"It was years ago,.. Of my previous timeline near 2012 I loved doing experiments on toys and anything I can get my hands on."
"Sometimes I would break the air cooler's water pump to take out it's spinning magnet, only to use it for nothing but play."
"And sometimes would break open a rc-car and use it's material to make my own, uglyass looking wired stick car that even I don't know how still managed to move without any body.... I just gave it my big brother and stood proudly, saying that I am a scientist, only to get punched my back, haha"
"Sometimes even my brother would join in and play the part of a secret agent and get me materials to make robot and stuff.. But it was all in imagination, what we always made was just a stick man and scrap looking stuff that I don't even know what it was called,... But, it was fun, I always loved to make stuff even if I didn't know what they were myself, same for drawing and same for nature... I loved to do the work where I myself have no idea about what, why or how I would do that."
"It's a blurry memory, but there was also a time when I actually made something... I don't remember why or for whom I made it... But... It was a tiara... I made it with iron wire and commercial plastic diamonds."
"It's been years and I forgot her face too, but her hair was pitch black, which shined like navy blue in the sunlight... Her skin so soft that you will immediately want to protect it, her touch so gentle that you want to keep to yourself.... But, I had no idea about why I did it.... I don't even know who she is anymore."
"It was only after that person disappeared from my life.... I don't know where she went or maybe her family transferred somewhere else... But, it was ok for few years, until a few years later."
"Since 2018, I started to have dreams,... Or maybe i should call it empty dreams, i usually never have dreams, most of the times.. But when i do, it's always the same thing."
"A white world, with a colorful garden at the center with water, birds and animals moving peacefully."
"I am always in the perspective of a teenage girl.. I or she walks through the river, trees and greenery as the garden slowly turns into a forest, I- I mean the girl kept moving forward with no stop, and everytime when I think that I am about to cross the river, I always wake up after hearing a loud scream for help."
"Everytime I woke up, my eyes were covered in tears, I tried to tell my parents, but they just started making their theories and connected it to constellations and fate nonsense, so I ignored them."
"When I told my normal friends, they would connect it to their movie knowledge and say 'bro,.. That is what people call first love'... Like they never heard the scream thing,.. Well, I ignored them too."
"When I finally told sudhanshu, he just told me not to think of it much... Since it's just a dream and nothing else is happening."
"I don't remember how long has it been since I last thought about her... If i combine 8 years of my previous timeline to the... Uhh.... How many years have I been living for?.... Haa~, I have died so many times that i forgot my age."
Vash took a deep breath after thinking about his past memories and looks at the sky. The dawning light of the sun shining on his sweat covered, tattered form.
He slowly stood up and stretched once more before calling out the crafting window.
"Hm,... The crafting and recipe style is similar to craftsmine... So, I need to put the material on the slots on left and the product will come on the right... Sounds simple but takes a lot of braincells when you do it practically. Haa~, what a drag."
He scrolled through crafting recipes and after a few failed attempts, he finally got the thing he wanted.
A practical outfit that is not too shabby or edgy, mixed of silverine, Yunoasauras scales and rakuaza serpent's elastic skin.
Vash had been wanting something like this for a long time, ever since he started feeling that the silverine ability was good, but it's protection and status effect was absolutely no use because silverine uses a lot of mana to keep it's shape and due to being made of nothing but infinite numbers of particles of silver mana embedded core, there was nearly no protection in it.
He puts on the outfit that outfit.
A dark gray jeans with black, non-slippery boots. A black turtle neck sweater with an black overcoat flowing down to calfs and a pair of finger-cut gloves.
"This looks edgy in all black, I think... Well, it's not like I am doing it just to look cool... I made it all in black because the darker the color is in a protection, the less it heats up."
"I don't know how it works myself, but this system mechanics is still not completely understandable even to me, yet... Anyways, what I mean is that this system treats the darker color as more heat resistant... So, you have to be dumb if you're choosing color and style over protection and resistance."
"Huh,.... I am talking to myself again,... Guess, I really became a weirdo."
Vash closes the crafting window after making a few more things and pulls out short sword which had a glowing mana around it.
He examines its edges and grip and swings at the boulder, cutting right through it in a swift motion but shuddered on the middle part. The blade stuck in the boulder because of stopping midway.
"Haa~, this thing is heavier than it looks... I really need to practice on mana embedded blades and weapons."
Vash pulled the blade out by pushing his foot on the Boulder and swinged it a few time to test if the blade is straight or not, which was straight luckily and the edges looked fine since they were embedded with mana.
"I'll have to gain some weapon mastery skill or something,.. It'll be hard if I have to learn every new weapon I buy or make all the time... The only problem is to where find the battle that gives me that skill orb."
He placed the blade back into his inventory and opens his level and traits list, but when he looked at the screen, his eyes widened in surprise.
[Level: 264.
HP: 24560/24560
MP: 21246/24300
XP: 3M/ 70,000 (player level up will be count after job change quest)]
His eyes furrowed and hands clenched into fists.
"You-!..."
"That's worth about 40 to 60 levels..."
He grunts and closed the window immediately.
He held pushed his hair back and took a deep breath while pacing around and kicking on dust.
"Shit... I am a idiot... Just why did I even expect this thing to work fairly at all?!.... No, calm down first.... This isn't the first time it blocked something."
He took another deep breath and opens the quest window again. This time the scenario quest window of the whole tower of hell challenge.
[Monsterhood scenario: Tower of hell (job/class change quest)
Reward: ■■■■■■,
Exclusive skill: none,
Advance skill: ■■■■■■■.
(Don't die)]
He reads through it again and again and kept tapping his foot on the ground.
"Just what is this reward that needs to be censoed like this?... And not just reward item but also the reward skill... Just, what the hell are you gonna place on my plate for the end?"
He closed that window too and stared blankly at the ground in his thoughts.
For him, this wasn't just a game weakness, getting stuck at low level meant that death is certain, if the boss on last floor is something near level 800 or over that, he's done for good.
And even if it's not high level at an absurd point, the skill difference will surely be high... Because, no matter how absurd or illogical it sounds, the system forced him on survival instead of just growth.
"The system wants me to adapt,... It's not forcing me to grow like an arrogant monster,... It's trying to mold me into something... Something perfect."
"I am starting to feel sick of all this."
He covered his face with both hands and breaths out on them through his mask.