It was dark, like a endless void . In it, there was a single conciseness, moments away from waking up.
'Ughh, wh-where am I', even though there was no sound this entity could still think on its own.
'Is this hell? Was I a bad girl? NO! I was not! What was the last thing I can remember... ah yes, my mother... and that man...', at that moment some memories started to come back.
-FLASHBACK-
Year 1916, somewhere in the South-Eastern Europe
*tap tap tap tap* A young woman, with medium long light brown color hair and deep blue eyes, was running in the middle of the forest, while carrying little girl, probably no more the four years old. Girl had the same colour hair and eyes as her mother, hair was short with small ponytail on the right side. In the distance could be heard gunshots, probably coming from the direction of a village that was their home.
Sadly their chance to escape are low, the village was surrounded before the attack on it did begin.
Approaching an large old tree, mother stopped putting the girl down.
"Heidi, please listen carefully, bad man are coming and I need you to hide under this tree, it was a place me and your dad used to hide when we whare little from your grandpa. I'll try to distract them. If we don't see each other, please try to live a good life, find a good husband and have a lot of children. I know everyone thinks you are weird in the village, but I know you are not, you are special! One very special girl." Saying all that she hugs her daughter for probably the last time and pushes her to hide under the tree.
Strangely, thru all this time, even seeing her father get shot in the head , before being carried away by her mother, little girls face never showed any emotion, no happiness, no sadness and no tears. As she got under the tree, her mom turned around to leave.
Before getting to far a loud sound was heard and the women fell, not moving. Girl was just looking at it laying on the ground with a blank stare. Not long after, heavy footsteps could be heard.
A youthful voice could be heard coming from the man carrying a gun on his hands and a short knife on the left side of his belt.
"This should be e everyone", the youth said, "Didn't she carry a little girl? Well does not matter, even if she escapes what can untrained and uneducated child even do? Not to mention she probably is not even five years old". Strangly enough, he was saying that while looking a a certain tree, as if he know the the girl was hidden underneath. "Oh well, guess I'll just report that both are dead, it is not like anyone will look for evidence or anything!" Saying that, the youth turned around and left in the direction of the village.
Even though he left, girl stayed under the tree, looking between the corpse of her mother and the direction of the village. She did that for a long time. As the sun was going down, it was getting darker and darker. But the girl did not move, even when her stomach started to complain duo to need to eat. It was ignored and as the night fell, tired and hungry girl fell asleep.
In the morning, with first sunrays faling through the hole on a girls face,she started to struggle to get up, hitting her head, forgetting she was under the tree for a moment, taking some time remember what happened the day before. First checking outside if it was safe, she crawled out not seeing any danger. Standing up a slight headache hit her, with dizziness.
Taking a moment to recover, she started to walk to the, now completely cold, body of her mother and sat down next to it, looking for a moment before hugging it. Time slowly passed, but she did not move.
Near evening, a fox was passing by smelling the blood in a certain direction, it went there, only to find two body's laying there motionless, approaching closer it found both are cold, breathing no more.
-FLASHBACK END-
'Ughhh... how weird, why did I not leave or try to look for another settlement? It feels like some memories are missing, yet I got knowledge child should not have. How confusing.'
Stopping to think, it tried to look where this place is, maybe have not died, only is in a dark place. But it could not even tell in what direction it was looking or if it still got eyes. It could tell it was surrounded by something soft or maybe liquid.
'Wish there was someone to tell me what is going on!' It thought.
[DING! YOU GOT ONE UNREAD MAIL!]
'A what now? What is that? No wait, what even is this weird box in front of me, that appeared out of nowhere. Is it even in the front or just in my head... things are getting more and more weird'
[DING! THIRD PARTY HAS CHANGED SETTINGS! MAIL WILL OPEN AUTOMATICALLY IF USER DOES NOT TAKE ANY ACTION FOR TEN SECONDS AFTER RECEIVING IT!]
'Ehhh, n-no wa...'
[DING! OPENING MAIL!]
{MAIL 1}
[Yo, long time no see...oh wait, you probably don't even remember me, do you. No need to worry, we are friends, well used to be and now that you are alive we can be best friends!]
'Oh someone who knows me? Though, how can I even read this, no-one taught me how to read?'
[Of course I know, you, who was a system before getting reincarnated as a human, and system HUD stayed with you even after first reincarnation and death, it is a part of you so anything it showed you will understand purely by instinct what it say. There could be a problem as some unknown words here and there may pop up.]
'How useful, though it feels like this friend of my is answering my questions as if talking directly to me.'
[That is because I am, at the same time I am not. It is an advantage when I can see the future and say what needs to be said at the right time. Cool, right?]
'Ummm... why now?'
[Oh, well because you asked. I'm only going to explain some stuff, like your situation, and give a hint or two on how to proceed.]
'Sure, that would be great, though you did mention I was a system. What was that about?'
[Ah that, nothing much you will learn what system is after you are born, looking that you are a fetus old two weeks, most of your organs still did not even develop.Your gender is still undecided. There is about nine months till you are born, got to say it will be quite a shocking one.]
'...'
[For now, you should know that world you are in is a cultivation world, shity place to be, mostly because of to many idiot who live there, difficulty should be easy level. I have send you an booklet on how to cultivate with the mail. Read it, the sooner, the better. Next, think 'status' and you will see information about your self, it is part of the system. Ah, I'd like to say more but dad says not to spoil it for you, or it will get boring and uninteresting. Discover it on your own.]
'...'
[Anyway, next time I will send mail at a day after your birth with gifts. Smell ya later!]
'... that sure was a lot to take in... for now I better start with status, as for my situation and booklet, leave it for later'
'STATUS'
[DING!]
Name : none (Heidi Wolfgang)
Age : none (9 months 3 days 17 hours 9 minutes 4 seconds left)
Gender : undeveloped
Race : Human (97%) Krystal (3%)
Cultivation: none
Skills : none
'It even shows how long till my birth, neat. What is this Krystal, am I not a pure human?'
[DING!]
{Krystal}
[An peaceful race from era of old. It is know for many inventions surpassing all other, sadly it did not survive THE END and not many know about it even existing. Systems are some of it's projects to try and recover in case none survive. Systems created by gods of the current era are just nerfed versions of the original. You whare one of the few dead shells of a failed project, recreated and given chance in form of a post modern system to accumulate energy and be reborn in a new form through thousands of users. Due to to much information contained over a long time, most of it is currently sealed and will be regained when user is strong enough!]
'That... is a lot to take in,probably this could be the reason I'm awake right now, and capable of thinking, because it should not be possible normaly, at least not for humans. Speaking of humans... '
{Human}
[An average race with nothing special or significant, either created by gods or evolved from monkeys, are descendents of Ancient Magus race, who was betrayed by their own creations and destroyed, only for same to happen to them. This would repeat throughout ages until titans got betrayed by gods, who afterwards created humans. Some High Lifeforms think same will repeat with humans sooner or later.]
'Just that? Well let's go with booklet and then rest, there is quite a lot to think about, but I doubt that friend of my, who I don't remember, would say for no reason to read it as soon as possible.'
'Open booklet from mail 1'
[DING! OPENING!]
{Part 1 - Introduction to cultivation}
[Well hello there, I'll teach you basics of cultivation, no need for long introduction but please call me Wolf, let's jump in.
Cultivation is proces of growth, regardless if it is with mind, body or soul.It is divided in three stages. Each of those got three major stages and all major stages got nine minor stages, you following? Good, it is a complete bullshit in my opinion and pointlessly overcomplicated. Sadly for you there are no other methods for your current self to use any other method of getting stronger. My condolences hehe. Here are the realms.
- Mortal realm (body)
-- Body strengthening
-- Chi gathering
-- Foundation building
- Transension (soul)
-- Golden core
-- Nascent soul
-- Soul ascension
- Enlightenment (mind)
-- Void crossing
-- Tribulation Transending
-- Dao comprehension
And after all that... there is more, like seven demigod realms and five divine realms, not to mention ones above 'em. It is like there is no end. Pure bullshit I'd say. By the way, we made this a family project, each part will explain one major realm in order and will be written by different individual... Oh, maybe not, my wife is still sleeping, so maybe just me and my two daughters,by the way youngest is the one to send the mail. Your journey starts now, good luck young krystal, may it be a fun one with no hardships.
Sincerely, Wolf the Ignorant]
'Think I'll read the other parts later, first to rest a bit and think about all of this. I died, but somehow have become a fetus... whatever that is... as for the rest of the information... let's just take a rest'