Time suddenly stood still. For a moment, chaos itself had paused. Blood, screams, and even death hung itself in the air, motionless. I was the only thing in existence moving. I looked around the carnage, trying to decipher what exactly was going on.
"Hey, my lord!"
I turned around to find the voice and saw a... cat?
What the heck!
"My lord, the system is ready to be awoken."
"The system?"
"Yes. You are my lord, right? Miko is the designated one?"
The cat seemed agitated, as if he would be erased if he got the wrong guy.
"Yeah, that's me."
The cat's eyes grew comically large, so much so that I thought he might explode.
"Yippeee!!!!"
The cat started flying around energetically, laughing to himself as he bumbled through corpses.
Is he blind?
"Uh, so Mr. Cat, uh, can I get my power up now? My friends and I were kinda in the middle of a fight to the death."
The cat flew right next to my face so that his eyes were aligned with mine. He gave a chaotic grin, baring his teeth as he said, "Oh, it doesn't work like that, my lord. I can't just give you power-ups. You would be vaporized! The system is more like a conduit so that you can get stronger and stronger to the point you can wield the mighty Demon sword in all its glory!"
No shortcuts, huh.
"Well, can I at least get the sword?"
"Sure! I'll also unlock your magic receptors now so that you can use magic! Be aware that in your current state, your body can only handle 4 different spells at once. You can access your collection of spells in the spell menu, of course. You can also equip them from there."
This is basically an RPG, huh.
"Ok lord, one sword coming right up!"
The air around me started swirling into a singular aura. It felt as if all the energies of the universe gathered around me for this very moment. If this was just to summon the sword, how much energy could the sword itself contain... As more and more energy flowed into this aura, it felt as if existence itself was collapsing. The cat continued flying around in pure bliss, howling with joy. Suddenly, the aura collapsed with a big
BANG!!!
The sword appeared!
"Wow. My lord, you are weak right now."
The blade was barely the size of a ballpoint pen. So much for mighty...
The cat kept bobbing around in the air almost as if to torment me.
"Uh, don't worry my lord. As you train, the sword will grow bigger in proportion with your strength."
A near demonic grin and then
"I'm sure you'll rival the demon lord in a bit!"
I grabbed the "sword" out of the air. Almost instantly, a sort of menu appeared in front of me.
"Do you want to proceed with the tutorial?"
I glanced over at the cat. I haven't played video games in a bit, but as a kid, I did play Elder Scrolls almost daily. I should have the hang of it.
"Nah."
I glanced over the menus. It was simple, I had an inventory, a shop, a stats and level menu, and a spells menu. From the inventory, I could equip and unequip items. To test this, I threw the "sword" into the air and equipped my "sword" from the menu. It instantly dissolved and then reappeared in my hand.
Neat.
I opened the spells menu to see if I had any unlocked.
I had one.
The Lord's Grasp
5 mp
Level 1: You can telepathically control
any object that is 100 pounds or lighter.
Hm.
I looked around the room, taking note of things i could move. Obviously, I couldn't move people yet, but I had a whole room of utensils, chairs, and candles to fling at my enemies.
"Hey cat, can you fight."
"No my lord, but I do make delightful commentary."
"Stay out of my way then."
"Yes sir!"
Quest started:
Protect the designator.
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