I never knew how hard it was to write a letter of introduction for yourself. When does something become bragging? How do you say that you have a fun personality without sounding like a jackass? One thing I do know about this letter is that I suck at writing. I was sitting at my desk pondering how one can sound good on paper and be as good as they sounded in real life. I lean back in my chair staring at the ceiling while tapping my fingers on the desk.

Over the past eight years, I had been working towards my doctorate in veterinary medicine. From a young age, I had been fascinated by the feats that animals could achieve. I started to try and understand how they functioned over the course of my life leading me here. I’m finally going to be able to do what I want but something just doesn’t feel right.

Sighing in frustration, I stand up. Looking around at my tiny one-room apartment I can’t help but sigh. After eight years and a LOT of debt, I finally got my degree but getting a job was hard. I had been searching for a couple of months but due to my young age, 26, most places wouldn’t hire me. I was forced to work part-time at a fast-food place just to keep this rundown apartment.

I walked over to the fridge and grabbed a beer and laid down on my bed while pondering if I made the wrong choice. Right as I was coming to an answer something unexpected happened.

[System Starting]

[Transferring now]

“Huh” were the last words before I passed out.

Then I can feel myself laying on a warm comfy bed, unlike my own, and my beer is gone. Drats. Slowly I crack open one eye then the other letting the soft candlelight fill my eyes.

[Please choose a Class]

[1. Mage(Common) – Uses their magical affinities to wield powerful magics.]

[2. Doctor(Common) – Able to quickly find and solve medical problems without using magic.]

[3. Blue Mage(Unique) - copies the skills of monsters and uses them as their own.]

As I read over each option, I can’t help but wonder if this is a dream. Sadly, I was hoping it wasn’t. If something like this happened, then the past 8 years of my life would mean nothing if you could just heal anything with magic. I was hoping it was real because I need a way out of my life. Before I selected an option, I raised myself to a sitting position on the bed and got a good look around the room or cabin as it turned out.

The walls were made of rough logs of a tree I didn’t know. The same wood was used for the furniture as well with there being a dresser with a mirror on top and a bedside table and weirdly no door. Standing up I first checked the bedside table to find thick woolen socks that looked just right for my feet. I grabbed a pair before looking in the dresser to find it full of blue leather armor. Again, it looked like it was a perfect fit for me. Confused only for a second because if this was real, I doubted I could hide anything from something that just teleported me to this place. Figuring that I could use this armor I shimmied out of my old clothes and into my new armor. My guess was right and even though I didn’t know how to put on the armor it was extremely easy for me to do, and it fits perfectly.

Now snugly in my awesome new armor, I look back over the options. Mage seemed like a solid if a bit boring of a choice. There would most likely be a plethora of mages if the rest of humanity was also given this choice. Next up was doctor and I was feeling this one. It would mean that the last eight-year wouldn’t be a waste even in a magical world. But the last one was calling to me. Blue Mage, just thinking the name sent a shock down my spine. It was the most unique one on the list and it just felt right. Before I could talk myself out of it, I pressed down on Blue Mage with my index finger.

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[Congratulations, Blue Mage(Unique), your tutorial is being made now]

[Skill Gained, Anything you can do(Unique) - By understanding a monster's skill you can gain a copy of it. Chance to gain skill increases .1% per level, learned skills go into a skill bank, you can activate and deactivate skills up to the skill limit outside of combat, the skill limit is 3 and increases by one every 5 skill levels.]

[Skill Gained, Monstrous instinct(Rare) - your instinct starts to change into something monstrous. Gain a 1% increase in Reaction per skill level. The effect grows 10x stronger in battle.]

[Jace Perez, Level 0 0%

Blue Mage (Unique)

Health 80, Mana 180, Stamina 70

Health Per hour 20, Mana Per hour 30, Stamina per minute 20

Strength 7 - Affects your physical strength

Dexterity 11 - Affects your physical grace

Reaction 6(6.06) - Affects your reaction time

Perception 15 - Affects your senses

Will 15 - Affects your mental fortitude and mana regen

Intelligence 18 - Affects your maximum mana and mental strength

Resilience 7 - Affects your physical durability and stamina

Constitution 8 - Affects your maximum health

Regeneration 10 - Affects your health and stamina regen

Skills: Monstrous instinct(Rare) lvl 1, Anything you can do(Unique) lvl 1

Monster Skills(active):

Monster Skills(deactive):]

That was some info to process and before I could truly understand what was happening, another screen popped up.

[Tutorial created, skill gain up for the duration of the tutorial, starting now]

My environment changes from the cabin to a cave quicker than I can blink. I stand dumbly for a few seconds before hearing something wet splat into the ground not too far from where I am. My eyes narrow and my breath quickens. I feel a bubbling hunger flow up from my stomach and I turn around ready to indulge this instinct. As I do so a gelatinous ball slams into my chest knocking me to the floor. The breath rushes out of my lungs and my chest starts to burn. I try and force the slime off me, but my hands just push into the slime and start to burn too.

The feelings I had before are quickly growing even higher now that I feel like I’m going to die. I keep moving my hands through the slime trying to get it off me. Then my hand hits something, I grasp it and yank my hand out of the horrid creature. As soon as my hand leaves the slime it falls apart.

[Slime fluidity(Rare) 10%]

[Slime regeneration(Epic) 22%]

[Defeated lvl 1 Slime Exp Gained 50%]

I pant in exhaustion, my chest still stinging from the acidic slime. I glance at my heath, [Current Health 40/80]. I came halfway to death from what looks like a slime. This is crazy. Isn’t a slime supposed to be weak? Or am I really weak? I check my hand to find a sphere made of something in it. This was in that slime?

[Slime Core (Common), Can be used in alchemical recipes]

Then I hear it, that wet *plop*. No, not another one. I scramble to my feet and see that monster jumping towards me. The feeling bubbles up again forcing all feeling of doubt from my mind, and I make a dive for the core I tumble towards the slime and plunge my hands in searching. After a few seconds, I grab it and yank it out. The slime deflates.

[Slime fluidity(Rare) 23%]

[Slime regeneration(Epic) 45%]

[Defeated lvl 1 Slime Exp Gained 50%]

[Level up +1 to all stats and Full Replenish]

I feel something change inside of me. Something primal starts to rear its head but stops. I let out a breath and stand up and find it surprisingly easy to do so. Then that horrid *plopping* starts again. I let out a sigh, this was going to be a long tutorial.