Isekai Dungeon Architect Chapter 5: The painful awakening

Pain. Excruciating pain.

It was the first thing I felt as I clawed my way back to consciousness.

'Did I just touch the staircase to hell and snap back to life?'

My mind was hazy, and my eyes were covered in darkness despite being wide open. For a second, I thought I'd respawned inside a Windows error screen.

"Ughhh…"

Every nerve in my body scread, my ribs throbbed like broken speakers, and my head pounded with a rhythm that could've put nightclub DJs out of business.

"Fuck…"

When I finally got my vision back, the light of the three moons above looked far brighter than the sleepless eternal city nights, and the world looked… different.

"That's a… new one, ahem."

My wounds were no longer gushing fountains, but sealed shut with angry red marks. My clothes, however, were stiff with dried blood, sticking to my skin like bad duct tape.

I groaned and shifted, trying to move my stiff body.S).

Job skills: Skills related to one's Job Class. These are common skills that all those sharing the profession obtain at different levels. *One job skill gained at each level.* (Novice> Beginner> Learned> Expert> Master> Owner.)

Other skills: There are skills that one can obtain through different ans throughout this world. There are other skills that are acquired and can scale up to (SS-rank) or (SSS-rank).

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'Then what does 'EX' rank an? Exponential? Ones that cannot be compared to anything?'

Perhaps that was the case. Or perhaps since the book was created by the Assistance System, it concealed information about the EX-rank skills.

It did not list different classes, though. The book only seed to have an overview of a little bit of everything I needed to know about this world.

'It's written that the titles are special indications of different achievents. Possessing different common and known titles grants one a different kind of buff that remains passively activated.'

Again, there's no information on the titles themselves, so I guess I'll have to find things out on my own.

"There it is again…" While the book is easy to follow for the first few pages, I cannot understand anything written within it after a few pages, as if there's so kind of restriction.

Again, the words and content are there, but when I see it, everything looks like a jumbled ss, with words floating around the place aimlessly.

'Strange…'

Still, whatever the case may be, the book contains information about this world and things I wanted to know since earlier.

The guide promised answers… but the forest outside promised teeth. And if I had to bet? The wolves weren't the only ones still hungry tonight.