Chapter 12: A Glitch? Beginner Level Mathematics Skill

[Beginner level mathematics skills. Progress: 65%]

When Michael saw the progress that had already reached 65%, he was stunned.

For a moment, he wondered, what on earth was going on? Could it be that the system had glitched?

And as he was confused about the situation, there was a notification from the system.

[The current progress depends on the information that the host has learned so far. The host acquired some information on mathematics before, which covers 65% of the beginner level.]

Upon reading the information from the system, Michael understood. During the time that he was in middle school, he had learned mathematics.

While it was true that the mathematics that was learned in middle school was not as advanced as the one that could be studied in high school, it was still a foundation.

Simply put, most of the things that people study in high school depended on the foundation that was set in middle school.

Previously, during the time that his parents were alive and he was still going to school, he was quite bright, being among the leading students in his grade.

It was no wonder that 65% of the information had already been collected. It was just that, Michael was quite sure that he did not remember everything that he had studied in middle school.

No sooner had he thought about this that several notifications from the system arrived.

[The host has to understand, the role of the host is only to collect the information. The system will help the host in mastering the information.]

[Even if the host has completely forgotten about the information, the information is still within the host, but the host cannot access that part of the brain where the information is stored.]

[But, the same cannot be said about the system, as it has access to all the information that has been acquired by the host since he appeared in this world.]

With this confirmation from the system, Michael suddenly smiled. He thought, since he had studied several subjects in middle school, did that not imply that he would have a boost if he began studying other subjects from high school?

And as he thought about this, he decided not to think much about it. Instead, he focused on ’reading’ the formulas and the examples in the PDF that he had downloaded.

Since it was high school mathematics, it was obviously not as complicated as the chef skills. For that reason, it was quite easy for him to be able to increase the progress after reading just one PDF.

After finishing the PDF, Michael seemed to understand something. It seemed that despite how complicated a skill might be to learn, to the system, it seemed to be the same.

While it was difficult to learn engineering as compared to learning how to drive, the number of SP gotten at each level was still the same.

Regardless, Michael was not disappointed at all. He could simply focus on mastering the skills that were easy, to gain SP.

As for those that were complicated, he would not bother that much, unless the skills in that particular field were required.

And in the situation where the time was limited, he could just acquire the skills directly from the store. That would save him a lot of time.

As soon as his mind was focused on reading, Michael seemed to forget about the passage of time.

So, it was only when his stomach began growling that he realized that he was hungry. Just like the previous day, he realized that it was already 10:00 p.m.

At 10:00 p.m., the delivery option of the restaurant was not available. Michael understood that this was related to the safety issues within the city.

Thinking about it, Michael decided that it would be better for him to be able to get some groceries into the kitchen. That way, in case he forgot about the passage of time and could not order food, he could just prepare some for himself.

But at the moment, considering how hungry he was, he had no other choice but to go down and get the food.

Lucky for him, no incident happened, as he successfully got to the restaurant, ate his food, before going back to the apartment.

When he got there, he continued reading, until midnight. As compared to the previous day, Michael did not feel as tired and sleepy as before.

Completely different from the chef skills, mathematics at the beginner level did not require him to watch videos.

All that was required was reading, to get those formulas and calculation processes.

By the time that he went to sleep, the progress had already reached 94%. But by then, he had already covered almost the entire high school syllabus.

All that remained was for him to go through different calculations of mathematics that could be done in high school, in order for him to be able to fill up the remaining gap.

Even though only 6% remained, Michael had no intention of reading throughout the night. He understood, he had to balance between work and rest.

Otherwise, if he ended up over-exerting his body, he might end up getting some complications, which might affect his reading and acquiring of skills in the future.

The next morning, Michael woke up early as usual, before he began reading. From 5:00 a.m., all the way to around 7:37 a.m., finally, the progress bar had been filled.

[Experience full. You have acquired beginner level mathematics skills. +1SP.]

Just like before, Michael suddenly felt a huge amount of information appearing in his mind. And with time, as the information settled, he felt as if the information was naturally there.

Considering that his education level had previously not reached high school level, right now, if he was set to compete against those in high school, he could crush them completely.

The more he experienced the power of the system, the more amazed Michael became. Just the ability of allowing someone to be able to master skills was something that was completely out of the world.

And at this point, Michael could not help but wonder about the origin of the system.

From the day that he acquired the system, he had actually not thought much about the origin of the system. At that time, due to the excitement, he only thought about what would happen after he got the system.

But now that he thought about it, he realized, something like this was definitely not something that should belong to this world.

This level of technology was something that was way beyond the current technological level of this world.

Otherwise, if the level of technology within this world had reached this level, many things would have been easily done.

This time, despite how many questions he had in his mind, he did not receive any response from the system on regards to its origin.

But, Michael did not think much about it. In any case, if the system had any ill intentions towards him, he really did not have the capability of resisting it.

Additionally, considering that he previously had nothing before he got the system, there was no need for him to be targeted.

Since he could not get any information on the origin of the system, Michael did not think much about it.

Instead, he downloaded several PDFs on high school science. After downloading, he went ahead and ordered breakfast.

While waiting for the breakfast to be delivered, he began reading the PDFs.

It was just that, even after he had read for several minutes, there was no response at all from the system. This left him puzzled.

’System, is there a problem? Why is it that there is no progress at all in studying science?’ Michael immediately asked in his mind.

The moment that he asked, the system responded with several notifications.

[The host has to understand that science is a broad field. While high schoolers learn science, it is basically to set a foundation for them later on.]

[Science can be categorized into Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. These are the major categorizations.]

[But even within these major categorizations, there are other categorizations, which can be considered as specializations.]

[For that reason, there is no particular skill for science as a whole. Instead, the host will be required to select a specialization in order to start studying and acquire the skills.]

[Still, the host can go ahead and study science as a whole, and later on, when the host decides to start specializing in a particular field, the overlapping information acquired will count towards the progress.]

It was only then that Michael finally understood. For mathematics, it was not as broad as science was.

While it was true that mathematics would end up branching into several specializations later on, but still, it was possible for someone to be able to learn mathematics as a whole for a certain duration.

But it was completely different from science. In particular, the information that could be found within high school level science was not broad, simply touching on the tip of the base of science.

Even though he was disappointed, Michael did not give up. Instead, he went ahead and downloaded yet another group of PDFs.

This time, it was on Languages. In this world, there were several languages. And, the reason why he could not understand some of the vocabularies was simply because he could not understand his own language much, apart from the basic communication.

But before he could start reading the PDFs, there was a knock at the door. Even though disgruntled, Michael still headed for the door.

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