I am Alex, a 22-year-old tall man with black hair. My life was unremarkable from the beginning.
I had a typical school experience, normal friends, and a regular family.
To break the monotony of my daily routine, I often turn to games for entertainment. However, after a while, they lose their appeal, and I become bored. At that point, I switch to reading novels.
I started reading daily and became passionate about it.
I started with the classic type of novels like isekai, regression with system, and op mc and thought "what an interesting life these guys have". This kind of activity was very interesting for a long time and start to search every day for something new, but after a while every novel starts to become a cliché.
Later that night I was thinking about such a life and wondering if something like that will happen to me and laughing start telling myself to be realistic and go to sleep.
Later at night, when I lie in bed, I feel like I'm dying in a monotonous way, just like the rest of my life. God, hear me and accept my prayer to save me from this life. May I be saved from this difficult situation.
When I wake up, I notice that the ceiling is different and I start looking around and wondering where I am.
I start to analyze the room and see that this room was built only with wood, the bed was very old and very uncomfortable, I stand up and look for a window and see a small window near the bed and see myself in the reflection without realizing I start to get confused about the tall, handsome guy with short black hair and a little muscle, with a confused face I start to realize was me.
I start to focus on the detail of my face, with blue eyes, small nose, a little dirty and a tired face, after digesting the new information I start to look at the window and see nearby buildings.
Feels like a medieval era with house built of wood and stone and the road was made of dirt, some people have clothes made of a very old material and some people have rusty armor and i start to get very confused.
Start to look in the distance and see very tall buildings and very modern style with windows and look more confused, i start to look in my memories and i was shocked to see my new memories or to say my old memories.
This body name is Edward more young then the old me, after i sort new information i found out this place is not the same place i know was totally different.
I was on a fortress one of many other ones because in this world we the people invade this world 2024 years ago and start to colonize the new planet and start to build fortresses to kill the "monster" of this world.
I don't know what happened in this world and the old me didn't know because this guy was very poor without family and without education he doesn't know the history of this world.
He remember this house was not his house, he enter without anyone know because this house was abandoned after the last family move to the center of this fortress where all the tehnology and rich people move, after a moment Edward feel loaded with information and accept the situation because is easier to do it.
He left to explore the places, after he closed the door start to notice the very big wall behind the house where is staying, after a brief examination see the turrets and how many weapons have attached. He start to look for a library or something similar, after a short walk see a stall with some books, he decide to talk to the old lady if she have a book about history, the old lady confuse ask the boy if have the money to pay and he say no, Edward ask her is he can work in exchange for a book.
She got on his mind and responded positively after a while, decides to help with the cleaning, the boy left with no other choice accepts. After a few hours of work the woman hands him a book called "The History of Humanity" Edward, satisfied with the book, says goodbye to the woman and leaves on his way home, when he gets into bed he realizes he can't read the book because it's too dark and decides to leave it for tomorrow.
In bed Edward was thinking about what had happened and not knowing what would happen tomorrow, but one thought kept haunting him, whether he could read the book or not, he decided to go to bed to pass the time.
The next day Edward decides to open the book, a ding was heard when he did and in front of him appeared a blue window where it said "Build the most op fortress" the boy already know what it means.
He didn't wait a second and said: "open system"
A blue window appeared in front of him.
[Welcome]
[Name: Edward Wilson ]
[ Stats ]
[ Exp: 0/100
[ Level: 0 ]
[ Score: 0 ]
[Fortress Strength: 0 ]
[ Inventory +1 ] [ Build ] [ Shop ] [ Lottery ]
[ Waves ] [ Function blocked ] [ Function blocked ]
I open the inventory out of curiosity as to what +1 means, and I see:
[ Newbie Pack ]
And I open it to see what I got
[Open Newbie Package]
[Congratulations you got: ]
[Instructions Manual]
[Bronze Lottery Ticket x1]
I press the instruction manual with curiosity
[Welcome to the system, I will begin to explain ]
After a long presentation about the system
I found out that this system is similar to the game types of building base, but here you can build a temporary base or permanent base.
The difference is a temporary base you can move to another location and is good to mine for different resources but you have a time limit and you can have a limit of what buildings you can put.
For permanent base you can stay for how much you want but you can not move after, you are not limited of what you can build or not.
The system help you to find a place for a permanent base, he scan the the rarity of soil, can help you to indicate how fast you can make resources.
Another information from the manual is about.
You can accumulate points when you complete mission or waves.
Waves is where you need to protect the base from monsters, this is an option you can only activate in a permanent base.
Fortress points is the total power of your fortress, but you can increase the power only on your permanent base.
The rest of two functions are still locked, you need to increase your personal level and fortress power.
After closing the blue window with a smile on his face, Edward started to read the book and was very surprised about the new information.