Awakening

In a modest small town called Floating Cloud City in a slum where the dregs of society lived, another child died. This child was six years old, and only recently he lost his only breadwinner in this place - his mother. It happened in a back street between the old houses, and no one looked at the falling corpse of the boy. For them, he was nobody, so neither teenagers nor even adults helped him.

Everything went on as usual, and his death was no different from the death of an ordinary dog, but at the moment of his death the soul of our hero flew into his body. Everything happened instantly and quickly without bursts of energy, so no one, even from the higher kingdoms, discovered this.

Opening his eyes, the boy wanted to get up, but his legs gave way and he had to lean against the wall. After examining the area around him and finding beggars and homeless people, he showed no surprise.

"So this is how…" he muttered and headed out of the alley. Once on the street, where more or less decent people walked, the boy received only contemptuous and disgusting looks. And someone wanted to spit at him, but that didn't work out and he hit another passer-by.

- You bastard, what have you done ?! Do you know how much my robe is worth ?!

- P-sorry !!!

"And I have good luck" - a thought flashed in the child, and he resumed his step, ceasing to look, until a cry was heard from behind him.

- W-please ...! Noooo!

The boy turned and looked in amazement as the man who tried to spit at him had just been killed. Another man slammed his hand into the chest of the apologetic debris and tore open his heart. And the worst thing is that no one even raised an eyebrow ...

- But this is already interesting ... - the child whispered and quickened his pace, trying not to hurt anyone. He just realized that death is common in this world, which means: The weak are food for the strong or something like that, he thought.

As the boy walked towards the trees, where there were no residential buildings, he had a slight headache.

"Wait ... City of Floating Clouds ..." - opening his eyes in surprise and freezing in place, he realized where he was. - "This is the world of xianxia ... the name ..." - trying to remember the name of the book that he read with his great-grandson, he got out of his stupor and resumed his step.

Once in the forest, the boy realized that he was only now in an unfavorable area and most likely on the outskirts of the city, so it took him only ten minutes of a quick step to get to the forest. There were no guards here or any defensive structure either. And the child did not like this state of affairs.

"They left these people unprotected ... trying to reduce the number of homeless people?" - the boy himself did not condemn them, as he perfectly understood the reasons for the council of the city government to take such a step. The place is a slum, it was just like dirt on clothes in the eyes of others.

While the boy was thinking and trying to remember everything he knew about this world, a click was heard in his head, and then a text appeared in front of his eyes. After reading it, he understood only one thing, that some kind of system was given to him as a bonus that the avatar was talking about.

- What is a system? He muttered, trying to figure out how it worked, but the next second his head hurt again, but much worse than before.

Spinning and knocking on a tree to suppress his torment, the boy still did not make a single sound. Despite the fact that his body was only skin and bones, he could hold back the screams with his will.

Ten minutes later, the child was breathing deeply and looking up at the sky. All information about the system appeared in his head. By the power of thought, calling the interface, he found only his statistics.

There was nothing interesting there, at least for him. He could see his name, stamina, strength, level and more in the window, but he didn't care. He only looked at the Inner Strength Level.

"Elementary Stage of Inner Strength Level 1…" - mentally sighing, he decided to look at the available tasks.

There were many assignments, and all were varied, from assassinations to routine errands.

The boy frowned at the main quests tab.

- Become a True God? He read. Closing his eyes, the boy thought for a couple of minutes and said. - No, I will refuse. - Reaching out with his finger to the "Refuse" button, he blinked as the button had disappeared.

- ...

After a pause, he spoke again.

"Well, no one is forcing me to accept this assignment. I just won't take it. - after his calm and impassive words, the interface in front of him blinked and the following that he saw: "Congratulations on accepting the assignment! Penalty for non-fulfillment: Death and hellish torment of your soul! "

After reading the message, the boy did not panic, but only said.

- There is no time frame or other conditions that will put pressure on me. I just won't do it and that's it.

"DZIN!"

A new window appeared before his eyes:

You have accepted the task, and if the System realizes that you are not trying to complete it ...

PENALTY: DEATH AND PAIN OF YOUR SOUL AT AID !!!!!!!

"Ha… naive soul. - the boy was not worried at all, but only smiled. - So someone is in charge of the system, right? Works in real time…. takes into account every change in this world….

The boy thought about it, not paying attention to the tinkling of the system's messages. He brushed them off.

"This avatar really took offense at me, since he wants me to overcome and not just shirk from business ..." - from such a thought he only smiled, remembering himself in his youth, when he had to check his daughter's boyfriend and give him absurd tasks.

- System, but can I die?

There was silence after his question, but he was in no hurry and was still lying on the grass. And only half an hour later he received an answer, where it was said that they could kill him, but if he does or at least somehow contributes to his death, then the penalty is the same as in the main task.

Deciding not to check what Hades's torment was, he only had to breathe and accept everything as it is. He never ran away from problems and solved them on an ad-hoc basis, even if he didn't want to.

After a little reflection, the boy opened his status and looked at the line with the name. It was empty. He did not want to use the past name and did not think.

"Since this is my new life, then the name will be new ..."

And when he was about to enter his new name, a forced task window popped up in front of him, from which his eyes involuntarily widened. He has never reacted before, so even in this situation ...

And it was written there ...

[[Earn Jasmine's Trust ... time limit: 6 years.]]