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Chapter 3 - Chapter 3: A Small Gift

'This class is really great! It's almost just as good as the [Seducer] one and it has great potential. I can't believe it even gives a passive skill. It's probably this class' main skill. I could just enroll immediately in the army but I don't think that's gonna be easy. For now I'll just check my status window.'

Ars gasped out of surprise searching for where the voice was coming from.

He was still the only one in the room but the voice continued to ring inside his head.

It wasn't the System's voice but the one of a young male.

The voice asked him to listen continuously, but as if feigning ignorance, the young boy continued searching around his entire room to find the voice's location.

Ars finally returned to his bed and addressed the voice coming from his head.

"Alright alright, you're no fun aren't you?"

No answer came from the seemingly unfunny young male.

"So, what are you? What do you want from me and what's up with my status window?"

The voice hummed playfully,

Ars chuckled slightly, "All of this is happening to me and I don't even know why, but suddenly the voice of some haughty being resounds in my head. You expect me to think it's just some kind of coincidence?"

The voice stayed silent for a moment as if it was trying to think about how to answer.

The voice stopped for a moment before continuing with a slightly playful tone.

"What do you mean by 'my fate was being altered'? And why did you make me take the tutorial again?"

"Huh? So you modified my status window just for fun? Isn't that dangerous?"

Ars stated, worried, oblivious to the fact that a God used him as a guinea pig.

The voice talked with a reassuring tone, trying to divert the young boy from trying to open his status window.

Ars was suspicious of this unknown self-proclaimed 'God', but he still tried his best to go with the flow.

"I-is that so? Then where am I and why did I end up here?"

The voice paused for a bit to let the information sink in, while Ars took time to prepare for the next flow of information.

The voice continued after a moment,

'Huh? What does that mea-'

Suddenly, Ars felt an unbearable pain inside his head.

A huge flow of information made its way through his brain.

He quickly grabbed the pillow to his side and began shouting with its mouth biting on it.

He didn't want to alert the beautiful MILF outside of his room after all.

He learned about his family and the common knowledge of this world, like the monetary system, guilds and their ranking system, monster's and human's hierarchy, legal slavery, and many more.

Although it was slightly different from what he knew, Ars quickly grasped everything there was about Arcadia.

As the pain subsided, Ars was panting heavily while his whole body was sweating profusely.

, the voice said with a surprised tone.

"Haa...Haa...I see… This world is very similar to what I know from the Earth. All this information is gonna be helpful. But, am I the only one with this status window?"

The voice didn't answer immediately.

'So that means I'll have to be careful not to mention my powers... I wonder if people can see my status window?'

Ars's eyes widened, processing the not so impressive information that Gods could read minds.

"Okay next question, were the classes presented to me the only one in this world?"

Ars noded in understanding.

Somehow, he felt like the voice was taking him for an idiot.

He cleared his throat lightly, "Hm hm...Then this is my last question," Ars stopped for a bit before continuing.

"What do the gods want from me?"

A light chuckle could be heard, as though the voice liked his question.

The young boy was left dumbfounded at the answer.

He thought that he would have been given a quest like saving the world from the demon king, or spreading faith across the whole continent, the type of quest he often saw in stories of the isekai genre.

But suddenly, an idea passed through his mind. 'I can even defy the gods...', he contemplated.

For a moment, he showed what seemed to be excitement on his face.

His lips contorted into what resembled a hesitant, yet curious smile.

The voice let out another light chuckle, but this time, it carried a very sly tone.

As if interrupting Ars' thoughts, the voice exclaimed hurriedly,

"No- Hey wait! I forgot to ask you your name!"

The voice didn't let Ars the time to ask any other question and vanished quickly before the room became silent again

"I feel like i was talking to Loki somehow"

Ars jumped out of his daze and opened his status window, excited to see what gift had been prepared for him.

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[Name: Ars Goetia]

[Age: 16]

[Race: Human(?)]

[Gender: Male]

[Level: 1]

[Exp: 0/100]

[Class: Seducer, Tactician]

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[Health: 250/250]

[Mana: 50/50]

[Damage: 6]

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Skills:

[Illusion(Lvl 1)]

[Hypnosis(Lvl 1)]

[Syphoning(Lvl1)]

[Party(Lvl 1)]

[Observation(Lvl 1)]

[Quick Thinking(Lvl 1)]

[Skill Points: 10]

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There were two new features to his status window that Ars noticed, the first one being his race.

'Why is there a question mark beside it? That's gotta be one of the 'gifts' the voice gave me. But the second one is...'

A faint smile could be seen on his face from the sight of his 2 Classes sitting next to each other along with his 6 class-restricted skills.

He was at a loss for words but quickly understood what was happening.

The reason why he couldn't pick the [Seducer] class wasn't because of another bug, but instead because he already had it.

'So that's how it was. This voice...I don't know who he is but I owe him one for sure.'

'But that's really ironic. Who could've thought that I would really have the two classes? Aren't I basically just a monster right now?'

Ars was shivering from just imagining how powerful he could become in the near future.

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