Mike looked over his options and decided that doing it from top to bottom would make the most sense and would be the most enjoyable.
“Redeem Achievement ‘System Latecomer’.”
|Congrats! Achievement Redeemed|
System Latecomer
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Flavour Text: “Welcome and hello! Please recommend the System to your friends!”
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Requirements:
- Unlock the System after not inhabiting a reality with any system.
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Reward:
Unlock three common skills from a list of skills commonly unlocked by children who grow up with a system.
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|Redeem Skills?|
“Huh.” He decided he would choose the skills later. “Nah, ask me later.” He decided to continue. “Redeem Achievement ‘Planet Solo Inhabiter’.”
|Congrats! Achievement Redeemed.|
Planet Solo Inhabiter
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Flavour Text: “You don’t have any friends, family, or pets, but hey, at least you don’t have any enemies either! (At least not on this planet.) Whether you are a genocidal maniac, a lost traveler, or the sole survivor of your race, congrats on this achievement! And may we see more of this from you soon.”
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Requirements:
- Be the sole inhabitant of a habitable planet inside a realm with more than 5,000,000 solar systems, with inhabitants on other planets in the solar system.
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Reward:
Skill Unlock: [Planetary traveler] (Epic)
Effects:
All movement skills and vehicles centered around going to other planets have abilities vastly increased.
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Huh, If I find a way to get out of here that will be useful I guess. Wait… Does that mean I’m the only person here? When he had that chilling thought he quickly shook that away. To distract himself he looked at the most interesting one. He especially liked it because it seemed to mention his truck, which he was sad he didn’t have access to, or at least another 18 wheeler. The note about First Achiever was also pretty exciting.
“Redeem Achievement ’18 wheels, ∞ Realms’.”
|Congrats! Achievement Redeemed.|
18 wheels, ∞ realms
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Flavour Text: “Most people get sent to another reality by a 18 wheeler accidentally, but you used an 18 wheeler to get to another on purpose!”
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First Unlock Flavour Text: “No one else has gotten sent to another reality like this yet! Either you have extremely high tech inter reality travel, or you are a trash driver and died, either way here’s a reward!
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Requirements:
- Get sent from one reality to another.
- Use an 18 wheeler you drive and own to get to another reality by your own actions.
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Reward:
Skill Unlock: [Soul-Truck] (Legendary)
Effects:
You get a magical version of the vehicle you used to get here. This is connected to your soul and can be summoned on demand and dismissed easily. Gains new abilities depending on level.
This can only be used when in non-stressful situations.
Uses mana to move
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First Unlocked Reward:
Skill Unlock: [Inter Realm Travel (Tier V)] (Mythical)
This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.
Effects:
Your [Soul Trailer] gains the ability to easily travel between realms or in-between space in the realm for little to no cost. This also gives an intuitive interface inside of it.
Can only be used once a month and only jumps a certain amount of real space and an even more limited amount of realm space. This increases with level.
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“Woah…”
Mike was absolutely overjoyed when he read that he had access to his 18 wheeler. He was also extremely interested in the stuff about traveling between realms, but was confused what the difference between realms and realities. But before he could ask more about it he had a massive headache. It wasn’t quite splitting but was quite nauseating. As he doubled over and dropped to his knees in the grass and almost threw up, it went away quickly afterwords.
“What the fuck was that.” He muttered nauseatedly.
|Skill Integration complete! You now have intuitive knowledge of your new skills and how to operate them.|
He felt a very disorientating feeling, like another limb. But instead of having multiple joints, it only had two. It had an “up” feeling and a “down” feeling. He could also intuitively feel that if he “pushed” the limb up it would activate and his truck would appear. He was still curious about realms and realities, so first he was going to ask about them.
“Info, reality versus realms.”
|The difference between the System terms of ‘Reality’ and ‘Realm’ is the order of size. Realms are different sections of the System of varying sizes and inhabitants, while realities are above those and take near infinity more energy to traverse. Realms can be from the size of a small closet, to multiple billions of light years across. Currently the realm you inhabit is only a few hundred million lightyears across.|
“Huh, I feel like that is kind of big though… Whatever.” He still didn’t fully know what skill were though.
“Info, Skills.”
|Skills are a type of ability that can be earned through Achievements, Class level ups, Quests, and Practicing until you achieve mastery over a subject.|
“Sounds nice I guess.”
Mike decided that he was tired and that he would just check out his Status command before using his [Soul-Truck] and going to sleep in it.
“Status.”
|Status|
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Name: Mike Milton
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Race:Human
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Class: OPTIONS AVAILABLE
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Mana: 120/120
Health: Baseline
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Dexterity: 9
Strength: 8
Movement: 0
Endurance: 8
Toughness: 8
Wisdom: 12
Intelligence: 11
Perception: 11
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Achievements:
|System Latecomer (Reality Hopper Specific)|
|Planet Solo Inhabiter (Epic)|
|18 wheels, ∞ realms (Legendary) (First Achiever!) (Reality Hopper Specific)|
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Titles:
{Reality Hopper}
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Skills:
[Soul-Truck] (Legendary) (Level:1)
[Inter Realm Travel (Tier V)] (Mythical) (Level:1)
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Nah, I’m not reading all that. Mike decided that it was tike for him to go to sleep and “pushed” his [Soul-Truck] muscle.
Mike stepped back in shock as loads of sparkling blue dust started swirling out of nowhere It suddenly froze, suspended in the air. Spontaneously, they all rushed to a spot opposite of the ditch and started coalescing faster and faster. The shape started to take form quicker and quicker. Mike could see that the front looked extremely similar to his old 18 wheeler, but he was quite confused about the back end of it. While there were two front wheels underneath the cabin, underneath the cabin were jointed legs with sharp points at the end. The front of the cabin had four larger legs as well that supported it on each side but let the wheel still connect. The container on the back was connected even closer, instead of resting on a bed that was connected to the cabin and its motor, it seemed to be attached to the cabin directly and would be impossible to remove. It got weirder because on each side there were three larger versions of the jointed legs off the sides of it. As it coalesced into its final form, it flashed white for a moment and then went away. It was dark for a moment, only slightly illuminated by the stars above him, and then the trucks lights cam on and he could see it in all of its scuttling glory.
Its form had looked like what he thought except for the coloring and minor aesthetic differences. All of the jointed legs were shiny black and hard looking. Its coloring had changed to a more red and crimson style, with it having a more matte look. It had shiny silver pieces that sparkled slightly in the night. In other words, it was beautiful.
Unfortunately, Mike was tired, so instead of basking in its glory, he just opened up the truck’s back door. Ill appreciate it in the morning. As he stepped he was absolutely floored. Although he had no good frame of reference, he could see why the skill would be called legendary. From the outside it had looked pretty spacious already, but inside it was somehow even bigger. Mike had to go back outside and double check that it wasn’t just as big on the outside, but it wasn’t. Somehow, this weird magical truck was bigger on the inside than the outside. It was a fantastic 300 square feet, much bigger than it looked outside. It was a blank rectangle that roughly corresponded to the outside cabin’s size. It had a metal sliding door that presumably went to the cockpit. Mike shook his head. He was already barely holding onto the idea he wasn’t dead, this didn’t really change all of that much. He would still leave the cockpit for tomorrow though. It was lit up by a 1 foot by 2 foot flat light.
“Fuck it.”
Mike opened back the door and stepped inside of it. It was completely bare but was rather large. Suddenly a system screen popped up.
|Soul-Truck|
|Command List|
|Shop: Opens a shop you can by and sell from the system using System Currency.
Layout: Opens a page where you can customize your built in and unlocked amenities and overall layout of your Soul-Truck
Soul-Truck Status: Opens a status page for your Soul-Truck.
Start: Starts the engine.
Quests: Opens a page that has lists of quests you can do using your Soul-Truck for System Currency or other rewards.
Mike was extremely tired so he decided that the way to get a bed would be the shop so he tiredly said the command.
Sigh “Shop.”
A screen showed up that said |Shop| at the top. It had an extensive list of genres, but he was only interested in the one titled |Bedding|.
“Bedding.”
This one was near empty.
|Shop|
|Funds: 100.00 $¢|
|Bedding|
* Generic King Sized Spring Mattress Bed: 20.00 $¢
* Generic Twin Sized Spring Mattress Bed: 10.00 $¢
* Generic King Sized Blanket: 1.00 $¢
* Generic Twin Sized Blanket: 0.25 $¢
* Pillow: 1.00 $¢
* Generic Nightstand: 5.00 $¢
Mike was exhausted but had enough sense to think a small amount. Looking around there was enough room to comfortably have a king sized bed, but the amount of money made him hesitate. He didn’t know how much each System Credit was worth, so he just bought the two twin sized options and the pillow.
|Options Bought!|
|-21.25 $¢ to funds!|
|Funds: 78.75$¢|
|Generating objects…|
In the corner of the |Soul-Truck| some more of the swirling blue lights that had made the truck came out of nowhere again and started doing some more swirling. It finished coalescing into, as it was described, a very generic and average wood frame twin sized bed. It had a generic spring mattress as well. Almost immediately afterwards a grey, soft enough, blanket fluttered down to rest atop it. Mike was dead on his feet, so he stumbled over to the bed and just plopped down on it in the middle of the room. He then went to sleep soundly.