20 minutes later...
Clinton checked his stats. ⦑Well then, I guess I have enough mana now. So that means while I'm waiting I should use {solution finder}.⦒
⦑Wait, I seem to have gotten a message that told me I've hit a jackpot and got something like a super duper lucky chest sent to my inventory? Lemme check.⦒
[Inventory opened.]
There were quite a few stuff in his inventory, but it was still relatively empty, so it only took about a second for Clinton to find what he was looking for.
Super duper lucky chest
Type: Lottery Chest
Description: A chest where the rewards are depended solely by chance. User can receive rewards from an nothing at all to 1,000 skill points. The better the reward, the lower the chances of getting the reward. User can receive more than one reward from the chest. Amount of rewards the user receives depends solely on chance. User will be guaranteed a reward (nothing at all reward is only unlocked after user has already gotten a reward). Every time the user gets a reward, the chance of getting another reward is lowered, until the possibility of getting a reward is lowered to 0.001% chance.
Clinton showed an extremely forced smile. ⦑I'm going to pretend that there was never a lottery chest in my inventory.⦒
⦑But, error compensation gift packets? I actually have that in my inventory all this time? Well, I'm not really in dire need of stats or anything, so I guess I'll save them for later.⦒
Just as Clinton was about to close the inventory, he heard a voice in his head. [What are you doing?]
[I was, but I accidentally forgot to pick a time to start up, so my start up time was randomly chosen for me.]
[I'm amazing, I know.]
[Well, as long as I interpret it as a compliment, then it's a compliment.]
[Yes it is, naive little boy.]
[... What do you mean not being able to do anything. I can talk to you just fine. Besides, this is not a prison.]
[Well, what are you going to do now?]
[You're stuck here for a month, right? You said that it only takes you a week to copy the skills the 〈Phantom Orb〉 has, right? Have you figure out what you are going to do in the remaining month and 3 weeks?]
[Don't you need to stay here to copy the skill?]
[Then why did you even ask for this in the first place!? You could have just walked away and stay in the outside world! There was no need for you to ask for this!]
[This is reality, not some stupid novel! You think you're the protagonist of a fantasy novel or something!?]
[The heck you mean- wait, that actually makes sense. This isn't really fantasy because it's real, so even if this was a novel, it wouldn't be a fantasy novel but just fiction- wait, that's not the point. The point is that don't use what you know about novels to look at this world! This is reality!]
[... Were you even listening!?]
[So why are you asking!?]
Clinton started to mess around with the system interface.
[Hey! Don't ignore me! Answer my question!]
[Yes you are!]
[You are.]
[Am so.]
Clinton, who was scrolling through the system interface, found something interesting and didn't bother to argue with the system.
[Hey!]
[Hey!]
[See! You're ignoring me!]
[How- how dare you talk to me like that!?]
[Force restart what? Wait, what did you d-]
⦑What did I do? I obviously restarted the system. The system only takes a minute to start up, but whatever.⦒