Chapter 1: After death_The End is Just a Beginning

Prologue

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Silence.

It makes me shudder, I’ve never really heard or really experienced complete silence before as I lived in the city.

There was always cars passing, people yelling or music playing. It may sound bad but it actually comforts me, the noise gives me false hope that i'm not nearly as alone as I really am.

However right now there was nothing, not a car to be heard, no people yelling or even talking and not even the music I always play while I'm in bed to zone out the others.

Today I woke up without any of it, just a slight ringing in my ears as I lay still on a soft surface surrounded by light. It took me some time to get my eyes to adjust to it, a slight fog passed over my face.

While trying to touch it my hands simply passed through it, as if not even reacting to my being here. Now that I think about it where exactly is “here”. There's no way my room could be this well lit, my family simply couldn’t afford lights of this quality.

While looking around I could clearly see this wasn’t my home, in fact it couldn’t have been anyone's as It didn’t even have walls, much less a roof. I quickly saw a flashing light towards my right. It flashed a red color into the white area and was in the form of an arrow pointed to where the mist was flowing.

Where am I? How’d I end up here? What was I doing before this?

Thoughts I probably should have had a while ago finally arose as the red light seemed to bring me to my senses. At the very least I remember who I am.

Sayl Hull, a 16 year old with sub average looks with above average grades. I go to a public school down the street of my family's apartment and have 2 younger sisters.

This is probably a dream. I can’t make any other conclusion that could make any remote sense, and so I decided to walk. I usually walk in a slightly faster pace but seeing as it’s a dream I finally didn’t have to rush so i followed the mist and arrow.

Arrows continued to pass me until I was surrounded by the red flashing arrows. The place was no longer white but pure red, not like being surrounded by fire, but closer to being in pool of red dyed water. I continued to walk, following the arrows until something else came into view.

Unable to discern it from this distance I continued walking forward. The closer I got the more it looked like a door until i could make out the large handles and very detailed design.

It looked like there was a dragon on the left and something similar to a lion on the right with wings. In the middle was a giant staff like design that reminded me of a game I once played when I was younger.

Eventually I was right in front of the door which towered 3 times as big as myself. This was weird as I was generally considered tall at my height of 6’2. I put my hand against the door and without applying any pressure the door began to slide open.

As I waited for it to widen I looked inside, there was yet another white area but this time there was walls. Nothing were on the plain white walls, not even a slight design, not mist entered the room either as I began to look around. In the middle of the near empty room was a table with a single chair, both pure white.

After stepping inside I heard a voice emit from nowhere in particular.

“Welcome to the transitioner, Please take a seat at the table directly ahead of you.” The voice was female but had no emotion in it what so ever, it wasn’t robotic either which made it slightly awkward.

Without responding I slowly walked to the chair and sat down. After some time the voice started again.

“As you are most likely confused I will begin my explanation, please hold any questions until the end.” I slightly nodded to this while extremely confused, this dream was kinda weird and commanding.

“Currently, you’re dead. I know it’s blunt however it's the truth, I’ll explain that in detail later. For now The system of transition needs to be explained, for starters when a human “dies” he is actually sent here to change realms in which their “life” will begin a new. However to start again you first have to come to terms with your previous life, meaning your actions will transfer to your new one.”

A brief pause ensued before the voice began speaking again.

“These actions will be put into numerical value and transferred to your new life now, here is a form in which you will fill out all the information, please answer properly as this will severely affect your new life. Any questions?” With that I stayed silent for a bit, simply trying to process the information.

I’m dead? Transferring? What? Form? Uhhhhhhhhh… This dream sucks, I would much rather have none at all and wake up to my own life.

The voice waiting for a bit before letting out a sigh.

“Clearly you didn’t process any of that so i'll reiterate in a slightly less intelligence required way. You are dead. Now you will begin a new life. You will explain your life to transfer to the new one. Understand?” The voice sounded slightly annoyed for some reason.

I might as well play along.. Doesn’t seem like I’ll wake up.

“Uhh sure, can I ask a question? It’s kinda important for me.”

“Fine but make it fast” The voice said, again with no emotion.

“Okay, um, can you explain how I died exactly? It interests me.“

The voice cut me off with a sigh. “Sure, you died right after waking up as you fell backwards hitting your head onto the metal bed frame, you proceeded to have your skull cracked and bleeding. Eventually your body went into shock and you died before your parents came home from work. Happy? Now let's move on..”

I cut her off. “Wait wait wait, you expect me to believe I died of something so retarded? Hahaha, you’re funny. There's no way that could happen as my sisters would… nevermind scratch that last comment.” My sisters and I don’t get along too well, it’s no surprise they wouldn’t try to wake me.

“Well whether or not you believe it is doesn’t matter to me in the slightest. For now take this form and fill out the areas that have underlines.” As the voice finished speaking a slight yellow glow appeared on the table and papers began to appear.

“Standardized life information form…” I muttered as i began reading the form.

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Standardized life information form

General Information

Name: __________________________

Age upon death: 16 years old

Cause of death: damage to skull, brain. Shock.

Height: ______

Weight: _______

Sex:: _________

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Simple Information

Criteria

Y/N?

Points awarded

Were You a virgin?

Did you Kiss someone outside of your family?

Did you have a job?

Did you have less than 5 friends?

Total Simplified points:

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Numerical valued Information

0 == low 10 == high

Criteria

Personal view /10

Judge opinion /10

Points awarded

Got a lot out of life

Facial structure

Strength

Amount of muscle

Penis size

Popularity among age group

Bonus Points

Total Numerical Points:

Personality Points:

Total Points:

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I looked over the entire thing and frowned. This form was stupid, half of it was point of view the other was… I don’t wanna think about it...

“I don’t wanna fill this out! It’s stupid! Like what does it matter if I have lost my virginity or not…”

The voice started to laugh, as i got even more annoyed. “Look mr.virgin, fill it out as it will greatly help you later on, you see the points? You want a lot of those, a good amount is like 100-150, you're pretty lucky if you get above 200.”

The voice trailed off at that and didn’t say anything else. I looked down and began filling out the form.

Virgin?… yes…

Kissed someone…. No…

Have a job? no.

Less than 5 friends…. Fuck. this. Form.

I filled in all the numerical valued information and as soon as i finished the voice removed the sheets.

“Thanks for completing the sheets, someone will soon finish the judge column as you have seen then hand it back. Afterwards your points will be awarded to you.”

A few minutes passed in silence. The sheets appeared in front of me again and i looked at them. This time they were fully filled out.

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General Information

Name: Sayl Hull

Age upon death: 16 years old

Cause of death: damage to skull, brain. Shock.

Height: 6ft 2”

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Weight: 175lb

Sex: Male

Basic Points: 2*(100-age) = 166, +10 under 20 age bonus, +25 funny death bonus

Total Basic points: 201

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Simple Information

Criteria

Y/N?

Points awarded

Were You a virgin?

Did you Kiss someone outside of your family?

Did you have a job?

Did you have less than 5 friends?

Total Simplified points: 70

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Numerical valued Information

0 == low 10 == high

Criteria

Personal view /10

Judge opinion /10

Points awarded

Got a lot out of life

Facial structure

Strength

Amount of muscle

Penis size

Popularity among age group

Bonus Points

Total Numerical Points: 59

Personality Points: 60

Total Points: 390

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Wait… who is this judge person, she straight up called me ugly. Like I understand i'm not the best looking guy but seriously… a fucking 0 out of 10. No, I refuse.

“Point me towards this judge, 0 out of 10 my ass, bet they aren’t ANY better than i am.” with a few more mutters about the judge I stopped talking and waited for the voice to say something.

“You probably shouldn’t complain, 390 points is probably the most i’ve ever seen, before we continue i'll explain the world you’ll be going to so you can decide on your point distribution.”

This system seems way to… convenient, like if this is really death then something on this level of organization would be necessary but choosing stats before to go into a world seems unreal.

“Before you do isn’t this way too convenient? I mean it’s a dream and all but at least make it a little more realistic with some sort of complication, like for example a line to get in here.” I complained for no reason really but it made no sense. This dream not only makes fun of me but the system seems way to perfect.

“Dream? I think you're mistaken, to make it easier on you i'll show what exactly your family is doing”. As she finished her sentence a bunch of colors appeared in front of me, they intertwined and mixed but still kept their same color.

However as soon as they appeared it changed to a mirror almost but showed my family, they were sitting by a hospital bed with me on it. My mother was crying with my sisters followed by my dad sitting in a chair with his face in his hands.

I sat there looking of a solid minute before the image changed.

“This is how you died” The image now showed my room, I stood up and started to walk but I slipped and fell back. Just as the voice said my head hit the frame and i didn’t move. Blood poured from my head as i laid there. Unmoving.

“I hope this helps, Now are you ready to move on?” The mirror slowly disappeared while she was speaking until there was nothing.

I sat on the chair and slowly shook my head. “Can you give me a minute?” I made no other intention to speak.

The voice didn’t respond and silence ensued while I thought.

Guess I’d dead? So this is death huh. Wait this means that the christians were half right, you are reborn but you don’t need christ. I found this slightly funny even with this situation.

Guess I get to restart… hmm, I’ll try to aim for a better life this time.

The voice came back shortly after this. “I’ll assume you're ready to continue now?”

“Yup.” A short response but there's no point in waiting any longer, I want my new life to start as soon as it could.

“Unlike your world where everything is dictated by science and discovery through it and fighting is done through guns and explosives in this new world everything is dictated through magic and fighting is based through that and hand to hand combat. To say the least guns to do not exist but a bow an arrow enchanted with win attributes can shoot as fast as a bullet if the archer is skilled enough.

So Instead of stats that boost regular human capability and natural thought process these stats will be effecting fighting prowess and magical ability. This world unlike your own also has a more concrete way of viewing these stats as they have the power of magic where in your world you judged it off of weight lifting and IQ. In reality it's generally the same but the stats simply mean different things. Do you understand so far?”

I nod.

“Okay continuing on in your world you had something similar to terrorists who generally most countries were against, in this world there is 5 major countries with a lot of smaller ones, the smaller ones usually support one of the 5 big countries but stay separate. The bigger countries are all on decently bad terms and usually start small scale conflicts. However there is also the Arivian cult which goes against all 5, it's also the only force that can rival the 5 and as a result they usually gang up on the cult but can never actually defeat it.

The rest you can learn while you're there, anyway you should get the jist of it so here's the list for point distribution. You have a total of 390 points. Have fun, let me know when you're ready or have questions.”

“Okay sounds good” I reply with and look down at the sheet of paper.

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Name: Sayl Hull

Criteria

Cost

Points invested /total of 390

Strength

Strength increases the amount of weight Muscles can withstand as well as power being physical attacks

(2 points per 1 stat)

Agility

Agility Increases overall speed of the person as well as reaction time

(2 points per 1 stat)

Dexterity

Dexterity Increases Health and reduces Damage taken

(2 points per 1 stat)

Vitality

Vitality Increases total stamina and increases pain tolerance

(2 points per 1 stat)

Intelligence

Increases Damage of spells and improves memory

(2 points per 1 stat)

Wisdom

Increases mana pool and reduces effects of low mana

(2 points per 1 stat)

Keep same knowledge/memories

40 points

Adjust Bodily features

50 Points

Adjust facial features

50 Points

Create a Unique skill

200 Points

Can use a specified magic

200 Points

Begin at the age of 16 instead of newborn

35 Points

Create a partner/friend to meet

300 Points

Customize personality of partner/friend

75 Points

Customize history/upbringing

(cannot give unique skill/magic access without selecting the option above first)

100 Points

Double a single stat

(This applies to base as well as any new points invested throughout entire life)

50 Points

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Looking over it the creation of a unique skill or the magic thing looks interesting but they cost a lot of points…

“Hey, uhh Ms.Voice…. I have a question”

“Already? *sigh* what is it?”.

I felt slightly annoyed as she said I could ask questions but I’ll ignore the sigh for now.

“Can you tell me what a civilians stats are as well as a basic fighter then a strong fighter, and by strong i mean like best in one of the big countries.”

She pondered it for a minute before responding. “Sure why not, a civilian with little to no combat experience will have 7-12 stat points across the board where a basic fighter would have 20-35 average stat points. One of the strongest fighters doesn't have a general stat average as there is a large gap but will have around 100-125 in their favoured stats.”

So I could basically have stats greater than the best fighter or create a skill and have the average fighters stats…

“Two more questions, first has everyone in this new world also gone through this process? And second am I able to gain stat points in this new world?” if others have of this world have also gone through this i may need to retain my memories…

“Of course, every single person has. Of course the points they got here all vary from a lowest of 20 to the highest of 390, you. As for stat points yes, you can gain them, the world has to give all a chance at equality through hard work, some are simply given more to work with. An example of this is simple weight training, this would raise your strength stat.” The voice explained this with a somewhat bored voice, maybe she didn’t actually want me to ask questions…

“Sorry one last question, i promise. Is there anything similar to leveling up?”

The voice actually took a decent amount of time to respond this time.

“There is nothing comparable to a level up, you simply raise your stats and they represent your power level.” She said this without any real emotion and stayed silent.

I thanked her and looked back to the sheet. Say i decided to make a skill or magic, after this i’d have 190 points left to spend. I would like to keep my memories making it 150, following a looks improvement making it 100… This would result in 50 stats for me to distribute for the 2 for 1 trade.

Honestly I don’t want to fight but i know i’ll be forced to in this new world, and I seriously detest people who sit at the backline so I wouldn’t be a mage or healer of the sorts. However using magic is simply to cool to pass so a melee magic user. This generally makes all the stats valuable to me unlike a mage who only needs 3. Wait what's exactly is a skill?

“I know i promised but… what exactly is a skill?”

The voice sighed, extremely long to, maybe 3 seconds long?

“Ill explain both the creation parts as it makes it easier. The magic creation doesn’t allow you to create a new form of magic as that's impossible, they all exist it simply needs to be identified or the affinity would be met. For example of the 5 basic magics fire as the least amount of people with affinity. This means that if you choose fire as your magic you will automatically get an affinity with fire. A skill on the other hand is simply an ability, this ability can be very generic and have sub skills or can be very specific. For example if you make the skill hyper speed, that will allow you to move extremely quickly and may have attacking sub skills where Hyper charge means you charge at something extremely quickly leaving little room for anything else to happen. Meaning no sub skills simply combos with others afterwards. Understand?”

I listened intently for the first time as this actually interested me and nodded immediately.

“Yup, completely, thanks”.

This means it would generally be better to create a skill to meet a specific class and then set up the stats accordingly.

So going from the top of the list to the bottom… Strength, will probably need it but not a main stat, agility, will be my primary as i want to be fast, dexterity, they won't even be able to hit me. Vitality, i might need it as secondary or not at all, intelligence, not at all unless i learn other magic, wisdom would be the substitute for Vitality.

I’ll need my memories, I can basically change my body to how i see fit as i grow up. My face needs some work, going with skill so i can't take the magic, why would you skip those 16 years? Never had friends don’t need em yet, not worth the points for the upbringing. Well shit, a doubled stat would be nice.

Ahhh this is so hard to decide….

“Ms.Voice i’m having an issue with my stats. I want to create a skill but I don’t know what to take exactly. Can you tell me about the skill if i explain it or something similar?” I was slightly begging at this point, it would be next to impossible to decide what stats to boost without this information.

“Sure, just fill out this sheet of paper and the rest of the information will show up, just the underlined stuff.” As she said that a new sheet of paper appeared in front of me.

It showed the following.

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Name of Skill: ___________________________________________

Mana/Stamina cost:

How to cast:

Detailed explanation: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Balancing features:

It seemed that all I had to do was name it and explain what exactly it would do. The name was pretty hard to come up with on short notice but i basically knew what I wanted the skill to do. After all it was a fantasy of mine ever since I was little. After filling in the information it required it was taken back and I waited patiently.

A couple minutes passed but it eventually reappeared in front of me completely filled out. After reading it a slight smile rose onto my face.

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Name of Skill: Instant Teleportation

Mana/Stamina cost: 100 Mana - (Wisdom / (Distance moved (Ft))

How to cast:

No chant, simply snap fingers and think of where you want to appear. If demanded distance is further than the limit you will be teleported to the max in that general area.

Detailed explanation:

After activating the skill I will immediately appear in a new destination of my choice, this is not limited to simply myself but as well as anything I am touching with my hands.

Balancing features:

No sub skills

Must be able to see where target location is.

Can only teleport what you can physically carry.

Max distance = 10 + (agility / 10)

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With this I was happy to start distributing my points.

200 Into create a unique skill

50 into adjust facial features

40 into keep memories

50 into double a single stat → agility

30 into wisdom → 15 wisom

10 into strength → 5 strength

10 into agility → 5 agility

After filling out the sheet I called out to the voice.

“So I finished everything you asked me to… what do I do now?” I patiently waited for her response.

“You’ll now be taken to another voice at which you will change your facial structure to your liking. After that you will finally be transferred to your new world. Good luck Sayn.”

With that the white room became dark and I started to fall. The darkness wasn’t that bad though, it was almost as if it was giving me a warm hug. Asking for me to join it rather than demanding. After some time a new voice called out.

“Welcome to facial remodeling! Directly in front of you is your body, please indicate would you want changed, whether it be vague or specific doesn’t matter!” A very energetic voice said, almost close to yelling but not quite there. I slightly winced at the loudness before I looked forward at a body, it was myself.

Looking down at where I should have been was nothing. No torso, no arms, no legs no nothing. I was a floating nothing, just like the voices i’ve been talking to. After nearly having a fit of fear I calmed myself down and looked back at my body.

“Uhh, I don’t have anything in particular, right now the face is pretty ugly… if you can make it slightly more attractive than average but not to pretty that would be wonderful.”

With my extremely vague demand the voice seemed to let out a squeal of delight or something close to that, it's hard to tell without facial responses.

“Awesome, we’ll change this, move this up.. Deepen this… expand this… oh what color of eyes do you want?”

At this point my face isn’t even remotely similar, picture a guy with black hair, some acne a large nose that's been broken and not healed to well with a chin that almost looked out of place. Then imagine old taylor lautner.

That's basically the change this voice made in about 10 seconds. To be honest, I was so shocked I couldn’t even reply at first. When she repeated her question with a little bit of annoyance I snapped back to reality.

“Uhhh sorry…. Let’s go with silver, don't make them too bright though, maybe closer to a grey”.

With that the color began to change from a brown to a nice silver that wasn’t overly bright.

“Hows that, i think it turned out pretty good, How about you?” The voice asked filled with pride and confidence.

“Looks good, i'll get the body whipped into shape so it won’t go to waste in the new world, thanks a lot.”

After a short laugh from the voice she responded with “No problem! Let's get you out there right now!”

With that I was falling again, this time tho I wasn’t able to move at all. The darkness was shortly broken apart by a blinding light in which my eyes screamed out at me. The light hurt. More than anything else i’ve felt so far. Then a soft feeling enclosed around my body and it all washed away…

“Don’t cry now little one. Mommy’s got you.”

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Chapter 1: After death

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