I was lying in bed, stunned by the absurdity of the situation. I might’ve been a pilgrim fleeing the draft but I knew what isekai was. I’m not sure if I should be grateful or not to those pricks that had run me over. Well, knowing I’ll never ever see my mum or old friends again as few they might be should feel me with grief. But for some reason I cannot feel much of anything. Is it the room or some shitfuckery that helps with acclimatization to this world?
I had resources called Mana, Faith, Psi, Ki, Aura, an awkward MFPKA acronym for short. Based on my educated guess mana is a resource for spell casters, faith for priests, psi for telepaths, ki and aura probably for martial artists. I might be terribly wrong but it seems my hopes for peaceful life might be only that hope even when reality shoves a bunch of resources that could be used to become a super soldier or something.
Well, anyway I can’t do anything about it. I hope they respect my free will and human rights. But seeing those dwarves using medieval equipment I think they might have a society based on medieval times which means as soon as I get valuable they will ignore my wishes and take me like some kind of product or animal.
I sure hope they won’t try to scan me or require me to tell them my status. Against what doc told me I tried sitting up, It was beyond hard. Nearly impossible task with destroyed muscles, with sweat dripping from my face I persevered. I was utterly drained by this simple act, but it was worth it. I could assess damage to my whole body not just as far my hands could reach. I kept hearing pings of notifications from what I suppose was the system, but I couldn’t care less.
The room was spinning, my vision blurry yet I didn’t give up taking the crystal cross I made and shoved it into myself. I hoped that whatever energy that was healing me would have an easier time doing so when near the actual damage, after all the arm that was holding the cross was mostly fine even though it was at the center of the pillar of light.
As soon the artifact I felt soothing wave of air going through my whole body, sadly it lasted only for a second or two before I barely stopped myself from screaming as my nerves and muscles began healing. I could feel my consciousness slipping into the sweat release of slumber, as the last act of conscious thought I tightened all of my muscles, I didn’t have time for accuracy, but I did that hoping that even unconsciously my body would stay in the state I left it.
As for why? Simple by stretching and relaxing muscle fibers you train them into being more resilient and responsive. You only need to relax the body after work out because if you don’t you might snap overworked muscle fibers causing pain and reverting the progress of the training, thankfully it won’t ever happen as I’m getting actively healed.
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I woke up with the worst body ache ever. What's worse is that I couldn’t move and there was the guy from before standing next to me with an exasperated smile on his face.
”Well I didn’t expect my diagnosis to be wrong but here we are, thanks to your exercises because that’s the only thing I can call that your body healed wrongly, your muscles are a bit too short and therefore make you almost unable to move. The team paid for your stay here. We already got the payment and it’s against our terms of service to increase the price during treatment. Here are your options: blink twice in quick succession for quick painful recovery that will stunt your muscle growth, or blink three times for a lot of pain over a longer period of time that won’t stunt your growth in any way.”
Seeing my state I realized that the short way is probably cutting apart affected areas so that the muscles can heal on their own correctly and the second method was probably overworking myself by training or something to break muscles naturally. I blinked thrice after a while of consideration. The “doc” took out a syringe filled with some dubious liquid and unloaded it directly into my heart. I felt like I could do anything and by moving slightly I could still feel my muscles tearing themselves apart yet no pain came.
I think the syringe was full of drugs like methamphetamine and morphine, I sat up slowly making sure I moved every single muscle to the max of my ability. I could feel the drugs slowly wash out of my body, So I hastened in my exercise to profoundly break my body.
I even attempted to stand up while manipulating faint energy that probably was ki to create some opening in my bones for mana and other resources to get through.
“This is the first time I saw someone consciously break every single of his muscles with telekinesis, you are either a master telepath or know quite a lot in terms of body structure. In the case of the former the expedition teams or naval intelligence would be interested in the case of the latter I would love to have someone so knowledgeable about body working with me.”
Said the doc with some actual positive expression on his face. He really must love his job and hate the fact that he can’t discuss it with that many people.
I finally started to feel actual pain, it was creeping up my spine, the slow but determined dull pain coming from everywhere. I attempted to create a bridge between myself and the doc I tried to convey that he should work his magic in regrowing my muscles and tendons in correct order so I won’t have to do it again. The second the bridge was established doc winced and shuddered I probably conveyed my pain to.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
Not soon after I blacked out again…
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The first thing that greeted me wasn’t the ceiling or much of anything, after moving some minor muscles I could determine that my whole body was covered in bandages, or something similar to that. But most importantly of all there was a system box in the center of my vision that moved in such a way to remain obnoxiously in the center whenever I moved my eyes.
Name: Josh Organic
Level: 3
Age: 32 years old since birth; 10 days since arrival in System controlled world
Alignment: Neutral Good
Faith: Catholic Christian
Stats:
Strength 10-9.9=0.1 (diminished due damaged body)
Endurance 14-13=1 (diminished due damaged body)
Intelligence 10=10
Wisdom 11=11
Unspent stat points 5
Attunements:
Mana Exceptional
Faith Ideal
Psi High
Ki Negligible
Aura Negligible
Passive:
Ritual Average
Spellcasting Average
Miracles Ideal
Telekinesis Average
Accurate Telekinesis High
Telepathy Low
Active:
Running (disabled due to current state)
Walking (diminished due to current state)
Talking (diminished due to current state)
Spellcasting (diminished due to current state)
Psi attacks High
Psi movement Average
Psi communication Low
Miracles Ideal
Melee fight (disabled due to current state)
Regen and Capacity:
Mana 1/sec 100/100
Faith 10/sec 1000/1000
Psi 1/minute 100/100
Ki 1/day 10/10
Aura 1/day 10/10
Stats - numerical representation of the current state of a body, they are determined on birth but can be trained through life. Each stat can reach 50 before reaching level 50. After level 50 training won’t work anymore and stats will have to be allocated manually with points the user gets every 10 levels.
Strength - Corresponds to maximum explosive strength as well as ability to sustain constant work for longer periods of time.
Endurance - Physical resilience of a body, raising this stat increases the toughness, flexibility and force distribution of skin, bones, muscles and organs.
Intelligence - Corresponds to the ability to process information faster and increase reaction time. Raising this stat won’t make user smarter, it will just make user more effective in combat and at spellcasting.
Wisdom - Corresponds to the amount of energy regeneration per second. Raising this stat increases regen and ability to remember things more easily as well as to recall things more accurately.
Attunements - Users innate ability to use different energies and feel them passively in the world. Can be increased by surviving an encounter with a monster that focuses only on one attunement. (Lowest possible score is Negligible highest is Ideal)
Passive - Passive ability of the user to manipulate various energies in performing various effects.
Active - Active abilities of the user to perform certain actions that require a certain threshold of respective stat.
New Notifications!
Through training you gained 4 strength, 7 endurance.
Through repeated action you created new training practice.
Due to your contribution to increasing combat potential of sapients of this world you were awarded with 5 free stat points.
Due to your contributions, your alignment was changed to Neutral Good, now people aligned with good will see you more favorably but people with Evil or chaotic alignment will be slightly more hostile or cold with relations to you.
Due to your repeated training your Attunement was increased from Psi low -> Psi High
Accordingly, Psi regen and storage was raised.
Every new notification that changes your status in any way will be displayed in bold text
Well at least I now know that the system propagates warfare and strife, yes I could gain spells and stats through training but the quickest way is to create training exercises for others to train with and possibly hurt others. I haven’t really killed anything or anyone by myself yet so I’m not sure whether stats can also be gained by raising the level. If yes then I’m in a lot of trouble.