Stunned
That was what anyone would say after seeing his reaction to what the system had to say. Although he knew that he had to become strong to survive in this world, becoming overpowered from the start was not one of his objectives.
"This will affect the story a bit but I guess I should be grateful" these were Hale's honest words. Although he didn't know the power system of this world he knew that he was going to become a freak of nature in this world. But it was best to be safe than sorry.
If he used his current skills, than there would be no limit to his power. Plus the skill Almighty sovereign was just a cheat skill even more than the divine abilities that he received from Arte.
Hale was now feeling a tinge of regret, if he knew about such a skill, than he wouldn't have just stopped at 3 divinities, he would have absorbed the entire divine encyclopedia. Maybe perhaps than he would have the potential to also ascend to Godhood like Arte had said
"Well there's no use on crying over spilled milk, I should focus on what I have right now, How does these divine abilities work and how do I use magic?"
Hale had also noticed something odd, although his stats had increased his level had returned to 1 and there was also this thing called prestige level 1
Although he wanted to ask the system what it was he decided to do that later as he now wanted to know where he was.
When he tried to look around all he could see was darkness, it felt spooky as if someone was staring at him, although Hale thought it was his imagination he could have sworn that he saw a pair of yellow glowing eyes.
If it was the normal Hale from earth, then he would be shitting his pants right now but he was different now. Now he had the skill cold sense which allowed him to stay calm even though he was afraid but this skill wasn't omnipotent.
If the enemy was extremely strong and was releasing a strong bloodlust, then even Hale would have a hard time staying calm.
Hale slowly but surely started moving towards a random direction in the dark. He also was dragging his feet in the muddy ground so he could leave a trail behind.
After what felt like 30 mins Hale suddenly bumped into something, since he was already walking slowly it didn't hurt him.
Hale quickly started to run his hands on the object he had bumped into and it turned out exactly how he had thought, he had hit a wall.
"Well now I know that this place has an end, and judging from the ground and the stone wall I'm in a cave and since the humidity level is so high it must be a underwater cave or there's flowing water nearby".
Hale soon started to walk alongside the wall almost hugging it. As he was walking he heard a small growl coming from the darkness.
As if on cue Hale went to fully alert mode. He had his back against the wall as he started into the dark but he still couldn't see anything.
Than suddenly he remembered about the divine ability he had received from Arte
Although he didn't know how to use it he quickly ordered the system. "System, how do I activate the divine abilities in my arsenal?".
To which the system replied in a robotic voice "Just think about using it and it will activate"
After hearing the robotic and an expected answer Hale tried thinking of using his new divine ability EYE OF THE FATHER and suddenly the world around Hale started turning white as if a big explosion had occured and as suddenly it turned white the world as quickly regained colour again but now it was all in a gray state.
Hale could see that everything even the ground was gray but his hands were pitch black.
Unsure of why it was that way Hale looked around and quickly found himself rooted on the spot.
The reason being was that he was surrounded by what he could only describe as goblins.
Although they looked yellow in this grey world their shape was very similar to what Hale had seen back on earth.
They were very short in high almost at the chest level of Hale who was 5'11. Although he didn't consider himself a tall person these goblins looked like toddlers Infront of him
But he wasn't the one to quickly lower his guard. Although goblins looked weak, they were the most common monster to which people died in the anime and mangas he had seen on earth.
So he knew that he couldn't underestimate them, plus they were ten of them and one of him.
All of them had what looked like cubs with spikes embedded at the far end of them.Even a normal blow to head could kill a normal human
Hale quickly started scanning his surroundings and unlucky there was no escape route. The goblins had him surrounded from every direction as to not give him any chance to escape.
Hale was quickly thinking of a plan when a goblin started running towards him, Hale had avoided from panicking because of COLD SENSE but he was still nervous, he quickly dodged the cub that the goblin had swund towards his head with a little footwork when he noticed that the goblin was slow, like extremely slow.
Hale quickly put that on the back of his mind as he tried to move away from the second goblin who tried to attack his chest.
Hale again saw that the goblin was slow, not minding it Hale tried to punch away the first goblin into the second when as he swung his fist.
But what surprised him wasn't a hard texture but as if his hand was going through something slimy.
Hale's hand had quickly pierced the first goblins chest and had also hit the second goblin, killing them on the spot.
And again to confirm his surprise a semi transparent window appeared Infront of him
[2 GOBLINS SLAIN
200+ EXP
DING
THE HOST IS NOW LEVEL 2]