It’s been two years since I fell into Hell. I know because some of my system restrictions have been removed. I can now view some basic information like the time date and what part of Hell I’m in. I can’t check my personal status though that has not been allowed yet. This whole system message, soul points and status thing has got me a bit confused but after learning a bit about it in magic history I think I’ve got a good grasp on things.

You see a long time ago after human beings were kicked out the Garden of Eden. The angels became a bit worried about our survival and spiritual development. They knew we were weak, and that we would rely on science and technology to solve earth bound problems. This was acceptable, but what about spiritual problems? The angels felt they needed to control the spread of magic across the “cosmos” so they asked God for help and created grand arrays that control the flow of magic. This way most the planets in existence would never be exposed to magic, but the few that were would receive high volumes of it.

This system worked perfectly in the beginning because all the powerful beings needed magic energy in order use their powers. This meant that even though demons wanted to chase humans they couldn’t as there was no way to support themselves on magic-less planets. There were only two planes that received pure magic power; Heaven and Hell. But even that was not enough to control the demons. One day the devil created a piece of the soul called “External Gates”. He then implanted one of these gates in every human in existence. How he did that is still unknown but what the gate did was give humans a direct link to the great source of magic within Hell. The Angels were infuriated. Satan had blatantly undone all their work and chained every single human being to Hell and its evil energy.

To counter act this the angels fought fire with fire. They created their own gate actually they created two of them. The first would be a Gate to the magical energy of heaven, but the second was the most interesting. The angels created an entire plane of existence from scratch and filled it with knowledge and magic circuits. They then tied this plane together with the Karmatic “life flow” and created the third gate that would connect all humans to this new plane. Its purpose was very simple [control of power]. This plane would control souls and their power in the universe. This plane is what we now know as the system.

I’ll learn a bit more about the anatomy of the human soul later but for now it’s enough to know that we have 3 external gates. One brings in positive power from Heaven the other negative power from Hell and the third brings knowledge and control from the plane we now call the [Astral records]. Well it’s more like this plane holds the [Astral records] but that’s not important right now. Anyway this is the source of yin and yang counter active energies in your body/soul. For now though it’s enough for me to know that when you kill someone or something their souls are used to ‘strengthen’ your gates. This is how the level system basically started. This is why gaining skills and proficiencies is different from gaining levels. The level refers to the magic gates and your amount of power whilst skills is a different gate entirely. By the way unlike normal games like I thought this shit was you can’t ‘buy’ skills with soul points.

I was very happy to learn this as I thought Hell had turned me into some type of souls eating demon but I can see that’s not the case. Anyway lecture times over so let’s get to the good stuff. I’ve been coping like crap these past two years. Though I don’t like to admit it but I sometimes cry a little in between testing stations. Well you would two once you hear what I’ve been through. The stations became more and more advanced as I ranked-up. My Medical class has gone into full blown 1000 ways to die type bullshit. They often cut of my arm then tell me to reattach it, or stab a sword through me or poison me or burn me or pull out my organs, drain my blood, freeze me anything lethal you could think of really. But I now also have a survival station or class. It’s like a sub-class of medical where you apply what you’ve learnt. For example, they would drown you in acid and order you to live through it for one minute. It’s kinda funny how your only requirement to pass a class is to ‘live’ and even that’s sometimes impossible.

I also have a home-ec class now. It’s like cooking monsters, how to digest indigestible stuff like blood and feces *Shivers*. It’s literally about not only food but only all the things your body needs to survive like oxygen. You have to control chemical reactions in your body to keep yourself healthy and alive. Some tests include recycling your own ‘stuff’. Like they shoved a plug up my ass to keep me from letting my stuff loose. Then they told me to reabsorb the nutrients from my feces inside my body. You know how cows have four stomachs and digest plants and stuff really well. Yeah well my magic has to be the three other stomachs humans don’t have now.

Next up is my usual lectures. Well their still bearable but now they want me to use [magic memory]. You literally use z-type magic to save information then draw on the energy to recall what you’ve learned. They also teach me how storing magic energy and stuff like that works.

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I’m now placed at about 1 millionth in the arena. I’ve improved my arsenal off moves greatly. First of martial arts. I actually have one now. They’re really hard to learn you know but making physical stuff easier to do. Mine is pretty simple I call it the 4-layer wave art. First I gather energy, then I mold it to my body shape keeping it on the outer edges then send it in quickly, firstly hardening my skin, then strengthening my muscles, then increasing the energy of oxygen in my body then lastly hardening my bones. Now laugh all you want at how simple it is but it’s a great improvement from me simply filling my body with energy like I’m some kind of empty cup if water. Different body tissues require you to improve them differently.

Next are skills and magic attacks. This has been tough for me. My [internal destruction] is pretty good. I’ve improved it so I can send the energy out now this means I don’t have to be close or touch my target. Though the effects are slightly weaker its workable. This is really my most reliable attack right now. Everything else requires materials, my magic sucks really its best with acid and stuff but that’s not common. My greatest discovery is guns, when I use my energy to harden the frame and improve the gun powders energy release the effects are monstrous. With just a hand gun I could probably pierce a tank if I go all out in one shot. This makes my crafting classes vital as I always have to retrieve my bullets from corpses and fix them up. God I love this gun but I need more ammo. The rest of my gear is also quit decent now, some metal plates here and there also some processed hide to act as chainmail or something.

I’ve been fighting bigger and more powerful monsters this whole time. It’s ridiculous how I have to get cooked by dragons and poisoned by snakes that put the anaconda to shame though.  Oh and I found out that when you die it takes 6 days to revive and that the beginners’ period here in Hell is ten years before your re-assessed. By then you need to meet certain criteria then your free to go. Just. Like. That. That’s right so long as your capable enough Hell doesn’t give a shit what you do. You can even leave Hell; the only problem is you won’t be accepted anywhere else… most powerful people probably just stay and screw around like admin Zain.

There really is no limit to the types of people I fight you know. Humans, aliens, aliens, aliens, like where the fuck did all these aliens come from. I realize this now that genetic diversity is amazing. I guess we’re all just humans though just different breeds. My favorites are the blue skinned girls with some weirdly sensitive lines around their inner thighs. How I know this is a side story for another day but let’s just say when your away long enough you don’t mind ‘playing’ with the other prisoners.  Hey don’t judge me ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ makes no difference if I’m in Hell anyways right. Speaking of diversity when you get to connect to the system the class and race menu open up. Class will immediately follow the dark side though. I should explain, remember the three Gates? Yeah well your only allowed to use one between either Heavens’ or Hells’, and by default of going to Hell I get theirs. Your class in determined by your connection to the system. Think of it as like a job and you can only work for one company. Do some stuff for Heaven complete their requirements, then they make you a believer with the magic power and special ‘gifts’ to back it up. Apparently churches are the greatest organizations in modern civilized magic societies. You may even become and angel.

Your race is more like what you are than who you work for or side with. Like being an elf and shit. There’s way more options and a whole lot of ways to get them but I lost interest it’s not important right now.

There are some truly amazing human civilizations that have greatly developed in both areas science and magic. I would love to go there one day. They use special magic to bridge whole planets, solar systems and even form occupied constellations. Yeah I can’t even hope to run a country and some people can run whole constellations.

Now that I know all this I’ve formed my plans for the future, one day I want to-

Self-defense testing: servants tournament

Shit my next opponent. I’ve been moved from the slaves’ tournament to the servants’ tournament. You get move at every tenth. Like I move when I go from 1000 to 999 or from 100 to 99. Huh my opponent looks pretty strong. Then power this guy’s giving off is pretty scary. The man’s even wearing some special forces like clothes. Red skinned normal eyes (same as earth human), brown I think, with black silky hair. His whole outfit is black though. And his got some glowing crystals. I can feel magic from them as well. Ah that’s right Hell has no concept of cheating right? Otherwise I’d report these clearly unfair aids…