He was about to activate his system when Byron walked up to them. He had a smile on his face that didn't reach his eyes.
"Hey Raz, what's going on here?" He asked, placing his hand on the bulging arm of the man who was threatening James."This pest is bothering us," Raz replied,"It's a lie! I'm not bothering them, I just want to have a handshake with you." James said, perfectly faking the act of a fanboy who just wants a handshake with his idol."Is that so?" Byron asked while smiling suspiciously at him,"Yes.""Raz? You should've just allowed him to come." Byron said to Raz,Raz hung his head in shame. "I'm sorry boss, I just wanted to protect you in case he wanted to hurt you.""Haha." Byron laughed half-heartedly, "I appreciate the effort but a young man who looks as weak as this can't even touch a hair on my head."James raised his eyebrows in shock. 'Insulting me openly?... Well, that was expected, I look like crap but all that will end soon. Just let me acquire your power.'Turning to James, Byron said with the same smug and annoying smile that had been on his face since he came down from the stage. "Sorry brother, my men here are a bit overprotective of me. I apologize on their behalf .""Hehe," James smiled with his eyes closed, "no problem.""You wanted a handshake right?" Byron said and offered a hand to James."Yes." James' eyes lit up in excitement. His key to improvement was now in front of him, on a platter of gold.[Skill: Skill Acquisition Technique ]James shook Byron's hand and smiled inwardly as the seconds counted down, he didn't notice the sardonic smile that had now appeared on Byron's face."3...2...1.."[Ding!][Skill Acquisition Complete!][Due to the user's premium system, all restrictions on the skill are lifted and user has complete access to all sub-skills.]'Way to go!' James thought and tried to withdraw his hand but Byron refused to let go."Did you seriously think I wouldn't notice?" Byron asked James who now had a confused expression on his face,'Did he notice?' James thought,"N...Notice what?" James stuttered,"Don't...Play...." Byron shifted his feet on the ground and pulled James towards himself. James was physically weak so he couldn't resist the pull as Byron turned and flung him across the room sending him crashing into a wall. "With meee!!!"There were cracks in the walls and dust from the impact prevented people from seeing James's broken figure.[Ding!]HP: 20/100 (-80)[User's HP has dropped below the safety threshold (30), one new skill has been unlocked.]RecoveryIt was Damon Gate. "His win was just a fluke. Any half-witted person will know that if this was a normal duel, this skinny freak wouldn't have stood a chance against Byron." "Look here man," the spiky-haired man said aggressively, "if you think that James' win was a fluke and you want to have a go at him, you can simply just challenge him to a duel and take his championship. It's as easy as that." Damon beamed widely at the offer and turned to James, "I challenge you to a duel." James narrowed his eyes at Damon and smirked wickedly. Here was his chance to get his revenge on him for embarrassing him earlier. "I accept your challenge." In the next five minutes, James and Damon were standing on the stage while the rest of the men watched them from below. Byron had finally regained consciousness and had gone to one corner of the room to sulk as he glared at James with hate in his eyes. He didn't want anything to do with his followers anymore because he had lost that almightiness i
James' eyebrows shot up in surprise, 'A new quest already? The system doesn't seem to want me to rest.''Yes.'[Ding!][Main Quest #2]Using the map provided to you by the system, escape the God facility. Do this within 8 hours or else user will be punished by the system.Completion Rate: 0%Time Left: 8hrsReward: 20 points and a D class reward box.Difficulty Level: D+'I've been thinking about leaving here... I didn't think I'd get the chance so soon.' James thought.'Now where's that map?' James thought as he willed his system to show him the map.In a second, a 3D detailed map of the God facility hovered before James. There were marks on it indicating paths where he should follow and paths where he should avoid.After going through the map and charting the shortest possible route that would take him out, he felt a little bit of confidence. He may actually be able to pull this out.James waited for two hours to pass, just so that the security personnel of the God facility would b
James yelled as he turned the walls around him into huge balls of flame and ice respectively. He increased them in a way that they would bring down the front gates and the control room where the instructions came from at the same time."What's he doing?" "That looks dangerous!""Can a subject really do that?"The soldiers could be heard talking with themselves from the comms."What do we do sir? This subject is looking dangerous!"No reply came from his superior and he would probably never hear any reply because James released his blasts and they razed the sniper towers, the gates, and the control room to the ground, destroying everyone and everything inside it.[Ding!]MP: 0/100Warning: MP has been completely depleted. User can no longer perform skills."Uh... Is that what I'm supposed to see?" James asked his system in confusion. 'No level up or quest completed notification?'He hadn't even noticed that he was almost half naked as he stood amidst the rubble that he created. The e
'Ohhh shit...' James groaned as bolts of pain ran through his body. ''Am I going to die here? Did this system give me a quest just to bring me out here and kill me?'Recovery skill had a cool down of 1 hour so there was nothing to save him now. He knew that he had to survive one way or the other or else his dream for revenge would end before it would even begin.He managed to pick himself up from the rubble just as the robot towered over him again."You.. heh..." James smirked and spoke even though he knew that General Bush would probably never hear him due to the noise of the snowstorm that raged around, "You're such a persistent asshole..."'Is this the end?' James asked himself as he saw the barrel of the laser rotating to fire at him again. There was no longer any energy left in him to run again and he could even see the reinforcements coming for him from the back of the robot. 'Shit.. no, this can't be it.'He looked up at General Bush who smiled wickedly at him and released the
[Reward has been granted. 20 points and a D class reward box has been granted to the user.]James had stopped under a dried-up tree in the blistering cold to check his stats. The cold didn't even seem to bother him because he was just smiling sheepishly as he looked at his system.If a random person had come around and met him there, the person would think he had gone crazy because it would look like he was just smiling at himself while staring into thin air.James read through the entire rewards of the quest and was about to begin to debate with himself whether they were worth it when his eyes went to the level-up bar."Level up times what??!" His eyes almost fell out of their sockets as he stared at his stats with disbelief.Name: James JadeRace: HumanTitle: God of ???HP: 100/100MP: 100/100Level: 13 (+10)Stamina: 22 Intelligence: 22 Strength: 40 Perception: 22 Agility: 39 Exp points: 20He had advanced ten levels with this quest alone and as a result of that, ten points h
Rodney was the only one not retreating, he wanted to make sure that he got as many men as possible out of the range of the bear.He saw one of his men who was trying to run away and had gotten his leg entangled in a dried tree branch lying on the floor. He quickly ran to his side and was trying to free his leg from the branch when he heard his men calling out to him;"Commander!""Look out!""Huh?" Rodney retorted and looked up only to find himself face to face with the most terrifying sight of his life.While he was busy trying to rescue his subordinate, he lost focus of the bear for a brief moment, and that brief moment was enough for the bear to leap through the air for an attack.He looked up just in time to see the bear sailing through the air to descend on him."Shit..." He muttered, "I messed up..."****Jason walked silently through the dried-up forest that was completely covered in ice. It amused him how a snow-covered forest looked peaceful and serene compared to a forest in
The bear growled at James and continued circling him. It seemed it was hesitating to attack him because he was stronger than the rest, it was looking for a suitable opening to launch its attack."I see..." James nodded slowly. "You can't reply to me... Well, no matter what your reply is, I won't accept it, that's because nothing can justify what you did here."With that last statement, James jumped toward the bear and the bear used that opportunity to jump towards him too.James was naturally faster than the bear, so it had already lost before the fight even began. James sailed through the air like a rocket and punched the bear under its jaw.The punch was so hard that the sound of cracking bone filled the air and no one needed to be told that James had cracked the skull of a monster bear with just his fists. The impact of James' punch did not end at the skull, it also delivered intense trauma to the bear's brain as the force from the punch threw it into the sky.The hunters couldn't
"Yeah," James affirmed, "all the way from Graylon City. Do you know how I can get back there?""Graylon City?" Rodney retorted.James instantly knew from Rodney's reaction that he was a long way from home."That's in another entirely different continent!""Shit!" James exclaimed and kicked the snow that was on the floor. "Shit!" He exclaimed as he walked to the side to stare into the nothingness of the snowy forest.He stayed there staring for a long time Rodney was tempted to ask him what he was thinking about but he thought twice about it and decided to keep quiet and watch what James would do next.After what seemed like forever, James finally spoke up, "Is there any way to leave this place and go back to my city? Like an airport or train station, or anything like that?" "Hm...." Rodney put his hand on his chin briefly as if he was thinking, "There's an airport around here.""Great!" James' face brightened up, "where–""But–" James' face froze at that word and he suddenly became