[ Level up ]
A semi-transparent screen appears in front of Ethan.
[ Select Your Class To Proceed ]
[ Adventurer]
[ Alchemist ]
[ Mage ]
[ Merchant ]
[ Magic Engineer ]
Ethan:"What the hell is this?"
Ethan reaches for the screen, as the skin tugged and the pain from his injury came rushing back.
Ethan:"Ahhh!"
As Dylan notices Ethan's wounds.
Dylan:"Wait here.I'll get the first aid kit!"
Dylan sprints to the living room.
Ethan leans on the table unable to take the pain.
He takes out a handkerchief to use as a makeshift bandage for his wound.
Ethan:"DID YOU FIND IT?"
Dylan comes rushing back with the first aid kit.
Dylan:"Ya. Show me your wound."
Dylan opens the first aid kit and takes a look at all of Ethan's injuries then tears open the antiseptic wipe and started to wipe the wounds on his face and hand.
Ethan stumbled back due to the pain.
Dylan:"Normally you are the one who does this..."
Ethan:"Yeah.."
Dylan starts wrapping bandages around his arm.
Ethan looks at the screen in front of him.
Dylan:"Is something wrong?"
Ethan:"Huh?"
Dylan:"You seem distracted."
Ethan:"Weelll. There is a video game like screen in front of me. Can't you see?"
Dylan:"Nope."
Ethan:(So only I can see it)
Dylan:"Is it telling you to pick a class?"
Ethan:"How did you know?"
Dylan:"I have the same thing in front of me. After I killed that creature this screen appeared in front of me."
Ethan:"What?! You are telling me this now? And here I was thinking that I was the MC."
Dylan finishes bandaging all of Ethan's wounds.
Ethan stands back up and walks towards the dead creatures.
Ethan:"There is no way that blood is of a regular human. These creatures kind of share a resemblence to goblins."
Ethan:"It's dead . Let's hope there aren't any more."
Ethan:"We should first deal with this screen. It's telling us to pick a class. Systems like this are usually to help out the MC so we should try using it, what class options did you get?"
Dylan:"If you say so, my options are adventurer , monk , pawn and fighter."
Ethan:"I think I will go with mage, i don't know what adventurer even does and the others don't sound like combat classes. You can honestly go with either fighter or monk. It's just comes down wether you want to beat up opponens with your fists or a weapon."
Dyla: " I will go with fighter."
Ethan reaches out with his right hand to the screen and selects the 'mage' class.
Dylan reaches out with his hand and selects the 'fighter' class.
[ Are you sure you want the 'Mage' class ]
[ Yes ] [ No ]
Ethan reaches out with his hand and selects 'yes'. He closes his eyes, bracing himself.
As he slowly opens his eyes he looks at the screen.
[ Name: Ethan
Class: Mage
Race: Human
Level: 1
Exp: 0/100
Hp : 72/100
Strength : 7
Defence : 7
Intelligence : 15
Mana. : 11
Speed. : 9
Bonus points : 0
Skills: Mana blast ]
Ethan:"Well.... that was anticlimactic.My intelligence and mana is 15 and 11 and the others are below 10, what bout you?"
Dylan:"My attack and speed are 12 and 15, and defence, intelligence and mana are 10, 7 and 6. "
Ethan:"Both of our stats add up to 50."
Dylan:"And I have this skill called 'Slash'."
Ethan:"Let's try out our skills."
Ethan reaches out with his hand aiming at the goblin corpse.
Ethan:"Mana blast!"
At the tip of Ethan's hand a mysterious blue energy starts to manifest. It grows bigger by the second.
Ethan and Dylan wait in anticipation.
Dylan:"Are you sure this is safe?"
Ethan:"No."
As soon as the blue energy becomes the size of a fist it launches in the direction Ethan was aiming.
*BOOM*
As it comes in contact with the goblin corpse it explodes.
Ethan and Dylan instinctively raise their hands to protect their faces.
Once they lower their hands they see blue particles in the air and the goblin's face being unrecognisable.
Ethan:"That was stronger than i expected."
Ethan turns to looks at the system screen.
[ Name: Ethan
Class: Mage
Race: Human
Level: 1
Exp: 0/100
Hp : 72/100
Strength : 7
Defence : 7
Intelligence : 15
Mana : 8/11
Speed : 9
Bonus points : 0
Skills: Mana blast ]
Ethan:"3 Mana is worth it for this kind of firepower. Let's see what your skill does?"
Dylan raises his hand, towards the table.
Dylan:"Slash!"
Both of them, eyes wide open as both of them of them wait in anticipation.....
Absolutely nothing.
Even the wind seemed embarrassed for him.
Ethan:"Wow, you really showed oxygen who's boss."
Dylan retracts his hand back and holds it.
Closing his eyes in embarrassment.
Dylan:"This system is broken"
Ethan walks towards the other dead goblin, bends down and pulls the knife out from its dead body.
Ethan:"Try it with this."
Ethan walks back and hands the knife to Dylan.
Dylan hesitantly grabs the knife.
He took a deep breath and raised the knife.
Dylan:"Are you sure this is gonna work?"
Ethan:"Maybe?"
Dylan:"Slash!"
As Dylan screamed 'Slash' his body immediately as if moving on its own swung the knife down in a sharp arc, the blade slicing through the table.
Dylan looks at his hands.
Ethan:"Wow, the skill didn't disappoint."
Dylan:(Did I do that?)
Ethan:"Is something wrong?"
Dylan:"When I used the skill, it felt like I had no control over my hands, i couldn't stop my hands until the skill was over, and after the skill finished it took a second or two for me to recover. As it is I don't think I can use this skill in a fight, it will take time for me to get used to.
Ethan:"Up to you, how about we figure out what is going on."
Dylan:"Sure."