The Boat Ride

On June 16, 3030. On an early Wednesday morning as everyone was waking up. The Free Garden Stadium in New Jersey, New America, was engulfed in flames by a massive explosion that covered the whole stadium.

News casts all over the world reported on it as breaking news. Forums all over the internet had many conspiracy theories. "Aliens! The explosion was fake! The explosion was set up by the government! Terrorists! Football haters!"

Many people had different opinions, but most of them were put to rest when the King of New America presented himself on a broadcast. He was streaming to the whole world, not just the citizens of New America, who were suffering from the tragedy.

The King kept his composure for most of the stream, addressing the concerns of citizens and the concerns for the sport viewers. "We will be putting our money and any other donations from citizens to rebuild the stadium. It will be a hard fought recovery. BUT! To the people responsible for this-this TERRORIST ATTACK. We will hunt you down and make sure justice is served." The broadcast ended shortly after his outburst of justice.

While news spread throughout the world, Prometheus laid adrift on Jake's boat. He had fallen asleep for a few hours, he woke up hungry. There was plenty of food on the boat and other necessities, such as water, medical supplies, and tools. He ate, then took off his shirt as it started getting hot. He wrapped his shirt around his forehead, then opened his menu.

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[Name: Prometheus Morgan]

[Level: 67 {3318/6700}]

[Age: 16]

[Title: The Collector]

[Class: Killer]

[Stats:

-Strength: 1 (+10)

-Intelligence: 1

-Durability: 1

Allocation Points: 67]

[Skills: Blood-lust Lvl. 2 | Scientist Lvl. 1 | Soldier Lvl. 5 | Arsonist Lvl. 1]

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Prometheus was still in disbelief at how much he had leveled up. He had leveled up 45 times since the last time he checked. "How many died during that explosion," he thought. He had felt stronger ever since he had the (+10) buff on his strength. Curious he called upon the system. "Help, what are these stats, what are my new skills?"

Prometheus waited for his system to finish searching for articles. Once they were found, he let his system explain to him what each stat did and his skills. While the system explained, he browsed on Jake's phone finding applications such as a GPS, wallet, and phone.

[Stats, these can be increased through allocating your allocation points. Increasing your strength, increases your physical prowess. Increasing Intelligence increases your memory capacity, learning potential and speed, and skill efficiency. Increasing your durability increases your regenerative abilities and resistance against physical attacks.]

"Interesting. I think I'll be focusing more on Intelligence then. Intelligence and durability," Prometheus pauses, "Maybe I should also increase my strength as well. Where did I get that plus ten anyway?"

[Soldier skill, this is a passive. It increases your strength by two per level of soldier. Soldier can be leveled up by killing other soldiers and gaining their title from your own ability of 'The Collector' or you can do calisthenics.]

"That's right. My title, 'The Collector', if I got the arsonist skill that must have meant that... Jake died. His title must have been 'The Arsonist' since he did talk about starting a fire when he gained XP from killing for the first time."

[Arsonist skill allows you to create flames as long as you have a fuel source. This can be leveled up by lighting things on fire, or creating fire.]

The system paused, it was searching.

[Priority help queue finished. Help resumed.]

[Scientist skill is a passive that increases your chances of experiments going well by 10% per level. This can be leveled up by experimenting.]

"What a useless skill," Prometheus said, grabbing a bag that was on the boat. Inside of the bag were lumps of coal, he closed the bag. He then looked at his phone, the GPS had a destination of Greece. Prometheus had already positioned the boat to go for straight for Greece. The boat had a motor on it, which propelled it forward, along with a sail that allowed the wind to make the boat go even faster. On the boat there were spare oars in case anything had happened. The boat was relatively small though, whenever Prometheus slept he had to curl up.

Prometheus stared at the GPS, 'Do I really need to join that revolutionary group? I'm too tired, I rather just go home, they don't need me... Maybe they do, one of their members died. I might as well join since I caused one of their members to die. It's only right. Right?'

Prometheus rests his head on his hand, sighing and becoming frustrated. "I'll just go home. I'm not meant for this. I'll only help out if they are short on members or something."

Prometheus opened his menu once more, looking at his stats. '67 allocation points,' he thinks, "System. Allocate 17 points into durability."

[Allocating..... Allocation complete, durability now 18, 50 allocation points left.]

Prometheus immediately felt his body tense up, he felt it get harder. Prometheus grabbed the bag of coal, opened it and grabbed a lump from the pile inside the bag, he then smashed it against his abs. He didn't flinch nor did he even leave behind a scratch. "Interesting, the coal didn't break though."

[Scientist Lvl. 1 -> Scientist Lvl. 2]

"I guess that did count as an experiment. Alright, system allocate 30 points into intelligence. Then allocate 10 into strength and 10 into durability!"

[Allocating.... Allocation complete. Intelligence now 31, strength now 11 (+10), durability now 28. 0 allocation points left.]

Prometheus' eyes widen then relaxed, he felt more refreshed and centered. His body and mind felt transcended, like he just went through hours of working out and studying without having to deal with any of the fatigue or struggle. "This is why the government wanted to hide this from everyone. The world would really go to hell if everyone can become like this."

Prometheus placed the lump of coal back into the bag and closed it up. He then made room on the boat for him to perform some sit ups. He was able to do it with extreme effectiveness mostly due to his strength stat and durability. A few days ago he was only able to do 30 sit ups before feeling like his abs were going to fall off. Now he breezed through 100 within 30 seconds, he didn't even feel a bit of pain coming from his abs.

After doing exercising for a minute, he stops, he hasn't broken a sweat yet, but he hasn't leveled up his soldier stat either. "I'll take a break for now. I need to think of a way to exercise more efficiently, I'll probably be able to level up faster the more I strain my body."

Prometheus thinks for a moment, then gets up on the boat. He gets low to get into a handstand position. Despite his newfound strength he was still struggling to keep a good balance. He struggled, but not for long as he was able to get it under control. He then performed handstand push-ups, it caused more strain for him, but yet again he didn't feel any pain after doing them for a minute.

"I need weights," he says getting back on his feet. "I don't really- The coal! I can make weights out of them!"

Prometheus worked for the rest of the day, turning the bag of coal and a handle of a tool into a weight. He had emptied the coal bag and the tool bag onto the boat floor. then put some lumps of coal in both bags, tying them both up into a ball. He then ripped apart an ax. Using the handle as a bar to connect the two coal bags. It wasn't too heavy, but it was heavy enough.

Prometheus exercised all day, only taking breaks to eat and sleep. He did this for four days, until he saw land that reminded him of Greece. He was home.

[Soldier Lvl. 5 -> Soldier Skill Lvl. 10]