My heart is beating like a drum.

It is not because of fear of being naked in some unknown forest.

I am excited.

After that message had disappeared and I had calmed down a little, I warped my head around what was going on.

Being a person who use to watch anime and read a lot of web novels, there was a plot I use to enjoy a lot.

I am sure that the majority of the people interested in anime had watched one with that setting.

Considering all the things around me, there was only one situation that could explain my current circumstances.

I came to a different world.

I could not stop grinning from ear to ear, imaging the things I would be doing in this world. I don’t know if it was possible to use things like magic or skills, I was just super thrilled.

Since I was an orphan, I had no strong attachment to my previous world.

Everything was dull there.

I was an average kind of guy that had only two notable qualities according to the people who knew me.

Being a good listener and observant.

Other than that I had nothing to offer.

But you can not live in a society like that. So I forced myself to do most of the things I needed to keep a stable income, which just made me tired of it all.

Sure you can call me lazy and I completely agree with that, I am lazy. But when I find something that is interesting, I try and give that thing my hundred percent.

Things did start to get fun when Selena came, but that happiness was short lived I guess.

Now I can only hope that she lives her life in peace and comfort.

I get up from the ground, since my butt was starting to hurt, and stretch my arms and legs a little.

I put all my excitement aside and try to figure out why I was chosen to be here.

It can’t be because I was a good person. After all, I was not.

I could even be considered “bad” in some people's books.

Never once did I ever do charity.

I never went to church or prayed to god.

I would even ignore some people asking for help thinking that it might be a pain in the a*s.

So we can take out that possibility.

Considering the timing, it could be because I saved Selena. But why would someone send me to a different world for saving my cat, so we also take this reason out?

My personality is sh*t, and most of the time I look for my benefits. No one would want that kind of person to be a hero and save the world.

But the message said that I was in that person’s world and he needed me to do some “main quest”, other than that I could use his power for whatever reason.

This last reason just might be it but I am sure there are a lot of people with the same kind of mentality as mine.

Considering all these reasons I could think of, I Concluded.

It was random.

I was dying and someone randomly chose me to be here.

Well, this kind of setting is good for me since I could do whatever I want with these powers and take my time doing the main quest since there is no time limit.

Thinking about powers, what even are the powers that he gave me.

The message shown to me was on a game-like screen, so I guess we are going with the system-like setting.

But I hear no one talking to me and no system screen stating my next task.

Being one of the many experts in this kind of field, that imagine themselves being in this kind of situation at least once, I already knew what to do.

With full confidence in my knowledge, I say “Status”.

And voila, a status screen appears in front of me.

[Status]

Name: Alaric Black

Age: 24

Title: None

Level: 0

Stats

Vitality: 7 Agility: 6

Stamina: 6 Strength: 5

Intelligence: 7 Charisma: 4

Dexterity: 8 Luck: 0

XP: 0/10

Back

I was feeling quite smug but when I saw my stats, I was shocked.

Since my level is 0 that means this was my state if you were to put it in numbers.

I use to play soccer from time to time so I considered myself quite in shape.

These numbers are just pathetic.

At least all those hours in front of the computer and playing video games helped me get some decent dexterity.

I don’t have any other data to compare it to so let's just consider it good.

While convincing myself of not completely worthless, I notice a “Back” on the screen.

I touch the “Back” and then a menu screen with multiple options appears in front of me.

[Menu]

Status

Inventory

Skills

Quests

‘Now this is more game-like.

Thought that I touch the “Inventory” option.

[Inventory]

Shirt

Pants

Shoes

Back

I almost cried when I saw that there were some clothes I could wear. I was quite worried that I would be hunting monsters naked.

I was imagining the worst outcomes that could have happened to me while in that state.

Suppose I was hunting and some small monster sneaks and bites my d*ck, thinking it's a sausage.

I don’t know if it had eaten a sausage before, but just thinking that it could have happened, sends shivers down my spine.

I wear the clothes and check the state of the inventory.

It was fairly big with a lot of slots. I could not see an end to it no matter how much I scrolled. Well, I won't be having problems carrying my stuff.

I touch the “Back” and then touch the “Skills” option.

I was quite hyped to see what skills that person gave me.

[Skills]

Active:

None

Passive:

None

Specials:

Devour

Back

Seeing the skills page I sigh I little and touch the “Back”.

I have worked with a lot of software and know that sometimes they can not load all the data properly.

After waiting for a few seconds, I enter the skills page and there is no change to it.

I press “Back” and start looking for the “Quit” option but there was none.

I was so angry and disappointed seeing that I only had one skill. That message about power had me thinking that I will be destroying things with magic and stuff.

Still having a little hope that the skill might be OP, I press it for details.

[Devour]

"To devour is to swallow ravenously or to consume destructively.

To take in greedily and absorb everything they have to offer.

There is nothing I can’t eat."

Effect:

You can eat anything you wish to eat.

A random amount of stats and skills shall be taken from the things eaten.

Lvl :1

Skill XP: 0%

“OooOoooo,” I say feeling hyped again.

This is a “weak to strong” type of scenario.

“I am a scaling time of character so I’ll be OP late game,” I say to myself with folded arms while bobbing my head up and down.

‘It's going to be a pain in the start but I am sure to be strong later’ I think to myself.

Feeling a lot better and with all my excitement restored I press “Back” and go for the “Quests” option.

[Quests]

Main Quest:

[Eat and Grow (1)]

Eat 10 Gods

Progress: 0/10

Reward: Special Skill.

No time limit.

Side Quest:

[Level-up (1)]

Reach level 1

Progress: 0/1

Reward: Basic Skills Package.

No time limit.

Back

After reading the main quest I shout in disbelief,

“Excuse me what the fu*k”.