38 System

Arriving in a quiet area, Fred left the car and sat down somewhere.

Where he stops his car is a place where the whole city can be seen.

Seeing a lonely tree at the by the side, Fred sat down beside it and used it as a support for his body.

Looking at the wide city below, he saw the bright lights from the establishments that are giving color to the city.

After looking for a while, I suddenly felt bored.

"Sigh… what should I do?"

Then he remembered the treasure chest that he got from that dungeon last time that he still hasn't opened.

He immediately took it out of Hugo's Ring.

The chest appeared in front of him, laying silently at the ground.

"Sigh… the second time I see it, I still can't help but be amazed by its majesty."

Running his fingers at the smooth surface of the chest, he felt the cold touch from it.

Then after looking at it for a while, he raised the cover and opened it.

What he saw inside stunned him for a while.

Picking up the thing inside the chest, Fred mutter to himself,

"What the hell is this stone?"

Yes, what he got from the chest is nothing but a stone. A black unassuming stone that can be seen anywhere.

Fred immediately used his appraisal skill to see what it really is.

But what appeared stunned him for a second time.

[Stone: Just a simple stone.]

All it shows after using appraisal to it is just this, saying that what he has in hand is really just nothing but a piece of stone!

"This… is this for real?"

His voice trembles because of the emotion running inside him at this moment.

Saying that he is disappointed is an understatement of what he currently feels right now.

"The f*ck… Why the heck is there a stone in this kind of chest?"

He said while looking at the chest where he got the stone from.

The chest and the stone have a big contrast and no one will imagine someone placing a useless stone into a chest like this.

*Bzzzt!*

As Fred was about to drown in his disappointment, the feeling of something piercing his skin was felt at the hand holding the stone.

He looked at it and saw a drop of blood leaking on his index fingers then he watched it drop into the stone.

After that he was about to turn his head away and not care about it, but a magical scene happened and he doesn't want to take his eyes away from it anymore.

After his blood drops at the stone it suddenly cracks a little, then slowly it spreads until the whole stone becomes covered with cracks.

Then after, the cracks crumbled and fell down the ground. A wisp like thing came from inside it and shot out into Fred's head.

There was no obstruction to it as it entered inside his head.

Then he felt something inside him like it's rotating and mixing but he doesn't know what it is.

Ding!

When it arrived inside his brain he heard a mechanical sound inside his head.

[Soul Bounding successful!]

When he heard that mechanical voice saying something about bounding, a light screen appeared in front of his eyes.

[Name: Fredericko Fernando (Fred)

Job: Entertainer (Vlogger)

Soul Skill: Points Madness

Skills: Appraisal (F), Physical Strengthening (E), Hand to Hand Combat Skills (E), …

Mission: None

Shop: Open

Points: 0]

Looking at all this all so familiar happenings in front of him, Fred choke.

All this things that is happening now, he can swear to god that he saw it already many times,

Well, it was on webnovels that he saw this before. To make sure that if it really is what he think it is, Fred hesitantly called out,

"Uh.. System!"

He waited for a bit then when no one responded to his call, he was about to become downcast but then,

[Yes, Host. How may I be of help to you?]

Fred's face flushed from excitement as he got a response!

He inhale and exhale to reduce the excitement in his body, then he asked,

"System, What are you and what can you do?"

[The system is an item birthed by the universe itself as an opportunity to those that reside inside it. It is a soul bound item that once attached to a host, will not be possible to be removed forever even in death. Systems do not possess any consciousness and are only something akin to what humans call as AI or Artificial Intelligence.]

[Systems are items that cater to the job of its host which in your case is an entertainer. And so, anything that the system does will be related to the improvement of the host as an entertainer, but there will also be some other stuff.]

Fred listened to the system attentively while looking at the screen in front of him.

He wants to immediately explore the system and see what it can bring him.

While looking at the screen he suddenly knitted his brows as he looked at the titles he had.

That title 'Points Madness' that he has, he wondered what it is. Although he seems clueless about it, in truth he has a guess as to what that is.

When he focuses on it, it shows more details regarding the title.

[Points Madness: Can use points to create miracles like creating skills, making some kind of phenomenon happen, improve items, etc. Points can be gained through the job of the title holder. 10,000 views equals 1 point.]

Reading it, Fred felt like there was something wrong with it.

Then he hurriedly closes his eyes and looks at the screen inside his head where he can see his points.

He saw that instead of 3 divided sections, the points became 1 section only now!

"What!?"

He unconsciously raised his voice as he stared in at that.

The number of points that he has also became zero. From what he can remember, he still has a few points on bronze but now...

"Thi, this…"

He felt that he lost something, as if a wide path before became a narrow one.

He thought back to how could this have happened then remembered the mixing feeling inside him before and understood.

"It's because of the system!"

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he arrived at this conclusion.

"Is this system really thinking for my own good? Wait, might not even have something like, 'thinking'... Hais…"

Not knowing how to react, he put all his trouble in the back of his head and continued looking at the system.