An unknown amount of time passed as Dan's consciousness gradually awakened from slumber. Opening his murky eyes, Dan scanned the familiar room and found that it was night time. Fortunately for him, his father became busy about official matters which gave him enough time to hide his injuries.
Because he was known as an arrogant and easily angered young man. The servants didn't dare to knock on his door to tell him that it was time for dinner, and so, Dan felt incomparably hungry, to the extent that he could eat a whole hog if he wanted to.
Seating down, he leaned on the wall as he remembered the events that happened earlier in the day. The wound on his left shoulder still ached in pain, but it wasn't as intense as the pain that he felt back at the forest.
'Now that I think about it, I didn't have much time to explore this Assassination System since I was quite busy learning about the matters of this world...Since I have some free time anyway, how about I explore it for now?' He inwardly thought. Raising his hand in the air, Dan opened the System Menu as a User Interface manifested.
[My Account]
[Settings]
[Save]
[Load]
[Options]
[Item Shop]
[Rage Gauge]
[Inventory]
[Quests]
'Rage Gauge?' Apart from this, all of the icons were familiar to him, and so, he curiously tapped as a three-dimensional glass gourd appeared in the air. The glass gourd didn't have any contents and when Dan tapped onto it, a system notification surfaced.
[Rage Gauge: Absorbs the attacks of the enemies, and once full, release it in a single devastating strike.]
'Wait, so this is kinda like the Rage Gauge of BDO? The only difference is this one is released instead of absorbed...' He cupped his chin as he pondered. Returning to the main menu, Dan tapped on the inventory icon. After finding nothing, he went back to the Main Menu and opened the Quest List.
Seeing the empty list. Dan returned to the Main Menu and there when he once again stared at the line-up of buttons. He finally noticed the existence of the Load and Save button. His expression flashing in excitement, he curiously tapped on the Save button as a notification surfaced.
[Do you want to save the current instance? Y/N]
Tapping on the Y button, the system replied, [Current Instance Saved! Remaining Save: 9; Remaining Load: 10]
'Wait...' His eyes widened in shock, 'The Save and Load feature is not unlimited?!' He facepalmed when he realized that he just wasted a save file. Sighing in his heart, he regained his calm after a moment of contemplation about the meaning of life.
He then returned at the Main Menu and pressed on the My Account button.
[Name: Dan Gabriel Longinus; Age: 16; Status: the Young Master of the Longinus Clan]
[Stats; Str: 0.50, Int: 3; Dex: 0.23, Agi: 0.90; Sta: 2]
[For Reference, one stat point equals an average human's stat.]
[Cultivation: Middle Stage of the Flesh Tempering Realm]
[System Evaluation: Weak aff]
Reading the end of the prompt, Dan's expression became bleak for he knew the reason why this body couldn't even compare to those of the average person. First, although the previous owner of this body cultivated Martial Arts, the bastard was very lazy that in his sixteen years of age, he only achieved the middle stage of the lowest realm.
But Dan's determination didn't diminish, after all, he reincarnated inside the world of those novels that he read, how could he not be thrilled? He sat cross-legged in the air and ordered the System, "System, arrange the memories of the previous owner of this body, sort out the information about the Longinus Clan's Cultivation Method and place it inside a folder named Main Cultivation Method!"
[System Function; Initiating; 50%]
[System Function; In-Process; 1%]
[Predicted Duration until Function Completion: 3days, 21mins, 21secs]
"Wheeew...At least it is working," Dan ordered the System in an overbearing way. Fortunately, the System didn't seem to care as it mechanically started working. Afterward, Dan opened the System Menu once again and tapped on the Item Shop.
[Welcome to the Modern World Item Shop!]
[Search:____________________________]
[Note: Only items that have the purpose of killing can be bought from the Item Shop!]
Dan's eyebrows knitted, 'The purpose of killing? Which means I can buy poisons, firearms, knives, or something like that?' He mused and when he raised his hands in the air, a holographic image of a keyboard manifested, 'How convenient...' His hands moved in quick successions as he entered the following words, "Assault Rifles]
Ding!
[M416; Price: 1250 AS]
[AKM; Price: 1325 AS]
[SCAR L; Price: 1235 AS]
[Groza; Price: 3208 AS]
Eyes widened in shock, Dan's breathing hastened and his expression looked flushed as he read through all of the prompts, 'What in the hell? There's even the Groza and AKM!' Tapping on it, an error surfaced,
[Not enough AS Points to purchase, please earn more AS Points!]
'AS Points?' Dan mumbled before saying, "System, explain to me what is this AS, thing?"
[AS short for Assassination Points can be obtained by completing quests or killing a monster without being detected, the collected points can be used to redeem various items inside the System's Item Shop.]
'Wait, wait wait...So to earn AS Points, I need to kill monsters without being detected or to complete quests? But there are no quests at all!' His expression flashed in a peculiar light as a smile crept on his face, 'So the only way to earn AS Points is to kill monsters...' Void of the timidness that he displayed to the outside world, Dan dismissed the System Menu as he walked outside of his room.
Since it was currently night time, it was impossible for him to hunt and so, he returned to the main menu and tapped on the most curious icon that he saw. The Options Icon.
[Current Difficulty: Dark Souls]
[Graphics Settings: Realistic]
[Call the GM]
'There's a difficulty, wait... Why is difficulty labeled as Dark Souls?! and why is there a graphics setting?! Could it be that I can turn it down so I can see the individual atoms around me?!' Dan's lips lifted in an amused gesture, but when he reached the end of the interface, he found a Call the GM button, unfortunately, it was greyed out and cannot be used.
'A Call the GM, button? Could it be that once I can use this, I can contact the creator of this system?' He mumbled, 'Well, that doesn't concern me for now anyway...' He closed the Main menu, and glancing at the area around him and hearing the occasional chirping of birds, Dan shrugged, returned back on his futon as he once again, returned to his dreamland.