2 1. Pills

'.....'= Thoughts 

"....."= Conversations 

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"Huhuhuhhu," Ethan suddenly woke up, breathing heavily.

"Nightmare?" he muttered as he tried to focus his vision and rubbed his eyes while yawning deeply.

Ethan then dropped back onto the bed and tried to stretch his hands and legs to their utmost.

"That's the stuff," he smiled in satisfaction as his legs and hands trembled from being stretched to the limit.

After a few moments of basking in the comfort of his bed, Ethan finally sat up. He glanced around the room, still feeling a bit disoriented from his dream.

"Okay, time to shake off that nightmare and start the day fresh," he thought to himself as he swung his legs off the bed and stood up.

Stretching again, Ethan let out a contented sigh and just as he was about to walk in the direction of his washroom, a shocked expression appeared on his face.

"What in God's name is happening here?" Ethan shouted as the background had turned enitely white. Everything except his bed had disappeared and now he seemed to stand in a white space.

Ethan rubbed his eyes again and even slapped himself once to check whether he was dreaming or something. After a few tests he found out that he was quite wide awake and whatever he was seeing was not an illusion.

Suddenly the white space in which he was standing started shaking. As Ethan had just gotten up from a. Deep sleep and due to the ferocious shaking, he lost his balance and fell down.

Finally after a few seconds the shaking stooped.

Ethan who had fell down grunted," What the hell is happening here? Huh...where is my bed?"

Ethan was surprised with the disappearance of his bed as now he was all alone in the entire white space.

Suddenly Ethan felt a bulge in his pants. He looked down and saw that there was something in both the pockets of his pants.

Ethan curiously took out the things from his pockets. Sitting on both his palms were two pills, one blue in colour and the other in red.

"Pills from the Matrix?" Ethan wondered as he observed both the pills.

Suddenly two coloured panels appeared in front of his eyes, near each of the pill rested in his palm.

Both the panels had something written on it, with the words in red panel being short and concise, while more things seemed to be written in the blue coloured panel.

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{RED PANEL}

•Forget everything and go back to the Earth.

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'Am I not on Earth right now?' Ethan wondered and then focused on the blue panel.

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{BLUE PANEL}

•Become a Transmigrator.

•Acquire the Talent "Ability Copy"

•Acquire the Ability "Infinite Lifespan"

•Acquire the Ability "Travel"

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After he was done reading both the panels, a countdown appeared in front of his eyes stating him to choose between the two pills within ten seconds.

Ethan knew that he had to make his choice quickly. After hesitating a bit he finally swallowed the blue when just three seconds were left in the countdown.

As he swallowed the blue pill, the red panel and red pill in his hand were destroyed and disappeared from the white space. Whereas the blue panel flew towards him and then entered his forehead.

Ethan felt an intense pain in head after he swallowed the blue pill. He clutched his head with both hands, feeling as though his mind was being stretched and pulled in all directions. It was a sensation unlike anything he had ever experienced before, and he gritted his teeth against the pain.

But just as suddenly as it had begun, the pain subsided.

Suddenly the blue panel appeared before his eyes once again. How the information in it was a bit different than before.

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Name: Ethan Hunt

Age: 22 years

Talent: Ability Copy (Level 1)

EXP (0/100)

Abilities:

1) Infinite Lifespan {Level. Max)

2) Travel {Level. Max)

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After the panel display, detailed information began to appear in Ethan's mind regarding the workings of his Talent and abilities.

The provided information included a detailed explanation of how his Talent and abilities would function.

The Talent Ability Copy allows him to copy an ability of a person after making physical contact for five seconds. This talent randomly generates a specific ability unique to the person. Only one ability can be generated at a time, and there is a 20% chance of obtaining a beneficial ability. Additionally, this talent can only be used once on a person. Once an ability is copied, the same ability cannot be generated after using the Talent on another person.

The duration required to copy the ability depends on the specific ability itself. Furthermore, the number of abilities that can be copied is limited to the level of his Talent. He only had five ability slots, two of which were already occupied by 'Endless Lifespan' and 'Travel'. As his Talent level increased, he would obtain more ability slots. However, figuring out how to increase his Talent level was up to Ethan himself as no clues were provided in the information transferred to his brain. Furthermore, the user could level up the abilities copied through his talent by training them.

The ability Endless Lifespan allowed Ethan to live forever, as it stopped his aging after the age of 25. However, this ability did not make him completely immortal, as Ethan could still be injured or killed by anyone.

The next ability, 'Travel,' allowed Ethan to travel to different worlds, but the world to which he traveled was decided randomly and could not be chosen by Ethan. Additionally, the ability 'Travel' would go on a cooldown period once used.

'Although the cooldown period has not been mentioned in the information transferred to me,' Ethan wondered.

The 'Travel' ability was quite mysterious and complicated as it allowed even 'Ethan' who was just a normal person to trave to different worlds without any danger.

He then focused on the system panel in front of him.

'Hmm, this panel looks like a system panel, but it doesn't act like one. It doesn't have any consciousness, nor are there any rewards or tasks,' Ethan mused as he closed the system panel.

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