A/N: Just a small heads-up. English is not my primary language so there might be some ups n downs here n there, though minimal none-the-less but still if you find it, you can just tag me if its too bad, I'll clean it up.
And if its way too bad--I can use the editor to add or replace few words for better flow ;d
Now, Continue..
[Status] [Host: Jin Wushen]
Lvl: 1
HP: 5/5
New System functions: Locked
Ability: None Tbh
Jin Wushen looked at the blue screen hovering over him. Confused.
So am I supposed to unlock these locked things?
So, Confusing. The human pair have been gone for an hour now after putting me in this baby cradle. Annoying but I can't do anything. Jin thought, a look of maturity and understanding in his eyes—toot or maybe not so much.
"So what do I do here? Any idea system?"
[Recommendation: Level up to unlock new stats and System Features.]
"Mmm.. That sounds interesting. And how do I do that?" Jin asked the System.
[Level Up Task 1→2]
Drink Milk
...
[Reward(s): Cannot be shown at lv 1]
"Can't show? And drink milk? Just that? Is it supposed to be this easy?"
"Maybe the rewards are not worth much?"
"..."
"But, No help thinking about it." Jin Wushen said not caring.
"So.." As he looked around. "This milk.. how do I drink it? Are there any bottles around, gourds or spirit flask?"
[Suggestion: Breastfeed]
Jin Wushen shocked, probably even angered "You want me, the greatest among all the Empires, The pinnacle of Tianxian Empire to be breast-fed? This.. This can't be tolerated. A line you've crossed. State your name, and I shall decapitate you right now."
[System Name: Not Designated]
Jin's anger flaired even more, He made a solemn gesture to dismiss the system screen, but his chubby vengeance paddle had the precision of a falling pancake. He swiped at the system but the wind inside the room carried his hand right off the target, though the system still played, as the screen showed some moveemnt as it seemed to go far away in Jin Wushen's vision. Then after a second, it came right back in front of Wushen.
"This.. You dare play with me System?" Jin Wushen flared. "I shall not level up and use this feature for the rest of my life. I'll handle it on my own with the Dao knowledge I've accumulated over the past millenia."
Jin wushen tugged the blanket and covered his face. The system still held there before the sheet and in front of him beyond the blanket. Though only he could see it - waiting.
'I shall not use it and first get some sleep. I shall believe in time. As I grow up, I'll be able to use my Dao anyways.' Jin Wushen thought that as he closed his eyes, with one final determination to never use the SYSTEM - ever.
But that determination didn't seem to hold up for much longer. Since,
15 minutes later:
"Ughh I can't sleep. Why's this happening. I'm a newborn, aren't I supposed to be sleepy all the time. Or, were those things back in the previous life just faking it?" Jin Wsuhen again anxious and angered felt pressed.
"This won't help. I have to do something. My last death- a blur has been gnawing at me, leaving me with no sleep."
"Tch. This restlessness."
"System!"
Ding!
It popped right after him.
"Can you make me grow big fatser somehow?" Then after pausing for sometime and swallowing his own pride, he said while looking sideways and with a pout of a newborn child. "I.. I will do anything for it. Whatever you ask.."
Jin Wushen pouted, as a silent air carried in the room for few seconds.
...
"Tch. I knew you won't help. This is no use." he said as he turned around, removing his blanket.
"I have to do this on my own."
Ding!
Jin opened his eyes.
[Suggestion: Climb more levels to upgrade/unlock the features of the system.]
"Level? That again?" Then after thinking for a while. Jin continued "And I'll have to drink—be breastfed for it?" A look of embarassment in his eyes.
[Level Upgrade task]
1. Drink Milk.
2. None
" So.. I have to do it anyways huh?"
"Tch."
...
Then after the air carried the silence for a while.
Jin Wushen lifted his neck "Don't judge me now." His face bloated with red as he filled his lungs with air
The System countdown
[3.. 2.. 1]
Uwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh-!
The sound echoed through the halls and the hospital rooms other side. Nurses with hands over their ears as they tried blocking the noise. But to no avail.
"Whose god-dam boy is it?" One nurse asked the other as she replied.
"Shh.. Don't talk like that. It's Mr. Holand and Elsie Ward's child. The Ironsoul and Crimson wave."
The other nurse gasped. "What're they doing here? Shouldn't they be on the mainlines?"
"They came here just for the delivery. They'll probably be here for a few more weeks. Atleast Crimson-wave will."
Silence fell, as if they both acknowledged something.
"Now back to work."
Meanwhile, Elsie rushed to the child from the other room next to Jin, carrying him into her hold.
"Aww.. Woo.. Woo.. Don't cry. Don't cry" as she swayed him in air gently.
But-
Uwahhhhh
The voice rose even more.
'Would this work?' Jin Wushen thought.
'If I had my voice, I'd have already ordered this woman to give me the milk and get this over with. Tch. This is so embarassing.'
A nurse rushed to the room where the baby had been kept and Elsie was swaying him in a motion to stop him from crying.
"Ma'am I think the baby needs some milk. It'd be better if you could feed him. Most newborns act that way after their birth."
Elsie nodded as she replied in a kind smile "Sure"
The nurse left but not beofre closng the door behind her.
"Now. Now. Here." she said swaying the child as she parted her gown.
'No.. No.. Woman. This isn't how it's supposed to be. Bottle. Give it to me in a god-dam bottle.'
Choo~
'Nooo..'
15 minutes later..
Jin Wushen in the crib.
"Whew- I've heard from other women it takes so much time. But this- it wasn't much of a task. This is something. Then gently pulling at Jin's cheeks ever so slightly as she put him gently in the crib. "You sure are our child." A parting kiss as she left for the door.
"Papa will be here soon after getting somewhere for us to stay in Jeonju. Sleep till then." Click- The door closed.
Jin Wushen now on the crib, dead-eyed stared a thousand yard into the crib's side as he laid shell-shocked with what happened just now.
"The heavens.. They are laughing. Just wait. Wait each one of you. I'll get my revenge." Voice cracking as he lifted his sloppy uncontrollable hand to throw a punch at the heavens.
Then-
Ding!
What now? You better not give me anything funny after all that disgrace, as he turned towards the system.
But what he saw, shocked him to core.
[Status] [Host: Jin Wushen]
Class: Locked
Lv: 2 (Successfully leveled up)
HP: 10/10
Str: 3/3
agi: 1/1
vit: 1/1
Will: 3/3
Int: 2/2
Luck: Stat unavailable
Title: Endless Blade (Locked)
Skills: None
—New Feature—
Skill shop
Points: 5
Skills available
1.Lightning veins : (100 pts)
You can use lightning as a force of your own: Absorb or dissolve it to earth or reflect it. - based on the level of the skill.
2. Fire god ( -- ) : Wield fire as your own body part. You become of lava. (Locked)
3. Shadow hand (300 pts.) (Upgradable) : You use shadow as your own reflection. The level of shadow control depends on the level of this skill.
4. Bone strengthning (50 pts): Helps in withstanding even whole buildings falling on you with little to harm on the bones. Recommended ofr cultivation.
5. God Hand (--): Locked. No explanation given.
6. Devil on shoulders (-- pts): Skill required for successfully hatching a devil egg.
7. World Magic(--)
9. Shadow God (--) : Last piece of collection required for completing the shadow monarch skill tree.
9. Realm--
10. Tentacl--
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.
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?. Language tln. (5 pts.) : Understand and learn all language. Able to read and write all language based on Earth.
More Features locked.
--
Jin Wushen looked at the screen. Somewhat surprised as he browsed through the system, eyes opened wide.
"Huh?? What's this? So many new techniques? And I can learn them just by doing some tasks?"
Then looking at some skill's required points, Jin Wushen clutched his head.
"Why is it so dam high?? This doesn't even make sense. I have only 5 pts. And this.."
As he scrolled the shop.
"Some don't even have the price tag. What's their price supposed to be? I guess it?"
Jin Wushen tapped at one of the skills.
[Buy: ?]
click - 'yes'
[Error 10: Not enough points]
'Tch.'
"So, what can I purchase" Jin Wushen asked a look of dissapointment in his eyes.
[Do you want to sort according to the points you've accumulated?]
'yes'
[1 Skill available:]
Lang tln. : understand and write any or all languages based on Earth.
Jin Wushen clicked his tongue.
"This.. might as well."
"Can't fight with skills, Might as well cuss at 'em with 500 different languages."
Click-
[Buy Language tln. : ?"]
'yes'
Ding!
Suddenly, Jin Wushen's head rushed with blood as he could hear it rushing. But it didn't feel like pain or any other bad emotion. Instead it filled him woth warmth and knowledge, as if longine for more.
"I.. I can talk. I can talk in all languages now."
"Je suis… un bébé très cultivé."
Tln: I am… a very cultivated baby.
"Woah!! This is something. Even I the pinnacle who lived close to a millenium, never thought something like this could exist."
Jin Wushen's interst in the system falred.
"Woah! You're great. I take back everything I said earlier. Now get mee more skills."
"That lightning vein. Yeah that one. It looks flashy and best for someone on a pinnacle like me. Get me that." Star-eyed.
[Skill Shop Pts.: 0]
[Recommendation: Level up fast to unlock more skills.]
Jin Wushen quickly admitted.
"Ok whats next. Tell me. I'll do it right now."
[System Task. Upgrade lv 1→2]
[Mission: ]
Learn any new skill √
Learn to crawl
1 push-up.
[Reward: 10pts.]
Jin looked at the screen. "Just 10 pts? Thats too stingy."
[Recommnedation: Pass levels fast to unlock more points.]
"Sure, you'd say that. It's like you've been getting paid to get me entangled in all this.
..
No message
"You know.."
".."
"..I've been getting.. a lot suspicious of you."
..
"Like how I've been brought to this world. And.."
..
No message.
A cold sweat passed through the System.
Then-
[Rewards (Enhanced):]
15 Skill Shop pts.str: +2 (gift from system)Agi +1
"Hehe Now thats what I was talking 'bout." Then as if patting the screen "Don't worry, I won't suspect you."
The System glowed in a brilliant light as if rejoicing.
"But-" Jin Wushen added. "You have to keep the rewards coming."
The system screen went back to dim. Then glowing again as if re-affirming after a thoughtful thinking.
"Yeah! Thats it. Lets get this going!" Jin Wushen said as he put his hand on the crib.