Remy woke up. Surprisingly he didn’t feel sleepy. Usually he felt sleepy but forced himself to get up. It was probably the effect of endurance but he couldn’t be sure.

He went to the front door and pushed the bookshelf toward the side. He would push it back in place after coming back in. he wanted to take a look outside to see what was going on. The street was surprisingly calm and there were a lot of crashed cars lying around. He could hear faint gunshots far from where he was. He saw a wolf corpse under a car. It probably surprised the driver and was run over by him.

Now that he thought about it there was still the cockroach’s corpse in his basement. He didn’t want to go towards the gunshots, who knew they’d get surprised and actually shoot him or worse they were criminals who escaped prison during the chaos of the System.

Suddenly a System message appeared.

[Quest Received: Level Up: Reach Level 10 in three days.]

[Reward: Knowledge about Mana Cultivation, +3 Strength and +2 Perception]

[Penalty for Failure/Refusal: None]

Remy knew he had to grow stronger to survive and take all opportunities he had.

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[Quest Accepted: Level Up]

After he accepted the Quest he saw a timer at the corner of his vision. It was the timer for the Quest. He went back inside his house and grabbed his rake and knife. He really wished he’d bought a gun. He went towards the nearest hardware store. It would have items like sledgehammers which was better than his rake.

He headed towards the hardware store quietly, trying not to make too much noise. He crept forward stealthily trying to avoid open spaces as much as possible. As he was creeping he tried to get used to the interface and figured out how to open and close System messages. He also got to know how to open his status. In his interface he saw that there were two item in the Equipment tab

[Kitchen Knife: A knife used to chop vegetables and fruits.

Enchantments: None

Bonuses: None]

Suddenly a green viscous liquid landed on his left arm. It burnt through his sleeves and went to his arm and started burning. It burnt so much that he dropped his rake. He ignored the pain and turned towards the attacker and saw that it was a spider about the same size as the cockroach. He saw that it was charging another acid attack and rushed toward it to prevent it from causing more wounds and stabbed it in the throat. The acid building up released in its own throat, ravaging its throat and killing it in the process.

The adrenaline rush of the battle faded and the pain in his arm kicked in. He quickly tore a chunk of his shirt and tie it to his arm like a bandage. He abandoned exploring and ran back home. He went to the bathroom, removed the bandage shirt and started washing the wound after sometime the pain faded and he opened his System Messages

[You have defeated a Level 5 Acid Spider]

[You have reached Level 3]

[You have gained 10 Stat Points and 4 Skill Points]

[You have gained the Skill Knives]

After the exhausting day he went to sleep.