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Max’s eyes twitched. He heard the faint sounds of beeping.
Where am I?
His eyes cracked open, revealing a white ceiling above him.
More curiously were the words floating in front of him.
The words read as followed:
Name: Max Rainhart
Rank: Unranked
Trait (Unique): Mimic. Unleash the last move you were hit with at double the power.
Strength: 4
Agility: 4
Endurance: 5
Mana Affinity: 2
Passive Skills:
Kokoro (Warrior Spirit)
What the heck does all this mean?
He reached out his hand to touch the words in front of him, but found that his hand and arm went past the words, not even touching them.
What’s happening to me, he wondered.
Then like a lightning bolt, he suddenly recalled Mr. Grimes tossing him into the tower-zone, the fight with the minotaur, the climber lady, and then...then what happened?
He couldn’t remember.
Was that lady okay? Someone needed to help her.
He jerked his hands, taking in the medical wires attached to him. He swung his legs so he that he was now sitting on the hospital bed rather than lying on it.
He paused.
He just swung his legs.
He thought for a moment and then tried to wiggle his toe.
His toes wiggled.
He suddenly felt nauseous.
Am I dreaming?
Since the car accident that had changed his life forever, he had yearned to be able to walk, run, and jump like everyone else. To wiggle his toes. He almost felt sick with happiness. Then fear that this happiness was fleeting because it was a just a dream, a cruel joke to wake up to.
“You’re awake!”
A woman stood at the door, smiling at him.
It was the climber lady from the fight with the minotaur. So last night hadn’t been a dream! Or was this just the most super involved dream he’d ever had?
“I’m sure you have a lot of questions,” she said, walking in and sitting down at a chair beside his bed.
“Where am I?” Max asked. “What happened? I thought you may have died.”
The woman laughed. “It would take a lot more than that to kill me. Well. The minotaur did give me a run for my money, but I’d underestimated the threat level, which was a grave error I won’t be making again.”
Max stared at the woman.
“I guess my wounded pride wasn’t the topic at hand, was it?” she smiled. “Let me answer your questions. You’re currently in a hospital in the tower-zone. As to what happened, you were attacked by a ruby-ranked monster, and if it weren’t for your courage and willingness to fight against the odds, both of us wouldn’t be sitting here having this conversation.”
A pain throbbed in Max’s head.
Tower-zone.
Monster.
Ruby-ranked.
He didn’t even know where to begin, how to even piece all these things together.