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Huh?
Feydrion? Isn't that... The game I just finished?
Wait.
I'm stabbed in the chest. A familiar woman lies on the ground next to me.
Oh. Right. She's... The Saintess.
This feels great. Maybe God hasn't abandoned me completely! Although I hate the fact that it's this bastard's body, I love that I now have a second chance at life!
"Yes.. I do."
|...|
|Choice has been confirmed.|
|Registering the entity as a player|
|Please enter a username|
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"Elias."
It's not really my actual name. My actual name... Doesn't even matter anymore. This is the user ID I had always used when I played this game.
|Username confirmed|
|Synchronization in progress... 1%... 4%... 17%...|
"Ouch! Wait, that kinda hurts. Shit, shit , shit. AAAGHHHHHHHHH WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AGAIN?!"
Right when the system screen had appeared, all the pain seemed to have disappeared from Elias', no, Cain's body.
As the synchronization percentage increases, so does the intensity of his pain. He had almost forgotten he was on death's door.
As the synchronization touched 50%, Elias could no longer handle the pain, after all, he had never been in a battle. He was an Earthling. Forget pain, he hadn't felt anything in his legs for years. He had lived as a paraplegic for a large portion of his life. The sudden pain in his body kept getting worse, untill he couldn't take it anymore.
The world went black again.
However, this time, it wasn't so bad. He knew that if there was a tomorrow, it would be a much better one than all the tomorrows he has lived to see on Earth.
{2 DAYS LATER}
Elias opens his eyes.
An unfamiliar room. An unfamiliar bed. And most importantly, an unfamiliar body.
"Shit. Why are my ears ringing so bad? "
Was that... Not a dream...?
He got up from the bed. Thankfully, there was a mirror on the wall.
"Heh. Not bad at all. I could have been a model with this type of face back on Earth. Looks like mister paladin atleast had his good looks going for him, huh?"
In front of him was a specimen he thought could only exist in fiction. Tall, well built, a face so handsome, he blushed looking at himself.
He suddenly fell to the ground.
His knees felt weak. Not because of the body having lost it's strength. He was never the owner of that strength to feel it's loss anyways. It was because he hadn't been able to stand up on his own since the past 15 years.
He had forgotten the simple bliss of controlling his own body. He stumbled a bit, but he laughed even as he fell.
Now that there lied bandages around the part where he was stabbed, he could pay attention to things other than pain and death.
"System?"
...
|Player recognized|
|Hello, Master Elias. What can I do to help you?|
"Is there some kind of status screen when I can see my stats?"
|Displaying status screen|
|HP: 32/40 (-350)
|STR: 8 (-72)
|DEX: 9 (-71)
|AGI: 6.5 (-70)
|Int: 3.5 (-45)
|Mana: 35/35 (-450)
|Luck: 3
|STAT POINTS REMAINING: 4|
"...Why is the main character weaker than a fucking orc?"
These stats are even lower than that of a healthy adult! Did that dagger have some kind of curse imbued in it? Even then, I have played this game for 15 years and haven't ever seen a curse that has that big of a debuff..
"System. How can I reclaim the debuffed stats?
|...|
|Searching for a cure...|
|ERROR|
|No cure detected.|
|Master, these stats seem to be decreased permanently rather than just a temporary debuff|
|The cause has been determined to be from a spontaneous curse|
"That's absurd. Spontaneous curses are never this potent. Even the worst permanent spontaneous curse only decreases a single stat, that too by a maximum of about two."
|Would you like me to search if your symptoms match any of the known curses in my database?|
"No, that's alright."
I already know all the types of curses in this game.
There are two major types of curses in the world of Feydrion:
Spontaneous Curses and Chronic Curses.
Spontaneous curses are normally used by Shamans or Witch Classes, generally causing temporary debuffs to stats. Some potent spontaneous curses require a sacrifice to be used. Those can permanently decrease stats. However, they cannot affect the victim apart from the primary damage.
Chronic Curses are applied by supplying the victim with incompatible mana, causing their mana circuits to be gradually destroyed, leading to deadly ailments such as cancer, MDS (Mana Deficiency Syndrome), Haemophilia etc.
"...Damn it. Guess I'll have to train this body from scratch."
"System, form a training regimen to raise Strength, Agility and Dexterity."
"Let's do this."