The Next day, 9:00 AM
Ember slowly opened his eyes. He was used to seeing the rickety ceiling of the orphanage that leaked in monsoon. Compared to that, he found this new scenery refreshing.
'Hmm, man, this is the life. I have never felt better. This truly is heaven compared to...' Ember was so saddened that he didn't even want to remember his life at the orphanage.
'I am thankful that voice and this... System.' He had only thought about the system as an abrupt chime sounded.
[Ding!]
[System Integration is complete; System is fully online.]
[You can access System with Simple thoughts.]
'Simple thoughts?' Ember repeated in his mind, 'This system thing is exactly like those video games that the others got at Christmas. It think they called it an R.P.G. Anyway, I have good feeling about this, So far, it has only brought me good fortune.'
'Let's see if I can access it with a thought then.'
'System Open!' Ember yelled in his mind
[Ding! Accessing the System]
[Ding! Status window Initiated]
'Status Window? What is that?'
[Status Window (i)]
The status window is a feature unique to the system which quantifies your innate abilities, powers and skills so you can easily understand them, Here you can mainly look at your vitality, bodily stats, attributes and equipment. It also provides the Option to open different tabs which indicate and quantify different options. Current tabs available are:
[Growth Tab: This tab registers all your Skills, sub-skills, attributes and evolutions.]
[Inventory Tab]: This tab is a spatial ability specially granted by the system where you can store your Items and equipment. It can store any non-sentient mass.
[Quest Tab: The quest tab logs all of the quests given by the system, These quests are meant to serve as the driving force for your growth.]
'Well, that is certainly convenient,' Ember thought in his mind as he looked at the various explanation screens in front of him.
As soon as he thought about how to get rid of these multiple tabs blocking his view of the status window, all the the exposition tabs disappeared, leaving a clear view of the Status window.
[Name: Ember ???]
[Gender: Male]
[Species: Human (Latent: Phoenix)]
[Level: 1]
[Exp: 0/100]
[Attribute: Remnant Phoenix, Fire Affinity: Maxim, Wind Affinity: Pure]
[Phoenix Advancement: Will of the Phoenix (1%)]
[HP: 100/100 ]
[Mana: 1000/1000]
[Body: 10]
[Mind: 10]
[Will: 30]
[Unallocated Stat Points: 0]
[Skills: Flame control, Flame generation, Flame Absorb, Mana Body (Passive), ??????]
[Unallocated Skill Points: 0]
"Whoa..." was the only thing that left Ember's mouth.
Ember Noticed that there was an (i) button next to all of them. As soon as he imagined pressing it, multiple tabs flooded the screen in front of his eye. Apparently (i) meant Information, and surprisingly enough, the tabs were exclusively about the things he had questions about.
[Species (Latent): A species name with the tag (Latent) suggests that you have the genetic material of a species aside from your Main/dominant species (The species whose characteristics you display the most), which is mostly undeveloped and/or suppressed.]
[Attributes: Attributes are your innate talents which allow your various Skills to exist and be used, You can find more about attributes on the Growth tab.]
[Phoenix Advancements: This indicates how much has your body acclimated to the powers of Phoenix and how much of the Original power you can use.]
[Mana — Mana is the energy source of all magic.]
[Stats]: Body stat affect your physical stats such as Strength, speed, vitality, etc.; Mind stat affect all of your mental abilities such as intelligence, cleverness, memory, etc.; Will affects your willpower, natural charm, mana, etc. Some stats also combine to denote other stats such as Instinct (Body, mind, and will), mana efficiency (mind and will), etc.
[Stat Points: These are the rewards for your level up. Upon levelling up, you will receive 3 stat points; allocating these stat points into stats will upgrade them and make them stronger.
[Skill Points: These are also the rewards for your level up.]. Upon levelling up, you will receive 3 skill points; allocating these Skill points into A Skill will level them up and make them stronger.
'Not gonna lie, this all seems too good to be true... Wait, I shouldn't jinx it' Ember repeated in his mind, 'Maybe levelling up is just that hard.'
He looked at his stats for a while, carefully expecting them the message from earlier said he was in 'Peak' condition and if peak condition was just a '10' then he couldn't help but anticipate how strong he would become after just levelling up once.
But what caught his own attention the most was his 'Will' Stat, It was at 30, while his other stats were simple '10's.
'The system said that 'Will' Represents my willpower, Is my willpower really that good.' Ember pondered hard, 'I don't think I have any 'Natural harm.' Well,, well maybe Carasan did say that I look good Maybe it's this new body which has improved my charms. Or maybe it's my Mana?'
Ember currently had no way to confirm what it actually was so he stopped thinking about it for a while.
'Anyways, Open growth tab!' He yelled in his head
[Opening Growth tab]
[Attribute: Remnant Phoenix, Fire Affinity: Maxim, Wind Affinity: Pure]
[Skills: Flame control, Flame generation, Flame Absorb, Mana Body (Passive), ??????]
[Evolutions: ???]
'Hmm… Expand Attributes and explain.'
[Attributes]
[Wind Affinity: Pure — The bloodline of Wind that veins inside you is the purest kind, akin to gods of winds themselves.]. You have extremely high affinity for wind magic, Your Wind magic affinity is so pure that your potential among the natural-born talent is highest. A level of affinity that is only found among the Nobles of the Wind. Your body becomes lighter, your speed, reactions and stamina are greatly increased, and your mind becomes calmer and more serene.
[Fire Affinity: Maxim]—The bloodline of Fire within you transcends the mortal bounds, an affinity so strong that even gods cannot compare to it. You have an unnatural affinity to fire; your potential is limitless and transcends all natural-born talent. Your Strength, speed, stamina, HP and Mana Recovery are greatly increased; Your Mana becomes domineering; You are completely Immune to fire, when exposed to fire, you begin to passively absorb it, raising your HP and Mana recovery according to the Temperature, Type and quantity of the flame, you can control the temperatures of anything you make contact to some degree.
[Phoenix Remnant]—You have the last remnant of phoenix, the last ember of its flames still burning inside you as a result, you gain following benefits: The effect of all of your stats are drastically increased, Your Mana and HP recovery are raised to the highest degree. [Feature incomplete; rest will be revealed later.]