Hidden Abilities Awakened

[Token of Saint Academy Acquired]

Wade held the token in his hand and used his [Inspect] skill.

[Token of Saint Academy]

[A token that is used to enter the famous Saint Academy in the north.]

Wade was pretty disappointed that there were no stats on the item but the Saint Academy couldn't be anything ordinary right? He decided to log out after renting a room at the inn for a few coppers.

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Wade felt a cool breeze on his face as he opened his eyes. He felt groggy after waking up and quickly took a shower before leaving to buy a few essentials. Wade put on a hoodie and a black bandana as he closed the door behind him. As it was early in the morning, there were close to no people walking around the city at this time. He enjoyed the silence and quietly walked to his destination.

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After arriving at the store where he usually bought his groceries, Wade heard shouting and as he looked inside, he was surprised to see a ragged man holding a pistol to the cashier's face. There were many other spectators but they were hiding behind the shelves and too cowardly to stand up to the man.

"You better give me all the cash in this damn building or you won't even be alive to see your children be born mister."

The ragged man holding the gun laughed in a scorning way as he looked at the pitiful cashier quietly taking out all the cash in the register.

"Here you go sir but please don't kill me. I still have a son and a daughter to take care of."

The cashier fell to his knees behind the register after handing all the earnings from the week to the ragged man.

"You better not piss me off, or I-"

The ragged man then fell to the ground after his sentence got interrupted by an umbrella flying through the air. The last thing he saw before he fell was a lean man in a hoodie with a bandana across his face standing in the doorway of the small store.

After the ragged man had been knocked out, everybody who was hiding behind the shelves slowly walked out and looked at the hooded man as if he was a hero.

"Everybody can go back to what they were doing. I'll leave this man for the police to handle." The hooded man spoke in a boring voice as he walked to some of the shelves and picked out some groceries.

'Who can throw an umbrella so hard that it knocks out a grown man?' This is what the cashier thought as he saw Wade leaving the store after putting everything he had in a bag.

"I'll take these groceries as my payment for knocking that man out for ya."

"Waiittt."

The cashier ran after him when he saw Wade walking out of the store.

"Hmm?"

Wade turned around and saw the cashier behind him.

"Thank you for helping me keep my job, sir. It's just that I have a family to take care of so I can't afford to lose this job. Thank you for saving me."

"It's nothing. People like him deserve to be brought to justice."

The cashier then held his head high as he walked back to the store after thanking Wade.

'Acting all heroic is making me sick. I only knocked out the man so he wouldn't cause any trouble for me when I walked in to pick up those groceries. Then again I got these for free so I'm going to have to thank the man for saving me a bit of trouble.'

Wade thanked the ragged man mentally as he walked back home to cook some food for his dying stomach.

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When Wade arrived home, he immediately unpacked all of the groceries he had bought and started boiling water in a pot while shaving the skin off some apples and pears and cutting them into even slices. When he was done slicing the apples and pears into pieces, he opened some noodles and poured them into the pot of boiling water while adding some sauce and seasoning with a few toppings.

While Wade was waiting for his noodles to be ready, he turned on the TV to a random news channel, and what he heard greatly surprised him.

"We have something quite amazing to show today, don't we Linda?"

"Oh yes, we do, Ralph. Today, an armed robbery was caught on camera but the results of said armed robbery will shock you."

"Linda, do you want to explain to our viewers here what happened exactly?"

"It seems that ex-criminal Johnny Hect was caught trying to rob a small grocery store with a gun and was knocked unconscious by a young man with an umbrella. As amazing as it sounds it is quite real. We will now show the footage here. Ralph, I hope you can pull up the video here."

"Of course Linda."

The two news reporters were suddenly blocked out when a video popped up on the screen and it showed a hooded man walking in the store just as Johnny was threatening the cashier. The hooded man dashed to an umbrella and threw it extremely fast at the back of Johnny's head. When Johnny was hit, he turned around and his face was filled with shock as he never imagined that even being armed with a gun, he was still incapacitated by an umbrella.

"As you can see, this hooded man knocked out an armed man with an umbrella. An umbrella of all things! This is the first time we've seen something like this happen. The look of shock on Johnny's face was something that we can all laugh at. Am I right?"

"Yes, yes you are Ralph. I couldn't stop myself laughing when Johnny turned around as he was hit by the umbrella. Anyway, back to the topic. The company who owns the store would like to reward this young man with a couple hundred dollars for being a hero to all those inside and protecting the life of their cashier."

"So, if you are watching this right now and you know who this person is or if this person is watching this right now, I'd like for you to come to the company headquarters of New Conveniences to pick up your reward. Anyway, that's all for today, Ralph out."

Wade didn't want to see the rest of the news stream as he planned to pick up his reward money tomorrow. He picked up his noodles and slurped them all up in a matter of seconds.

'Seems saving people is a profitable job. Maybe I'll save some more people and extort some money out of them.' Wade put on a smile that looked extremely evil as he cleaned up his kitchen with this thought in mind.

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A few hours later

Wade had spent his time doing some more small jobs for money and after he took a shower, he slid onto his bed. He then started snoring once more as he was quite tired after doing many back-breaking jobs.

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"Welcome back to Second World Online."

The little fairy greeted him as always with a smile on her face.

'Damn, that smile always seems to have some kind of motive in it. I wonder what it is' thought Wade as he greeted her back with a smile as well.

"Spawn me in please."

"Yessir."

The fairy gave a cute military salute before teleporting Wade back to his previous location where he logged off before.

It was still nighttime as Wade logged back in. He realized that there was a clock on this game and how whenever you logged out it would almost be the same time you logged back in depending on when you did it.

Wade saw a potion shop and when he opened the door, he was greeted with shelves and shelves of potions and different recipe books. Wade walked in and picked a random book off the beginner's section of the potion shop.

[Beginner Potion Encyclopedia studied]

[Beginner Alchemist profession gained]

[+1 Alchemist Experience]

[Alchemist Experience = 1/100]

Wade was surprised that he had just gained a profession off of reading a book. He thought that this was almost too easy to gain points and professions but then he saw the 5th notification.

[Hidden Ability awakened]

[Instant Learning (Passive): You can learn anything just by studying information on the topic or watching others demonstrate their ability of the topic. You are also able to wield any kind of weapon. You will gain +30 stat points per level up instead of +10.]

[Hidden Ability awakened]

[Plagiarize (Passive): You can copy any skill or ability fully if you kill the entity that owns it.]

[Hidden Skill gained]

[Fuse: Active Skill: You can fuse skills, abilities, and items. Cost = None/Cooldown = 24 hours]

[New Menu Unlocked]

[Universal Weapon Mastery Unlocked]

[120 stat points gained due to player's level being 6]

Wade had just done something that would shock the whole world if they knew.

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Wade was in a trance after seeing those system notifications. He knew he was a fast learner as whenever he was in the gang, he would be able to copy their moves and learn them instantaneously but he didn't think that the unrealistic game would take his skills this far. This [Plagiarize] ability was way too overpowered and his copy ability in the real world wasn't even a match for it.

What was even [Universal Weapon Mastery]? His [Instant Learning] ability was just too overpowered and his [Fuse] skill even more so. He would completely dominate this world if he had these 3 skills. Wade had heard that there were no limits to the levels of players, items, or skills.

Wade assigned his stat points in equal amounts to all of his stats except strength and agility as he wanted to be a bit balanced now.

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[Menu]

[In-game name = War (Wade Raze)]

[Level = 6]

[Experience = 388/700]

[Class = Assassin]

[(New) Sub-Class = Beginner Alchemist]

[(New) Alchemist Experience = 1/100]

[God = None (changeable at the Temple)]

[Elements = None]

[(New)Universal Weapon Mastery = No Mastery

Requirement = Learn the basic forms of all weapons in this world to achieve Beginner Mastery.

Learn the Intermediate forms of all weapons in this world to achieve Intermediate Mastery.

Learn the Advanced forms of all weapons in this world to achieve Advanced Mastery.]

[Abilities:

Instant Learning (Passive): You can learn anything just by studying information on the topic or watching others demonstrate their ability of the topic. You are also able to wield any kind of weapon. You will gain +30 stat points per level up instead of 10.

Plagiarize (Passive): You can copy any skill or ability fully if you kill the entity that owns it.

Sub-par Wind Aura (Passive) = Increases movement speed by 5% (Boot Ability)]

[Skills:

Inspect: Level 1: 0/100 = Active Skill: Used to see the opponent's hp and level. Will be blocked if the opponent is 5 levels higher than you. Cost = None/Cooldown = None

Stealth: Level 1: 1/100 = Active Skill: Turn invisible while avoiding the senses of the people around you. Your next strike will deal 10% more damage. Cost = 10 Mana/Cooldown = None

Backstab: Level 1 2/100 (Passive): Damage to the backside of others will deal 25% more damage.

Bleed: Level 1 2/100 = Active Skill: Your next strike will make the opponent bleed for 10 seconds with each second dealing 5 damage. Cost = 20 Mana/Cooldown = 15 seconds.]

Tear: Active Skill: A skill that resembles a wolf's skill at tearing apart its enemies. Deals 5% more damage. If meat is torn out when this skill is used, regenerate 5% health in 5 seconds. Cost = 20 Mana/Cooldown = 10 seconds (Dagger Skill)

Weak Wind Blast: Active Skill: An inefficient skill that the Wind Wolves created to knock their opponents off balance so that they could swarm them. Deals 1x damage stat. Cost = 30 Mana/Cooldown = 7.5 seconds (Dagger Skill)

Fuse: Active Skill: You can fuse skills, abilities, and items. Cost = None/Cooldown = 24 hours]

[Health = 50]

[Strength = 52] (+10)

[Agility = 58] (+10)

[Magic Power = 60] (+10)

[Endurance = 50]

[Stat Points = 0]

[Hp = 500/500]

[Damage = 52+15+25/Total damage = 92]

[Movement speed = 290+5+20/Total movement speed = 315+5%= 330]

[Magic capacity = 600 (Recharges 30 mana every minute)]

[Damage Reduction = 50+2+5/Total damage reduction = 57]

Wade looked at his stats and almost fainted from how high they were. He had awakened an ability and it already gave him this many stat points?

'What the hell. Isn't this game supposed to be fair? Oh yeah, didn't the creator say that this game was based on your talents in the real world? That doesn't make sense. Is my potential that high?'

Wade stopped pondering his thoughts and turned back to the game. He had been standing there for quite a long time and the owner of the shop was glaring at him. Wade immediately put the book back on the shelf and scampered out of the Potion Shop.

Wade heard laughing and a whimpering sound in an alley as he passed it.

"Damn, this slave function makes this game 10x better. Now we can have fun all day and all night. Ughhhh."

Wade quickened his pace as soon as he heard a male voice laugh out and moan. When he turned the corner, he saw something that only those wicked gangsters would do.

A dirty brown-haired woman with chains on her arms and legs was getting fucked by a bald man in an alley.

Pa pa pa

The bald man didn't seem to notice Wade and kept fucking the girl as she whimpered and tried to run albeit failing in the process.

"Haha bitch, you can't run. Come back and keep serving me as my personal maid will ya. I paid a couple of coppers for you."

It was at this time when the bald man noticed Wade.

"What are you doing here? Scram, you unkempt little boy. This is adult business over here."

"Get off her. Now."

Wade had seen many similar scenes so he knew what he had to do. Kill.

"What did you just tell me to do little boy?"

The bald man then threw the girl off him and zipped up his pants while pulling a claymore from his back.

"You'll pay for what you just did to the girl."

Wade chuckled as he imagined the scene where he beat the old man senseless.

"You, you dare?"

The bald man stuttered as he swung his claymore towards Wade. Wade dodged it and pulled out his curved knife and activated [Backstab], [Stealth], and [Bleed] as he shot a [Weak Wind Blast] toward the bald man.

As Wade disappeared a wind blast appeared as it hit the old man's claymore significantly slowing it down as it did a minimum amount of damage to him.

-1

The red number appeared over the man's head and he laughed as he said.

"Kid, your damage is pitifully weak even with a skill. How about you give up and give me all your money and I won't have to slice you into pieces with my beautiful sword."

Wade snuck up behind him and sliced his throat off clean.

[Fatal Area hit]

-472

[You have killed player Lustful Handful]

[+100 Experience]

[Plagiarize Activated]

[Basic Swordsmanship Copied]

[Shield Bash Copied]

[Block Copied]

[Inspect Copied]

[Duplicate skill gained]

[Inspect + 1 Level due to Duplicate Skill]

[Inspect skill upgraded to Level 2. Active Skill: Used to see the opponent's hp and level. Will be blocked if the opponent is 5 levels higher than you. Cost = None Cooldown = None (10% faster usage rate due to upgrade)]

Wade didn't look at the system notifications as he walked up to the slave girl. Her looks weren't bad so it could be seen why the bald man had taken a liking to her and fucked her.

"Are you ok?"

Wade offered her his hand as she lay on the ground, trembling from the sight of her previous master killed.

"Yea, Yeah."

The slave girl took his hand and lifted herself up and leaned on Wade. He held her as he took out his knife and slashed the chains restricting the girl.

[You have severed the relationship of Master and Servant between Lustful Handful and Amanda]

"I'm sorry but I don't have any healing potions on me currently. Here's 10 coppers to buy one though. Your name's Amanda right?"

"Ye, Yes. Who are you?"

Wade smiled and said something he had missed saying in a long time.

"Name's War but I'm also known as the Shadow of War. Take these 30 coppers for you to stay the night. Don't get enslaved again. If you need me, go to the inn and pay a few coppers to serve as a free servant or a waitress. I'll be able to meet you if you hang around there for a bit."

Wade then left after leaving the slave girl 40 out of his 47 coppers.