I love Gundam. Not in a fanatical way, as I just love the Universal Century models, shows, and OVAs. I was in love with almost all of it, from ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin’ to the end of the ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Unicorn’ show. I never really cared for the F91, Victory and Crossbone series and Lord knows how I hated G-Savior. I worked a decent 9 - 5 job and made enough money to indulge my hobby of building U.C. (Universal Century) models. I still had several kits in my backlog to do when I went out to my nearby hobby shop for some extra supplies.
Why am I saying this all in past tense? It is simple; I died. How did I die? Well, to be honest, I am not sure I even died to begin with. I assume that I died, as I am currently a week-old baby in a house that looks like it came out of the middle ages. If I were a gambling man, I would bet on this being one of those standard ‘Isekai’ things that were all the rage for web novels and light novels back before I became this baby. I was worried at first because the infant mortality rate of children was quite high in the middle ages. Thankfully, it seems that not all hope is lost as magic seems to be a thing here. It was only a day ago when I managed to catch a glimpse of my father speaking what I thought was a prayer, only for a small flame to appear in his hand. I hope I have magic powers too. I don’t know any spells, and my newborn ears and eyes might have just been playing tricks on me due to me being a 30-year-old man in a week-old newborn’s body. I don’t know how magic works, so I might as well try out the standard template of reincarnation novels.
{Status!}
Is what I thought to myself. It’s not like I can speak with a newborn body after all.
And suddenly, in front of my eyes.
Name – Arkhan
Age –1 week
Level – 1
Titles – Reincarnator
Job – Mobile Suit Golem Master
Health – 5
Mana – 10 -> 9
Stamina – 1
Strength – 1
Perception – 5
Endurance – 1
Charisma – 1
Intelligence – 10
Agility –1
Luck – 10
Active Skills
* Status (1 Mana)
* Appraisal (1 Mana)
* Generate Mobile Suit Golem Lv. 1
* Generate Mobile Suit Golem Equipment Lv. 1
* Customize Mobile Suit Golem Lv. 1
* Mobile Suit Golem Hangar Lv. 1
Passive Skills
* No Chant Magic Casting
* All Language Mastery
* Writing Mastery
* Mathematics Mastery
* Science Mastery
If I were Joseph Joestar, this is the point where I would be screaming, “Oh, My God!” or “Holy Shit!”. I honestly can’t believe it worked! Some of the stats and skills look a bit wonky though. But I will just write it off as me being a reincarnated person who slogged his way through college. These ‘Generate Mobile Suit Golem’, ‘Generate Mobile Suit Golem Equipment’, 'Customize Mobile Suit Golem' and 'Mobile Suit Golem Hangar' skills look interesting though…
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If my knowledge of Isekai tropes serve, then by activating Appraisal on my skills should let me see what they can do.
{Here goes nothing, Appraisal!}
Generate Mobile suit Golem – Creates a Mobile Suit Golem that obeys the commands of the summoner. Requires at least 10 mana to use. The number of active units is determined by Intelligence (100 Mobile Suit Golems for every 5 levels or 10 Intelligence (Subject to change if/when when Skill Levels Up)). When summoned, Mana will be reserved until Mobile Suit Golem has been dismissed. Mobile Suit Golems automatically regenerate from damage when placed in Mobile Suit Golem Hangar.
Units available
* MS-05B Zaku I (10 Mana)
Generate Mobile Suit Golem Equipment – Creates equipment that can be used by Mobile Suit Golems. Requires at least 5 Mana to use (Subject to change if/when Skill Levels Up). Does not reserve Mana.
Equipment available
* Heat Hawk Type 3 (5 Mana)
* Shotgun (10 Mana)
* 5 mm Machine Gun (10 Mana)
* 28 mm Zaku Bazooka (20 Mana)
* Twin 28 mm Zaku Bazooka (40 Mana)
* Cracker Grenade (5 Mana)
* Sturm Faust (10 Mana)
* S Mine (5 Mana)
* Shotgun Rounds – Slug (5 Mana for Full Magazine)
* Shotgun Rounds – Buckshot (5 Mana for Full Magazine)
* 5 mm Machine gun Rounds (5 Mana for Full 100 round Magazine)
* 28 mm Zaku Bazooka Round (10 Mana for individual round)
Customize Mobile Suit Golem – Allows the user to customize Mobile Suit Golems with paint and optimizations Requires at least 0 Mana to use. Must be done while Mobile Suit Golem is in Mobile Suit Golem Hangar. Requires 1 hour to paint a Mobile Suit Golem and 4 Hours to Optimize a Mobile Suit Golem. Painting and Optimizing can be done simultaneously for 4.5 hours (Subject to change if/when Skill Levels Up). Does not reserve Mana.
Paint Available
* Reset to Standard Colors (0 Mana)
* Red (5 Mana)
* Blue (5 Mana)
* Green (5 Mana)
* Yellow (5 Mana)
* Orange (5 Mana)
* Purple (5 Mana)
* Black (5 Mana)
* White (5 Mana)
* Brown (5 Mana)
* Forest Camo (10 Mana)
* Desert Camo (10 Mana)
* Arctic Camo (10 Mana)
* Urban Camo (10 Mana)
* Marine Camo (10 Mana)
Optimizations Available
* Heavy (15 Mana)
* Desert (15 Mana)
* Forest/ Jungle (15 Mana)
* Arctic (15 Mana)
Mobile Suit Golem Hangar – Allows the user to store Mobile Suit Golems for future use. Current limit is 100. Mobile Suit Golem Hangar Level is increased by 100 for every 5 levels or 10 Intelligence. Mobile Suit Golems can be upgraded into different models in the Hangar only once certain criteria have been met (Subject to change if/when Skill Levels Up). Does not reserve Mana.
This was about what I was expecting, if not more. I remembered my Status and appraisal skills used 1 Mana per usage and that my base mana was 10. Therefore, my current mana should be 8 right now. It would be quite vexing if I were to be stuck with 10 mana for the rest of my life, so I will have to see if there is something I can do to raise my total mana points. But for now, I am just a weak baby, and a hungry one at that. I tried making some noise and my mother came over to me.
As ashamed as I am to be feeding like this, the technology level is that of the middle ages, so there is no baby formula or baby bottles (that I know of). I will have to swallow my discomfort with what I am doing for now.
Oh, father just came home with another child.
While feeding, I can overhear their conversation.
NANI?! It’s possible to raise your stats though training, including mana points?!
Sweet! Now all I must do is expend all my mana as often as possible and I will be on the fast track to building an army of Mobile Suits. Although, the numbers on the equipment don’t add up unless the Mobile Suit Golems themselves are human sized or slightly larger/ smaller.
Ah, well. Now that I finished feeding and am back in my crib it’s time to spam Status and Appraisal!
{Status!}
{Status!}
{Status!}
{Status!}
{Status!}
{Status!}
{Status!}
{Status!}
And then I passed out. Apparently, Mind Out is a thing here….