Card Hero System

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<POV YOHAN>

'Where am I'

When I opened my eyes, there was only darkness, and my body was not lying on the ground but floating in the air as if I was falling into a bottomless abyss.

In that confusion, suddenly the strange holographic screen that I saw before losing consciousness appeared before me again.

[DING!]

[WELCOME HOSTS]

The screen appears words that make me wonder, who is the person behind this.

"Who are you!?" I asked in a high tone and also curious.

[I AM A SYSTEM THAT IS DESIGNED FOR A PURPOSE. MY FORM IS A RING YOU ALWAYS WEAR]

The transparent screen answered my question as if there was someone inside. I was surprised by the fact that the ring I had been wearing had a mystery within it.

"Then what do you mean?" I asked again and this time in a relaxed tone.

[THAT...YOU ARE TOO EARLY TO KNOW IT. AND ALSO YOU WILL KNOW SOON, WHAT I WAS CREATED FOR AND WHY YOU CHOOSE TO USE ME...IT ALL HAS A PLANNED PURPOSE]

The answer this time made me confused, what exactly was the screen saying? why did he give me such a complicated answer?

"Okay... for the next question, what are your uses?"

[I AM THE OMEGA SYSTEM HERO OF CARD]

Suddenly something floated around me and it was a bunch of cards with the face of someone I didn't know but the name on the card felt familiar.

"Arthur Pendragon"

'Huh?' In an instant, I was in confusion.

[THE CARD YOU SEE CONTAINS THE POWER OF GREAT CHARACTERS FROM THE PAST. MY PURPOSE IS TO MANAGE THESE CARDS INTO YOUR STRENGTH. AND OF COURSE, THERE ARE LIMITS I CAN MANAGE BECAUSE MY POWERS DEVELOP ACCORDING TO YOUR DEVELOPMENT. SO IN SHORT I WILL CONTINUE IMPROVING BASED ON YOUR DEVELOPMENT. AND THE STRONGER YOU GET THE STRONGER I AM TO MANAGE THE POWER OF THESE CARDS]

I continued to read the dialog from this transparent screen, a bit confused but I understood a bit from the explanation.

"So even you can't withstand the power of these cards?"

[YES, THESE CARDS HAVE POWER FROM PAST FIGURES, AND OF COURSE, THEY ARE ALL GREAT PEOPLE IN THEIR FIELDS. BUT FEW PEOPLE CAN BREAK THIS SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM FOR YOU TO BE STRONGER SO I CAN SUPPORT THIS SYSTEM FROM THE POWER OF THESE CARDS]

Then this screen changed to something like a gacha shop in the game, and the top right corner of the screen was a column with writing.

[KP : 0]

When I'm confused about what this KP stands for, why is this column like an in-game purchase coin?

[AS YOU WOULD LIKE, AS A PROCESS TO MAKE YOU STRONGER. I USE THE GACHA SYSTEM. DO YOU SEE THE COLUMN IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER?

THE FOLLOWING BOXES

BRONZE BOX: CONTAINS GREAT CHARACTERS WHO MADE A CHANGE IN THE MODERN AGE

SILVER BOX: CONTAINS GREAT CHARACTERS WHO CREATE THEIR LEGEND IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELDS

GOLD BOX: CONTAINS GREAT CHARACTERS WHO MAKE GREAT STORIES FROM THE PAST

PLATINUM BOX: CONTAINS GREAT CHARACTERS WHO WIN A BATTLE AND WAR.

SPECIAL BOX: CONTAINS GREAT CHARACTERS WHO MADE BIG CHANGES TO HUMANITY TODAY AND ALSO SAVED HUMAN BEINGS FROM DISASTERS THAT DESTROYED CIVILIZATION.

TRIAL BOX: YOU CAN USE A VARIETY OF CARDS FROM ALL TYPES OF BOXES. BUT WITH A LIMITED TIME.

TO OPEN THE BOXES, YOU HAVE TO COLLECT KP, OR I WOULD ASK FOR KARMA POINTS. AND THE WAY TO GET KP IS VERY EASY, THAT IS, YOU HAVE TO DO A GOOD DEED OR YOU CAN ACCEPT A MISSION FROM ME.]

I read the dialogue on the screen with focus, so I didn't miss anything when I asked the last question.

"Okay if I understand...last question...what mission are you referring to?"

[HONESTLY. I CAN SEE THE FUTURE. FROM VARIOUS EVENTS, EVENTS TO DISASTERS...THEN, I NEED YOU TO SOLVE THE CORE OF THE PROBLEMS. SO THE DISASTER I SEE WILL NOT HAPPEN AND FOR A GIFT. WILL BE CUSTOMIZED DEPENDING ON WHAT MISSION I GIVE]

After the person behind this transparent screen answered the question I asked… it only took me a moment to comprehend this information.

"I see...so, in short, I have to become strong so I know the purpose of all this" I muttered.

[I'VE ALREADY ANSWERED ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THAT BEFORE YOU RECEIVE A TRIAL BOX AS A GIFT YOUR SUCCESS MEETS THE CONDITIONS TO RESURRECT ME.

'Eh?... So, is it possible for my body to move by itself?' Immediately I imagined what had happened to my body.

"Wait...wait-" When I wanted to ask again about my body, suddenly my voice didn't come out as if I had become mute.

[SORRY, BUT YOUR TIME IS OUT. YOU CAN ASK A QUESTION BACK WHEN THE UPDATE IS FINISHED, BUT THE SYSTEM UPDATE TIME ALSO DOES NOT HAVE CERTAINTY. DEPENDS ON YOU MEET SOME CONDITIONS.]

I panicked while reading the dialogue, because my voice didn't come out, and also the screen was disappearing.

[SEE YOU AGAIN...AND GOOD LUCK BE WITH YOU]

...

"WAIT!" I suddenly woke up while breathing heavily thinking about the lines of the previous conversation. My eyes checked where I was and it turned out that this place was my apartment room.

'Who took me last night?...was all of this a dream?...it's not very clear that what I experienced last night and earlier was real.

"Haah~" I took a deep breath while calming myself down since I already got the information from the person behind the system.

Glancing at my right hand where there was still the ring that that person said was the true form of the system.

"So actually, what was the purpose of that person giving this ring to me?" I recalled the person's appearance but it was still vague and what I remembered from that person were the color of his hair and beautiful blue eyes.

Then, I stood up to check my body again… last night, I was sure that I was seriously injured and my head was hit by a rock that was hit hard by the explosion.

But when I looked in the mirror, I didn't get any wounds, even clean as if I wasn't hurt at all, even though I was sure last night I had an accident.

"Now my life is getting weird, no...I have to find out something about that." Then I thought of a way to bring up the system screen.

"Okay...open a gacha shop!"Because I remember the previous screen looked like a gacha shop from a video game.

[DING!]

Then it appeared I thought… where this screen display was completely similar to when I was in that bottomless abyss.