Happiness is a very relative term for different people it means very diffferent things. For me at least, the most desired form of happiness is fiction and escapism. The reason for this was that from a very young age i had social anxiety disorder. Though it was not cripplingly bad it did prevent me from making friends or any meaningful relationship. Needless to say I was very lonely. My greatest medicine was roleplaying games. When I created a character I became or at least tried to become the character I was playing as. It was one of the few ways I could interact with others without self-deprecating myself and so it became my most common social outlet. This led me down a spiral where i became a true homebody. Let me give you a picture of how bad it was, i always was frail so my parents descided to homeschool me, my dad was an I.T. guy and worked from home so I just took over the family business. I ordered my food, appliances or anything I needed for my computer(Thank the gods for the miracle that is the internet). Going out once a month was something the only thing connecting me to the outside world(the only reason I did even that is because my parents were very and iI mean very adamant about it).
Today however, was not that time of the month and since I was done with my work I fired up my gaming station for my daily dose of fantasy with online randoms or friends whichever floats my fancy. That was when it happened, as I started my rig, my monitors flashed with a blinding light and then the world went dark.
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When I next opened my eyes the first thing I saw a blinding flash of brilliant green.
I immediately shut my eyes and groaned in mock agony. When I reopened them, I squinted so as to not be blinded and what I saw shocked me.
There on the vast blue cloudless sky was a sun that shown green(What in the actual fuck?!?). Right then like an unstoppable tidal wave a flood of memories that were not quite my own invaded my mind. The process was so disorienting that I fell on my back and blinked rapidly for a couple of minutes.
The new memories were that of an aristocrat. The brief summary of it was that this boy was a an asshole and spoiled brat. Using unearned power and fame he did whatever he wanted but no action is without consequnce. He bit off more than he could chew and so he paid the ultimate price by which I mean was killed. A thought struck me and I immediately checked for the lethal wound my chest. Suprise colored my face when I saw there to be no injury only a whole in my clothes where the attack had struck. A new thought, why was I so calm about all of this and panicking. I dug a bit deeper and found the answer to be the new memories, you see the biggest reason for panic is the loss of everything that is normal and not having a step forward, my circumstance gave me a cushion against it and allowed me to accept it to be normal whether all this was real or some vivid imagination or dream was a whole different matter.
I did allow myself to fall into that rabbit hole. For the time being I would think of this as some bizzare vr experiance and run with it.The alternative was to worry to madness and I saw too many movies of that outcome to want to choose that option.
A ruffled through my aristocratic memories to find anything of immediate need and hit something that I was subconciously avoiding because of how out there it was.
This world had RPG game elements to it. The pleaseant shock of it made me laugh out loud. I did what any "lifeless" gamer would do in that situation I called up my character screen.
Name: Simon Drake E.X.P:1098
Age:15
Gender: Male
Class: Noble(experience growth +10%, bonus charisma +100%)
Titles: Noble Scion(bonus charisma +20%), abusive master(bonus charisma -20%), trash of the family(bonus charisma -20%),
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Ignorant fool(bonus wisdom -20%), Dimension traveler(grants unique skill:omni experience boostx4, status arrangement),Greater soul(extreme increase to magic regeneration +360000%,magic growth +100% ), Rapist(bonus charisma -20%, boosts sexcraft skill gain +50% from unwanted copulation from the other side)
Unique stats(discovered)
Charisma:16
Physical Power:48
STRENGTH:13.8
VITALITY:12.6
AGILITY:10.5
DEXTERITY:11.1
Magical Power:179
MANA:734 AFFINITY:WATER
MANA REGENARTION:84/sec SPIRIT POWER:55
INTELLIGENCE:11.3
WISDOM:1O.3
SKILLS
UNIQUE SKILLS: STATUS ARRANGEMENT(allows to spend),OMNI EXPERIENCE BOOST(x4)
PASSIVE SKILLS: PAIN ENDURANCE(LV1)(physical damage recieved -1%), DETECT PRESENCE(LV1)(awareness of life +1m),POISON RESISTANCE(LV3)(poison damage recieved -15%, effects of poison on self -15%)
GENERAL SKILLS: THORAS LANGUAGE(LV4)(above average understanding), DUMUS LANGUAGE(LV2)(below average understanding), APPRAISAL(LV2)(identify effects of unknown objects:vey little information,gives some information of known objects), SPEECHCRAFT(LV4)(+20% chance to convince others(the target must understand you))
PHYSICAL SKILLS: SWORDSMANSHIP(LV2), RIDING(LV3)(+6% animal power boost while mounts,+3% self power boost while riding), DANCING(LV2)(+20% performance rating, can somewhat adapt to unknown dance moves), ARCHERY(LV1)(+5% accuracy and damage of arrows or bolts,), SNEAK(LV2)(+20% silence while moving, -10% detect rate while attempting to stay unnnoticed), SEX CRAFT(LV3)(+30% performance rating, +15% affection bonus on successful pleasure provided to partner)
MAGICAL SKILLS: WATER MAGIC(LV2)(learn low grade water spells), WATER MANiPULATION(LV1)(allows aqua genesis and aqua kineses, +10% power and control)
Goddamn, there were some cheat skills in there for sure along with some very and I mean very questionable skills and titles. The one that caught my eye the most was the experience boost, though dont get me wrong 4 times is insane as any good player will tell you, but the mp regen. I mean common that level of regen just tells me 'here you go have infinite mana' which is overpowered to say the least. Infinite mana/energy in games is usually a staple of cheese strats and I am very sorry to say I am not above the cheese, I love cheese and tell one person who does not have at least one type of cheese.
The only reason I was not thanking whatever god/developer/trauma put me here was because apperantly I was a sexual offender in world, by my memories, was very and I emphasize very lax on human rights and such laws. Slavery is straight up legalized in most of the world which blows my mind. What gives me pause however, is how easily I take and accept that information. I know for a fact that it is the fault of the knew memories because the me from the old world would probably already vomit from sheer number atrocities the powerful are allowed to do, me included.
I pulled myself out my own reverie which was spiraling again as it tends to do. My first goal was to decide what build path I was going for, I know to the average person that this might sound crazy and they would say 'take stock of your situation, find shelter and sustenance' etc. but newsflash I am not normal even less now that I have the memories of 2 very diffierent people in my head and since I am used living vicariously through the characters in fiction and grinding was sometihng I enjoyed not to extreme levels mind you, but I liked to feel a bit overprepared I when went into dungeons or boss fights. Also remember I have a very big out which is that this body is already someone in this world and he already has a routine which I easily slip into. So yeah time for builds.
First of all, because of mana and mana regen the magic power side tends to be a bit bloated. If my memories are anything to go by I am more physically capable than I am magical and I could become a warrior, a mounted swordman if I take my skills into consideration. however, to not use the godfather of all cheese provided to me is criminal so I could jump ship and become a pure water elmental magicaster with an unlimited manapool. Then I realized I had a gargantuan exp boost so why could I not do both. The more I thought about it the nore the idea appealled to me, after all the biggest reason people dont split there attention is because the commitment required to be good( not great ) at both, my boost made that a nute point.
Decision made I decided to wing the rest, after all if you are overleveled enough strategy is no longer necessary and I could brute force the rest. Thinking back I realized how stupid that thought process really was.