'It didn't tell me about this section.'
The man was standing in a small room, no windows, doors, or lights, similar to the equipment area where he first arrived, Only a pedestal with a button, with text floating above it.
{Please take some time to prepare yourself.}
{Once satisfied, push the button.}
'Is there anything to prepare? I don't think so.' The man thought for a second. 'Or have my traits been activated? I don't feel any different.'
"Greetings." A familiar voice sounded behind him. The man spun around and looked at the ball for a second.
"Is this you, or is this a different one?"
"I am the same one who guided you before, yes, I have been given the post of your personal assistant."
The man's left eyebrow raised in question. "And why did that happen?"
"I do not know."
The man clicked his tongue. "Anyways, mind telling me what this is all about?" He spoke gesturing towards the writing.
"This area is for you to activate your status panel, and get comfortable with it before entering the world. To activate your panel, just think or speak 'Activate Status panel'."
The man followed the instructions given to him by the ball, and a transparent screen with white borders and writing appeared in front of him.
[Name: ] [Tier 2]
[Race: Human]
[STR: S AGI: S SPI: A VIT: SS INT: S]
[Storage]
[Traits]
"Hey, how do I call you?" The man asked. "Since your going to be my PA it's weird to just call you ball."
"I have no name, you can give me one if you so wish, or just call me anything."
"I see... Hmm... Right! Your name shall be Recorder of the Reed of Relevance! Or just 'Record' for short."
"Thank you sir." Record spoke.
"By the way, are you a guy?"
"I am not, This voice was the one that seemed to be the most friendly to new players, so it was set as default, I have no gender."
"Can you take a deeper voice? Maybe read my thoughts for what I want?"
"Changing voice now, is that better sir?" Record's voice was now a deep masculine tone. "Very good."
The man then turned to his status panel and filled in the name.
[Name: Relevance Reed Record]
'They'll be able to recognize it easily, hope they're safe.' The man, now taking the name Reed, thought, thinking about his companions.
Then his eyes skimmed over the [Storage] panel.
"How much can I store in this?" He asked.
"Please take a look." Instead of answering his question, Record simply instructed him on how to use his storage panel.
"This is... quite large." Reed remarked aloud, in his thoughts was an empty cube, which he could somehow, know the dimensions of. '23 cubic meters of storage, weird number.'
Reading his thoughts, his assistant spoke. "There is a 1 cubit meter of space allotted to every player, +1 cubic meter for every item you have chosen. You can manipulate the storage space at will, separating it into smaller cubes or changing it's shape, it is yours to mold as you wish."
'Nice.' After playing with multiple cubes in his mind, he switched his attention.
[Traits]
{Regeneration} {Steel-Skin} {Feather Foot} {High-Human}
{Projectile Mastery} {Ammo Regeneration} {Bottomless Magazine}
{Hard-Head} {Assassin} {Shock Absorption} {Bloodthirst}
{Penetration} {Golden Knuckle} {Bind}
'Now then, let's take a look at what you can do.' Reed smiled as he opened the descriptions for his traits.
[Regeneration: Greatly increases your body's natural healing ability, granting recovery speeds hundreds of times faster than normal, and increasing vitality.]
[Steel-Skin: Grants your skin incredible durability, Making blades less affective against you.]
[Feather Foot: While jumping, the effect of gravity on you is greatly reduced.]
[High-Human: Improves your STR AGI and VIT stats by a small amount, reduces time required to strengthen any part of the body, and slightly boosts recovery speed.]
[Projectile Mastery: Increases your talent in throwing objects.]
[Ammo Regeneration: Regenerates ammunition for weapons at a rate of 1 ammo every minute.]
[Bottomless Magazine: Allows you to fit an infinite amount of ammunition inside the ammunition storage of weapons.]
[Hard-Head: Greatly increases the durability of the skull, and increases resistance to concussions.]
[Assassin: Improves your natural stealth, and increases the power of sneak attacks, and attacks on weak spots.]
[Shock Absorption: Your body can now absorb some amount of impact, increasing your resistance to attacks.]
[Bloodthirst: Making enemies bleed with make you heal, slightly impedes enemy healing.]
[Penetration: Your attacks now penetrate some amount of armor, x2 bonus for spears and daggers.]
[Golden Knuckle: Your knuckles are now 10 times stronger than normal, and do great damage to bones.]
[Bind: You can now soul bind items to yourself, turning them into growth-type items that will upgrade with you. However, you will need more exp to upgrade for every item you bind.]
"Hohoho! I seem to be quite powerful!" Reed was now grinning, and with good reason.
'Steel skin for increased resistance to bladed weapons, shock absorption for blunt weapons, assassin, penetration, and golden knuckle for great damage, regeneration, bloodthirst, and high human for recovery, and a lot of bullets! bullets! I'm a melee monster, combined with a gunner! The early stages will be a breeze... thought best not get arrogant.'
He admired his panel for a few more seconds, before looking to the left.
"Record, do tell me if the panel has any other functions that I can activate or can know about, please?"
"No problem sir. There are currently 4 functions that you do not know have knowledge about, they are, Identify, Map, Auction, and World channel."
"The Auction, Skill, and World Channel functions will be activated by the system when the time arrives, The Identify function is active, and the Map function can be activated.
"Activate the Map function, and tell me about it and the Identify function."
A panel opened, displaying the world map that he had seen before.
"The Map function uses your sight, location, and memory to create a highly detailed map that updates whenever you are at a location, seeing a location, or have memory of a location, like this map was generated using your memory of the map shown before."
"The identify function is the only function that can be upgraded, it gives you information of the things you target to identify, with increasing detail every time the function upgrades, some items cannot be identified if the functions level is not enough."
"How do I upgrade it?"
"The first three levels require you to use the function on different items a certain number of times, I do not have information about higher levels."
'Different items you say?' Reed thought looking at floating cubes containing his items. 'Shouldn't be too difficult.'