Kobi blinked cutely as the suffocating seconds of the stubborn box remaining shut presisted before blurting out, "Do I freaking punch this box for ruining the moment?"
"Aw, no! A click will do." The system replied earnestly.
Kobi stretched his lips, pretending to ignore his earlier self and calmly clicked on the box. 'I definitely didn't think it would open from a command.'
The box's sides slowly peeled open, 'Wha-What blinding light!' Kobi hurriedly shielded his eyes.
"Host, open your eyes. There's no blinding effect."
Kobi's excited smile froze on his face. '...Isn't this place a bit lacking in drama?'
"Don't be delusional!" The system muttered in a corner of his mind.
As the voice was very low, Kobi calmly pretended he didn't hear it and laughed in relieve, "Oh system! You need to learn to stay a step ahead, okay? Look, this kind soul shall teach you!
"If I hadn't closed my eyes and there was a blinding effect, I would've suffered! And to avoid that I stayed at my toes, and look, did doing that harm me? No! So act a bit more like me, okay?
"Keep following me and I will teach you to live life like its meant to be lived!"
"Host..."
"Go on, praise me! Don't shy away!" Kobi, like an intellectual, understood the system's desire to praise him hence he puffed out his chest.
"The gift is out!"
Kobi... smiled. "Hoho! Lets look at what we got, shall we?" Kobi calmly ignored his earlier claims and stepped closer to the box.
"Noted, the host seems to have a few screw loose!" The system's childish voice muttered in a corner, as if making notes.
And Kobi... seeing the voice was low, ignored it like he didn't hear it.
"What do we have here?" Kobi shoved his hand inside and grabbed the glowing scroll.
As he unrolled it, words swiftly appeared to greet his eyes.
'Magic?!' Kobi gulped, his eyes shinning alongside the scroll. A monotonous robotic voice, different from the one he was chatting with, voiced out.
"Congratulations host! You accquired the skill, 'Autonomous Attack: Arrow'. For more details, chant Profile!
"As the skill was a gift, 10 arrows have been placed on stand-by."
"Wow!" The childish voice exclaimed, "Profile, open profile! Lets see what it does! Hahaha!"
Kobi speechlessly shook his head at the kid in his brain, "You truly don't know anything, huh?"
Kobi licked his lips and placed his palm wide in front while yelling out-loud, "Profile!"
With a whoosh, Kobi's retina glowed for a second as words quickly started etching in thin air.
A red and blue bar appeared, one on top of the other. Followed by a 3D hologram of a human with its arm stretched out, rotating around its axis.
Below the human appeared an emoji with star like eyes, alongside a 3D bottle of water which was partially empty and an icon like that of a stomach which was somewhat dull.
Then, all of this moved at the corner of his vision and a blue holographic list appeared in front of him.
"WOOOO!" Kobi moved back a step in surprise, "What the heck is all of this?"
"Oh! I know, I know!"
The holographic bars and the other things which had moved to a corner settled next to the holographic list.
"This red line is your health, Hp for short. Blue is your mana, simply Mp. This 3D model is your imitation, it represents your body's condition.
"This face emoji represents your mental or emotional state.
"The bottle is your thirst, as you can see, you aren't thirsty right now.
"And this stomach thingy, this is your hunger. The duller it becomes, the more you're hungrier and lastly, this list is your... umm... numerical representation!" The system explained with vigour.
"Ohhhh!" Kobi nodded his head, his shiny eyes skidded back and forth at the panoply.
"Aw, also, only this numerical list will come and go as you chant Profile, these models will simply settle in a corner."
"Oh!" Kobi nodded his head again, rubbing his chin, he asked curiously, "If you can materialize so many things in, can't you also just appear in front of me? Instead of haunting my brain?"
"Oh, wait, wait, let me see, let me see... Umm... Yea, I can do that if you want me too!"
"Nice! Then what are you waiting for? Come!" Kobi grinned widely and with a puff, a young boy appeared in front of him.
Somewhere around 7 years old and dressed like a medival noble. His unkempt, snow-white wavy hair shaded over his wide pitch-black eyes. His tightly pressed thin lips stretched from ear to ear, his pale hands clasped behind his back, his feet hovering in the air.
"HAHAHAHA! SO COOL! SO COOL!" The boy spun around, his hands spread apart as if feeling the nonexistent wind.
"Hoo! Not bad!" Kobi rubbed his chin thoughtfully while nodding his head.
"Oh! Seems only you can see and hear me." The boy shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, his large eyes sealing eerieness inside them.
Kobi nodded and moved his eyes to the holographic list.
[Name: Kobi Colls
Hp: 100/100
Mp: 10/10
Strength: 4
Agility: 5
Defence: 3
Intelligence: 8
Charisma: 3
Skills: Inventory, Autonomous Attack: Arrow]
"That's pretty simple!" Kobi inched his face closer to the list, his cheek connected with the system's who, too, was eagerly gawking the list.
"Right!? Oh! now just will for the description of the skills and they will appear." The boy placed his finger on the two skills and glanced eagerly at Kobi.
Kobi nodded his head and focused.
(Inventory: Invisible space with 100 slots, can be increased. Same items stack.
Autonomous Attack–Arrow: Place your palm forward and arrows will come shooting out automatically. Arrows need to be present in inventory. Arrows that are skill bound can be retrieved by snapping your fingers or tapping.)
"Nice, inventory!" Kobi commanded, causing another tab to pop up, the tap had criss-crossing line, forming a 100 squares.
On the first slot, the image of arrows was drawn with a tiny 'x10' at a corner.
He tapped on them, causing another explanation to pop up.
(Skill Bound Arrows: 10)
Kobi licked his lips excitedly, his gaze shifted from the boy glancing at the holograms and landed on the door in front.
Raising his palm to meet the door, Kobi commanded, "Autonomous Attack: Arrow!"
A mystical circle, the size of his palm appeared in front of his hand and from it, an arrow shot out, landing fiercely at the door. But it failed to penetrate it and fell on the door.
"Wow!" Both the boy and the adult exclaimed one after another.
"Oh! You can command the arrows to attack be either saying arrow or saying attack."
The boy gazed at his amazed expression and chuckled.
"Dang that's something!" Kobi snapped his finger, causing the arrow to vanish suddenly, 'That door's sturdiness is something.' He marvelled internally.
"Now feeling happy you were chosen as my host?" The boy asked with a smirk.
"Kid... you better don't bring that up." Kobi's face instantly darkened, losing all its shimmer.
"Hoho!" The boy ruffled his wavy hair, shaking his head wryly.
"So... where does that door lead?" Kobi asked, realizing that was the only exit he had from here, the godforsaken place he had been pulled into.
"Into a dungeon. After you clear the dungeon, you will prove if you are worthy of owning the system or not. And__" The boy smirked excitedly, flying in front of Kobi, "You can test that skill of yours on enemies too!"
Kobi's eyes lit up, "Enemies? Like... monsters or something?"
Kobi asked, his heart rate shooting up.
The boy's eyes lit up, his eeriely large eyes growing even eerier, "Of course!"
Kobi gulped, a smile stretching across his face, "Lets go, kiddo! Watch and learn! Hahaha!"
"Aye!"