CHAPTER 5
Karthikeyan woke up and did his periodic work indifferently. His parents didn't go to work either it seemed , they were just glued to the tv like predators waiting to gulp their preys always switching channels to see whether something new was being reported.
"The broadcasting companies sure are benefitting from this." He thought.
What annoyed him was that the WhatsApp university graduate students went on to circulate fake information that contradicted the system manual. Some even thought this whole phenomenon was a hoax and urged people to not believe in it .
Sighing he greeted his parents , did a small talk and then went to his room.
He decided to warm up and see where his physical strength stood. He didn't have the time or the mental energy to test it out yesterday. The forum users reported increase in strength though. Some forum users blessed with good talents received the so called boosting effects that permanently or temporarily increased their attributes.
Anyways why these two days were given to them in the first place was to select whether they wanted to choose mana or chi. Once selected the user no matter what couldn't change his chosen energy.
The manual had an interesting sentence "Nothing is impossible". Then going by this ideology it might be possible to change it later on, in not so an ordinary way. The same could be applied for changing or getting a better talent which the manual said is impossible to change.
He didn't choose an energy yet as there was no need to rush .He could afford to choose it later.
He then tried doing 30 pushups, the usual amount after which he would be pretty much exhausted but now he wasn't , he kept on going until he hit the 100th mark . He had an idea and activated the effect . Skills and effects were same as activating the system you just needed to think about it and voilà you just used them . It was all there in the manual book.
While he was doing the pushups he thought how scary the world would soon become. The big bucks had already started making steps and started buying system currency , how? they just bought it from the people who were desperate or just took it by force. All just in 1 night. People could transfer currency through their systems.
At the 700th pushup he started feeling somewhat exhausted and at 726 he was down. Well according to the system he must be able to 1000 pushups going by the common logic. He Guessed there were too many variables involved.
And this continued for 10 hours in and on until it was night again the sun had went down. He took a look at his stats there was no increase in stats but he had felt overall a better control throughout his body not putting his effects in vain. The system had given him a penalty though.
[THE HOST HAS EXHAUSTED THEMSELVES SO THE HOST WILL EXPERIENCE FATIGUE FOR THE NEXT 10 HOURS]
"What a letdown" he thought. It wasn't just a fantasy system that allowed the users to become op. It followed the harsh reality as well.
He couldn't quite use [ANGELIC PROWESS] as he didn't have mana or chi. . It left the one effect he could try out . It was [THE SHADOW SENSE]. It was time for a night out . As for the other two he couldn't quite use them for the same reasons as well they were inaccessible.
At day he tried to convince his parents that this was indeed serious. They were educated to a higher degree, even they understood the situation might turn out to be for the worse. Crimes were increasing and people reported much progress in almost every aspects , it was terrifying.
Even his father who was an accountant for a big financial company reported he had better concentration than he did on any days of his life but even after this something stopped them from letting him go. They didn't want to lose him.
When he was talking to them the chandelier that was hung up fell down and shattered to pieces .It was a meal for their superstition thoughts . They told him to go back to his room and that they would think over his request. He had asked them to let him out so he could level up and gain a foothold in everything that were to happen in a few days. He wanted to get powerful.
Before he went for the night out without his parent's knowledge he once again reviewed the knowledge he had on skills and talents. Talent's mastery nor rank couldn't be increased no matter what and the person was stuck with it for their entire life. The only way was if there existed a rare technique that allowed to do something as discussed before. Talents basically gave permanent or a temporary effects that affected multitude of things. Temporary effects were like active skill.
Skills on the other hand had fixed rank but their mastery could be increased. It was in the form of percentages. 100 percent meant complete mastery. At every 33 percent you received a boost in the skill.
When he looked at the talents and skills descriptions uploaded by the people he couldn't help but shake his head. It was weak , very weak compared to what he had . He started feeling like a god. If he went on not caring when and where he used his power he might get into big trouble.He might need to purchase some intelligence skills on the store or increase his intelligence stats, that would increase his intelligence permanently. The problem was that the intelligence related skills he saw on the store were not cheap and the stats had to be distributed cautiously as well and not on a whim.
He was on the road , it was silent except for some of the young people roaming here and there . There were horrible things happening but he had no time to become the hero nor the desire to...
The police on the other hand were being overwhelmed because of the increase in crimes, guess these young pricks were responsible.
He didn't get into their sights as he was using his passive effect provided by his system. The reason he ad better senses than others and felt more negative energy was due to this. It best worked in the condition he was now in. The night.
Seriously though he didn't see a difference in talents or curses and skills. They both are kind of similar to each other with only subtle differences . It seemed so only for him . He was thinking of calling his effects just as skills.
He went around until the time had hit 3 am. This today, was a thrilling experience . He climbed the biggest signal tower in Balka a very insignificant town he lived in and saw the view which mesmerised him . He could see the mountain ranges that split off from Himalayas and he saw the buildings which looked like lego blocks. The wonder of Mother Nature.
"What would it be like in Dehradun- the heavenly city?" he couldn't help but wonder
The dungeon break were supposed to happen tomorrow at exactly 10 pm IST . There was a timer for it in the system. The only problem being dungeon breaks that were to happen are not the ones he read in novels...