We arrive at the new world in the middle of a town, and the music known as Aqua's cries of despair reaches my ears.
I just stood there enjoying the music for a few minutes until Ordis chimed in.
Ordis:" System initiated. Welcome to the Warframe System, Operator Satou Kazuma-sama."
Me: "Ordis! Glad to hear it. what can the system do?"
Ordis:"The system replaces this world's leveling system by one focused arround warframe mods. You may buy mod slots, mod polaritys, mod capacity and mods themselves, as you level up. you apply mods onto yourself instead of your gear."
Me:"Awesome! How do I do it?"
Ordis:"To use the system's functions, you need to bind it to your adventurer card."
Me:"What is that?"
Ordis:"adventurer cards are issued at the adventurers guild. they are the interface for this world's leveling system."
Me:"Ok. To the adventurers' guild it is then!"
I ask a random passerby for directions and punched Aqua in the face to awake her from her crying.
She fell down on her butt as I giggle.
Aqua:"D-did you just punch me!?"
Me:" Of course I did! Don't act like you don't deserve it. Heaven is your home and they gave you away as a SLAVE to a random guy! Your stunt with me was most likely just the tip of the iceberg for your family to do this. They turned you into my slave as punishment for your wrongdoings, and I am glad to do my part as your warden. Be ready, cause I'll use and abuse of you like the filthy slave you are! Now come, the adventurer's guild is this way."
I headed to the guild followed by a lifeless and sobing Aqua.
On the way to the guild, I see some elfs and some cat and dogfolk as well.
Me:'Nice fantasy setting. I hope to get a cute catgirl on my party that calls me nii-chan.'
Arriving at the guild, I asked to be registred as an adventurer.
The guild seemed to double as a bar and a waitress brouth me and aqua to the registration spot.
Teller:"Welcome, how may I help you today?"
The teller was a beautifull and mature woman.
Me:"Hello. My name is Satou Kazuma, and this is my slave Aqua, we are here to register as adventurers. We are from the boonies, so we don't know how this works."
Teller:"Well, for starters, to register you must pay a fee of 1000 eris. Is this ok with you?" (A/N: 1 eris = 1 yien)
Me:"Hmmmm. I used the last of my money to come here... Hey, Aqua! Do you have any money on you?"
Aqua:"*sobs* *sobs* *sobs* *negativly shooks head* *sobs*."
Me:"Don't mind her. Her family just sold her off as a slave. Anyways, is there a way for us to get a loan or something?"
We sadly got no loan.
Now we are just siting at a table tring to come up with a way to earn money.
Aqua sudently cheered up as she saw a priest looking man and aproched him.
Cringe story short, the priest pityed aqua and gave us money.
So now we are back.
Teller: " So let me explain it formaly now. First, adventurers are responsible for killing monsters wandering outside of town, they are the people who deal with dangerous creatores who may harm the citizens. They are also freelancers who take oddjobs that demand their talents.
If you kill a beeing, you get experience points, on your adventurer's card, you will be able to see your experience points and your level, when it goes up you earn points used to learn skills and your base atributes raise, so work hard to raise your level as it is proof of how strong you are.
Ok, now please put your hand over this cristal here."
The teller brought out a strange device with a big blue gem on top and a blanck adventurer card on the bottom. I put my hand over it like she tells me to.
Me:" Like so?"
The device sprung to life, it glowed and spun its gears for a few seconds before shooting a blue beam of light on the blanck adventurer card below
Teller:" the card shows your current atributes so you can pick a fitting job"
Once the device finishes it's job, the teller picked it and read aloud.
Teller:"'Armor', 'Energy', 'health', 'shield'...? What is this? This is all wrong. The atributes are suposed to be 'strengh', 'vitality', 'inteligence', 'dexterity', 'agility' and 'luck'. Wait a second, I'll get another blanck card..."
Me:"No need, this is right for me."
The teller made a strange face.
Teller: "Are you sure? This is clearly a malfuction."
Me "Are YOU sure it is malfunction? it must be a very coincidental one to misspell 'luck' as 'sprint speed'."
She kept looking at me.
Me:"Ok, lets make another. I don't have to pay again, right?"
We did another card.
And another.
And ANOTHER.
All the cards sayd the same and it took more cards then I bothered to count for the teller to be convinced.
Teller:" Ok, I give up. I dunno what should be the average, so I'll just read to you as it is:
Armor:25
Energy:100
Health:100
Shield:0
Speed:1,00
Resistences: none
Duration:100%
Efficiency:100%
Range:100%
Strenght:100%
Now for the choice of job, i also do not recognize any of these, but there are a lot of choices for you."
She showed me and I noticed the jobs were the warframes, from ash to zephyr, they were all there!
Giddly, I picked my favorite: Inaros the immortal, king of sand and mars.
When I picked the 'job', my adventurer card changed:
[Name: Satou Kazuma
MR:1
Age:16
Hair:Brown
...(A/NThe card also showed Satou Kazuma's weight, eye color, height etc.)
Warframe: Inaros (rank:0)
Armor:225
Energy:100
Health:550
Shield:0
Speed:1,00
Resistences: none
Duration:100%
Efficiency:100%
Range:100%
Strenght:100%
Passives: Immortal
Abilities: none
Mods: none]
A 5 fold increase in HP and a 9 fold increase in armor. And this is just the start of the start.
Gotta love warframe.
I then hear a comotion.
Turns out Aqua did her card as I looked at mine and her stats are through the roof!
Well... all but inteligence and luck. Those were rock bottom.
Aqua chose to be an archpriest, a class expecialized in healing. It seems I will not die any time soon...