It's dark, wet and surprisingly warm. Where am I?
No, wait, something's happening. I think I see the light!
Ah, it's blinding! Who the hell is screaming so loudly I can't think damn it.
Wait, that's me isn't it. I just got birthed? But I don't even remember dying. WTF?!
Come to think of it I don't remember that much at all! Ugh this is infuriating!
I…I fell sleepy. Thus I closed my eyes.
…
Days pass by and those days turn into months. Hard to keep track with a mind of a newborn.
I just want to drink some milk.
…I hear screaming and this time it's not me also it's hot, really hot. Is that smoke I'm smelling?
Someone enters my room. With my terrible vision I look at the moving blob. You're not my mommy! That's it I'm screaming! „Bwaaah!"
„Shut this baby up already. Find the thing and move it!" No one came to rescue. I know someone grabbed me and carried me.
I can't remember how much time has passed. But when I woke up it felt colder than before.
Choose your name:
And like that I completely lost my train of thought. What?
Choose your name:
What! Is this like the gamer? But the gamer had notifications in blue plain boxes. This looks like something from Dark souls or Dragon's Dogma. In other words it has character.
So, uh, name ok. Um How about….
Choose your name:
Markus
Y/N
Well?
Your name is Markus.
Welcome to Etheria! You are now part of the Hord faction. Be wary monsters, machines and princesses are more than willing to kill you. Better prepare yourself whilst you still can and remember, just because you're on the same side doesn't make you friends.
What is this? Some AU of World of Warcraft? Seriously, what the hell!
You have ten points to add at to your stats
Stats increased by the starting SP will be increased by higher amount than others.
Markus
STR:5
AGI:5
DEX:5
INT:5
WIS:5
CHA:5
SP:10
HP:100/100
Huh. Okay, let's put 5 points to INT 2 to AGI and 3 to CHA. Let's see the result.
Markus
STR:5
AGI:7
DEX:5
INT:10
WIS:5
CHA:8
SP:0
HP:125/125
Not too bad but I'll level up eventually. Now where was I?
„Finaly this runt shut up. Was about to throw it into a lake." Wow. Ok better not scream if I wanna live.
…
Quite a lot of time passed since then. By that I mean like 2 months.
We're apparently in some place called the Fright zone. Starting to think this isn't sci-fi AU WoW. Doors to the infirmary opened and a woman in red robes with a mask of the same color, only her long elf-like ears and hands visible. They're ashen gray color. She usualy comes here to check another baby. Some blondie with blue hair. She must hold a high position too, the woman not the baby. Though a baby with the rank of a commander would be funny to see.
„Have the tests come in?" She asks as she puts the baby down and looks at me.
A soldier walks up to her. „Shadow weaver, we haven't seen anything like it! It's like the baby is-„
The world went gray.
You are not of this world and thus you cannot be hybrids are acceptable. What is your species?
Just a box. No character creation. No race selector. Just a box waiting to be filled.
Really? Ok, let's put something absurd. Push it to what the system will allow me to do.
Novakid
A star person. A being literally made out of star. How will you deal with that one, huh?
Novakid selected. Creating human-Novakid hybrid.
Wait! It'll actually make a half-novakid? That seems a bit problematic. How would that even work realistically? How can organic and energy being make a half breed? Did someone fuck a literal star? The hell?
Hybrid created. Following race specific perks and skills created.
Perks:
Too hot to handle: Your body can reach 1200 CO however doing so will result in overheating and may knock you unconscious.
Fire boy: You are immune to heat damage so long as it's less tahn 1200 CO otherwise every 500 CO you'll recieve increasing damage of 50.
No fan of Frozen throne: Cold biomes make your fire based attacks 25% weaker. Ice attack do 25% more damage to you. You're more sensitive to cold.
Skills:
Basic Fire manipulation lvl0: You posses small control over fire.
Ok that's actually really awesome! I'm OPAF no way am I gonna be some bottom feeder! With this A SHALL REIGN SUPREME! HAHAHAHAHA!
Due to gaining skill requiring magic you unlocked Mana. Mana is increased with INT and WIS.
You now possess 135/135 MP.
Damn and here I was hoping I could be OP but magic will propably limit my fire manipulation. No star throwing for me.
Time resumed again and everything gained it's color back.
„-on fire or it's insides are a literal furnace!" Shadow weaver actually looked surprised by that. „Does Lord Hordak know?" She asked with a frown. At least I think it's a frown. That mask is surprisingly expressive. Must be the magic. When things make absolutely no sense it's either quantum physics or magic.
„No mam, I have yet to inform him." Replied the soldier.
„Then you will not tell him. That's a direct order from me understood!" The room got darker and shadow weaver gained height the gem on her mask glowing an ominous red.
The soldier gulped and and nodded. „Yes mam. Understood!" As soon as they finished the soldier immediatly bolted through the door.
Shadow weaver huffed. „Didn't even allowed him to leave. I'll have to discipline him later." She looks back at me.
„I'll be watching you, closely." Even with context it's creepy. Then she leaves.
Time passed pretty quickly after that.
4 years later
I'm what 4 and half now. Kids around me playing with each other in enclosed space.
I decided that the best course of action is to scout out the competition. I remember what game told me when they stole me from my supposed home.
just because you're on the same side doesn't make you friends
From what I observed we're most likely the bad guys, so betreyal is a must.
I found few that peaked my interest.
Adora
Human
STR:77
AGI:17
DEX:47
INT:11
WIS:23
CHA:35
Lvl:6
HP:7700/7700
Her stats be bullshit! All because her perk that adds ridiculous amount of STR but surprisingly doesn't increase INT. Next!
Catra
Felinid
STR:9
AGI:65
DEX:45
INT:25
WIS:13
CHA:13
Lvl:4
HP:900/900
Both of them are pretty bullshit. Yep!
Now I wasn't lolligagging around. I managed to reach level 4!...
…
Ok, look the way I gained exp is through simple quests like: Learn how to walk and Make your bed.
They're baby steps ok! Don't judge me! As for why such a low level in four years it's because we've only started making our beds a year ago and the quest pops in every once in a while, not literally every time I do my bed, so yeah, the progress is kinda slow.
Plus I got race points with the level up. Novakid race increases everything except WIS
Stats reveal youself!
Markus
Novakid
STR:21
AGI:23
DEX:21
INT:50
WIS:17
CHA:36
SP:20
HP:305/305
MP:351/351
Still have those 20 points
I should propably puti t somewhere where I won't stand out too much. Hmm 6 points to WIS, another 6 to AGI and DEX and 2 points to INT.
Also having reached 50 in a stat gave met his perk
You have 50 Points of INT.
Perk gained.
Basic inventions: You understand and are capable of making primitive machines.
Sadly I didn't see any fire to manipulate. I can't generate it. Whitch is weird considering I'm part star but whatever.
Markus
Novakid
STR:21
AGI:29
DEX:27
INT:52
WIS:23
CHA:36
SP:0
HP:305/305
MP:373/373
I feel only slightly better about myself.
„Hey, wanna join us?" I am brought from my mussing by none other than Adora herself.
„Huh sorry I wasn't paying attention. Join you for what?" I ask with a smile.
„We were playing tag but just the two of us isn't exactly fun." She says.
„Forget him Adora. Let's find someone fun." Wow aren't you a rude one.
Quest: Play tag
Play tag with Adora and Catra till they get bored.
Reward: 50 Exp, Increased closeness with Adora and Catra
„Sure, I'll join. Just to prove puss-puss here wrong." I grin. A snort comes from Adora as she covers her mouth to try and fail to cover her laughter.
Catra's response is a slap on my shoulder you're it!" Immediatly she turned away and ran as fast as she could. Being a literal cat person means she's pretty fast.
At least Adora isn't as fast meaning that I have a snowflake of a chance in hell of catching up to her.
I look at Adora and…
Where's Adora? How long have I been standing here!? I franticaly look around trying to find Adora and spot her hiding behind a group of kids.
I sneak around others, some giving me weird looks others outright ignoring me. Adora pokes her head out like antilope looking through the high grass for danger.
I smile and hide under my, classmates? Peers? One or the other. Adora became more worried. Her head turning increasing, trying to catch a whim of me.
I'm closing in my grin widening. Closer, closer and leap!
„You're it!" I shout as I'm practicaly touching her back. Her entire body whips around, grabs my hand and then judo throws me!
-50 HP
HP 255/305
That hurt way more than I thought it would.
„Ow." I finaly manage to groun out.
She puts her hands over her mouth. „Oh I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me."
I don't respond only way to her to come closer. She crouches next to me. I slowly reach her shoulder with my hand and pat it.
„You're it." I say with a smile.
„You cheeky!"
I wink at her and do finger guns.
„What's with the commotion!" Shadow weaver bursts in. Her look reminding me of someone with migraine until she immediatly schooled it back to her proffesional emotionless mask.
She spots me and Adora, my hands still in the finger gun pose. SHe looked unimpressed.
„Adora, Markus, with me. Now!"
Quest completed
+50Exp
125/125
Level up!
150/150
Level up!
155/175
SP:12
We get up, I ignore the notifications, and start walking out of the room, leaving other children behind, I spot Catra in between other holding a small frown.
Going down a dark hallway. Stoping infront of doors guarded by two soldiers. As shadow weaver enters they salute. We stop unsure if we should follow her. She becons us to follow.
The room is cylindrical, in the middle stands a big ruby gem.
The black Garnet
Rank:Legendary
My eyes bugged out a little.
She grabbed Adora by the shoulder and dragged her to her desk. Then she looks at me and says.
„There's a desk on the other side of the room go there. You'll have a paper waiting for you too.
Without question I walk to my desk and look at the paper.
It's math. Basic math. Like first grade but instead of apples you have tasers. I snort.
„Does this seem funny to you?" I hear shadow weaver right behind me.
„No shadow weaver." I automatically reply.
„Then you won't need my help filling this sheet, will you?"
My response was to take the pencil and immediatly fill out the answers. I was done in 5 minutes.
I look back and Shadow weaver is nowhere. I look back and my sheet is gone.
„Impressive for someone your age." I look back again. Again noone is present besides me on this side of the room. Back at the table another paper lies.
My left eye twitches. I fill it again. This time it was multiplication, division and some geometry. I start to fill it out but stop just before the geometry section.
Something doesn't seem right. Realisticaly speaking how would I know geometry when this is my first time in this world being exposed to math. Multiplication and division is still somewhat passable as just eyeballing it about what their meanings are, but geometry? I shouldn't know pi or how to calculate the surface area of a 3D object. So I stop without starting anything from geometry.
„Hmm, disappointing but in the end not unsurprising." Shadow weavers voice creeps in.
BITCH! I shouldn't even know how to do the first part.
„Adora come here. Time to put both of your energies to some constructive use." She says as two soldier conveniently bring weights. I think those are weights.
„If you fail to lift the weight I give you, you'll have to spend time trying to lift other weights till say you can stop. Undertand?" We just nodded.
She gave Adora a 10 kg dumbell and me a 5 kg dumbell. Is she underestimating me?
I try to lift it but.
Your current avarage lifting limit is 2,9 kg.
I'm pretty sure other four year olds can lift more than that, I think. Screw it I'm putting all 12 points into STR bringing it to 41.
Your current lifting avarage is 4,1 kg.
I try again and actualy manage to get it of the ground, alas it doesn't last and falls down with a clank.
I look how Adora's doing and immediatly do a double take. Her face is completely red and she actually managed to lift ti all the way up to her torso. What is her strenght.
Adora
STR:79
It increased this fast!? I immediatly try again and again, over and over again I try to lift the dumbell.
I'm panting like a dog that just ran a marathon.
Adora
STR:81
It increased again! That's it! She's the messiah.
Your strenght increased by 1.
You're mocking me. Aren't you system?
I continued to lift it.
„Adora you may stop. I'll call for you tomorrow." Shadow weaver said.
„You on the other hand need to increase your physical strenght."
The hell she's on about? Adora barely lifted the 10 kg weights! I look at the retreating form of Adora.
Adora
STR:103
Fast Adaptation: Till the age of 13 your stats wil improve at faster rate.
Just. Why?
„Lift these weight until I come back. Believe me, I'll know if you really did train."
Her voice sent shivers down my spine. Don't piss her off.
I shakely nod and start pumping.
By the end I increased my STR by 5.
After that she kept calling us every day. Eventually she brought Catra as well.
Another four years passed after that.