I Want to Be a Hero

The new Character Panel was much like the one from Sword and Lament, except it had no class.

Hero School trained heroes. And a "hero," naturally, had to know a little of everything: fighting on horseback and on foot, wielding long and short weapons, casting spells, healing...

Although each hero developed differently depending on their aptitude and training, even the most magically gifted hero could be trained as a Warrior if the player was dead set on it.

But... if they did that, they would have to rely on the previous generation's four great heroes for the final battle.

After all, teaching students according to their talents was the proper path. Make a scholar swing an axe and a brute sing hymns, and the results were easy to imagine.

Pan Long's Character Panel read:

[Name: Pan Long]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 17]

[Personality: Gloomy]

[Alignment: Good]

[Interest: Fighting]

[Element: Light]

[Aptitudes: Strength B, Agility B, Endurance A, Spirit D, Mind C]

[Health: 100/100]

[Stamina: 100/100]

[Mana: 100/100]

[Growth Rate: D]

[Insight Points: 0]

Next came the skills page. Each attribute had ten corresponding skills. Of the fifty skill and spell icons, twelve were lit, meaning he had learned them; fifteen were black, meaning he could not learn them; and the remaining twenty-three were gray, meaning he needed to spend Insight Points to learn them.

The skills he had learned were:

Strength: Heavy Strike, Charge, Stun, Knockback, Burst Strength.

Agility: Precise Strike, Lethal Strike.

Endurance: Block, Stun, Pulling Punches, Exceptional Stamina.

He had not learned a single Spirit or Mind skill yet.

Equipment page: nothing.

Grades page: [Not Enrolled]

At the sight of those bright red words on the last page, Pan Long's face fell.

"Damn it! Do I have to run to that Hero School and register