In a black void of nothingness, a boy no older than 16 years old was floating there.
He had died, a rather brutal death I might add, and this is where he found himself afterwards.
"What would you give to live once more?" the boy blinked, where had that voice come from, before he could think anymore the voice speaks again.
"Would you give up your humanity? or even what makes you, you?" the boy thought about it, what was this voice talking about, was it offering him another chance at life?
A small, red light forms for his chest, but he couldn't move to look at it, "I can sense you are willing to give everything to be alive again, so I'll give you another chance at life, but like I said, you are giving up yourself and your humanity…" the voice laughed as the boy's body vanishes from the void.
…
In a forest of red-leafed trees, allowing the whole area to appear as a dust-red color, even with the grass, a ball of red light appeared and once it fades a 16 year old girl with long white wavy hair and messy bangs, white skin with red eyes, two gray curved horns with the right horn having two red piercings, a spade-pointed tail, and six black bat wings was there on the ground with nothing but rags on her body.
After a few moments she opened her eyes and sat up, after that she looked around her surroundings, wondering where she was as of the moment.
Her memories seemed to be fragmented for some reason, she could remember some things like her ability and how to use it.
"Status." her voice was monotone and devoid of all emotions, a panel fades into view in front of her.
Name: Reficul
Level: 1 (1,000 EXP to next level)
Title: The Devil Incarnate
Perks: [Devil Anatomy]
HP: 350/350
HPR: 1.75 HP/m
MP: 550/550
MPR: 2.75 MP/m
STR: 5
DEX: 5
VIT: 5
INT: 5
WIS: 5
LUK: 5
Points: 5
Money: 0 L
She looked at her status, 'ah, that's right, my name is Reficul, but it seems that my ability has been reset, I'll need to figure out everything again from scratch.'
She closes the panel for now and opens up her Skill page.
[Gamer's Mind - LVMAX (Passive)]
Allows the user to calmly and logically think things through.
- Allows peaceful state of mind.
- Immunity to psychological mass effect.
[Gamer's Body - LVMAX (Passive)]
Grants a body that allows for the user to live the real world like a game.
- Sleeping in a bed restores HP, MP and all mass effects.
[Power Strike - LV1 0.00% (Passive)]
Strike the target with strong force
- 15% Increase in critical rate
- 50% increase in attack damage
Cost: 50 MP
[Energy Bolt - LV1 0.00% (Active)]
A skill that attacks by emitting mana.
- Attack power increases by INT.
- Range 10m.
Cost: 25 MP
'Hmm, not a lot to work with, but I can manage, now… Where am I?' she looks around herself for a moment before exploring off towards the north, at least she thinks it's north.
Not long after she has a run in with some of the local wild life, black creatures with bone like mask with red eyes, they seemed to be slightly docile towards her, but their instincts as animals caused them to attack.
Reficul rolled out of the way of a set of claws and readies her fist, "Power Strike!" her fist glowed red as it connected with the mask of one of the creatures, cracking it.
-50 MP
-100 HP
She merely glanced at the numbers and looked at the creature, she needed to figure out how much health these things had.
Due to special actions, you have gained the Skill [Observe]
'Just what I needed.' "Observe!" a panel appears in front of her.
Newborn Beowolf LV5 x 4
HP: 500
MP: N/A
Oh yeah, there were four of them by the way…
She decides to play it safe and try to get away, she was only level one… although that would change if she killed one of them…
She took off running into the tree line while thinking of a way to defeat them, she didn't want to waste her stat points she could need later, so she needed to find something to hit them with.
After a few minutes of running, and getting slightly tired, she managed to lose the Beowolf's as their called expect for one, it had a cracked mask meaning it was the one she hit.
She picked up a rather large rock off the ground, it's not much but it was better than her fist.
She rolled out of the way of a set of claws and jumped back to avoid the bite of the beast, she swings her rock from the right while it glowed red from a power strike and manage to knock the monster to the ground.
-120 HP
-30 HP
'Alright, 150 Damage plus the 100 from before means it's at half health if he doesn't regen, I only got around nine more uses of Power Strike before I run dry of MP, and in a forest with these creatures I can't afford that.'
She gets on top of the creature before it can get its bearings and start the slam the rock into its head over and over away without Power Strike to conserve MP.
- 80 HP
- 80 HP
CRIT! - 160 HP
Beowolf defeated - +2,000 EXP
You've leveled up!
She sighs as the body dissolves under her, she looks at the remains, one of its claws, a tooth and some Pelt, she put all three items into her inventory.
"Status."
Name: Reficul
Level: 2 (1,000 EXP to next level)
Title: The Devil Incarnate
Perks: [Devil Anatomy]
HP: 450/450
HPR: 2.25 HP/m
MP: 600/600
MPR: 3 MP/m
STR: 5
DEX: 5
VIT: 5
INT: 5
WIS: 5
LUK: 5
Points: 10
Money: 0 L
"Ah, so HP and MP are restored if I level up, that's nice to know, I can probably abuse that for the first couple of levels and get stronger at a faster rate…" she thinks to herself before putting three points into VIT, five into INT, and the remaining two into WIS.
Name: Reficul
Level: 2 (1,000 EXP to next level)
Title: The Devil Incarnate
Perks: [Devil Anatomy]
HP: 600/600
HPR: 4.8 HP/m
MP: 1,100/1,100
MPR: 7.7 MP/m
STR: 5
DEX: 5
VIT: 8
INT: 10
WIS: 7
LUK: 5
Points: 0
Money: 0 L
"Good, with this set up I will be able to use Power Strike and Energy Bolt more often to kill my enemies faster, I'll need to plan out a full stat build later, but for now, I need to find shelter and resources." which She set out to do right away.
She could use Power Strike up to 22 times if need be now, but still, conserving energy is top priority.
After some exploration she finds a cave of sorts, the entrance was narrow and could be boarded up if need be.
A panel suddenly appears in front of her.
Quest Start!
Title: Great Cave Clear Out
You are looking for shelter and this cave looks like the perfect one, clear out all the Monsters within to claim it as your territory.
Objectives
1: Clear out monsters within the cave
2: Set up a place to sleep
3: Use the drops from the monsters to craft weapons and armor.
Bonus Objective
1: ?
Rewards
Main Objectives: 5,000 EXP, 1,000 L, Skill Book
Bonus Objective: 20,000 EXP, 5,000 L, Devil Research
She looks at the rewards for the bonus quest, "either I'm finding the research book, or I'm fighting something extremely powerful…" she sighs before she sets in.
Once inside her vision changed to a hue of red and she could see in the darkness quite clearly, must be a Devil thing, Night Vision most likely.
She looked around and noticed there were human bodies around the place, of different shapes and sizes, they looked rather fresh too…
"Hmm… maybe they had some weapons or armor I could use?" she said barely above a whisper as to not have her voice echo and alert anyone or anything.
She looted the bodies for namely some cards, which were the currency so that's good to know, some armor, which she found little of, and a weapon or two, which she got a knife and a pistol on low ammo.
Not finding anything else of use she puts on the arm guard on her right arm and breast plate that changed to fit her thanks to the Gamer ability, and had the gun in a holster on her left hip while her knife was on her right hip, and she had put roughly 200 L worth into her Inventory, which added to the counter.
She ventured into the cave deeper and managed to find a Beowolf all alone with its back turned and on its hind legs.
she snuck up to it and plunged the knife through it skull.
WEAK POINT/SNEAK ATTACK/CRIT - 500 HP
You got 1,500 EXP
You've leveled up!
She picked up the pelt, teeth and claw it had dropped.
She sighs before sneaking around some more, netting her a Stealth skill which got to level three through continuous use.
Going through the Cave, she managed to kill around seven more monsters before she get's notified the first objective was completed so she explored as much as she could before finding a locked door.
After some attempts to open it she readies her knife and stab it into the lock and managed to cut it out and open the door to go inside.
The place was littered with books and objects, along with some odd clothes and weapons.
There was a bed by the side of the room and tables with tools to make things by them, she saw a notification.
Bonus Objective: Found The Devil's Lair.
She hums at the notification, with her title and perk, was this her Lair?
Before she could do anything else another pop up appeared.
Fast Travel Point Gained: [The Devil's Lair].
'Huh, that's useful.' she explored around for a few moments before completely the quest, getting her to level 8 and gave her 7,000 L.
Name: Reficul
Level: 8 (2,500 EXP to next level)
Title: The Devil Incarnate
Perks: [Devil Anatomy]
HP: 1,200/1,200
HPR: 9.6 HP/m
MP: 1,400/1,400
MPR: 9.8 MP/m
STR: 5
DEX: 5
VIT: 8
INT: 10
WIS: 7
LUK: 5
Points: 35
Money: 7,200 L
She checked her inventory to see the Devil research and the Skill book - named Devil's Transportation - which she tried to learn, but was blocked by not having 25 INT and 10 WIS, which she'll take care of later.
"Alright, let's see this Devil Research." she opens to the first page and began to read.
"This is my journal I will record all my findings on devil kind, since this is the first entry I don't have much other than their improved strength and endurance."
Devil Anatomy Perk Update: Added 20 STR and 10 VIT
'Whoa! that's so stupid! maybe it was a one time thing and it's the only one involving stats, but I may gain abilities if I read further…'
And with that, she continued on reading throughout the night…