from a simr case. "Shit, don''t tell me the system crashed right now for me and something bad could happen?!" Leo was startled as he saw this strange message floating in front of his eyes. [You have... SuCeSsFuLly..... dellik a.... monster. Your tAlEnT..... will be decided... based on your.... life seirepxe... within 1 minutes.] Chapter 2 02 - Hack System Chapter 2 02 - Hack System Leo''s heart was racing. He was worried that something really bad could happen to him because of how buggy the message on the screen was, but he couldn''t do anything to fix it. The only thing he could do is wait and see what that would turn out to be. Finally, the remaining 60 seconds passed and another message appeared. [Your life experiences have beenˇ­ AnAlYzEdˇ­ Your fun in abusing the system to gain illegal advantagesˇ­ ErRoRˇ­ SECURITY PROTOCOL, SYSTEM RISK INITIATEDˇ­ SECURITY PROTOCOL 01 fAiLeDˇ­ STARTING SECURITY PROTOCOL 02ˇ­ Sess! Your skill has been defined.] "Have I triggered a security protocol?" Leo''s mouth dropped open in shock. He didn''t even know there was a security protocol in the system. It was never made public, and the worst part, he hadn''t even done anything to trigger it. "Maybe it''s because I only have fun ying games when I use hacks?" Leo was speechless after deducing this. "Has it at least been resolved?" Curious, Leo called up the status screen to see the changes that had urred to him. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rank: Bronze 1 Star Talent: Hack Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv. 01: In a 10 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Avable Quirks: Wall-Hack (500 Evolution Points), Speed-Hack (1,000 Evolution Points), ?????? (?????? Evolution Points)] Leo looked at his system and was shocked by what he saw. The skill he unlocked was really rted to the hacks he used to y - something that wasn''t uneptable, as other than studying Awakened, that was the only thing he did for fun. But by using these skills so much in games, Leo knew how strong these skills were, to the point where he could kill 46 people in one game and not die once. Even ying MMORPG games where people had even stronger skills, there were hacks that allowed him to dominate other people with ease as well. "Apparently I only have FPS Game Hacks. Maybe that''s just for now, but this alone is already great!" Leo got very excited as he looked at his abilities, but there was still something that confused him. "System, turn on beginner''s question mode," Leo said out loud. [Beginner query mode activated. During the next hour the system will answer all user queries. After the end of that time, the system will not answer any more questions.] This mode was something that helped the newly Awakened a lot when the system appeared, but over time it became more and more useless, since all the questions anyone might ask usually already had answers on the inte. However, for Leo it was essential now. He saw that there were different things in his System that he needed to rify. "What does Avable Quirks mean?" Leo asked, confused. He knew that normal people didn''t even know what skills they might unlockter, but for him they showed up, and it even came at a price for him to do so. [Because of an Error initializing System connection to user, User System needed to be updated to version 2.0, which is not yet avable to other people on this due to Error Recovering Data. To be fixed in Timestamp Error. Avable Quirks is a method where the user can unlock other quirks at the cost of Evolution points.] Leo was shocked to hear this news. Probably no one in the world knew that their system was still at version 1.0 and that someone on Earth had already unlocked a version 2.0! "How do I get Evolution Points?" Leo asked with a frown. [By killing monsters the user receives Experience Points, which can be used to level up or be converted to Evolution Points to level up Quirks and unlock new Quirks.] Now Leo was shocked. It wasmon knowledge that when killing monsters, Awakened would level up. Rising from Bronze 1 Star to Bronze 2 Stars after killing a decent number of monsters, but no one ever heard that Quirks could also be evolved that way! Even though it would dy a person from leveling up in the short term, with more powerful quirks it would be easier to kill more powerful monsters and consequently rise to even higher levels in the future. ˇ­ Leo spent the rest of the 60 minutes asking the System questions about things he had doubts about and the answers were very satisfying. He knew he had an advantage that no one else in the world had, and he would use that advantage to outshine everyone else. "Let''s test this skill," Leo told himself as he held a pen. Looking around his living room, Leo took a sheet of paper and drew a target on it with his pen, then ced the paper with the target on a chair and walked away a few feet. Leo focused and activated the Aim-Bot Quirk. As soon as he activated the quirk and focused on hitting the bull''s-eye on the sheet of paper, his arm started moving by itself until it stopped in position to throw the pen. He just thought of throwing the pen at the target and his arm had already done that by itself! Swooosh! With a startled look, Leo saw the pen fly across the room at terrifying speed, before he heard the ripping sound of paper. Not believing what he was seeing, Leo ran to the sheet of paper and saw that the pen had gone right through the dot in the center of the target! "This is amazing!" Leo yelled in shock as he looked at the pen that went through half the paper. p??d? n?ve? He knew that if he tried to do this before getting the skill, he would still be able to hit the paper but maybe not even hit the target. "Let''s try further." Leo said as he dragged the chair across the room to his apartment and put the paper back in the same ce. This time he moved to the end of the hallway that led to the bathroom to try to get as far apart as possible. As the apartments provided by the military were not too small, Leo managed to clear a distance of 12 meters from the paper. Swooosh! After the same processes, the pen flew out of Leo''s hand and through the paper again, but when he got closer, he saw that this time the pen had missed the center of the target by 2 cm. "So the further away, the less urateˇ­" Leo said to himself as he analyzed the ce the pen went through. After that, Leo decided to try a more daring idea. He ced the pen hanging on the other side of the chair. He backed up a few steps and used the skill again. Swoosh, peng, pengˇ­ This time the pen flew out of Leo''s hand with even more force, hit the wall sideways, bounced off the window andnded perfectly in the center of the target. If Leo was surprised before, now he waspletely stunned. "With Aim-Bot I can hit any target I know of within this small space, but if I have Wall-Hack, how strong will that be, I wonder?" Leo looked at his hands in amazement as he thought of the infinite possibilities of what he could do with that power. As much as people with Fire or Ice Quirks could seem very shy, dazzling, and powerful, Leo knew that his discreet Hack ability had far greater potential than those abilities. "The 10 meters range for now is a small limitation, but if I get enough Exp from killing monsters, the range of this skill can probably be improved!" Leo said excitedly. Leo didn''t think twice and left the house to buy supplies. He was determined to kill at least one monster the next day. Despite having little money, Leo managed to buy some useful weapons for himself to use. With the money he had, he wouldn''t be able to buy a bow to shoot monsters from afar, so Leo bought 3 throwing knives and some camouged clothes. The rest of the night he spent ying with the knives and testing the limits of his skill until bedtime. The next day Leo took a shower to get rid of the residual sleep in his body, ate a hearty breakfast, and went hunting. Leaving home with a Quirk now changed Leo''s worldview. Before, he just walked down the street with his head down, looking at his cell phone, trying to study as many things about the Awakened as possible, but now he was looking ahead, feeling confident, and subconsciously sifting through possible targets he could take out with his skill. The three knives were strapped to his waist, two on his right and one on his left. As much as he could hit targets with either hand, being right-handed, his right arm could throw knives harder, so he only carried a knife for his left hand in case of an emergency. Upon arriving at the city gate, the guards looked at him with a confused expression, as Leo was very young. "Do you want to awaken your Quirk, boy?" a guard asked. "I awoke yesterday. I''m actually leaving to practice my skill," Leo replied calmly. The guard looked at Leo suspiciously, but after Leo projected a screen in front of him with his name on it, the guard finally believed the boy and let him through. The system screen had an option that allowed one to project their screen just for one person to see, project for multiple others to see, or project for others to see just what they themselves want. Leo only allowed his name to be visible, and with that he was already allowed to leave town unapanied. "Those Bronze 1 Star kids are very reckless. So many boys his age die because they just unlocked their skill and think they''re powerfulˇ­" the soldier sighed toward hispanion. "Even though I''m Bronze 3 Stars, I''m still trying to get out of town alone. These kids have no sense of danger," the other soldier also sighed. Unlike what they imagined, Leo did have themon sense to know that it was dangerous to leave the city, but he still left because he needed to get Exp points to level up his skills, and with how much he studied, he was confident that he could do it safely. ''Monsters, here Ie,'' Leo said mentally as he walked into the forest outside of town. Chapter 3 03 - Aim-Bot Lv2 Chapter 3 03 - Aim-Bot Lv2 Leo has been hiding for 10 minutes in the same ce, trying to control his breathing so he didn''t make so much noise. p??d? n?ve? He had returned to the area where the mutant cow had been. These cows were the weakest monsters around the city, and he wasn''t going to actively seek to put himself in danger to try out his skill just yet. Five minutester, still hidden, Leo heard the sound of a cowing towards him, but soon afterward he heard another footstep, probably also another cow. ''It''s two cowsˇ­ As long as they get close enough, I think I can handle them in a short time,'' Leo thought as he looked around to find the cows. A few secondster the cows approached, but not close enough. By Leo''s calctions, one cow was 50 feet from his position and the other was approximately 60 feet. But as they stopped to eat some grass on the ground, they would probably stay there for a long time. ''I need to act. I can''t wait for who knows how many hours for them toe to me,'' Leo thought, and jumped from where he was towards the cows with a knife in each hand. The cows were startled by the noise and looked in his direction. Seeing that it was just a human, the mutated cows were unafraid and ran together towards Leo. 14 metersˇ­ 12 metersˇ­ 10 meters! When Leo got within 10 meters of the first cow, without so much as a second thought he activated the Aim-Bot and threw one of his knives, aiming at the cow''s eye as hard as he could. Swoosh! The knife flew at high speed towards the cow, but that didn''t make Leo slow down. Quite the contrary, he ran even faster towards the other cow without even taking the time to follow the projection of the knife that he had thrown. 13 metersˇ­ 11 metersˇ­ 10 meters! Moooooooooooo! When Leo got within 10 meters of the other cow that was also running towards him, he heard the scream of the first cow and threw the knife from his left hand, also aiming at that other cow''s eye. This time he had enough time to pay attention to the trajectory of the knife, and in less than one second the knife went through the eye of this other cow and kept going deep until it hit the monster''s brain. It took another second for this cow to understand what was happening and scream in pain as she fell to the ground. Leo looked down at his hands and saw that both were shaking nonstop. "Adrenalineˇ­" Leo said with a smile on his face when he realized what he had just done. Because of the adrenaline from danger his body did exactly what he was imagining, and he managed to kill the two mutated cows very easily. Even though these cows were just Bronze 1 Star monsters, still for an average person they would have been very difficult monsters to deal with without a Quirk. Even for Leo, if he didn''t hit these cows in the eyes, their thick hide wouldn''t be much affected by those thin throwing knives he bought. "The investment was worth it," he said with a smile as he took the knives from the monsters'' heads and started to cut the skin off their temples to rip off the horns. He spent $200 buying his knife kit and camouge outfit, and by selling those horns he would already get his money back for everything he spent. But he wasn''t satisfied; he wanted more! [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star. You received 10 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star. You received 10 Experience Points.] Looking at the pair of floating messages in front of his face, Leo smiled once more. He had asked the system how many experience points he would need to reach Bronze 2 Stars, and the System said that 500 experience points were needed. That meant he would only need to kill 50 more cows like that and he could reach the next rank, and that subsequently would make his body stronger. "Or I can gather those 500 Experience Points and convert them to 500 Evolution Points and buy the Wall-Hack skill, or even spend 100 Evolution Points and level up my Aim-Botˇ­ What to doˇ­" Leo wondered while cutting the cows and removing the horns. After removing the two pairs of horns, Leo put them in his backpack and went elsewhere to look for more cows. This time he found a cow standing alone. Not even bothering to hide, Leo ran up to the cow while screaming. The monster was startled by the scream and turned to see what it was, but just as she turned around, a knife shed through her eye, killing the creature even easier. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star. You received 10 Experience Points.] ''This skill is truly Divine! I threw the knife before the cow turned around, but still the knife caught her eye perfectly the moment she turned her head towards me!'' Leo was shocked. After that he made a decision. ''I won''t be hasty and try to move up to Bronze 2 Star so fast. First I''ll level up my current skill. If I can throw things urately from even further, I can get even more Exp points in less time,'' he thought. So Leo ripped the horns off his most recent kill and continued tob the area, killing cows in ever more creative ways. When Leo had killed his 9th cow, he only needed 10 more experience points for him to be able to level up his Aim-Bot. In front of him was a group of four cows. As he only had three knives, Leo was worried that he would have to look for a group with fewer cows, but since he started hunting, it became more difficult to find mutant cows in the forest, and he didn''t want to go any deeper because monsters powerful enough for him to be unable to handle might show up. However, Leo finally had an idea. With a smile on his face, Leo ran towards the group of 4 cows and threw a knife before giving a scream. "Ooooo!" The cows were startled like the others and looked at what was making the noise. When they saw that it was just a human running towards their group, they didn''t think anything about charging towards him. The first cow couldn''t take more than a step before falling to the ground dead with a knife through her left eye. Soon the second cow saw a projectileing towards her eye and tried to close her eye to try to protect herself, but the knife was faster and prated this cow''s eye before she could use her eyelid to defend herself. The third cow, seeing that the two cows in front of her had already died, saw that she would not have a chance against this human and tried to turn around to run, but the knife had already been thrown and the target had already been locked. Even with her body turned a little to the right, the knife still managed to go through her eye and lodge in the cow''s head. Unfortunately, because this cow turned around just before she was hit by the knife, her brain only suffered a small scratch, causing her to fall to the ground screaming in pain, but still alive. Thest cow knew it couldn''t get away from this human, so it closed its eyes and ran in a straight line. As it turned out, this only made the cow feel a sharp pain in her eyes before falling dead to the ground, dying even faster than herpanions. But unlike the other three cows that were killed by knives, this cow died with another cow''s horn stuck in her head. If it had been a knife, maybe the cow''s eyelid could have protected her eye, but unfortunately Leo had thrown at her another cow''s horn, which was much sharper and stronger than an ordinary iron knife. Leo took another horn from his backpack and threw it at the cow that was screaming in pain, ending the suffering of the pitiful monster. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Cow 1 Star, you received 10 Experience Points.] Right after killing all four cows, Leo managed to umte a total of 130 Experience Points. Having already made up his mind, Leo opened his Status interface and selected to level up his "Aim-Bot". [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rank: Bronze 1 Star Talent: Hack Experience Points: 30 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv. 02: In a 20 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Avable Quirks: Wall-Hack (500 Evolution Points), Speed-Hack (1,000 Evolution Points), ?????? (?????? Evolution Points.)] After spending 100 Experience Points on Aim-Bot, Leo only had 30 Points left, but on the other hand, the radius of the skill''s range was doubled! From the previous 10 meters, it was now 20 meters! Leo wanted to kill more mutant cows before returning, but his backpack was almost full after he put in the 4 pairs of horns from the cows he had just killed. Moooooooooooooo!!!! But before he could move, a furious beast came rushing towards him. Leo became alert and saw a cow muchrger than the cows he had just killed charging right at him! [Alpha Mutant Cow: Bronze 2 Stars] "Shit, it''s a two-star cow!" Leo was shocked. He thought about running away from this cow, but this 2 Star monster''s speed was much higher than his running speed, which was just that of an Awakened Bronze 1 Star. With no other choice, Leo held a horn in his left hand and the three knives in his right hand. He had decided to fight this monster! Chapter 4 04 - Lots Of Money Chapter 4 04 - Lots Of Money Mooooooooooooo!!! The 2 Star cow ran wildly towards Leo. The distance between the two was 25 meters. Leo stood in ce mentally calcting, just waiting for the right moment. In less than 1 second, because of the cow''s high speed it had entered the range of 20 meters. Leo didn''t think twice and threw two of the three knives that were in his right hand. Due to the Aim-Bot, Leo knew he was going to hit those two knives in the cow''s eye, but unfortunately the cow closed its eyes at thest moment. Even the Bronze cows 1 Star could deflect Leo''s knives if they closed their eyes with the tough leather of their eyelids, but they didn''t have good enough reflexes for that. Unfortunately, besides having the thickest leather, the Bronze Cow 2 Stars had a quick reflex enough to close its eyes before either of the daggers could hit their mark. The knives got stuck in the cow''s eyelids, but they couldn''t make their way through to the eyes of this enraged monster. However, it gave Leo an idea. When the monster cow opened its eyes again, it was already 13 meters from Leo, but Leo dropped his remaining knife from his right hand and took another horn from the backpack on his back. As Leo took the horn out with his right hand, he used his left hand to hurl a horn at the cow''s eye again. The cow already knew he was going to do this and closed its eyes again, but Leo was also quick and threw the horn he had just pulled out as well. If someone from the outside were to watch, they would see that the trajectory of the horns was not going towards both eyes of the cow but rather aiming at only one eye. When the cow closed its eyes, the two knives that were stuck in its eyelids also lowered. Leo''s idea was not to throw the horns to prate the cow''s eyelids, but to hit the knife stuck in the cow''s right eye! Just as he had nned, the horn he threw with his left hand hit the knife stuck in the cow''s right eyelid, causing the knife to prate the eyelid a little, but not enough. But the horn he threw with his right hand, which was his strongest hand, hit the knife and caused the cow''s eyelid to rip open, leaving the knife''s path free to go deep into the monster''s head and into the brain. Moo! The mutated cow mooed onest time before falling to the ground with no strength in its body now that the brain could no longer send orders to the organs. [Congrattions, you killed an Alpha Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars. You received 50 Experience Points.] Seeing the cow fall to the ground and the System message floating in front of his eyes, Leo was finally able to calm down. He knew that if his strategy hadn''t worked, he would just be another tally in the death stats outside the city walls. But looking at therge amount of Exp he received, Leo knew it was worth it. He received 50 Experience Points for killing this Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars, which is five times what he would have received for killing a Bronze 1 Star, which also meant he would only need to kill 10 more cows like this one to move up from Bronze 1 Star to Bronze 2 Stars. This would be a huge strength improvement for him, but even with so many advantages, Leo wasn''t stupid. He knew that with his current strength and equipment, it would be too dangerous to hunt this type of monster, so he decided to just take the horns of this cow and go back to town. With the 13 pairs of horns he had already taken from the other cows, Leo would get approximately $1,300, and adding the horn of a Bronze 2 Stars cow, Leo could raise that number to $2,000! ''Two thousand dors for a day''s workˇ­ Few people get that amount of money in a week''s work, and I got it in a single day!'' Leo said mentally excited. He knew that even Bronze Awakened 3 Stars could hardly make as much money as he did in a day, as Awakened usually hunted in squads and usually prioritized monsters weaker than themselves to ensure their own safety. After the group sold the goods they got and split the money, they would hardly ever give more than $1,000 to each. ''But with my current strength, hunting alone is much easier and more profitable, mainly because I can focus my Experience points and improve my skills much faster than other people. Maybe hunting with others will slow down my leveling if the Experience is also shared ˇ­'' Leo thought. The trip back to the city was smooth. He came back much more confident than when he left town. This was even noticeable in the way he was hunting initially, from a novice who stayed hidden waiting for an opportunity, to someone already more familiar with hunting who was actively chasing prey. When the guards saw Leo returning with a full backpack, they couldn''t help but be shocked. After Leo walked past them, a guardmented, "This kid went alone with an empty backpack, and now his backpack looked like it was going to burst!" "I saw it too! Is he really a Bronze 1 Star?" "Probably. Look at his age; it took me ten months to go from a Bronze 1 Star to a Bronze 2 Stars. This kid seems to have said that he awakened his Quirk yesterday!" "What should we do?" the second guard asked, confused. The first guard knew what his mate meant by that. "Let''s warn Corporal Joseph about this. He''ll know what to do." "Yes, this is good news for the city!" Leo had no idea that he had surprised the two guards with what he''d shown them, and they''d be even more surprised if they knew there was a horn of a Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars inside his backpack, but it''s not like he would have cared much had he known of their shock. With his backpack full, Leo went to the nearest trading post so he could get the money, as well as an Awakened ID - something that would make his life a lot easier going forward. His clothes could very well be something that would attract attention if he went elsewhere. Green camouge clothing stained with blood and soiled with dirt was not something people saw frequently throughout the city, but inside the government trading post it was the mostmon style of clothing, both for the soldiers who were stationed there and for the Awakened that went in and out of the ce. But if Leo''s clothes didn''t attract attention, his physical appearance did. Leo has always been concerned about his own health, and since he was 15 he went to the gym to work on his physique. His goal was never to build a mountain of muscle, but to have a bnced body to be able to deal with monsters in the most efficient way possible. p??d? n?ve? This made his body grow to 1.80m (5.9 feet). He always kept his beard neatly trimmed, while his ck hair almost reached his eyes - blue eyes, almost dazzlingly bright how they glowed. And he was sure to keep an always confident expression on his face. (You can see Leo and other characters'' visual representation on our discord, link at the end of the chapter) Despite wearing "standard" clothes for where he was currently, Leo''s appearance still attracted the attention of some of the people there. People sitting in the inside cafeteria of the trading post sometimes nced at him - whether it was men who were feeling ufortable, or mostly women who were curious about this handsome young man. It didn''t take long for a young clerk toe up from the counter to serve Leo with a smile on her face. "Hello sir, are you an Awakened by any chance?" she asked in a respectful way. Leo looked at her and shed a small smile before answering to the affirmative. That smile made the young attendant take a deep breath to maintain professionalism. "Yes, I awakened yesterday and I need to get my ID card," Leo responded while keeping his smile. "Perfect, I can help you with that right now. Come with me," she said as she looked away and thought, ''Looking at him smiling like that is dangerousˇ­'' Leo continued holding his backpack and followed the attendant. The process was very simple; he just had to show his ID and prove that he really was an Awakened, which consisted of just showing the screen with his name. No exnation of his quirk was needed, as this was the biggest secret of every Awakened in the world. Only public figures normally showed or exined their own quirk, as this sort of thing could also expose their own weaknesses. In just 15 minutes a transparent holographic credit card-like chip was made with Leo''s basic details. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 1 Star] As an Awakened Bronze 1 Star, Leo receives discounts on hospital treatment, redited supermarkets, and even had free ess to public transport within the city. Of course, for Leo, who had a high-ranking sister in the army, he already had that sort of thing, but receiving those privileges because of his own merit was far more thrilling. The trading post was more like a shopping mall: some food and drink stores, weapons stores, armor. All sorts of things an Awakened might need would be found in this big ce. Leo hadn''t been here before, because just as the quality of the products was higher than elsewhere, the price was correspondingly higher, and money wasn''t something Leo had to spare until yesterday. Looking at the holographic panels dotted around the ce, Leo finally found the ce to sell the horns he had gotten. Thirteen pairs of Bronze 1 Star horns and one pair of Bronze 2 Stars hornsted Leo $2,100. A little more than he''d imagined, but it wasn''t something he was going toin about anyway. With so much money in the bank now, Leo could finally buy some really good stuff to further elerate the speed at which he could kill monsters, and consequently gain more Experience points. ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: discord.gg/ky35Kv7GHr Chapter 5 05 - Teacher? Chapter 5 05 - Teacher? ''Shit, I thought I was rich, but the price for these items is exorbitantˇ­'' Leo thought as he looked at the things for sale. Leo initially thought about buying a bow made with Bronze 2 Stars monster materials, but even the cheapest bow made with Bronze 1 Star materials cost $1,500 and a quiver with 20 arrows cost another $500, for a total of $2,000 for the set. He even thought about buying a pistol with some ammunition, but he knew that in the long run this would not be effective. Even a bow made with Bronze 1 Star materials could kill Bronze 5 Stars monsters with some difficulty, but ordinarybustion weapons could not deal with monsters other than Bronze 3 Stars. Weapons withrger calibers could even handle Pure Silver 1 Star monsters, but this type of weapon was much more expensive and difficult to obtain. So despite the high price of the bow, he still bought it along with the set of 20 arrows. The advantage of this was that the arrows could be reused for a long time as long as they didn''t hit bones too often or sturdier things, and for Leo who had Aim-Bot, that wouldn''t be a problem, as within 20 meters range he wouldn''t have to worry about hitting something at which he hadn''t aimed. Leaving the Trading Post with only $100 left, Leo was not overly disheartened. He knew that with this new bow he could hunt even more powerful monsters and earn even more money. Arriving home Leo began to admire the bow he bought. Being made of Bronze 1 Star monsters, the bow wasn''t the most magnificent piece he''d seen in his life, but it was definitely much prettier than bows made from ordinary materials. The bow''s body was made from a Bronze Mutant Tree 1 Star - a wood much stronger than some human-made fibers. The string was made from the tendons of a Bronze Mutant Deer 1 Star, which made it possible for Awakened to be able to exert more force than mundane string bows, while the arrowheads were made from the teeth of Bronze Mutant Wolves 1 Star, which was obviously sharper thanmon metal tips. The Mutant Tree''s wood was slightly greenish, while the Mutant Deer''s sinews were beige, helping a great deal with camouging the weapon in a forest. Even some details were carved into the bow, with some drawings of the mutated Trees'' faces, which made the weapon as beautiful as it was lethal. With his body extremely tired from the day''s hunting trip and the stress of having to worry about his own safety in a hostile environment, when Leo got out of the shower andid down on the bed, he fell asleep in less than 15 seconds without even putting on his pajamas. The next day, Leo woke up very hungry. He had gone to bed the day before at 4:00 in the afternoon, and woke up today at 5:00 in the morning, giving him a total of 13 hours of sleep! Considering he''d only had breakfast the day before, his body was begging for a lot of food as soon as his eyes opened. His breakfast was very strong. He was only able to stop feeling hungry after eating the third omelet and drinking the second ss of milk. But as soon as he left the house, Leo was confident. Today was hisst free day to hunt. Since today was Sunday, tomorrow he would have to go to school and he wouldn''t have as much time avable for hunting. So his goal today would be to kill enough Bronze 2 Stars monsters for him to at least reach Bronze Rank 2 Stars. p??d? n?ve? Leaving the house at 6 am on a Sunday, Leo saw hardly anyone on the streets until he arrived at the city gate and found the two guards he saw yesterday talking with a respectful expression to a slightly familiar person. Moving closer, Leo recognized the person who was talking to the guards and understood why the guards were being so respectful to this person. This person was a teacher at his school, not a history or math teacher, but the teacher of the school''s Special ss, the ss for Awakened students. "Good morning, Professor. Good morning guards," Leo said in a polite manner as he prepared to walk through the city gate, but before he got too far away, a confused voice called out to him from behind. "Professor? Are you by any chance a student at the Blue Pearl School?" A mature voice came from the person talking to the guards. Leo was surprised that the professor had paid attention to this, so he turned around with a polite smile and replied, "Yes, Professor. I have studied at the Blue Pearl School for three years. This year I am in myst semester there." The 40-year-old teacher looked at Leo in a bit of amazement. This teacher was the only teacher who taught the Awakened students at the Blue Pearl School, and seeing how this young man was walking through the gate alone so naturally, he soon deduced that this young man was also an Awakened, but he was confused as to why he didn''t remember who this student was. Seeing that this boy had surprised them so much yesterday, the guards were soon able to understand why Leo could do something as grand as what he did. With a teacher as powerful as this man in front of them, it was only natural that this man''s students would also be powerful people in the future. The first guard even said tteringly, "So that''s why you just awakened recently and managed to kill as many monsters as yesterday! Your teacher is Professor Edward!" Edward, the 40 year old teacher, was surprised by what the guard said as he really didn''t remember this student, but hearing what the guard said about what this young man had done yesterday, Edward became even more curious about him, to the point of asking, "Have you awakened recently?" "Yes, it''s only been a few days. Today is my second day hunting alone," Leo replied. Edward finally understood why he didn''t know this boy, as only young people who had already awakened could take sses from him, and as the boy had awakened a few days ago, it was reasonable that he still hadn''t transferred sses. "That''s a nice coincidence! I just happened to be going to harvest some mutated nts to do some experiments. How about we go together? I can give you some pointers in the meantime," Edward said with a pleasant smile on his face as he studied Leo. He had noticed that the boy was using a Bronze 1 Star monster bow, which indicated that he was probably just an Awakened Bronze 1 Star. But to use a bow, most likely this boy''s quirk must be some ranged power, which was something very useful for Awakened teams. And finally, the main reason this boy had maintained his attention was that the boy was actually going out to hunt alone for the second time while he was still an Awakened Bronze 1 Star, which meant that this boy was not just an ordinary student, as few people could hunt monsters of the same rank alone unless they had a powerful quirk or were extremely skilled. Any of these alternatives would be worth it for Edward to get to know this student better. Leo was extremely shocked by what Edward had suggested to him. He might not have known much about the professor, but he knew that the man was highly respected at the school, ranking only second in strength among teachers, just behind the school principal. With a Pure Silver Rank 3 Stars, in Blue Sky city this person could already be considered a peak power, having a high rank in the army as well as a lot of prestige wherever he went. That was the strength of Professor Edward of the Blue Pearl School Awakened ss! (You can see Professor Edward''s visual representation on our discord, link at the end of the chapter) Leo would have been stupid to refuse tips from someone as powerful as Professor Edward, so without a second thought he nodded and replied, "I couldn''t be happier to apany you, Professor." Leo was the type of person that as long as a person treated him with respect, he would respect that person in the same way, but as long as the person was rude and disrespectful to him, he would be double with them in turn. Being treated well by the most prestigious teacher at the Blue Pearl School, Leo wouldn''t be so arrogant as to treat this man who smiled at him poorly. "Soe along then. The ce where the mutated nts I''m looking for is in a Bronze 2 Stars monster zone, but on the way there are some Bronze 1 Star monsters, which you can deal with while I give you some tips," Edward said with a smile as he started walking towards the nt monsters. Leo realized that the professor probably thought he could only handle Bronze monsters 1 Star since he was just a Bronze Awakened 1 Star but he didn''t bother correcting the man. After all, if he said he could handle Bronze monsters 2 Stars, he would probably just look like an arrogant young man who wanted to look strong to a powerful man like him. Leo thought it would be better to just act normally and kill all the monsters that came. In the worst case, if he couldn''t kill some Bronze monsters 2 Stars, the professor could help him at that moment. It would be a favorable situation for both of them. With a smile on his face, Leo followed the professor as he walked with his bow notched with an arrow ready to shoot at any moment if a monster appeared. Meanwhile, Professor Edward just kept quiet as he watched first how this newly awakened student intended to deal with the monsters, so thatter he could give Leo any necessary tips to improve. What he was thinking was exactly what Leo imagined. And seeing how this young student didn''t brag that he could kill Bronze 2 Stars monsters like most young people who wanted to please him did, it already made Edward''s view of Leo much more pleasing to the eye. A handsome student, with good aptitude, willing to go hunting alone on weekends without sses, and mostly humble - it was hard for Edward not to find this student interesting. ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: discord.gg/ky35Kv7GHr Chapter 6 06 - Hes A Monster! Chapter 6 06 - He''s A Monster! Edward was curious as he looked at how Leo was acting. Unlike normal students, who were either very arrogant when entering a Bronze 1 Star forest, or were very fearful, Leo was acting quite calm. He was not calm to the point of being rxed, but he was calm as he held the bow armed with an arrow ready to shoot at any moment. Meanwhile, his face showed no fear of these monsters. This was a forest with mutated vultures. These vultures were Bronze 1 Star monsters that attacked in packs when they saw a target alone or preyed on monster corpses that Awakened left behind. Against aerial monsters, this student''s idea of ??bringing a bow was a very good one, something that made Edward give Leo a mentalpliment. Within minutes of walking Edward noticed a flock of buzzards flying around looking for prey. The young man beside him apparently hadn''t noticed these monsters yet, as the perception of an Awakened Bronze 1 Star was far less than a Silver Awakened. Without Leo noticing, Edward started to minimize his presence so that the vultures wouldn''t feel he was a Silver Awakened, which would surely scare them away, as he wanted to see how this young man would deal with these monsters. After a few seconds, the young man next to Edward finally noticed the buzzards flying above them and began to pull back his bowstring while slowly pointing the bow upwards. The distance was 30 meters between the monsters and them, a very short distance for a skilled archer, but the young man apparently did not intend to shoot for the time being. Without even looking at Edward, the young man kept his eyes focused on the three buzzards that were flying by as he adjusted the aim of the bow. As Edward didn''t want the vultures to notice him, the vultures didn''t pay him any attention. In the pack''s vision there was only a single human walking through the forest. The buzzards hovered for 30 seconds before finally starting to attack. Their falling speed was very high, much faster than the speed a Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars would have while running in a straight line. That was the air advantage. Edward thought the young man would be startled by the precipitous descent of the buzzards, but the young man remained calm and continued to aim without changing his expression at all. For a second Edward thought the young man was frozen in fear at the sight of three monsters flying towards him, but before Edward could do anything, the young man released the arrow he was holding. The bowstring that was released so abruptly pulled the arrow with great force causing the arrow to fly at a speed that literally cut through the wind. The buzzards only heard a whistle before the head of one of them was blown off by the arrow, letting the arrow pass the first buzzard and hitting the chest of the buzzard behind. Edward was shocked by this scene. ''With a single arrow he managed to kill two Bronze 1 Star monsters?! Is that why he was so calm while aiming with the bow?'' Edward''s brain started to work at high speed trying as much as possible to understand everything that had happened in front of him. But before he could say anything, Leo''s body moved quickly to catch an arrow from the quiver at his waist and apparently without even aiming he shot a second arrow. This made Edward a little disappointed. ''If this boy still kept calm, he could aim for at least 2 more seconds before the remaining buzzard attacks him, which would allow him to aim even more urately and have less risk of missing the targetˇ­'' Edward thought, but before he finished the internal monologue about this possible mistake by Leo, he saw that the arrow that Leo shot was even slower than the first one, but it still precisely hit the vulture''s head, thus causing this third monster to also drop dead on the forest floor. Edward was shocked when he saw this. He thought that Leo would miss the shot, or at most hit a non-lethal spot on the vulture by not aiming when he fired the second shot, but contrary to what he imagined, this boy still hit another arrow perfectly in the center of the bird''s great head! Seeing this, a question popped into Edward''s mind that he couldn''t help but ask. "Why was your second shot weaker? If you pulled a little harder this arrow could have done even more damage and could have been more urate..." The young man who had been so focused was a little startled by his question, but Edward knew it was because he had hidden his presence so well that perhaps this young man might have even forgotten he was there. But after the scare, the young man opened a gentle smile and replied, "I could really do that, but the heads of these vultures are very fragile. If I released an arrow with too much force maybe it would blow his head off and the arrow would keep flying. I have few arrows, so I have to control myself so I can pick them up after the confrontation." "Pfftˇ­ your answer exceeded my expectations, hahaha." Edward started tough after hearing Leo''s exnation. He thought of several possibilities for this student to have done this, but he never imagined the reason being that he didn''t want to lose the arrows forck of money. After that he had to add another adjective to Leo: frugal. ''He knows how to manage resources.'' It was normal for children of wealthy Awakened to kill monsters using powerful weapons and armor. This makes these young people grow in strength very quickly, but the bottleneck they suffered was much greater, making most of them unable to cross Bronze 5 Stars and be a Silver 1 Star. But a student like this one in front of him was rare. With a great skill in the bow, this student could earn much more money than he would spend on these arrows just selling the materials of these vultures, but still he preferred to avoid losing as many arrows as possible to conserve expenses, something verymendable. Seeing the young man looking at the carcasses of the three vultures after he took out the arrows, Edward understood what he was probably thinking. "Just take the beaks and ws of these monsters. They are the only valuable parts," Edward exined patiently. Leo finally showed an enlightened expression and removed the three vultures'' beaks and their pairs of ws. "These vultures were weak monsters, but the beaks were good products for making potions, and the ws were good for producing some kinds of utensils. The pair of ws with a beak could sell for approximately $150. These three vultures would most likely you approximately $450," Edward exined to Leo. p??d? n?ve? Hearing this, Leo was very grateful. These vultures were at least 50% more valuable than the cows, plus the vultures'' valuable parts were smaller than the cows'' horns, which would allow him to carry even more in his satchel. In addition to all this, something only Leo knew about were the messages that appeared floating in front of him after he killed the birds. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Vulture 1 Star. You received 13 Experience Points.] x3 Just for killing these three vultures, Leo received 39 Experience points, which was almost equivalent to a Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars. He was currently at 119 Experience Points, which meant approximately 22% remained to reach Bronze 2 Stars, or 60% to raise Aim-Bot to level 3! Excited to see how much experience he would get from killing buzzards, Leo was determined to achieve Bronze 2 Stars by the end of today! After Leo removed the most valuable parts of the vultures, Edward continued exining about these vultures, from the hunting habits of the monsters to their weaknesses. Leo, meanwhile, listened with great interest and attention, as this information would be very useful to him. "As the beaks of these vultures are valuable, less skilled Awakened aim at these monsters'' chests, while more skilled Awakened even train to aim at these monsters'' necks. Although usually the only Awakened that can hit the vultures'' neck are Bronze 4 Stars, which for many may be a limitation, but for you it may not be so impossible at your current Rank." Edward gave Leo some tips. Hearing that, Leo understood the best ce to aim for the next few times, and it didn''t take them long to find another group of the buzzards. Edward sensed them before Leo did, and then hid his own presence. But what surprised Edward was that as soon as he hid his presence, Leo went into alert mode as he took another arrow from his quiver and looked for where the vultures might be circling. ''Did he realize that I hid my presence and understood that there were probably vultures flying close by?'' Edward was shocked by this! But there was still another thing that confused Edward, that at this moment Leo was holding his bow with two arrows drawn ready to shoot. ''Don''t tell me he intends to shoot both arrows at the same time!?'' Edward was shocked by this. On the one hand, he was excited that Leo could actually shoot both these arrows at the same time, but on the other hand he was worried that Leo was just acting cocky in front of him to try to look cool, just like the other students would normally do. ''If you miss this shot out of arrogance I will be very disappointed in you,'' Edward thought with a serious expression. This time it was a group of 4 vultures flying overhead, but just like the other time, Leo waited for a few seconds until the four monsters started to descend before shooting. Swoosh, Swoosh... The two arrows flew through the wind, and under Edward''s astonished gaze, the two arrows hit the necks of the two buzzards flying toward the front! Before the vultures behind them could think, Leo had reloaded his bow with two more arrows and fired once more. Swoosh, Swoosh! In Leo''s vision more messages emerged. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Mutant Vulture 1 Star. You received 13 Experience Points.] x4 He had just received 52 more Experience points, which was more than a Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars! As Leo looked at the messages with a smile, Edward looked at Leo with a truly shocked expression. He had told Leo that Bronze Awakens 4 Stars could hit these buzzards in the neck just as an incentive to make this young man train even more and grow to even greater heights in the future, but he had never imagined that that this young man would be able to shoot not just one, but two vultures at the same time on his first attempt! ''I just found a true monster!'' Edward thought as he looked at Leo in shock. Chapter 7 07 - 500 Experience Points Chapter 7 07 - 500 Experience Points After seeing this monstrous skill with bow and arrow, Edward even checked the young man''s Rank a few times to make sure of his strength, but every time it was only confirmed that Leo was just an Awakened Bronze 1 Star. ''I found a monster! He is only 17 years old, woke up a few days ago, and is already able to reach this level of lethality! Maybe he can handle Bronze 2 Stars monsters?'' Edward thought of the possibility and was shocked. The concept of stars was something very definitive in humanity. Normally Bronze Awakened 1 Star would need at least one more Bronze 1 Starpanion to be able to kill monsters at the same strength level. Talented people might even be able to fight monsters of the same strength alone after a close battle, but seeing a young Bronze 1 Star fighting against 4 Bronze 1 Stars monsters was something shocking for Edward! "Another $600, hehe," Leo cheered as he grabbed a knife to rip off the vultures'' valuable parts after removing the arrows and stuffing them back in the quiver again. "ˇ­" Edward was speechless at the sight of this. While he was thinking about everything this young man could do in the future with a force as powerful as this, the young man was apparently content with the few dors he received from killing these four monsters, not even being surprised that he could do it and other people couldn''t. But what Edward didn''t know is that Leo was already sure that he would be strong in the future. Just with those 7 vultures he killed he received 91 experience points, which he could use to improve Aim-Bot, unlock Wall Hack, or even level up to Bronze 2 Stars, so for him, killing these weak monsters was something natural. The only thing that excited him besides experience was the money these monsters gave him. p??d? n?ve? After Leo removed the valuable parts of the four vultures and put them in his backpack, Leo picked up the bow again and stood by Professor Edward''s side. Edward saw this and was very pleased. "Your bow skill is very powerful. I can hardly see anyone who can wield the bow as well as you even among Silver Awakened 1 Star. Of course, the difference in strength is very big, but your uracy with the bow is something unparalleled with your level of strength." Edward openly praised Leo. Leo didn''t pretend to be shy of thepliment and just gave the professor a polite smile in thanks. This made Edward value this young man even more, who, while not being arrogant, also knew how to recognize his own qualities. "How do you think your bow skill is against Bronze 2 Stars monsters?" Edward asked as he walked. Leo thought for a while and asked back, "Which kind of Bronze monster 2 Stars?" "Let''s say Bronze Bog Rat 2 Stars monsters." Edward gave the names of the monsters they would encounter in the next zone. Leo heard about the Bog Rats and was thoughtful for a few seconds. "If it''s Bronze Bog Rats 2 Stars, I believe I can handle small groups, but if the group is too big I don''t think I can handle them. After all, my arrows are limited, and I wouldn''t be able to shoot them all at once." Leo lied. If he really wanted to, he could put all 20 arrows from the quiver on the bow and the Aim-Bot skill would manage to shoot all 20 vermin at the same time with each of the arrows, but if he said something like that he would just look like an arrogant young man, so at times like this it was better to tell a lie than to tell an absurd truth. But even though Leo lied to make his skill less shy, Edward was still shocked by what this young man said. "You know that a Bronze Bog Rats 2 Stars''s agility is much higher than that of a Bronze Mutant Vultures 1 Star, right?" Edward asked uncertainly. "Yes, from what I''ve researched, they should be at least 3-6 times faster than such buzzards, but I still trust my bow," Leo replied with a polite smile. Edward was shocked by this answer. This young man had already shown his skills, and showed that his confidence was not unfounded. At this point it was already difficult for Edward to know if the young man was being realistic or arrogant. But since this young man has shown so much potential and hadn''t been arrogant once so far, Edward decided to give him his vote of confidence. "Then how about we head straight to the Bronze Bog Rat area 2 Stars? I''m tired of wasting time with these weak Vultures," Edward said as he studied Leo''s expression. "Sure," Leo responded with the same polite smile. Leo was even morefortable now, as he could gain a lot more experience and money, and with a strong Awakened Silver 3 Stars by his side, Leo would have more leeway if he encountered something unexpected. Edward was pleased that Leo''s expression didn''t change and started releasing his Silver aura to scare away the buzzards as he started running towards the Bronze Bog Rats area 2 Stars. Edward adjusted his own speed so Leo could keep up, and within minutes they were near the rats'' zone. The professor hid his presence as much as possible and practically disappeared from the monsters'' sight once again. Leo, meanwhile, held the bow with two arrows and was very attentive. ''If I had Wall-hack here it would be much more practicalˇ­ The Bog Rats are monsters made of nts in the shape of rats. In a forest like this, green monsters like them are very well camouged. I have to be very careful not to be caught off guard,'' Leo thought as he looked intently around. It didn''t take long for Leo''s peripheral vision to notice something moving among the grass. Without a second thought, he pulled the arrows and kept the string taut. Soon the grass moved again and a very fast figure came running towards Leo. He didn''t even have to think and just ordered the Aim-Bot to shoot the Bog Rat. Swoosh, Swoosh! The two arrows attached to the bowstring flew at a very high speed. The distance of the two arrows was very small, almost touching as they flew, but still no contact was made between the arrows during their flight. Pshh! The arrows pierced both of the little monster''s eyes. Of course, calling the Bronze Bog Rat 2 Stars small was only whenpared to some other monsters, as this ferocious rodent was almost the size of a cat. With two arrows going through the rat''s eyes and hitting the brain, the monster couldn''t even react and fell dead to the ground as liquid dripped through its eye sockets. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Bog Rat 2 Stars. You received 60 Experience Points.] Leo had a small smile on his face as he carefully walked towards the Bog Rat''s corpse to get the arrows back. Meanwhile, Edward''s expression was nothing short of absolute shock. At the speed this rat was moving, only proficient Bronze 5 Stars archers could hit this monster on the head with such precision, but the young man shot two arrows at the same time and those two arrows hit both of the monster''s eyes! ''This boy''s bow and arrow skill is at least Divine level! If he continues to develop his strength for a few years by killing monsters with such ease, he could definitely reach Gold Rank 1 Star in a few years!'' Edward made an assumption that not even he could believe. ''I have to report this student to the School Director as soon as I get back! This student has to enter the school''s Elite ss as soon as possible.'' Edward at this point wasn''t even worried about the things he came to get for research in this zone of weak monsters. The only thing he could think about now was how to nurture this talent in the best way possible. Seeing the young man standing next to the carcass with a slightly confused expression, Edward understood what he was probably thinking. "Bog Rats are valuable, but unlike other monsters, the whole body of these rats is valuable. For a monster this size, it''s difficult to carry several of them into town to sell, so I rmend you just get the tail and ears. A tail and ear set retails for around $500; if you take the whole monster you can get $1,200, but you won''t be able to carry that much," Edward exined patiently. Leo soon understood and without any hesitation cut off the mouse''s tail and ears and put them in his backpack. He was currently at 231 Experience points, which allowed him to raise the Aim-Bot skill to Level 03. But Leo didn''t want to raise that skill to Level 03 yet; he was torn between rising to Bronze Rank 2 Stars or unlocking the Wall-Hack skill. Initially he was prioritizing raising his Rank, but after dealing with this rat, Leo saw that the Wall-Hack skill was much more valuable to him in this task, as to activate the Aim-Bot he first needed to see the target he wanted to shoot. With Wall-Hack it would be much simpler. Now that Leo knew that the Bronze Bog Rat 2 Stars'' eyes were much more fragile than the Bronze Mutant Cow 2 Stars'' body, he proceeded to shoot only one arrow for each rat he killed. Leo didn''t have the courage to go deeper into the rat area because he knew it would be difficult to deal with veryrge groups, so he just stayed in the outer zone while hunting these little monsters. Edward didn''t even care what he was going to harvest earlier, and just stood by Leonardo''s side as he guided this young man through things he could do to be more efficient in dealing with these monsters. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze Bog Rat 2 Stars. You received 60 Experience Points.] After another hour of killing Rats, Leo finally killed onest rat and reached 500 Experience points. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 1 Star [0/500] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 531 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv. 02 [0/200]: In a 20 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Avable Quirks: Wall-Hack (500 Evolution Points), Speed-Hack (1,000 Evolution Points), ?????? (?????? Evolution Points)] Leo looked at his Status screen and finally decided where he was going to spend the 500 experience points he had umted. -------- Author Note: Thanks guys for all your support. Because of yourments and those you added to the story in the library I''m releasing this extra chapter today! Yourments inspire me to write and post more haha! ---------- I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: discord.gg/ky35Kv7GHr Chapter 8 08 - So Much Experience?! Chapter 8 08 - So Much Experience?! [Do you want to unlock the "Wall-Hack" skill?] ''Yes,'' Leo answered mentally. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 1 Star [0/500] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 31 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 02 [0/200]: In a 20 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv.01 [0/500]: Within a radius of 10 meters around the user, any being will be visible through means of a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Avable Quirks: Speed-Hack (1,000 Evolution Points), Inventory-Hack (5,000 Evolution Points), ????????? (??????? Evolution Points)] Leo looked at the description of the Wall-Hack skill and was very happy with the result. Initially he was worried that the skill would only show the location of monsters of his same level, but ording to the skill description, even though he was Bronze 1 Star, he could still see the location of Bronze 4 Stars monsters and humans as long as he wanted to activate the skill! The only downside was that the skill was very expensive to upgrade, being 250% more expensive to reach level 02 than getting Aim-Bot to reach level 03, but with these two skills together, Leo was pretty sure that in a forest he would practically be a hunting machine. Edward watched Leonardo smile and was confused by this. He had been killing these rodents for a while and he knew that these little monsters were not the young man''s opponents, but why was the young man so excited all of a sudden? "Something good happened?" Edward asked. Leo turned around, still smiling politely, and asked, "How about we increase the hunting speed? I think I''ve already figured out the patterns of these monsters." "Alright, I''ll be with you. I also think you can handle them faster now," Edward replied, thinking that Leo would just spend less time looking for targets as he discovered the rats'' possible hiding ces. But as soon as Leo finished cutting off his most recent kill''s tail and ears, he started running with his bow loaded with two arrows. Edward had seen Leo walking around with a single arrow the entire time after he killed the first mouse, but why was he using two again? And most importantly, why was he running so fast? Leo didn''t even give Edward a chance to ask what he was doing and activated the Wall-Hack to test the skill. As expected, he couldn''t see Edward with that ability, but two minutes after he started to run, a red outline the size of a cat and shaped like a mouse appeared in the grass 10 meters ahead. Edward had already noticed that rat and was about to warn Leo, thinking he hadn''t noticed the hidden monster, but before he could say anything a noise surprised him. Swoosh! An arrow came out of Leo''s bow, but then another red outline appeared on Leo''s right and the second arrow that was loaded was also fired. Swoosh! Two shots, two kills. The two Bronze Rats 2 Stars couldn''t even react to Leo''s arrows and died in a very pathetic way. Leo wasted no time in getting the arrows from the monsters'' bodies as well as cutting off the rats'' valuable parts. The way he did it was very clean, as if he''d known for a long time that those rats were there, but the simpler it seemed, the more Edward was shocked by Leo''s strength. ''How did he locate these monsters so fast? He''s just an Awakened Bronze 1 Star. These monsters are stronger than him,l; it would be impossible for him to feel these monsters if he didn''t stay focused for several minutesˇ­'' Edward started an internal debate about Leo''s abilities. He had never seen such a talented student in his life. Leo didn''t even say anything after dismantling his prey and started running again. Only after one hour of hunting did Leo get tired, but in that one hour he had killed 15 more Bog Rats! He was so excited that he didn''t even spend the experience points he had received and just focused on killing the rodents and reaping the loot. On the other hand, Edward''s jaw was hurting from the shock that he''d been watching this 17 year old hunting monsters more powerful than him as easily as a person harvesting cabbages. "Uffˇ­ I think I''ve reached my limit. I''m sorry professor, I think I got a little carried away," Leo said as he leaned against a tree for breath as he looked at Edward with a slightly embarrassed smile. "Did you get a little carried away? You killed 23 rats in total, plus out of those 23, 17 you killed within an hour, Bronze Monsters 2 Stars! You, an Awakened Bronze 1 Star, killed 17 in a single hour! Boy, your future will be glorious!!" Edward was finally able to say what he was thinking. He wasughing; an Awakened Silver 3 Stars was openlyughing at an Awakened Bronze 1 Star. Something almost impossible to happen in Blue Pearl City was happening here right now in front of Edward. Normally Silver Awakened tried to maintain a calm and elegant expression in front of Bronze Awakened, but Edward no longer cared about that. With what he saw of Leonardo''s strength, he knew it was only a matter of time before Leo reached the rank of Gold in the future, and he could proudly say that he taught a Gold Awakened! Was there more glory in a teacher''s life than getting a genius student?! "Shall we go back to town?" Edward asked Leo in a very good mood. "Weren''t you going to get some herbs around here?" Leo asked, confused. "That''s not important anymore. I remembered some tasks I have to solve for the Headmaster." Edward made up an excuse quickly. "Alright, I''m too tired to continue." Leo didn''t ask much and just nodded after putting the rat parts in his backpack. As they walked back, Leo opened his status screen again. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 1 Star [0/500] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 1.050 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 02 [0/200]: In a 20 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 01 [0/500]: Within a radius of 10 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Avable Quirks: Speed-Hack (1,000 Evolution Points), Inventory-Hack (5,000 Evolution Points), ????????? (??????? Evolution Points)] ''One thousand experience points!'' Leo was shocked as he looked at how many points he had scored. Without needing to think about it, he spent 500 points and upgraded Wall-Hack to Lv. 02. p??d? n?ve? [Wall-Hack Lv 02 [0/1,000]: Within a radius of 20 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range increases.] ''Great, now my Wall-Hack and Aim-Bot have the same range. That is, as long as I can see the red outline around the monster I can shoot without fear of missing, not to mention that with 20 meters of range for the Wall-Hack I will also be much safer,'' Leo thought happily. Before, he had to mentally calcte the distance between him and the monster to know if the monster was 20 meters away or not to shoot with 100% uracy, but now the monster would have the red outline, which would be much easier! As for the remaining 500 Experience points, Leo would wait until he got home so he could move up from Bronze Rank 1 Star to Bronze Rank 2 Stars, as that would attract a lot of attention from Professor Edward next to him, and Leo didn''t want to bothering up with an excuse for him to suddenly move up in rank. The way back was much smoother for both of them, as Edward didn''t want to deal with the weak monsters anymore and just left his aura on disy, pushing all the rats and vultures away from where they were. Upon arriving at the city gate Edward turned to Leo with a smirk. "Young Leonardo, your future will be very promising. I will remember you tomorrow at school. I will also speak to the Director about your awakening and you can go directly to the Elite ss at school from tomorrow," Edward said. Leo was happy with this news and thanked him. "Thank you very much, Professor Edward. Tomorrow I will be on time for ss for sure. Thank you for your tips today; they enlightened me a lot, and many questions I had were answered." "Don''t worry about such basic things. This is just normal Elite School content. See youter." Edward said goodbye and left. But Leo knew Edward was just downying what he did. After all, Leo was no fool and knew that even if the students were in the school''s Elite ss, the treatment between genius and scum would still exist. But even the genius could hardly get some exclusive tutoring from a Silver 3 Stars Professor like he had today. This was something Leo was very grateful to Edward for, and that kindness Leo would not forget in the future. With a smile on his face, Leo left with a full backpack towards the sales post for Awakened to sell the materials they had acquired. ''Today I got a small fortune, hehe,'' Leo thought with a big smile as he left, but what neither he nor Professor Edward noticed was the shocked expression on the faces of the two city gate guards. The two of them listened very well to the conversation between Leo and Edward and were left with their mouths open in shock as they listened to them talking in such a casual way. A Silver Awakened was treating a young Bronze 1 Star with such affection - that to the Bronze Guards 5 Stars must have seemed impossible. The only exnation they could think of was that this young man was either someone with a very powerful background or he had a monstrous talent, and if there was one thing the guards understood, it was that this young man was someone they definitely shouldn''t disturb. "Greg, we should write this in the report for Corporal Joseph too!" one of the guards said decisively. "For sure! He''ll kill us if we leave that out of the report!" Greg said with a shocked expression by now. ----- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! Chapter 9 09 - Bronze 2 Stars Chapter 9 09 - Bronze 2 Stars Leo didn''t know what the guards were talking about, but if he knew he wouldn''t care either. Currently his mind was very focused on the screen on his cell phone, which showed what his current bank bnce was. [Leonardo Lentz. Bank Bnce: $12,650] ''Twelve thousand dorsˇ­'' Leo was very excited as he looked at the number of digits in his bank ount. He already had $100 left over from the previous day''s purchases, plus $1,050 from the 7 vultures he killed and $11,500 from the 23 rats he killed. Leo had already made more money in one day than many Awakened Bronze 2 Stars made in a week! Because he worked alone and could kill monsters with high speed by never missing a shot, Leo''s efficiency was higher than many groups of Bronze 1 Star or 2 Star Awakened. With that much money, Leo was motivated to buy a Bronze 3 Stars bow at the very least, as he knew a Bronze 2 Stars Bow wouldn''tst long, but when he saw that a Bronze 3 Stars bow cost $20,000 he had to control himself a bit. ''I thought I was rich, but the life of an Awakened has as many expenses as profitsˇ­'' Leo thought a little less excitedly than before. But what he didn''t think about was that normally an Awakened would stay with the weapon he bought for at least 1 or 2 years before buying a better weapon. No one could make money as fast as he was making with the strength of an average Bronze 1 Star. If a Bronze 3 Star Awakened knew that this young Bronze 1 Star was finding a Bronze 3 Star bow expensive for having to hunt 2 days to get this money, it would have been likely they woulde to beat Leo out of anger. After returning home, Leo finally took a nice shower and ordered a hearty meal to rece the calories he''d lost while hunting the monsters that day. As much as humanity had invented more and more delicious dishes over the years, Leo was still one of the few humans who felt that there was nothing better than French fries. After eating a big meal of French Fries with cheese and bacon, Leo finally sat down on his living room floor and opened the system screen. He had 551 experience points left. That was enough for him to level up Aim-Bot once more, but since he decided to keep Wall-Hack and Aim-Bot at the same range for now, Leo finally used his experience points to move up from a Bronze 1 Star to a Bronze 2 Star. [Do you wish to level up from ''Bronze 1 Star'' to ''Bronze 2 Star''? Once the evolution is confirmed, all Exp you get from Bronze 1 Star monsters will drop by 50%, from Bronze 2 Star monsters will drop by 20% and from Bronze 3 Star monsters will drop by 5%. Do you still wish to move up to ''Bronze 2 Stars''?] Leo was shocked when he saw this message. He didn''t know that the amount of Exp he would get from monsters would drop if he leveled up. Buting to think of it, it wouldn''t make sense for Silver 1 Star Awakened to gain the same amount of Exp against Bronze 1 Star monsters as newbies who just finished awakening. This would make it much easier for Awakened to level up by killing monsters weaker than themselves, and Leo knew that the easiest way for Awakened to evolve was by killing monsters more powerful than themselves. ''As much as I get less experience points for killing Bronze 1 Star Monsters and Bronze 2 Stars Monsters, I don''t need to worry about that. With my new strength I will be able to hunt Bronze 2 Star monsters even faster than the other day. With a Bronze 2 Star strength I will probably be able to hunt at least twice faster Bronze 2 Star monsters, which will make this Exp decrease not as significant as it seems.'' Leo quickly understood that even with the amount of Exp going down this was still much more advantageous than him staying at Bronze Rank 1 Star. But of course, now that he knew this, Leo intended not to level up his Rank as fast as he previously had nned, since if he leveled up his skills first it would also have an effect of killing monsters even faster and without the disadvantage of earning less expience. "Yes," Leo confirmed that he wanted to increase his Rank. As soon as Leo confirmed his choice, he began to feel a force inside him begin to stir. It was as if he had a hot liquid flowing through his veins, burning everything it went through, but instead of the burned ces receiving a searing pain, Leo started to feel a muscle ache as if he''d worked out in a gym workout much harder than he was used to. His muscles were hurting, but they were hurting because they were getting stronger. This was a pain Leo was very used to while working out a few years ago, but this was the first time he''d felt it this intensely. The worst part was that the hot liquid was coursing through his entire body, causing even some muscles he had never used to start to ache. "Arrrrghhhhˇ­" Leo started to groan in pain as he writhed on the floor, but because it was a muscle ache, each time he squirmed the pain only increased because he was moving the sore muscles. Eventually, Leo finallyid down in a position where he could stay still and just stared at the ceiling as he felt the hot liquid slowly disappear from his body after doing a fewps through his blood vessels. ''I should have done that lying in bedˇ­'' Leo thought, frustrated as he looked at the ceiling of his room. The only upside was that the floor of the apartment was freezing cold, which helped a little to ease the aches in the back of his body, but still he knew it would be impossible to move for the rest of the day. ''At least I ate before doing thisˇ­'' He thought of one good thing at least. After thinking this, Leo''s body was so tired that he just slept in that position. This happened at 1 o''clock in the afternoon, and Leo had just woken up the other day at 5 o''clock in the morning. Despite the constant pain when he moved in his sleep, the tiredness was so great that even this was not able to wake Leo up. When he woke up, Leo felt that the muscle aches had all but disappeared. Not even his spine was hurting from sleeping on the floor, which was a big surprise for him. When he made a little effort on the ground to get up, the momentum caused by his arm was so strong that he was practically thrown into the air. A shocked expression was on Leo''s face now. He knew he''d used minimal force, but the result was as if he''d used at least twice as much as his previous force. Very carefully, Leo began to walk slowly around the house, afraid to use too much force on anything and identally break something and finally left the apartment. ''At least I didn''t break anything,'' Leo thought as he smiled and entered the elevator. p??d? n?ve? Upon reaching the ground floor, Leo went to the gym he was used to working out in and decided to test his strength before heading to school. He knew he could lift a weight of 130 kg (280 Pounds) on the bench press before bing an Awakened. As an Awakened Bronze 1 Star he didn''t get a strength buff and only got one ability, so he hadn''t bothered to measure his strength after awakening. But when he lifted the 130kg weight and felt it wasn''t heavy, Leo started to feel the difference. At 140 kg it was still light, 160 kg started to get heavy, only at 180 kg (400 Pounds) Leo felt he had reached the limit of his strength. ''My strength increased by 50 kgˇ­'' (110 Pounds) Leo was shocked as he looked at the result. He even went to weigh himself on the scales, but when he saw that his weight was still 90 kg, Leo was still shocked. He was lifting 2x his own weight after bing an Awakened Bronze 2 Star! Leo tested his own stamina and saw that he couldst much longer running at constant speed than before, and his top speed was also greatly improved. ''Professor Edward will surely be shocked when he sees that I became an Awakened Bronze 2 Star when I get to school,'' Leo thought with a smile. He had no problem being known for being a genius. He didn''t even have thoughts of trying to hide his own strength to keep a low profile, as he knew that the greater someone''s talent, the more resources that person would receive in the future, so it would be better to create a path like a genius at the very beginning so that no one would be surprised at how fast his strength grew and think that there was something wrong. With a slightly tired body, Leo returned home and took a shower to wipe off his sweat, had breakfast, and finally went to school. This would be his first time in the school''s Elite ss, and he was excited for the knowledge he would receive, as it would further elerate his growth in the future. ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 10 10 - Elizabeth Jones Chapter 10 10 - Elizabeth Jones "Did you hear there''s going to be a new student in the Elite ss?" a boymented to his friend. "Really? Who is the lucky one?" the friend asked curiously. "I don''t know. My aunt overheard Professor Edwardmenting that he found a genius and that he was going to be transferred to the Elite ss today," the boy replied. "Is he from our school?" the friend asked. "Probably so. Most of the geniuses in the city study here," the boymented. Meanwhile, a thin, bespectacled boy was looking at these two boys talking with a bit of envy. This skinny boy was called Chris. Initially his dream was to be an Awakened too, like most young people in the city, but as he didn''t have the money to hire an Awakened to take him to kill a monster, he had to give up on that dream. His family already had a lot of expenses to take care of his sister who was sick, so he decided to at least study hard to get a good job and help with his sister''s treatment in the future. Usually no one talked to Chris, so he just spent his days studying and concentrating on sses, until one day a young man saw that he was reading an article about Awakened and came to talk to him. When Chris saw who it was he got a little scared. At school there were three types of people: those who have already be Awakened, those who would likely be Awakened, and those who might never be Awakened. The young man who came to talk to him, besides being someone who would probably be an Awakened in the future, was one of the most popr young people in the school. In addition to being very handsome and polite to everyone, the young man was rted to a powerful Awakened, which practically already defined that he would have an unlimited future ahead of him. Chris couldn''t understand why this young man came to talk to him one day during ss, but when he saw that this young man''s passion for studying Awakened was as great as his own, the two became good friends. Despite his aligning interests with this young man, people still made fun of Chris from time to time, saying that the young man spoke to him out of pity, but Chris knew that their interest was genuine and that they actually had some things inmon. "Don''t you want to be an Awakened?" One day the young man asked Chris, confused. p??d? n?ve? Chris was a little ufortable answering that, but knowing his friend hadn''t said anything hurtful on purpose, Chris answered truthfully, "My dream is to be an Awakened, but I don''t have the money to hire someone to help awaken." Chris thought the young man was going to mock him forck of money, just like the other teenagers did, but instead of hearing themon mockery, Chris felt a warm hand on his shoulder. Confused, Chris looked at his friend and saw him smiling before saying, "When I be an Awakened I will take you to awaken too." Chris knew that this phrase could just be a phrase offort for someone who was in need, but deep down he wanted to believe it was true. "Chris!" a familiar voice called out to Chris from afar. Chris smiled and turned to the only friend he''d ever made at this school, the boy who had been talking excitedly about Awakened with him for several months, and the young man that people thought talked to him out of pity. "Leo!" Chris yelled back. Leo saw that his friend was sad again and punched him very weakly on the shoulder. "Ouch!" Chris screamed in shock at the force of the punch he received on the shoulder. "Man, watch your strength. You look like an Awakened with a muscr body like that." Leo grinned even wider and replied, "It''s because now I''m an Awakened." Chris was shocked when he heard Leo say this. "Are you serious?" Chris immediately remembered the promise Leo had made to him in the past. "Yeah, wanna go kill some monsters today after school?" Leo asked with a smile. Chris'' heart raced in happiness. The school had a system where students could kill some weak monsters that the school created to try to Awaken, but only a small part of the students could awaken with these weak monsters. Chris failed in the past and thought he really would never get another chance. "Yes, yes, a million times yes!" Chris yelled excitedly. Leo smiled as he looked at his friend. He once wanted to help Chris, whose sister had multiple medical expenses, but with the little money he earned from his own sister''s army subsidy, there was no money left to help. But now he could help Chris be an Awakened and be able to earn his own money and help his sister get healthy again in the future. The two chatted excitedly. The conversation was pretty much Chris asking about Leo''s battles and Leo exining to Chris what it was like to fight monsters. The two students who were talking nearby were shocked when they heard that Leo had be an Awakened. "Is Leonardo the gifted Awakened Professor Edward talked about?" the one boy asked his friend. "It''s possible. Leonardo has a rtive who was a very powerful Awakenedˇ­ This will be big gossip! Leonardo Lentz has be the new student of the Elite ss!" The friend was excited by the news he found out and soon started telling everyone at school. Leo and Chris didn''t even realize that people were talking about Leo bing a student in the Elite ss until ss time was about to start and Leo said goodbye to Chris to go to his new ss. Seeing Leonardo heading towards the Elite ss made these gossiping students even more excited to confirm that he had indeed be an Awakened! At this point even Leo realized he''d be the focus of school gossip with his Awakened Bronze 2 Stars'' enhanced senses, but he didn''t care about that. He knew such chatter happened concerning every student who went to the Elite ss. This was Leo''s first time in the Elite ss, but he didn''t feel pressured. He realized that 99% of the students were Bronze 1 Star, and only one other person was Bronze 2 Star like himself. And coincidentally, the only vacant seat was sitting in front of this Bronze 2 Star person. Leo knew some of these people from the Elite ss, as he had studied with some of them before, but after bing Awakened, these people became proud and many stopped talking to ordinary students, something Leo couldn''t understand. It didn''t take long for the ss''s teacher to arrive and the students became quiet to pay attention in ss. That teacher was an old man, a Silver Rank 1 Star. His lecture was on Awakened history. Leo was paying attention in ss until he felt a thin finger poke his shoulder. Curious, Leo turned and saw a folded paper dangling from a girl''s pair of fingers. He took the paper and read what was written on the note. [Leonardo Lentz, the famous student prodigy, has finally be an Awakened, but strangely has he already reached the level of a Bronze 2 Star? What''s his secret?] Leo gave a smallugh at the contents of the note and wrote another note in response. The girl sitting behind him took the note he''d handed her and opened it to read. [French fries three times a week, lots of weight training, and the smiles of curious girls.] The girl gave a smallugh at the unexpected answer and wrote another note. Leo took the note without the teacher noticing and read it. [How often do curious girls smile, I wonder?] The girl took the note Leo scribbled in reply and read it, curious about his response. [That all depends on whether you agree to have coffee in the cafeteria during the break.] ''What a daring boy,'' she thought with a smile and handed over another note. [Lucky for you, my agent is avable at that time.] Leo took the note and put it in his pocket before returning to pay attention to the ss with a smileing off the side of his mouth. The girl also opened a small smile and returned to focus on the ss. Leo wasn''t the kind of boy who would crawl around whenever he saw a pretty woman, but when a pretty woman came to talk to him, he wouldn''t be stupid enough to ignore her. Leo knew this girl, Elizabeth Jones, before his arrival to the ss. She was the only other Bronze 2 Star Awakened student in the school, taking the title of student genius. Always acting in a serious manner at school, many students felt discouraged from talking to her, mainly because she was a Bronze 2 Star Awakened. The boys often felt intimidated talking to a girl stronger than them, while the girls felt jealous of her because she was so talented. Leo noticed that she raised her eyebrows when she sensed he was also an Awakened at the level of Bronze 2 Stars, and from the exchange of the two of them when he arrived in the ssroom, Leo sensed a hint of interest from her, as she knew he wouldn''t be afraid to talk to her because she was more powerful. And of course, Leo''s talent for reaching Bronze 2 Stars in such a short time was also a major factor in her bing even more interested in him. The ss passed in a short time and without saying a word, the two left the ssroom together towards the cafeteria. Viewers from afar might have thought it was a coincidence that they were heading in the same direction, but when the two sat at the same table, people were shocked. Elizabeth Jones and Leonardo Lentz were sitting together, what was going on?! "Elizabeth Jones, the genius student of the Elite ss, was exchanging notes with the charismatic, talented, and hot Leonardo Lentz. What''s going on?" Leomented with a falsely arrogant smile. "Did you forget to add narcissist to the list?" Elizabeth added with a smallugh. "Alright, I don''t mind collecting more adjectives for myself." Leo continued as if it didn''t affect him. "Pfftˇ­" Elizabethughed, seeing how Leo was acting. "What did you think of the Elite ss?" Leo thought for a moment and replied, "A little disappointed?" "Disappointed? Understandable. History ss is pretty boring, but the practical ss is worth it," shemented before taking a sip of her coffee. "Practical ss? Sounds interesting," Leo replied, "but I was surprised you sent me a note during ss." "Did it bother you?" Elizabeth asked. "Of course not; it just surprised me. It didn''t strike me as your style," Leomented. "My style, huh? It''s not like anyone really knows ''my style''," Elizabeth sighed. "Lonely year, huh?" Leomented. "Don''t remind me," she said before taking another sip of her coffee. "Although it''s apparently not as lonely as you said. Some flies are jealous of a bee buzzing around their flower," Leomented as he pointed at a group heading their way. These people have very unpleasant expressions on their faces, but Leo quietly continued drinking his coffee. He didn''t have much patience for these kinds of people. (Elizabeth and Chris'' Visual Representations are already on my Discord server!) ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 11 11 - Helping A Friend Chapter 11 11 - Helping A Friend Two boys wereing towards Leo and Elizabeth. One of the boys was tall and had long blonde hair, while the other was a little shorter with red hair. What the two of them had inmon was the look of displeasure they wore as they walked. "Liza, why didn''t youe and sit with us today?" the tall boy said as he frowned. Elizabeth frowned as she turned to answer. "Do I need to ask your permission to do things?" The boy got even angrier as he looked over to Leo. "Leonardo Lentz, huh? You just became an Awakened and you already think you''re the most powerful person in the school? Just because some of the girls might think you''re cute doesn''t mean you have the right at all to be in the elite ss, kid." Leo just looked at him and without caring continued drinking his own coffee while ignoring this boy''s existence. The boy was irate to see that Leo and Elizabeth were drinking coffee without paying attention to him and said again, "Liza, let''s go to my table. Don''t mix with a newbie like him." Elizabeth didn''t even look at him this time and replied while maintaining eye contact with Leo, "What if I say no?" "You know my dad is going to be an Army Corporal in a few weeks, right? He became a Silver Awakenedst month. You better know what''s best for you," the blond boy said in an arrogant tone. "Just a Silver 1 Star and you have such arrogance? Hahaha!" Leo chuckled as he looked at Elizabeth. People at the school only knew that Leo had a rtive who was a powerful and high-ranking Awakened in the army, but as they always saw him taking the bus to go to school, everyone thought she hadn''t been such a powerful Awakened. But Leo knew that his sister was a Gold Awakened, and not just a Gold 1 Star, but a Gold 3 Star, with a rank of First Lieutenant - a person with such a title that many in this town had never even seen once in their lives. The only reason Leo didn''t have money and live a luxurious life like the rtives of many other Gold Awakened was because that was a request from his sister: for him to learn responsibility and not be an arrogant young man like these kids he was seeing now in front of him. Initially Leo had been outraged by this, as he thought it unfair to have such a petty life as he had a sister as powerful as his, but after a few years of researching even more intensively about Awakened, Leo understood his sister''s attitude and even agreed with it. It made sure that he learned he needed to conquer obstacles with his own strength. But of course, it wasn''t that since Leo didn''t live a life of luxury that his sister stopped being a First Lieutenant in the army. If any in or outside the Army Corps tried to do something outside the rules to harm his life, the army superiors wouldn''t let them go unpunished. When the blond boy heard Leo mocking his father, he got angry. Without thinking twice, the boy opened his hand and conjured a stone of ice to attack Leo. As soon as Leo saw this, he was on alert. With a quick thought, he picked up the metal spoon that was beside him and went to throw the spoon into the ice cube. Using the Aim-Bot, Leo aimed at the underside of the ice shard at an angle that would change the flight path to hit the ceiling of the school cafeteria. But before Leo could finish his movement, a bolt of lightning struck the ice cube and turned it to dust. Leo soon understood what happened using his Wall-Hack, put the spoon on the table again, and calmly went back to drinking his coffee. "I see that Frederick Mills attempted to use his quirk to injure another student within the school amodations. I am very disappointed with his conduct." A powerful voice came from just outside the room, causing all the students to still and hush their voices. Frederick, the blond student who had almostunched the icicle at Leo, turned white with fear after hearing that voice. "Professor Edwardˇ­?" he asked, uncertainly. "At least you recognize my voice, boy." Edward replied in a dissatisfied tone as he entered the school cafeteria. "If it weren''t for me feeling a mana fluctuation in the cafeteria, maybe Leonardo Lentz''s life might have beenpromised right now, and your charges would have gone from being an assassination attempt to an official assassination." Frederick was even more scared after hearing this. He knew he''d screwed up now. Because Leo had made fun of his father like that, anger took over him and he didn''t even think about the consequences of what he was about to do, but now with a calmer mind, he finally realized that he screwed up his future. "I''m sorry Professor Edward, that was not my intention. I was just protecting my father''s honor." Edward found an excuse quickly and said it with an indignant tone. But Edward already knew how things were going to turn out and soon responded, "So if a person says something bad about your father, you will kill him? Are there no morews in this society? I didn''t know we had gone back to thewless days where things were resolved by ying those whom we disagreed with in public." Before Frederick could say anything else, Edward added, "No need to say more. I will inform the director about your attitude and he will deal with this problem." After hearing this, Frederick felt his legs go weak. The headmaster was a First Sergeant; not even his father could do anything about it. Maybe even his father could be reprimanded because of what he did. Frederick''s red-haired friend helped his friend out of the cafeteria, causing the surrounding students to start talking about what just happened. Frederick Mills, the most troublesome student in the school had just received a very serious punishment for trying to murder another student! And the most shocking thing was that this student is Leonardo Lentz! After Edward dealt with Frederick, he just looked at Leo with a small smile and winked his right eye at him and did a thumbs up as he went to get some coffee. Nobody else noticed that wink Edward gave Leo, nobody but one person, Elizabeth Jones, who was shocked when she saw it. Edward was the most famous teacher in the school, mainly because of his detached personality, never favoring one student over the others or showing affection for one student over any other. With the strength of a Silver 3 Star Awakened, Professor Edward was a highly respected Sergeant in the National Army, and now she saw this respected professor winking at Leo as if to say, "Let me handle this!"! In disbelief, Elizabeth asked Leo in a low voice, "Do you know Professor Edward?" Leo just acted like it was something simple and replied, "Yes, we met yesterday. He asked me to hunt monsters for him while he collected some materials in the forest." Elizabeth listened to this and couldn''t believe it. It didn''t make sense for a teacher like Edward, a Silver 3 Star Awakened to ask a Bronze 2 Star student to help him kill monsters while he was walking through the forest since just the aura of a Silver Awakened would be enough to ward off all the monsters around. Only Leo understood that Edward''s thumbs up was because he must have felt that from yesterday to today he had risen from Bronze 1 Star to Bronze 2 Stars and was probably congratting him. But Leo was toozy to exin things like that and just kept eating and drinking coffee while talking to Elizabeth about everyday things and monsters. After the break, the two returned to ss and continued exchanging some notes when the lecture got too tedious until the end of ss. When the ss ended, the two exchanged contacts on the phone and Leo went to meet Chris. Today he would help his friend to awaken his Quirk and take the opportunity to do some tests on the System. Leo knew that his System was very different from other peoples'', as he could unlock skills and view and distribute experience points freely, unlike other people who could only see skills traits. So with Chris today, Leo would take the opportunity to test some functions. As Chris didn''t have the money to buy Awakened material, the two took the bus to Leo''s house where Leo would lend some stuff for Chris to use. "You can take these knives. Now that I have a bow I have no more use for them," Leo said as he passed the knives he had used on his first day to Chris. "Thanks a lot bro. You can be sure I''ll pay all this back!" Chris said excitedly. Leo was his first friend at Blue Pearl High School, and the only person to help him fulfill his dream of bing an Awakened. "Don''t get too excited. You know the probability of awakening a Quirk is low among people? Even though we both failed to awaken a Quirk when we killed the monsters created by the school, it''s still possible that you still might awaken your Quirk after killing a real wild monster," Leo said with a serious expression. He didn''t want his friend to be devastated if he couldn''t awaken his Quirk. "Don''t worry, I already epted a long time ago that I wouldn''t be an Awakened for the rest of my life. This will be myst try. If that doesn''t work out I can just get some normal office job and get my money that way honestly," Chris responded with a determined expression. Leo was pleased to see this and went out with his friend to kill some monsters. At the city gate, the two guards who had seen Leo the other times were excited when they saw this young man again, especially after they felt that this boy had already reached Bronze 2 Stars! "Did you bring a friend this time, kid? That''s good. It''s safer to hunt with more people," Guard Greg said with a smile. "Yes, very well, getting money alone is very tempting, but you know that a single failure can be the end of an Awakened''s life," The other guard said, smiling too. Leo was surprised at the guards'' change in attitude, but just ignored it and walked Chris out of town. The guards, being Bronze 5 Star Awakened, obviously felt that this boy''s friend was just an ordinary young man who hadn''t gone through an awakening, but as he was apanied by this boy who was praised by an Silver 3 Star, they just ignored it because they knew that the boy wanted to help his friend wake up, and with the strength that this boy apparently had, if they only hunted 1 Star monsters it wouldn''t be difficult. p??d? n?ve? But what the guards, not even Chris knew, is that Leo wasn''t going to take his friend to hunt 1 Star monsters, but rather he nned to go directly to the 2 Star monsters! ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 12 12 - Aim-Bot Lv 5 Chapter 12 12 - Aim-Bot Lv 5 "Hey Leo, why don''t you let me kill 1 Star monsters?" Chris asked, confused. Leo smiled and responded with a question. "Do you know how Awakened rank up?" Chris thought for a moment and answered, "By killing monsters. The more powerful the monster, the more energy the Awakened receives. When this energy umtes at a certain level, the Awakened receives a strength boost, officially rising to the Rank of 2 Stars." Chris'' answer was perfect. Then Leo finally answered, "And now tell me, if a person kills a monster bred in captivity, he will receive X amount of this energy. If the person kills a wild 1 Star monster he will receive Y of this energy, but let''s say that even killing a 1 Star monster, that person doesn''t be an Awakened. What could be the possible reason?" Leo asked as he shot an arrow at a 1 Star goat. "The possible reason is that the person has no talentˇ­ orˇ­ the energy is insufficient!" Chris responded, shocked by this deduction. Leo just cracked a small smile as he took the arrow from the goat he killed, not bothering to get the hooves of this 1 Star monster. "Yes, my sister who is Awakened once told me that there is a protocol they use for awakening soldiers, and the result is very simr to what you just deduced. So what we are going to do today is not kill 1 Star monsters, but kill 2-star monsters. Even if you need to kill three 2-star monsters, we''ll do it. But if it really gets to that point, you''d better decide to be an ordinary worker." Chris was excited to hear that he would definitely be an Awakened today, but he soon took Leo''s advice to heart. If he needed to kill three 2 Star monsters, it would mean that his talent to move up Rank was very low, while a talented person would need to kill only a single 1 Star monster. If he needed more than three 2 Star monsters, it meant he would need multiple times more of the mysterious energy to rank up in the future. Leo''s information was correct. After all, the army actually had this protocol of increasing the strength of hunted monsters until the person woke up, but just like Leo said, people who needed a lot of powerful monsters would be ruled out as possible powerful Awakened in the future. Especially true for Leo, who had a System, he knew that by killing monsters people would get Exp; they just couldn''t see it. But while Leo needed 500 Exp points to reach a 2 Star Rank, there were people out there who needed 1,000 points, maybe even 10,000 Exp points to Rank up because of low talent. This was the biggest factor for those city gate guards being stuck in Bronze Rank 5 Stars for so many years. After all, they must have already racked up tens if not hundreds of thousands of Exp points during their several years serving in the army, but because of their low talent, they failed to rise to Silver 1 Star. After understanding this, Chris'' anxiety grew. The two walked in silence for a few minutes while Leo just killed the Bronze 1 Star monsters to make their trek faster until they finally entered a Bronze 2 Stars monster zone. "Are you prepared?" Leo asked. Chris took a deep breath and nodded. Leo pulled his bowstring and activated the Aim-Bot and Wall-Hack immediately. With Leo''s strength improved to 2 Stars, the bowstring that was once a little heavy was now as light as stretching a rubber band. Leo''s perception was also greatly enhanced, to the point where he was able to perceive things and react much faster than before. Bronze 2 Star Monsters that were once a little dangerous for him to deal with inrge numbers were now as simple to tackle as the 1 Star Mutant Cows he was killing a few days ago. This was a Bronze 2 Stars Mutant Deer zone. These monsters had two valuable parts, the antlers and the tendons, which could be used to make bows. But as the horns were too big and inconvenient to carry, Leo didn''t worry too much about them, thinking only of the profit he could make with the tendons, which cost $600 a set of 4 tendons. A Deer was drinking water in ake 25 meters ahead, but as these monsters were very smart and skittish, Leo was slowly moving towards this Deer while using the Aim-Bot to aim at the monster''s throat. Chris'' hands were shaking as he knew that if he was alone against this 2 Stars monster he would definitely die. Swoooosh! As soon as Leo came within 22 meters range of the Deer, the monster noticed the human pointing something strange at him and started to run, but Leo was even faster, and when he realized that the Deer noticed him, he also ran forward and threw himself in motion. Because of the Aim-Bot, the arrow didn''t miss the shot, and because of Leo''s great strength which was now that of a Bronze 2 Star Awakened, it perfectly pierced the monster''s neck, causing blood to spurt out like a waterfall. Chris stood there in shock seeing how that scary Bronze 2 Star monster fell to the ground so easily. "Go, stick the knife in the monster''s eye before it dies!" Leo yelled at Chris, causing his friend to finally wake up and run over to the deer desperately. Chris ran towards the Deer as Leo looked around with the Wall-Hack to make sure no other monsters were waiting to ambush him. In this ambush Leo was a little disappointed. Even with his improved strength he needed to get very close to the deer in order to attack the monster safely. If this deer were a Bronze 3 Star monster, it would likely have noticed Leo even earlier, not even allowing Leo to be able to shoot the monster before it ran away. ''I need to level up my skillsˇ­'' Leo thought as he looked at Chris putting the knife in the Deer''s eye and the message appearing in front of him. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze 2 Star Mutant Deer with the help of apanion. You received 25 Experience Points.] ''Actually, experience is shared when a group of Awakened hunt together. That''s why Awakened who only hunt inrge groups need much more time to advance in rank,'' Leo thought as he looked at the message. If the experience was divided by the amount of people that attacked the monster, hunting alone was at least 5 times more efficient than hunting in a group of inexperienced hunters. Of course, if the group was experienced, they would need less time than a single Awakened alone to kill a monster. ''But this rule doesn''t affect me, as I usually kill monsters with just 1 shot since I never miss,'' Leo thought. Seeing the big smile on Chris'' face, Leo didn''t even have to ask if he''d managed to awaken. "How long for your Quirk and Talent to be decided?" Chris looked at Leo excitedly as he answered, "A half hour." Leo just smiled back and decided to take Chris back to town as the task was already done. "If you need help you can talk to me tomorrow at school. But for now, use that money to buy some decent gear. A Bronze 1 Awakened doesn''t need anything too fancy. Just wait for your Quirk to be decided first, and then buy corresponding gear," Leo responded as he handed the tendons he had collected to Chris. "Thisˇ­this is very expensiveˇ­" Chris was shocked when he saw Leo had just given him these tendons, as he knew they cost $600. But Leo just replied, "You killed it; the loot is yours." After saying that, Leo threw the bag where the tendons were to Chris and walked back into the woods while waving his hand at his friend. Chris didn''t say anything else and just nodded. He was determined to pay back the help Leo gave him some time in the future. As long as Leo needed something, Chris was determined to help without a second thought. After Leo returned to the forest, his hunting speed greatly increased. As he was alone this time, he could run at the maximum speed his Bronze 2 Star body could handle and shoot multiple monsters at once. As the experience he could gain from killing Bronze 1 Star monsters had dropped by 50%, Leo just ignored these monsters and ran while killing Bronze 2 Star monsters. After seeing that his range was still too low, Leo decided to ignore the deer and went back to hunting the rats he was killing when he was with Professor Edward. Leo''s stamina was much higher than the day before as he moved up in rank, so he was able to hunt even more rats. While the day before he had caught 17 of the rodents in an hour, this time Leo managed to catch 27 in just under an hour, and he wasn''t even as tired as he was the day before. As he stopped to rest, Leo opened his stats screen. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 1458 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 02 [0/200]: In a 20 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 02 [0/1,000]: Within a radius of 20 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Avable Quirks: Speed-Hack (1,000 Evolution Points), Inventory-Hack (5,000 Evolution Points), ????????? (??????? Evolution Points)] Leo started looking at his skills tab and got thoughtful. ''On the one hand I can level up the Aim-Bot a few times and increase the Wall-Hack. On the other hand I can also unlock the Speed-Hackˇ­ What would be more useful to me in the short term?'' Leo was very confused by this. The amount of Exp he was getting per hour was very high, to the point where he could level up skills very quickly, but from that a doubt arose the question between increasing the level of skills he already had or unlocking a new skill. After thinking for a while, Leo made up his mind. ''For now I will increase my Aim-Bot and Wall-Hack. When I''m done here I can leave some Exp points stored to unlock Speed-Hack at home, as this may cause me some difort in my body, which wouldn''t be very safe in a forest full of monsters.'' Having made up his mind, Leo started to spend his Exp points. [Do you want to spend 200 Exp Points to raise ''Aim-Bot'' to level 3?] ''Yes,'' Leo answered mentally. [Do you want to spend 400 Exp Points to raise ''Aim-Bot'' to level 4?] ''Yes,'' Leo answered mentally. p??d? n?ve? [Do you want to spend 800 Exp Points to raise ''Aim-Bot'' to level 5?] ''Yes,'' Leo answered mentally. As the Wall-Hack would need 1,000 Exp points, Leo preferred to spend all his Exp points on Aim-Bot first, so he wouldn''t have the problem of being able to see the enemy and not being able to shoot, just like when he helped Chris kill the deer. So the Aim-Bot was updated for these stats: [Aim-Bot Lv 05 [0/1,600]: In a 50 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase.] Leo''s stored Exp points, which were previously at 1,458, had now dropped to just 58 points, but seeing how good it felt to hold the bow and aim at very distant targets, Leo''s smile couldn''t be contained. Listening to his own body, Leo knew he could handle another 1.5 hours of hunting. If he stopped to rest in a few moments he could extend this to another two hours of high intensity hunting. ''I''ll only leave here with at least 2 thousand Exp points!'' Leo thought excitedly as he started to run through the forest. ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 13 13 - Speed-Hack Chapter 13 13 - Speed-Hack Crack! Leo was shocked as he looked at the bow in his hand. The bow he''d bought a few days ago had snapped in half right after he shot a rat. Fortunately this didn''t interfere with the arrow''s trajectory, killing the cat-sized rodent very easily. ''I think unconsciously I started to use more force with each arrow I shot, and this bow couldn''t take the forceˇ­'' Leo was frustrated. This bow was too expensive for him to break in such a short time. ''I''ll need to buy a better bow. At least now I have enough money for that.'' Leo looked with a smile at his backpack which was full of Mutant Rats'' paws and ears. In thest two hours of hunting before the bow broke, Leo had hunted 43 more rats, giving him a total of 2,150 Exp just from the rats alone, bringing his Exp total to 2,208 since he leveled up his Aim-Bot. His hunting speed in the first hour was much higher, but over time, with the hunting in high intensity, Leo''s body was getting tired and his hunting speed was also decreasing. But considering that in those 3 hours he killed 70 rats, Leo was overjoyed. Taking into ount each set of materials from the rats cost $500, just in those three hours of hunting Leo had gotten $35,000, which added to the $12,000 he already had in his bank ount, brought Leo''s ount up to $47,000! ''With so much money I will finally be able to buy better equipment, and with the experience I have, I will be able to improve my skills as well,'' Leo thought excitedly as he used a knife to take the valuable and lightweight parts of thest rat and walked back to the city gate. Leo didn''t even bother to get the broken bow repaired, even though it had cost him $2,000 to purchase. Because it had the wood broken in the middle, it wouldn''t be worth it for him to try to fix it, and especially now that he had enough strength to kill Bronze 2 Star monsters very easily, Leo would only need to kill 4 more rats to get the money back that he had spent on that bow. Upon arriving at the city gate, Leo was a little surprised. Instead of just having the usual two guards guarding the gate, there was also a man with a powerful aura of a Silver Awakened next to the soldiers. p??d? n?ve? As it was already getting dark, Leo politely said goodnight as he intended to get past the three people and go to the sales station to convert the materials he gathered into cash. But before Leo passed them, one of the soldiers spoke to the superior beside them. "Corporal Joseph, this is the talented boy we mentioned to you," Private Greg said to the superior beside him. The man with the Silver ranked aura looked at Leo again and was surprised. With his aura he could feel how many materials were in that backpack that the young man carried on his back, and he could feel the residue of power from those monster remains, and to Joseph''s surprise, the backpack was full of Bronze 2 Star monster corpse parts! Corporal Joseph quickly raised his hand and called out to Leo. "Young man, can you wait a minute?" Leo was confused by this, but since the man was a Silver Awakened, Leo could at least hear what the man had to say. "Yeah?" "Have you ever enlisted in the army?" Joseph asked Leo a little doubtfully. He could see that this young man''s face, although very handsome, also had a hint of youth, like someone who hadn''t even turned 18 yet, but from the strength that this young man demonstrated in killing as many monsters as he was carrying, this was something no high school student could do. Leo soon understood this man''s doubt and responded with a polite smile, "I''m sorry Sir, but I''m actually still only 17 years old. I haven''t even graduated from high school yet." Joseph was shocked to hear Leo say that. Even factoring in luck, seeing someone so young hunt so many monsters of the same Rank all by himself was unbelievable! Joseph soon broke into a smile and replied, "What a talented young man! At your age I was still scared to go into the forest with a bunch of Awakened from among my friends, but you''ve already reached Bronze 2 Stars and are hunting 2 Star Bronze monsters all by yourself! Our Blue Sky city sure did give birth to a great genius!" Leo was a little embarrassed to hear such a bigpliment but he knew that Joseph was pretty much right about what he was saying. Maybe the young man Leo''s age with the most strength might be Bronze 3 Stars, but no one anywhere near this young man could hunt 2 star monsters with the ease and speed that Leo had demonstrated. If it weren''t for Leo avoiding using his Exp to rank up, Leo might already be a Bronze 4 Star Awakened, but he knew that speeding things up would only make his life harder in the future. Joseph stoppedughing and looked at Leo with a friendly gaze. "Young man, may I know your name?" Leo smiled politely again and replied, "No need to be so polite, sir. My name is Leonardo Lentz." Joseph heard Leo mention his name and got a little thoughtful. "Lentzˇ­ Lentzˇ­ Oh, you''re her little brother! Now it all makes sense!" Joseph finally recognized Leo''sst name and understood why Leo was so strong at this age, as his sister also had a simr legend in Blue Sky City. "Since you''re her brother, that makes things a lot easier, Leonardo. The university entrance exams will take ce in a few weeks, so prepare well for them. I''ll tell my superiors about your results; your future prospects are sure to please everyone." Leo remembered that the entrance exams were close, and while people who didn''t be Awakened took written entrance exams to get into some medicine,w, engineering or other such degree like that, students from the Elite sses from the best schools in the countrypeted to get a spot among the best Universities for Awakened. There were four main Universities for Awakened, but the University with the mostpetition and the best staff for teaching and developing Awakened was certainly the Military University. This was also Leo''s goal for the future: he intended to get a ce on a schrship to the Military University, something that only the highest scoring students in the country could get. "Don''t worry sir, I''ll do my best to fulfill your expectations," Leo said in a slightly formal tone, a bit like the way soldiers used to talk to their superiors. Leo didn''t show respect for people who were not respectful to him, but he understood between the lines what Joseph had said. He would say good things about Leo to his superiors so that they would also see Leo with good eyes and increase his chance to get a schrship to the Military University. Leo knew that with the System he didn''t need something like that, but still, he wouldn''t treat someone poorly who was helping him with a smile. Joseph was clearly pleased with Leo''s attitude. This young man was neither shy nor arrogant, just a perfect blend of the two, treating him, a Silver Awakened, with respect, but not acting in a submissive manner. This kind of person would do well in any social circle, and for the army, people like that would be the best addition they could get. "Very well, Leonardo. Go your way. Thank you for your time." Joseph dismissed Leo and took out his cell phone to set up some meetings. Leo also said goodbye and went to the trading post to sell all the stuff he was carrying in his backpack. Once again, Greg and his fellow guard were shocked to see this young man converse with a Silver Awakened in such a natural way and still get such a huge favor from Corporal Joseph. They never had the opportunity to enter the Military University, only being able to participate in a second-rate University. The top four universities in the country had a record that all enrolled students would graduate with a rank of at least 1 Star Silver, while at the Military University graduates were at least Silver 2 Stars! This meant that even the worst student was already leaving the Military University as Army Corporal Rank, and the above average students who became Silver 3 Star Awakened already became Army Sergeants! For three guards who were just Bronze 5 Star Soldiers, this was an opportunity of a lifetime. Greg and hispanion were only 35 years old, so they still had a chance of reaching Silver Rank if they were lucky, but for a young Military University graduate, they could reach 5 Star Silver Rank in the future, maybe even the legendary Gold 1 Star! ''This boy is very lucky!'' was the thought of the two soldiers as they watched Leo calmly walk towards the trading post. Leo had no idea that he was the focus of envy and respect from the soldiers. Now he was just worried about selling his rat ws and ears and getting the money to buy a good bow. Upon arriving at the sales point, the same pretty clerk who had dealt with Leo the other times came again with a professional smile on her face. "Good evening, sir. Did your group hunt more monsters today?" she asked curiously. This boy was bringing more and more materials every time he came over, and hermission was getting bigger and bigger every time this young man sold something through her. Leo gave a polite smile and replied, "Yes, our hunt today was very fruitful. As the group is already more familiar, we managed to hunt more Bronze 2 Star monsters today." The young attendant was surprised by this answer. Hunting Bronze 2 Stars monsters at Leo''s age was already formidable. ''Probably his hunting party is full of veterans,'' she thought. Leo used the excuse that he was part of a hunting party so as not to arouse suspicion as to why he was getting so many monsters on his own the other times he came. Now the lie was bing very useful, especially when Leo saw the young attendant''s shocked expression as she counted a total of 70 sets of rat ws and ears, which totaled $35,000 in profit for Leo! Following the Awakened group norm that averaged 7 to 10 people, this would give $3,500 to $5,000 for each member of the group. For a single day of hunting this was already a very high amount, but she had no idea that instead of $3,500 to $5,000 for each member of the group, it would actually be $35,000 just for Leo, as he was the only person in the group! After receiving the money in his bank ount, Leo went to the ranged weapons shop and started looking at the bows. Bronze 1 Star bows were something Leo was no longer interested in, as he saw how low the durability of this type of bow was in the hands of a 2 Star Bronze Awakened like himself, so Leo was just looking at Bronze bows that were 2 Star or above. Among these bows, the price ranged from Bronze 2 Stars bows costing $5,000 to $10,000, and Bronze 3 Stars bows costing $20,000 to $50,000. ''If I buy a Bronze 3 Stars bow, I could use the bow until I reach Bronze 4 Stars, which is a good investment.'' Leo continued to think as he looked at the Bronze 3 Stars bow options, until he saw a bright blue bow made with wood from Mutant Trees from the ice forests. The arch was absolutely beautiful. "Young customer, are you interested in this bow?" an old man asked Leo with a friendly smile. "Yes, it''s my main weapon," Leo replied as he continued admiring the blue bow, deciding to take the bow after trying it out. "Very well. Few people have the gift of using bows. Would you like to try it?" the old man asked. Leo nodded and the old man took the bow from the shelf and handed it to Leo. Leo pulled the bowstring while aiming at invisible targets to test the strength of the string and other things and the bow surprised him. The string was much stronger than the Bronze 1 Star bow he had, to the point that Leo needed all his strength to pull the string as far as he could to shoot the arrow with the highest attack power. But it also meant that he could shoot arrows even further away with more force, as the bowstring could withstand so much pressure. "I''ll take this one!" Leo said excitedly after testing the bow. The old shop owner grinned and said to Leo, "This bow was my masterpiece below Silver Rank. Even using Bronze 3 Stars materials, this bow can hurt Silver 1 Star monsters if used with the arrows made for this bow." Leo was shocked to hear this information. "How much does this bow cost?" Leo asked worriedly. "Because of the force this bow can exert, and because I have such fondness for it, the price I''ve decided on is $80,000," the old man replied with a little regret. From Leo''s expression, the old man already understood that the young man didn''t have that much money. Leo was visibly disappointed. He had never used a bow as good as this one before. "That''s a shame. I only have $40,000 to buy a bow, and as my old bow broke I can''t even hunt tomorrow to top up the money for the bow." Hearing Leo''s exnation, the old man was thoughtful, until he had an idea. "Young man, we can make a deal about this bow. I can give you the bow now, but you''ll need to gather for me some rare ingredients that I need in return. Then you can use the bow to hunt the monsters needed for the ingredients, and after you hand it all over to me, the bow will be yours for only $40,000." Leo heard this and was beaming with happiness, but before he could agree, the old man continued, "But among the ingredients I need, there are several Rank 3 Stars monsters you''ll have to take down and even the eye of a 4 Star monster. Do you think your group is capable of handling it?" the old man asked. Leo thought for a while and asked in reply, "How long will I have to bring these materials?" "A week at most," the old man replied. Hearing this, Leo became morefortable and answered the old man, "It''s okay. In a week I''ll bring you the materials." Leo had 2,200 Experience points to spend, and with this new bow, he was confident he could hunt monsters even faster and improve his skills even faster. And what made Leo even more confident was the skill he would unlock today: [Speed ??Hack]. ---------- A new novel needs attention and affection, please vote with your power stones andment what you think about the chapter, it really encourages me to keep writing! I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 14 14 - Strong Quirk! Chapter 14 14 - Strong Quirk! When Leo came home with the new bow, he carefully stowed the bow on the shelf he used to store the old bow, and after taking a shower and eating a big meal, Leoy down on the bed because Leo learned from his mistakes. He knew that an upgrade like the Speed-Hack skill could cause some change in his body that made him feel a lot of pain, as it had when he rose to Bronze 2 Stars. So Leo, finally ready, told the system, "Evolve the Wall-Hack skill." [Are you sure you want to evolve Wall-Hack for 1000 Experience Points?] "Yes," Leo replied. [Wall-Hack Lv 03 [0/2,000]: Within a radius of 30 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases.] "Thirty meters of rangeˇ­ That''s already a pretty good distance. Unfortunately, I didn''t ask the system if there would be any skill upgrades that increased more than the default at some point, but maybe that will be possible at some point," Leo told himself thoughtfully. "Unlock the Speed-Hack skill," Leo said. [Are you sure you want to unlock the Speed-Hack skill for 1000 Experience Points?] "Yes," Leo responded confidently as he closed his eyes and braced himself for possible pain, but even after 10 seconds he felt nothing. Confused, Leo called up his status screen to see if any problems had urred. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 8 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 05 [0/1,600]: In a 50 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 03 [0/2,000]: Within a radius of 30 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Speed-Hack Lv 01 [0/2000]: While the user has the skill activated, the user''s agility will be 10% higher. With each level the percentage will be increased. Avable Quirks: Inventory-Hack (5,000 Evolution Points). The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Pure Silver Rank.] Leo was a little embarrassed to see that his bedtime preparation wasn''t helpful, but he didn''t feel bad about it. Without thinking too much about it, Leo activated his new skill and realized that his agility had actually increased. While before he would need 3 seconds to take an arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow, after timing himself with his new skill activated Leo needed just 2.7 seconds, not to mention that the speed he could reach while running had also increased. Leo was shocked by this ability. ''As much as 10% might not seem like a lot now, but I''m just a Bronze 2 Star Awakened. If I were a Gold Awakened how big would that 10% increase be? And by the time I reach Gold I will already have this skill many levels higher. How many times will I be faster and more agile than Awakened of the same level as me? 200 or 300% faster? Maybe even more!'' Leo was very shocked by this ability. While Aim-Bot was a skill that could be achieved by others with training, and Wall-Hack was a skill that served primarily as a utility, Speed-Hack was the first skill that increased Leo''s innate abilities in such a direct way. After thinking a lot about the possibilities of things he could achieve with Speed-Hack, Leo looked at the next Quirk he could unlock after unlocking Speed-Hack, but he was surprised to find that he could only get more Quirks after moving up to the Silver Rank. ''This isn''t necessarily a bad thingˇ­'' Leo thought. He knew that the bigger the difference between his Rank and the opposing monster''s Rank, the more Exp points he would receive, but the new Quirks were also costing more and more to level up. If Leo kept getting Quirks infinitely, it might be possible for him to be the only Bronze 2 Star Awakened who could fight Silver monsters alone. ''Well, maybe this is a sign that I should just level up these Quirks as much as possible before the Pure Silver Rank?'' Leo thought as he analyzed how many Exp points he might need. ''In the same way that I have a maximum of skills that I can get at Bronze Rank, these skills might also have a maximum level. Considering that Aim-Bot is already at Lv 05, maybe the maximum level is about Lv 10ˇ­'' Leo started to specte how many levels it would take to reach the maximum level of the skills. Thinking about therge amount of points he would need, Leo finally realized that he would need to start killing even more powerful monsters in the future, even though killing Bronze 2 Star monsters already gave him a good amount of Experience and money currently, but to achieve the max skill level that wouldn''t be enough. With that in mind, Leo nned to start hunting Bronze 3 Star monsters the next day and start leveling up his skills frantically. Leo''s goal was to get at least 2 of his skills to be at the maximum level by the entrance exam for Universities. And with the list of materials the old man at the bow shop had given him, Leo already had a goal of which monsters to hunt in order toplete both tasks at the same time. ''As much as I may not be able to hunt Bronze 4 Star monsters for now, as long as my skills level up enough I will be able to hunt these monsters with ease without raising my Rank to Bronze 3 Stars, thus being able to extract maximum Experience points from the difference in rank between me and the monsters,'' Leo thought with conviction. nning so many things had Leo staying upter than he was used to, but after a while he finally fell asleep. The next day, Leo went to school by bus as usual, even though he still had more than $6,000 in his bank ount, and the amount of money he was currently earning was enough for him to buy a cheaper model of car. Leo, however, didn''t intend to spend money on that sort of thing for now. He was a big fan of cars, and was truly drawn to luxury sports cars, but Leo knew how to focus between what was necessary and what was superfluous, and for him, he was still buying the necessary equipment for a powerful Awakened. A luxury car would just be an unnecessary item for him for now. When Leo arrived at school, Chris had an excited expression waiting for him in front of the school. "Leo!" Chris yelled excitedly as he waved at Leo. Leo also smiled as he waved to Chris, who was a few feet away from him. But something next shocked Leo. Chris, who was at least 30 meters away from him, suddenly appeared in front of Leo! "Youˇ­" Leo didn''t know what to say as he looked at Chris in surprise. p??d? n?ve? Chris'' smile got even bigger after seeing his friend''s surprised reaction. "Yes! I finally got my Quirk! And it''s a teleportation Quirk!" "A teleportation Quirk?! That''s amazing Chris! People with Space Quirks are extremely valued by the army! With this Quirk, as long as you''re not an idiot, you''ll be guaranteed a spot at the Military University!" Leo said excitedly as he hugged his friend happily. Leo was worried that the Quirk that Chris would awaken was just an average, weak Quirk, which could greatly limit Chris'' future, but because Chris had gotten such a powerful Quirk, Leo was finally able to rx knowing that his friend would have a promising future ahead. "Yes! We can go to the Military University together!" Chris said excitedly. At Chris'' statement, Leo just smiled but didn''t say anything. He knew Chris'' confidence hade from the strength Leo showed in killing a Bronze 2 Star monster as easily as he did yesterday, and Leo also agreed with what Chris said: He was sure that with his skills he would also get a spot at the Military University. "Very good, buddy. How about we go to the Elite ss together?" Leo said as he put his arm around Chris'' shoulder. Since Chris was shorter than Leo, this was a natural thing Leo had done with Chris since they''d met. Hearing what Leo said, Chris was a little scared, but seeing Leo already leading him towards the Elite room, Chris just kept quiet with an excited expression, although still a little scared about what would happen in the future. Lucky for both of them, Leo ran into Professor Edward as they walked to the Elite ss. "Good morning Professor Edward," Leo said with a polite smile. Edward was surprised by someone calling out to him, but when he turned around and saw it was Leo, he also shed a polite smile and answered, "Good morning Leonardo." Looking at where Leo''s arm was, Edward noticed that he was hugging a small, skinny boy by the shoulder. Curious, Edward used some of his perception and realized that Leonardo''s friend was also an Awakened. That was great news! "I see your friend has also be an Awakened. That''s good news young man. What''s your name?" Edward asked with a smile. "Myˇ­. My name is Chris Elliot, Professor Edward," Chris said in a polite and a little scared way, as this was the first time he had ever talked to a Silver Awakened. "Chris Elliot, a good name. I''ll remember that in the future," Edward said with a smile before walking back towards the Elite room. "Today will you be teaching, Professor?" Leo asked curiously. "Yes, Leonardo, today will be a practical ss. And I am the teacher of this ss for the Elite students," Edward replied. "That is good," Leo replied as he remembered what Elizabeth had told him the day before, that the practical ss was the best ss the Elite ss had. With that in mind, Leo went to the Elite ss with Chris. As there were no seats close to where Leo was sitting, Chris had to look for a seat away from Leo. When Leo sat across from Elizabeth, she didn''t even write a note and spoke to him directly. "Good morning Leonardo. Did your friend be an Awakened yesterday?" she asked. "No need to call me Leonardo. My friends just call me Leo, and yes, I helped him be an Awakened yesterday. He was lucky to get a good Quirk," Leo said with a small smile. "Then you don''t need to call me Elizabeth either. I would prefer you to call me Liza. And good for your friend; it will be good for you to have someone else to talk to besides me, since the personality of these other people is not very pleasant because of their pride in being ''Elites''," Liza said while giving a cuteugh. "Well then we''ll be a conversational group of three. He''s a little shy but once you get to know him well you''ll see he''s a nice guy," Leo said with a smile. As they talked, Professor Edward finished discussing something with another professor he was talking to at the front of the ssroom and walked in to announce the practical ss they were going to have. But before that he made an announcement. "As the entrance exam ising, from now on, the practical sses will have rankings of students made through a tournament held every ss. The result of these tournaments will be in your school records, as requested by the four major universities," Edward exined patiently. The students were shocked by this news, and the students with the weakest Quirks were afraid of being at the bottom of their ss, afraid that it would be a stain that would prevent them from getting into a major University in the future. But seeing Leo and the weak boy who joined the Elite ss yesterday and today respectively, these weaker students were reassured, as with two people who had just be Awakened thest ces were probably already guaranteed for those two who had not attended any useful sses with the teachers in the Elite ss. But what these students didn''t know was that Leo was already a 2 Star Bronze Awakened, stronger than all of them, and Chris was an Awakened with a space Quirk, which also practically guaranteed a spot at the best University in the country. Especially for Chris, even having joined the Elite ss today, probably the results of this test today would hardly affect the future possibilities for him. Feeling the sneering stares, Leo just cracked a small smile at the corner of his lips and decided to wait to hit these guys with a heavy dose of reality in a few minutes. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 15 15 - Chris Surprise Chapter 15 15 - Chris'' Surprise 15 - Chris'' surprise Although the Elite ss had few peoplepared to the rest of the school, the number of students was normalpared to other sses. While people who were in a ss had to stay in a room with 40 other people, the Elite ss also had 40 students. The difference was that these 40 people were Awakened in the Elite ss, andpared to the more than 2 thousand students at school, it made the students in this ss feel that they were very special - something that inted their egos. As much as Leo was a 2 Star Bronze Awakened, he didn''t let the Awakened special status influence his mindset to make him be arrogant, so much so that Leo always treated everyone who was polite to him with the same amount of politeness. This was mainly influenced by his sister, who was a Gold Awakened but was always polite to everyone she spoke to, from another Gold Awakened to a waitress at a family restaurant. As Leo was leaving the ssroom and heading towards the school Arena while talking to Liza, Chris also came alongside him and every now and then contributed something to the conversation. For Leo this came naturally, but Liza was surprised that Chris was also treating her normally as Leo did, despite Chris'' evident shyness. Unlike other students who only saw her as intimidating, or with ulterior motives, Leo and Chris just enjoyed the conversation as if they were three normal students before they became Awakened. But while the three chatted happily, there were some people who were a little jealous to see the three of them talking, especially Frederick Mills, the kid who got into trouble after the fight with Leo. The day before after ss, Professor Edward called Frederick''s father to the school, and even though Frederick''s father was a Silver 1 Star Awakened, in front of Professor Edward, who was Silver 3 Stars, the difference in rank and force was too great. Fortunately as this was the first time the teachers had caught Frederick doing something like this, Professor Edward left Frederick with only a verbal warning after his father assured him that he would correct his son''s attitude. Because of all this, Frederick''s father severely reprimanded his son, but not because he had gotten into a fight with another student, but because he did it so openly in front of so many people. With that, Frederick decided to wait for another time where he would have a better opportunity to do something to Leo without him being seen doing something "wrong". And luckily for him, today there would be a tournament among the students for points for the entrance exam. ''If I can disqualify this boy, that will be even better revenge since he won''t be able to enter any powerful university in the future,'' Frederick thought excitedly, and started to ball up a n with his friends. Meanwhile, Leo and Liza were quite rxed, as they knew that no one would have the strength to deal with them at school based on their Rank, but Chris on the other hand was worried. "Dude, don''t worry. You have a powerful Quirk. As long as you use it well, you''re guaranteed a spot in the top five," Leo said with a small smile. "Butˇ­ I''ve never fought against anyone else beforeˇ­" Chris said, still without confidence. Leo thought for a moment and replied, "But who said you need to fight?" Chris was confused when he heard what Leo said, but after some thought he finally got it! With the idea Leo just gave him, Chris was much more confident in this battle. When all the students arrived at the school''s arena, Professor Edward said aloud, "The matchups have already been decided by the program provided by the four main universities. ording to their regtions, all weapons used will be standard weapons used in training to ensure equality and fairness in battles." Leo heard this and felt it was a good thing. After all, if a student used a Bronze 5 Star sword because they had a lot of money, that sword would definitely cut another student''s Bronze 1 Star sword in half. Unlike a Bronze 3 Star Bow, which was much heavier and needed more force to shoot arrows than Bronze 1 Star Bows, swords had no strength limitation for use beyond the greater weight. The first battle didn''t involve any of the trio, so Leo just stood in the stands with Liza and Chris watching how this would work out. Since this was Leo and Chris'' first time, Liza patiently exined how this arena worked. "This type of arena is very modern, something that only the Blue Pearl school has in the city. The arena is connected to aputer that can control the arena''s environment, the temperature, and even project some semi-solid objects to interfere with the movement and vision of whoever is battling," she exined, and Leo was a little surprised by what all Liza had told them. As the battle began, they saw that the arena''s environment changed from a smooth circle to a destroyed city. Professor Edward had warned that the environments would also be random to prevent it from favoring one student over another, thus making the environment impartial. Leo was happy to see this, as one of his concerns was that [Wall-Hack] would be useless in an arena without obstacles. But as long as he was lucky not to get an arena in a desert or some other predominantly nd environment, the skill would still be useful to give him an edge. On the other hand, Chris was thinking about how he could handle the students who were struggling. As he had no fighting experience, he would have toe up with some creative n to deal with his opponents. The two students who were up first were using swords. While one student''s sword was slightly reddened, probably from a Quirk that increased the temperature of the weapon, the other student was walking on the wall to change the angle of his attacks. As much as the first student''s Quirk made his sword much more lethal than his opponent''s, the second student had very good battle experience and was able to dodge the first student''s attacks with great ease because of the three-dimensional mobility he had control over. It didn''t take long for the hot sword student to lose and the second student''s victory to be announced. The second student had managed to breach the first student''s defense, and mmed his sword into the first student''s shoulder. Because the sword wasn''t sharp enough, the first student''s shoulder only received a small cut, which could easily be treated in the school''s infirmary. Leo was very appreciative of how this student won the battle. It looks like he had trained with the sword for a few years to be able to move so well using the floor and walls. Soon the second battle was announced, and to the surprise of the trio, the name on the screen was familiar. [Peter Pattinson vs Chris Elliot] "Damnˇ­" Chris muttered. He wanted to observe some more battles before going to fight the first time, but he didn''t have a chance. "Come on man. Even if you lose, from what the teacher said, this won''t be the only tournament. Think of it as an experience, but know that you have the ability to win this battle," Leo said with a smile. "Good luck Chris," Liza said with an encouraging smile of her own. Chris came down from the stands and went to the arena. The field had a radius of 25 meters, that is, from one end to the other it was 50 meters. Eachpetitor stood 50 meters apart. Chris'' Quirk was teleportation, but unlike Leo, whose abilities were passive, because Chris'' ability was active, he needed to spend Mana to use it. The further he would try to jump, the more mana it took. Yesterday he had tested the skill at home and found that he could teleport up to a maximum of 40 meters safely, and if he teleported that distance, 90% of his mana would be spent and he would need just under one hour to recover everything. Since early in the morning he had teleported 30 meters to surprise Leo, much of his mana was spent. Fortunately, enough time had gone by for him to recover everything, but as he would have to have other battles in a short time, he couldn''t spend all his mana in the first battle. Leo had given Chris an idea, and Chris was determined to use it, but for it to work he would need to be very close to his opponent. Luckily Liza had also told Chris what Peter''s Quirk did, which already gave him an advantage. At the entrance to the arena Chris took a dagger and waited for the match to start. "Start!" Professor Edward said over the arena''s loudspeakers, announcing the beginning of the confrontation. The setting was set to the top of a frozen mountain. Snow covered the ground, while cold winds made Chris shiver. ''This arena is very realisticˇ­ but this scenario gives me a big advantage,'' Chris thought excitedly. Peter, on the other side of the arena, also smiled to see that he would have no obstacles in order to get to Chris. With a confident smile, Peter picked up his sword and nonchntly ran to Chris. Because he was already used to fighting monsters and working out at the gym every day, Peter reached a very fast speed, and with his Quirk, he wasn''t afraid at all, even more so when Peter saw that Chris was standing in the same ce, apparently scared. Peter became even more self sure and increased his speed. When the distance between the two was less than 5 meters, Chris finally smiled and suddenly disappeared from Peter''s vision. Peter finally activated his Quirk. It was like a sixth sense, allowing him to sense if something dangerous was going to happen, and when Chris smiled, Peter''s Quirk activated. But unfortunately it was toote for Peter to do anything; Chris'' speed was faster than Peter''s reaction time, and considering Peter didn''t know what Chris was going to do, it only made this kid''s situation worse. It took Chris one second to disappear from Peter''s vision, and another second to appear behind the guy''s back. When Chris appeared behind Peter, instead of using his dagger to stab Peter, Chris just used his other free hand and pushed Peter, who was still sprinting forward, right off the mountain. Peter didn''t fall, as the arena was t, and the underside of the mountain was just a holographic illusion, but as soon as his foot touched the empty space outside the mountain, the illusion was undone and he was disqualified for leaving the arena. "Winner: Chris Elliot," Professor Edward announced over the arena''s loudspeakers, which surprised everyone. "He used a Space Quirk?!" "He teleported!" "My god, he''s so lucky!" The students were shocked by Chris'' Quirk, as a Space Quirk was practically a guaranteed pass to Military University, which was every student''s dream! Envious looks were directed at Chris, even more so after they saw that Chris had returned to Liza and Leo''s side with a happy smile on his face. Even Liza and Professor Edward were shocked by Chris'' Quirk, as they too knew the implications a Quirk like that would have. Only Leo was calm after seeing Chris use his Quirk, as he already knew what his friend''s Quirk was, but that didn''t lessen Leo''s happiness at seeing his friende back victorious. "Well done, bro," Leoughed, before punching Chris in the shoulder. After a few seconds, another announcement came. [Frederick Mills vs. Leonardo Lentz] Upon seeing the announcement, the two students in question smiled. Frederick was happy that he could finally get revenge, while Leo was also a little happy about it as well. He had be ticked off by Frederick for using his Quirk against him yesterday, but when Professor Edward interfered, Leo couldn''t do anything. p??d? n?ve? ''It''s time to teach this boy good manners,'' Leo thought with a smile as he entered the arena. Initially Leo intended to end all of his battles quickly, but against Frederick, Leo decided to have some fun before ending the battle. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 16 16 - He Looks Like A Shameless Hero! Chapter 16 16 - He Looks Like A Shameless Hero! (Usually the chapters have 1.8k words, but as I had these problems for the past days, today''s chapter have 3.2k words. Myputer''s power supply burned out with a power outage here at home and I had to fix it to get ess to my finished chapters. So I put together two chapters and I''m posting them for you. I hope it''s a satisfactory apology.) Leo was aware that his Quirk was much stronger than the Quirks of the other people in the ss, mainly because Leo''s Quirk was extremely effective against humans. Monsters had much tougher bodies than humans of the same rank, while humans had more powerful attacks than monsters, but while monsters had their battle instincts which allowed them to be able to defeat many humans at once, humans had to train for years to be very proficient with their Quirks. Leo, however, didn''t have that problem. With Aim-Bot, Leo couldnd the shot wherever he wanted within the skill''s range if he knew the opponent''s location, and with Wall-Hack, that problem had already been solved. Leo''s Aim-Bot had a range of 50 meters around him in all directions, which was greater than the size of the arena. So, as long as Leo has vision of the opponent, the shot would hit. While Frederick was probably training how to control his own Quirk in the most effective way, Leo already had three Quirks that he was able to masterfully use because of the v2.0 System. With a calm smile on his face, Leo unhurriedly descended from the bleachers towards the arena. The students didn''t know that Leo was a Bronze 2 Star, as Leo had just transferred to the Elite ss, so this was another very big plus for him. But after Chris'' battle, the other students looked at Leo curiously. After all, Chris had awakened a Space Quirk, and as they had seen, Chris was very respectful of Leo. "If Chris was being so respectful to Leonardo, maybe that means Leonardo''s Quirk is even more powerful than Chris''s?" a student asked in surprise. "Is it? It''s already so rare for a Space Quirk to appear. It''s not possible that Leonardo has a Quirk even rarer than one of those," their friend replied. "It''s not impossible. Even Elizabeth talks to him as an equal, and she''s an Awakened Bronze 2 Stars!" the first student said. These two students weren''t the only ones who were talking about it; all across the arena''s bleachers students had the same doubt. The only person who didn''t think about it was Frederick, who was so angry at Leo for his closeness to Elizabeth that he couldn''t think of anything positive about this boy. Arriving at the arena, Frederick stared at Leo anxiously. Leo was taking his time, so Frederick had to wait for Leo for another 15 seconds before Leo climbed into the arena. Soon Professor Edward said, "As the two participants are already here, I will start the environment selection and you can start the battle. Remember, no lethal attacks are allowed." The teacher''sst sentence was said as he looked at Leo and the training bow in his hand. Edward had seen Leo kill 2 Star monsters so easily and with such urate eye shots that he was a little worried that this young man might actually shoot Frederick in the eye. While this was a practice bow where the arrows were not as sharp as a bow made from real monster materials, still, even a blunt arrow could go through a person''s eye and kill them without much difficulty. At what the teacher said, Leo just gave him a small smile and nodded at him in response. Leo wasn''t stupid enough to let a grudge so influence his mind that he wanted to kill the other person at school and tarnish his academic record. Of course, if something like that happened in a forest of monsters without anyone''s supervision, Frederick''s body would hardly be found. If the person was actively trying to kill him, Leo wouldn''t return the threat with flowers. Soon the arena was shaped into a frozen forest. An expression of surprise appeared on the faces of the two students. Frederick was excited to see that he was lucky that the environment was ice, which favored his cial Quirk, while Leo was also excited to see that it was a forest where he could get the most out of his three Quirks. "Start!" Edward yelled over the speakers. Leo immediately activated the Speed-Hack and started approaching the direction Frederick was heading. He didn''t keep his Speed-Hack activated all the time, because just as his agility was increased by 10% while Quirk was active, his caloric consumption was increased by the same amount, so he would feel hungry and thirsty faster because of the skill. With the physique of an Awakened Bronze 2 Star, Leo moved faster than an Awakened Bronze 1 Star, and with the Speed-Hack, his speed was even faster than the average Awakened Bronze 2 Star! "My god, how is he running so fast? Is he a sprinter?" one student asked his friend. "Because it''s been so soon since he became an Awakened he must still be a Bronze 1 Star, but his speed is even faster than a Bronze 2 Star!" his friendmented, "He''s definitely a sprinter!" "That''s good. While a speed Awakened is rarer and more valued than a regr Awakened, it''s still not as rare as someone with a Space Quirk," another studentmented. As they talked, Leo had alreadye within 30 meters of Frederick. From the Wall-Hack, Leo saw that Frederick was apparently standing in the same ce where they started the battle, apparently controlling the snow in the arena to create ice armor for himself. Leo was surprised by this. Even though the arena was just a semi-physical illusion, it allowed Awakened to use the environment as if it were actually something real. And as dumb as Frederick was, in Leo''s view, he was still smart enough to make ice armor after seeing that Leo was using a bow. ''Hehe, that''s right, give me some challenge,'' Leo thought as he smiled and started to pull the bowstring with the arrow. "Hey, Leonardo is at least 30 meters away from Frederick. There are so many trees between them. Why is he already aiming his arrow?" a girl asked, confused. "Is it possible that he found a blind spot between the trees and is going to shoot from that distance?" her friend replied, confused. But Leo didn''t even give them time to specte further, and in less than a second the arrow was fired. Swoosh! Instead of the arrow looking for a space between the trees, the arrow flew over the trees, making a parab from where Leo was to where Frederick was making the armor. Because the Wall-Hack only showed a red outline where the opponent was, Leo didn''t know precisely where Frederick was in armor, but imagining that the boy had already at least covered his chest with ayer of ice, Leo shot there. Pff! The muffled noise of the arrow piercing the ice was heard by Leo. With that confirmation, Leo grinned and loaded his bow with another arrow. Frederick on the other hand was shocked to see an arrow piercing his ice armor. His Quirk allowed him to summon or control ice. Summoning ice out of thin air cost more mana than controlling existing ice, so seeing so much ice, he had quicklye up with the idea of ??making ice armor for himself. As he was not proficient at this, Frederick just made a crude set of armor, with a 3-centimeteryer of ice that coated his body. But while he was focused on controlling the ice to cover his entire body, an arrow came from the sky and pierced the ice over his chest with ease. But luckily the ice slowed the arrow down enough to only pierce a quarter of an inch into his own skin, causing some blood toe out, but nothing dangerous enough for him to give up the fight. ''Shit, if that was my head I would be dead,'' Frederick thought, scared, as he started to spend even more mana to finish protecting his head and not be in so much danger. Startled, Frederick started looking around to try to look for Leo. For Leo to be able to shoot him, Leo was probably watching where he was at the moment, but no matter how much Frederick looked around, he couldn''t see Leo at all. Suddenly, another arrow appeareding down from the sky. Because of the arrow''s high speed, Frederick didn''t even react before the arrow had pierced his chest again. Pff! Once again the arrow only cut 0.5 centimeters of his skin, but the blood was starting to seep through the ice armor, making what was once white armor, now turn slightly reddish. ''I need to get out of here!'' Frederick finally decided to try to run away, but before he could turn around, another arrow came and connected with his chest again. Pff! Once again, with exactly the same force, the arrow made a wound equal to the other two. Instead of running away from Leo, where Leo would have the distance advantage because of his bow, Frederick took advantage of the armor that gave him security and ran towards Leo, wanting a hand-to-hand confrontation. But Leo didn''t give Frederick a chance. Using Wall-Hack, Leo always kept between 25 and 30 meters from Frederick, giving the boy no opportunity to see where he was. Pff! Pff!! Pff! Pff!!! Every few seconds an arrow pierced Frederick''s chest, making him increasingly scared and angry. He couldn''t even see Leo but he had already been hit with 10 arrows! Pff! Now 11 arrows! Leo had 20 arrows in his quiver, but he wouldn''t need to spend all the arrows; his artwork would bepleted with the next arrow. Pff! p??d? n?ve? By the time the twelfth arrow hit Frederick''s chest, the boy''s white armor had already turned red from all the blood that was oozing from the 12 wounds on his chest. Even though the ice slowed down the speed of his blood cirction, with so many wounds, the blood slowly formed a pattern on Frederick''s chest, outlined by the 12 arrows embedded in his chest. At that moment, seeing the camera that was filming what Frederick was doing, a chubby student realized that there was something strange about this. "Bro, doesn''t Frederick''s chest design look like a c*ck?" The chubby student''s voice wasn''t loud, but as everyone was silent due to the shock of Leo''s skill, all the students heard what this boy said. And when the students looked at the shape of the arrows embedded in Frederick''s chest, they were shocked to realize that it actually looked like a c*ck! While the boys started tough and grab their cell phones to take pictures, the girls were a little shy when they saw the embarrassing image stuck on Frederick with those arrows in his chest. Because of the blood, the drawing was very sharp, and with the white armor, Frederick was looking like a superhero with a symbol on his chest, but the symbol on Frederick''s chest was a very shameless symbol! "Hahahaha, I can''t believe Leo did that! He''s a genius!" Chris wasughing out loud at what his friend was doing. Chris had seen how good Leo was at controlling the bow, so he knew Leo was definitely doing it on purpose. Elizabeth''s cheeks were red at the sight of Leo''s drawing on Frederick''s chest, but knowing how arrogant Frederick was, she felt that this really was something he deserved. Frederick was feeling very weak. He had lost a lot of blood, and with so much ice covering his body, he no longer had the strength to keep moving. ''I couldn''t even see him. How am I going to get revenge?'' Frederick thought as he knelt wearily in the middle of the ice forest. He had been running for 10 minutes at full speed and didn''t even see a sign of Leo beyond the direction the arrows wereing from the entire time. Finally, as Frederick was on his knees panting, Leo slowly appeared with his calm smile on his face as he aimed the bow at Frederick''s head. "Surrender," Leo said in an indifferent voice. "I finally see you!" Frederick yelled excitedly, as he prepared to get up and attack Leo. Leo didn''t give him a chance and released the arrow that was in the bow, causing the arrow to fly at high speed at Frederick''s head, but because Leo used little force, the arrow only pierced 0.5 centimeters of Frederick''s head, which didn''t stop the boy from continuing to get up to fight Leo. However, Leo had already lowered the bow. In a second the scenery started to change back to the school arena, and on the screen was written: [Winner: Leonardo Lentz.] Frederick was confused as he looked at this and screamed, "I could still fight! Why stop the battle?!" But Professor Edward said in a cold voice, "You could only keep fighting because Leonardo spared you." The students were confused to hear this. Everyone saw that Leo''s arrows failed to prate Frederick''s armor, leaving only minor wounds. But Leo didn''t even say anything and just took an arrow from his quiver and shot it without thinking into a tree outside the arena. Swoosh! Boom! The arrow flew much faster than the speed the others had been flying during the battle, and when the arrow hit the tree trunk, because of Leo''s Bronze 2 Star strength, the arrow pierced at least 6 centimeters! Even though it was a hard log, the arrow managed to pierce so deeply that the students finally understood. It''s not that Leo couldn''t pierce Frederick''s armor, but rather that Leo didn''t want to pierce Frederick''s armor, because with that strength strong enough to pierce 6 centimeters through a hard tree trunk, an ice armor like Frederick''s would just be like tofu for that arrow. Leo could probably have killed Frederick in the first shot he fired into his chest. "This strengthˇ­ Is he a Bronze 2 Star?" The students were shocked to see the strength of Leo''s arrow. Frederick only understood that he was still alive through Leo''s goodwill after he stared at the destroyed tree trunk for 20 seconds. Touching his chest, Frederick for the first time in his life felt he was just one step away from dying. If Leo ever used a little more force on those arrows, it would surely have gone through his lung and it would only have been a matter of time before he couldn''t breathe anymore. Without a word, Frederick turned and walked out of the arena with his head down, heading to the infirmary to tend to his wounds. The scene of a student walking around with 13 arrows stuck in his body was very funny to other people, even more so that he had an arrow dangling from his head and 12 arrows in a funny shape in his chest. Many people couldn''t resist andughed without worrying that Frederick would hear. To Frederick, theirughter at this point was irrelevant. Being so close to death, the only thing he could think about was how good it was to be able to continue living. Frederick''s anger at Leo didn''t go away, but it could be said that he would no longer have the courage to try to fight someone who could kill him so easily in the future. While some peopleughed, others talked about Leo''s strength, trying to know if he was a Bronze 1 Star or 2 Star Awakened. And Leo didn''t worry about that, just walking back with a smile to where Chris and Liza were sitting. "Hahaha, dude, that was so hrious!" Chris was stillughing at Leo''s drawing of the arrows on Frederick''s chest. Meanwhile, Liza was blushing and just said, "Congrattions for the victory," before looking away, still thinking about Frederick''s chest drawing and how funny it was. Leo was surprised to see Liza shy like that. Not even when they had flirted was she was shy like that, always keeping a calm expression as if everything was under control. The next battles were quite tedious for Leo. The strength of the other students was too weak for him to bother watching. Liza just fought one battle and won easily. Her Quirk was a power that allowed her to summon butterflies that flew to targets, but these butterflies exploded with a mentalmand from Liza, so after knocking out the first student, people started to give up the battles against her. Chris fought 2 more battles and won both, before the other students also gave up fighting him. And Leo only needed to shoot an arrow at the beginning of the battle into a student''s chest 30 meters away for the student to give up in fear. After that, no one wanted to fight the three of them anymore. Whenever their name fell against another person, that person would give up immediately. When the top 4 were decided, the fourth student immediately dropped out of fighting Leo in the semi-finals. Liza tried to fight Chris, but as he didn''t fight for long, with full mana he just teleported behind her with his dagger in Liza''s neck and she gave up. This surprised the other students, as a Bronze 1 Star Awakened managed to beat a Bronze 2 Star! Finally the students understood why Space Quirks were so valued by Universities. And Chris, knowing that Leo had divine aim and was much faster than him, just gave up fighting Leo, leaving the grand finale with a very anti-climactic ending. But with everything that happened this time, Liza, who was previously recognized as the most powerful student in the Elite ss, was now considered only the third most powerful, while Chris, a student who arrived today, became the second ce, and Leo, a student who arrived yesterday became the best student in the ss in terms of battle. It was understandable that Chris would be the Top 2, but no one could understand what Leo''s Quirk was. He could know where the opponents were even with several obstacles between them, he never missed an arrow, he was faster than regr Awaken who were Bronze 2 Stars. He was practically a perfect soldier! As the students chatted, Edward looked at Leo''s trio and got a proud smile. Before he had only one student in the ss who had a chance to get into one of the Big 4 Universities, but now he had three students, and these two new students had a high chance of getting into the Military University! Just being a teacher to these students would bring Edward great prestige, as well as a lot of benefits for the school! ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 17 17 - Hunting Bronze 3 Stars Monsters Chapter 17 17 - Hunting Bronze 3 Stars Monsters (My house was without electricity these days because the pole on my street caught fire... (I sent a video of this on the discord server), now the power is back, we will return to normal releases.) When ss was over, Leo said goodbye to Liza and Chris and left alone. The two invited him to hunt, but while they would likely hunt Bronze 1 Star monsters, Leo had to worry about the debt he owed the old man. Furthermore, to be able to hunt a Bronze 4 Stars monster, Leo would need to hunt a lot of Bronze 3 Stars monsters beforehand so as to be leveled enough to face that monster. Leo wanted to test his limits. So far the biggest challenge he faced was dealing with the Bronze 2 Star Mutant Cow while using ordinary metal knives. For this expedition, his goal was to defeat the Bronze 4 Star monster while he was still Bronze 2 Stars. ''This is going to be more difficult than I imagined,'' Leo thought, as he looked at the list of monsters he had received from the old man. If it was just the Bronze 3 Stars monsters, that wouldn''t be a problem for Leo, but unfortunately the Bronze 4 Stars monster was more troublesome than he realized. This monster was called Vulpi and was a monster covered in orange fur, but while the monster''s fur felt fluffy to the touch, the skin beneath the fur was very tough. This monster only had one eye, and that eye was only used during mating. For that reason, the monster''s eye was hidden in its belly, and it was closed all the time. In order to breathe, the monster had gills on its neck that filtered both oxygen in the air and water, and to orient itself the monster would make noises through its mouth that reverberated around the environment before returning to its sensitive gills, giving a limited, but effective, 3D vision around the monster by echolocation. Because the monster protected its eye so well, Leo couldn''t use the usual strategy he used of focusing the monster''s eyes and killing them with ease. Instead, Leo would have to think of another, more effective way to deal with it. ''I need to get stronger. I still have 6 days to hunt this Bronze 4 Star monster,'' Leo thought after leaving the house with the bow and new clothes he''d bought. Upon arriving at the city gate, the guards nodded to Leo in respect, while Leo waved back without saying a word. With the list in hand, Leo saw that the first thing he would need was five Golden White Water Bronze 3 Stars feathers. With the goal in mind, Leo moved at high speed through the forest with Speed-Hack activated. All of the Bronze 1 Star monsters were ignored by him, but small Bronze 2 Star monsters were not. Each such monster that came into Leo''s vision received an arrow in the eye before dying. [Congrattions, you killed a 2 Star Bronze Mutant Deer. You received 50 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a 2 Star Bronze Mutant Gray Wolf. You received 50 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a Mutant Gray Wolf, Bronze 2 Stars. You received 50 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a Mutant Red Boar, Bronze 2 Stars. You received 50 Experience Points.] ˇ­ For therger monsters, Leo didn''t bother to take anything valuable from their bodies, and for the smaller monsters Leo took only the valuable parts. He had killed 15 Bronze 2 Star monsters until he entered the 3 Star monster zone. Of the monsters he killed there, he only took the valuable parts of 6 monsters, as his backpack had limited space. Bronze 3 Stars monsters yielded more rewards both in terms of Exp and in terms of moneypared to Bronze 2 Star monsters, but since the Blue Pearl city did not have such a huge threat from monsters, the amount of Bronze 3 Star monsters and above was low. Entering the Bronze 3 Star monster zone, Leo became more attentive. His Wall-Hack and Speed-Hack were constantly activated, keeping Leo on the lookout for monsters that might be around him, but Leo''s eyes were continuously focused on the sky. Leo roamed for 20 minutes going deeper into the 3 Star monster zone until he saw his first Bronze 3 Star monster for the very first time. Just as the Bronze 2 Stars monsters were mostly monsters that lived onnd and mutated as they continued to exist there, among the Bronze 3 Stars monsters new species of monsters began to emerge, and the monster in front of Leo was exactly one of those monsters. With green skin, long ears, a humanoid body, and small stature, this was one of the most frightening monsters that hunted in these woods: a goblin. Though goblins were technically weakpared to other Bronze 3 Star monsters, what these little monsterscked in strength, they made up for in agility and numbers. Hardly anyone would see goblins walking alone in the forest, and if a goblin was alone, then the Awakened would have to be even more worried, as this was probably a trap, and instead of the usual group of 5 or so monsters that were found in traps, normally there would be at least 10 goblins. Leo was 30 meters away from the goblin he saw through the Wall-Hack, and just as he imagined, hidden 10 meters away from this isted goblin was a group of 11 other goblins with pieces of wood in hand to use as weapons to kill the enemy that was attracted to solitary goblin. Leo had to admit, this goblin trap was pretty good for dealing with other monsters, as goblins were the smartest monsters among the Bronze 3 Stars monsters around here, even for dealing with humans during the first few years, but after that info about how the goblins acted was spread by humanity, seeing a goblin alone already denounced that there were other goblins hiding around. Still, despite the goblins being hidden, humans would hardly know where these goblins were and what the exact number of goblins waiting to ambush would be, so the strategy still managed to kill some groups of Awakened. As for Leo, his strategy was the best possible one for himself. After formting his n, Leo ced four arrows on his bow and aimed all four arrows using Aim-Bot. Unfortunately, that was the maximum number of arrows that could fit in the bow so that the arrows would not slow down. With his mind focused, Leo used his Aim-Bot to target the 4 smaller goblins hiding in the bushes around the bait goblin. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh! The four arrows flew with surprising speed and precisely hit the small goblins'' big eyes. Among the goblins there was a rule that the bigger one was, the stronger he would be, and the smaller one night be, the more agile he would be. That''s why Leo shot the four smaller goblins initially. With Speed-Hack activated, Leo didn''t even take the time to track the arrows he was releasing and quickly reloaded his bow with four more arrows. Just as the goblins heard the noise of theirpanions being hit by the first arrows, another noise came. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh! Four more arrows flew, aiming once more at the four smaller goblins that were still alive. In less than 5 seconds the group of 12 goblins was reduced to just 4. With only 4 live goblins left, Leo decided to finally start testing ways to kill monsters without shooting them in the eyes in order to be able to kill the Bronze 4 Star Vulpi in the future. The four remaining goblins hadn''t noticed Leo, but they saw the direction the arrows wereing from, and the four remaining goblins ran towards Leo without a second thought. Swoosh! Another arrow flew. These four still living goblins were the 4 slowest goblins among the 12 goblins that were preparing this ambush. When they started to run in the direction where Leo was, he started to run in the opposite direction to always keep a safe distance between himself and these little monsters. The arrow Leo shot precisely hit the knee of the goblin closest to him. Arrrrgh! The goblin screamed in pain when he felt the arrow hitting his knee, but since this time Leo wasn''t aiming at the monsters'' eyes, which was a fragile ce, he had to use 100% of his strength on the shot to test how strong the arrows were and how far he could make the arrows go, wnd seeing the arrow going through the goblin''s knee without any resistance made Leo''s eyes widen! ''This bow is truly a Bronze 3 Star Masterpiece!'' Leo thought, shocked to see that even the goblin''s knee bone had been snapped by the arrow. Knowing that 100% of the strength to shoot arrows with this bow was too much strength, Leo started taking weaker shots, as he was training to deal with an even more powerful monster. Furthermore, the goblins were much less resistant than regr Bronze 3 Stars monsters. Leo needed to use even less force to simte a battle against a Bronze 4 Star monster. Swoosh! Another arrow flew. While the first arrow had hit the knee of one of the goblins, this time Leo tried to shoot the lead goblin in the neck. Arrrgh! The hit goblin screamed, but because the arrow''s strength wasn''t enough, he kept running towards Leo even with his neck gushing blood. Leo was surprised by this reaction and understood that unlike humans, blood loss wasn''t all that relevant to monsters in desperate situations. It was as if the "adrenaline rush" that humans felt when their lives were at risk was more effective on monsters. ''I think I read about this, something that said that monsters went into something called ''Berserk Mode'' when they were in extreme danger of life, and the more powerful the monster, the more powerful this ''Berserk Mode''.'' Leo analyzed what he was seeing and kept running before shooting another arrow. This time Leo didn''t aim at the goblin with the wounded neck and shot the goblin that was behind it in the chest, as he wanted to see how long this goblin couldst with the arrow in its neck. The distance between the goblins and Leo was rapidly decreasing, as these little monsters'' agility was much greater than Leo''s. But as there were only 3 Goblins running after him, Leo wasn''t scared or worried. He was keeping his mind calm to learn as much as possible in this confrontation. After all, it was his first confrontation against Bronze 3 Star monsters. Swoosh! Just as Leo calcted, the arrow pierced the goblin''s lung, but just like the goblin who had an arrow in his neck, despite the punctured lung, this goblin was still able to run after Leo as if nothing had happened. Swoosh! Leo shot thest arrow and pierced the heart of thest remaining goblin. This goblin also kept running for a few seconds, but the final goblin couldn''tst as long as the other two goblins and was the first to die. Soon the goblin with the pierced neck fell, totaling 30 seconds of pursuit from the time he was hit until the moment he died, while the goblin with the arrow in the lung managed tost 49 seconds of pursuit before dying. With every second of pursuit, the speed of the goblins slowed to the point where they couldn''t walk, but being able tost that long with an arrow so deep in their own bodies was something that opened Leo''s eyes. After these three goblins died, Leo returned to the goblin who had an arrow in his knee and watched. The goblin was crawling towards Loe while screaming furiously, but even though it was obvious that he couldn''t kill Leo, maybe something gic in the monster made him feel so angry at this human that he didn''t care that he was going to die and just tried to drag himself along to at the very least scratch Leo. After a few seconds of observation, and realizing that the goblin, despite the great loss of blood from its knee, was still alive and without any apparent harm besides not being able to use that leg anymore, Leo shot him in the eye and finished killing the monsters. [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze 3 Star Goblin. You received 200 Experience Points x12] Leo was shocked! Just from killing these 12 goblins he received 2400 Experience points! Adding to the Exp points he received from the Bronze 2 Star monsters he killed until he got here, Leo already had 3,100 Exp points umted! And considering that these goblins'' ears cost $1,000 per each pair, just for killing these 12 little monsters Leo earned practically $12,000! p??d? n?ve? ''Certainly, the higher the level of the monsters, the greater the reward,'' Leo thought with satisfaction. But he knew that if he didn''t have this bow in his hands, it would be much more dangerous to hunt these Bronze 3 Star monsters - mainly because the cheaper bows couldn''t handle his firing rate, in addition to the force he expelled on his arrows. Even though he could shoot monsters in the eyes, Leo was worried about always just doing that, and at some pointter when he wouldn''t be able to shoot an enemy in the eyes he would be unprepared. ''Getting this bow was a great choice, and I can still save $40,000,'' Leo thought excitedly. More confident after dealing with this group of Bronze 3 Star monsters, Leo went deeper into the forest. He was loving the Experience he was getting, and knew that he woulde out with a lot more under his belt than he came in with. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs Chapter 18 18 - Shooting An Awakened In The Head Chapter 18 18 - Shooting An Awakened In The Head After hunting the goblins, Leo walked another fifteen minutes until he started to hear some noises. When approaching the noises, Leo saw a red outline with the Wall-Hack, and to his joy, that red outline was that of a bird very simr to an eagle, but this eagle was apparently in confrontation with something. As he got closer to the direction of the red outline, other red outlines began to appear in his vision. Among these outlines, Leo could see one eagle lying on the ground, apparently unconscious from the battle but still alive. Four other eagles were flying in the sky as they descended to attack a group of five people every now and then. Out of those five people, two were leaning against a tree, apparently both injured, while the other three were trying to deal with the four eagles that were attacking them. Seeing these people in battle against this group of four Bronze 3 Star monsters, Leo figured they were at least Bronze 3 Star themselves, or even Bronze 4 Star. While the people were battling, Leo slowly approached closer and watched the confrontation from behind a tree, out of sight of the people and the monsters, but just to be prepared, in case he became involved in the battle, Leo had his bow loaded with 4 arrows. Battle awareness was a new experience for Leo, as he always dealt with monsters very easily because of the Aim-Bot. This was probably the first time he''s personally seen ordinary Awakened dealing with monsters in the traditional way. Among the three Awakened who were still fighting the eagles, at the front was arge man with a shield that looked like a door. Strangely enough, this man wasn''t using a weapon, just holding the shield with his two hands. But despite the shield''s size, the man was extremely agile as he moved to the sides of hispanions to protect them from the eagles'' attacks. Next to the outline of the man, there was the outline of a woman holding a bow, continuously shooting at the eagles, but she apparently didn''t have any Quirk that improved her aim, as most of her arrows were missing their targets due to the eagles'' high speed. But she wasn''t the only one missing the targets. Beside them was another man in a cloth suit. This man had been practically stationary the entire time since the battle began it seems, but Leo could feel the temperature rising every now and then as the man pointed his hand at the birds, probably attacking the monsters with some kind of fireball. But unlike the archer who asionally shot an arrow at the eagles, this man could not hit any of the eagles, as their agility was the highest among the Bronze 3 Star monsters. Seeing how this group was having so much trouble dealing with these monsters, Leo already deduced that they were just Bronze 3 Stars. Knowing this, Leo became more carefree, as he could deal with groups of Bronze 3 Stars monsters alone; dealing with groups of Bronze 3 Stars Awakened would be even easier if he needed to, since humans were usually weaker than monsters of the same level. "Hit one of them Josh! We''re going to die here if you don''t hit them!" the woman yelled angrily at the mage. Hearing the woman yelling at him, Josh, who was already stressed from not being able tond any attacks, got even angrier, "Stop yelling at me, woman! I''m trying to get it right!" "Shut up and stand behind me, both of you!" The man with the big shield also yelled angrily as he had to keep moving to defend these two. Swoosh! The woman shot an arrow which luckily hit a wing of one of the eagles, causing the monster to fall down screeching in pain. "Come on, just three more to go!" the woman squealed excitedly as she looked at the three remaining eagles. This made the mage, Josh, even angrier, as this was the second eagle the woman had shot down, while he couldn''t evennd a single attack. Seeing that another eagle was hit, the other eagles became enraged and started attacking only the woman, ignoring the man with the big shield and the weak man who couldn''t hit anything. When the woman realized this, her expression darkened. She was the only one in the group to manage to take down these eagles, but that was only because the eagles were attacking everyone in the group. Now that they were all focusing on her, she had to continuously run for cover, as she wouldn''t be able to shoot on the move. After all, even when she was standing still, she couldn''t hit with most of the arrows, let alone shoot while she was running. Seeing the eagles targeting the woman, the wizard Josh opened a small smile on his face and began to conjure more fireballs to attack the eagles, taking advantage of the woman as bait, but still he couldn''t hit any of the eagles. Meanwhile, the man with the big shield was angry that instead of running to him so that he could protect the woman with his shield, this woman was running away in another direction alone! As the shield man failed to protect her, an eagle used its ws to open arge gash on the woman''s arm, while another eagle opened an evenrger wound on her leg. Feeling the immense pain in her body, the woman fell to the ground screaming in despair. During her fall, the bow she was using fell from her hands, leaving her unarmed with nothing to defend against these eagles. Leo from afar could see the anger that these eagles were aiming at this woman, and as it looked now, they would eat the woman alive. With a sigh, Leo donned a ck mask that covered half his face and came out from behind the tree while aiming his four arrows at the eagles. After 2 seconds, when the two male Awakened closed their eyes in fear of the bloody scene of the woman being eaten alive, three noises of something cutting through the wind were heard. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh! Leo only shot three arrows, and kept thest arrow still loaded in the bow, prepared in case he needed to use it for some reason. The three eagles that were attacking the female didn''t even understand what was happening before they felt a great force going through their chests, quickly ending their lives in an unimaginable way. When the Awakened opened their eyes, they didn''t see the scene of the woman being eaten alive, but rather the scene of the woman looking dumbfounded at the three eagles lying lifeless on the ground beside her as she gulped. As an archer, she saw that these three arrows were shot simultaneously, meaning there was probably a group of highly coordinated hunters hiding around them with bows aimed at them at all times. But seeing that these hunters only killed the eagles, saving her life, the woman was very grateful to them as she started to cry with happiness. She thought her life was over, that these eagles would eat her alive while that useless wizard couldn''t even hit one of these monsters with a fireball, but because of this mysterious group she could still breathe and live a happy life. The injuries she received would just prevent her from getting around in afortable way; she could still go back to town and use the hospital, and after a few weeks she would be fine again and could get on with her life. But unlike the woman who was extremely grateful to have been saved, the wizard Josh was instead furious. Irate, he turned to where the shots hade from and saw only a boy holding a bow with an arrow loaded on it. Anger clouded this mage''s mind, and when he felt that this boy was only an Awakened Bronze 2 Stars, he got even angrier and screamed, "What are you doing here, you little shit? Why are you meddling in the battles of other Awakened?!" Leo frowned after hearing the mage''s shouting. He saw how this man was the most useless of the team and yet this man had a senseless arrogance. "She was going to die for your ipetence," Leo said in a cold voice as he pointed at the woman. "So what? Is she one of your group by any chance? No! So stop meddling in other people''s affairs and go back to sucking your pacifier, you little shit," the wizard Josh yelled angrily as he moved towards the eagle closest to him. As he moved towards the eagle, his angry expression changed to one of greed, as he knew these eagles had a golden feather that cost at least $2,000 each! With these 5 eagles it would be equivalent to $10,000! But when the man was getting close to the eagle, Leo said in a cold voice, "Do not approach the eagles." Josh looked at this boy angrily again. "You''re just a Bronze 2 Star Awakened! What are you going to do?! My group hunted these eagles; you just took advantage of them being distracted with us and hit a lucky shot." Leo looked towards the big shield man to see if this man also agreed with this mage, but seeing him raise his hands in surrender, Leo was satisfied and pulled his bowstring as he pointed it at the mage. Josh''s eyes widened, seeing the bow aimed at his head. He didn''t imagine that this Bronze 2 Star kid would actually point his bow at him, and considering that he was a mage, his clothes wouldn''t pose any resistance against an arrow. Not to mention, by the time he could start making a fireball the boy would have already released the arrow. "Boy, put that bow down. You''re in the middle of a group of 6 Bronze 3 Star Awakened. Being only Bronze 2 Stars, you better recognize your ce," Josh said as he started to sweat. He didn''t understand why the man with the big shield hadn''t yete to his side to protect him from this boy''s arrows. Out of anger, Josh didn''t think Leo was apanied by a group of powerful Awakened, but that didn''t mean Josh''s teammates didn''t realize that, even more so after realizing that the three arrows had all hit the exact same position on the three eagles! But Leo didn''t listen and just kept pointing the bow as he said, "This is yourst warning. Get away from the eagles." p??d? n?ve? Hearing this kid talking in such an arrogant way to him, Josh was even more furious. He knew the boy didn''t have as much battle experience as he did, since from his looks this boy was probably someone who was still in school, or someone who finished school but didn''t pass a university yet. Having thought of all that, Josh smiled as he jumped to the side to try and dodge Leo''s arrow as he started conjuring a fireball. But as soon as he started to make the sudden movement, Leo instantly let go of the bowstring he was pulling with full force as he let the arrow fly to where the Aim-Bot was pointing. Swoosh! "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh you son of a *****!!!!!!!!!!" Josh screamed in rage as he fell to the ground, writhing in pain, his hands trying to stop the blood that was spewing from where the arrow had hit him. Leo''s movement to get another arrow from his quiver was extremely fast. By the time the arrow hit the mage, Leo already had another arrow loaded in his bow as he aimed at the other Awakened around, prepared in case someone tried to make a move against him. But the other Awakened had shocked expressions as they looked at Leo and Josh, who had his hands holding the part hit by the arrow. The men who were still conscious looked at the ce where Josh had been hit and felt a shiver run down their spines. Perhaps the only worse ce to get hit than where Josh was hit is to hit the head, or rather the other head, since one way or another, Leo had hit one of Josh''s heads. Leo purposely aimed at Josh''s ce; he didn''t want to kill this man, at least not until this man really threatened his life and Leo could use the case of self-defenseˇ­ But shooting the man in the head down below wouldn''t be a problem for Leo. Seeing that no one was moving to do anything to him, Leo slowly lowered his bow and said out loud, "Don''t try to do anything funny. Mypanions probably have an arrow aimed at each of you. You''ve seen how we killed those eagles with ease, and killing you all would be even simpler. We just need those golden feathers; the rest can stay with you." The Awakened just nodded slowly in fear of Leo and his hiddenpanions who had killed the eagles so easily while they nearly died while just fighting these monsters. In these people''s minds, they were pretty sure that Leo''s teammates were probably Awakened Bronze 4 Stars at the very least. ''We cannot provoke this person.'' It was everyone''s thoughts as they watched the masked youth calmly picking up the golden feathers while ignoring Josh''s screams. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 19 19 - Inventory Hack Chapter 19 19 - Inventory Hack "Does anyone know where this team is from?" the man with the big shield asked, confused, but everyone else just shook their heads as confused as they were. There were some rules among the Awakened: one of the rules was that it was forbidden to kill other people while they were hunting, but if someone threatened their own life, the counterattack would be legitimate as self-defense. But some groups didn''t care about that, as the corpse would disappear in a few hours, bing monster food. People wouldn''t know who had killed them and in the end no one would be med. So often groups fought each other to the death because both groups wanted something from a monster they had killed, or even fought to steal each other''s money and weapons. So seeing a group like that young man''s was not such a different thing, but what surprised them was that the group that young man was representing really didn''t want to kill them, as it would have been so easy for them to have done that. Maybe if Josh didn''t say anything they wouldn''t have even hurt anyone, just picked up the feathers and walked away. But the dumbfounded party didn''t get mad at that young man''s group for taking the golden feathers, since if they hadn''t shown up, the group would have definitely died, as 4 people were already injured and only the man with the big shield and Josh were still able to fight. "d we didn''t offend those people. That boy has a great future ahead of him," the archer said in an admiring tone. She saw how that boy''s eyes didn''t waver for a second, and how divine his aim was! If this kid had time to grow up, and with as good a group of archers as he was with, he would definitely be a Pure Silver Awakened! [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze White Eagle, 3 Stars. You received 220 Experience Points.] x3 As Leo got out of reach of those people, he closed the system notification screens and put the feathers in his backpack in a special bag so they wouldn''t get dirty, as unlike goblin ears, the feathers were much more fragile. As he had already collected the 5 golden feathers, Leo looked at the list the old man had sent him and looked for what else he should hunt. Fortunately, the old man also said that he would buy these materials from Leo at the market price, but he would buy this directly from Leo as this kind of product was very popr with cksmiths like him, and even with money it would sometimes be hard to get. And seeing how dangerous it was to hunt white eagles when you only had an average team, Leo understood why the old man said that this kind of material was so hard to get on the market, and that was why this was already a great deal for Leo: he received a $40,000 discount on the bow, a reason to y even more powerful monsters, and a challenge that got him pretty excited. The list was quite extensive. If it was a normal Awakened group, 7 days might not even have been enough to get all the items, not considering if someone got hurt and they had to stop a few days for the person to heal in the hospital. But for Leo this was not that difficult, as he could hunt the monsters much more easily, but on the other hand, Leocked experience in knowing how to reach the monsters from the list that the old man sent. Since one week hadn''t even passed after Leo had first entered this forest, he still didn''t know his surroundings well. Looking at the cell phone, Leo, besides seeing the list of monsters he had to kill, also looked for where these monsters normally lived, and so he went to the monster with the closest habitat. Since he didn''t have to run and shoot non-stop, Leo managed to maintain a lot more stamina, but on the other hand he hunted less monsters. In total, after 5 hours of hunting, Leo collected 6 Bronze 2 Star monster materials worth $500 each, 12 pairs of Bronze 3 Star Goblin Ears, worth $1,000 each, 5 Golden Feathers of Bronze 3 Star White Eagles worth $2,000 each, 8 Bronze 3 Star Snake Venom Bags worth $1,700 each and 10 sets of Bronze 3 Star Elk Sinews worth $1,250 each. Adding it all up, Leo got $51,100! Even though he killed fewer monsters than he killed when hunting Bronze 2 Stars monsters, the money and Experience Leo received was much higher than hunting Bronze 2 Stars monsters! And considering the bigger monsters he hunted, it wasmentable that he couldn''t get retrieve something valuable due tock of space in his backpack. Leo felt he needed the Inventory-Hack urgently. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 8560 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 05 [0/1,600]: In a 50 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 03 [0/2,000]: Within a radius of 30 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Speed-Hack Lv 01 [0/2000]: While the user has the skill activated, the user''s agility will be 10% higher. With each level the percentage will be increased. Avable Quirks: Inventory-Hack (5,000 Evolution Points). The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Silver Rank.] Only thest paragraph needs to be copied to the master copy Leo looked at therge amount of Experience he had and grinned in satisfaction. With that amount of Exp he could evolve each skill at least once, or even unlock the Inventory-Hack he wanted so badly! But Leo was still cautious. Instead of just putting 5,000 experience points into the Inventory-Hack, he preferred to go back to the city and do it in his own apartment. System v2.0 was Leo''s biggest secret, and he didn''t want other people to suspect that there was anything weird about him, so unless he was in some dangerous situation, Leo would prefer not to unlock abilities outside his home. Leveling up skills wasn''t that big of a problem for him, as it wouldn''t be such a noticeable thing, but unlocking a skill could cause some weird situation that would make Leo have to exin some things he''d rather avoid. After returning to the city, Leo nodded to the guards guarding the gate, and they waved Leo back with mutual respect for Leo, for being stronger than them and always treating them well. The guards also knew the glorious future Leo was likely to have and still treated them politely. But just as Leo passed, the guards felt a faint sensation of a Bronze 3 Star monster passing along with Leo. The sensation was so faint that if they weren''t paying attention they wouldn''t have noticed, but they saw the shock in each other''s eyes and realized they both felt the same thing. "Did he really do that?" Greg told his friend with a shocked expression. "Yesˇ­ the backpack looks like it was full of the remains of Bronze 3 Star monstersˇ­" the other soldier said with even more shock. As they were both Awakened Bronze 5 Stars, they would have no trouble hunting Bronze 3 Star monsters, but if they had to deal alone against Bronze 4 Star monsters it could be tricky. But this rule that they thought applied to all Awakened apparently had no effect on that young man! Even as an Awakened Bronze 2 Star he was already hunting Bronze 3 Star monsters alone! If news about an Awakened hunting monsters of the same strength level was already rare, an Awakened hunting monsters one level above them was just considered legendary! ''He never ceases to amaze me.'' That''s what the two guards thought as they saw Leo walking away. "Did you bring all this today? Your group is really good, boy!" The old man said, excited to see all the thingsing out of Leo''s backpack. "You have two options: I buy these materials from you at the market price and discount how much money is left for your bow, and we end this debt as these materials are very useful to me, or I just give you the money and you continue to hunt the rest of the monsters that are on the list, and at the end, after you bring in all the monsters we ignore the $40,000 left to pay and you keep the money at the market price of the items on the list," The old man said to Leo as he looked at this young man with an expectant expression. When he sold the bow to Leo yesterday, he thought that this boy was part of a very powerful hunting party because of therge amount of money he had, but who knew his party would be powerful to the point of which he had already hunted? 25% of the list on the first day only?! Even if the deal they brokered yesterday was cancelled, the old man would still feel good, as he was likely making valuable connections with a powerful Awakened group. "I''ll keep hunting the monsters on the list and bring you the materials. It''s a good exercise for me and the guys to hunt this way with varied targets rather than just being in one area hunting the same type of monsters for profit," Leo responded with a smile. The old man looked at Leo and also smiled back, as even if he lost the $40,000 for the bow, he would get several times more by making more weapons with the materials Leo was bringing. That was practically a $40,000 investment for the old man to profit 5 or 10 times as much. "Alright, let''s go ahead with the deal then. I''ll transfer the money for the materials on the list, but of course, if you want to buy something at the store with the money I have to pay you, I''ll transfer you just the difference," the old man suggested, but Leo just refused; his equipment was already very good. And since he was an archer, Leo preferred to be mobile with light equipment rather than stronger equipment with a heavier weight. After leaving the store, Leo took the rest of the supplies to the sales point and left with a big smile and a full bank ount. Leo''s goal now was to go back to the apartment and use his Experience Points to unlock the Inventory-Hack, so he could stop worrying about backpack space and start making even more money! [Leonardo Lentz p??d? n?ve? Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 8560 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 05 [0/1,600]: In a 50 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 03 [0/2,000]: Within a radius of 30 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Speed-Hack Lv 01 [0/2000]: While the user has the skill activated, the user''s agility will be 10% higher. With each level the percentage will be increased. Avable Quirks: Inventory-Hack (5,000 Evolution Points). The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Silver Rank.] As long as you copied itst time, you don''t need to copy thest paragraph here Bank ount: $57,700. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 20 20 - Valuable Information Chapter 20 20 - Valuable Information When Leo got home, he couldn''t wait any longer and urgently sat up in bed to activate the Inventory Hack. "System, activate the Inventory Hack," he said confidently, as he looked at the status screen changing in front of his eyes. [Inventory-Hack Lv 01 [0/5,000]: Creates a personal space for the User of 1 cubic meter. As long as the user touches the item, it can be stored in the Inventory. With each upgrade the space will be increased.] Seeing that the skill was activated, in Leo''s mind came information on how to store the items and how to see this space. Looking at it initially, Leo only saw a box with ck walls,pletely empty inside. A 1-cubic-meter box was veryrge. Its internal area was equivalent to the size of at least 5 backpacks like the ones Leo was using now. So, while before he could onlye back from the forest with X amount of materials, now he could carry at least 5x more than he could before. That meant more money and more Experience that he could get every time he went out into the woods. With curiosity, Leo took a pen, and in his right hand, using a single thought, that pen disappeared from his hand. Immediately the pen appeared hovering in the inner space of the inventory. Inside, Leo was able to reposition the pen to amodate more things and maximize the use of that space, which was very useful. With another thought, the pen appeared in Leo''s left hand, which brought another smile to his face. This inventory had a limitation that stored objects had to be in contact with his hand, but this worked with both hands. With this, Leo could hold an item with his right hand and in the next instant take the item out with his left, making it look like the item teleported from one hand to the other. "These skills have a lot of functionality. I believe it will take me a long time to learn all of this," Leo said to himself excitedly, trying to think of other things he could do. Another idea Leo had was that he wouldn''t need a quiver, as he could make the arrows appear in his hand directly! While Leo was thinking, he started putting essential equipment away in the Inventory. Bow, arrows, food, water, Leo even tried to save a bird for testing, but the System said that living beings could not be stored in Leo''s Inventory. After Leo killed the bird, the System gave no warning and the bird was stored normally in Inventory. The dead bird''s blood stopped flowing as soon as it entered the Inventory, by which Leo deduced that the time in the inventory stood still, meaning he could store food there forever without worrying about the food going bad! Countless ideas came to his mind as he tested the Inventory Hack, but suddenly there was a knock on his door. Knock Knock! Leo was confused. He never had visitors at home, so just in case, he took a knife and looked through the door with the Wall-Hack. Upon seeing through the door, Leo''s suspicion softened a bit, as he saw two people he had already met a few times. Although when using the Wall-Hack he could only see outlines, the silhouettes of the people showed that they were military, and after leaving the city every day from the same ce, Leo already knew the two Bronze 5 Stars soldiers who guarded the city gate by their stance alone. However, just in case, Leo didn''t leave the knife in the kitchen, but put it in the Inventory, since with just a thought he could retrieve the knife and defend himself if he needed. As he opened the door, Leo made a confused expression as if he didn''t know who it was and then broke into a smile. "Hello gentlemen, can I help you both?" Leo asked politely. The two soldiers saw Leo, and unlike the emotions they showed when they saw him normally, this time they had serious expressions as they looked at Leo with a touch of admiration. Greg was the soldier who spoke. "Leonardo Lentz, you are being drafted into the 17th Army Battalion by Army Corporal Joseph." Leo was shocked to hear this. He didn''t know that a Silver Awakened from the army was keeping an eye on him. ''It was probably because of the amount of monsters I''ve been hunting recently,'' Leo thought, but didn''t care. As cautious as Leo was, he wasn''t the kind of fearful person who would be hiding like a mouse all the time doing everything in hiding. "Alright, can I at least change my clothes?" Leo gave a small smile as he pointed to a stain of monster blood on his clothes. He hadn''t even showered after he got back, so he was dirty and sweaty. Greg finally noticed how Leo was doing and cracked a small smile before answering, "You have 5 minutes." Leo went to the bathroom and took a quick shower before changing clothes and leaving whilebing his hair. To be on the safe side, Leo grabbed his backpack and slung it over his back. The backpack was practically empty, with only a few objects to bulk up. If he needed something from his inventory, he could reach into his backpack and grab it at any time without having to exin how the inventory worked. The soldiers hade to pick Leo up with a military jeep. Leo was sitting in the back seat, while the two soldiers were in the front seat. Arriving at the barracks, Leo was then escorted to the Army Corps office and heard a voice from inside the room. "In betweenThat will be all now." The two soldiers left Leo''s side and went back to what they had to do earlier. p??d? n?ve? Leo entered the room in front of him, a little confused, and saw a muscr man with a middle-aged appearance looking at him with a small smile. It was the Corporal he''d once encountered at the entrance to the city. Leo still didn''t know why he was called here, but from Corporal Joseph''s smile, that was probably a good thing. "Corporal Joseph," Leo greeted the man with a polite smile. "Leonardo Lentz, sit down." Joseph pointed to a chair. After Leo sat down, Joseph exined, "My superiors were as surprised as I was when they found out you were hunting Bronze 2 Stars monsters at your age. Can you imagine the heart attack I received when I found out you were already hunting Bronze 3 Stars monsters?" Leo shed a slightly embarrassed smile, but he didn''t deny it. He knew he couldn''t hide that kind of thing from the army. Joseph was very pleased when he saw that despite the boy hunting Bronze 3 Stars monsters, Leo was still a 2 Star Bronze Awakened! That kind of talent was extremely rare in the country, and it had to be very well taken care of. So as soon as Joseph heard the news of what Leo had done, he ordered the soldiers to go to Leo''s house to invite him here to tell him some information. "The university entrance exam is scheduled for Monday next week," Joseph said with a serious expression. Leo was surprised to hear this. The date of the entrance exams was always a secret for all students. This was mainly to prevent some students from using some kind of drug to do better than they actually would normally, and it also was used to test the students''mitment, since if a student regrly missed school and was not present on that particr day, they also would not deserve to enter the big universities regardless of their talent. That''s why even if a person was extremely sick sometimes, that student would avoid missing school because they didn''t know the date of the entrance exam. If the student was extremely sick, if they were present, they could at least get a voucher to take the test another day, but if they weren''t present, they would be automatically disqualified. So knowing the day of the entrance exam was a great advantage for anyone looking to take it, especially for Leo. "Thank you very much, Corporal Joseph," Leo said with a respectful expression. Joseph smiled and replied, "Don''t spread this information. I believe you already know what to do with this knowledge. You can leave now." Leo got up and said goodbye to Joseph. Their meeting didn''t evenst 5 minutes, but that was much more valuable than 2 full days for Leo. ''With this information I can start skipping school to hunt all day. So until Monday of next week I''ll do my best to maximize my skills and try to climb to Bronze 5 Stars,'' Leo thought confidently. From the next day on, the monsters would suffer from Leo on the loose in the forest. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 21 21 - Experience Chapter 21 21 - Experience Leo still had 3,560 experience points avable after activating the Inventory Hack. Initially he was unsure which skill he should improve: either Aim-Bot, Wall-Hack, or Speed-Hack. Right away the Aim-Bot was already disregarded, since this skill was already at Level 05. Wall-Hack was at Level 03, with 30 meters of range, while the Speed-Hack was at Level 01 with 10% bonus agility. Leo knew that Agility was very important for him to be able to evade some more powerful monster, but increasing the Wall-Hack''s range by 10 meters could be even more important, as he could avoid powerful monsters even more easily or deal with the weaker monsters even further away - without having to get so close and expose himself to so much danger. With these considerations in mind, Leo finally decided to raise the Wall-Hack to level 04, spending 2,000 Experience points and opening his Status after he had made his choice. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack p??d? n?ve? Experience Points: 1,560 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 05 [0/1,600]: In a 50 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 04 [0/4,000]: Within a radius of 40 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Speed-Hack Lv 01 [0/2000]: While the user has the skill activated, the user''s agility will be 10% higher. With each level the percentage will be increased. Inventory-Hack Lv 01 [0/5,000]: Creates a personal space for the User of 1 cubic meter. As long as the user touches the item, it can be stored in the Inventory. With each upgrade the space will be increased. Avable Quirks: The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Silver Rank.] If Leo had 40 more experience points he could already raise the Aim-Bot to level 06, but he would have to leave that for the next day. He was already tired of hunting the monsters today, plus having to go to the Awakened trading post and then still having to go back and forth to the army. The only thing Leo wanted was to lie down and rest. The next day, Leo woke upter than usual. Looking at his cell phone, he saw several messages from Chris and two messages from Liza, both worried about why he was missing ss, but Leo only replied that he decided to take the rest of the week off to train and hunt monsters while rmending that the two of them do the same as well. Of course, Leo wasn''t going to force his two friends to skip ss to train, but he wasn''t going to hide the information he received either. If they wanted to believe Leo and do what he rmended, that would be good for them, but if not, Leo was already clear-headed for having done what he could. A few minutester, while Leo was eating breakfast, he received a message from each of his friends. Chris didn''t think twice and decided to believe Leo. He had seen with his own eyes how powerful Leo was and how he had be an Awakened toote himself. Chris felt he was at a disadvantagepared to the other students and also decided to hunt monsters until the weekend. Liza, on the other hand, was a little dubious. She knew how damaging it could be for her future if the entrance exam happened and she wasn''t in school, so she decided to just skip ss on Friday and continue to go to school the other days of the week. Leo saw her message and saw nothing wrong with it. She had no reason to believe him and put her future at risk, while Leo couldn''te right out and tell his friends he heard this information from an Army Corporal. With Chris'' Quirk, he could hunt Bronze 1 Star monsters alone without any risk. That''s why Space Quirks were so special among universities, so Leo wasn''t worried about his friend being in danger. So, wearing his backpack and going out with his hands free, Leo felt a lot lighter as he headed out of town, as he didn''t have to carry his heavy bow from ce to ce. As he passed the city gate, Leo nodded to the two soldiers and entered the forest. He had enough food to spend a few hours in the woods, and he really intended to spend a few hours hunting this time. His skills were getting more and more expensive. With each level that his skills went up, the price in Experience to level up again was doubled, that is, a skill like Aim-Bot that was currently his cheapest skill, now at Level 05 cost 1,600 Experience Points. Level 06 would cost 3,200, Level 07 would cost 6,400, Level 08 would cost 12,800, Level 09 would cost 25,600, and Level 10 would finally reach 51,200 Experience Points! Of course, yesterday, Leo had gained almost 10k experience points from hunting the Bronze 3 Stars monsters, but considering that Aim-Bot was his cheapest skill, getting Inventory-Hack to reach Level 10 was something Leo was uneasy thinking about how many points he would need. And considering that he would receive new abilities once he reached Silver Rank, this would be increasingly difficult to sustain, as he knew these new abilities wouldn''te cheap. ''Just as I find it easy to be able to hunt monsters in such an effective way, I''ll need more and more Experience to sustain all these skills,'' Leo thought, as he took the bow from his inventory and went on alert. He had already entered the Bronze 3 Star monsters'' zone, so Leo knew he could already start killing monsters indiscriminately. The first group of monsters Leo encountered was a group of Gnolls. Through the Wall-Hack, Leo, who was 35 meters away, saw 6 red outlines with a wide body and a crooked spine. The crooked spine was very characteristic of Gnolls, who had the face of hyenas and a small humanoid body. Many mothers even made jokes about these creatures, calling their children Gnolls when their spines were crooked from spending too much time on theputer these days. Gnolls and Goblins were considered monsters with the same level of difficulty to deal with, but while Goblins had the advantage of intelligence, Gnolls had the advantage of instinct. They were dumber than Goblins, but their noses were much more powerful, being able to smell enemies much further away than Goblins. Leo was very happy to have leveled up Wall-Hack, as it was known that Bronze 3 Stars Gnolls'' smell range was between 20 to 30 meters, depending on the wind. Leo was 35 meters away: a distance slightly greater than the Gnolls'' limit. Of course, that didn''t mean Leo was safe; it just meant that Leo''s scent would take longer for the monsters to notice. As soon as a Gnoll raised its head and started sniffing suspiciously, Leo already discovered that this Gnoll was starting to smell him. For now, he didn''t know what he was smelling actually was and which direction it wasing from, but it would only be a matter of time for him to find Leo standing there. But Leo didn''t spend all this time just watching his prey; he already had a n in mind and felt that Gnolls were the perfect monsters for him at the moment. Leo would have to deal with a Bronze 4 Star Vulpi within a few days, and Gnolls were a lot like Vulpis. ''You will be my training Dummies,'' Leo thought, as he shot four arrows with much less pull than usual. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh. Four arrows flew from Leo''s bow, almost floating, but because of that, the arrows made less noise as they flew, and before the gnolls realized anything, the four arrows precisely hit the right eye of all four inattentive creatures. Because Leo didn''t use much force on the arrows, only the Gnolls'' eyes were injured before the arrows stopped prating and didn''t hit the brains of these monsters. If he had wanted, Leo could have killed those 4 Gnolls very easily: just put more force into those arrows and the 4 Gnolls hit would have already lost their own brains. But Leo wanted to train. With the Inventory-Hack, Leo didn''t even have to move his hand to pull out more arrows and four more arrows appeared in his hand, causing him to aim his bow much faster than he had previously. The Gnolls were divided. While the four Gnolls that were hit started screaming in pain and rage as they pulled the arrows out of their eyes, the two Gnolls that weren''t hit were left looking at theirpanions confusedly, trying to understand what had just happened. Gnolls really were dumb. If they were Goblins, they wouldn''t even have tried to pull the arrows out of their eyes and instead run for cover as fast as possible, but the Gnolls were lost trying to understand what was happening without moving from the ces where they each were standing. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh. Four more arrows flew. This time, Leo just aimed at the two gnolls that hadn''t been hit - two arrows for each Gnoll. In one second both Gnolls werepletely blinded. Unlike their fourpanions who only lost a single eye, these two Gnolls went mad with rage from the arrows stuck in their eyes and started attacking everything around them. The four gnolls who still had one eye each saw this and walked away from their twopanions while barking to warn what was happening, trying to calm their twopanions. Leo just watched from afar with four more arrows loaded in his bow. For now, he just waited and didn''t shoot, as he wanted the four Gnolls to calm their two madrades first. If he drove the six Gnolls mad, they''d probably kill themselves, covered in rage, so Leo let them calm down first. A few secondster four more arrows flew. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh. This time, the Gnolls who had better instincts than the Goblins heard the arrows flying again and rted it to the small noise they heard before being hit earlier and tried to dodge it. But Leo was with his Aim-Bot. All these moves of theirs were already calcted by the System program so that he wouldn''t miss his targets. And just as Leo imagined, the four arrows hit the left eyes of the Gnolls who had only previously lost one eye. As they were already calmer, the Gnolls didn''t despair, even though they were in so much pain. At this point, these monsters'' instinct was in full force. Their sense of smell, which was already powerful, now became even stronger, and soon the six Gnolls turned their heads towards Leo. Leo was surprised by this, but finally, a smile came over his face. ''Very well. You''ve finally turned into the little Vulpi I need to train against,'' Leo thought with a smile as he started to run with his bow loaded. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 22 22 - Liza And Anna Chapter 22 22 - Liza And Anna Leo stayed in the forest until the night despite never having stayed that long in the forest beforehand. With the Wall-Hack active all the time, it was impossible for him to suffer a sneak attack, even in the moments when he was resting. Some of the food he left prepared was eaten, leaving only a little left in case an emergency happened. On the other hand, his Inventory was practically full. One cubic meter full of materials was a lot: just with these materials that he hunted today he could alreadyplete another 20 - 30% of the list of materials that the old man had sent him, and that was disregarding the monsters he killed that weren''t on the list! As he walked out of the forest, Leo opened his Status screen. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 18,810 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 05 [0/1,600] Wall-Hack Lv 04 [0/4,000] Speed-Hack Lv 01 [0/2000] Inventory-Hack Lv 01 [0/5,000] Avable Quirks: The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Pure Silver Rank.] When looking at the amount of Experience points on his screen, Leo cracked open a big smile. He had never made more than 10,000 Experience points in a day. If he wanted to, with those almost 19,000 Experience Points he had, he could already reach Pure Silver Rank without much difficulty, but he knew that if he did that, he would receive less experience points from Bronze monsters. So it was better to use those experience points on skills first. Leo believed that these skills had a Level limit - that is, when he reached a certain Level with the skills he could no longer put points into them. He still didn''t know what the limit was, but Leo thought it might be Level 10. Compared to other Awakened who couldn''t even put Experience points into skills to improve them (or even use experience points to unlock new skills), Leo knew that had a lot of advantage. The best / simplest example of this advantage of his was that he was already hunting Bronze 3 Star monsters alone with ease, while a regr Bronze 2 Star Awakened might be in danger when dealing with Bronze 1 Star monsters alone. Sure, an Awakened Bronze 2 Star with a special ability like Chris could probably also handle Bronze 2 Star monsters all by himself, but they could hardly handle Bronze 3 Star monsters like Leo was doing. With a smile on his face, Leo greeted the soldiers guarding the city gate and went out to sell what materials he had. Considering the materials he sold to the old man and the materials he sold at other stores, Leo made approximately $102,000 today. ''I got over $100,000 in a single day! If I don''t improve and just stay at this level for the rest of my life, I''d get over $3,000,000 a month. In a year it would be $36,000,000ˇ­ damn, I''m practically a millionaire already!'' Leo thought very excitedly. Before his sister disappeared, he knew she was very rich, as she was a Gold Ranked Awakened, but she never told Leo how much she actually earned. Even before he became a Pure Silver Awakened, Leo was practically on a millionaire sry. Leo began to wonder how much his sister earned. Looking at the dirty clothes he was wearing, Leo knew he had to change. He was wearing Bronze 2 Star camouge leather armor that he had bought a few days ago. As Leo wanted to hunt a Bronze 4 Star monster, Leo wanted to buy at least one set of Bronze 4 Star leather armor, but seeing the price of the armors, Leo finally understood that the $159,700 he had in his bank ount now wasn''t as much money as he had first imagined... To get the best Bronze 3 Star armor set, Leo would need at least $170,000, which was something he couldn''t afford. A normal Bronze 4 Star armor set started at $250,000 and went up to $360,000, while the best Bronze 4 Star sets were even priced at $500,000! Leo looked at the green and blue camouge leather armor and thought this armor was very pretty, but unfortunately the $500,000 price tag was something he couldn''t afford right now. An ordinary Awakened Bronze 4 Stars would need to work for months, or even more than a year, to get enough money to buy this armor. What usually happened was that the group collected money and upgraded each group member''s armor a piece at a time, but Leo would only need to hunt for another 4 or 5 days to get the money for this armor. With today''s hunting, he already discovered some good tactics to use against the Vulpi that he would have to hunt, and seeing this Bronze 4 Star armor, Leo knew that with this armor, hunting would be even easier. So Leo decided he would hunt still more monsters in theing days to be able to hunt Vulpi while wearing this armor. With this goal in mind, Leo left the store and took a taxi to the Mall. As much as his money was not enough to buy a set of Bronze 4 Star armor, that money was more than enough for him to buy new clothes for himself to wear on a daily basis. As he only received a very low allowance normally, Leo''s clothes were already getting old, so with his bank ount so full, Leo decided to use some of his money to have some fun. Leo''s advantage was that he was very handsome, so even though his clothes were older than most other men his age, his face had always attracted a lot of attention, distracting people from his clothes. Of course, before getting into the taxi, Leo had already exchanged the armor he was wearing for a set of clothes that he had stored in his inventory, as it would be very strange for him to enter the Mall with blood-stained armor. "Are you an Awakened, boy?" the taxi driver asked Leo curiously as he picked up Leo at the Awakened sales station. "Yes, I became an Awakened not long ago," Leo replied with a polite smile. "Ohh, that''s good! It''s said that while being Awakened is a very dangerous profession, it''s also very lucrative," the taxi driver said with a smile. Leo agreed. "Yes, while Awakened have the advantage of making more money, the danger is also very high. I myself have seen a group almost dying to hunt some eagles." Hearing this, the taxi driver was shocked. As much as he noticed on the news that every now and then a group of Awakened had died, it always seemed like something very far away, but seeing this young man speaking of what he had seen with his own eyes scared the man a little. "As much as a taxi driver doesn''t earn that much, security is priceless..." the man said, satisfied with his profession. Leo just smiled and said nothing. He understood most men enjoyed security despite being paid little, in the same way that people ept to apply for public office wanting financial stability. But Leo, himself, didn''t like that kind of thing. Even if he wasn''t Awakened, Leo would probably have started apany to make money and be able to control his own destiny. Whether thepany was going to grow or fail would be up to him, which was the kind of lifestyle he wanted. After their initial conversation, the two were silent until they arrived at the mall. Leo gave the taxi driver a big tip before getting out of the cab and starting to stroll around the shopping center. Initially Leo thought that with his money he could go to a Gi store, or some famous brand like that, but after thinking about it, paying thousands of dors for a single piece of clothing he felt was too much. ''Maybe when I earn more I can spend money in these stores, but paying $5,000 on a shirt for me is too much. That''s almost 5% of my daily ie! If I buy 10 shirts, half of my sry today goes away.'' Leo mentally denied that idea. Leaving those famous brands aside, Leo went to an Adidas store and found everything he wanted. With less than $10,000 Leo bought some sneakers, several shirts, and some pants. From the amount of stuff he bought, if he bought this at the Gi store, Leo would have probably spent over $100,000. Leo was satisfied with the things he had bought, so he went to the bathroom and put on a set of the clothes he bought and put the rest in his inventory and went to eat something, intending to go back home to spend his Experience points and sleep. But to Leo''s surprise, he found Liza at a table in the food court, talking to another girl who looked a little like her. So, instead of leaving, Leo bought a sandwich and then he walked towards the table where Liza was. Leo only intended to wave at her and then look for another ce to sit, since she was with someone else, but as soon as Liza saw Leo, she cracked a smile and waved him over to her table. Seeing this, Leo smiled and sat down next to Liza. When the girl who was with Liza saw this, at first she was confused, as she knew that Liza hardly ever saw anyone her age as an equal. So for her to treat this boy that way, this boy probably had something special about him. Just deducing this already made this girl start to be interested in this mysterious young man. Right away she saw that the clothes Leo was wearing weren''t expensive, but they weren''t cheap either. While Adidas clothing wasn''t luxury clothing, it wasn''t clothing that not everyone could afford either, particrly seeing as the clothing Leo was wearing was brand new. "Hi Leo," Liza said with a smile. "Hi Liza," Leo replied with another smile. "This is my cousin Anna. She is studying at one of the four big universities." Liza proudly introduced her cousin. Hearing how she was introduced, Anna was very pleased, as few people could get into one of the four big universities. But to her disappointment, Leo just smiled politely at her as if what Liza said was no big deal. After all, Leo''s sister studied at the Military University, and he would probably get into the Military University too. No matter how much of a big deal the big four universities were, something too far away for ordinary people, for someone from the Military University this was no big deal. "Hello Anna, I''m Leonardo, but you can call me Leo," Leo replied politely. Anna was a little displeased with Leo''s reaction, but still smiled politely. Seeing Leo''s reaction, Liza was able to deduce what he was thinking, and knowing Leo''s strength, she also believed he could get into the Military University along with Chris. "Which of the four big universities do you intend to enter, Leo?" Anna asked curiously. For Leo to have such a mild reaction about where she studied, the only possibility she could think of was that Leo would also be studying at one of the big 4 universities. "If you''re going to study at White Cloud University I can give you some tips." Leo heard this and was a little ufortable, but still answered what he really thought. "I don''t intend to study at any of the big four universities." Anna was confused to hear this, so much so that she looked at Liza and was disappointed. Apparently her cousin only liked this boy for his good looks, but maybe Leo''s talent wasn''t good enough to get into a big university? Seeing that Anna had stopped trying to pay attention to him after the answer he gave, Leo didn''t get mad and just kept saying, "I''m going to the Military University." Boom! A bomb exploded in Anna''s head. The Military University was the best university in the country, among the top three universities in the world! While the big four universities epted 10,000 students per year each, the Military University epted a maximum of 500 students. While the big universities'' best graduates were almost all Pure Silver 1 Star students, the worst students at the Military University graduated at Pure Silver 1 Star. That was the difference between the Elite and the truly Elite. Anna was shocked to meet someone who nned to study at the Military University, so much so that she even tried to feel for Leo''s power radiating off of him. p??d? n?ve? But when she saw that Leo was just an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars, her shocked expression changed to tense incredulity immediately. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 23 23 - Shooting Range Chapter 23 23 - Shooting Range Leo noticed Anna''s expression changing from shock to contempt, but he didn''t care about that, Leo knew his own strength and didn''t need to prove anything to anyone. Even more so since he had confidence in moving up the ranks before the entrance exams. But Anna didn''t know what Leo was thinking and was prepared to say something in contempt, but Liza said it before Anna could say anything. "Anna, you bettere and watch the entrance exams at our school, I think you''ll be really surprised." Anna was confused by Liza saying that, Liza''s father was an Awaken Pure Silver 2 Stars, while Anna''s father was Pure Silver 4 Stars, not to mention other uncles they had, they had alreadye into contact with powerful Awakens. For Liza to show that confidence Anna was left with doubts. Until an idea came to her mind. ''Does this boy have any Special Quirks?'' Anna wondered mentally. In Anna''s mind, with the strength of an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars, the only way for Leo to enter the Military University would be with a Special Quirk, be it a Space Quirk, a Flying Quirk, or something simr. But since asking about someone else''s Quirk was impolite, Anna just kept quiet and went back to eating. Leo continued to eat his sandwich while the two of them talked. He knew it was understandable for Anna to think he was an idiot for having that confidence being just an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars, but Leo didn''t care, in time he would prove her wrong. He wasn''t the type of person who liked to p other people in the face all the time, Leo preferred to be polite and let the person realize their own mistake. Of course, if the person is too excessive, then Leo would have no problem teaching that person good manners. After this was resolved, the three treated it as if it hadn''t happened and started talking. At first the conversation was a bit awkward, but when Leo went on to share some interesting things he saw while hunting and the girls also shared things they saw while hunting, they found amon thread and the conversation became more fluid. "Seriously, I''ll never ask him to join a hunting party with me again." Anna said with a huff of rage after telling a story about a boy who made them fight a slime that melted their clothes. Leo replied whileughing. "But are you sure he didn''t do it on purpose? From what you told him he seems to have enjoyed this hunt a lot." p??d? n?ve? Anna soon understood what Leo was saying. "Thisˇ­this might be possible!" She was shocked to realize that the boy might have done it on purpose! Mainly because the slime melted some of her armor causing her legs and belly to be exposed a bit. "Bloody hell, I spent nearly $700,000 on that armor!" Anna yelled angrily drawing the attention of several people around them. Leo wasughing a lot at her overreaction. During the conversation Leo discovered that Anna was almost the opposite of Liza, while Liza was always calm and seemed to have everything under control, Anna was the opposite and showed 100% of the emotions she was feeling at the moment. While Liza wasughing with her hand covering her mouth, Leo was chuckling tantly. When Anna saw how Leo wasughing, she got mad at him and screamed. "Why are youughing?!" Leo practically heard a trigger to change her emotion and responded. "You look like a chihuahua when you''re angry, it''s really cute." As soon as Leo said that, the table went silent. Anna''s cheeks reddened as she looked away, while Liza who was beside Leo frowned and pinched his arm. Leo understood what was happening to Liza, but pretended he didn''t see anything, just going back to eating his sandwich that was already at the end. After Leo finished eating, he prepared to get up and leave, but Liza asked. "Are you going to do anything today?" Leo was confused and looked at his watch, it was already 9 pm and he intended to just go back home, spend his Experience points and go to sleep to go hunting again tomorrow, but hearing Liza''s question he answered. "No, why?" Before Liza could answer, Leo noticed a surprised expression cross Anna''s face before she changed to an approving expression. "We were invited to go to a shooting club today, but as we don''t know very well who goes there we thought it would be nice to invite someone we know, want toe too?" Lisa asked. Seeing the looks of the two girls, Leo soon understood why they called him. They''re both very pretty, so the guys at this shooting club are probably going to be very interested in them, but with Leo by their side, the guys probably won''t do anything excessive. "Sure, why not?" Leo responded with a smile. Nowadays it can be said that it was moremon for people to have fun in shooting clubs than in karaokes, since militarism was much vaunted, young people thought it was cooler to go out to shoot than to go out to sing. With Leo''s confirmation, the two girls smiled and also finished eating to go to the shooting club. Anna rented a car when she arrived in town, so she drove with Liza in the shotgun and Leo in the backseat. Anna was 2 years older than them, while Leo and Liza were at Bronze 2 Stars, Anna had achieved Bronze 4 Stars, which was already pretty talented for someone in their sophomore year at University. If everything went ording to n, Anna''s chances of graduating as an Awaken Pure Silver 1 Star were very high, which would already guarantee her a rank of Army Corporal at the age of 23, something that only the most talented students at major universities could do. do. ording to what Leo heard from the two talking, Anna graduated from Bronze 2 Stars high school, just like Leo and Liza, so she didn''t believe that Leo would actually go to Military University based on his Rank. For someone of her talent, perhaps reaching the Royal Gold 1 Star Rank was the most she could achieve, but considering that in her family the most powerful person was an Awaken Pure Silver 5 Stars, Anna was confident of being the first Awaken Royal. Family Gold. Liza''s expectations were the same as Anna''s, but being 2 years younger, she didn''t think she could be the family''s first Awaken Royal Gold. Knowing that Royal Gold 1 Star could be the ultimate for their talent was something that didn''t put the two girls off, as a Royal Gold 1 Star awakened would already be an army officer at least Second Lieutenant! This was unimaginable glory for the Awaken. The difference between Leo and the normal Awaken was that Leo could avoid putting his Exp points to go up in Rank and putting everything into his skills, that is, his talent would never be insufficient to keep going up. While normal Awakens would reach a point where they could no longer hunt more powerful monsters because their abilities stopped leveling up, Leo would still be stronger than monsters of the same rank as him because his abilities will always be at a high level. But of course, he would never tell anyone about this, at most he would make people believe that he is very talented. The trip was quick, in a short time they arrived at the shooting club. Leo had never been to the shooting club before, especially now that he had Aim-Bot, now that he wouldn''t have toe to a shooting club anyway, since he didn''t need to practice his aim. But other people were still having fun. For an unustomed person, if they saw these luxury cars parked in front of an establishment they might even think this ce was a nightclub, but the gunshots betrayed that the only music that yed here was the noise of guns. "Come on, he''s waiting for us in room 02." Anna said as she walked and looked at her cell phone to check if they were going to the right ce. Leo and Liza just followed her. This meeting was arranged with a ssmate of Anna''s who studied with her here in town when she was still at school. Like her, this colleague entered a big university and came this time to see his younger brother''s entrance exams. Before entering the room, Anna stopped Leo and Liza and gave them warning. "This ssmate of mine is called Charles and he has a mental Quirk, if you look him in the eye he can read what you''re thinking, so if you don''t want him to read your thoughts, avoid eye contact with him. He probably will. be the only bald one here, so if you see a bald one, just avoid looking him in the eye." Leo and Liza nodded and followed Anna to room 02. Upon opening the door, the three saw approximately 10 people aged between 17 and 20 years old chatting happily. At that moment no one was shooting, the 10 were sitting on sofas while eating some snacks and talking. Seeing the door opening, everyone turned and saw Anna and Liza walking in and the men soon broke into big smiles as no one wouldin about beautiful women arriving to have fun with them. But just as they cracked a smile, Leo appeared behind Liza and saw the expressions of the men in the group change from water to wine, while the women in the group broke into big smiles. Just as Anna warned, it was pretty clear who Charles was, as his bald head almost glowed. Soon he got up and came to Anna. "Anna, how long! Unfortunately we didn''t get to go to the same University, but fate brought us together again in our hometown, right?" Leo rolled his eyes as he heard Charles talking about fate trying to please Anna. As someone who already knew what a girl wanted to hear, he knew that saying that you were meant to be together when you weren''t even close was silly, even more so when you were ugly, then the possibility of it working out dropped to less. of 1%. But Leo didn''t say anything and just let the two talk and introduce themselves. Anna introduced Liza as her younger cousin and Leo as Liza''s ssmate. While Charles introduced some friends who hade from his University, his younger brother and some friends of his younger brother. Charles'' younger brother is called Eric, but unlike Charles, Eric had hair, so Charles'' baldness was probably by choice, or because of his Quirk, as it wasn''t gic. Eric didn''t even look at Leo and came to introduce himself with a smile to Liza. From how close Charles was to Anna, Leo already deduced that Charles regarded Anna as something of his, and Eric apparently wanted to do the same with Liza, but unfortunately, as soon as Eric crossed the barrier of Liza''s personal space, she took a step back. back and got closer to Leo. Leo noticed Eric frowning as Liza approached him, but unfortunately Eric couldn''t help but act as if nothing had happened. At this point Eric finally looked at Leo and his brows got even more furrowed, mainly because he saw that Leo was more handsome than he was, and felt that just like him, Leo was also an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars. "Very well, we didn''te here just to eat, so let''s shoot!" Charles said with a smile and let everyone choose a gun to shoot. Hearing this, everyone was interested and went to the closet to choose the weapon they would use. Only Leo and Liza stood on the sidelines watching people having fun. "Why don''t you go shoot?" Leo asked curiously. Liza looked at Leo and answered in a low voice. "That Eric looks very suspicious, as much as I like to shoot, he managed to spoil my will. What about you? Why don''t you go?" Leo just smiled and responded with another question. "Do you think I do?" Hearing this, Liza remembered the miraculous shots Leo took during practical ss at school and had to agree. "Really, with your level this would be child''s y." Since they weren''t going to shoot, the two sat on a couch and started talking while eating some snacks from the table. Seeing that Liza was still ufortable with Eric looking at them all the time, Leo slipped his hand over Liza''s shoulder and continued talking to her matter-of-factly. Liza was shocked by Leo putting his arm around the back of her neck and holding her shoulder, but as soon as Leo did, the difort in Eric''s gaze disappeared. It was as if Leo''s arm was a barrier protecting her from Eric. But Eric on the other hand was furious to see Leo put his hand on Liza''s shoulder, and even more furious when Leo looked at him and gave him a mocking smile. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 24 24 - No ClichĂ© Chapter 24 24 - No Clich¨¦ 24 - No Clich¨¦ Leo had met a lot of arrogant people, and there were only two ways to deal with arrogant people: The first way was for you to put your head down and let the person be arrogant like a clown. The consequence of this would be that the person would be even more arrogant and treat you as someone inferior to them. The second way would be to be more arrogant than the other person and make them realize that the world does not revolve around them. The consequence of that would be that the person would have to try to show that they are more amazing than you, but after the person realizes that they are inferior to you, either they would be ashamed and leave, or they would recognize you and treat you like someone who was superior to themselves. Leo had already read some books where the protagonist of the book dealt with this kind of situation by offending everyone, making the antagonist hate him to the point of using the strength of his own family to end his life over a petty fight. But this wasn''t a book Leo had read; this was real life. In a militarized world, fighting between army officers was bad for both sides. No one would win by having a fight with someone else, so most of the time those fights ended up with both sides bing friends, or at least getting to know each other better. That''s why Leo wasn''t afraid to provoke Eric, as he knew that as much as they fought, Eric was the one who started it and in the end he would have to solve it in the most logical way. Of course, if Leo didn''t have the strength to deal with it, none of this would be worth it. After all, friendship only works between two equal sides. After looking at Eric with a smile, Leo brought his mouth to Liza''s ear and whispered. "It''s okay. Do you think that with me by your side something bad will happen?" Hearing Leo''s confidence, Liza was even less worried. During ss she had talked to Chris and found out that Leo went with him alone in the forest to hunt Bronze 2 Star monsters to help Chris to be an Awakened. Someone who could hunt Bronze 2 Star monsters alone while being an Awakened Bronze 2 Star really had a right to have that confidence. Not only for his current strength, but the unlimited future he had, hardly anyone would want to be on Leo''s bad side for long. Right after she was rxed, Liza felt Leo''s hot breath brush against her ear and the hairs on her arms stood on end; even an icy feeling rose between her legs. After all, Leo was very attractive, both his personality and his looks. Leo noticed goose bumps on her arm and smiled. "What''s going on? You''re all shivering. Are you cold?" When Leo finished saying that, his hand that was on her shoulder went down to her waist and pulled her closer to him. As he pulled her, Leo felt a veryfortable fat above her rib. As for Liza, when she felt Leo''s hand touch her breast a little, her face turned red with embarrassment as she looked around to see if anyone had noticed anything. Seeing that no one was looking, Liza turned to Leo with an angry expression and used one hand to pinch him while speaking quietly, "Stop doing that. This ce is full of people!" Hearing this, Leo smiled once more before reaching close to her ear and whispering, "So if there wasn''t anyone else, we wouldn''t have a problem?" When Liza heard this she didn''t know what to say, as that''s pretty much what she had said. Luckily for Liza, before she could answer, Anna came back and sat beside her. Noting Leo''s hand on Liza''s waist, Anna raised an eyebrow and said, "So you''re already at that level? Now I understand why Liza isn''t acting so cold with you." Liza was embarrassed to see that Anna had noticed Leo''s hand on her waist, but Leo just smiled and acted as if it had nothing to do with him. When Anna came over, Charles also came with Eric. Charles only raised an eyebrow when he saw Leo''s hand on Liza''s waist, but Eric was very angry at the sight of it. "Why didn''t you guys go shoot?" Anna asked with a raised eyebrow. "I''m not feeling very well," Liza replied a little ufortably. Eric''s gazing at her was making her ufortable. Luckily Leo''s hand, as much as it made her a little embarrassed, it also made her feel safer. "And you, Leo?" Anna asked. Leo looked at the shooting targets and saw that most showed very poor marksmanship. Most people didn''t even have a 50% rate of hitting the bull''s-eye, let alone having any fun for him. "That doesn''t sound very challenging to me," Leo answered honestly. But while Leo gave an honest answer, the others took it as arrogance. "Are you good at shooting?" Anna asked in surprise, since they never talked about guns when they were at the mall. "I''m not bad," Leo answered honestly again, as with the Aim-Bot he was definitely not bad. "How about apetition?" Eric saw the opportunity and took advantage of it topete with Leo. Leo raised an eyebrow and asked, "Which of those targets is yours?" "Number 47," Eric answered confidently. Leo saw several paper targets from afar, but soon was able to pick out number 47. "Hmm, an 80% fire rate at the center of the target? Sounds like fun." Leo finally got interested. He hadn''t seen Eric''s target and figured there really wasn''t anyone proficient here. But when he saw that Eric had an 80% hit rate at the center of the target at 10 meters, it got interesting. Of course, Leo would have a 100% hit rate up to 50 meters, but if he were to wait for someone better than this toe along for him to y, he could never y with anyone. With a smile, Leo got up and went to get a gun from the closet. Anna and Charles were confused to see how Leo was acting. Initially they thought he wasn''t very good at shooting so he took the opportunity to spend time flirting with Liza, but from the way he acted, it really looked like he''s good at it. Considering that some Awakened use firearms to hunt, having a good aim meant that the person was also a good hunter. After all, if you shoot well, you can kill monsters well. But when Leo came back from the closet, he was holding a bow! Anna, Charles, and Eric were confused to see this as they didn''t even remember seeing a bow there, and even more confused that Leo had decided to use a bow! Liza knew that Leo liked to use a bow to hunt, so she wasn''t surprised. Leo had taken this bow from his inventory, so they didn''t really see this bow stored there before he came in, but there were still some arrows, which Leo took and slung around his waist inside the quiver. He could have taken a firearm to shoot, but as he was already used to using the bow, Leo preferred to use the bow himself. After all, with a firearm he might lose all the fun, right? "Are you going to use a bow?" Eric asked with some uncertainty, seeing Leo leaving the gun rack with the bow. Leo''s bow was very beautiful, to the point that the other Awakened were fascinated by the bow''s appearance, but knowing that Leo took it from the locker, they figured it wasn''t a deadly weapon, as the shooting club wouldn''t put out a Bronze Rank weapon for people to train with, unless people paid more. Leo held the bow confidently and smiled, "Yes, I''m used to using the bow." Hearing this, Eric just nodded, then went to a booth while Leo went to the next one over. Knowing that apetition was going to happen, the other kids stopped shooting and made room for Eric and Leo, wanting to just watch the mess. Eric set up the targets and exined to Leo, "I''m going to set it up so that it has three rows of targets: 4 meters, 6 meters and 10 meters away. The movement of targets will be random, and the target will fall to the ground when a shot hits the center of the target. After 60 seconds, we can go there and count how many targets we hit. How about it?" Hearing this, Leo thought it was a cool way to challenge someone and nodded in agreement. This was also why he had chosen a bow: If Leo had an M4 machine gun that fired at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute, with the Aim-Bot there probably wouldn''t even be enough targets for him to shoot. With the bow he would already have the limitation of taking much longer to shoot, so even if his aim was better, Leo would still have a chance of losing by taking longer to fire. Of course, to make up for this, Leo already had a n in mind, something he did constantly while hunting. "Let''s start?" Eric asked. "Ready," Leo replied. 5 4 3 2 1 ˇ­ Go! The sound box started the confrontation and the targets began to move. Bang, Bang, Bang! Eric didn''t even think and started shooting at the targets that were closer. Swoosh, Swoosh! Leo was also very fast and shot two arrows at the same time. p??d? n?ve? Seeing Leo using two arrows on the bow at the same time made the spectators shocked, especially after seeing that the two arrows hit the center of their respective targets, the same amount as Eric, who had fired 3 shots and hit the center of 2 targets. Even Liza was surprised to see Leo shooting two arrows and hitting perfectly, since at school she only saw Leo using one arrow at a time! Bang, Bang, Bang! Swoosh, Swoosh! The noise of a single gun firing and arrows flying were the only noises in the ce; nobody could pay attention to anything else. While Leo hit all the targets he shot, Eric hit 4 out of every 6 shots. After all, shooting with a limited time against another person against moving targets didn''t allow him to have the same uracy he had had when he was shooting alone when the targets were stationary. (Not to mention that seeing Leo hitting all the targets with his arrows was making Eric even more nervous!) At one point, Leo noticed a change in his arrows. When Leo shot an arrow, a strange force caused the arrow to change direction mid-flight, but Leo was quick to correct this and used the Aim-Bot once more. Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh! With three arrows, two were heading towards a target while another was heading towards the arrow which was deflected by the invisible force. One arrow hit the other and caused the two to change direction and hit the center of two different targets. Seeing this, even Eric''s mindset broke. Charles, who was watching from afar, was also surprised at Leo''s control when using the bow, mainly because he knew why Eric had such a high hit rate. After a few seconds time ran out. 60 seconds had passed, but neither Leo nor Eric bothered to go count the targets. It was clear that Leo was superior and had hit all the targets, while Eric only hit two thirds of his own. When the match was over, it was just as Leo had assumed: Eric''s once disdainful and angry attitude changed to admiration. Strong people tend to look up to strong guys, and seeing how good Leo was at shooting, Eric couldn''t deny that he was inferior. Luckily he wasn''t like the spoiled kids Leo had beaten when he was younger, where the kids got embarrassed and walked away trying to act like nothing had happened. "Your shooting skills are very good! You even managed to correct the trajectory of that interference!" Eric said as he reached for Leo without even hiding that he was the one who had gotten in the way of Leo''s arrow. Leo wondered what Eric''s Quirk was, since his arrows had a metal tip, but since it wasn''t something relevant, Leo shook Eric''s hand and smiled. "The bow has already be an extension of me," Leo replied while smiling. After thepetition, other young people came to talk to Leo and he talked with everyone. Eric stopped trying to get close to Liza, as he didn''t feel he was better than Leo, while Charles spent the rest of the night unable to get a head start on Anna, who always showed disinterest. ''Bald people suffer,'' Leo thought to himself. Leo took advantage of itter when the other young people went off to talk with each other to flirt once again with Liza. After they left, Leo returned home to distribute some more of his Experience points. The days passed quickly, and soon it was Sunday. Leo had hunted every day as much as possible to level up his skills, and today he finally intended to hunt Vulpi. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 25 25 - Max Level Aim-Bot Chapter 25 25 - Max Level Aim-Bot After arriving home from the Shooting Club, Leo had spent his 18,000 Experience points. The Aim-Bot that was at level 05, needed 1,600 experience points to reach level 06. Leo spent 1,600 experience points to level up to level 06, then spent 3,200 points to level up to level 07, then spent 6,400 points to level up to level 08. After raising the Aim-Bot to level 08, Leo was left with 7,610 experience points left, which he spent 5,000 to level up the Inventory-Hack to level 02, leaving only 2,610 where he used 2,000 to raise Speed-Hack to level 02. After spending 18,000 Experience points, Leo''s Status was like this. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 610 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 08 [0/12,800] Wall-Hack Lv 04 [0/4,000] Speed-Hack Lv 02 [0/4,000] Inventory-Hack Lv 02 [0/10,000] Avable Quirks: The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Pure Silver Rank.] With skills at that level, the next day Leo managed to hunt more monsters than the day before, and after using up the Exp points, the next day he managed to hunt even more Bronze 3 Stars monsters. Leo was hunting so easily that he was already getting confident in hunting Bronze 4 Stars monsters, but to y it safe, he decided to hunt until Saturday, and leave Sunday to hunt Vulpi. On Sunday morning, using all the Exp points he received, Leo''s Status changed a lot and stayed like this. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 16,800 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 10 [Max]: In a 100 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 07 [0/32,000]: Within a radius of 70 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Speed-Hack Lv 05 [0/32,000]: While the user has the skill activated, the user''s agility will be 50% higher. With each level the percentage will be increased. Inventory-Hack Lv 03 [0/20,000]: Creates a personal space for the User of 3 cubic meter. As long as the user touches the item, it can be stored in the Inventory. With each upgrade the space will be increased. Avable Quirks: The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Pure Silver Rank.] Bank ount: $399,200 Leo''s abilities have undergone major changes. The main change was the Aim-Bot that when reaching Level 10 it was no longer possible to level up. Even if it was disappointing, Leo already imagined something like this would happen. Another thing Leo had to decide during these days was if he would level up Wall-Hack to level 08 or would he level up the other skills as 32,000 points was a lot, so to maximize the advantages he could earn by spending the points, Leo decided to leave Wall-Hack at level 07 and level up other skills even further. Wall-Hack at level 07 allowed Leo to see enemies from 70 meters away, which was already an unimaginable distance. This was the main skill that made Leo increase the amount of monsters he hunted each day, since he could see the monsters from a greater distance, most monsters that entered 70 meters away from him would die. Another skill that greatly improved Leo''s efficiency was Speed-Hack. Since Leo had the Inventory-Hack at level 03, he had a lot more space to carry food, so even though the Speed-Hack consumed a lot of physical energy, by always carrying so much food Leo could use this ability with much less worry. And a 50% increase in his agility was a very substantial increase. In terms of numbers, it was as if without the active skill Leo could shoot 10 arrows every 3 seconds, and now he could shoot 15 arrows every 3 seconds, or 10 arrows every 2 seconds! That 1 second difference in a battle against a powerful enemy was the difference that would define who would die and who would survive. During those four days Leo also received over $700,000 from the sale of the monsters he hunted, but as he bought the Bronze 4 Stars armor for $500,000, the remaining money was only $399,200. The entire list the old salesman had given Leo had beenplete, the only monster missing was Vulpi. And today Leo was determined to return home with Vulpi''s corpse. Tomorrow would be the university entrance exam at his school. Leo didn''t know how many exp points he would need to reach Pure Silver 1 Star Rank, but he knew that if he wanted to, he could reach Bronze Rank 5 Stars to pass the entrance exam. But as much as Leo didn''t care too much about the attention he was attracting, he also didn''t want to stand out too much. During those days he found that the average Rank for students passing the Military University was between Bronze 3 Stars and Bronze 5 Stars, where 90% of the students who entered were Bronze 3 Stars, 9% of the students were Bronze 4 Stars and only 1% was Bronze 5 Stars. Bronze 3 Stars students who were considered geniuses at the 4 major Universities, at the Military University were considered ordinary students. Bronze 4 Stars students were considered supreme geniuses in the 4 great Universities, in the Military University they were considered geniuses worthy of cultivation. While Bronze 5 Star Students did not even exist at the 4 major Universities, at the Military University they were epted as disciples of the deans. Being a dean''s disciple was a great privilege, as deans of the Military University were Awaken Royal Gold. With a Royal Gold Master, the student would have infinite resources and an inexhaustible source of knowledge as a Master. But for Leo these perks weren''t tempting enough, in fact this would be more of a problem than a help as he only needed to kill monsters to level up, having security guards hunting with him would only consume the Exp he was going to receive . Plus there would be even more eyes watching his rapid progress and questions popping up that he still hadn''t made excuses for. So Leo decided to upgrade to an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars after killing Vulpi, to make sure he would prove himself as a Military University student. So he would have more freedom than Bronze 3 Stars students and Bronze 5 Stars students. With a satisfied smile on his face at the thought, Leo continued running through the forest. Vulpi''s habitat was much further away than the habitat of Bronze 3 Stars monsters, after all, he was a Bronze 4 Stars monster. As the city was very small, Bronze 4 Stars monsters were very scarce. Leo had to run for 2 hours to the area where Vulpi lived. Fortunately Vulpi were monsters that acted like tigers, always living alone and disdainful of monsters that lived in packs. This made it much easier for Leo, as he would only have to deal with one Vulpi instead of several. Upon reaching this part of the forest, Leo slowed down and dried his sweat with a towel, while spraying his body. This spray reduced the odor emitted by the body, like a body deodorant, but without perfume to make it smell. This was something Leo discovered during these four days of training, monsters that relied on smell could still smell him even with this spray, but it made it harder for the monster to perfectly identify his position, plus the monster needed to be closer to to feel. p??d? n?ve? Despite knowing the approximate area where Vulpi lived, Leo still had to search for a few minutes before he saw a red outline in his vision. That red outline was that of a four-legged monster, with thick front legs. The monster''s outline wasn''t 100% the same as the images Leo saw on the inte, but it was at least 90% the same, which for Leo was more than enough. Because of Wall-Hack Level 07, Leo was able to see Vulpi at 70 meters, which was a big advantage, especially seeing that Vulpi was still acting normally, apparently not sensing Leo''s scent. But sensing the direction of the wind, Leo knew it was only a matter of time before his scent reached Vulpi. The spray will make it take longer for Vulpi to notice, but only for a few seconds, at most a minute. So Leo didn''t think much and took the Bow with an arrow from his inventory. Even though he was able to shoot 4 arrows at once, Leo had already performed some tests and found that when he shot 4 arrows, the strength that the arrow reached would be something around 100, but when he shot just one arrow the strength went up to 200. to 300! Dealing with the first Bronze 4 Stars monster of his life, Leo didn''t want to be careless, it was better to shoot the most powerful arrow he could at the beginning while Vulpi didn''t know about him, than to shoot 4 arrows and do no damage and deliver where he was. After finding a good location, Leo finally released the arrow. Swoosh Keeping an eye on the arrow that was flying, Leo unconsciously took another arrow from his inventory and already reloaded the bow again preparing to shoot again. As Vulpi had no eyesight, his other senses were much more sensitive. Hearing that arrow pierce the air towards him was like an ordinary person hearing a bomb go off. So Vulpi didn''t stay still and tried to dodge the arrow by jumping to the side. But Leo was using the Aim-Bot, as long as the opponent didn''t get out of the 100 meters range of the skill, the arrow would hit 100% of the time. Pshh Suddenly the sound of the arrow prating the flesh came. But Leo was frustrated with the result, he had aimed at Vulpi''s head and used as much force as he could to shoot this arrow, but despite the arrow getting stuck in Vulpi''s head, only the flesh was prated before the arrow was stopped. by the bones of the monsters. ''Shit, the strength of Bronze 2 Stars using a Bronze 3 Stars Max Grade bow is still not enough to pierce his bone from this distance.'' Leo thought in frustration as he shot another arrow. Swoosh Another arrow went flying, but this time the Vulpi was already running towards Leo, the Vulpi''s speed was so high that it scared Leo! ''Shit, shit, this Vulpi is much faster than me with Speed-Hack activated!'' Leo screamed inwardly as he started to run backwards while shooting Vulpi. When Leo rose from Bronze 1 Star to Bronze 2 Stars, he felt that his body had be 15-20% stronger than it was before. The Speed-Hack increased Leo''s speed by 50%, so Leo''s current speed was between Bronze 3 Stars and Bronze 4 Stars, being faster than Bronze 3 Stars but slower than Bronze 4 Stars. But Vulpi was much faster than regr Bronze 4 Stars! Even with the Speed-Hack activated Vulpi was still closing in on Leo quickly. Psh Leo''s arrow this time pierced Vulpi much deeper, as this time instead of aiming at the head, Leo aimed at Vulpi''s corbone, or rather, the space between the corbone bones. With no bones to stop the arrow, this managed to prate much deeper causing the Vulpi to scream in pain as he felt the flesh being torn apart by the arrow and the blood starting to flow. But the monster didn''t slow down, on the contrary, after that arrow the monster elerated even more, very angry at this human who was causing him so much pain. Seeing that Vulpi was even angrier, Leo had no choice but to open his inventory and grab something he had prepared for this battle. But he never imagined he would need to use it so soon. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 26 26 - Another Level Max Skill Chapter 26 26 - Another Level Max Skill Being an Awakened, Leo could ask cksmiths to customize some weapons. And to deal with Vulpi, Leo had customized a perfect weapon. Suddenly, a ck ball appeared in Leo''s hand. Using the Aim-Bot, he aimed at the ground 10 meters in front of the Vulpi and threw the ball as hard as he could. The Vulpi heard the noise of the wind being disturbed and soon deduced that it wasing towards him, so he slowed down a bit when he saw that this object was going to hit a few meters in front of him. But when the ck ball hit the ground in front of the Vulpi, no explosion happened. The only noise that came out was as if something was leaking, but for a monster, he couldn''t know what that noise was. However, Leo, who was watching from afar, started to smile and shot another arrow at the Vulpi. Swoosh! Hearing the noise of the arrowing again, the Vulpi got angry. Ignoring the ball Leo threw earlier he ran in the direction the arrow was shot while sniffing to locate Leo even better. But when the Vulpi took a few steps forward, a disastrous smell entered the nostrils he used to breathe. Having no eyesight, the Vulpi had a sense of smell tens of times more powerful than humans, so when he smelled the terrible smell that was in front of him, he momentarily lost his senses and couldn''t feel anything else. In anger, the Vulpi opened its mouth to roar, but it didn''tst a second before it closed its mouth, as that horrible scent even entered its mouth. p??d? n?ve? That horrible smell came from the ball Leo had thrown. Skunks give off very strong smells when they are in danger, and Mutant Skunks give off an even stronger smell. Leo had asked a cksmith to make a ball that could contain the scent of a Mutant Skunk. The ball the cksmith made cost Leo $5,000, and considering a Vulpi was a Bronze 4 Star monster, the maximum price Leo could get by selling that monster''s corpse would be $5,000, so no one tended to use something like that to hunt Vulpis. But while for other Awakens $5,000 was a lot of money, since they had to share the spoils of their hunt with other people, for Leo, who hunted alone, that money was very little. At this point Leo didn''t even need to hunt Vulpi, as he could pay the old shop owner $40,000, but what Leo wanted was the challenge of hunting a Bronze 4 Stars monster. Unfortunately, Leo''s Bronze Rank 2 Star strength was still not enough for him to safely hunt Vulpi without using that ball. But he saw that his only problem was hisck of strength, as Aim-Bot Level 10 and Wall-Hack Level 07 gave him a very powerful advantage. Seeing the Vulpi was about to turn to flee, Leo shot the bow a few more times, mming it into the monster''s knee joints. Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Leo shot one arrow at a time for as much power as possible, four times in a row. As there were no bones on the back of the knee, Leo''s four arrows urately hit this weak spot of the Vulpi, thus crippling the monster. Seeing the Vulpi writhing in pain, Leo was merciful and killed the monster with just one more arrow to end its suffering. Swoosh! [Congrattions, you killed a Vulpi, Bronze 4 Stars. You received 1,250 Experience Points.] Leo was shocked when he read the message from the System. As this was the first Bronze 4 Star monster he had hunted, he didn''t know how many Experience points he would receive. He was surprised to see that a single Bronze 4 Star monster had earned him 1,000 Experience points. That was 4x more than a Bronze 3 Star monster! Initially Leo was a little disappointed because the Examination would be the next day and he hadn''t been able to make any other skills go up to [Max Level], but seeing the amount of Experience a Bronze 4 Star monster gave, Leo felt it might be possible to at least raise the Wall-Hack to Level 10 as well. Currently, the Wall-Hack was at Level 07, costing 32k Exp points. At Level 08 it would cost 64k, and at Level 09 it would cost 128k - totaling 224k Exp points to reach Level 10 from Level 07. Level 05 07 ???? already needed 32k Exp points. Considering that twice as many Exp points would be needed at each level, to reach Level 10 it would take 992k Exp points in total: somethingpletely infeasible for Leo at the moment. As much as this skill was very powerful, the amount of Exp points to raise it to max level was also very high. ''When I go up to Bronze 4 Stars, Bronze 4 Stars monsters will probably give me a maximum of 500 Exp points, but Bronze 5 Stars monsters can probably give me 2,500 Exp points at leastˇ­ Not to mention that with Bronze 4 Star strength, my hunting speed will go up a lot,'' Leo started to n. Leo had already decided that he would not go up to Silver 1 Star Rank before hisbat skills were maxed out. So, upon arriving at the Military University, Leo would only have to worry about hunting Bronze 5 Star monsters and leveling up his Speed-Hack, while putting some Exp points into the Inventory-Hack. After all, as much as the Inventory-Hack was very useful, it was still just an auxiliary skill. To max Inventory-Hack to level 10, Leo would need several million Exp points, and considering that each level of this skill only went up 1 cubic meter of interior space, it wasn''t worth that much. Of course, he wanted to know if his skills could be upgraded to level 11 when he reached Silver rank, and maybe that could bring an upgrade to make Inventory-Hack even more usefulˇ­ But for now, Leo wasn''t that worried about that skill. After cutting off the most valuable parts of the Vulpi, Leo looked at his watch and saw that it was only 9:00. Considering that he had left his house at 06:00 and 2 hours and 30 minutes were spent just to get from his house to here, Leo decided to hunt monsters here until he reached the 224k Exp points needed to make the Wall-Hack max level, since with each level of Wall-Hack he would find monsters even faster and increase his hunting speed. After getting 224k Exp points, if it was still early, Leo would continue to be able to level up the Speed-Hack, but if he didn''t, Leo wouldn''t despair either. He had only be an Awakened 2 weeks ago. Even though it took a little longer to get his Speed-Hack to max level, it was still a pretty good time, especiallypared to other Awakened. With the Vulpi stored in his inventory, Leo went out to hunt again. This time what he was most concerned about was the speed of the hunt, so he didn''t even intend to stop to eat, just eating some quick snacks while running and keeping the Speed-Hack on for a long time to further increase the speed he encountered Bronze 4 Stars monsters. As long as it wasn''t a monster like Vulpi, Leo was confident to hit the monster''s eye at 70 meters and kill the monster with just one shot. If the monster was too strong and managed to resist the arrow, Leo could just run and look for another weaker one without wasting time dealing with a very powerful monster. In this way, Leo''s hunting speed increased even more! [Congrattions, you killed a Bronze 4 Star Hare. You received 1,100 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a XXX, Bronze 4 Stars. You received 1,300 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a XXX Bronze 4 Stars. You received 1,200 Experience Points.] [Congrattions, you killed a XXX Bronze 4 Stars. You received 1,170 Experience Points.] ˇ­ and so onˇ­ ---------- [If you wanna keep reading, you can use your fast pass, just by reading you already helps me a lot!] Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 27 27 - Speed ??Hack Secret! Chapter 27 27 - Speed ??Hack Secret! [Congrattions, you killed a XXX Bronze 4 Stars. You received 1070 Experience Points.] Leo''s clock was showing 21:00 and his Status screen was very different from how it had started this morning. [Leonardo Lentz Age: 17 Years Rating: Bronze 2 Stars [0/2,000] Talent: Hack Experience Points: 940 Quirks: Aim-Bot Lv 10 [Max]: In a 100 meter radius around the user, anything the user throws or shoots will hit the target with 100% hit rate. With each level the distance and uracy will increase. Wall-Hack Lv 10 [Max]: Within a radius of 100 meters around the user, any being will be visible through a red outline as long as the target is at most 3 Stars more than the user. With each level the range distance increases. Speed-Hack Lv 07 [0/128,000]: While the user has the skill activated, the user''s agility will be 70% higher. With each level the percentage will be increased. Inventory-Hack Lv 03 [0/20,000]: Creates a personal space for the User of 3 cubic meter. As long as the user touches the item, it can be stored in the Inventory. With each upgrade the space will be increased. Avable Quirks: The next Quirk will be unlocked when the user reaches Silver Rank.] With the Wall-Hack at Level 10, Leo was already able to find monsters from 100 meters away, which greatly increased the speed at which he found monsters. After all, while he was running in a straight line, Leo could see monsters that were in a radius 100 meters to the left and 100 meters to the right as well. Since the hunting speed had increased so much, Leo was able toplete the experience points needed to make Wall-Hack max level a few hours ago, and all the next experience he received was being put into Speed-Hack until that skill reached Level 07, after which Leo decided to return to the city. Even though it was still 9 pm and Leo had a few hours to continue hunting before the city gate closed, he was not only tired physically, but mentally as well. Today he had spent practically 12 hours hunting monsters, and although the amount of Experience points was very rewarding, Leo felt that he wouldn''t be able to hunt tomorrow due to possible muscle pain and mental fatigue. p??d? n?ve? What consumed Leo the most was the use of Speed-Hack for much of the day. His body was prepared to withstand 100% use in activities, but for safety normally his body only used 80%, and only with a lot of adrenaline in dangerous situations did he really release 100%. But with Speed-Hack, Leo''s body wasn''t using 100%, but 170%! As much as using this skill was very practical and useful, Leo only used it at some critical moments and then deactivated the ability. When the skill deactivated he had to stop and rest for some time. Today was the time Leo had most used Speed-Hack ever, and this skill certainly helped him a lot to increase his hunting speed, but it was still a dangerous skill to use for a long time. The skill reminded Leo of one he saw in an old anime where there was a character who couldn''t use jutsus and could only rely on his physical strength, but this character used an ability called 8 Inner Gates, which unlocked the hidden potential of the body of the user, but in return it left the user very injured afterward. He felt that Speed-Hack was like this skill: even though it gave him very strong power, increasing his base agility by 70%, after using this skill Leo was also very tired. Of course, Leo''s tiredness was nowhere near the 8 Inner Gates, that in the final stage would kill the user in exchange for great power. Leo''s Speed-Hack only required the user to rest and eat a lot to regain energy. If after some time he uses the skill and wouldn''t rest and eat enough, then the user''s muscles would be at risk of atrophying. To ensure that something like this didn''t happen, Leo ate a lot after battles in which he used Speed-Hack and actually started to feel the opposite effect than he imagined. The principle of people going to the gym was that when lifting weights, the muscle fibers would break and 2 other fibers would grow in ce of the broken fiber, thus making the person stronger. Leo found that when using Speed-Hack, some of his fibers were breaking down, but when he ate again, the fibers were growing back in an artificial way, apparently as a way for the system topensate for the use of the skill. But by doing this a few times while doing squats, Leo found that after eating a few times the maximum amount of squats he could do was increasing. ''Crap, this really should be called a Hack. Can even gym be this simplified? Since Speed-Hack has hidden effects, can other skills have it too and I just didn''t find out yet?'' Leo was shocked as he thought about the results and ran back to the city. On the way back, Leo killed some Bronze 4 Star and Bronze 3 Star monsters to umte Exp points. After raising the Speed-Hack to Level 07, he was left with only 940 points, and that would not be enough for him to go up to Bronze 3 Stars, let alone Bronze 4 Stars. When Leo arrived at the entrance to the city, not only did he manage to rise from 940 Experience points to 8,610 Experience points, he also had some ideas to test with his other skills. During the hunt, Leo only took the most valuable parts of Bronze 3 Stars monsters, while leaving the Bronze 4 Stars monsters intact. Even though Bronze 4 Star monsters could be sold for a price a few times more expensive than Bronze 3 Star monsters, Leo didn''t want to expose that he could already hunt Bronze 4 Star monsters. Only the old man could know that the "Group of hunters that Leo was part of" managed to hunt a Bronze 4 Star Vulpi with "a lot of difficulty". The truth that he could singlehandedly hunt Bronze 4 Star monsters could be left to be revealed after he joined the Military University. When he got home, Leoy down on the bed and thought. ''Tomorrow will be the entrance exam for universities. I hope Chris can alsoe with me to the Military University.'' If Chris had at least reached Bronze Rank 2 Stars, he would definitely get a spot - even more so, considering that he had be an Awakened so recently. It would make his talent even more evident. ''If I''m lucky, Chris can even be the disciple of a Professor or Dean of the Military University, so I can get some benefits without having to ept anyone as a master.'' Leo smiled at the thought of that possibility. To make sure nothing went wrong, Leo texted Chris and Liza, confirming that they would be going to school tomorrow even if they were sick or injured. After all, if they missed it would be a disaster for their future careers. When remembering Corporal Joseph who helped him by giving him the tip on when the entrance exam would be, Leo was very grateful, since if it wasn''t for this information he wouldn''t have been able to be so strong in such a short time without worries. ''Kindness must be repaid with kindness, if he needs my help in the future, I will definitely help,'' Leo nodded to himself in the dark before bed. Tomorrow was going to be hectic. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 28 28 - Beginning Of Entrance Exam Chapter 28 28 - Beginning Of Entrance Exam Of course, Leo hadn''t forgotten the pain he suffered when he transformed from an Awakened Bronze 1 Star to an Awakened Bronze 2 Star, mainly because he did it lying on the floor instead of lying on the bed. But this time, Leo was already lying in bed when the transformation process began. The transition from an Awakened Bronze 2 Star to Bronze 3 Stars was less painful than what he had suffered the first time, but it still hurt a lot. The sensation of hot liquid likeva coursing through his body made Leo control himself not to cry out in pain. But after the transformation, Leo felt that the muscle aches he felt were much less than his first transformation. ''Maybe this is rted to my use of Speed-Hack?'' Leo wondered in surprise before taking a break and starting the transformation from Bronze 3 Stars to Bronze 4 Stars. This time the pain was several times greater than the other times, as Leo was doing it while his muscles were still sore from the previous transformation. Leo couldn''t even scream this time, but even if he did, he would control himself not to do so. After all, he had neighbors and that could cause him big problems. But despite the pain, Leo held on tight, and after a few minutes it finally went away. Of course, the pain itself didn''t stop, only the feeling of the liquid running through his bodypletely disappeared, leaving only the pain of muscle fatigue. Since he had already programmed his cell phone to wake up at the right time tomorrow, Leo finally fell asleep. With the fatigue of hunting all day, added to the fatigue of the two transformations, Leo had the best night''s sleep of his life. If he could, Leo wanted to sleep for another 12 hours, but the noise of his cell phone rm was getting louder and louder,pletely preventing him from sleeping, mainly because Leo felt that today the cell phone was several times louder than its normal volume. As he raised his hand to pick up his cell phone and turn off the rm while his eyes were still closed, Leo identally bumped into the bedside table, and instead of feeling a little pain in his hand, Leo was startled by the sound of wood being dragged through the house floor. Hearing the cell phone drop to the floor as it continued to sound, Leo opened his confused eyes and saw that he had pushed the bedside table away without much difficulty. While the transformation from an Awakened Bronze 1 Star to a Bronze 2 Star increased Leo''s strength from 130kg to 180kg, this time Leo felt the change was even greater. Maybe he even went from 180 kg to something around 300 to 500 kg. After all, the growth in strength of an Awakened was always a few times greater than the previous one, thus making the strength of an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars hundreds of pounds more powerful than an Awakened Bronze 4 Stars. And the difference in strength between an Awaken Silver 1 Star and an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars was bigger than the difference between an Awaken Bronze 1 Star and a Bronze 5 Stars! ''Damn, I''ll have to adapt to my new strength before ss. Otherwise, it might give me some negative points in the entrance examsˇ­'' Leo thought frustrated. As he didn''t get enough sleep, some pains still lingered in his body when he moved, unlike the other time he woke up feeling really good. ''I would give anything to be able to sleep more nowˇ­'' he sighed as he went to the bathroom to take a hot shower, hoping that this bath would ease his pain. As he woke up a few hours earlier than usual, Leo took a bath in the tub, and while he was lying in the tub, Leo was holding some weights to adapt to his own strength. To make sure he didn''t break his cell phone, Leo just dragged his finger across the screen to turn off the rm clock and left the cell phone on the floor anyway. After all, if he touched the cell phone harder than he should, the cell phone would probably break and he would have to go buy another one before ss. Waking up earlier today was the best choice Leo made. In an hour of training he was finally able to adapt to his strength. Of course, that wasn''t a perfect adaptation, but Leo was confident he at least wouldn''t break anything he held. During the tests some knives might be broken or bent, but Leo didn''t care. What surprised Leo the most was that the ordinary knife he used when he was an Awakened Bronze 1 Star now could hardly cut his skin. Only if he used more force the knife could make a small cut, but as his skin looked like a very tough leather, the knife de was deteriorating very fast during testing. ''Now these knives are useful only for cutting food.'' Leo smiled fondly as he looked at the knives that were his first weapons for hunting monsters. He remembered the Bronze 1 Star cows he had hunted and the Bronze 2 Stars cow that left him desperate thinking he was going to die. Now he only saw those cows as cute animals, as he could kill those cows very easily. The night before Leo hadn''t given Vulpi''s corpse to the old man, so before going to school Leo decided to take a test. "My arrow couldn''t prate Vulpi''s skull mainly because of my weak Bronze 2 Star strength. Will the arrow prate now?" he wondered as he ced the monster''s corpse on top of a tarp and walked to the other side of the room as he aimed the bow at Vulpi''s head. To be sure, Leo only used 50% of his strength initially, as he still had no idea how strong the arrow he would shoot would be. Swoosh! The arrow flew and went only slightly deeper than it had gone when he was Bronze 2 Stars. Leo took the arrow and aimed again, this time using only 70% of his strength. Swoosh! The arrow flew and this time pierced the Vulpi''s skull lightly, surprising Leo. When he pulled out the arrow, he could even see that the arrow had opened a small hole in the bones and it was possible to see some gray matter from the head. After seeing this, Leo could guess that if he used 80% of his strength the arrow would probablypletely prate the monster''s head and destroy its brain. Of course, the arrow would be destroyed after that, but the monster would be dead. After this test, Leo looked at the bow in his hand with satisfaction. Despite this bow being Bronze 3 Stars, Leo knew that the difference between this bow and a Bronze 4 Star one was very small, and while the old man sold it to him for $80,000, if Leo was going to buy a cheaper Bronze 4 Stars bow he would need at least $150,000 to $200,000. ''This bow will continue to be useful until Silver Rankˇ­'' Leo guessed as he smiled at the bow in his hand. If other Awakened knew that Leo was nning on keeping this bow for just a few months they would probably die of rage. Weapons like this that were almost Bronze 4 Stars were weapons that many Awakened used for the rest of their lives. Even Awakened Bronze 5 Stars did use Bronze 4 Star weapons as their own weapons for decades. But meanwhile, Leo was considering a near-Bronze 4 Star weapon as an interim weapon for just a few months. Of course, Leo didn''t know that other people would be mad at how he was acting, but even if he did, Leo wouldn''t care what they thought. After eating breakfast, Leo changed into the newest school uniform he had, did his hair, and headed to school. Today he was well prepared as he knew the Exam was going to happen. Upon arriving at school, Leo didn''t notice anything unusual. Students were talking at the entrance of the school; teachers were greeting other people while they came in with cups of coffee to stay more awake; everything was like a normal day. All this was so that the students wouldn''t notify their friends who were missing toe to school after knowing that the entrance exam was going to happen that day. The students would only know this after ss started and the school gate was closed. p??d? n?ve? With so little time left until the end of the school year, virtually no one skipped ss. Only a few troublemakers or spoiled students would do something like that. Unbeknownst to Leo, he wasbeled by the teachers as one of those troublemakers who dared to skip school for several days in a row for no apparent reason. Knowing that Leo had beenbeled that way by the teachers, the students who didn''t like Leo were overjoyed. Meanwhile, Leo was sitting in his seat in the ssroom while ignoring the gaze of these people. Now that he was an Awakened Bronze 4 Stars, if he was ced in a battle arena, Leo even had confidence in beating most teachers, as most of the teachers were Awakened Bronze 4 Stars and Bronze 5 Stars. Only Silver teachers Leo didn''t have the confidence to win, but the Silver teachers at the school were just Professor Edward and the school principal. And while the other teachers would be angry at how Leo was acting, they couldn''t feel Leo''s strength because the difference between them wasn''t that big anymore. However, after Professor Edward passed Leo in the hallway he could still feel Leo''s strength. Clearly, the difference in strength between them was still huge. This only further confirmed Leo''s thesis that Silver Rank was a great threshold that would unlock many opportunities for Leo in the System. Professor Edward''s reaction was very big: he was quite shocked. Thest time he saw Leo was the week before, and at that time Leo was still at Bronze Rank 2 Stars, and now a few dayster Leo had already reached Bronze Rank 4 Stars?! This leveling speed was too high! In Edward''s mind there were only two possibilities: either Leo had a monstrous talent that made him rise two Ranks in less than 7 days, or from the beginning he was hiding his own strength. And seeing as how Leo skipped ss for the rest of the week and went back to school today for the entrance exam, Edward believed even more in the second alternative. ''He probably already has contact with the military, and with Bronze 4 Star force at 17 years old, his ce at the Military University is guaranteed!'' Edward was so excited to think that a student from his school would go to the Military University this year! Soon the other students arrived and the gate closed. The entrance exam would finally start. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 29 29 - Leo Enjoyed Being Ignored Chapter 29 29 - Leo Enjoyed Being Ignored When Leo saw Chris he was pleasantly surprised, in those days of hunting Chris'' strength had risen from Bronze 1 Star to Bronze 2 Stars! And ording to what Chris told Leo, if he had a few more days he could probably move up to Bronze 3 Stars too, since when he reached Bronze 2 Stars he had started hunting alone, which made Chris start to feel that his strength was rising much faster. Leo knew the reason for this, as Chris was hunting alone, all the Exp that came from the monster''s death went to Chris alone. As Chris only had one skill, which was Teleportation, this Exp was split between his skill and his Rank, which was probably starting to get the total needed to reach Bronze 3 Stars. At this point Leo could feel that if Chris had the same hunting speed as him, Chris would probably already be at Pure Silver Rank and maybe close to Royal Gold Rank. Especially when Leo thought he had spent almost 1 million Exp points between his skills, if he had put all that into Ranking he would probably already be close to Royal Gold. But Leo would never do that, he knew it was much more profitable to put Exp points into skills to get stronger while hunting more and more powerful monsters, as this would make him get more and more Exp and a snowball would go. to emerge. So much so that this was the reason why Leo chose to only move up to Pure Silver Rank after the Speed-Hack was at its maximum level. Liza had skipped ss on Friday and used the three days to hunt with Anna, which made Liza feel much more confident. If the two kept hunting together for another two weeks, Liza even believed she could move up to Bronze 3 Stars considering she had already been in Bronze 2 Stars for a few months. It was at this point that Leo remembered the talent difference, while he needed 2,000 Exp points to move up from Bronze 2 Stars to Bronze 3 Stars, other people needed 10,000 Exp points, or even more points. And considering that these people normally hunted with 4 or 5 other people, that meant that if the person hunted the same amount of monsters that Leo hunted in one day, the person would need 4 or 5 more days to get the Exp that Leo could. . Leo''s 10 days of hunting experience was equivalent to nearly 2 months of hunting other people, and that difference was only increasing with the speed that Leo was improving and hunting faster. Considering that other people hunted in groups and perhaps needed more Exp points to rank up, Leo had absolute dominancepared to other people. Leo, Liza and Chris were talking together as they waited for the teacher for ss to start. After seeing Leo''s attitude thest few days Chris was sure the entrance exam would be today, while Liza was 80% sure too. As she didn''t know Leo''s contacts, she couldn''t be 100% sure on this matter, but considering the way Leo was acting thest few days, it was pretty clear he knew something other people didn''t. In a few minutes the teacher came. To the students'' surprise, the teacher they saw was not the teacher scheduled to teach this ss now, but Professor Edward. Seeing Professor Edward arriving further confirmed Chris and Liza''s thoughts, as for something as important as the entrance exam, only Professor Edward would be in charge. But even if they knew, the other students didn''t and Professor Edward had to patiently exin everything. "Good morning everyone, for the joy of many and the sadness of few, today is the entrance exam day." Edward said with a big smile. Hearing this, the students in the room were shocked. They knew the entrance exam would happen any moment now, but they were still shocked when the time came. In thisst week some students had managed to reach Bronze 2 Stars, but the vast majority were still Bronze 1 Star. If everything was as it normally is, these Bronze 1 Star students could only go to a second rate University, only if they had a special Quirk would they have a chance to go to one of the Great 4 Universities or even the Military University. The total number of students in the elite ss was 50. There were 41 Bronze 1 Star students, 8 Bronze 2 Stars students and Leo, Bronze 4 Stars, but of course, so far only Professor Edward knew of Leo''s strength, not even Chris and Liza knew that Leo was already so strong. The person who was most shocked that the entrance exam was today was Liza, not because she didn''t believe in Leo, but because she started to specte about Leo''s rtionship with the military so that he would know the exact day of the entrance exam? Even regret arose in her heart, as she knew that if she listened to Leo''s advice, she would have a few more days to hunt and if she put in even more dedication during all those days, maybe she could even reach Bronze Rank 3. Stars to this day. But unfortunately there was no remedy for regret. The only thing she could do was look at Leo and Chris with envy. For Chris because she knew he achieved Bronze 2 Stars just like she did, and since he had a space Quirk, a ce at the Military University was guaranteed, and for Leo because she knew he was the person who must have enjoyed the most these days. to hunt, since he was the one who knew the date of the entrance exam, if Leo says he reached the Bronze 3 Stars she would believe him. Mainly because Leo had told her that he would enter the Military University, the probability that Leo has already achieved Bronze 3 Stars is very high. Professor Edward waited for the students to calm down and took everyone to the school''s training ground. The field was very big, but unlike when the students had practical sses where the field was normally empty, this time there were some older men and women waiting for them there. p??d? n?ve? As soon as they arrived at the training ground, Leo saw that most of these people were looking at him with bright eyes. Leo knew these people were at least Awaken Pure Silver Bronze 3 Stars, and he knew they must have felt the strength of his Bronze 4 Stars. In addition to thepetition result in the practical test they took the week before, where Leo came in first ce, Chris came in second and Liza came in third, most likely these people already have the result of that test in their hands, and seeing Leo''s face with his strength they have already discovered that he is the most powerful student in this school. But Leo became interested that among these people, there was only one person who didn''t pay much attention to him, and was actually paying more attention to Chris. That person was a woman in a green camouge military uniform. Leo soon deduced that this woman was the representative of the Military University. From a previous test report, she must have already discovered that Chris has a special Quirk, which is much rarer than a young Bronze 4 Stars. While the Military University epted at least 50 students every Bronze 4 Stars year, many years there weren''t even students with special Quirks, so Chris'' preciousness to her was much greater than Leo''s. Professor Edward also noticed this and was even worried that Leo''s pride would be hurt, but when he looked at Leo, he saw something that left him confused. Unlike what he''d imagined, where Leo would be frowning and maybe even angry, Leo''s face actually had a small smile. ''Maybe he''s so excited about joining the Military University that he doesn''t even care about it.'' Edward thought as he sighed in relief. Edward was a graduate of one of the Big 4 Universities, not even able to study at the Military University, so having a student there was already a huge source of pride for him, and seeing Chris and Leo he felt even more proud, as he would have two students entering the Military University. Even the Director of the school was present today, especially after knowing that there would be two possible students who would enter the Military University today, the Director came in advance to see this in person, after all, having two students who entered the Military University from his school it was a great source of pride and great publicity for the school, which would open enrollment for the next school year in a few months. If the school that graduated 2 students from the Military University will make his school the most famous school in town for the next year! And while Professor Edward thought Leo was happy to enter the Military University, in fact Leo was smiling because he saw that Chris would probably do exactly what he imagined. With his Quirk he would be a great attention ma, giving Leo much more freedom to grow without being restricted by the prying eyes of other people, both teachers and students. ''This entrance exam will be even better, with Chris here I can rest assured that everyone''s attention will be focused on him.'' Leo thought as he smiled. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 30 30 - Embarrassed Hanna Chapter 30 30 - Embarrassed Hanna Unlike entrance exams where students had to take several written tests to get enough grades to enter universities, the entrance exam for awaken students was different. Students had to apply to the University they wanted, and each University had its own criteria for evaluating students. While some universities only assessed each student''s Rank, others could test physical fitness, another could test the student''s intelligence and strategy, while others could test how well the student hunts monsters. It all depends on what the focus of each University is. Leo intended to apply to MU (Military University), so he already imagined that the test that the evaluator would pass for him would be the mostplicated. But looking away, Leo saw that Chris was still hesitating which University he would choose. "Hey bro, why are you standing there with that lost expression on your face?" Leo got to Chris'' side and asked. Hearing Leo talking to him, Chris calmed down a bit and responded. "I don''t know if I can pass the MUˇ­" Hearing this Leo shook his head. "Have you looked at the examiners?" Leo asked. Chris who just looked down without confidence after seeing he had a group of examiners just shook his head in denial. "Then look up and tell me who the MU examiner is and what she''s doing." Leo said in a mysterious way. Curious, Chris ignored the fear he was feeling and looked up, only to see that there was only a single woman wearing a military uniform, and to Chris'' surprise, this woman was looking straight into his eyes. Chris was shocked to see this and lowered his head in fright. "Why is she looking at me?" he asked Leo. Leo smiled as he exined. "Is there anyone else here with a special Quirk? I think even if there was an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars among the students she wouldn''t even pay as much attention to it as she is giving you." Chris was shocked to hear this. He was so used to being ignored by others, he couldn''t believe the MU examiner was interested in him! "Now do you know where you''re going to apply?" Leo smiled. "Yes, I''m going to MU." Chris responded confidently. "Okay, let''s go together." Leo was proud of Chris'' small change in mindset and started taking his friend to the evaluator. ˇŞ p??d? n?ve? Hanna is the name of the MU examiner, initially she would not evene to this school, since it had been a few years since no MU qualified students had appeared here, so much so that to facilitate this process the Universities even decided that the schools should carry out abat pre-test with the students to define which Universities should send an examiner or not. There were schools that not even the 4 Big Universities found decent students, let alone MU. But precisely because of this pre-test ofbat between students that MU and the 4 Big Universities became interested in this school. The Big 4 Universities were interested in the students who achieved the first 3 ces in this pre-test, but MU was only interested in a single such student. A young boy who became an Awaken just a day before the Pre-Test and with the strength of an Awaken Bronze 1 Star managed to beat a Bronze 2 Stars student who had already be Awaken a few months ago. All this because of this kid''s Quirk, the Space Quirk, which ording to the report, allowed this kid to teleport anywhere at any time! Space quirks were extremely rare and desired in the army, so Hanna was specially assigned toe take this student''s entrance exam. But what surprised her quite a bit was that apparently, despite having a very powerful Quirk, this student''s self-confidence was very low, to the point of only looking at the floor after seeing the group of evaluators. ''He won''t be afraid to apply to MU, right? That would be a disaster.'' Hanna thought worriedly, since if that student got scared of MU and applied to one of the Big 4 Universities, the only thing she could do was respect his decision, or try to offer him more resources. Having to do this as an MU examiner was a very humiliating thing, so Hanna was reluctant to do something like that. But after a few seconds, the other student who caught her attention went to talk to the Space Quirk boy. People didn''t know, but Hanna was an Awaken Royal Gold. Despite being only 30 years old, she had reached the Royal Gold Rankst month and was promoted to dean of one of MU''s courses. Her idea is to get Chris to be her disciple, so her attention waspletely focused on him, even ignoring the Bronze 4 Stars student in that ss. And with her strength, she could hear their conversation from this distance. But hearing Leo''s deduction about her attention beingpletely focused on Chris to the point that even if she had a Bronze 5 Star student she would possibly ignore him, it made Hanna''s cheeks redden with embarrassment. She had to admit, Leo was right, even a Bronze 5 Star student wouldn''t be as attractive as a student with a Quirk Special, but letting a student point out that she was doing something like that was still a shameful thing for Hanna. Luckily after hearing these words from the Bronze 4 Stars kid, Chris got more excited and decided toe and sign up for MU with his friend. Seeing the two of theming towards her, Hanna was quite happy, as she saw that if it wasn''t for this boy, Chris wouldn''t havee. Besides that this kid''s deduction about the current situation was pretty good, making Hanna give him an approval point. Usually Bronze 3 Stars students already be quite arrogant in the schools where they study, Bronze 4 Stars students can be even more arrogant, and it is up to MU to deal with these students and make them act like a qualified military. But this kid who is an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars is apparently pretty sensible. ''Very good.'' Hanna smiled inwardly as she looked at the two boysing towards her. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 31 31 - Test Of Strength Chapter 31 31 - Test Of Strength Not even a form was needed to apply for MU. Since so few people applied because they didn''t meet the standards, it was much simpler for the students who applied. p??d? n?ve? "Chris Elliot and Leonardo Lentz." Hana said as she looked at the records of these two students and looked at them. Especially for Leo, there was a difference between his record and his current strength. "Lentz, why does your file say you''re just an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars?" Hana asked with a furrowed brow, as she only realized it now. Chris was surprised to see this and thought that Leo had achieved Bronze 3 Stars in those hunting days, which made him very proud of his friend, but Leo''s response shocked Chris. "Miss Becker, I was never actually asked what my Rank was, they just assumed I was an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars. I was just wearing a restraint bracelet my sister left for me to help me with training. Awaken Bronze 4 Stars." Leo lied with a calm expression. Hana Becker raised an eyebrow at Leo''s response. Suppression Bracelets are very rare and expensive items, normally only the army makes this avable for Awaken Royal Gold and above, mainly because it is a disposable item after a few months of use. "Is your sister an Awaken Royal Gold?" Hana asked in surprise. "Yes Miss Becker, until thest time I spoke to her, she was already in Royal Gold 2 Stars." Leo replied, ignoring the fact that his sister was missing. Getting the military to figure this out was as simple as searching Google if they use their system, so Leo didn''t have to exin every detail. Hana was shocked by Leo''s answer, was this boy''s sister an Awaken Royal Gold 2 Stars?! She herself was still Royal Gold 1 Star! But more shocked than Hana was Chris, who never knew Leo had a Royal Gold sister! That''s exactly what Leo wanted, for them to be surprised that his sister was an Awaken Royal Gold and ignore the fact that he no longer has the suppression bracelet, and not need to research if his sister had actually bought such a bracelet after all. , she had not. But with Leo''s answer, it all became simpler, both Chris had a Quirk Special, and Leo was an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars with a powerful background, which made it a lot easier for Hana to decide whether or not to ept these two students into the MU "Very well. Elliot and Lentz, let''s do some physical tests to fill out your forms first. We''ve brought some strength and speed measuring equipment, but for MU this data is just for reporting, as we don''t care too much. with the result. Of course, unless you guys are way below average." Hana took the two boys to the ce where the physical tests were being held. The measuring equipment was ced in the school gymnasium, and all Universities shared the cost and use of the equipment, as it would not make sense for each one to bring a set of equipment like this. Only the specific tests would be performed separately. Arriving at the gym, Leo saw Liza and a group of students around an instructor from one of the 4 Great Universities, while half of the students had an excited expression, the other half were quite disappointed. Physical testing was primarily used to gauge the difference between Awaken of the same rank. Of course, the Quirk assessment was far more important, but the physical test wasn''t ignored either. Boom A pop sounded that drew the other students'' attention to it. Leo saw that the noise came from a punching machine. The idea of ??this machine is to measure the power of the person''s punch to qualify it among their rank. The person who had thrown the punch was Frederick, the boy who had been humiliated by Leo in the previous week''s pre-test. Among the students who achieved Bronze 2 Stars, Frederick was one of them. Liza told Leo that as soon as Frederick reached Bronze 2 Stars he wanted to challenge Leo, but since neither Leo nor Chris wasn''t going to school, Frederick had to content himself with showing off and showing how awesome he thought he was to the kids. other students. Especially when Frederick saw that 520 kg appeared on the machine''s screen. "Woah, Frederick managed to punch over 500 kg?! So far no one has managed to punch that hard!" One student yelled in surprise when he saw the result of Frederick''s punch. Frederick was very proud when he saw the envious looks of the other students, mainly because he had punched even harder than Liza, thus far being the strongest punch in their ss. "Haha, that was just a more basic punch, like an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars I can throw a more powerful punch after getting used to my strength." Frederick said with great pride. But soon the court was silent as Hana just ignored what Frederick was saying and stood to the side waiting for her conscripts to use the machine. All the students were afraid of this MU examiner, while the examiners from other universities had a lot of respect for her. "Miss Becker, as you only have two conscripts, you can test them first." The University examiner Frederick had applied to said politely. Hana just nodded and looked at Leo and Chris. The two knew they could go and punch, but Leo was looking at Frederick acting like a clown and asked Chris. "Can you punch harder than that?" Chris saw Frederick''s number and remembered how much he''d managed to score in the gym and nodded confidently. "Go first then." Leo said with a smile as he watched Chris walk to the front of the machine. Frederick has wanted topete with Leo since he achieved Bronze 2 Stars, so for him this was the perfect time. But since Chris had onlye second in the previous tournament, Frederick didn''t even consider Chris apetitor, especially knowing how skinny Chris really was. While he acted like that, Leo just saw him as a clown making fun of himself. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 32 32 - Psychological Shadow Chapter 32 32 - Psychological Shadow Chris came to the front of the machine and prepared to throw a punch. Hanna wasn''t even bothered to write down the result. Despite the Military University being very organized and rigorous, they had already abandoned much of the useless bureaucracy. Before the Awaken came along, the national army was extremely bureaucratized. As long as a person wanted to request a simple thing, he would have to deliver several documents to a person in charge, who would separate these documents for another person in charge, who would probably have to deliver this to one more person, making a simple request that could be approved in some minutes would take several days to be approved. Of course, for important things documentation was still required, but for something like the physical strength test, the only thing needed was the examiner''s verbal confirmation that the conscript had passed. "Haha, I bet it won''t even reach 300kg punch force." Frederick chuckled at Chris'' thin arms as he prepared to punch the machine. While Frederick thought people would agree with him and admire how strong he was, everyone around just kept silent. Confused, Frederick looked around and saw that everyone was looking away and pretending they weren''t listening, while only two people looked at him. One of them was Leo who looked at him like a clown, and the other person was the pretty woman wearing an olive green outfit with a cold expression. With the woman''s vibrant gaze, Frederick soon realized that he was mocking someone who was likely to study at MU! So what he said can be considered as a p in the face to MU people. Frederick quickly looked away and pretended nothing had happened. Meanwhile Leo thought. ''You always miss the chance to be quiet.'' Chris had adjusted his mental state and soon punched the machine. Boom [521 kg] Just when this figure came up people had to control not tough out loud, not only was Chris not mocked as Frederick was talking, but he also managed to punch harder than Frederick! Even if it''s just 1 kg of difference. Of course, Leo had to agree that Frederick''s punch wasn''t delivered with all his strength, both forck of technique and because he still didn''t know how to exert 100% of his own strength because he had recently be an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars. But he wouldn''t exin that to anyone. Chris returned to Leo''s side with an excited expression. Thest time he measured his own punch at the gym the result was 515kg, but because of the sudden confidence he received from Leo and Hanna''s attention, Chris was confident he could do better, who knew he could increase the punch. him at 6 kg just with a good mental state? Then it was Leo''s turn. The punch power test was different from the weightlifting test he normally did at home. After all, a person who throws a 500 kg punch may not even be able to lift a 200 kg barbell. Punch involves both technique and explosive power. Then there was another thing, in the same way that Speed-Hack didn''t affect weightlifting, using Speed-Hack in the punch test would help a lot as it could use the kic force of a faster speed to greatly increase power. from his punch. ''I don''t want to attract so much attentionˇ­'' Leo thought as he looked at Hanna. Attracting attention would be a good choice for normal students, but for Leo it could have the opposite effect, so he didn''t activate the Speed-Hack. p??d? n?ve? Boom Leo''s punch sounded, and then the numbers appeared on the machine''s screen. [1,790 kg] ˇ­ Shock appeared on the faces of the other students. No one could understand why Leo was able to exert such force? Mainly Frederick, he wanted to challenge Leo for many days, only to find that Leo had a punch more than 3 times stronger than his? At this point Frederick''s anger rose and he forgot about Hanna as he screamed. "That''s wrong, the machine must have broken, how does he have the punch so powerful?" Some students also agreed with Frederick, but no one would be stupid enough to say it out loud. But to the students'' surprise, none of the examiners agreed with them and they just treated it as if it was a natural thing. Frederick saw that no one said anything to agree with him and was going to be quiet again, but when he saw Leo looking at him with a mocking expression, Frederick couldn''t take it anymore and yelled at Leo. "Why are youughing?!" Leo didn''t yell either, he just responded calmly. "Of you acting like a clown." "You who are a clown!" Frederick was furious and ran to punch Leo. No one around was bothered to intervene, not even Hanna, as she wanted to know how Leo would handle this situation. If he hit Frederick it would tarnish MU''s reputation for being 2 Ranks higher than Frederick, if he let Frederick hit him it would also tarnish MU''s reputation for him being beaten by someone from another university. But Leo didn''t do anything, or rather, he just opened his hand and grabbed Frederick''s wrist. "Is that all? I don''t think you''ve noticed the difference between the two of us yet." Leo said with disdain as he released the Bronze 4 Stars'' coercion force. Feeling this powerful aura leaving Leo and his hand trapped between Leo''s fingers, Frederick finally felt despair. He was worried so much about revenge thest few days, but now he found out that the target of his revenge was already an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars! He would need at least another year of hunting to reach that Rank, but Leo was already there. At that moment Frederick''s confidence disappeared. In his mind the figure of Leo looking at him with contempt will never disappear and will forever be a psychological shadow. Seeing this Leo just smirked and let go of Frederick''s hand. Leo will never take the initiative to cause someone trouble, but if someone causes him trouble, he''ll have no problem hitting back with a heavier hand. If it weren''t for college entrance exams now, Leo wouldn''t even hold back Frederick''s punch, he''d just throw another punch to his stomach and make him pass out breathless. With Frederick despondent, Leo let go of his hand and returned to Hanna''s side. She gave a simple thank-you to the examiner who made room for her to use a faster machine and left with the two boys. "Enough of these boring tests, just this punch test is enough. Let''s test your Quirks, if you pass we can go to MU." Hanna said impatiently, she never liked taking these tests, let alone scrutinizing other people''s results. As they went elsewhere to test their Quirk, Leo was thinking about how he was going to exin the Quirk itself. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 33 33 - Arriving At Military University Chapter 33 33 - Arriving At Military University First Hanna started with Chris'' Quirk demonstration, which was the one she was most curious about. For Chris, demonstrating his own power was simple, the only thing he had to do was teleport from one ce to another. "The greater the distance, the more tired I get. Even though I''m very tired I can still teleport, but from the tests I''ve done, therees a limit that my subconscious says it''s dangerous to continue, and I stop." Chris exined. Hanna nodded, quite satisfied. This Quirk for an assassin would be very useful, he could teleport to the target''s side without him noticing andplete the assassination quickly. The only downside is that he can''t teleport to ces he doesn''t know. "And you, Lentz?" Hanna asked as she looked at Leo. This Quirk test had two purposes. One of them was to see if the person''s Quirk had any limitations and understand from the user''s own mouth the best uses for his Quirk, while the other reason is to see if the person''s Quirk is really useful and if he has risen to the current Rank by merit own or if it was a powerful rtive that made him rise in rank. "I have perfect aim." Leo said with a smile before exining further. "When I awakened my Quirk I had perfect aim within 10 meters of my surroundings, and the higher the level I reached, the greater the range of my aim." Hanna was surprised to hear this, this really was a very powerful Quirk. Without a weapon in hand it probably made it one of the most useless Quirks, but with weapons in hand it was definitely among the most powerful Quirks she''d ever seen. "What types of weapons does this work with?" Hanna asked curiously. "This works with anything. Rocks, bows, firearms, as long as I can throw something the Quirk is already working." Leo said smiling. He had already nned this. With this revtion, he could already be more valued in MU without having to say that he still had 3 more skills unlocked. To demonstrate what he said, Leo took a rock on the ground and made a small cut in the bark of a tree. Then Leo returned to Chris and Hanna''s side and threw the rock at the tree. Hanna guessed they were at least 30 meters from the tree, and the cut Leo made in the tree was so small that only she and Awaken Royal Gold could see it clearly, Chris had to squint to see it a little blurry. But to Hanna''s surprise, the rock Leo threw perfectly hit the small cut he made in the tree! At this point Hanna had already started to imagine using Leo''s Quirk in wars, and while his Quirk was extremely powerful for dealing with monsters, this Quirk''s lethality was several times higher when dealing with other humans! "Very well, you two have been approved for MU, I will send you an invitation letter tomorrow, and as soon as possible you can move to Olive Green City." Hanna said with a serious expression but showing approval before turning and leaving. She was very pleased with these two boys. While one of the boys has a Special Quirk for lotion in space, the other has an unusual Quirk that turns him into a sniper! Leo and Chris looked at each other and smiled proudly. They agreed that after ss they would go out to celebrate a lot, and while Leo intended to go to Olive Green City tomorrow, Chris would still be in town for a few more days to hunt some monsters to leave money for his family. After a few minutes Leo received a message from Liza saying that she was also approved, and that she would go out with Anna to buy the things she would need at the University she passed. So the day passed quickly. The next day, Leo boarded a train bound for Olive Green City. Olive Green City was regarded as the National Military Capital. Most of the city''s poption is made up of military personnel or rtives of military personnel, making crime in this city practically non-existent. Leo had already seen reports on the inte of people going out and even leaving their house unlocked without worrying about being robbed, something that was impossible to do anywhere else in the country without having a guilty conscience afterwards. Being an MU student, in the email Leo received from Hanna yesterday he exined how the housing issue worked. p??d? n?ve? The housing quotas were divided by series. 90% of the students would stay in shared dormitories with 3 other students, the 9% of the most talented students would be entitled to afortable apartment to live alone, or with other people if they wanted to invite someone, while the remaining 1% of the most talented students would have right to a luxurious house with a butler and a maid to tend to him. This was one of MU''s ways of motivating students to be more diligent and train harder, as every 6 months there would be an evaluation where student housing would be reallocated based on his results. Leo was already used to living in an apartment by himself, for him it was more advantageous to live alone in a simpler apartment than being forced to live in a big house with two employees all the time with him, and he couldn''t even fire these two employees, since without them the big house would be all dirty. Leo knew that a person in charge of MU would be avable every day at the train station to greet students arriving in town, and that this person could be recognized by their olive green military uniform. Just as Leo got off the train he saw a very pretty girl about the same age as him wearing an olive green camouge uniform as she looked this way and that at the passengers getting off the train. ''It must be her.'' Leo thought as he walked towards the girl. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 34 34 - Sophia Parker Chapter 34 34 - Sophia Parker Because of the Inventory Hack, Leo didn''t have to carry a bunch of bags like other people arriving at MU, so despite the girl looking at him for more than three seconds for some reason, she soon looked away from him for deduce that he was someone who already lived in the city and continued to search among the other passengers who could be a student at MU. Leo was just carrying a few pieces of clothing in his backpack and his bow in his briefcase, as it would be too weird for the bow to just show up in the apartment he was going to live in. But still, with only a backpack on his back and a briefcase in hand, Leo had far fewer bags than the students who came to MU. Looking at the girl, Leo was surprised to find that her strength appeared to be that of an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars! This girl who looked his age actually had that much talent? Really, the Military University is the ce where only the Elite of the Elite gather. While at second-rate universities Bronze 5 Stars are the students who are already graduating, at MU such a young student is already Bronze 5 Stars, virtually guaranteeing that she will be Rank Pure Silver before graduating! Seeing that Leo was walking towards her, the girl looked at this handsome boy again with a confused expression. The girl had a very honest face, looking like a girl who was taught from a young age to be polite and kind to others. She had long blonde hair and wore very light makeup that only enhanced her natural beauty. Leo heard that MU sses weren''t allowed to wear makeup, so the girl must have taken advantage of the fact that she wouldn''t have ss today to do her makeup. Normally Leo doesn''t really like girls who wear several pounds of makeup on their face, but a girl who was only wearing makeup to enhance her beauty was something he really liked. Leo showed a polite smile and asked. "Are you the person responsible for the MU students?" The young woman looked at Leo in surprise and answered. "It''s me yes, are you a new student?" "Yes I am, I just graduated from school." Leo exined with a smile. The girl was confused as she looked around Leo but didn''t see any other bags around him and asked. "And your other bags, did you just bring this?" Leo finally understood why she was so confused since she saw him and responded. "The other bags will arriveter, I only brought the essentials with me." The girl finally understood and cracked a smile. "Hello, I''m Sophia Parker, a sophomore at MU. Today I''m responsible for weing new students and introducing them to the University." Leo also introduced himself. "Hello Sophia, I''m Leonardo Lentz, but you can call me Leo. This year will be my first year at MU." Leo responded with a smile. Sophia felt the power leaking from Leo''s body and broke into a small smile. "An Awaken Bronze 4 Stars right after graduating, good talent." Leo looked at her with a smile and replied. "An Awaken Bronze 5 Stars in MU''s second year? Good talent." Sophia was surprised that Leo saw her Rank, since as she was a Rank higher than him, he wouldn''t be able to see her power. But soon she imagined that he deduced that she was Bronze 5 Stars precisely because he couldn''t see her power, and as she was only in the second year of MU, it was very difficult for her to already be Pure Silver Rank. "Good deduction." She replied with a cute smile. This exchange of the two made the two feel a little more favorable towards each other. p??d? n?ve? While Sophia liked Leo''s reasoning ability, which showed that he wasn''t an idiot who only knew how to fight, and also quite polite, Leo liked Sophia''s reasoning ability, who just with a few words already deduced that he deduced the power her. Sophia was standing propped up against a wall as she watched the passengers looking for other students. Leo leaned against the wall beside her and asked. "What time are we going to wait here?" Sophia kept looking at the train passengers as she answered. "Actually this is thest train I should look at. My colleagues have already taken other students who came on other trains to MU, while I stayed here to see if anyone else showed up. After this train leaves we can go to the MU." Leo soon understood and waited patiently beside her. Time passed quickly and soon the train was empty, just as Leo imagined, no other passengers appeared. Blue Pearl City was one of the many small towns where the weaker Awaken lived, and one of the many ces where families decided to let their children grow up, as when they got older it would be easier for them to awaken, as well as safer. , as the monsters were weaker. Most of the talented people in town would go to one of the Big 4 Universities, while only a tiny minority woulde to MU, Leo figured there would be at most two more townspeopleing to MU at best, and as it was still the On the first day of student registration, a lot of people were still busy, as was Chris, and would need a few more days to settle in. Seeing that no one else woulde, Leo and Sophia left the train station and headed for MU. Along the way Leo and Sophia talked a lot. Mainly Sophia, who was exining a lot of important things, and a lot of "must know" for Leo that could help a lot in his academic life after moving. But in addition to these tips, the two also talked about their personal lives after Sophia exined about the ces they spent at MU. The University was really big, and many things were different from what Leo was used to, but he knew he would adapt quickly. Soon they passed in front of a very busy ce with many studentsing and going. He was curious and asked Sophia what was that ce that so many students were going to even though they didn''t have ss. From what Leo could see, this wasn''t a library, as no one was leaving with a book in hand. Much less a canteen, as people were leaving very excited for someone that had just eaten. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 35 35 - Luxury Mansion? Chapter 35 35 - Luxury Mansion? Sophia looked at the ce Leo was pointing at and cracked a smile as she exined. "This ce is MU''s central ce." She said. "At MU there are some training methods for students. Students can study the theoretical part in sses every day, these theoretical sses are optional, but tests are carried out every two months to test the students'' level in the theoretical part, so even you don''t go, you must study at home to pass." She continued. " Students can also carry out quests proposed by MU to hunt other monsters and can also use the rewards of these quests to take private lessons with Royal Gold teachers, or even to buy things that are not avable in the traditional market." Hearing this exnation, Leo was surprised. He did not know that at MU students were not required to take theoretical sses. Mainly for him, who found it quite easy to learn contents from books, theoretical sses were always a waste of time for him, it was not without reasons that he was the student with the best grades in his ss during school. So knowing that he wouldn''t have to waste time in a ssroom listening to a teacher exin was good news. The only unfavorable factor for this is that the teachers still counted the students to know who was not present. If the students present had problems with grades, the teachers could help, but if the student didn''t go to ss and didn''t get a good grade, the penalty would be much greater. That''s why most students still had to go to theoretical sses. But he was left with a doubt and soon asked. "What is the reward forpleted missions? Money?" Sophia smiled as she shook her head in denial. "No, here at MU money is useless. Mainly to control the kids of very rich parents, everything here was bought using Honor Points." Leo heard Honor Points and remembered something. "Honor Points just like the ones used in the army?" He knew that in the army, money wasn''t used much either. His sister once told him that soldiers received their sry in Honor Points, which could be converted into real money, but it was much more useful as it could buy things that money couldn''t buy, such as the Suppression Bracelet that Leo had. said I had. Sophia nodded. "Yes, the Honor Points used in MU are exactly the same Honor Points used in the army. After the students graduate, those who really want to join the army, which we know most people are, the Honor Points of those people will be transferred to their military career." Leo was shocked to hear this. So he finally understood why MU was so hot in the country. As long as a person who has not studied at MU enters the army, he will receive the rank of Recruit and start with 0 Honor Points. For a recruit, getting Honor Points is a veryplicated task and to move up in rank, in addition to having a more powerful force, this person must also spend some Honor Points. While MU students already leave the University with the Corporal rank guaranteed, in addition to the many Honor Points they have earned before they even enter the army, granting them many more opportunities for future promotion, as well as many more resources for them to get even further in the army. Sophiaughed at Leo''s shocked expression and continued. "Also, missions are not the only way to get Honor Points. The University also periodically holds some events among students where the awards are Honor Points. And the amount is not small,st year there was a student who received 10,000 Honor Points per to have won first ce at an event." Leo was even more shocked to hear this. From what he discovered, 1 Honor Point is the equivalent of $1,000, meaning 10,000 Honor Points is equivalent to $10,000,000 in prize money! Not to mention that considering that it is possible to sell Honor Points to the army for cash at this price, but it is not possible to buy Honor Points with cash through the army, the actual price of Honor Points is several times higher than that. Leo had to resist the urge to go to the Quest Center to see what the reward for the quests was. And there was another reason Leo was so excited about the Mission Center. For someone like him who needed a monstrous amount of Exp points to level up skills, the Quest Center was a perfect excuse for him to go hunting monsters! Along the way, Sophia continued to introduce Leo to the most important things about MU, including the cafeteria, the ssroom, the training camps, the gyms scattered around the campus, and many other things. One thing that caught Leo''s eye was that there was even an arena for the students to fight in! While squabbling between students at MU was not rmended, it was still allowed. So to resolve conflicts where the two parties intended to fight, they should go to the arena to resolve it under the supervision of a teacher. In the arena it was even possible to ce bets on who would win the match, which gave the smartest students another way to receive Honor Points, and provided MU with another way to make students spend Honor Points, as a percentage of the bets stayed with the University. After that tour of Campus, Sophia took Leo to apply to the University and find out where he would be housed. p??d? n?ve? During the first semester, the students would stay in the houses where the instructors defined them based on the talent they showed during the entrance exam. But Leo was shocked to see the options he could choose from. Initially Leo thought that he could only choose between the private apartment and the public dormitory, but he never imagined that the option for the luxury mansion was also avable! Not only was Leo shocked by this, Sophia and the receptionist were also surprised. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 36 36 - Neighbors Chapter 36 36 - Neighbors Leo looked at the receptionist''sputer screen and was shocked to see that he could choose one of the luxury homes, wasn''t this only avable to students in the top 1% most talented? p??d? n?ve? Stopping to think, Leo thought of a possibility. Perhaps my Aim-Bot was so valued by Hanna Becker that she gave it a high rating when reporting to the university. He was speechless at the thought of it. He hadn''t even shown 50% of his true power and was once regarded as one of the most talented 1% in MU. If he showed Wall-Hack and Speed-Hack would he be epted as a disciple by someone Royal Gold?! And worse, if he showed that he had the Inventory-Hack that was partially regarded as a Space Quirk, would he be the most talented first-year student? ''Shit, I''m not good at trying to hide my own strength. Myck of understanding of the world makes me think that many things I''m used to aremon to other people, while for them it''s something very out of their reality.'' Leo thought frustrated. ''Actually, I will observe for MU what themon life of students is like and try to understand the mentality of MU professors and deans, if I see that there are no problems, I can start to show more of my own talents and stop hide, since because I''m so bad at hiding it might cause some problems for me in the future.'' Having decided that, Leo was much more rxed, but he still decided to choose the personal apartment rather than the luxury house, as it was true that he felt morefortable in the apartment than in a luxury home he was always away from. of his reality. When Leo decided to choose the private apartment over the luxury mansion, the secretary was even more shocked than to find out that Leo was entitled to the luxury mansion! On the other hand, Sophia was just surprised but not shocked to see what Leo did. As she also lived in the private apartments, she took Leo to where the apartments were and showed Leo the ce. To their surprise, a senior graduatedst year and the apartment assigned to Leo was the apartment across from Sophia''s that belonged to this senior who graduated! "Then we''ll be neighbors from now on." Leo said as he smiled and extended his hand to Sophia. She gave Leo a smile and squeezed his hand. "For a good rtionship. Please don''t make too much noise in the middle of the night so you don''t disturb my beauty sleep." Leo didn''t miss the opportunity and looked Sophia up and down, making her confused. Until he actually said it. "This beauty sleep works better than I thought haha." He chuckled before turning and walking into his apartment very matter-of-factly. Meanwhile Sophia was left with a confused expression in the hallway of the building as she thought about what Leo said, until she understood andughed a little angrily. In public dormitories where students had to share rooms with 3 other people, each dormitory was separated by gender, that is, in one building there was only the male dormitory and in the other building there was only the female dormitory. But in the private apartments, as each lived alone in his own apartment, this rule of single sex per building did not exist. When Leo entered the apartment, he saw that the ce was much nicer and morefortable than his old apartment. The ce had two rooms, in case the student wanted to call a friend, or receive visitors in the ce, the kitchen was quiterge, without having to be cramped while cooking and had to get the ingredients and seasonings, but what attracted Leo the most in the ce it was the living room, which had arge floor-to-ceiling window that gave him a view of much of the MU. "This will be a good ce to put theputer!" Leo thought excitedly and then installed hisputer. Because of the entrance exam, Leo had to go many days without even touching hisputer because he had to hunt to level up. Since he became an Awaken the only thing he did on theputer was research some monsters he would have to hunt in the future. Now that he would have a few days off from joining MU, Leo decided to put hisputer back to this big window so he could look at the beautiful view when his eyes got tired of the screen. The apartment already had aputer for the students to use for study, but just seeing that theputer was already yellowed dered to Leo how old thisputer was, and if thisputer was only used for studying, he could already imagine how bad it was. those were the specs of thisputer when it was released, let alone today. So Leo quickly dismantled thatputer and stored it in the guest room before taking hisputer out of inventory and installing it to turn on everything needed. In a few minutes Leo had set up hisputer and connected to the University''s inte. Since his favorite games were already installed, the only thing he had to do was update. Then came an idea for Leo. ''Does my Aim-Bot also work in online games?'' Leo asked himself excitedly. Soon he booted up the FPS game and didn''t even boot the Hack he normally used for fun. But a surprise has arisen in the FPS game app that Leo didn''t know about before. Before, he could choose between connecting to his country''s server, or to other servers around the world. But unbeknownst to him, another server has now appeared. [University Military Server] Leo was curious about this server for a few seconds until he decided to go in and test this server. ''Will it be fun to y against the other students at the University?'' Leo thought excitedly. He did not imagine that the university would have its own server for this game. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 37 37 - He Is A Hacker?! Chapter 37 37 - He Is A Hacker?! Leo quickly connected to the university''s server and was surprised to realize that some things were different. Firstly, the game apparently had an independent leaderboard from the rest of the world, that is, the Top 100 yers on this server were different from the Top 100 yers worldwide. Initially Leo thought that since this server was smaller and the Top 100 was independent from the rest of the world, the level on that server was probably lower than the open server, but Leo was shocked to find out he was wrong! As Leo watched a live match of the yers on Ranking Challenger, he discovered that despite the server being smaller, the level of y of these yers was very high! A minor mistake could be abused by the opposing team which would cause the team to lose the round. While the rest of the world servers were more about a battle of who killed the most, on the MU server the game was more about strategy, as mechanically the yers were quite simr. After all, this was kind of obvious, as the yers on this server were at least Awaken Bronze 3 Stars, and maybe there were even Pure Silver yers! In terms of improving reflexes and hand-eye coordination, every MU student could fit in among the best in the world esports scene. But of course, nobody there was interested in bing an esports pro-yer, after all, while the sry of one of the best pro-yers could reach a maximum of $1,000,000, the sry of an ordinary Awaken Pure Silver 1 Star already it would probably be double that. Not to mention that even if yers got a little attention because of the game, it wouldn''t be nearly as glorious and enviable as bing a Pure Silver military man. But for fun at the University, the game was still very useful. Having a private server just for students where the rankings were much morepetitive was also much more fun and challenging. Leo was using a new ount as thest ount he had used had been hack banned. This ount of his was nicknamed "URB4D", which stands for "You Are Bad". That''s how Leo had fun ying, he used a provocative nickname, and when other people died for him they got angry, but seeing the nick of whoever killed them the anger increased several times over. Regardless of whether he was on MU or the global servers, Leo was ying for fun, so he had no reason not to y the way he enjoyed, mainly because technically this time he wasn''t going to use Hack, but his Quirk. p??d? n?ve? As this was a new ount and he didn''t know anyone at MU, Leo just put in to find a solo ranked game. Even though the server was small, it was pretty quick to find a game. As this was his first game on this ount, Leo was paired up to y with other yers in the Gold and tinum rankings. "Oh no, are you on my team again Harry?" A yerined in voice chat. "Sorry dude, in thest game we were ying on a map that I''m not good at, in this game now I''m going to make up for the loss." The yer nicknamed [HarryST] said in an apologetic voice. "Just don''t die so much, because of you the guys on the other team in thest game were full of money and even I couldn''t carry it." The first yer nicknamed the [2InchesHard] gave a hint. "It''s all right." [HarryST] responded by taking the tip seriously. "Hey, who is this [URB4D]?" Another yer asked confused as he had never seen anyone with that nickname. "This guy''s ount is new, he must be a freshman who just joined MU. So newbie, don''t sink the game." [2InchesHard] said. As this time of year is when freshmen arrive at MU, it was quitemon for them to hear that the university had a private server for this game and decide to download it to y with friends and veterans, but normally these people with new ounts were always very bad , which made veterans toozy to y with them. "Rx." It was the only thing Leo said before the match started. Veterans thought this was just an arrogant rookie like the ones that appeared every year at MU, so they just ignored Leo and went back to talking to each other, since since the server was smaller, yers of the same rank yed together several times. When the game started, Leo tried to activate his Wall-Hack and it really worked!! But apparently, his Wall Hack only worked 100 meters from the character in the game, just like in real life. But knowing that the Wall-Hack worked in the game, Leo was excited as the Aim-Bot would probably work too, and even the Speed-Hack! Of course, while Aim-Bot and Wall-Hack were hard to prove hacks, if he used Speed-Hack it would be clear he was cheating so Leo decided to just use his first two abilities. The game''s map was quiterge, so even with the Wall-Hack activated, Leo could only see the red outline of the yers after they were halfway across the map. But that didn''t hurt anything for Leo, who just stood around protecting bomb site B. The other yers on his team were protecting the entrance to the middle of and bomb site A. Nobody really liked being at Bomb site B, since it was a very easy ce to invade and difficult to defend, so the best strategy was normally to let the terrorists invade Bomb site B and nt the bomb, and only then would the counter-terrorists invade back to defuse the bomb. Seeing Leo on Bomb site B wanting to protect the ce from the invasion of terrorists made the yers on his team even more think he was a rookie for not even knowing this basic strategy. The funniest thing is that Leo didn''t really know this strategy, as he always yed using hack, he didn''t bother to know theseplicated strategies, as this was just a game, the only thing Leo cared about is if he would kill more than than the other team. As long as he managed to kill all 5 yers on Bomb site B he would have won the round, so there''s no need to worry about knowing these strategies. After a few seconds into the round the red outlines began to appear on a shed leading to bomb site B, making Leo''s smile widen. He knew what yers were doing when they were going to enter here, first they would throw a smoke bomb, then a shbang, maybe another shbang right after that and then they would enter the bomb. But Leo didn''t care about these things, as even blinded after looking at a shbang he would still be able to bypass the other yers'' red outline and let the Aim-Bot shoot him alone. And it was exactly as Leo imagined. Pshhhhh The sound of a Smoke bomb blowing smoke came up. Soon after a sh bang came, which Leo didn''t even bother to look away, then another sh bang came and finally the yers started to enter the bomb. While Leo was practically in an open field, the yers who were invading had plenty of cover ces to protect themselves during the invasion, so normally no one invaded Bomb site B. But of course, the yers didn''t like ntingbomb at Bomb site B, as the chances of failing to secure the bomb were very high. Leo didn''t worry about it, when he saw the first yer appearing in his vision the Aim-Bot didn''t even think about it. Bang! [Head-Shot] A single shot, Leo still had 11 bullets in the magazine. yers were shocked that this yer only fired a single shot at the perfect moment the other yer appeared, but deep down they still thought it was luck. Then confidently, a yer who considered himself very good at shooting and knowing he had a terrain advantage raised his head. As Leo was in an open field, the yer saw him immediately and was getting ready to shoot, when suddenly. Bang! [Double-Kill] Now yers were really worried, as if the first time was luck, the second time already showed that there was skill involved. To secure the invasion, the three remaining yers raised their heads at the same time. As soon as the three raised their heads and saw the counter-terrorist yer standing in the middle of the open field, they soon used their mouse to try to aim at the yer and shoot, but before they could click to kill that yer, a sentence appeared in front of them. their. [URB4D killed you.] Bang, Bang, Bang! Just three shots to three heads. [Triple-Kill] [Quadra-Kill] [Penta-Kill] [Ace!] Not only were the yers on the other team shocked, but the yers on Leo''s team didn''t even know what to say, they were thinking that this yer rookie was just an average freshman who never yed the game before, and now this average yer managed to kill the 5 yers on the other team by himself in the hardest defending ce in the game?! "Wooah!!!!" "Good dude!" "Damn, how did you do that?!" The yers on Leo''s team cheered with happiness, while the yers on the other team were even more angry after seeing the name of the yer who killed them! No one there was stupid, they knew that yer name was clearly meant to provoke yers into killing! "Damn, we have to take revenge, we go to bomb site B again, we go in with the sh bang explosion and take advantage of it when he is on his back or blind to kill him." A yer from the other team said angrily. His teammates also agreed with the strategy, as they all had their own pride. Even though they were tinum yers, they thought that the difference between them and a Challenger yer was small and that they were just unlucky not to go up, so when they were massacred by Leo, these yers'' pride was hurt and they had to take revenge. Leo just spoke on voice chat. "I defend Bomb Site B, you defend the rest." After what Leo did, the yerspletely changed their attitude towards him and excitedly obeyed. "OK!" x4 Leo knew that yers would go back to Bomb site B, especially here on the MU server where the students were even more arrogant than normal people, they wouldn''t sit around doing nothing after being humiliated like that. Just as Leo imagined it, 5 more red outlines appeared heading towards Bomb site B, but this time the yers were much more aggressive than the previous time. But only a few secondster. [Penta-Kill] [Ace!] While the yers on Leo''s team shouted and cheered with happiness, the yers on the other team controlled themselves not to break theputer in anger! ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 38 - Friendships Chapter 38 - Friendships After the yers died once again to Leo in the next round and Leo''s team had a 3 round advantage against the opponent''s 0 rounds, they finally gave up on going to Bomb site B and decided to go attack elsewhere . But to the dismay of these yers, everywhere they would attack, the message [URB4D killed you.] would appear on their screen. In this game, the team that wins 16 rounds first wins the game. Of those rounds, 15 rounds are on a team, either terrorist or counter-terrorist and after round 15 the teams are reversed. If both teams get 15 points, the game is tied and no one wins. Hardly a team wins the first 15 rounds, but against the expectations of all yers, Leo''s team won the game 16-0! Of course, in those 16 rounds Leo got a total of 60 kills! While the runner-up on his team had only 13 kills! It was obvious that their victory was because of Leo, so these yers soon added Leo and asked if they could y with him. As Leo didn''t have any friends at MU yet, he soon epted the friend requests from these yers and started ying with them untilte at night. In total they yed 4 games and won all 4 games, with Leo''s kills ranging from 50 to 70 kills per game! p??d? n?ve? In those other games they lost a few rounds because of mistakes by Leo''s team, but Leo didn''t even care about that and just used that fact tough with the yers. They were happy to see that Leo wasn''t ming them and felt even morefortable with this professional friend they''d met. While they were having fun, the yers of the losing teams got very angry and opened tickets for the game moderators to see if Leo wasn''t hacking. There was never a case of hacking at MU because the server was only for students, and if it was discovered that someone was using illicit programs to gain an advantage in the game and cheating, that person would receive a very high fine, since the military did not approve of this type of thing. But Leo didn''t care, if they wanted he could even y games using theirputer to prove it was his skill, so why bother? At the end of the 4 games the yer [2InchesHard], who Leo found out was called Dave, said he was hungry and asked if they would want to go to the cafeteria to eat together. Everyone else also started to get hungry after ying for so long, so everyone epted. But before leaving, Dave asked Leo. "Hey Bad, which dorm do you live in?" Hearing this, the other yers were also quiet, curious, until Leo responded. "I live in the private buildings, do any of you live here?" Hearing this, the other yers soon eximed. "So he''s a genius." "Damn, for a second I thought he lived in the public dorms." "Hey, take us to your apartment sometime!" Leo justughed at the funny reaction of these guys. "Hey, I also live in the private apartments, give me your phone number, let''s go to the cafeteria together." Dave eximed excitedly. Leo said ok and passed his phone number to Dave. But before Dave added his number he asked. "Oh, what''s your name Bad? For me to save in the contact." "Can save as Leo." Leo said as he stretched out in his chair. "Ok, I''ll meet you in the building''s lounge in 5 minutes." Dave said before disconnecting to get ready. After that everyone disconnected and also went to change clothes to go to the cafeteria. These people needed to get ready to go to the cafeteria because they were probably in their pajamas by now, but since Leo had arrived today and hadn''t changed his clothes before starting to y, he was already ready, so after taking a sip of water he went downstairs to the lobby of the building. Soon a message arrived. [I''ming down, have youe down yet?] Leo replied. [I''m sitting on one of the sofas in the lobby wearing a ck shirt.] [Ok!] Seeing that Dave knew what outfit he was wearing, Leo paid no more attention to it and went back to watching videos on his cell phone. Suddenly he heard a voice calling him. "Leo!" But contrary to what he was expecting, it was a female voice. Looking up, Leo saw that it was Sophia who was heading his way. "Hi Sophia!" Leo replied with a smile as he stood up. "What are you doing here alone?" She asked confused, since Leo had arrived today she knew he still didn''t have friends at MU. But before Leo could answer, an uncertain voice came from beside him. "Are you Leo?" Turning around, Leo saw a tall, muscr blond young man. While Leo was approximately 1.80 meters tall, this young man was at least 2 meters! "Dave?" Sophia asked even more confused. "Do you know each other?" "Sis? Do you know Leo?" Dave asked also confused. At this point even Leo was confused. "Are you brothers?!" Soon the three looked at each other shocked and startedughing before Dave exined to Sophia what happened. Hearing that the two met while ying video games, Sophia finally got it all figured out. But she was still surprised Leo was as good as Dave was saying. From time to time she also yed with her friends to pass the time, and while Dave was tinum, Sophia was Diamond, but even she didn''t have the confidence to get 50 Kills in a single match, let alone 70! "Are you going to the cafeteria?" She asked. Leo just nodded. "Why don''t we go together? My friends are waiting for me there, anything we can eat together." Sophia suggested, something Leo and Dave had no problem epting. Only Dave was a little shy to hear this, but he soon shook his head and apparently made up his mind about something. But only Sophia noticed this, as she knew what Dave was thinking, while Leo was enjoying the MUndscape. He had to admit, even though MU was a military university, this was quite different from what he''d imagined. The campus was very beautiful, everywhere you could see students doing some kind of activities, either ying some sport, singing songs, dancing. This environment was quite different from the school environment he had just left, so this was still a very new experience for Leo. It didn''t take long for them to arrive at the school cafeteria and soon Dave and Sophia saw their friends. Dave and Harry were third years and studying together, while the other two boys were second years, but as they always yed together because they had the same skill level, they were also friends. It was quite normal for yers to go out to eat together after a victory, so many MU students met that way. So much so that even the girls did it to meet other people, since it was much more practical, and in times of stress it was possible to know the true character of a person and thus know if it would be a good friendship or not. While there were three people at Dave''s friends table, Sophia''s friends table had only two other girls. After Sophia and Dave talked to both groups, they decided to get a bigger table and sit down to eat together. This was Leo''s first time eating at the MU canteen, and he was shocked by the taste of the food! And the most surprising thing was that the food in the canteen was free. The student just needed to use his identity card and he could choose a meal that he most preferred. Of course, only the first meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner would be free. If the person wanted to repeat and eat one more time, he would have to pay. But with how full this te was, Leo couldn''t even eat one more meal. Even the chubby Harry was already quite full after eating his portion. After they finished eating, the girls left and only the five boys were left. At this point Dave had an idea. "Guys, how about we go hunting tomorrow? Leo is new to MU and still doesn''t know how our hunting system works and how bounties work, I think it''s a good idea for us as veterans to introduce this to him before sses start? " Hearing this Harry and the other two boys were quite excited! Dave was a third year student and an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars. ording to him, he was sure that this year he would reach the Pure Silver Rank, which showed that he was really talented and deserved to live in the private apartment. However, it showed how talented Sophia was, being a year younger than Dave and already an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars. Harry was also a third year student, but he was only an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars, while the other two boys were second year students and had attained Bronze 4 Stars. As Leo lived in the private apartments, this showed that he was also an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars, which was enough for him to go with the others without dying anyone. What they didn''t know is that Leo was valued more than ordinary Bronze 4 Stars students, as he could even choose to have lived in the luxury mansion. But of course, Leo had no reason to say that to the boys, in fact, he was even excited about Dave''s idea, as he could learn from someone experienced how MU''s task and reward system works. Not to mention that after he learns from Dave how it works, Leo can start hunting on his own and get back to the monstrous Exp point gain rate he had. ''I can start hunting wildly to fill the level of my Speed-Hack and maybe even the Inventory-Hack to the maximum level! After that I can go up to Bronze 5 Stars for a while and then even go up to Pure Silver 1 Star, if the environment here is good for geniuses.'' Leo thought. ''I don''t want to be controlled like a dog by the army, so at least they have to demonstrate that they give enough freedom to geniuses. From what my sister said, the environment in the army was much morefortable than in other Awaken organizations, and considering that she was also extremely genius and hated being arrested for something, I can take her words into consideration and have a good impression. of the army.'' Leo thought excitedly for the next day. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 39 - Hunting At MU Chapter 39 - Hunting At MU The next day, Leo woke up very early. The boys in the group decided that they would go hunting after breakfast. ording to them, normally they hunted during thete afternoon or evening, which was after sses were over, but as they were still on vacation they had more time now and preferred to hunt in the morning, as they were much more energetic after taking it. breakfast than after a tiring day. Leo agreed with them, as he was used to hunting in the morning as well. As weapons were not allowed in the cafeteria, to avoid injuries when the students fought, Leo just prepared his armor and left the bow in his inventory. Beforeing to MU yesterday he had bought some arrows to exchange his previous ones. Even though he didn''t aim at the hardest parts and in 95% of the cases he just shot the monsters'' eyes, still wear and tear was inevitable with the amount of times he shot each arrow, considering that on his most productive day he managed to hunt. more than 100 monsters. So the new arrows were a good purchase for him. Leo even thought about buying another bow, but this bow of his had almost as good strength as a Bronze 4 Stars bow, so he decided he would use this bow until he had the money to exchange it for a Pure Silver 1 Star. Breakfast in the canteen was very simple, each one just ate a more basic food to not get sick to the stomach during the hunt and then everyone took their own weapons at home and met at the entrance of the MU mission center. As it was Leo''s first time here, he was quite curious looking around at this mission center. The first thing he thought when he arrived at this ce was that it would have something like a bar like the cartoons he saw when he was a kid, but he soon realized how stupid that idea was. He was at a Military University, putting a bar in the ce where military missions are delivered would be the stupidest choice anyone could make. In fact, the Mission Center was a building more like a bank. There were several "ATMs", or rather self-service centers, where students could use their identities to choose their own missions. There was a registration system where everyone in the group passed their ID cards and formed a team, so the team''s strength and credibility would be judged ording to how many missions theypleted and what their Rank was. p??d? n?ve? The more missions the student sessfullypletes, the greater his credibility will be to ept more difficult missions. Initially the Quest Center only offers Quests of a Rank below the average strength of the students on the team, but as Dave and Harry''s credibility is already very high because of the previous 2 years they spent hunting, and the other 2 students was also rtively high, they were able to take a Bronze Rank 4 Stars mission, which was their average strength. This was the advantage of being MU students, while the average Awaken group only hunted monsters of a Rank below their average, MU students were not afraid of this and preferred to hunt monsters of the same Rank as them to challenge themselves further, in addition to to improve faster. Seeing this, Leo began to wonder when he could ept quests from monsters more powerful than himself while he hunted alone. Of course, he could just go out and hunt the monsters by himself, but then he could even get the corresponding money from selling the monsters, but it would be impossible to get the Honor Points. Leo saw that missions were also delegated to different ces. Some missions could be delegated to the MU forest, could be delegated to the city forest, or even some neighboring towns. Unlike before where he hunted just to earn money, with MU missions he could already be considered as actually working for the army and the poption. Leo was quite pleased with this, as it could earn him even more Honor Points, which could speed up his process of moving up through the ranks in the army and get closer to finding out what happened to his sister, and being able to help with the fight. whatever was happening. The mission delegated to their group was a mission in the MU forest. ording to the other boys in the group, this was the safest type of mission a group could achieve. The Military University had their own hunting forest. The forest had monsters ranging from Bronze 2 Stars to Bronze 5 Stars, which was what most students needed. Of course, this was MU''s popr forest, Leo''s friends told him that there was another forest, where only Pure Silver students could enter. As the MU that controlled the two forests, each monster in the forest was ced by the MU so that the students could hunt, and when a monster reached the Pure Silver 1 Star rank, it would be sent to the other forest by the professors and deans of the Universities, so as not to put students in unnecessary danger. Leo found this approach quite clever. Rather than keeping the students in a greenhouse where they would not learn anything, MU developed the best hunting environment for the students where they could be in danger, even had the possibility of dying while hunting, but still not at risk of being killed.e into contact with monsters much more powerful than themselves. "Very well guys, for this mission we have to hunt 20 Frost Monkeys. But as Frost Monkeys live in groups, we will have to be very careful and set some traps to be able to kill these monsters outside their group." Dave, the most experienced student in the group said seriously. Hearing this the other students nodded. Before entering the forest, they confirmed with each other what their Quirk was and what hunting position they felt mostfortable with. Dave had a defensive Quirk that allowed him to project ayer of stone around his body, thus increasing his stamina, so he liked to use an ax with a shield to serve as a front-line. Harry had a magical Quirk, where he could summon spectral beasts to cause a psychic attack on the target. This attack could not physically harm the target, but it was a difficult attack to dodge and did a lot of mental damage to the target. Because of this Quirk, Harry was very useful when hunting monsters with a group, but on the other hand, it was quite difficult for him to hunt monsters alone. Among the other two students, one had a Quirk of Light, where he could produce a light in the palm of his hand to treat injuries, or if he used too much energy, this light would get too strong to the point of blinding anyone looking at his hands. his. This was another Quirk that was very useful for a hunting team, mainly because of the usefulness of being able to heal wounds at any time, it greatly reduced the rate of deaths or infections in a battle, in addition to being very useful when many monsters wereing in the fight. towards them and he could blind the monsters. Thest student had a Quirk that made him more agile and his de sharper. But from what this student said, his skill increased approximately 20% of his agility and de sharpness. Leo was quite surprised with this student''s Quirk, which looked a lot like his Speed-Hack, of course, Leo''s Speed-Hack increased his agility by 70%, which was several times greater than the student''s, but not it had the benefit of sharpening his de. With this student specifically, Leo imagined that his skill was probably only around level 02. If this boy had a System like Leo''s, raising the level of this skill would certainly make this boy be much stronger, after all, with a lot of agility and a sword that cuts through anything, he wouldn''t need to be afraid of not having enough damage to kill the enemy and not being slow enough to be injured. Unfortunately System didn''t have an option to be able to distribute other people''s Exp points, but it''s also not like he was going to do this to someone he met the day before, at most he could do it for Chris who had been friends with him for a while. some years and has always shown to have a good nature. While Leo, in the group said that his Quirk was to make him have perfect aim with the bow, and that he was also quite agile in addition to having good hearing. He didn''t say that being agile and having good eyesight had anything to do with his Quirk, just that he was always an agile person and trained his hearing to hunt animals with his family when he was younger. Once everyone got to know the Quirks themselves, their cooperation in battle would be much simpler, where each knew what the other was capable of and could help when they felt their mate wasn''t going to make it. "Leo, you and Charlie are the most agile of the group, so you will be our scouts. I know the direction where the Frost Monkeys''ir is, but I don''t know the exact position, so the two of you will stay further away from the group and try to see where there are enemies. With your hearing, I hope you can detect the monsters before they do, Leo. If the monsters find you at the same time you find them, use the superior agility you have to get back to the party and we''ll lead with the monsters." Dave exined. Everyone felt that Dave''s strategy was really effective and worth using. Leo on the other hand didn''t have much of an opinion on this, as not only was he hiding a lot of his strength from the group, he''d also never hunted as a team like they were doing now. He was used to hunting alone, so this was a new experience for him. ''As much fun as hunting with them can be, this can at best be a hobby, as the amount of experience will likely be considerably reduced.'' Leo thought as he looked at the amount of people around him and realized that he could probably only gain 100 to 200 Experience points per monster they hunted. For someone who on thest day of hunting got over 100k experience points, getting just 100 to 200 points would make almost no difference. ''But I didn''te today for the experience of monsters, but to learn how the MU hunting system works, then I can start doing it myself.'' Leo nodded to himself and started walking into the forest with the group. He was dedicated to learning as much as possible from them about group hunting, in case he needed to in the future, and after seeing how much Dave knew about the forest, he also intended to learn as much as possible about the ce, so that when he came alone , he wouldn''t get lost without even knowing where to go hunting the monsters he wanted. The start of their hunt was smooth, as the outermost part of the forest was where only the Bronze 2 Stars monsters were, and for a group of Awaken Bronze 4 Stars with an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars among them, that was something smooth. Leo had Wall-Hack on all the time and always knew where all the monsters within a 100 meter radius were, but he only warns the group about monsters within 20 meters of him, which was already a very long distance. safe so the group wouldn''t be in danger while they wouldn''t have to think this was Leo''s Quirk. The Bronze 2 Stars monsters they hunted were ignored, while the Bronze 3 Stars monsters they were taking the valuable parts to sellter. Even though this wasn''t part of the quest and couldn''t be exchanged for Honor Points, it could still be sold for cash, so it wasn''t a loss for them. The monsters reproduced very fast, so even if the students killed so many monsters during the year, it was still not enough to finish off the monsters in the forest. Of course, the profit MU received from the monsters sold was used for the maintenance of the forest, both to feed the monsters, and to get new monsters in case the students extinguished a species from the forest unintentionally. It was expensive and dangerous to maintain such a forest, the only universities that could have something like that were MU and the 4 Big Universities, the smaller Universities could only send students on mission to the forests around the cities. After some time they finally arrived in the Bronze 4 Stars monster zone. ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 40 - Over 100 Monsters! Chapter 40 - Over 100 Monsters! On the way to the Bronze 3 Stars monster zone, Leo was actually quite disappointed with the amount of Exp he received. Before Bronze 3 Stars monsters earned him an average of 250 experience points, while now they were only yielding 20 points. Considering that the Experience points were being shared by 5 people, Leo would receive a maximum of 100 points if he was hunting alone. On the other hand, Leo noticed a very good change that happened to him. Since he rose to Bronze 4 Stars, the ease with which he hunted monsters had gotten a lot greater. Leo realized that if he didn''t need to run to get the arrow after killing the monster, he could kill hundreds of monsters a day. So by stepping up to Bronze 4 Stars, what he lost in the quality of experience he could get for each monster, he can make up for it with the amount of Experience he gets for killing a lot more monsters in the same amount of time. Another good news was that he began to learn to cooperate with others awaken. By bing a soldier in the army, despite having a lot of freedom, that freedom had to be earned through a high missionpletion rate. He would likely have to cooperate with other Awakens at some point in the future, so having that experience of hunting with other Awakens was something that would be very useful for him in the future. With a group of Awaken with him, Leo didn''t need to tire himself as much to maintain a high hunting pace, with so many people they could hunt much more calmly and still have a lot of monsters hunted for them. Arriving in the Bronze 4 Stars monster zone, the group became much more attentive, since the strength of most of them only Bronze 4 Stars. They knew that any carelessness they had when dealing with Bronze 4 Stars monsters they could probably die or be seriously injured. Dealing with just one monster was fine, the problem was if they had to link up with arge group of Bronze 4 Stars monsters. In that case, maybe not even Dave who was an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars could help that much. "Very well, Leo, as your range of perception is greater than Charlie''s, only you will be in charge of finding the closest monsters. Charlie, you stay close to Leo to ensure his safety, as you are the only one who can keep up with Leo''s speed at some unforeseen moment." Dave gave the orders as the most experienced leader of the team, and all the other boys listened. At this point, in order not to put anyone''s safety at risk, Leo proceeded to tell the monsters'' locations even further away. While before he only warned about monsters within 20 meters of him, now he started to warn when monsters were 30 meters away, but of course, he still kept an eye on monsters further away, in case any monsters noticed them, even if the monster was at 90 meters Leo would tell them to get ready. After a few minutes of running, Leo spotted a group of 4 four-legged monsters that looked like wolves. He knew these weren''t the Frost Monkeys they had decided to hunt, so he just ignored them and kept looking for the monkeys. The group had decided that they would only hunt the quest monster while other monsters that appeared they would only fight if necessary, to ensure everyone''s safety. If Leo was alone, he would kill that pack of wolves for sure, but to prevent anyone from getting hurt he just ignored and guided the pack to a detour as they headed in the approximate direction of where the monkeys lived. In just 10 minutes Leo saw the red outline of a huge group of monkeys. He was so shocked that he stopped and raised his hand as he looked at the amount of red outlines and tried to count how many monsters there were. Seeing Leo stop, Dave got worried and asked Leo. "What happened Leo?" Leo closed his eyes and pretended to hear the noises, but because of the Wall-Hack, regardless of whether he had his eyes open or closed, he could see the outline of the monsters, after all, the Wall-Hack made the outline of things go through trees and walls, crossing his eyelid was very simple. Seeing that Leo closed his eyes and motioned for them to be silent, all the other boys fell silent as they looked at Leo with worried expressions. Within seconds Leo finished counting and discovered that there were 80 Frost Monkeys in the group he saw. He had never encountered a group of monsters asrge as this group of Frost Monkeys. If they were found by these monsters, they could hardly get out alive, maybe only Leo with Speed-Hack activated at maximum could run away from these monsters, since the agility with Speed-Hack Level 07 could be equivalent to an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars on the threshold to reach Pure Silver 1 Star. But he wouldn''t abandon hispanions, so he preferred to warn everyone in advance. The monkeys were within 80 meters of them. Leo only realized now that there were 80 monkeys because that''s how many he saw when approaching 20 meters from these monsters, but he imagined that the closer he got, the more monkeys he would see. "I can hear the noise of a lot of monsters in that direction. I''d say there are probably hundreds of them, as I can hear them at this distance." Leo said with a serious expression. Hearing this the other boys were shocked, 100+ Bronze 4 Stars monsters was something they should be worried about, but Dave still kept his cool and asked Leo. "Can you identify what species these monsters are?" Leo thought for a while and pretended to try to hear the difference between the monsters. Seeing that Leo was concentrating on trying to hear the monsters, the other four boys stayed quiet so as not to interrupt him. After a while Leo opened his eyes and made a happy expression. "I''m 85% sure they''re monkeys, and from the location we''re in, they''re probably Frost Monkeys." Hearing this the other boys were also excited, while Dave rxed to hear that they were Frost Monkeys, if they were other monsters they would have big problems trying to deal with it, but as they were Frost Monkeys he already knew a strategy to hunt this type of monster. . "As they are Frost Monkeys we shouldn''t be too worried, these monsters usually live inrgemunities as Leo described, normally they live in groups of 300 to 400 Frost Monkeys." Dave exined to the other boys as it was the first time they had hunted this type of monster. "The Frost Monkeys are very smart, that''s why they manage to have suchrgemunities in the forest, so MU has to delegate many tasks to the students to hunt these monkeys to decrease their poption, otherwise they would dominate the forest and destroy the ecosystem from here." Dave exined. Leo soon understood what Dave was getting at and guessed what he was going to say. "So since MU always delegates missions to kill Frost Monkeys and they are always in argemunity, a strategy has already been defined for the most efficient way to separate these monkeys from the rest of their group and kill the amount needed for the task without running so much danger, right?" Hearing this Dave was shocked. He wouldn''t be too surprised if the other students deduced this, since they had been at MU for 1 or 2 years, but Leo who just arrived at MU yesterday already has that kind of deduction ability was amazing. ''This boy has a great future.'' Dave mentally sighed as hepared himself to Leo. When he had just joined MU, his mentality was much more childish than Leo''s, being quite arrogant for his talent and leaving many important things aside. Before long Dave had been taught that there were many more talented and intelligent people than he was, causing him to begin to dedicate himself with much more humility to learning than when he arrived. But Leo hadn''t even attended any sses yet and he already had that mindset, with the usefulness he saw Leo had, all the Awaken would want him in the group, since he was practically a human monster radar. If Leo hadn''t said that his Quirk was getting all the shots right, and he hadn''t proved while hunting that he was really perfect at it, Dave would have thought Leo''s Quirk would be something like a radar. "Yes, that''s exactly what you said, Leo." Dave nodded with a smile, causing the other boys to also be surprised to see Leo who was a year or two younger than them being so smart. "Although it''s not just a strategy, because as Frost Monkeys are very smart, if we just used a single strategy they would soon learn it and it wouldn''t be more effective. So the teachers with the veterans of the past who hunted these monsters developed several strategies. that can be used in different situations, giving us a variety of options." Dave exined. Leo raised an eyebrow, understanding that Dave was right. p??d? n?ve? But despite the difficulty of hunting these monsters, Leo was excited. Hisst challenge was to hunt Vulpi, which was a Bronze 4 Stars monster, but now he would hunt arge group of Bronze 4 Stars monsters, which made him even more excited since dealing with such a smart group while trying to cooperate with his teammates it would be a lot of fun. ''I''ll take the opportunity to learn as much as possible from Dave toe hunting aler.'' Leo thought excitedly as he looked at his Speed-Hack and Inventory-Hack thatcked a lot of experience to level up. ''The Inventory-Hack will take a long time to level up, but maybe I can raise the Speed-Hack to the maximum level before sses start.'' Leo thought. MU sses would start next week, as today was Tuesday, he would have 5 days until Sunday to hunt and try to get enough experience to raise Speed-Hack to max level, then he could raise Inventory-Hack to the maximum level for the rest of the month. ''I can split my time into hunting in the morning and in the afternoon, while leaving the evening part to have fun ying with the boys or going out to meet other people, so I can bnce both rest and fun, while continuing to get stronger. !'' Leo was right to think about it. Chapter 41 -Hunting The Frost Monkeys Chapter 41 -Hunting The Frost Monkeys This will be the first time Leo goes hunting Bronze 4 Stars monsters while he is a Bronze 4 Stars Awaken, he had only hunted these monsters when he was still an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars, so now he could finally see the difference in strength between him and the monsters. Not to mention that with this hunt he could take the opportunity to see if he could also hunt Bronze 5 Stars monsters, which would probably be much more profitable in terms of Exp and money for him to level up. The strategy they would use has already been decided. And as a volunteer, Leo decided to be the bait, as he could use Speed-Hack to run away from the monsters at any time, making him much safer than the other boys. Their idea of ??strategy was that Leo would go to the group of monkeys and attack them with a fire arrow from afar. As they are Frost Monkeys, it is normal for them to feel anger towards fire things, which normally makes them weaker, so seeing this arrow, the probability of a group of Frost Monkeys chasing Leo is very high. Following the experiences of their veterans, Dave said that the probability of a group of 10 monkeys chasing him was very high, so they would only need to do it twice to catch the 20 monkeys the mission called for. The ce where Leo needed to take the monkeys had already been prepared and was full of traps. So at that moment Leo was already approaching the group of monkeys to attract their attention. From the Wall-Hack he could see that with each step he took forward, more and more red silhouettes appeared in his vision, indicating that the number of monsters he was seeing was far from the total number of monsters in that location. Of course, Leo had to attack the group of monkeys with the fire arrow, but preferably it would be better if he shot in the periphery where there were less monsters, since if he shot the arrow in the middle of the group, probably a hundred monkeys would see it running. towards him. p??d? n?ve? So when Leo was within 30 meters of the group of Monkeys, he ignited a fire arrow and used the Aim-Bot to aim at the foot of the monkey that was closest to him. Swoosh The arrow looked like magic as it passed through the trees and finally hit the monkey''s foot. When the monkey felt the fire arrow cutting and burning his foot, he couldn''t resist and started screaming in rage as he ran in the direction the arrow came from. This monkey was with a small group of 14 monkeys, but in this group there were two monkeys taking care of two young ones, so only the 10 monkeys that were alone went with the monkey hit. There were other monkeys around who saw that unfortunate monkey getting hit by something that set his foot on fire, but they just looked at it and startedughing as they pointed at the monkey running in rage. As much as they were very smart, they were also very arrogant, to the point that when some monster came to attack them, they would let a small group go first and if that group couldn''t hunt the monster other groups would too, but the group that failed, he would be mocked by the rest of the group. This was a very primitive but effective way to determine the most important groups in a tribe, thus keeping the strongest apes safe so that the most powerful ones would not fall into a trap and the tribe would not be left without a leader. Leo saw all of this through his Wall-Hack, so he knew that there really were 10 monkeys running towards him. Although their distance was short, only 30 meters, but there were many trees in the forest, which blocked the monkeys'' view to where Leo was, so they could only run in the direction without knowing what had attacked them. Among the 10 monkeys that ran, the monkey that got hit in the foot was the slowest, so the other monkeys slowed down to not let this injured monkey be left alone and get caught in an enemy trap. Leo was fascinated by the intelligence of these monsters, indeed they were much smarter than othermon monsters he had hunted before. The trap that the group had set was 60 meters from where Leo was, he would have to run the equivalent of half a professional football field while dodging the trees to reach the trap''s ce. While this could be dangerous, Leo saw it as an opportunity. When he was hunting with the other boys, he wasn''t shooting the monsters in the eyes so as not to shock the other boys so much with how powerful his skill was, but since he was alone, he could try shooting one of these monkeys in the eyes and see how many Experience points he would receive. Having made up his mind, Leo who was running with the Speed-Hack activated so that the monkeys wouldn''t catch up to him suddenly turned around with an arrow already fitted to his bow and aimed at the monkey who was next to the monkey with the injured foot, as if he killed the monkey with his injured foot the chance of them reaching him was greater. Swoosh The arrow flew from Leo''s bow, this time without fire, so the monkeys didn''t even notice the arrow before it was toote. Pshh The arrow perfectly prated a monkey''s right eye, causing the monster''s brain to also be hit. An instant death. [Congrattions, you killed a Frost Monkey Bronze 4 Stars, you received 250 Experience Points.] Looking at the amount of experience he received, even though he was alone and didn''t need to share it with the other boys, Leo felt a pang in his heart, he received the equivalent of what he previously received for Bronze 3 Stars monsters! On the other hand, Leopared the difference between hunting these Frost Monkeys with the difficulty he had to hunt the other Bronze 4 Stars monsters in the forest of his city and saw that it was much easier now! ''Maybe I could even exterminate thisrge group of monkeys in one afternoonˇ­'' Leo thought as he calcted how many arrows he could shoot per second. When he was Bronze 2 Stars, he could only shoot one arrow at a time from the bow to kill Bronze 4 Stars monster, but now that he was an Awaken Bronze 4 Stars, he could shoot 4 arrows at a time with the bow with enough force to hurt these Bronze 4 Stars monkeys! ''Taking that into consideration, maybe I can even earn more experience points per hour than I did when I was an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars!'' Leo thought even more excitedly. But he pushed those thoughts aside as he picked up his own speed after hearing the annoyed screams of these monkeys and ran towards the trap they had set. It only took a few seconds for Leo to arrive and the confused monkeys to step onto the center point where they wanted to be. The trap they chose to set up was very simple, after the monkeys had entered their designated ce, a special oil would be set on fire by Harry which would form a ring of fire around them. Inside the ring would be Dave and Charlie while Leo, Harry and the other boy would stay outside killing the monkeys as quickly as possible. Dave would be responsible for resisting the monkeys'' attacks while Charlie would be responsible for attracting the attention of some monkeys and dodging their attacks while attacking whenever possible. Harry was prepared all along to always send curses on the monsters that were causing Dave and Charlie the most trouble, so with Harry''s situational control, their safety was assured. Best of all, even if the two of them received some injuries in the circle of fire, after they killed the monkeys the other boy could heal them, negating pretty much all the damage they would take in this battle. Of course, that also meant they were going to get hurt a lot, and if Leo didn''t manage to kill the apes fast enough, Dave and Charlie would be the first to die, as they were the ones dealing with the apes head-on. But the advantage is that the fire circle was very effective for Frost Monkeys, since as they had the ice attribute, the probability of them leaving the circle was very low, and if they did, they would be very injured by the fire. So the safety of Leo, Harry and the other boy, who were theoretically the most fragile, was guaranteed. In fact, Leo was less likely to be hit by a monkey attack than Charlie was, but since Leo attacked from afar and was the highest damage dealer among them, it was better for the team that he just focus on attacking for lessen the burden on Dave. Swoosh, Swoosh Leo''s arrows were flying very fast, the speed at which Leo was reloading his bow was much higher than when he was Bronze 2 Stars. If he was focusing on shooting the monkeys in the eyes, those monsters would already be dead, but since Leo didn''t want to expose himself so much for now, he was just attacking the monkeys'' joints and necks, but always in different ces. Sometimes he would even hit a spot like the chest or leg of one of the monkeys so it wouldn''t be so clear how powerful his Quirk was, but at other times he would shoot in pretty difficult ces topensate. In just five minutes they had killed the nine monkeys. Thinking about it this way it seemed like this was very simple, but looking at the injuries of Dave and Charlie, especially Dave who had low agility, only they knew how hard this battle was. Fortunately there were no fatal injuries, just a few more shallow scratches. With their mate''s Quirk this was quickly resolved, but they still needed to rest for a few minutes. "Let''s rest for another 10 minutes and hunt 10 more monkeys before we leave, otherwise their tribal chiefs will notice something strange is happening and send more monsters." Dave said while breathing heavily. He was used to taking this amount of damage while hunting, but it was still very painful and exhausting. With this experience Leo saw how powerful his Quirk was, which allowed him to hunt monsters much more easily and without having to hurt himself, as he killed the monsters from so far away that the monsters didn''t even reach him. For every monkey that died, Leo received a notification like this. [Congrattions, you killed a Frost Monkey Bronze 4 Stars, you received 50 Experience Points.] Just as he imagined, he only received 50 experience points for killing these monkeys, but now he had epted it well and not worried so much . After they rested they soon took the valuable parts of the monkeys and each one''s right ear to confirm that they had killed 9, then they put out the fire and changed the location to the trap, as the fire of now, despite only having burned the oil, it still left a scent in the air that could alert the monkeys to chase Leo. With the new trap location ready, Leo left once more, but this time he took a right ear and the valuable part of the ape he killed and kept it in his inventory, just in case it was missing after they killed another round of apes. . The second time worked perfectly just like the first. Leo managed to attract 12 monkeys this time, which despite having increased the number a little, because of the experience of Charlie, Harry and Leo who were the main damage dealers, it was not that much moreplicated to kill these monsters. But as they had only rested 10 minutes after the other time, now they were really exhausted. The group took the right ears and valuable parts of each ape and fled from there before finding a cave to rest, as it would be dangerous to go out into the woods being as tired as they were currently. Of course, the most tired were Dave, Charlie and the other boy who spent a lot of energy healing them both. Leo and Harry were quite rxed as they waited for the other three to rest. The group took advantage of the cave to get their water bottles and drank it like it was the most delicious nectar they had ever had, as well as some energy chocte bars to rece the energy they lost while running away. Leo had the Wall-Hack activated the entire time as he looked outside the cave, until when he finally calmed down to see that there were no monsters nearby and turned to face the group, he saw a red outline! Worse, this red outline was getting closer and closer to them anding from inside the cave! ---------- Like it? Add to library! Don''t forget to vote to support the book if you like it. I''ve created a discord server, join to see how the characters looks XD: https://discord.gg/A2EKeu9nRs (You need to copy the capital letters exactly as it is for it to work.) Chapter 42- Bronze 5 Stars Monster Chapter 42- Bronze 5 Stars Monster Leo only noticed that there was a monster in the cave because of his Wall-Hack that was activated all the time. If the Wall-Hack was off, he''d probably be like the other kids,pletely ignorant and rxed thinking he was safe. Then calmly, Leo raised his hand to his mouth in a sign of silence, startling the other boys, but they soon went quiet. Confused, the boys soon became alert and looked at Leo to understand why he was acting like this. Leo pointed to the back of the cave with one hand and with the other hand he made the 5 sign. Dave was the quickest thinker and asked through signs if Leo was saying there were 5 monsters or a Bronze 5 Stars monster. Seeing Dave''s question, Leo only showed one finger, indicating that it was just a Bronze 5 Stars monster. Knowing that they were in air of a Bronze 5 Stars monster, the boys started to get worried. The only one among them who had experience hunting a Bronze 5 Stars monster was Dave, but he was still in a group with five other Awaken Bronze 5 Stars, which was much more powerful than their current number. Worried, the boys got up slowly and were starting to walk towards the exit of the cave when Leo raised his hand and shook his head, indicating that there was no point in leaving the cave since the monster was already very close to them. In Leo''s view, the monster that lived here alone could only be Bronze 5 Stars, as a Bronze 4 Stars monster could hardly maintain a spacious cave like this. And from the time he noticed the monster until now, the monster had already gone from 80 meters away to just 40 meters. At this point it was impossible for them to run away from these monsters, maybe only Leo, Charlie and maybe Dave could run away, as Harry and the other boy would unfortunately be left in the cave as food for the monster if they ran away. So they decided to stay and fight, as no one wanted to abandon a mate. At this point Leo didn''t even bother to hide his strength, he just put two arrows in the bow and pulled the string ready to shoot at any moment. Seeing that Leo was ready for battle, Dave and Charlie went to the front line prepared to hold the monster while Leo and Harry dealt as much damage as possible. Nobody asked Leo why he had two arrows in his bow, they just got ready waiting for the monster to appear. Leo was seeing the red outline approaching and saw that it looked like a Bear. ''Shit, did it have to be a bear soon?'' Leo sighed inwardly. With the enemy being a Bronze 5 Stars Bear, Leo''s arrows would only be useful to blind this monster, as Bears were monsters known to have the thickest hide of the Bronze 5 Stars rank. With arrows Leo could hardly do enough damage to this Bear, maybe in their group only Charlie and Harry could do massive damage to this monster. Of course, Leo blinding Bear would definitely be one of the most useful things anyone could do in this battle, but he didn''t believe he would be strong enough to make the arrow pierce Bear''s brain either. If it was a less resistant monster, Leo would have confidence in killing the monster himself, but a Bear was definitely a natural enemy for Leo who relied on arrows to deal damage. While Leo was having these thoughts, the Bear finally emerged from the back of the cave, walking on all fours and looking at their group with a menacing expression. Roooorrrr!! The Bear gave a great roar. When the boys heard this roar their legs went weak, not even Dave was very confident about beating this Bear. But along with the noise of this bear''s roar, another noise came from the cave. Swoosh, Swoosh The boys were shocked when they saw two arrows pass by them, especially Dave and Charlie who even felt the wind blowing in their ears, indicating that Leo''s arrows almost hit them! But instead of being angry, the boys showed shocked expressions to see that before the Bear closed its mouth, one arrow entered its throat and the other arrow pierced the roof of its mouth causing arge wound and getting stuck there. For a second neither the boys nor the Bear knew what to do, as no one expected this to happen. But before they could any longer, Leo took advantage that no one was looking at him, he took two arrows from his Inventory-Hack and already readied the bow to shoot again while screaming. "Don''t miss this opportunity, attack!" Leo''s voice was crazy, both because of the fear he felt when he saw the Bearing, and the happiness he felt when he saw that the Bear had given him such a perfect opportunity! Hearing Leo''s scream, the boys soon woke up and shouted excitedly. They weren''t idiots, they quickly realized that the opportunity Leo created for them greatly increased their chance of victory! "AAAaaarrrgh!!!" Dave screamed like a barbarian as he used his Quirk to the fullest and ran towards Bear while swinging his ax in one hand with his shield in the other. Dave was the only Awaken Bronze 5 Stars in the group, so he was aware that in this battle they depended not only on his defense, but also on the damage he could do. Charlie didn''t fall behind either and ran with his sword while using his Quirk at maximum, increasing his ability''s pration to as much as possible intending to do as much damage to the Bear as possible. As Charlie''s agility was slightly greater than Dave''s, he got to Bear first and made a big cut on the neck of the monster who was still in pain and anger from the arrows that that human shot into his mouth! Swoosh, Swoosh Leo wasted no time either and fired two more shots while the Bear was still confused and hit both monsters'' eyes. Harry was quick to use his curse on the already injured Bear, causing despite the difference in rank between them, the curse was still very effective, making the Bear even weaker. Feeling his body getting weak and such a great pain in his eyes, the Bear went crazy and stood on his back legs only while using the ws on both front legs to try to hit these humans. But since the Bear had stayed early, his attacks had no target. If he wasn''t so mad with rage because of the mouth attacks, maybe Bear could still use his sense of smell and hearing to judge the position of these humans and counterattack more easily, as Bear was a Bronze monster. 5 Stars, the senses of this were very strong! But luckily Leo had shot this monster in the mouth at the perfect moment, causing the attack at that opportune moment to make the Bear''s rage erupt. Of course, if Bear could still see, making this monster so angry would be even more dangerous for them than when it wasn''t so angry, as with anger, Bear would ignore the pain of his own injuries and just concentrate. in killing these annoying humans, but since he couldn''t even see, the Bear had nowhere to vent the anger he was feeling! The only thing the Bear could do during the battle was try to swing his arms in the hopes of hitting a human, while continuing to feel pain from the new injuries he was feeling. But Charlie who had an agility Quirk and Dave who was an Awaken Bronze 5 Stars wouldn''t be hit by these targetless attacks so very patiently they kept dodging and attacking whenever possible. Charlie was doing even more damage than Dave, because of his Quirk which made the sword sharper, even the 5 Stars Bronze Bear''s hide was still treated like a Bronze 4 Stars monster hide being handled by a regr sword . That 20% pration bonus was something even Leo was envious of, as if he had a skill like that he could be useful in battle too. He even attempted to shoot arrows at the bear''s knees, but even though the arrow got stuck in his knee, it only made a small cut before stopping, not going deep enough to sever the tendons and ligaments of the monster''s body. ''Shit, if it was another monster I could helpˇ­'' Leo thought frustrated as he kept his bow pointed at the Bear in case the monster opened its mouth again. Against other Bronze 5 Stars monsters, Leo was confident that he could damage the weakest ces on their bodies, but to damage this Bear using the Bronze 3 Stars bow would be very difficult, he knew he would need at least a Bronze 4 bow. Stars from the top, or to make it even easier, a Bronze 5 Stars bow. But Leo didn''t intend to buy that. ''It''s better to save money for a Pure Silver 1 Star bow, as a Bronze 5 Star bow will be useless when I have to deal with Pure Silver 1 Star monsters.'' Leo sighed inwardly watching the battle. The Bear was very tough, even with Charlie and Dave''s cuts, in addition to Harry''s curses, the monstersted another 10 minutes of bloody battle. p??d? n?ve? Dave and Charlie''s bodies were red from so much blood that had been spilled all over them, but even that blood couldn''t hide the excited smile on their faces. "We did it!" Charlie yelled excitedly as he raised his sword up. Dave also raised the ax while Harry raised his wand. The other boy raised his arms up in glee before running to Dave and Charlie to heal the scrapes they''d sustained in battle. Only Leo was frustrated at not being able to participate as much in the battle. When Dave saw Leo''s brow furrowed he already wondered why heughed. "Leo, are you upset that you can''t participate in the battle as much?" Leo just looked at dave and pointed his middle finger at him, which caused Dave and the other three boys to burst outughing. They knew this battle was only won so easily because of the opportunity Leo created for them, but who knew that the one most responsible for their victory was forced to practically sit in a corner watching them fight? At least one message popped up in front of Leo that got him excited again. [Congrattions, you killed a 4 Stars Bronze Bear, you received 400 Experience Points.] Seeing the amount of experience he received, Leo was very excited! Even though he had to share the experience with the other boys he still received 400 experience points, so that meant that if he went hunting Bronze 5 Star monsters alone he would receive at least 2000 experience points! ''With thisrge amount of experience points, since I hunt a lot of Bronze 5 Stars monsters I will need very little time to raise the Speed-Hack and Inventory-Hack to the maximum level!'' Leo thought excitedly. Seeing that Leo suddenly changed from a sad to excited expression, the boys were confused and would ask him why, until Leo changed from an excited expression to a surprised one. "Hey guys, is there anything valuable at the end of the cave? After all, this is their of a Bronze 5 Stars monster!" Leo asked out loud causing the other boys to get very excited too! Nothing was better than killing a powerful foe and reaping benefits after that! "Let''s investigate!" Dave got excited and decided to go deep into the cave to look for treasure. ---------- Like it? 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