Aaira Alastair was a beautiful, mixed race teenager. Her father was British, and her mother was a Chinese.
After marrying her mother, her father decided to develop in China. That's where her unique name came from.
She lived an ordinary life until the age of eighteen, going to high school, living her days monotonously, making ordinary friends but not someone she could call a best friend.
But then everything changed after she got into a horrible car accident. She was diagnosed of paralysis. Her backbone nerves were damaged, making her lower body paralyzed.
She had a wealthy family which could afford her medical expenses after her accident. So she didn't have to worry about this issue.
Her family was heart ached and took care of her in the initial period, visiting her in the hospital at first during her recovery, but later their visits became less and less. Even after she was brought back home in the wheelchair, life wasn't the same as before.
She would be served by servants, but she became lonely. Her parents had their jobs and her brother was a college student, they all had their lives.
Who would care about a cripple for a lifetime? Everyone had their priorities in life, even the blood relatives.
She had finished her high school final exam just before her accident and got a pass. But due to her accident, she missed a year of studies, not that she would bother to continue studying.
She drowned herself in online games and novels. It would be a lie to say that she was not disappointed because of her family's behavior. But she could understand that they had their lives to take as a priority.
However, understanding does not mean acceptance, and because of this, she became uninterested in the world and isolated herself.
Until her 19th birthday, she was reminiscing about life, sitting on the open terrace when she heard strange voices, not from outside but inside her mind. She tilted her head and considered whether she was having an auditory hallucination.
The things that happened afterward changed the course of her life.
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First Task
She had asked the system to wait for 3 days to let her make preparations for the first task, to which he happily obliged.
Her preparations were mainly clothes, cold weapons, food, water, and a survival kit. She had money to buy these things, and online shopping did not take much of her effort.
Couriers were delivered to the villa the next day and after opening them she directly put the stuff in her inventory.
The rest of the time she spent to practice her archery skills and watching wild survival shows and documentaries. Her ability Photographic Memory automatically stored the knowledge in her brain.
Now she was lying on her bed, looking through the items in the SHOP, and soon she found the thing she was looking for.
A medicine to heal her damaged backbone. It wasn't a medicine, to be precise, it was the legendary 'Healing Potion'. A low-level potion cost 100 system points, medium 500 and high level 5000.
She wasn't sure which one she needed according to her physical condition, and she had only 1k SP. She decided to postpone the purchase, dismissing the panel, she closed her eyes.
'System, initiate the task.' She gave the instruction.
'Host, are you sure you want to do this task. This is an S rank task?' He asked anxiously.
The task she had chosen was to kill 10 million monsters. It was a catastrophic amount. System was agitated.
'Yes, I am sure. All the tasks in my world are low rank, I won't be getting enough system points by completing them. Even if I want to complete them, my body won't allow me to do it at the moment. If I am going to use my soul to do the task by occupying another body, then I wish to select this task. Please choose a suitable body for me that can help me survive.' She said solemnly.
The system became silent for a while.
'Host, I hope you survive.' He wished her good luck.
'Initiate.' She said expressionlessly.
'Understood.' That was the last word she heard before losing consciousness.
Ding…
Initiating the process of dimensional travel and vessel change.
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When she woke up, she felt dizzy. She felt herself lying on a hard surface.
'Host, are you okay?' System was anxious.
'Yes, what is my situation?' She asked without opening her eyes.
'Host, you are safe for now. Do you want me to transfer the world background directly to your mind, or do you want to read it manually?' He asked.
'Directly to my mind.' There was no hesitation in her tone. Soon she felt a splitting headache, clenching her jaws, she endured the pain. A huge amount of information was poured into her mind.
This was a modern world with more advanced technology than blue star. A golden era of peace and prosperity. But this all came to an end when the apocalypse engulfed the peace.
No, it was not a zombie apocalypse.
It was a world where gates started appearing all over the world, inhabiting the monsters that were only heard in legends and fairy tales. Once any of these small worlds behind the gates gets overwhelmed from monster population, the gates would brake, allowing the monsters to roam in the outside world where they would feed on humans.
Dungeon Break was a common occurrence in the initial period of the apocalypse.
Armies of most large countries had acted swiftly and efficiently to ensure the survival of mankind. But even so, many regions had been lost to the monsters during the Dungeon Break.
The remaining regions had quickly retained law and order. It had been 95 years since the emergence of gates.
People could conquer dungeons and acquire Power Stones from them. From what its name suggests, a Power Stone was used to obtain powers, magical abilities that only existed in fantasy stories before the appearance of gates.
But it was limited, one person could absorb only one Power Stone.
She quickly analyzed the information she received.
'Host, there is also the memory of the original owner, do you want to receive it?' He asked.
She raised an eyebrow hearing this, then nodded.
Suddenly, another wave of pain hit her head and she became dizzy once again. When the pain subsided, she had already received the memory.
This body's name was Gu Yuxi. Originally, a 17-year-old high school student. She was a young lady of an influential and wealthy family. But she was an ordinary girl and not a Ranker.
Rankers were people who obtained magical abilities from Power Stones and dives into the dungeons to conquer them before any Dungeon Break could occur.
Aaira was currently in an E Rank dungeon because the original Gu Yuxi died in this dungeon miserably after being bitten by a poisonous monster.
She was tricked into entering a dungeon by her so-called friends. Even though she did not have a Ranker's identity, they dragged her with them and when the time came they used her as a meat shield to save their sorry asses.
As a revenge, she had snatched the Power Stone dropped by the same monster from her treacherous friends and absorb it before dying, rendering all their hard work useless.
She wanted to applaud the girl's last move, but then remembered something important.
'System, do I still have toxins in my body?' She asked hurriedly.
'Yes, host, the antipode to this poison costs 100 SP. Do you want to buy it?' System quickly scanned her body.
'Sigh… buy, buy, why not buy? I do not want to die immediately after coming to this world now, do I?' She said exasperatedly.
Suddenly, she felt a small glass bottle containing a pink liquid appearing in her hand. She opened her eyes and opened the bottle cap and gulped down the liquid in it.
'Good job.' She said.
She sat up, analyzing her surroundings, which were filled with green vegetation. This was inside an E Rank dungeon.
She quickly opened the Map panel, then seeing that there were no hostile existences near her, she sighed in relief.
Status
Name: Gu Yuxi (Aaira Alastair)
Age: 17
HP: 120
MP: 110
STR: 12 INT: 11
AGI: 12 SPIRIT: 6
DEX: 12 MIND: 6
VIT: 12 LUCK:3
CHA: 9
Attribute Points: 0
System Points: 900
Skills: Professional Gamer (High)
Special Abilities: Photographic Memory, Space Manipulation (Low)
INVENTORY
SHOP
MAP (1 km)
TASK BOARD
She immediately noticed her changed status. The stats on the left side had changed. It was probably this body's stats, but the ones on the right remained unchanged.
'System, why are some basic stats are unchanged?' She asked.
'Host, the stats on the left are body stats, while the ones on the right are related to your soul.' He explained.
'Oh…' She was surprised.
This body had doubled physical stats than an average person, probably because of absorbing the Power Stone.