Elemental Dissonance.

Chapter 25 - System Update (2).

[New system features available, explore the new features Y/N?]

Although reluctant he decided not to explore the new features right now, just reading the Inbox and updating the System took a greater portion of his time, as the skies darkened so did his worries.

"No"

[Host utilisation of System: 12.6%]

[Rating: C-]

[Remark: Don't you want to survive young man?]

Bilal didn't know whether to curse or cry, he didn't have an ounce of time in his hand, he was busy as he'll ever since he got this System. Even though whether the rating affects something is not yet confirmed he still took it seriously. And asked

"Does the rating affect something?"

[No, it is just the c.u.mulative expertise of System usage by the host with efficiency]

"Ah, okey then" Bilal nodded with an absurdly fake smile.

He looked around and found it isn't a very good idea to fool around because roaming the forests at night time isn't a very good move. Various wild animals would be out for their dinner and he absolutely didn't want to be mistaken as one.

"System, scan the surroundings and make a new custom map"

Bilal wanted to try out the map feature from the update as well, it would be killing two birds with one stone. He would circ.u.mnavigate the way and would also check out the new feature as well.

[Scanning…4%...25%...49%...78%...Complete]

[Scanned area detail:

500 meters: Perfect detail;

1 kilometres/ 0.631 miles: Blurred details;

2 kilometers/ 1.242 miles: Indefinite details;

3 kilometres/ 1.864 Miles: No verifiable data collected, System limits]

[Location: Unknown, Biome: Forest Biome, Vegetation: Unknown]

[Plotting map, custom name 'Forest']

[Preparing…. 30%...90%...Complete]

The system screen folded in itself and a huge rectangular map with a small green arrow surrounded by three grey circles appeared in front of his view. It was fine and all, but it was way too big and completely blocked his entire field of vision. Though it isn't creating that much of a problem right now, It would be very disadvantageous when an emergency arises in the future, so It's better safe than sorry.

"System, Isn't this map a bit too big?"

[User can adjust the size and opacity of the map as per requirement, user can also adjust the map's size to act as a minimap]

Suddenly two sliding bars appeared on the right side of the map, with the labels 'Size' and 'Opacity' on them, he tried sliding the opacity bar slightly with the mind-touch method, that what he likes to call it. And unsurprisingly it worked rendering the huge map slightly less solid and somewhat transparent.

Using the same he adjusted the size and the position with the same method, making a remote minimap on his bottom right-hand corner.

Patting the dust and small grass off his biker suit he stood up, stretching the body a little to heaten it somewhat, he started walking slowly, as he moved he noticed the green arrow in the minimap moved too, he guessed the green arrow is to indicate his position, as for the three grey circles he didn't know about them and they didn't seem that important now.

Watching the strange vegetation of this forest he continued walking, maybe the vegetation isn't strange at all instead he was the one who is ignorant about them. But what more could be expected from a delivery man at least he wasn't being eaten by the zombies like some so-called 'Educated' people.

He didn't regret not attending the college, not because he didn't have the money to, instead the education system of his country did not seem to work anymore, the usual 'You study hard, you get good job' scheme is not working nowadays, people study more 3-5 years for bachelors, 2 for masters and God knows how many years for PhD.

Bilal was a practical person, he made his passport, scrambling off all his scholarship money and got himself a worker visa flying off to UAE, the land of immigrants and rich sheikhs. From one job to another, he spent more than 4 years doing menial jobs and surviving himself thriftily in the labour camp despite having money, he saved every dirham he could so that he could go back and start some business back home.

An ordinary person would've gone insane if their half a decade of saving would be blown off in just a slipping past of a few hours. But he just endured when he accidentally crashed the truck for which he would end up paying his everything and acted practical, he still endured when he saw the stolen truck fully loaded by the goods with his hard-earned money devastated by the Red beam and acted practically.

He didn't have many qualities of his own, but he had one what many didn't, Endurance and practical thinking. Praising his capacity to endure, many of his friends in the labour camp nicknamed him 'Tasamuh' which in Arabic meant 'Endure/Tolerance'.

Lost in his own thoughts he unknowingly crossed a great distance and reached at the end of the first grey circle. The first grey circle vanished and got renewed far from its original position. Those grey circles on the map seemed to be some kind of distance indicator.

Just then he stopped suddenly, there was some movement to be seen above the third ring area of the minimap, several blurred white coloured spots seemed to be approaching towards his green arrow.

[Warm-blooded lifeform heat signatures spotted]

[Distance: 3.019 kilometres/ 1.875 miles]

'Warm-blooded lifeforms? What might they be? Humans? Zombies?' Bilal thought and started preparing to hide somewhere.

[Distance: 3.00 kilometres/ 1.864 miles]

[System scan limits reached]

[Lifeforms identified: Wolves, unable to collect definite detail]

[D.M activated]

[D.M #1 added]

[Kill the wolves: Kill the incoming wolves or they might kill you]

[Mission objectives: Wolves killed 0/4]

[Mission difficulty: C+]

[Mission Reward: 4 system stars + Professional module #4 - Hunter-Gatherer(Beginners) + additional stars for Mission rating]