The Shadow Monarch Izuku Midoriya

Ch 7: Daily Quest Part 1

"Talk"

'Thought'

[System]

Izuku's eyes opened to see the similar white ceiling panels as he quickly raised himself up and the first thing he did was to check the time. The needles of the clock just went past 4:30 meaning he had 7 hours to complete the daily challenges.

Izuku opened the mailbox.

Tti-ring.

[Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong]

Push-up, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)

Sit-up, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)

Squat, 100 times: Incomplete (0/100)

Running, 10 km: Incomplete (0/10)

Warning: Incompletion of Daily Quests will result in appropriate levels of punishment.

Izuku said, "It's the same thing, again?!" He groaned in annoyance. No, perhaps this was for the better. Rather than a quest with impossible or hard-to-understand goals, this was far more preferable, instead.

Well, as long as he had enough time, he'd be able to complete this quest after all, although his body might suffer for a bit. Izuku got down to the floor this time and began the push-up and counted, "One."

Obviously, he was not planning on being dragged to yet another suspicious place and get almost killed there and continued, "Two."

He got lucky the previous night and survived, but there was no guarantee that would happen tonight as well and again, "Three."

He raised his head a little and confirmed the contents of the quest, and noticed that every time he performed a push-up, it was being recorded in real time as well.

Tti-ring.

[You've completed one push-up.]

[Push-up 100 times: Incomplete (7/100)]

Tti-ring.

[You've completed one push-up.]

[Push-up 100 times: Incomplete (8/100)]

He wanted to make sure, so he only went down half-way and got back up, but as expected, that didn't count. Now he finally realized why the so-called push-ups of yesterday didn't count. He had to perform the proper push-ups or it wouldn't be counted at all and thought, 'Huh.... Gimme a break.'

Izuku was dumbfounded, but didn't stop the exercise. He still had 50 more push-ups to go. After that, sit-ups, squats and running were waiting for him.

Three hours later...

Press-up, 100 times: Complete (100/100)

Sit-up, 100 times: Complete (100/100)

Squat, 100 times: Complete (100/100)

Running, 10 km: Incomplete (9/10)

Izuku was breathing ruggedly, "Pant, pant, pant, pant..." As he lapped the outer perimeter of the hospital once and arrived back in front of his room. He was currently bent over and panting out heavily. His heart felt like it might explode at any second, but he couldn't give up yet.

The Izuku thought, 'I worked so crazy hard until now, so no way I would....' He somehow managed to open the door and took a step forward. When he did that....

Tti-ring.

[Total distance ran: 10 km.]

[You've completed Running, 10 km.]

It was finally over.

As he had trouble breathing from running, "Pant.... Pant..."

Izuku fell down to his knees. His breath reeked of something sweet and bitter. His face and back were soaked in sweat.

As Izuku tried to regulate his heavy, rough breathing while thick sweat drops continuously dripped down, a familiar message popped up in front of his eyes.

Tti-ring.

[You've completed 'Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong'.]

[Completion rewards have arrived.]

[Would you like to confirm?] (Y/N)

Izuku momentarily thought about forgetting about everything and simply laying down in defeat, but quickly changed his mind. At least for now, he wanted to confirm what these reward things could actually be with his own eyes first.

"Confirm."

Tti-ring.

[The following rewards are available.]

Reward 1. Full recovery of the current physical condition

Reward 2. Three additional Stat points

Reward 3. One random box

[Would you like to collect them all?]

As Izuku thought, 'Why are there so many of them?'

That was the first thought to enter his dazed mind after he took a gander at the contents of his rewards. But, when he thought about it a little deeper, one of those rewards seemed rather useful right now, and there was also one that made him curious about what it could actually mean. For now, he urgently needed the first reward available. He was on the brink of collapsing here as he was sitting on the floor.

So Izuku quietly said, "Accept Reward 1."

As he said that he was covered in a blue aura in a similar sensation of what Juhui's healing felt like and slowly the blue aura had faded as well.

Izuku got up from the floor and lightly jumped up and down on the spot and stretched his body this way and that and said, "How can this be?!"

His heart that felt like it might explode was beating calmly now, and his rough breathing had stabilized as well. He didn't even feel a speck of fatigue. His body that was on the brink of collapsing, felt refreshed as if he just got up from a night of good rest. The effect, in other words, was top-notch.

Izuku thought, 'Isn't this really amazing?'

In that case, would those 'Stat points' be the same?

When Izuku shifted his gaze around, he spotted a small box resting on top of the bed as well as his own Stat Window floating in the air, 'I guess that thing over there is the random box....' The important thing was his Stat Window, though. This window displayed simple information about himself.

Name: Midoriya Izuku

Level: 1

Class: None

Title: None

HP: 100

MP: 10

Tiredness: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 10

Stamina: 10

Agility: 10

Intelligence: 10

Perception: 10

(Available points to distribute: 3)

Passive skills:

– (Unknown) Lv. Max

– Tenacity Lv. 1

Active skills:

– Dash Lv. 1

The stat he saw was quite similar to a starting character from an online game he used to play.

His current level was 1. All of his stats were also at the bottom of the heap, too.

If he thought about the current reality of what he was like, the one where he was ranked as the weakest even among the rank E Hunters, then there was nothing to be surprised about there.

(Hopefully you guys enjoyed this chapter...) (Words 986)