My SSS-Rank Clone Talent: I Level Up Endlessly! novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Cruel World! Training!?

Eryke took a big gulp, his eyes narrowing as he stared intently at the system in front of him.

A blue panel hovered before him, filling him with intense curiosity.

[Travel to Another World: 100,000 (Cool down: 1 day)]

"The cool down has decreased by so much?" Eryke couldn't contain his excitement.

He didn't even need to farm anymore. If he could send his clone to every single world, he could rake in a crap ton of destiny points just by using this.

"Is this what cheating feels like?"

The world was an unfair place. From the moment you were born—heck, even before that—your limits were already decided by your genes. Some were born with superior intelligence. Some had the perfect athletic genes and didn't even need training.

Eryke felt like he was at the top of the cheater rankings now.

"Hmm?"

His thoughts shifted to Eryke the Fourth's perspective... (P.S. His second and third had died fighting the monsters and the first is in the Dragon and Telekenitic World.)

A battered and tattered village stretched before him. The huts were broken, and people wore rough, torn clothes as they walked through the streets.

Some of them paused, glancing curiously in his direction before going about their business.

Eryke the Fourth lay on the streets like a beggar, his strange clothes drawing surprised stares from everyone who passed by.

"An ancient world?" he thought filled with curiosity.

Suddenly, he heard a strange "clunking" sound of metal a little further away.

"I wonder what it is?" Eryke the Fourth muttered to himself, walking toward the source. His pupils quivered as he took in the sight.

A gruesome and gory scene unfolded before him. People were being butchered and hung as if displayed for a gruesome showcase. Their agonizing cries were chilling to the heart...

This scream should have chilled the heart of every mortal present, but...

The people walked by without a glance, casual as ever. Even the children snickered and threw rocks at the victims.

"Such cruelty," Eryke the Fourth muttered under his breath.

Eryke the Fourth realized that this was a far darker world than he could have ever imagined.

In that moment, he understood just how cruel this world truly was. The dragon world, with its relatively advanced technology, wasn't this brutal. But here... it was different.

***

Eryke frowned in the real world.

"I should let the clone explore for now. I need a clone to protect myself just in case, so I must level up my talent. For that, I'll need to raid dungeons."

He whistled as he walked through the forest, quickly emerging from it. After searching to his left for a while, he finally found the bushes where he had hidden his precious baby—his secondhand, rusty fifth-gen Chevrolet Camaro.

"I know you're old," Eryke said, his hand gliding smoothly over the car's surface. "But you're the best."

He got in and drove off, a fleeting thought distracting him.

"I need to get my ranking evaluated in a month."

Four days had already passed since Eryke awakened, and there was still plenty of time, but life doesn't wait for anyone—and it certainly doesn't cooperate.