CHAPTER 1
Silence.
{SYSTEM LOADING...}
What?
{SYSTEM LOAD COMPLETE..!}
{WELCOME HOST! I AM SYSTEM 234001259357853210 OF THE ARCANE OMNIVERSE, I AM A GUIDE THAT WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR ENDEAVORS AND I WILL AID YOU TO REACH THE TOP, A TRUE SUPREME BEING...!}
What..is going on?
{HOST, IT WOULD SEEM AS THIS IS A BAD TIME TO STOP YOU FROM YOUR THOUGHTS BUT YOU NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND FIGHT OR WE WILL DIE!!!}
Before I knew it, I opened my eyes almost like reflex, I've not been able to eat, breathe, blink or sleep, all I could do was sit next to my grave and watch, watch with utter disgust and hatred...
"SKREEEE!" A vicious screech... I instantly ducked my head only to feel a heavy presence pass by the top, where my head was positioned before.
I turn to look at the creature, it could only be one thing that sounds like that and as soon as I looked at it, something blocked my vision...something translucent.
{SYSTEM INFORMATION LOADING...}
[SPECIE: MUTATED BAT]
[LEVEL: 10]
[SP: 50/50]
[MP: 80/100]
[HP: 100/100]
[STR: 3]
[AGL: 10]
[STA: 2]
[SKILLS]
{VOCAL PERSEPTION: This has the ability to paralyze an enemy for a second while also helping its user to navigate using the vibrations in the surroundings}
I look through the information and wave at the thing for it to stop blocking my vision, I look around to find out that the bat had already circled around and was coming straight for me, I stared at it like it was beneath me, a mere bat, of all things...
I raise my hands and recreate a first order spell, (fire orb) and in a split second, a meter wide fireball shot out of my hands to the bat who seemed shocked at the big ball of flames that appeared from nowhere...
"BLOEWF!!!" It was raining bat meat, I sigh.
I looked around me, it seemed a similar situation happened around this place, a village? This, is different from what I know, I was so focused on being able to breathe and move and fight that I didn't realize the strangeness of the situation...First, I am alive...Second, something called a system is in my head...and finally...This place, is definitely not my grave.
{USER INFORMATION LOADING...}
[NAME: MICHAEL]
[SPECIE: HUMAN, 10]
[LEVEL: 2 (100/500)]
[MP: 100/100]
[HP: 100/200]
[STR: 5](+2)
[AGL: 5](+2)
[STA: 5](+2)
[INT: 50]
[SP: 100/100]
[SF: 500/500]
[PERCEPTION: 10]
[LUCK: 2]
[STATUS POINT: 2]
[SYSTEM POINTS: 10]
[ATTRIBUTE]
{VENGEFUL MONARCH}
[SKILLS]
{ABSORB}[UNIQUE]
{DARK RISE}[UNIQUE]
{FIRE ORB}[FIRST ORDER]
[SHOP]
[LEVEL UP!]
Speechless would be the best way to describe just how I was as I read though it all, of course a few things confused me but as soon as I thought about those, the system clarified it. MP is known as mana point, hp is health, str, agl, sta, int are strength, agility, stamina and intelligence which are responsible for the physical and magical cooperation of the body. SP is soul point and SF is soul force, it seems soul point varies seeing as I had a stronger soul point than the bat, but why do I have soul force and it doesn't?
{IT IS BECAUSE THE HOST HAS AN EXTREMELY STRONG SOUL, IT HAS WEAKENED DUE TO BEING WITHOUT A VESSEL FOR A LONG TIME BUT ALSO BECAUSE SOME OF YOUR SOUL WAS USED TO INITIATE A SOUL BOND BETWEEN YOU AND THE ARCANE $##%&*!!}
…What was that?
{HOST DOESNT HAVE THE AUTHORIZATION TO RECEIVE AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.}
I see, I have just three questions, do you mind?
{IF IT IS WITHIN AUTHORIZATION, I WILL ANSWER WITH CLARITY!}
"First, where am I?" I say out loud for the first time, it was weird, wait...why do I sound like a child?
{SYSTEM JUDGING...}
{HOST IS IN A STABLE STATE NOW, SO THE MEMORIES OF THE SOUL OF THE FORMER OWNER OF THIS VESSEL CAN BE ALLOWED TO BE ASSIMILATED WITH THE HOST.}
"What do you mean?" I say as I fell to the ground clutching my head, I've gone through much worse pain but this was an indescribable mental pain that felt as though I was being struck by lightening directly on my head.
After a few seconds the pain subsided, I stood up and looked closely at my hands, I was really a child...no, I took a child's body. I look around me once more as the memories of who these people were came flooding in, by the time I was done, I had gone through the memories as though they were mine; It was nothing much, a kid who knew nothing, played and worried of nothing saw his first and last reality check and dipped. I hold no emotions for these people nor the child, everything must come to an end, but I never got my end...I only got dished disgust, hatred, envy and betrayal from those I trusted the most...
The misconception that every helpless person is good and that every hero is good is fatally wrong, so so wrong...but who is to blame? those weak enough to throw themselves to a hero's feet just because of the title of hero, or those strong enough to acknowledge a hero's strength but not the character because they believe as a hero, your character is holier than thou.
A sad smile as I search through the memories about my name, it has really been a long time.
As Michael looked through the memories of the child, the smile on his face disappeared as a frown appeared and kept going deeper, the surroundings around him started to darken as even the grass below his feet died immediately.
Michael was physically shaking as he gnashed his teeth, he closed his eyes as he punched his face multiple times, each punch was solid after a few seconds of constantly punching his face, tears star to stream down his face as he spits out a considerable amount of blood.
"That fucker...I was too late." I say as I look around me to see where I should go from here to recover, from this kids memories, there should be a cave somewhere around south of here.
I look back to the scene around me, the least I could do is take care of the problem but not in the state I'm in...
"Be that as it may, what is that floating on the corpse of the bat?" I ask as I looked at the red mass which floated atop the corpse of the bat, it looked like it gathered itself to form that black mass.
{HOST, THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A SOUL, OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, ITS SOUL AND THE CONSTITUTION OF ITS MAGIC COMBINED.}