Chapter 2: Obtaining A System

Ray was at first dazed as he saw all of this because it seemed unreal.

A few seconds later,

The welcome notification faded and another notification appeared.

"You are now being teleported to the starting grounds, where all the new players will be introduced to the game and also activate their systems."

Right after the message disappeared, Ray's consciousness was pulled into another plane. Before he could fathom what was happening, he was standing on a grassy field with a cold breeze blowing over his face, making his silky hair wave in the air.

Furthermore, because of his good looks, some females were constantly staring at him, but Ray, as usual, was oblivious.

He looked around the whole terrain. He seemed a bit dazed at the scenery in front of him, as the place looked extremely beautiful.

After he got accustomed to the beautiful terrain, he looked around and saw a lot of players gathering, so he began to carefully observe the area around him.

As Ray was observing everything, unbeknownst to him and everyone else there, a mysterious being was watching them, but he was hidden by the clouds in the air .

After the being saw that everyone had gathered on the starting grounds, he cleared his throat and said,

"Welcome to my world, younglings."

Ray was brought out of his reverie by this voice, and as he looked at the source of the voice, he saw an old man with a grey beard dressed like a clown, hovering in the air. The man's gaze was sharp, and he looked at them as if he were a wolf looking at lambs to be slaughtered by his sharp maws. He said, " Now that I have welcomed you all to System Online,

Let me explain.

"It's a place where everyone can obtain systems. I am your guide. Now please open your inventory and look at the system initiated within it. As that initiator is the key to your future strength,

Also, there are different types of such systems, and after initialization, you will all be transported to different places on the continent to start your journey. Other than that, you have also been given a set of instructions and a basic system interaction guide for you to navigate within this world.

After saying these words, the man waved his hands, and a blue screen with the word "inventory" came into Ray's view.

Ray clicked on the inventory and saw a stone appear in the inventory with the words "initiator" below it.

He took out the key and held it in his hands. not daring to open it, as he first wanted to observe some people before doing so.

Immediately after, he heard a voice, "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ha! ha! I got a rare poison ability system. It was a burly-looking kid with brown hair and a rather normal-looking face. Right after the kid spoke, he vanished in a flash of light.

Afterward, the old man's voice sounded. "Oh! And one more thing, each system has a grade as well, and the higher the grade, the better the system. " After saying that, the man took out a scroll and tore it.

Ray then vanished and reappeared in front of a seashore.

Ray looked around and saw that no one was there, so he opened his inventory and took out the key that was within it. The key was the system initiator, as he had read a lot about it and it was even taught in his school, thus he had to form a blood link with it to initiate his system activation.

He sat cross-legged on the sandy beach and cut his hand open, allowing blood to drip on the key. As soon as the blood touched the key, it merged within it. Right after the blood disappeared into the key, a mechanical voice resounded within his consciousness and said

The scanning of the body and soul has begun.

:-Body strength: average.

-Soul strength: Unidentifiable

-Bloodline:?

-Special attributes: Unidentifiable

-Spiritual balance: perfect.

ERROR!!!! ERROR!!! ERROR!!! ERROR!!! System initialization has run into an issue.

"Huh!"

Ray was taken aback as this had never happened to anyone. Could it be a bug or something? "What bad luck, and here I thought that finally, something was going my way," Ray muttered under his breath as he waited for what would happen next.

As Ray waited, a sound came from within his consciousness.

"Ding! System error identified; unable to correct the error due to outside interference; the system has been influenced by a celestial being."

"What!",

Ray blurted out loud, "Just what the hell was wrong with the world today and now otherworldly beings?"

Ray thought that his luck had run out or someone had put a curse on him. Therefore, Ray resigned himself to his faith and approached the system with caution.

As he focused back on his system initialization, all of a sudden an old sagely voice sounded in his head, " Congratulations child, for you have been chosen as the master of the "Versatile System".

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As Ray heard this new voice, he could not take it anymore and fainted on the spot. Although he was young and was not easily scared, he had the responsibility of his family on his shoulders, so he could not take it anymore and his consciousness blurred.

As for the sage-like voice, it just sighed and left a message behind in the system. After doing that, the voice left the plane altogether.

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A few hours later, Ray opened his eyes and sat up from his position.

He thought back to today's events and knew that he might have fainted from shock. Therefore, he steadied his heart and approached the system interface with caution. Although this was a game and a way for him to get stronger, he did not want to start with negative levels outright.

After opening the interface, a message resounded in his mind.

" Young lad, although you fainted after hearing my voice, I wanted to tell you that you have a supreme power within yourself and, due to this power, you were granted the VERSATILE SYSTEM, although most of its power has been bound by the shackles of destiny and will only unlock when you start to get stronger and change your fate into one that can uphold this great power. Use this power to aid you and also treat the system well. " The same sagely voice stated,

Ray was now even more confused. What did that guy mean by " treat the system well?" It's just a system, right? Ray shrugged it off and looked at his system, and what he got after that startled him so much that he fell to his bum,

Another voice sounded in his consciousness and it was yawning, " Yawn!!! "So good to finally be awake".

Ray now really thought that something was wrong with him or there was something wrong with him as he was constantly hearing so many voices in his consciousness.

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A/N:- The chapter is finalized and fixed.