《Journey to Godhood, Breath by Breath》 Chapter 1, The Day everything went right. Upon his throne in the center of the universe God looked through small viewing portals at the worlds that have varying states of sentient life and grew bored. He had viewed the many different universes and worlds that the other gods had made and walk on but his are boring! So he sat there reading a light novel about the MC who reincarnated with a cheat skill but everyone... there... has... Game Mechanics governing their life! It''s the perfect idea but if I go this route than I''m sure a lot of people will die but if I make some rules to monster spawns and where monsters can go than that will solve the problem since I don''t want to be cruel. I should make some mayhem but not much and I should also create a ''police force'' to govern the newly superpowered people and create a sub dimension for monster ridden safe zones with higher than normal difficulty similar to a dungeon although I should make that the main source of monsters. Although I need to structure it just right with the stats and skills. --Ambiguous POV-- Down on earth nothing was really happening that could be seen until a voice started shouting from the skies being heard by every single person on the planet regardless of location or sleeping although the latter don''t reallyprocessit. "HELLO MORTALS, IT''S ME GOD AND TODAY I FOUND A WAY TO PERMANENTLY CURE MY BOREDOM! TODAY THE UNIVERSE CHANGES TO MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLE AN RPG WORLD MEANING MANA AND MAGIC AND OTHER SUPERHUMAN ABILITIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE AND AS A SMALL GIFT DUE TO THE FACT THAT I''M PRACTICALLY THROWING YOUR WORLD INTO CHAOS OUT OF SHEER BOREDOM I HAVE GIVEN EVERYONE OF YOU A SINGLE WISH THAT WILL BE GRANTED FROM YOUR FIRST THOUGHT OR DESIRE THAT RESEMBLES A WISH AND SAID WISH ONLY HAS A SMALL LIMIT BUT THAT DOESN''T MATTER. GOODBYE AND REMEMBER IN ORDER FOR YOUR TOWNS AND CITIES TO REMAIN SAFE FROM MONSTER SPAWNS AND BEING OVERRUN YOU SHOULD EXPLORE THE NEW WORLD SINCE IT WOULD BE BORING IF YOU DID NOTHING AND I CAN TAKE AWAY THE SAFE ZONES SO MAKE IT INTERESTING. ALSO BECOME ADVENTURERS SINCE THE WORLD IS NOW 10,000 TIMES LARGER WITH NEW THINGS TO DISCOVER AND EXPLORE, AND YES I DID SCALE THE UNIVERSE AND CELESTIAL BODIES TO BE LARGER. OH ALMOST FORGOT, IF YOU WANT TO EXPLORE THE CITY YOUR IN WITH IT BEING OVERRUN BY MONSTERS LOOKING JUST LIKE A POST APOCALYPTIC CITY JUST USE THE ''MONSTER CITY'' COMMAND, HAVE FUN." Once God had said his piece he engaged the changes to the universe making not only Earth bigger than before but also have a different Geography although nothing was removed just more was added, like a DLC of a game. But the changes to the universe on a large scale don''t matter since this is all about our Main Character, Clair Fairchild who hasn''t had any family since her mother died when she was 10 leaving her an orphan for the last 7 years with a nice family fortune and steady income from investments and a fairly large house near her high school. It is not her past or her current address that are important rather the thought passing through her semi unconscious mind, the words specifically being "Wouldn''t it be awesome to become the strongest just by breathing?" And after the thought passed a small ping sound echoed around her room chronicling the change in her life. --Clair''s POV-- Waking up from my lazy Sunday morning sleep in I opened my eyes to some blue screen asking me if I want a retelling about God''s message so I went to press no but accidentally pressed yes due to mylethargy. Images and sounds flashed through my mind like memories as I snapped to full wakefulness and sat up and viewed the screen in front of me showing something about a wish and the change to the world but what I saw was one of my dreams! THE GAMER POWER! Jumping up and getting ready for my morning err, afternoon I ran downstairs and made myself French toast and coffee and ate it all before speaking the magic words. "STATUS!" *Ping*
Welcome to the World System, to view the different windows and tabs use the following commands.Status: View information such as stats, levels and class.Condition: Shows HP, Stamina and MP. Also the three bars in top right corner of vision are, Red = HP, Green = Stamina, Blue = MP.Affinities: Shows magical affinities that corresponds to the different elements that magic uses.Skills: Shows the different skills and abilities gained through life and the store.Store: Shows the system store to purchase items and skills/abilities. Can also sell items.Inventory: Shows the Inventory and Equipment screen, carry capacity is governed by strength although weight does not affect the user. Navigation of screens can be done verbally, mentally or physically while focusing on the system, thank you for reading the tutorial, here is your status screen.
Name: Claire Fairchild Level: 1
Race: Human Class: N/A
Strength: 11 Agility: 15
Vitality: 14 Endurance: 14
Intelligence: 15 Wisdom: 15
Perception: 15 Dexterity: 13
Stat Points42,000
Looking over at the screen It was as I thought but I''m wondering why I have those stat points and to get the answer I opened my Skills screen and saw a skill I didn''t know I had.
Breath ofGod Ability
Rarity:Unique Rank: SS
10 Stat Points for every breath while Status screen is closed.
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The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.As my eyes bugged out I quickly looked back at my stats and realized how OP my ability is and quickly opened the small screen showing what each stat does.
Strength = Raw physical power, carry weight and how high/fast you can leap. Agility = Run speed, sense of balance, Physical Multitasking. Vitality = 1:10 Ratio of health, resistance to Illness and poisonetc.etc. Endurance = 1:10 Ratio of Stamina, Physical Defense, Resistance to pain and fatigue. Intelligence = 1:10 Ratio of Mana, Memorization and Recall, Mental Multitasking. Wisdom = Mana Regen, .01% per 10Wis, Knowledge Comprehension, Structured thinking, Mental resistance. Perception = Reaction time, visual clarity, sensory sensitivity and ability to see hidden things. Dexterity = Flexibility, Hand eye coordination, Precision of movement and strength/speed control. Base Mana/Health/Stamina Regen rates cap at 15%/Sec and any additional regen is determined by skills/items.
Looking at my agility stat shows a surprising fact in that my average sprint speed is 15 mph meaning that agility roughly equals a 1:1 ratio of points to mph so if I increased that to over a thousand could I break the sound barrier? Shaking my head I got back to deciding how to distribute my points before an idea popped up. At the moment I have no skills that would use mana and although I won''t neglect it I should focus on physical combat for now so I begin distributing my points. But after putting 1,000 points into Intelligence and Wisdom I realized that the point distribution would be wonky with only 40,000 points and realized that if I waited 10 minutes I would be able to put 7,000 points into each stat since I would have 42,000 again. So I waited for a few minutes while planning what to do once I have been able to get magic and decided to go a Mana Lord route from one of my favorite OP MC online fictions from the authorZigeron RRL. Once I hit the 10 minute mark I opened my status and saw 42,000 points on the dot so I put 7,000 into my stats and prepared to leave the house careful not to destroy anything. Outside I looked around and saw many things no doubt from momentary fantasies like an elf or a Centaur with some of the more extreme physically changed people panicking slightly before the floating magical robots calmed them down, WAIT WHAT!? Looking back at said robot and observing every micrometer distantly acknowledging the near silent pings going off about a hundred times before I started to see outlines inside of the machine but they were hazy at best and hard to focus on but my concentration was broken momentarily by a loud ping in my head.
You have unlocked and leveled up Inspect by 100 levels, New skill Mana Vision has been granted. P.S. You should speak with a Sentinel about your rewards for getting each stat and all stats above 1,000.
Reading over the notification I opened my skills screen and there they were, Inspect and Mana Vision and reading their descriptions I tried to locate my mana but I didn''t know where to look for it and since skills aren''t automatically activated with a prompt only abilities and spells I need to learn Mana Manipulation or it''s equivalent. Leaving the thought of mana for later I walked up to the nearest Sentinel and asked it about my rewards for my stats passing 1,000. "Scan shows all stats passing 1,000 selecting skill books for individual stats and total stat rewards. Here you are Clair Fairchild." After speaking in thoseclich¨¦GPSvoices,I got a notification of 9 items being added to my Inventory so opening said Inventory I found nine skill/ability books and thankfully the Intelligence skill book was Advanced Mana Manipulation so I went back to my house and pulled them out to look at them.
Would you like to learn Advanced Mana Manipulation? Y/N
Before selecting anything I asked what the notification means and a help tab opens detailing about how selecting yes would destroy the book but give me the basic knowledge about manipulating mana and a level 1 skill but if I took my time to read and memorize the whole book I would get the skill at level 5 while keeping the book so I obviously started reading and promised myself to always learn skills this way. Reading through the book it first told me the difference between the normal skill and this one is that it draws from more than just the Intelligence and Wisdom stats but also Perception and that starting with this skill rather than the normal one will help with gaining all elemental affinities later. It took close to an hour to perfectly memorize the entire book before getting the notification about gaining the skill at level 5. Putting the book back in my Inventory I looked at the Perception book and saw the skill Multi Spectrum Vision and started reading and memorizing with such enthusiasm I myself didn''t know I had. As soon as I had the skill and knowledge of it''s use I tried to see the world in Infrared before switching to X-Ray but sadly there isn''t much of it around so I can''t see much but it''s enough to see flashes of the world through objects but despite my Perception being high I can''t do much more than see momentary bit''s of it all so I cut off the skill before getting started on the others. In the end I got Meditation, Perfect Equilibrium, Partial Tactile Telekinesis so things don''t crumble as I carry them, No Friction so when I run I don''t burst into flames and create tornadoes from the air resistance, Battle Regen that allows me to regenerate my HP while in battle normally and Adamantium Body that makes me as durable as Adamantium without the metal. Looking at the final book the skill was surprisingly called Beginner''s guide to superhuman performance which goes through an entire walkthrough on how to use my new abilities to their max so I started reading until I hit the Agility section and it started explaining how The Flash could run up walls. "So he uses the speed force to keep the amount of force he generated to run on the wall to basically run on the wall as if it was the ground with 9 m/sof force? And I can do something similar with mana? Okay I will try that later." Continuing to read through the book I found so many tricks of the trade that superhumans do to practically defy physics without actually doing so. Like The Flash uses his generated kinetic energy to warp space for FTL speeds and Superman controls all forms of gravity affecting him including his own gravitational force to fly, it''s fascinating since I now understand all of the equations in the book and their references. (AN: Sorry couldn''t resist) After reading the whole book and memorizing it I looked at the clock and realized that I had done all of that at super speed since only two hours have passed and in total since I received the books 3 hours had passed so I opened my status screen to view my new stat points. 36,000 points over 3 hours huh? Well I should distribute them equally between all of my stats and leave specialization to later. So putting the 4,500 points into every stat I leave the house and look around to see several people flying or running around at pretty high velocities and several people outside of town or in the sky fighting monsters. Seeing as many people are treating the new world as a game I decided to do the same thing so I took off running toward the Space Needle and leaped toward the top, actually managing it before using a command that will soon become my favorite. Chapter 2, The lol Feeling my excitement bubbling up I took a deep breath and spoke "Monster City." And like I always saw in post apocalyptic movies the whole city was trashed, cars were on fire or squished and buildings with holes in them or completely toppled over and there were zombies, trolls, wyverns and various other creatures running around the place. But there were also other people here no doubt power levelling and some were using power sets from various fictional characters. That woman used a Rasengan, the other guy is Flying and using Heat Vision and someone is using Psionic Constructs like Green Lantern does Will Constructs. Oh there''s a real life HULK too, man it''s all becoming underwhelming huh? Drawing upon my mana I created 2,000 mana arrows and launched them at level 20 zombies and controlled them for 2,000 instant kill head shots and thankfully their loot automatically enters my Inventory. *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping* *Ping*
Congratulations for levelling up 30 times in under 2 seconds for this achievement 1 random Epic Ability will be granted
Immortality Ability
Rarity: Epic Rank: S
Immortality of your entire being, as long as your soul is intact and there is a single cell of your body in the universe.
"FUCK ME! So now I''m Immortal? Oh that''s just perfect now I can have real fun." Stepping off the Space Needle and hitting the ground killing a couple Ghouls before running straight for ''The Big Guy'' aka the Titan. Accelerating straight to Mach 1 and jumping I just straight up punch the damn thing throwing it skyward with cracks spider webbing through its torso and drop back to earth where I heel drop on its stomach breaking and killing it and creating a small impact crater on the road. Looking at the horde of zombies stumbling towards me I see a couple guys who no doubt think men are superior laughing at me so I decide to prove them wrong. Gathering mana into my hands I cup them over each other and attune them to lightning and fire while drawing every spec of knowledge I have about physics and specifically, plasma. Taking a particular stance the guys instantly recognize what I''m doing and get out of the line of fire before I throw my hands forward after the plasma stabilizes with my mana containing it and fire the plasma as a beam at the horde of a hundred zombies incinerating them. "Hey David, did that chick just recreate the Kamehameha? Damn I''m jealous of that girl. Haa well let''s go somewhere else." Listening to the three stooges talk and walk away I turn around and saw even more zombies coming my way but I was low on mana so I decided to try something. I ran toward the zombie at the front of the horde and didn''t put an ounce of force behind the punch, just as much speed as my body could produce, which was nearly 16 times the speed of sound. The resulting shockwave and mini explosion killed over a hundred zombies netting me another level before I jumped high and landed on the underside of a broken windowsill in a 6 story building before pushing myself off using my Partial Tactile Telekinesis to keep the building from breaking and smashing into the center of the zombies creating another shockwave killing the rest for another level. Walking around the area I collected my loot and ran to the top of a nearby intact building to sort through my new collection of items. So I got a LOT of raw materials, a book on basic magic, a book on blacksmithing, a basic enchanting book from the titan and some store credits, but no potions sadly. Shrugging I left monster city and sped home thankful that the Sentinels prevent breaking and entering and pretty much all other crimes inside safe zones and the obvious loophole of dragging someone outside the safe zone to harm them has been fixed with a monitoring system to track such attempts since it can see through anything and the sentinels can''t be harmed or hacked due to their ''Indestructible'' and ''unhackable'' traits, plus they can freely teleport. Sitting down I started reading the books and getting the skills before realizing that I have none of the needed tools to use enchanting so for the first time I opened the store.
Welcome to the Store
Enhancements Weapons Armor Accessories Books Support
Selecting the support tab and the Tools sub tab I found individual tools and tool kits so I narrowed the list further by selecting {Enchanting} and {Complete Tool Sets} and found 5 sets of enchanting tools.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. Obviously the best was the most expensive but that cost 1,000,000 credits but I didn''t need the best with the benefits so I picked the ''All purpose Enchanting set'' which cost 40,000 credits and could be used for everything that enchanting could do and be used for. Once the set was in my Inventory I walked to my basement which has few things inside it and selected the auto place for my enchanting set which shows me a ''hologram'' of the set up equipment and placed it in a corner to the left of the stairs with the benches against the walls. Sitting at the bench I grab my shoes and place them in the enchanting circle and recall the runic language and piece together the enchanting structure with the runes. As I finish putting them together I placed the Permanency enchantment over the Durability enchantment and start pouring mana into the shoes with the combined enchantments in mind. Surprisingly it took a quarter of my mana for such a enchantment so I started enchanting the rest of my clothes with the Durability enchantments until I had completed them although I was dangerously low on mana so I started meditating until I was full again before repeating the process with self repair enchantments which thankfully took less mana. Opening my Status screen I saw I had 34,470 stat points so I did an even distribution of 30,000 between Intelligence and Wisdom and split the rest. As I finished I noticed that It was the end of the day and had some dinner in the form of Alfredo but as I washed the dishes it was then that I realized that everything had happened in only a single day, and that my ability is extremely OP considering my stats compared to my level. Falling asleep I thought on what to do tomorrow before deciding to run around the original continents just because I can. --Next Day-- Getting up in the morning I got ready in my reinforced clothes which Is just my exercise clothes and ran out for the ocean after placing waypoints on my map to guide me to my start point and around the continents before coming home for school since it''s still happening apparently. But before I start I should assign my stat points, opening my status screen shows 108,000 points so I split the points between all of my stats evenly for 13,500 equally bringing my agility up to 26,132 meaning I can run around the continents in under an hour. As I sped out to my waypoint on the ocean and took off at slightly over 26,000 miles per hour I saw another person doing the same thing no doubt because he wanted to run around the continents as well or more likely the planet but he''s going way too slow for that sadly since the planet is 10,000 times larger now although the continents relative location with each other is the same. Running next to the guy I saw that he left a sort of continuous after image that blurs with his movements like there''s something accelerating him besides his own agility stat and it looks familiar for some reason. (AN: Smallville super speed effect that Clark gives off, said effect started in episode 15 of season 3 where the after image effect was first used.) Ignoring the distant memory in my head I ran next to the guy to have a conversation while keeping track of my waypoint positioning. "Hey, nice day huh? Isn''t it surprising that despite moving faster than sound we can still talk? I think it''s due to the way our brains process information at these speeds, besides it''s been proven that while moving faster than sound it''s possible to talk you just need to process the sound wave properly to understand it and we can do that since you can understand me." (AN, again: it''s true since the relative speed of their running and processing speed of their brains can understand words spoken at supersonic speeds since the wave is being moved outward at their speed + the speed of sound so ignoring the howl of air from moving that fast it sounds practically normal to them.) Nodding his head the guy answers his own idea about Intelligence and Wisdom increases can increase such an ability as long as Perception isn''t too far behind. Then I asked him about his super speed and how it works, "It''s just a basic super speed ability that magnifies the effects of my agility by 1,000 so my 27 agility becomes this and my ability makes drag and friction a tiny fraction of what it should be while my ability also makes my clothes able to withstand the forces involved in moving at these speeds." "Huh, so it''s not Kryptonian super speed or the speed force? Well I wonder what those abilities do?" And thankfully the guy just answers. "The Kryptonian Speed ability just magnifies the Agility effects by 100,000 times and the speed force by 1,000,000 times with both having a few minor effects that I don''t really care about." Nodding my head we kept running surprisingly on the same route before I asked him a question that really bugs me. "How are we doing this? Not just the speed but the amount of calories we should be burning just from running like this, the only thing I can think of is that the way we burn energy has been changed." "Your correct, you see our dependency on food and air are essentially the same however the percentage it represents on our performance lowers with every point put in our stats, for our speed if you started with 10 points in agility and added 90 points through the system your food would only represent 10% of the energy you burn when you run and the rest is our stamina which is a form of energy that is exclusively for physical use, Health is the same way." That actually makes sense so I just nodded my head and made the left turn but he made a sharper turn since he had finished his run while he told me about the book he learned it from which sadly is a unique book so I can''t get a copy. Hitting the halfway mark I realized I''m going slightly lower than top speed and sped back up and rushed to complete the run while thinking on whether or not I should buy a flying ability. Coming across Seattle I slow down and went home to get ready for school.