Looking around him, Steve found a cup lying on the table beside him. It was the only thing, he could say he understood for sure within the room.
"Let's see, a sword?" He thought as he thought of using the Architect's Touch ability.
With that touch, he willed the cup to turn to a sword. As soon as he did so, he felt some form of energy leave his body.
Mana: 25 (-175)
Immediately after he fell limp on the bed but the object in his hand was now heavier. The rules of the ability turned out to be simple.
Despite the excited smile on his face, his body felt as though he had been undergoing intense training for so long that it gave out.
He wasn't worried though as any gamer would at least know, the cause of this. The Status page already showed him that he had mana so overusing it should also lead to some form of energy drain mode or soenthing.
Due to his current lack of strength to hold up anything, the object within his hand finally fell off as it clattered to the ground.
As it fell, it slided into open view as his smile got even bigger. It was a small dagger, he had successfully changed the cup into a dagger.
The rules werent as complicated as it was made to look, he just needed to know what he wanted to make and at least an idea on how to make it.
"At least my golden finger, isn't some sham" He said before finally drifted off to sleep.
Meanwhile in the hallways of the hospital, the two men could be seen walked through it with two files now in their hands.
"Mr Jinchul, what do you think about their stories?... They both confirm the existence of the Double dungeon but even this Jin Woo doesn't know who the other guy is"
"Taeshik, we are investigating a double dungeon event that led to the loss of multiple lives, what I think doesn't matter… Their stories at least check out and so far, Mr Grant seems to be a victim of the event and according to them, there were thirty of them within the dungeon, there is a possibility that they may have not seen him and the man himself must be suffering from amnesia or so" Jin Chul replied as he rubbed his forehead.
This event was way much of a headache than he expected and worse, none of the two last survivors were reawakened.
The problem here wasn't that they survived, the problem was that they survived such a supposedly dangerous dungeon but none amongst the two was reawakened.
"I'm sorry sir" Taeshik replied
"Don't worry, it's just, how can both of them be E-ranks even after such an event?" Jin Chul asked
"Should I call a surveillance team on both of them?"
"Not necessary, if they are special, we would eventually hear about it. Just keep an ear out for them" the man replied as he left.
There was nothing here anymore apart from frustration so it was best they left and attended to their other pressing matters.
"Three days now and He still runs?" Steve said as he looked through one of the hospital windows.
Just outside the window were a multitude of patients ranging from the elderly to even young children
Amongst them was a familiar figure, it was the boy from within the room. Steve had absolutely zero idea how the boy had survived but then again, he was also within the same situation.
"Wait, does he also have a holographic screen helping him?.... His rate of improvement is terrifying" Steve noted.
Just the day before, he had seen the boy collapse nearly six times as he tried to perform some push ups. However, today he went through more than 50 at a single go.
It definitely wasn't normal which meant that he surely had a status page with him… well a more complete version unlike his own.
The only reasonable explanation for his quick adaptation to such intense excercose was that the boy had access to something like that.
"Do I ask him about it?... Also shouldn't I be training here too" Steve asked himself
It was already pretty clear that the world he was in, wasn't one that he could easily survive in. There existed monsters in this world.
The past few days had drilled that much into his head. The news was always on about the Gates and the Hunters who help secure the gates.
The Gates were in simple terms, instance dungeons. They appear and when you defeat all the monsters within it, it disappears.
Each one is graded according to how much mana or energy it discharges and as for hunters, they were super powered humans who awakened abilities that helped them fight against the monsters within the Gates.
The Hunters in general were watched over by the Hunter Association which is where the inspector Kim Jin Chul was from.
However due to monetary reasons, other powerful hunters created their own associations called Guilds. The Association can't exactly do anything to them so they let them be but still do their best to watch over all of them.
There was the Hunter's Guild, the Tiger's Guild and two more that he didn't know much about.
He had also learnt of how weak he was, the E-rank he initially thought granted some form of power truly was trash. It was nothing and worse, he was even weaker than a regular E-rank.
"No, the best is to learn, the more I know, the better I can use my abilities" Steve decided
His ability was clear, the more he knew, the better he could manipulate something, anything at all.
"Oh, I see You're up, how was your night sir? "
"Great, Miss Sung but I have a question. Can I leave the hospital? I want to go to the Hunters association to get registered, is that possible?" He asked
"Of course, sir, hunters heal a lot faster than normal humans, this is simply a compulsory wait period before discharge just so we can be sure you are truly healthy."
"Oh I see, okay then I may have to trouble you to direct me towards there" he asked politely.