The Book

Finally finding something that's worth his attention, Michael with his arrogant though touched the book and he realized it was still covered in dust.

"Oh…so that's why!" Michael spoke out loud, Michael thought the reason why he missed the tittle on the spine of the books was because it was still covered in dust.

So, with newfound energy, Michael wiped the books again with his hands as there was not much of the dust left it didn't cause storm of dust like earlier.

However, Michael was destined to be disappointed. Even after wiping the spines of the books he still didn't found the tittle, maybe they just didn't write it on the spines, Michael positively thought.

So ignoring the book with the tittle on it's spine Michael took the leftmost book, weirdly the book didn't have any words on the cover too and it was clean of dust, even though Michael was a little puzzled Michael ignored it and filled with anticipation Michael opened the book but he was greeted by disappointment once again.

The pages was empty, even after flipping all the pages, all of them was empty. Disappointed Michael put the book back before taking out the next book and it ended with the same result, it wasn't until the book with the tittle Michael's hand stopped. With his finger tracing the word Michael slowly read it out loud "Mind Manipulation System."

Michael remained silent for a few seconds before laughing out loud "Pft…Bahahaha…I get it, I finally get it this guy here was a novelist or something so the empty book previously is naturally the book for him or her to write their novel and perhaps they only succeed writing this one." Michael continued to laugh for several more seconds.

After calming down, the first thing Michael did was not to take out the book but he looked at the rest of the book on the right side confirming that they are tittles less on their spines. Michael then looked back at the "Mind Manipulation System." Book and he took it out slowly.

Michael looked at the cover of the book, on the cover there was written in the same way and the same word "Mind Manipulation System." Bellow it was a picture of a brain with some kind of lightning bolt symbol around it. Michael checked the whole cover book but he didn't find some small snap of the story on the back of the book nor did he find the author name or pen name.

Once more Michael was filled with anticipation, so he opened the first page in there was indeed some word.

'Mind Manipulation System is a system that would grant you mission and reward from it, while in the mission you might be given some free cards with various attribute as tools to accomplish the mission and the reward may vary between some card and points to buy another card from the shop , some of the free cards that is used as tools would be one time use, some would be multi-use or even unlimited but this one is probably a reward or you would have too buy it and it most likely won't be a tool, maybe some would be a simple Trust Improvement Card or even Personality Change Card and just like before I would give an example of what would be impossible to be provided as tools and it would be only possible to be received from reward or the shops like Total Control Card, some of those card effect may be temporary, time limited or permanent but the permanent one was rare since it was a tool to do the mission .

The Mind Manipulation System also provides minor personal physical improvement but as the System name stated it is a Mind Manipulation System so the improvement would be within your races original limit and as it focused on manipulation of other's mind, also the card effect would be minim on user.

[USER CONFIRMATED, LINKAGE START]'

"What…!?" Michael said before he flipped to the next page and finding it empty, and just as he was about to flip the rest of the pages to confirm aside from the first page it was empty, a strong light burst from the book.

"AHH! FUCK YOU!!!" his voice was so loud even with the good soundproofing wall it was heard by the resident of the apartment 222 but he decided to ignore it.

Gradually the light went off and Michael saw that the word on the first pages disappeared and then Michael looked at the cover which magically become similar to the other book even the tittle on the spine of the book is gone.

"Seriously fuck you!" this time it was not as loud as previously.

But his disaster haven't ended when Michael was still rubbing his eyes, suddenly a strong wind shows up out of nowhere from the door that he opened , magically and coincidentally the wind went trough the rooms that Michael have opened along with the bedroom he was currently in.

Magically the wind brought all of the dust out leaving a semi clean apartment room along with the coughing Michael.

"Ohok…ohok!" Michael coughed his lungs out once more before stopping.

After stopping Michael looked at the book in his hand, instantly he was about to slam the book to the floor before pausing with the book high up in his hand and slowly lowering it down.

"Alright since I practically trespassing your home, I am the one on the fault." Michael said to no one before he placed the book back at the shelves.

Michael looked once more at the bookshelves and the book on it before he turned off the light and left the bedroom. With a slam the door was closed, while Michael was walking he noticed that the dust is actually gone, even after checking the other rooms, those rooms was actually clean, confused and a little frightened Michael walked toward the door before he looked back once more at the clean floor before he slammed the door and locking the door.