NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Everyone knows they're going to die, it's not a question, but a matter of fact. Eventually everyone will die, no one quite knows how they're going to die till it happens, of course some people imagine how they will go out.
Myself included.
However, never did I think I would blink as a person made of energy appeared holding a gun, and then shooting me point blank to the face.
Obviously it then all went black.
Of course I didn't expect to open my eyes again, but I did, except there was no pain, so a couple options.
One, I'm drugged the fuck up on painkillers in the hospital after somehow managing to survive.
Two, I'm hallucinating as my brain is shutting down trying to figure out a way to survive.
Three, I'm in some kind of afterlife.
Three seems more likely the choice, because you know, I'm on a fucking cloud, and there's a floating screen in front of me.
Ok, option two is out, I never experienced this before. One is still a possibility, but I doubt it now. So option three it is.
[Welcome user 10,001. I am Artfical Life Unit ZL-07, Administrator of System 02-GS, otherwise known as The Gamer System. You have been chosen randomly by [UNAUTHORIZED] to compete amongst 10,000 others in the multiverse. You will have your stats randomly generated based on the world you will be sent to. [UNAUTHORIZED] noticed that you weren't supposed to be selected, so as a bonus, you will be given a bonus reward as compensation.]
"Huh?" Is all I could get out as I stared at the text, yet I could hear it in my head.
Ok, option four, fantasy bs.
[Beginning character creation!]
[Selecting world! Omniverse-GTW-01, Multiverse 0754-CA, Locking Multiverse, Complete. Selecting universe, searching, Universe-105-AG-7 chosen.]
[Beginning character creation!]
[Generating race, Kitsune!]
[Compensation being used, upgrading Kitsune race into Origin Kitsune!]
Ok, he did like foxes, and kitsunes were cool and had numerous powers.
[Name: Raven Inanis]
[Title: |Gamer|]
[Race: Origin Kitsune] ^
[Age: 18]
[Level: 1] [XP 0/100]
[HP 200/200]
[MP 200/200]
[STR 20]
[AGI 20]
[VIT 20]
[INT 20]
[CHA 25]
[LUK 25]
[Money: 0$]
Huh, neat. Noticing the small arrow besides the race tab, I pressed it. A much more detailed explanation of the origin kitsune race appeared.
[Origin Kitsune]
The father of kitsune, the bloodline from which all kitsune descended from. Due to this, you gain plus 10 stats in all spots besides luck. For every level, you also gain plus 1 extra stat for STR, AGI, VIT and INT. You gain the famed abilities of kitsune. Kitsune-Bi, Shapeshifting, Illusions and a bunch of other abilities to unlock as you grow stronger. For every 100 levels you will grow an extra tail. Physcial limit of tails grown is nine tails. For every tail, you will gain plus 50 stats to STR, AGI, VIT and INT. All kitsune will see you in a positive light. Upon receiving your first tail, Senjutsu shall come to you easily. Nature shall desire to be one with you.
Ok, now that is amazing. Though cleaning all those tails is gonna seriously increase my cleaning time. Oh well, I'll just have to work through it.
[Character creation finished. Does the gamer wish to spin for traits? For every positive trait, a negative trait will be generated. Limit, 3 spins.]
Damn if I don't love gacha, and hate it. Fuck it, we ball.
Spin!
[Prodigy]
All skills will only cost half the normal cost to level up to their next level. Understanding things will only take half as long.
[Wrathful]
When you are greatly angered, almost nothing can snap you out of your rage. Gamers Mind skill shall lose half its strength when this happens.
[Spins 2x] Y/N
Ok, not the worst, and it doesn't say I won't still be at least somewhat aware. Do I do another spin though? Fuck yes.
[Lady Lucks Favored One]
Lady Luck favors you, she is infatuated with you. Due to this, you gain +25 Luck. You are guaranteed to at least have favorable odds in normal luck involved games.
[LUK: 50]
[Lustful]
It's in the name isn't it? You are extremly lustful and if you go too long without draining your lust, you will do whatever you can to drain it. As time goes on, your sanity will deplete till all you can think about is getting laid.
Ok, I think I'm done here…
[Confirmed. Discarding remaining spin. Generating body, complete. Designing body to user 10,001. Complete. Linking soul to body, complete.]
[Updating menus and setting interface controls to appropriate levels. Complete. Locking system interface to User 10,001. Complete.]
[Set up is finished. Unit ZL-07 wishes The Gamer well. Enjoy your new life, please do reach out to us for any errors found in the system. Sending soul to body.]
Suddenly everything flashed and he felt himself being dragged somewhere.
•~~~~•
I opened my eyes and groaned as I sat up and looked around, this wasn't my bed, or the hospital… I stopped my thoughts as I saw the floating screen. It was real!!!!!
"Oh boy." I mumbled as I stood up and saw a mirror, I decided to take in my apperance first, it wasn't too dissimilar to my appearance when I was alive.
Straight white hair down to the middle of my back. Tanned skin. Gleaming slit red eyes.
However the most notable thing was the pure white fox ears sticking out the top of my head and twitching occasionally at the sound they picked up.
"Ok, so I have two sets of ears, not the weirdest things to deal with. No tails yet, so I probably gain my first one when I reach level one hundred." I said out loud with a hum as I decided to glance at the screen properly now.
[Notice, due to error, class wasn't selected. Please choose one of the selected class and subclass.]
[Melee] [Mage] [Rouge] [Support]
Oh, I almost forgot that usually in games there is classes, I guess that applies here. Hm, I don't know what world I'm in, so getting in hand to hand fights at the moment isn't the brightest idea at the moment. There's no team with me, so support is out right now. I've never been a big fan of rouge, so that leaves Mage.
[Available subclasses - [Arcanist] [Artificer] [Elementalist] [Pyromancer] [Aeromancer] [Illusionist]]
Hm, opening each, I looked at the direct description, for now I need something reliable. What's more reliable then fire?
Ima burn all my enemies.
So I selected [Pyromancer] as my choice.
[Class selected. Updating status and skill menu. Complete. Enjoy a free 100,000$ reward as compensation.]
[Name: Raven Inanis]
[Title: |Gamer|]
[Race: Origin Kitsune - 0 Tails]
[Age: 18]
[Level: 1] [XP: 0/100]
[Class: Pyromancer]
[HP: 200/200]
[MP: 200/200]
[STR: 20]
[AGI: 20]
[VIT: 20]
[INT: 20]
[CHA: 25]
[LUK: 50]
[Money: 100,000$]
[Skills (Passive)]
[Gamers Body] - MAX
[Gamers Mind] - MAX
[Omnilingual] - MAX
[Novice CQC] - Lvl 2 (57%)
[Skills (Active)]
[Observe] - Lvl 1 (0%)
[ID-Create] - Lvl 1 (0%)
[ID-Escspe] - MAX
[Sprint] - Lvl 37 (64%)
[Shapeshift] - Lvl 1 (0%)
[Kitsune Bi] - Lvl 1 (0%) (Notice, fused with skill Fireball)
[Illusions] - Lvl 1 (0%)
Hm, not too bad. Looks like it brought over my sprint skill, I did do a lot of running in my last life. I got in a couple fights, so it's good to know I at least have it recognized by the system.
"Alright, I guess I should figure out where I was transported too." I said to myself as I hopped into the shower and enjoyed the hot water.
I learnt something in that moment, my ears were damn sensitive as hell. I bet my tails will be even more so in the future.
With a hum, I looked in the closet at what my clothing options were. Just some basic clothes. Mostly black, did the system think I was some edgy bastard?
"Oh well, I've got enough money to buy some good clothes." I decided after a moment as I grabbed a set and put them, though I remembered to put my ears up, thank you Shapeshifting, I had no doubt if I tried to hide them with a hat or hoodie, it would be extremly awkward for myself.
Though I could probably play it off as cosplay. Probably.
[Quest!]
You've woken up in a strange room not your own, well it is now, but schematics, you have no idea where in the Omniverse the administrator sent you. Figure out if you recognize the world you were sent to.
Reward:
•50XP
•50$
As all gamers know, XP is XP.
•~~~~•
Ok, so I've done some research and found out where and when I am.
Good news, I'm still on planet earth and humans are alive and everywhere, the pest they are.
It's the year 2010, October 28. I'm in the USA, specifically Newyork. This is not a place for a lazy fox boy to be!
Could be worse, I could be chilling with dinosaurs, though knowing me, I'd try to go all Ark Survival on them and tame some cool dinos.
•~~~~•
Alright, so I got distracted when I saw a pizza place, and then another, I spent 357$ on pizza in the last four hours, worth it.
I also was attempted to be mugged like three times… they're probably nursing their broken arms right now in alleyways. Showed them, don't mess with a kitsune!
Focus!
I've decided to pop into a library and use their computer to search up random things to try and figure out where I am.
I've narrowed down super scary worlds I'd want nothing to deal with till I grow a LOT stronger.
DC, Marvel, Type-Moon, ToAru and a few more.
However I've started running out of franchises to search from.
"I guess I'll try searching up the more embarrassing ones." I mumbled as I went to type in some other names.
Then he got his answer.
[Quest Complete!]
You've successfully figured out the world you've been reincarnated in by the system, congratulations. However! Don't get comfortable, just because you know what the world is, doesn't mean you know it as you think.
Yes, this is the world known to you as Highschool DxD, but not everything is the same. Many things could be the same, and many things could be entirely different. It's up to you to figure it out along your journey as a gamer.
Rewards:
•50XP
•50$
Ok, I may have breathed a sigh of relief, but also a sigh of annoyance. Also slight fear.
DxD wasn't that scary if you know what you were doing, till fucking ExE comes about and fucking killer robots fucking ONE SHOT Great Red!
Nononono! I refuse to deal with that. I'm just your cute kitsune looking to gain his nine tails and enjoy life. Plus a cute wife in the future.
"Please look after me Lady Luck!" I prayed quietly before deleting my browser's history on the computer and leaving the library.
It was grinding time! Those tails wouldn't grown themselves without some effort on my part.
•~~~~•
"Medical gauze, water, food and a knife just in case. Time to do this." I cheered to myself inside my apartment as I cast the famed skill.
"ID-Create, Zombie." I spoke aloud because I wanted to. An then the world glowed blue before I found myself in some run down city.
The stereotypical zombie apocalypse world.
[Notice!]
You've entered your first dungeon! Allow me to explain the dungeons. When created, time moves at speeds so slow that even light would take eons to move at all. So take as long as you need to grind away. Dungeons have requirements before they are beat, if you leave a dungeon, it will reset and you will be forced to restart from the beginning, there is of course exceptions, but they are just that, the exceptions.
•Zombies Slain 0/150
•Legion Zombie 0/1
Ok, I can probably kill 150 zombies, plus I'll gain some XP along the way making it easier.
I spotted the first zombie and casted observe.
[Zombie]
[Lvl 1]
[HP: 50/50]
[MP: 0]
[STR: 3]
[AGI: 1]
[VIT: 5]
[INT: 0]
[CHA: 0]
[LUK: -5]
A single blast of my kitsune-bi had it killed.
[+5 XP]
[+1 Zombie Flesh]
A grin made its way onto my face, oh yes. I was going to enjoy this, oh so very much.
•~~~~•~~~~•~~~~•
So I won't lie, I've been wanting to do a gamer story for quite a while. I attempted one, but I kinda made the MC grow way to fast, even for a gamer. Ok, that's a fucking lie, a gamer can get OP in like a day if they know what they're doing, it's more along the lines I rushed the story and it just didn't feel right.
So here, I plan to take my sweet time and enjoy this, giving it the needed fleshing out it will deserve.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter, at the end of every single one, I'll post the status/skills/inventory as time goes on, though eventually those last two will probably only become invisible and the more noticeable skills and items will be shown once it grows too big.
Also the display format might change a little for the menus till I figure out how exactly I feel with making it. An eventually the XP number will be replaced by a % instead because fuck calculations.
•~~~~•
[Raven Inanis]
[Title: {Gamer}]
[Race: Origin Kitsune]
[Age: 18]
[Level: 1] [XP: 55/100]
[Class: Pyromancer]
[HP: 200/200]
[MP: 200/200]
[STR: 20]
[AGI: 20]
[VIT: 20]
[INT: 20]
[CHA: 25]
[LUK: 50]
[Money: 100,050$]
[Skills (Passive)]
[Gamers Body] - MAX
[Gamers Mind] - MAX
[Omnilingual] - MAX
[Novice CQC] - Lvl 2 (57%)
[Skills (Active)]
[Observe] - Lvl 1 (78%)
[ID-Create] - Lvl 1 (25%)
[ID-Escape] - MAX
[Sprint] - Lvl 37 (67%)
[Shapeshift] - Lvl 1 (13%)
[Kitsune-Bi] - Lvl 1 (27%)
[Illusion] - Lvl 1 (0%)
[Inventory]
{Medical Gauze Roll} x2
{Water Bottle} x5
{Packed Meal} x2
{Zombie Flesh} x1