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You Were Human

  I wake up and see blackness or is it whiteness? I couldn't tell and it is hard to remember what I was doing before this. I believe I was talking to some people, and something happened. A flash of light with a voice that said something about a refresh. As I try looking around to see something I notice I have no body and so no, wait, how do I to know if I'm turning? I don't know how long I waited but I should be panicking, right? But after some time, a blue box appears.

  I couldn't tell if I was reading the words or if they were being spoken but as it finished what it was saying, I could feel a fog leave my mind and I could start thinking clearly.

  "What do you mean, you are putting me in the role of a Fiend Prince?" As I spoke, I could hear my voice echo in the nothingness of this place.

  'Wait only one more question! I have only asked one well. I need to make it a good one.' As I thought about my question, I realised that the black and or white of this place was slowly changing. Then I had my question.

  "What is my role to be exactly in your world?"

  And that was it the blue boxes were gone, and I was left in the nothingness with still many more questions and no answers. But with the blue boxes gone, I could feel the mind fog coming back. I try to hold it off but with no way of knowing how it worked, it slowly started taking over my mind. Just before my mind was completely consumed, a new blue box opened.

  As I was reading the box, I felt the mind fog start to receed. 'I will have to hope that I don't stay here too long, or I might lose myself.' As I finished reading the box, most of the fog had left my mind.

  "Why is my name in question marks? My name is..." But I couldn't bring myself to say my name as a new blue box appeared.

  "Well, that's giving me some anxiety. Why does a name have to be so important?" As I think of what name to choose because I don't want a cringy name especially if it will affect me! Then a name came to me, one I have always liked and if it's some type of fiend then it's perfect.

  "Wait what do titles do?" As I wait nothing happened well, I hope thing will make more sense later when I'm "Created" as I move to the next option.

  As I look at the different subraces and try to find more information, it made me realise that it tells me almost nothing and I start cursing at whatever made this system! Well, I first remove the Akackorn because I don't what to be stitching body part on to me as well, I'm supposed to be trapped so I doubt I will find many bodies. Then I remove the Dark Blood Heart Demon and the Quagmire as I don't see myself as a parasite or someone who likes making people betray each other. So that leaves the True Nightmare Demon or the Black Inferno Demon. I like the sound of the Inferno Demon, but I am trapped somewhere so I doubt overwhelming will be too helpful. So, that leaves me with the True Nightmare Demon, and I like the sound of some of its abilities, especially Horizon Walker.

  I open the skills list and if I had a jaw, it would have hit the ground, they just seemed to be endless number of skills all the way from clearing to flame control and so on. As I start wondering what to pick, I see an option to "Pick appropriate skills for your creation" I thought about it for a second before picking it as it would take too long to go through all of them.

  As I look over the skills that were picked for me, I notes some strange skills like Dream Weaver, wondering what does that even do and why is Sneak master rank? Also, I have Life magic, that's a weird one as well but no use thinking on it now, I will do it when I have a body I decided.

  Next, I move onto the Knowledge Tabe to see what I got and again, it had a lot of options not as many as the skill but still a lot. I started looking over the massive list and narrowing down the options to seven.

  Even knowing that I can only pick two options, witling it down to just seven was still difficult as I just wanted all of them. Even now I just want to pick all of them, but I just don't know what I will have when I'm created. But after looking over the seven options, I remove the Magical Architecture options as I might be by myself and building anything will be difficult to impossible. Next, I remove the Artificer, Homunculus Creation and Demon Crafting as I don't think I will have anything to make cloaks with. And no matter how much I want Homunculus Creation as it seems so cool, being able to craft people just doesn't seem likely becaise I won't start with any resources to make then. As for the Demon Crafting, the boxes said that I might start with some more research, and I am a Fiend Prince so I probably will start with it.

  So that leaves me with Portal Creation and Magic Theory. Portal Creation might allow me to escape my prison and these portals should use dreams, right? As well I'm a True Nightmare Demon so that should mean something. With Magic Theory should help me understand my magic. Well, that what I hope, at any rate.

  Now what does it mean by Patron Style? Will I be giving people power, or will I be some type of Dark God? Well, these only one way to find out.

  Well, they all sound interesting but as usual it gives almost no information. The thing that made this character creation screen did a shit job they couldn't have at less given more information.

  "Hmmmm..." As I look over the options. I guessed this is like what type of boss I want to be. I do like the sound of Though The Veil and Gray Background. As I like the idea of helping people find lost knowledge and as for the Gray Background, I always felt like I blended into the background so spying and finding information would suit me quite well. As for the others, they sound a bit unpleasant. Like for instant, Dark Whispers I don't want to talk to people that are having a mental breakdown. Plus, the other just sound difficult to manage while Blinding Truth just seems like a riot, and I don't want to have control over what I'm doing. With Guiding Vengeances, this just sounds like you point and hope the person does what you want.

  So that leaves the Gray Background and Though The Vail. How much I want to pick Though The Vail but it probably wouldn't be too useful as it sounded like whatever set all of this up is starting close to the beginning of whatever is happening. So I doubt they will be too much forgotten knowledge around and that tells me I'm going with the Gray Background choice.

  So, onto the last part of all of this is what spell or techniques will I pick. But for a change there is a bit of information about spell and techniques!

  "Interesting, who knew how useless you can be! You only said what the standard is... But you are not going to reply so I'm taking to myself." Well, what are my options then. Like the skill and knowledge Tables there were quite a lot of options but unlike the skill and knowledge options they were about one hundred. So, after a bit of searching, I found the five that might be helpful.

  They were quite a lot but one thing I did find interesting was that I could only pick techniques and spell that where at the highest rank for that skill. I also found about four other spells/techniques that didn't follow the standard. Like one life magic technique that was called Vitality Sight and it did almost make the list, but I didn't see myself needed it in the near future, so I cut it out.

  So out of nine choices, I can only pick three. Well, I'm keeping Shade Walker as I should at least have one master rank technique. As for the other two that was much harder but, in the end, I picked Void Temple and Mass Call Dark Reflection. The reason for Void Temple was that is sounded defensive, and I was lacking in any defensive options. And Mass Call Dark Reflection sounded like area of effect spell, and I needed a spell so yea....

  As I finish picking my options all of the boxes disappear for a second. But only for a second, as the nothingness starts to churn and it stopped being nothing or did it become something? As a pain started growing it was like all of my nonexistent nerves were individually and personally stabbed with acid tooth pick that caught on fire and this was only the beginning. As time stopped meaning anything I stopped meaning anything as my mind, body and soul where loving torn apart bit by bit. I begged it to stop, I screamed, cried and pleaded but nothing.

  Slowly I could see multicolored miasma around myself as I was stiched back together, bit by bit. But as more of myself was rebuilt, the miasma slowly peeled back layer by layer until I was on a throne in a small old broken wooden shed.

  When I was able to regain control over my body, as I sat there for who knows how long. It felt like year, or it could have been seconds but then I did decide to move. The first thing I did was cry because of the pain, because of what I have lost, my friends and family and that I might be alone for who knows how long.

  Knock, knock, knock.

  "My lord have you finally awaken?"

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