[Owen Matthews]
[Level 1]
[Strength: F+]
[Intelligence: D]
[Charisma: F+]
Holy crap! After training for six months I only bumped up my strength by a little bit. I'm back home in bed but even still I can tell that my arms have developed some decent muscle. Feeling around my chin the extra fat seems to have disappeared. Feeling my belly I can tell it doesn't protrude as much and if I touch certain parts I can feel my ribs.
My dad had to pick me up from school after I passed out in the cafeteria. He wanted me to stay in bed for the rest of the day and see how I felt after that. I couldn't wait to have to try and explain this to my friends I talk to a girl and then pass out. I didn't want to stay in bed I wanted to move around and maybe go for a run, my body was brimming with energy it didn't have before and I wanted to push it to its limits to see just how much I had changed. I looked at the back of my hand and realised that I had a scar there from my space adventures. Thank god I didn't die in that novel I really might not have come back.
The sounds outside were too quiet I was beginning to miss the city I didn't think I would miss all the traffic and noise but now that I'm back in the middle of farmland its too stark a contrast. I decided to keep myself occupied by checking my skills, after all there's not much else I could do plus I wasn't really in the mood for reading.
[Written Word: F]
[Reading: D+]
[Apology: F]
[Pain Tolerance: F]
[Handguns: D-]
[Accuracy: F+]
[Analysis: F+]
Woah two whole new skills. You know if this was like one of those webnovels I could just tap on it if I wanted to see a description.
[Handguns: (D-) Proficiency with Handguns such as pistols]
What the hell! Your telling me I could have been reading these descriptions the whole time! In six months not once did I try that. Now I feel dumb. Well let's check out the others.
[Accuracy: (F+) How accurate the user is e.g. shooting, fighting, etc.]
[Analysis: (F+) Ability to analyse things around you. [Unlocks system descriptions]]
Well I guess I feel less bad now. So when I got this skill I was able to start seeing the descriptions of skills. Guess I'm not that brain dead. But one thing really spooked me when I returned from the novel the system said that I had beaten another user. Which means that there are other people who have a system just like mine. But if I had to guess their system was for writing novels so when they finished the novel the system sucked me into it. I must have beaten them by changing the course of the story. I can't imagine that they're going to be happy...
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"Who the hell is this user? I spent ten months in the body of a serial killing teenager just for someone to breeze in and beat me!" A female voice called out furiously.
Their dark room only illuminated by the glow of their monitor. But that didn't matter to her because she had inherited a weird skill of seeing in the dark ever since starting the novel.
"I didn't even know there was other users?!"
A fat calico cat was spooked by these sudden outbursts and decided to distance himself from his owner.
"I wonder if he has only had the system for a couple days too? And are there more out there?"
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Im guessing the system felt I was growing too quickly or something because I didn't have to worry about an event for the rest of yesterday and there was no sleeping event last night. Which I was thankful for, time was starting to get a little wonky and jumbled up in my head I mean its only the third day that I have had this system but I've lived a lot longer than that. I stepped on the bus feeling like a million skill points but stepped off feeling like crap.
These bullying assholes keep messing with me and I don't know how much more I can take. But I'm still not strong enough to even think about finding a way to get them to leave me alone. What I really need is some combat skill that doesn't require me to own a weapon.
At least my other skills were putting in over time. I stubbed my toe against the side of my bed this morning, it barely hurt. Had cereal for breakfast, but was I was so accurate with it that I didn't spill any milk on my tie like I usually do. Not to mention ever since yesterday I've been overly fixated on the world around me or to put it a better way overly analytical. Sure these didn't seem that cool but for me it was everything it meant that I wasn't putting my life on the line for nothing and that all this was leading to something great. I have also been feeling a bit more confident because of the strength I've gained and how it's changed my body, even though I couldn't fight my way out of a cardboard box.
After having spent the rest of the day yesterday in bed I found the time to finally get the homework done for Mr. Butler so I handed that in before going to my first class of the day, History with Ms. Gladys. When sitting in the class I realised that I hadn't finished reading the notifications from yesterday so instead of taking notes like a responsible student I went into my system settings and then into notifications.
[User has beaten another user]
[There are unclaimed achievements]
[5 Skill Points for completing a novel]
I decided to take a quick look at the achievements section of the system as it had been something I couldn't access previously. There were four achievements so I guessed that I needed to have a certain amount of achievements before this menu opened. They were what I thought they'd be; beating another user, completing a novel, Using my first skill and completing my first chapter. I decided to click on each of these and found I could redeem them for 1 skill point each. Doing some easy maths in my head I found that I now had 10 skill points to spend but I still wanted to wait until I really needed to use them.
It was then that I heard an impatient throat clearing and tearing my eyes away from my system, that I had opened under the desk on my lap, I was able to deduce from all the looks being given around me that this probably wasn't the first time the teacher had tried to get my attention.
"If you would care to pay attention instead of looking at your feet Mr. Matthews." Ms. Gladys said irritably.
So I was forced to give my undivided attention to what she was saying. As the class dragged on I started looking through the screen this time it was just in front of me so it looked like I was paying lots of attention. There were quite a few skills I now had available after becoming 5 different characters but nothing that would really stand out and help me I needed something really good. I decided to check the description on the only skill that had tricked me into not using it.
[Written Word: (F) Be able to force an event or give advice to the user]
I can force an event! That seems great! I started thinking about the kind of novel that might give me something I really needed and try using the skill. I was in the middle of thinking about a novel where the hero can summon weapons to fight with and using the skill when Ms. Gladys who had been speaking about world wars said something that messed it all up.
"When the nuclear bomb was invented everyone was afraid it would lead to apocalypse and wars and bloodshed. No one knew how they were going to survive." Then she said, "Can you kids even imagine having to live in a world after a nuclear fallout."
[Looking for event that fits criteria: - - -]
[Activating chapter 10 of the novel: "So I time travelled to the apocalypse"]
[Reality has been slightly augmented]
[Time dilation has been activated]
Oh crap!