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Episode 2: Adventurer

Episode 2: Adventurer

"Hm. Its like this… a month after you've gone missing, over thousand space Rifts suddenly appeared everywhere on Earth, we called them Doors as it looks like a door. Monsters came out from this doors which cause a massive loss in the world. At first we thought that this is the dooms day but we discovered that some people gained super-natural ability causing the tide turns on humanity's side. Many super-natural ability user appeared everywhere, they are called Adventurers. Adventurers have the power to fight the horde of monster. They have their ranks which is base on their strength measured by a specific type of crystal, from the lowest which is Warrior rank, Commander, General, King, Emperor, Ancestor, Monarch, Saint, and the highest, the Demi-God rank. As of now the highest ranker is Johannes Clarkson, the top 1 adventurer in the whole world from U.S. So regardless of rank, adventurers can enter the Doors to force it close. To make it happen they need to fight and kill the Guardian of the Doors with his minions inside. After killing it, you have an hour before the doors disappears. The time limit is used to get different resources. Yes, the doors have it. Metal, ores, minerals, medicinal plants and herbs or even the carcass and core of monster and many more. All of them have their uses. You can exchange it for money. The adventurers are risking their life to get it. As for them to not abuse their powers all the countries teamed-up to organize and build the Adventurer's Association Hall 4 years ago. They implacate the rules and laws of Adventurers. It acts as the base of every adventurers in every country, let's save this for another time. So about our wealth, I accidentally put my hand on a very precious item called the Flower of Life from a rare monster called Crying Fairy. I sold it in the chinese government for a hefty price, I started a small weapon business, you know I'm a blacksmith, and it grows to a big company. I hired many adventurers for protection including your uncle Sebastian. He's a King ranked..."

The 2 of them talked the whole night. Until the party ended and they got home.

"I see. Earth now is not how it used to be."

"So son? What's your plan?"

"My plan? Nothing. I just want to continue my study. 5 years ago I've finished my highschool years. So I want to go in college now."

"Alright. Rest for now. Tommorrow we'll go to Adventurer's Assocation Hall before you go in admission for college."

"Adventurer's Association Hall? Why?"

"Of course I want to know if my son is awakened as an adventurer. Isn't it a shame if the hero who eradicated the demon clan is not an awakened adventurer right? Hahaha"

"Sigh. Hahaha is that really necessary? Hmm alright. You're the boss. Well its getting late. Goodnight dad."

"You too. If you need something don't hesitate to tell us okay?. So rest well."

They said their goodnights to each other and was ready to rest.

At Jin's room.

He sit on his bed.

("So many things happened. I still can't believe it. Sigh. Oh! better checked the chest I've got. System!")

He opened first the noob's chest. It contains; 1000 battle coins, 100 exp points and Necklace of Ifrit that can boost any fire ability by 5%.

"I have my battle coins now, so the shop is probably available now and I advance at level 2 so it gives me 1 stat points. Since my Int is low I'll put it there. As for the necklase, I have no use of it right now."

Next, he opened the Bonus chest which contains a free spin in Pandora's Wheel.

"Pandora's wheel huh. Let's see what you've got."

The pandora's wheel is one of the rare features of the system. It have 8 colors which is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet that corresponds on the color of the rainbow with additional color. Color black.

Red color contains a skill, orange is weapon, yellow is armor, green is accessory or an item, blue is adding 20 stat points. Indigo is battle coins, violet is random and the black, the worst of them all, is a curse.

Jin wants to try his luck but still doesn't dare. He's still considering the chances of getting the black in the wheel.

("What to do? What to do?")

After thinking for a while. Jin build his courage up and gonna try his luck accepting the probability of him getting the curse.

"Spin!"

The wheel spinning so fast that Jin's heart is racing with sweat dropping from his face.

("Not the black! Not the black! Not the black!") He keeps spouting this on his mind until the wheel slowed down and pointed to…

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"Whew! It's red."

Ding! The host gets a skill.

The skill is "Body of Medusa" (Passive). Class is Legendary. All poison can't harm the host. 100% immunity of all types of poison.

"Oh what a great harvest." He smile.

"Urgh. It's getting late. I should sleep now. Tommorrow will be so very busy."

At morning.

"Son are you ready for your evaluation?

"Can I enroll first before the evaluation?"

"Well, it's fine if that's what you want."

"Thanks dad! Let's go."

They rush to the top 1 university in the whole country.

With his father's connection, the procedure of enrollment goes smoothly.

Jin takes a biology course.

"Why biology?"

"Dunno. Maybe I think that it suits me."

"Heh. It's your choice. I don't have a say in that matter."

"Thanks dad."

"No problem. This is the least I can do for my son who is missing for 5 years to kill a bastard demon."

The 2 of them laughed all the way to the parking lot. Before they enter the car, another car stops near them and a man with a body guard comes out.

"Oh isn't it the president of the mighty Titanium Group. Good morning Mr. Cruz. Who's this guy over here? Is this guy your long lost son?" He points his finger to Jin.

His father whisper "Son, this is Miguel, the son of the president our rival company, the Iron Will Industry. He's a General rank adventurer. Avoid him. He always cause trouble."

"Oh? Hello there Miguel. This is my son Jin. By the way, how's your dad? Heard he's always not in a good mood after he lost to me his contract last time on being the AHH weapon supplier."

"Father is fine." He said with a forced smile.

"Oh look at the time. Sorry Miguel but we have things to do, so we'll bid our farewells. Goodbye."

("Remember this. Soon I'll destroy you and your family.") Miguel said to himself.

Now that they settle all the things there, they immediatly head to the Association.

At the Association's Building.

"It's so crowded in here." Jin said.

"Of course. The AAH is not only for evaluation. They also have a training facilities for free and they gives a lot of quest with good rewards. Many adventurers without guilds are always here."

"Guilds?"

"Yes. It's a group of adventurers you know. Usually guilds doesn't recruit common adventurers. So if you have a rare skill or a high rank, guilds will fight to get you.

"So that means most of the strong adventurers have a guild."

"Not all the time but yeah. And the strongest guild here in our country is the Dual Blade Guild. They composed of mostly high rank adventurers. The guildmaster is a King rank and people said that he is a great swordsman that never lose in his career as an adventurer."

"Swordsman huh. Interesting."

"Oh oh! Were here. The Evaluation room. Fortunately there's no people. Ahh? Excuse me? Were here for evaluation!"

Inside.

"Please touch this crystal ball sir." The staff said.

Jin puts his palm on the crystal ball.

As he touches the crystal it begins to glow.

The crystal emits different color of lights.

Jin backs off.

"The result are now here. Lets take a look on the crystal."

The staff drops the crystal as her body is shaking seeing the result.

"E..Emp..Emperor Rank!!!" She said with a shocked face.

"OH MY GOD!" His father said with a loud voice.

The news spread out like wind. Jin being an Emperor rank in his first evaluation cause an uproar in the whole world. Every newspaper in different country of asia are talking about him. Being a 4th Emperor rank adventurer in asia, however, Jin didn't get any invitation or recruitment to join in any guilds in his country because they simply don't know what to offer for an Emperor rank, besides he's also the son of the biggest weapon dealer in the country so he lack no resources.

Meanwhile, in the Iron Will Industry's Building, At the President's Office.

A man throws his glass of wine to the floor.

"FUCK! Hows that bastard's son became an Emperor rank! Now, how do I take down his company damn it! Call may son Miguel and don't mess with them for a while. Better laylow for now until we get an Emperor rank on our side." The Iron Will's president said to his secretary.

A few days later. At Jin's house.

"Big bro! You're amazing!" His little brother John said.

"What's amazing about me?"

"Eh? Because you're an Emperor! You're the most powerful adventurer here. You can beat everyone everytime you want."

"John, rank doesn't tell how strong the adventurer is. Sometimes a low ranker can defeat a high ranker and more importantly the greater the power the greater the responsibilty. Don't use it to beat down people whenever you want."

"But my classmate said the strong do they want. If you're weak you should do what the strong want."

"Sigh! Don't listen to them. The strong needs to protect the weak. Always remember that."

"Uh. Ok." John said with confused look.

"John, don't annoy your big bro." Their mother said while drinking her tea.

"It's ok mom." Jin replied.

"Uhhhh big bro? Could you show me some of your skills?"

("Come to think of it, I haven't tried if I can still use my skills from Arthas.")

"Sure let's go outside."

At the garden of thier mansion.

Jin take a wooden sword and attempts to use his sword's skill from Arthas but unfortunately he failed.

"Big bro, hurry, show me your skills."

Then Jin checked the sytem's shop if it has a sword skill but for the moment no sword skill is available. So he bought a random skill.

Ding! The host bought the skill "Thunder" (Active) and "Ice Spear" (Active).

Thunder: 0% Mastery.

Ice Spear: 0% Mastery.

("Sigh. Its a mage skill.")

Jin tried his newly acquired skills and shows it for his little brother.

The Thunder as its name tells, the user can summon 1 thunder strike, up to 5 if the mastery reaches 100%. The Ice Spear is...

the user can create a spear made out of ice one at a time. Usable for range attack only and not for melee. It can freeze the enemy if mastery reaches 100%.

"Big bro that's awesome! I wanna be like you in the future!" 

"I'm sure you'll be better than me." Jin said.

"Ehem! Who told you two to wreak my garden?" The mother said and pinch the cheeks of the 2.

"We're sorry mom!" The 2 brothers said and run back inside.

A Week later.

"Son, are you sure you don't need your uncle Sebastian to send you to school?"

"Yeah thanks dad but I can handle on my own"

"Well alright but If you need something just  call us ok?"

"Yeah sure! Gotta go. Bye Mom, Dad, you too John. Take care."

...

At the school entrance.

"Hey man look at that! Isn't he the hot topic on the news lately, the 1st Emperor rank in our country?

"Where? Oh yes it's him. My god! Don't tell me that he's a student here? Sweet!"

"Hey sis, looked at him. Isn't he handsome?"

"Oh yes. Look at his eyes. I think I'm in love."

The crowd talked non stop about Jin. Until the bell rung.