Chapter 206

206 Second Seal

Physical Strength, Physical Resistance, Physical Agility, and Physical Stamina. These are the four basic statistics that needed to reach 400 points in all of them without exception in order to trigger the first evolution’s commencement.

That was why after discovering this information, Randy decided to train his body to increase his body’s basic statistics to 400, but as time went by, he came to realize that even though he became known as the strongest human with a tough physical body compared to those who awakened their abilities, Randy still could not reach the first threshold of 400 points in all of his basic statistics no matter how much strain he put on his body.

Body evolution was his only hope of possibly awakening his innate ability or increasing his body’s compatibility to a type of energy. However, all of that became useless when he awakened his innate ability.

And now, the system was telling him that he had finally reached the threshold to commence his evolution. As Randy read through the lines of text, he could not help but feel emotional as he displayed a bitter smile on his face, especially as recalled the memory of enduring the countless humiliation, bullying, scorning, shunning, and the pain from the graviton as he trained his body every day after school.

After reminiscing for a while later, Randy finally cleared his mind of all these depressing memories and focused his mind on his system’s prompt.

Shortly after, he resolutely declared: “Commence the evolution.”

[[Response Acknowledged]]

[[Reminder: The evolution process may bring about exceedingly unbearable and excruciating pain all over the host’s body, please be prepared beforehand]] The system advised.

“That’s alright, this is not my first time enduring such pain. Carry on with the evolution.” Randy firmly stated.

.....

[[Evolution Commencing]]

With the next moment, as if he had been struck by thunder, Randy suddenly felt over as he felt all the bones, muscles, ligaments, and his organs churning within his body almost like his entire body was placed in a blender with veins bulging in and out from his body, his complexion was also turning red as time went by.

All of a sudden, he abruptly let out a grunt before quickly steeling his mind and enduring the unbearable pain in his body without letting out a scream of pain.

‘This is nothing... I can still endure this much pain. As long as my body evolves, my physical state would also improve with it... So this pain is nothing...’

Randy constantly consoled himself in his mind as he gritted his teeth tightly while lying flat on the ground of the safe room with his body twitching occasionally from the pain.

His expression at this time was full pale and full of pain and he wished to scream out, but he decided to hold it all in and only occasionally let out a muffled grunt sound.

This went on for a few minutes, then an hour, and before Randy even realized it, he had fainted in response to the terrible pain he had was experiencing throughout his body that could cause even those with pain tolerance to scream out loud in an agonizing voice.

Before Randy lost his consciousness, he was puzzled to discover that the amount of pain he was going through in his first evolution was unlike what was stated by his instructor in his academy.

He recalled that one would only feel the pain for a few minutes before it would subside afterward, but he had to endure this unbearable pain for more than an hour. However, as Randy pondered the reason, he soon discovered that his consciousness was slowly fading away and eventually lost his consciousness.

...

After Randy lost his consciousness, within his consciousness, two things concurrently happened, a sentient entity descended in consciousness, and, at the same time, lines of text started displaying themselves with the changes happening to his body. However, Randy was not aware of this since he was now unconscious.

As the sentient entity descended, they immediately took this opportunity to confirm something.

[Who are you?] A gentle voice carefully asked.

[[The audacity! You dare to infiltrate his body]] This voice sounded annoyed as it started emanating a threatening aura.

[Ah, I did not know that an existence of your status was the one inside this human’s body] The gentle voice was shocked by the aura emanating from the other party and then doubtfully asked: [Your excellency, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why are you inside this human’s body?]

[[Don’t ask nonsense questions. Why should I answer you? Do I know you? Also, your proxy almost disturbed him just now with those unnecessary notifications if I did not stop it beforehand]]

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[[Ah, I apologize for that. My proxy and I did not know that this human was practicing those outdated mana gathering techniques]

[[Outdated? This is why I dislike ignorant fools like your kind who are born into worlds like this one]]

[[Furthermore, why were you giving him so many skills just because you sensed a familiar skill within his body? Do you not understand that he needed to grow and acquire those skills by himself? What are those entities doing giving out skills like this?]]

[Eh? But he did meet the requirement to awaken those skills. Then again, that was very strange... Only the other species and those human apostles undergo this awakening sequence. With that in mind, it was too odd for a human to meet the requirement to undergo the awakening sequence even though they still haven’t reached the required level, not to mention, they even succeeded in awakening those innate skills]

[Just what is the identity of this human, your excellency? On his body, I could sense dense spatial fluctuations; This feeling is fundamentally different from the spatial residues left on the body from teleportation magic, this fluctuation feels almost like he came from a different world or layer...]

[[...]]

Hearing this, the other party realized that they should have gotten rid of those spatial fluctuations, but it was not their job to do so and thus they left it as is.

However, they immediately spoke: [[Don’t ask me such questions, an existence like you do not need to know. Also, stop talking to me]]

[Come on, It is too boring managing this dungeon for... How many years has it been? It’s been eons that I forgot such things]

[[...]]

[Hey, say something]

[Are you ignoring me?]

[[...]]

At this moment, Randy slowly opened his eyes as he stood up with difficulty.

“Argh, my head... What happened? Did I faint? Also, why do I feel like I heard voices in here just now? Or was I hallucinating?” He muttered in confusion.

Afterward, he ignored that thought and instead observed his body.

To his surprise, he realized that although he now drained with bullets of sweat dripping down his body, with his entire clothes soaked in sweat, he could vividly tell that something had changed about his body. He could feel that although his strength did not seem to have increased by much, his control over his body seemed to have improved greatly, which alone was satisfying.

‘This is such an amazing feeling... I feel like my reaction speed had increased tremendously with this evolution, but I will have to check it out later.’ Randy commented in his mind with a smile on his face.

However, Randy did not immediately check the attributes or statistics of his overall growth as he did not know how much time had passed after he had fainted.

With that in mind, he quickly asked his system: “System, how much time had passed since I’ve been unconscious?”

[[Approximately 6 hours]] The system responded almost right away.

“What?!” Randy exclaimed in shock when he heard this, but he quickly regained his senses and pondered.

‘How much time has gone by outside?’ Randy had no idea how to tell such a thing.

‘Right, I can just ask the challenger’s system about this since last time I asked my system something similar it simply stated that I could easily find such information in this world...’

With that thought, Randy turned his gaze to the blue screen on his left and asked: “Challenger’s system, how much time has gone by outside the dungeon?”

[The time difference between this dungeon of beasts and the outside is 24 hours to 1 hour. In other words, approximately 18 minutes had gone by in the outside since the user entered this dungeon]

“I see... It’s good that not much time had passed by.” Randy sighed and prepared to leave the dungeon as he decided to change out of his sweat-soaked clothes.

After all, originally, he was supposed to be on his first request. But since there was nothing to do after taking care of the surrounding magical beasts, he decided to make good use of his time by coming to the dungeon to practice his meditation technique.

However, after changing his clothes, Randy suddenly had a thought.

‘Since not much time had passed anyway, why don’t I take this chance to learn to undo the remaining seals on the black tome. Just the first seal already gave me such a miraculous meditation technique, then what about the other seals?’

With that thought in mind, without hesitation, Randy quickly sat back down after changing his clothes and then took out the black tome from his storage bracelet.

Randy placed the black tome on the floor of the safe room and then urged: “System, I would like to undo the second seal of the black tome.”