Welcome Traveler
Welcome to the world of [Earth Reborn]!
We apologies for the inconvenience. Due to unforeseen complications you have been transported to a world currently undergoing arcane recalibration. Relevant authorities have been informed and are searching for a solution. As this will likely take some time you will be integrated into the “Mark of Power System™” (short: MPS™) and gifted a powerful, but randomly chosen mark as compensation.
Good Luck!
-Sincerely Administration
Tom blinked and looked back at the screen. It wasn’t blocking out his sight it seemed almost parallel to his normal vision. He thought about not seeing it and it disappeared, thinking about seeing it again, it reappeared. After playing with the screen a few more times others appeared.
Congratulations User
You have unlocked the interface.
If you wish to view more information, please think ‘menu’
Congratulations User
You have been randomly awarded with a mark of power.
Rarity
Approaching Mythical
Location
Heart
Mark of Power™
Mana-Enhancer
Congratulations User
You have achieved all requirements to unlock the first tier of you Mark of Power™
-Reach a Mana capacity of 500
Tom read the screens feeling quite dazed as he did so. He dismissed them and willed the ‘menu’ to appear.
Menu
General Information
Name: Tom ‘Tommy’ Chapman
Age: 47
Race: Human, mixed ancestry
Mana Capacity: 27 843
Marks of Power™
Mana-Enhancer
Rarity: Approaching Mythical
Location: Heart
Tier: 0
Upgradable: True
Upgrade Requirements
Tier 1: Requirements Met
- Have a Mana Capacity of 500<
Tier 2: Requirements Met
- Have a Mana capacity of 1000<
Tier 3: Requirements Met
- Have a Mana Capacity of 2500<
- Be proficient in at least 1 form of unarmed combat
Tier 4: Requirements Met
- Have a Mana Capacity of 5000<
- Kill 1 cored beast under the supervision of the MPS™
Tier 5: Requirements Met
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- Have a Mana Capacity of 10 000<
- Have at least 1 System achievement in the combat or magic categories
Tier 6: Requirements Not Met
- Have a Mana Capacity of 25 000<
- Have at least 10 System achievements
- Clear 1 dungeon of grade D or higher singlehandedly while under the supervision of the system
Mark Abilities
Mana Cultivation - Tier 1
The mana in your body passively enhances your speed, dexterity, strength, endurance and resilience by 0.1% per 10 Units Maximum Mana Capacity (278%).
No other Marks Found
System Achievements
Traveler
Be Transported to the system by accident. (compensation achievement)
Aspiring Ritualist
Perform a ritual
Aspiring Mage
Cast 5 Spells
Magic Adapt
Cast a spell or ritual that requires more then 10 000 units of mana
Solo Adventurer
Kill a beast of at least D-Tier in single combat
Arcane Innovator 2 (Achievements with multiple ranks count as multiple Achievements)
Perform or cast 5 rituals or spells which no one (under the supervision of the MPS™ has cast before.
World Quests
As you are not a resident of this world this section does not apply to you.
Tom sat down on a nearby log, this was too much for him. He read the entire menu multiple times wondering just what was happening to him. When he finally was ready to belief that this was actually happening, he mentally prodded the button reading ‘Upgradable: True’.
Congratulations User
You have upgraded your Mark of the Mana-Enhancer to Tier 1.
You have been awarded the following abilitie(s):
Mana Shroud – Tier 1
The presence of your mana stretches beyond your body, defending you from physical impacts and diverting and/or lessening magical damage.
A searing pain shot through Tom as the tattoo on his chest expanded, a ring forming around the central image. In between the ring and the center, a rune appeared, which Tom could read as ‘one’ in celestial.
Congratulations User
You have upgraded your Mark of the Mana-Enhancer to Tier 2.
You have been awarded the following abilitie(s):
True Sight – Tier 1
The mana you embody allows you to pierce illusions and deceptions. Increases ability
Again, the searing pain shot through Tom as another rune appeared, this one to the right of the first and reading ‘two’.
Congratulations User
You have upgraded your Mark of the Mana-Enhancer to Tier 3.
You have been Awarded the following abilitie(s):
Elemental Strikes – Tier 1
Your mark allows you to use the passive reality-bending of your affinities and imbue them into unarmed-melee attacks. Only one affinity may be imbued at a time and only if you know of it and it is at least ‘Very Good’
View applicable affinities (50+)
Congratulations User
You have upgraded your Mark of the Mana-Enhancer to Tier 4.
You have been Awarded the following abilitie(s):
Recovery of the Mana-Enhancer – Tier 1
The mark of the Mana-Enhancer allows you to recover mana faster while resting. While actively meditating to recover mana, mana recovery is increased by 100%
Congratulations User
You have upgraded your Mark of the Mana-Enhancer to Tier 5
You have been awarded the following abilitie(s):
Presence of the Mana-Enhancer – Tier 1
The mark enhances your affinities, increasing their ability to passively or actively warp reality by 30%.
Camouflage of the Mana-Enhancer – Tier 1
When trying to avoid detection, your mana will help to hide. Increases ability to remain hidden when trying to hide by 50%.
The following abilitie(s) have been upgraded:
Mana Cultivation – Tier 2
The mana in your body passively enhances your speed, dexterity, strength, endurance and resilience by [0.1->] 0.2% per 10 Units Maximum Mana Capacity ([278%->]556%).
Congratulations on reaching the first milestone
Every time a new upgrade notification appeared the pain returned, and a new runic number appeared in the tattoo. All five runes together spanned about a quarter of the circle, making the maximum tier for a tattoo approximately twenty.
Tom was dazed, he dismissed the screens and just starred at the mark on his chest for a few minutes. Deciding that there was no harm in trying his new abilities out so he might as well do so, he got up and took up a standard fighting stance in front of a tree which had about the thickness of his thigh. Concentrating on his force affinity and trying to apply it to his fists, he noted that a slight silvery sheen appeared on his hand and wrists. Tom lashed out with a straight and punched the tree. The trunk splintered as his fist went through it, easily penetrating the bark and wood and throwing up a cloud of sawdust behind the tree.
He looked at his fist, pushed with his hands against the damaged tree and watched it fall over. “And I didn’t even use a spell. This is crazy. How does it do that?” Tom tried to inspect the mark with mana enhanced sight and came up blank, there wasn’t any more mana in the tattoo then in his normal skin. “Maybe Its…” His thoughts though were interrupted. A scream echoed through the woods, it vaguely sounded like someone screaming for help.