[Welcome, Player Aldric. Please select the weapon you will use in the future,] the system prompted, displaying a range of weapons from swords to gauntlets. After careful consideration, Abyss chose the sword.
Aldric knew that if he wanted to became stronger at fast pace he needed to master sword because the skills used in sword combat was diverse.
Author to readers: From this point onward, I will change 'I' to Aldric to make the story easier to understand.
[Weapon selection completed,] the system message confirmed, followed by another message: [Congratulations to the player for selecting a weapon. Your sword mastery will increase twice when using the sword in combat.] Aldric was once again taken aback by this revelation. He thought, "Just participating in combat will increase my sword mastery. I may even surpass the current Swordmaster in Warna." The prospect excited Aldric, and he eagerly clicked next, leading to another message: [Please select your abilities (you can select up to 4 abilities).]
A list of nine abilities appeared on the screen:
•Absorption: Allows the player to absorb the mana cores of living beings to level up and gain abilities from those cores (Active).
Condition to Absorb:The target should be dead.
•Corruption: Enables the player to corrupt the minds of enemies and control them (Active).
Side effect: If the enemy is more powerful than the player, it may corrupt the player's mind.
Seeing the potential side effects of Corruption, Aldric decided to put this ability on the blacklist. He anticipated facing powerful enemies in the future and didn't want to risk his own mental well-being. He continued to review the other abilities.
•Call of the Dead: Summons undead monsters at the cost of 90% of the player's mana (Active).
Side effect: If the player lacks sufficient mana and uses this ability, it may result in the player's death.
Among the listed abilities so far, only Absorption seemed like a decent skill. The others appeared to be traps meant to harm the player who chose them, Aldric thought.
•Corpse Explosion: Causes the bodies of enemies to burst by overloading them with mana (Active).
•Universal Law: Allows the user to understand and bend the universal law to their own will.
°Additional skill 1: Void Body: Negates any physical and spiritual damage to the user's body for 45 seconds (Active). Weakness: Space magic Cooldown: 1 hour
°Additional skill 2: Warp: Enables the user to travel 4 times within a 500m radius in all directions (Active). Cooldown: 1 hour
°Additional skill 3: Inventory: Allows the user to use a pocket dimension and store anything within a plane of a 1000x1000km wide area (Active).
°Additional skill 4: Void Step: Gives the user a 30% chance to travel through objects.
•Clock of Darkness: Increases the user's power by 5x when in darkness (Passive).
•Healing Clock: Restores the user and his allies to their maximum health but consumes all available mana.Also give 80% boost for both physical and magical attacks.
•Compound Synthesis: Enables the user to create any material or mineral by combining mana and a small concentration of that material. Also allows the user to alter objects made of mana,
"Is this the system" thought Aldric. He then started to looking at another ability.
•Unknown: Unknown.
"Why is the last ability listed as unknown?" Aldric asked G.O.D., confusion evident on his face. "Huh! What are you saying? That shouldn't be possible. Let me check quickly," G.O.D. responded, looking at the system and expressing shock. "Why are there nine abilities instead of eight? What are they thinking?" G.O.D. muttered with a puzzled expression. "What do you mean by 'what are they thinking'? Who are you talking about?" Aldric inquired. "You don't need to know about them right now," G.O.D. replied. "Go ahead and choose your abilities," he instructed.
"Okay, let's get this over with," Aldric thought to himself.
[Are you sure you want these abilities? If you want the following abilities, please press 'yes',] the system displayed.
"Yes," Aldric clicked, confirming his selection.
To be continued...