Damn. Just how ..., how can I gain power in this cultivation world if not by cultivating?
But really, Useless Young Master of Fallen Noble family? Is that a popular genre nowadays? Why I'm reincarnated in this world? Shit!
[Loading Data Package ... Installing Operating System.]
[Installation on progress. Please do not turn off ... 11% ... 32% ... 58% ...71% ... 97% Installation Completed!]
[System is starting up.]
Before I retort on anything, there's this crazy message, icon, and stuff filled my vision.
It is somewhat familiar ... it's the HUD-UI that usually exists in games.
In the upper left corner my eyes, there is this tab like with some icons some of which are darkened I think it's locked, while some are not.
In the upper right, there's a mini-map.
In the bottom left corner, there is a chat window, I guess.
In the bottom right corner, there is a portrait of me with three bars in different colors Red, Blue, and Green. If I remember correctly, this three-bar indicating HP, MP, and Stamina ... I suppose?
Wait a minute, isn't this the UI for Myscreat?
Is this my cheat code in this world?
[Welcome to the World of Myscreat ... Not! Where in the world is this?]
I can hear a feminine robotic voice inside my mind. But, she seems somewhat flustered by something.
I won't delve into it further because I also want to ask that. Where in the world is this? I don't know that there is another planet that could support life beside earth.
Back to the game, Myscreat. I've played the alpha version of the game, that and this seems pretty similar. No, this is the exact thing. I open the message menu on the bottom corner of my vision.
How do I do it, you say? It's not like I have to move the mouse cursor or anything, I just need to 'think' and bam, open.
[System: Welcome to the World of Myscreat! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet (show more)]
[System: You have an unopened gift box. Please check Inventory.]
Hmmm ..., what is this? I don't spare any glance at the welcome message that obviously not very important at the moment. My curiosity pricked by the gift box.
Inventory
Starter Pack Gift Box 1
I don't remember anything like a starter gift or something in Myscreat. But ..., maybe the development team added something to spice things up.
[Do you wish to open Starter Pack Gift Box?]
I 'tap' [Yes] button in my vision, I don't really know how to do it, maybe squinting my eyes or something.
I open the gift box, and then another window pop out. It tells me to choose between the three gifts.
[Please choose one of these card packs!]
Starter Colorless Card Pack Starter Blue Card Pack Starter White Card Pack
The name's pretty lame. I choose the blue card pack, it's the most balanced color from the Seven Color. However, I prefer using the combination of Red, Green, and Yellow card rather than using Blue.
I tear up the card pack. After that, there's VFX like those commonly seen in gacha card-collecting game.
My eyes hurt.
[Starter Blue Card Pack]
- Paltiac's Tome
[Blue|Uncommon|Equipment] x 1
- Allescar - War Veteran
[Blue|Rare|Creature] x 1
- Iron Sword
[Colorless|Common|Equipment] x 14
- Blue Heart Lotus Flower
[Blue|Rare|Resource] x 1
- Single Stab Spear
[Colorless|Unique|Enchantment] x 1
- Sapphire Gem Fragment
[Blue|Common|Resource] x 23
- Gold Coin
[Colorless|Common|Resource] x 101
I got seven cards from the Starter Blue Card Pack.
But these are not the basic cards. After all, it's impossible to obtain a Rare card from the Basic Card Pack.
The Basic Card Pack is obtained during the player tutorial. The basic card consists of twelve cards from the Creature Card, Resource Card, Magic Card, and Effect Card. All basic cards are random only from the common rarity.
The other card obtainable throughout the game. Whether it's from enemy loot, buy it from a merchant, or from quest reward. A certain skill could also change the resource or anything into a card.
The basic cards are programmed to be perfectly balanced. No card with superior strength or effect than another. If some card can Increase Attack Power by +1, then the complement is Increase Defensive Power +1 or Decrease Enemy Attack by -1.
Speaking of which, where's the tutorial?
I reopen the message window and check the welcome message to find if there any tutorial or message regarding it.
At the end of the whole 5000 words of lorem ipsum, there's a package attached. It was the Basic Card Card Pack. Normally, I couldn't have it because I haven't played the tutorial. But, I couldn't play the tutorial as of now I wasn't in the tutorial zone.
So, the system made some calculations and give me this card pack free of the condition. The system has done so maybe because it didn't recognize where and what is this place.
I open it. Gacha-like chest opening visual and audio effect, duririt-durit.
[Basic Random Card Pack]
- Linen Robe
[Colorless|Common|Equipment] x 2
- Iron Reinforced Shield
[Colorless|Common|Equipment] x 6
- Priestess
[White|Common|Creature] x 1
- Gold Coin
[Colorless|Common|Resource] x 9
- Book of Aria
[White|Common|Enchantment] x 1
- Amethyst Gem Fragment
[Purple|Common|Resource] x 1
- Gold Coin
[Colorless|Common|Resource] x 4
- Ruby Gem Fragment
[Red|Common|Resource] x 2
- Pine Seed
[Green|Common|Resource] x 7
- Wooden Mace
[Green|Common|Resource] x 1
- River Sand
[Yellow|Common|Resource] x 11
- Bronze Pickaxe
[Yellow|Common|Resource] x2
It's lousier compared with the Starter Pack Gift Box. I got a creature card, one enchantment Card, four equipment cards, and six resource cards. With this, I have 19 cards as my starting deck.
The number beside the name is how many times I can use it. After it went to zero, the card will be unusable and vanished. Every time I use it, or when in the battle it got destroyed, the number will decrease. As for the Resource Card, it represents the quantity of the said resource.
Placing those cards into the battle deck. But, how can I use it? It's been around ten years since I last played video games. Last time was when I was in college, playing online games in the middle of the night with my roommates.
Recalling that time of youth, involuntarily I let out a sigh. No, wait a sec. I'm ..., this Dian Xianli's body is that of a teenager on his 14.
Technically, I'm young. My body is.
By the way, this is my Status.
[Status Data]
Dian Xianli - (Human; Male; 14) / Aditya Herlambang - (Human; Male; 27)
Class: None
Level: 3
Alias: None
Faction: None
----
Health: 145/145
Magic: 195/195
Stamina: 154/154
----
Attack: 12
Defense: 12 (+3)
M. Attack: 20
M. Defense: 13
Attack Speed: 8
Evasion Rate: 20%
Critical Hit Rate: 8%
Critical Hit Damage: 120%
----
Stat:
Strenght: 4
Dexterity: 6 (+1)
Constitution: 3
Inteligence: 12
Wisdom: 7
Perception: 8
Additional Point: 9 (Gain +3 for every Level)
----
Static Stat:
Charisma: 9 | Luck: 2
----
Skill:
- Logic
[Passive] Level 3 (24%)
- Mental Arithmetic
[Passive] Level 3 (39%)
- Speechcraft
[Passive] Level 2 (2%)
- Negotiation
[Passive] Level 5 (88%)
- Sex Technique
[Passive ]Level 3 (12%)
- Meditation
[Active] Level 1 (11%)
- Empty Fist
[Martial Arts] Level 4 (22%)
- Swordsmanship
[Weapon Mastery] Level 1 (1%)
- Archery
[Weapon Mastery] Level 2 (13%)
- Horse Riding
[Passive] Level 1 (83%)
Skill Point 0 (Gain +1 every Level up)
----
Equipment:
- Head: None
- Outer: Green Silk Robe - DEF +2
- Inner: None
- Hand: None
- Main: None
- Secondary: None
- Bottom: Trouser - DEF +1
- Leg: Leather Sandal - DEX +1
- Accessories:
1: None
2: None
3: None
4: None
5: None
I add 6 points to CON and the rest to STR.
But ..., how can I use these cards?
[... if you need something to ask, please tell this system right away. I ... this system also wants to ask Host about something.]
"What?" I am speechless.
It's given if I ask you, the system a question, but you ..., a system asking me a question? What is this? Are we in a gathering or something?
"Pardon, Young Master?" Old butler Luze responds to my surprise, but my mind is preoccupied now.
Why this female-voice narrator tells me something that it should not be capable of. It is a line of code and pre-recorded voice added with little effect, yet somehow I can interact with it. Ahh, before I also heard her voice when she said welcome or something which is very off-script.
Is she an intelligent being?
"Sheyaa!!"
"Yaaaatth!"
Neighhh!!!
What is that screaming? I open the carriage window to see what happened.
A band of a horseman with coarse clothes and savage-looking outfit. I bet they haven't take a bath for a month or so. They wield weapons made from bronze.
It's an ambush from a band of a brigand. This wave of cavalry has at least 20 men in a horse. If they targetting my convoy which has six carriages and at least 50 loyal servants and soldiers, then they must be foolish.
Our family elite soldier start arranging formation for battle. For them, this much is nothing I guess. But, what is this foreboding? I feel that they aren't just what it looks. I recall something in the last ambush. I have to take some countermeasures.
"To be robbed in my own territory, this is ridiculous. Luze!"
"At your service, Young Master!"
"Go and protect the rear side."
"I ... I'm afraid I cannot accept this order. I must stay by your side to ensure Young Master's safety." said the flustered Luze.
"Go."
I stared at his old wizened eyes that seem could pierce my thought.
He sighed softly and said. "As you will."
With Dian Luze's departure, I start exchanging a word with the female-narrator.
"How do I use the card and what it cost?"
[Host can use Myscreat cards by materializing these cards. To materialize a card requires Void Crystal, ten magic points can be exchanged for one Void Crystal. How many Void Crystals needed to materialize a card is different for each card. My turn, can host elaborate this system where is this place?]
Oh, so it becomes a question exchange? Fine then, her question is simple. This System, she's a little cute.
"From what I know, this world is called Lastarte Continent. We are in the State of Bai, Dian Regency."
[Acknowledged ..., this is not the World of Myscreat, registering new location, Dian Regency, State of Bai, Lastarte Continent.]
"Why you can interact with me? Are you A.I?"
[Host can think of it that way. Host, this system detected some mismatch data in your identity column, did Host really input the right data?]
I have Aditya Herlambang soul from the past life and Dian Xianli of this world. Maybe this is a mismatch in the data. For now, I will stick with Dian Xianli because this is my true identity in this world.
"I'm Dian Xianli of Dian family, compile all the data related to Aditya Herlambang and archive it. I need to check what happens outside and help them overthrow the assailant."
[... acknowledged.]
With female-narrator voice come to an end, I focused my attention on the mini-map.
I see 40 or so red dot waiting for another ambush in 200 m in front of this convoy.
This is not good.