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[Time Remaining - 5:00 minutes.]
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The System Window hovered in the air, its edges blending in with the colors of the pristine realm.
*Huff... Huff...*
Sounds of desperate and uneven breaths reverberated throughout the entire realm.
Kai sat on the ground, his tattered clothes stuck onto his body as they were soaked in his sweat. While fine streams of steam unpredictably arose from his body.
The three weapons he had gotten not too long ago, lay completely shattered on the ground.
The longsword's blade had been shattered into multiple pieces...
The twin dagger's blades had been chipped apart...
While the staff had been reduced to a state even calling it the remnants of staff would be laughable.
Kai's chest continued to rise and contract uncontrollably while the sounds of his hoarse and irregular breaths seemed to be calming down.
He raised his head, his eyes gazing at the system window while a bright, wide smile tugged onto his face.
It was the most prominent proof of his self-accomplishment.
"Say... System... So what exactly... Can you do?" His voice wavered as he tried to normalize his breaths.
His eyes gleamed brightly as if he was proud of himself and his calculations.
The system heeded his words almost instantly as the old screen vanished, and a new one materialized right in front of his eyes—of course, with the answers to his questions.
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[The Systems were designed to help the users monitor and analyze their own growths.]
[The amounts of functions available would depend on the growth of the User himself.]
[Currently, Following Functions are available for your use - Status.]
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It wasn't something praiseworthy, yet Kai seemed to like it more than anything else.
"Show me my status" Without a single ounce of hesitation, he commanded the system with a rather excited tone. While his breaths finally calmed down.
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[Status Window - Kai Evernox]
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Name: Kai Evernox
Age: 17
Class: None
Titles: None
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[Core Attributes]
Strength: 9
Agility: 14
Endurance: 7
Intelligence: 22
Perception: 18
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[Skills]
Beginner Swordsmanship Lv.1
Basic Dagger Techniques Lv.1
Beginner Staff Techniques Lv.1
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[Note: The current system access is limited. Full status information will only be available once the user begins proper growth.]
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Kai's brightness remained unhazed.
He liked his stats. To begin with, stats like intelligence weren't something one could increase just because they wanted to.
On the other hand, normally, the stats were said to be somewhere between 5 and 10 for average humans.
The fact that his perception, agility, and intelligence were already so high meant that his training was indeed fruitful.
To begin with, his body was nothing more than a frail skeleton that barely had any muscles and skin.
But as he started to train in that particular space, he noticed something that was far more amazing than anything he had experienced until now.
Apparently, the white realm had a special effect that healed his injuries instantly. That said, he could train in the most reckless ways possible—leading to muscle growth in a much shorter amount of time.
His body had become rather toned, while his physical attributes had increased drastically.
Kai was ready to give his all to his survival.
"System, give me the subspace." He said in an authoritative yet soft voice.
The system responded immediately. With the same pulsating energy, a cubical transparent sphere appeared on top of the screen—hovering mid-air.
Kai picked up one of the lying pieces of the broken-down longsword with his right hand and clenched his palms into fists with the metal piece thrusting in between his flesh.
Blood started to drip out of his wound, forming a small stream that flowed all the way to his elbow and finally reached the ground with a fall.
Without wasting even a second, Kai raised his hand—aiming to let his blood fall on the hovering cube.
Why?
Because even if he had never seen such an item appear in-game, he was aware of how such soul-bound items worked.
For such items to show their true powers, a medium of relation was needed. Which in his case, was blood.
As soon as his blood reached the surface of the transparent item, it vanished into thin air with a barely audible sound that resembled a churn.
To see such a thing happen, Kai became utterly confused. Unbeknownst that he had done nothing wrong, he panicked.
His eyes darted here and there as if they were looking for the same cube until he finally saw the screen again.
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[Soul-bound contract has been established!]
[You can now use and control the small subspace as if it were one of your limbs.]
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"Gosh, I'm stupid as fuck..."
Words fell out of his mouth as a wave of laughter slipped through.
He decided to laugh at his own stupidity for the very last time because he knew that after this, he wouldn't be able to afford to lose his guard even for a split second.
Moments later, as he finally calmed down—the clock hit the 0 seconds mark and a new system window popped up.
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[You are now being teleported to the Tutorial Zone.]
[The system wishes you luck.]
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Almost immediately, a glowing shimmer of light enveloped his entire body.
Converging into itself, the energy created crackles of lightning that didn't harm Kai at all.
Within a moment, Kai vanished into thin air. However, just as he was teleported—his delighted eyes widened in shock.
For he had seen something that he never included in his calculations.
What had he seen for him to act like this?
Right before he vanished, for a split second, the system window seemed to have glitched while a completely new message could be seen on it, overshadowing the previous ones.
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[The #### is looking at you with interest.]
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