'Huh?'
There is a grassy area filled with trees filled with weird inscriptions carved into stone around a mirror laying on the ground.
'Where am i?'
'I need to get out of here!'
The mirror rumbled but to no avail, it stopped moving in just a second.
'Why can't i move'
The mirror in the middle of the stone carving started glowing with a purple light. But stopped once again.
The mirror felt like something had left it and was now feeling as empty as an abyss.
'I can't just take this laying down! i have to try something!'
Suddenly! a weird tone escaped the mirror which sounded like a demon's muttering a weird phrase. And with it, the mirror started hovering a little.
'AUGHH'
Then the mirror fell again with the emptiness consuming it.
Then, the carvings glew with purple light that was as intense as the sun and then the mirror felt as if it was lifted back out of the void it was in, and even feeling fuller than before.
And then it happened.
[Hello.]
'What did i do.'
[You used a skill called "hover"]
[Would you like to add it to your list of current skills?]
'NO i want answers.'
[The "answers" that "USER" asked for must be clarified.]
'I. Don't know. Just forget it that's not the important thing right now.'
'Like where did you come from?'
[Information can not be shared, must meet the "creator" for information]
'PLEASE!'
The weird text didn't respond, after the mirror thought for a while it asked.
'What am i?'
[A reflection.]
'But that's not possible... reflections can't live.'
[That was from your old world, this is a new world but you're a new entity, ment to regulate from behind the scenes.]
[No one currently knows about your existence except for "creator", "USER", and "system"]
'But how am i supposed to get out of here when i can't move?'
[Information unavailable.]
'But i thought i learned hover!?'
["USER" said no to the option of adding the skill "hover" to the list.]
'f*ck you'
The reflection tried to perform magic and succeeded at making something other than a hover spell.
[User has gained skill, "mana control"]
'This wasn't what i was trying to do!'
[Results can always be unexpected when user has no instructions to follow.]
[User could also look at skill list to see the current skills.]
'Sure, anything besides sitting here and failing.'
[SKILLS]
[MANA CONTROL]
[UNIQUE SKILLS]
[REFLECTION TRANSPORT]
'To be honest i was expecting more, could you add that hover skill back please...'
[Sure, this is a lesson to look at something before declining it.]
'Who are you to judge, i just woke up in a completely unfamilier environment!'
[I did too.]
Silence crept up everyone's backs. then there was a small squeal heard.
A squirrel with 4 eyes and an outer skull came up to the mirror while looking interested as if sensing a light among the darkness.
'Why is that weird squirrel coming over here!?'
[It can sense the mana leaking out of your body.]
'Then how do i stop that!?'
[How did you learn your hover skill?]
Then an idea formed, the reflection was going to hide his mana to stay hidden.
The reflection tried to pull all of the mana around him into his body to try to hide it.
It was really troublesome to do it as if some force was trying to prevent the existence of this skill from happening. It felt as everything around him was groaning as he forced the mana into his body, unknowingly pulling some from the squirrel as well.
The squirrel's face turned grave as it hurridly ran away from what felt like a small black hole.
[New skill "mana steal"]
'Oh that was unintended.'
'Atleast it scared the squirrel away...
The plant life that was growing on all the stone slabs around were slowly rotting away in way that looked worse than death.
'Oops'
'ok.'
He started hovering which soon stopped because all of his mana has already depleted.
[would host like to earn more mana?]
'yes'
after he answered, a new screen of which was labled quests had appeared.
[new quest!]
[title:"time to float"
[mission: hover for 10 minutes total]
[rewards: 5 mp, 50 xp, hover skill level up.]
'it seems easy enough.'
'what's my status?'
[name:unknown]
[level:0/5]
[xp:5/50]
[skill:hover, mana manipulation, reflection transport(unique), mana steal(NEW)]
[items: message]
[upgrade for more features.]
what instantly got his attention was the message. as it felt mysterious to him unlike everything else.
'open the message.'
[message: hello. if you're wandering who i am then i'm the creator. i gave you this message to help you start your new life here. as a reflection people will try to hunt you down if they find out that you exist. so try your best to stay away from all, atleast untill your powerful enough. if you got killed then lets say that something bad would happen to this planet as your life is a key to everything here, i will give you a skill to help you survive the cruel people that will try to hunt you down. goodbye, for now.]
as if a bomb went off as the thought of a huge responsability on his flat hands that was on the level of the whole planet.
'but how, why... why me!? i wish i knew who the creator was because i will slap him! or her... i don't know.' i just started existing and this person wants me to shoulder an entire planet!?! he (or her) has to be the craziest person ever, and i'm a shadow! what the hell am i supposed to do!? swing my hands at someone just for them to see me?'
he could already tell that he was going to have a difficult future infront of him. but then he decided to look at the skill that he got.
[transform: transform an item to your plane of existence(2D)]
'maybe... i could do this'
and then there was a small hope.