Chapter 3: Retreat
August opened his eyes—@@###
"Wait! Let's continue where we ended in the last chapter!"
"So basically the "End" suddenly appeared out of nowhere threatening to "End" everything, naturally it is it's purpose so i could've just let him do as he please."
"Unfortunately, he appeared at the wrong time! He appeared when i am in the middle of story telling"
"What a hassle for me" The Chronicler sighed.
He took out a magical glowing white pen
"HEY IT'S TRANSLUCENT, NOT WHITE!" The chronicler said.
[Narrator: Oh! Sorry]
With a single thought, a translucent pen appeared, it emits a faint glow..
"The Author's Pen" The chronicler grabbed the pen and pointed it towards The End Figure.
At the same time as soon as The End Figure saw the pen, he suddenly felt a vast terrifying power that surpasses even his own.
"What is it? I am the end of this Infinitium, the beginning and the end of this infinity loop. But why, that power...it can't be...it shouldn't exist." The End Figure shudders and unconsciously pulled out multiple pages of the book ro protect itself.
"Each pages transcends narratives, it is way about anything else, and I, The End, am the only one who can affect it." The End Figure revealed a smile as he looked at The Chronicler.
However, in an instant; the pages covering himself suddenly became black, the pages were covered with black ink.
"How can this be! I have to retreat" In an instant The End Figure disappeared on the spot as if it was never there.
Sigh-
The Chronicler let out a sigh and waves the pen from left to right.
In a moment, the damages caused by the fight between him and The End Figure disappeared, he did not repaired nor turned back the time. The battle...it never happened. There were no battle that took place, nor The End Figure showing up to consume everything. It just never happened.
"Welp, i took care of it, i mean temporarily hahaha"
"Anyways, i'm going to fill you in about August, you know the youth down there with a system"
"He woke up in the morning then he got punched by his childhood friend, now he's at his own room looking on the system interface"
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Gustav Empire, Slums, August's room
Looking at the system panel, August let out a sigh.
One day he suddenly got transmigrated into another world while he was sleeping at his own room, he just realized he transmigrated when he woke up.
Of course, like other transmigrating novels, he obtained his golden finger, a system.
Although this system is a bit...weird? But he optimistically look forward to it, since the weirder the systems the stronger they are.
Of course, this was just based on the previous novels he had read online.
[ Name: August Gustave
Age: 18
Race: Human
Class: Mechanic (L)
Sub-Class: Hunter (SSS)
Main Quest: None]
Looking at the simplistic panel, August felt nothing but hopelessness, yesterday the system gave him a quest to collect 500 high-end parts.
He spend all day searching for this parts and he even collapsed. And why did the system only have him one day for a seemingly impossible quest? There are two reasons.
The first one is him having a (L)egendary class, although the system didn't display his current skills, he knew each one of them, so far he had obtained only 2 Legendary skills and these are:
[Eyes of Mechane (• Me-ka-nee) (L): The user possesses the eyes of Mechane, The god of machines, It allows the user to identify all kinds of mechanical parts and scraps, and it also gives him a 3d visual blueprint, being able to identify the problems like some sort of filter when he looked at objects. It also comes with 3 abilities •Thermal vision
•Night vision
•Zoom: 2x - microscopic level]
[Technologia's Motherboard (L): The Motherboard of Technologia, God of technologies and invention, provides nigh-omniscient knowledge of technologies.
•Increases focus when inventing or building by 500%
•Increases the success rate when making a blueprint by 500%
•Increases hand precision by 500%
•Increases reaction time by 500%
•Not Unlocked yet]
These are 2 skills he obtained from his Mechanic Class, as for the Hunter class, he knew nothing about it since he never encountered a situation where he needed to exert his survival ability. Aside from wandering through slums, he tends to spend all day in his own garage to make junks and scraps.
August closed the panel and reached out a drawer from the left side of his bed, he opened it and grabbed a metallic key before heading out of the room.
August's house is neither big or small, but it brings enough space to make him feel suffocated nor the feeling of too big.
It is a comfortable house for him, considering that he is the only one left of his family.
His Mother and Father the day he was transmigrated, The couple encountered a fatal failure when testing out an astro-suit they brought back.
His parents were exceptional mechanics and had good terms with everyone within the block, that's why even though he'd been left alone by his parents due to an unprecedented incident. He never felt alone at all, many of his neighbors care about him, as his parents are the one who once looked out to them and even protected them from the threats of Zroids.
The slums are divided into 'Blocks', each block has the sized of 2x2 kilometers surrounded by walls with the height of 30 meters made of Techtrite the hardest material mankind had ever produced, how durable and hard this is? Get a box made of techtrite and you'll survive 5 nuclear bombs dropped consecutively on your location.
Alas, even the techtrite cannot survive the passage of time, just like the walls of this slum that has small holes and visible large cracks, which the residents fill it up Metals obviously a weaker material than techtrite.
Zroids enter through these gaps where they lay their eggs inside the walls and continues to reproduce before attacking the block.