I woke up, as I did every day, to my father’s voice calling me to get dressed and ready for school. It was 6:00 am and my school-bus would be taking me from my home at 6:25 as it did since I started going to my current high-school. I was never a hard worker, I would even go as far as to call myself really lazy, but I had somehow managed to get into the best school in the country and I wasn’t even a reserve. But my relatively high intelligence could only carry me so far.

As I started going to this high-class school, I realized that I could not fit in such an environment filled with overly ambitious students (and parents). I slowly started to fall behind in my grades, when I was one of the best students in my previous school, now I could be called average at best. After finishing my first two years of high-school, I started to become more detached from the world around me. I started to care less about my grades or my friends, I stopped listening to my parents’ mumblings about entering a good university, I even stopped enjoying games.

People called it just a state that came with being a teenager which would eventually come to pass, but I never had the chance to see if those people were telling the truth.

Returning to my completely normal school-day, I got on the bus and started reading web-novels on my phone as always. I was never a very popular person ever since I changed schools in 6th grade and that didn’t change when I started high-school. I would have a couple people I hang out with during school and I would never see them again otherwise. When we arrived at school I pocketed my phone and went to my classroom where I once again took out my phone and started reading.

Occasionally I was interrupted by things like:

Classmate A: “Sup?”

Classmate B: “How’s it going?”

Or more school related things like:

Classmate C: “Did you do your ... homework?”

Classmate D: “Can I copy your ... homework?”

Contrary to what one would expect from someone of my thought-process, I always did my homework, which could be due to me being too lazy to bother dealing with angry teachers and grumpy parents.

Our school was using a 80minute class system with 4 classes a day so the first two classes went by in a flash and it was lunch break. I met up with my few friends who I still hung out with even after changing classes.

Friend A: “What’s your next class?”

Me: “Math.”

Friend B: “Bummer.”

Me: “Yours?”

Friend A: “Literature.”

Me: “Bummer.”

And so our conversations went as we ate some pizza from the very small school-canteen. After the lunch break and the last two classes of the day, I went back home by the school-bus and directly went on to lying on my bed and taking out my phone, not even bothering to look at what I got for homework.

As I was going to start reading, I almost fell down my bed when an obnoxiously pink screen came up in front of my face:

Good Evening Mr. Matthew Wilson

We as the God Co. are proud to inform you that your world has been selected as our new test subject.

You may expect quite a few changes to happen on the upcoming days, but don’t worry. We’re not idiots, we know that you will need time to readjust to the new settings for your world and so we will try our best to implement these changes as slowly as we can.

Things you may expect to come out immediately to prepare you for future changes:

-Status and Skills have been implemented

-Innate Magic Talent has been unlocked on appropriate people

-Titles implemented

-New race choices, and Classes implemented

-For further changes, check the changelog...

And so I was pulled out of the boring cycle humans called life in a hilariously obnoxious way.

The first thing I did when I saw this pink screen was not to dismiss it as me seeing things, nor was it running downstairs to ask my parents if the same thing was going on with them too. No, what I did was to check if there was a way to know more about the changes that were currently implemented.

I had read about people yelling status out loud to open their status screens, but it seemed silly that just thinking about it would not produce the same result. But I was swept in the moment that seemed to have come from my dreams and said it out loud anyway.

“Check Commands”

Currently Available Commands:

-Status (Skills&Titles&Races&Classes Included)

-Skills (Advanced Options)

-(Hidden Command)-Rules

For Being The First Person To Find The Hidden Command: Rules

+20 Int

+20 Wis

+5 Luk

Although the stat increases were sudden, they were also somewhat expected so I didn’t fret too much over them. Firstly, there was one thing that I was actually curious of which had led me to my current actions, and that something could only be in the rules window.

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“Rules”

Skipping through the unnecessary information, I found what I was looking for:

...

-You may inrease your chances of survival in a variaty of different ways:

*Leveling up by killing monsters which will come in later patches

*Creating skills via imagination(magic) and repetitive practice(strength)

*Training your skills via meditation(magic) and workout(strength)

...

This answered two of the main questions in my mind, whether monsters were coming, and whether I could get stronger without killing monsters. The former which I had already guessed, and the latter which I was hoping for.

Regardless of how eager I was to become badass, you couldn’t expect to throw a student in a horde of monsters and have him survive.

I immediately sat in a comfortable position and started meditating, or at least what I hoped was meditating. Strangely enough, I immediately started feeling a strange power inside and around my body, which I appropriately guessed to be mana that was added to our world after the “Update” by the so called God Co..

My first reaction after feeling the mana inside of me was to try to control it, and try to give it shape, which, I found, was impossible due to severe insufficiency to mana in my body. So I did what every idiot would do, I pulled every single bit of mana surrounding my body, into my body. Painful would be an understatement, I felt like my whole body was being pierced by needles covered in acid.

As soon as the pain started, I tried to stop the inflow of mana, but it was already too late, the channels were already opened and mana was ceaselessly entering into my body. I started to bleed out of every pore on my skin, and I could feel my consciousness slowly slipping away. The only thing I could think of while waiting for death was my dreams of being able to control darkness and void. The two typed of magic that I adored the most from the stories I read. I was too over-ambitious for once, and now I was paying the price. I could only hope that I wasn’t reborn as a snail, being disgusted with myself would not be fun.

Due to overloading yourself with mana but still keeping control over your actions while wishing to become a being of Darkness and Void you’ve changed your race, your new race:

The Ones That Aren’t (Unique):

Beings of utter Darkness and Void, your potential in Darkness and Void magic is immeasurable.

Compared to their cousins “The Dark Ones (Rare)”, “The Ones That Aren’t” are not vulnerable to Light and Holy magic due to their Void affinity that is powerful against all affinities.

You are almost completely immune to all physical and magical attacks but you have a hard time keeping yourself materialized, in return.

Since you are connected to the mana surrounding you, you have an almost infinite mana capacity.

You are and will be the sole member of your race.

The race “The Ones That Are (Legendary)” shall view you as its mortal enemy and both fear and hate you.

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Congratulations on being the first person to change into a different race:

+50 Luk

+20 to all stats

While most people would be sad about losing their humanity and becoming what could only be called a monster, I was overjoyed. I had gotten much more than everything I could have ever dreamed of, I couldn’t believe how I as lucky as to become the realization of my dreams.

When I looked down at myself, all I could see was black fog, and I could only manage to materialize after concentrating really hard, this was going to take a while getting used to.

“Stats” I called out my stat screen to see what my stats were now that I was in a presentable form.

Matthew Wilson Title: The One That Isn’t

Race: The Ones That Aren’t Class: The Ones That Aren’t

Str: Inapplicable Dex: Inapplicable

Wis: Inapplicable Int: Inapplicable

Luk: 55 (Inapplicable) Bonds: None

Though I was sad at my newly gained stat points being wasted, I couldn’t really complain about becoming seemingly all-powerful in a sense.

I was never really stuck to things like familial-love and my new race wasn’t helping so when I saw that I couldn’t even materialize properly yet, I immediately used my newly gained ability to teleport through shadows to get out of the house and into a cave where I would be left alone until the monsters came.

I had already mastered all of my newly gained powers as they had been directly downloaded into my brain, so I decided to study on mastering my ability to materialize while waiting for the monsters to come into our world. After which I would come out, no matter how bad I was at materializing, and try to get better accustomed to my new powers by using them on the monsters.