Upon his throne in the center of the universe God looked through small viewing portals at the worlds that have varying states of sentient life and grew bored.
He had viewed the many different universes and worlds that the other gods had made and walk on but his are boring! So he sat there reading a light novel about the MC who reincarnated with a cheat skill but everyone... there... has... Game Mechanics governing their life!
It's the perfect idea but if I go this route than I'm sure a lot of people will die but if I make some rules to monster spawns and where monsters can go than that will solve the problem since I don't want to be cruel.
I should make some mayhem but not much and I should also create a 'police force' to govern the newly superpowered people and create a sub dimension for monster ridden safe zones with higher than normal difficulty similar to a dungeon although I should make that the main source of monsters. Although I need to structure it just right with the stats and skills.
--Ambiguous POV--
Down on earth nothing was really happening that could be seen until a voice started shouting from the skies being heard by every single person on the planet regardless of location or sleeping although the latter don't really process it.
"HELLO MORTALS, IT'S ME GOD AND TODAY I FOUND A WAY TO PERMANENTLY CURE MY BOREDOM! TODAY THE UNIVERSE CHANGES TO MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLE AN RPG WORLD MEANING MANA AND MAGIC AND OTHER SUPERHUMAN ABILITIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE AND AS A SMALL GIFT DUE TO THE FACT THAT I'M PRACTICALLY THROWING YOUR WORLD INTO CHAOS OUT OF SHEER BOREDOM I HAVE GIVEN EVERYONE OF YOU A SINGLE WISH THAT WILL BE GRANTED FROM YOUR FIRST THOUGHT OR DESIRE THAT RESEMBLES A WISH AND SAID WISH ONLY HAS A SMALL LIMIT BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER. GOODBYE AND REMEMBER IN ORDER FOR YOUR TOWNS AND CITIES TO REMAIN SAFE FROM MONSTER SPAWNS AND BEING OVERRUN YOU SHOULD EXPLORE THE NEW WORLD SINCE IT WOULD BE BORING IF YOU DID NOTHING AND I CAN TAKE AWAY THE SAFE ZONES SO MAKE IT INTERESTING. ALSO BECOME ADVENTURERS SINCE THE WORLD IS NOW 10,000 TIMES LARGER WITH NEW THINGS TO DISCOVER AND EXPLORE, AND YES I DID SCALE THE UNIVERSE AND CELESTIAL BODIES TO BE LARGER. OH ALMOST FORGOT, IF YOU WANT TO EXPLORE THE CITY YOUR IN WITH IT BEING OVERRUN BY MONSTERS LOOKING JUST LIKE A POST APOCALYPTIC CITY JUST USE THE 'MONSTER CITY' COMMAND, HAVE FUN."
Once God had said his piece he engaged the changes to the universe making not only Earth bigger than before but also have a different Geography although nothing was removed just more was added, like a DLC of a game.
But the changes to the universe on a large scale don't matter since this is all about our Main Character, Clair Fairchild who hasn't had any family since her mother died when she was 10 leaving her an orphan for the last 7 years with a nice family fortune and steady income from investments and a fairly large house near her high school.
It is not her past or her current address that are important rather the thought passing through her semi unconscious mind, the words specifically being "Wouldn't it be awesome to become the strongest just by breathing?" And after the thought passed a small ping sound echoed around her room chronicling the change in her life.
--Clair's POV--
Waking up from my lazy Sunday morning sleep in I opened my eyes to some blue screen asking me if I want a retelling about God's message so I went to press no but accidentally pressed yes due to my lethargy.
Images and sounds flashed through my mind like memories as I snapped to full wakefulness and sat up and viewed the screen in front of me showing something about a wish and the change to the world but what I saw was one of my dreams!
THE GAMER POWER! Jumping up and getting ready for my morning err, afternoon I ran downstairs and made myself French toast and coffee and ate it all before speaking the magic words.
"STATUS!" *Ping*
Welcome to the World System, to view the different windows and tabs use the following commands. Status: View information such as stats, levels and class. Condition: Shows HP, Stamina and MP. Also the three bars in top right corner of vision are, Red = HP, Green = Stamina, Blue = MP. Affinities: Shows magical affinities that corresponds to the different elements that magic uses. Skills: Shows the different skills and abilities gained through life and the store. Store: Shows the system store to purchase items and skills/abilities. Can also sell items. Inventory: Shows the Inventory and Equipment screen, carry capacity is governed by strength although weight does not affect the user.
Navigation of screens can be done verbally, mentally or physically while focusing on the system, thank you for reading the tutorial, here is your status screen.
Name: Claire Fairchild Level: 1 Race: Human Class: N/A Strength: 11 Agility: 15 Vitality: 14 Endurance: 14 Intelligence: 15 Wisdom: 15 Perception: 15 Dexterity: 13 Stat Points42,000
Looking over at the screen It was as I thought but I'm wondering why I have those stat points and to get the answer I opened my Skills screen and saw a skill I didn't know I had.
Breath of God Ability Rarity: Unique Rank: SS 10 Stat Points for every breath while Status screen is closed. ????? (Unlocked at level 50) ????? (Unlocked at level 100)
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As my eyes bugged out I quickly looked back at my stats and realized how OP my ability is and quickly opened the small screen showing what each stat does.
Strength = Raw physical power, carry weight and how high/fast you can leap.
Agility = Run speed, sense of balance, Physical Multitasking.
Vitality = 1:10 Ratio of health, resistance to Illness and poison etc. etc.
Endurance = 1:10 Ratio of Stamina, Physical Defense, Resistance to pain and fatigue.
Intelligence = 1:10 Ratio of Mana, Memorization and Recall, Mental Multitasking.
Wisdom = Mana Regen, .01% per 10 Wis, Knowledge Comprehension, Structured thinking, Mental resistance.
Perception = Reaction time, visual clarity, sensory sensitivity and ability to see hidden things.
Dexterity = Flexibility, Hand eye coordination, Precision of movement and strength/speed control.
Base Mana/Health/Stamina Regen rates cap at 15%/Sec and any additional regen is determined by skills/items.
Looking at my agility stat shows a surprising fact in that my average sprint speed is 15 mph meaning that agility roughly equals a 1:1 ratio of points to mph so if I increased that to over a thousand could I break the sound barrier? Shaking my head I got back to deciding how to distribute my points before an idea popped up.
At the moment I have no skills that would use mana and although I won't neglect it I should focus on physical combat for now so I begin distributing my points.
But after putting 1,000 points into Intelligence and Wisdom I realized that the point distribution would be wonky with only 40,000 points and realized that if I waited 10 minutes I would be able to put 7,000 points into each stat since I would have 42,000 again.
So I waited for a few minutes while planning what to do once I have been able to get magic and decided to go a Mana Lord route from one of my favorite OP MC online fictions from the author Ziger on RRL.
Once I hit the 10 minute mark I opened my status and saw 42,000 points on the dot so I put 7,000 into my stats and prepared to leave the house careful not to destroy anything.
Outside I looked around and saw many things no doubt from momentary fantasies like an elf or a Centaur with some of the more extreme physically changed people panicking slightly before the floating magical robots calmed them down, WAIT WHAT!?
Looking back at said robot and observing every micrometer distantly acknowledging the near silent pings going off about a hundred times before I started to see outlines inside of the machine but they were hazy at best and hard to focus on but my concentration was broken momentarily by a loud ping in my head.
You have unlocked and leveled up Inspect by 100 levels, New skill Mana Vision has been granted.
P.S. You should speak with a Sentinel about your rewards for getting each stat and all stats above 1,000.
Reading over the notification I opened my skills screen and there they were, Inspect and Mana Vision and reading their descriptions I tried to locate my mana but I didn't know where to look for it and since skills aren't automatically activated with a prompt only abilities and spells I need to learn Mana Manipulation or it's equivalent.
Leaving the thought of mana for later I walked up to the nearest Sentinel and asked it about my rewards for my stats passing 1,000.
"Scan shows all stats passing 1,000 selecting skill books for individual stats and total stat rewards. Here you are Clair Fairchild."
After speaking in those cliché GPS voices, I got a notification of 9 items being added to my Inventory so opening said Inventory I found nine skill/ability books and thankfully the Intelligence skill book was Advanced Mana Manipulation so I went back to my house and pulled them out to look at them.
Would you like to learn Advanced Mana Manipulation? Y/N
Before selecting anything I asked what the notification means and a help tab opens detailing about how selecting yes would destroy the book but give me the basic knowledge about manipulating mana and a level 1 skill but if I took my time to read and memorize the whole book I would get the skill at level 5 while keeping the book so I obviously started reading and promised myself to always learn skills this way.
Reading through the book it first told me the difference between the normal skill and this one is that it draws from more than just the Intelligence and Wisdom stats but also Perception and that starting with this skill rather than the normal one will help with gaining all elemental affinities later.
It took close to an hour to perfectly memorize the entire book before getting the notification about gaining the skill at level 5.
Putting the book back in my Inventory I looked at the Perception book and saw the skill Multi Spectrum Vision and started reading and memorizing with such enthusiasm I myself didn't know I had.
As soon as I had the skill and knowledge of it's use I tried to see the world in Infrared before switching to X-Ray but sadly there isn't much of it around so I can't see much but it's enough to see flashes of the world through objects but despite my Perception being high I can't do much more than see momentary bit's of it all so I cut off the skill before getting started on the others.
In the end I got Meditation, Perfect Equilibrium, Partial Tactile Telekinesis so things don't crumble as I carry them, No Friction so when I run I don't burst into flames and create tornadoes from the air resistance, Battle Regen that allows me to regenerate my HP while in battle normally and Adamantium Body that makes me as durable as Adamantium without the metal.
Looking at the final book the skill was surprisingly called Beginner's guide to superhuman performance which goes through an entire walkthrough on how to use my new abilities to their max so I started reading until I hit the Agility section and it started explaining how The Flash could run up walls.
"So he uses the speed force to keep the amount of force he generated to run on the wall to basically run on the wall as if it was the ground with 9 m/s2 of force? And I can do something similar with mana? Okay I will try that later."
Continuing to read through the book I found so many tricks of the trade that superhumans do to practically defy physics without actually doing so. Like The Flash uses his generated kinetic energy to warp space for FTL speeds and Superman controls all forms of gravity affecting him including his own gravitational force to fly, it's fascinating since I now understand all of the equations in the book and their references.
(AN: Sorry couldn't resist)
After reading the whole book and memorizing it I looked at the clock and realized that I had done all of that at super speed since only two hours have passed and in total since I received the books 3 hours had passed so I opened my status screen to view my new stat points.
36,000 points over 3 hours huh? Well I should distribute them equally between all of my stats and leave specialization to later.
So putting the 4,500 points into every stat I leave the house and look around to see several people flying or running around at pretty high velocities and several people outside of town or in the sky fighting monsters.
Seeing as many people are treating the new world as a game I decided to do the same thing so I took off running toward the Space Needle and leaped toward the top, actually managing it before using a command that will soon become my favorite.