Chapter 6: That Fantasy

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     When Johan awoke, Erica kissed his forehead and hugged him tightly. Then, as if this was a cliché romance movie where one love interest has been gone on an adventure or something, and the other one, typically female, has been alone for a long time at the main setting, and the two meet up after a while, she became enraged.
     "Johan! I was really worried sick about you! Why would you risk your freaking life just to get to land?!" Erica demanded, angrily.
     Johan groaned in response.
     Then, as if this was the scene after that in the cliché romance, she began sighing and making sounds of sadness. Then she said things like "I could never stay mad at you. But don't worry me like that again!" and "You know I could never stay mad at you."
     Erica then proceeded to bring Johan some water. He drank it all without even stopping to take a breath. Then he threw off the medical equipment and began changing. But, suddenly, a new pop up appeared:
SKILL GENERATED: MALICIOUS AURA DETECTION(Lv.1)

A Passive Skill, meaning it is always active. Detects malicious auras within 100 feet. Leveling up increases distance detection ability and increases anti-detection negation power.
Not long after, his skillset gained a new section, at the top:
Skillset: /Active Skills\ /Passive Skills\
Johan tapped on the Active Skills tab, and under it, his other two skills appeared:
/Active Skills\
-Fly (Lv.1)
-Energy Transfer (Lv.1)
Then, he tapped on Passive Skills. He noticed that Energy Transfer appeared again:
/Passive Skills\
-Gamer's Body
-Energy Transfer (Lv.1)
-Malicious Aura Detection (Lv.1)
For a few moments, Johan was confused. But, however, he remembered that Energy Transfer also controlled Energy Recovery because the writer of this book forgot to put in Energy Recovery as a separate skill. He also noticed that (even though you guys cannot see it) each skill, when clicked on, showed a description of it, the extent of ability, level, progress to next level, type, and, interestingly, a skill tree. This meant skills could evolve at certain levels, which Johan was very excited about.
Johan also clicked on the XP bar. A prompt appeared:
Would you like to open the SP status page?
Yes
No
Johan clicked Yes. It opened a page displaying his level, XP, information about himself, and, interestingly, skill point upgrades. He could upgrade Probability, Intelligence, Agility, Strength, Reflex Speed, and Stamina. All the traits, he noticed, had something to do with his "Ability", which meant there obviously weren't going to be something to upgrade looks or something silly like that. He had worked out what each trait somehow boosted-MP, MP, EP, EP, EP, and HP.
He had 10 SP to start with. Being the talented gamer he was, Johan knew that an all-around character was one of the worst builds you could go for unless you had an enormous amount of skill points. He ran some rough calculations and estimates based on his body, what probably would happen in the future, what would be the easiest yet still decently powerful build to start with, and decided on going for Intelligence, Strength, and Stamina.
He chose not to do Probability because he knew it represented luck and he knew that luck would do him no good in the long run. Reflex Arc and Agility would be worthwhile investments but only to a point, so he decided to hold off on those for now. After he finished spending his SP, his skill point section looked like this:
Skill points:0
Probability:0
Intelligence:4
Agility:0
Strength:3
Reflex:0
Stamina:3
      Suddenly, his Ability told him that thanks to his Intelligence boost, his MP maximum increased to 107 and the MP Recovery skill was generated. He was now able to regenerate 4 MP/hour. His Strength boosts didn't result in a pop up, but he did feel stronger. Stamina caused his HP maximum to increase to 52 and the HP Recovery skill to generate. He, without the skill, could still naturally recover 2 HP/hour, but with the skill, he could, in total, recover 6 HP/hour.
     Then Johan remembered the sudden pop up of the Malicious Aura Detection skill. That is when he figured out why the pop up even appeared in the first place. There was something with the intention of harming him within 100 feet. Then, the system said, "A DUNGEON HAS BEEN DETECTED. WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENTER?"
     Johan clicked yes. All of a sudden, a large group of zombies and other monsters came into view. Erica killed one with Crazed Fist, but there were too many for them to handle. Johan pressed escape, and they were back into reality. Little did they know one monster had escaped with them.
     "That was a fantasy, right? It could not have been real." Erica said, shaking.
     "Sorry, but it seems that fantasy isn't one." Johan replied.

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