Hello everybody! First off I would like to apologize to the readers that were reading this fiction before the revamp. As you can see I am getting rid of the gender bender tag and various other thing will change as well. The reason I am doing this is because when I was writing about the MC I couldn’t help but make her a bit perverted. Then it got worse and worse until the entire story was about her pervertedness with little action. So I am going to make the MC male for now and I might make him a girl again later in the story depending on how it goes. But, I won't touch the prologue because it doesn't involve the MC being a girl at all and I like the setup I made for the rest of the story.
For future reference I won’t give information about skills because I don’t really see the need for them. I will just show their names, levels, and effects. So without further ado here is the new version!
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Ida, an unknown world full of mystery and adventure. But, what kind of world is it? Is it a sci-fi world with spaceships and lasers or is it a fantasy world with swords and magic? What do reincarnated and summoned people get that separate them from the rest? So many questions filled my head that it seemed like they was no end to them. Hearing all of the thoughts in his head Origin sighed and said in a neutral voice that was neither fast nor slow, “Calm down, I will explain everything shortly.”
Realizing how rude I was being I quickly bowed his head and quickly apologized. Ignoring my apology Origin continued to talk, “To answer your questions, Ida is what you would call a fantasy world filled with magic and weapons like swords and spears. However although it isn’t close to your worlds don’t think that their worlds technology is primitive at all. Over its development heroes and reincarnated people or ‘otherworlders’ have created some basic inventions from their world like soap and mirrors and introduced them to Ida’s residents.
Each otherworlder will have something called ‘unique skills’ since the moment they were born. Unique skills are abilities that are unique to a person and are hard to obtain by normal means. Just because otherworlders have unique skills at birth doesn’t mean that the residents of Ida can’t get unique skills they can obtain them. There are only a few ways of obtaining unique skills all of which I will you to discover.
The number these unique skills a person holds will depend on your luck and latent talent that person has. The average person's only have around 1 unique skill or none at all but when otherworlders are brought over to Ida they have around 3-5 unique skills which depends on how lucky that otherworlder is. Before you even ask about your unique skills you will have 5 unique skills, which means you have the highest amount of unique skills a human being can have at birth.
As for the method of getting these skills there is two ways obtaining them. The first method lets you choose which skills you get but in exchange the maximum amount of unique skills you have decreases by 1. So in your case you can choose a total of 4 unique skills and while having the ability choose what those skills do.
The second method is complete randomization that allows you obtain the maximum amount of unique skills but in exchange you can’t choose what kind of ability you have. However as a bonus there is a chance of obtaining a unique skill that doesn't appear in the first method. So which method do you want use?”
Hearing everything Origin said my mind was filled with complicated thoughts. I am thankful about Ida being a fantasy world since I probably would have cried if it was a sci-fi world. I mean some sci-fi things are good but the overall genre isn’t exactly my cup of tea. Thinking of everything I could do in a fantasy world I plan to live my life to the fullest!
I was slightly troubled in what to do for my unique skills. After all, although I do like to play with lady luck from time to time what would happen if I got some crappy skills with no use? Oh well, I am going to get a second chance at life, might as well have some fun with it.
Turning towards I spoke to Origin with a goofy grin, “I choose the second one!” after I said this something began to appear behind him.
As the object behind Origin made it’s appearance I couldn’t help but retort in my mind, ‘Oh come on! Really? Is a slot machine really necessary!?’ That's right, behind Origin, the true from of every god/ demon in creation was a 5 row casino slot machine.
On the 5 rows on the slot machine were different pictures that held no commonality with one another. Suddenly, the level on the side of the machine cranked down and the slots began to turn while making its little *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* noise. For some reason I can see this being a game show with the title ‘Get That Skill!’ with an entire audience watching off stage. Unable to find the right words to retort with I choose to stay silent and wait for the slot machine to finish turning. Slowly, the slots began to stop and the machine made the usual noise it makes when somebody got a jackpot. All of a sudden a blue colored window appeared in front of me:
Congratulations you have gained the unique skill: Fast LearnerCongratulations you have gained the unique skill: Devils GambleCongratulations you have gained the unique skill: God's EyeCongratulations you have gained the unique skill: Corpse PillageCongratulations you have gained the unique skill: Scroll Learning
Fast Learner (Passive) ★:
+10% Skill Growth
+15% Experience Obtained
Devils Gamble (Active) ★:
+50% Attack Damage
+20% Attack Speed
+20% Movement Speed
Cooldown:
1 Week
After Use (Duration):
-10% Maximum HP/MP (72 Hours)
-25% Attack Damage (72 Hours)
-10% Attack/Movement Speed (72 Hours)
-5% Defence (1 Week)
Scroll Learning (Passive) ★:
Allows you to obtain skills from magic scrolls
God’s Eye (Active) ★:
Allows you to see the true value of items and shows you hidden spots that normal eyes cannot
Range: 1 meter per level
Duration: 10 Minutes
Cooldown: 4 Hour
Corpse Pillage (Active) ★:
45% chance of obtaining extra Exp from a corpse
45% chance of obtaining additional drop loot from a corpse
10% chance of obtaining a random number of the corpses skills
Cooldown: 8 Hours
Conditions:
This skill can only be used on a corpse unless it has been dead from more than 24 hours
I stared at the window in front of me with a complicated expression on my face. I mean it's not like I don’t understand what the skills do. Fast Learner is a skill that will help with my growth. Devils Gamble is a last resort skill if I am fighting an opponent stronger than myself. Scroll Learning confuses me a little but I think it means that I can learn skills that nobody can get by normal means. God’s Eye is a detection/search type skill that grows with me as I raise my level. Corpse Pillage is a skill that lets me gain extra benefits from any dead creature even if I didn’t kill the creature myself.
Although, looking at the skills effects I can’t help but think that they are sort of weak. I mean it’s not like I’m not happy with the skills I got, after all they aren’t focused on one aspect but spread out over several different fields. In addition I am happy that they don’t make me too OP, it’s not like I hate OP characters I just never saw myself as one.
As I was deep thought Origin began to speak again, “Now it is time for you to depart into your new world.”
‘.....Ha!?!’ I couldn’t help scream in my mind with a ridiculous expression my face, ‘That’s it? You are just going to throw me into this world with no warning!?'
Sure, he gave me some basic information about the world’s system but nothing on things like the potential monsters and other races I could meet.
Ignoring my mental protests Origin’s mask flashed a bright light and a dark hole appeared underneath my feet.
“Fucking hell! I will get back at you damn bitch.” I screamed at Origin as I fell down the hole.
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It has been nearly an hour since Origin threw me down the hole and as of right now I am still falling. However, after being thrown away I realised that I wasn’t just tossed into some bottomless abyss but I was tossed into space itself.
The space I was in wasn’t the bleak with place I was with Origin but rather I was inside the space I knew of with planets and stars. At least I think it was space because I was moving so fast that it all seemed like a blur to me. At first when I fell I constantly tried to stop myself to see the mystical space around me but to no avail. So I decided to spend the time to think about the time I spent with Origin.
First I thought about some questions I had been holding in. LIke why did he appear to me in the form of a mask? Why does he reincarnate people, it surely can’t be because he was bored can it? How come my I got so many unique skills despite the fact I was just an average high school student? As I was thinking of the many questions I had about Origin until I remembered the words I said to him as I fell. Suddenly, my face became bright red from embarrassment before using my hands to cover up my face.
‘Uwaa!’ I screamed in my mind, ‘I can’t believe I let it happen again.’
For a long time I have tried to be a nice and polite person but secretly whenever I meet a person I truly despised I would tell them to screw off inside my head enough that near the end the words stop even making sense. Unfortunately, the lid I have on my emotions isn’t exactly air tight and I would sometimes let my inner thoughts out whenever I was startled or in situation like with Origin and was rudely thrown away like spoiled garbage.
Strangely enough after I had my little rant I would always feel better as if telling people to screw off… honestly a bit therapeutic for me. But, after remembering the exact words I used during my rant I always become embarrassed and ashamed about my bad word conduct.
As I was withering in my own displeasure I my body suddenly turned and sped up as if I had found my destination. In front of me I saw that I was hurdling towards a large planet. The planet wasn’t that different than earth except for the land being closer together and numerous islands in the sea.
I continued to fall towards the planet and finally entered the planet's atmosphere. Upon entering this world I saw a beautiful scenery that one could never see back on earth.
The land was covered in lush green grass and the largest forest I have ever seen. In the distance the sun was just rising above the mountains in the distance making the scene even more breathtaking.
All of a sudden I made a sudden turn as if I was being pulled by some invisible force. By the time I slowed down I had already passed the forest and was some grasslands until I saw a town in the distance.
The town was fairly small with around 50-60 houses varying from size and materials. In the center of the town was a large house that put modern mansions to shame. The house had an extremely large yard that had several smaller houses inside it that are possibly used by servants working there. I continued to fall towards the area of the mansion but I seemed to be going more towards one of the servant homes rather than the mansion itself.
I continued to fall towards one of the servant homes until I was close enough to hear people's voices before I started to slow down. I could hear the voices of a man and a woman emanating from the small house. The two of them were speaking in a language I did not understand but from their tone of voice I could hear that they were worried about something.
Suddenly, my ghostly body began to distort and changed into a substance that looked similar to smoke. My smoke body entered the house through an open window. Inside the house there were 2 people were looking at a wooden box with a worried expression on their faces.
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The man I heard speaking from outside had the appearance of some 20 year old bodybuilder with his near impossibly large muscles that looked like they were some sort of suit of armour. He had blond hair and blue eyes both of which somehow complimented his ‘macho’-type buff body that I never thought possible.
The women was a beautiful girl roughly the same age as the man but a lean body with little muscle making the man's macho body stand out even more. She had long black hair with similarly colored black eyes and an oval shaped face that reminds me of a small time celebrity I saw in a magazine once.
My smoke body continued to move toward the center of the house where I could see the content of the wooden box. Inside the wooden box was a small baby that barely seemed a month old. The baby was abnormally thin, had deathly pale skin, and was struggling to breath all of which made it seem like the baby was going to die at any second. In the center of the baby’s forehead was a small dot the size of a mole that was emitting a pale white light. As if drawn by the light my body moved towards it only to be sucked up by it like a vacuum.
The next moment I felt like something that I haven’t felt since I died, warmth. Up till now I have only felt a dark never ending cold that even the warmth of the sun couldn’t heal. For some reason I can not open my eyes but right now I could care less because I could finally feel the warmth of life as if I was alive again. I was so happy that couldn’t help but cry out in joy. So I opened my mouth and at the top of my voice I screamed, "Whaaaa".
What? Why did I sound just like a baby just now? What’s more for some reason I can’t stop crying as if I lost all control of my voice. Over the sound of my baby like voice I could hear the two adults saying something in an excited and relieved tone. I opened my eyes to see the two adults looking at me with smiles on their faces. I personally thought that there smiles were a bit creepy since they were kind of invading my personal space. I reached out to push them away only to find my arms have turned into short globs of flesh. I looked down to see that it wasn’t only my arms but my entire body was nothing but a glob of flesh. Only then did I realize that I was possessing the sickly looking baby’s body.
It was then that my life in this new world had finally begun.
(I planned to stop here but I haven’t reached my goal of 3,000+ words so I am going to continue onto the beginning of 2 chapter here)
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“Take this!” A blond haired youth shouted as he swung a wooden sword towards my face.
I raised the wooden sword in my hand in hope to protect myself from the incoming sword. As the sword touched my own I felt a heavy pressure coming from the sword overcoming me. This pressure easily pushed away the wooden sword protecting my face making me take the full blunt of the damage. I made a small grunt noise as I fell to the ground as drops of my blood splattered in the air.
“Kuh!” I grunted as I was trying to hold back the tears in my eyes.
Seeing me desperately holding back my tears the blond youth laughed, “Hahaha! What? You gonna cry you little baby, huh? Come on, your dads a martial artist and you can’t even use a sword properly? Pathetic!” He said in a mocking tone.
Holding back my anger I stood up and bowed my head towards the youth, “My apologies, young master.”
Hearing my words the young master made a smirking noise as if he just thought of something amusing, “Well if that's the case-” “Young lord” As the young master was about to continue his ridicule an old voice interrupted him.
Out of the corner of my eyes I could see a pale expressionless old man dressed in black butler clothes standing relatively close distance from the two of us.
Seeing the old butler the young master fumed in anger, “Stay out of my way Agni! I told you to never interrupt when I am having fun.”
Seeing his anger Agni placed his right hand above his heart and bowed slightly, “My apologies young lord. However, your father has summoned you to his studies.”
“Che!” Hearing Agni’s words the young master couldn’t help but click his tongue, “Fine! Take me to him.”
Not waiting for Agni to respond the young master began to walk towards the large house in the distance.
“Very well,” Agni politely said while shooting me a sympathetic gaze and then begun to follow the young master.
“Little fucker,” I secretly muttered under my breath as they disappeared from my sight.
Slowly getting up I silently walked towards the nearby well and began to clean my blood stained clothes. As I was cleaning my clothes I couldn’t help but think of my life thus far.
It has been 10 years since I took over the baby’s body and begun to live in this new world. During these 10 years I have been able to learn the language of this world and with this new understanding I have been able to learn various things about my new life.
The town I live in is called Aurora which means ‘The Dawn’, the town is called this because it is one of the furthest towns east that people have formed a settlement. Because of this the surrounding land is commonly referred as the ‘Eastern Frontier’ by the rest of the world.
Unlike my previous world this world is ruled by a monarchy government making the various royal and noble families reign supreme over commoners like me. One such noble person was the young master from before, Regis Fallcure.
Regis is the first son of the current reigning baron of the town Alfred Fallcure. Although, I say Alfred and his son Regis are the reigning noble family they are just members of a branch family of the Fallcure family. Despite the fact that he is a mere member of a branch family Regis had an enormous ego and views himself as the warrior with the highest leveled sword skill in the entire eastern frontier.
Although Regis is an arrogant bastard his sword skills were nothing to mock about. Through diligent training Regis became one of the youngest people ever to get a skill up to level 4.
In this world each skill is believed to have a total of 10 levels, 1 being the apprentice level and 10 being the level reserved for godly beings. In the entire country the people who got one of their skills up to level 7 are considered top experts of their professions while people with level 8 skills are considered the geniuses of their generation. But what about level 10 skills? Quit dreaming. People who have level 10 skills are referred to as geniuses that surpass geniuses or for lack of a better term monsters.
Regis’s talent doesn't reach the level of monsters his talent is good enough for him to be considered a genius. However, that is only the case if he diligently focused on his abilities which sadly he does not. Instead, of using his free time to strengthen his skills he spends his time making my life living hell. Unlike him who has his sword skill up to level 4 my sword skill is only at level 1 which is rather normal in the eyes of society but to Regis just because my dad works for his family as a guard he expects me to be some sort of gunieses of something and mocks me constantly because of my low skill level.
Why would Regis focus on making my life a living hell? Many people think that he has some hidden meaning behind it but actually there is a single simple reason that he hates me.
“Ren!” somebody screamed at me making my train of thought scatter.
I turned to see a little girl around my age looking at me with an worried expression on her face. She had long sunlike blond hair that set in a twintail hairstyle and bright green eyes that made her already cute face even cuter. She wore a slightly expensive looking dress that was not the slightest bit gaudy. Seeing her I instinctively bowed slightly with my arm covering my heart.
“Good morning, lady Sarah.” I said in the most polite tone I could muster.
*Hmph* I saw Sarah making a frustrated pouting face with her tiny lips pursed in a reverse V. I saw her small pale hand reach for my head with the tip of her middle finger behind her thumb. She proceed to give a light flick on the center of my forehead and proceed to scold me.
“Stop calling me that! Just call me Sarah.” She whine.
Hearing her whining I couldn’t help but put a wry smile on my face. Despite being Regis’s sister Sarah does not care about things like lineage or social status and coupled with her adorable appearance makes her very popular with the servants and the town residents. Although she is great as a person she also the reason I get beat up by Regis all the time.
For some reason Regis hates it when I talk to Sarah and constantly tries to isolate her from me as best as he can. There are many rumors as to why he is doing this most of them point to him not wanting Sarah to have a commoner like me to be her friend despite I’m the only person even close to her age in the entire mansion. Or there is another rumor that says that he is secretly a possessive sis-con that wants to keep Sarah for himself. But I can’t see Regis being a sis-con so I lean more towards rumor about me being a commoner.
Looking back at Sarah I saw that her face paled slightly as she saw my wound that Regis inflicted on me during the spar.
“Are you okay? Did big brother bully you again?” Sarah asked me with a worried tone.
“Don’t worry Sarah, I have the ‘pain augmentation skill’ remember?” I said while making a goofy smile in order to stop her from worrying.
The ‘pain augmentation’ skill is one of three skills that I possess aside from my unique skills. Pain augmentation is a skill that spreads the pain inflicted by wound through the body. Now that doesn’t mean that mean it decreases the amount of pain I feel, rather it spreads out the pain I feel from the wound in a larger area reducing the amount of pain I feel in a single point making it easier to deal with. It is a vile skill that can only be obtained from being constantly beaten by somebody making anybody who obtains this skill either a humongous M bastard or a weakling, making this skill the skill that I hate the most out of all the skills I have seen thus far.
Sarah made a face like she didn’t believe me one bit but it seems she doesn’t intend to push it any further making me secretly sigh in relief.
“By the way Sarah, why were you looking for me?” I asked inquiringly
It is well known that Sarah hates fighting and would always try to skip any kind of training her family set up for her making it very strange that she would come to the training grounds of her own free will.
“Ah! That’s right!” Sarah exclaimed as she remembered something, “I need to ask you a question.”
I couldn’t help but make a wry smile after hearing her. Although we are the same age my past life makes me far more informed about things than her making it very common for her to ask me about things before asking one of her parents.
“So, what do you want to know?” I asked
"I'll tell you later, but for now let's play!" Sarah said while tugging my arm.
"Okay, Okay." I said while laughing and followed Sarah and played with her for a while.
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After a while we were exhausted from playing and laid down on the grass and began to talk.
"So Sarah, what's this question you wanted ask me?" I asked her.
“Well last night I sort of had this bad dream and that made me want to sleep with mama and papa but their door was locked. I was about to knock on the door but then I heard their voices on the other side of the door. So I put my ear to the door and began to listen. The first thing I heard was papa saying to mama was something about wanting to get something started and when mama said yes it got sort of quiet for a bit. But, then there was a bunch moaning and a bunch of other weird noises that lasted for like 10 or 15 minutes.
Then I heard papa asked mama if he could stick his...his…ummm what did he call it again?” Sarah put her finger in the center of her forehead and closed her eyes as if she was trying to concentrate on something.
“S-Sarah! You-” I stuttered with a ghastly white face.
Even before she was halfway done I could already understand what she was talking about. Being an adolescent teenager in my past life how could I not understand the context of her story?
“M- mlady there is no reason for you to continue with your story.” I said in a polite tone to distract her from saying anything else that should not come from a child’s mouth.
Ignoring me she continued to find the missing word she was searching for. Suddenly, her eyes opened up with a realizing gaze coming from them.
“Ah! I got it. The word was ‘dick’!” She exclaimed as if she was somehow proud for remembering, “So, Ren whats a dick?”
At that moment I froze up like a statue. How do I explain this to her!?