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I was looking at the blue box for about 10 minutes. It says I am 16 years old, yet as far as I remember I was over the age of 21. Plus God had that I was supposed to be reincarnated. Reincarnation means to be "reborn" and here I am already at age of 16. What. The. Hell.
Stupid God! Do you even know what reincarnation means!?
I shook my head in disbelief, as I once again checked the notification.
It asked me if I wanted to go through the tutorial.
* “Accept,” I said with hesitation.
I was expecting some kind of notification system to start appearing again. Imagine how funny I had to look when instead of boxes a soft, warm and gentle feminine voice has spoken directly to my mind.
* “Hello, user. I will be your guide through the system. Congratulation for your successful reincarnation. The God Onyx in agreement with Goddess Emera concluded that the best option would be boosting your grow speed while you were in the semi-sleep state, for there would be no possibility of you surviving in this environment as a baby”.
* “Now we shall proceed to the status menu. From the very start let me tell you, that status that you see is a unique ability of yours. There are possibilities of viewing the same screens in this world via appraisal stones, yet you are the only creature, for now, that can get access to this status whenever you wish. Also, your title is giving you a possibility too, upon leveling, freely distribute acquired points into attributes of your choosing. As a blessing of your formed God, you were given an ability to view also hidden traits. I shall now proceed to unlock those features.”
Unlocking hidden attributes completed You have obtained access to your hidden attributes
Next thing that occurred was my status screen getting additional parcels. Attributes were sorted. There were body attributes, containing everything from strength to reflex. The mental attributes included Intelligence, Wisdom and Spirituality. And hidden attributes included Luck, Charm and Charisma.
Luck 4 + 10 Charisma 4 Charm 6
“Now, user, I shall define for your functions of each attribute.
* “Strength is an attribute that determines your physical power. The higher this attribute the heavier things you will be able to carry. It also allows you to use heavier equipment and makes your blows and strikes deal more damage – mostly while using smashing kind of damaging moves”.
* “Next one is Vitality – it is your basic Health power. The higher this value the more damage you are able to take before dying. It also will allow you to live longer, yet your life spawn will be specified mostly by your race. As a life span of goblin is about 15-20 years it is possible for them to reach 30 or 35. Yet it is highly unlikely for them to exceed 50 years. Please take a notice that it was said it is unlikely and not impossible. There are various circumstances that may allow them to live even 1000 years, yet still, odds are almost non-existing.”
* “Endurance – tells you how much damage that you received from any source would be reduced. It is also responsible for resistance to various other status effects like poisoning or mental attacks. It may determine how much stamina you use for performing a certain action.”
* “Constitution – it tells you how much stamina you possess. Stamina is value required to do all kind of physical labors”
* “Dexterity – is responsible for the speed of your movements and damage dealt by short weapons with a stabbing type of damage [daggers, and so on] and ranged weapons [bows, and so on].
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“Reflex – tells you how fast you would react to unsuspected events. A high amount of reflex will allow you to prevent sneaky attacks performed by enemies with a lower dexterity and reflex combination. It also improves the amount of critical damage dealt (normal level of critical damage is set on bonus 50%-500% of your base damage it also varies depending on attacked body part.)”
* “Intelligence – is an ability to acquire new knowledge faster than usually. It also improves the mana pool to magic-related classes. It will allow you to reach a new conclusion or a new way of solving something.”
* “Wisdom – is an ability to store already acquired knowledge – saying commonly your memory. It also improves mana regeneration for magic related classes. It also allows you to find the best solution out of already existing.”
* “Spiritualism – it is a value that tells how strong connection to the spirit world you have. One with high spiritualism will be able to see and interact with the spirits. It also improves the power of magic-related skills.”
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* “Luck- it is the only attribute that can reach value lower than 0. It improves the success rate of crafting skills and random events.”
* “Charisma – it is a trait with multiple uses. It is a trait of commanders. Warriors fighting under charismatic leader will be more effective, yet it more likely that on battlefields such commanders will be targeted by enemies. After death, the enemy team will be rewarded with [euphoric] state and allies will get an effect of [terror]. Those effects adequately improve and worsens the status of soldiers. It also affects how successful your intimidating-skill will affect people."
* “Charm – is an ability to bend someone wills to be more useful for yourself. It also improves the attractivity of the user in eyes of someone who could found user sexually alluring."
* “Please take a note, that hidden traits, as unique one, are restricted to improve more than one attribute point per level. “
* “Please take a note, that attribute points you distribute once will never be able to be used again.”
* “There is no restriction for the user that would force him to allocate points immediately after leveling up.”
* “Now we shall proceed to classes and jobs. After reaching level 5 user may chose one of following class branches: Warrior, Rogue, Mage.”
* “Please take a note, that depending on already acquired knowledge and environment those classes may be different. For example, a rogue living in a city may be a thief, in the forest a hunter and in the military a scout.”
* “Please choose your class wisely for one acquired class if very hard to change.”
* “Jobs are usually bounded with classes and may give an access to unique skills. Hunter can acquire the job trapper, which will allow him to create traps used mostly to hunt animals; harvest their body parts more effectively as well as it improves skills that allow to track them.”
* “Resistances are acquired in a unique way to resist some kind of environment traits. For example, the creatures living in snowy mountains may acquire cold resistance.”
* “Skills are all kind of mastery of actions used by the user. They also contain spells for magic related classes. It is possible for the user to easily acquire such skills, but mastering them to useful level will require time and effort.”
* “Now we shall proceed to teach you your 1st skill. It is called [Appraisal]. On a lower level, it is considered to be a garbage-like skill that provides almost no useful information. There are many ways of raising its level. The slowest one is by appraising every single thing that will enter your sight.”
* “Please take a note, that appraising the same object over and over again will not accumulate experience point, and appraising same object class that is not much different from one apprising before will generate lower and lower amount of skill experience. If you found a herb, and you will be appraising same herb plant that grows in different places exp will be acquired this way: 5 experience points, 4exp, 3exp, 2exp, 1exp, 0.9exp, 0.8exp... The other way of improving this skill is finding information about a certain things without the help of the system through asking local people, alchemists, hunters or finding in books information about those plant specifics. Like their names and what it is used for etc. Such actions will be rewarded with a massive amount of skill exp.”
* “Now, please take a closer look at this plant.”
I have turned my head and focused my gaze on the plant that was growing nearby. How did I know it was a right plant? It was sparkling and glowing. Like in a shitty third grade mmorpg game. I was looking at plant… Looking some more… still looking. I was so focused that I thought that my eyes would pop out. After about 5 or so minutes when I started to doubt the sanity of my action another “ding” sound could be heard.
* You have obtained [Appraisal] skill - level 1
* “Congratulation of acquiring your 1st ability, user. Now please try to focus again on that plant while activating [appraisal] skill. You use skills by either saying its name aloud or thinking the name of the skill. This option is not available for all skills.”
* “A..Appraisal? – I shyly say aloud. I was trying not to look like an idiot while I was talking to the plant… but…
Unknown weed
That’s all? Seriously? It’s telling me even less than I already knew? Tsk. How many times I need to level it up for me to be useful!? It will be a really boring leveling up session.
“Thank you for participating in the tutorial. For being willing to understand the basis of your new reality, you will be rewarded with following items: [Iron Dagger], [adventure backpack].”
“All information about creatures, races, cultures, countries and much more you will have to acquire by yourself. Please take a notice, that different races and cultures may differently react to other races or classes. For example, one country thinks the priests (light magic users) are superior, yet they consider mages to be an abomination which needs to be hunted down. You are currently in a forest which is in the middle of nowhere. You are around 4 days by foot from the closest habituated area. Remember levels have a different value. For example, a level 1 goblin is weaker than a level 1 human. Just as a level 1 human is weaker than a level 1 dragon. As a loose guideline, the average level of a human civilian is 2-6, a soldier is around level 5-15, adventured 10-30. One who devoted their entire life to studying could reach level 40+. The maximum level of a human being is 50. Try reaching level 50 to see what happens next. Good luck in this world. SURVIVE!”
The last word was screamed out. Then, there was silence. No more words were spoken. I took a deep breath. Stood up from the ground. Then picked up a bag and put it on my back. The dagger was in holster added to the belt. So I put it there too. In next moment with a strong resolve of finding a shelter, food and water resources I stepped deeper into the forest.