As I was dragged across the large room, I was thrown into a dark room made to block out all senses. I could not even feel my body, it was like I was not here at all. After freaking out for 10 minutes straight I realized I should calm down and not rely on my senses but focus on the life around me. After trying this for a few minutes Ding! a blue popup appeared. You have gained the skill Life's Essence. Suddenly a bright light appeared which led me towards a doorway. I opened the door and found the old man there awaiting the results. "So did I pass the test?"
"Okay, you have passed the test but you still have many trials ahead of you. This was just one of them. So what you will now begin is your basic training. You will be wearing this equipment at all times and it will not be taken off until I have given my word.”
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Gravity Enchanted Shackles
Durability: 100/100
Damage: 4-5
This pair of shackles was worn by the Ancient Hero of the East during his training and has been restored by his disciple Musashi. Being enchanted by a master of magic it can add any amount of weight that’s desired for the perilous tasks ahead. The chain that connects the two will be invisible and shall allow normal movement but it will be harder due to amount of weight added.
Requirement:
Strength 10
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Gravity Enhanced Anklets
Durability: 100/100
Damage: 4-5
This pair of anklets was worn by the Ancient Hero of the East during his training and has been restored by his disciple Musashi. Being enchanted by a master of magic it can add any amount of weight that’s desired for the perilous tasks ahead. The chain that connects the two will be invisible and shall allow normal movement but it will be harder due to amount of weight added.
Requirement:
Strength 10
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“So you're going to start out with 10 pounds on each side. As you steadily improve more weight will be added to improve the final results. Okay now that I’m your official master let me introduce myself. I am known as Musashi the Unarmed Devil of the East. Why am I called that? I’ll tell you when you have finished your training. As for today please rest and come back here in the morning.” As I began to finally walk outside I saw a grave.
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Grave of the Ancient Hero of the East
Durability: 60/60
Here lies the grandmaster that had taught the disciple Musashi all his life’s teaching and
you may be able to recall his spirit due to you having the required skill Life’s Essence.
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Being curious about what this skill was for I was going to look into it but decided it could wait until the next day when I came back inside. Unsure of how to log out I decided to look at my stats. “Show status screen.” Right next to it a button LOG OUT was shown and I decided to call it a day.
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LV.1 Astral
Alignment: Neutral
Class: N/A
Subclass: N/A
HP: 100/100
MP: 100/100
Health Regen: 0.2 per sec
Mana Regen: 0.2 per sec
Strength: 10
Stamina: 11
Agility: 11
Intelligence: 10
Luck: 10
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As I was enveloped inside a bright light I was shown that an error had occurred and could no longer log out. Due to the necklace being the first and a prototype it hadn’t occurred
to the researchers to look over it since a lot of time was spent mass producing this artifact. Wondering if this was real or not my spirit was transferred back into my ingame body of Astral. Since this necklace was taken from my world I should be able to talk to it as I had when I was on my bed. Too excited about this new world I forgot to try to talk to my artifact.
Finally I waked her up. Raito was resting the entire time and had forgotten to wake up. “Wow some time has already passed before you woke me up. It seems you tried to log out. It’s probably due to one of the programs stored inside me malfunctioning and the world AI not permitting you to leave. I assume it’s a bug or maybe the Researchers really wanted to give you a second chance but instead of real life, they have decided to give you one here in the new world they created instead. Seeing as I am the original artifact, compared to the mass produced model which contains only ¾ of the power to allow a user to enter this world and come back, I am much more powerful. My full capabilities have probably transferred your real body here through the system interface and you will have no choice but to live on inside this world.”
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“Man I know it was just strange to be given a grand prize at the local lottery since my luck has always been bad, but I didn’t know it would be this bad to be trapped in a new world I know nothing about as video game character, even though the senses feel real enough to be mistaken for the real world.”
“The real reason may have to do with that through my power I was teleported to your world for the main purpose of finding someone like you, a worthy master willing to help this world created by the so called AI, who is in reality the Goddess of this world, and help preserve the balance. She feared one day this world may need someone to lead it out of the dark ages and created me, Raito. But one thing she hadn’t expected was that there would be interference from an outside group and allow 27,000,000 candidates from this outside world to lead this world to a new era.”
“Sigh so this is my new life.” What a screwed up way to start thinking about all this. My mind exploded and I figured the best thing to do was have a good rest. But what scared me the second most was that next morning I would have to train with the hellish, sadistic master known to have inspired fear into all who tried to become his disciple and here I am, in that exact same position which would make all quiver under their beds. Now that I am actually the one and only disciple under him, what waits me is unknown. As to his unknown nature I can only hope I won’t die due to the basic training.
Just thinking about it, I began to sweat. Shit! If only tomorrow never came as I was knocked out to due to all the overthinking.
As I lay asleep a mysterious shadowy figure crept over me. It dragged me towards a bed and laid me down. A bed which contained a special property that allowed me to move freely inside a separate space in which time moved differently than when awake. It had been moved during his travels to here and found that this city suited him the most and enjoyed the atmosphere. The mysterious figure was supposedly my new Master Musashi who saw me pass out in the middle of the street and had to take responsibilty of his disciple causing a commotion inside the middle of the city.
Enjoying my nap was interrupted by an alarming sound of which a ghostly figure was shown in front of me of which asking “Who the hell woke me damn pissed off hitting the figure I was nearly knocked out cold barely moving back in time to see I got hurt pretty badly.
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You have lost 99.9% of your health
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Seeing I didn’t die from such monstrous blow I wondered who the hell is this guy. “Tsh expected from the one my disciple chose closing the distance” Nice to meet you I’m the master of that shitty master you just became a disciple under. “Seeing you to be able to touch me at all you have great potential but your still a diamond in the rough.” Seeing that the Life’s Essence brought you here and your mind was ready let me tell you where you are this the Spiritual Plane. This is an ancient technique that my people used to train even asleep or meditating. You have gained the skill Spiritual Plane due your other skill Life’s Essence being in use when asleep.
“Show info on Spiritual Plane”
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(Passive) Spiritual Plane Novice Lv1 1.00%
Allows one project one’s mind into a spiritual body and train in the world your mind imagines it to be. And retain the experience gained through the session until one has either died or tired out one’s own physical capabilities. Can be only activated when either in attune with one’s self and the world around you, extreme mediation, or when physically asleep
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Thanks to this skill the grandmaster is able to enter my spiritual plane and train me himself without and actual body. This mental stress will continue when I’m asleep and awake man what torture awaits me.
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