5 Chaos

I had been training for a week now. Just honing the fundamental of Taekwondo first before going to the superhuman stuff. Even then my stats have grown.

[Name: Marcus Fulbright

Title/Alias: None

Rank: Initiate

Strength: 15 → 17

Agility: 15 → 17

Vitality: 15 → 17

Perception: 14 → 16

Intelligence: 13

Willpower: 16

Energy: 15 → 17

Skills: Renewal Taekwondo Lv.1 → Lv. 3

Traits: None

Equipment: None]

This was an all-around improvement and I got really good at Taekwondo. I could catch a fly in mid-flight or breakdance on top of a tightrope if I wanted. Now though the calm filter had dropped.

I had dropped and now the world was already turning to shit. Granted it was not as bad as I was expected but I was not great either. There were no great acts of terrorism so far but I didn't think that they would be far behind.

Already people with superpowers were robbing banks and hackers were exposing the dirty secrets of important politicians and businessmen all over the world.

The only thing keeping things in check is despite the number of people with superpowers that were doing crimes, even more, were preventing it. Think for a moment about who you think would do best in the combat trials.

If your answers were professionally armed and armored soldiers, policemen, and secret agents you would be correct. Many of the soldiers and police officers had powerful abilities.

They were also much better organized and trained. While to gang banger might have some powerful skill like Telekinesis, 10 police officers with slightly weaker powers could still take them down.

I also helped many of the governors and generals gained skills that helped them improve their ability to lead. The police captain in my small town of Brecksville has Archive Magic from Fairy Tail.

So while there was a lot more crime than normal and a lot of them were more violent and successful so far everything was functioning.

I didn't expect to last long however as so far no one with an S-class skill has yet to show themselves. From my estimates, there are only around 10,000 S-class skills worldwide and only 1,000 of them are combat-focused. I don't know why that is.

I would expect by now some dipshit would go crazy. I mean they have to power to rule a town like mine if they wanted. The system might have been more careful with them extending its artificial calm.

I tried to ask the system but it didn't respond this time. Either way, I was spending all day every day training, preparing myself for the next round. I knew that next time I had to get a real boost of power or else I wouldn't be able to keep up with this crazy power escalation.

I also called up my uncle to see if he was ok. Just because he shipped me off to leave on my own as soon as possible doesn't mean I shouldn't care about him. He managed my money after all.

He picked up the phone and said, "Yes, what Marcus?"

"Well if it isn't Uncle Robert. How is my favorite uncle doing?"

"I am your only uncle, Marcus. And if you must know I am doing well."

"Really not worried about the crazy thing going on outside."

"Not really. I have managed to hire a man with a B-rank ability. He seems competent enough to take care of my family."

"Really what is his ability?"

"It is apparently called Flame Breathing. He can apparently control fire with his sword somehow."

"Interesting, Interesting. Well, it was nice calling you bye."

And I hung up my phone. So Uncle Robert got a bodyguard with Flame Breathing, good for him. Probably don't have to worry about him dying then, that is nice.

I do wonder however abilities are ranked. As far as I know Harry Potter Magic is B-rank but Flame Breathing is A-rank which is incredibly odd to me.

Harry Potter Magic can be used to control minds, turn lead to gold, kill a man instantly but it was ranked B? Maybe it has to do with how long it takes to become good at it?

I mean I know they need to go to an academy for 7 years to become passable wizards but with Breathing Styles it might take only a year or so to get competent.

Maybe it has to do with the knowledge? Like maybe the Harry Potter Magic used by Dustin needs to be constantly expanded on by going on missions to learn to better use. Flame Breathing on the other hand all the knowledge might already just be there.

Considerations that I can leave to another time.

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The month is nearly over and now the world is truly in chaos. Whatever was stopping the S-classes from moving last time has disappeared and how they are acting as they wish.

One of them seems to have the Flying Thunder God Jutsu. He just appears and then disappears after murdering somebody. Good thing he was still level 1 and he did manage to get caught.

But it was after he killed 5 people, and 1 of them was live on TV. It was the governor of Wyoming apparently. He could only teleport 100 meters at a time and could only do it 5 times consecutively but after that fiasco, he got caught.

Apparent some cop got the Byakugan. Funny the man with the ability of the 4th Hokage got caught by some using the power of the Hyuuga of Konoha.

There was then this huge debate on whether to kill him or not. He could teleport right out of any jail. In the end, they just kept him sedated. Apparently if he was too loopy or asleep he could activate his power, who woulda thought?

My town has been kept from all of this, however. We were in North Dakota far away from massive population centers. Our police captain with his Archive Magic caught anyone who tried to a crime.

I tried to go back to school after a week but I just couldn't stomach the amount of time wasted. So I dropped out. While everybody was learning skills that probably would be useful after a year I had trained my ass off and it showed.

[Name: Marcus Fulbright

Title/Alias: None

Rank: Initiate

Strength: 17→ 25

Agility: 17 → 25

Vitality: 17 → 25

Perception: 16 → 23

Intelligence: 13 → 20

Willpower: 16 → 21

Energy: 17 → 25

Skills: Renewal Taekwondo Lv.3 → Lv. 10

Traits: None

Equipment: None]

I had reached level 10 in Renewal Taekwondo and broken through the human limit officially making me superhuman. I could now perform some superhuman martial arts like Bo-Bup.

It allowed me to move incredibly fast at short distance making it look like I teleported. I was also capable of doing the 3 Stage Hwechook which allows me to do 3 kicks to the opponent's head incredibly quickly pretty much guaranteeing a knockout.

I was now prepared. While the world might be in chaos I was ready to take on the next stage.