Date: 4/3/2014 Time: 20:42 Place: Cape Town, South Africa
Luke awoke to the screams of his mother threatening to finish all the food before he got down there to eat any of it. He was sweating. Thinking it was just a dream. That was before he noticed the green/black screen in front of him with the words;
"Welcome Player, Would you like a tutorial?" It read.
Luke replied " So this is what it feels like to go insane? I was expecting thoughts of death and murder really." The box like screen in front of him changed its lettering...
"Player is in a traumatized but not insane state, this is reality and not an illusion of your subconscious, and for a broader explanation would player like a tutorial/ explanation for everything=Y/N?"
"GET YOUR *** DOWN HERE LUKE HEMMINGRIM"
Luke not wanting to enrage his mother further decided to ignore the screen for now and eat.
Mama Hemmingrim POV:
The mother of Luke Hemmingrim, Ariella Hemmingrim, was a woman in her mid early 40's but still looked as healthy as when she was 30 with black long hair done in a pony tail, smooth caramel colored skin that seemed to have no imperfections or wrinkles, blue eyes, slim but curvy figure, 5'9 feet tall and wearing an apron. She was a single mother, as the father abandon them with only a letter to prove he hadn't gone missing but he periodically sent money to help them along. She was proud of her son but wondered sometimes would things been better and would he have been happier had his father been there for him.
When she saw him she asked with irritation:" What took you so long," with a glare to show her irritation. She wasn't actually really mad but she would be damned if her son didn't eat enough. He might be turning 18 this year but until hell freezes over and the sky turns rainbow, he was still her baby.
The soon to be young adult answered:" I just woke up, and you know I take at least 5 min to get out of bed.
He didn't but she decided not to mind the fact he lied to her.
With a sigh she said:" Just sit down and eat."
Disregarding the start of dinner it was a peaceful and relaxing affair though Ariella noticed her son seemed a bit distracted during dinner and kept looking to the side and he was eating a bit quicker. She didn't care much he was always a peculiar person, never ordinary.
Luke Pov:
He was trying his best to avoid looking at the constant reminder of his death. The only proof of his supposed future end. But it was hard when the only thing he could the message he was reading...
"Would you like to take a tutorial= Y/N?"
He was a avid reader of comics, manga and other such things and he knew from his experiences it was probably a leveling system. If you told him he would die and get a leveling system then that system would reverse time by a damn month to save him and prepare him for his coming death he would've said your crazy mentally deranged and that you shouldn't be friends anymore unless you were the one above all himself/herself he didn't discriminate as he would've preferred not getting into fights with the retards called feminists
"I've had enough experiences with feminists in my life already," he thought to himself, as some of his classmates were avid believers of the notion of gender equality, even though in his opinion feminism is just a rouse to get woman the upper hand. Nothing against the gender, something against the future and current leaders of it. Obviously not all of them were bad, his current crush, Mckayla Serliverity, but that might just be him. He finally finished his food thanking his mother for it and dashing of to his bedroom, hearing his mothers shout to sleep early and not to run in the house.
After closing his door he said yes and suddenly a bunch of information popped up.
Apparently that night he was 1 of 100 people attacked by these shadowy beings and each of them got special abilities unique to them. His ability was the unbound system gifted to him by the universe as in a month from now portal opening to another universe known as the one born from evils domain and he had to stop those portals from opening as 50 of the other 99 have decided just to gain power and the rest have to deal with other parts of the world. And more would come after that but all the system could do was help him reach the required strength to prevent his worlds destruction.
His system was meant to be a guide and helper from now on and would be an assistant to help grow strong. And this is how his system worked:
"You can grow stronger by leveling up, missions and physical, hard labor. You can also go through gates opened by the system to help you gain experience points and battle experience. Another way of gaining experience is by doing missions assigned by the system, these missions can range from getting stronger and doing house chores to doing favors for people. Every level up increases all stats by 1 point and you gain 5 more points. Your stats in your worlds terms would be explained like such.
Basic info
Name: Luke Hemmingrim Lvl:??? Exp:???
Health:+1= 1 kilogram force/ 1 mana point
Fatigue:+1%= -1% str, -1% speed
Physical
Strength:+1 point= +25 kilograms of force exerted, Speed:+1 point= +250m per hour -25 milliseconds reaction time, Durability=+1 point=+20 kilograms of force neglected( from this point on you take damage)+25 health points, Constitution:+1 point= -0,2% recovery time +0,5 chance of survival ( limited to toxins, disease and other things not including injuries or mental damage)+150 health points, Stamina:+1 point= +25 health +1h full speed sprint in comparison, Agility:+1 point=-50 milliseconds reaction time . There are 3 more to be unlocked as you have not met the requirements.
Mental
Intelligence:+1 point=+20 IQ +25 mana points -35 milliseconds, Wisdom:1+ point=+25 IQ +25 mana points, Mental Defense:+1 point= +0,2% chance of mental attack/intrusion failure. There are 3 more to be unlocked
Skills: Skills are the basis of your abilities though you can learn to use your abilities without relying on the system it is ill advised as you will have the priority of getting stronger rather than independence. They can be accessed through accomplishing Missions, doing things repeatedly, life and death experiences have a 0,01 chance of gaining a skill from the enemy you fight or fought and 0,0001 chance its a skill you need to survive you life and death predicament and finally they can be accessed by buying them through the shop which will be unlocked when you reach level 10.
Missions: Missions are tasks that are handed out whenever a player is given a task by the system, a person or a personal goal. These missions will vary in difficulty, length in time and reward. Though there are preset missions for the player to begin with. These missions reward with gold(1 gold=$50=R951.14), experience points, stat points, skills and tools/weapons. With some being specially prepared by the system for the player as a right of passage of sorts. These missions will not come until the player is ready and will arrive unexpectedly.
Inventory: Inventory is a subspace that a player can use to store anything if it can be contained within it, though the space can be increased it currently 50m cubed ( basically 50*50*50)
"More functions will be explained when unlocked or discovered. For now the players main objective is to gain strength while keeping the system a secret as of the systems creators orders. If you fail to comply you will be returned to the instance where you die and suffer all that pain without a revival from the system and the system will be given to someone else".
Luke felt a shudder and numb as his mind was trying to absorb the information. Being curious of his own stats e asked the system for them.
Basic info:
Name: Luke Gremmingrim Lvl; 1 Exp: 0/200
Health:
Physical:
Str; 1
Spd; 1
Dur; 1
Sta; 1
Cons; 5
Mental:
Int; 4
Wis; 1
Mana defense; 5
Luke was dissapointed at first but then remembered the comparison and got happier as he was pretty strong and smart which made him arrogant.
The system seeing his arrogance put him down by saying:" System had to increase a few stats." which ruined his mood.
But then he remembered what the system had said at first and realized that he had to grow much stronger than he was now. He asked how strong was he compared to the rest of the bunch.
" You are currently the weakest as the system did not accomplish anything other than the ability to grow stronger faster and more diverse in skill. But should grow to be the strongest in a month, not because the others will stop training but you will grow stronger faster than them if you of course put in the effort"
Luke hearing this grinned and said:" I knew that reading all those training manuals would amount to something big one day."
Widening his grin and punching his fist into his palm and continued:" Lets cut that time to 15 days."