When Marvin fell unconscious, the entire world halted. The students walking away were frozen mid-walking, students inside the cafeteria were frozen while they were chatting and eating or laughing, hunters fighting magical beasts were immobilized, and even the flame balls and thunderstorms that the hunters used to attack the magical beasts, were in a frozen state.
The entire world halted. Earth has halted.
The entire Heaven halted. The moon was still in its position, so was Mercury and the other planets in the solar system, even the Sun seemed to be halted.
This time halt lasted for ten seconds.
Ten seconds from everything in existence, living or non-living, was absorbed by Marvin, or the amulet that has drilled inside the head of his.
Not even a single person from stronghold 69 or any being in the entire solar system noticed that everything was in a frozen state a few moments ago and that their lives had returned to normal only after a total of ten seconds had been subtracted from their lifespans, which entered Marvin body.
The battle between Ability users and Magical beasts resumed. The teacher scolding a student resumed. Students bullying a student resumed.
It was as if a godly existence has used a button to stop time then repressed it to start time, just for fun.
The halted world started and time started to pass away.
Some hours passed with Marvin still unconscious. No one noticed him, as the dustbin was placed in an alley behind the cafeteria building.
The sun fell. Gradually, Marvin's eyelids started to flutter open. Soon, his vision returned. As he lifted himself off of the dustbin, he touched his head to see if he had gotten any injuries.
'Why does my body not hurt at all? The last thing I remember was getting beaten by the school bullies and getting bruised all over!' He thought, bewildered of what just happened to him.
The most miraculous thing was that there wasn't even a single bruise left in his body or the injuries that he had got through acting as bait to attract magical beasts. He was surely hurt before, and the physical evidence of those wounds tainted his uniform. The while uniform shirt was stained Scarlet with his blood, but there was a wound left.
Not just that! Unlike before, his entire being felt light as if he had never worked hard. There was no scar left on his body! He had always been feeling heavy-headed and fatigued because of working hard every day but today he felt the exact opposite.
"Is it because I slept on the dustbin rather than the bed in my very small cramped bedroom? Can anyone explain how something unscientific like this can happen to me?" Marvin was confused and his three-walls were breaking.
"Just what's going on…?"
He calmed himself down and thought back to the moments before he lost his consciousness.
The pendant his father had given him was shinning and then it... and then it drilled into his head right before his eyes!!!!
He touched his forehead. After making sure that his skull hadn't split open from the pendant impaling into it, he exhaled a sigh of relief.
Was he dreaming things, then?
"It drilled into my head, yet I am still alive! Was it my imagination? But all my wounds have healed, maybe that's why I am still alive. What just happened today, it's weird, I can't explain it to anyone, as they will think that I have gonna crazy!" He exclaimed, slumping back into the dustbin like the leftover meals
Finally, when his head slumped back into the dustbin, he saw 'It'!
'Huh?!'
He looked up without thinking, and then, saw 'words' floating in the air. Words that only belong in games, words used to define character skills, equipment, stats, race, shop, and much more.
He rubbed his eyes and saw that the words were still there, floating in mid-air.
He closed his eyes and opened them again.
The words remained floating up there without a single change. He shook his head hard a few times and even smashed it in a nearby garbage bags, but they were still there.
Marvin massaged his forehead a few times and stood back up.
'It hadn't been a long time since something weird happened, but now, I'm even seeing them, too. And it seems like the words are telling me that I have become a gamer! Not a human, but a gamer!
Marvin slumped back into the dustbin to look at the stats!
‹Character Menu›
Character: Marvin (Human/¿?)
Level: 1
Exp: 0/100
Attribute: Time, Space
HP: 7/7
Magic Power: 5/5
Attribute Points=0
Strength: 7
Vitality: 7 ( Restore 0.07 Hp per second)
Dexterity: 9
Intelligence: 5
Wisdom: 1 (Restore 0.1 Mana per second)
Resistance: 10 (Negates 1% Physical and Magical damage)
‹Ability Menu›
Ability Development points: 0
Active Ability: Martial arts
Passive Ability: Gamers body
Magic Ability: Time halt
Ability: ????
Ability: ????
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