Start of Part 3__________________________________________________________________________________________

“Probably won’t be same as you know. Actually I’d be surprised if it was.” I said with a light shrug. 

I took my mug and grabbed a handful of vanila cookies from the packet before sitting back in my arm chair. Welkin grabbed the mug which looked tiny in his hands and sipped it.

“Oh, it tastes like instant coffee alright. Though it has a bit more of a smoky and less of a burnt taste to it.” Welkin commented. He then took a cookie and dipped it before eating it in a single bite.

Malinda reached over to her mug without looking away from my phone for more than a second and took a sip. She coughed and maybe gagged a bit before waving her hand and saying, “I forgot to ask for sugar. Also do you have any milk?”

“Ah, sure. Let me get it for you.” I went and retrieved them for her as well as a spoon.

As I was walking to the kitchen Welkin chuckled and said, “She just drinks it for the caffeine's. But can’t stand the stuff without adding ridiculous amounts of sugar and milk.”

I placed a small container full of sugar and a bottle of milk of the coffee table before squinting my eyes and saying, “I see. So she’s one of those.” 

I handed Malinda a spoon and chuckled as I went to sit back in my chair. A little later Malinda had gotten your coffee to her prefered sweetness and milkiness. We’d finished my coffee and cookies, and I’d put everything back in the kitchen. I got bored so I’d started watching TV with Welkin. There wasn’t much on but he seemed really interested in the late night ads. Y’know those ones with the sexy women posing in their underwear and advertising this weird company that just has women that have phone sex with people that call the number on the screen. It’s really weird and I always feel awkward when watching those ads with other people in the room. Let alone two aliens and one of them, Malinda, seemed increasingly more attractive the longer I spent in her presence. Therefore I felt increasing more embarrassed every time the ad came on. I tried just switching the channel. When I did Welkin glared at me with bloodshot eyes until I turned it back and put down the remote.

“I’m done!” Malinda exclaimed and raised my phone above her head, item acquired, Zelda style. So link even exists in their world… Or is it something similar? In one hand she held a sharp tool she’d taken from somewhere. In the other the now modified phone. The back of the phone case was now covered in numerous strange engravings. Welkin looked over and I took that chance to turn off the tv and move away from the remote. Malinda handed my phone back to me. I took a moment to look at it. The numerous scrawling engravings across the cases surface seemed to have no order or meaning to them. They did look pretty cool though.

“It should link with your magic circuit after you hold it for a few minutes.” Malinda explained with a proud smile.

“Oh okay. Will I need to do that everytime I let go of it?” I asked, still looking at the engravings.

“No. Once it’s linked you’ll just have to keep it within a meter of you. Unlinking is as easy as thinking it. If you do that then you’ll have to link it like this again. Normally you’d have to wait anywhere from a few days up to a year before being able to use something like this. But because you have such a miniscule amount of mana it’ll only take a few minutes to normalise the connection.” Malinda made a pinching motion when she said how my mana was miniscule. Almost as if she was commenting on how small my penis was. Which it wasn’t. I don’t feel insecure about my size. Damn! Fuck!

“I see.” My voice a pitch lower than my usual. My face deadpan.

I grumbled to myself for the next few minutes while those two started talking about their plans. I’ll need to tell them about the military outposts dotted around the city. Who knows what they’ll do if they get their hands on these two. Dissect them? Experiments? One thing I know from movies is that they won’t have a fun time.

Before long I felt a something foreign and alien circulating through my body. Almost as if I could feel my veins pulsating and the blood gushing through them. It itched slightly and I wanted to scratch but couldn’t because it was inside of me. Letters appeared in the middle of my vision while I was distracted. Once I saw them I couldn’t take my attention away from them.

“Booting….. 1%” 

“Booting….. 24%” 

“Booting….. 46%” 

“Booting….. 68%” 

“Booting….. 82%” 

“Booting….. 100%”

“Core systems online…..BETA.0.4.5.72V

Name, 52BUAAHW401SA(Haris Yurman).

Gender, N/A(Human-Male cosmetic option).

Age, 21.

Species, Admin Server(Unknown Variant)

Racial Talent, Curiosity of the Ancients, Core Programmer.

Unique Talent, Backup Server Assembly, System link, System Transfer, Auto System Transfer, Assembly options.

Mana, 3(28,000,003)

Materials, 0S,0A,0B,0C,0D,0E,0F,0G.

Primary values-/-/-/

Physical Prowess, 37. G

Physical Agility, 52. G

Physical Durability, 63. G

Processing, 49. G

Secondary values-/-/-/

Vitality, 94. G

Strength, 19. G

The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

Speed, 31. G

Intelligence, 22. G” 

I realized I was looking at a black screen with grey letters in the center before I knew what’d even happened. It explained my basic parameters. When I tried to look away from it I found that I couldn’t move my head. A computer can display their hardware details so it makes weird kind of sense if I can.

The screen closed and changed over to another screen that was transparent other than a basic UI with an icon in the corner that brought up my stats. Closing my stats again I took notice of Malinda and Welkin looking at me. Seeing me looking between the two of them Malinda smiled at me.

“Ah, he’s back. Welcome back. It’s pretty weird right? Usually you’re supposed to go through it during puberty. So it’s interesting to see someone fully grown go through it. Humans get the Curiosity of the Informant Racial talent. Apparently it gives them a weird sort of overlay to everything. I’ve never really understood it but apparently it’s a huge information overload at times. A lot of humans end up blanking out for hours at a time during puberty because they’re working through information.” She explained gently.

I noticed that when I looked directly at them a list of minerals and lots of other data that I didn’t understand popped up. Whenever I focused my vision on something a loading bar would appear and once it filled up it’d display absolutely everything about that thing. This was seriously some sci-fi level shit with all the information, diagrams, pictographs, illustrations, lists, values, bar graphs, pie graphs and loads of other things that I didn’t even know the words to describe. Raw data that made zero sense what so ever and other shit got thrown at me. So much stuff flashed by that I couldn’t get any of it other than that it was made out of stuff and it came from somewhere. It’s like I’m a really shitty supercomputer now. I’m analysing everything I look at but can’t understand it. Also Admin Server? And what the fuck do you mean gender N/A? Cosmetic option!? Oh no you fucking didn’t!

“This will take some getting used to.” I said absently and rubbed my eyes. I think I feel a headache coming on.

“Don’t worry about it. It takes everyone a while to adjust. When you spend the first fourteen years of our life thinking the world works in a certain way. Then everything get turned upside down when we start learning about our talents and magic.” Welkin said helpfully and pat me on the shoulder with far too much strength. I had to take a few steps to stop myself from falling over and even then I almost tumbled into a wall.

“Yeah. I was pretty horrified to learn that “Essence” was synthetic semen and I had to eat it… Or die of starvation. They don’t like to tell you about that growing up as a young pup in Succubus camp.” Malinda shared with a dejected tone and expression. I can guess from how she’s acting that she wasn’t very happy about it. I feel like that was a bit much info… I suppose I could have gathered that from her data if I was capable of understanding it.

“I see… so you and Welkin-” I started to say but was interrupted.

“Hell no!” Welkin said with a degree of disgust on his face.

Malinda shook her head, “No, we’re just friends. Also you don’t have to be so disgusted by the idea Welkin. You’ll hurt my feelings.”

Welkin panicked slightly and stumbled over his words before getting out, “Sorry Malinda.” 

Which was probably more than enough but then he kept going, “I would if you ran out of essence capsules and we were unable to get more. But as a respectable Male Oru… doing anything like that with anything other than an Oru woman disgusts me. Only those stupid orcs that can think of nothing but sex and violence would breed with other species. The Oru clan doesn’t. As a higher species with intelligence, far above an animal like an orc. It would be an insult to my species if I did so while there was still another option.”

“Ah, we stepped on the landmine.” Malinda said with a wide smile and winked at me.

Welkin ignored her and kept going on and on with his lecture before finishing up with, “The Oru make a big deal about these things because we look so similar to Orcs. Orcs are about as intelligent as pigmen and little more than animals. To compare an Oru to an Orc is like comparing a human to an ape. We may have the same ancestor but we are nothing alike. Understood Haris?” 

Welken stared at me with bloodshot eyes. I felt like he’d punch me through a wall if I said anything other than, “Understood.”

He nodded his head and sat back down, “Just had to clear that up. So what were we talking about?”

Malinda lifted up a small bag and shook it. It rattled and she said, “Just telling the newb that I have my supply of man pellets in the bag Welkin.”

“Sorry.” Welkin blushed.

End of Part 3__________________________________________________________________________________________

AUTHOR complains: Ah! Game elements! Kill it like the plague! Settle yer buts it's just a display of his hardware. Your computer can do this. Though I wouldn't want to use Haris. Playing Minesweeper would be just too much trouble!