And it seems no one except me can see this
As if the window was following his train of thought, it vanished and multiple notification windows shimmered into view, completely surrounding Rain.
[You Have New Messages]
[Congratulations, You Have Awakened A Unique Talent: Skill Eater (locked)]
[Ding!]
[You Have Activated A Main Quest]
[The Talent Trial]
[You Will Be Spawned To A Random Floor In An E-rank Dungeon]
[Difficulty May Scale With System Preference]
[Quest Objective]
[Survive For Four Hours]
[Spawn Time: 5 days 5 hrs 30 mins 00 sec]
Just like that, this Spawn Time started decreasing.
Rain's eyes widened at once.
Hey wait, I will be spawned into a dungeon?
His heart hammered against his chest, there was simply no way he could survive.
Even though the rank was the lowest, going there alone as an Ascender was suicidal.
According to his knowledge, for superhumans to raid a dungeon, they need to form a raid team with specialized members like a magic caster, tank, assassin, and healer among others.
There were even private organisations called Awakened Guilds that recruited Awakeners, trained and nurtured them to be strong enough to raid in teams.
The corner of Rain's mouth twitched in fear, This system was telling him to solo a dungeon? That was simply impossible!
He clutched his head in panic, cold bead of sweat started trickling down his brow.
Should one say he had gone to put his hand into a bee nest or what? Like he had gone to draw trouble upon himself?
Rain's face paled. If he failed to survive… it wouldn't just be a failed quest — he'd be dungeon food. He'd die, for real.
He simply didn't want to accept transmigrating into a magical world as a powerless person, that was why he had made up his mind to go for the evaluation, now it seemed his action had bite back to him.
The window suddenly vanished while another shimmered into view.
[You Have Triggered The Side Quest: Path Of Strength]
[Repeatable]
[Quest Objectives]
[Press up] 0/200
[Squat] 0/200
[Jog] 0/20 km
[Rewards] [+50 XP]
Is the system giving me a training ahead of the trial?
No, now wasn't the time to be ruminating, the fact that the system was giving him a method to improve showed that it was the real deal.
Path of Strength, will I grow stronger by completing this quest? Enough to solo the lowest rank dungeon?
Rain's eyes danced over the quest details, These were just ordinary exercises, what could they possibly add to his strength?
But then, what choice did he possibly have? He would eventually be forced to play this ridiculous game.
Another message was added once again.
[You Have Received Ten Bonus Stats]
Bonus stats? Wait a minute, isn't that something from a video game?
Although he had never played one before, he could get the hints of what it meant from this body's memories, it seemed that his being an avid gamer would help Rain in this situation.
So is it saying I have a status?
A smile spread across Rain lips, This was it, his transmigration special power had arrived, and it was a digitised one at that.
I wonder which Job skills I would get, would it be a magic casting spell? Or martial ability?
There was only one sure way to confirm, if his status appeared, then he would be able to check what his awakened ability was about.
Status!
A status window appeared in his vision.
[Race] Human
[HP] 100
[MP] 20
[Lv.] 1
[XP] 0/100
[Strength] 2
[Agility] 2
[Intelligence] 2
[Constitution] 2
[Perception] 2
[Bonus Stat Points] 10
[Talent]
[Skill Eater Lv.1(locked)]
Extract Mana From Your Slain Foes To Condense Skill Fragments.
Absorb And Fuse Skills With A 50% Chance Of Obtaining A Unique Skill.
[Skill Fragments] 0/100
[Active Skill]
[Rush L.v 1]
Skill Bar: [1/5]
I can even level up, this system is really giving me a chance to grow stronger.
In this world where power potential was decided by the mastery level of abilities, the much Awakeners could do was try to use their abilities more often, which would increase their proficiency and mastery, however, this system was telling him that he could level up, like gaining experience points from killing monsters.
Rain had no way of expressing how happy he felt at the moment.
His eyes joyfully danced over the status window.
Jobless.... The heck is that?
I have never heard of such ability, Hmm....
I would gain a unique skill when I fuse some skills?
No matter how he looked at it, the ability seemed strange, after all, a unique skill meant a skill that only he would be able to use.
Aside from their awakened abilities, another way Awakeners could learn new abilities was through Rune Cores.
Monster cores were valuable gems found in monsters, but these variants of monster cores had skill runes engraved on them, which brought about the name—Rune Cores.
However, these weren't something one could find easily, even the probability of a B-rank Monster dropping a rune core was super rare!
So for this reason, Rune Core could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
It also meant any high-ranking Awakener who could get their hand on a Rune Core would only get more powerful.
So for him to get to use this talent, he was so lucky.
The fifty percent chance he had was even greater than the chance of finding a rune core in a high rank monster.
His heart was thumping with anticipation, he would know what it truly meant when he unlocked it.
For a talent to be locked, does that mean I need to meet some requirements?
Perhaps, I would unlock it in level two, no?
Wait a minute,
He suddenly realized, wasn't that what the main quest was all about? He would be tried to see if he was worthy of this unique jobless talent?
Somehow, he had lost the life of an office worker and ended up as an Awakener of a unique variant, a Jobless Transmigrator.
A bright smile slowly formed on his lips, he then rested his chin on his left hand.
If I should repeat the quest five times today, I could earn 250 XP, that should be enough for me to reach at least level two in one day!
Which meant, he might reach up to level 8 before the Trial.
A loud laughter escaped his lips, there was no way he could hide this happiness.
"It is time to show them what the real Rain is made of"
"I will grow stronger, stronger than they could ever think of"
Rain clenched his fist, a flame of anticipation burning hot within him.
He ruminated about the quest, his house was about five kilometers from here, so if he jogged home and then around the neighborhood, he should be able to complete it.
Indeed, that was the best course of action, so as the day was still young, Rain began this Path of Strength quest.