Green opened his eyes and found himself laying on a makeshift bed made of hay and the room he was in was made of rough wood lumbers with its wooden roof covered with vines. Never mind the itchiness he felt, the hunger almost made lay on the makeshift bed again and never rise again.
It was when a sound rang in his ears which almost sounded like a smartphone notification did, he opens his eyes again, but this time out of surprise what greeted him was the user interface of a smartphone. Surprisingly, the user interfaces almost covered him vision as if he was wearing 3D lens connected to a smartphone.
There were no borders of the user interface and he could still see the bed and all the walls made of wood but the same message popping up, again and again, made it look unreal.
[Update available! Please update to the latest version for your convenience…]
[Yes] [No]
Green was shocked at first but when remembered the white light which came sticking with him, he got the clue how was this happening. After dying two times, he was no longer surprised. Are the words written on thin air more surprising than reincarnating three times? Green thought.
Green tried to touch the yes prompt but his finger went right through it. If he cannot touch then there must be another way to interact with the system. With this thought in his mind, he said yes as if giving a voice command.
Without a sound, the smartphone-like interface started updating and the update percentage started going up like crazy… 1%...6%...13%...34%...
The numbers climbed crazily until 100%.
[Update Completed]
A small smartphone icon appeared on the corner of his vision. With a little concentration, the icon enlarged into a real smartphone but the only difference was that it was floating in front of him instead in his hand.
The whole smartphone was blank like a white piece of paper, other that some system icons like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Night Light, Project, Time, Language, About Device and last were Camera. There was no drag option from above for shortcuts or any place to download any application. It was as if Green was visualizing a smartphone with a beta operating system containing no additional application other than the most essential ones.
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The first slide menu was filled with these nine options.
Green thought for a bit and created a folder with the title ‘Basic Options’ and dragged and dropped them in the folder. Out of curiosity he opened About Device and astounded to find about there was nothing about device or anything but some measurements of his.
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[Device user name: Green]
[Version: 0.1]
[Hardware Strength: 1.2 (0.7 due to hunger)]
[Hardware Motor Capabilities: 0.9 (0.8 due to hunger)]
[Spirit Strength: 6.3 (New measurement)]
[Spirit Capacity: 5.9 (New measurement)]
[Spirit Quality: 93.6% (New measurement)]
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He tried to check other options too but before he could he do it a legendary notification appeared…
[Residue memories of the previous host are found.]
[These memories can influence the host’s decision-making skills, would like to sort required data?]
[Yes] [No]
Green clicked yes. Surprisingly, even though everything came floating in front of him, he didn’t need to read it at all! It was as if he had already read it before.
[Reading all the memories… converting into data… sorting out data… data has been categorized.]
[Data has been categorized and all influential memories have been deleted…]
[A map has been created with the help of data found… all the visited places have been recorded…]
“Who does the previous host has been in contact with`? Give me a list of all of them!” Green commanded.
[Searching database… the previous host has been in contact with 4 people for a long time.]
[1. River 2. Delta 3. Polish 4. Oplah]
Green got all the information he wanted. The pervious host never had been in contact with anyone other than these four basically. Moreover, one of them was missing for over 6 months.
This time he got no parents after reincarnating for free. Other than a boy named Delta who was three years older than him, he had not been in contact with any of them for more than one month.
Green even thought that he might be an Otaku of the different world if not for those memories he got from the database from scanning. The original name of the host was also Green and he worked very hard for some money to buy a Magic Rune.
Unlike pervious two worlds he had been in before, this world had its main theme of magic and swords.
When previous Green turned 12 years old, he directly went to the nearest shop to try his spirit affinity. Only one in hundred could have spirit and all those people who were all smarter than their peers because spirit directly increased the brain function and critical thinking skills qualitatively and quantitatively.
This process was very cheap because every person no matter 12 or 120, that person would come to try at least once a year no matter what. After all, having a spirit and not having this power made a great difference.
But it was just the starting point. If someone had the spirit affinity, he or she could easily join a Wizard Organization or a Wizard Family and he could get better resources that any wandering wizard, but everything has its two sides.
After joining the organization, he would have to sign a contract with very hard conditions and some even made him give up his freedom which was equal to giving his life in their hands, so previous Green became a wandering apprentice wizard and earning to progress on the path of formal wizards.
The contracts here were nothing like those worlds he had been to. These contracts are magical contracts and anyone who doesn’t follow the conditions written on the contract would face repercussions. No one will do anything to him but he might even die if he broke that contract in future. No one will ask him why or even cry for him even if he died…