Scanning me
Adam was a little adrift. He watched the tribe defend itself from a giant beast. The violence involved had triggered a response in him. He would have died if attacked by this demon.
Adam walked to the village center and sat near the fire where the tribe was cooking the slain beast. It was not a pretty sight. They were neither experts butchers or cooks. Even for him, he thought he could figure out a better way to prepare the animal. He was about to say something but changed his mind.
What was the point of it? The creatures will follow their instincts anyway. What difference could he make? It was not as if he was a genius in combat or technology. He had no special powers or tricks to solve everything with the click of his fingers.
The text appeared in the middle of his visual space like a pop-up on a shady website. This made Adam smile. A small detail like this one, so unimportant and meaningless, was the thing that helped him turn his mood around.
"I don't know" he answered in a whisper. "Can you answer some questions for me?".
Adam almost laughed out loud at that. It would be stupid to trust a devil in any scenario. He needed to be careful of his thoughts while in communication with the entity. It had already proved to have a connection with his mind. He just did not know how deep it was.
"What are you?" asked Adam.
"Can you elaborate? What is a knowledge demon? Are you in this gem? What is your goal?" continued Adam.
At the mention of mystical energy, Adam's face changed again. This energy was part of his hope of becoming an all-powerful magician like he was in the games he likes to play.
"Can I use mystical energies? Can you teach me?" asked Adam.
The gem grew hot for a second, and Adam felt a weird sensation all over his body.
It suddenly clicked in Adam's mind. Earlier, he thought he had arrived in this world without a unique gift as all his favorite characters had in the novels he read.
"Demon, can you show me my status?"
"Show me a list of all the information you have about me. Use numerical values for each measurable category".
"Of course, zero is not having the attribute at all. There should be no negative values" Adam paused for a moment and then started to babble. "Scan Yorki, use him as the unit for each of the attributes. His values represent the 1s in every attribute".
"It does not matter. The important part is establishing a standard and looking at the relative value. If we do it like this, we can measure the strength of any beast relative to Yorki or between each other".
It surprised Adam the intensity in which the devil said this. He noticed the gem started shinning for a couple of seconds while it grew by about a third of its original volume.
Adam did so. Yorki was surprised and backed away when he felt the burning gem. The next thing Adam could see was the following text:
Race: Human
Body: Soil-ash construct, bronze grade
Strenght: 1.2
Constitution: 0.5
Dexterity: 0.8
Intelligence: 1.5
Wisdom: 1.2
Charisma: 2.2
Mystical Energy: 0.9>