The egg in front of me was big. Colored pearl white, it had a smooth surface that has a very hard cover as its shell.
As I was inspecting the egg, Blue notified me.
[*Master, would you like to use Observation?*]
"???. Uhhh. Go ahead."
[Mimicry]: [Observation]
[*Link Established*]
[I have no idea, what this is.] Ryong insisted.
[*Update Completed*]
[*Master, Please say status*]
"Status?"
Thinking that it's similar to those web novels that I read, I went ahead to see what current level I'm at.
Name: Red Chong
Title Equipped: One with the Mask
"Under the teachings of a great being, the wisdom of the student sharpens."
[Stats]
Strength Lv. 7
Endurance: Lv. 3
Intelligence: Lv. 2
Agility: Lv. 5
Luck: Lv. 3
[Skills]
Passive Skills:
[Heavenly Demonic Mastery] Lv. 1
[Qi Cultivation] Lv. 1
[Mana Manipulation] Lv. 1
[Grand Weapon Mastery] Lv. 1
[Mordern Martial Art] Lv. 2
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One with the Mask
Effect: Learning and adaptability increase exponentially.
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto's Temporary Champion
Effect: Boost in Attack Speed in Dawn Period.
Inari Okami's Temporary Champion
Effect: Boost in Health when eating Rice.
"Huh, this is different from what I thought a system should look like. Compared to what I have read, this one is so vague."
As I check out the stats I have, Ryong reminded me.
[Thou still have the egg to take a look.]
"Oh right. Blue please."
[*Observation used on the egg*]
[???]
Name: Nameless Egg
Species: ???
Affinity: ???
Health: Waiting to be hatched
Mood: (Zzzz.)
*Entrusted to you by the Imoogi in her last moments, passed it to you through her tail.*
[As expected, the Imoogi passed it to thou, Huh.]
"What do you mean it passed it to me."
[For the 1000 years that the Imoogi lived there, It seems that there hasn't been any trouble with her ascension to heaven.
That is until thou and the rest enter.
From what I can see, thou could either protect the Imoogi while it was in the midst of ascension or kill it.
However due to all the fighting that occurred, corruption took place and she went rampage, that is until thou tried to protect her.
Since she couldn't ascend, she left her offspring that is supposed to take her place and grow when she has ascend.
Because she knew that temple was about to be destroyed, there was no way her offspring is going to survive anyways, she chose to pass her offspring to you before she got killed.]
"The thing is about to grow to the size of a small house and you're telling me to keep in at home?"
[It's best to do it, might aid thou. Besides, it takes about 1000 years to get to size like that.]
I replied Ryong, "Fine, I'll do it. I also heard that I lost the fight against Lee Jeong-Hun. Did you not managed to best him?"
[That was not me.]
"Huh? But you were able to possess me previously, if not who?"
[I hast no idea. When you got possessed, your body was moving, but the mask turned into Black in colour. The ears at the side also had 6 of them. It's different. We could see thou and talk to thou. However, thou could not hear us.]
Hearing the explanation from Ryong, I suddenly got goosebumps. Does that mean that anyone could just possess my body or something?
As I pondered on what is next to come, a notification screen appears.
[*Text from Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto *]
[*Bad news, you got too famous. All gods from different regions are coming to find traces of you. Good luck! =))))*]
As I watched this confusing text in Wonders.
Sasaki came bursting through my door.
"You need to run. Wear your mask and run now."
Still drowsy and confused at the sudden development, suddenly I heard an explosion on the left side of the hotel.
"RAUGHHHHH, COME OUT MASKED MAN, I WANNA FIGHT YA RAUFGHHHH!!!!!"
"What the hell is going on," I asked Sasaki.
"The news of you fighting Lee Jeong-Hun spread. These are the people who either want to fight you or convince you to join them. Run to the other hallway. Go, I'll distract him."
As I changed into my clothes, wearing the mask, and ran in the other direction, suddenly the door to my right, burst open.
"Found you."
A man appeared out of the door. He was at least 1.9 meters and was jacked. He was in a buzz-cut hairstyle, had lightly tanned skin, and in overall looked handsome. He came out holding a weapon.
The length was at least half the size of his body. It looked like a cricket bat that has additional edges or metal edges on the side of the bat.
[A Macuahuitl. Be careful, that weapon is very dangerous. It may look like that but it's incredibly sharp.]
"In the name of Xiuhtecuhtli, I, Diego challenge you to a duel."
I stared at the tall handsome man as he stared at him.
I took out a notepad that I carried on my pants and wrote on the notepad:
"I'm still injured"
He saw my note, glaring at me head to toe.
He immediately went to a cross-legged, seating position and sat down while placing his weapon, over his shoulder.
"Go, I rather fight you in full strength than in your weakened state. I'll block anyone that tries to pass this hallway."
I thank him and as I was about to leave, I tilt the bottom of my mouth slightly and spoke, "Thank you, Diego, my name's Red."
He smiled and replied, "The name is Diego. Hope to fight ya soon."
As I left, I can sense there were a lot of people approaching me in all sorts of directions.
I tried to take my weapon, but my injury was kinda too severe to even lift it up. So the only thing I could do is run.
I reached the lobby of the hotel and bolted onto the streets, when one of them jumped at me, I spin and retaliated.
[Spinning Roundhouse Kick]
It hits the assailant as he or she flew to one of the alleyways.
I continued running, however, it all came to an end when I reached a dead-end.
"Shit. Is there anything I can do?"
[I have currently enough energy to use a portal, but it will randomly send us a place. And I would need to recover my energy back to send us back here.]
Looking at the situation, either I die or become a slave or teleport to a new world and survive.
Without further ado, I replied to Ryong.
"Do it."
He opens the portal up. Me expecting it was going to appear next to it, anticipated it.
But nothing appeared.
Until suddenly I started falling.
"You Stupid Idiot, why did you open it below."
[Wanted to see if it was fun to see thou freak out, and yes it was.]
With that, I fall into another world.