Systematic Hunter - Chapter 2.1

When he finally returned home, Daiki didn't stay up for long. He got his nightly physical training session in, before heading to bed.

He awoke early the next morning, had some pre-work out and threw himself into his morning physical training from six in the morning to nine, before finishing up and going for his lovely protein muscle enhancing breakfast.

By time he was done making his breakfast and eating it, the time was approaching eleven in the morning. He'd started a bit later than usual today of course since Signal Academy was out for Summer Break.

"Looks like I'm done healing." Daiki noted. He as usual, had left enough aura in the tank to heal his muscles quicker after training. Aura was hell'a useful like that.

But man, he loved his semblance, but he almost salivated at the thought of having that putz Jaune's Aura Amplification Semblance. He could probably constantly heal as he trained, getting in multiple times more training than he usually would in a single session.

That shit was fucking broken.

Too bad it belonged to an idiot who would never use it properly.

Such a waste.

But, speaking of training and gains, curiosity got the better of Daiki, 'Status'.' he thought to himself, a second later, the familiar status screen that appeared before him last night shimmering into existence in front of his eyes.

He'd figured out how to work the thing on his way back home last night. It wasn't exactly complicated. He could summon it with a thought and banish it. And it did nothing else he could figure out, beyond showing him a numerical value of his abilities.

…It wasn't exactly all that impressive as far as a gaming system went in comparison to stories he'd seen. But oh well.

Daiki frowned as he looked over the status screen, "That can't be right." he uttered, a bit confused.

Name: Daiki Yurei
Age: 14
Aura Capacity: 126/968
Magic Power: -/-
Strength: 10.003/100
Endurance: 10.004/100
Durability: 10.002/100
Agility: 10.001/100
CQC: 23/500
Weapon Wielding: 35/500
Aura Control: 40.03/500

Semblance:
Lightning King Revolt: You are capable of augmenting your body, enhancing your speed, agility, reaction time and physical strength by converting your aura into electricity and can freely expel lightning from your body. You are capable of subjugating any single being you kill, gaining a portion of their abilities for your own and gaining the ability to summon them to fight for you. You can only use the subjugation effect once.

…Even with those two back breaking training sessions he went through, his stats hadn't risen more than a max amount of a twenty fifth of a single point.

So just to see a single point of growth in Endurance and Strength training as he had been, he'd need to train for an entire month. And would take him an entire year to get up over twenty in them.

Suddenly, it was beginning to make sense why his physical stats were only listed as just breaking into ten.

…At least his aura growth seemed more impressive. He worked on his control with his aura and used it like a muscle to enhance his capacity with it from every training session, and it had risen a whole single point.

Daiki laughed at the absurdity of it all, "This is crazy." he leaned back into the cushion of the large couch he was sitting on in his living room.

If he for instance wanted to max out his strength, there wasn't much else he could do to boost his rate of growth in that sense, and assuming the growth didn't slow down and was consistent, it would take him nine years.

He'd be well into his twenties by time he hit his cap with Strength and Endurance and still be a ways off in Durability and Agility.

And that wasn't even going into the fact he obviously couldn't let his actual skills fall by the way side.

It made his decision to use his ability on a creature of grimm, all the more important now. He really would have to make it count.

He'd ruminated on the thought long and hard both last night and this morning, before deciding on a single target.

A Sea Feilong.

They were huge and powerful serpentine-dragon grimm that lived in the ocean. They were the biggest grimm around besides the truly ancient ones and a team of skilled hunters should be capable of bringing one down. It's immense size and strength meant, he would probably see a rather large notable increase in his physical abilities and on top of that, the Sea Feilong were known for being able to fire out powerful beams of lightning from their mouths.

If he was lucky, perhaps that innate power of the Sea Feilong would make his own lightning based semblance even stronger.

…The only problem was, he was definitely nowhere near strong enough to hunt a beast such as that himself.

Meaning his only option other than getting lucky, would be to hire a team of huntsmen to kill one for him.

Which would probably cost a pretty penny.

'I've got just below twelve thousand lien saved up right now.' Daiki mused. He wasn't sure if that would be enough though, he'd need to ask an actual hunter for an estimate.

He didn't need to worry about paying for anything in regards to his home. His parents had bought the property outright, so there was no rent needed there, and hunters were free from paying land and housing tax in Vale. The only thing he really needed to pay for in regards to his house was lightning dust to keep the generators running, the water and plumbing and general living expenses.

He as a hunter in training attending a combat school for hunters also thankfully fell under that law.

He could probably get by just from taking the minor missions that combat academy students were allowed to take, mostly clearing out minor packs of small and young grimm.

It would be tight though.

'I'm being hasty.' he noted, crossing his arms and clicking his tongue.

He knew why of course, there was a count down to the literal apocalypse more or less right now. He didn't want to be some faceless fool killed because of Cinder fucking Fall and the pmsing Grimm Queen.

Still, with his knowledge now, there were options open to him as well. For instance, he knew of a certain gang leader, information broker and bar owner that may be a good option to hit up for earning some quick and steady lien.

'I'll have to do it.' he decided, hiring some hunters to do his dirty work for him, he just had to make sure that he got it down in the mission contract that he had to be the one to strike the finishing blow.

He could actually head out now to the hunter association building in the middle of the city where missions could be put up.

Or…hmm.

'I could head over to Signal.' he mused.

He knew at least one hunter there that was far above the general ability of normal hunters and who worked as a teacher there. Qrow Branwen.

And one of the other professors was Taiyang Xiao Long, Qrow's teammate and father of both Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long. If he was anywhere near as skilled as Qrow, the both of them together could probably handle a Sea Feilong between them.

On top of that, he actually knew them personally, what with being teachers at his academy and all.