Chapter 3 The First Steps (1)
POV Blaze
As I got up to wash after taking in everything I saw in my dream, let alone getting a new system, left me in quite a state of shock. Washing myself off as I stepped out of my shower, slicking my mid-long dusk gray hair away from my sadly feminine silver eyes as I looked at my reflection in the mirror. I could finally see clearly after 2 hours in the shower, and to say I looked a little different to myself would be a bit of a lie, as if some things were missing, yet they weren't.....right?
That lingering feeling of deja vu was back, as for a second I thought I saw an older me looking back at me with rough, deadly eyes, but it was wrong; the eyes weren't both silver; one was blood purple, as I fell back on the floor in front of the mirror, blinking as I panted out raggedly, my hands shaking.
{...[Unyielding Soul] has been activated to protect the user's mind from lingering effects of soul integration...}
I got up slowly, seeing the system prompt of the skill I had looking at myself. In my reflection, I saw a Black male with mid-dusk gray long hair that came down to the nape of my neck. It was fluffy, not really straight, more like a wolf's mane, hardly groomed yet not unruly. Perched on top were matching gray wolf ears and a tail that was constantly seen with a tuft of matching hair on my chest, and always my long gray eyelashes framing my sharp feminine eyes that I hated in the mirror, with a smile on my face...it matched that image...hallucination? For a new opportunity, but sadly it was also bittersweet.
As I would have to start back at level 1, thus making 3 years wasted, but it could also be a good foundation to go forward, as I wasn't the strongest compared to others in my family of mostly werewolves, the many sub-races of werewolves, demi-humans, and pure, if not mostly blooded humans.
I was looked down upon for having a standard system opposed to any variation of a werewolf system; I wasn't hated by all, just looked at with pity and regret by all but my mother, brother, and sister.
My mother had an Elite Priestess System that gave her favor with the goddess Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky and heavens. We were very well off because of that and were given opportunities most wouldn't, but sadly only my brother and sister were well off and weren't held back by my family like me...a weak rut born with asthma...and...was also previously a slave...No....Enough of that for now; I wish not to think much on my past in that regard of when I was 7. Focus Blaze on anything else.
"Think on other stuff, let my mind process everything...deep breaths don't let my asthma flare up....Ready...Steady...Heart.." I said to myself, calming my mind and my breathing, a mantra and breathing technique my Father helped me with. I continued my thoughts on my siblings.
My older half-brother Keaton Roads was given a named inter-dimensional system, its name unknown to me, and my younger half-sister Shaya-ni an Elite songstress System both living their lives how they wish. We all stay in touch, well my mother and sister do, but I try my hardest not to take handouts and make something on my own. With my own skills.
My mother and sister wished id go to a peaceful zone realm and just live an easy life, but I and my brother always wanted to adventure and be the strongest we could and make a name for ourselves.
Realms are split into different categories such as safe, standard, battle lands, or far zone. Safe zones are basic life in one of many, different earth-like places. Where normal typical life is the par for the course besides that systems are more based on talents like singing, lying writing, and artist systems even some popularity systems. Standard is the current world after the great fall wars or the end of the battle from my dream. Many worlds and dimensions blended into one.
But basically, this is where most adventures will start or come to as you'll see many monsters and beings here.
Living by the rule of strength and might be opposed to law and order death was something common here and you'd see more fantasy-like races here you'd think were nothing more than fairytales.
The universe will or THE WILL, put unbreakable laws in place for each realm, no one from a higher realm could go to the safe realm, without being suppressed if they tried to cause having THE WILL would actively hunt them down to restore balance.
Next is the battle and far zone the battle land is just that a place of endless fighting for power resources and fame but had an lv requirement to go there unless one system bypass the lv most serious people would go there to get stronger about all Which is governed by the high powers who are constantly changing.
But the far realm is a place THE WILL cannot touch. It's a chaotic place with many unknowns and opportunities, many who wish to ascend above the powers of THE WILL itself go there to gain unfathomable power.
I would never go there in my life depended on it, but there are many cracks in every realm that one could slip into, the higher realm you are or if ya have shitty luck.
"well great I'm back at level 1 and my stats are shit and I lost all the skills and magic I learned"
I'd be pissed if this wasn't a common thing for new system integrations, I could relearn them instantly if they were compatible with me and my new system, but I could also be a coin toss as the named system know the users better than them making them lose powerful skills that would not help them in the long run.
Classes are only used by either none named systems or specific class systems. For most main systems one could be a jack of all trades or a hybrid class. I was what you would call a spell night or at least that's what I made myself to be.
It wasn't easy learning magic and swordplay that meshed well. I was subpar at best sinking most of my stats into intelligence as that tends to make one smarter as well as make one's magic more potent.
However, the odd thing is my intelligence is originally 20 but with this new system, I have felt no decrease in my mental strength oddly maybe the scaling is different due to the system being different. Then again I have a luck stat now that's oddly high as I summon my system to properly look at everything as it popped up in front of my eyes on a dark purple screen.
"Time to look over everything and get into this new power" i said to myself grinning wide.