Chapter 141 - The Second Stage (1) (1/2)
[A/N: This will be the only chapter where I info-dump you guys about MC's entire Status Window.]
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Forty-five hours later...
A young man in his early 20s lay on his back within a dark space situated in an unknown dimension created by the System...
The man wore a black combat suit that appeared to be hardened with a black dried substance.
At this moment, the man, Jeremy, was closing his eyes shut with a serene expression plastered on his face.
It seemed like the process of evolution was truly inhuman that even Jeremy couldn't help but lose consciousness.
Some seconds later, Jeremy's eyelids suddenly moved. Then he finally opened his eyes in a confused manner.
Afterward, Jeremy blinked his eyes two times to think about what had happened to him earlier...
'I survived...?
*Sigh...*
Jeremy sighed in relief and delight and thought further,
'It felt like an eternity...'
'The damned intervals were too much even for me to handle as after the last coldness disappeared, I simultaneously lost consciousness right away...'
'I don't even know before that being alive and well feels this good...'
Shaking his head slightly to discard those unpleasant thoughts away from his head, Jeremy struggled to stand up from the dark floor.
As his body had just undergone the evolution, Jeremy felt like his body was still a bit stiff, so he tried moving every limb of his body left and right.
Not long after, Jeremy's sluggish body started becoming faster and faster as he got used to his 'new' body at a fast rate.
Then...
*Sniff*
While moving and swinging his limbs left and right, Jeremy suddenly smelt something...
*Sniff* *Sniff*
Jeremy sniffed incessantly around him to find the source, subsequently thought to himself,
'What is this hellishly stinky smell? Wait... It comes from my body...?'
Right when Jeremy sniffed his own combat suit, he finally found the source of the smell.
Then Jeremy hurriedly took the combat suit off, intending to take a bath right here and now.
'Hmm? My body seems to be smaller... It even looks more well-toned than before. Are my muscles compressed as a side effect of evolving?'
It appeared that Jeremy realized his body muscles get more compressed or something of the sort as every part of his body looked to be smaller...
'!!!'
”Smaller!?”
Having mumbled the word out in a daze, Jeremy hurriedly pulled down his pants to check his little dragon...
*RRRIP*
It looked like Jeremy's was too hurried as he pulled the pants down with full force, causing it to rip into pieces.
Then...
*Sigh...*
Jeremy sighed in relief and thought to himself after seeing that his little dragon still looked the same as before,
'It's still the same size... I almost got a heart attack, damn it.'
Fortunately, it appeared that the 'compressed muscles' didn't include his 'baby'.
After thinking so, Jeremy brought out a small rectangular wooden object with a green button attached to the center out from his glove.
Then Jeremy placed the thing down on the dark floor and pressed the green button in the middle.
Simultaneously, the small object started expanding in size, changing itself into a public toilet.
Without further delay, Jeremy got inside to clean himself...
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Twenty minutes later...
Jeremy finally finished his long shower from within the public toilet as he walked out from the inside with another black combat suit...
*Fwuu...*
'So refreshing; I feel like I'm more alive than ever; my every cell is filled with energy...'
Jeremy let out a long breath and thought to himself.
'Alright, it's time to check my new stats...'
'Status Window'
An extended interface promptly showed up before Jeremy,
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Name: Jeremy Caesar Lakota
Race: Human (Unknown - Intermediate-Rank Organism)
Class: Journeyman Mage (Peak - Substage 4 of Class 1 Mage)
Title: Mage of Origin (Rank 10 - Inactive), The Undestined One (Rank 9 - Inactive), Prodigy Mage (Rank 8 - Inactive), Unnatural Blender (Rank 8 - Inactive), First Mage (Rank 5 - Inactive), NEET (Rank 0 - Inactive)
Affinity:
- Fire (Common): 48.5%
- Darkness (Uncommon): 37.6%
- Space (Rare): 92.1%
- Divinity (Unique): 0.1%