I woke up next day, after noon time.
As soon as I woke up I felt many changes inside me.
I stood up and saw that my body had many changes, I was a couple inches taller than yesterday, my clothes felt tighter as well.
I could legit say that I hadn't trained a single day in my life, but as soon as I took my clothes off, the first one to be surprised was me.
I had a body that looked like it did nothing but train whole life, my each and every muscle was more pronounced, I had a picture perfect body (not face).
I saw my status screen and saw that that most of my active white cards had disappeared from active slot and had appeared on a new list called [Assimilated knowledge/Abilities/Skills]
I felt myself stronger than ever, though the changes started occuring yesterday, they were more apparent today.
Looks like only after fully assimilating the ability would it display it's full prowess.
I took a quick bath and cleaned myself thoroughly.
Checking out of the hotel, I once again went on the streets of NYC.
My pickpocket skill had been long assimilated, I picked quite the number of purses yesterday.
With some money in my hands, there were more options available for me.
One of the main things I had to do was figure out what world I was in cause that way, I can finally know what the mission will be.
But before all that, I wanted to test my powers out, so I went straight for the Parkour route, just running around the streets lightly, and warming up.
After that I went into a cyber cafe, to search anything that could say I was in a different world.
Even after searching for a whole two hours, I wasn't able to detect any abnormalities, it seemed like everything was same here.
The movies, the animes, the comics, everything was same.
'Don't tell me I am in those romance drama shows...'
'No, I hope not'
After cleaning records that I was even here, I payed the money and left the cyber cafe.
Now, I wanted to acquire as many skills and abilities I could, no matter how obscure they were.
So for the next coming week, I tried to search for any information on this world, but sadly didn't found a single clue.
On the other hand I assimilated over 50 abilities, out of which 5 were yellow grade.
From [Fast calculations] to [Mimicry], I found everything.
I even visited master of the respective arts, like I challenged a black belt karate ka to a duel, though I lost after a few minutes, those were enough for me to copy his Karate skill.
Not only him I fought as many dojo's I could and copied all their skills, and to my surprise, after merging about a dozen or so, Karate became my brightest white card and didn't increase any further.
I did same with Boxing, Jiu jitsu, Taekwondo and Muoy-Thai.
But then it happened, suddenly as if being evolved, the five of these martial arts combined into one yellow card [Mixed Martial Arts], Not only this, I even got many important fight related skills [Close combat weapons : Knife : Tonfah : Baton]
I forged myself a new identity, which even on checking by CIA would seem legit.
Today, I went to a shooting range, guns were more popular in America than any other countries, even more so were the crimes caused by them, and no matter what, for now, I was still vulnerable to bullets.
There was only so much Martial arts could do against an automatic rifle.
The trip went great, not only I got many gun related skills, My [Gun handling : Pistol : Revolver : Rifle] evolved after I copied skills from the masters at the shooting range, into a much diverse Yellow card called [Weapons Mastery : Firearms] my marksmanship increased alot, so much so that I believe most people can't beat me at it.
Except from these cards, I even got [Strategic planning], [Survival], [Trap making], [Brave heart] and [Emotional control] in which except [Trap making], remaining all were yellow grade.
These were all from those old men at the shooting range, it seemed like they all the war hardened veterans, and all seemed to be of high ranking by their abilities.
But God dammit, those old basterds never stop talking once they start, like a goddam radio.
But I had to listen their stories of them wooing girls and killing men to copy those abilities.
But even then I wasn't able to take all of the abilities they had, all my slots were full.
I would visit the place again, it was like a treasure trove for yellow grade abilities.
I took a taxi back to the my home.
I had collected quite a lot of money with my computer skills, taking a million dollars from one man would attract alot of unwanted attention, but when it is in form of untraceable crypto currency and black money at that, no one would be able to trace it down to me.
After that, I turned all that 'black money' to my parents inheritance, forging fake parents was much easier for me.
And I wasn't the one who bought my 'parents' last will to me, it was 'their' lawer.
And in just a week, I was now a millionaire, with 42 million USD in my account and a lavish villa at Mill Neck, NY.
I was doing my everything to turn this place into a fortified place.
Cause all I knew there could be a zombie outbreak. From heavy metal gates to high voltage electric fence, I was doing everything.
Hell, I even stashed a year worth of supplies for me, generators, solar panels, backup solar panel, drums of fuel, and alot of weapons.
Nowhere near where I would like them to be, but weapons were a little hard for me to acquire, especially heavy weapons.
It would take more time but I will be sure to acquire them.
One more week passed, but this time I only acquired 7 more abilities. I was focusing more on yellow cards now, they were the real game changers.
All of these cards that I acquired were from the old men at the shooting range. Yep, that place still has 5 more yellow cards for taking.
Today, I was out buying car parts, with my engineering skills peeking bright yellow, and my [Mechanic] bright white, I was sure I could put together a nice armored car, or rather, cars.
Heck, I even had a personal chopper for myself if I ever needed it, My yellow grade [Vehicle mastery : land : air : water] was enough for it.
Returning from buying even more guns, of course illegally at the docks, it suddenly started raining again.
A storm had hit NY a few days ago, 'looks like it's hot chocolate again' I thought while turning the radio on.
A man on the radio gave the news update "Looks like the storm has passed New Yorkers, A season high, 7 inches of rain last night, High winds and flooding in some areas even let some New Yorkers stranded, city crews still working this morning, They're trying to restore power to the several areas in the boroughs.
Good news is today should be sunny with highs in the low 60s..."
I drove past many areas, avoiding flooded areas as I saw a man lying down on the sidewalk with a phone in his hands.
"Is he who I think he is???"
I drove my car to where he was, suddenly a wave of excitement hit me "Oh My God, it is him....
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