After two weeks had passed, I returned home with my new family. The apartment was large and truly wonderful, everything inside it neatly arranged, as if I had stepped into the future.
My mother smiled, placed her hand on my shoulder, and said:
— Go to your room and rest… once I finish preparing lunch, I'll call you to eat with us.
I entered the room, and she closed the door behind me. I looked around carefully… the walls were plain, without pictures or decorations, only filled with books on mathematics and physics, engineering texts, and designs of advanced systems related to hunters.
I realized then that he must have been obsessed with these things. But what I discovered while reading his diary was that his life in this society had been extremely difficult. Every page was filled with the contempt he endured and the mockery he lived through, because of his weakness in a family of hunter lineage.
One name kept appearing… someone who constantly bullied him, insulting and beating him: Valik.
I was struck by how much the person who lived in this world resembled me—not only in facial features, but in everything: contempt, helplessness, the invisible wall standing in front of you, blocking your progress.
I lay down on the bed, flipping through the pages of the diary, reading all his suffering. After about an hour, my mother entered and said:
— Zukaro, come… the food is ready.
I smiled and answered:
— Coming, Mom.
But inside, I felt uneasy. Every time I looked at her face and her smile, she saw me as her son… yet I was lying. She wasn't my mother. And still, if I looked closely, she resembled the picture of my real mother that I had kept. As for my father… his face I had never seen. His picture was torn apart.
I ate with them… and the family atmosphere was warm. For the first time, I felt this way. I wished it could last forever.
The days passed, and I was often left alone at home, since they all went out hunting. But something kept bothering me ever since I first woke up in this world… something strange, something only I could see.
I asked my mother and brother if they could see a strange screen that appeared in front of me, but they only stared at me as if I were crazy. So I never mentioned it again.
It was a strange system, like the games I had seen in a short series called Rezo in my previous world, but completely different.
System: Ratio
Welcome, warrior.
Activate the system to begin your missions.
It was too bizarre, so I ignored it.
A week went by quickly. One early morning, I got ready to head to the university. Everyone around me felt like strangers. I didn't know anyone. Even the person whose life I was now living hadn't had friends. Worse, he always hid the fact that he was the son of hunters, embarrassed to admit it.
I realized our lives were similar… the same contempt, the same failures, the same trials with no progress.
The school day passed quickly as my mind drifted elsewhere. I was just an ordinary young man. In my previous world, I worked and paid rent, electricity, water bills… But now? I lived like the rich—no bills, no burdens. Just a new world full of challenges.
On my way back, I saw hunters entering a Dome Dungeon. I'd heard that whatever the dome surrounded would be transformed into its own world. Everything inside it changed according to the laws of the monsters.
But that mysterious system, "Ratio," wouldn't leave me alone. Even in my dreams, it appeared.
When I returned home, curiosity got the better of me. I rushed into my room, stood before the virtual screen, and said:
— Activate the system.
Suddenly, a light of pale blue flared up, and a massive screen filled with information appeared before me.
System: Ratio
Name: Zukaro
Power Level: 30
Available Upgrades:
Speed: Lv0
Physical Strength: Lv0
Attack: Lv0
Full Body Power: Lv0
Special Skills:
None. Must level up first.
Assessment: Weak
I didn't understand any of it. Upgrades? Skills? What did they mean for me?
Then another message appeared:
Mission Log — Level Up
Daily Training:
50 sit-ups × 3 times per day.
100 push-ups × once per day.
Sprint 10 km × once per day.
Combat Training:
Fast jab with lead hand.
Powerful cross with rear hand, shoulder rotating.
Benefit: Teaches speed and accuracy — the foundation of combat.
(Combat training changes weekly).
I was baffled. What was the point of this? But something inside me urged me to try. What did I have to lose? What could I gain?
I opened the "earned points" tab, and another screen appeared:
Mission Points: 0
Summary:
To gain points, complete the missions within the required time.
Rewards:
Heartbeat Upgrade: Lv0
Poison Recovery: Lv0
Instant Energy Boost: Lv0
Energy Vision Detection: Lv0
(Each daily mission = 50 points. Each upgrade requires 100 points).
It was unbelievable. Unlike anything I had ever seen.
When I researched this world's history, I learned that the first Dome Dungeon appeared 238 years ago. From that day, history itself had been rewritten.
Unknown monsters appeared… and with them, people who awakened supernatural abilities, along with a ranking system for hunters:
Legendary Rank: those who surpass 1M power (extremely rare).
Elite Rank: 100,001 – 1M.
Rank A: 50,001 – 100k.
Rank B: 10,001 – 50k.
Rank C: 5,001 – 10k.
Rank D: 1,001 – 5,000.
Rank E: 301 – 1,000.
Rank F: 50 – 300.
As for me… my power didn't even reach 50. Too weak to even be recognized as a hunter.
But despite this, I made a decision.
This is a world ruled by strength, where the weak have no place.
And for the first time in my life… I have a new chance.
A higher chance to become limitless.