Getting A System In A Modern World

Inside his room, Silas lay down on the bed, laughing helplessly like a fool as he thought of how his dinner with Chloe went.

"Who knew I would be so lucky?"

After Chloe went into the house, Silas got into his car and drove off.

On the way home, his mind was constantly occupied by Chloe's reaction after he stole a kiss from her cheek.

Silas would call kissing Chloe on the cheek daring because he had no idea if she would react the way he was expecting, and luck seemed to be on his side as she did.

If someone were to tell Silas that the way the dinner went was how it was going to go, he would have wagered everything he had on it being wrong. What happened was the least of his expectations.

The most exciting part about everything is that he got to see Chloe's cute side.

Who knew that Chloe was someone who would actually get flustered—and by him?

Silas actually didn't know how much his new look affected those around him. He wasn't aware of the aura that he started exuding after he completed his first evolution metamorphosis.

As Silas lay on the bed, different thoughts related to Chloe ran through his mind, and the smile on his face got even wider, as his thoughts always returned to Chloe's reaction after he kissed her cheek.

Though it can't exactly be called a kiss, a peck would be the name, but he doesn't care.

'Sigh... I wonder how things are going to be between us going forward?' Silas thought.

He knew that things between the two of them were going to change completely, and depending on how far, and the pace at which the two of them wished to take things, they may become something in the future.

Silas remembered Chloe's reaction, and he was sure that something could happen between the two of them.

'The question is if I should be proactive or not?' Silas thought to himself and made a quick decision.

"If I really want her, then I should be proactive with my pursuit of her, but will I actually have the time for this romance thing?" Silas asked himself aloud.

With how much work he had decked out for himself after the construction on the underground facility was completed, Silas knew that he might not even have time for himself.

"Well, I still have like two months before it's completed. I can use that two months to be productive. Who knows?.." Silas could only sigh as he thought further.

The thing is that he didn't actually know what he was doing. Everything he did at the restaurant was all spontaneous actions from him.

He didn't know what he was doing and he didn't plan for it. He just went with the flow and grabbed whatever he felt to be an opportunity, and luckily for him, things worked out.

"Ahh... Finally, I will experience this dating thing," Silas said as he tucked himself into bed and closed his eyes.

A few seconds after closing his eyes, he fell asleep.

****

"Where am I?" Silas suddenly saw himself floating in a void.

He looked around, but he saw nothing but absolute darkness—a type of darkness that felt very tangible.

He stretched out his hand to grab the surrounding darkness, expecting something to happen. To his surprise, the place he grabbed tore away, exposing something that looked like a black hole. But instead of the middle being pitch-dark as how regular black holes were always depicted, this one was filled with clustering lights.

"Wow! It looks so beautiful, but where am I? What is this place?" He had so many questions that he needed answers to, but there was no one to provide those answers.

He was confused as he had no understanding of the situation he found himself in. The last thing he remembered was that he lay down on the bed and slept off, and the next thing he knew, he appeared in the void.

"What... is this maybe one of those vague memories?" Silas asked himself.

He thought of it as very likely, and he looked around his surroundings once more, but it was still the same as before.

He decided to study the black hole in front of him that was filled with lights, and as he studied the black hole, he noticed something.

The clusters of lights weren't actually lights; they are... they are...

"Galaxies?!" Silas exclaimed in shock when he saw what the clusters of lights truly were.

"How is it that I'm seeing galaxies in a black hole?" Silas asked himself, his curiosity shooting through the roof, and his questions piling up even more.

The swirling systems of stars and interstellar matter...

"Wait a minute! Matter!" Silas exclaimed when this thought flowed through his mind.

He didn't understand what was happening, but a lot of things—information—were flowing into his head as he studied the black hole in front of him.

He let out a deep exhale and tried to focus his attention on the bulk of information that flowed into his head, but it felt like he was looking at a pile of nonsense.

No, it felt like he was looking at something that was completely alien to him, but Silas felt strange as the information in his head was very familiar, yet he still couldn't understand it.

"Who am I really?" Silas asked himself curiously when he thought of everything that had happened.

From what he saw during his first evolution metamorphosis, the vague memories in his head, the information that kept pouring into his head sometimes—everything had been very strange and almost unexplainable.

Silas knew what it could be, but it was completely different from what he used to read.

"Nah, that's dumb. Why use the explanation of someone who hasn't actually experienced a regression or reincarnation to explain my current situation?"

Silas could only sigh as he thought of this. He really hoped he would get the answers that he so badly needed.

Silas turned his attention back to the black hole, and he noticed that the lights in the singularity section of it were disappearing one after the other.

"What's happening?" Silas asked as he observed what was happening in the black hole.

He looked closer, and he saw that there were two figures standing at the deepest part of the black hole.

Silas was even more surprised by this. He thought he saw wrong, but when he looked closely, it was just as he saw previously. Two figures were standing in the black hole.

"Wait a minute. Is this even a black hole to begin with? How can there be two people inside a black hole, and most important of all, how can there be light in the singularity section of a black hole?" Silas questioned himself.

He looked at the two figures in the black hole, and he stretched his hand to touch the black hole in front of him, but something very unexpected happened the next moment.

Silas felt his body yanked from the void and into what he thought was the black hole.

Outside the void was a dark space filled up with so many clusters of galaxies that Silas found it hard to even start counting.

He was unable to understand the situation before he heard the same familiar voice he heard during his first evolution metamorphosis.

"It's not yet time. We can't rush it, or we fail again. We still have more than enough time, and you should enjoy it," the voice said, and Silas found himself awake, staring at the ceiling of his room.

"Sigh... Fucking give me more information and stop mystifying everything!"