‘Ouch.’
A groan of pain could be heard as Kal slowly regained consciousness.
‘Well that gave me a headache. I guess protecting yourself from a world ending, apocalyptic event wasn’t my best idea.’
Looking around his surroundings, he could see a large room with a bookshelf on one wall, a bed, a desk, a chair, and a large digital panel. The walls were white, and the room and its contents looked completely unused. Also, there was a door in the wall that Kal knew led into a small bathroom. In general, the room looked like a slightly larger version of a one person room that can be found on university campuses around the world (like the image in this link https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/west_midlands/birmingham_city_centre/6400135).
Even though waking up in an unknown room would normally shock or surprise someone, Kal had already lived through all of this once so his reaction was very different to that he had the first time around. Instead of looking round and panicking over what happened, all his attention was focused on the digital panel.
Queue Position Counter
In Queue
7,946,856,465
Your Position
7,946,856,465
The numbers shown were ticking down with it reducing by around 500 each second. Therefore, it should take Kal almost 184 days to get to first place in the queue.
After seeing this, a smile spread across his face.
‘Seems like I was the final human on Earth. This means that I can now properly prepare myself for the future. Let’s get some plans done then.’
‘Hmm, thinking about it, last time, I was in the third billion of people to die and got transferred to Aloda just as everyone there was trying to get hold of us otherworlders. That’s how that King managed to find me and help “save my life”, thinking back on that, that whole thing was quite possibly staged. I mean what are the chances of bandits attacking a man in the middle of a forest, just for the King and entourage to come along and save his life. I really was naïve and gullible back then. Anyway, time to get started with what I need to get done in these 184 days.’
After this slight monologue, Kal proceeded to walk over to the bookshelf that held around 50 books and pulled the first one down. The hardback book was called ‘The World of Aloda’. Opening the book, Kal started to read.
The world of Aloda is a world of magic and mystery. A world where a level system is in place. Even though ones’ level is not a perfect indicator of ones’ power, the mixture of ones’ stat points and skills will give a general indicator of the persons power. It is not unheard of for those with lower stats to win though, as combat experience is unquantified and cannot be truly shown by the status.
To the best of my knowledge, I have only heard of the first four continents and if there are more, they can only be found by becoming powerful enough to travel there. The first four continents are named as the following: Kantto, the first; Heonn, the second; Unovaa, the third; and Sinno, the fourth. Everyone who is transported to the world (a pretty common occurrence on Aloda) will arrive on Kantto first. Kanto is for those whose stats are between 1 and 200 on average for two of your major stats (for more information on stats, read ‘The Status Screen and What it Means’). Between 200 and 500 is for Heonn and 500 to 1000 is for Unovaa. An average of above 1000 are for the residents of Sinno.
Obviously, those with stats that are higher and lower than this can be found in the continents, but those are generally the residents of Aloda and not the adventurers or otherworlders for which this book has been written. Just remember to follow this general trend as it will allow you to survive in the wild as a human with average stats of 10 would not survive more than 15 minutes in Heonn where even the lowest of monsters can have stats in late 100s.
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Kal finished reading the book a few hours later and as soon as he finished reading the book, he could feel all the information that he just read being embedded into his brain. All of a sudden, the following message appeared.
Status screen has now been enabled.
‘Finally, now I can start to train my body as well. Let’s get my stats as high as possible before it’s time to be sent to Aloda. Anyway, time to check my status. Status.’
Name
Kallok Glaur Thanatos
Level
1
Race
Human/???
Age
18
Profession
-
Title (Active)
The Progenitor
Health
100/100
Mana
300/300
Strength
10
Agility
10
Vitality
You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.
10
Intelligence
30
Wisdom
30
Mana Regen
15 (per min)
Charisma
30
Luck
100
Free Attribute Points
0
Beasts
0
Skills
0
Titles
2
‘Well, fuck. That’s not what I was expecting. I mean I can understand being more intelligent and everything… But how the fuck did my name change? I mean, I don’t remember changing it at the passport office or anything. Well I guess my name did change when I first travelled to Aloda anyway. Also, my luck went from 2 to 100. That’s a pretty big jump. No clue what happened there. Now what’s with the titles, let’s take a look.’
Spoiler: This is his original stats from his first life
Spoiler – original status
Name
Kallok
Level
1
Race
Human
Age
18
Profession
-
Title (Active)
-
Health
100/100
Mana
100/100
Strength
10
Agility
10
Vitality
10
Intelligence
0
Wisdom
10
Mana Regen
5 (per min)
Charisma
4
Luck
2
Free Attribute Points
0
Beasts
0
Skills
0
Titles
0
The Progenitor
You are the first of your kind. Currently the only one of your kind.
+25% exp gain
The Final Survivor
You were the last living creature on your planet, even if it was just momentarily.
Luck can never fall below 100.
‘Crap, those two titles are overpowered. And I guess the progenitor title explains why my race has changed from human to a mix. And the 25% experience gain is the highest I’ve heard of from a single title. No time to waste, time to train.’
After looking at the changes for a further minute, Kal started to move again. This time, he went to the middle of the room where there was an open space and he started to do push ups and sit ups in sets of 20.
‘This body is so weak and the amount of fat that I currently have is way too high. Guess it’s time to ask for a gym.’
Going over to the desk, Kal grabs a plain piece of paper and a pen and proceeds to write: Large gym with a full collection of weights, machines, punch bags, running track and a swimming pool.
A sudden flash of light and a second door appears in the wall. Walking through this door, Kal enters a large gym area that has everything that he has requested.
‘Time to work out for real!’
Two hours later Kal re-enters his bedroom and picks up another book to read. This one being ‘The Status Screen and What it Means’.
The status is a numerical representation of the abilities choices and achievements that an individual has made. The different stats effect different things in your body.
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Strength represents the amount of power that can be outfit by a person. On average, one point in strength is a further 10kg that can be lifted by the individual. The higher the strength, the harder a person can hit (technique also plays a part).
Agility represents the explosive power in your body. It effects the speed with which you can move and to a lesser extent, the flexibility and dexterity of the individual.
Vitality represents the toughness of the individual and their survivability when taking damage. It directly effects the health with the health being 10*vitality.
Wisdom represents the knowledge that the individual can truly understand and effects the mana regeneration rate, with the base mana regen being 0.5*wisdom per minute.
Intelligence represents the total knowledge that the individual has. It directly effects the size of the individual’s mana pool also depends on this stat with the total mana being 10*intelligence.
Charisma represents the ability of the individual to communicate with others and how liked and respected they will be with strangers. It also effects the number of tamed beasts that the user may have.
Luck represents the likelihood of a fortuitous event occurring to the individual or the chances of higher quality loot or more coins dropping from monster kills or dungeon runs.
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Profession is the chosen job that the individual choses and it determines the amount of set stats that are increased per level. Some professions only give one or two set stat increases while the rarer and better professions can give us many as 20. It also determines the amount of free attribute points received every two levels.
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Titles are individual achievements that give certain effects. The rarest of titles can give massive boosts that will be very advantageous in the future. The active title is the title that can be made visible when the individual is appraised, and this can be used to intimidate or prove one’s identity in the world of Aloda.
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Free attribute points are given every two levels and can be placed in any of strength, Agility, Vitality, Wisdom and Intelligence. It may not be added to charisma or to luck.
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Skills are certain upgradable abilities that can be learned from repeating a certain action or from skill books. The skills have different tiers between 1 and 9, with one being the lowest and 9 being the highest. The higher the tier the rarer the skill and the harder it is to upgrade.
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Finishing the book, once again the information was embedded into his brain. Following this, Kal started to repeat his previous steps, he would go work out, read, work out, and read as the queue position counter kept on counting down.
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180 days later
‘It’s almost time to meet the gods again. Will it still be the same three gods this time or will it be others. Well, only one way to find out, but first let’s check my status again and then get two days of proper rest. Status’
Name
Kallok Glaur Thanatos
Level
1
Race
Human/???
Age
18
Profession
-
Title (Active)
The Progenitor
Health
210/210
Mana
840/840
Strength
37
Agility
44
Vitality
21
Intelligence
84
Wisdom
56
Mana Regen
28 (per min)
Charisma
32
Luck
100
Free Attribute Points
0
Beasts
0
Skills
0
Titles
4
‘It’s just a shame that skills cannot be gained or trained in this space but when I start using them on Aloda they should scale up with my proficiencies. Personally, I didn’t expect that reading all the books would give me a title and that it would increase my wisdom and intelligence by so much. Anyway, my new titles are pretty cool.’
Devourer of Books
Due to having read all the available books in the God space you have gained this title. From now on you only need to touch a book and will the knowledge to enter you for you to know everything written in it. Be warned, doing this, and not reading the books completely manually will mean that reading books will let you gain intelligence and wisdom at a slower rate.
Limits, What Are They?
You have broken the limits for your race at level 1. Your stats are much higher than they should be. You have undergone a torturous training regimen for this to happen. This title will give you an extra 2 free attribute points every two levels.
‘Ahahahahaha… Well, these titles will help me become OP, but now it’s time for some sleep.’
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While Kal slept, the queue position counter kept counting down until it reached 10,000 and a glowing red door appeared in the room.
Waking up due to the sudden light, Kal got up, did his business in the bathroom, and took one last look at the room in which he’d spent the last 183 days. As the counter hit 1, the door turned green and Kal walked through it with no hesitation.
It was time to face the gods and see what they had in store for him this time.