Everyone saw Michael staring at something. Their line of sight followed his and landed on the cake. They thought Michael was curious about the cake, so they started cutting the cake, completely unaware of the real reason for Michael's staring. Michael stared at the screen in front of his eyes. It has finally shown something else after a whole year. But before Michael could pay any more attention to it, he noticed everyone moving forward to the thing that was lying on the table. He willed for the screen to move to the corner of his vision. 'Let's wrap this up first and check it in detail later.'
The cake was cut, and its first slice was brought to Michael. Michael not knowing what to do with it just stared at it. Carla giggled seeing this and guided the cake slice further closer to his mouth. Michael understood this gesture and opened his mouth to eat the never seen delicacy. As soon as he had his first tiny bite, his eyes lit up, and started taking tiny bites of it but could not eat more than a few bites even though his face showed he wanted more. This cute scene earned another bout of giggles from the crowd. 'What is this? Though it doesn't taste as amazing as breastmilk, it is still very tasty. I have to find out what delicacy it is.'
The celebrations went on for a while and ended at about evening. Everyone went to attend to their matters before wishing him well one more time. Carla also brought him back to his room where he slept with Carla. Since he was well-fed, he was not hungry. Even though he wanted another session of breastfeeding, his stomach could not hold anything anymore so he could only regretfully pass this session.
The rest of the day went on and night arrived along with another night session of breastfeeding. This time Michael just drank normally because he did not want his mother to lessen the session by scaring her away. There was another reason and that was because he wanted to check what the box in his vision meant.
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Night arrived and everyone slept except for one person or one baby to be more exact. Michael was staring at the screen in his vision. Strangely he could understand the words written in it even though he was unfamiliar with the language. 'It's asking me to say this word, but I can't say it because of my undeveloped vocal cords. It will take about six months for my vocal cords to be developed. Only then can I speak. But I can't wait that long. Hmmm…. What if I try thinking about it?' he was in quite a dilemma because he couldn't speak the word. So, he did the next best thing he could and spoke the word in his mind. And it worked.
[Name: Michael von Revstein
Age: 1
Level: 0
Exp: 0\10
Hp: 10\10
Mp: 0
Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Endurance\Stamina: 1
Intelligence: 1
Wisdom: 10
Sense: 1
Charm: 10
Stat points: 12
Skills: none
Skill points: 2
Titles: none]
[Please say 'Interface' to open the main system interface]
After saying status inwardly, the screen changed and showed him various things among which some he could understand while some he could not. 'I finally know my name. This 'Character sheet' thing is about me it seems. I don't know what level, exp, hp, and mp symbolize. But I can understand about stats. Strength, agility, stamina, wisdom, sense, and charm are all self-explanatory. But why is my intelligence so low? I consider myself fairly intelligent so this intelligence must symbolize something else. Another thing added to the list I don't understand. I also don't understand what 'stat points' do so I'll leave it for later. Skills I understand but not skill points. It seems I have no skills. Well, I am in the body of a toddler after all so that is expected. The title is easy to understand but it might symbolize something else just like the intelligence stat.'
After analyzing the information in the character sheet, Michael moved on to the next thing system was asking him to do. So he said just that and immediately after that, another screen showed up in his vision, but different from before.
[Status
Quest
Shop
Craft
Merge]
This changed screen brought out some more things he could not understand. So again, he did the only thing he could by pronouncing them inwardly and checking them one by one.
'Quest'
[There are no quests available for the host for now. By completing these quests\tasks, the host will be rewarded with exp, stat points, gold, and in rarer cases and depending on the difficulty of the quest, the host might be rewarded with skill points]
'This does not show anything except that I might gain some things from completing the actions given on this screen. It also shows that the term skill points are important. But that is all for now. I don't have enough information to draw any conclusion about this. Let's move on to the next one for now.'
'Shop'
[Shop is unavailable to the host, reach level 10 to unlock shop]
[Gold: 0]
'Useless again. But for now, this is related to the 'level' in the status section. For now, I'm at zero and have to bring that number up to 10 to use this function. The gold part however I can't understand. Is it materialistic gold or not? Well, I guess I will find out about it later.'
'Craft'
[Craft is unavailable to the host, reach level 15 to use this feature]
'Nothing again. But this is also related to the level point. It shows that the level part of this thing called 'System' is really important. Well, nothing could be done now.'
'Merge'
[Merge is unavailable to the host, reach level 10 to use this feature]
'Again, the importance of level. I have to search for it more thoroughly.'
'I don't understand a lot about this system thing. But it seems whatever it is, it is bound to me considering the fact that it is with me since my arrival in this world. It might also be the reason why I can't sense any Ki. Let's check more about this system to grasp the situation much better.'