Chapter 05: The System

Not believing anything would happen I utter the words almost mocking the existance of this world as the thought of games shot through my head.

Yet nothing remotely like the words I wanted to say came out of my mouth. Quickly I realized I had reincarnated into the body of a baby, unable to speak. I visualized the word inside my head.

"Status".

Suddenly the most peculiar thing happened. 

A screen popped up.

My reaction was unheard-of screaming in disbelieve.

"Eeeeehhhhhh?!"

As I couldn't really talk seeing I was a baby, that's where my reaction ended. Curious why this popped up I tried reaching the screen.

When I did my hand went straight through.

Calming down I tried to think rationally.

Looking at it closer, the screen showed my status?

[Name: Jonathan Reighn (can still be chanced by the one who has taken you in)

Rank: 0 Level: 0 Titel: Newborn Reincarnator

Species: Dark Elf

Class: Death Elementalist

Job: ???

STR: 0

DEX: 1

VIT: 2

INT: 5

WIS: 3

LUK: -1]

I didn't believe what I saw...

But this... had to be unbelievable, right?

Having seen mij status I became captivated by it,

curious to see if I had any kind of skills from birth, or rather, from my previous lives...

I quickly visualized the skills inside my head.

Still... the system reacted opening another window.

[Skills:

Death elemental Mastery lv; 0

Dark bolt lv; 0

Reanimation lv; 0]

Curious of what it all meant, I went back to the other window. Hoping to get more information thinking this would work in a similar way... I pushed my class:

[Death Elementalist:

A Element unkown to the world, discovered far away in the future those said to encountered it only awaited death. As those able to manipulate it, had a taste for immortality.

Allows the user to manipulate life itself.]

I knew for a fact that I had regained the horrific abilities bestowed opon me. My past life wasn't a lie... Not knowing the extent of it the feeling began hitting home and I became ever more curious to know what I was able to do.

It was dark, my path only illuminated by the light of the moon. Thinking I was alone I ventured deeper into the woods, only to stumble upon the local wild life.

Rabbit hopped around as carefree as they were,

only to find that they dashed away with the slightest of noices. Making absolutely sure no one had followed me I held my hands together and visualized the energy from within my body to circulate through my hands. 

Holding them close to each other,

hoping something would happen... but, nothing...

Frustrated I let myself fall to the ground,

facing towards the sky. It felt like an eternity as the wind carried around the leaves of the trees...

When suddenly I heard rustling close by.

I must have been alone right? 

Taking in my surroundings, I was alert. Adrenaline rushed through my body trying to face the unknown...

The rustling gotten worse, branches began to crackle close by... when suddenly a large shadow revealed itself. 

Unable to move away, there was nothing I could do, but face whatever the shadow might be...

The dim glimmer of moonlight revealed a long and sharp object, curling upwards. Slowly it crept closer as its breath could be heard from afar.

*huff*

*huff*

Uncertain if it had seen me I tried to muster what ever courage my baby self could have, but was unable to move... frozen... my body refused to listen as the shadow approached the centre of moonlight...

Creeping ever closer, its eyes reflected the light of the moon giving off a red glimmer. Freaked out I didn't know what to do... as it closed in on me revealing its true form.

A boar! A gigantic tuskan boar!! 

Grey with black striped, its tusks glowing in the shimmering light of the moon. Fear came over me, with nothing but survival on my mind I tried crawling backwards, ever so slightling I tried backing away as the ferocious looking swime closed in on me.

Finally with my back against the tree, there was no way out of a confrontation with the beast.

It huffed and puffed before snoring deeply and letting out a high pitched squealing noice as it rushed towards me.

"Sqeeeaaaaaallll".

As it jumped towards me with tusks twice the size of its body, I collapsed out of fear. Serveral hours had passed when I awoke to the morning sun and cheering of the birds.

I opened my eyes thinking it was all a dream when I was abruptly pulled back to reality.

Squealing like no tomorrow, the boat had gotten itself stuck in the truck of the tree. I couldn't believe my eyes as I realized that I was still alive!

This was the moment,

the moment I would defend myself!

Laying there under the boar, I held up my hands and mustered as much energy as I could. While this was happening I visualized the energy to form a ball, wanting to fight back I could only think of my own survival. When suddenly the orb shot towards the boar.

But instead of simply shooting the orb, it felt more like I pushed it, which resulted in the orb getting stuck within the belly of the boar.

Screaming and squealing in pain the orb ripped throught its guts. It didn't take long for the creature to succumb to it and forfeit its life.

Blood dripped from its lifeless corpse covering my entire body... I didn't care that it had splashed all over me, I... had survived...

Expecting something to pop-up like in games I waited for a notice, something similar to RPG... but after clearly half a minute had passed it became clear I did not receive any...

"Experience".

Dissapointment felt my being when slowly an idea made its way into my head. I had fought against a unknown beast and lived, I had survived!!

But more important than that, the beast was now dead! Would this mean "it" would apply on it?

"Reanimation?"

Thinking about it triggered a window to pop up.

[Reanimation lv 0:

Since ancient times those abiding by the laws of the Lord of creation wished for similar powers. To accomplished said feed straying away from morals of even ethnicity. They found a way to reunite with the dead.

Allows the user to contract the dead to do your biding, making them rise from their ashes.]

I looked at the boar and thought about it, and before I knew it... its liveless corpse began to spasm.

Its flesh began to decay leaving behind nothing but bones. Carefully the beast broke free from the tree only to face me. It took a moment for me to realize what I had done, when suddenly it hit me. I had rizen it from the dead!

Disbelieve struck me, only to be replaced with a feeling of accomplishment. The creature stood there staring at me, where once its body was, now only bones remained... looking where once its eyes were now something grimly dark red, like dried blood glimmered from its caved in sockets.

What may have been the oddest of all,

was the fact that the creature just stood there...

Doing nothing but staring...

Quickly I looked at my status menu, and saw that my skills had leveled up to one, relieved that there was a way to gain experience. 

Thinking about the creature's situation it surely must have become some sort of minion, but if it did...

Shouldn't there be an option of seeing the summoned minions information?

Thinking about this I wondered...

Taking my time carefully examining its body,

I found that after a while a sort of crystal remained within the creature's body. What could this be?

Examining every nook and cranny the undead boar reacted in a funny way as my tiny arm reached within his rib cavity trying to reach for the crystal.

The crystal had an eery dark glow to it,

but to me...

It didn't seem hostile. In fact it seemed like the creature could barely hold in his laughter!

Was he sensitive around it's ribs?

But as I thought about it, my eyes wondered above the undead boar. Revealing a sort of signet or family crest?

Shaped as a black arrow with sort of tribal swirls, it almost resambled what looked like some kind of skull. 

Upon further examination a window popped up.

Due to curiosity and certain actions a new skill has been unlocked.

Taken aback I fell flat on my bottom as a new window revealed my newly aquired skill.

[Observation lv 0:

A skill used since ancient times to identify whichever the ancient beings of time and space were able to see. To feed their curious tendencies, they developed the tools and means to aquire and prepare the knowledge they needed.

Observation allows the user to get more detailed information about their appointed target.]

Excited about this I wanted to try this out.

Carefully focussing on the undead boar, I visualized using the said skill.

"Observation".