The Opportunity System - Chapter 3 Party Maker

Hiro felt his head was almost exploding by the countless voices. It has been just a few seconds of it, and he felt like dying.

Struggling to look up, he tried to focus on the Opportunity Radius options, but the disturbing voices were hard enough to almost make him faint.

As if a hundred thousand people were screaming in his ear at the same time, the immeasurable pain almost made him cry of terror.

Giving all of himself, he opened his eyes slowly while trembling, looked up at the options and switched them down, all of them.

“Haa…haa. What…was this?”

With his eyes were red with tears, his hands were trembling nonstop and his heart beating like mad, he laid on the white floor.

“I…can move now.”

After a few minutes with just the sound of his breathing, Hiro calmed himself.

‘This is terrifying.’

‘I will never use this thing anymore.’

He must be thinking.

That’s wrong. He actually liked it, not that he is a masochist.

“Wo-w, that really is painful, but if I could control it, the things I could do would be epic!”

Hiro stood up and walked to the options.

“Huh? Some options are in grey, it means that they are still locked. What I have to do to unlock them?”

He decided to not mess the things here, he didn’t know what would happen next, what if the other options are more terrifying then the first one?

Scrolling down the options, except the first four, all of the rest were in grey.

“I can’t even read what is the next option-”

Stopping his mouth, he discovered that some of them he could read.

“Hmm. Even if I read those, I can’t understand a single bit.”

‘##########: ##### (##)’

‘#######: ### (###)’

‘Comunication Route: Unavailable’

‘##############: #####(##)

‘Transference Station: Unavailable’

“I will gain nothing thinking about it, forget it, forget it.”

Reaching the end of the options, there was some personal data of him, like:

Current Host’s Name: Hiro Kamiyami.

Host’s Age: 15 years.

Level: 1 (0%) – 7 levels stored

Army Listing

Guard 1: None

Guard 2: None

Guard 3: None

Army General: None

General: None

Colonel: None

Major: None

Captain: None

Lieutenant: None

“What… is this? Seems those things from the army. Oh, it says it can be edited.”

“Hehe, things will be much more interesting this way.”

Current Host’s Name: Hiro Kamiyami.

Host’s Age: 15 years.

Level: 1 (0%) – 7 levels stored

[Party Members]

[Assassin]: None

[Warrior]: None

[Guardian]: None

[Mage]: None

[Priest]: None

[Fighter]: None

[Sorcerer]: None

[Bard]: None

[Knight]: None

[Archer]: None

“Very good. Wait, I forgot one.”

Messing with the system like a pro, Hiro added the last and most important role.

[Hero]: Hiro Kamiyami

“Now it’s VERY good.”

Looking at his ‘masterpiece’, he wondered when he would go back. As he waited for some time and nothing happened, he decided to see the other available options.

“Hmm, this HUD options is quite confusing, does ‘inside’ means that I can only see all of this inside my dreams? That is problematic, let’s change it!”

HUD: All (ON); Inside (OFF); Outside (OFF);

“Let’s change the ones that don’t seem harmful. Ah, they are already on the ‘all’ side.”

After seeing all he had to see, there was nothing else to do in this blank space.

He got bored very easily in this ‘nothing to do’ place, so he started to sing a random song.

He sang for ten minutes before he slept.

…

Before the sky was bright, Raugh was already awake.

“Hey, Hiro, wake up. Look at the sky, it will be late. Let’s get some food before leaving.”

“Hmm…Mama, just more five minutes.”

Veins popped in Raugh’s head.

“Who do you think you’re calling Mama?!”

Raugh screamed with the intention to wake Hiro.

“Whuaaa! Sorry, Mister Raugh, let’s get going.”

It was about five in the morning, and they were trying to find food. They found enough for three days, after three days, they would all rot.

“You are ready now, go. Good luck in your journey.”

“Eh.. wait, you’re not going with me? How can I survive? It was you who got all these fruits, I’ve found just one!”

“Haha, that’s not my problem.”

Raugh turned around and walked.

“Wait…”

“What?”

“What if…what if a lion appears here? What am I gonna do?!”

Raugh looked at Hiro with a doubtful expression.

“What…is a lion?”

“That’s not the point!

What if a dangerous beast decides to eat me?

Won’t you feel regretful?

‘Oh, I had the chance to save that poor boy, but I didn’t.’

I’m sure you will regret this decision!”

“Boy-”

“Wait! I know what you’re gonna say, let me speak first!

Let’s make a business deal!

You will be my guardian until I arrive in the kingdom, you’re strong, right?”

“And what are my profits?”

“Profits… Money, of course. I will be rich in the future, there’s no way I would lie to you.”

Raugh looked at Hiro and sighed, next, he pulled the knife he used against the red-tailed python and gave it to Hiro.

“Use this. The knife may seem a normal one, but it was refined by a master blacksmith, even with countless years of use, it’s still useful.”

Saying goodbye to each other, Hiro was going in the direction of the kingdom, while Raugh was going back to his little cabin.

Feeling lonely, Hiro started to sing random music again.

“Ah, I really need to find my party, without them, I feel lonely.”

…

When Raugh arrived home, he looked at the human skull and said:

“Leo, Leo. That Hiro looks like you, he even kinda speaks like you…”

Raugh was making a sad face when he suddenly stood up.

“I’m going to the graveyard. Maybe I will die right there, but, at least, I will die beside everyone else.”