I need to finish that request… it's the only way i could make any money.
Running my hand over Luna’s head she gently rubbed against it.
[Inspection]
-Luna-
Gender: Female Race: Dark wood snake (small)
Titles: [Tamed] [Toddler]
[Mp] 18 [Atc] 10 [vit] 5
Skills: [Poison fang] [bite] [swimming] [Dark magic] [concealment]
Tamed by: Shin
A small smile broke across my face.
“For being a toddler your still pretty small Luna” running my finger under her chin I gave it a slight scratch.
*Ping
The all too familiar blue screen lashed before my eyes.
~ Adamin ( Mammoth)
* Do you mind if i stop by?
~ Well not like I'm doing anything important…
* Do you know the Inn?
Quickly sending the message my thoughts were interpreted by a knock on the Inn door, quickly standing to my feet Luna slither up to my shoulder before I stood moving towards the door a Grouchy man's voice sounded in the hall.
“Boy, quickly open the door I sent you a message I would show up.”
… Boy? It sounds too different to be Mammoth. Unlocking the door, I slightly twisted the nob just barely cracking it open.
“Have we met before sir?”
“Boy, Don't Sir me, I'm the one who first greeted you.” with a slight scowl he quickly asked me to open the door again.
Opening the door wider he quickly walked into the room shutting the door behind him the old leather jacket and worn down hat quickly melted off his body falling to a heap on the floor. Suddenly stepping out like it was nothing, Once again the small neatly dressed raccoon stepped to the floor, gently wiping off his suit.
“I don't know why the other Admins tend to wear these changing clothes… they feel so gross like Im bathing in jello”
Sticking out his tongue he made a gross gester before looking back up at me.
“Sorry for the costume most of the time admins don't come around outside their locations.”
“It's fine… what brings you here? I don't have much to offer you in terms of hospitality but I have made a friend since we last met.” gesturing to Luna who sat quietly on my shoulder peering down.
Taking her off my shoulder i slowly put her on the floor she was unhappy at first but I quickly introduced her to Mammoth
“ Luna this is… a friend Mammoth, Mammoth i would like you to meet Luna my cute accomplice.”
After giving Luna a couple glances over he was silent.
“ it's very nice to meet you Luna” With a small smile he looked back up at me.
“... I have an important issue I would like to talk to you about.”
Quickly calling luna back up, And pet her head before recalling her into her tattoo form i could feel her uneasy but it was alright. Quickly switching my gaze back to mammoth.
“Well as you know there are three people that used the wasteland as their starting point. This includes yourself… As each region is monitored by its own admin, we designed the base of each area and starting stats… This falls down to the very code…”
“So, you're saying each area has a completely different code? As well as each player?”
Moving his paws apart his eyes drifted. So, while the other admins designed Npc with lower base stats with slow growth or important ncp with high power the players were given a high base stat with the same growth ability…”
While it does seem like a abnormal mechanic it is quite normal for them to want long play time…~
“Okay… why does that affect me?”
Twiddling his small paws he looked up before slightly coughing and speaking a bit faster.
“ Since mine are heavy in monsters I gave you low base stats with double growth rate with the exact same code as the Npc’s I created to specifically survive the area… Due to that your Player’s code will be the same as a Npc’s.”
“Well not like it will affect it much i still have access to my panel and settings…”
“Well yes… But your code is evolving faster than any Characters.. So fast it's taken over the system to evolve and create new skills… At this point I don't know how to stop it so I've hidden it from the other admins in my personal file.”
“How’d it even start to evolve in the first place?..”
“After the first update when you log back on the deletion of your kingdom… while the other two had their files transferred while they were offline their player files were inactive. But while we were transferring yours to the proper folder. You log back in activating your file while it has a direct link to the system… No restriction on the Growth factor, after that it forcefully made itself linked with the system within seconds… after I moved it, it still had access to the system, so I even tried locking the files access, but it was higher… idk how I’m the Main admin I created most of the coding… I was at a loss.”
“...Well I'm sorry I logged in, I should have waited a bit.”
“It's not yours, it's mine. We should have properly shut down the servers before.”
Running his paws through his hair he shut his eyes.
“ … We could reset your player file to the very beginning. While it would get rid of almost all your stats and items we could save a couple of your choice… We'll do that only if you're alright with it.”
Silence filled the room, Running my hand over Luna’s tattoo I thought for a second.
“Alright.”
His eyes shot open. “ You're alright with it?”
“Yeah it's just a rest and not like i've gotten very far and you did say i could keep a couple things… it's just gonna take a second for me to wrap my head around the reason I have to rest.”
With a large sigh He quickly took out a pen and pencil with a quick wave of his hand. A small table accompanied by two small stools appeared in thin air before us. Quickly taking a seat he passed the paper over.
“Write down 4 items or stat pieces you would like to keep.”
~ Status
[Shin]
Race: Human
Age:16
This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.
Job: ??
[Str] 22(+4)
[Vit] 10(+4)
[Mp] 10(+4)
[Stam] 20(+4
[Int] 10(+2)
[Luck] 20(+2)
Titles: [Abandone] [Friend of God] [Survivor of ruin] [Jack of all trades]~ [Brutal killer]
Familiars: [Luna] ~
Skills: -Taming lvl1 -Magic control lvl2 -Magic elements lvl1 -Sword mastery lvl1
-Alchemy lvl2 -Martial arts lvl1 -Forging lvl1 -Enchanting lvl1 -Farsight lvl2
-Engineering lvl2
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Spells : Impact , Light
Inventory: Lotus x1 ,Dark wood staff ,Black bones[Wolf] x2, Fire flower x6, wolf fang x2 ,wolf pelt x2, Choking flowers x4, Blueglow mushroom x1 Darken wood x 3 Black bear skeleton (90%)
letter addressed to Lucy
Caskelume’s guild’s magic book ~
Wasteland guild magic book~
My status window fluttered before me for a second. I couldn't think of anything besides Luna to keep, Maybe the titles? Or spells? A long puesed filled the room.
Gathering my last thoughts I picked out what I thought would be my best opinions and scribbled them down on the paper.
~ Luna
~ wasteland magic book (109 pages)
~Caselumes magic book (204 pages)
And last but not least the title {Jack of all trades}
~A jack of all trades is not a master of one but a master of none.
“Not bad choices at all. I’ll be sure to save these for you once you log out, Put out a wide scale update and shut down the servers. It should be fixed by morning.” with a quick wave of his hand became a puff of smoke. I was left in the silent room.
*Ding
The system window quickly flashed before me a blue timer was quickly highlighted with the following words.
~ Bug fix in progress servers will be shut down in 2 hours. And be reopen by Wareshore time of 6 Pm
Wareshore? Isn't that the larger city just a couple towns over? Doesn't that mean they have their servers and company over there. Quickly pulling up the forms page I did my best to scan though everything related to them.
~ While our first intention were introduced with the full Dive Vr glasses in the late 2030’s we quickly took over the market and pushed the development further to the now Full Dive Headset complete with sound definition and full five senses use inside, To what you see now in the 2040’s ~ while we're hoping to go much further only time will tell.~
* As quoted from a voice recording in 2025 from SH~(Company Founder)
While it doesn't have much information, there is actually practically nothing… But the dates aren't lining up at all.. If it's a voice recording of 2025 why is he talking about something from the now era?
Maybe its a glitch? Quickly scroll back to the top of the home page i click ed the refresh a couple times before.
*Ding Ding Ding.
Suddenly the server alarm went off. My vision quickly went black before slowly fading into a white hase.. Quickly pulling off the head set I scratched my head for a second before slowly getting up from my bed stretching and fumbling with my phone quickly sidling up the screen. I tried getting back to their company home page but the link was no longer valid?... it must be down with the server?
With a large yawn i slide down my lock screen
~ 00:00 ~
Man, I was up a bit later than I thought I would be, quickly laying back into bed and shutting my eyes they became heavy… so heavy I soon fell asleep forgetting all about the website.
Before I knew it my alarm crooked and groaned to life slamming my hand down on the table it sat on next to my bed it quickly went silent. Slowly opening my eyes, I sat up with a large stretch and I picked up my phone…
~ 5:50:22~
No new notification
With a small sign I quickly sat up and reached for my headset that I still kept at the end of my bed frame.
Ding *
~ Email from Bottomless Earth Admin team.
Everything should be set; you should be able to log in just like normal and go through the creation process. I left your starting town as well as the talked about items if you're having any difficulty let me know. Once again, I'm sorry and thank you for being okay with everything. Good luck.
Quickly sliding the message away, I slid the headset on. I can't wait to see Luna.
A bright flash of white still filled the headset. Quickly sliding it on I laid in place.
~Loading system
~Server re launch in 5 mins…
~Error. Forced entry using Admin account… SHIN
What? When did I have an Admin account? My vision quickly flashed; it was blinding white light quickly closing my eyes and a headache rang through my ears. Falling to the floor I could feel the earth below me… Did it already log me in? I never remade my Character slowly, opening my eyes. It was still quite blurry from being blinded but I could partially make out the cold feel and look of concrete that touched my hands and feet cold and rough.
Where the hell am i?
Quickly looking up at the sights of bright colored skinny buildings littered around me? Was I in some type of city center? As my vision began to focus the dark sky quickly filled my view deep red swirling in a flame like black smoke… quickly looking over to the nearby building they were riddles with holes… barely supporting its own weight, something about the lay out seemed scarcely familiar… a couple signpost marked the nearby roads they seemed rather… realistically familiar.
~ Noman AV
~ Collar Rd
I just couldn't put my finger on it… where the hell am-
My thoughts were quickly cut off by a large roar in the distance like thunder it rang shaking the floor beneath me a cold shiver ran through my spine.
*Ping
~ Hello Shin, this is a premade message by none other than yourself. I know it may be hard to believe. But the world surrounding you is a cross between our world and Bottomless Earth, at this point I don't know why it happened to us or why they like to watch us like a sick game. But following the restart you have about 12 hours before all hell breaks loose. Hopefully once I rest this timeline, you'll make better choices than I did. I don't know what end you'll come to but mine was a very lonely one…
Ps. You will have about 7 days here to figure out the terrain and a good place to set up a base… before you're forced offline by one of the admins, they have no idea what's happening here due to the bug I created and sent back. The 7 days should be about 3 hours in real life. Use this as a plan, the system is still implemented here so you should be able to learn skills. Note: Skills are the only thing you'll keep when the world merges. Items and such can be made and found or even killed though Monsters.
*Ping {Monster journal} has been updated to the system UI
~ SH
*Ping
Voice recording by (Mammoth) has been received.
~ Everything went terribly Wrong. Your player files have been moved to the locked beta server which none of the Adamins have access to… is there any way you could log out? If not, even with the headset removed we cannot guarantee you would wake up… the old servers are run on memory scans and uploading the very files to the nervous system… As to not fry your system it was set like Bluetooth… it will be connected until you lose signal… we're trying our best to pull you out just. Sit still doesn't touch anything.
~ player data has been restored…
“What the hell is going on…”
Quickly scanning through all the new various notifications. I stood blank for a moment before scanning through them once again… what the hell this has to be some sort of prank or glitch or something…
[Summon Luna]~
my shoulder quickly began to glow. Luna slowly crawled out from under my shirt to my right shoulder. Slowly rubbing her chin I looked at the broken down and smoldering building next to me. The ground was filled with small patches of dirt and broken concrete, moss and plants slowly grew between them. Large black stains etched across the broken roads… broken cars rusted or crushed some even inside broken houses and office buildings…. It didn't take long to figure out what happened… dropping to my knees I stood stunned for a moment Luna pushing against me trying to cheer me up?...
*ROAR
A large dragon like scream echoed through the city… maybe she was trying to warn me… the large sound of cars crashing and thudding started to get closer… running to the closest building I quickly darted inside taking shelter behind a car that someone drove through the building maybe even years ago… the stomping grew louder and louder shaking the entire building above me creaking and moaning dust slowly fell from the ceiling before… silence… poking my head out from behind the car I looked out the street… but I was too stunned to move… a single eye larger than me peered directly into the opening I came from… I couldn't move an inch let alone breathe.
Sweat pooled on my face in my clothes everywhere. What am I going to do? Before I knew it, I blinked… and it was gone… I think I spent the rest of that day inside the broken-down building with Luna trying to catch my train of thought…
….6 hours later.
Ping: Skill learned: Parallel Thinking ~ Two heads is better than one. (Metaphorically that is)
Wow i didn't know i could learn anything like that… sitting up I quickly rubbed my eyes I haven't been able to sleep since I got here i just laid with my eyes open… quickly standing up and putting Luna on my shoulder I tried my best to make as little noise as possible and head for the exit if it was going to do anything I needed to get out of the city first…