I wake up, enjoying the warm embrace of my blanket. I don't want to get out of bed, but I reach for my phone anyways, hoping that I can sleep a bit more. I pick up the phone and open my groggy eyes, the clock is 09:33, "Oh shit! I overslept, my boss is going to kill me!" I quickly rush out of bed, dressing myself and brushing my teeth. I don't have time to eat breakfast so I rush out of my apartment quickly locking my door and walking to my car. I open the car door and hop in, "Fucking great, let's hope I'm not too late again, like the last few times..." I mutter in frustration.

The car ride was smooth, surprisingly there was close to no traffic at all, probably because everyone already got to their job. I thought. Because the traffic was so mild I got to my average 9 to 5 job only 5 minutes after I started my drive. I look around trying to find a parking spot, I frowned, It's always packed this time of day, I thought, irritated. after a few minutes of driving around the huge parking lot outside the building I find a spot. I get out of my car and start walking towards the entrance, I open the heavy door and make my way in.

I greet the receptionist and make my way towards the elevator, I press the button which calls the elevator. 20 seconds of waiting quickly passes. I go into the elevator and press the button which takes me to the 3rd floor. The elevator cabin rumbles a bit and I start to ascend. after a bit the elevator doors open and I step out. I make my way towards my cubicle.

I sit down and make myself comfortable, then I boot up my old work computer that can barely even run google. I get a pop up saying I got an email from my boss, I click on it and after nearly 20 seconds of loading it finally pops up. My heart nearly stops, the fact that one sentence could induce the fear I felt in that moment is funny, it said "Meet me in my office."

I stand up, my heart beating out of my chest. I slowly start walking until I reach my boss's office, I look up and see a sign which says my boss's name, Mrs Karen Smith. Her name truly fits her personality, I chuckle to myself. My boss is a bitch, she writes you up for the smallest thing, like taking a small minute long break or even talking with your co-workers for a bit.

I gulp, then I nervously knock on the door, "Come in!" I hear my boss say. I open up the door, it makes a loud creaking sound. My boss is sitting on her chair, looking through some documents. "John, take a seat" She says while gesturing towards a chair. I sit down, my heart beating faster than before. "John, do you know why I called you here today?" She asked, a disappointed tone in her voice. Even though I know why I still answer, "No." She sighs, "John, you have been late four times in the past 2 weeks, we can't have someone who doesn't come on time working at our company. John, we're unfortunately going to let you go." I just dumbly stare at her and she stares back. I start, "Bu- but-" She cuts me off, "The decision is final, go pack up your things and go".

I stand up, avoiding eye contact while mentally cursing her and her mother. I go to my cubicle, pack up the few things that I actually owned, tears welling up in my eyes, how am I going to be able to pay my bills? They are due tomorrow! I kick the old computer, leaving a small dent. I mutter some swears and start making my way out the building.

I walk towards my car, not really paying attention to anything, hop in and back out of my parking spot, I start driving. I make my way out of the parking lot, I start making my way onto the road and then suddenly...

I hear a blaring noise in my ears, I look to the origin of the sound and my heart jumps out of my chest. I instantly snap out of it and I pummel the brake. There is a huge semi truck currently barrelling towards my location. I hear the sounds of its rubber wheels screeching against the ground. "No, no, no, NO, NO, OH FUCK NO!" One second I'm fine and the next I see myself from above. My body is completely mutilated, limbs are bending ways they're not supposed to, intestines and other organs leaking out of my body, my soulless eyes stare right at me. A shiver runs down my spine. Suddenly a blue box appears in my vision.

Locating compatible soul...

Compatible soul found, Initiating system recruiting protocols...

Become a system, governing Terra

Y / N

Scared shitless, after just dying, like anybody should be I scream out, "What the actual fuck!? What just fucking happened!!?" I got no answer, as expected. I then read what was written in this box, "Become a system, what?" In that moment another of the blue boxes appear before me

[System], System refers to the entity which governs worlds and handles everything magical including stats, evolutions, classes and more.

I quickly read through the new prompt, my jaw dropped, "So I would basically become a god", I said, astonished. "Wait, Magic? So there's magic, that's so cool!" That is just like the novels I have been reading recently, "Well it's better than being a fucking ghost or whatever I currently am." And so I accepted the offer without thinking, what if I just signed my soul to an evil overlord or something, I thought. "Welp, to late to back out".

Initiating soul transformation protocols...

I suddenly felt very nauseous and felt like I was going to throw up, but I couldn't. I woke up... I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't, I tried to move my arms, but I couldn't, I tried to scream, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything, It was like I didn't have a physical body. After just floating around for what felt for ages, I started feeling something, it was like a tingly feeling spreading all over me, then all of a sudden a shitload of information hit my brain, or metaphysical brain? Anyways, I suddenly knew everything happening around me, I could see everything, I could hear everything, I was everywhere but nowhere at the same time. I how to access my status, even though I was the system, I didn't understand it so therefore I would just not think about it for the moment. To access my status I just had to say "Status", or in my case just think about the word really hard.

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Name: Level: Species: Skills: System#29707 1/10 System, (Planetary level) [System] (passive) [Grant Titles] (active) [Systems eye] (active)

"Alright, I believe I understand everything, but my names John, not System#29707" I said, a bit pissed off that my names now been involuntarily changed. I wonder what my skills do though, "Skills, no? alright, uhh... skills information?" I said to nobody in particular, I mean, I guess to myself since I am the system apparently.

[System] (passive): [Grant Titles] (active): [Systems eye] (active): Allows inhabitants of world system is governing to access the system as well as making system able to perceive nearly everything on said world Allows the system to grant tiles to users of said system, titles bestow increased power (Decided by system) to users of the system. Titles are supposed to be given when said user commits a great deed, but also whenever you, the system feels like it. Allows system to view any and all users status unnoticed, even by special scrying detection skills. Also allows system to focus their attention on single or several users at a single time.

Just when I finish reading my skill descriptions I feels billions of tingly sensations all over me. I just instinctually know that it is the inhabitants of this world interacting with the newly integrated system, "Why am I referring to myself like that? well, doesn't matter." The tingly sensations feel different somehow, it's like if you compared different voices to each other. I feel 5 different kinds of tingly sensations, kind of. I try to focus in on each of the tingly sensations, I use my skill, "[Systems eye]", I suddenly feels like my whole consciousness is being dragged to where the tingly sensation I focused on is, when I arrive I see what is obviously a human. Then the humans status gets pulled up infront of me,

Name: Level: Stats: Class: Species: Skills: Bob 1/10

Strength: 4 Agility: 3 Intelligence: 3 Wisdom: 2 Charisma:0.01

Farmer Human [Negative rizz] (passive)

Trying again on the other tingly sensations I find that there are Elves, Dwarfs, Demons and a whole bunch of different kind of monsters. I see that the elves seem to live in a massive forest and are quite in touch with nature, the dwarves lives in cave systems and seem to like beer, like a lot, like they fucking love it, I'm seeing 1320 bars in a single settlement of around 5000 dwarfs. The demons are more on the wild side, they live in a place which seems to be barren of close to all life, except them, they seem to have a society based of strength. Then, oh God, if I thought demons are a little wild, then get surprised. Monsters have evolutions, like me. Instead of the other inhabitants of this worlds classes. There is also a shitload of different types of monsters compared to the few different types of the other, "You know what, I'm going to call all the creatures in this world who can use the system, I mean me, the myriad species. Because it's annoying to call them inhabitants of this world... who am I even talking to anyways, please say I haven't gone crazy and started talking to myself." Oh yeah back to the subject, they are basically mindless brutes, none of them had an intelligence of wisdom stat over 1.

So, with that all out of the way. "Let's go see everything this world has to fucking offer!"