Chapter 1. Slime Slayer

“Ken! A Level E slime dungeon is opening up in Shibuya at 4pm! I have registered us and if we leave school right after classes end, we should be able to make it early and finally get some decent training done. I can’t believe our luck! 2 days without a single slime dungeon opening up between 4 to 10pm!”

As I looked up at the excited blonde girl who just got back to the classroom with our lunch, I let out a sigh and flopped my head back on the desk, too exhausted from the teacher’s conference I just had to sit up properly.

“Emma. I give up.”

“Give up on what? What are you talking about?”

“How many slimes have we killed?” I asked the girl, obviously already knew the answer.

Activating her brain implant that every kid gets implanted with at birth, a screen that only she could see popped up as she scrolled through invisible texts with her delicate finger.

Scrolling through to the page she was looking for, “I have killed 200,934 slimes and since they gave 1 exp each and I have gained a total of 150,428 exp, we have killed 300,856 slimes all together!” Emma replied happily like she don’t see the fucking issue.

“Exactly! You have wasted 12 years of your fucking life killing over 300,000 slimes while only partying with me and to what end?” I replied, wondering why this beautiful blonde girl was so fascinated with me.

“Oh, you just had your career path discussion with the teacher right, no wonder you are all grumpy now. Cheer up Ken! Let’s go slay some slimes like we always do!” The beautiful blonde remarked cheerfully like she could understand what I am going through.

“Emma. Why are you even here? Your dad is the freaking CEO and founder of the Lionheart corporation! You have infinite wealth, you have the lowest exp compound rate in the world, yet you spent the last 12 years doing nothing but killing stupid slimes while attending a lowly public school like this one. Why are you even in Japan? Didn’t your family move back to America 3 years ago?” I asked, trying to redirect my anger towards her even though I knew she deserved none of my frustration.

“So what did the teacher say anyways.” Emma asked, unbothered by my complaints.

“I told him I am going to apply for Tokyo Academy and he explained to me that ‘It’s good to have dreams but one has to face reality.’ Like no shit I know there is the entrance exam and only like the top 500 in all of fucking Japan gets accepted but I have been trying my best and killing the only thing I could for 12 fucking years! 12 years Emma! Slaying those fucking slimes over and over only to gain .5 exp at a time for 12 years!

Do you know what level I should be at if I was a normal person? 150k exp? If I was like every single other person in the world, I would have started at level 1 and got to level 2 after gaining 100 exp and the average person, I would be at level 10 by now! If I had the worst compound rate ever. I would still be at level 7. So Emma, having the best compound rate of 25% where less than 100 people in the world have, you are at level 26 from doing nothing but killing slimes!” I shouted in discontentment while getting side glances and whispers from the other students who are in the classroom eating their lunches.

“I believe in you Ken! I know things look bad and we are already seniors in high school but you can do it! Let’s go slay some slimes after school, that should cheer you up! Oh and If you still don’t know why I stayed in Japan and am attending a random public highschool then I think we have another issue that needs resolving.” Emma answered, unbothered by my outburst or the stupid kids that won’t stop staring at us and whispering.

“Yea, I know why you are here in Japan. You rich people have weird hobbies and you must get some weird pleasure from hanging around the only person in the world who couldn’t level.” I replied as my mood slowly improved from venting out all my frustration.

“KEN!”

“I’m Just joking Emma. But honestly, I have no clue what a beautiful rich girl like you sees in someone like me.” I replied. I know I am the protagonist and all but having this beautiful blondie so into me is still beyond my understanding.

“Well, you just be you and I will continue to love you! Nothing we can do about your level, so let’s just do whatever we can and try to have fun!” Emma told me happily.

“Sorry, you know I love to vent and after that stupid conversation with the teacher. Ugh… had to let it all out. Nothing I can do about being the only person ever to start at level 0 with a stupidass exp bar that says I need infinite exp to reach the next level.” That’s right. I need fucking infinite exp to level up which as long as I know. Is fucking impossible.

“Yep, so stop thinking about pointless things and just go slay some slime to let out your stress. You are at 99,922 kills right? 78 more slimes and you would have killed 100k!” Emma said while slapping me in the back to cheer me up.

Unable to stay frustrated while having this cheery beauty doing everything in her power to cheer me up. After the bell rang for our last period, we rushed to the subway station by the school to catch the first subway to Shibuya.

The year is now 2550. Ever since AI gained sentience 500 years ago, I was told the world has completely changed yet not changed at all. What the fuck does that mean? Don’t ask me, I am only 17 years old and don’t know jackshit.

apparently, with their unlimited access to human knowledge and the world wide web, the now sentient AI decided that humans are no longer needed and to eradicate the human race, they developed a system and artificially recreated all the monsters and threats from the biggest and most popular games from hundreds of years ago before I was born.

To combat the sudden invasion where characters from those people’s favorite games suddenly showed up in the real world and started killing and causing mass destruction. The top scientists and engineers at the time worked endlessly to develop a system based on what the AI created, stealing their concepts and technology to create the hero system that has caused me so much grief.

The brain chip implant merged what the AI created with the human invention to create a game like system in real life where people that is not me would gain abilities and stats through killing the monsters that the AI created and through leveling, everyone expect who is not fucking me would get stronger, and more powerful and become real life heroes like those in the games they once played.

Over the last 500 years, I was told that while other technological advancement came to a standstill and the world functioned much like how it did 500 years ago, not that I would know what it was like hundreds of fucking years ago.

Due to the constant battle with the AI, the brain chip was the one thing that went through multiple upgrades and improvements but still functioned like fucking shit in my case, but still, it is now implanted in every child at birth and incorporated into everyday life.

“Ugh, I hate how there is always a huge line at Level E dungeons.” I complained as we waited in a large queue with children and elderly all trying to slay some stupidass slime because they are the weakest creature to spawn.

“Stop complaining Ken! What do you expect, it’s the easiest dungeon after all and every young kid looking to earn some allowance or elderly too old to battle harder monsters will be trying to get into a Level E slime dungeon.”

I was told that us humans certainly learned from the AI and created the hero system, the AI wasn’t stupid either and learned from the humans and improved on their method of invading.

Instead of creating monsters that would randomly appear somewhere in the world, not that I was alive to see it happen. They started to create what people now call dungeons where the creatures could be created in much larger numbers.

Somehow, it seems that the amount of resources it took to create a creature in our dimension is much higher than to do so in this other dimension which they somehow were able to create. But don’t ask me how, because I slept through the day they taught us that information.

Cutting down the resource needed dramatically, the AI was able to reproduce massive numbers of creatures in said dungeons and slowly, the created creatures would begin to gain sentience and once the dungeon boss becomes self-aware, the dungeon would vanish and those creatures inside would enter the human world and attempt to cause total annihilation of the human race.

At least that was what I have learned since every dungeon had been cleared before such an event could take place in the past 100 years, so I have never witnessed no shitty AI created creature running loose in Tokyo or anywhere else in the world for that matter.

For the past 100 years, us humans had adapted to the dungeons that would pop up randomly all around the world and long before the creatures inside could gain sentience and still acted like computer codes, the heroes would take center stage, eradicate and close the dungeons before any harm could take place in the real world. And that is what I want to do with my life.

I was told that each dungeon contains a dungeon boss that begins and feeds all the other monsters inside and destroying the boss is the only way to close a dungeon. But once again, because of the shit brain implant I am stuck with that had left me at level 0 and unable to gain any stats, I have never seen a dungeon boss because I all could do is kill those stupidass blobs for 12 fucking years.

Finally, after waiting for 30 freaking minutes, it was our turn to enter the dungeon and I was ready to take out my pent up frustration on some fucking slimes.

Because we had to wait in line for so long, we traveled deep within this maze-like dungeon looking for areas that still haven’t been explored by fuckers that was waiting to enter when we were still in school.

“Here Ken!” Emma shouted at me like I couldn’t see the swarm of different colored blobs bouncing around annoyingly.

Even though I will probably never understand why this tall, beautiful blonde girl from America with big green eyes, and a much sexier hourglass figure than all the Japanese girls in school decided that she is in love with me.

Oh well, lucky me I guess, at least I got one good thing going for me. Having her enchanting my cheap short sword with fire enchant was the only way I could kill those stupidass slimes fast with their insanely high physical defense.

Thanks to Emma’s luck since mine is obviously shit, we managed to have this part of the dungeon full of slimes all to ourselves without annoying trespassers trying to steal our kills or exp. Not like fucking exp matters to me but I still don’t want no fucker stealing what’s mine.

“99,995. 99,996. 99,997. 99,998. 99,999. 100,000! DIE YOU STUPIDASS BLOBS!” I shouted as I finally killed 100k of those stupid things while still stuck at level zero.

Sure, my total exp gained moved up as it always does from either killing or just been in the party with Emma, but when my exp needed to reach next level is a fucking infinity sign, I don’t think any exp gained is getting me closer to that level up which I desperately needed.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, my screen lit up with a popup window telling me I have got a new alert from my skills tab!

“Emma! Take care of the rest! I got my first ever popup for a motherfucking skill!” I shouted excitedly, unable to control my emotions.

Unlike me, where I am so shit at this due to my lack of stats and skills and had to kill the fuckers one at a time with the help of Emma’s enchant. With one single fucking spell, she set the entire area ablaze and in under ten seconds, she killed more slimes than I did, even though I was working my ass off for an entire fucking hour.

Too hyped to complain about my rigged system, I was both excited and nervous as I opened my window to see what is the exact message I received after 12 fucking years of slime slaying without any result to show for my efforts.