Even the once-a-man from Earth can't quickly adopt himself from this absurd situation.
' This is absurd, what the hell? Is this a dream? Did I get kidnapped? Did I get experimented? '
This kind of thought pops up in my head like a machine gun.
Looking around in the room, there's a rather medium sized mirror on the side of the bed. I was at the table when I came to myself so I quickly headed in the front of the mirror to confirm my suspicion.
Quickly analyzing my new appearance, what appeared baffled me from my very core.
A girl in her teens, height reaching 164 cm(5.4 ft), fair white skin, deep dark eyes, violet hair, and a petite body. Wearing a dark cloak and a skirt just barely reaching the knees and if one would take a closer look are minor scratches and small bruises in her arms.
With a completely baffled expression , trembling eyes and trembling voice, a complete turn over to his usual expression but is now being displayed on the face of a girl.
"…Absurd, haha, really absurd…"
***
After a few hours of contemplation. Most of the scenarios I've thought of were quickly dismissed as to truly make sure it was reality and not a dream. I tested the 2 most reliable senses when it came to differentiating dream to reality: the sense of touch and pain, and those are working without a doubt. Fully realizing that this was now reality and being a female on top of that.
' I really don't care about being a woman in the first place… still, it's inconvenient. I have lived as a man for all my life. '
Quickly analyzing my situation and circumstances.
' Technically, I would now have to live as a girl and most things I do in day to day life would change. Still, I don't think I would compromise that much as I think of just living just the way I am… with just some slight minor adjustments.
After all, most of the things I've experienced on Earth are not because I have bad personality or mental problems that made others just naturally hate me... It's just mostly circumstances, probably… I think… Anyways!'
Quickly dismissing such rather uncomfortable thoughts.
' Ehem, I had a gut feeling of who this girl is supposed to be, after all, the reason why i was so surprised after seeing the appearance of myself is because it appeared in the game i was familiar with, despite not even playing it myself.'
There was also a reason why, I did not go too deep in thoughts such as 'was I kidnapped?' or 'did my body get experimented on and got turn into a girl?' is because of the existence of "that".'
Standing up from the bed, and facing the mirror then murmuring:
"Status"
***
[Status]
Name: Nyx
Level: 10
Title: None
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Intelligence: 12
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 8
Speed: 2
Mana capacity: 12,000
Attributes: Gravitational Magic (S), Hollow Born (SS), Mental Clarity (A)
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***
Yep, a transparent floating screen like those you would see in video games do appear.
'It's even floating just right above my eyes, like some AR technology. It definitely has a mystical feeling towards it.'
On the side note, there's no point in dwelling on it any further as self evident as it is. I'm also rather tired of overthinking already. So I quickly shifted my attention to the original identity of this body.
'Regarding the identity of this body, this is the character in the hidden route in [Solarion Academy] and the final heroine… Nyx.
After these lines of thoughts, stopping midway with my expression crumpled from sudden realization.
'That pretty much means… I'm screwed, I don't know anything about this character at all except than the fact that she's the main target in the hidden route, more importantly is that she will only appear with some specific requirements.'
I find myself in a rather inconvenient situation. I'm not even completely knowledgeable about everything on lore itself as I did not even play the game. The streams i've watched all just pretty much focus on the romance aspect rather than deep diving in the lore. On top of that, a character that is completely unknown to me?
'…Annoying.'
With a heavy sigh of resignation and regaining my composure and focus. I focused my attention back to the floating transparent screen [Status Window] and shifted my attention to specifically on these four things;
[Gravitational Control(S), Hollow Born(SS), Mental Clarity (A), and…. Gift].
The existence of 'gift' makes me feel very uncomfortable as my head is making numerous unconscious conclusions, but my instincts tell me to postpone it for now.
"First… why don't we check [Gravitational Control (S)] first"
Then it showed a rather simple explanation
***
[Gravitational Control - S ]
Details:
" Allows command over gravity itself."
[Gravity Command] Allows Complete Command to the sorrounding gravity. The stronger the command the more MP it uses and vice versa. It's power correlates to the knowledge of the caster itself towards [Gravity].
[MP Required] 5,000 MP
[Gravity Touch] The caster can apply gravitational elements to non-living objects and living objects through touch and freely manipulate it.
[MP Required] 5,000 MP
***
Unable to maintain my calm expression, my expression crumbled from the absurdity.
"No way? That's absurdly broken is it not?"
With enough MP, i could pretty much do anything with [Gravitational Command], Well, as expected of it's rank "S", its possibilities are very strong but the MP activation required is also quite absurd exhausting nearly half of my mana capacity…
' Well, why don't we test [Gravitational Command]
Focusing my attention on the wooden cup in the table and remembering how magic is used based on the novels and comics I've read…
1 minute…
5 minutes…
10 minutes…
' That's quite… embarrassing.'
A red flush appeared in my cheeks from embarrassment.
' Of course I can't, how could I just be able to instantly use 'Magic'… Technically, it's even stranger for me to suddenly accept all of this nonsense…'
A deeper flush appeared even more in the face of the young girl, it looked rather out of place but if there were any onlookers, they would most likely get mesmerized.
' Myself… stop blaming me. Damn it, haaah. What can i say, for a long while in my life. I felt excitement… it's not like I read fiction novels and comics for no reason… '
Instead of being fully embarrassed, I was quite annoyed. Since I have to do this stupid act without any information on how to do so.
Moving on from [Gravitational Command], I've tried to use [Gravity Touch].
Touching the wooden cup and thinking of making it as light as air… My eyes sparkled and I unconsciously let out a wide smile.
'Wow… it's really floating… amazing.'
***
After being completely absorbed by the ability and trying out different experiments with the Wooden Cup, activating the ability did truly end up eating 5,000 MP but maintaining it is a different story, it doesn't need that much to maintain it.
I've also learned that I can apply [Gravity Touch] to myself by touching my self directly '…that came out weird…' coughs, anyways while floating, due to various reasons, I've completely forgotten about the mana usage to maintain the magic which ended up in me falling with my rear in the floor.
Afterwards, after spending hours with [Gravity touch] and falling to the ground which caused me to snap back in reality. Regaining my focus and composure, I have decided to move on to the other things in the status window. Leaving [Gravitational Control - S] alone for now.
Then shifting my attention to the ominous looking attribute next to Gravitational Control, it was filled with red letters and a tier higher than the S rank [Gravitational Control].
[Hollow Born(SS].
Shifting my focus on the attribute [Hollow Born (SS)]. My gut feeling about the appearance of this attribute is because of some rather forbidden deed that's outside of the scope of social norms. Hollows after all, are the replacement of monsters in this World, but I couldn't be truly certain. Even so, in the game is that SS attributes and above are supposedly to be very rare and mostly only limited to the main cast themselves.
***
Hollow Born(SS)
Details:
"A half breed of a Human and a Hollow, a truly miraculous feat."
[Hollow Born]
• You are granted a 100% boost in growth in experience in all of your status.
• Completely Nullifies any debuff caused by mana.
[Mental Corruption]
• You are most susceptible to succumbing to your destructive impulses. The more you lose control of your emotion to destructive impulses, the higher the chance of losing sanity. This leads to [Mental Corruption] and will lead to the process of becoming a complete [Hollow].
>[The trait [Mental Corruption] is currently being blocked [Target: Destructive Impulses] by [Mental Clarity(A)]<
• [Impulsive Desires] Any emotions will be greatly amplified.
***
That absurdity of 100% boost is so ridiculous that it makes me even think that being a Hollow Born is just pure cheating but the trait [Mental Corruption] paired with [Impulsive Desires] definitely says a different story, thankfully it seems like [Mental Clarity (A)] is suppressing [Mental Corruption] which is a great relief…
[Impulsive desires] doesn't seem to be that much of an issue looking at it as compared to [Mental Corruption], I feel like it was just there to amplify [Mental Corruption]…
'… Damn devs, what in the world are they thinking of creating a character with these mental traits.'
Looking at my arms filled with cuts that look to be from excessive scratching tells me that the mental health of the original body is not in a good shape…
***
Mental Clarity (A)
Type: Passive Attribute
Effects: "Grants the user exceptional emotional clarity, psychological resilience, and mental adaptability. Disables [Mental Disorientation]."
[ Skill has classified: [Mental Corruption] and [Impulsive Desires] as [Mental Disorientation]
[Attribute is being automatically used to disable [Mental Disorientation] in [Mental Corruption] [Target: Destructive Impulses]
[The authority of [Mental Clarity (A)] reaches its limit. Fails to block [Target: Greatly Amplified Emotions ]
***
I can't help but frown in annoyance. After all…
'It's barely holding on… it is understandable since [hollow born] is an SS rank attribute. Even so, It's also not like the game developers are dumb enough to add overwhelming negative traits to a heroine without a silver lining.'
Shifting these uncomfortable thoughts aside to a different one, something that i actually find to be interesting is the fact that this character is a half-breed.
'Half-breed huh… from what I've remembered. While most of the Hollow beings are mindless monsters.
Hollows are beings that are pretty much the replacement for 'Monsters' in Solarion Academy, pure hollow beings came from [Corruption]. But every living being can get corrupted, it basically turns you into a mindless being only driven by instincts to lead carnage and destruction and is done through the exposure of [Corruption].
But even so, while most corrupted are mindless.
In the game, hollows that showcase intelligence do appear, some are even sentient with intelligence and most even resembling humans but from the streams, these traits are only reserved to S rank Catastrophic Hollows which are boss level threats in the Game.
Analyzing my physical appearance, my theory that I was born from a humanoid Hollow rings truer even more. Practically no part of my body has any physical appearance of that of a Hollow.
So in other words, I'm born from an S Rank Humanoid Hollow or even higher.'
This entire thing is already giving me a headache. In your common RPG, you would have your common races such as Elves, Dwarves, Demons and lastly Humans. Being a half breed born of Human and a Demon is already bad enough and more than enough to cause racial issues to the point of slavery or at most execution.
' That pretty much means a half breed of a human and hollowed pretty much guarantees for me to get executed on the spot, and that is what surprised me the most. from all the streams, the existence of a half breed of a human and a hallowed being is zero. Even in the lore, only a half-breed of a demon and human do appear, after all, that half human and half demon is one of the heroines in [Solarion Academy].'
Anyways, the chances of being found out is very low but still not non existent…
'…If it is found out, I'll guess I just die then.'
Finding the thought funny, I gave a light giggle.
It also seems like the the abilities of what each attribute can do has been sorted out and turned into 'abilities' in the Status Window:
[Status]
Name: Nyx
Level: 10
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Intelligence: 20
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 10
Speed: 5
Mana capacity: 10,000
Attributes: Gravitational Magic (S), Hollow Born (SS), Mental Clarity (A)
Abilities: Gravitational Command(S), Gravity Control (S), Hollow Born (SS|Passive), Mental Corruption (SS|Passive|Suppressed), Impulsive Desires (SS|Passive|Inactive), Mental Clarity (A|Passive|Active)
It's quite funny to see a clear mental illness to be labeled as an ability, Regardless, it does make it so much easier to check for future references.
***
After some time of sorting out my thoughts, I've finally redirected and steeled myself from the situation I've been putting aside a while ago.
While, it isn't most likely to have information on why I transmigrated, but the possibility of having clues on 'why?' is also not completely out of the question, after all... this thing is what leads me to transmigrate here in the first place.
Shifting my gaze towards it;
> Reward Available <
| Chapter 1 - Nyx (End)