Saying his goodbyes, Alan turned around and walked towards the front gates of the school and headed inside, having to sometimes hold onto the wall when he tripped on what was nothing but flat ground.
Looking around, he quickly realised that there was no one, everyone was already inside the classrooms or had already left the school entirely to go outside like John and the rest who were skipping classes.
'Even if I were to head inside right now, I'll just be told to head out of the class. Won't even let me enter.' Alan thought inwardly as he released a soft sigh and headed towards the small clearing in the middle of the school where a couple benches were, it was a sort of hall where sometimes exhibitions would be held with the paintings made by the students.
Sitting down, he put his head on his hands and closed his eyes, thinking back on the morning and what had happened.
'Can't you atleast explain more on how this damn system works?' Alan thought to himself as he started saying out random phrases hoping atleast one would work.
'Guide?'
'Tutorial.'
'Begginer?'
Nothing worked, he heard and saw nothing, no matter what he said.
He even opened the status menu again just to see if it still worked and it showed up instantly.
'Right, I don't even know if others can see this? Should I open it in class and ask someone if they can see it? No, not ask if they can see it but just see if they have any reaction at all. And then I can just close it instantly once surprise shows up on their face so that I don't get caught.' Alan thought to himself as he gave a quick nod at his own idea.
'Alright, that works, now I just have to wait…'
Looking up at a clock on the wall, a shadow fell over Alan's face.
'Another thirty seven minutes.' He finished his thought with another sigh, feeling like the thousandth sigh he had given in a single day as he patted his pockets and quickly found his flip phone on his left. Taking it out, he pulled up the only way he had to pass the time.
Snake.
What started as just a game to pass the time, quickly turned into a game that was currently giving a shock to his mind.
"Why… why am i so good at this?" Alan muttered to himself, his eyes widening as his fingers kept moving quickly on the small keyboard of the flip phone.
He had already beaten his pervious record by more than three times, he was close to actually beating the game on his first try.
'It's like, I just know what move to make and my dexterity… its a lot better with my fingers.' Alan thought as he realised the change, it wasnt an insane growth instantly, no rather he realised that the stats had been a bit misguided or atleast he hadn't understood them perfectly.
'They're more similar to potential, not actual stats. Meaning I'm not the smartest man in the world or most knowledgeable because I have maximum intelligence, but I have the potential to become the smartest, it gives me an increase in everything and the talent to reach it aswell as determines my maximum potential. The difference as to why I'm not feeling instant effects like when my strength got lowered is because I had higher strength than a two before, so when the potential got capped, I reached the peak of what a two in strength could be, it was an instant debuff. Meanwhile I was a five in intelligence, so that means.. I have to grind the potential out?' Alan thought as slowly it was starting to make more sense, at this point in time, another noise was heard, it was heard directly in his brain.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has achieved a breakthrough in his understanding of the system! ]
[ Unlocking Normal Stats. ]
[ Normal Stats Unlocked. ]
[ Stats ]
[ Strength: 100/100 ] [ Max ] [ ??? ]
[ Perception: 100/100 ] [ Max ] [ ??? ]
[ Endurance: 0/200 ]
[ Charisma: 5/500 ]
[ Intelligence: 5/500 ]
[ Agility: 0/200 ]
[ Luck: 0/500 ]
Looking over the system panel that had appeared before him, Alan felt a rush of joy course through his body, finally something new had appeared, for a while since heading out of his home, he had thought that he was going to forever be stuck with just some stats and no knowledge on how to even use this damnable system.
'Those question marks… does it mean that I can potentially breakthrough my Special stat limits? Most likely, but its grayed out, meaning not right now and there are likely more requirements… what are those requirements, how do i reach them, what do i do? Tell me more you fucking piece of shit system.' Alan thought as he felt anger rush forwards once more at what he felt was a personal slight against him from the system.
Taking a deep breath and releasing it slowly, Alan once more lifted his head and looked at the clock.
'Okay, not too long now, just five more minutes and then its time to head to class, after which its time to go to the cafeteria… great, have to deal with everyone there whilst I'm looking like I can barely walk.' Alan thought before his imagination, damned it, as always instantly put up a depraved thought in his mind.
'I won't look like I've had a really rough night with some dude right? Naah… no way… no way right?'
Lifting his head once more to look at the ceiling above him now, Alan felt tears pricking at the edges of his eyes as he closed his eyes, a small smile of pain on his face.
'I hate my life.'
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