The Successor System

Binary Stats

*Sigh*

'I'm impressed. Even though you lack in many aspects, your acting is quite commendable,' her voice came into his mind once again, and even though he didn't still feel comfortable he was slowly getting used to it.

"I won't consider it acting since I meant most of what I said," he voiced out.

'Nice point. You don't have to speak up whenever you're talking to me we're linked telepathically.

"Oh whatever," he shrugged.

Racheal had left him earlier to inform his father of his waking up, leaving him alone once more. So he was free to check his status.

[Name: Art Von Silver

Race: Human

Level: 1

EXP: 0/1

HP: 10/10

MP: ???

STR: 1

AGI: 1

STA: 1

VIT:1

INT:0

Attribute: none]

[System remark: Pitiful]

Art's lips twitched several times as his stats reminded him of a term in his former world.

'Binary'

"System, I refuse to accept this. Your evaluation isn't totally correct, especially the intelligence stat. I don't believe I'm that dumb. How can it be zero," he protested, and what was with that remark? He didn't need to be told how sad he was, but for them to keep rubbing it in his face....

It seemed like he was stuck with a sadist duo.

Without his permission, the information about his status washed into his mind.

It wasn't as painful as the first but it still stung. He now understood everything and the intelligence stat wasn't what he thought it was.

It was focused on his ability to learn, understand and manipulate magic and how fast he could do this, which of course would be zero.

An average base mage would have 10 points in all their stats except for their intelligence which would be 30 and their MP at 50.

Whereas, an average base Silver would have 30 points in all their stats except for intelligence which would be 15 along with their MP.

All this was according to the system grading.

This meant an average Silver of his age, for example, the boy he saw earlier, was at least 30 times stronger than him.

"Do you think I can do this?"

'Honestly. No!'

"That's harsh."

'Remember what you just said about surpassing everyone's expectations? Well, that includes me. Don't tell me you're giving up so soon?'

He noticed the disappointment in her tone as a bitter smile appeared on his face. He swore never to waver again.

According to the information he received, for now he could only increase his strength by leveling up which happens when he completes a quest from the system or kill people.

With his current state, killing would be a bad option, so he was going to focus on completing quests from the system.

After closing his status he moved to the quest bar.

[Quests would be available tomorrow]

'It's better if you rest as much as you can against tomorrow because trust me, you'll be needing it.'

"I see," he said looking at the sky which was now getting dark.

After some minutes, Rachael came in with dinner, which he could only recognize through the memories he received. It was without a doubt vegetarian.

He didn't like this at all but she said that it was prescribed to help out his health urging him to eat it. The former body owner didn't like it, so it seemed normal.

While eating it, he was surprised at how tasty it was, and just by this, he was recovering part of his lost strength.

It wasn't long after that he fell asleep.

Racheal gently covered him with a blanket and watched him sleep like a baby with a smile on her face for nearly an hour.

"Goodnight Art," she finally said before walking out of his room and closing the door.

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Just like that, he completed his first day in this new world and the next morning he kept yawning not wanting to get up from such a comfortable bed.

If only he had this in his past life, then he won't have gone out on that date.

Just thinking of it made his blood boil, threatening to almost ruin his morning.

He needed to take this out on someone to relieve himself a little.

Suddenly, he felt a pair of eyes glaring at him which caused him to leap out of the bed. The first thing he saw was a notification from the system.

[Host can now access quests]

'I see you were having a good time.' Her voice resonated in his mind.

"Did you...…" he paused before shaking his head.

With a thought the quests displayed before him.

[Daily Quests]

[Short-term Quests]

[Long-term Quests]

He chose the daily quests first.

[Exercise:

100 press-ups

100 push-ups

100 sit-ups

10 km run

Feeding:

5 litres of water

5 kg of food]

"WHAT!!" he screamed in disbelief. "100? 10? I would be lucky to do one-tenth of that! System, by chance...…are you trying to get to me before the sickness?"

He didn't have much of a problem with the eating section. He would do that even without the system but the exercise section was asking for too much.

'Daily quests mean that you have to achieve it by the end of the day so you don't have to worry about doing it all at once.'

"Still….." he protested before realizing a loophole which caused him to grin internally.

There was no punishment if it wasn't done. He decided to do it at his own pace but after seeing the short-term quest his jaws dropped.

[Due to host's unstable and powerful mana core which negatively affects his body, host would die in]

[2:20:43:24]

[23]

[22....]

He watched the timer counting down But this wasn't where it stopped.

[To prevent this, host would have to reach level 5 to lock his core]

[System remark: Do your best]

In short, he was asked to reach level 5 in less than three days, unless, he would end up dead.

"I guess I'll have to complete the daily quests after all," he muttered wryly. He didn't know whether it was his imagination or not but he heard his guide chuckle.

He went ahead to check the long-term quest.

[Become the most powerful mage in Ghia]

[Time left: 4 years]

"Wow!" Art shook his head. "Becoming the most powerful mage in the world at just 20. I feel honoured to have such big expectations from the system. I didn't plan on becoming the strongest but I might as well just do it. I couldn't achieve all that I wanted in my past life so I'm going to achieve everything I want in this one."

'You better put all that talk into action.'

"I know. I would begin after I'm done with my first challenge for today."

'Which is?'

"I thought you can read my mind?" he asked in confusion.

'Not really. I can tell what you're thinking depending on how deep and complex the thoughts are and how your brain processes them. I would love to explain further but your intelligence stat shows that I'll only be wasting my time.'

His mouth twitched, wondering how long she was going to stay in his head.

'Probably a long time and I think I know what you mean by the first challenge.'

A knock was heard on the door before it was opened as Rachael walked in.

"Art, breakfast is ready. They're in the dining room."

"I'll be there shortly," he said walking towards the bathroom.

"Should I help you wash up?" she asked causing embarrassing memories to surface.

"No!" his tone was quite sharp surprising her a little.

"If you say so," she said walking out of his room.

He entered the bathroom and was quite surprised to see something similar to a shower but it ran on mana instead of electricity.

He began showering while humming his favorite song which got ruined as he stared at his body which had all 24 ribs visible but surprisingly, he wasn't bad down there.

His thoughts got interrupted as he remembered something.

"Y– Y– You! Can you see through my eyes?"

'Simply put, yes. Don't tell me you just realized now.'

"C– Can you see me now?"

'...'

"Answer me!"

'Come on now. Don't be shy,' she said teasingly as his face turned bright red.

"GET OUT OF MY F*CKING HEAD!!!"