The next day he woke up at 8 am like he usually does. After having breakfast and sneaking away some food for Gastly from the kitchen he sat with his laptop again. At first he checked his email. It was from his supervisor asking him the tentative time he would be back as the company would be receiving a new project soon.
Normally, Robin would have rejoiced seeing such an email. A new project meant more money. His pay wasn't regular unlike other 9 to 5 jobs. It depended upon the project and what kind of service the client wanted. But today he just ignored the email. And then proceeded to open Skyrim again to see what he could do.
There was another thing he wanted to try but he didn't know if it would be safe or not. In Skyrim there were special spell tomes where one could learn magic from once someone opened the book. He had noticed this yesterday but he didn't have the guts to try.
When he absorbed the dragon soul for the first time, he almost died. The dragon soul reverse engineered his body into a Dragonborn. Now if the spell tome did the same thing, it would be devastating for him.
Maybe he would die this time!!! But Robin had forgotten about the fact that one would gain magicka after becoming a Dragonborn. It was just that he didn't realise as of yet.
Another reason he didn't try spell tomes until now was because he didn't feel the reason. His dragon shouts were already too OP for this world and one word from him would change weather itself. What more could he ask for? His only weakness right now was his body and that could be remedied slowly after he could get his hand on different games.
So for now he was keeping the spell tomes at the side. But along with spell tomes there was another thing in Skyrim called Skill books. In the character trees in Skyrim one could increase a skill by reading a book.
This worked basically like the spell books but instead of learning spells one just adds skill points in different categories. In order to be safe, he tried the most basic thing. He brought out a skill book named 'Father of the Niben'.
This skill book was supposed to increase a point in archery.
After bringing out the book, he calmed himself. It was just archery skill, even if it reverse engineered his body, it shouldn't be painful. Or so he thought!
The book looked very old and had a brown hardcover. The book looked like the old dictionaries he had in the storeroom. The book had multiple pages from the looks of it. Robin took the courage and turned on to the first page. The first words of the book were.
"Writing the biography of anyone is a challenge. Usually the problem lies in assessing one's sources, comparing the prejudices of one chronicle versus another..."
Robin went on reading as the book wasn't that small. After 10 minutes he was done. He slowly closed the book. There was no reaction. Robin was both relieved and disappointed. Relieved because there was no pain that he was expecting and disappointed because he didn't get to learn archery as he thought so.
But then an astonishing thing happened. The book turned into dust slowly. The dust was like the one when Thanos died, only in this case it didn't leave any ashes. It just dusted away into nothingness. Robin jumped away from the seat seeing such change. The game had always spoken that a certain book would only provide one skill point and then it would be useless.
What he didn't expect was that the game using the term 'useless' on the skill books meant that it would turn into dust. But that wasn't the only change that happened in that room at the moment. Just like last time the dragon soul changed the soul of Robin forever. The book too did the same.
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Only this time, instead of soul it was the body.
Robin's body spasmed in multiple places. His legs, his hands, his arms, his shoulders... Basically every part of his body spasmed. The whole body seemed like it was on fire. Just like last time, he was suffering.
But this suffering wasn't as harsh as last time. Though he could feel that every muscle of his body was being beaten by a hammer, the pain wasn't as heavy as the one when his soul changed. After a few seconds he started sweating heavily and he could feel that his body temperature was rising.
In between the pain, he slowly got up and went to the shower. He needed to have a shower and try lowering his body temperature. He dragged his body in the bath and let the shower head open.
Robin felt like bliss when the water touched his naked body. His muscles which seemed like they were burning slowly turned normal. He was in the shower for a few minutes and the time he went out of the shower he was normal again.
He went on to check his upper body in the mirror. Robin had a good shape genetically and he normally ate healthy. He wasn't fat and he had a decent BMI. Now his body has changed physically for the first time.
Imagine going to the gym for 3 months and all those gains were installed in the body of Robin in the blink of an eye. So of course he felt all those sensations. Archery required one not only to be very good in hand and arm strength, but also to have a good body to do archery. After coming back to his room, he could already feel the knowledge of archery that he suddenly had in his mind.
He was pretty sure if pulled a bow and archers, he would be able to use them like a trained person. He might know archery of the high level but at least he knew how to use it. Robin wanted to try, but it would be stupid.
One gun had given him a headache. Not another one.
Robin was busy appreciating his new sculpted body, though it wasn't perfect but he knew that if he completed all the skill books that were related to body abilities, he would have a perfect male body. Though he was excited, he wouldn't take another skill book out today. One was fine for one day.
His body might just collapse with a sudden change in one day. He didn't know much about biology but he sure as hell knew that a body has its own limitations. As he was thinking of all this, there was a knock on the main door.
Robin already guessed who had arrived. Or rather what had arrived.
His console was here. He ran to receive the delivery.
"Sir, your parcel!"
"Yes."
"Sign here please."
Robin took a pen and signed it. His mother was curious about what his son had ordered. Robin opened the console almost in a hurry as he walked quickly to the room where was TV. After 5 minutes of opening the package and connecting to the TV.
Robin felt a little happy when the logo of Sony showed up. His childhood dream was getting himself a PS3 and now in totally different circumstances he had got himself a PS4. His mother meanwhile was a little surprised about his son's new toy.
"What is this? And why do you look tall?"
"A gaming console. I have always been tall.Why? You are seeing some changes?"
This was his mother so of course she noticed some changes in her son.
"You want to play games now? Don't you have work? And yes, you look better today."
His mother found it weird that his son looked a bit taller but she was also not wearing her glasses so she wasn’t totally sure
"No, I will just play games when I am free."
"You better not slack in your work." His mother warned and left, not bothering to continue talking more as she had work.
"Don't worry mom. I will only play a little bit when I get time." Robin knew that his mother was a little negative about gaming but it didn't matter. He connected the PS4 to WiFi and spent more money to buy Avengers.
After putting the game in download mode and just went through the settings. ( I don't have a PS4, if I have said something wrong please correct me) It would take some time to download the game so he needed to wait.
He had to wait for a full 30 minutes before he could play. He took the controller. This was his first time playing on a PS4 so he was a little more curious.
Within no time he opened the game and went through the required process. The game opened with him playing the character of multiple Avengers members. The story started with a fight on the Golden Bridge.
And then the character changed to Kamala Khan, an inhuman who was doing the work as a detective. Soon, the quest that Robin was waiting for came. The quest was to find the hard drive which contained JARVIS.
Robin made sure that his mother was busy in the kitchen as he inserted his hand to bring out the hard drive. Within seconds he had the hard drive in his hands.