Name: Raze
Race: Human
Magical Affinities: Space
Mana: 1000
EXP: 0/100
SP: 0
Level: 1
Strength: 10
Dexterity: 9
Speed: 11
Constitution: 11
Intelligence: 15
[Leveling up can happen by completing set tasks from the system, and gaining experience points. The higher your level, the more stats you generally have.
Each stat has its own use in your body; they are a collection of everything that you need to grow.
Strength is the amount of power you can generate, and the amount of damage you can cause. Dexterity is your agility, accuracy, and control.
Speed is your acceleration, velocity, perception speed, attack speed, and all other speed-related attributes. Constitution is how good your body is, how much damage it can take, and how well your body works.
Intelligence is tied to your brain and your magical ability, it controls how good of a problem solver you are, and also how you use magic.]
The system gave him a quick rundown of what his stats were, and though he didn't have a deeper understanding of them, he could get by for now.
He didn't know how to get experience points and other things, but he should take one thing at a time. If he rushed things, his brain could explode from the info load. After all, it was only today that he suddenly woke up in a different world.
[You have received a starter package from #######. Would you like to check it out?]
"Yes," he answered quickly, as though the offer would run away if he didn't. He also took a look at the name section of the message.
It seemed like someone sent this to him, but the system didn't let him know who it was. This made Raze worry; someone knew he was here and also knew about the system.
Finally, it made some sense. The message he received first seemed to be a warning from someone. He didn't think much into it at first, but now, it made him worry.
Was someone controlling him? Was he just some puppet in a game that he didn't ask for? Was this person some sort of godlike being to be able to do things like this?
And the bigger question: did this person cause his death on Earth and bring him here? So many questions filled Raze's head, and he wanted an answer, but where could he find one?
The only place he could turn to was the system, and it seemed that even the system was hiding the details of this person from him.
He also didn't know anyone. In this world, he had no memories, only information from the book he read before coming to this world.
It was really bad because he didn't even know magical spells; he didn't know any at all. When he read the book, Raze didn't have a lot of time where he cast spells, so there was no way that Raze would have any now.
"Take a deep breath, calm down, one issue at a time. We don't have the time to get worked up." Raze said to himself. He drew a deep breath and let it out slowly.
He turned his attention to the starter package from the system.
[This should help you get by at the start.]
[Spells: Spacial Zone, Spacial Dome, Spacial Veil]
[Techniques: Void Step, Phantom Blade]
The first thing he saw when he looked at the message was "This should get you by at the start," and that made Raze scared.
He had managed to push the thought that someone was watching him out of his head for a brief moment, but the person just had to come and remind him that he was still watching him.
"If I don't have a way to know for sure, I'll just have to be careful." Raze said, calming himself down. He took a look at the spells and the techniques that followed.
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Their names looked cool, but he didn't know exactly what they did.
"Is there any explanation to them?" He asked the system, and the screen changed.
[Spacial Zone: Create a ten-meter zone around your body, where you can sense everything that happens. Consumes 10 Mana points per minute.]
[Spacial Dome: Create a space dome around your body to protect from physical attacks. Consumes 1 Mana point per second. This may vary depending on the attacks.]
[Spacial Veil: Bend space to make you invisible. Consumes 1 Mana per second.]
[Void Step: A technique that allows you to move at twice your speed in an instant.]
[Phantom Blade: A technique made for the blade that allows you to create an instant phantom blade for a second and confuse your opponent.]
Raze was ecstatic when he saw all these, like who wouldn't be? They all looked cool, like very, very cool, and he was already eager to try them out.
In the novel, spells and techniques had ranks. He didn't know what rank these were, but he was certain that a first-year student at sixteen years old would never lay his hands on something like this.
He knew the spells that first years used from the book, and the only person to ever get to use something relatively close to this was the MC.
"Hoho, this might be the thing I needed to fix all my issues and actually be a better version of Raze," he said to himself, looking at the screen with gleaming eyes.
"Wait, how do I even use these?" He asked himself. "Spells are normally cast with either a string of words or specific hand signs, but I got neither." He paused in thought for a bit.
Since the system activated, he had only needed thoughts or words to use it, so maybe if he just thought about the spell, it would work.
He did exactly as he thought, thinking about using Spacial Zone in his mind. The spell activated to his surprise. It spread like a pulse from his body until it got to ten meters.
"Whoa, this is absolutely crazy," he said in shock.
He could sense everything that was around him, from the room to right outside. He could sense the little bugs that were crawling on the ground, and he could sense the students sleeping within the ten meters range of him.
"This is awesome, this is crazy," he said in excitement, but in his excitement, he noticed something—there were footprints in his room.
He didn't know this spell could do that, but from the looks of things, it could also save details of what happened in a space for a while.
This was just Raze coming to a quick deduction of what was happening. Now these footprints could be his, but that wouldn't make sense because he had taken a walk nearly around the room and he wasn't seeing those steps.
Also, the steps he was sensing didn't start from inside the room; they started from outside in the hallway, right from the edge of his spatial zone.
He could also sense other footsteps that had gone past there recently, like the person that came to tell him about the investigation, but that one stopped at the door and didn't go any further, and then it returned back from where it came from.
But this one came from outside and passed through the wall into the room, and walked to the chair that Raze had been seated in.
Raze followed the footsteps and walked to his chair. The footsteps seemed to stop right there. He looked at the chair that he had hit to the ground and saw that there was a palm print on it.
If what he was thinking was correct, someone came into this room and walked to the back of his chair. Maybe that was the person that killed him.
But he wasn't sure if the person actually touched him, and for some reason, he couldn't sense anything on him using the spatial zone, only things around him.
"I need a mirror," Raze said. He used the spatial zone to search for one, and he found one mirror in the cupboard under the table.
He walked to the table and pulled out the mirror. It was a small circular mirror with a copper frame. He picked up the mirror and took a look. This was the first time that he had seen himself since he came into this world.
He had stunning white hair, long enough to reach his neck, but it was tied into a simple ponytail. He was not a world-shattering beauty, but he was pretty handsome for a sixteen-year-old boy. His skin was oddly pale, like a vampire's, and his eyes had a purple tint to them.
But his looks were not his problem right now. He noticed that there was a palm mark on his neck, like someone had grabbed his neck from the back, and there was a thin line in front of his neck.
Raze was not dumb, and in this new body, he was even smarter. That thin line across his neck was probably where the person that grabbed him slit his throat.
The wound easily explained the blood that stained the paper, but he still found something very odd. When you slit the throat of someone, the blood spilled should be far more than what was on the paper.
He picked the paper up again and took another look at it. The blood on it was much, but not enough. But there was a possibility that the person that killed him did it fast and left the room, and a few moments later, Nathan was transported into the body of Raze, and that somehow healed up his body.
Though it didn't really explain why there were no blood stains on Raze himself.
"Whatever, all that doesn't matter right now. What matters is the fact that I was assassinated by someone, or the original body was.
And that was what created the gap for me to come into this world. This is something that never happened in the story. It's not just a little change, this is a major change," Raze said.
He dropped the piece of paper and walked to the door. He held the door knob and slowly opened the door with the lamp in his left hand. He slowly opened the door, trying to make very little sound, but the door was slightly old and still caused some creaking.
He finally got it wide enough to step out of the room. He left the door open and walked out of the room, walking quietly on the wooden floors of the dorm building.
He walked slowly, following the footsteps that his zone would sense. He passed several doors as he went, trying to be as quiet as possible.
After a while of following the footsteps, he could no longer sense them. They just stopped appearing.
"Seems the track has gone cold. I won't be able to find who actually killed me. But at least I have something to work with now," Raze said. He turned back and returned to his room. He carefully closed the door to not make any sounds.
When he was inside, he walked to his chair and picked it up. He placed the lamp on the table and sat down. He removed his large hardback notebook from the stack of books carefully and opened it.
Suddenly, he felt a huge wave of fatigue hit him. The spatial zone fluctuated. He quickly turned it off, and immediately he got relief. He had forgotten that the spell worked with mana, and when mana got low, it made the person feel weak.
"I should be careful when using any spell. I don't want to harm myself," he made a mental note to not forget.
He looked into the cupboard again. There was a pen, one that looked too modern for the age period of the story. It was like a fountain pen, with a black metal frame.
According to the story, this world was old when compared to Earth, but it was still advanced in many ways due to the use of magic.