Preparation

Rio saw the small red gift box logo in the upper right corner of the hologram screen.

"Is this the Starter Pack that the system was referring to?"

He clicked on the gift box, and he heard a system notification sound that was as emotionless as his.

[Ding! Congratulations on getting the D Rank Skill "Reduced Earth"]

"Reduced Earth? What skills are these?"

"I've never heard of this skill in any anime I've watched."

Rio then looked at him status along with the Skill he had just acquired from the Starter Pack.

[Character: Rio (Player Number 12)]

[Race : Human]

[Title :-]

[Bloodline :-]

[Rank : F]

[STR: 11]

[VIT : 10]

[AGI: 14]

[INT : 20]

[System Note: The average value of each adult stat is 10 points]

[System Warehouse :-]

[Active Skill :]

<Reduced Earth>

[Passive Skills:]

<Danger Detection>

<Apathy>

"Hmmm… I can understand there are active skills, but what's with these two passive skills?"

If it wasn't for Rio not showing any emotion on him current face, he would definitely be showing a surprised expression right now.

"Passive skills are my own innate abilities without the intervention of the Reincarnation Room, this means the blessings I received from the moment I was born in this world…"

"But <Apathy>… I feel like it was this blessing that ruined my life…"

Rio ignored <Danger Detection> and <Reduced Earth>, he clicked <Apathy>.

<Apathy>

﹝Rank : A﹞

﹝Level : 5 MAX﹞

﹝Ability: The power to negate emotions within oneself which allows the user to ignore emotional disturbances, suffer psychological, emotional, and feelings stresses that affect the thought process﹞

﹝Description: Innate Blessing from God﹞

﹝Upgrade : Cannot be upgraded﹞

After reading <Apathy>, there were many complicated feelings in Rio's heart. But because <Apathy> was acting passively, those emotions immediately disappeared.

"It turns out that I didn't suffer from Alexithymia and Moebius Syndrome all this time, but because I was born with this cursed blessing!"

"Blessing? This is more like a curse to me!"

"Because of this damn skill, my life is falling apart."

"People think I'm weird, no one wants to be friends with me. Even my parents are afraid and disgusted with me, and this is a blessing from God?"

"Don't joke with me!"

Rio was furious at the moment, but he couldn't show it, him expression was flat from start to finish.

After venting him nonexistent emotions, Rio regained him composure and contemplation.

"Since the Reincarnation Room can grant Skills, doesn't that mean the Reincarnation Room can also dispel Skills?"

"Can I eliminate <Apathy> someday?"

"Moreover, this Skill is at Rank A and is already at the max level."

This thought crossed Rio's mind, now he has the hope of becoming a normal person like everyone else.

Clenching tightly, Rio said with determination.

"I have to survive, whether it's underhanded, I have to survive to get rid of this curse!"

"I will use all means for this purpose."

Having no emotions, to Rio whether it was good or bad was the same in him eyes. He only sees the percentage of success of which method is the highest that he will use.

"There's still 50 minutes left, I need to understand all my skills to the maximum."

"I don't know what kind of anime world I'm going to."

Rio sat on the chair, he clicked him only active Skill.

<Reduced Earth>

﹝Rank : D﹞

﹝Level : 1﹞

﹝Ability : Technique to reduce the distance between opponents instantly (20 meters)﹞

﹝Description : Many martial arts masters have pursued the extremity of Step Movement, this is a Skill of the Type-Moon world﹞

﹝Level 2 Upgrade : 1 Skill Point﹞

"Reduced Earth is similar to the technique of shrinking the earth in the China novels I often read."

"And this Skill is from Type-Moon? No wonder I don't know considering there are many abilities in Type-Moon."

Rio admits him lack of information, he is not arrogant enough to know everything in anime even though he has watched hundreds of anime.

"A skill this strong is only Rank D? Then what about Skills at higher Ranks?"

"I hope that a high-ranking skill won't be like my <Apathy>."

Rio closed him eyes, he simulated in him mind when he used <Reduced Earth> in battle.

After 5 minutes, he opened his eyes again and nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad, I can currently use <Reduced Earth> as my foundation. To be able to instantly cover a distance of 20 meters, this will be very useful whether for frontal combat, sneak attacks or escape."

Rio doesn't consider himself a shameful sneak attack and escape, as an emotionless human. There is no need to be ashamed of the two methods, as long as you can live, why do you have to die?

He is not the typical shounen protagonist who never gives up against an enemy that is many times stronger.

If Rio met an enemy he could not defeat, he would run without hesitation. And if there is an opening, he will sneak attack the enemy.

Then Rio clicked him last passive skill.

<Danger Detection>

﹝Rank : A﹞

﹝Level : 5 MAX﹞

﹝Abilities: The user can sense imminent danger, acute danger, potential immediate danger, or impending danger and sense unwanted threats﹞

﹝Description: Innate talent from god﹞

﹝Upgrade : Cannot be upgraded﹞

"So the reason why I have always been able to avoid many dangers all this time is because I have the passive skill <Danger Detection>"

"Besides that <Danger Detection> has an A Rank and is at max level..."

"Now the doubt as to why my intuition of danger is cleared is over…"

"Huh, at least god didn't just give a useless innate talent like <Apathy>."

Rio was quite satisfied with this, with the passive skill <Danger Detection> as a support, he didn't have to worry about not feeling in a dangerous situation.

"Two Rank A passive Skills at max level and one Rank D active Skill at level one..."

"Since there are 100 players who will be participating in the quest, that means 100 people will receive the Starter Pack..."

"I just don't know if my Rank D reward is good or not compared to the other 99 players."

What Rio didn't know, the Starter Pack could only grant the highest Rank D rewards, most Players only received Rank F and a small number received Rank E rewards.

Including Rio, there were only four other people who received Rank D rewards.

"Besides that my stats are slightly higher than adults, especially my intelligence."

"Is it because I have no emotions that I can always think calmly and clearly which causes my intelligence stats to be high?"

Rio wasn't too surprised by the slightly higher stats of the adults.

Even though he was only 16 years old, Rio was often bullied from elementary school because he was expressionless, not infrequently bullying was followed by violence.

Not wanting to be a victim of bullying, Rio learns a typical Indonesian self-defense, namely silat!

After fully mastering silat, Rio takes revenge by beating him bullies.

Because of this, Rio was expelled from the martial arts college where he studied.

But he never stopped training despite being kicked out of the training ground, perhaps because of his regular practice. Rio had stats that slightly exceeded that of an adult.

While waiting for the Quest countdown, Rio familiarized himself with <Reduced Earth>.

He tested how the sensation when using <Reduced Earth> was, whether it could be stopped halfway, could change position when used and so on.