Chapter One
[Rob’s POV]
“See you on Wednesday Rob” said Alice.
“See you”
Rob stepped outside and took a deep breath. “I hate this job”
He calls for a taxi and waits a few minutes for it to arrive. “
“Where to?”
“All the way down to 534 Thornton”
“That’s halfway across the city, it ain’t gonna be cheap”
He gets in the car and in about 15 minutes or so he gets out and pays. He steps inside and climbs up the steps to his door. He fumbles his keys for a bit until he gets the right one and unlocks the door.
He walks in, closes the door behind them and immediately goes to his bed and collapses on it.
“I’ll clean up tomorrow, after all it will be the weekend”
He falls dead asleep, never to wake up again. Or at least in this world.
“Where am I?” [Rob]
“You are on the planet Garoth, young soul” [???]
“Who are you?” [Rob]
“I’m commonly referred to as the System” [System]
“What?” [Rob]
“The people here have access to me, or the system. This allows for more
civilised forms of comparing one’s power to others.” [System]
“Why do that?” [Rob]
“I simply got bored and decided to do something interesting” [System]
“Wow…….” [Rob]
“Anyway, I’m going to send you onto the surface no- [System]
“No” [Rob]
“Why not?” [System]
“I think you’re just a child and don’t care what people think” [Rob]
“And why do you think that?!?!?!?!” [System]
“Hahahahahaaaa…. You’re really gullible to immediately think I meant it, I mean, for someone as powerful as you? I just wanted to see your reaction” [Rob]
“You! You dare?!?!?! With the power of the gods, I curse you! May I never see you again!” [System]
I get a weird sensation as System fades away. That was interesting to say the least. I feel a bit tired. Not like I’m going anywhere. I lay down and try and rest a bit.
Sometime later…
I wake up. I’m now at the edge of a pond, in a forest, with the water lapping at my feet.
I get up to this.
System Launch
You have gotten to the age of 13,
Loading….
Welcome to the System!
Say “Help” or “System” and the help
Menu will appear.
Say “Status” and your Status Menu will
appear.
Well that’s a good thing. At least the System still works for me even if she didn’t want to see ever again. She won’t but I will! HAHAHAHAHHA! I don’t know why I’m laughing.
I walk around a bit and see that the panel moves around with me, and if I look in the reflection on the water, I see that when I turn, it turns with me. If I ever find civilization, I now know not to open anything private in public as other people can see it.
“Status”
System username: Cipher
Displayed Title: Master of Runes
Age: 19 [Permanent]
Lifespan: Error - Error
Level: 1
Experience to next level: 100
Class:
Runist
Secondary class:
Empty
Health: Error/Error
Titles
Mana: 7,777,777,777
Master of Runes
Stamina: Error/Error
Cursed by the System
Health Regeneration: Error per second
Reincarnator
Mana Regeneration: 33,333,333 per second
Stamina Regeneration: Error per second
Strength: 10,000
Intelligence: 777,777,777.7 [Locked]
Vitality: Error
Wisdom: 333,333,333 [Locked]
Endurance: Error
Luck: 10,000
The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.
Agility: Error
Faith: -1,000,000,000
[Skills]
[Equipment]
Heh. Guess I’m pretty strong, but I don’t have a comparison nor do I know what my strength right now. Guess I’ll have to do some training to check the limits.
Wait a second. Cipher? Why is that my name? Meh, guess I’m Cipher now.
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A few months later…
“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!”
I’m running from the new boss of the forest here, he’s a bit stronger than me at the moment but I just have to make it back to my training clearing, I have a few rudimentary traps set up for security at night, didn’t think they would be used like this. I‘ve leveled up a few times and gotten to level 13 in the past few months, I’ve been mostly training my body and magic. Yes, magic. I found out about a month ago when I was looking through my stat page when I focused on one of my titles and a description popped up.
Master of Runes
[Title]
* +1000% rune damage stats per level
* -1000% rune mana cost per level
* Grants skill Runic Command Line System
* If user has class Runist, 7,000 points to all stats per level.
I focused again on the words “Runic Command Line System”
Runic Command Line System
[Skill]
The Runic Command Line System or RCLS for short, is a system where the user can use runes like lines of program.
Activate by saying “Open command line” or “Open RCLS” then say the combination of runes/traits/preset commands. Say “Close command line or “Close RCLS” to deactivate.
Specially created for Cipher, Runist
“Open RCLS”
[Open]
“Summon Preset {Iceball}”
A iceball appears in my hand and I throw it at the giant wolf following me.
“Preset {Iceball}”
“Preset {Iceball}”
“Preset {Iceball}”
“Preset {Iceball}”
The wolf, slowed down and annoyed from this barrage, lunges and misses by inches.
I make it to the clearing and spin around, and utter the words “Preset {Absolute Zero}”
The grass around me immediately freezes in motion with the rest following soon after. The wolf cries out in surprise as his paws freeze to the grass. He shakes himself trying to get free as the frost spreads up his legs and trap him. It slows as it gets higher up on his body and stops before it covers his head.
I made this preset especially for trapping animals because I was too slow to catch the weaker animals at first. Now that I’m much faster, I just use it to capture things that I think are interesting. Seems this is a weak monster compared to me, but I don’t know the standard stats of a human. For all I know there could be homeless stronger than me.
I say “So you think you can beat me? That was a mistake” to the wolf and he whines. “Hey, wanna be my mount?” I don’t know why I said that, but he seemed to be a loner like me. He barked happily.
“Cancel previous command line”
“Close RCLS”
[Closed]
The ice crawled back down his legs and melted on the ground. He ran over and gave me a big lick.
“Well this is a big change in personality from before. Just a minute ago you wanted to kill me”
I run and jump off his hind leg onto his back.
“Wait, before I ride you, I should name you”
I think for a bit until
“Let’s go Arcturus!”
Yeah. That’s his name now.
We ran for a few hours and the trees started to thin out until we came out at the forest edge. I looked out on a large shimmering ocean and take a deep breath in.
“Well, at least I have the time to make a boat if I want to cross the ocean. I should probably make camp before the sun goes down though.”
The next morning…
I wake up and get to my feet. I stretch a bit then head to a nearby cliff to do some training.
“Open RCLS”
[Open]
“Summon Preset {Training Rulers}”
A twenty foot long ruler appears standing up and and a 100 foot long ruler on the ground, hanging off the edge. I take a step back, then start running and at where the ground falls off I jump. I land a few hundred feet below, exactly 100 feet from where I started. With this exercise, I’m training my precision with larger and larger forces. I do this a few more times and then start jumping exactly twenty feet. After an hour of switching between the two exercises, I stop and desummon the rulers. I head back down to my camp, and summon a sword for practicing. My only way to see if I’m improving at my sword skills is with the sword mastery skill.
Sword Mastery
[Skill]
This skill helps show your progress in the sword and also boosts your attacks.
Skill Progress: Expert Lvl 37, 23% to next level
I get the skill up to Expert Level 38 with about four hours of practice. I sigh, desummon the sword and lay down.
“Summon item Hammock”
A hammock appears draped over my hands and put it down gently on the sand.
“Close RCLS”
[Closed]
I run over to the forest, grip two trees, pull them out of the ground, run back, and throw them down. I take sometime to dig two deep holes and put the trees in. I then stomp on the sand around them, compacting the sand. I take my hammock and string it up ten feet off the ground.
“Now I can get a good night’s sleep. Come to think of it, why didn’t I just summon a bed? Meh, doesn’t matter now.”
I get in and just relax for a bit.
“Ahhh…. this is the life….”
I take a nap, just swinging in the wind, ten feet off the ground. My life has changed so much over the past few months. I was just an ordinary programmer and now I could be the most powerful person on the continent. But who cares about the past? I’m here right now and that’s all that matters. Wonder if my body is still on my bed… oh yeah it should. I have the title Reincarnator. That means I died and came back in this world.
That’s pretty cool. I don’t feel anything, just happiness that I now have the power to do anything I want. I’m going to build a house tomorrow. Then maybe build a boat if I still have some hours of daylight left. Let’s worry about that tomorrow.
The next day
“Open RCLS”
[Open]
“Make Preset”
[Waiting]
“Summon item wood plank {Tag [Permanent]}”
[Preset made. Name?]
“Building Plank”
[Preset finished]
The reason for the Permanent tag is so I can’t desummon it. Don’t know why I would desummon it, but that prevents it.
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
“Summon Preset {Building Plank}”
I repeat this process until I have a giant stack of planks.
“Summon item Hammer”
“Summon item Box of Nails”
“Summon item Carpentry Skill Book”
A few hours later and a couple new skills later, I have a small cabin on the sea with a small dock. Now for the finishing touches.
“Summon item Carving Skill Book”
“Summon item Block of Wood”
“Summon item Carving Knife”
I carve a very detailed lion’s head and stick it on top of the door. That took me a few minutes. I could have done it in seconds but I want it to be the best thing I can make right now, with my own hands. It’s still around noon so I’ll take some time off for a nap in my hammock. This has been a productive day.
“Close RCLS”
[Closed]
Three weeks later.
I wake up, do my daily training and take a look out at the horizon. A new habit of mine. Seems like it paid off. There’s a few ships out there. At least I’m not the only person on the planet. Oh, maybe they're pirates and I’ll have to kill them all. I’m fine with blood since I spent the first month hunting for my food then cooking it before I realized I could just summon cooked food.
“Open RCLS”
[Open]
“Summon item Perfect Water Manipulation Skill Book”
A book plops into my hands. I quickly read it and learn the new skill.
Perfect Water Manipulation
[Skill]
Does what the title suggests, gives complete control over water and other liquids that have water in them.
Skill Progress: N/A
A rush of information enters my head as I clutch it in pain. I take a few seconds to get over it and get back up. I walk down to the water’s edge and will some water to float around in a blobby shape in front of me.
I mind-push it away and it has a hole blown through it so it looks more like a donut. I spin it really fast then throw it like a baseball. It flies toward the ship with incredible speed. I will it to explode short of the leader so no one gets hurt accidentally. I might though, I haven’t really tested my magic except for summoning. I mean, I am now level 25, and my growth every level is stupidly large, when I was level 1, I could lift up a tree in one hand and not sweat a drop. This encounter will be a good point in establishing how powerful I am in the world.