Chapter 3
After clicking the icon, Laiz's surroundings cracked. The air, concrete and everything else around him seemed to be affected by this crack. What was weird though, was the crack didn't look like one would expect it to be. Instead it looked more as if someone tore a photo to pieces and tried to put it all back in shape with tape.
Laiz could not do anything nor did he have enough time to think or feel before he was sucked in to one of the tears.
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When Laiz regained conciousness he was met with two things: Darkness and Brightness.
"... Too dark!"
Laiz was frightened by the darkness as he was someone who prefered to be bathed in the sun's bright rays, he was like a plant. One had to wonder how Laiz's skin could stay smooth and milky.
Laiz felt warm heat in his skin behind him so he turned around, expecting the bright soothing sun.
Once again, he was left frightened. MUCH more frightened.
"MY EYEEEEES!!!!!!! FOOOOOOOOOOOOOORKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!"
Instead of the warm brightness that usually leaves Laiz's body and mind cleansed, He was left with something different.. Large amounts of pain...
"FOOOORKKKKK!!!! WHYY!?!?!! "
Laiz jumped like a cat who just saw their owner smirking sinisterly as they stood next to a tub full of water, before flailing on the ground like a fish stranded on land.
Laiz is usually reserved when it came to swearing, but currently he felt like he could spew a hundred creative curses before spewing a thousand more.
Fortunately the pain subdued after a few seconds. Laiz now lied on the floor sweating and breathing mildly. From what he saw he was in a large space standing on nothing. This space was divided to two by a sharp line created by the contrasting difference, one was extremely dark and the other was bright white.
He was feeling stupid for blindly turning to something so bright so suddenly. Why couldn't he have thought and stayed composed?
Laiz was bought out of his self-blaming by a familiar sound. A new panel had appeared in front of him.
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...... The.. host may adjust your age and appearance in preparation before transporting to the new world.
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Laiz just accepts the system's subtle sympathy as he contemplates on what to change in his appearance. He was not just gonna shrug this off as this was important in not only games but life. It would decide the impression he gives off.
So knowing this Laiz finally chooses a direction. He was gonna be a TRAP!
..Yup.
Laiz could see many situation to troll with this appearance. Just imagining it leaves Laiz grinning.
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Laiz was not gonna change his appearance so dramatically like some who passes the boarder of femininity and make their characters cuter than actual females.
*HRMMM* Anime *Cough*
Laiz was just gonna stay CLOSE to that border. Laiz starts by making his body roughly two inches below average. Next he make his face softer and rounder. He changes his eye and hair color to dark blue, while keeping his hair up to his neck. Laiz also adds bangs while leaving some space to reveal some of his forehead. And to end it all, he makes his body softer and make sure to make some parts thinner.
What he was left with was a very cute person. (Gender not specified..) What made this hillarious was Laiz's usual stoic expression. But Laiz just brushes it off, thinking it added some charm in his character.
After looking at himself clearly, he taps 'Done' with a satisfied smile on his face. Laiz was ready to depart, happy with the gifts and help he got in preparation for the new world.
But.. He was left surprised by the appearance of one more panel.
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Oswald has instructed System to allow Host a choice to choose an Ability. Please choose ONE Ability below:
- Elemental Affinity
- 90% increase in natural affinity towards learning Elemental Skills.
- Muscle Talent
- 50% increase in the growth of muscles.
- Time magic
- User gains some understanding of Time magic. Increases affnity toward Time Magic by twenty percent. Also gives five starter skill related to this ability.
- Weapon Mastery
- User receives knowledge of any weapon. Allows user to wield weapons with a mastery of five years. Mastery is measured by how user is skilled on a weapon after said time of training.
- Battle Instinct
- All stats are doubled when in life or death battles.
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When Laiz saw this panel, beside the extreme exitement he felt, he also felt like a spoiled child. First was System, SECOND was the Book of Knowledge and THIRD some more cheats. Not to mention each had large amounts of potential.
Laiz eventually let the exitement take over, who would feel any different in this kind of situation? He also didn't want to be like others who take these kind of things for granted, often swearing at the system.
"Okay, now... Which do i choose?"
Laiz verbalizes his thoughts to bring his focus back to what is now important.
Laiz's thoughts of Elemental Affinity was it would give him have a lot of choices. It would allow him to adapt to the enviroment and his future enemy's specialised skills, thus becoming more versatile.
Muscle talent on the other hand wasn't quite up to the standard compared to the other abilities in Laiz mind. He thought that this can be covered by energies like chakra or ki, he put this ability in number five of the ranking.
Laiz's ideas and grasp on what Time Magic can do was very vague, but he knew for sure this was bound to be something powerful. He was also interested on the five skills he receives for choosing this ability.
His thoughts on Weapon Mastery was similar to Elemental Mastery. It would be versatile. But a plus was the mastery, it would allow him to have actual skills to wield the abilities proficiently. A SUPER plus was said on the explanation of the skill. It implies that it lets the user wield any weapon as if he was trained to use said weapons by five years. This meant that if he increases his potential to wield a weapon he would be training with that benefit. For example, a skill increases learning time of a sword by 30%, this makes his quality of training much greater thus more results in shorter time.
The Battle Instinct was like a super saiyan. It would allows Laiz to increase his stats by two times, but.. He wasn't sure if he could adapt to the difference in base stats appropriately. He would probably need time to get used to that, meaning he could only be good at using the skill after many life or death scenarios. He wasn't looking forward to that.
Overall, each ability was over-powered and choosing one meant enhancing his natural potential by a large margin either way.
Laiz takes his time on choosing the most suited ability for him, comparing his power level at the peak of each ability and many other factors he could think of.
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Ready for departure?
(Y) (N)
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With Laiz's ability confirmed, He presses 'Y' with a soft smile and a far-away gaze. Resolve and determination clearly radiating off his eyes.
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By the way, the image in my mind when i modified Laiz's appearance was Kanna Tanigawa.