Hero's Intimidating Glare

For one week Dave and Ayano continued this kind of training.

Every day they would go for 5 hours in the city and do quests.

Another 8 hours he spent every day on training his body and skills. The both of them cleared in total 10 B grade quests, 25 C grade quests, 50 D grade quests, and only 5 E grade and 1 F grade quests because they simply weren't worth the effort. F grade quests mostly consisted of quests like an old woman needs your help. Go to the grocery store and buy her the following things.

The E grade quests weren't much better. Dave's first E grade quest turned out to be an exception. Normal for this grade were quests like someone lost his dog or cat help them find it. Obviously, the rewards and the training effect were extremely limited.

So both of them focused on harder quests. During an A grade quest, they even had to fight against a gang of bikers once. Without saying the fight was without any suspense. After all, the crowd control ability of Dave's [Bubble Control] was against normal people invincible.

While they went through all of this his stats and skills reached new heights. The pressure he had to endure because of dangerous quests, hard training, and only short breaks was so immense that his stats went through the roof. It wasn't even unthinkable that he could evolve his class in less than 2 months.

'Status'

Name: Dave Davidson Age: 21

Title: Wannebe Hero

Class: Man, who plays with bubbles Rank: 1 Star

Class Evolution: 60%

Attributes

Strength: E -> B-

Agility: C- -> A

Stamina: D+ -> B+

Wisdom: C- -> A

Intelligence: D+ -> A

Charisma: D- -> C

Heroism: 52 -> 1034

The greatest improvement happened to [Bubble Control] and [Newbie Hero's Radar].

[Bubble Control]: C+ -> A+

[Newbie Hero's Radar]: C -> A

The A+ allowed him to control bubbles naturally without much thinking and this enabled him to control even more at the same time.

Right now Dave was out in the field. He just finished another B grade quest. Ayano had no time today because her family's company had an important meeting.

Dave wanted to take a break from questing and grab something to eat when he noticed that his wallet was empty. These quests were really cool and dropped often good rewards for him but gold or money wasn't included yet. So he went with his empty wallet to the next bank to get some money.

The bank closest to him was the Atlantic bank. They were the official sponsor of the ALC Team Ocean Atlantic. Dave hoped no one would recognize him here. If a group of Ocean Atlantic hardcore fans attacked him because they were still angry at him for winning against their team in the world championship finale then he would be in serious trouble. Of course, he could easily use his [Bubble Control] to defend himself but ability users were prohibited to show off their powers to the general public. After all, the normal citizen was still without any kind of idea that ability users existed.

Standing in line at the counter Dave waited patiently for his turn the hood covering his head.

Suddenly a ruckus broke out.

"PENG, PENG, PENG."

5 men armed with guns covering their heads with balaclavas charged into the bank shooting at the ceiling.

"GET DOWN EVERYONE! FAST OR I WILL KILL YOU" A big man in the front shouted.

"Kiiiaaaaaaahhhh" A middleaged woman in front of Dave screamed shrill hurting Dave's eardrum.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP! YOU WHORE." A muscular man stepped forward with his hand raised. His hand shot down and was just about to hit her cheek when a strong grip caught his wrist.

"You really want to do that?" A menacing whisper leaving Dave's lips.

His eyes were like two burning circles glowing under his hood.

'It doesn't matter if I have a quest or not. I can't let these people die here.'

"BEEP."

[Your hero's conduct improved. You have the heart of a true hero.

Unlocked new Skill [Hero's Intimidating Glare]

Charisma C-> B

]

"Beep."

[Hidden Quest: Stop the Bank Robbery] [Difficulty: Hidden]

[You triggered the hidden quest to stop the Bank Robbery.

Quest clear condition:

Everyone survives

Catch all bank robbers

Success:

[Unlock Hidden Feature: Hero Skins]

[Apprentice Hero's Skin]

Heroism: 1111 -> 2095

Charisma: B -> B+

The Newspapers will celebrate you as a true hero.

Failure:

Heroism: 1111 -> 0

Charisma: F

The Newspapers will blame you.

]

Dave viewed the windows that popped up.

'Nice a new skill, have to check it out.'

He opened the skill description of [Hero's Intimidating Glare], while the bank robber was struggling to free his wrist from his iron grip.

[Hero's Intimidating Glare] [F]

[Your presence transcends human limits. Your gaze is every villain's horror. Grade of intimidation depends on your heroism and charisma. Strong personalities might withstand your glare. You need eye contact to activate the skill.

]

'Hero's Intimidating Glare'

Dave activated the skill right away. He focused his gaze on the man in front of him. Straight away his legs started quivering and he couldn't stand anymore.

"Be nice and sit down like a dog. If you behave you might survive this in one piece!" Dave didn't plan to kill anyone as firstly it would make him fail his quest and secondly he didn't plan on ever killing somebody. It was just that he hoped to increase the effect of his presence through some harsh words.

While Dave was still in his small debate, he was surrounded by the other 4 bank robbers, who were pointing their guns ready to shoot at any time in his direction.

"Let him go." The leader said obviously confused by Dave's intervention and his lack of fear.

"Drip. Drip. Drip."

"Do you mean him?" Asked Dave, while with one fast tug he whirled the bank robber in front of him. Dave twisted his arm until the guy's hand could touch his shoulder blades.

"Arrrgghhh. Please don't break my arm." The man pleaded.

"I told you to let him go." Repeated the leader himself this time even angrier than before. Since he couldn't shoot because Dave used his accomplice as a human shield, he charged forward.

With a smirk on his face, Dave said, "Here you can have him back." He gave the guy a strong push and both robbers banged into each other.

While everyone was distracted by Dave's actions he used his [Bubble Control].

Before when the leader had asked him the first time to let go, he had already prepared everything only notable through low dripping sounds.

Back then he spread the bubble liquid everywhere in puddles over the ground. Dave had to clear this quest not only, but he also had to do this in a way that no one would notice that he had a special ability. If he got on the bad side of the agency then his chances of joining them were ruined.

This was the main reason, why he didn't use his ability immediately and imprisoned them in a bubble. Nevertheless, through the puddles on the floor, he could change that in less than a millisecond if a life was in danger.

Now he planned to start phase two. While the robbers were still distracted, he let 5 small bubbles rise from the ground and placed them inside the muzzle of their weapons. These 5 bubbles were as hard as possible. In case of an emergency, they were supposed to block the shot bullets. But Dave felt he needed another safety measure this time for himself.

He didn't want that someone could, later on recognize him and so he created himself a blue opaque bubble helmet. It covered not only his mouth but his blond hair as well leaving only a slit for his eyes to look through. Thanks to the extra-large hoods he preferred since his days as a pro gamer, you had to stand face to face with Dave to see his mask.

Since he was well prepared for all eventualities he could now fight them with his body to his heart's content.

Right in front of him stood 5 guys guns raised.

"If you dare then shoot.", said Dave with an inviting hand gesture operating his [Hero's Intimidating Glare] to his fullest. His eyes seemed to be radiating the menace of a devil.

But what Dave didn't expect to happen was that in their fear two of the robbers pulled the trigger of their guns with quivering fingers.

"Peng. Peng."

"Booomm! Booomm!" 2 gunshots were heard followed by 2 explosions. The guns of the two exploded right in their hands leaving them with strangely twisted fingers and bleeding wounds on their arms.

"Ahhhh. Ahhhhhhhhh." The two of them screamed cowering on the floor.

"Well... Still, three to go." Said Dave and repeated the inviting hand gesture.

The three robbers, who were still left charged simultaneously at Dave, throwing their guns away. They didn't know what happened to them but after the guns of 2 of their colleagues exploded, they naturally didn't dare to shoot their own.

Dave smiled. For him, these three were just to slow. He dodged here a punch and there a kick at him always smoothly navigating through the gaps the three of them created.

"Is that all you have?", said Dave mockingly. "Then it is now my turn!"

He charged the first robber grabbed his index finger and whirled the man around. Then he took the other hand's index finger and created a cuff connecting both fingers behind the robbers back.

"Hmm... Like this, you can still run away... I guess I have no other choice." with these words Dave grabbed the cuffed robber's black sweatpants and pulled them down. Pants at his ankles, everyone could see that the robber was wearing white Boxershorts with red hearts, the line 'Mommy's Sweetheart written in every single heart.

"Pfffftttt." Dave couldn't stop himself from snorting with laughter at this sight and even the other robbers couldn't suppress their laughter.

"My mother bought these..." The man tried to defend himself but to no avail. His words only made everyone laugh even louder.

Dave was a friend of using chances and so he launched himself forward. Only 5 seconds later the other 2 robbers were standing there with cuffed fingers and pants at the bottom, too.

"Well, I didn't expect this!", said Dave pretending to cover with one hand his eyes.

"If you had shown these at the beginning of the fight you might have won." He said giggling to the leader.

The leader could only stand there, pants down for everyone to see a black thong between two hairy ass cheeks.

Again everyone was laughing but this time about the leader.

"Well, my mommy didn't buy me these." He said shooting a mocking glare at his colleague.