Author POV

Thunder boomed and a flash of light decimated any in its path. After the lightning had died down, Zack was in the place where it hit, it seemed that after, or during, kissing him, Alia had transported Zack into the other world.

‘What the hell was that?!’ Zack thought, evidently flustered, he covered his lips with his hand, ‘Ugh, that might be part of a spell or something… anyway… ignorance is a bliss.'

On his hands is the rifle, on his pocket, the pouch, and on his vest, a knife and a handkerchief. Strangely enough, his cellphone and earphone weren’t there. ‘There was probably some restrictions on that…’ he thought to himself. And then…

DING

A high pitched noise interrupted his thoughts; He looked for where it had come from but he couldn’t see anything noteworthy except trees around him… and then he saw it, a floating number in his vision, he tried to look away from it but couldn’t, it simply stayed within his field of vision, in his upper left hand sight specifically.

“Umm, okay. What do I need to see my status again?” He mumbled to himself, “This number is probably a notification… Ah! Status!”

Name:

Zack Blake

Race:

Human(Earthling/Aetherian)

Job:

Sniper|Assassin|Scout

Level:

15

Condition:

Normal

HP:

65

MP:

135

Stats:

Strength:

50

Agility:

66

Defense:

30

Endurance:

29

Magic:

57

Intelligence:

61

Skills:

Acquired:

Throwing(Lv.2)

Shooting(Lv.5)

Sneak(Lv.3)

Hide presence(Lv.3)

Knife techniques(Lv.2)

Dagger techniques(Lv.1)

Hand-to-hand combat(Lv.2)

Reconnaissance(Lv.2)

Innate:

Ranged attack up(Lv.3)

Unique:

Integration(Lv.1)

Assimilation(Lv.1)

Gifted:

Appraisal(Lv. 1)

Titles:

Otherworlder

Overseer’s Blessing

Kissed by the Divine

Equipment:

Otherworldly Uniform

Custom Sniper Rifle

Treasure Bag (Medium)

Military-Grade Knife

He was flabbergasted by the popup. “As I thought, that really was the process, huh” he thought to himself; there was an ethereal black panel in front of his eyes. He decided to look at it further, however his eyes wandered to a blinking icon just beside the panel, it had the shape of an envelope.

“Is this mail?” he said and tried to press the icon with his finger, however he remembered that he was still holding the heavy rifle and tried to put it down the ground, the it dawned on him, ‘The pouch could contain the rifle!’ He grasped the pouch in his pocket and spread its mouth; he then tried to insert his rifle. Slowly, he inserted the rifle in the pouch; he was astounded that it could really fit the rifle.

After putting away the rifle, he looked at the button again and pressed it, the status panel disappeared and a new panel title ‘Messages’ was now in its place. On it is one message named ‘Alia’. Zack pondered for a moment but pressed the message nonetheless. And it said…

{Zack, did you receive the message? If you did, then good. I now have to tell you some more important things. First would be the status screen, you would need to say ‘Status’ with the intent to look at it. In it is what you probably have already seen. Now, I need teach you about your status. Let’s start with skills and titles. To put it simply, skills are representations of what you can do well and titles are achievements that you have obtained. You can get skills from titles and vice versa, skills and titles give special effects to the holder, some of them are passive and some are needed to be activated, to activate them, some might need special chants or rituals, however the most basic ones, only needs their name to be said to activate. Now, the levels besides skills indicate how proficient you are at them, Lv. 1 being above average, 10 being master and EX as top class. Next, in the statistics section, normal villagers and commoners have an average of 1 to 25 in each statistic. Some stuff may still seem unclear for you, but it’ll be better if you learn about them yourself, won’t it? Oh, and in case you were wondering, there’s a town about 10 miles north of where you are. Goodbye and I’ll try to keep in touch.}

Zack POV

I look up at the sky and determined that it’s still early morning.

She said that there is a town up north of here, but where the hell is north? This world might not rotate like Earth, so I can’t rely on the star of this planet…

“Yeah, I’ll take the gamble and assume that this planet rotates like Earth,” I tried to look up at the sun, but seeing that it is still early morning, I couldn’t really see where it was exactly; “I may have to climb a tree.”

I looked for the highest tree in the vicinity and decided to climb it. I looked beyond its foliage and saw one of the most enchanting views I’ve ever seen. To my front and right is an almost endless sea of trees, to my back are huge snowcapped mountains and to my left is a forest where the density of trees gets smaller and smaller.

I grasped the Treasure Pouch and took out my rifle. I steadied myself in the branch of the tree and looked through the scope of my rifle, I looked towards my left. If this planet is the same as earth, then to my left should be north.

As I peered into the scope, beyond the trees, I saw a walled city. I judged its distance to be 10 miles away, just like Alia had said. However, about 5 miles away, north-east of me, is what seems to be a road. Since Alia mentioned that there were monsters that exist here, I should probably be careful, and a maintained road would be safer than a forest. Plus, roads mean that someone may pass there, maybe I can ride their vehicle or something, and that way, I wouldn’t need to walk all the way to the city.

I put my rifle back in the Treasure Bag and climbed down the tree. I now have a destination in mind, but before I set out, I checked out the trees of this place. Some look exactly like trees on Earth, but of course, I can’t recognize all of the trees here.

A certain flower to my right caught my attention. “Oh, it’s glowing.” I went towards it and looked at the plant closely; the flower and its glow had a bluish hue.

“I think this is the perfect time to try a skill out, Appraisal,” A small panel appeared in front of me.

Name:

Chill Flower

It seems that this was all that my appraisal could do. Anyway, I picked the flower up and put it in Treasure Bag. It looked magical… with all the glowy stuff and whatnot and if it was expensive, I might be able to use it as fare when I reached the roads.

I put the Bag in my pocket. It seemed that the Bag can actually shrink and enlarge to fit my pocket. Magic, it's really weird.

And thus started my adventure in another world.