I, Shirou Emiya, am currently standing in a void with the only visible thing being glaring blue text saying
[Congratulation! You Died]
[Do you want to play a game?]
[Yes/No]
while wondering what life choices led to my current predicament.
It all started when my surrogate sister Fuji-nee (Tiga Fujimura) gave me a broken gaming console made by a certain company that is known more for its lawsuits than games. Fuji-nee thought her little brother was too much of an introvert, and playing games is a good way to make friends.
If you are wondering Did I die from playing a game? How? I didn't.
I am also a magus, someone who does magecraft. Being a magus means walking with death. But I didn't die while doing magecraft.
After I fixed the console, Fuji-nee invited herself to play a game with me. We played for 100 rounds, and she lost all of them consecutively. So she showed her sisterly love with her favorite sword, the infamous torashinai. It turns out my head isn't hard enough for a raging tiger's love.
Now, what do I do here?
Me: "Hello, is there anyone?"
???: ["Hiya, Shirou-kun. I am here. It seems you have died unjustly. So, I have brought you here to give you a chance. You can stay dead or you can play my game and return to the world of living."]
Me: "First of all, who are you and why can't I see you? Secondly, what is this game that will help me return to life?"
???: ["I am a higher-dimensional being. Your thought process can't comprehend me, so you can't see me. You can call me system."]
Me: "I think I can understand about higher-dimensional beings, but why 'system"? And you haven't told me about the game.
System: ["System, cause I like it. Now for the game, it's Open open-world game where your actions have no restrictions. The world is boundless; you will explore it as you wish. This system will help you achieve your goal and reach the pinnacle of life."]
Me: "If you can help me reach my goal, I will play your game. But please give me more details."
System: [Host has accepted to play the game. System binding initializing in 3..2..1..]
Me: 'When did I accept?'
System:
[Binding started…
Connecting to Akasha… connection established!
Progress….1%
Analyzing the host's body...Complete!
Analyzing Host's Soul….. Complete!
Analysing Memories ….. Complete!
Creating Hosts Lifecycle timeline….
Lifecycle created!
Progress….23%
Starting Skill creation phase in 3..2..1…
Lifecycle operations=>
Separating major life Events…
Separating Knowledges…
Separating Habits…
Operations complete!
Loading necessary data…
Starting comparison with lifecycle…
Creating Skills… complete!
Parsing Lifecycle to Sprit Origin…
Spirit Origin Created!
Clearing lifecycle cache… complete!
Progress… 60%
Retrieving World Data…
Categorizing lifeforms…
Creating Quests…
Creating Reward Mechanism…
Progress… 80%
Hiding Host from world correction…
Recreating the Host body for gaming mode…
Progress… 99%
Clearing unnecessary cache…
Suspending connection to Akasha… Complete!
Progress… 100%
]
That took a long time, and I didn't understand a lot of things. Hopefully, now I can get answers.
[Ding! Binding Successful!]
The bell sound hurt my brain, although I don't have a body here!.
Me: "Can you turn off the bell sound, please!"
System:["Nope~"]
[Starting Game Introduction Tutorial…]
[Think "Status" to see your current Saint Graph data]
I think Status and get the data directly. I don't see it as visual but understand everything. Its pretty efficient.
[Spirit Origin:
Name: Shirou Emiya {Current name}
Title: Not Equipped. You can gain the title by completing the main quest. Equipping a title can give special effects.}
Level: 0 [0/1exp] {Level represents your progression state. You get experience by doing quests.
Class: Foreigner {System is an outer domain existence; having contact with it makes you foreigner}
Alignment: Balanced Neutral
HP: 1000/1000 [regen 200 per min]{Effective hp= HP*END, Effective Regen= regen*VIT}
MP: 1/1 [regen null]{Effective MP= MP*MP pram, Effective Regen= regen*INT; Used for Magical Attack}
SP: 800/800 [regen 50 per min]{Effective SP=SP*END, Effective regen=regen*VIT; Used for Physical Attack}
ATK: 254 {Effective Physical Attack=ATK*STR, Magical Attack=ATK*INT, Combo ATK=ATK
Points: 0 {You get points by doing Quests, and can use them in the System store}
Parameters:{ multiplier compared to average human}
STR: F- {Strength}
END: E {Endurance}
VIT: E {Vitality}
AGI: F- {Agility}
INT: F- {Intelligence}
MP: Null {Magic Pool or Total Prana}
LUK: E- {Fate, Karma, Luck}
NP: ?? {Most Powerful Noble Phantasm Rank} ]
["Host Now think skills to see your skills"]
"Skills"
Skills:
[Gamers Mind-EX] (Passive):
-> Let the user calmly and logically think through all situations.
->Immunity to mental status effects.
->Increases Learning Speed.
[Gamers Body-EX](Passive):
-> Let the user live as a game character
->Restores all HP, MP, and SP if rested in a safe area.
->All debuffs except special ones are removed during sleep.
->Can reconstruct body if soul is protected. (Active) {Points required}
[Observe-EX](passive):
->Can get general knowledge and known facts about the subject passively.
->Can get all knowledge with creation and usage compatibility. (Active){Points Required and depend on the subject.}
[Pain Tolerance-EX](Passive):
->Decreases Pain sensed massively.
->Decreases Damage taken by 20%
->Increases Spell Success rate by 18%
[??????-EX](Passive):
->Increases Healing
->Increases HP
->Increases VIT
[??????????????-E~EX](passive):
->Please complete the special quest to unlock details.
[Archery-A]:
->Specializes In Kyudo.
[Cooking-A+]:
->Can cook amazing food.
->Can learn Ingredients and food states passively.
[Technician-C]:
-> knows about repairing objects.
-> Knows how to create objects.
->Can use magecraft to enhance the effect.
[Magecraft-F-]{Something is wrong with your mage craft, please find and fix it.}:
->Can bring scientific possibility to reality through supernatural means.
Spells:
[Projection-E]:
->Can materialize objects from user's imagination.
[Reinforcement-E]:
->Can increase object structure integrity by adding mana/prana.
Skill Creation:
->You can create a new skill by performing a set of repeatable actions.
["Host you can use inventory by thinking Inventory. You can store items you own there. Its capacity Increases with your level. You can also see what Items you are equipping from there."]
"Inventory"
[Inventory](1/4):
->??????(equipped){Observe?}
"Observe?"
[Do you want to observe "??????"?
You require 100 Billion Points to do the following:
Increase Mana pool, Acquire Knowledge of ???, soul, healing, barrier, activating magic circuit, etc...]
"What the hell! Why is it even equipped for me? I don't even have any points."
["Host, don't worry about it, it's good for you. As for points, you can get them by completing quests. You can see quests by thinking 'Quest'"]
"Quest"
Quests:
[World Quests]:{You complete world quests to unlock world travel}
->Quest will load in 12Months
[Main Quest]:{Compulsory quest}
->Complete the tutorial.{reward: exp +5, inventory space +6, items can be stacked upto 10 of the same thing in inventory, points +10}
[Character Quest]: {You get a reward for your personal improvement. Rewards are distributed at midnight on the selected day. You can get better rewards by improving more.}
->Increase your physical fitness
->Increase your magical fitness
->Increase your knowledge of the world and beings living there {knowledge about powerful beings yields better results}
->Learn/Improve skills
->Learn more about people you already have a relationship with {friends and foes both are counted}
[Side Quest]:{Optional quest. You will get them while interacting with people and exploring the world.}
->Find error in your magecraft and fix it.{reward: exp+100, MP rank null->E-, MP -> +270units, points +100, 1 SR gacha token}
["Now with the boring things out of the way, let me introduce you to the most interesting part of the game, 'Gacha' here, you can get skills, items, spells, powers, waifus, and many more. Gacha draws are done with gacha tokens. You get rewards with the same or higher rarity as the gacha token. 100 draws from the same rarity token will yield next rarity rewards. But the count resets if the next rarity reward is drawn early. With gacha rarity being C for Common, UC for Uncommon, R for Rare, SR for Super Rare, and SSR for Super Super Rare.
["As a new player, you can get 10 free UC tokens, from which you will at least get one Rare reward. But to maximize the suf... I mean, fun, you also get another draw option. Where you will be able to draw from SSR pool but you will also get a demerit that will be permanent until you complete the World quest."]
["So host what will you chose?"]
"I chose-