Chapter 3: I Only Said On The Cheeks!
"Aren't you gonna prepare for your turn, June?" Haruka asked me.
"I already did, I put all of my bonus stats points on my intelligence."
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INT: 50 >>> 100
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The skills that the Pyromancer Class have mostly deals magical damage, that's why the handler told me it's better to boost my intelligence points. The Intelligence attribute amplifies the output of any skills that uses mana.
I asked him a lot about statuses and skills but to simply summarize, the attributes works basically like this:
Strength: Physical damage and health regeneration.
Agility: Attack speed and movement speed.
Intelligence: Magical damage and mana regeneration.
Defense: Resistance against physical damage and enhances armor points.
Magic Defense: Resistance against magical damage and enhances ring points.
These attributes still have several uses but these are the major ones, HP and MP is just health and mana, nothing more nothing less. Out of these attributes, the HP, MP, Defense and Magic Defense are the hardest ones to increase and I guess increasing the Intelligence doesn't actually make you smart. In case of offensive skills, the ones that deal physical damage doesn't need mana to be casted, only the ones that deal magical damage needs mana, like my skill fireball.
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(Fireball) Summon a ball of fire that deals 700 (+500)(+100*2)(+0) magical damage when fired to an enemy.
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The 500 must be the original damage value the fireball have, the 200 probably came from the Intelligence value and the 0, I don't know what's the zero for.
I still have many questions to ask, like this zero and about the unlockable attributes that only certain class gain, also about the other skills but I'll just ask him later, if he have the time.
"That's not what I meant.......... Hey, are you listening?"
"Yeah, what?"
"Isn't your mood too low? We're in another world but I can't sense any excitement in you."
"I mean there isn't really any point in participating in a fight that you knew you'll lose." After I'm called and the match starts I'll immediately surrender.
"Motivation too low too." She did a thinking face while making a 'hmmm' sound, after a few seconds, as if a light bulb shines above her head, she spoke. "Ah, how about we gave you a reward to motivate you." Man, her face is too easy to read, cute.
"What reward?"
"Hmmm, what's good? What do you think Fio-san, what reward should we give him?"
"Wait, I'm giving a reward too." The handler pointed to himself, so his name is Fio, when did she asked for his name? "How about food? I may not look like it but I'm pretty good at cooking." Haruka rushed him but he still came up with a good reward, not bad.
"No, you actually look like you're good at cooking, I wouldn't mind if you wear an apron and cook for me every day while waiting for me at home." I said with a serious look.
"Eh? What? Eh?" Confused by what I said, he blushed.
"My bad, just a little slip of the tongue."
"For me, how about a kiss? A kiss from a girl as cute as me is not bad right?" Haruka continued without minding what I said, pretty used to my nonsensical words at this point. "If only you can hit him at least once, it would be impossible though since even Souma and me haven't hit him." She said with a triumphant grin.
"Alright, since you insist, I'll do my best." I slowly stood up from where I'm crouching and started stretching.
".....Wait .....I just remembered, this guy gets really serious when it comes to bets." Really? I don't think so, I'm just a guy that is true to my instincts. I don't have anything to lose if I lose but I can have a reward if I win, isn't that already a great deal? "Last time we had a bet, you took all of my money."
"Oi, all of that money went to treating you either way and that doesn't even include your debts, did you think I would forget just because we're in another world?" Seriously, why do I always need to treat this girl everytime we hang out and when is she gonna pay me?
"..." Don't look away from me. "Anyways, back on the topic of the reward, I never said where I would kiss so the cheeks is fine." Don't change the topic on your own suddenly.
"Next!" I heard the knight shouted in a loud voice.
"Sir June, it's your turn." Fio told me.
"Well, whatever." I went in front of Haruka and put my right hand on her shoulder. "Wait for me, I'll make sure you have a good time later." Then I started walking towards the knight, wooden sword in hand.
"Hey, wait, what's with that smile that looks like you've already won, you haven't win anything yet and I only said on the cheeks!" It seems someone is shouting but I don't need to worry about that since today is a good day.
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A knight wearing a full black armor from head to toe versus a guy in a school uniform, doesn't this looks unfair? It's like fighting a level one slime with endgame equipments. Well I only need to get a hit..... if it's possible.
"Are you nervous? This is only a test to measure your current level in fighting so I can adjust appropriately the lessons I'll give your class in the near future, don't worry I'll ensure you'll not get hurt."
"No, I'm not worried about sustaining injuries, I'm just curious why you're wearing a full body armor."
"Oh, I'm quite shy and I don't like showing my face, I don't feel comfortable if I wasn't inside my armor." Those words..... there's no way right? The familiar lines of a certain middle-aged man from my favorite series. Now that you look at it, his armor have a similar design to that man from the game. "Ready?" The only time he removes his helmet is when he's in a private place, there's no way for me to see, is he gonna accept if I ask him to remove his helmet?
"Yeah." But..... aren't I fucked if he's really that middle-aged man.
After moving away from each other and gaining appropriate distance, the match started. I don't have a proper stance because I've never properly hold a sword before, the only time I remembered is when I was in elementary. Each time I picked up a random cool stick, I swung and slashed the imaginary enemies I made up in my mind but this wooden sword is large and a little heavy, built to imitate a real long sword, that's why it's necessary to hold it with two hands if I want to block an attack.
It seems he's waiting for me to make a move, he wants me to do the attacking like with my classmates earlier. I should try my skill for an opening since he said we can use our skills if we want to, so that we can familiarize ourselves with skill activation. Fio said there are two ways to activate skills, either thinking or vocalizing, you can choose whichever way that suited you, I'm not really the type that shouts so thinking is fine.
[Fireball] a ball of fire appeared above my right hand, it's a little hot but it doesn't burn my hand at all, I mean if a Pyromancer's flame can burn its owner, isn't that a huge debuff? I turned my hand towards the direction where the knight is and at an incredible speed, the ball went towards the knight.
"..."
Although, the trajectory slightly changed a few meters before it stops and hits the wall of the barrier we're inside, they put this in order to protect the students, so that they can watch the match without worrying about getting hit by stray skills that is used by the fighters. Barrier asides, didn't my fireball moved a little to the side while traveling or am I seeing things? I'm sure I didn't mistake where the knight is when I fired earlier. What a useless fireball and it cost me 100 mana too, now I can only use it four times.
Since I learned shooting from afar is useless, I charged forward and attacked from the front, he blocked it easily because I'm too obvious. I continued with my obvious attacks, from the left, to the right but mostly from the front, to find if one of the attacks can get in, I attacked in a continuous manner and because of that my hand is now trembling. Since I'm slashing with one hundred percent force without stopping, when he blocks my sword, the aftereffect is hard and he's only doing nothing but dodging and blocking which makes finding a spot where my sword can hit is harder, probably because he want to see what I can do. This is tiring, attacking with what I call the serious obvious distraction attacks doesn't work..... I need to switch up, time to make use of the distraction part.
[Fireball]
Before I slow down with my attacks I fired a point-blank range fireball.
But he cut it up in two easily..... with a wooden sword.
"...Wow." I can't help but mutter.
The fireball created a smokescreen after being destroyed, now that it comes to this, time for my next plan... not that I have one.
