chapter 1 - System

*Ughhhh*

Taufik woke up holding his head.

'Uhhh, what's with this headache?' he thought, trying to remember what he did last night to wake up with this headache.

"Hahhh~ Anyway, I'm too lazy to remember what I did last night."

He said, still massaging his head. The memory of what he had done last night seemed hazy for him somehow, but...

[DING]

Suddenly, he heard the sound of notifications.

"Uhh? what the f*ck!"

Taufik was shocked because the sound of notifications he heard seemed to be transmitted directly into his head, not from his phone.

But after a while, he didn't hear any sound anymore.

'Maybe it's just my imagination. ...Did I play too many games?' he thought,

But those thoughts were quickly refuted because he heard a sound again.

[Welcome user]

"WTF!!"

Taufik said, surprised by the voice of someone directly talking inside his head.

'... Am I still dreaming?'

He thought, then slapped himself because all of this seemed unreal to him.

"Auchh!"

'it hurts? Does it mean I'm not dreaming? But if it is real, then ... this only gets more troublesome.'

[Please, the system needs user confirmation to bound immediately]

Said the sound inside his head again.

"..."

"Ugh! I think I should go back to sleep"

Taufik said while lying back in his bed. Thinking if he slept again, maybe that sound would just somehow disappear.

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[DING]

[Please user, confirm immediately]

[DING]

[DING]

[DING]

[DING]

But the notifications didn't seem to disappear. Instead, it started to spam a bunch of those "DING" Sounds, which began to annoy Taufik.

[Please user, confirm immediately]

[DING]

[DING]

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"FUCK!! SHUT UP!!"

He yelled, annoyed at the sound, which made the headache just now get even worse.

[Please user, confirm immediately]

"*sigh* What is there to confirm?"

He asked, thinking if he could make the sound disappear then he'd just do what 'it' wants to do.

[Please user, confirm! So the system can be bound to the user]

"No! I refuse!"

But He refuses immediately.

'A bound? In hell!! If I bound to you, maybe I will hear that annoying 'Ding-Ding' sound for the rest of my life; who wants that?'

He thought, but...

[Ding]

[User request denied]

That sound said, refusing Taufik's refusal.

"What's the point of confirming then?"

He said while massaging his forehead, which was getting worse because of this damn situation he was in.

[Please user confirm immediately]

That sound asks again.

'Fuck, what situation am I in? What is this all about? Haaaah~ whatever, let's just follow what this thing wants. The aftermath? Let's leave that to the me in the future.'

He thought, not having any other option but to follow what that sound wanted.

"...umm~ all right then... confirm?" He said

[DING... The user has given permission]

[Confirmed....binding 01%, binding 30%, binding 100%.]

[Binding successful]

[Ding]

[Welcome to the daily login system]

"Ughh, troublesome"

He said, finding this whole situation troublesome.

"What a troublesome morning"

He complained as he looked at the transparent box screen that suddenly appeared in front of him after the 'Binding' was done.

"What is this?"

He said, trying to knock on the screen.

*Knock~knock~knock~*

"Huh? This thing can be touched?"

Taufik asked in confusion, as he didn't expect it to make a sound because his hand went through the screen, which meant this screen was untouchable.

*Knock~knock~knock~*

"Huh..."

*Knock~knock~knock~*

"Fik, are you okay?"

In the midst of the confusion that Taufik experienced, a woman's voice sounded from outside the door.

"Ahh~ I'm okay, Mom"

He answered immediately when he found that the knocking sound was coming from his mother.

"I heard you yell. Are you okay?"

Asks his mom, who seems worried about her son who yelled as soon as he woke up.

"Yeah, I'm okay, Mom, it's..it's... it's just cockroaches; I'm fine"

He answered his mom with a little lie. However, his answer doesn't seem to solve the problem, because his mother gets into the room with an irritated expression, looks at him, and then says.

"How many times have I told you to take your garbage out?"

Yelled his mom, a little angry at her son, who is so lazy even if it is just for taking the garbage out.

Finding his reason doesn't work; he can only say.

"Yeah, I'm sorry, Mom, I forgot; I don't know why, but I was so sleepy last night"

Said Taufik half-heartedly.

"Yeah~Yeah~ you and your reasons"

Said his mom, not taking her son's answer seriously.

"Quickly wash your face and come downstairs; breakfast is ready; you don't want to be late for school, right?" Says his mother.

Hearing from his mother about school reminds him that yesterday was the last day of the holiday, and this day was the first day to begin school again.

"Ahh so it was today, I almost forgot that. I'll be there in a minute, Mom."

Satisfied with his answer, his mother came out of the room to continue her routine. And she didn't forget to remind her son to take out the trash.

"*Sigh*...what a drag~"

Taufik sighed, but he still took the trash out and then came to the kitchen to have breakfast with his mom.

There were only two of them in the kitchen.

Taufik's mother was a single parent; his father had died many years ago while he was in elementary school.

His father was a soldier, not a very high rank, but his allowance was enough for two family members to live on.

His father's death is full of mysteries, they said he died on a mission,

That mission was not some dangerous mission, like fighting Rebel troops or saving a hostage from terrorists.

But just an escort mission of some research group that was investigating an ancient civilization in the Antarctic.

One day, after doing the research, they suddenly disappeared without a trace. No one knew what had happened to them.

All that was left of them were the tents that were still standing and some stuff that they left behind.

After a few months of searching, the army did not find anything about that team.

Although no bodies were found, they were still pronounced dead people, and until now, no one knew how it all happened; they just disappeared, as if swallowed by the earth itself.

After receiving the news. Of course, Taufik's mother did not give up trying to find out where her husband was, but after several months of searching, she still did not find the truth about her husband's case.

So, she slowly tried to accept the reality and focus on taking care of her husband's only heritage, who was their only son.

Taufik had asked his mother several times about his father when he was still in grade 6 in elementary school, but his mother hesitated to answer it. Not because she didn't want to answer, but because she didn't know how to tell the answer to her son.

After all these years, he began to understand all of that and never asked again.

After breakfast, Taufik began preparing to leave for school; it was the first day of school after a long school holiday, so he didn't want to be late.

He was in grade 2 in high school, and in a few months, if nothing happened, he would be in third grade.

"Mom, I'm off to school"

He said. Saying goodbye to his mother.

"Yeah, be careful"

Answered his mom without looking at him, because she was preparing to leave for her work.

After saying goodbye to his mom, he started rushing to school, and on the way, he finally remembered about the strange thing that he'd got this morning.

"Umm, with what do I call you?...system? " He said not knowing what to call this "something".

[Yes, master]

"Ohh~ so system then...okay... Explain to me, what are you and how do you work? "

[I'm what you can call your assistant who will help you to adjust to the plug-in you have got]

"Humm, that's good, then what is that 'daily login system' thing you said before"

He asked System.

[The daily login system is a system where the master will be given gifts daily in random form. Gifts can be anything from mediocre level to god-level items, all depending on master's luck].

Explained the system with a monotone sound.

"God-level items?" He asks, finding it awesome.

[Yes, God-level items, the items include something like bloodline, artifact, and many, many more, including a pet].

Answered the system, still with the monotone sound, but he understood all of what the system was saying.

"A bloodline? Like that superhero in the movie, who has superpowers because of their bloodlines?"

He asked, imagining if that was the case then. 'Isn't it amazing?' he said inside his mind.

[Yes master]

"Wow, that's amazing; I'm feeling lucky today; maybe I can get something cool, so what are you waiting for?"

[Yes master please say LOGIN] told the system.

"LOGIN!!"

After he said that, some box with question marks all over its sides appeared in front of him then it glowed with a different color and changed every second, but slowly, the change stopped with gold in Color.

'I don't know why, but maybe I just hit the jackpot... '

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