I feel warm. In my dream I touched a shimmering flower, and a voice was surrounding me resembling the rain with the rustling leaves of trees spoke to me about nonsense.
Partly melded Dimensional Fabric Detected...... Scanning Connection
Connection Analysed
The voice said all kind of nonsense and some interesting things while he was half awake until it
Unregistered Entity detected!!!
Kian tried to go back to sleep until the warmth slowly became hot, then scorching hot.
I suddenly opened my eyes to find myself laying on black soil in my working clothes that i usually wear when travelling. I tried to get my thoughts together but before i could make sense what's going on.
Entity : D361 SZ38664-C46 S62-P2 FVON inner zone SM82736473810
Name:________ Race : Human (T0)
Suddenly a slightly transparent screen appeared in front me without any warning, i was surprised by the thing in front of me but paid it no mind.
Just as I tried to get up with my arms I suddenly felt extremely nauseous and fell back to the soil. The slight pain in my whole body didn't help either, with great effort I shifted myself to my back and began to observe the nearby terrain .
As far I can see slightly transparent purple giant trees covered the sky with their branches and leaves. Above the trees that only existed in dreams and imagination was a brilliantly shining artic blue sun. I layed back my head to ground to calm down my racing heart.
Where am I?
When did the Sun become blue?
How did the Sun become blue?
The pain my body and the alien forest in around me didn't exactly help me calm down. After the world throwing strange things at me for seconds it wasn't done yet, with a slight migraine suddenly I realised how did I get here.
The starry sky shone above us, while I sat outside the log cabin with my students discussing the ground breaking thesis about the recent signals captured by the special satellite launched in 2041 officially proved that alien life exists.
“Professor Kain this is so exciting, I need to sign up for the Quantum Physics courses after this trip.”
My students talked among themselves trying to share their own thoughts without etiquette like kids but I couldn't blame them for it. Even I couldn't stop myself from being excited.
Kain was amused how they forgot about him.
After a few hours of discussion everyone slightly calmed down.
“Alright everyone, go back to the lobby or your rooms to rest because tomorrow we still got a project.”
After a few minutes of chatting everyone dispersed and I began to walk to my cabin, while I followed the path I observed the sky and forest around myself just to spot a flower. I stopped in my steps and rubbed my eyes just to make sure they didn't deceive me.
I looked at the slightly pretty but normal peony flower in front of me, the strange thing was that light seemed to distort, shimmer, bend, twist, in front of it.
I began to ponder if my eyes are deteriorating with my age, after all I'm almost forty.
Being a healthy human and curious scientist the first thing of course I do is.......... reach out my hand to touch the distorted light. Because what bad can possibly happen just from this?
The moment I stepped few feet of the flower I felt like gravity turned upside down, everything seemed to expand, next I saw points of bright lights with colorfull dust clouds then everything went black with a felling of dropping into a pool of cold water.
This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.
Still laying on the dirt of the strange forest I began to try making sense what happened. Why did the light only sucked me in and not the surrounding flora and fauna? How did i survive whatever happened? Why I'm I feel like I have a fever? System? God? Nobody answered and I was slightly relieved that it wasn't some soul eater or slave driver transported me here or whatever this glass forest was.
With a little struggle I lifted one arm to take out one of my phone from the pockets of my coat. The device didn't turn on which would be surprising because it was one of the latest models capable of receiving signals underground or even in a thunder storm but strangely it did not even turn on or responded no matter what I did. “typical”
System integration 98%
Further Integration halted.
The only thing that come to my mind was “Fuck” Suddenly all previous massage became more clear in my consciousness and i suddenly felt how to fill in my name. Feeling extremely exhausted and nauseous within a strange glass forest and with a blue sun above me, it didn't seemed like anything could become worse so I did what the voice thing asked with caution.
System Integration 100% All Basic functions unlocked.
Name : Kain Hill (lv0)
Race : Human (Traveller) (T0)
(O) Origin : 37
(M) Mind : 52
(B) Body : 28
Paths :
Traits : (O)(T12) Unbound
(O)(T8) Void Touched
(B)(T8) Void Rott
(B)(Ra)(T0) Omnivore
(M)(Ra)(T0) Creativity
Paths available : Reality Traveller 0/12000 Space Arcanist 0/250
Skills : [ ] General Skill points : 10
For achieving an extremely rare feat you are rewarded with 1 Free Trait point.
“That looks like some forgot to list everything about me.” “Doesn't really matter, system where am I? What are you? ”
D361 SZ38664-C46 S62-P2 FVON inner zone.
Local Frontier Defense System 04
“What does that mean? ” The system remained silent, only the sound of leaves rustling in the wind could be heard around me . “why can't I move? ”
(B) Void Rott : Your Physical Body has been exposed to the Void for centuries without targeted protection, Your body outside of the Void or access to it's energy's is constantly degenerate until nothing is left.
Taking a few seconds to process what did that mean I began to mentally break down due to shock and cnfusion.
“What the fuck DO YOU MEAN CENTURIES?”
I felt even worse now because i know that it wasn't lying. Every trait shown given me an instinctive understanding about them just like how I knew to breath or eat, my traits worked similarly.
My body ached like I runed a marathon but even my heart felt like it was was punched repeatedly due the thoughts that my students died before me or I didn't participate history's biggest event. I can't really spend more time on this, if that is true I don't have much time left.
“System remove Void Rott Trait” I waited a few second to realize this didn't work like a video game where I can rewrite my character sheet freely. With each second passing I feelt weaker, with each second I tried my best to figure out how to use the only thing that could possibly save me until I found two symbol that looked like a triangle. I fucused on the symbols and thousands upon thousands of notification showed me my chances of staying alive.
General Skill Store : Eating, Painting, Cooking, Farming, Mining, Fishing, Writing, Introspection
All kinds of Skills were offered to me, be it dancing, or even something so simple as walking and breathing. There was some insane skill like energy manipulation or Gene Manipulation but in the end none of them offered solution to my trait. I switched my fucus from the skill store to the trait store.
Restricted Trait Store : (O)(R)(T17) Chaos Domain : Your Origin has become a source of chaos, everything in your Origins influence become more chaotic
(B)(R)(T6) Black Taz Mountain Bones : Your bones has taken on the quality of Black Taz
(M)(R)(T13) Will of the Traveller : your mind is more Resistant to Corruption and you can learn any Language slightly faster.
As i looked through the traits my mind felt shocked how can something like something like being able to eat faster is a trait that cost the same amount as being technically immortal.
Fast Eater (B)(T0) : You can eat slightly faster.
Ageeless (B)(R)(T10) : your body immune to the passive effects of time and is capable of repairing any damage not done by higher energys.
After a few minutes of searching I realised that there wasn't any void themed trait that helped gather its energy's, most of them give resistance against it or the ability to purge it.
I felt extremely stupid, even wondering if this whole thing is a nightmare and in a few minutes when i wake up this whole story can be told to my students and we going to laugh together about it. Feeling sleepy and sluggish in mind, i called out to the system “Sys” I feelt like my stomach is on fire and someone punched me in throat while ageing twenty years on top on that. I called out with all energy I have left “System show me all body possession traits or abandoning trait!! ”
I feelt like I don't have much time left so after a reading a trait description that required energy or some type of action to activate I immediately discarded it even if it was tempting
(O)(T7) Mortal Ascension : use your own power and understanding to shed your mortal coil and the take the first step.
It sounded great, little vague but it required something from me.
I saw the trait that most likely helps me remain alive.
(O)(R)(T15) Unseen Uncared : Your Origin is unseen, You are untraceable, your origin automatically protects itself from purification and degeneration .
I waited for a a few moment but nothing happened.
“system purchase trait”
Purchase Unseen uncared for 1 Free trait point? Y/N