The Stroll

Silver soon had a worry. He couldn't read all contents of the book! This was like a whole encyclopedia. He sat in his bed and sighed.

" I wish the book would just merge with the system and tell me what I need to know at intervals... Sigh... "

Just then, he felt a vibration on his bed, and noticed the book getting smaller and smaller, until it was out of sight. Simultaneously, he heard a beep.

" Congratulations dear user! Book absorbed. Locked pages reserved. All information you need will be automatically communicated to you when needed."

Da*n! This is really amazing! Does this mean that this system can hear my thoughts?

" Yes. The system is part of you, and you are the system. All your thoughts are automatically made known to it... Page 44 " The system replied.

"That's really cool" Silver got up happily and left his house for a stroll. He barely had any friends, and his only friend, Damien, happened to travel with his family on the day of their awakening. He had tried all means to look for Silver, to say his final good bye, all to no avail. He ended up texting him, and hoping he was fine.

Silver was in a really good mood, and was just admiring nature. He had never noticed the beauty of his neighbourhood, until now, because he had been regarded as a nerd, who always study and have less time for his environment.

Not too long, there was an imbalance in nature, and the wind grew fiercer each passing minute. This gave Silver a notice that a heavy rain is on its way. He found out he was already quite far from his house and decided to run back home as quickly as possible. But luck wasn't on his side, and the rain started without warning.

'Shit!' Silver cursed while looking for a place to hide. There were other people in the road looking for where to hide also.

Just then, Silver bumped into someone, making her little basket fall on the bare ground. Silver quickly apologized and packed the fruits inside the basket, without noticing a shiny glow on the ground. Just then, his system beeped.

" Valuable detected! Valuable detected! "

He scoffed at the system. How would it say a fruit was valuable? Who ever said I was suffering from scurvy?

He raised his head to see an old woman getting wet in the rain. The helped her and they both found shelter. This time, nobody, except an old woman seemed to notice the glowing crystal floating in the water, which was flowing in a known direction.

After a while, the rain stopped and Silver, once again, apologized to the old woman, who just smiled at him in return. The atmosphere was not suitable for tourism at the moment, so Silver rushed back home without watching his steps. Suddenly, he was interrupted by the system beep once again.

" Valuable detected! valuable detected! "

" Okay, that's it! what freaking valuable are you talking about system? "

" Permission to scan environment.

Accept | Decline "

" Fine! Accept! " Silver said almost annoyed.

After a few seconds, he a scraping sound and looked at the floor around him. Then a glowing crystal floated up on the air up to Silver's eye level.

" Wow! this thing looks pretty! I could easily make a cool cash with this if it's that valuable. "

" System please tell me about this valuable. "

" Name: Kryptonite crystal

Model: Artifact

Uses: increases all user's stats by 20%.

others are unknown.

Duration: One hour

User must have activated his magic before use. "

" Oh wow. This is really cool. Thank you system. I owe you a lot. This stroll really brought me good luck! "

" Daily quest: Run 500 meters.

Reward: +2 agility points, +50 ESP "

" Da*m you system! I'm already close to my house, and it's now you are giving me a daily quest?! " Silver was so annoyed that even if the system was a cute little Loli, he wouldn't hesitate to spank her butt!

'The reward is kind of nice. But the environment is not really friendly for a run. Others might think of me in a deranged way. I'll just do it later in the evening.' Silver made up his mind and went into his house, only to meet the shock of his life!