Allen was making his resume but all the experience part was left empty as he had just completed school and want to get his first job. After his father passed away, it was all on his shoulders to become man of family. Though his mother work as the bank receptionist but it couldn't cover all the expenses considering the fees of his little sister's school.
[ Ding! Astra have chosen its new participant. ]
[ Ding! Registering the host data on Screen Panel. ]
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[ Ding! Host can register a location as a Access Point to teleport to Astra Realm. ]
[ Novice Suggestion- Host is suggested to find a sharp weapon before teleporting. ]
[ Ding! Host will be forcefully transported to Astra in 3 hours in case a location is not selected. ]
Allen wasn't sure how realistic things he is experiencing right now are but something in his heart was leaning toward it being really real.
Not wanting to take any chances, he started thinking of what would be the safest place to do teleportation like thing.
Home was out of question because he is clearly very far away from that and near here only viable option to choose was a construction building for school which was not finished yet and coincidentally today labour of building it is on holiday.
Getting to the sight already took a big of time given to him by that screen and now only remaining time was 10 minutes. He was finding it hard to find any weapons or anything akin to one except some building materials laying around him.
He grabbed a thick reo bar in his hand close his own arm length and began waiting the countdown on the screen to end.
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[ Ding! Initiating Teleportation… ]
His body instincts toward surroundings were lost as he disintegrated into particles of numbers and light.
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[ Ding! Host have successfully arrived at Layer 1- Tyrant Ruins of Astra Realm. ]
[ Ding! Seeking Adventure can bring across one of two things- Death or Treasure. ]
He was teleported in front of colony made of Complete stone where traces of humans living can be seen. He walked it as someone called him.
"Hey, are you a newcomer? Welcome to Thunder Wolf Shelter. My name is Zhika." A young man around the age of 20 called to him while his some features resembled a wolf like ears and so.
"Hi, my name is Allen. Why do you look like that?" Allen asked him back while pointing out Reo bar toward him.
"Oh! This, I forgot tha newcomer don't know what this can be." Young man's wolf like feature started to disappear as he reverted back to fair young man.
"This was Just Transformation based Phantom core that I had obtained on one of my adventures, and sorry to disappoint but what you are carrying as weapons is no good here. I will only hurt Pawn Rank phantom and that will be its limit."
His explanation sounded like some idiotic gibberish to Allen but his Reo bar lowered a bit as that young man walked toward him.
Young ma got a small knife from his belt and turned its handle toward Allen.
Allen can see that this knife was sharp and seeing light reflecting from its sharp edge made his spine feel a shiver of fear by imagining how quick it would chop his bones to mere pieces.
All of a sudden, a whistling arrow came from behind and struck him on his shoulder. Arrowhead slightly went into his shoulder as a trail of blood down on his clothes.
"Ahhh" Allen screamed in pain as he clutched onto his shoulder as natural reaction to this pain.
Suddenly arrow vanished from his shoulder as if it wasn't even there a second a before, but wound caused by arrow kept him rational about things.
"Gordon, it is not good to pick up on newcomer. If you have guts, why not pick with someone your own size." Zhika glared daggers toward this person who came from forest and shot Allen.
"And Zhika, would you be able to list me some people of my calibre because I can't figure out of whom you are talking about." Arrogance was dripping from the tone that even a 3 year old can figure it out.
"Station master Ariana, and Chief Arrow Damion. Do you want me to keep going?" Zhika wasn't scared a bit as he listed people in single breath.
Allen could feel that would is seeping out all his strength as his consciousness began to fade away.
While Zhika was debating with Gordon, a thud suddenly sounded. Looking back, Zhika found that it was Allen who had fallen on ground, shifting toward the wound on Allen.
Wound had already started to turn purple as that arrow was Phantom core arrow obtained from a poisonous phantom.
"You will pay for this." Zhika said as he picked Allen in his arms, and begin carrying him to insides of Shelter.
"And how do you plan to do that, since you are so weak yourself?"
Ignoring these snide remarks from him, Zhika fastened his steps as some weird frequency was generated by his feet and speed boosted to triple of its original.
Reaching his own room, he laid him on his own stone bed and closed his eyes as if contemplating about something.
His eyes opened with sudden firmness as he took out a bottle from his belt and forcefully fed to Allen, and then Zhika opened buttons of Allen's shirt.
Placing his hands on his bare chest, he closed his eyes as his nail grew out and nails purple like that wound and dug into the skin. Purple liquid seeed out from balls into Allen's body as poison made by Zhika started to combat and devour poison within body. Soon purple liquid consumed all poison and reatreated back into Zhika's body through nails.
[ Ding! Body have integrated Gene Liquid and merged Posion Trait into Gene. ]
[ Ding! Host have acquired Gene Trait- Death Bite ( Pawn Rank ) ]
Allen have unknowingly obtained a ability that can be considered very useful for his future endeavours.