Gaining my system

The sun glared through my window and woke me up, my small room in my schools dorm was washed in the light of the early morning sun. I have lived in this room ever since my mum and dad passed away, about two years ago now. They died when someone broke into my house to steal our stuff, he used an extremely banned weapon from before the Enlightening, a gun. My parents, being people who always had magic, were unable to stop the ancient machinery that they were killed by. A lot of magic is able to stop bullets but my family was poor and were unable to buy the skill books required to learn them, if maybe my dad hadn't had his system taken away after his days in the army he would have survived.

Magic started to appear after a huge surge of mana hit the earth. It was called the Enlightenment because people back then thought that it was Gods way of helping us. This was not the case.

After the Enlightenment, mana was infused into people's DNA and they learnt how to use skills and magic. Dungeons started appearing and animals that were once simple creatures, became Magical Beasts that were extremely hard to deal with. If not for the genius idea to create skills from Hunter type systems, for people without fighting systems, humanity may have been destroyed in the early days of the Enlightenment. Though many knew that the Enlightenment was anything but a gift from God, the term caught on and people just referred to it as that.

It's been almost 80 years since the Enlightenment and people are still discovering new skills to use, that's why there are so many academies all around the world, to discover the skills of the new generations. So far each generation has been stronger than the last and their magical potency has gotten a lot better.

But anyway, now that you know all that, back to me.

After waking up, I got dressed into my usual school uniform. It was a dark green blazer, grey trousers and white shirt, extremely old fashioned but it was the original school uniform and the headmaster decided to keep it. The white shirt hung loosely off of my skinny body, I was pale white and always compared to a vampire. Like vampires, I barely went outside during the day and always kept to myself. Before I left I sorted out my messy brown hair and tidied up my room.

Today was the big day, at the age of 14 every kid has their brand removed. Oh yeah, I forgot to explain those. Every child is branded as soon as they are born, it's not anything weird and doesn't leave an actual mark. It stops the child's system and mana forming, well it freezes the formation. They do this so there aren't any two year olds throwing deadly fire balls at their parents when they are angry. The first generation did that a lot, so sealing magicians came up with the ingenious idea to seal the systems. Once someone's system appears they are able to join different academies and later become Hunters and join different guilds to kill Magical beasts and defeat dungeons.

Well back to my story,

Today was the big day, I'm getting my brand removed and my system would appear, many people say it's like a video game from before the Enlightenment, but it was different for everyone.

Most people get the standard systems like Builders, Accountants but occasionally there are the Hunter systems such as Knights, Mages, Healers and others but there can be the rare system appearing every now and again, for example the current number one Hunter has a really rare system, Magic Swordsman. Basically they are a cross between a Knight and Mage, but there are other systems that can be really obscure like Summoner who can summon different Magical Beasts to aid them.

Back to my school day, it was the last day of the school year so everyone was 14 when the brands were taken off. I'm not sure why it's 14 but I won't question it, the first generation had made rules for a reason. As I walked towards the entrance to school, I heard my name being yelled behind me

"Luke!" I could feel the malicious intent that came with that one word.

"Kyle, how are you doing?" I asked with a forced smile.

"I'm good yeah, I'm gonna get a strong system cuz ya know my dads a Hunter. You'll probably get something terrible, seeing as your parents couldn't even defend themselves from an intruder."

Clenching my fist, I decided not to hit him. My dad always told me that if there was a peaceful way I should take it, and ever since he passed it has stuck with me.

"Okay buddy" I replied while sticking up my two thumbs, sounding extremely sarcastic, which I intended.

"The hell you say" Kyle raised his fist to punch me. His round, ugly face turned red from anger.

As he did my legs sprung into motion and I started to run towards the class block where my home room was, I would be kind of safe if I made it there. After running about 50 metres, I made it to the class block where the school guards nodded to me as I rushed past. Running through the halls, sweat formed on my forehead and I began to run out of breath.

I could hear the thumping footsteps of Kyle following behind me, my scrawny legs ran as fast as they could and burnt like fire from hell. After running all the way along my class block and up several flights of stairs with Kyle constantly hot on my heels, I finally made it to my classroom.

I burst through the wooden door and to my desk as fast as my tired legs could move. Kyle followed me into the classroom and seeing me sit down, he decided to give up and go to his seat. The teacher in my home room, Mr Ohara, bellowed

"Stop running in my class"

"Sorry Sir!" I replied meekly and with heavy breathes. I don't even know how I did that.

After sitting down and gaining my breathe, I thought, Why did Kyle get so annoyed at me? He's got such a bad temper, he's even attacked a teacher before. Course that didn't work out because everyone who is a teacher has at least one attacking skill. They are mandatory just in case someone tries to attack their students.

People started filling up the classroom and the noise level started to rise. By the time the class of full of students, I could barely hear myself think.

"Okay everyone, I know you're excited to unlock your systems, but please be quiet"

As soon as Mr Ohara said this everyone was instantly quiet, they all knew not to go against Mr Ohara. He was terrifying.

"One by one you will all step up and unlock your system, it will be in register order. If one of you awakens a special system then an academy will be alerted and you shall be accepted without having to take the entrance exam."

One by one my classmates walked up to the front of the class, each one of them got a system that were mainly used for construction or menial jobs.

Unsurprisingly, Kyle got a Fighter System. It was the same as his dad's system and was mainly a heavy dps system. They mainly gained skills from their systems for brawling and hand to hand combat.

"Wow aren't you special" Mr Ohara said, his words oozing with sarcasm. Just before this Kyle was flaunting his ability to become a Hunter, one of the most lucrative job opportunities, but also one of the most dangerous. Hunters are tasked with going into dungeons, killing excess Magical Beasts and defending cities when there are Beast Hordes.

With my last name being Saten, I was pretty far down the register. But after most of the class was done, I was due to go next. I would finally get my system, even common systems like Builder or Secretary would be helpful, I have little to no income so any money I make will be amazing. Without my parents having Hunter Systems then I had no hope of having one, actually now that I think about it my dad might have had one, he was once in the army after all, before he was crippled.

As I walked up to the class I could hear Kyle whispering to the other kids around him,

"Watch how he gets a trash System..."

I never really knew why he always picked on me, I tried to stay out of his way, other than being poor and having no parents, I wasn't very different from him.

These thoughts raced through my head as I walked towards the stage at the front of the class.

Once I had reached the front of the class, Mr Ohara took out a small rod and placed it against my wrist just like how he did with all my other classmates.

[System Activated]

My head was wracked with pain as a sky blue prompt appeared in front of me.

[Demonic System Formed]

[Demonic System]

Master of all things demonic

Luke Lv1

HP: 10/10

Mana: 20/20

Strength:10

Agility:10

Intelligence:15

Skills:2

[Demon's Saving Grace]

Hides the fact that you have the Demon

Can also change your viewed level

Level: 1

System: System Perceived as Magic Summoner

[Demon's Claws]

Creates claws made of mana around fingers to guard and attack with. + 5 strength

Duration: 10 seconds

Cool down: 20 seconds

WHAT THE HELL!!!!!