Earth, year 20--, April 25
In a small office you could see a man typing on a computer as fast as he could. He was about 183cm(6ft) tall with a slender build. His looks are slightly above average with short black hair and blue eyes.
This is our protagonist, Alex White. He was the only person left in building except of his boss who was also finishing up some work.
After Alex finished typing, he took about 5 to 10 minutes to check over his work. Seeing as everything was fine, he let out a sigh of relief before stretching a bit.
He couldn't help but let out a satisfied smile, 'Completed one week before the deadline. If nothing unexpected happens I should be able to relax for the rest of the week.'
While Alex's mind was wandering, a cool female voice pulled him back towards reality. "What are you thinking about so deeply?"
"Ah, Boss you're still here?" Alex asked, clearly surprised by the voice.
The boss then raised a brow and replied in a questioning tone as if he was asking a stupid question, "Then do you want me to lock up you and let you stay here until tomorrow?"
Scratching his head sheepishly he said, "Sorry, it just slipped my mind."
"Since we are already off work just call me Claudia," the boss identified as Claudia said with a small smile. Her full name was Claudia Smith. She was Alex's childhood friend who even went to the same school from primary(elementary) straight to high school.
You could say that she was a beauty compared to normal people but was a little lacking when being compared to models with brown hair that comes down to her hips and green eyes. She had an approachable personality and was always helping out her employees when they needed it but was usually strict when need be.
"Since you are finished with work why don't you come and join me for a little drink?" Claudia said with a little smile.
Alex was slightly taken back by the offer. He then asked with a bit of surprise in his voice, "Are you sure that your parents are going to allow you to drink out when it's so late?"
"Oh, shut it! I'm already an adult and can make my own decisions. Why would I need my parents' approval to do things?" Claudia pursed her lips and replied with a slightly angered tone.
Alex just shrugged and said, "You're their only daughter so they still treat like a princess. If anything was to happen to you, they would probably turn the city upside down."
The Smith family that Claudia was a part of was one of the top 5 most powerful family in the city and was in contact with grandmasters and great grandmasters from the world of ancient martial arts and the military. Even her grandfather is at the grandmaster level. So, if anything really happened to her, they really would flip the city.
Claudia slightly blushed as she was embarrassed by how her parents still treats her even though she's an adult. She quickly changed the topic back to hide her embarrassment, "So are you coming to take that drink or not?"
"Sure, why not, I have nothing planned." Alex said with a small smile.
After that they left and locked up the company before going to a nearby bar to drink. While drinking they reminisced about school and their previous classmates.
"Can you believe that Samantha had a child? I found out that from John recently. Heck, I didn't even know that she got married," Alex said with his face slightly flushed. A sign that he was a bit tipsy.
"Yea, I think heard about her having a baby recently." Claudia said after thinking about it for a while but then her face turned into a teasing smile. "How come you didn't know that she was married? That was like 4 years ago. If I remembered correctly, you had a crush on her in college."
"Ugh, don't remind me of it. I was training during those 4 years, so I didn't have any form of contact with the outside world." Alex replied after letting out a groan of embarrassment.
After chatting for some time Claudia became so drunk that she passed out. When Alex saw this, he shook his head and started circulating his inner strength to get rid of the effects of the alcohol.
'How can you leave yourself defenseless in front of a man even if you're trying to seduce him?' he thought to himself. He would have been an idiot if he didn't notice from the way that she was clinging to him. 'Either that or she just sees me as a brother or something, but she doesn't have any reason to lead me on like that... I think.'
After some time, he called the Smith family to send someone to pick her up. About 15 minutes later someone came and picked her up. When they left, Alex decided that it was time for him to go home.
The streets were eerily quiet. Only a few vehicles passed by, and the streetlights kept flickering from time to time making it seems like Alex was in a ghost town.
He quietly waited at the intersection and waited until the light turned green. Once it did, he looked both ways before seeing the road devoid of vehicles before crossing.
Midway, Alex felt something wrong. He looked to his right and saw a truck speeding towards him. Without much time to think, he jumped out of the road.
"Where the hell did that truck came from? I didn't see any headlights or heard anything from it until the last moment. if it wasn't for my gut feeling I would have ended up in the hospital or in the worst-case dead." Alex thought to himself as he felt a shiver go down his spine thinking about it.
[Ding! System binding to host....]
[System entering dormant mode while binding to the host....]
"Huh?" that was the only thing that could come out of Alex's mouth. 'A system? why did I suddenly get a system? Is someone play a trick on me?'
Alex tried using the system based on what he learned from in novels but got no luck. 'If I remembered correctly, it said it was going in dormant mode? I seems like I was too flustered to by what just happened, so I didn't pay much attention to what it said.'
Thinking about it for a while before he shook his head to get his mind off it. He doesn't even know if it was an illusion or not, plus he had something else to worry about.
'Did someone send an assassin after me? No, I don't think I don't have any enemies that would want to kill me. I doubt have any enemies. And how did it appear out of nowhere?' Alex was thinking of reasons for why he was almost run over. Even after thinking for a while, he decided to put it at the back of his mind for now. His top priority now was to get home safely so he wouldn't be in any danger of being kill by a vehicle. 'Don't tell me that was the legendary truck-sama?' he thought jokingly to himself.
After that experience Alex began to be vigilant on his way home. Fortunately, he didn't meet any mishap.
When he reached home, he started to relax as he knew he was safe at home. That was because there was a formation set up by a formation grandmaster to protect the house. It was said it could block an ordinary grandmaster all-out attack.
At that time, it took quite the effort to invite that grandmaster to take action to set up the formation. And the deciding factor that made grandmaster took action was because of, one, Alex's father was a commander of the city defending team and two, he happened to coincidently a grandchild of his.
While relaxing he suddenly heard a mechanical sound frightened him.
[Ding! System is bound to the host!]
[Checking conditions for full activation....]
[Two conditions are not fulfilled!]
[Re-entering dormant mode until conditions are fulfilled!]
Alex was instantly stunned by the voice and the holographic messages in front. His surprise turned into excitement, 'Is this a system from the novels I have been reading? With the system wouldn't I be able to reach the Dao master realm or even surpass it?' Alex clenched his fist as thought about this.
Although with is talent he had a chance to reach that realm, it was only a slim chance. If he didn't get any receive any fortune encounter or something like that, he would basically no chance.
The world that Alex lives is a parallel world where cultivation exists. The realms in this world are outer strength, inner strength, master, grandmaster, great grandmaster and Dao master. Along with cultivation they have different monsters that constantly attack humans. No one knows when cultivation really started but, it has been around for as long they could remember.
While he was excited about having a system, he suddenly remembered that the system was still dormant. 'That's right, the system is dormant and in addition the conditions for it's activation is unknown.'
After thinking about it for a while he decided to not to think about it. He couldn't do anything about it or understand anything about it so he might as well not think about it.
After that he took a bath, he then went and eat dinner before he started to cultivate.
"But doesn't a system only show up when a person is about to died or already did?"
...
3 weeks later
He died.