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Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 31: Public Appearance
Johnny grimaced as he tried to put on his tie. He had never worn a tie before. None of his previous jobs required him to wear a suit, and it wasn't like he could afford one anyway. During the family gathering, he had gotten away with it by not wearing a tie at all. Unfortunately, his parents insisted that he had to wear a tie so he could be presentable in front of the press."Why is it so hard to wear a tie?" he muttered to himself.As he fought with the tie, his father walked up from behind and asked, "Are you ready, son?"Turning to face his father, Johnny saw his father raise an eyebrow. "Do you need help?""Yes," he said, embarrassed that he had to ask for help from his father.His father took the tie in hand and proceeded to tie it while telling him the proper way to do things. Johnny tried to listen to the instructions, but he was distracted by the way his father looked as he fixed Johnny's tie. Thoughts about everything filled his mind. As his father finally finished making Joh
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 32: Press Conference
Johnny and his parents weren't overly concerned when they heard the question. Even though none of them had wanted it to show up during the press conference, the chances of it happening were too high to ignore. Obviously, the person who leaked the information would also share that Johnny had just received his power. It was too juicy to leave out.They had considered two ways to handle it. One was to lie and pretend that wasn't true. Obviously, that was out of the question. It had only been brought up so they would be on the same page. There were too many things wrong with the idea for it to work. They would just end up digging a bigger hole for themselves. That's why they settled for the second idea."That's correct," Johnny said.He barely finished speaking when the reporters erupted. This time, Johnny used his power to quieten everyone down. There was no way he was going to let his father do it a second time. It was bad enough that his father did it once. He couldn't afford another h
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 33: Disaster
It in fact did not end there. It took almost an hour later before Johnny could finally escape the vultures. The only reason why it didn't take longer or shorter was because he was trying to avoid making things worse. His parents getting more involved might have ended things early and caused the reporters to somehow twist it into something else.Johnny wiped the sweat off his forehead as he collapsed onto the sofa, ready to pass out from everything that had happened. "How bad was it?"His parents grimaced as they glanced at each other before his mother said, "It could have been worse."He wasn't reassured in the slightest. She was clearly trying to cheer him up, but it just showed how badly things turned out. If it weren't for that question, he wouldn't have been caught off guard, and things wouldn't have gotten ugly. Just thinking about it made him angry. Why would they even bring it up in the first place? Where had they gotten that information?There was no way the other two parties
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 34: A New Quest
Johnny would take what he could get. Even though it wasn't a power that would make him smarter, having the power to recall everything in perfect detail wasn't anything to scoff at. He could just read all the books and papers related to running the family and bring up the memory to deal with whatever issue that might appear."How can I get that power?" Johnny asked as he sat up. "Will the system just give it to me, or do I have to do a quest?"Speaking of quests, he hadn't asked anyone if they also received quests from the system. There were no mentions of quests in the news when people talked about the blessed, and no one in the house had talked about it within hearing range. He guessed it was another special privilege he got, though it would be great if he could get it for free like he did with his healing power.[The user is quite smart.][The user will indeed have to complete a quest before they can obtain a new power. The user's acquisition of their healing power was an exception.
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 35: Meeting Again
The next couple weeks were spent looking up what Johnny was supposed to do as the heir and trying to come up with a way to complete the quest. The former wasn't actually that hard. His parents didn't exactly ban him, so the servants had no reason to keep him from studying. For the latter, he was still gathering up ideas and coming up with plans on how to deal with them."Young master, I apologize for disturbing you, but the ladies from the Martin and Wright families want to meet with you," the servant said.Johnny dropped the meatball he was about to eat back onto the pasta. He must have misheard. He swore the servant had just said that those two women from before were waiting for him. It was a good thing his parents were there or who knew what their reaction would be. The servant would likely be kicked out for saying anything."Prepare a room. Keep them occupied until I'm ready," Johnny said.While he might not know the full details behind their visit, he was certain it had to do wit
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 36: Fight Between Johnny and Rachel
The servants immediately panicked and ran away from the fight that spilled into the hallway. None of them were crazy enough to get in the middle of two very powerful blessed. They wouldn't stand a chance against them. Johnny cursed as he tried to avoid using his power. Unlike with Rachel's power, his would do a lot more damage. He didn't want to accidentally set the whole building on fire.While he was sure that his parents had some countermeasures in place, considering they are a family with fire powers, he still didn't want to risk it. Dodging a blast of wind, he was surprised to see it didn't actually do that much damage to the wall. There was only a small indent. Either she was going easy on him or the walls were really strong to withstand the attacks.One glance at Rachel told him that the former was unlikely. He wondered what his family used to make the walls so durable. Another blast of wind ended those thoughts as he tried to find something to defend himself. His foot kicked a
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 37: Brief Reprieve
As the two women glared at him, Johnny grimaced. Maybe he shouldn't have provoked them. The moment the thought crossed his mind, he shook his head. No, they would just walk all over him if they thought he was weak. They weren't the kind of people who could be reasoned with. He seriously didn't have any luck with women."They'll be leaving," Johnny said to the servants."Hold it. We never said anything about leaving," Rachel said as she took a step forward.Johnny allowed a bit of fire power to peek through and cover his body with a thin layer of heat. "Are you sure you want to stick around after everything that happened? You do know what this looks like, right?"Neither of them were bothered by the heat radiating from his body. If he hadn't used it before, they didn't think he would really use it now. However, what he just said made them pale. The both of them had secretly traveled there to confront Johnny, or at least they tried to minimize the number of people who knew that they wer
Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir Chapter 38: Working On His Power
Johnny flipped through the channels to see if any footage had been leaked to the press. So far, there hadn't been any news about it in the past couple days. It seemed that the servants had been fully cowed into not attempting anything. That was good. He really didn't want to have to deal with another scandal so soon after the last one. The only bright spot in this incident was that he was able to send a bill to the two families. His parents were fully onboard with the idea, but they made sure not to name names in case someone got ahold of it to use as blackmail. It only listed the names of the families involved and a bill stating it was for damages made to the Burns family. He wished he could see what kind of expression they might have made when they saw the bill arrive at their doorstep. Johnny was sure that the two women would be chewed out for it. It must have been so embarrassing to receive a bill for causing trouble at another family's house. Of course, he would
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Hello everyone. I forgot to add a note in the previous chapter. Anyway, I just want to thank all my readers who have been following along. I really appreciate it. Now for the news you have been waiting for.Johnny's story has ended and turned out shorter than Billy's story like I expected. With its end, I currently have no ongoing stories on this site.I've decided I'll take a break from the site. How long the break will last I'm not quite sure. Hopefully, the break won't be long, and I have a new story up within the year, but we will have to see.Just like with Rise of the Demon King: Caleb Gonzales's Rat Race and Rise of the Desperate: Billy Wood's Save and Restart System, I might do a rewrite or remake of it.If I do go through with this idea, then I'll just immediately go to eBook and paperback, and it would be very different from the one here. We will have to see, and I'll let everyone know.As I stated before, if you want to stay in contact with me, you'll probably have to use F*
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 96: Deal (2)
"By the way, I don't mean to rush things, but the time limit for the hour is until I return," she said.That certainly caught Johnny's attention as he demanded, "How long is that?""A couple more minutes," she said.A couple minutes wasn't a lot of time to come to a life changing decision. He still needed more time to think. Did he really want to take a chance and accept the offer, which meant leaving everything he knew, or should he stay and weather whatever the system had in store for the world? Weighing the pros and cons of each decision, he could feel sweat forming on his head."I need to go. Have you come to a decision?" she asked.After a brief moment, he said, "Yes.""Well, what's your decision?" she asked."I'll take the offer," he said.She smiled as she said, "Good choice."Suddenly, Katherine slumped over alarming Johnny, who rushed to check up on her. She appeared to be still breathing, and there didn't seem
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 95: Deal (1)
"Okay, I'm listening," Johnny said."I'm glad to see you can be reasoned with. I've heard of others who aren't so fortunate," the intruder said."Others?" he said."We'll get to that later," she said as she attempted to make a waving motion.Unfortunately, Katherine's missing limbs made that a moot point. It honestly made Johnny uncomfortable seeing Katherine's body attempt to do something an ordinary person could do. He wasn't the only one put off by the situation. The intruder grimaced as she settled back into the wheelchair."Anyway, I'm here to give you a proposal from the system," the intruder said."What?" Johnny snapped."You heard me right. The system would like to offer you a deal, and it's up to you if you want to accept this," the intruder said.Johnny's mind whirled over what she said, scarcely believing what she just said. The system wanted to offer him a deal? This was completely unplanned. He had never heard of t
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 94: Visitors
Johnny blinked. "Wait. EVeryone?"He couldn't believe what Frank was saying. Was he crazy? Did he really want to let the whole world know about the monsters being able to receive messages from the system? It would be complete chaos. Johnny was exactly advocating to tell no one. Far from it, but he couldn't see how it would help anyone to inform the public about this information."Well, not everyone," Frank said. "I'm referring to the authorities as this is a matter of security.""Will they take it seriously?" Johnny asked."It's hard to say. It's possible everyone will think it's a joke, but it's also possible that some will take the warning seriously," Frank said."I see," Johnny simply said."If that's all, I'm going to take my leave and let you get some rest," Frank said as he stood up.Johnny nodded. "Got it."Right as Frank was about to go out the door, he said, "Actually, there are some people who want to talk to you if y
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 93: Aftermath
Johnny's eyes snapped open as he sat up abruptly. His mind was moving at several miles per hour as he scanned his surroundings. He had to stop her before she got away. However, the monster was nowhere in sight. He wasn't sure how long he had been out cold, but he supposed it was a bit much to expect the monster to linger just because he told her to stop.More importantly, he was no longer in that place considering the lack of lava. Taking a good look at his surroundings, he deduced that he was back in his own world, which set him on edge. How did he get back? As he wondered who or what had brought him back, the door to the room swung open. He stared at the sight of Frank leading the backs of doctors and unknown men."Johnny, you're awake," Frank said as he rushed over to check on him.A tad bit uncomfortable with how Frank was acting, Johnny asked, "Frank, what happened?"Frank grimaced. "It's a bit of a long story. First, we should make sure you're okay."As soon as he said that, Fra
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 92: True Form
As Johnny stared at his mother, wondering why he felt uneasy about the whole thing, it finally clicked. "You're not my mother.""What are you talking about? Of course I'm your mother," she said.Johnny shook his head as he took on a relaxed stance. "No, you're not. I don't know why you're pretending to be here, but you should just give up now. It's not going to help you in the long run."The woman also dropped her stance and shrugged her shoulders as she said, "Well, this is unexpected. How did you know?"Rather than admit that it was just his gut instinct, he said, "I have no reason to tell you.""I suppose I should have figured you would say that," she said calmly.She was far too calm for his liking. He knew nothing about it here other than she was a fake, which didn't mean much in the end. It wasn't like he would have gone easier even if she was his mom. However, it did explain why she killed his father without batting an eye, but it begged the question of where his real mother wa
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 91: Unexpected Turn of Events
Johnny ignored his father, as he was just relieved that his healing power and fire power helped him survive his father's attack. His fire power apparently gave him some resistance to fire, and his healing power healed whatever managed to get past his fire resistance. He took advantage of his father's shock to lunge at the man and return the favor.He landed several punches before his father recovered from his shock and shielded against the punches. Johnny didn't let up and continued to barrage his father with punches, hoping to get past his defenses and continue his original onslaught. After some time, his father apparently had enough and roared as he unleased a wave of flames. With a grunt, Johnny was forced back, though he was unharmed.His father glared venomously at him as he snarled, "That's enough. I'm going to end this."With a bravo that he didn't completely feel, Johnny said, "Just try it. You're just going to fail again."As his father was about
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 90: Meeting the Family
While Johnny didn't like the idea, he didn't have much of a choice. Sticking around wasn't going to do anything except waste time and put himself in possible danger. With no one else with him, he had no one he could rely on if he was suddenly attacked by a bunch of monsters, which was a serious risk. He didn't want to take that risk."Where do we meet up?" Johnny asked."We'll try to continue with the plan and head for the head of the family's office," Frank said.Just as Johnny was about to protest that idea, he heard a loud animalistic roar. He frantically checked his surroundings and didn't see anything. Before he could feel relieved, he heard screams and shouts on the other side. He placed his hands on the rubble, hoping to at least find a small opening to get a better look at what was happening."Frank? What's going on? Are you okay?" Johnny asked frantically.There was no response except more shouting and fighting. He was completely in the da
- Rise of the Commoner: Johnny Burns's The Lost Heir
Chapter 89: Confronting the Burns Family
Even though Johnny had said he wasn't going to let the matter go, wasn't it a bit much to storm the Burns family's home just days after his decision? He thought it would take a couple weeks to prepare. They couldn't take down such a powerful family in just a few days. What was everyone thinking? He wondered if they all had lost their minds."Johnny, is something the matter?" Frank asked as the car headed for their intended destination. "You don't look good.""I just can't believe we're moving in now," Johnny said."You have nothing to worry about. Everything has already been sorted out," FRank said."Are you really sure we're good to go?" Johnny asked."You have nothing to worry about. The plan was already in motion before you decided to throw your hat in the ring. It's been modified to include your involvement," Frank said.Frank might have said it to reassure Johnny, but it didn't in the slightest. Johnny had been at the meeting discussing
