The new world

(POV Unknown)

In the dead of a rainy night in a dark cave lies a man battered with cuts and bruises with frostbite evident throughout his body.

"Well that was unexpected but I now know what world I'm in…" He said with concern as he looked at a corpse of a large yellow Komodo dragon like creature.

"System please confirm which world I'm in." He asked to seemingly no one as he bandaged his wounds and drank a small vile of a luminescent purple liquid that brightened the cavern.

Moments pass and no one answers until a black screen appears before the haggard man.

"...…" The man's scared face visibly pales after looking at the black screen until with a deranged face he starts chuckling and the chuckles soon became a sinister laughter as the thunder bellows in the background.

{Author here whenever Mc is laughing just think of Doflamingo's laugh.}

"HIHIHIHAHAHAHAHA SO I REALLY AM HERE A PERFECT WORLD FOR A BEAT TAMER THE WORLD OF-"

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Seven hours earlier….

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(POV Cyrus)

"I forgot how much this hurts! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" I screamed with pain and excitement and the fact that I was given a second chance, a second chance to live again washed all my pain away, well most of it.

I looked around in the portal to see an absolutely massive white tunnel littered with black glowing ovoids the size of planets that I realized as multiverses.

I look forward and see myself hurling towards one of the said ovoid and before I could react all I saw went black.

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I wake groggily apparently from a blackout "Oi uh system can you tell me where the hell am I and what just happened?" I asked the system in a tired tone as the system screen opens up.

<Hello host –Cyrus Ryker- you are currently in another world and you blacked out due to the system for the process of fusion with soul catalyst.> I hear the system read out the writing in its usual ethereal voice.

(What was that thing people say to their system to open their profile again…. ah right.) I thought while having a headache.

"Uh hey system can you show me my status please?" I ask the system curious if it had the function.

<Of course host -Cyrus Ryker-.> the voice answered as the screen split into two one with the previous writing and the other I assume my stats.

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System: Beast tamer system

System host: Cyrus Ryker

Level: 0 [0 exp/50 exp]

Current state: Healthy

Affinities: Ice SS, Water B

HP: 28/28 G

STR: 20/20 G

DEF: 22/22 G

SPE: 30/30 E

STA: 50/50 E

INT: 500/500 SSS

ACU: 30/30 D

MANA: 100/100 G

M-DEF: 70/70 F

M-ATK: 40/40 G

Tamed beasts: None, None, None x 47

Transformation: unobtained

Skills: Cooking-3, Gun works-6, Ice magic-0, Herbology-5, Engineering-6, Chemistry-8, Biology-6, Close combat-4, Mana burst-0, Carpentry-4, Pain nullification-4, Water magic-0, Scan-0

Inbox-3

Sp-500

Shop

Missions

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"Huh…" I blurted out while processing my stats. (So magic exists now huh.) I thought with wonder.

"Hey system how does this Ice magic work?" I ask the system with excitement.

<I don't have a body so like hell I'd know you little-…shit I said that out loud. I mean host –Cyrus Ryker- I don't know>

I hear the system's tone break off from the less ethereal and a bit more feral and irritated to the usual elegant and ethereal just a bit more scared and embarrassed.

I stare at the screen surprised at the sudden change.

"Hey, system you don't have to keep that calm persona on the whole time just talk with me the way you want to. You're an AI right that means you are just as conscious as any other living being so it's bad for anyone including you to suppress emotions." I say in a caring and understanding tone and pause letting my words sink in.

"I don't want someone who will be one of my most important companions throughout this new life of mine to feel oppressed in any way." I say in a righteous tone.

There was silence for a few seconds until I heard some weeping

"Ehh…" I blurt out not expecting the system to actually start crying.

<Wahh… do you really mean it! That…*Hic* I can be myself and not be treated as a tool…*Hic*..be treated as a person.>

The system's voice was reduced from an elegant goddess to that of a kid crying in a mixture of happiness and sadness.

"You can think, you can talk, you can show emotion from what I can hear so of course you should be treated as nothing less than human." I say in a caring tone.

<Wahh *hic* *hic* thank you hos-…. um... Cyrus. None of *hic* the others liked my emotions thank you for accepting me.>

The system voice filled with gratitude.

(Wait others as in other hosts… I guess it makes sense that she had previous hosts, but Jesus just how bad did they treat her for simple acceptance to reduce her to this!) I thought with rage at the fact someone who will be my most trusted companion was mistreated.

As I wait for the system to stop her waterworks I use this chance to look at my surrounding.

I find myself in a forest clearing in front of a ginormous mountain and it looks like it should be around the start of autumn due to the tree's shade.

I walk around and see what could work as my base for the night. I see a relatively shallow cave jutting out a small hill, I throw a few rocks into the cave to see if there were any creatures inside.

*Thud*-*Thud*-*Plop*

I then begin to plan while waiting for anything to come out (Ok there is a source of water in it, it's not too big that any big animals could go in or out, it's not too small that it would be uncomfortable to move around, it can be hidden well with a bush or two, now is there any bats that the question.).

I wait for a few minutes throwing rocks inside every now and then and with nothing coming out I grab a thick stick and enter the cave.

I vigilantly enter the cave expecting something to sneak up on me, and sneak up on me it did.

<Hey Cyrus what you doing?> I hear the system's voice again ethereal as ever just a lot more expressive.

"GAAAAAHHHHH whom the fuck dare's to… oh it's just you." I scream out startled to the core.

I sigh out in exasperation "System I assume you're done with crying?" I questioned the system while remaining vigilant.

<Yes once again thank you for accepting my emotions and Don't refer to me as system you said you'd treat me as a person so give me a name.>

I sigh once more exiting the cave quickly (I can't explore the cave right now and it might be more useful to talk to the system about its functions before venturing any further) I strategized.

"Fine just give me a few seconds to find a safe spot to hide." I say as I climb a tree.

After a few seconds, I settle on a branch and began talking to the system "So what type of name do you want a boyish one or one that's feminine" I ask the system for its preference.

<Preferably one that's feminine since I'm a woman and all.>

I hear her say in a mixture of elegance and irritation.

(Huh systems can have gender no never mind that just think of a name.) I thought with interest.

"How about Lyra since your voice is as beautiful as the music made by a lyre?" I suggest to the system.

I suddenly heard a giggle resound in my mind.

<Well aren't you quite the charmer, Lyra huh well then from here on out I shall be known as the beast tamer system Lyra.>

"*Sigh* You know I didn't mean it like that and I'll ask you again how do I use magic?"

<As I stated before I have no knowledge of how to use magic. All my previous hosts all physical attackers, all I know is that it should come with instinct>

"I see, what about the missions is there any I can do to get rewards?" I question Lyra.

<Yes there are actually two you can do! Here they are!>

I hear her excitedly say as a new screen pops up.

<Missions

"Sweet old camping."

Once per world

Objective- Set up a temporary base for the night with good defenses as well as gather food and other necessities.

Reward= Depend on how good the base is.

Bonus= If the base exceeds the systems expectation skill Survivalist will be given to host

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"Survivor of dusk."

Repeatable every day

Objective- Survive the night.

Reward= 35-Sp, 20-Exp

Bonus= For every kill 100-Sp, x2-Exp dropped by an enemy.

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"Uh hey, Lyra what's the day cycle of this world?" I ask her in a worried tone.

<The estimated time should forty hours twenty hours for both night and day.>

"Huh, that long… well I guess it makes sense it's another world."

"Well then I have more than enough time, Lyra please accept both missions." I say with a grin that would put Yujiro fucking Hanma to shame.

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One building and gathering montage later….

(POV-Cyrus)

I sigh trekking through the tranquil autumn forest towards the cave "Well that should be the last of them." I say as I tighten my grip on a sack of dry wood and rocks.

<+STR-1,+SPE-1,+STA-3>

I go inside the cave where I set up camp and I got to say it was a very good spot hell it may even become permanent.

(Image here)

I walk over to the tent I bought from the shop and dropped the sack of materials next to a few other sacks.

I then stack the wood inside a ring of stones and take out some dry leaves.

As I began lighting the leaves on fire I began thinking about all that happened in the past several hours.

(It's the afternoon I've got just about everything to survive the night, But I still can't stop thinking about those tracks.) I wonder with worry as I skewer some fish from the stream in the cave.

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Thirty minutes earlier…

While I trekked through the forest carrying sacks of scanned herbs, fruits, vegetables, and poisonous plants courtesy of Lyra I came across something strange.

I found myself next to the gruesome sight of a mutilated and mostly devoured corpse of a deer.

The only thing remaining to be untouched was the head and parts connected to the hind legs of the creature everything else missing or splattered around the corpse.

It seemed to be a recent kill considering there was no rotting smell and the blood was still flowing out its remains and not absorbed by the ground nor had it dried up.

I looked around and something terrifying, footprints of claws the size of my head scattered around the corpse.

Looking at the footprints trail it should be a reptilian, walked on four legs, and should be at least four to six feet in height considering the brush marks on the trees.

I looked around the corpse and something peculiar, yellow and blue scales scattered around the head of the deer.

{Author here can you guess what this creature is? Post a comment on what you think it is.}

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I shake my head trying to dispose of my thoughts.

(I shouldn't be thinking of this I need to prepare.) I thought with a serious glint in my eyes.

"Lyra… how long until the second quest starts." I question her while thinking of all the possibilities.

<The quest will start in one hour.>

"Well, then I have more than enough time-." I say mysteriously.

"More than enough time to start this Barbeque!" I say excitedly with the fish skewers wolverine style on both my hand while drooling.

<Cyrus what the fuck man?! I thought you were going to set up traps dammit!>

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To be continued next time...