Chapter 2.1 - One step forward, Three steps back.
Edited by: Myself
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The body that was created looked normal at first glance but the status screen clearly reavealed the abnormality known as "Gender: N/A". That in itself is troubling but the body itself semeed to lean more towards being feminine than male so I guess its not completely genderless, at least I hope. Although I say it look feminine only the face looked clearly feminine, the rest of the body was fairly neutral. The hair was a light grey reaching down to the waist, the eyes were a similar shade of light grey and the body was fairly tall, perhaps reaching 6 feet at most?
There was a clear lack of any gender specific parts, namely a lack of breasts, and the body itself was fairly slim. Overall I looked good... just that there was no identifiable parts. Also im fairly sure theres nothing down there either but I can't tell due to the fact that the body comes with free clothing, namely a robe which looks like it was taken straight from a cultist or a magician. So Francine care to explain why my gender is N/A?
System Alert The gender of the dungeon avatar, like all parts of the body, are decided by the dungeons colour along with taking part of their personal preference into the mix. The colour of grey's gender preference is genderless and as such your body was creating without a gender, however your soul leans more towards female than male and as such the appearance was altered slightly to suit you more.
As expected everything has a downside, and this is Dungeon of Grey's downside... Well there's nothing I can do about it anyway. I'm just going to roll with it. Anyway guess I may as well get the information dump out of the way now, Francine tell me what all the stuff means.
System Alert
Name: Your name, self-explanatory.
Titles: Titles given to a living being based upon actions, reputation and personality. They give various benefits to the owner.
Experience: An indication of how close you are to increasing your level. Experience is gained by defeating another living being in combat.
Level: A rough indication of your total level of strength. The level is increased whenever your experience reaches 100.
Race: The race of the user.
Gender: The gender of the user.
Condition: Your current state of being. E.g. Healthy, Injured, Dead.
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
Information beyond this point is restricted and is such it is required for you to learn about it yourself.
So you're fine with telling me everything about how to be a dungeon but you say nothing about a normal body?! Don't I deserve to know this sort of stuff since I wasn't born in this world?!... Seriously nothing? Nothing at all?...
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Fine I give up but can you at least tell me what the 3 skills I have do?
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Fine I get it, be that way Francine.
Since it seems Francine is going to ignore me im just going to attempt to possess the avatar now. I expand my senses to encompass it and find that the knowledge of how to enter the avatar flow into me... if only they did that for everything in the tutorial as well. There was a brief flash of darkness and then suddenly my field of view had changed, now instead of the previous 360 view my dungeon core gave me I now saw like a normal human, or in other words I was now inside the avatar.
"Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3"
A voice which couldn't be identified as either male or female rung out in the surroundings, my voice. I actually don't mind it that much, i'm not getting a sense of rejection from it at least. Let's start of with some stretch's in order to get me familiarised with my new body... Stretch my arms, bend my legs, yea thats good enough. Everything appears to be working fine on this front so for now I guess I should begin with actually expanding my dungeon, after all I am in the middle of a field and I would greatly prefer not to have my core get sniped by someone with a bow, but to do that I need to utilise the matter controlling abilities properly, and also how to use them in my avatar... you know what I kind of wish I still had the tutorial.
"Haaaah"
Although I do have the plus side of being able to audibly sigh now so thats a benefit of all this. Well firstly I may as well identify what constitutes as a "core" in my body... it's probably the heart isn't it? Concentrating on my heart I attempt to feel the mana inside it and find that I was wrong, the mana isn't concentrated inside my heart but it does connect up to what im gonig to temporarily refer to as the mana lines, lines of mana spreading throughout my body like veins in case you couldn't guess. Having noticed this I do what any sane experimenter does, I follow the line to it's source.
Following the line I notice that it connects up to a sphere of mana where my brain should be and that other line are branching off from this sphere, kind of like the brains the centre of the network. Looking at it closer and my nwely obtained mental image of the mana lines I realise that they look similar to a drawing of where the nerves are in the body, I guess this means that my mana lines are like a second set of nerves. It also means that damaging them would probably have a detrimental effect on my body control as well as my mana, I should take note of that, could end up using it against someone later.
System Alert Intelligence increases by 1
Wait what? Why'd my intelligence increase? Is it because I mapped my mana lines? Or is it because I made a hypothesis about how they're similar to nerves?
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Well it seems i'm not going to get an answer (as expected) so i'll just roll with it for now. Now that im done mapping my mana lines lets actually try to use mana for something like matter deconstruction... As expected it doesn't work, nothing happens. It seems like im going to have to find a new way building and using mana while in my human form.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay"