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The Junkyard Mechanic
Chapter 01: Big Copper Skin Cockroach

Chapter 01: Big Copper Skin Cockroach

The strength attribute value stats represents the overall physical prowess that the user can exert. So the higher the strength attribute value stats the more physical damage that the user can exert and dish out in a fight.

The agility attribute stats value represents the user base speed. So the higher the agility attribute stats the more faster you run.

The defence attribute stats value represents the amount of damage that the user can ignore or block. Usually, armour or additional layers of clothing can also increase the overall defence attribute stats slightly.

The dexterity attribute stats value represents the user's hand speed and maneuverability. So the higher the dexterity attribute stats, the more efficient and faster your hands maneuver at handling tools, blades, or weapons.

The endurance attribute stats value represents how much physical damage the user's body can endure. It can also be used to measure the development of user's body muscles mass.

The stamina attribute stats value determine the user's ability to sustain and endure prolonged physical activities or workouts.

The vitality attribute stats value measures the amount of life-force that the user has. So the higher the vitality attribute stats is the more health points the user has.

The fame attribute stats value is the same as its name implies. The higher the fame attribute stats is the more famous and widely known your name are to the world.

The intelligence attribute stats value represents the user's intelligence, mental development, and maturity. So the higher the intelligence attribute stats value, the more complex decisions and thinking process develops.

The wisdom attribute stats value measures how fast the user is able to process information. The wisdom attribute stats value can be used to increase thinking speed and make quick decisions on the spot.

The willpower attribute stats value measures the user's mental strength and the ability to control one's own actions, emotions, or urges. Willpower is often defined as either a showcased of discipline or self-restraint for one's own action.

The perception attribute stats measures how far the user can see, but can also be interpreted as the user's instinct or intuition in some cases.

The charm attribute stats value measures how attractive your physical appearance is.

The leadership attribute stats value measures how capable you are as a team leader withinside a group. So the higher the leadership attribute stats value is, the more you are capable of convincing and influence the mind of others with your words and speech.

The soul attribute value stats measures the size of the user's soul. It can only be increased by means of levelled ups or through a specific type of class or spiritual related skill.

The luck attribute stats attribute value is just like its name implies. It's just simply luck. Luck can affect you in any sort of ways, like winning a lottery, or getting shit on by passing flying bird or not.

John Oliver's particular awakened class is the Beginner Tinkerer. A basic a prerequisite class leading towards the Mechanic branch.

Unlike the typical ability user's class where they are awakened with one special ability skill in particular. After reaching level 100, you are able to rank up your ability user class, and strengthened your superpowered ability.

The class system user's levelling system is divided into 5 category level limits; beginner, advanced, intermediate, expert, master. With the beginner's levelling limit being at level 25.

You need to maxed out the current levelling limit of your class rank first, before advancing to the next class rank, and the class level being reset back to level 1 with the class levelling limit increased by 25 levels.

The difference between a class system user and an ability user is the way they gathered experience points to levelled up.

For example, a Mechanic class, they gained experience points by either crafting objects or killing mobs to gained experience points to levelled up.

However, such class system users such as the Warrior class and Swordsman class requires killing experience points to levelled up, but they compensate this for having a wide variety of class advancement options, branch class evolutions, and exclusive rights to aura and sword energy.

Gene Overall Potential is the rate and level at which you are evolving at a genetic level, which is a byproduct after the mutation apocalypse.

As the user grows and gains more levels later on down the line, their genetic strands and genes will also mutate and grow stronger to facilitate the user's evolution as a human being.

A type of energy is then generated which is called gene energy, which is similar to the viral energy which came from the meteorite that triggered the mutation apocalypse years ago.

The gene energy can also be used as a temporary source of energy to power mutation skills.

Mutation skills are obtained from the killing of mutated beasts and absorbing their inner mutated beast core. By ingesting the mutated beast core, there is a slight chance of obtaining the mutated beast's special exclusive skill.

However, as a consequence of consuming the mutated beast core. It strengthen your gene strands, amassing more gene energy, but as an aftereffect. It would then contiminate your human gene pool, thereby making you less of a human.

There were some mutation apocalypse survivor individuals within the past who consumed alot of mutated beast cores, thereby gaining alot of the mutated beast's skill, but at the sametime, acquiring additional body parts, limbs, skin colouration corresponding towards the mutated beast in which core originate from.

Right on time, whilst John Oliver's attention was focused on elsewhere, a big cockroach the size of an average adult male's hand then creepily crawled out from in between the gaps of the junk piles.

The big cockroach, the size of an average adult male's fist, has a shimmering orangey-brown metallic inveterate exoskeleton shell.

The fist sized cockroach, with a orangey-brown metallic exoskeleton, matches the exact physical description of a mutated beast creature that is depicted withinside John Oliver's memory.

'So this is the infamous Big Copper Skin Cockroaches that I've heard so much about, apparently it is what the people of the Outer City Districts commonly eat and hunt for sustenance.' John Oliver thought so to himself, as a light smirk then slowly crept up upon his childlike face.

Without uttering a single word out of his own mouth, John Oliver then immediately raises his left foot into the air and stamps down harshly upon the approaching Big Copper Skin Cockroach.

Though the Big Copper Skin Cockroach was repeatedly stamped upon by John Oliver's child sized foot. It didn't get out of the short confrontation unscathed.

The Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast like its name implies, its soft exterior exoskeletons is imbued with chitin and some compounds of metallic copper, thereby giving the Big Copper Skin Cockroach's a slightly more stronger and durable defence.

Repeatedly stamping caused by John Oliver's feet would definitely cause massive blunt forced trauma to the Big Copper Skin Cockroach's body. Strong enough to cause numerous dents and slight cracks withinside the Big Copper Skin Cockroach's exterior exoskeleton.

With the internal organs of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast being slowly crushed under extreme pressure.

The Big Copper Skin Cockroach is slowly dying, and is constantly letting out high pitched screeching noise, as it was slowly beaten to death being underneath John Oliver's foot.

Something caught John Oliver's little pair of eyes, as he was repeatedly stamping upon the dying body of the screeching Big Copper Skin Cockroach.

In which, he then reaches his right hand out into the large junk pile, and then grab a hold of a long rusty old metallic pipe that is made from copper. Evidently, due to a thick layer of turquoise green copper oxide and rust forming over the surface of the rusty old copper pipe.

'This thing would surely come in handy as an useable weapon.' John Oliver thought so to himself, as he then pulls the rusty old long copper pipe out from the large junk pile.

Without another word, John Oliver then lightly positions the bend corner end of the long rusty old copper pipe, where the location of where the Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast's head should be.

Like a lightning flash execution, the guillotine blade will descend to decapitate and cut the prisoner's head off.

So after positioning the corner end of the rusty old long copper pipe to where the head of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach's head supposed to be.

John Oliver then grips the other end of the rusty old long copper pipe tightly, before slamming the head of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach with the rusty old long copper pipe to pull, and parts of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach's brain then started to ooze out.

Ding!

System Notification You have successfully killed a tier 1 mutated beast Lv.11 Big Copper Skin Cockroach! You have obtained 550 experience points!

System Notification Enough experience points has been gathered! You have levelled up and become level 2! You have gained 3 unallocated stats points as a levelling up bonus! You have gained 1 unused class skill points as a levelling up bonus!

System Notification Enough experience points has been gathered! You have levelled up and become level 3! You have gained 3 unallocated stats points as a levelling up bonus! You have gained 1 unused class skill points as a levelling up bonus!

System Notification Enough experience points has been gathered! You have levelled up and become level 4! You have gained 3 unallocated stats points as a levelling up bonus! You have gained 1 unused class skill points as a levelling up bonus!

'I've managed to gain 3 levels from killing a measly little cockroach.' John Oliver thought so to himself, as a light smirk then appeared on his childlike face.

He then curiously thought to himself. 'I should properly test out my Appraisal skill upon this recently deceased Big Copper Skin Cockroach to see how the Appraisal skill actually works in action.'

John Oliver then recited the keyword of activation 'Appraisal' withinside his head, in order to activate his Appraisal identification skill.

A glowing white outline then appeared over the recently deceased carcass of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast that only he can see and visibly notices, before information of the recently deceased Big Copper Skin Cockroach is then shown in front of him. All compiled together into a single blue screen display panel.

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The Carcass of a Dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach!

And due to the level and proficiency of the Appraisal skill being too low, only the name of the identified object is rightfully displayed upon the blue screen panel.

Ding!

John Oliver then heard the sound of the system prompt message resounding deeply withinside his head, as a blue screen panel then appears in front of him, showcasing his progress at handling the Appraisal skill.

System Notification You have successfully identified the [Carcass of a Dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach]! The skill proficiency of the Appraisal skill has gone up by 4.8%!

'Interesting...' John Oliver thought so to himself, with a slight smile plastered upon his face.

He then thought to himself. 'If I repeatedly use the Appraisal skill upon the carcass of the recently deceased dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast. I should be able to gather enough skill proficiency to levelled up the Appraisal skill to the next skill level.'

'How hard can it possibly be to levelled up the Appraisal skill?' John Oliver asked himself a rhetorical question to make a point.

With that thought in mind, John Oliver then repeatedly activated his Appraisal skill to identify the deceased carcass of the dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach, exactly twenty-one times to garnered enough skill proficiency to levelled up the Appraisal skill.

Ding!

The familiar repetitive sounds of the system prompt message keeps ringing withinside his head, until he saw a completely different blue screen panel appearing before him.

System Notification You have successfully identified the [Carcass of a Dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach]! The skill proficiency of the Appraisal skill has gone up by 4.8%!

System Notification You have successfully identified the [Carcass of a Dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach]! The skill proficiency of the Appraisal skill has gone up by 4.8%!

System Notification You have successfully identified the [Carcass of a Dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach]! The skill proficiency of the Appraisal skill has gone up by 4.8%!

System Notification You have successfully identified the [Carcass of a Dead Big Copper Skin Cockroach]! The skill proficiency of the Appraisal skill has gone up by 4.8%!

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System Notification The skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill [Appraisal Lv.1] has levelled up and become [Appraisal Lv.2]!

Not much change has occurred to the Appraisal identification skill after it has levelled up and become level 2.

However, a side effect of overusing the Appraisal skill is that it causes the user to experience a splitting headache to occur.

Normally, the side effect is minimal and almost non-existent, but due to the repeated and consecutive used of the Appraisal skill. The negative side effects of overusing the Appraisal skill seems to have stacked together, causing the intensity of headache to quadruple in size.

'Ugh!' John Oliver thought, thereby making a slightly painful facial expressions, as he then grabs his head to exemplified how painful his splitting headache is.

He then accidentally loosen his grip, his fingers letting go of the rusty long old copper pipe, thereby causing it to steadily fall to the ground with a very loud thud. It then snaps John Oliver out of his semi dazed state.

Like a boiling electric kettle, onced the water withinside the electric kettle has reached a high enough boiling point. The switch then goes off, which then turns off the electric coil that is heating up the cold waters withinside the electric kettle.

And after activating the Appraisal skill around twenty-one times in rapid succession. Onced the primary directive goal of levelling up the Appraisal skill to level 2 has been achieved, the intensity of the splitting headache then slowly but gradually decreased in intensity overtime.

A small droplet of bodily sweat then slowly dribble down the sides of John Oliver's cheeks from his burning forehead to the tip of his chin.

Though it only took him less than a minute to garnered enough skill proficiency to levelled up the Appraisal skill. The horrifying experience and the longstanding intense headache made it seems to be alot longer than a measly minute.

'Well, damn.' John Oliver made a slight comment as his splitting headache then started to clear up.

'I should make a mental note not to overused my Appraisal skill, otherwise I would have to go through another horrifying headache of an experience again.' He thought to himself.

And after the intense splitting headache of overusing the Appraisal skill has completely subsided, was John Oliver able to think clearly by himself, without being interrupted by his splitting headache.

'And now, what should I do now?' John Oliver thought so to himself.

As he then bends his knees down and squated, in order to reach and grabbed the long rusty old copper pipe with his left hand, and the right picking the dead carcass of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach off from the ground.

A random thought then suddenly crossed John Oliver's mind, as his pair of eyes then seamlessly wandered off around the junkyard grounds.

'Hmmm...' John Oliver made a slight pause withinside his sentence, before continuing on that particular line of thought. 'Just like how I've managed to luckily found a useful mid-range close combat melee weapon amongst the mountainous heaps of junk piles. There's gotta be some useful junk that are like precious treasures, hidden amongst the useless trash and garbage.'

'The Appraisal skill could be used to identify the useful junk hidden amongst the wasteful garbage.' John Oliver thought.

He then continues along that particular line of thought. 'At the same time, I can slowly accumulate the skill proficiency of Appraisal overtime as I continued to used the skill, instead of using it in rapid succession just to gain quick skill proficiency to level up the skill.'

With that thought in mind, John Oliver then began to scour through the trash of someone else's junk. Not before placing the dead carcass of the Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast inside of his pocket before his search.

The goop from the Big Copper Skin Cockroach mutated beast's head and brain would dirty his pants pocket and clothes, but since John has lived most of his entire life not taking a bath that often. He is used to getting his body dirty and covered in dirt.

John Oliver didn't used the Appraisal skill in rapid succession like he previously did before, instead there is a few short seconds of interval for the side effects of using the Appraisal skill to completely dissipate.

Ding!

The sounds of the system prompt message resounding deeply withinside his head, as a blue screen panel then appears, showcasing him the object that he is currently appraising.

System Notification You have successfully identified the object [Old Broken Robot Owl Drone]! The skill proficiency of the skill Appraisal skill has gone up by 5.3%!

'Oh, sick! I've managed to find myself a used and discarded away broken robot.' John Oliver thought, upon finding the Old Broken Robot Drone.

He then thought so to himself. 'Too bad that it is currently broken and discarded, otherwise it won't be thrown here in this junk.'

'I wonder if maybe I can somehow fix this broken piece and heap of junk, with my skill and awakened class.' John Oliver thought.

Nevertheless, he didn't possess the rightful skill and the knowledge of a Mechanic or Engineer class in order to fix and repair the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone, but nevertheless, he still wanted to try.

John Oliver then thought so to himself. 'Currently, I only have around two active skill which are Basic Assembly and Basic Disassembly that are related towards my Beginner's Tinkerer class.'

'Let's test the skill out on this broken heap of junk now shall we.' John Oliver thought, as he then lightly places his right hand on top of the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone.

Without actually saying the name of the skill out loud, John Oliver had made a mental command 'Basic Disassembly' withinside his head, which then automatically triggers the [Basic Disassembly] skill.

The entire outline of the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone is then shown, visibly only exclusive to him.

Ding!

And John Oliver then immediately heard the sound of the system prompt message resounding deeply withinside his head, as a blue screen interface panel then shows up, asking him if he would like to disassembled the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone or not.

System Notification Would you like to disassembled the mechanical object [Old Broken Robot Owl Drone]?

Accept Decline

John Oliver having already decided to use his Basic Disassembly skill on the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone, so he then immediately presses upon the Accept button on the current blue screen interface panel.

Onced the system has recognised John Oliver's input command into the blue screen interface panel. The blue screen interface panel then immediately vanishes, as the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone then started the process of disassembling itself.

A circular countdown timer then appears in front of the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone, counting down the duration of how long it properly takes for the system to completely disassembled the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone.

02 hour 43 minutes 27 seconds remaining!

'Well...' John Oliver was certainly somewhat surprised at how wierd his disassembling ability is, but is not quite outside of his field of expectations.

He then thought to himself. 'If the Basic Disassembly skill was to be instantaneous and consumes nothing as a result, then it would be too OP of a skill and is not quite well balanced for the basic Beginner's Tinkerer's class.'

'The whole disassembling process is done automatically by the systemitself. So I don't really see the need to be quite dissatisfied with the long duration of skill.' John Oliver thought, as he then gave the system his nod of approval.

Afterwards, John Oliver then got up and started to inspect the junk withinside his surroundings, and steadily casting his Appraisal identification support skill in order to identify the following objects.

However, the moment when the distance between himself and the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone greatly exceeds 1 meter in length, something odd then suddenly occurred which definitely caught him off-guard.

Ding!

John Oliver then suddenly heard the sound of the system prompt message resounding deeply withinside his head, and a blue screen panel then appears in front of him.

System Notification Warning: The distance between you and the disassembling mechanical object has exceeded the 1 meter distance limit. You have exactly 60 seconds to get closer towards the disassembling object or the disassembling process will be cancelled indefinitely!

The system has gave John Oliver an immediate warning to not get too far away from the now currently disassembling Old Broken Robot Owl Drone, or the whole automatic disassembling process will be cancelled.

"What the..." John Oliver exclaimed outwards in great shock, but after quickly skimming through the content of the system prompt message.

John Oliver then immediately retraced backwards his steps, and then enter the 1 meter radius distance from the now currently disassembling Old Broken Robot Owl Drone.

And after he got closer to the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone and staying within the 1 meter distance limit from the disassembling object. The countdown timer which came to a sudden halt when the distance between himself and the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone greatly exceeds the 1 meters distance limit, then suddenly began to resumes counting down again when he got closer towards the Old Broken Robot Owl Drone.

"Huh." John Oliver made a slight sound in order to express great sense of dissatisfaction, but nevertheless, he relented since the situation is now outside of his hands now.

A thought then suddenly crossed his mind. 'If the distance between myself and the disassembling mechanical object is greater than 1 meter, then the whole automatic disassembling process will be cancelled automatically by the system.'

'Then couldn't I just carried the now disassembling Old Broken Robot Owl Drone with me, wherever I go, the distance between me and the disassembling object doesnt exceed 1 meter, then the problem is solved.' He thought, whilst slightly shrugging off his shoulders.

'Well, the system sure is taking its time disassembling the whole Old Broken Robot Owl Drone down. I'm just sure wish that there is somehow someway a way to speed up the whole disassembling process.' John Oliver thought so to himself, until he suddenly remembers something out of the blue.

'If I recall correctly that I can increase the clockspeed of the Basic Disassembly skill by increasing either my wisdom, dexterity, as intelligence attribute stats in order to shorten down the duration that it literal takes to disassembled a mechanical object.' John Oliver thought, as he then opens up his own status screen.