The Player's System

System Upgrade

After full day sleep Jake woke up. He casually looked at the clock and jumped from his bed. Jake sat on the ground to do the daily task. It was quite horrible that he barely made it on time.

He was half asleep and doing exercise it became part of daily routine so he knew each step. He was excited after the completion of third level and wanted to see improvement. Presently his arm was completely healed. Only the hand kept shivering.

Jake showered hurriedly and came back sitting on the sofa he called task panel. The screen appeared in front of him.

At the same time intercom rang. The cleaners were sent to refurnish the entire suite.

Many fresh pieces of decoration were suggested by the managers. In their opinion addition of flower decoration and latest furnishing would refresh the players before opening of the fourth level.

Jake let them come and do their job. He himself sat at corner seat near window. It was fall of evening outside while he read the first stats.

[Race: Defected Human]

[Level:7]

[Skill: Shooter 2/5 Planner]

[Reputation: 12]

[Endurance: +9]

[Achievement: Thief 2/5]

[Goals: Hidden Python. Feast of King's ruiner. Death Dream Holder. 3/36]

[Shop: Grit Glove Scale is available for shop]

[Congratulations: You reached level seven. The shop availability depends items of your need. The purpose of shop is to assist host rather than pampering.]

[Instructions: The present rate of improvement is satisfactory. Avoid punishments.] The task panel no more included secondary stats. Also the task panel took responsibility of saving Exp, HP, and Golden HP.

It would reduce burden from the host. The type of levels, Quests, Tasks and difficulty levels were already big headache to consider during the portal game.

The housekeeping wonderfully decorated the entire suite all in new furnishing. Jake looked up to confirm whether the workers were not going toward his gaming station. He instructed them not to enter there.

He was quite happy to click on the shop and see what kind of item was available for him however he thought to wait until these housekeeping went back. If he started talking alone then the housekeepers might get confused about his mental health.

He looked at the faces of the housekeepers. All of them looked professional and limited to do what they were assigned. After some time they left. The sitting room got filled with fresh fragrance of flowers. The cleaners were not sent during the live portal for the security purpose.

The CEO Gueman had been cautious. From 79nth floor to 85th floor the personal security was employed. The workers, Cleaners, office staff and security staff had been under strict eyes of the In-charge.

Jake sat again after closing the door safely. His status was still as 'Defected Human'

"Perhaps this status will change once the hand is fully healed. I want to see at which level the Exp would be enough for complete healing.

His skill was related with his weapons. "Huh the reputation took boost. This means I might be getting popular on the social media. I will check it once before opening of the fourth level." Jake decided he would appear on his official account to leave general post for thanking the followers.

He remembered the reputation would only increase if he mindfully handle his social appearance. Reputation was necessary part of his stat so he should work on it, be it slow. However at the initial level he was clear that frequently answering the followers was unnecessary.

The endurance was related with the tasks and how host would complete them. Since he was in a team, the endurance would be divided manually. The only thing that embarrassed him, his achievement. He was on the way to become thief.

"I am on the second class of the Thief and guess it has five classes. How long would I need to become class five Thief?" Jake deliberated. Immediately notification popped up on the screen.

[The host should necessarily reach Invincible Glom Class of achievement at level five.]

[Warning: In case the host failed there won't be next chance for the improvement in the same class. Also there will be punishment for failure.]

Jake gulped dry breath. He thought that perhaps the task panel would not care if his progress was slow. Here this task panel was giving warning. "It seemed I have to work hard and become biggest thief of history. However I won't brag about my achievement in my entire life." He sighed sarcastically.

He decided to focus on this aspect. He has chance till level five. The Goals were actually the levels, he completed level three so it also got added in the list. There were still 33 levels in the portal game for which he would work hard.

Finally Jake glanced at the shop stat. There was only one item. From the way task panel left its words it was clear the item took lot of Exp. His heart starting thumping faster. Jake felt his hand stuck in the air thinking whether to click on the shop or take some time.

He took deep breath, patted his beating heart and clicked. Metallic body of the glove appeared on the screen in material form. Jake picked it and understood how he should use it.

Carefully he placed the metallic structure on his shivering hand and it adjusted by itself. It was entirely different from regular gloves. The regular gloves covered the whole hand while this one supported at the back of the hand along with metallic adjustment on the finger. It looked like glamours hand tool made with some scientific logics.

Jake felt the difference. Earlier his hand was shivering due to disease now it was all fine. He could move fingers at his will. He received notification.

[GGS is activated. It will work properly till the end of level five. Later the advance version will be upgraded with the help of Exp gains.]

[The host could use his right hand after some regular exercises.]

[Precaution: Avoid direct electric supply touch before the upgrade.]

Jake read it and nodded. He was not some fool to push his hand in the plugs for testing. He closed his hand then opened several times. The glove was working fine and he could control the movement of his hand.

He hurried stood up to practice his hand control on the idle keyboard. His stomach grumbled to remind him that he should eat something. "Oh poor stomach." Jake laughed and went toward the icebox. It was fall of evening and not proper time for dinner so he took snacks.

He was informed that whole team would dinner with the CEO. Completion of the third level was big event especially the team remained unbeatable in the ranking.

Also it was suggested by the team leader. He personally wanted to meet younger player but he rejected week ago. He knew that Jake would appear at the invitation of the owner of the team.

He looked at the snacks. These were expensive and big shops sell them. The rich people buy these snacks and enjoy the delicious taste. Now his icebox was filled with expensive snacks. He was living in the most expensive suite of the building, wearing fine clothes.

His cupboard was numbered with the lush teenage clothing. Jake strongly wished that Patina should have enjoyed all these treats with him however she was no more. The tasty snacks felt bland and sour at those memories.

The glint of revenge sparkled in his eyes once again. He was getting stronger with levels. Jake eagerly wanted to punch that rascal who targeted Patina. "Let me get stronger first then I will search the rascal." He firmly closed his fist and spoke.

After stuffing snacks in his stomach, Jake went back for practicing his controls. Since both hands and the fingers could work now, he was ready to show it in the live portal. For this he need to do lot of practice.

Without practice the right hand would lag in comparison of left hand. Also it would improve his confidence too. His habits were limited with the defected hand, now the change of habit was necessary which was impossible without practice.

Jake heard the alarm to remind him for the dinner. He set alarm in order to remain on time. There were lot of dresses in the cupboard which confused what to wear for the dinner.

Finally he selected one. Later combed his hair. He was ready to see the owner of the team and the other team players. Confidence was visible on his face. With good diet his skinny stature got much better.

The day he lost his big sister, the day he suffered accident, his broken bones and his devastated appearance, the very first decision to take revenge and the entry in the portal game became the reason of his present accomplishment.

He was ready to face the world after one month of his self-prison. Jake opened the door of his suite and locked.. The security guard helped fine the dinner place.