Mr. Sahwit. The biased vice principal, a man who would in the future be exposed to be a conman who embezzled the school's government funds. Ali thought to himself, "What if I could somehow expose him? But I am merely a child, my words won't have an impact. Leave it. He hasn't done anything to me yet."
Sahwit then screamed at the students again,"Where is the person who broke the glass window with the cricket ball?!" Silence. None of the students uttered a word. The teacher's pet, Ahmed was about to speak, but was kept quiet by Samuel passing him a sandwich from his tiffin box.
As Sahwit was about to give a schoolwide punishment of taking all the sports and playing equipment so that he can sell those to get enough money for his second car, a Volkswagen Golf GTI that he had his eyes on for a long time, the principal Mr. Karan came out of his office saying, "There is no need to punish them excessively, Sahwit, they are merely kids, I like how they have loyalty towards each other, it's a trait that is rare nowadays, let them all write a 100 word paragraph on good manners."
Mr. Karan was like a second father to Ali, he was a former volleyball player who suffered a horrible injury in a huge match, and so understood the grit, temperament and will required for a sportsperson. After the exposé of Sahwit, Karan was falsely named as a co conspirator and was put in jail for 20 years. So in order to prevent this, Ali had planned on hastening the expose of Sahwit while giving an anonymous tip to Mr. Karan. However, Ali did not know that the next notification on his screen would completely change his plans.
[Alert: There is a a system user nearby. | Notification active since 1 hour ]
Another person who had a system just like him?! How was this possible? He should be the only one with all those regrets and suffering! He should be the only one who suffered a hea- oh wait, that was a stupid line of thought, even for the cricket addicted Ali.
"System, who is the other system user?"
[The rules of the system state that the system is to not help the user find other system users.]
"Of course. How many system users are there in the world?"
[10, each person's system, unique to their talent. The system users were chosen from those who were betrayed, failed or lost their path. They also were meant to have maximum regret for their past decisions.]
Before Ali was going to ask more, the bell rang, signaling the beginning of classes in the school. Ali walked to his classroom, deciding to sit next to Ahmed, so that he can annoy him.
Somewhere in the school…
A person sat in the storeroom, planning his next move. "What is the probability that our fellow system user will be a useful asset?"
[Master Asset System States: 100%. Suspected user is well versed in his respective talent. Mark as asset once found.]
Ali walked out of his third class of the day, sleepy from the boredom of knowing everything in the classes, as Ahmed screamed for the third time from getting pinched. Because of all his screaming throughout the classes, Ahmed was given five hand lashings and sent out of the classroom. Samuel came up to Ali and told, "Serves him right. He almost got us in trouble for no reason. Anyway, are you coming for the house cricket team trials next month?"
Suddenly, three notifications popped up.
[New Quests]
1. House Glory
Get selected for Ahswandeep National School Green House Team
Reward: 10 LP, +1 overall
2. Kings of Ashwandeep
Win the Ashwandeep Four Houses Cricket Tournament
Reward: 20 LP, 1 Basic Moments Pack
3. [Daily Quest (3rd June 2015 - 3rd July 2015)] Training for the School Team
Do various training exercises as listed below for 3 hours.
Reward (Per Day): 1 LP, +1 to a stat of your choice.
Ali was extremely happy. He had asked the system earlier during Rathi Ma'am's English class about the Legend Points, and was shown the pack shop. There were five levels of packs, from bronze to legendary. If you wanted only moments that supported a specific position of play, like batting, bowling, keeping or fielding you would have to pay extra, but it was fine, As Ali wanted moments that would improve his batting.
After reaching his home, Ali wore his sports clothes and went to the park, doing the suggested exercises. It was hard at first as he couldn't even do 5 pushups, or even run 250 meters. But he gradually improved, day by day. By the 10th day, Ali had done 5 pushups in a row, after the 17th day, Ali could easily run half a mile, and once the month was finished, he was easily able to run 1 kilometer without breaking a sweat. His batting stance had improved, from days of shadow batting, his fielding also had improved from daily catching practice with the help of the park custodian, Mahit.
It was time. For the whole month, Ali had saved all the unused stat points from 30 days of grueling training,ready to use them all up at once.
[STATS]
Player Name: Ali Zaidi
Position: Undecided
Team: None
Batting: 50
Bowling: 42 (Spin)
Fielding: 41
Physical: 35
Mental: 54
Overall: 44 (School level)
Unused Points: 30
Potential: 91 (Top BBL Player)
Ali began investing the stat points. While he was training, his stat points also improved normally, mostly in physical stat.
Batting increased 50 -> 60
Fielding increased 41 -> 50
Physical increased 35 -> 41
[With new increase in stats, Overall increases to 49 from 44.]
"With these improvements, I will reach the starting 11 of the school team." Thought Ali.
TO BE CONTINUED