Game Over
The cold word appeared not allowing him to deny the cruel reality. ' No, I was so close to 10 minutes!' Nassim in frustration stood up from his bed and walked around his room.
' Damn I was just about to reach the next goal point.' Sighing Nassim clean clicked on the screen.
What appeared was a rating on the game. At the top showed the Array Zones best time at 9 minutes and 27 second and the level he reached which was level 37.
Below that was the word Destroy that changed into a variety of different words having the same meaning. Underneath that displayed the current time, acquired ability, and items.
' Forget it that was pretty good for my first time playing. I wonder how many research points I can buy. "
"I should have gotten about 600 PP from my calculations' Nassim clicked on the screen again.
The screen changed to show the class mastery which was currently on Wizard. The empty bar rapidly increased to 10 percent.
Clicking once more, a random assortment of circles connected with lines appeared with the words Experiment Progress. The Experiment Progress quickly filled before emptying, repeating once more leaving the Experiment Progress being 2/3 full of cell points.
Bonus 100 PP.
The screen faded into black as two new classes appeared, The Bard and Warlord. Each had different images displayed that show their characteristics.
' Finally, I can see how many points I won.' Nassim thought when he got back to the original start screen. Different from the beginning there was a blue 676 PP in the top left corner.
' Only enough to buy 1 research.' Nassim thought as he was about to click on the Research button before stopping and clicking on town.
The screen changes into four different areas with different style buildings. The first one was tall and pristine white color like a hospital.
The second was a small building with a sign with the words Artifact store. The third was partially underground.
The last was different from the previous ones as it wasn't just a single building but a road that led to numerous different houses. Each building has different styles ranging skyscrapers to small wooden cabins.
Nassim clicked on the second building called the Artifacts store. What appeared was a cast list of different items listed by their rarity and price.
Fireflies: Normal Artifact; price 500 PP.
Increases Spirit damage 15%, Satellite damage 15%, and Electric zone 15%.
Rose Mask: Rare Artifact; price 1000 PP.
Creates +1 Spirit and + 15% Spirit damage.
Mechanical Arm: Legendary Artifact; Price 2000 PP. Number of fireballs +1 and number of incineration +5.
"What a rip-off! With that many points I can upgrade my magic or even buy a new character race!" Nassim blurted out loud after seeing the prices of some of the Artifacts.
Knowing that he currently couldn't afford any of the good Artifacts he left the shop. Clicking into the Research section.
Rows of ability profile appeared in front of Nassim. With great familiarity he scrolled to the bottom where he clicked on the upgrade called Knowledge.
Knowledge- Starting level +1
After confirming that the upgrade was the same as with his previous life he looked at two options that showed up.
Invest and Retrieve. Clicking on invest the exchange ratio of Research Points appeared.
Exchange 1000 PP for 1 Research point.
' F**k! It Changed!' Nassim roared inside his head.
.....
Far away from Maslom...
In an empty valley in the middle of the night a mysterious shadowy figure appeared out of nowhere.
Following the Figure's appearance spheres of black dots quickly gathered together. After the black dots gathered into varying different sizes.
Some of the dots quickly grew twice-fold while others transformed to have different color centers. The most numerous of which were small groups of specks.
The black dots groups better known as spirits chased after the figure. After a second the figure launched a medium sized fireball towards spirits and released an explosion.
*BOOM*
Killing the spirit and damaging the spirits around it. Very Quickly the gap was filled up with more groups of spirits.
The earth beneath the figure and black spirits dried up and cracked. The plant life around them dried and died as if something or someone was absorbing their life force.
It was unknown whether this entity was the figure or the continuous spawning of the spirits. However the dieing environment did not attract either of their attention of destroying the other completely.
The figure and the ever increasing hoard moved away from their original location. The night was not disrupted by their arrival; no there was an eerie silence that couldn't be broken.
No matter how much destructive force was released by the figure no sound was produced. Just like the black and white silent films from the 1900s.
****
Back at Nassim's house
" I should probably head to bed. Since Miss. Ammonite said they were coming in the morning to take me to my first day at work." Nassim said after dying for the sixth time.
Nassim got up from his and headed towards the bathrooms. Getting ready to sleep by washing his face and brushing his pearly white teeth.
Nassim looked deeply at the person in the mirror. He saw himself with his beautiful youthful face.
The warm amber eyes that could melt the coldest of hearts and a perfect warm smile. They could comfort even the grieving souls of the dead.
The beautiful yet handsome face and balanced figure invoked the thoughts of the pure bliss. It could cause the feelings of innocent love, passion seeing a loved one after years of separation, causing people to feel unconditional trust.
That was Nassim. The one and only.
" Yes, this is now the new me. While it kinda sucks not being the manly man I was before but this is not bad." After counseling himself, he left the bathroom and went to sleep.
***
Early next Morning
*Thud Thud THUD*
" Who is knocking on my door so early into morning?" Nassim, who was eating the classic syrup covered pancakes with a side of orange juice breakfast commented.
The thought of having to leaving his perfect breakfast behind made Nassim feel pain. Shaking his head getting up and going to the front door Nassim thought of who it could be.
' I haven't met any of my neighbors since I arrived so unless they are really friendly it's probably not them.'
' It's probably the person Ms. Ammonite said she was going to bring over today.' Nassim opened the door and saw a smiling face in front of him.
" Hello Mr. Gilmore, my name is Gavin Lopper." The face beaming as he made his introduction.
" Hi, it's nice to meet you Mr. Lopper. Is it alright if I call you Gavin?" Nassim returned a smile with equal magnitude.
' Lopper huh what an interesting name.'
" Of course, as long as I can call you Nassim." Gavin replied as he grabbed Nassim shoulder.
" Sure"
Nassim nodded his in agreement While asking Gavin where he was planning to take him early this morning.
" Ahh, I almost forgot to tell you that we will be heading to the East Public library." Gavin slapping his forehead as if showing his sudden realization.
" I hope that you already had your breakfast since we better get going. You don't want to be late on your first day." Gavin grabbed Nassim's hand and dragged him out the door.