Blade Skill Online: Crushing the Competition with My Abysmal Stats, Useless Class, and Garbage Weapon! Volume 1 (eBook)

Manzi Mazi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-9548-0 (ISBN)

Infos

All Yuri wants is an easy high school life, but he's been cursed with the worst luck imaginable for as long as he can remember. That's why things are bound to look up with the release of Blade Skill Online, an ultraimmersive VRMMO where luck is a stat you can actually control! Confident that a carefree life should be as simple as choosing the right build, Yuri follows an online guide and picks the summoner class with a bow for his weapon. Now reversing fortune is just a matter of dumping all of his stat points into luck to begin his blessed in-game life!

Or at least, that was the plan. Turns out he's been trolled-summoners are useless, the bow is garbage, and the game's barely playable with his abysmal stats. To top it all off, the avatar randomizer turned him into a hot girl, and now a bald barbarian won't stop hitting on him!

But Yuri's not about to let the trolls have the last laugh. With a PvP event on the horizon, he's determined to make his build work and crush the competition!

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Huh...? Isn’t everyone using those?

According to the guide, summoner and bow had been all the rage during the beta test. Summoners had the power to bend fearsome monsters to their will, while the bow was a common favorite that could take down fighters from a distance. Maybe the beta testers wanted to try out something new for the official launch...? That’s probably all it is.

“Now if you could state your skills please, Yuri! You can pick up to three!”

Oh, that’s right. I should be thinking about my skills! I never settled on these... Well, if I’m gonna dump all my points into luck, then this, this, and this ought to work!

“Okay, Navi. Gimme Last Stand, Fatal Strike, and Luck Boost.”

“You got it!”

My thinking was real simple. If my HP dropped to 0, Last Stand would give me a small chance to keep going with a sliver of health. Meanwhile, Fatal Strike would give me a small chance to deal double damage. And of course, those small chances would grow bigger the higher my luck stat was—which is where Luck Boost, which gave me ten percent extra luck, would swoop in and make me untouchable! These three were perfect choices for someone planning a pure luck build.

There’s no stopping me now. Mwah ha ha!

“Okay, Yuri, next you’ve got 100 attribute points to—”

I didn’t even let her finish. “Dump ’em all into luck!” No doubt about it! My whole motivation for playing is to get a chance at a carefree life!

Here’s how my build turned out:

Name: Yuri

Level: 1

Class: Summoner

Weapon: Bow

Attributes: Strength: 0 / Defense: 0 / Magic: 0 / Agility: 0 / Luck: 100+10

Skills: Luck Boost, Last Stand, Fatal Strike

Just look at all those 0s next to that 110! This is peak min-maxing! Casuals are probably gonna put 20 points into each stat, so I’ll be five times luckier than all of them! And there’s no way anyone can catch me now since we only get 10 attribute points per level! I chuckled as I imagined the fun times ahead. Heh heh heh. With these stats, I’m gonna be living that easy life I’ve been dreaming of.

“Just one more step!” Navi said. “How would you like your character to look, Yuri? We have to use your real face as a base since that’s what’s best for players’ mental states, but we can tweak it until you’re barely recognizable!”

Oh, I get to change my looks?! I’d better make sure I get this right!

Hmm... My real face is a little feminine, but I could try reworking it into something manly! And I’ve gotta do something about my baggy eyes. Bad luck’s got me looking dead inside!

“You could try your luck with the randomizer!” Navi suggested. “It still starts out from your real face, but you never know how it might change! It could even turn you into a total hunk!”

Ooh, a randomizer? That sounds fun! I’d never have taken a chance like this in real life, but now that I had five times the luck of the average man, there was nothing to hold me back.

“Hit me with the randomizer, Navi!”

“You got it! Look forward to seeing how it turns out when you get down into town! Well then, Yuri, please enjoy Blade Skill Online—a world of hope, dreams, and combat!”

For a moment, I saw Navi vigorously waving me goodbye, and then a blinding white light enveloped me.

⬧⬨⬧

As the light died down, the town came into view. The streets were cobbled and lined with wooden buildings, just like in a fantasy world. I saw other players thronging the area and carrying equipment of all kinds, and I got a strong sense of being inside a video game.

“Oh, I get it... This must be Starting Town!”

Modern VR games are insane! Not only did everything look real, everything from the hubbub of the town to the smell of good food in the air felt genuine. I can’t get over this level of quality! I bet I’d have a great time just strolling around!

I was busy gawking at the scenery when a voice called out to me. “Hey there, miss! Hey, miss!”

Huh? Miss...? Well, he can’t mean me.

I ignored the voice completely until I felt a hand grab my shoulder. Surprised, I turned around to find a muscular bald man with tanned skin looking right at me.

“Eek! A wild barbarian appeared?!”

Baldy looked offended. “I’m no barbarian! Little rude, doncha think, miss?!”

Why is he looking at me and saying, “miss”?! Uhh, hold on... My voice does sound kinda high, and isn’t that feeling on my back my hair reaching down to my waist? Don’t tell me...

“Hey, Baldy! What do I look like?!”

“Uh... You’ve got silver hair, red eyes, and I guess, in so many words...you look like a well-to-do young lady.”

Pbbbt?! Whaaaaat?! I’m a lady?!

I ran to a nearby fountain and stared down at the water. The reflection looking back at me belonged to a beautiful girl, gorgeous in every way but her dead eyes. She was wearing a simple black dress that looked like a starting outfit, and it happened to suit her silver hair perfectly.

I nervously raised my hands and put them to my pale cheeks. Sure enough, the girl reflected on the water’s surface made the same gesture.

“Huh?! How’d this happen to me?!” I screamed with a woman’s voice.

Baldy leaped with fright at my sudden shouting. “Wh-What’s wrong?”

A few minutes later...

“Bwah ha ha ha ha! So the randomizer turned you into a flawless silver-haired, red-eyed hottie?! You’re hilarious, Yuri!”

“Well, I’m not laughing!” I tore at my pretty silver hair. “Gah! My bad luck never left me!”

Baldy wouldn’t stop chortling like an idiot, and this current burst of laughter was just the latest in a long series.

After we’d gotten talking, I gave him a full recap while we sat on the edge of the fountain. First he’d laughed when I told him I was playing the game to escape my bad luck, then he’d laughed even harder when I’d told him that the randomizer had turned me into a girl. Once I’d told him I’d chosen the summoner class and the bow, he was in stitches.

What’s with this guy? Does he get off on laughing at other people’s misfortune?! “Yeah, get a good laugh, jerk! I don’t see what’s so funny about my class or weapon though. Sure, my avatar turned out weird, but summoner and bow is the best possible choice! The online guide said so!”

“Pffffft! Hate to break it to you, Yuri, but that’s a lie spread by trolls.”

“Huh?”

“That guide’s a wiki. Anyone can put a bunch of lies on there. In reality, summoner’s a weak class with no upsides, and the bow sucks ’cause it can’t hit a damn thing.”

“What...? Whaaaaaaaat?!”

No, no, no! This can’t be right! Not only do I look like a girl, but my build totally sucks too?!

“Ha ha ha! Usually some Good Samaritan comes along to fix the vandalism, but it takes them a while to notice. You must have checked the site in the few minutes before it got fixed!”

“But th-that would be...the worst possible luck!” Curse my unbelievable misfortune! It won’t even let me enjoy video games! I checked that site a bunch of times, and it always recommended summoner and the bow! Don’t tell me...the vandalism was always timed for exactly when I was looking at the site?! Gaaaaaaaaaaah!

As my shoulders slumped, Baldy placed his hand on my back in an apparent show of sympathy...except no, he was getting ready to kick me while I was down! “As a former beta tester, let me share a little wisdom with you: A pure luck build...is pure garbage.”

“Garbage?!”

“Now, now, hear me out. Your luck stat mostly affects how often your skills trigger and the drop rates for rare items. It does also help a little with critical hits, though. That’s when you hit an enemy’s head or heart and get a small chance to deal triple damage. The higher your luck, the more often you’ll get that critical damage boost.”

“Ooh. So if I focus-fire on enemy vitals, I’ll be unstoppable, right? I know some shots might miss, but with these stats, I’ve gotta land a few lucky hits...right?”

“Nope. Hit rate is purely a matter of player skill. Speaking of which, here’s a question for you, Yuri. Think you can hit anything with a bow? Have you had any archery training? And even if you have, remember, we’re talking about moving targets here.”

Wh-What?! This can’t be happening! “There’s no way I’ll hit anything! I barely know how to hold a bow! Every shot’s gonna fly a mile wide without aim assist!”

“Thought so. Any noob can swing a sword around and hit something, but a bow’s useless unless you’ve got the skills. And that’s why everyone calls the bow trash. Mind you, even if you were a pro archer, it wouldn’t matter with those stats of yours. The more...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Blade Skill Online: Crushing the Competition with My Abysmal Stats, Useless Class, and Garbage Weapon!
• Illustrationen: Shimofuri (Laplacian)
• Übersetzer: Shaun Cook
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Gender-Bender • Light Novel • Modern Fantasy • OP protagonist • Role-playing game (RPG) • Video game • Virtual Reality (VR)
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-9548-5 / 1718395485
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-9548-0 / 9781718395480