Chapter 2: Skills
Shock... that is the state I'm in right now. Yes, shock... An hour ago I was also in shock though... But now it is on a whole other level.
1 hour ago...
I rose from the ashes. The one who rose from ashes was a red piece of paper...
I am paper? You're kidding right?
What was the crack you might ask...
What I cracked was a box.
I was at the very bottom of the box.
But this box was no ordinary box.
No, it was a shiny and expensive box.
I was at the bottom of a treasure chest to be exact...
Yes, treasure chest...Gold, rubies and other pieces of shiny jewels.
And I a piece of red paper was at the bottom of it all.
That was also way it was dark. There isn't any light at the bottom of the treasure chest.
That's also why I couldn't move... I was being crushed by gold and lots of other jewelry...
How can paper even move, you might ask.
Honestly, I don't know... but I did and I can and that's all that matters.
After getting out from beneath all the jewels I looked around me...
I am underground. How do I know? Because there is this dirt ceiling above my head.
This looks like it's a tunnel man made.
So I'm gonna assume I just got reincarnated as a piece of paper at the bottom of a treasure chest that is in some underground place, that is most likely a dungeon...
Why a dungeon you might ask...
Well its cause there is this three headed beast in front to me that I don't believe is your regular pet dog...
It's probably a guard or something...
It's staring at me!
It isn't attacking me though...
A relief...
Now that I think about it how can I see?
Then again I can see my self. My body to be more exact... I am looking at myself from a third person point of view.
What can I do?
...
Not much really... but I'll try to move my body... I try imagining my body moving to the left. The paper on the floor shifts just a little to the left. But its really hard to move without feet... It's a piece of paper... I wonder if I could fold myself...
I try lifting myself up and folding my self in half using a horizontal fold.
I fold in half...
I can fold myself...
[Sub Skill Folding Activated]
!!!
"What the fuck is this!?"
[Sub Skill Folding]
"No, that's ... Never mind..."
...
"Calm down me..."
[Skill Learned Cool Headed]
...
After thinking and sorting out all of my memories this is the order of things I got.
I finished my last Immortal Phoenix Origami.
Then I burned my origami along with my self...
After that I probably died.
Then in the next moment I was surrounded by darkness...
I broke out of the darkness...
And It turns out that I was at the bottom of a treasure chest...
Then there is this thing in front of me... showing me skills...
"Is this a game world or something?"
Hmm... It would make sense if it was but... This is a real world... a game like real world... If it really is then I suppose keywords would probably cause things to open I assume...
"STATUS?"
[Level 0 ]
[Name Lu Chen]
[Race: Phoenix Paper]
[Alignment: Neutral]
[Titles: Arsonist]
[Titles: Soul Traveler]
[Titles: Origami Phoenix Master]
[Skills: Immortal Rebirth]
[Skills: Origami Master]
[Skills: Master of Fire]
[Skills: Cool headed]
"Oh! Nice!"
Wait... what arsonist... Why am I an arsonist?
[Arsonist: Setting something on fire.]
[Skill: Fire Magic]
After looking around the room and seeing that its a flaming mess as well as thinking to my past life and thinking of how I burned myself, as well as my room...
Makes sense...
Lets check out all the titles first.
"Soul Traveler"
[Soul Traveler: Soul from another world]
[Skill: Menu]
[Phoenix Origami Master: n%I=W]
[Skill: Master of Fire]
[Skill: Origami Master]
[Skill Immortal Rebirth]
... Menu?
[Welcome to Babel]
[You have been brought to this world because of your passion for freedom. You have trespassed this worlds laws. Gods will want your life! Some might help you, but others will want to destroy YOU! Because of your defiance of this worlds laws you will gain a unique title. [Phoenix Origami Master] It will help you on your quest to destroy the rules of the tyrant gods of this world. As well as destroy the tyrant gods themselves. Continue on your quest to destroy the gods and the rule this world.]
[Message Marked as Read]
[Your Inventory is Empty]
!!! What... N-no fucking way! I'm going to be chased by gods! Wait stop I don't want to be chased by gods! I didn't mean to trespass or break the rules! I don't want to rule the world either please stop!
5 minutes later...
Finally calmed down.
"Alright, that might not be true anyways... yeah not true..."
"Alright let us check out my skills."
[Immortal Rebirth: Flames that will breath life.]
[Origami Master: Creator of Art, the art of paper, the power of creation is in your hands.]
[Master of Flames: Controller of Flames. You have the sacred flames of a Phoenix.]
Power to Revive, Power to Create, and power over flames... These are the powers of god aren't they...
Well lets forget about the problems for now...
And so the problems where thrown to the back of my mind.
I start folding myself...
Into a crane.
[Origami Self Creation: Crane]
"Whats going on!"
My body has changes and now I can feel my new bodies shape composition as well as the power in my veins. Veins? Yes, veins. My body has changed a new. I am now a red colored crane. But suddenly right after I changed I hear something...
"GROWL ROAR!"
The three headed beast that was supposed to be guarding the chest rushes at me!
"Stop, stay, good doggy please stay!"
I think it got more angrier after that...
It rushes at me and just when its about to bite me in two.
"Stay away!"
This yell of mine caused all the heat in my body to rush out. And a golden scarlet light breaks out from my body... The three headed dog like beast was incinerated just like that... All that was left was a black crystal that fell to the ground.
[Congratulations you have killed Cerberus]
[You Level up]
[You Level up]
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[You Level ...]
Current level... 456
[You have 4560 skill points]
[Expand: 10p = 10 square inches]
[Expand: 100p = 1000 square inches]
[Expand: 1000p =100000 square inches]
[Skills: Immortal Rebirth (Max)]
[Skills: Origami Master (Max)]
[Skills: Master of Fire (Max)]
[Skills: Cool headed (Beginner 1)]
[Upgrades: 10p = 1 beginner level up]
[Upgrades: 20p = 1 intermediate level up]
[Upgrades: 30p = 1 master level up]
"Bothersome! Whatever SKIP!"
So I skipped this as well...
It said my inventory was empty before. That means I have an inventory that can store things in it...
I fly on over to the gem that the Cerberus dropped and touch it.
Nothing happened...
"Uh... Store?"
It disappears...
[Inventory: Soul Stone Rank Black x 1]
... what? What is this...
Whatever...
I turn around and look at the gold, treasures and jewelry...
"Store!"
"Inventory!"
[Inventory: 1,000,000 G]
[Inventory: Soul Stone Rank Black x 1]
[Inventory: Demon lords Chest (Broken) x 1]
[Inventory: Orb of Hell (Ancient Artifact) x 1]
[Inventory: Crown of Magic (Legend) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Fire (High Grade) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Water (High Grade) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Earth (High Grade) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Wind (High Grade) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Light (High Grade) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Darkness (High Grade) x 1]
[Inventory: Crystal of Lightning (High Grade) x 1]
"Demon Lords Chest..."
"Holy shit!"
This is a Demon Lords Chest!
That means that this is the Demon Lords dungeon...
Wait, I just killed his guard... that means I'm gonna be chased by him as well aren't I...
That means I'm gonna be chased by the gods of this world and a Demon lord...
"Great, hahaha, I have great luck... HaHAhaHAaahah... such great luck..."
I need to get out of here... but how...
I look around me looking for a map of some sort or maybe a clue to get out of here here.
I look around for a couple minutes and yell in frustration.
"Why can't I find a MAP!"
[Map]
A map pops out... the menu has a map of everything within 100 meters around me...
I rush for the exit...
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Little did I know that this generations Demon lord wasn't the owner of this chest. The owner was one of the previous generations Demon lord... This Demon lord is still oblivious of the location of this chest as it has been lost for several generations already...