My condolences Alice, your beloved brother succumbed to his fever last night, and now the pitiful guy won't even get so much as a tombstone. I have likewise not merely just robbed you of the knowledge of your brother's passing, but also your love for him. To never know the fate of your loved one is a fate worse than death, and I am unquestionably sorry for that, Alice.
Eiden, I promise you, my friend, that I will give your death meaning and protect the people close to you. That is regrettably all I can do for you now.
Now, then let's go over all the essential information. My new host is apparently a member of the Blackwell family which has roots going back 800 years, my father Henry, the duke of Nihylmyre rules over 50,000 acres of land in the east at the border of the empire of Helerionya.
Nihylmyre's primary source of income is gold mines in the mountains of Aurumhym that lie in the southwest part of the duchy, in the south they cut down trees to make boats, and part of those boats are used to maintain a small navy in the southern part of the duchy, the rest of wood is sold to the Duchy of Okeanavis in the south. There is also some trade with precious alchemic plants and runic crystals. There also used to be a mine of arcanyt but the land on which it stood was conquered by an orc lord Vargoth years ago.
All in all looks like I pretty much-struck gold. It's rich, marginally safe, and live in a mighty land and I am my father's only successor.
But let's put this aside for now, the most paramount aspect of this new world is the existence of magical arts like alchemy, elemental magic, shapeshifting, divination, and so on. And all you have to do is inscribe for every spell a run upon your soul. The more complete the rune and with fewer unnecessary parts the more powerful, versatile, and controlled the spell you can produce.
''Well look at you being so erudite when it comes to sorcery Johny boy.'' Spoke a girly voice.
''Great I either lost it or I am getting possessed.'' Said Eiden sarcastically.
''We both know you lost it a long time ago and no demon or ghost is crazy enough to possess your rotten soul so in this case and only in this case you are not going crazy.'' Said the girl's voice sarcastically.
''First of all, you are being awfully rude and secondly who the fuck are you and what in the hell are you doing in my head bitch?'' followed Eiden's angered reply to the girl's rude remark.
''Well now's who is being rude boy'' the voice of a young girl changed into one more serious, older, and sinister, the voice you hear in your head of yours belongs to me, the most advanced piece of magic, science and alchemy unification in this universe, I belong to your forefather, whose name you are unworthy to even think about, much less utter and me conversing with you is nothing more than small mercy and how much you will benefit from my help solely depends on my goodwill, have I made myself clear you ungrateful little mongrel?''
''Yeah I'm sorry it's been a long day, dying, being reborn, learning magic and other worlds really take a toll on a person, so I'm again apologizing.'' Apologized Eiden in at least an outwardly sincere manner. But on the inside, he was freaking out, what in the hell did I get myself into, and who is this ancestor of mine able to create this artifact. Anyway, the first order of business is not to irritate this thing and the second one is to manipulate it into taking from it everything I can. Politely Eiden continued their conversation. ''If you don't mind me asking how may I address you?''
''Hahaha look at you learning quickly,'' replied the girl's voice with her previous mischievous sweetness. ''You may call me Luciana or just Lucy for short. Either way, let's just go over the basics, mkay? Firstly I may or may not be advising you, depending on my mood of course, hahaha, secondly, there are everyday quests and quests that come and go, the latter depending on my mood/energy, also you need to know that some will be mandatory and some not.....tho I suggest you still fulfill them, besides that there are few more things with which your kind ancestor had rewarded you: an infinite storage room, that freezes objects in time, a safe haven in which you can teleport at a moment's notice, you can also train their garden, fish and so on. Now moving to the juicy part you have a meditation room that will allow you to train rune visualization and the inscription upon your soul without any risk, which in theory should allow you to progress much faster than other people who just don't have the privilege to fuck around with their whole existence.....oh and you can also invent new and better runs, you can try merging them together. Anyway, why am I even telling you all this, you will soon see the benefits of it all. And the last part is the library, despite most books being locked from your use at the moment, those restrictions might be lifted.... if you might if you prove t worthy of course. Oh and one last thing you also have a stat window if you want to check how much of a disappointment you currently are.
There was a huge surprise written all over Eiden's face, he just had to lie down. ''Wow this is pretty amazing, you are pretty amazing Luciana,'' he said while internally winking to the incorporeal girl. Oh, this is gonna be really fun. Let's try seeing all the marvelous gifts and try to gain more of them hahaha, thought Eiden with a spark of greed shining in his eyes.
Oh yes but first: '' And Luciana, hearing what kind of disappointment I am would be lovely?
The girl didn't say anything but there in front of his eyes a list in bold letters was broadcasted:
Name: Eiden Blackwell
Age: 16
Skillset:
Chemistry: level 34 (postgraduate)
Biology: level 30 (postgraduate)
Math: 17 (intermediate)
Computer science: 6 (basic)
History: 8 (intermediate-basic)
krav maga: 15 (intermediate knowledge)
kickboxing: 17 (intermediate knowledge)
Brazilian jiujitsu: 16 (intermediate knowledge)
Knowledge of Earth's languages: English, Russian, German, French, Japanese, and Spanish
Knowledge of Magiterra's languages: Common tongue, Nihylmyre's language, Runespeak, and a bit of High Elven
Knowledge of magic: 4 (basic)
Runes inscribed upon the soul: 0
Mana: 0
Strength: below average
Speed: below average
Agility: below average
Reflexes: average
Intelligence: 99.6 percentile (140 iq)