The sixth floor of the apartment building which belonged entirely to the landlady was a place Jack had never stepped foot in through put his entire 2 years of being a tenant this apartment.
"You will be the first to take a shower but make it snappy, I don't find it comfortable remaining in this dirty set of clothes" said the beautiful landlady as she opened the twin heavy looking doors made off ebony wood. what layed behind that door was a majestic looking parlor covered in designs only found in movies.
"Wow, lifestyle of the rich is really extravagant" Jack clicked his tongue as he thought inwardly while staring at the sky blue coloured tiles on the floor, the realistic wallpaper on wall which portrays the view of a body of water filled with aquatic life and the carefully designed ceiling which looks exactly like the empty blue sky.
A grinned appear on the beautiful landlady face when she saw the looks on Jack's face which was filled with amazement. "It had costed me a pretty fortune to designs it up to this level and as the first man to be ever invited in this place by me, what do you think ?" she suddenly asked Jack. "it.... its amazing but was it worth it ?" Jack complimented but also asked back.
"Definitely" the landlady replied as he made her way into house with Jack following right behind her. Although Jack was a bit curious why a beautiful rich lady like her will choose to leave the protection of her parents and stay alone but he didn't bother to ask as felt that it wasn't any of his business. The fact that she had offered him a place to spend the night was already enough for him.
Following her direction, Jack arrived at the bathroom where he quickly took off his blood stained clothes and took a nice long bath. Although I said a nice long bath, it only lasted a couple of minutes since as a guy, Jack didn't have to spend time taking a bath.
But he still spent longer than the usual amount of time in the bathroom today, as he kept staring at the mirror which was portraying a image jack found it difficult to believe it was his. Jack had physically changed in areas he found it hard to believe, his dark skin had become lighter and his height seems to have increased from 1·6 meters to 1·7 meters.
His skinny looking body which was fully lacking in flesh, fat and muscles had now possess traces of them, he could even spot the development abs. Although he hadn't reach the level of body builders and athletics, he was too far from the latter.
His facial looks which had remained the same showed faint signs of maturity, the increase in both strength and constitution attributes were the only reason Jack could think of. "And here I thought guys don't usually spend much time in the shower" the landlady who had only a towel wrapped around her body and was waiting behind the bathroom door commented the very moment Jack exited it.
"Am sorry, my bad" Jack quickly apologized as he made his way back to the parlor of the house where remembered seeing a computer system. This was the era of social media and Jack decided to find out what's happening all over the globe through the internet.
Turns out, things were more unimaginable than he would have guessed. Surfing the net, Jack had made a lot of shocking discoveries. First of which was, planet earth was no longer what it used to be, satellite images had shown that the planet was now 10 times its previous size.
And as if that wasn't the end, 3 new continents had sprung up from the sea bringing the total amount of continents to 10. Of course, Jack couldn't ignore the multiple islands that have appeared all over the earth.
Secondly, all the animals on the planet seems to have undergone mutations or evolutions. Some became stronger, some faster and others bigger, Jack was even fortunate enough to watch a short video captured by satellites of a 100 meters tall ape rampaging in an ancient looking forest full of trees with heights measuring over 30 meters.
The U.S. government have decided to start calling on mutated animals on the planet 'mutated beast' and all those at the level of the rampaging 100 meters tall ape 'calamity grade mutated beast'.
But animals weren't the only ones to evolve or mutate. Plants, fishes and even insects also did the same. Jack found out about the existence of a tree with height measuring over 10,000 meters, sea turtles as big as an Island and insects the size an adult fist.
Lastly, was the existence of 'designation scrolls' and 'skill books' which are being dropped by monsters when they die. According to the millions of post flooding the internet, the chances of either of the two happening is as low as 10% and some people even wents as far as offering over hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase either of them.
Jack was highly interested in 'designation scrolls' as he happen to be in possession of one. Although it hasn't even reached full 24 hours since the great cataclysm as humans have come to call it, Jack was still able to gather a lot of information about them thanks to the internet.
Designation scrolls were exactly what Jack had earlier thought they were, they were means to gain a designation which places the same role as occupation or class in RPG Games. Warrior, archer, rouge and mage type designation scrolls seems to have a higher drop rate than that of brawler, summoner, shaman and oracle.
Jack also found out that each designation is tied to some specific attributes and the warrior designation scroll in his possession is tied to strength, constitution and stamina.
Also once a designation is chosen, it can never be altered, its related attributes with experience a slight boost and he will be granted an opportunity to acquire a designation specific skill of his choice but on how thats gonna happen, there was only one way to find out.
In reality, Jack didn't want to pick warrior as his designation because he understood to terror of facing a monster in close combat. The archer was more of his style even though he idea on to shoot an arrow but after finding out about the stress involved in being an archer and procuring a arrows, he was stuck with becoming a warrior.
Since Jack wasn't an indecisive type, having made up his mind, he took out the warrior designation scroll from the backpack and opened it without any hesitation.