Chapter 99 - My OC Stash #99 - King, The Worlds Strongest Gamer by Transcended Potato (One Punch Man) (1/2)

-When I first saw the episode about King I really thought he was going to be a badass like one of them Baki characters but he just ended being an NEET/Otaku. After that one moment I was already sure that there were going to be a Gamer King fic and turns out i'm right!

*Author took the sheer OP-ness that OPM's known for and he pushed it past it's limits to make something that surprisingly isn't unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses. He pulled the Kure Clan ability: Removal and shoved the limits~

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Sypnosis: King bought that new VRMMORPG everyone was waiting for! He played the game, and it didn't disappoint! Eh? Why's the HP, MP and ST bar all in real life? Why can he take out items from the game? Why can he cast spells? Most importantly... when did he get so strong?

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Chapter 1

It was a simple Tuesday morning. The morning dew had yet to disappear and there was already a crowd of people on a street. Seemingly anticipating something. But of course they were. After all, today was...

Reputed to be the up-and-coming total revolution of gaming technology, it was able to bring the user into a virtual-reality of unimaginable realism. Old ones were basically goggles with controllers, but these used brain-wave technology, and was able to, quote, ”Assimilate the player into a world that would be no different from reality. No controllers, no pesky wires, nothing. The only controller you'll ever need are your own thoughts.” As said by the developer of the helmet.

”It would truly be a world where the only limits, are your limitless imaginations.” Promised the CEO of the company of the VR-helmet. And that wasn't all.

The best part was, it was practically a small world in a helmet, so any game, any possible game, could be played with the helmet. The programming was that good.

Obviously, that attracted people. A lot of people. Probably every gamer in existence was tempted. Any game? At any time? Condensed into one small helmet? If that wasn't tempting, you were either a monk at a temple, or you're lying.

The name of the helmet was Orbis.

Within the crowd that anxiously waited for the release of the new Orbis-helmet, there was a certain figure. He wore a blue hood and a cap underneath, just enough to cover his eyes, and not the rest of his face. It was covered enough to be inconspicuous and exposed enough to not be viewed as suspicious. He melded in with the crowd so perfectly you wouldn't even give him a second glance.

But underneath the hooded figure was a silent rumble, and if one looked close enough, you could see his body was quaking, bit by bit. It was as if there was something beneath his figure. And if one truly knew his identity...

One would know, it was the rumble of battle intent.

He was Rank 7, S-Class hero, 'The World's Strongest Man', King.

Well, only he knew that... he was really excited for the helmet, too.

”Any game? No matter what? The imagination is the limit...? That would mean... Doki Doki Sisters in VR, I anxiously await it.” King thought, as he cracked a small smile.

”Well, there's that, and also the new online VRMMORPG that's limited to the helmet alone... wonder what's the deal with that.” King wondered.

Alongside the release of the Orbis helmet, the company had also developed a complimentary online VRMMORPG that would only ever be limited to the products of the Orbis line, meaning that only the Orbis helmet, or any other piece of technology created by the company would have the rights to access their game. Not to mention, it was also the very first VRMMORPG in existence, too.

”I'd think it's a bit of a stunt, but whatever. I mean, I just want the helmet, really. But saying that I'm not interested by the first VRMMORPG in existence would be a big fat lie.” King mentally said to himself.

Almost a bit more, and the stores would open, selling the very first units of the Orbis VR-helmet. Needless to say, it was a tense 23 minutes.

Then, the silence broke. The doors of the retail store opened with a welcoming 'ding'.

All hell broke loose as the doors of the massive gaming retail stores were opened, as people rushed in, scrambling to get the new Orbis helmets. Despite that, it was a relatively silent chaos, as the greatest chaos was really just a massive influx of people. Being decent people, everyone rushed in, but without pushing, screaming, yelling, snatching, and all the other unpleasantness that would happen.

Though it seemed that the store already anticipated this;

[30 minutes later...]

”Phew... I finally bought it. Man, the queues were long. And I'm lucky, too. This is the very last unit in the store.” King thought, as he walked out of the gaming retail store.

As he sighed in relief and anticipation, King went back home immediately.

[1 hour later...]

King opened the door to his apartment, and set the groceries that he bought while he was coming back home onto the floor, before closing the door behind him. Looking to the tabletop to put his new Orbis helmet on to unpack, he quickly noticed that it was cluttered. King then looked around his room to find some space to put the helmet down... and found none. His apartment was a complete mess.

”Sigh... I guess it's been some time since I cleaned up, huh...” King sighed, looking at the mess around him. As a '29-year old antisocial otaku-loser', by his own words, King never bothered to clean up. But when the mess gets too cluttered, like now-

*CLANG*

King looked to the left to see that his singular, one and only, multi-use aluminium tea-pan fell over due to being stacked on an unstable pile of instant-ramen.

”Alright, Universe. I get it. I clean up the flat a bit.” King raised both hands as he sighed in defeat. His apartment was a literal mess, and there was pretty much nowhere else to put his... anything. The only room in his apartment which was perfectly clean was his bedroom.

Hey, he was a '29-year old antisocial otaku-loser', but even he had standards. He kept his bedroom as tidy as possible. He was an otaku, yes. But being an otaku didn't mean he was to sleep on a bed filled with empty noodle cups and cans of soda. No more. He learnt his lesson when he woke up with the worst back pain in his entire 24 years of living. It was 5 years since then, but he was sure as hell not going through that again.

[1 hour and 10 minutes later...]

King looked upon what he had accomplished, and it was very good. And he checked his watch- 70 minutes.

Thus the apartment was clean and good and arranged in their vast array.

By the 70th minute King had finished the work he was doing, so on the 70th minute he rested from all his work. Then King praised the 70th minute, because on it he rested from cleaning his apartment.

”Alright, no need to make such a big fuss.” King said to himself, as cleaning an apartment wasn't really anything much, in hindsight. Well, compared to what his fellow 'Heroes' do, anyway. They literally beat up monsters before breakfast.

”Still, for me, that was eight bitches and three-quarters.” King said, rubbing his sore back. He wasn't as physically fit as the other S-Class heroes, after all. Hell, he was probably even weaker than your average joe.

”Alright, finally, now that the place is cleaned up, I can finally try out the new VR helmet! The... Orbis, I think it was called?” King said, before taking the box and opening it to reveal a futuristic-looking VR-helmet. The specs looked sleek, and it was pure white in its entirety.

After reading the instructions, King then opened up a small compartment and pulled out a small pyramid-looking thing which was also pure white in color, with the exception of a glowing-blue node on the top. King then placed it directly above his WiFi router, and following the instructions, clicked the small glowing node on the pyramid. What it was supposed to do was connect to the nearest WiFi source and use it to wirelessly connect the helmet to the internet. Another thing was; it didn't even need a password!

King couldn't wait any longer, and went to his bedroom. It was suggested that one played the game while lying down, as to prevent anything undesirable from happening. Of course, one could also be sitting down, but it was recommended that the user was lying down, as it would be the safest position.

Lying down on his bed, King put the helmet on, and just as he did, a screen appeared in front of him, with multiple selection boxes. There were some selection boxes, with only a few filled, the rest being empty. The selections included 'Room', 'Sandbox', and 'Arena'. But on the top, was a selection which was highlighted in gold, and the words, 'Orbis Online' were on it.

”Orbis online... I guess the founder of the company wanted to only use one name...” King said to himself, as he noted that the name of the helmet, the included VRMMORPG, and even the name of the company was the same. The Orbis VR helmet, 'Orbis Online', and 'Orbis Inc.' They really only kept a single name for all their products.

After spending 15 minutes on adjusting the 'Audio', 'Visuals', and 'Sensation' settings, King started up 'Orbis Online'.

Then, the screen switched to a countdown timer which counted down from 5. King got comfortable, as as soon as the countdown reached zero, he suddenly felt as if he was pulled somewhere quickly, and it felt similar to suddenly falling down.

...

...

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[Welcome to Orbis online! Please customize your avatar!]

King saw those words greet him when he realized what just happened.

”F_u_c_k, well that's new.” King said to himself, looking around. He saw that he was in an endless white expanse, with only the words in front of him. As soon as he thought about his avatar, though, a person appeared in front of him. Naturally, it was a carbon-copy of King's body.

”Man, I look horrible.” King smiled wryly, as only he knew... his body was pretty out-of-shape. He wasn't obese or anything, but his weakness came from somewhere. His apparent muscle atrophy. He practically did nothing other than waste away his time playing games all day for the past 4~5 years, and when he was given his title of 'S-Class hero by the Heroes Association, it degraded even further, with him not needing a part-time job to support himself and whatnot. S-Class hero pay was amazing. Even doing nothing as an S-Class hero was more profitable than the pay of an Executive of a company.

Checking his character body, King saw that he could manipulate it to his own wishes. Simply because, when he thought about 'man, I need to beef up a bit', King's avatar had changed to one with a rather okay build, with visible muscles, but nothing too much.

”I guess they weren't joking around when they said 'the only controller you'll ever need are your thoughts'.” King said to himself.

[1 minute later...]

”Alright, that looks good.” King said, as he looked at his avatar.

Well built, but not to the point muscles were bulging out, and... that was it. King wasn't picky, all he wanted was that his body didn't look like... well... him.

”I think I'll need to try and get this build in real life. Man I embarrass myself sometimes...” King sighed to himself, as he remembered how he looked in real life. Which his avatar swiftly transformed into.

Switching it back to his previously modified version, King named his character, which he simply named King.

Putting his actual name would be too embarrassing, therefore he chose his Hero Name. Well, some players might recognize him, but characters could be edited, so most players would probably assume that King just edited his face to look like himself, and not believe that he was the one playing the game.

...Hopefully.

After naming his character, King was greeted with a different menu.

”Choose your beginner's set...” King said, reading out the words in front of him, and as soon as he finished, a box appeared in front of him, containing some weapons and armor.

”Note; only 100 points worth of weapons and armor are allowed to be taken.” King said, reading aloud the little note on the side.

Looking into the box, there were different kinds of weapons, with little numbers glowing on top of them.

Grabbing a dagger, King saw that the number on the box changed from 100 to 90.

”So the value of the dagger is 10 points...” King said, swinging the dagger around. It was realistic, so to speak. Why? The dagger was actually a bit heavier compared to a military combat knife. How did King know? Well, he once won a black combat knife in a gaming tournament when he was younger, and he never really used it, it mostly served as a cool thing to look at, for King.

That or, used to cut things open when he received massive packages. The stuff his fans sent him...

”So let's see... I can take out some armor and a weapon worth up to 100 points. Remaining unspent points are converted into in-game money. Cool.” King said, taking out gear for experimenting. He soon realized that his body was currently the same as his avatar, rather well-built, but not to the point muscles were bulging out, like Tank Top Master, or Superalloy Darkshine.

[10 minutes later...]

”So the sword is 20 points, and this spear is 50 points... sheesh, talk about expensive.” King said, commenting on how the spear was worth a lot of points. Suddenly, a glint caught his eye.

”Hmm?” King then sifted through the weapons, and fished out a weight, with a chain attached to it.

”No way. There's no way-” King said, before pulling out the rest of the weapon to reveal a chain that was stuck to the end of a sickle.

”F_u_c_k, the physics engine has gotta be top-shit level. I mean, chain and sickle? Seriously?” King said, looking at the weapon. It had a rating of 35 points, so it was rather expensive, being more costly than a standard sword.

King, obviously impressed by the capabilities of the servers to handle such unreal-level of physics, looked through the remaining weapons to see if there was anything that interested him.

If not, he'd either pick a bow or just be a mage. If he was looking for high damage output, mage was the way. If he wanted to make sure he was never going to be touched by a mob, then he'd pick the bow. Despite his looks, he knew a bit of archery. Having a rich uncle with a hobby in archery apparently helped King out today. Well, if he wanted to choose the bow, anyway.

Sifting through the remainder of the weapons to find anything interesting, King found a weird spherical object. It looked like it was coated in copper, What attracted King's attention, however, was that it had a '100' on it! Meaning, King could either get a full set of armor and a good weapon... or he could get this thing.

Taking it out, King wanted to see what was so special about it.

”Huh, what makes this weapon so special? Or is it even a weapon?” King wondered aloud. ”If that's all the weapons have to offer, I'd rather take a bow, to be honest.”

And as soon as he said it, a blue glow was emitted from the sphere, and then the glow took the shape of a bow.

”Wait, what?”

King tried to pull back the bowstring, and when he did, another glow appeared as an arrow appeared on the bowstring.

”Wait wait wait wait.” King said, trying to understand the thing. King then thought about a sword, and the bow swiftly changed into a sword. And King could apparently hold the glowing part.

”Alright, one final test.” King said, grasping the sphere in his hands.

The sphere then turned into a shield.

”Okay. I think I got it. It turns into whatever I'm thinking of.” King said, holding the sphere.

”I think I know why it's worth 100 points, now.”

Even so...

IT WAS TOO OP! Any weapon? Any armor? Probably anything? King didn't think it was worth 100 points. It was basically every other weapon and armor in the box combined together!

”There has to be a limit somewhere... right?” King wondered.

”But still, only an idiot would choose something he wouldn't understand instead of something that really works, right?” King said to himself.

[Beginner's set has been chosen! Welcome to Orbis Online!]

King was that idiot.

”I mean, every single weapon and armor for 100 points? That's something I need to have. Also, it can probably only be one at a time, so it should be fine.” King said to himself.

Despite that, it was still a pretty stupid idea. King realized he was beside a really large fountain, which was probably the spawn-point. The fountain was huge, massive, even, because it was at least 30 meters in diameter.

Looking around, he was probably the only player currently who wasn't wearing any armor. Even mages at least had a chain-mail underneath their robes. Only those researcher-mages didn't wear any protection other than their robes, combat mages always had a layer of protection beneath their robes. Other players had plate armor, shields, swords, etc. King was the only one who didn't have any armor or weapons.

Everyone else had weapons and armor. King had a copper sphere and a grey tunic and white pants, and a small leather pouch hanging on a brown leather belt. That was literally all he had.

As he got off from the spawn area, looking around in the city, King saw some people, but some had tags above them which displayed their name, and some which didn't have anything above their heads. Obviously, the one with their names hovering above them were other players, whereas the ones with them were NPCs. At least, King thought so.

And, it took realism to its extreme. There was no mini-map, no HUD, no nothing. There was only he, his HP, MP and ST bar, and his little copper sphere. Well, he still had a pocket inventory, though. After all, no one wanted to be limited to a small bag to carry everything. That, would be too much realism to the point it would be burdensome. People played games to relax, not to do chores. Unless one was grinding.

At the start of the game, everyone had inventories. If one wanted to store something in there, one simply needed to think about storing it in the inventory, and it would be stored. But, as usual, there was a limited space in there. Only 10 different items could be stored in the inventory, and a limit of 100 per stack of item which could be placed in the inventory.

But the higher-leveled one was, the more inventory-spaces one would unlock. Level 1 only had 10 spaces, level 10 had 20 spaces, 20 had 30, and so on. Level 90 would have 100 storage spaces, and once one reached level 100, one would have infinite inventory space. But every space occupied beyond the 100th space drained MP.

Basically, at level 1-99, one would have limited inventory space, but it would cost nothing to store anything in there. At level 100, there would be no limit to how much you could store inside there, but exceeding 100 occupied spaces would cause MP to be consumed. The more occupied spaces, the greater the MP drain.

King then thought about his stats, and a window appeared in front of him.

Name: King

Level: 1

Title: None

HP: 100/100

MP: 100/100

ST: 100/100

STR: 1

VIT: 1

INT: 1

DEX: 1

LCK: 1

Job Class: None

(Skills)

Active: None

Passive: None

EXP: 0/100

”So those are my stats...” King thought, as his stats window closed. Looking at the weird sphere in hand, King wanted to see its stats, and another window opened.

Item: [Materialization Sphere]

DMG: 1~100

Tier: F-Class weapon

Value: 100 gold

Description: A sphere which materializes MP into physical objects, can turn into anything the user wishes, as long as the user has enough MP. A strong mental image must be formed or else item won't materialize properly.

Items needed to upgrade to next tier: 0/1 E-Class Mana Crystal, 0/1 Enchanted Steel (1 kg), 0/10 Lesser Mana Potion

”Well, first thing to do would be grinding. Now where do I go...”

[20 minutes later...]

After asking some other players for directions, King was now in a plain flatland, killing slimes from afar using his [Materialization Sphere], which turned into a rifle. Apparently, it could turn into anything. King knew, because he jokingly wanted to turn it into a teddy bear, just to test if it really could turn into anything he thought of, and it actually did.

And as King had foreseen, it had one flaw, compared to the other beginner weapons. It drained MP.

As a sword, it drained 10 MP to transform into the sword, and another 5 MP for every hit on a mob. It drained 25 MP to turn into a bow, and materializing arrows cost 5 MP each.

When King materialized the hunting rifle he was using, he felt a splitting headache for a short while, before realizing that he had been drained of 90 MP. Obviously, the rifle was worth a lot of MP. After all, a gun and a bow was incomparable. Each bullet also cost 10 MP to materialize.

Also, MP was directly connected to one's INT stat, so obviously it stemmed from the head. Spending so much MP at once apparently gave people massive headaches, and spending all 100 MP at once even had a chance to knock a person out. Well, if they were still level 1, anyway. At higher levels, players would have higher stats, and at a high enough level, spending all your MP at once would probably not even hurt at all.

Still, at level 1, 10 MP per slime was obviously rather expensive, but hey, it was an instant kill.

Looking further through the scope of the rifle, apart from slimes, King could see other players, also killing slimes, but with other beginner weapons, such as a sword, a bow, a hammer, spear, etc.

”Looks like there's no one here that has the same weapon...” King said, noting that everyone used basic weapons. King could tell they were players by the tags above their head.

”Hm? That group doesn't have tags...” King said, noticing a group of people without tags above their heads.

”NPCs? I didn't think they could even hunt on their own. Kudos to the developers, really. That kind of AI is commendable.” King said, secretly giving a thumbs up to the developers.

As King got up, he walked towards the slimes which he killed earlier to pick up the loot. In this game, you had to loot the mobs you killed on your own. Everything was manual, too. Including the harvesting of the {Mana Cores} from the slimes, which required you to literally dig through the dead slimy stuff to collect the cores.

Further ahead, the grassy flatland had less players and more mobs. The players were obviously higher leveled, as when King first entered the flatland, most players were at level 1 to 3, and these players were at level 5 and above. The highest leveled player King spotted was at level 8.

And over by that area, there were bigger slimes, and some wolves.

King was still level 3 from killing the slimes earlier, so he was a little under-leveled to be here. But hey; he had a hunting rifle. Everyone else used bows, spears, axes, and other medieval weapons.

Spotting a wolf pack, King took aim, and shot one of the wolves directly in the head.

Obviously, being rifle bullets which cost like 10 MP, the wolf died instantly.

Now that he was level 3, he could afford to materialize the hunting rifle again, and not get a splitting headache. The most was just a minor migraine for a short while. And if his MP was back to full, King could afford 30 whole bullets.

With every level up, one's stats would raise by 1, and HP, MP and ST would raise by 100. King's current stats were:

Name: King

Level: 3

Title: None

HP: 300/300

MP: 220/300

ST: 300/300

STR: 3

VIT: 3

INT: 3

DEX: 3

LCK: 3

Job Class: None

(Skills)

Active: [Take Aim], [Silent Movement]

Passive: [Ranged Weapon Mastery (Tier I: {404/5000}) ]

EXP: 260/300

King had gotten the first skill when he first used the rifle. When activated, what it did was remove the sway of holding any ranged weapon for a long time, and all around just increased its accuracy. By killing more and more mobs from a distance, and silently, King obtained the second skill when he was on the verge of leveling up to level 3. When activated, it made King's movements almost completely silent, at the cost of ST. The third was just a passive skill which increased the damage dealt with any ranged weapon. For Tier I, King had a 10% increase in ranged weapon damage.

As the wolf he shot at earlier died, the others in its back were startled, before they ran off.

”Looks like even the mobs have good AI. I guess I'll need to shoot at the wolves which stray off. That or the bigger slimes.” King said to himself.

Taking aim, King continued his shameless tactic of shooting mobs from the distance of about 90 meters. Any further and the bullet would drop, causing it to miss. But hell, even 50 meters was more than enough.

[5 minutes later...]

”Nice, finally level 10.” King said, just leveling up from killing another wolf. Just as he reached level 10, his skill-set had changed into like that of an actual sniper's.

Name: King

Level: 10

Title: None

HP: 1000/1000

MP: 920/1000

ST: 1000/1000

STR: 10

VIT: 10

INT: 10

DEX: 10

LCK: 10

Job Class: None

(Skills)

Active: [Take Aim], [Silent Movement]

Passive: [Predator's Cunning I], [Hunter's Grace I] [Ranged Weapon Mastery (Tier I: {1464/5000}) ]

EXP: 910/1000