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Chapter 2 - The Twist

Ryan reached his home in the Miyama town side of the Fuyuki City—the sun shone high in the sky, buildings in his surroundings were a part of the traditional, suburban residential area.

He unlocked his door and walked inside, taking off his shoes to change into light slippers. Ryan lived alone in Japan, his family was fairly wealthy overseas, hence they could send him to study in Fuyuki, along with a whole house and school bills arranged for him.

Even then, he did not get any pocket money from his parents, they apparently wanted him to become independent and more responsible in regards to money.

To that, Ryan could only curse his past self, who had a niche hobby of collecting unique antiques. He had burned his parent's money on antiques faster than any parties or alcohol ever could.

Anyway, now was not the time to curse his past self.

He had to check repeatedly if he too had any staple cheats like other Reincarnators.

Ryan prayed to gods from nearly every religion, hoping at least one would hear his prayers and cautiously spoke in his mind.

'System?'

'Cheat?'

'Old Grandpa?'

'Status?'

'Root?'

He repeated these words in his mind like a mantra, yet nothing responded to his pleas.

Ryan sat on the sofa of his main hall while complaining to the RNG gods about not sending any cheat his way.

'Panel?'

'Diary?'

'Sign-In?'

He tried one last time in fading hope, hoping for a miracle to occur.

Yet, none did.

'Yep it's time to dip, goodbye gas leaks.'

Ryan concluded with a defeated sigh, and got up from the sofa sluggishly, heading towards his room to pack the clothes and essentials.

As he walked, his mind already planning to GTFO out of here, his hand accidently pushed against one of the most precious vases from his antique collection kept on a table nearby.

The vase fell down from the table, crashing against the floor and cracking apart.

'Well done, absolutely well done.'

'Can this day get any worse?.....That vase could have been sold for 50,000 USD.'

He really felt an urge to take up a tri coloured sword and point it towards the RNG gods while roaring 'Gacha is a bad civilisation'.

Ryan bought a dust pan from the storage to clean the broken pieces of his precious vase.

While cleaning the broken glass and ceramic, he saw a small beaker full of luminescent blue liquid, with a brown cap sealing the beaker.

'Hmm....Did I put something like this here?'

Ryan inwardly wondered as he cleaned the broken glass and cracked ceramic pieces surrounding the beaker. 

After a moment, he curiously touched the beaker in wonder.

The moment he touched the beaker, information was forcefully plunged inside his mind without any extra pain and discomfort.

He froze in shock as his mind processed the information plunged inside it with a gentle nudge, the dust pan falling from his shaking hands.

Ryan held the beaker tightly with one hand while his other hand clamped over his mouth, trying to muffle the exaggerated laugh escaping between his lips.

The beaker in his hand was a absurd resource from another world outside of the Type-Moon Verse. It was Concentrated Ambrosia from the anime *Arifureta*, the same one Hajime had drank to heal from his injuries and survive after ingesting monster meat.

Ambrosia was an extremely powerful and rare medicine that was created from mana condensate release from a Divinity Stone, after it had been saturated for centuries. It was capable of healing most wounds and ailments, nullify toxin, either by drinking it or applying it directly onto subject's wounds, and could even save someone who was on the brink of death. It could even extend one's life, so long as they continued to drink it, and has been also referred to as the "Elixir Of Life".

His version was even better and was made by the condensate released from a Divinity Stone after it had been saturated for long millennia's.

This Concentrated Ambrosia could permanently increase the mana pool of it's consumer by a huge amount, according to the memories implanted in his mind.

His so called 'cheat' had even made it compatible to the laws of the Type-Moon Universe, making it a priceless treasure across the world, which could increase the quantity of his inherent Magic Circuits after ingestion.

Ryan reverently put the beaker on the centre table and ran to fetch more of his antique vases from the surroundings.

After fetching nearly 8 priceless vases from his collection, he held one in his hands, inwardly thinking in excitement.

'Here goes 30,000 USD! Come on RNG gods, give me something priceless like last time.'

Ryan pulled the priceless vase above his head and threw it on the ground without any mercy or regret, he rather looked at the breaking vase with appreciation, like something beautiful was happening in front of his eyes.

After 30,000 USD were burned without a care in the world, Ryan quickly picked up his dusting pan to search for something in between the cracked porcelain.

After a moment of frantic search, he finally held up a USB drive in blue colour.

His mind was imprinted with new information, about the use of the USB.

That USB actually had a manual inside it with the name [Way To Reach Mana Zone For Dummies] written by Mereoleona Vermillion, The Lioness from the anime *Black Clover*, already adapted to the laws of Type-Moon Verse.

Ryan was dumfounded, did cheats also get a software update nowadays? Manuals were being sent in hyper encrypted files which would get destroyed the moment anyone else other than him tried to look at them by hacking into his computer or stealing the USB drive.

'Big Thumbs up to the cheat expresses for giving him an up to date cheat.'

Ryan inwardly gave a big thumbs up at the cheat that was given to him.

5/5 stars.

Ryan held up another vase of 40,000 USD after putting the blue USB with the beaker and crushed the vase to the ground like it was cheaper than something free.

He quickly pulled out a small notebook from between the broken shards of glass, memories imprinting in his mind related to it.

It was a small notebook with the title [Way Of The Magi & Basic Spells - Clock Tower Edition], covering all the basics related to Magic, Magi and Clock Tower.

Ryan quickly put it near the other things like a kid getting presents on Christmas.

After taking a deep breath to push down his excitement, he held up another vase of 20,000 USD and broke it like his own piggybank.

Another USB was visible among the wasted money and broken glass, It was in the shape of a star with a connector at the very centre.

Memories imprinted in his mind like going through a TikTok reel, This USB had a manual inside with the name [Heavenly Body Magic Records], the magic used by Jellal Fernandez in the anime *Fairy Tail*.

Ryan was on the seventh moon as he quickly picked up the next vase, a super rare one worth 100,000 USD alone.

He hesitated only for a moment before crushing it to the ground too, Ryan was really having a field day today. His past self would have already gone deep into mourning, had he seen how his precious antiques were being treated cheaper than plastic bottles.

A stylish and modern handle appeared among the pieces of broken vase, It was of pitch black colour with red patterns on it's guard.

'A Light Saber?'

Ryan gushed excitedly while touching the activator, memories integrating naturally into his mind.

It was Ser-Veresta, The sword of Black Furnace, One of the Four Coloured Magic Swords and an Orga-Lux. It was also the signature weapon of Ayato Amagiri from the anime *Asterisk War*.

His body pumped adrenaline madly as he quickly put the activator of Ser-Veresta with the other things and quickly held onto another vase of 30,000 USD and crushed it against the ground like he had some kind of grudge against it.

Yet, even after searching the wreckage of the collective vases for a long time, he could not find anything.

'Where is my gift pack?'

Ryan searched here and there, ending up empty handed.

'Hey....'cheat,' where is my treasure?'

He asked inwardly in irritation and uncertainty.

New information was integrated in his mind.

Ryan froze for a moment, his body absolutely still as he turned to look at the scraps of the latest vase he broke.

'So, You're saying that I only get 6 gifts in a single year? I have to wait another year for 6 more?'

He repeated with a deadpan voice internally.

"Nooooo!!…My 30,000 USD...."

Ryan's scream was so loud that even his neighbours heard his cry.

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