"Ugh... Where am I?" Confused, I looked around and noticed I was in a hospital. It seemed that my parents found me unconscious and brought me here.
'Wait, they aren't my parents, they are Oscar's, but aren't I Oscar. No, I'm not. I'm... Who am I?'
After what seemed to be 30 minutes, I decided that I'm Oscar, mainly because I couldn't remember much about my other life, but I was still confused it seemed seamless it was like I'm both but neither. It was difficult to explain, but it seemed nothing much changed, or so it seemed. I just hoped that nothing negative came from this.
After a bit, it seemed that my 'past life's' memories were just a dream or so it seemed so I took it like that.
Seeing that no one was in the room, I checked the system.
[Name: Oscar Blake, ■■■■ ■■■■■■■] (The blank name will be removed later on, but it will still exist)
[Alias: Blaze]
[Rank H+]
[Level: 1]
[EXP: 100/0] (Doubles every level)
[Status]
[Health: 100/100] [Stamina 56/100]
[Mana: 0/0] [Satiety:68/100]
[Corruption: 5%]
[Buffs: None] [Debuffs: None]
[Attributes]
[Strength:5] [Agility:8]
[Intelligence:14] [Mana:0]
[Charisma:10] [Physique:7]
[Reflexes:9]
[Personality: Genius, True neutral]
[Genetic Skills Feeling Simulation, Minor Healing.]
[Environment Skills: Minor Cold Resistance, Minor Heat Resistance.]
[Personal Skills: Good Liar LV1, Predictions LV1, Close Combat LV0, Ranged LV1.]
[Combination Skills: None]
[Unique Skills: None]
[??? Skills: Internet Backup, Data Mind]
[Remark: Ayo, look at this small weak creature]
I immediately got surprised when I saw [level 1], suppressing the urge to shout that I got a level-up system. Level-up systems are godly tools, but they have their disadvantages.
Resuming examining I immediately laugh seeing that I was an H+ Rank which was below average and didn't even exist, the lowest possible rank was F, but I was two ranks below that. Deep inside me my sigma grind mindset kicked in and made me want to instantly start working out, but I managed to suppress it and continued looking. (An absolute lie)
Looking at my status, I notice the usual HP, MP, STA, but I also notice Satiety and Corruption, while Satiety is quite self-explanatory, {It's how hungry I am} Corruption is not. Clicking the Corruption icon, I get some information about the Corruption status.
[Corruption: Your consciousness has been corrupted. You may have sudden mood changes, partial insanity, or a new consciousness that is insane. Memory loss, and your mental barrier may start to crack. Please rest or seek professional help
Remark: Error 0x80070570 Information Corrupted]
Seeing that notification made me curse out loud and I got worried, but after thinking about it for a bit, I realized that I didn't need to worry about it much, looking that it will heal with time, but it still lingered in my mind that my current number one weakness was my weak mind and I made a mental note not to offend any psychics if they did exist.
I glanced at my weak attributes and got depressed, and my conviction to get stronger slightly increased.
I didn't know how personality worked so I checked it.
[Personality: Genius: You apply knowledge and understand better than the average person.
True Neutral: You are neither good nor evil
Remark: You are just slightly above average]
So apparently Intelligence is how much knowledge I can hold and personality is how I apply that knowledge and how I think.
Next were the skills, the Genetic and Environmental skills were pretty basic and self-explanatory, but the personal skills were interesting. The skill [Good Liar LV1] was probably because I always lied and got used to lying. [Predictions LV1] I didn't know how it came to be or how I got it strangely it seems like it didn't have much of an effect. [Close Combat LV0] and [Ranged LV1] were probably from the VR games that I played.
Next was the skill [Internet Backup] and [Data Mind], which I was very curious about. Clicking on them I got the following information.
[Internet Backup: You have the backup of the internet from 2022, you can open a status window of the internet. You can upload data to a hard drive using mana. it's possible to upload data too.
Remark: Best cheat sheet ever]
[Data Mind: You can upload or delete knowledge from your brain, your mind is like a library. Uploading or deleting knowledge will cost mana and will partially corrupt your consciousness
Remark: Install Aimbot]
"My fucking cheat skills came!!" I laugh and shout, happy for my overpowered skills, but soon realize the side effects and think it's more balanced, still, I wouldn't dare use the [Data Mind] skill, not until I know the full danger of [Corruption].
My sudden shout made a doctor appear, 'I'll have to continue exploring the system after I make him leave.'
"Hello, Oscar, I'm your doctor. Your parents brought you here three days ago and you were in a coma for three days" He then proceeds to flash a light in my eyes do some tests and ask a couple of questions, and patiently wait for my answers, I decide to come clean.
"I awakened and got into a lot of pain before I knew it I passed out and woke up here. Was I seriously in a coma for 3 days?" I can't believe that I was in a coma for three days, but that makes sense, awakening can cause the body to change a lot and could even cause death.
The atmosphere was very serious and it felt very awkward talking to the doctor, I really didn't want to be in that situation so I tried sho him out but that failed.
"Yeah... I presume you don't want to talk about your awakening as you keep avoiding this topic. Anyway, Oscar, you'll have to stay here for a couple of days," He then proceeds to tell me which tests needed to be done and what problem I could have.
"Okay, ill rest. Ah before I forget, did my parents leave my personal items with me?" I ask wanting to check some things on the internet, like training tutorials wanting to begin training my body.
"I don't think they did, but they should be coming soon as I'm planning on contacting them to inform them about your situation." Before he leaves, he tells me to call him if I remember anything.
"Damn I forgot to tell him to not tell my parents... Damn, they are probably going to freak out."
After he leaves, I check the final system prompt [Settings]
the settings seemed very basic and like customization of the system prompts and even voice activation or motion activation of skills it also included a HUD that showed current information about myself.
The other settings were very basic and didn't help much, but it did include a tutorial that explained everything that I already found out or knew from the internet. Sadly the tutorial didn't tell me much about the '???' skills. I was very curious about them
HUD, I immediately set a voice command to 'Combat' and began customizing my HUD. After finishing it looked pretty basic with HP, MP, STA at the bottom, compass at the top, the top right had the XP notifications, and surprisingly top left had a team status.
Just as I'm about to get out of bed and clean up I heard the door open.
"Bwother!!" My cute little sister runs up to me and jumps on me.
And I get mentally prepared to talk to my parents for the first time after becoming an 'awakened' person.
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I helped him once, I hope he'll be alright.
-Certain Nobody