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Chapter 2 - ch. 2 - New World

Sid, 21 years old now works as a janitor on one of the biggest guilds on his island country. He cannot find a better job since he is a high school dropout with no family and most importantly no powers.

Sid is one of the remaining three percent of humanity aged fifteen years old and above who was unable to trigger the awakening of their system.

Five years ago, the earth suddenly change. Various land masses rose up from the depths of the seas connecting nations that was once separated by vast amount of water. The atmosphere suddenly has the feel of energy coursing all around and various portals materialize spouting monsters, ranging from video game staple; slimes, goblins, orcs, feral wolves and zombies to mythical beasts such as phoenix, unicorns, dragons and more.

Pandemonium ensues, but during this time various individual receive a notification on their minds telling them that they had awakened. From Super Strength, Night Vision, Flight, Durability, Fire Manipulation to Green thumb, Soap Creation and Great Cook. Various talents or people now calls Seeds of Power. Helps humanity to combat the new threats to humanity.

Not all Seeds of Power are great for combating the monsters that threaten humanity, but all Seeds of power can help an individual to acclimate to the new world order. Even having trash Seed of Power is not the end for an awakened individual just by awakening the system will help an individual to have the strength to battle monsters. Because the world is now like an RPG game. Killing monsters will help an individual accumulate experience points to level up just like in the RPG games. The system also randomly rewards the individual who kill monsters items such as weapons, potions and raw materials which automatically transfers to the system inventory.

In the new world order the large corporations and government of the old generations is now declining in power and the guilds and sects created by the people who awakened their systems are now gaining control in the new world. They claimed the new monster rich areas to level-up and maintain their hold on the power ladder.

"Hey trash!!" called Peter, a rank B hunter on the Dark Lagoon Guild, "clean this s*** first!!!" as he kick Sid on the back.

He hated Sid as he sees him as a charity case. The guild took Sid in for publicity stunt since Sid is kind a famous as for being the only unawaken in their country. It shows that they, one of the top 10 guilds in the country Dark Lagoon still cares for the weak.

Peter despises the weak trash Sid for being a parasite in their guild. He sees Sid as a lowly individual besmirching the name of their guild. He didn't care that the guild's higher ups were the one who approached Sid and offered him the job and be a member of Dark Lagoon to gain publicity.

"FASTER!!!!" yelled Peter as he looks down on Sid. He grabs Sid by the neck and threw him five meters away.

~Crasshhhh~

"Scram the hell out of my sight!!! You trash parasite" Peter told Sid as the latter scamper off.

~sigh~

Sid massages his shoulders as it aches due to him bouncing off the floor when that bastard Peter flung him. Being weak is miserable. Sid hated being weak he wants to yell at Peter "F**k off you damn brute" but he can't, he knows that he is weak he must be numb. Numb on all the ache his body suffers from the beating of various guild members who think his presence is irritating. Numb from the harsh words they spout belittling his character.

Dark Lagoon Guild's headquarter is in City B an island City. It is one of the islands on earth that remains isolated to the rest of the Continent, but its land area was quadrupled during the Earth changed. Sid lives on the slum area of City B. He rents a small room with the area of 1.5m by 2m which just fit a solo bed and a small box containing all of his possessions which only consist of his clothes and a photo album containing pictures of his parents who passed away on a car accident just months after the awakenings. His parents awakened the system giving Sid the hope that he will one day awakens. But five years had passed since the world had change yet he still can't trigger his awakening. New fifteen year olds had already awaken varying Seeds of Power but, his still remains unawaken.

Sid knows he has a Seed of Power within him but he does not know the trigger to awaken his system. Various reports says that once a person reach his fifteenth birthday, they will automatically hear a system notice that they have awakened their Seed of Power and the system will display various statistics pertaining to a persons potential. During the early days of the awakening a scholar once made a study that all awakened person will have the same stats display on their system. He even produces a graphic on what he sees on his system during his awakening.

-SYSTEM-

Name: John Michael Smith

Age: 34

Seed of Power: Memory Bank

Stat Points

Strength: 10

Agility: 10

Intelligence: 10

Durability: 10

Free Points: 0

Luck: 1

Skills:

Passive: Photographic Memory

Active: N/A

HP: 100/100

MP: 50/50

EXP: 0/100

Inventory:

items: n/a

gold: n/a

Shop:

ENTER SHOP

-EXIT-

Sid always dreams of activating his system and managing his stat points. He is a fan of RPG games before the changes on the world. He keeps on formulating different build in his mind. In the study of Dr. John Michael Smith, every time a person levels up the only change in the system would be in his Free Attribute Points gaining 10 points. Thus, giving freedom to everyone to customize their own attributes. To all STRENGTH builds to people with physical related Seeds of Power to INTELLEGENCE based build for elemental or magic based Seeds of Power. The only attribute points that you cannot customize is the LUCK attribute, it is said to be constant at 1 but some individual claim that they had Luck attribute from 2 to 25 range. But no one can validate the accuracy of these claims since no one can see other persons system. Even Dr. John Michael Smith can only interview individuals and hypothesize his claims.

As Sid lay on his bed, he formulates the best build for him. During his childhood days he always plays as a tank or an all Durability build fighter on Role Playing Games. But since this is the real world he now thinks that a person who specialize in getting hit is not the way to go (even though he gets five years' worth of practice as the punching bag of the Dark Lagoon Guild). He think of being a balance fighter or an all AGILITY build to ensure that he can always maintain survivability. Since in this new world Survival is the priority of every person. New monsters keeps on popping up on various region of the world. Just a few years ago a Metropolitan City in the main continent was suddenly erased from the world when a Western Type Dragon exit the portal near the city. Various guilds from the city and from the country was mobilized but the sheer strength of the dragon demolished all opposition who tried to block its path. The Dragon now resides in the heart of the city claiming the once bustling metropolitan as its own.

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