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Chapter 5 - Skills!

Fred is inside a cab that is rushing through the busy roads full of people, cars, and some jeeps.

He is staring outside through the window of the cab, watching people passing by doing their own things.

His eyes are set outside but his mind is somewhere else.

He is thinking about what happened earlier.

An hour ago.

"What should I do?" Asked Fred,

"You don't have to do anything, just sit there and stay." Answered Lilia.

"Umu," Fred gave a nod and sat back on his seat again.

Lilia positioned herself in front of Fred then muttered something that Fred faintly heard as "Appraisal" but he is not sure.

Then he saw that Lilia started staring into space as if she was looking at something in front of her, but clearly, there was nothing there.

Then her face became sullen as a frown on her beautiful face appeared.

When Dr.Martin who was at the side saw Lilia suddenly frown, he immediately asked, "What did you find out about Miss Lilia?" 

"Hmm… This looks weird but, it looks like he is just fatigued to the very last energy of him, it seems like he also got bruised from the water in the ocean. Hmm…" she stopped and turned silent. It looks like she is hesitating if she should tell it.

"And…? Is that it? Cause that seems normal except for the fact that he did not die while he's floating in the ocean." Asked Dr.Martin who is observing Lilia.

"Hmm.. well, it says here that… he was previously at Taal lake before he got thrown to the sea… he is very lucky." She said, then look at the face of the people inside the room, Dr.Martin and Eliza have this weird expression on their face as if they are constipated, while Fred still has this confused and puzzled look.

Lilia continued, "I think everyone here maybe except for Mr.Fred, know that the Taal volcano just erupted and this is weird cause he did not look like he was in any danger." Answered Lilia with a peculiar look.

Silence ensued inside the room. The sound of the tick of the clock on the wall blending with the buzzing noise of the AC is sounding out throughout the room.

Only now did Fred understand what they found weird, 'So the Taal volcano erupted!?' he was shocked by this revelation, but only for a bit, 'Yeah, why could I not think of that? The abnormal heating up of the water can justify it.'

Then a question flashes in his mind and he wants to ask about it, "Can I ask a question?" 

"Sure, ask away." Replied Lilia. The other two also turned their heads to look at Fred.

Hearing the approval, "Uhmm… how did you come to know of all that?" Fred's face is full of confusion when he asks,

Just how can she suddenly know where he was before, and also what happened to him. This question made him dizzy because it was as if it's just magic.

The three others in the room look at him with indescribable looks, as if they are looking at a rare species.

Dr.Martin was the first to speak, he asked, "You… You don't know who Miss Lilia is?"

"Is she someone famous that I would know of her?" He asks with a much more confused look.

Eliza suddenly butt in, and said, "Of course you should know of her! She is someone who has the skill [Appraisal(SSS)]!"

The growing confusion is visible on Fred's face. He is still feeling weak as he just got out of the ocean, so the confusion is making him dizzy that he slumped his body on the chair he is sitting on.

They all saw that and decided to let Fred rest.

"You should rest here for a bit, Mr. Fred, and then you can go back home after because it looks like you're just tired." Said, Dr.Martin,

And they all left the room, before leaving, Eliza told him that she already needed to go because she had something important to do. To which he nodded and said his thanks for bringing it here.

While alone, he started piecing it all together. 'Skills… there's no such thing like that before, only in games… But I can confirm that what she is saying is real… because, I think I have a skill too… that thing that jolted my mind earlier.' he remembered what he saw from earlier.

Inside his mind, he saw a straight line of 10 squares with some having pictures while some were empty. Inside one of those, he saw the camera that was passed down to him by his grandpa.

Then he tried to make those squares appear again, and just like that. The image of it comes to his mind. He looks at it and commented,

'This looks like an inventory.'

He willed the camera to appear in his hands.

And magically, it suddenly appeared on his hands!

A smile crept up to his face as he looked at that happening.

'This is so cool!... Wait, did I die in that volcano eruption and transmigrated?'

He felt amused by the thought of him transmigrating.

'That might be what happened.' he said and put all the thoughts to the back of his head, he also put back the camera on his inventory.

Then he closed his eyes and laid his head on the back of the chair, leaving it hanging.

He stayed like that for a few seconds then,

"Huh?"

He let out a confused noise. As for the reason for that.

When he closed his eyes, numbers suddenly appeared, on the dark scene, it was as if fireflies gathered in one place and started forming the numbers.

What he saw is,

[Bronze: 10 | Silver: 1 | Gold: 0]

'What are these numbers?' He felt curious about it and wanted to know more about it. But he resisted, 'I will have more time for that later. I should rest for now.'

He rested for an hour before he got up and decided to come home.

He said he's thanks to Dr.Martin, he also wanted to say thanks to Miss Lilia but she is not there anymore, she is such a busy woman.

After leaving the hospital, he flagged a cab and told his address to the driver. And daze out looking to the outside. And that what happened earlier as for the rest, well he is still inside that cab.

While looking outside feeling boredom creeping upon him, he saw something.

From what is previously known to him as a museum is now another structure. It's a rocky structure three-story high, it looks like a cave but just super huge.

"Eh? What is that?" He asked the driver while pointing out to that structure, to which the driver looked at him weirdly nevertheless still answered his query.

"That's a dungeon. That's where those with fighting skills usually thrive, they call themselves adventurers. They sell the things they found from inside the dungeon and that's how they become rich. I also once aspire to be an adventurer…."

It seems like the driver got nostalgic and started telling his story, but Fred is not listening to him anymore.

Fred clenched his fist hard, 'THERE IS A DUNGEON! I wonder if I can enter...heh, I WILL ENTER!' he smiled widely thinking about it.