The moment those words slipped from my lips, I exhaled.
"Of course it had to be reincarnation."
I had seen too much in my life to be shocked by reincarnation.
As brother Matt, our crew’s driver, would say:
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
"I guess the gods enjoyed my suicidal act."
I didn’t have the best memory in humanity, but I did know who I was.
The only reason I remembered such a character was because he shared the same name as me.
Plus, he was pathetic.
The only time Allen appeared in the novel was during the Hunter Association awakened registration.
After he had failed to awaken, since he never entered a rift, he begged everyone in the area, from the students to the teachers to the hunters. He begged all of them to take him as a slave as long as he could be a hunter.
After that, he went on to lick the feet of...
"Eww..." I muttered, face twisting.
Even though I wasn’t the one who did it, and the plot point likely hadn’t happened yet, I couldn’t help but feel like throwing up.
"Such a pathetic fool."
His disgusting antics had made his childhood friend leave him and start staying with a young master who later turned her into a Villainess.
"Talk about being silly."
I shifted my gaze to the window that was fully open, the blinds folded upwards.
Rising from the bed, I staggered toward it and gripped the edge.
The damp smell of rain lingered in the air as hundreds of people walked about with phones in one hand and umbrellas in the other.
The city resembled China a little.
At least the advanced one I saw in videos.
I leaned on the edge, sticking my head out the window.
"If this world was given a couple more centuries, it would have become cyberpunk."
I wasn’t exactly an otaku, so the whole transmigration thing was still a little hard to process.
But it wasn’t that bad.
After staying at the window a moment longer, I moved back inside the room with steadier footing.
Allen Vanderbilt was below average in every way.
Modest height, a plain face that bordered on ugly, and of course, worthless talent.
If an extra didn’t have these traits, they wouldn’t be able to blend into the background.
But this world, or rather this character, wasn’t going to stop me.
It wasn’t every day someone got a second chance at life.
So since my humble self had been chosen, I planned on taking it.
And of course, be the best.
Because I, Allen Park, can’t settle for anything less.
I opened the small wardrobe as if about to tear it apart.
Inside was a large black T-shirt with the word Hunter on it.
Beside it was a neatly folded white shirt, trousers, and socks tucked to the side.
It looked too tidy to belong to Allen, considering he used perfumes to cover the bad smell in his room.
Besides, the clothes were too large.
I pulled out the shirt and tossed it out of the wardrobe.
And just as I anticipated, beneath the neat clothes was a large tablet.
It had a white back and very thin bezels.
Turning the device over, I tried pulling off the back.
I did need the tablet to check things.
But I also needed to know how they powered smart devices with magic.
I tugged at the back of the slim tablet, but nothing happened.
If it were someone else, I would have called them a fool for trying this.
But this was me, Allen Park.
Opening the thinnest phones with my fingers was child’s play.
I clenched my teeth. "Damn it."
Scanning the wardrobe again, my eyes landed on a small knife tucked in the corner where the clothes should be.
Without hesitation, I picked it up and carefully pried open the tablet.
The moment I did, my eyes widened in disbelief.
Behind the device were the essential materials found inside any gadget. Find the newest release on N0velFire.ɴet
However, the wires connecting them were replaced by what seemed to be mana threads.
Yet what baffled me most was what lay directly in front of me.
A massive magic circle sat on top of the different tech components, as if acting like a battery.
I stepped back and sat on the bed.
It was an interesting concept.
What was even more fascinating was the magic circle itself.
At just a glance, it looked like runic words etched around a glowing circle, but if I were to write them down...
I quickly took a mental note and recorded the numbers and symbols on it.
As soon as I was done, my jaw dropped.
Binary and functions?
These were Earth programming languages.