Ren felt his head spinning and inadvertently vomited.
He looked around and found some destroyed buildings because of dimension distortion that happened.
"Ugh, going through dimension felt- *vomit*", Ren muttered and then vomited again.
You can't blame him though, when he went through the dimension it was like he went inside a washing machine, spin it a lot of times, and got out.
"System?", Ren asked but no one answered, Well the system did say it won't be able to talk for a while so he just shrugged his shoulder and walk around.
This is the first time he saw dimension distortion in real-time. To be honest, it was quite devastating. The explosion that happens after a forceful combination of different dimensions is just unreal.
Dimensional Distorsion happens usually because there's a dungeon that's about to appear, so there's usually a warning before that but it seems something happened to the sirens.
As he thought of that, Ren remember something. His parents... are okay right?. The grocery store is a little far away from here so they should be able to evacuate safely.
But...
What if they think he was here and started searching for him right before the distortion?
"Crap", Ren immediately run towards a place.
If he remembers correctly, there's an evacuation bunker 4 km from here.
He runs and runs. His feet which were already tired after running for 1 km already started to give up at the 2 km mark. But he still running, not caring about the state of his body.
'Please, be safe'
Finally, after running for 2.5 km. His legs gave up and he fell to the ground. He gritted his teeth and tried to stand up again but he can't move his already exhausted legs.
'Ah, what should I do?'
It was at that moment he heard a voice,
"I Found a survivor, please advice"
Turned to look at the source of the voice.
It was a man wearing a black combat suit.
'A hunter?'
After thinking of this. Maybe it was because he was tired from all that running but he felt his consciousness getting blurry and he passed out.
...
When he opened his eyes he was already in a hospital bed. On his side were two familiar faces. His family, the ones that loved him and he loved so much.
"Ah, Ren, you woke up", His Mother, Katherina Miller, shouted in surprise and relief. She had long silver hair and greyish eyes.
"M-mom? dad?", Ren tried to get up from the bed but His father stopped him and said.
"Don't move too much, you've exhausted your body so the doctor said you shouldn't move around for a while", His Father, Gerrard Miller. He had black hair and dark blue eyes, his face was a little stiff but he can see relief in his eyes.
They are both former B-grade hunters but because of me they retired and started working in a small company to accompany me. Unfortunately, I always let them down because my talentless made me unable to do anything right.
'Sorry, mom, dad, I let you down, but after this, I will try to make you proud, I promise' Ren silently thought.
"Did feel hurt anywhere?", Katherina worriedly asked.
"No mom, I'm okay, just a little exhausted", Ren shook his head and asked.
"That's good", Katherina put her hand on her chest as she felt relieved. Her son never lied to her so she always trusts all his words and since he said that then that is the truth.
*Knock* *Knock*
Someone was at the door.
Katherina was about to stand up but Gerrard stop her and stood up himself, "I'll do it".
Opening the door, Gerrard was greeted by a bunch of people in black clothes.
The leader was a black-haired woman wearing sunglasses.
"Is this Mr. Miller's room?", The woman asked.
"Yes, is there a problem?", Gerrard nodded.
"Mhm, we want to ask Mr. Ren Miller a few questions", From her tone, it seems that this is not a request.
Gerrard look troubled as he glanced at the bedridden Ren, "Can you do this at a later time? My son is not in a good state right now".
"I'm afraid it's not possible Mr. Miller, we urgently needed an answer right now", The woman shook her head.
"This..."
"Dad, you can let her in, I'm fine now", Although Ren can't hear their conversation, from his father's troubled face, it seems that this is about him.
Hearing his son's request, Gerrard let the woman in.
The woman took off her sunglasses revealing beautiful amethyst eyes.
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Miller", The woman stretched her hand toward Ren and Ren shakes the woman's hand.
"Sorry for the late introduction. My name is Grace Vindrenz, I'm a leader of an investigation unit that was sent by the Union to investigate Dimension Distortion anomalies".
"If possible, may I privately speak to Mr. Ren Miller?", Grace looked at Ren and then at Gerrard and Katherina.
Hearing her request, Katherina frowned. Just as she was about to refuse. Ren immediately agreed.
"It's okay mom, we're just going to talk for a little".
"Don't worry madam, I swear with my life that as long as I'm in this room, Mr. Ren Miller won't get any harm".
Katherina nodded but as she was still worried she said, "We're waiting outside if you need us".
After both Gerrard and Katherina got out of the room Grace turned back to Ren.
"Thank you for making my job easier, I appreciated that".
"It's okay", Of course, Ren didn't do it out of impulse just because she's from Union. It's because he knew since they came once then they can come again another time. It's better to solve the problem now and prevent any more problems from arising.
"Well, I'm going to ask you a few questions, please answer them truthfully", Grace said and her Amethyst eyes started faintly glowing.
"... Yes, but can I not answer your question?".
"Hmm... Smart child".
"Of course, but it would be great if you answer some of the very important questions that I will give", Grace agreed with a condition.
"Alright", Ren nodded, this is already pretty good.
"Where were you when the distortion happen?"
"I got home from school and went to our apartment"
"Okay, Were you hiding somewhere when the explosion happen?".
"yes", Since Ren is not there when the Dimension explosion happens then it could be said that he was hiding in another dimension.
"Hmm... Did something happen to you when the distortion happen?".
"Yes"
"Okay, are you hurt when the distortion happens?"
"No", truly not, except for being transported and a little spinning to the head, he's not hurt.
"Interesting... This is a very important question. Are you the cause of the distortion?".
"No", after all, the distortion is already happening when he got there.
"Hmm...", The Woman took a few seconds to look at Ren's eyes.
"Did you see something when the distortion happen?"
"..."
"Did you see someone else when the distortion happen?"
"No"
"Can you give me a clear example of what you felt when the distortion happens?"
"... Dizzy", Indeed the first thing he felt when he was swallowed into dimension distortion is dizziness that made him pass out.
"Hmm... I see... Well, that concludes it, thank you for your time, Mr. Miller".
"Yes, no problem".
"Well then excuse me", After that Grace left the room and his parents entered again as Katherina asked worriedly.
"Are you okay? did she do anything to you?".
"I'm okay mom, she only asked me a few questions", Ren smiled and reassured his parents.
"By the way, umm... where will we live now?", This is not the first time the distortion destroy their home, though the last time it was very far away from their house. but the explosion still hit. This is why they prefer to rent an apartment than buy a house.
"Well, we will go to another city, this place is already classified as code red by the Union".
Code Red is the second worst area to be in other than black which means the area is very likely to have many dimensional distortions. As for black? there are only two places that are classified as code black and that place can only be described as hell on earth.
"Um, when will we leave?", Asked Ren.
"The sooner the better, but you still need to rest for a while", Said Katherina.
"Can't I just rest in the plane?".
"No! It's too shaky and it's uncomfortable. Just rest here for now and we will go when you're feeling well", Katherina immediately refused.
"Okay...", Ren nodded, since she say so, he can only obey.
*Grrr...*
"Ah..."
"Oh my, right you must be hungry, I'll get you some food", After saying that Katherina hurriedly scurried outside.
Now only Ren and his father are left in the room.
Gerrard then started opening his mouth.
"I already knew".
"Yes?", Ren looked at his father in confusion.
"Your school called me after exams".
"T-they did?", Ren suddenly turned nervous as he clenched his hand.
"Mhm... Ren, I already figured out how mature you are. I know what happen to you at school for 6 years now and I was waiting, thinking that you will come home and ask for help but no, you always went home with a big smile on your face as you told us how excited you are at school".
"At first I thought I was a bad parent, and maybe I am. But you know I have never been good at expressing my emotion, unlike your mother. Maybe I had said something wrong in the past and maybe you feared me. but you won't even weep to your mother".
"I asked myself, did you hate us? and-"
"No! I-I never hate you", Ren immediately cut his word.
"I... I just don't want you to worry about me...".
"I know, that's why I said you're already mature. it's just that even if you don't want us to worry. If your son doesn't want anything from you, you couldn't help but worry, Though you probably won't get it now. That's why I won't say that you should cry or anything. I just want you to know that we're always here, and you can rely on us", as he said in his last sentence, Gerrard looked at his son.
"..."
"Well, your mom is taking a while, I'll look for her" After that Gerrard left the room.
Even though he said he was looking for Ren's mother it was just an excuse to give him some time alone.
...
"System".
[...]
"I know you already woke up, come out already".
[A-ah yes. Umm... are you okay?]
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just want to ask, when can I travel dimension?".
[Hmm... I already consume too much probability so we wouldn't be able to travel in a short time. So Ren can rest for now]
"Alright, can you show me the {item shop}?"
[Yes]
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{Item shop}
Equipment
Special Ability
Accessories
Potions
Talent
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...
After looking through the list of items, he didn't find something that has much use to him now. And even if he did find something interesting, he can't buy it anyway since his balance is a big fat 0.
[Ah, I almost forgot]
"Hm? what?"
[Well, there's this thing called newbie package and with it, you could either exchange it for 100PP (Probability Points) or take your chance in a {Wheel of Chances} once]
"Oh...", Hearing that Ren started thinking, there's nothing that he can use with just 100PP so there is only one thing left. {Wheel of Chances}
The chances of getting something in the wheel are completely random and it was shuffled as well each time.
There are also 3 steps to each kind of thing.
For example, if you got a weapon, you will have to spin for what kind of weapon it is, for example, a spear, sword, or others, then after that, you will have to spin again to decide its grade, whether it was a 1st-grade sword or a 9th-grade sword, after that 3 steps, the system will give you a weapon with the grade that you get.
And if you get talent, then you would have to spin for what kind of talent it is, for example, talent for sword, spear, magic, and others, and like the weapon, you would need to spin to decide the grade.
"Let's try {Wheel of Chances}"
[Great! let's see how lucky Ren is]
"Ahaha...", if he's really lucky then he won't be a talentless person, but regardless of that, he can't help but feel a little anticipation for the result.
{Wheel of Chances}
(A.N, sorry, this is the best I can describe it to you that is easy to understand.... probably)
/ 1 2\
( 0 3 ) <----
\ 5 4/
Each number represents something, 1 represents Equipment, 2 Special Ability, 3 accessories, 4 potions, and 5 talents. If the arrow land on 0 then he got nothing so he's also a little bit pressured.
"Please be anything other than 0! even the worst possible weapon or accessories is fine!"
After praying, he pressed the wheel and it started spinning.
...
...
It kept spinning and spinning, and finally, it stops at the number 5 which represents talent, so close to reaching the number 0.
"Fiuh, for some reason this felt mentally taxing", Ren muttered as he looked at the wheel again, time to decide which talent will he get.
...
...
Tak, tik, tuk. As the wheel spins slower and slower, it finally stopped at magic.
"Ah... did my luck finally blossom? this just felt so good I could cry", And he's serious. He was already focused on learning magic since the first day after finding out that he was talentless. Swordsmanship? Archery? Okay maybe archery is pretty good to learn too but without talent, he can't learn the very basic aiming skill which is {Sharpshooter}.
"hah... one last spin... please be good, now that you bring me to this luck heaven, please take responsibility!"
The wheel started spinning.
...
...
Tun, tun, tun... tak.
The wheel stopped.
It stopped exactly on the very dividing lines that separated the F class and SS+ class.
"Ah? w-what would it be? System?".
[Calculating... exact lines... finding the closest diameter...]. Suddenly it was not the usual voice that answers him but a cold robotic voice.
[Error... calculating again...]
[Error Error Error]
[Consuming too much probability, Capacity overload, Shutting down in 5...4...3...2...1...0]
[Shutting Down]
"Wait, what?"
"System?"
[...]
"System?!"