A quest? Those things are real? After Kai had first revealed about the existence of the system, she had gone online and read all kinds of novels so she was familiar with most of the things the system had to offer.
She used her mind and thought of pressing the quest panel and it worked.
[Quest: survive the night]
[Reward: 5 stat points]
[Failure: death]
Maya couldn't help but feel excited at the thought of receiving rewards, would she get to have powers similar to those superheros in the movies she had watched before? She couldn't help but wonder. Upon seeing the punishment she would receive upon failure, her heart turned cold. But on further thought, even without the punishment from the system she would still die if she couldn't survive the night. It didn't make a difference, either way, survival was a must!
Curious about her stats, she called upon the system interface, it showed several panels.
[Stats] [Attributes] [Abilities] [Skills] [Inventory] [Quests]
She clicked on her stats first.
Stats
Host: Maya Rodriguez
Race: Human
Class: Null
Level: 1
Exp; 0/100
Attributes
Strength: 2
Speed: 3
Defence: 2
Intelligence: 0
Charm: 5
EP: 100
HP: 100
Abilities
Transformation (null)
Skills
Combat mastery (LV1)
Enhanced senses (LV1)
Glitch
Inventory
-Empty-
Looking at her stats, she clicked on class.
[Choose your transformation path first for class to be available]
She then looked at her attributes and thought that they were very pitiful in comparison to Kai's, her highest attribute was charm but she had no idea what it was for so she ignored it. She couldn't understand why the system thought she had zero intelligence either so she also ignored it too and clicked on her abilities.
She clicked on the only ability available to see what it does.
[Choose transformation path]
[Bird] [reptile] [Mammal] [insect] [aquatic]
The options kept on glitching, ever changing. Maya wanted to pick bird due to their ability to fly, a moment later she ended up choosing Mammal due to their raw power which would give her the best chance of survival. But when she was about to click on it, the system glitched at that moment, she ended up choosing reptile.
She gripped her hair in frustration 'Nooo! That's not what l wanted!.' she was about to go back when she saw the option at the bottom of all the reptilian names. Her eyes widened and excited overwhelmed her, so much that she instantly clicked on it, then there was one last option to make.
[Fire Dragon] [Water Dragon] [Gale Dragon]
[Earth Dragon]
The system started glitching again making her cautious, without a doubt she wanted to choose the fire dragon since fire could cause the most destruction.
But when she was about to pick it, the system glitched again and she ended up choosing the water Dragon instead. When she tried to go back on her option, she realised she couldn't, at this point she felt like the system was deliberately messing with her options.
[I can not mess with the host's options, it's against The Creator's rules]
Maya was surprised 'you can hear all of my thoughts?'
[Only those addressed to me or about me]
Maya nodded not too bothered by it, she was just internally complaining about how she ended up choosing the weakest amongst the elemental dragons.
'water dragons are knows to be docile unlike the ferocious fire dragons. At least it's still a dragon regardless, water dragons are still at the top of the food chain.' she sighed helplessly.
When she tried calling forth the transformation, she realised nothing happened 'system, why isn't my transformation working?'
[Host's stats are too weak to support a dragon transformation]
Maya was disappointed but she thought it was reasonable, she dismissed the abilities and checked on the skill panel. She ignored the first one since it was self-explanatory.
Enhanced senses- Rank F
[Enhances host's survival instincts]
-Glitch-
[Host is unable to gain other skills apart from those given by the system, when the system glitches, host will be able to gain a random skill whether powerful or weak.]
Since the skills were available, she tried activating enhanced senses. The moment she did, her vision changed, she could see far and clearly in the dark, she could hear and smell things she couldn't before. That's how she knew that there was an animal sneaking up behind her, she could hear the careful and slow steps and she could smell the scent of ... a dog like beast.
She wanted to get up and run so badly but she knew that the moment she moved, the beast would pounce on her immediately. And she wasn't foolish enough to think that her 3 points in speed would help her outrun the beast, she needed a plan but she had none and she was running out of time fast.
The only thing that could help her was probably the system, but with her inability to transform how could she beat a beast?
[Would you like to check your current glitch skill?]
'YES!!' she wanted to scream but she couldn't.
-Glitch-
[Illusionary glitch - Rank A+]
[Host is able to form an illusionary image of herself 2 meters away and as long as the illusion does not crumble, host will become invisible to her opponents. The skill requires 10 energy points per use]
Upon seeing this, Maya felt very happy 'perfect this is exactly what I need to hide away from this beast and other beasts for the rest of the night.'
She immediately activated it and ran towards the direction where her sharpened intuition felt that it was safer.
[-10 EP]
The wolf beast seeing that its prey was running away immediately ran after it, in a few seconds it caught up to the weak prey and bit down on its neck but the prey suddenly glitched and turned into nothingness.
The wolf was momentarily confused, it suddenly saw that they prey it was chasing after was actually running in another direction. Realising that it had been tricked, it bared it's fangs at her and began chasing after her again.
'crap, it already destroyed my glitch!' seeing that it was getting closer again, she used the glitch skill again.
[-10 EP]
Like before, an exact replica of herself ran 2 metres away in the opposite direction, but when she looked back she saw that the wolf didn't even spare the glitch a single glance.
Having been tricked once, the wolf became wiser and relied on tracking down her scent even though it couldn't see her. She could trick it's sight but she couldn't conceal her scent, seeing that it was only a meter away from her, Maya's heart nearly jumped out of her chest. She was so frightened that she didn't see the tree root that was elevated above the ground, she tripped on it and landed on her forearms, bruising them in the process.
The moment she turned around, her eyes widened in terror when she saw the wolf in mid air, even though she was so scared, her survival instincts kicked in and she rolled out of the way. The wolf landed on its feet and pounced on her again without hesitation, Maya could no longer move out of the way on time. She screamed and closed her eyes in fear as she subconsciously raised her hands to shield her face, she expected to be sliced into pieces but instead she heard the sound of metal clashing against metal.
When she opened her eyes she saw that the wolf had retreated a meter away and was looking at her hands warily, it felt that it had been tricked by this prey again, has she been pretending to be weak all along? Otherwise why is it that it could smell the scent of a dragon on her? And how was she capable of partial transformation? Was she an ascended shifter? Impossible!
Maya also looked at her hands and was shocked, the area from her wrist to her fingers was covered in beautiful soft looking blue scales and her fingernails had turned into five inches long white claws.
[Ding! Congratulations for unlocking partial transformation]
[Speed +2]
[Strength +3]
[Defence +2]
'Huh? Didn't the system say that my stats couldn't support my dragon transformation?' she thought in confusion.
The wolf looked at the prey who was releasing a faint scent of a dragon and felt very excited. With how it hadn't smelt this scent on her earlier, it knew that she must be a fledgling, she was indeed an easy prey. The wolf licked it's lips, if it ate her, it would probably break through and ascend to a higher level.
It pounced on Maya again with fierce determination in its eyes, Maya also came back to her senses and confronted the beast head on with the little confidence partial transformation gave her.