The message was still glowing brightly in front of Ryan's eyes in the darkroom. Because of the darkness, the bright light of System's message was hurting Ryan's eye.

< Requesting a reboot >

"Permission granted. Reboot the System. Do not ask this again in the future for undergoing a reboot." Ryan ordered the System.

The System did not respond to him, as expected. The System has never responded to him.

'What is this...?' in front of Ryan's eye, a video started playing. It was a dark room with a bright light of a table lamp that may be glowing in the dark.

A man was sitting in front of the table, in front of the camera. But he was not still, he was moving up and down as if he was looking for something.

He caught the eye of the camera in front of him, "Ah," he realized he was on-air, "Right. It must be the time for that to happen," he again bent down and rose up while sitting in his chair.

'Why is his face blurred? And what is up with the metallic voice?' Ryan thought with a frown. He did not get the System wanted to show him, tell him by showing a video of a blur-faced man.

"Okay, entering today's date in the log, for the first time. Yes, this is the start of my and my... Student's journey. Today is the 18th of April 2065.

"Rest of the things later. Listen, your System will now undergo an evolution, the first stage of evolution and the second stage of the System. You have unlocked level two of your System. Congrats!"

'Eh... that's my birth date, if I am correct it was my 10th birthday....? ...Wait.. what?!' Ryan almost screamed, his voice was suppressed when everything in front of his eyes went dark again.

The only glowing light in front of him was now darkened. The rest of the room seemed even darker to him after coming out of the light.

'No, seriously, what is going--' again, his words did not come out of his throat.

Ryan felt a stabbing pain in the part of his chest, strong pain in his eye, an immense amount of pain in his head. Slowly... It started taking over his whole body.

'I- I can not- move-' Ryan tried moving his limbs, his body parts but unfortunately, he was not able to move anything.

He was experiencing a huge amount of pain in his body but was not able to move his body parts at all. Fixed like a statue in one place, he was not even able to blink!

Not long after the blur-faced man disappeared and the video stop playing and everything went dark; the pain in Ryan's body was slowly going away.

Ryan was able to move his body parts, he felt as if a strong grip that was holding him just let go of his whole body. The same feeling we get when we try holding our breath and then release it.

Ryan started gasping for air. He looked around, he felt as if the world was spinning. Ryan quickly got a hold of himself when he saw another bright message in front of him.

Ryan was not able to read the text in front of him cause his vision was blurred, everything was spinning around.

Finally, Ryan got over the miserable feeling and focused his eyes on the text in front of him.

< Successfully Rebooted! The host has unlocked new features, skills from the store, and many more! >

< You have entered phase two. You have been granted the video guide created by the master host. >

< Select the continue option to open up the video guide and have a live talk with the master host! >

'It must be that man... Master host?' of course, Ryan did think he was the only one who had something as cool as his own System.

But if he has this System, this Ring, then it means someone had definitely made this. And if that person did make this, it makes zero sense to think that its creator did not try on the Ring themselves.

The video started playing again after Ryan selected the continue option without waiting for another second.

The man appeared in front of him again, again his face was blurred, nothing but his chest was visible, anything below his chest was not covered by the camera.

"Entering today's log- the official recorded record of The Ring System. Today's date is 1st of November 2070."

'Huh? Not one, not two but five years in the future? Directly? Like that?'

"Greetings... Ryan Walker." Ryan continued hearing the rough, horse metallic voice, "I am.... Ugh.. how do I say it... I can not expose myself but.. yeah! I am your master, your teacher, guardian, father, brother, sir, uncle, you can refer to me as anything you wish to.

"Alright. Uh... ah, she was right, I should have prepared a script. Now here I am, not sure where to start from, what to say, how to do it...

"Well anyway, let us get here. It has been exactly 30 years since the Ring System was made and... Somewhere a few months since you got your RIng System."

'Who the hell are you...? How do you know so much about me?' Ryan unconsciously thought, knowing that he would not get an answer.

But to his surprise and shock, "I am really sorry, I can not expose myself. And how do I know so much about you? Oh boy, I know you more than you even know yourself."

'.....You can talk back?'

"Of course I can. Just because this is a recorded video does not mean I will not give my precious... Student the experience of having a live talk with me..."

"I am confused,"

"Of course you are. In fact, even I am. Ah. okay. Many events happened after the formation of his System, you will obviously learn them as you advance through the System but for now... All you got to know is...

"I am here to protect you. To help you, to guide you. And... to not let you die as I and wife did. Haha, I am not from some other timeline or alternate universe. I do not know if that shit is a reality by now or not.

"Ah. By the time you get this video... By the time you are watching me sitting in my basement with a blurred face, using a voice changer to make my voice metallic... I would already be dead."

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