Soul of Marcus appeared inside the same s.p.a.ce as time after the first death."You disappointed me, little one. You actually didn"t survive the year, with the help of system."
"I think, I shouldn"t give you this chance in the first place. Although, I enjoyed the moment of your death and "thing" that you have become."
"Killed by a little girl with fire powers. What a shame..."
"f.u.c.k YOU!" Aron tried to scream, the result was the same as at first time.
"Lame... You are useless."
"Ok, I will grant you one more chance. You are trash... This time, I won"t seal any of your memories. Another thing is there will be little changes in the system... The most functions will be sealed, yet databases will be untouched. Hmm, it"s your last chance. For real, even if reincarnation guy wanted to get your soul back. It will be destroyed. This time, I separate Aron"s soul from the cycle of reincarnation. As your soul was separated from the cycle of reincarnation previous time, and I fused it with his soul."
"I have a better idea! I will put you into similar "thing" and force you to watch its performance for eternity! HAHAHA!"
"Give me some, entertainment little one!"
Aron was mad, all the memories from being abomination resurfaced in his mind. The worst part was actually wasting the first opportunity and being naive. The soul was fully fused with the body, yet his memories weren"t. The memories were important as they are a source of experience.
The soul of Marcus wandered to the body of Aron, which was almost dead. The time was reversed and he had another chance.
[Body found.]
[Binding body with a soul.]
[Binding complete.]
[Upgrading system.]
"Here we go again!" His brain was full of memories from two lifetimes.
"Upgrade? My performance was bad and I got upgrade on my cheat. Motivation? Or this ent.i.ty thought that without better cheat I won"t be able to entertain it."
His mind focused on the motives of the ent.i.ty, that granted him this opportunity. The wounds on his body were healing by the system.
[Upgrade complete.]
[Most of the functions are reset or locked.]
"I want to know more about these things, system."
[Starting from the simplest things like status system.]
[Skills, traits and talents reset. Appraisal, plunder and Let"s gamble are now lv.1.]
[Most of the skills and other things are saved in Plunder database.]
[The Personal s.p.a.ce locked. The host will unlock it by finis.h.i.+ng the quest.]
[Quest system upgraded. There will be more quests and there will be different kinds of quests.]
[Professions reset. The host needs to level up them again.]
[Subs.p.a.ce level won"t be reset. The current pa.s.sive world energy generation will be 5.]
[Dexterity and agility will be fused into one stat from now on.]
[Trait Genius deleted as host isn"t worth this trait anymore.]
His body healed, so he decided to go to his hut and sleep there. There were so many things to do, the next day.
[Name: Aron]
[t.i.tle: White-haired trash.]
[Age: 11]
[Race: Human/??]
[Bloodline: Human(??), ??(??)]
[Profession: None]
[s.p.a.ce: Locked]
[WE: 30]
[Stats: STR 0.6, DEX 0.7, END 1.3, INT 3,PER 20, CHA 0.4, ART 0.1]
[Talents: None]
[Traits: Malnourished]
[Skills: Plunder lv.1, Appraisal lv.1(1/500), Let"s Gamble! lv.1]
The exhaustion of the body made his comeback hard, yet he didn"t want to sleep outside. His hut was in the same s.h.i.+tty state, still, it was better than sleeping on bare ground.
Sunlight got through the holes in the roof and woke him up at dawn. He stood up and his stomach started to protest.
"I am hungry. Rose has porridge, I don"t have other choices then. If I don"t eat right now, my body will be too weak to work."
The skills disappeared, yet there was knowledge about most of them inside of his mind. He ran to the hut, theoretically, he used the running techniques but there was a difference between theory and practice.
[Running skill generated. Running lv.1(50/100)]
The knowledge gave you something to rely on. You didn"t learn something from scratch but you were imprinting these techniques to muscle memory.
"h.e.l.lo, Rose!" She was surprised like the previous time. However, this time, Aron didn"t talk much as before.
[Quest Generated.]
[Name: Real friend!]
[Goal: Improve relations.h.i.+p with Rose. You relied on her kindness for too long.]
[Reward: 1 stat point]
"She doesn"t look like fire throwing witch. I wonder what caused such change."
[Name: Rose]
[Age: 14]
"Oh, the first level of appraisal isn"t so useful."
He ate and thanked her, after that he left. Wasting time on chitchat wasn"t his style.
"I want to see plunder database!"
[Traits: Eagle"s eyes, Abomination"s Body, Improved senses, Mutated Heart, Poison Immunity(Mortal), Poison Digestion, Venom Immunity(Mortal), Strong Legs, Strong Arms,...]
[Talents: Bow, Blacksmith, Sword, Mace, Axe]
[Skills: Blacksmithing, Smelting, Leap, Berserk, Poison Making, Manipulation,...]
[Bloodlines: Angel(10%)]
"Filter out, everything with Abomination in name, traits that will bring weird transformations in my body."
The most problematic was actually the prices of these traits. He was interested in Mutated Heart as it brought a boost in endurance and regeneration. 100 thousand World Energy. He didn"t gather, that much in his previous life.
[The prices are high, the host shouldn"t complain. You did gather more points as Abomination, as everything that you devoured was converted into world energy.]
"Let"s forget about this memory. I need to raise my stats and unlock the s.p.a.ce."
His mind had knowledge from the maximum level of farming, it was his first call. He decided to create a small field near his hut. As he didn"t have any tool but it didn"t stop him, he plucked the weeds. It didn"t take long and farming skill appeared.
[Farming skill generated. Farming lv.1(233/1000)]
"It won"t take long, I get hundreds of points every action as it"s not learning it"s only getting technique from memories."
[Farmer profession unlocked. Do you wish to activate it?]
"Yes and from now on automatically activate every new profession I unlock. Don"t ask me every time."
The farmer increased strength, endurance, and dexterity. These stats need to be raised to at least the ordinary human level. He appraised all the things, it was important to raise skill back to 5th level. The previous time, he didn"t actually appraise people much. This time, it will change.
[Farmer lv.0 (1/1000)]
He picked the piece of rock with a sharp side and used it to plow the ground. Proficiency raised fast, and after half an hour of work there his farmer leveled twice. Farming was already 7th level.
There were no seeds of crops inside of his hut, it didn"t matter much. The most important thing wasn"t resources but the ability to adapt to any kind of situation. No seeds? No problem, he started to plant weeds inside of his field. The idea was ridiculous, still, he got points and his body got little strength. Farming skill was maxed, and farmer leveled up again. These things brought him to boost of 0.3 in strength and increase of 0.15 in dexterity and endurance.
[Name: Aron]
[Stats: STR 0.9, AGI 0.85, END 1.45, INT 3, CHA 0.4, ART 0.1]
"Don"t show maxed skills. I don"t need to see them anymore."
The strength close to average and endurance above average. He rested for a moment and decided to go to Roger"s Farm.
"He helped my previous time. Work there isn"t too hard and I will get food. It"s a win-win situation for both of us at this time I am good at farming."
"Good morning. I am searching for work, do you need a pair of hands on your farm?" Aron asked Roger, with confidence. Although, he was ugly and malnourished.
"Hmm. I need someone, yet are you sure that you can handle physical labor with this kind of body?" He scanned him, as he looked like a skeleton with a little layer of skin thanks to malnourished body.
"I am sure. You won"t regret if you hire me." The boy said with confidence and Roger looked at him, with a weird expression.
"Ok, whatever. I am Roger. You will start by cleaning the coop, and we will see if you are useful in any kind of another area later." He said with emotionless voice and pointed the coop.
"I won"t disappoint you, boss."
The cleaning was much easier, this time he could actually finish it after a few hours.
[Cleaning lv.MAX]
"You have something in you. I didn"t expect these tiny arms have so much strength in them! Hahaha! Clean yourself and come eat."
He ate meal fast and started to plan things inside of his mind. The most important thing was to actually raise his stats and unlock s.p.a.ce. The system didn"t state what"s the requirement to unlock the s.p.a.ce. He decided to focus on improving his body and reputation among villagers first.
There were two professions, that had synergy with each other. The sculptor and carpenter, double improvement with half of the effort.
"Is there anything to do? I can do anything!" He said, actually he knew what to do. It didn"t point to actually go and do something. You needed to build your image inside someone"s head with time.
"Hmm. There actually is something. I want to expand fields and rocks need to be moved..."
During the work, he was lucky to increase the strength through the work.
[Unlocking the trait: Adaptable.]
[Unlocking the trait: Hardworking]
"I got them back. It"s good!"
He worked on Roger"s farm for 3 days, and they even sowed the fields together. His farmer reached 5th level and it was an important choice to make. The previous time, he used this point to improve his terrible artistic sense.
The point will be used on charisma, it"s hard to increase with jobs that he knew. Charisma influenced not the only appearance, but it also influenced the presence itself. If you had very high charisma, people would trust you without reason.
[Charisma 1.4]
It was increased, yet his body will change slowly within a few hours. The next step was getting other jobs.
[Name: Aron]
[t.i.tle: White-haired trash.]
[Age: 11]
[Race: Human/??]
[Bloodline: Human(??), ??(??)]
[Profession: Farmer lv.5(32673/50K)]
[s.p.a.ce: Locked]
[WE:153]
[Stats: STR 1.3, DEX 1, END 1.6, INT 3, PER 20, CHA 1.4, ART 0.1]
[Talents: None]
[Traits: Malnourished, Adaptable, Hardworking]
[Skills: Plunder lv.1, Appraisal lv.5(Locked), Let"s Gamble! lv.1]
Author Notice:
It"s the beginning of the second volume, I will decrease the daily release to 1-2 chapters from tomorrow onward.