[ Many people doesn’t normally care about reaching until S ranked and as soon as they ranked up to B or A, they will immediately level up. Several reasons why, because they have no ability to see their own status every time they wanted and they are always fighting, trying to increase their levels as soon as possible to survive. ]

[ Leveling up will double the person’s power when they are level 1 and the base stats will once again back to H, of course increasing it will also become much quicker compared to increasing their base stats from B to higher. In that sense, they can increase much faster than trying to reach S ranked with their stats. There were some people who succeeded in reaching an S rank in the history of , however, it was only for 1 or two base stats. ]

“Fighting… you mean, they are also adventurers here just like those in novels in my homeworld?”

[ Affirmative. Adventurers, Guilds, Nobles, Kingdoms… situations and cultures depicted in the novels from the Master’s homeworld are calculated to have 72 – 75% similarities… ]

“Where are you basing that one?”

[ From the Master’s memories and knowledge… ]

“So you’re just shamelessly trespassing my privacy now, ey?” Rain sighed. “Anyway, what are this Patron and Unique Skill?”

[ Wait for a moment… calculating … 46%... 65%... 88%... 99%... Complete! ]

Once again Rain was hit by a headache but this time, it wasn’t as intense as before and it only made him winced a bit.

[ Affirmative! Patron: Goddess of Chaos and Strife, embodiment of Carnage and Mischief; Goddess Atria! ]

[ Master, please choose what you desire:

Unique Skill: [ Psychometry ]

Unique Skill: [ Predation ]

Unique Skill: [ Pyrokinesis ] ]

“Choose? What choose?” Rain asked again. “What is this Patron thingy?”

[ Patron are gods that offers their divine blessings to a human or a creature. Receiving a god's blessing is very rare and only a few people can have the fortune to receive it. ]

"Divine Blessings?"

[ Yes. Divine Blessings take form in any shape but mostly they were in a sort of gift or unique skills. ]

"Is that so~ So this Goddess Atria is my patron? Who is this goddess and why would she gave me her divine blessings?"

[ Goddess Atria is the most beautiful and most awesome goddess in the world. As to why she gave you her favor, not found in the archives... ]

"What's with that description? Favoritism?"

[ It's the truth...I can't help it... ]

"Hey, don't tell me you're in cahoots with this goddess? Thus, you serve as my support system. Am I right?"

[ ............................You're greatly mistaken. ]

The short pause between question and reply made the latter completely unconvincing.

"What's with that pause? ... Whatever, so I can choose right?" Rain’s brows furrowed.

These skills are cheat-ish and awesome abilities… However, there was only one thing that I needed right now…

“Sylphy, tell me what is this [ Predation ].”

[ [ Predation ] is an ability that allows its user to have a chance of getting abilities of other beings and things by eating them or a part of them. No matter how hard or poisonous something was, the user would be able to eat it.

The teeth could tear through the likes of iron and gold easily, while toxins would be restructured, rendered harmless and edible inside the body. The characteristics of whatever It's eaten, whether it be an item or another living being, would be absorbed and assimilated, so that the one that absorbed could use them as well. Chances of acquiring ability – 20%.

Caution: Strength of the ability that was gained through absorption depends on the quality of the substance and its freshness. ]

“So it’s the strongest Goblin’s ability…” This is it! Rain shouted inside his mind.

What he needed right now is this ability… the ability to eat anything and survived!

He doesn’t know what kind of food he might find in this place. There might be nothing edible here, might be poisonous or worse, nothing at all. So, even if he can find nothing, he can still survive by eating rocks and whatever he might find until he finds civilization!

Besides, additional ability while eating something… it’s a win-win situation for him.

Without any hesitation, Rain immediately choose; “[ Predation ]”

In an instant, Rain was enveloped by a warm light.

Ding!

[ You have acquired the Unique Skill gifted to you by the Goddess Atria; [ Predation ]! ]

Unknown places like this, one’s ultimate problem was finding food. No matter what situation it is, that is a necessity!

And right now, one of the important problems was solved. He doesn’t need to worry about food, or being poisoned, everything around him is food. Rocks, metals, woods, everything can become his food!

Now onto the next problem.

“Where am I?”

[ It seems like the Master was transported accidentally in a Monster Lair found in the Boundary of the Desolate Plain… ]

“What?! A monster lair? You mean, monsters as in, there are monsters here?”

[ Affirmative! ]

“Are you joking?! Why am I inside a Monster Lair? I don’t care if it’s not in a human city or whatever, I can stomach it if I was transported inside a huge forest, trying to find my way out like those in novels but… why the heck am I inside a monster lair?” Rain wanted to cry. “Do you want me to get a game over just after being transported in this world? I don’t want to die twice simultaneously!!”

[ … Master, it’s out of my capability. Your transportation was rather… an unfortunate accident… ]

“Is this your Goddess way of joking?”

[ It may be unbelievable but the Goddess Atria wasn’t a part of this accident … ]

Rain wanted to believe but just, a part of him was doubtful. He really wanted to cry now, how can he be so unlucky?

“Then how can I get out?”

[ … … ]

“Hey!”

[ Master, try your best! Good luck! ]

Ding! Dang! Ding! Dang! A cheer-type tune resounded inside his mind.

“Stop that!” Rain gnashed his teeth in frustration. He tried standing up but suddenly, the moment he steps out the Stone Pedestal, he finally noticed that the pedestal he was in was actually levitated from the ground. According to his estimate, it’s around 3 – 4 meters high.

It’s jumpable.

“– Well, first things first. I think I need to check what things I currently have on hand."

Just like any survival play-off game, Rain muttered to himself and sat back again on the hard and rough pedestal.

Aside from the plastic bag carrying his newly bought cup noodles which were nowhere to be seen, fortunately, he managed to retain his bag with him. He was carrying it on his back, probably the reason why he managed to take it with him in this world.

Truthfully, he really wished he had brought the cup noodles with him since those things can be eaten even without being cooked or hot water and most of all it can last him for quite a long time if he economizes…

Regretting that point, he began taking everything out from his backpack.

What was taken out were –

A set of clothes; a jean, two T-shirts; one was jet-black with an image of Iron-man on it and the other is dark crimson color with Wolverine – his spare clothes for work. Both bought on a bizarre of second-hand items, extremely cheap and still looked new…

Two white towels.

4 5 – 6 inches sized strawberry chocolate bars and another 5 milk-chocolate flavors.

A 25ML mineral water.

His smartphone and his favorite cheap second-hand black headphone. And lastly, a second-hand, Glen’s spares solar power charger, with 3 charging outlets – Which was in fact, it was only borrowed from him.

He grabbed his smartphone and opened it but as expected, there was no signal, besides its already losing power. I forgot to charge it when I’m still in the shop…

Well, in this world, this was already useless… Still, maybe there’s something I can use it for in the future~

Rain shrugs and puts the phone back inside the bag.

Next were the chocolate bars… for now, this will be the most important thing in his possession. Of course, at least until he can find something another to eat… he wanted it to make an emergency food for drastic situations. In any case, they will not spoil as long as he won’t open the wrapper.

And lastly, the already half-filled mineral water….

Even if he had enough food, he can’t last without water!

He returned it back inside the bag and hides it behind the pedestal. He can’t lose them –

Now, for the next part,

Rain needed to find a way out now… he needed more information to assess his situation.

Thus, he set out!

[ Master!! ]