Chapter 2: Obtaining a System
I was awoken by sound of a feminine voice saying, "Processing to binding the system to the host...5%…28%…57%...88%...Completed." Confused I try to shake off my drowsiness and look around in an attempt to find the origin of the voice before I heard it speak again, "Welcome Host to the Gate System!"
Hearing that I mutter, "System?"
Almost instantly the voice replied, "How may I assist you host?"
Surprised when I get an answer back, I try talking to it again only this time I ask.
"Can you show me my stats?"
At first nothing happens I thought I might have just been hallucination the whole situation that was until I saw screen popped up in front of me.
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Name: Ash Harper
Title: None
Job: None
Race: Human
Age: 13
Level: 1
Exp: 0.00%
HP: 25/25
MP: 0
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 5
Constitution: 5
Intelligence: 7
Wisdom: 4
Charisma: 4
Luck: 14
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Stat Points: 0
System Points: 0
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Looking at the stats I came to the realization that if I have nothing to base these numbers on, they all mean absolutely nothing. After thinking for a moment, I decide to ask the system.
"System, what are an average person's stats for my age?"
"Stats are usually between six and eight for an average teen except for the luck stat the average luck stat for an average teen is between three and six."
I was surprised I never felt particularly lucky before at least not more so than the normal person.
As I was messing around with the system, I heard my alarm go off telling me I had to get to school. After getting ready and out of the house I made my way toward the school.
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I spent the first period talking with Grace I made sure to avoided the whole I have a system topic and before long we decided that we would hang out after school.
Soon first period was over and Grace and myself had to go to different classes and we only shared first period for the day. Sitting through the rest of my classes for the day I zoned out most of what the teachers were saying as I spent most of my class time asking the system different questions. Of course, I was asking them in my head as I would look very strange if I started talking to myself.
By the end of the school day I had learned that at the moment the system has three main menus stats, quests, and the shop.
The stats menu as can probably guess is mostly just about showing my personal stats in a number value and if I level up, I will get three free stat points that I can use to increase whatever stats I want.
The quests menu gives me missions that I can complete to get rewards the rewards will vary depending on the difficulty of the quest some quests even have a penalty or time restriction to complete them. It seems that the difficulties range from F as the easiest all the way SSS which is the hardest difficulty a mission can have.
At the time I only have two active quests.
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Quest: Work out for at least an hour a day.
Difficulty: F
Duration Remaining: 9 Hours
Reward Choose 2: +2 Stat Points - 10 System Points - 10 Experience
Penalty: -1 Random Stat Point
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Quest: End the semester as a Straight A Student
Difficulty: B
Duration Remaining: 107 Days
Reward: Random Ability Token - 1280 Experience
Penalty: You will lose access to the shop for 1 year
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The penalty on the second quest was worrying but as long as I increase my wisdom, intelligence, and study hard, I should be able to pull it off.
Lastly, the shop allows you to buy items, skills, abilities, and even bloodlines. Too bad anything good cost way more points than I have. I did learn that you can get point by defeating mobs unfortunately I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere the only good thing about living here is that if you dive an hour in any direction you could hit a different major city.
However, it's not like I can just go around beating random people so I would have to avoid that route until I can find a way to do it without getting arrested. The other method is to complete quests however the drawback is quests aren't always available and there limited not to mention some quests don't even give system points as a reward. The last way to get system points is to sell stuff to the shop. Just as I was thinking about how to complete the quests and what I can sell to the system the bell goes off.
Ring! Ring!
Hearing the bell, the teacher dismissed the class and I made my way toward my car but as I'm walking, I see Grace and call out to her, "Hey, Grace."
She turns around and sees me waving at her. Grace made her way over and we started talking about our after-school plans, we decided that we would meet up in two hours at my place for a movie night.
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When I get home, I decided that it was probably a good idea to start my workout so I would have it out of the way before Grace came over. Changing into some more comfortable workout clothes I start jogging down the gravel drive. One of the advantages of living in the middle of the country over ten miles out of town is that finding running space and privacy wasn't really an issue.
After running the first mile I started to get worn out. Dragging my tired body, I made my way back to my house and started to work on my core shortly after I started, I got a notification form the system.
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Exceed your limits + 1 Constitution
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Not going to lie I was starting to lose my motivation but as soon as I heard what the notification said, I felt a burst of strength. As I started doing more workouts, I noticed something interesting it seems that the workout was a little easier than before it was kind of a bizarre feeling.
I had managed to increase my constitution by 1 and my dexterity by 2 points before I got a notification from the system telling me that the quest was complete.
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Quest: Work out for at least an hour a day.
Difficulty: F
Reward Choose 2: +2 Stat Points - 10 System Points - 10 Experience
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I chose the stat points and the experience. Accepting the rewards, I ask the system to pull up the stats menu and use one of my free stat points to increase my wisdom.
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Name: Ash Harper
Title: None
Job: None
Race: Human
Age: 13
Level: 1
Exp: 20%
HP: 30/30
MP: 0
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 7 (5)
Constitution: 6 (5)
Intelligence: 7
Wisdom: 5 (4)
Charisma: 4
Luck: 14
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Stat Points: 1
System Points: 0
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As soon as my wisdom stat changes from four to five, I felt the difference it was like I could finally think straight for the first time.
Closing the stats menu, I headed to the shower and after cleaning up and changing into a clean pair of clothes I made my way toward the kitchen to make dinner mac and cheese with bacon in it.
Right when I was finishing up Grace arrived.
"I've got some mac and cheese ready if you want some.", I said.
"Yes please."
Grace then proceeded to grabbed a bowl from the cabinet and got some food before making her way over to the couch in front of the big TV.
I text Evan and Alex telling them that there's food on the stove if they're hungry before grabbing some food myself and making my way to the couch. Sitting next to Grace I ask what she wants to watch.
"Can we watch the new season of RWBY?", she asked.
"Sure, let me pull it up.", I said before logging into my rooster teeth account on my phone and cast to TV before starting the video.
We spent the rest of the night binge watching the newest season and by the time we finished the it was getting late and was time for Grace to head home.
After seeing her off I made my way to the kitchen to clean up the dishes.
Finishing up I made my way to my room got in bed and crashed.
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