Mikael was lost in thought for a while as his mind and heart felt an attachment to the name spoken by the system.
He could feel that there was a bond between him and the person with that name, but when he tried to remember he started feeling intense pain in his head.
He tried to ignore it and keep looking, but he started falling into a trance with his soulspace showing signs of developing cracks.
[ DING! Warning host soulspace unstable!]
[ DING! Host must retain consciousness to avoid soulspace damage.]
This two prompt appear more times as Mahlia trys to get Mika out of his trance state.
"Host, please stop." Mahlia shouts very anxiously as the warnings came through.
If she didn't stop Mika's state from progressing he could hurt himself.
"Host you need to claim down." she kept repeating. Almost howling at this point as the prompt were flashing more and faster.
Then the prompt came to a sudden hult. Mika slowly started getting out of his trance state. He have lost most of his memories but his body and still remembered his training, how could he lose himself to a mere headache.
It could be said to an extent that he came back to consciousness on his own but it seemed Mahlia's screaming also worked to aid as Mika came out of his trance.
"Mikael !! Don't you ever do that again." Mahlia said in rage. It was the first time she had spoken to him like that. She almost lost him once, she knew there may not be anymore chances of cheating death in the future.
But Mahlia's outburst caught Mika by surprise. The system had never spoken his name and referred to him as simply host but now he could hear the worry and fear in her voice.
"Am sorry." he outted slowly.Now he was at a loss as to how to continue.
As he prepared to say more, Mahlia spoke.
" No, you should not say sorry to me. Am the one who say sorry for stepping out of line host. Am sorry." Mahlia said this to Mika because that was the truth, a truth he will come to understand in the future.
There was silence between them for a while, a good silence.
" Do you wish to see your new interface host? " Mahlia asked after a while.
. "Yes please. Mahlia, can you call me by my name? I will call you by yours too." he added.
He was going to be here for quite possibly the rest of his life and he felt deep down that Mahlia was the only one he could wholeheartedly trust right now.
" I feel that since you are my companion, we should not be so distant. Besides you are a sentient being with feelings, I can't treat you like a cold machine."
Mahlia's was filled with joy at the words and gave her concent. From now on, they will forge their bond anew.
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Mika touched the silver tattoo on his arm to open his interface.
The violet curtain like interface appeared before him. It looked slightly different, not so basic anymore. As in the front looked much better, everything was still basic though.
Mika looked at the interface for a while and opened the system port.
He went to the storage space to get his rewards for getting to level one. He took out the animal skin bag and placed in by his bed intending to take a look later. It cost energy to use the interface, the availability of which was low now since he couldn't just take all the stones that provided light from the wall.
He exited the storage space and turned his eyes to trading point of the system port.
Level 1 of the trading point was open now and he could afford to buy since he had system coins now.
The trading point was opened but only for browsing at level 0. All the levels of zero to 10 of all grades was open for viewing but now that he was in level 1, he could only buy from 0 to 3 of black iron and only view 0 to 10 of the black iron grade.
He was here to buy the item that he most needed now, a translator. If he didn't get this item soon he may just go crazy.
The was an open space on top of black iron grade trading point which helped to look for items faster.
The search was done in seconds and the item was show along with price. There were three options from levels 1 to 3, each with a higher price and also less of an eyesour.
Level 1 looked like a 21st century headphone, not only impractical but also a bright pink so terrible for camouflage too and it went for 10 system coins. Cheap.
Level 2 was slightly better in color and shape but still with a design that could easily fall off if he run a little too fast and it went for 30 coins.
Level 3 looked like a hearing aid but was good in color, camouflage and less likely to fall off during a run.
He had definitely seen better in other grades, there was even one that could even be used like a psychic ability but that was in the supreme grade.
If he wanted it, he would have to grow stronger. He was now stating to think that being allowed to view all items of all grades at level 0 was to push him to grow.