"Sergio, now I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're free of cancer, but the bad news is your body can't support itself any longer. You have about 7 weeks max before you go into organ failure," I was told by my doctor. Walking along the highway, I wondered why my life had become this downward spiral of bad decisions. "Well, I guess I shouldn't be too sad now," I said, looking up towards the dark sky.
"Mom and dad, I'm coming to meet you soon," I said as I smiled, drinking a beer in hand. I heard a voice say, "Come to me." A voice like that of an angel. My body relaxed as I looked over to where I heard the voice. Looking over, I saw nothing but a simple highway with some cars passing by. "Huh, must have been my imagination." I say, My body is still relaxed as I hear the same voice call to me. "Come on, Sergio, you're being slow".
Hearing that voice, my body moves by itself as I can feel a pull–something beastly wanting to chase that voice. Looking over, I still see nothing. As my mind is getting muddled, I move towards the voice of someone I cannot see. As I walk through the highway, I see a young boy sitting on the ledge of the highway, staring at me.
"Come on, Sergio." I hear the voice again, realizing it is the voice of the boy. As I run towards him, my mind still muddled, the boy stands up and looks straight at me, his arms open, welcoming me. My vision gets blurry as I charge at the boy. I can see my arms fade in and out, transforming into a monstrous arm with many eyes and mouths.
I can see the boy standing still with a smile as he says, "Come on, Sergio, run faster." I hear the boy as my mind goes blank, and all I can feel is rage and hunger rushing towards the boy. I come closer, yet I don't. I can feel myself moving towards him, but the space around me seems to be expanding. I run, yet I cannot move.
As I run, I can see the child smile as I hear, "Come on, Sergio, it seems you need help." The space that seemed to endlessly extend stops as I can see the area around me turn bright white. My body, which was human, seemed to slowly turn to ash slowly as my rage and hunger, which I felt originally, calmed down.
[The system has started….]
[Hello user, What is your name?]
"Huh, w-what is going on?" I say, My mind is a mess. Looking around, I see a black void.
[You are in the space between worlds.
What will I call you, user?]
"What… I guess call me Sergio"
[Hello Sergio, welcome to Potestas! I am your personal system.
Please call me system 000]
"Hello, system 000, so I'm in the space between worlds, huh… Am I dead?"
[No, user, you are not dead, currently, your soul has been exported out of your physical body.]
"Isn't that basically being dead?" I say my mind is still confused.
[…
What race would you like to be?]
"You didn't answer my question…." I say, looking at the system interface. "Let' see the race system 000"
[Races:
Dragonkin: a powerful race with strong bodies and magical capabilities,
Elfs: a race with a powerful connection to magic and one of the few original races
Humans: a race with no notable ability nore feature, average all around
Beastmen: a race of blood and gore, survival of the fittest rules them.
Voidling: born in the depths of nothingness, they are tortured beings left to die.]
As I read what each race is, a thought came up. This world's name seems familiar, yet I could not identify what it was exactly, shaking my head. I looked at the description more closely, as I noticed something. Voidling: born in the depths of nothingness, I felt a strange attraction to it as my body moved and chose the voidling race by itself.
Race acquired: voidling
What class would you like to play?
Pugilist: a warrior and a mage fighting in the way of both magic and weapons
Shaman: a priest and a sorcerer, cursing your opponents with your god's power
Tinker: a rogue and an artificer, invention and stealth are key.
I stared at the choices, wondering what I felt would be the best for me. After mulling over the choice, I finally picked the pugilist class.
[Class chosen: pugilist
Loading into the world…
Randomizing spawn…
Randomizing class…
Unique class obtained outsider…
Spawning in the wailing woods…]
The black void around me starts to shift as I can feel my body get constructed, my senses connecting with this new body of mine. Soon after, I see a blue sky around me as I start to fall quickly, the air pushing against me as I fall. I look below me, and I see a lush green forest. Overtaken by the beauty, I forgot what was happening. I soon realized I was still falling to the ground. "FUCK FUCK FUCK, SYSTEM, WHAT DO I DO?"
[Hello Sergio, It seems that you are falling to the ground. Do you seek assistance?]
"YES, I NEED HELP QUICKLY," I say, screaming out of fear, as I can feel my heart beat drop and quicken, as I feel my body suddenly stiffen, crashing through multiple tree branches, finally dropping on top of a bush, my body in pain from the fall, and I see a -5 HP in front of me.
"WHAT THE FUCK, I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO HELP?" I yell at the system, anger flooding over me as I remember the feeling of falling.
[The system did not have enough time to help. I apologize for not acting sooner. Would you like to activate tutorial mode?]
"FIRST OF ALL, FUCK YOU, AND SECEOND, YES, I WOULD," I say, yelling at the system as my anger slowly calms down.
Tutorial mode activated…
First, quest open your status screen by saying status.
"status."
Name: Sergio
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Hp: 45/50
Class: outsider
Species: voidling
Level: 1 (0/50 exp)
Mana: 25/25
Stamina: 25/25
Rank: none
Title: none
Authority: {system user}, {?????}
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Stats
Strength:15
vitality:15
agility:15
Intelligence:10
Wisdom:10
Charisma:14
Willpower:20
Luck:0
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Active:
Void Step lvl 1: Step into the space between spaces and appear where you want to be. -5 stamina
Passives:
Human form
Voidling form
50% darkness resistance
20% fire resistance
30% level up speed
Looking at voidstep, I ask the system, "Why didn't you tell me to use voidstep, a skill I have that, from this description, is basically teleportation?"
…
The first quest is finished.
Quest reward: 30 stat points
"Look at that, you're not answering my questions again." I sigh as I look at my passive skills and activate {void form}, My body starts to grow taller, my skin becomes darker and darker, and multiple long whip-like bones rips through my back as I can feel my body contorted and reshaped. Finally, after the transformation was done, I opened my eyes.
My vision had gotten clearer. The darkness that surrounded my original vision in my human form disappeared. I could feel power running through my veins as I activated my skill {void step}, appearing in the sky again. The fear I once felt had disappeared as I could see the forest again and my body falling from the sky again. I activated {void step}, appearing in front of a lake. I saw my appearance, tall humanoid with multiple eyes and mouths throughout my body. The muscles in my body had grown as the whip-like bones on my back waved through the air, with my hands having sharp, shadowy claws.
[Second quest opened]
[kill (0/5)
Reward class item]
As I read the quest, I felt my heart drop, and a question appeared in my mind. "Why?" I asked the system, knowing the answer to the question.
[You must get used to how this world works.
Knowing how to kill will help you greatly, as you will survive.]
Reading the message, I had figured that was the reason, I knew what I had to do, but my mind was against it. As I thought about it more, I felt my body become excited, but my mind was still blank and against the idea.
I walked through the forest, and as I was walking, I saw a rabbit. Remembering the quest, I sighed as I got ready to kill it, checking my stamina (15/25). "I can do this," I say to myself to hype myself up. I walked towards the rabbit, getting ready to slash it. As I got closer, the rabbit noticed me.
I rushed towards the rabbit, slashing with my claws. As the rabbit jumped out of the way I missed, slashing the ground by mistake, I saw the rabbit next to me start to transform as its mouth opened. Another set of mouths rushes out over and over again, its fur turning black with a hint of red, its body growing massively in size as it easily towers over me.
"What the fuck is that?" My mind goes blank, and my body starts to get excited. The rabbit slashes its claws at me as I quickly block it with my arms. -10 hp (warning, your health is getting low, please defeat the magical beast quickly or else you will die).
-first chapter end-