"Here goes nothing then"
To say that I was hesitant to follow through with this last necessary step would be a great understatent but I did it anyway. With my makeshift barriers being capable of holding the orange sand for just so long, any mont that I would waste without learning more about those items would unbearable.
With the bracelet in my fingers, I quickly moved my hand into it, pushing it past my wrist joint right on top of my elbow.
Sting.
As soon as the circular fra of the bracelet reached the point where it touched my skin all over, a small needle seed to cut into my body directly below the holo-projector elent of the bracelet.
In the next mont, the hologram changed once again, repeating a list of actions that it was taking before suddenly vanishing all-together.
"Installation and calibration finished. Enjoy your new holobra!"
With yet another appearance of that pale, female face, the tip of the bracelet shone with a strange light for a mont before it finally displayed sothing I was at least a bit familiar with. A nu.
After a few monts of trying my chances, I finally learned that just by sweeping my hand or even a single finger over what was showing on the hologram, I could turn the display to another screen with an entire new set of applications and predefined usages.
"Skill diagram."
This option was what instantly caught my interest. If I could find a way to precisely track the progress of my growth, I could easily learn where I should put more efforts in, instead of wasting my ti and strength at trying to overco the walls that were never supposed to be broken.
Overexcited at the prospects of what that option could an for , I quickly tapped my finger against the intangible light that the entire hologram was made for
And I nearly lost my consciousness.
Not because of so kind of shock that travelled through my body so that this bracelet could classify and rate my skills. Nothing of that sort happened. It was just the image that was displayed alone that made all the alarms go off in my mind.
Because the kind of shape that the hologram displayed was simply impossible. Just like where there are those star diagrams with the distance of a specific angle away from the centre denominating the value of certain aspect, what appeared in front of my eyes was pretty similar to it. That is, if soone brought that diagram, turned it from two dinsions to four, and then added several modifications to make it even harder to look at.
Thankfully, after a few monts, my brain stopped revolting at the idea of looking at those impossible shapes. It seed that after the initial shock, it grew immune to this sighting as if marking it as just a conceptual graphic one could find on the internet.
But what was important right now, was that I had now a full outlook at what my stats looked like!
"Primitive cultivation - level 1-3"
"Athletism - level 5"
"Perception - level 7"
Those three were the ones that instantly caught my attention. While I could explain the athleticism part with all those years worth of efforts that I gave in my pursuit of a sports-related career, while that 'primitive cultivation' part was pretty obvious once I rated the currently known stages with numbers but where the hell did that insane spike at perception part ca from?
Crack.
The sound of so kind of material breaking forced out of my current daze. Taking a quick look at the part of the wall made with so kind of see-through material, I could see a small, orange storm violently rushing against the sturdy building material. Regretfully, while the walls and what seed to be a window could easily ward off against this kind of pressure, the sa couldn't be said about the loosely protected gaps in the doors.
"I need to bring it back to earth quickly"
With the system announcing that I sohow passed the first phase of the mission, I was now free to move between the worlds at any ti I would require. But right as the feeling to instantly call the system and return to the basent with those newly acquired items of mine appeared in my mind
I realised that doing sothing like this would be a sign of utmost stupidity and carelessness that in a bad scenario, could end the entirety of life on earth.
Because what if there was this tiniest possible piece of the orange sand stuck to the equipnt I brought in a way that made it impossible to affect it, but given enough ti and shaking, it could fall off?
WIth what I have seen this orange sand to be capable of doing, I had no courage to risk the wellbeing of the entire earth just to play around with that new toy of mine.
"Hey dear system, I was a good boy. I washed my hands after als, I didn't swear all that much and I helped the old ladies across the streets With that, could you maybe give so way to safely move this stuff away from this world?"
Putting my hands together as if I was praising to sothing or soone, I stood still for a mont, before the dire straits that I was in forced back to reality.
"I guess I won't have any further use for you"
In the end, no matter how great this item was and how much more I could learn from it, I wasn't willing to bring doom to the entire planet just to have another toy to fiddle with!
[Hidden quest fulfilled]
["Protector of the holand" title granted]
[Quest "I'm not a Santa but OK" completed]
[Rewarding - cleansing gate]
[Cleansing gate - an attribute of the world's portal that removes any harmful elents and weapons from the host presence during the transfers between the worlds.]
For a mont, I just stood frozen in place. For the system to co up with this kind of solution and not even demand anything in return? While this sounded quite fishy, the rate at which the number of cracks that I could hear continued to grow, I had no ti to waste over this.
"I want to return."
Saying those words in a completely normal rate, I took a quick look at the items behind . Even if this room would soon turn into another mayhem of orange sand, nothing was stopping from returning here with more, special items prepared to secure the room properly. Once I would test the waters with just this bracelet alone, I would be free to return here and claim any item that I could bother to find in this world!
Crack.
But for now, I had to move.
Taking a few steps forward, I placed my hand on the door's handle. By doing so, the diagram with my abilities once again ca to my view.
"So that's where that perception spike was from"
Seeing yet another sharp elent of this multi-dinsional diagram, I wasn't naive enough to be unable to connect the dots. First, the system awards with a title and then, suddenly my endurance skyrockets from asly four points to eleven?
Crack.
Unwilling to risk it any further, I pressed the doors open, instantly stepping over the threshold and returning back to the safety of my basent. Now, what else could I learn from this strange bracelet?
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