Isn't it wonderful? Wealth, Fame, Muscles.
All a man needs. Once said by a famous weight lifter whom I admired.
Family? Who cares? The one I had disowned me at my lowest. Love? It is just a uselessly despairing concept.
I am Ookawa Tensaki. When I got hit by a motorbike on my way to work. I was in the hospital, and my wife was just outside my door, complaining about the hospital bill. That time, I thought that she was actually worried about the finances of our income and whatnot. But later I found out that most of the savings we mostly saved. She had almost used it on something. She told me it was the hospital bill, but after I hired someone to find out what was actually happening. It shattered me completely. I received pictures of her in another man's arms. It completely broke me. After we got divorced, I completely overworked myself to make a new gaming system for the world. Months of Working paid off as the system and its newest game released called Weatheria Re: Bound Adventurers.
Or short for WARBA, it was a great hit among all ages. People all over the world loved it. The company I created, DeSync Games and Co., became one of the most successful game companies, even getting ranked in #19th place in the whole world. Then I realised the game I had worked for day and night, hiring just a few staff from the leftover money I had, I loved making games; moreover, I loved playing them. When I became well known as Japan's first ranking game writer and a genius mind, I was at my peak. Not long after, my old wife showed up at one of my conference meetings, asking about me and telling the workers that I was her lover.
I burst out laughing at this cliché setup that she was planning. I ordered security to remove her from the building. As I became wealthy and traveled to many countries searching for ideas for my next big project, I promised myself I would never let arrogance take over. After a year, WARBA was becoming a little unpopular, so I invested most of our profits into developing a new system. It was a completely new type of gaming: virtual reality, which was very popular at the time. My team and I discussed importing it into VR, but in our pursuit of success, we brainstormed various ideas. We finally decided to try something that hadn't even been invented yet. We called it VirtualRealSimmulator, and it aimed to replicate the feeling of perfect reality. It created a sensation of experiencing everything in virtual reality at a 1:1 ratio. We spent nearly everything on the new system and relied on investors, while I personally worked hard developing the game system. I tested and retested it every day. After 12 weeks of development and coding, it was finally ready.
Weatheria Undiscovered 2
It became the first RVRMMORPG game (RVRMMORPG = Real Experience Virtual Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game), which is a true simulation of the world-famous WARBA. It was naturally destined to become the greatest multiplayer fantasy RPG game.
I thought I would be happy.
And yet..
Yet....
I wasn't happy at all. I don't know why. It felt all repetitive, and everything was the same. I want, I want, I want to live a normal life like others—having a happy family in a faraway land, using my brain to its fullest, honing my abilities. Most of all, I want to be muscular. I want to live a normal life like others—having a happy family in a faraway land, using my brain to its fullest, honing my abilities. And most of all, I want to be muscular.
IT'S AN EMERGENCY
President! President! Are you okay? Stay with us, President.
Hey you,You right their, quickly call the ambulance. The president has collapsed.
Welcome to Star News, the president and the genius mind behind the game WARBA and Weatheria 2, and the one behind the invention of the experience virtual reality simulation, which is the best of its kind in the technology world. Had a heart attack and died at the age of 35, many people all over the world are coping with the loss of their so-called hero, who created the game they play and love.
So, Iwamura-san, relating to that topic, do you think anyone could create a game like he ever did?
Yeah, Nobani-san, it was mostly the work of a team and a young --------.
Far away in the slums. A village on the verge of collapse, a young boy being beaten by the slave traders, fainted.
Uuaghh, Captain, the boy with the weird-looking hair fainted.
Yuck he smells
Wake him up quickly and clean him quickly. The duke's family is willing to purchase this weirdo of us; we are lucky. Before the Nobles' decision changes make him all clean, we're going to be arriving soon at the mansion of the duke.
Yeah, boss, he's probably going to be either worked off as a cleaner or something. He already stinks it would be a fitting job for a useless mut like him.
Hey, wake up. Wake up, you useless freak.
slaps
Ugh, my head hurts. What happened where is this? It looks like a carriage. It hurts. Who is this person? Why is he hitting me?
'Stop it'
Yuck, Gross, stop it, freak, go clean yourself. Clean up quickly, the duke's family is going to be your new masters. We are getting paid good coin because of you, to think they asked for you, a useless kid with no Augments.
Augment what are you talking about? Who are you? Why are we in a carriage? I was in my office right now. I had a conference meeting, right? Who are you? Did you kidnap me?
Hey kid, what are you even saying? Pretending not to know us when we fed you to grow up, even as a slave? How lame. Did you get amnesia? Stop being dramatic. Go wash up quickly, you third-rate useless freak of a slave. We are getting paid the bare minimum, you know? That duke, who was a soldier, bought you for only 200 gold, you know? He only bought you because you have the name of his son who passed away. Hah, what a sad story, it's like we care. Wash up quickly, Trashy-abel.
Kid? Who are you calling a kid? You bastard, why did you kick me? It hurts! I'm gonna punch you. Huh? My hands shrank. No my body my body also shrank, what? What is happening?
What is this? I feel dizzy. Things like some faraway memories started entering his mind.
It hurts. What is this? Abel, who is able? Huh slave a slave? Able is a slave? Slave traders, what is this whose memories are these? Abel? This is Abel's memories. Then why can I see these memories? Abel's Parents were killed in a village in a war, and he was abducted by slave traders. His life was hard; he was beaten a lot, it seems like it. Why do I feel my heart getting so blocked? Am I crying? Why am I crying? Who is this Abel? Am I Abel?.....
A
Few Hours Later.
Finally, that Augmentless freak has calmed down. Hey, if you have time to chat away, go dress his hair, his hair is a mess, we are almost there.
We are here at the mansion, tell that kid to quickly get ready.
carriage stops suddenly.
We are here, hey, get Abel right now down here quickly. The butler has come to pick him up.
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Duke's mansion, I guess it's this location that I was supposedly getting bought into. I am being purchased as a slaver to work as a cleaner again? What a sad life this is. My name is Abel Few hours ago, when I woke up, I suddenly had somehow regained my memories of a faraway past life where I used to be an owner in a big company, where I created games for a living, where I was older than I am now. I got reincarnated somehow, just like those light-novel stories with heroes and knights and magic. My parents in this world got caught up in a war in a village 2 years back, and I got abducted by some slave traders, and they took care of me. More like I got beaten all the time and worked as a lone cleaner and barely got fed any food, only hard bread and stale soup once a day. I had a sad life here, but I'm quite experienced at it by now. Even in my previous life, I was all alone. Apparently, this world also has a concept of magic like those fantasy novels and games called Augments. My previous life's memories are still blurry, so I don't know much.
Augments were set at birth and only came to manifest in people at the age of 5. The reason is unknown why augments came into this world. I am 5 years old now. I was taken by the slave traders at the age of 3. I still don't have any knowledge about this world. I only have what I heard from the slave traders. Still, anyway, getting sold to a slave at the age of 5, what a sad life this is. In my previous life, I yearned for a family, and still in this life, I lost one while being a baby. My body barely listens to me. What am I supposed to do from now on? Will I be able to live a happy life? That is all I can hope for *Tears dripping down*
If there were a god, could I ask for a better life? Still to this moment. I want to play games.
*~ Loud Voice Echoes~*
Searching complete ------ Looking for the compatibility of joining a lifeform ------- Compatibility Found = 100%
Stability of lifeform = unstable
Retrying Skill Manifestation
Devouring Skill Adapted S, Rapid Development skill A Adapted, Form Shifter Skill B adap- Failure Form Shifter skill didn't adapt, Retrying Adaptation of Form Shifter skill
Form Shifter skill B adap- Failure Form Shifter skill B, didn't adapt, Retrying Adaptation of Form Shifter skill B.
Skills? What? What is this, my head?
What is happening, my head hurts ahh I hate this pain- stop I don't want this form shifter or anything-
Noted
Skill Pain resistance C! Headache resistance B! Poison resistance C! adapted.
Stopping the process of Form Shifter skill adaptation.
Retrying Skill Manifestation.
My headache? It's gone? What skills? This screen what is happening on this screen? I am scared.
Noted Skill adaptation continuing after the target sleeps. Putting the target to sleep. Success!
Uhh, I feel sleepy. Did that screen just make me ----
Success!
Searching for a compatible skill to replace Form Shifter B! == === == Found compatible skill reading implanted from memories of target!
Trying Adaptation of the Unique Skill of Gluttony. Activating Code
Success! Unique Skill of Gluttony Found -- Most compatible -- Skill Found ! Unique Skill Game S! Adapted???? Failure??? Target is unable to use Unique Skill Game S! right away because of insufficient memory. Sealing Skill Game [temporary]. Searching for Replacement Skill, Skill found Augment Fire B! Water B! Air C! Earth B! Barrier S! Adapted, Searching for skill - Skill found Outcome A! Skill Growth Pass S!
Job Skill Found Appraisal B!
Type Adapt Code. brave skill found ----
G-a-m-e--O-r--L-i-f-e .