"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Daniel, happy birthday to youuuuuu" we sang for my little brother Daniel.
I happily watch him blow out the cheap candles signifying my little brother becoming 13 years old. As soon as he blew them out all the lights went out in our tiny 2bed 1bath house.
"What's going on? The power shouldn't have gone out it's perfect weather outside?" My dad Vincent said
"Did we pay the electric bill?" my mom Kayla asked
"No we paid it a week ago maybe something short circuited in the wiring or something".
As I tuned my parents out who were trying to figure out what happened with the power I turned to my little brother who just got done making his birthday wish.
"What'd you wish for?" I asked him
"I wished for a system to come and have an apocalypse game world like in those books me, you, and dad read" Daniel responded.
Just as I was about to respond…
[DING, welcome to the system verse humans of Earth-1297B. My being here will bring mana to the world and will let you all access the system and level up. But some may consider this an apocalypse after society collapses and the monsters kill most of the weak population, but whatever that's not my problem, now to open your status sheet say "status" after you finish reading this and say "status" you'll see some things that will let you know about yourself, anyways that's it Bye!
P.S. you will all be teleported to random places in 30 seconds of your new, bigger, earth so have fun with that and not everyone will be teleported with other people around them and there are different graded zones ranging from E-SSS.
P.S.S. There will also be different races trying to invade and claim earth for their own, alright bye now!]
"What the fuck" the four of us each said.
"Ok Mark, and Danny go get those metal swords we bought last year maybe it will help in this bullshit" said my dad thinking quickly in this random situation.
Following what he said me and Danny run to the cabinet where we keep the swords after grabbing them I check and see we only have 15 seconds left before we are teleported.
"Alright Danny so we know it's you if we get separated then your nickname you should use is Daniel Vincent, use my name as your last name and same goes for you Mark it's Marcus Vincent"
Nodding to what he said I see both my parents crying and my mom praying we aren't that far from each other. I bring each of us into one final hug until…
[Teleportation commencing 3…2…1 have fun new integrators!]
[Teleporting…teleporting… location found
ENDLESS FOREST (SSS) {Only teleportation for this location}]
Waking up I find myself in a leaf pile my sword still with me on my chest surrounded by huge trees, bigger than any that old earth could have had, feeling the wind on me I sigh knowing I had the unfortunate situation of having the highest ranked location probably in the world. Laying in the leaf pile I decide to check my status sheet.
"Status"
Name: Marcus Haymon
Age: 15
Race: Human 1*
Class: N/A (lvl 0) Exp till next level 0/30
Health: 80/80
Mana: 80/80
Stamina: 80/80
Karmic Faction: Neutral
Str: 5
Agl: 7
End: 8
Int: 8
Spt: 10
Skills: N/A
Dao: N/A
Gifts: Great comprehension [Epic] (Born with intelligence and comprehension you are better than 1% of the global population at - The Dao, and learning skills) | Godly learning [Unique] (learning and comprehension ability increased by 200% for skills, Dao, weapon comprehension/ability and how much EXP you get, also easier to enter enlightenment) level1]
Well definitely better than I thought it would be considering I'm 15 but that Gift seems OP as hell, and it can keep getting better and increase my learning ability which is now 3 times better than what it was before the system. But what's up with the 1 star next to my race? Does it mean it can improve? I guess it doesn't matter I'll figure it out later. Well at-least I'm not clueless on what's going on since I've read similar novels to what is happening… But where the fuck is my tutorial, where's my ai guide, where's my tutorial island with magic fairies that teach us shit, and I'm only 15 I should be in a protective place to nurture me. Ah whatever nothing I can do about it.
[To answer why you got none of this, those tutorials for new worlds are only for creatures age 12 or younger (varies for species depending on their maturity rate and lifespan) since your 15 you will just be thrust into the world with nothing but the stuff on you. Also before I leave you might wanna look to your right, toodles]
Quickly looking to my right after reading the message from the system I see what looks like a mix between a rat and a unicorn forming something that has a body of rat the size of a small dog and a single horn about as big as a hammer coming out of its head. Hoping this works I try to use a skill I usually see in most RPG books.
"Identify"
[Race: Ratacorn 1*
Lvl: 2
Health: 20/20
Description: It's a big rat with a unicorn horn what else you expect
Identify has leveled up]
Well at least identify leveled up but what's up with the sassy description? Whatever, I draw my sword and get out of the leaf pile as soon as I take, what I hope would be a stance, it rushes at me. I watch it run at me and then when it's close enough it jumps and tries to stab me in the stomach, shocked by its sudden lethality I do my best to move out of the way if the fast approaching horn. Still I'm grazed and a sharp sting hits me near my stomach looking down I see blood soaking my gray shirt.
[You have learned the skills - Dodge lvl1 and pain resistance lvl1, you are afflicted with bleed lvl1 (lose a point of health every 5 seconds)]
Shit I can't get hit like that again or I'll die in my first five minutes of this new world. Taking a new stance I'm prepared for the dumb beasts attack and as soon as it jumps I dodge and stab it in the side instantly killing it.
[You have killed a lvl2 Ratacorn - Exp 30(150) (30+20=50x3=150)
You are the first globally to learn 3 new skills
(Reward, common chest)
You have learned/leveled up skill(s) Dodge has leveled up to lvl2 and you have learned the skill {Sword Thrust}
You have killed enemy of a higher level +20 Exp. Your Gift takes effect x3 Exp
You have leveled up 2 times
You have 20 unused stat points]
Woah I got all of that from one ratacorn? I guess my Gift is truly overpowered now that I think about it. I can level up 3 times faster than other, gain skills faster, and do whatever the Dao easier as-well, also doesn't the Dao pertain to mystic stuff like mastery over an element or weapon? Well whatever I figure that out when I reach it, now let's assign my points and open my chest.
"Status"
[Hey system here, you don't have to say it verbally you can do it mentally]
"Oh ok"
Status
Name: Marcus Haymon
Age: 15
Race: Human 1*
Class: N/A (lvl 2) Exp till next level 40/100
Health: 80/80
Mana: 75/80
Stamina: 75/80
Karmic Faction: Neutral
Str: 5
Agl: 7
End: 8
Int: 8
Spt: 10
Skills: Identify (lvl1 common) Dodge (lvl2 common), Pain resistance (lvl1 common), Thrust (lvl1 common) (focus on the skill to learn more about it)
Dao: N/A
Gifts: (Expand)
AP(assignment points): 20
Hmm, I focus on the identify skill.
[Identify - lvl1 common
A skill that lets the caster see the details of the creature/object it was casted on. Cost 5 mana]
Neat I then focus on the rest of my skills.
[Dodge - lvl2 common
Increases your chance of dodging an attack based on the attack and your capabilities]
[Pain resistance -lvl2 common
Increases your resistance to low level pain (1% per skill lvl) increases pain resistance by 2%
Remembering the wound caused by the Ratacorn u check my stomach and realize it's healed. How is it already regenerated? After thinking for a bit I figure it's probably from me leveling up.
[Thrust - lvl1 common
Sword thrust, pierce your enemies with the mighty blade, deals +2 dmg]
Cool my first actual attacking skill, I wonder if I can get a slash skill? Waving away the prompts I perform a slash… and nothing happened, deciding not to give up finally after 10 swings of my sword.
[You have learned slash - lvl1 common
Slay your enemies with a might swing of your blade, deals +2 dmg]
Why did it take longer to learn than thrust? Was it because of me actually fighting instead of training? Probably so, dismissing my thought I open my status back up and add 5 to str, 3 to agl, 2 to end and Int, and none to spt. Looking at the rest of my 8 points I dump them into agility. Never hurts to be fast since if you are fast enough you can't be hit and you do more dmg, and if you need to you can just run away.
[Str: 10
Agl: 18
End: 10
Int: 10
Spt: 10]
Perfect I think and then feel the rush of power flow through me. Hey system what was the average stat for a male adult pre system?
[10 for the body stats, 8 for Int, and 3 for Spt. Top athletes would be slightly higher those such as Eddie Hall having 13 in Str and Usain Bolt having a 14 in Agl from the start]
Woah I really lucked out there with my spirit being so high from the beginning. Also system what does spirit even do?
[It determines your comprehension ability that you are born with, also you can't increase the stat without treasures, fruit, or system rewards and for you, your Gift]
Oh well I guess that's were my Great comprehension Gift comes from with my naturally high spirit, and then my Godly Learning Gift enhances it to the extreme. Wanting to test my new power I go to the end of my clearing that I was teleported to and sprint to the other side. I quickly reach the end of the 100 meter dash and I'm shocked to realize I ran it in about 6 seconds. Holy shit that feels amazing, why be strong when you can be fast.
"Hey system is there a way to auto assign my AP?"
[Yea just say what you want it to be assigned to and it will do it. Now I'm not gonna answer any more of your dumb questions from now on]
Well I didn't think my questions were dumb…
"Pre assign based on the 10 APs for a level 2 to Str, 5 to Agl, 2 to End, and 1 to Int"
Okay now that I got all of that done let's open my loot. Focusing on the exclamation mark in the top right of my eye sight I see my inventory open in front of me with 15 slots for things I want to put in it. I see one is taken by a shabby looking chest and I take it out of the inventory. Once it appear on the ground I inspect it noticing it's wooden and has no metal built into it, has many holes I shrug knowing it's just a common chest. I open it and recieve…
[you have received
5x bags of alligator jerky
1x extended water canister]
Casting identify on the extended water canister I find that it truly is a magical little thing.
[Basic extended water canister (commom)
A water canister enhanced by the system to hold a gallon of water despite its small size]
I quickly open and take a nice long swig of the cold and perfect water.