“Do I have a status screen?” I thought. The RPG game world idea still on my mind.
As soon as I thought about it, an information window popped up in my mind. Differently from what I was expecting, that is, a holographic blue box floating in front of me, something that I came to expect with this type of thing thanks to Leo and his anime rants, the information was dumped right into my brain like a memory. I’m not going to lie, it feels like I was accessing an external HD and pulling information from it. The information dumped inside my head was organized.
Name:
Age: 0
Species: White Dragon
Lv. 1
Status: Normal
HP - 450/500
MP - 500/500
SP - 98/100
Strength - 100N
Defense - 100N
Magic - 200
Magical Defense - 400
Dexterity - 100
Stealth - 100
Precision - 100
Titles -
Skills -
[Racial] Elemental Breath Lv. 1
[Racial] Dragon Scales Lv. 1
[Racial] Passive Growth [100% Remaining]
[Unique] Knowledge Library Lv.1
[Unique] Genetic Dysphoria Lv.1
[Unique] Spell Planner
[Normal] Appraisal Lv.1
[Normal] Magicule Detection Lv.1
[Normal] Magicule Manipulation
The first thing that I noticed was my name. Right now I had an
Whenever I tried to think of my old name, that being Marcos Leandro Nahala, I felt a sense of disconnection from it, like when someone called you by shouting “Hey!” instead of actually saying your name. Besides, for some reason my full name was not displayed on it, just my first and middle name. Maybe it was to save space? I couldn’t be certain. One thing I was almost sure of, something very deep inside me changed and this change made me disassociate with my old name. I still was the same person, at least I thought so, but I wasn’t “Marcos Leandro” anymore. That’s what I managed to understand from the little information I had and the feeling of disconnection that I felt.
Next were Age and Species. Age being 0… Well, that confirms the theory of reincarnation, if it wasn’t already pretty obvious. And to make it more obvious, I was now a white dragon… I looked at myself and had to agree, everything was pretty damn white. I literally had no unique features, just plain white scales in a dragonoid shape. If you asked for an AI to draw a white dragon it would spit out something more unique than me. Shaking my head I went to the next section of information.
The next two sections were something that I could recognize from being a game-like thing, that being health points, mana points, stamina points and stats that affect my overall character. Though I didn’t know what the N stands for and why it is in the only first two stats and not in the others, and I didn’t know what 1 point in each stats meant, so I was clueless if 100 was high or not. Probably not, considering the snake was stronger than me. There was also “Status: Normal” which I guessed was for status effects like “poisoned” or something like that, but as I wasn’t poisoned and didn’t want to get poisoned it would remain uncertain.
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Titles… There was nothing there, moving on.
Skills, that was something that I expected was there after seeing MP and SP earlier on my status. The first thing that I noticed was that there were categorizations before the actual skills, those being [Racial], [Unique] and 8[Normal]. [Racial] is obviously tied to me being a dragon, but [Unique] and [Normal] were a little more obscure as to what they were tied to. If I followed RPGs rarity charts, [Normal] were your “everybody has one” type of skill and [Unique] is literally that, meaning that I had 3 of those types of skills and no one else would be able to get them. How did I manage to reincarnate with them already? I have no idea.
Between the 9 skills that I had, only 6 I could extrapolate what they did and one of them I had already used, that being [Knowledge Library]. The other 5, [Elemental Breath], [Dragon Scales], [Appraisal], [Magicule Detection] and [Magicule Manipulation], I could infer what they did. [Elemental Breath] was the most easy of them, as the first thing someone things of dragons is the fire breath, [Dragon Scales] was probably something related to defense, [Appraisal] is in second place of how easy is to know what it does, that being to scan things, [Magicule Detection] and [Magicule Manipulation] were somewhat easy to understand, the first one allows me to detect this “magicule” and the second one allows me to manipulate it, though I didn’t actually know what “magicule” was, but I guess asking doesn’t hurt.
[Answer: Magicule is one of the fundamental particle of almost all magic phenomena and the main energy source for the craft of spells]
Understood. It's just mana with a different name. I thought to myself after listening to the explanation.
The other three, tough, were harder to properly understand. [Passive Growth], [Genetic Dysphoria] and [Spell Planner], if I went by their names only, [Passive Growth] would make me bigger, [Spell Planner] would help me make spells, but [Genetic Dysphoria] I had no idea what it could possibly do. Maybe [Knowledge Library] could help me with this as well?
[Information not available]
Guess no, then.
As I was lost over my status and skills, something had approached through the stream. A splashing sound brought me back to reality as I looked over and saw what looked like a medium sized fish with an open mouth filled with rows of circular teeth that were spinning like a meat grinder. It swam around the area that I was cleaning my wound like it was searching for something, probably the creature that bled in the water, or in other words, me.
It's just a fish. Sure, it has a meat grinder for a mouth, but it still needs to be in the water to live, and although I'm close to the water, I'm not in it, meaning that I'm safe to test my skills. I thought to myself and then began trying to use [Appraisal]. Thankfully I just needed to think about using it and I felt it working.
[Species: Rotor Fang
Level 9]
The information appeared right on my mind, as if I always knew what I was looking at. It didn't tell me much, but it was a start. The skill was level 1 after all.
The fish stirred and turned in my direction the moment the information appeared inside my head as if it noticed me looking at him. He popped his head out of the water and looked at me for a moment. I observed him as well, but it didn't last long as I saw water flowing to the tip of his mouth and shooting at me like a bullet.
I dived to the side, avoiding the hit, and was glad I did so, because I heard it hit the tree behind me and the loud sound of wood breaking apart. When I looked at it, there was a small hole where the water hit the tree. If that had hit me, it would cause some serious damage to wherever it hit.
I looked at the fish again, and saw it was preparing another bullet of water. I quickly scanned the surrounding areas with my eyes and jumped behind a tree that was the closest to me. It was just in time, as well, as that bullet hit the corner of the tree, splitting a piece of the bark as it passed through it.
"Okay, so that's magic. If it wasn’t confirmed by now, it's 100% confirmed now" I said behind the tree that received another shot of that water bullet and shook with how much pressure was contained with such a small sphere of water. "No better time to learn how this skill work"
I concentrated on [Spell Planner], if I had to fight magic, I needed to do magic myself. The moment I thought about using it, a mental interface appeared in my mind. In the middle of my vision, there was what looked like a complex circle with geometrical inside it, yet it looked empty, with big holes on it and lines that looked like it should connect with something there. On the left side there were some tabs which read "Shape", "Element" and "Charge". On the right side there was a simple slider button that went from "Simple" to "Advanced", with the slider on the "Simple" and a small lock under it. There was a prompt for me to choose the element, shape and how much magicules I would spend on it, meaning the "Charge" tab was about how much I would charge the spell once finished.
I was a bit lost on the interface when another bullet hit the tree, bringing me back to my senses. Okay, if this works as I imagine it does, I need to make something that will help me. Maybe a dirt wall? I thought to myself and went to the "Element" tab. There were the four elements, fire, dirt, water and air that everyone knew from anime and stuff, but it had a scroll bar on the side and a search bar, meaning there were so many I needed them. I'm not going to lie, I felt a little overwhelmed when I quickly scrolled down and saw a giant number of elements quickly passing by. Shaking my head, as the tree suffered another hit, I went to the top of the list and selected the earth element. As I selected it, one of the holes in the geometrical pattern filled with more patterns I didn't understand.
Moving to the "Shape" tab revealed a single search bar. I mentally clicked on it and entered "wall" on the search bar. A simple barrier-like white box appeared beneath the search bar with the name "Wall" beneath it. I mentally selected it as well and watched as another hole was filled with the patterns. Next, I moved to the "Charge" tab, and honestly? It was pretty straightforward. It had two blue vertical bars with "Magical Power" on top of them. The right bar had "Total" and the left one had "Spell" under it, probably symbolizing the total mana I had and the total mana the spell was going to spend. Right now, the spell was at 2%, according to the counter right besides a slider on the left bar itself. Beneath everything there was a "Confirm" button. I mentally clicked it and the last hole was filled in.
Above the pattern the name [Earth Wall] appeared and beneath it a "Cast" button also appeared. Clicking to cast made the interface vanish while the pattern appeared above one of my hands. I felt something being pulled from me as the pattern shone and a block of earth rose from the ground in front of me. I grinned as I felt the tree shudder once more after another bullet if water hit it
"It's my turn" I said as I pulled back the interface to prepare another spell.