When Salem fully stepped through the crack, he found himself in a dark and filthy allyway.
Alina and Ruby let go and examined their surroundings with him.
The brick walls of the alley were covered in soot, the ground beneath their feet was unpaved mud, and the sky above was darkened with smoke.
"What is this place?" Ruby wondered.
"Not a very clean place, is it?" Salem asked rhetorically.
Salem sent out bugs to see what the clothing was like in this world.
After observing sufficiently, he made himself a tailcoat, a white shirt, a black bowtie, Oxford leather shoes, steampunk welding goggles, and black slacks.
"This is a steampunk world, as my world would call it." Salem said, looking at the girls. "I'm going to design suitible clothing for you, if you're okay with that."
The girls agreed.
He thought it'd be cute if they had matching clothing, so he made them the same outfit. Their outfits consisted of a white long-sleeve shirt, a tailcoat, black tights, leather knee-high boots, and welding goggles.
Alina and Ruby were checking themselves out when Salem heard an unfriendly voice at the entrance of the alley.
"It'd be a shame for two beauties like them to go untasted, no?" The man blocked the only way out of the alley. "Why don't you let me have a go at them and then I'll let you go. Deal?"
Ruby drew her sword in response.
"Ooh a feisty one." He chuckled. "That makes this more fun."
Salem chuckled mirthlessly.
"What's so funny, eh boy?" The man questioned Salem rudely.
"You just messed with someone who will kill you in under a second if I allow them to." Salem stared down the shady character. "Fortunately, we don't want to spill any blood right now. Right, girls?"
"Right." They chorused, although Ruby didn't seem happy about it.
"So put your pathetic excuse for a weapon away and leave." Salem demanded.
"Oh, but that's where you're mistaken, kiddo." He said, drawing a gun and pointing it at Salem. "I'm not leaving until I've tasted them."
Salem looked down the gun barrel fearlessly. "You really want to do this?" He asked.
"Oh, yeah I do." The man licked his lips in anticipation.
"Then perish." Salem said derisively as he sent his nanobots into the gun and destroyed the firing pin while simultaneously making his silenced SKS and shooting the pathetic excuse for a man in the forhead.
Salem shook his head as he used his nanobots to devour the corpse. "Not even ten minutes in this world and this man had to mess with us." Salem clicked his tongue. "Inconvenient."
When the corpse was completely devoured, he got the first notification from the system in a while.
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Passive devoured: Marksman.
Marksman: You are more accurate with firearms and can use a vast number of them.
Effects: +50% accuracy with any firearm.
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Noting the system notification and how killing a man was now considered merely 'inconvinient', Salem noticed another system notification.