Ch.4 The kid gloves are off
I find myself In a dark space where there is no light. I tried to Move around, a pure white hand Made out of Light comes into view, my instincts telling me it was mine, remembering how I use to move my fingers I clench my hand, no difference from this and my old limbs lost to me on arrival on this world, realizing I can control this body of light I try to focus on the surroundings. All I can see is the vast plane of darkness With nothing inside, a small voice rings again in my mind.
[ Host Synchronisation rate at 60%, above safety Line beginning Tutorial System]
The voice seems ready to give me a tutorial similar to a game, now that I think about it, spending all my time crying, panicking, worrying, or thinking of a way to save myself, I have forgotten of my favorite pastime playing video games. I am stuck God knows where surrounded by enemies like mages and martial artists ready to destroy me and use my new body as accessories. As a normal youth from the Earth When have I ever had to worry about my life all I ever did was play video games, work or go to the gym. While I was having something close to a mid-life crisis the small voice continued.
[Greetings Host, I am AI code name: où collector, you may call me System for ease of communication]
Collector? ..mhmm.. maybe they gathered useful people urm...
Cores to better help the planet's will. The "System" is definitely something created by this world.
[Host first mission is being sent, please standby]
With a Beep! A screen appears in my field of view
[Mission: Increased Host Synchronisation rate 1.
Description: The host Synchronisation rate is too low for the System to fully fuse. While inside the host MindScape please create a Dungeon labyrinth, the system will recover the mental strength of the host for this mission only, the more complex the host creations the more mental strength it will need, the host goal is to use at least 100% total of his current mental strength.
Mission progress: 000/100
Reward: Synchronisation rate + 1- 10%
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Mission failure: The host will have an incomplete fusion, preventing the system from protecting the host mind from the (721,974) undigested will fragments the host body is currently made out of.]
upon hearing this a cold sweat runs thru my entire body, If I failed this mission the system wouldn't be able to completely protect me from the thousands of lingering wills of the Sapient races. Without the system protection, I would probably end up an amalgamation of different people end live a life worse than death if I don't lose my ego first.
In a panic, I ask the System about the exact rules, after a back in forth I found that my situation was a lot better than I originally thought. First, failure of the mission did not mean I would immediately get overrun by the lingering wills, second getting a minimum of 10% of overall mental strength recovered by the system would reward 1% Synchronisation. Finally, the mission is repeatable and consider completed when mental strength flow is cut off, be it from using 10-100 % or the host not being able to control it. As I rejoiced for my future the system continued.
[Creation System has been unlocked. Fusion of the host Dungeon Core abilities and the System has been completed. For the host's convenience, the skills and paths available to walk on have been reorganized in a matter you can understand.]
In my vision, five icons surrounding a rainbow diamond cover in fish scale protrusions appear. There was an icon of a tree made of rainbow gems with four large branches that slowly turn into leaves of one color, they being brown, green, blue, and red. The second icon looked like construction blueprints piled high with rainbow gems in the shape of a pickaxe, shovel, and Measuring tape. The third icon looked like a low-resolution half diamond, the other half being the outline of a human, numbers and a shield with a sword and wand making an X could be seen in the background of the symbol. The remaining two are just a large question mark at the moment, before I could wonder what these icons did the system explains it to me.
[Elemental skill tree, Labyrinth creation & management, Dungeon Core data and statistics, Inventory & resources dimensional storage, and lastly Purified mana exchange market. These are the host current available abilities.]
I was surprised at how many abilities there are but was clueless too, still, the system made it as easy as clicking the icon. After some thinking, I used my body of light to click on the Labyrinth creation & management. A large pop-up window with a room about the size of a house was spread before me, tools on one side with things like dirt, gravel, rock, and other materials and liquids like water. I was excited it was like a sandbox game but underground, the endless possibilities gave me hope that even with just this I can survive my attacker's assault by simply making it impossible to occupy a room with more than one or two and not get stampede at. with hope in my heart, I dive into the many options before me, comforting myself now that I have a way to survive.