1 Su Yang And His New Form

[Cloud Forest] 

The sun basks and penetrates the darkness of the sky. 

As one of the forbidden forests, this place is, as usual, dead silent. 

However, it will change at this moment. 

Amidst the silence, a sharp wind abruptly blows. Stealing the dry leaves and flowers on the ground, to dance in the air.

Ting*

A light shines from the sky. The ball of light can be seen rapidly falling towards the ground. 

The way it falls looks like a meteor from outer space, yet the ball isn't made up of stone nor followed by fire; it isn't a meteor, it only looks like one. 

A few minutes after the appearance of the unidentified object, the energy in the forest cramp, which caused a major disturbance to occur. 

Hidden in the dark corners; beasts at the radius of one kilometer snap their eyes open and walk out of their den and look up into the sky, worried.

With their very own eyes, they see a strange thing,a ball of light that they don't know what exactly it is, falling towards their location at a fast speed; seemingly no way to stop.  

As they see this receding light, a sense of crisis and death run through their spines. 

With no words to say, as they feel the chill, their body trembles, and their legs automatically run away. . 

Before the ball of light could even touch the ground; in panic, beasts unconsciously make a turmoil as they run on different paths. 

Although they are beasts; known for being dominant in every place they go. At this moment, what could they do? This time, they can't use their fangs to stop the falling light! Their only choice is to escape. 

Their eyes tremble with the sense of visible fear. For some reason, their instinct tells them nonstop that if they want to live for more years, they have to escape as soon as possible; they only have a few seconds left to do so. 

All of them unconsciously or intentionally stop to maintain their posture in front of doubtless death. 

As they said, it is better to be sure than sorry. 

Roar*

Roars of madness with a mixture of fear and different emotions ring in every corner of the forest. 

Boom*

Not long after, not even five seconds elapse, the ball of light eventually touches the ground, and another mess occurs.

A massive explosion makes the entire forest tremble. 

What erupts isn't fire, yet a strong wind with a destructive force that causes the casualties of numbers of unfortunate beasts and destruction of nature...

Fortunately, because the forest itself is magical, the place returns to normal after a few seconds since the disaster. 

Those beasts who luckily saved their lives from the jaws of death can't help yet take a sigh of relief. 

Seeing that the world is calm again, they can't help but remember the saying that goes; The world is brighter, when there's the darkness. 

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'My neck hurts...!' I cursed. However, I stop halfway as I remember something; 'Wait~' I take a deep breath; 'I am still alive?' I said. Both confused and happy. 

I hastily open my eyes and look around; what welcomes me is a blurry figure of tall green figures, something like trees but moving like worms: they are dancing and wiggling. 

'Where the hell am I?!' I said inwardly. 

Argh*

Amidst thinking, a pain suddenly erupts in my head.  

As a massive headache occurs, it gets accompanied by unknown energy that enters my head without my authorization. 

Half-familiar and unfamiliar information, one by one visualizes within my brain. 

Memories of mine slowly come back. The way it looks is like I am watching a scene on a big screen while I am in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately,every scene on the screen is giving me a headache which is no fun at all.

But I am not out of luck, it didn't take a long time, and the movie ends. 

The information is my memories, it turns out that my name is Su Yang, and I am an orphan. 

I do not know who my parents are, and I also didn't look for their whereabouts; the choice they made when they left me is enough to announce their disdain towards me. There's no way I'll look for those who abandoned me once. 

However, although life is as cruel as this towards me, I am not angry with them, nor have I lost hope because of them. I am merely disappointed at them, and no more hard feelings. 

Not to mention, I am the type of person who rarely feels angry or down, I always find hope in every crisis in my life. In this life, what I only want is a simple and calm life. Hatred could only make my life chaotic. That's why I don't want to harbor any ill intention towards others. 

With the dreams I created inside the orphanage; at the age of fifteen, I abandoned the place and walked on my own path with my own leg and own mind. 

My life wasn't bad, everything happened according to my plan, however, unfortunate things still happened after five years of living alone.

Goddess of unluckiness seemed to catch a glimpse of me, and I perished by choking while I was eating alone in my dark and cold rented apartment.

'So, I, in the end, died like that?!' My face turned red in embarrassment. 'What a fucking useless did I do to die that way?!' Just thinking how other people would find my body that died from choking, I feel like I want to find a hole and hide.

'Forget it! ' I shake my head and cleanse every negativity. I can't do anything now, anyway. 

Most importantly, am I in heaven right now?' I look around again but find out my eyes are blurry. 

I close my eyes and open it again; I perform it three times until my vision finally clears up. 

Soon enough, I witness a seemingly paradise land, or a fairyland in front of me. A sense of shock accompanied by a goosebump envelops my entire self as I see the place where I currently am. 

'Am I in heaven right now?!' I said again. My face is full of question marks. Not just confused, but very confused. 

'But... Why is there still this blue sky above me?' The more I turn around to see things clearly; I don't get any answer, yet doubts are appearing one after another. 'Am I really in heaven or somewhere else?!' The doubts in me, like an angry ocean, soar and it turns low. Not to mention, the trees I am talking about, turns out to be a crowd of gigantic grasses after a second look. 

My brain feels like it is about to explode in confusion. Not scientific at all.

Sigh*

I take a deep breath and release all my frustration about my current situation to lessen my stress.

There is no way to tell where I am at this moment. The most reliable idea that forms in my mind is; I am in an unknown forest made of grass.

However, it can't answer the question; did I turn small or things just turned gigantic? 

Other than that, I am also not sure if this place is part of the earth or not anymore. My guts are telling me that this place isn't part of it. 

Is it possible that there is a place like this on earth? I don't think so. 

Maybe some might ask, have I learned every part of the world (Earth) to claim that there is nothing like this there? 

Well, I really do not know that much about earth, and I am also not a person that has enough money to roam the entire world. 

However, what era did I live in?

What is the internet? 

What is a computer? 

Mobile phone? Technologies? 

Although I didn't roam the entire earth, I did roam many internet cafes and learned many pleasant spots in the world. Online.

Reckoning about the names of the places and what they look like, I can't remember any place with gigantic grasses.

Maybe I am merely overthinking, however, the fact that I got reborn is a significant support to my claim. 

In novels that I read, it is a very rare occurrence that the protagonist would die then get reincarnated in the same world. 

It's about One out of a thousand. 

Although using novels as a support to claim is not not acceptable to some, for me who has no choice but to believe in everything I know in order to end my confusion, I think novels at this moment are a very reliable source of support. 

'I believe that I am now in another world!'

After a while of thinking, I got a bit bored. I attempt to move however, I find something amiss. Just now, it was so difficult to even take a step forward. 

'Does even a fucking one-step forward have to be this difficult to perform?!' I said to myself. My face turns ugly as a sense of worry erupts in my heart. 

An idea pops into my head that causes my heartbeat to turn heavy. 'I wish I were merely overthinking!!!' To make sure if I am just overthinking or not, I look down at my feet. 

It is not easy to move my neck, and when I finally did, I witnessed a shocking truth... 

'Why are my legs missing?!'

'What in the world had happened to me?!'

As I find out that my legs disappeared, thousands of questions and doubts bloom in my head at once.  

To calm down, I take a deep breath and shift my sight to another part of my body.

'Fuck! My hand is also missing?!'

Wait~

My eyes turn big as my heartbeat stops at the new idea I get. 

I remember something important... 

I look down again... to my private area.

'Oh, hell no!! Fuck!! Even my rod is missing!?'

'How the hell could I produce a child in the future? My rod... what the heck?! '

'Did heaven really hate me so much for them to cut my entire clan and turn me into a cripple man?! '

There is nothing as painful as this current form of mine. I want to cry without tears. 

No hand, no leg, and no happiness. (Happiness? Sex)

I don't want to but my eyes generate drops of tears, it smoothly slides through my cheeks and falls on the ground. 

It takes me a while to calm myself again.

Yes, my tears dried, yet the pain within me is still here, lingering. 

I shake my head and take another deep breath. I forcefully suppress the pain in my heart after that.

'Why in the world do these unfortunate things keep happening to me?!' This is the question in my head at the moment. I don't want to know the answer about the other doubt, at least answer this sole question. 

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[Suitable Host got detected. System initializing...]

Amidst my frustration, a voice suddenly rings in my head. 

'What?!'

I get more shock when I hear the sound than the shock that I felt when I found out that I turned into a cripple and little shit.

'Did I... Just gained my golden finger?! Is that my golden finger that spoke?! ' 

I am not sure if it really is or just my imagination that I subconsciously created because of the pain, but; it feels so real... 

Maybe the voice senses that I am in the middle of a million doubts; one after another, messages pop out in front of me. 

Just like how systems in novels work, a curtain of a window, mist board with a written word on it, floats in front of me. 

'I don't have any idea that one day, my hobby of reading novels would be helpful to me. Haha.' Thinking about this, I break into a smile. A sense of excitement and greed gives birth in my heart. 

Although I don't have a hand, the system seems to have found this and makes sure that the messages are in order, and even without me doing anything, I can read every message. 

[System completed the initialization...]

[System...]

[System....]

As I read, another message pops out in front of me. Out of everything the system sent, this is the most I fancy. 

[Do you like to receive the Novice Prize?] 

 "Yes! " I say with confidence. With no second thought or hesitation. What does the system think I would answer? Of course, only an idiot would say no to this question.

[I have sent the Novice Prize to the reward box. Please look at your reward box to open the prize...]

Of course, how can I let things like this slip? Without a second thought again, as if I know what I have to do, I command the system with my thought to open the reward box. 

The other window turns into mist and disappears, as the window of the reward box replace them. 

There is a number (1) in there, highlighted. For some reason, I know what it implis. I click the number one, and the message open.  

Novice Prize* 

[2000 Power Points (Can be used to buy from System Shop) (The Host are prohibited to use system Shop until he reaches a certain level required)

Skills:

*Control - With this, the host could take control of someone's body. (The corpse has no resistance, but someone with life has. The Host must be aware of using this skill. Possessing someone who has a lot stronger will than the host can cause a huge consequences.)

*Soul Devouring - The energy of the Soul comprises ten levels, Tier 1 - 10.

The higher the quality of the soul, the bigger the reward. By Devouring Souls, the host could earn Power points (Quality dependent).

*Mimic - By possessing someone's body, the Host could get the Skill and experience of the Skill of the former owner of the body. ]

Looking at these messages, only my doubts disappears a hundred percent. 

But...

'I think something is missing? ' My eyes squints as I feel something is off, yet I can't tell what it is.

Right! 

"System, why do I have no offensive skills? " 

I ask after a while... 

How could I survive or use these skills if, in the first place, I don't even have any qualification or ability to kill anyone in the first place? 

With my current body, I am like dust, with no strength or offensive skill. I am nothing yet a normal piece of sand. 

[Host, that's isn't the problem of the system, how the fuck would I care?... ]

"Huh?" The time seems to stop as I hears the system's reply "Did I... just heard the system cursed?" I said to myself. Doubtful. "I thought the systems were cold and silent," I add. 

Sigh! I couldn't restrain my lips to chuckle and my eyebrows to knit. 

I expected my system to be a bit different. But not that different that it even knew how to cuss. 

'Forget it... ' I shake my head and pay no more attention to it.