A skeleton with blue fire in his hollow eyes wakes up and puts his right hand on his head as he is having a sharp headache.
[?]: Fuck, I feel so much pain in my head. Why?
His vision clears and his surroundings become visible to him.
[?]: What the? Where am I?
He is in a cavern, glowing with mana crystals around him. As he takes a look at his surroundings he thinks to himself - How beautiful. The cavern is lit up by the mana crystals giving the place he was in an unearthly feeling. He suddenly notices his right hand and becomes shocked.
[?]: What? What happened to my right arm?
He uses his left arm to touch his right and finds his left arm without flesh as well.
[?]: What the fuck!?
He gets frightened and crawls backwards in fright only for his back to touch the cavern's wall.
[?]: What is happening? Where am I? Am I dreaming? Also, Why is my voice loud and heavy?
Suddenly, a faint shimmer appeared in front of him. A translucent screen, glowing with symbols, hovered directly in his line of sight. He blinked—or tried to, anyway—as he stared at it.
...
Name: None
Race: Skeleton Lv 1
HP: 10/10
MP: 5/5
St (Stamina): N/A (No Stamina for Undead Race)
Stats:
Strength (Str): 2
Intelligence (Int): 5
Endurance (End): 2
Agility (Agl): 2
Assignable Stats: 3
Skills:
Passive:
Low-level Aura of Death Lv 1: Can be used without consuming MP. Once activated you release a low-level aura of death. The living touched by you or your attacks will lose HP. Low chance of inflicting a curse.
Active:
Summon Bone Sword Lv 1: costs 2MP. You summon a crude bone sword that has little sharpness and some cracks. Once summoned the sword exists for 15 minutes.
...
[?]: Race? Skeleton Lv 1? What is happening?
Then a sharp pain hits him in his head.
[?]: Aaaaaahhh
He clutches his head with both hands as memories flood his mind. He remembers. He was a 19 years old boy in the 21st century. He went to sleep after doing his college assignment only to wake up like this. The pain stops and reality hits him.
[?]: No, No, No. What? How?
He looks at his hands again and then his body. He confirms that he is a skeleton and can still move his limbs. He touches his head and confirms that he has no hair.
[?]: Why?
He asks this question to himself.
[Flame Chihuahua Puppy]: Woof!
He had to hold his thought as he heard a cute puppy's voice on his 3 O'Clock. He turned his head in that direction and saw a cute little chihuahua puppy with black body but with a tail that was burning.
[Skeleton]: A cute puppy with a burning tail!?
He is shocked and gets up forgetting his predicament and runs towards the puppy. I need to help it - he thought. He grabbed the puppy by its front legs and lifted it. He was looking around to find a body of water.
[Flame Chihuahua Puppy]: growl….Woof!
He stopped and looked at the puppy. Noticing that the puppy was showing its teeth and was angry. What's more, even though its tail was on fire it wasn't crying in pain. Before he could think more the puppy jumped from his hands, landed on the ground and jumped back up to bite his left arm.
[Skeleton]: Owwww….
He fell and noticed that his HP dropped by 3.
…
HP: 7/10
…
No, don't tell me if this falls to zero I will die? - He thought.
The dog was still biting his left arm and was trying to chew it now. Fearing that his HP will drop any moment now he swung his left arm, throwing the dog away. The dog hit the wall and got up. It then looked at him again while showing its teeth and growling. It bent its feet ready to pounce.
He looked at the puppy 2 meters away.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: What should I do? Do I run? Do I fight? Wait a minute, if stats are real then I don't know whether I can outrun this puppy with my low Agl stats]
As he thought that, a different holographic screen appeared in front of him.
…
Assign 3 stat points?
…
[Skeleton-inner-thought: Yes] - he thought just by instinct and his stats got assigned.
…
New Stats:
Strength (Str): 2
Intelligence (Int): 5
Endurance (End): 2
Agility (Agl): 5
Assignable Stats: 0
…
He thought that to dodge agility is needed and he probably should assign all the points to it and as he confirmed all the points were assigned to his Agl stat.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: So stats get assigned just by my thinking?]
He was about to contemplate more but the dog pounced. With his increased Agl stat he noticed that the movements of the puppy were a little bit slower in his non-existing eyes. He dodged to the left as the puppy passed his previous location. He turned around and got ready again as he knew the puppy wouldn't stop attacking.
I need to kill this thing first before contemplating my current situation. I need to use my skills. Let's see, [Summon Bone Sword Lv 1] - He thought. The puppy pounced again, but as it was in mid-air, a crude, un-impressive bone sword appeared in the right hand of the skeleton. He then swung it while dodging the puppy. The puppy groaned in pain as its body fell on the ground then it got up and was more angry. It then looked at the skeleton and growled ready to attack again.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: What is this thing anyway?]
As he thought that a holographic screen appeared above the puppy's head.
…
Flame Chihuahua Puppy Lv 3
A common fire monster. It looks cute but it is ferocious. It is omnivorous but meat and bones are its favourite. It won't stop until it eats what it designates as food.
HP: 12/17
…
[Skeleton-inner-thought: Meat and bones? I don't have meat. Does this monster want to eat me because I am bones?]
The puppy attacked again as the skeleton was thinking. The skeleton stopped daydreaming and dodged to his right while swinging the sword. The puppy opened its jaws and its teeth caught fire. It was probably some kind of skill. It bit the sword that came towards its head but the skeleton didn't stop and kept on swinging. He smashed the sword and the puppy biting it using its [Fangs of Fire Lv 3] skill to the wall.
Boom
A crash sound happened and the puppy's HP dropped by 4 to 8.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: This thing is still biting even though I smashed it to the wall. Also, this sword is fucking useless.]
The puppy was dangling and its mouth still releasing fire was biting the sword.
[Flame Chihuahua Puppy]: Grrrr…
It was angry again and bit hard. The sword broke and the skeleton retreated with the remaining sword.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: SHIT! But I can't let go of this chance.]
The skeleton got ready and the puppy came running and jumped to bite him with its burning fangs. A broken bone sword was thrown and it struck the puppy's belly as it was in the air. The puppy felt pain and fell to the ground. Before it could get up the skeleton came running in.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: OH NO YOU DON'T. [Summon Bone Sword Lv 1]]
The skeleton had a new sword in his hands and it swung down with all its strength.
Boom
The sword fell cleanly on the puppy's head and it died.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: Finally.]
[Race Level Up x 2]
[[Summon Bone Sword] Level Up]
The skeleton took a sigh of relief and fell on his back.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: I almost died.]
He then sat up and looked at the corpse. The puppy's corpse lies there and the fire on its tail has gone out.
[Skeleton]: It really is a monster. I also felt pain when It bit me. WAIT A MINUTE! I AM A FUCKING UNDEAD AND I FELT PAIN? WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT KIND OF STUPID WORLD I AM IN? I REALLY REINCARNATED? IN A FANTASY WORLD?
He then looked around and again was marveled at his surroundings.
[Skeleton]: It really is a fantasy world. WAIT! WHAT IS MY NAME?
He speaks to himself aloud and then tries to remember his name.
[Skeleton]: Aaaaahhh
He screams as he feels pain when he tries to remember his name. After a while, the pain stops and he stops clutching his head.
[Skeleton]: DAMN IT! FOR SOME REASON WHENEVER I TRY TO REMEMBER SOMETHING SPECIFIC I EXPERIENCE PAIN.
He looks at the corpse of the monster he killed.
[Skeleton]: I really killed that thing. Not only that but I didn't experience pain or hesitation. Based on the memories that I have now of my past self, I know, as a human I wasn't even in a fight my whole life.
He looks at his bony right hand again contemplating this.
[Skeleton-inner-thought: I remember that when I was human, I used to have this dream a lot. A dream in which I am a ruler, sitting on a throne and people are bowing to me.]
He looks at his skeleton body and then the place between his legs.
[Skeleton]: FUCK!(stomped his right foot on the ground in anger) I WANTED TO BE A RULER TO ENJOY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, GOOD FOOD AND LIVE A LIFE OF LUXURY. I FUCKING WANTED A HAREM! THIS BODY CAN'T FULFILL THAT DREAM.