Nathan Sheppard a name that inspires both fear and admiration in the business world. At the time he first appeared from seemingly nowhere he was 18 years old just a pup to the old wolves at the top. He came with a code sweeping program that sifted through and organized data at a efficiency unheard of before.
The old wolves pounced offering bogus deals for his program. In turn the pup smiled and happily agreed and seemingly vanished and was soon forgotten.
Three years later he reappeared in the shadows and three months later he was named ceo of the largest tech giant in the world with several other similar giants coming under his umbrella as subsidiaries.
From then on he was a akin to a sleeping dragon for the next fifteen years accationally waking up to devour a newcomer to big for his britches and to show the rest he was still him.
Now thirty-five years old and sitting in a lavish suite with more money and influence than he knew what to do with. Nathan Sheppard was bored beyond belief a terrifying thing that would give most movers and shakers a scare.
"Maybe I really should consider building a family?" He thought to himself aloud upon remembering what his one and only friend in this world told him that morning. Funnily enough his only friend was actually a fifty-two year old homeless man. Someone whose position in life was completely opposite of his. Though he'd tried to fix that multiple times only to be shut down repeatedly by the stubborn fool.
"Thinking about it now I've known that man for years but I've never asked for his name have I?" Sometimes the friendship between men even confused him. "I guess the simpleness of it all is what makes it so strong."
Suddenly against all odds the billions of dollars building he was in began to shake or maybe the world itself? Then the blue sky cracked open like a egg and golden pillars uncountable in number rained down captured one person each before shooting back into the crack with the people in tow.
Nathan shocked by the phenomenon at first quickly smiled as the golden pillar of light took him away. Of course he had no clue what was happening but he didn't much care as he finally wasn't bored anymore.
The golden pillar of light brought him to a sci-fi room that was all white with nothing in it and no doors out. Just as he stood there in growing excitement a golden scroll like something out of a Medieval fantasy world floated in front of him unraveling to show lines of text he was more than happy to read.
[Congratulations you have been deemed to have the potential of a awakened by the Akashic Record. Your universe has been chosen to be integrated into the evervast body of the Akashic Record. In doing so it has brought forth both endless dangers and limitless growth to your universe and its inhabitants. To be officially recognized as a Awakened please select a class from the following options...]
To say that he was excited about what he'd just read would be a understatement of the century. This was one of if not his favorite story sub genre and he was fixing to live it!
"Damn that's a lot of classes.. there's got to be at least a hundred of them here? In most books I've read they usually had just the four standard ones each corresponding to a different key attribute. Warrior for Strength, Rogue/Thief for Dexterity, Wizard/Mage for Intelligence and lastly Healer/Cleric for faith."
In the the end he spent the next hour and a half checking the various classes and reading their small introductory articles. The reason being that typically the first class you choose has a heavy impact on what you go on to become and do in the future.
Which after considering his personality, habits, body build and other things he eventually laid his eyes on a hybrid class named Shadow Rogue. It was one of the many hybrid classes of which the majority of the available classes were.
"Shadow Rogue a hybrid class of the Shadowmancer and Rogue classes with a 65-35 split in dominance in favor of the Rogue. Primarily focused on fast and deadly skirmishes succeeding in high burst damage of both the physical and magical varieties. Boastes more staying power in a drawn out fight than a standard Rogue but can't match up with the likes of a solid warrior. All in all a glass cannon that has all the things I like!"
With his choice made the golden scroll released a burst of light as he felt his tailor made suit made custom for him begin to stretch and expand before shrinking down to fit him snuggly in a way he'd never felt before. As if to answer his unspoken questions a full body length mirror rose from the floor infront of him along with a wooden recurve bow, a quiver of arrows and a shortsword still in its scabbard.
Looking himself up and down in the mirror he found himself nodding in appreciation. The once tailored suit had been transformed into a deep brown form fitting leather body suit with various belts and straps on it. Over top that was a loose fitting black cloak with a large hood that stopped mere inches from the floor. His designer shoes had transformed into sleek deep brown leather boots. All in all it looked extremely good on him as it matched his short cut slicked back dark brown hair and amethyst eyes that seemed to glow.
"Status!"
[Status]...
"It actually works!!" He exclaimed like a child who just found the long lost candy store.
[Status]
Name: Nathan Sheppard
Class: Shadow Rogue
Affinities: Shadow (67%), Earth (42%), Water (21%)
Level: 1
Hp: (600/600)
Mp: (1,700/1,700)
Stats
Str:6
Dex:9
Int:17
Wis:11
Skills
Active: Quick Strike (F), Shadow Bind (F), Stealth Shot (F)
Passive: Shadow Heart (F), Stealth (F)
...
As soon as he was done checking himself out in the mirror it vanished into the floor once more and then the golden scroll appeared again.
[Introduction, class selection and equipment gifting based on life successfulness before the Akashic Record has been completed. Please prepare to be transported to the tutorial free for all survival battle map for the next 29 days, 21 hours and 16 minutes.]