Bait

Cale's mother, shocked at his sudden outburst asked him worriedly what happened. Cale made an excuse that he forgot about an assignment he had to complete and ran into his room while his sister made some stupid comment about puberty.

Within his room, Cale looked at the display that had popped up.

[You discovered a shocking truth!]

[+5 SP]

All the people in power were dragons. The eye of insight told them that they were all dragons. He couldn't see most of their levels either.

Cale jumped onto the internet and began looking at videos of other people in power or owners of huge businesses in this country. All of them were dragons.

"This country, the nation of flowers is ruled by Dragons without us even knowing it." Cale said, with visible shock before he gulped down a glass of water to calm himself.

Cale took a look at various world leaders and business people around the world and confirmed that many countries were ruled by other magical races who were hiding as humans like the dragons with only a few small and weak countries seemingly controlled by humans and were constantly portrayed as chaotic and unlawful lands.

Cale get receiving SP from discovering shocking truths. He had collected 20 extra SP in all. Cale raised the Eye of Insight by another level, since he realized its value now. "This isn't an ordinary world at all. What is going on..."

[Cale Bloom]

[Dungeon Master]

[Human]

[Skill: Eye of Insight 4, Inventory 2]

[Level 1]

[10 DP, 14 SP]

[Weakling]

Cale had to find a way to get stronger, gather dungeon points. Right now he didn't even have a proper dungeon, just a level 0 with a library as a disguise. His only viable way to get dungeon points was selling monsters to the shop in the dungeon interface, but he had no clue how to find these monsters.

In this dilemma, Cale fell asleep. Next day he went to school even more unsure about the future and his own path forward. The world he thought he knew was something else entirely.

Sitting in class, he casually observed his friends, other students as well as the teachers with his eye of insight skill. The good thing about this skill was that when he performed it, there seemed to be no changes on him and as long as he didn't show any emotions no one would suspect anything.

Everyone he analyzed within his class, including Luke and the teacher were ordinary humans, level 1 with some ordinary skills like cooking or like the class valedictorian who had a pretty useful skill called [Acquire Knowledge].

However when he took a look at that girl, Isabelle, he found her staring at him again. However, he wasn't thinking about that because his Eye of Insight was offering him some pretty interesting information.

[Isabelle Knowles]

[Hidden Cultivator]

[Human]

[Skill: Desolate Cultivation Sutra 2, Disguise 2, Tiger's Fist 4, Basic Sword 4]

[Level 1 (Level 22)]

[Better than a trash like you]

When Cale read the last comment, he got angry. What kind of insight was this? However, he was most interested however in the fact that this girl was actually pretty high leveled and knew so many combat skills. Even her title was Hidden Cultivator and it seemed like that disguise skill was what helping her mask herself as an ordinary level 1 human.

The fact that she had to disguise that she was stronger than ordinary, Cale wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that Dragons seemed to control society within the shadows, or was she a criminal? Either way, it seemed like Isabelle was going to be his source for information.

Luke tapped Cale's shoulder after class ended. "I saw you caught her watching you, haha." Cale laughed it off. "It was just a coincidence, nothing else. Your eyes should be on Mala, she's been glaring at you because your constantly staring at Isabelle." Luke got flustered. "W-What?"

Later during lunch break, Cale saw Isabelle walk out with her lunch and he followed her. He saw her go to the school grounds and sit on a stone under a tree to quietly eat her lunch. Cale walked up to her. "Hey Isabelle, mind if I sit here?" He said motioning beside her.

Isabelle looked flustered at Cale's sudden appearance, but Cale suspected that was just a fake reaction.

"How come you're eating lunch alone all the way here?" Cale asked nonchalantly.

"I like it here." Isabelle said.

"I didn't mean to creep on you like this." Cale said. "But I've noticed you often staring in my direction a lot in the past few weeks."

Isabelle was dumbstruck with Cale's forthrightness. Cale continued talking. "Is there something you want to tell me?"

"I..." Isabelle trailed off. Cale sighed He looked at the sky and sighed again. Isabelle was confused.

Cale spoke in a sad voice. "I am not sure what's going on. If you are in trouble, I may not be able to help, but I am willing to listen." Before he suddenly added a bizarre sentence. "This world... I don't know why everything feels so wrong."

Isabelle was shocked by what Cale said. "What do you mean?"

Cale looked at her and smiled as he picked up a pebble and threw it. "Honestly, I don't know. But since a few years, I've been feeling that there's something wrong with this world, as if its all an off kilter dream. As time passes I keep having that feeling more and more." Then he smiled again. "So if you have been staring at me because you have some feelings for me, I thought I should let you know that there is probably something wrong with me."

Isabelle suddenly understood what he meant. She had been looking at him, because she had once realized that within their class, Cale seemed to have talent for cultivation. She had been observing him to see what kind of person he was before trying to rope him in, but her constantly staring at him would obviously cause Cale to have some misunderstandings.