“THUNDERBOLT!” I screamed as I brought down a bolt of thunder that zipped the fucking monster we are facing off in the dungeon of our exam ground.

With his wealth and power, I wasn’t surprised when old man Eiji started to open dungeons on the spot where the test takers were divided into groups of 100 and followed different instructors into different dungeons.

Not sure how the group was picked up, sadly, Emma was in a different group but in the same dungeon. But that mother fucking bitch Yang happened to be in my group for whatever reason. I think they purposefully tried to nerf me by taking away both my sidekick and placing an annoyance in my way.

“What item gave you that skill? I have never seen a skill called thunderbolt before on the forums. How much money did you spend on your gear?” Yang asked, kept going on and on when I was obviously not interested in talking to her.

“Yang… I am trying to focus and get accepted to the academy. Not here to chit chat with a China girl with broken Japanese.” I replied while trying to shoo her away.

“Since you are a orphan, I doubt you have much money. Did your owner, the Lionheart girl, buy it for you so you could keep serving her when she goes to the academy? And I told you to call me Mia, your Japanese isn’t much better than mine if you can’t even get that simple request down.” Yang said to me. Why won’t this chick leave me alone? I just want to get done with the stupid exam so I can get away from her.

“Yang, go find someone else to bother. I know you are trying to throw me off because of some online dispute we might have had but I am in no mood and just want to pass the exam.” I told the bitch who just won’t leave me alone.

“Ken... I don’t have any online disputes with you. I told you my name is Mia, are you that dumb?” Yang said to me, getting frustrated.

Why the fuck are you getting frustrated for? You are the one who’s annoying me this whole time! Fucking Mia, why the fuck would I care your fucking name is Mia. Wait a fucking second! I have been so focused on the exam I think my brain short circuited.

“Wait. Are you fucking ‘MiMiMia’?” Got to me shitting me, my bff on the forums who’s always on my side? Mia?

“Yes, you doofus. I can’t believe you took this long to realize who I was. We've been chatting on the forums for how many years?”

Well, as a regular on the web and forums and someone with strong opinions and doesn’t mind sharing it with whoever wants to listen. Once in a while you will meet someone who you get along with and for me, that would be ‘MiMiMia’ who shared a lot of the same taste. Looking at the cute girl now, I think I was a little too harsh on her wasn’t I? Na. She was in the wrong! Should have told me who she was in the beginning instead of getting me agitated.

“Well, I guess if you are Mia then it would make sense you would know I would be with a blondie and be here for the exam. I guess things are adding up.” I concluded since I have obviously told my online bff about the exam day and that my sidekick is a super hot blondie.

“You never mentioned your super hot blondie was the daughter of C. Lionheart though. I was shocked when I inspected her.” China girl replied.

Who do you think I am? I might brag about having a cutie blondie as my sidekick, but I’m not just away telling people that she is a billionaire’s daughter. Not like people would believe me anyways.

“I guess you are one rich girl yourself. Able to buy yourself a Japanese citizenship.” I replied while checking the China girl out more closely now that I know who she is.

“Yea. My dad is Yang Xia so we are quite well off as well.” Mia replied, expecting me to know who the fuck Yang Xia is.

“Never heard of him.” I replied casually. Like who the fuck is this Yang Xia.

“How do you not know one of the Elite 50?” Mia said in a surprised tone.

“There are 50 mother fuckers in the elite 50! I don’t have the time or energy to remember them all! I know the 2 from Japan, Emma’s dad and the current number 1.” I answered.

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Who does she think I am? Why should I bother remember fuckers who I will beat one day anyways when I reach the top.

“You know. Most people behave totally differently in real life compared to their online personality but you are exactly how you behave online.” She said happily.

“Is that a compliment? And you are much nicer to me online. You were like my online sidekick, but I am not sure how I like this persona.”

“Well. If you weren’t being such an ass to me, maybe I would have been nicer.” Mia replied. Fair point I guess, I was rather rude to her and she is quite cute.

After realizing Mia was my online bff, the rest of the exam went by a little smoother. It didn’t take long for us to gather that the dungeon we are in is a mid level C dungeon where the monsters were mostly around level 35.

For me and Emma who have only been in Level E and D dungeons, the monsters here are definitely much tougher but since it’s an exam, we were only tasked with showing off what we could do and the instructor wasn’t going to let any of us test takers get killed.

Unlike Emma who only took support skills if offered so she could boost me like my good sidekick, Mia is a powerhouse with crazy strong offensive abilities and is definitely going down the route of your generic offensive mage.

Yes. Emma is most likely going down the route of your generic support, but me? I am going down the route of whatever the fuck skills I get since that is all I can do.

While shouting thunderbolt has been rather fun, I wouldn’t mind getting some good melee combat skills so I can be more of an all rounder. Unlike our lower level dungeons, the hp on those fuckers are so much higher now that I am in my first ever Level C dungeon.

Even this fucking king slime I am currently facing for my exam. While the motherfucker looks just like a bigger version of the slimes I had been slaying for 12 years, this piece of shit actually has a much higher attack and 50,000 hp!

Thankfully, while the motherfucker is a colossal ball of turd, it's only attack is a physical attack and with its 255 att, I would only take damage if this motherfucker crits.

“I guess in level C dungeons, monsters will start having maxed out stats? Emma and I have only ever fought in level D and E dungeons.” I wondered out loud, hoping that my online bff would answer my question.

“Well, level C dungeons can contain monsters up to level 50 and some will not only have maxed out stats but also special skills that allow them to boost way above similar to how we can wear items. But king slime is just a mid level monster so all it has is some high stats and nothing else scary about it.” Mia answered.

Thank you online bff, I know I was pretty mean to you but I have learned from my mistake. I will start being nicer to strangers. Actually? I take that back. I don’t have another online or irl bff? Why should I act differently towards anyone else? Not like another random online bff could pop up out of nowhere to make more characters to the story.

“THUNDERBOLT!” I screamed again as I summoned another bolt of raw energy that didn’t do much damage to the stupidass slime.

“Fireball!” Mia said in her normal voice as she sent a large ball of fire at the slime.

With the instructor casually tanking the king slime, the 100 of us lined up in a line and each used a single skill or dashed up to hit the slime once before the next person went up for their turn.

After a few rounds, the king slime was down to a few hundred hp and the instructor casually finished the giant piece of blob off as the group got our first party kill on the king slime. I wish the fucker would have let me land the killing blow so I know if it would count as a slime kill or a new category like the bats.

“Man, feels weird. First time in my life I’m not partying with my trusty blondie.” I said, missing my blondie dearly.

“I still can’t believe there is a person who can be stuck at level 0. You did go and ask the association for an answer right?” Mia asked.

“No shit I did. And guess what they said. ‘Everything in the system is working as intended. Unfortunately, while some people are born lucky, you seem to be born without the ability to level and there is nothing we could do.’ and that is the fucking story of my life.” I replied angrily.

Man, every time I remember that story, it pisses me off. Why me? Oh well, thankfully the protagonist can not be denied his glory and I will rise to the top even with this piece of shit rigged system.

“How did you do the most damage?” Mia suddenly asked angrily while I was in the middle of my monologue.

As I looked at my party screen, it showed the total damage dealt to the king slime from each of the party members and I came in top with the most damage dealt while Mia came in 2nd.

“Obviously it’s because I am the fucking protagonist.” I answered with a sneer.

“Poison damage? How did you do poison damage when you used thunderbolt each time? What cheating items did your blondie buy you?” Mia pressed on. Like chill girl, just because I was sorry for being rude to you doesn’t mean we are suddenly bff irl.

“Hey now. Don’t go accuse my sidekick. That was all me and if I feel like it. I might share my secrets with you later. But instead of getting distracted by my awesomeness. We should get our asses moving so we don’t miss the group and the 2nd round of testing.” I replied.

Ah, that felt good. I knew my poison lace passive was fucking amazing and with how much poison DOT damage i dealt, it was like I got double the hits in compared to everyone else. No shit I am going to come out on top and I will remain on top for the entire test.

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