Oww! FUCK! Dying HURTS! If I can feel pain that means I'm not dead right?...
"Wrong little soul, you are merely feeling the memories of the pain," said a vague figure before the soul "I am Isha the goddess of reincarnation, at least for the world you are entering." As its vision clears the soul sees the form of the goddess, as much as you can see from a glowing silhouette in the void.
Leaning forward the goddess continued "you are still dead but you are given a chance to be whatever you want, within reason of course, in a new world."
After processing what has just been said the soul thinks reincarnation? isekai or Buddhist? Wait what does that mean? Why do I know that? Who am I? Where is this?
"Before you start an existential crisis, you are a reincarnated/transmigrated soul. That means a very specific memory wipe has occurred, to keep the worlds separate. In short, you will be the same but you cannot remember certain details, for 'plot reasons' and to make you a more of a 'relatable character'"
Suddenly the soul remembers a strange piece of knowledge that it probably read in some obscure online novel. Halo was originally going to be an RTS before it evolved into Halo Combat Evolved. Wait where'd I learn that...
The goddess then flicks her hand creating a victorian era living room, and then sits in a chair. The soul sill a pale grey slightly transparent humanoid attempts to grab a coffee on reflex but realizes it is still immaterial and floats to a chair in defeat.
Ah, isekai then right? I'm going to some fantasy world as a hero to save it...
"Yeah, except the reincarnation is just a reward for making a minimum set of updates to the system," said the goddess "we just want someone else to be an administrator for a while then we reincarnate them so they can't climb the ranks"
Before the soul could respond the goddess flicks her wrist and...
WELCOME TO THE WORLD SYSTEM V 2.2.3
ADMINISTRATOR # 41899
Your privileges are Tier 3
Minor changes V
Minor updates V
Major updates X/V (suggestions)
You have been granted access to the reincarnation(/character creation) system by level 6 Administrator イしャ
Please thank Administrator イしャ for their generosity
Processing the window in front of it the soul sputters out a t-thank you before engrossing itself in the workings of the world system.
"By the way, time is not a concept in this place so take as long as you want." said the goddess or rather the Administrator.
Ignoring the goddess the soul begins making changes to the system almost on reflex. Finding the smallest inconsistency and fixing it. Not even the tiniest of bugs can get away from the watchful gaze of the soul. In the end, the soul decides that the base of the system is fine but other than the framework it should be built from the ground up, and goes about doing just that. The result of many "hours" of work, the dungeon systems were reworked and no longer spacially locked. The class system had tiers, advancements and meshed well with the redesigned stat system. Stats now mean something even if it is extremely relative. Magic, totally different, uses runes.
Full Updates: All notes
Dungeon spatial compression is now linked to the core, dungeon leveling is unlinked from human leveling, spatially compressed dungeons may now move.The stats seen in the system are now relative to the viewer the average for each species is 10 if the being is the last of it's kind or totally unique then the average used is that of humans. Levels and grows were completely rebuilt, "basic classes" were added for people that were under level 1, the average level of the "basic classes" was 10 and they gave 1 stat point per level, apprentice classes were added and can be swapped from a "basic class" at lv 5 or higher. The difference between a basic class and an apprentice is skills and spells learnable and the average level of apprentice classes is higher. Magic is rune based, elemental, definer, actuator, modifier, each teir of spell gets another 4 runes to use in paralell or to cast in sequece (a teir 2 spell is either 8 runes linked together or 2 tier 1 spells cast at the same time). Font updated to be less boring.
Stolen novel; please report.
Exiting their trance the soul sees an astonishing notification.
TOTAL UNSAVED CHANGES
3,327 minor changed compiled
12 minor updates compiled
1 major update compiled
all updates compile into
9,677 minor changes 5 minor updates 3 major updates
confirm?
YES
NO
Yes... Confirm... C'mon do something!
After the system buffers for a solid 10 arbitrary "minuets", the massive request is finally sent and received. after what feels like an eternity the gods or rather the higher level administrators decide to pass all the updates. A large systemwide notification was drafted to notify every being that can access its interface. Afterward, the soul finally accesses the reincarnation (/character creation) system.
A basic list of every being that could possibly be sapient is displayed before the soul. Chests, blobs of mana, just a sword, a goblin, many "different" objectified women, regular sapients, a ghost, a nation, a dungeon, a tree, a wall, and even different forms of dragons. After making the update the soul knows that it will get the most benefits from being a dungeon, and thus it makes and extremely customized [Legendary] dungeon.
Xalvia P.O.V
STATUS!!
Name:Xalvia Class: Apprentice Healer Level:12 Xp: 786/1,250 Hp:120/120 Mp:240/240 Sp: 90/90 Title: N/A Skills: Rune Casting Light Rune Attack Rune Projectile Rune Body Rune Aura Rune Light Arrow Heal Str:11 Con:11 End:7 Dex:12 Agi:10 Int:14 Wis:16
So it's mostly the same. What the fuck is Rune Casting, Light Rune, Attack Rune, Projectile Rune, Body Rune, and Aura Rune?
"So... anybody know what in the Divines' name was that?" Janus slowly asked.
"Why do I have a bunch of skills regarding [Rune]'s?" Xalvia asked after the total surprise of a system update occurring during their celebration turned into confusion over her new status.