WZZEEEEE!
I jolted out of my slumber because of an ear-splitting sound. The sound only lasted for ten seconds. After getting out of bed and looking through the window, I saw a massive crack opening, and the sky was painted with different colors of aurora.
Twzee! Twzee!
My watch buzzed, and looking at it, I saw a message from the academy.
[Academy: Due to the appearance of a sudden, massive crack, there will be no class for a few days until the threat is confirmed. Until then, stay in your dormitory for your safety. And students who are not in the dormitory should reach the dormitory as quickly as possible or go to any nearby safe place.]
"So it's starting, huh? An update to the system. I have to start my plans, I guess."
"What plans might that be?"
Shiver!
A chill ran down my spine as I heard an ethereal voice behind my back. Slowly turning around, I saw smoke like a human being sipping tea while sitting on the sofa.
"It's our first time meeting, right, Jake Dane?"
My body stiffened hearing him call my former name; my heart quickened; my body started to tremble in his presence; and my breathing became erratic. Seeing my condition, he spoke slowly.
"You don't have to be scared of me; I'm only here to make a request."
I don't know why, but hearing his voice, my fear vanished, my heart calmed down, and my breathing became normal. And I started to think clearly.
"Are you okay now?" I nodded at his question. "Good, take a seat."
He gestured to the seat in front of him. I sat there and asked what's bugged me since the day I woke up in this world. "Are you the reason I'm in this world?"
He affirmed, "Yes, I was the reason you're here."
"Why?"
"That's what I'm about to say. I have a request. Become a supporting pillar and save as many people as you can so the world won't become a dom," he asked.
"Supporting pillar? To whom?"
"To Asher Blake"
Hearing his name, my blood boiled, but I controlled myself. "What if I don't?"
"You will die," to my question, he answered spontaneously.
"Huh, you said it's a request, so why are you threatening me?" I asked as fear gripped my heart.
"I'm not threatening you; I gave you a life, and you have to do what I'm saying—that's your purpose in this life, a reason why you're alive today. Listen, Jake Dane, I'm not making you my slave or I'm saying you have to defeat the Demon King. All I'm saying is protect humans; the rest will be taken care of by Asher Blake."
"Why are you concerned about humans? If you can interfere with the cycle of death and reincarnation, can't you save the human?"
"I can't tell you why I'm concerned about humans, but I will say I was a human before I became an entity. As for your second question, there are things I can't interfere with. And with what I can interfere, I did that already."
"What does that mean?" I asked him seriously. Him, an entity interfering means a complete change in the story.
"You can do what you want, Jake; take away the things you want, kill the people you don't like, and interfere as much as you want with the story because I already altered it. You don't have to worry about taking advantage of Asher's opportunities; the story you know and the one in real life are vastly different. It may end up in a good way, or it may cause utter destruction."
His words were a bombshell to me. I already planned to save a few people, but that's only because I know the story. Now he said the story would be completely different. How am I going to save people's lives? No, I will not even survive in this world.
I sat there devastated, knowing there was no way I was going to survive in this world.
"If you're worried about surviving in the world, then don't be."
"Huh, what are you talking about now?"
"This will be my last interference." Telling me that he stood up and approached, "Sorry, but I can't increase your rank potential. And I can't heal your damaged mana veins because I only have one chance, and I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to heal them. But I will make your mana the purest it could get."
He touched my forehead. Suddenly, I felt my body heat increase, as if it were burning me inside. The mana around us twisted and started spinning around me. I felt my body becoming calmer, and I felt stronger. After some time, he retracted his hand and said it with a smile.
"That's the purest form it could get." Two orbs manifested in his hands in blue and yellow, and he placed them on the table.
"The skill in the yellow orb will help you reach your full potential; after that, it will be a waste. See you next time if there will be one." With those words, his body vanished into nothingness.
"Sigh. I hope these will help me get stronger." Taking the skill orbs, I learned the skill.
"Arghaa. Its burns" in both my fingers, black color enveloped like a tattoo in ring form, and back of my palm, a ring formed connecting the tattoos.
"A mutation type skill. man that burns."
Ding!
===Status===
Name: Jadel Wayner || ?[Jake dane]
Race: Semi-mers ?[???]
Occupation: Assassin Lvl.1 ||
?[Swordsman Lvl.1]
Innate Skill: Emperor Of The Ocean ||
?[Gyrokinesis]
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?Rank: E-
?Strength: 116
?Speed: 130
?Agility: 138
?Stamina: 112
?Endurance: 113
?Mana: 145
?Intelligence: 160
?Luck: 197
?Charm: 560
?Talent Limit: A-
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===] Techniques [===
Soul Bound: Lost Gem
Affinity: Water » Ice || Darkness » Shadow
Spells: Waterball ‹★› || water bullet ‹★★›||
Water barrier ‹★★› || Mist ‹★›||
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"Huh, why is it automatically—aha, I forgot, it's because of the update... Oh, my rank increased... Now I think my strength will be at F rank." My eyes suddenly paused on one thing.
"Is that real?" rubbing my eyes, I looked again. "HOLY SHIT!! My charm is B+. I'm as handsome as the main cast; maybe I'm more handsome than them.
"Wait, I should first check my skills, then my face." I opened the skills section.
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Perfect Clone:
Description: Create a perfect clone of the user. No mana consumption
Absorption Gacha:
Description: The user can absorb anything one subrank above that is killed by the user, 1 point each. The stronger the opponent, the greater the points.
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"Whoa, that's a fucking cheat skills… Well, for me, they are normal skills."
"Now I will check my face." I rushed to the mirror and looked at my reflection.
"Eh, what the fuck? Is this actually me? I can't recognize my face properly."
The most noticeable features of my face were my snow-white hair, which emphasized my features and made me more handsome. My eyes also turned a totally blue color. My facial structure also appeared to have slightly changed.
"Is it because of that entity's mana that the artifact affected my other eye too? It feels like it completely became one with me, and my hair is much whiter than Aaron... So this is the B+ rank charm, huh? It even slightly altered the face."
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I can't grow stronger by training my body and absorbing mana. Jadel is average to begin with. The only special thing about him would be his innate skill, and when I possessed his body, the majority of his mana veins were damaged, meaning if an average person's mana absorbation rate was 100%, mine would be 20 to 40%. If I am lucky, it may be more than that.
And there is nothing I can do to increase my rank potential since there is nothing like that in this novel that can increase one's potential. The protagonist only increased his potential because he has a system, and I don't remember reading anything like it that can increase anyone's potential, even in his system.
So how am I going to survive the invasion? Countless A rankers, even S rankers, died, so how am I going to survive with an A- rank?
And the only way to survive is to take away your common sense. Find ways that defy common sense; that's the only way. If there is no way, then create a way.
I have already experienced death. I don't want to go through that again. I'm going to create a way to survive in this world; I'll become strong with my A-potential that defies common sense, and I've already planned many ways to do that. And the first step presented itself.
"Now I only have to take the other steps."
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"Ha, haha, hahaha, I made it; I finally made it.'' It's been 4 weeks since the entity appeared, and the classes started after two days. In these time frames, many students breakthrough their ranks because of the raised mana levels. Some jumped one sub-rank, while others jumped two sub-ranks. And I heard the main cast is on the verge of a breakthrough to D- rank, while Asher and Aaron reached D rank. This didn't happen in the novel, and I'm a little concerned about the situation.
But I didn't dwell on it. In this time frame, I didn't go to the class; I only went to the VR training facility and focused on what I was doing, and finally I succeeded.
"I hope I don't mess it up." I numbed my hand with medicine. Taking my dagger, I dipped it into a mana ink that is used for creating runes. The ingredients were expensive, so I contacted my mother through Blue Fish.
After dipping it, I took a deep breath and started to cut my hand like I'm writing the rune, and when the blood and ink mixed in the cuts, it started to glow. After I completed writing the runes, I took out the A rank mana core and put on the engravings. Instantly, the core vanished.
I took my dagger and dipped in the ink again and started writing the runes; this time I connected it to the mutated finger, more precisely the black tattoos and the ring on the back of my palm, and finished it.
I waited for a second, but nothing happened. 'Huh, did it fail?' Suddenly, an excruciating pain enveloped my hand.
ARGHHHH!
I screamed at the top of my lungs. The pain is not only in my hands; it's slowly engulfing my body.
'SHIT SHIT SHIT!!, I messed up'
Thud!
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I slowly opened my eyes. 'Am I passed out?' Coming to reality, I quickly examined my body. I didn't have any problems with the body except my left hand; the fingers completely turned dark; the ring in the back of my palm turned white and slightly shining as something was passing through the ring.
Seeing this, I instantly checked my status.
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Absorption Gacha:
Description: The user can absorb anything one subrank above that is killed by the user, 1 point each. The stronger the opponent, the greater the points. The user can also absorb and store mana in it; the storing system is also able to learn one skill and use it through the stored mana (mana capacity: 580)
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"Hell yeah, I made it," a skill that I can store and use. Although I can only use one skill, it's still best to use it without damaging my mana veins, but I already planned a way to exploit this.
But the only problem would be that it would blast out of my hand if I continually absorbed and used the learned skill; if worse, through the absorption gacha, it may affect my mana core, permanently damaging it.
"I have to be careful."