Chapter 4

Run! ruun!!

The androids are coming!

People are running frantically, trying to save their own lives no matter what, even ones are getting shoved and trampled by the strong, chaos has been sewed.

While being confused at the events unfolding Zane witnessed an unbelievable scene, A man with glowing red eyes, covered in metal patches around his face and hands tackled an un suspecting man and immediately got bitten, then the metal patch man stood up and rode towards the running crowd. A few seconds after the man that got bit started to awkwardly trying to stand up but fell backward and all four of its limbs twisted the opposite way and the body started to run like a wild beast.

Zane:

- How is this a dungeon!?….

——— Back tracking 30 days ago ———

I did a light weight workout that is appropriate to my current attributes after finding out my new status and when I was done, I immediately tested the ability I got as a speedster.

[ Abilities ]

Grade: F (growth)

Light coral lightning

Proficiency: 0

- Skills: N/A

Remarks: its too shameful to call you a speedster.

I tried to run and pushed my body to its limit when running but the lightning that supposed to manifest is not coming out naturally, so it got me thinking, this world runs in game elements and this world is now my real world. In order for me to utilize this new ability I need to learn how to use it.

I started to concentrate, clearing my mind then tried to feel the speed-force, little by little. This process took me an hour and after I felt a tingling feeling creeping to my whole being, a notification woke me from my concentration

<[You have just unlocked Speed-force aura]>

<[You have just unlocked Speed-force absoprtion]>

I pulled up my status and looked at what has changed

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[ Abilities ]

Grade: F (growth)

Light coral lightning

Proficiency: 0

- Skills:

Speed-force aura(passive)

Speed-force absorption(active)

Remarks: its still too shameful to call you a speedster.

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- Dang it, from the looks of things every speedsters skills and abilities can only be unlocked by learning them myself.

After I tried to feel the speed-force for the second time, some part of my body can be seen emitting small electric current travelling across my whole body, it just came out naturally unlike the first time.

I immediately activate my only active skill while sitting on a meditative position, before I closed my eyes I had a glimpse of how the skill works and saw, light coral current coming out of a tiny crack in space right in front of me and slowly being absorbed by my body and then I lost my consciousness.

I found myself floating somewhere, the surrounding is just plain white and nothing can be seen, this might be my inner consciousness, then I asked myself as to why is it empty…until not so long after a tiny ball of lightning has formed a meter away from me and it slowly kept getting bigger and soon I suddenly got cut-off and I came back to reality, with no explanation what so ever as to what is really happening to me.

I tried stand up to stretch my body since I'm feeling stiff for some reason but my body made me shoot myself towards the wall and luckily I was able to stop the lightning circulation but from the speed I launched myself from, I could not stop crashing on to the wall.

(Body Crashing on a wall sound)

Zane's mom came rushing to the room and saw her child unconscious and stuck by the wall.

Couple hours after Zane woke up in shock and seems light headed.

- Ouch my head!

I checked my body and seems there no damage at all, and opened my status after

[ Name: Zane Izroth (Player/NPC) ]

[ Age: 5 years old, (10yo body) ]

HP: 25

STA: 250

[ Status ]

STR: 8 ➠ 15

AGI: 25 ➠ 35

DEX: 18 ➠ 24

INT: 60

[ Special Attributes ]

SPD-DUR: 50

(Normal adults with untrained stats varies from 7 - 10, adults = 15yo)

[ Skills ]

Passive:

Super Rare/SR

- AI and Games Programming

[ Abilities ]

Grade: F- (growth)

Light coral lightning ➠Orange Red Spectrum

Proficiency: 10%

- Skills:

Speed-force aura(passive)

Speed-force absorption(active)

Accelerated healing Gr:F-1(passive)

Decelerate aging Gr:F-1(passive)

Enhanced body growth rate(growth-passive)

Remarks: Are you a speedster? Or part of the Incredibles, Although Dash is still faster than you.

Don't be down, you can still win a normal modern running competition of the past…

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What the heck I've just been through!? While grabbing my head feeling incredibly suspicious with my skill list.

I just unlocked 3 more skill set and the best of things my light coral lightning levelled-up to orange red with that one meditation.

I immediately checked if I could do it again but the skill is greyed out and it won't activate.

Uggh I really thought I could just spam it and cultivate none stop but it has a cool down with unknown time, now I have no choice but to wait it out and went to lunch that instant.

As soon as I came to the dining room my dad and mom was unusually quiet

Umm are you both ok? Mom? Dad? Asking both my parent with the look of concern in their eyes.

Dad: Yes Zane we're both ok

Dad: Are you ok?…

- I'm more than ok dad my body have improved greatly than before..

Dad: that's good to know but just be aware to let us both know that if your doing what you just did again let us know ahead of time , so we wouldn't get worried so much since when we found you sitting on a fetal position for the last 30 days we're so afraid to move or even touch you since we kept seeing electric currents constantly running outside your body

- wait, wait, hold up…. did you just said 30 days!!?

- (I've been holed up in my room for the past 30 days, and even thought of doing it again right after waking up)…

- I.. I didn't know dad, mom.. I'm really sorry to make you guys worried..

Mom went to my side and hugged me tightly and told me that I'm still young and what ever I am doing can be done at a regular pace…

After lunch, I asked the AI butler to search for a quiet place I could go without supervision

A list of places has been listed and few of the interesting ones are all dungeons that's only a few minutes away from our place and they are, dungeon of beginning, metropolis of the past, and world eater.

A beginning dungeon sounds easy and no thrill and as for world eater it gives me goosebumps from just thinking how powerful one can be to be named that, so I had no choice but to go to the metropolis one since from the name it has, seems more safer than world eater and also I'm curious as to why its called the past

Went to ask my parents permission to go for a walk around and somehow they gave it without second thought but with a curfew

I immediately downloaded the map to the specific dungeon into my TX-bracer which was provided by the AI - Sebas. The bracer looks like an armguard but has the capability of a super mini-computer and a phone.

According to the map the location is 15 mins away from our house if I take the car, so I thought how long it would take me if I just run to the location and so I did.

Checking the stopwatch, makes me feel somewhat excited at whats to come later. I felt like the rude remarks by the world AI has been super exaggerated since its not even a minute since I started running and I'm already at my destination.