《RE: Gamer - 16th Century》
Prologue- The Rebirth
I don''t know where I am, dream world maybe, yeah last thing I remember was sleeping and here I am in front of cat lady, definitely a dream alright, but I am confused why a cat lady not like I was into that kind of stuff, bah whatever I should wake up soon anyway.
"Congratulation young man, due to your chivalrous act of sacrificing your own life for others has earned you a ticket to rebirth, now tell me what do you want to be born as" she says giving me a broad smile
"wait wait, I died?, moreover I sacrificed myself? that''s not popossible" the heck I am dreaming about this kinda stuff now, gas shouldn''t read too much Ln from now.
"hahaha, shock from the impact huh, well let me help you remember it then" Ho the dream is continuing whatever let''s see where this goes.
something flashes, I remember it, like watching a movie everything flashes back, to be precise I was returning back home, then it happened, I saw a cutie who was on collusion course with a trtruck I normally couldn''t have bothered with it, yeah I am a heartless jerk.
But somehow something was strange as if I lost control of my body and as if it reacted with a mind of its own it jumped in between the cutie and truck throwing the cutey out of the way, normally this is where you could think I could have died but wrong.
I too managed to escape or not, while in mid way of escaping the truck hit my foot sent me half flying half falling, I could have lived if not for the follow up car that did me in, sigh......still something doesn''t fit.
The way I lost control of my body, it''s not like how some stupid hero say cheesy lines like hey my body moved on its own to protect you and bullshit, it''s more like somebody just took control of it.
Too detailed for a dream, did i really die, eyeing cat lady in front of me, I was about to ask my question but was rudely cut off
"I don''t know anything" she says nervously looking away.
"........you did it didn''t you" I accuse on a wild guess, I spot a slight fidgeting movement in her
"why could I do that, I..."
I cut her off and continue "I don''t know you tell me, one thing I know is that I didn''t do it, after all I couldn''t have cared even for a human being so why the he''ll could I risk my life saving a fucking cat?" maybe because the situation is too surreal or because I still consider this a dream I am all too calm.
"because it''s cute..." she replies on reflex and looks a little offended, it''s now 90% confirmed she is the culprit
"sigh...so that''s why you did it"
"darn it, it just had to happen right after I lost that bet and act like this, I will make that moron pay" she muturs in a low voice "you got me, that''s right I did that, so yeah as compensation I am giving you chance to choose and be whatever you WANT So hurry up and CHOOSE NOW"
A sheet of paper appears in front me skimming through it I find all kind of ability and skills, if I am going choose anything it has to be that right.
"gamer ability, heal all and mana manipulation please" I answer going with the flow.
"there are better abilities you know, but then again this makes my job easier I guess" she snaps her hand and it blacks out.
After unknown amount of time
I wake up, see it is all a dream sure could have. ?.......fuck it''s real.
"Ken, you are finally awake" hmm...Japanese?, a women in her early twenties is hugging me crying.
Hnn. ?....my body feels weak, hey aren''t I supposed to be a new born baby so why am a little big.
"the onmyoji''s prediction were true, I almost gave up hope.....hic..hic...finally...finally" she continued to shed tears hugging me.
I wanted to say something but words refused to come out, seems like I can''t speak, without knowing what to do i simply sat ther but not before long my stomach growled, the woman releases me and looks at me smiling.
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" ah right you must be hungry, here drink this" She hands me a bowl that seemed to contain some liquid, drinking it I could feel something cool go down my throat filling me up.
After several gulping down and silent momentso later, several other adults are here in the room, from what I can understand from their conversation I have been asleep for 2 years since birth, though at first thought to be a demon child but later found nothings wrong after consulting with a onmyoji, it seems mother was pretty against the idea of me being a demon and to have me offed, so she fled to an onmyoji''s family to have analyzed.
And thank the gods they declared I am normal human and added to it declared that I am blessed child of God, also explained that only reason I was sleeping was because my bodies need to get used to the gods blessing.
Aside from that I seem to be taking this all too calmly, gamer ability at play I guess, how nice, well I guess that''s also art of the reason for me not freaking out about the reincarnation thing I guess.
After that I am left alone, only the woman....my mother I guess, seems to be taking care of me, trying out teach me all sort of things a child needs to know.
A month later,
OK I am freaking out now even despite the gaming ability, god dammit I have been born in middle Ages it seems, though at first I thought I was either born in a traditional family or village so I didn''t mind the lack of technology, but in the past few days I have seen undeniable proof about me being in middle age and not the modern one.
Noooooo. ?.....I miss my dawn Internet, facing he''ll why did she have to reincarnate me here in this time line, sit shit shit.....I am calming down, funk it''s irritating how I can''t even feel emotions normally fuck anything I feel dies down easily.
Sigh...I can''t even feel depressed for long, so this is how it feels to be too calm, haa.....no use thinking about it now I guess gotta make do with what I have.
Time for status Window.
Name : Ken Race : Human
Title : None Fame : 15
Level : 1 Hp : 100 Mp : 100 Stp : 100
Regen : 0.1/0.1/1
Str : 10 Agi : 10 Int : 10
Dex : 10 Vit : 10 Wis : 10
Luck : Good
Skills
Gamer Level Basic 1
All heal Level Basic 1
Mana Manipulation Level Basic 1
Hmm.....I seem to natural know how to control and use mana somehow, probably due to the skill, it''s like cool liquid in my body.
Anyway feeling the liquid I take it out of my body, imagine it changing into air and spreading around as a wave, I can somehow feel whatever it passes through.
TING
SKILL GENERATED
Mana Wave Basic Level 1
Generate a mana wave to scan your surroundings. Cost varies distance varies.
Right I forgot using mana and casting elemental spell are two different things, sigh how stupid of me, now I have no clue on how to use it, but none the less I should at least try.
After several more tries all I got was different spells on mana like mana blast, mana bolt, mana sphere fuck it it''s all either mana this or mana that.
OK maybe certain stuff can only be learned after being taught, I have no idea where should I even begin to learn elemental control, since there is onmyojis there should be mages right?
Just trying out new things will be doing this as side project of sorts.
chapter 1.1
OK that''s it I had enough, medival time socks, life without electronics socks big time, thank the gods for my gamer skills if not I could have gone nuts and killed myself, am I exaggerating too much?
Hell NO, my life so far is getting up very early in the morning if not get forcibly awakened, run small errands around the house, take lessons on basing things from mom, eat shifty food, repeats the rear and part again till midday, train with an old man and practice meditation till sun down eat shifty food again and sleep.
Why was I doing all that ananyway answer is mother fled from her hometown to avoid getting me offed, after onmyojis confirmed I am not a demon child but a blessed one instead, they requested my mom to stay here.
Figuring it could be best that way she did just that and has been working here as servant for the past two years, since I woke up a month ago I was left alone for a month in which time mother was drilling all sort of knowledge in my brain, as soon as I showed a hint of understanding I was pulled into the servant thingy.
Dammit I should have acted the dumb brat part and lived freely for a few years at least, from what she told me if I laze around when young I will laze around when old, so better start working as soon as possible.
Since then I have been worked to the bones, bring that bring this clean that watch this, sigh...it''s been the busiest week I am ducking frustrated and as if that isn''t enough, I also learned that normal children are left alone for at least 5 years before they start what I am doing.
Why did I start early because I acted like mature brat and got what was coming for me, added to that my mother is strict, strangely so, why do I say so because though it isn''t obvious to others it is to me, her thinking is entire fucking realms apart from, I don''t even want to go into details.
Apart from that me being gods blessed which earns me special status among the onmyojis but being birthed in a low class also restrict me it seems, they can''t bully me like all other low class due to me being blessed but at the same time put me on a high horse like every blessed should be but since their ego can''t allow that they made a compromise and put me near the high horse.
You don''t get it?, we''ll simply put I am assigned as bodyguard/servant of young master of the house, he is soon to be head of the family and also trains in arts of onmyoji, he is also a highly talented one on top of being blessed.
So yeah that said I haven''t really met him, not that I are though, what I have been doing now is meditate to sense spirits, once I complete some basic arts will be taught and once I am of a proper age to train my body I will be put through hellish training in order to become the guard.
I gained spirit sense and spirit mastery a few days back but keeping it a secret just so that I won''t be forced into other trainings, another reason is normal kids take over a year or so it seems.
Anyway recently while cleaning I have spotted a very interesting room with books, now don''t think for a minute I am a bookworm, I am not the patient type, what was interesting was when I took the book it asked me if I wanted to learn the skill in it, yes is what I wanted to say but that may royally screw me over.
If the dawn book disappeared I could be in trouble, so the only way to go about it is learning or making a copy of it, since I can''t get a paper I went for the alternative of writing in wood, bamboo to be precise, coping the text in the book whenever possible all around the day.
I estimate it could take months before I finish it, I seriously am considering the option of running away after that but there is also the reality of much worser fate waiting for me outside here.
The only positive with the whole deal is I am gaining quest and rewards in the fo3m of xp for the various errands I run, if not this could be seriously boring, still though I don''t seem to be leveling up at all, I don''t even know what I need to level up, irritating.
As for the skills I have been grinding them daily, the routine is cutting myself to bleed and then use heal spell to close the wound, the heal spell heals 1 hp per 10 mp, it also has a cool down of 10 times the usage time, I.e., if used it for 1 sec it has a cool down of 10 secs.
This made it a impossible to spam it, what I did was cut myself in the hand, bleed till I lose 10 hp, then use the heal spell, since it takes 15 or so minutes for the mana to recover I can use it only 15 to 20 times a day, i try to keep it a secret as much as possible, also just to erase any evidence I collect the blood in water container bamboo and store it in my inventory.
Anyway I have only gained 2 levels in it so far, also with every level mana consumption is reduced by 1 and also for every game like action I take like using spells or completing quest I level up the gamer skill.
For every level I gain in the skill some game like options unlock, gamer mind had been the defaultly unlocked option it also acts as quest box, then for the first level I gained it was inventory, which I gained the very first day of awakening, the next level was map, after which was status display, though with each level the experience required kinda jumped 4 to 5 times more.
Anyway since I don''t want any unwanted accidents I have not messed with mana manipulation since the first day, put it more precisely since I learned heal spell couldn''t do a pest for a while I decided to stay out of trouble.
So the skill details were like this
Cure and Heal All Basic Level 3 :
Cures any minor infection, heals 1 hp per 8 mana, has a cool down of 10 times the usage time.
Gamer Basic Level 4 :
Allows the user game like abilities, further options will be unlocked on leveling up the skill.
Options Unlocked : Gamer mind, Inventory, Map, Status Bar Display.
Mana manipulation Basic Level 1:
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Allows user to manipulate mana and control it like an extra limb.
Spirit sense Basic level 4:
Senses spirit of all living things and spiritual beings.
Spirit mastery Basic level 2 :
Allows the usage of spirit energy.
Mana Wave Basic Level 1 :
Forms a wave of mana to scan the surroundings, cost 20 mana to scan 5 meters.
Mana bolt basic Level 1 :
Forms a bolt of mana, cause 15 damage on impact uses 15 mana effective range 5 meters.
Mana shield basic Level 1 :
Forms a shield of mana in shape desired by user, cost 20 mana capable of taking 10 damage lasts for a minute.
Mana spear basic Level 1 :
Forms a spear of mana to be launched at the target cost 20 mana, causes 40 damage and has a range of 10 meters.
I deleted the other mana skills I formed the first day since most of them were the same or useless.
Moving on, the old man with whom I meditate is called Sei, not much of a talker, rarely opens his month, the only time he spoke more than a few words were at the first day when he explained me the meditation process.
Well anyway my mom and him are the only two people I see daily, others either don''t bother with me and go on about their business or don''t even look at me when I cross by.
Thank the gods I don''t have to act like a brat since I intact with very few and thanks again for my solitary personality I don''t feel lonely either.
The days roll by and the daily routine of running errands, meditating and skill grinding repeats itself.
After 1 years :
I don''t know when but I got used to this lifestyle, But i did it may have been due to either meditation or gamer skill, either way I was able to put up with it.
I gained intermediate level in healing spell now it heals 1 hp for 1 mp and once I reached intermediate level the cool down time has also been reduced, I am guessing with more levels it will reduce more, it is able to heal deep wounds and infeinfections.
As for gamer skill once I reached intermediate level I gained gamer body, as for what it says my body will regenerate limbs or organs as long as I am healed to full hp, yeah real cheat option alright, the other option unlocked are all basic game options such as mini map,quick slots, ally enemy marker, Id viewing etc, etc.,
its becoming more and more game like, anyway I still haven''t told them about the spirit sense or mastery, I overheard some speaking about how disappointed they were and so on, they are even considering chasing me out.
It''s seriously time to decide on what I should do, for one if I revealed I am capable I will be put under training, to become body guard for the young master of theirs, my work could include fighting against demons and oni, which I seriously don''t want to do, but other option is getting kicked out into unknown world.
I am pretty confident in myself to travel the world so that''s what I decided to do wait until I am kicked out making my preparations for the event, my mother however seems to have earned a spot as permanent servant for their family, after I stated about what I am going to do, she tried to change my mind but gave up with time.
Eventually she came to accept it could be better for me to be a sisimpler son instead of being onmyoji, she somehow appealed to her master about keeping me about as a servant.
There goes my planning on roaming the world, though not like a 3 year old could do much anyway.
4 years passed by as me being a servant, I am 7 years old now and can either continue as a servant or find a craft master to study under, of course I choose the later.
Though even after a year some tried to make an onmyoji due to me being a blessed one, but gave up as I showed no progress, along the years I copied down all the books in the house, even made multiple copies of it.
I also found out there were hidden text in some books that can only be read using spirit sense, I copied it down too, using the copied down books got me variety of spells like, barrier arts, cleansing flames, divinations, spirit vision and so on.
It really was a good harvest well worth the effort, I even learned some martial arts named Formless River, we''ll it kinda passively affects my movement, as soon as I learned it I kinda know ow how to move on my own and even when I miss my body corrects itself as if it''s like a muscle memory, it''s even imprinted in my day to day movement.
Good thing no one noticed it, anyway today was the day I am officially sent of to learn a profession from somebody, after taking the clothes, money food and other news either packed by my mother I bid her farewell.
I also kinda got a recommendation letter from the master of the house mainly due to my mother''s work I think, that should help me get in anywhere is what she said, onmyojis are highly respected and treated as nobles it seems.
Anyway the class system is divided into high class and low class, high class are, Royals, Shotguns, Warlords and Samurais, while the low class is farmers, craters, traders, prostitutes and other working class.
Anyway what I choose to learn was blacksmithing, there are two reasons, one being the good money and respect I will earn, the other reason is foreigners if I am right, this should be 16th century or so, meaning some of them should read his Japan and they love the swords, so I learn the craft I should be able to get a free pass to travel around, I mean it''s a highly valued collective item and maker of such things should be welcomed at least.
Though I hate the manual labor what I learned over the years is sometimes you just have to such it up to earn the benefits later and in my case the gamer skill does make it somewhat easy for me.