[Hosts' attribute points have been allocated.]
As he heard the emotionless voice inside of his head again, Alex felt a stinging pain inside of his body for a few moments. After the sensation had finished, his body felt lighter and stronger than ever before.
"Wow, this is amazing!" Alex muttered as he jumped up and down. " Though this is amazing and all, I should get out of here."
After realizing this, Alex decided to start following a nearby trail. As he walked for almost an hour, he encountered a few more groups of goblin scouts and leveled up sneak a few times while he avoided them. Although he mainly encountered groups of 3 to 5, he also encountered 3 groups of 2. He decided to kill them so he could level up as much as possible. He killed 4 level 2 goblins, and he killed 2 level 3 goblins.
"Damn, I'm so close to level 5, just 20 more experience," Alex complained as he finally reached the edge of the woods.
"What the hell is going on?" Alex questioned as he saw the state that the city was in. Everything was burning. People were screaming as they were attacked and dragged off in different directions by various creatures. It was a gruesome sight, blood and burnt remains everywhere.
Alex turned around and vomited on a tree after the gruesome sight he had just witnessed implanted itself on his mind.
'I should get back to my apartment, with all of this going on there's no way those guys are still there,' Alex thought and activated sneak and dashed into a nearby alley so he could move without being seen by the monsters. He went to a ladder on the side of one of the buildings he was between and climbed up. Once he was on top of the building, about 5 stories up, he decided to look at things from above. Everything looked worse than it did from below. There were dozens of monsters purging through the streets. He saw 2 different monsters, 1 of them were the goblins, and the second was what looked like kobolds.
"What the hell is that?" Alex had noticed that all of the monsters seemed to be pouring through a red and blue swirling portal. It also seemed as though it was where they were taking the humans.
[Skill Obtained: Scouting LVL 1-Increases users senses and intelligence by 5% rounded up (Percent increases with level)]
'Inspect,' Alex thought causing a new window to appear.
[Inspect:
Race: Kobold
Class: Warriors
Level: 4
HP: 14
Stats:
STR:8
AGI:9
VIT:7
END:7
]
[Inspect has leveled up!]
'Finally,' Alex thought as he continued to look around. 'It would be better if I didn't get in a fight with that many of them."
As he was looking around, Alex decided that it wasn't worth the trouble to involve himself in the battles of any of the other humans.
"It's not like they would have helped me if I were in their position," Alex muttered with a cold tone as he turned around and climbed down the ladder. After reaching the ground he activated sneak again and moved towards his apartment.
'After I get what I need from there, I should probably leave the city,' he thought to himself.
As he was tinking, he came across a small group of 4 kobolds. As he reached them, he tried looking fr another way to go but soon realized that he was stuck betweenthem and the main road.
"well, a 4 of them is better than a dozen," Alex shrugged and dashed towards the closest one as fast as he could.
Ding~
[Skill Obtained: Dash LVL 1-Makes juser 25% faster for 15 seconds. Cost: 10 stamina]
Another message appeared in Alex's vision just as he heard the emotionless voice repeat it. Just as he heard the message, the kobolds noticed him and charged.
Just before he reached them, the first one thrust it's spear towards him,he could barely dodge it as another spear came towards him from his left.
Grabbing the first spear and pulling it towards him as he dodged the second one, Alex swung his blade down as hard as he could and activated slash.
As his blade tore through the flesh of the first kobold, he felt something piercing from his right side.
"AAAGH," he clench his teeth as hardas he could without shattering them to keep from screaming in pain.
Ding~
[Skill Obtained: Pain Resistance LVL 1-Nullifies the feeling of pain.]
Ding~
[Due to recent trauma Skill: 'Pain Resistance LVL 1' has evolved into Skill: 'Felling Nullification LVL 1']
Ding~
[Skill Obtained: Feeling Nullification LVL 1-Nullifies the sensation of physical or emotional feelings, includes: Pain, sorrow, happiness, anger, pleasure and various other instances. Notice: if feeling are strong enough to excede the skills capabilities, the feelings will be enhanced.]
As Alex liscened to the voice, he ripped the spear out of his body and continued fighting.
Alex dodged between the thrusts of the multiple weapons with incredible speed as he slashtowards the second kobold.
"Dash," he muttered and became even faster.
He spun around and threw his knife at the third kobold that was now running away, seemingly to get backup, and the butt of the knife hit the back of its head knocking it over. Just after he saw the knife hit the kobold, he leaned to the left and grabbed the spear shaft of the fourth kobold before pulling it towards him. As the lastkobold came into reach, Alex reached out and grabbed its muzzle before slamming its head on the ground over and over again until it stopped moving.
Alex walked over and grabbed his knife off the ground as he walked over to the last kobold who was now frozen from fear, and calmly grabbed its muzzle before sliding the blade of his knife into the jugular of the dog-like creature.
He walked towards on of the nearby buildings and leaned against the wall as he rested for a few minutes to recover his stamina and to recheck the notifications he had missed during the battle. He skipped past all of the level upp stuuf that he had already seen and got to something new.
[Host has reached LVL 5, Host may now choose starting class:
Rouge - Masters of stealth and single target combat. Often times recognized for their high AGI and DEX as well as their high damage dealing abilities.
Warrior - Masters of various weaponry and being capable of taking on multiple foes with ease. Often times recognized for their STR and their amazing and well capable attacks
Mage - Masters of the mind and soul. Often times recognized for their high MAG and INT stats as well as AOE combat damage.
]
'Well, my stats are leaning towards any of the 3, all of them sound cool too, but if feel like a rouge would be perfect for me, high damage, sneaking, I think ill go with that," Alex decided after thinking for a moment. "Rogue."
[Host chooses 'ROGUE'
Correct? Y/N]
"Yes."
[Host has chose the 'ROGUE' class.
Stealth has leveled up x2
Scouting has leveled up
Skill Obtained: Backstab LVL 1-User deals critical damage equal to x3 STR damage if used when used.
Host is now Rogue LVL 1
AGI and DEX +2 for every level up
AGI and DEX +5 for every class level up
]
"If there is a status section, is there a section for skills or an over all menu?" Alex asked and just as he did, the status screen disappeared and was replaced by 7 tabs.
[MENU:
STATUS
SKILLS
INVENTORY
QUESTS
STORE
PIA
CHAT
]
Alex read all of the tabs and thought about all of them. "PIA?" he questioned out loud before selecting it to see what it was.
[ACTIVATE PIA?]
"Yes," Alex answered after a brief pause.
{Hello host, I am your Personal Intelligence Aid, I am here to help you with anything that you might have queeries about.}
"What?" Alex questioned outloud. "What all can you do?"
{I am here to answer your questions about anything that you have authorization to know}
"What is going on right now?" Alex questioned out loud with no emotion as his suprise had quickly been nullified.
{Earth has been ASSIMILATED with the SYSTEM. As such, the current hosts of the world have gained the privelage of the SYSTEM to aide them in their fight to survive against hordes of monsters that seek to destroy this world and take it over for themselves.}
"So all of this is real? Its not just a bad dream?" Alex questioned with a little doubt of his new reality, as well as, a little bit of hope that he would wake up at anytime and his fimily would be right there with him again.
{Yes Host, this is all real.}
Hearing the PIA speak, the atmosphere around Alex grew heavier as his eyes turned cold and a hint of anger sparked in them.
"Alright,"Alex said after a few minutes of sitting there and calming down. "Do I have to be on this tab to speak to you?"
{No, host can speak to me anywhere in the menu now that i have connected with the host. As well as, you can speak to me withthoughs in the same way you would activate a skill.}
"Ok," Alex responded. "Can you change anything inside of the system, like notifications or anything?"
{Yes}
"Can you abreviate the leveling up notifications and such please?"Alex asked
{Yes}
"Thank you," Alex said as he switched out of the PIA tab. "I read that the LCK stat Effects whether or not you get a drop and if it will be good or not, but I haven't seen anything like a drop. Is my LCK stat too low or something?"
{No, all drops that the Host recieves, including coins, goes directly into the inventory.}
"Coins? Is that for the store?"Alex asked as he opened the inventory tab. "Also, just call me Alex. I dont like being called host."
{Alright, Alex, And yes the Coins are for the store.}
"Thank you," Alex muttered as he read through the few items that he had obtained.
[Inventory:
]
"'Cloak of Night'?" Alex asked when a new screen appeared in front of him.
[Cloak of Night:
Item Type: Coat/Cloak
Durability: 100%
Description:
A midnight black cloak that seems to be have woven from the darkness of the night itself. When worn, the cloak gives the wearer a 50% boost to AGI and DEX, and makes the wearer 50% harder to detect at night. It also gives the user extra defense, being almost comletely impenetrable to most normal attacks. As long as the coat sees the darkness, it will repair itself with the threads of night.
]
"Holy shit, how do i take this out?" Alex asked his PIA.
{If you focus on the item then 2 choices will appear, 'USE' or 'TAKE OUT'. An item like clothing can be taken out and worn normally, or selecting use will autamatically replace it with whatever you have already equipped.}
"'Take out,'" Alex commanded and a cloak as black as night appeared in front of him as he reached out and grabbed it before putting it back in his inventory. "I dont want to put it on over my Bloody and dirty clothes. I only grabbed one pare of clothes from my apartment so ill wait until im there to put it on.
"Now, Boots of the Stalker?" Alex questioned.
[Boots of the Stalker:
Item Type: Shoes/Boots
Durability: 100%
Description:
Boots made from the leather of the wendigo. User has +10 to AGI, DEX, END,and STR. Boots automatically regenerate when a foe is killed.
]
"Wow, whats with these items, and why do they seem so inclined to my class even though i got them before?" Alex asked his PIA.
{The inventory, chat, quests, stor and PIA tabs are all lock until level 5 when the user unlocks their first class. This is done so that any loot, the PIA the store and other various things are inclined to the hosts builds for their classes and personalities. As an effect of this, all loot gotten will be generated when the host opens their inventory for the first time.This is to ensure things suck as an intelligence based mage getting a massive greatsword, and other various scenarios.]
"Makes sense i guess." Alex said as he put onthe boots and opened the last 2 items in his inventory.
[Skill Tome: Shadow Affintiy :
Item Type: Spell Tome/Shadow Affinity
Uses: 1/1
Description:
Using will cause user to gain an affinity with shadow magic as well as one random shadow spell. Notice~If you have and affinity with a certain magic type, you cane use the magic to creat you own spells and such.]
After reading this, Alex became intrigued with the idea of magic and quickly selected use.
[Host has learned the shadow affinity and the spell 'Shadow Port']