"So now I can let you live a new life from the beginning that you wanted to live." The god stood up and continued. "Remember the fantasy and isekai novels you read as a kid about a world full of magic, sword, monsters, multiple races and most importantly skills, status and levels. Our world has all that."
"Yes it might sound funny to someone from your world because you think we made a game like world, but it's actually the game that was made after our world. To us it is just a method to make the things people experience or have appear in an orderly and numerical fashion. The experience they gain will be converded in to their rewards. A system where people can see how gods are rewarding them instead of just living a hopeless life totally unaware of how things are happening."
"So do you wish to live a new life from the beginning where thing that happen are happening because of your choices and not because some god wanted to mess with you? " Rach smiled as he looked as John hopeless and hollow eyes started to revitalize.
John hesitated then said "Just make me an orphan. OK? I don't what my choices to affect my new dad."
Rach sighed "Refused. Not everything goes your way. Hahaha...." The old man laughed looking at John who was now muttering 'Dam you old man' under his breath.
"Now it is only natural that you will have your memories but I want you to be able to get used to the world around you and also let your family get used to the fact you have previous life memories so they won't come to you all at once but in small batches first as dreams... well nightmares but those nightmares will save you a lot of hassle with your family, so they will be worth it. It is always better to let the family slowly guess and understand that you are a reincarnator than suddenly dumping it on them one day. I never understood why they do that in novels. It's easy to accept things like lies, skocking news, medicines, poison and yes..memories, in small batches than in large ones."
"Don't worry about family, I will put you in a loving family, who will spoil you a lot. "
He waved his hand and a computer screen appeared in front of John. "I made this skill window to look like a computer screen since you are used to it but once you are born you will have window same as everyone else. You have TWO privileges. Here you can chose to increase 2 of your stats to as much as you want or take any two skills or one stats increment and one skill. It's up to you. Your choice. It has a microphone so you can speak to it to get what skill you want. Now I will take my leave and will see you during your baptism. As for what baptism is, I will leave the job of explaining that for your new family." Then with a puff of black smoke he vanished.
John looked at screen and it had MP, POW, AGI, DEF, DEX and LUC which probably stand for mana point, power, agility, defense, dexterity and luck. Then on scrolling down were the skills. For stats he already knew what he wanted.
He could not live a life where everything was in his favor, so for stats he was planning on maxing out his luck. He clicked on the drop down button in front of luck and saw option 9,99,999,9999,99999 and so on.
"eh... Wasn't it supposed to be in % ? I guess they calculate this differently than what he said."
He scrolled down and the number of 9s kept increasing. He kept at it yet there was no end then remembering there was voice interface he said "Highest value in luck stats. " On hearing this scrolling went down super fast and the last option wich seem to be not much different from few above was visible, 9999999.... . He clicked on it to select but by mistake it drags a bit and all the options gets selected, the drop down disappeared and the stats luck was selected and turned blue. It all happens so fast that his heart stopped for a minute thinking he messed up his luck but it seems fine.
"[The stats luck has been confirmed as the first privilege. It was confirmed at highest setting, infinite. It can no longer be changed. Incorporating the stats to the user.]" The interface's robotic voice spoke.
At the side of his luck stats a infinity sign was shown. Looks like selecting all options means add them all up which was to much thus infinite.
"[Incorporation complete.]"
"eh.... "
He was expecting something dramatic like how its shown in novel or mangas like getting an amazing feeling or feeling pain or bright light entering his body or something like that but he felt really nothing. He was going to scroll down to see a good skill but remembering the long scroll down. "Show me the highest ranking skills." He said.
"[Skill ranks available are E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS and EXTREMITY from lowest to highest. As these are privileges, user can choose without worrying about level restrictions as there are no such restrictions for privileges.]"
'Wow, truly a interface made by god. It knew exactly what I was worried about.' The level restrictions would have been huge pain in the ass as he wouldn't been able to use the skill he choses for a long time and taking some lower ranking skill was a waste. But thinking about it, it would be fine, after all he doesn't need to fight immediately after birth so he could wait and increase his strength the normal way till he is able to use the skill and with his luck he will definitely reach the required level.
"... hmmm. "
Then he saw it. The iconic button you see always after selecting something on your smartphone or computer. The select all button. He knew the first time what happened was pure luck but now he had an infinite amount of luck. So after taking a deep breath he tapped on select all.
"[All selected skills and stats have been selected as the second privilege.]"
"uh.... haha.... hahahahaha"
"It worked... hahaha"
It had been a while since he had such a good laugh. He needed a lot of useful skills like Healing, Appraisal, All elements magic and some battle related and survival related skills, and also the fact that he had infinite luck gave him confidence thus he took the risk and it worked. He could see infinity symbol in front of his mana point, power, agility, defense and dexterity, which proved what he wanted.
"[TOO MANY SKILLS.... user will go in sleep mode to incorporate all the skills in. Memories will be sealed in small amounts in many batches.]"
"[User sleeping in 3, 2, 1....]"
John felt his eyes going heavy and conscience fade as he fell asleep.