The young man froze,
'What...was that?'
The voice wasn't coming from inside the room, it echoed directly inside his mind.
A sense of unease crept over him.
"Excuse me," he asked cautiously. "But who are you?"
The voice answered almost instantly.
For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
He was looking in the air where a transparent screen appeared.
It was floating in front of him, just like how you'd expect a game window to behave in real life.
It described his current state.
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[Name: Owen Androm]
[Age: 19]
[Race: Human]
[Gender: Male]
[Level: 1]
[Exp: 0/100]
[Class: Classless]
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[Health: 100/100]
[Mana: 25/25]
[Damage: 3]
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Skills:
none
[Skill Points: 5]
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All he could do for a few seconds was stare.
'Did I get transmigrated?'
One question after another flooded his mind.
'Isn't there a Goddess who is supposed to welcome me? And what about my plot armor? Shouldn't I get some kind of reward?'
Surprisingly, Owen managed to stay calm and composed, though still a bit overwhelmed.
He took some time to process the situation.
The fact that he died on Earth from the electric shock wasn't nearly as shocking, overshadowed by the system window floating before him.
The system spoke again,
A window appeared again.
-- -- --
[1 Star Classes] : [Warrior] [Mage] [Archer]
[2 Star Classes] : [Assassin] [Healer] [Hunter]
[3 Star Classes] : [Berserker] [Arcanist] [Ninja]
[4 Star Classes] : [Paladin] [Necromancer] [Gunner]
[Special Classes] : [Engineer] [Seducer] [Tactician]
-- -- --
Owen examined the list.
"Special class?", he said, waiting for an answer.
But none came this time.
"Silent huh..."
He quickly moved on.
Immediately, three classes caught his attention. The choice was almost instant.
[Necromancer]
[Gunner]
[Engineer]
No description was given for any of them, so he could only guess, carefully weighing the pros and cons.
Fortunately, two of the classes were self-explanatory to some extent.
[Necromancer] was the easiest.
He had seen countless examples in novels and anime, but especially manhwa.
Raising armies of undead, reading the dead's memories, creating weapons out of bones.
The possibilities were endless, but so were the drawbacks.
High mana usage, poor physical abilities, social stigma.
Owen came up with realistic disadvantages to the seemingly overpowered class.
Next was the [Gunner] class.
It probably had the best versatility and power of the whole list.
A plethora of weapons to choose from, varying range that allowed mid to high range damage, powerful bullets charged with mana.
He had seen it all in the games he played.
The problem wasn't the class.
It was the world, Arcadia.
The house he was in suggested a medieval world, with elements of magic technology.
The best this world could offer him was probably a flintlock, charged by mana.
It was hard to choose [Gunner] in this setting.
'The class itself isn't bad...', he thought with a regretful mind.
He moved on to the last one, the [Engineer].
As the name suggested, it could mean a lot of things.
A Magical Inventor, an Artifact Specialist or a simple Blacksmith.
Without proper information, there was no way to know.
After a minute or two, he finally made his choice, proud of his reasoning.
"I guess I have my answer then. System, I'll choose the [Necromancer] Class!"
He was confident about his decision being the best of the three.
Owen widened his eyes and his heartbeat quickened.
"Wait what- No! Cancel! I don't want this class!"
He rejected immediately, making sure no mistakes were made. After all, it was the class he wanted the least.
His hands were moving in the air, signaling a strong no.
As if mocking him, the system ignored him completely.
"HEY WAIT!!"
A loud shout could be heard across the entire house.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED!!", he cried out loud.
Owen was devastated.
He had just lost his only chance at living the life he always wanted.
Fame, Money and Power disappeared in the span of a few shouts.
But he couldn't argue with the system anymore as the door of his room opened suddenly.
A beautiful brunette woman burst into the room of the young man.
"Owen! Are you ok in there!?", she asked with a pale face.
But the question didn't register in his brain.
He had already forgotten the [Seducer] class incident, his attention hijacked by an entirely different problem.
The young man could only stare at the mature woman like a little kid hitting puberty, his eyes drifting down to her chest.
Memories of the former Owen instantly surfaced in his mind.
The woman who appeared in her thirties was in fact his new step-mother.
Vanessa, a widow of war.
She had shining brown hair and striking blue eyes.
Owen spoke with a blushing face, averting his gaze.
"Y-yeah... I'm fine", he forced an awkward smile, "Sorry...mom."
'...Mom?', Vanessa blinked in surprise.
After making sure everything was ok, she finally left the room.
His mind was still lingering on Vanessa, or rather, her chest, even after she left.
But he had other problems to solve.
Owen came back to reality a few seconds later.
'This is fucked up!'
Of all the classes he could have obtained, they gave him the one he least wanted.
'What am I even supposed to do now? Get a bunch of women to fall in love with me?'
He halted momentarily, contemplating the not so bad idea.
'Wait, that's actually...not bad, right?'
His thoughts were conflicting. He gave it some thought but couldn't reach a definitive conclusion.
Not only did he get the class he wanted the least, he was actually anticipating it a bit.
He sighed deeply.
'Well, let's see what my class and skills look like...'
He reopened his status window to examine his class properly.
[Seducer [Special]
The Seducer is sadistic, perverted, and likes to play with the mind of the ones he hypnotizes. He manipulates their emotions by making them succumb to their desires and makes them his slave. He grows the more slaves he makes and the stronger they get.]
'This class feels so wrong, I think I actually like it...'
[Illusion (Lv.1) {Active}
Creates an illusion based on the user's wish. The bigger the illusion, the more mana it consumes. Moving illusions increase the mana consumption rate proportionally to their movement speed.] [Mana: 1/min]
'That's...pretty good actually. I think this skill will be quite useful when hunting monsters! Well...if there is any that is...'
[Tempting Voice (Lv.1) {Active}
The user's voice carries a hypnotizing energy, which encourages people to believe his words more easily. The user has a chance of completely hypnotizing a target whose Mental Resistance is lower than himself.] [Mana: 15]
'Am I supposed to be some shady sex offender or something?'
[Memory Read (Lv.1) {Active}
You can read the memories of the people you have completely hypnotized.] [Mana: 0]
'Hmm...That one might be a bit tricky to u-'
Owen wasn't given the time to finish his thought that another screen appeared. It was red this time, as if announcing an important message.