Chapter 1: Awakening
There was total silence, when Jim woke up, he could not see anything or hear any sound, it was completely dark.
As he was trying to move around, he could not, but trying to look around he could but that did not help him much, after all he could still look around while it was hard to see around, because it was completely dark, still he could still tell that it was a big room.
Soon after he went into a panic, after finding out he was not on his boat before falling unconscious, as he thought about it, his small fishing boat never had something like this, but had to figure out where he was, for nothing changed no matter how much he waited.
He could not tell what was going on, or where he was, but after some time he figured out that he did not have a body, but seemed to be more like a ghost, but slowly he was starting to figure out how to move around.
After like an hour, he could feel like his consciousness began to spread out, that made him start going into a panic not sure what was happening, as soon as his consciousness began to weaken, he started to hear voices.
J???????????o??????????i?????????????????n?????? u????????s?????????
A????????????????c??????????????????????c??????????????????????e?????????????p??????????????t???????????????? u????????s?????????
A????????????????c??????????????????????c??????????????????????e?????????????p??????????????t???????????????? t????????????????h?????????e????????????? p??????????????o??????????w??????????????e?????????????r????????????????
While the voices made him both confused and scared, not sure where the voiced, coming from, other sounds started appearing like screaming, burning, exploding.
As his consciousness spread further, his view did as well made him able to see further and beyond the room he was in, allowing him to see more room and a lot of corpses.
As he could not take it anymore, and everything started to get worse, and it became too much as memory and a lot of information was flowing in his mind.
{AAAA}
Soon he lost consciousness again.
After some time later he woke up again and his view had changed.
What he could see was that he laid on the bottom of the sea, not knowing how he got there and why, but one thing for sure it seems he is stuck.
Just as he was looking around he noticed that the ship was heavily damaged with a lot of holes spread everywhere on the ship.
“At least now I know why this ship is at the bottom, but nothing else” he thought.
Just when he thought he was out of option the voice called out to him again.
As he was catching up to what have been happening, while he was not unable to tell what was going on, the following message he read confused him even more.
[Summon ritual been affected by outside forced]
[Error...]
“What the hell…” Jim though
[Unwanted energy and forced is corrupting the summon ritual]
[Attempt to get rid of corrupting]
[Detection extra soul]
[Detection unknown objekt]
[Ejecting corrupted part]
[Attempting saving saving the h?????????e?????????????r????????????????o??????????]
[Soul merge complet]
[Error...]
{What hell is that that supposed to mean}
[Detection host to have wake up]
[Attempt to call the system]
{Wait what}
[Attempt failed]
{Huh?, can you at least expand what happened?}
Stolen story; please report.
[According on data, there have been attempt on sabotage, recommend reconnecting for more information]
{How?}
[head to the closest t????????????????e?????????????m??????????????????p??????????????l????????????????e?????????????. Error… ]
{dammit so I got to find some kind of place or building, but first how do I even move?}
[looking for a solution…please wait]
{I guess I''m gonna have to work with what I have if I don’t want to be stuck down here forever..}
[correct]
{...}
****
Above at the surface of the sea is a damaged ship sailing, lucky it survived the storm.
While they are not completely out of danger they have to keep going until they reach land so they can get their ship repaired and report about the fight they had before the storm appeared.
While they were sailing back home they kept a lookout for pirates that they faced off with, unlike they the pirates have been worse off, and the chance of them being taken out by the storm is high if they did not have a way to do temporary repair.
And they also have suffered loss where most of them have gotten hurt, and some did not make it and died.
(Captain, I am not sure how long we can keep going without a lot of more problem arise, most of us might not be able to keep going like this) said Chath
(I know there should only be a few day..), as the captain got cut off because of the system notification he got.
[hidden quest]
Help awaken the forgotten ??????
Condition: Reactivate or give it a new power source
Reward: The ?????? will personally give reward
Punishment for failure: none
Time limit: none
Danger level: low
Note: upon completing this mission a ship would appear
[Accept hidden quest: YES/NO?]
(what the hell is this) Chath asked his captain
(I have no idea never seen a hidden quest appear in the middle of sea, most of the time if there is people in need or was asked to do something for a quest to appear, and normally hidden mission would be given out when some condition have been fulfilled)
As both of them were thinking about it, others in the ship have also been given the same quest, for now they all begin to question what reason they were given this quest.
but one thing for certain, the fact it mentioned about the appearance of a ship might help with getting back safely, after all they patched as many holes they could in this wooden ship, while they were thankfully about Chath used magic to help fix the ship, so there is no danger of sinking.
but the other problem is the ship''s sail was damaged and made it hard to keep it sailing in a straight line, to keep it from going the wrong direction.
They all understood that if they wanted to get home faster they had to keep it steady, so they wouldn''t have to stay on the ship for more days than necessary.
With that they came to conduct with the ship that could help them with this awful ship, once they get back to land, and get the reward for the bounty they completed, they should be able to afford a better ship.
but if they are able to end up with a better ship from the hidden quest, they would gladly take it,
(alright men, let’s see what we get from this hidden quest, does not seem to be a bad one) Captain Plaxtio spoke to his men.
[Hidden quest accepted]
updating quest
follow the light to where the ?????? lay on the bottom of the sea.
and awaken it
In need of magic or other form of power source
completing 0%
(alright boys, let’s get going)
****
Back at the bottom of sea where our MC was still at the bottom of the sea, unable to move any part of the ship
{Hey whatever you are, you said you gonna look for a solution to his problem I see nothing been done}
[The problem is your soul and body is a mess, and unable to produce any magic power as your new body technically don’t have any muscle, then you can’t move]
{Well that because from what you told me this is not earth, after all everything here is not supposed to be here, including me, from what you told me}
[Correct]
{Is there no way to return home?}
[No]
Suddenly a small shiny stone fell down from above, and it was giving off a blue color. The Stone landed on the deck of the ship, he was wondering about it, for he had never seen a stone shine like that.
As the stone provided some light, Jim was able to take a better look at the ship, then he realized it was an old warship from earth.
Then he had the thought of how he even ended up in this warship in the beginning, but one thing is certain the size of the cannon was huge, he was not exactly sure of the size of it.
While he was finally able to take a good look at the warship, when the stone hit the deck it started fusing with it, and he felt a tingly sensation that started from where the stone landed.
[small magic stone accrued]
As soon as he got that notification, he could feel something being gathered inside himself, and lines started to form on his soul. While trying to focus inside, he noticed a tiny blue line starting to form, while it looked like somebody used a pen to draw them they started to slowly disappear.
but before it could disappear completely there was like a heartbeat, that was able to make a bit more that was sent around to another line, as this started to happen more magic stones started descending down to the warship.
[small magic stone accrued x10]
with the help of the other magic stone it was able to kickstart more thing inside the ship, as where the corpse was and other thing started to mix together, into a giant meat room with beating heart, that was making more magic and soon started to constant make more
[small magic circle lvl 1 successfully made]
As Jim was watching all of this happening he could not understand any of it but now he started to feel like he got energy.
[Status update completed]
[Statue is now accessible]
[Say “open status” to access it]
{open status}
[Host status]
Name: Jim
Age: ???
species: warship?
Class: yamato-class warship
Lvl: 1
Strength: 0 (Inactive weapon system)
agility: 0 (Inactive propulsion system)
intelligence: 0 (Inactive computer system)
endurance: 100 (-90% broken part, armour and rust)
Ability
Incomplete Magic circle lvl 1
generate and gather small amount of magic over time
Repair lvl 1
Allow limited repair a day for the cost of magic (cost depending on amount of repair)
Resupply lvl 1
Allow generate supply from magic (while at sea, harbour and port, use material to lower the cost instead of creating through magic )
Main gun (unavailable)
secondary (unavailable)
AA gun (unavailable)
fire control system (unavailable)
engine (unavailable)
As he was gathering more information, it hit him that this is not earth as he knew, after all there is no such thing as magic, but also wondered if he would be able to use it like in the story he read.
As he was thinking back on the different stories he read, there have been a few stories where the main character was not a human, as he tried to remember what those characters did as trying to find a way out of this situation.
After time went by he noticed the magic he was gathering was also providing a little light and what he was able to figure out a lot of the corpse was not from the same world he was from, for some of them had things like wings or other body parts from animals.
Soon the system started talking again, but this time he was surprised what option he got
[Enough of material and magic for repair]
[Repair? YES/NO]
{YES}
[Repair underway]
****
Back above where the crew where waiting and working on the quest unknown to them, that this hidden quest would we different than other hidden quest they did before, after all a lot of people use the system a way to talk with other over long distance, many where happy for the people who created the system, made everyday life easier.
One good thing was hidden quests can be made from others in need, but there is also time they use it as bait to chase mischief.
[hidden quest completed]
[please clear off the area]
As soon as that word was said everyone on the ship looked around, but then behind the ship as a spot in the sea lit up weakly and some bubbles began to rise.
(Um, captain?) Said one of the crew who where looking behind the ship
(what?)
as captain answered the crew calling for him more bubbles start appeared under the damaged ship
(WE GOTTA MOVE) did a few scream
Then they all got to work getting the ship to move away from where the bubbles where appearing