Chapter 3: Combat Power Below 5

Chapter 3: Combat Power Below 5

Why a wolf specifically?

Wasn't that obvious?

Otherworld transmigration stories had already beaten this trope to death!

The protagonist transmigrates into another world, and right at the beginning, he inevitably runs into wolves, mercenaries, princesses, female mercenaries, or something along those lines.

It was the standard formula!

The formula...

Forget it.

No more complaining.

Toma felt that thinking about all this pointless stuff wasn't important right now.

What mattered was figuring out exactly what his System could do.

With thirty percent anticipation and seventy percent excitement, Toma spoke again.

"Quick, bring up my status panel. What can I do right now?"

Almost the instant Toma finished speaking, a virtual screen appeared before his eyes.

Information was displayed across it.

[1. Personal Information]

Name: Toma

Authority: LV1

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Bloodline: None

[Attributes]

Strength: 8

(Adult Earth Human: 10)

Agility: 7

(Adult Earth Human: 10)

Endurance: 7

(Adult Earth Human: 10)

Spirit: 11

(Adult Earth Human: 10)

Wisdom: 10

(Ordinary Human Wisdom)

Charm: 5

(Random Background Character)

Skills: None

Personal Evaluation: F

(Trash with combat power below 5)

[2. Personal Space — Beginner Gift Pack]

[3. Mission Information — None]

[4. Summoning Panel]

[5. Exchange Panel]

Simple and straightforward.

Basically, everything he needed to know was written clearly.

As an otaku who severely lacked exercise, Toma had already been prepared for his pathetic stats.

Strength, for example.

Someone like Toma, who almost never exercised, obviously couldn't compare to an ordinary adult in raw strength.

After all, he never worked out...

Agility and endurance were the same.

There wasn't much to explain.

If he was weaker, then he was weaker.

Toma had a very clear understanding of his own physical condition.

Who told him he wasn't an athlete?

He wasn't a soldier either.

He was just a shut-in otaku~!

Then again...

If he had been one of those things instead of an otaku, maybe he wouldn't have transmigrated in the first place?

Thinking about it that way, Toma suddenly felt a little fortunate.

'Looks like becoming an otaku actually has its benefits~!'

His mood immediately improved.

As for his Spirit being slightly higher than that of an ordinary adult...

Toma figured that was probably the result of constantly staying up late watching anime.

After all, plenty of novels explained things that way too.

'Trope!'

'Everything is a damn trope!!!'

After happily making fun of the situation for a while, Toma finally noticed his Wisdom stat...

And then...

His eyes turned into dead fish eyes.

He looked thoroughly displeased.

Ordinary.

Completely average.

Normally, he wouldn't have cared.

But now that he had a System?

Toma suddenly felt speechless.

Because one particular phrase immediately came to mind.

A very famous phrase.

Compared to something as boring as "ordinary human wisdom," that phrase sounded much more appropriate.

It was that line from a certain expressionless bastard—

"The wisdom of mortals..."

The moment Toma realized that he himself belonged among those "mortals" the Colonel always talked about, there was no way his mood could possibly remain good...

Fortunately, there was an additional explanation attached to the Wisdom attribute.

[Wisdom: This attribute is not fixed. It will change as the Host grows older and accumulates more experience and knowledge. Special Reminder: Wisdom is not the same as intelligence. Host, please do not feel inferior. You can become smarter.]

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"Are you trying to say I'm stupid?"

Fortunately, Toma wasn't holding anything at the moment.

Otherwise, he definitely would have slammed whatever was in his hands straight into the ground to vent his frustration...

Finally, Toma looked at his Charm stat and Personal Evaluation.

Surprisingly, he didn't have much of a problem with either of them.

After all, Toma knew exactly what he looked like.

An absolutely ordinary face.

The textbook definition of a random background character.

So his Charm stat was actually pretty objective.

At least it didn't outright call him a random passerby—

"Wait a fucking second! You literally wrote 'Random Background Character'! What the hell?!"

After another round of cursing, Toma looked at his pathetic Personal Evaluation.

All right.

There really wasn't much he could complain about there.

He patted his chest and tried to calm himself down.

Taking a deep breath, Toma decided he was done complaining about his status panel.

Otherwise, he genuinely felt like he might die from anger...

Sure, he knew he was weak.

But did the System really have to be so damn direct about it?

If it kept doing this...

Before Toma could even finish that thought, he noticed something on his status panel.

His Personal Evaluation had changed.

The previous evaluation had disappeared, replaced by a much simpler one.

[Personal Evaluation: Trash]

"I... I... Forget it. I feel like I lose the moment I complain..."

Toma patted his chest again, feeling increasingly suffocated.

He decided to stop paying attention to it.

Otherwise, he might become the first transmigrator in history to be angered to death by his own System...

And then...

Toma noticed that his Personal Evaluation had already changed back to normal.

He silently stared toward the heavens.

No...

Wait.

There were fucking trees everywhere.

He couldn't even see the heavens!

However, seeing the trees above him finally reminded Toma of something important.

He really was in another world now.

And the freezing sensation running across his body quickly killed whatever desire he had left to continue complaining.

Ignoring everything else for the moment, Toma opened the Beginner Gift Pack first.

He wanted to see what goodies were waiting inside.

As for receiving a beginner gift pack...

There really wasn't anything worth complaining about.

After all, saying more would just be pointless.

Because this was another damn trope.

Everything was a trope...

[Beginner Gift Pack opened. Items obtained: Random Summoning Coin ×1, Beginner Equipment Set ×1, Summoning Points ×100, Exchange Points ×100.]

[Ding-dong! Mission triggered: Rookie's Path.]

[Rookie's Path]

Mission Requirement: Raise your Personal Evaluation by one rank.

Mission Reward: Random Summoning Coin ×1, Summoning Points ×1000, Exchange Points ×1000.

Mission Penalty: None.