1 CHAPTER 1: Transmigration

Year 1984

Los Angeles

Time: 04:51 PM

In a sloppy and simple looking room, filled with old and simple furniture. Everything was covered in a layer of dust, walls and ceiling has turned yellow with many dirty marks here n there.

Everything was in a mess except a table on which an old and simple but clean type writer was resting.

A man with a strong build could be seen sleeping on the bed with yellowish and dirty bed sheet.

"Where am i? did I really survive that explosion?"

That man woke up and looked around. He got up from bed and came in front of the mirror.

"This! Whose face is this?" he said while touching his new face.

TAP! TAP! TAP!

The man turned around and saw the old type writer operating on its own, as words started to appear on the page.

[ Contestant no. 1018, Congratulations on entering the Nightmare Realm. ]

[ This is your first experience in the Nightmare realm – the Terminator world. ]

[ This is the first Nightmare world you are experiencing, if you have queries on this world, you can refer to the relevant materials beside you, take note: Under normal circumstances, this world has certain prerogatives. ]

[ WARNING: You can interact with the various characters, but you cannot tell them or use whatsoever methods to leak out knowledge or confidential secrets of this nightmare realm."

"WARNING: You must complete the task given to you within 48 hours or there will be consequences. ]

The word consequences was boldly capitalized, as glaring as blood itself, giving one an uneasy feeling as though it was an extreme taboo.

[ Main Mission: Dispose of the Space-time convergence. ]

[ Mission summary: Skynet has made preparations earlier to dispatch and send out the terminator with the plan of assassinating critical relevant characters in history. However, to activate time-traveling and send the terminator over, they must create an extremely stable space-time convergence in the present. ]

[ Mission goals: Eliminate the Skynet's space-time convergence in this world. ]

[ Mission pointer: You may be attacked during this mission. ]

[ Mission pointer: By accepting this mission, you will be bestowed with special capabilities, enabling you to penetrate through disguises and see the space-time convergence. ]

[ Pointer: You can achieve several milestones in this world (including other worlds beyond this). ]

[ Efficient user: If you can accomplish this mission without killing any unrelated person right from the start of this mission until your last. (This excludes mission objectives of killing certain individuals, the rest are categorized as unrelated) ]

[ Butcher: Accumulating a total of over 100 innocent lives killed in this terminator series. (This milestone can only be achieved through close-quarter combat, statistics will only count if you deal more than 50 damage points to each person) ]

[ Machine predator: You must accumulate more than 3 terminator kills. (Your damage counter to the terminator must total up to more than 50 points) ]

[ Love spark: Sarah Connor's affection points to you must exceed 50. ]

[ Treacherous ally: You must kill 50 cops. (Your damage counter to each cop must exceed 50 points) ]

[ Machine lover: You must repair 1 terminator. (Terminator should be restored upto 80% at least. ]

[ Machine ally: Skynet must have friendly relationship with you. ]

"…"

"…"

[ Unable to view the remaining milestones… Power level is not adequate. ]

[ Achieve the different milestones to unlock the relevant titles. ]

[ Every contestant can have a title, and you can only wield one title at a time. Different title will invoke different special abilities. In most situations, you cannot change your title after entering combat state. ]

[ WARNING: After accepting this mission, you will face unimaginable dangers. Likewise if you complete a dangerous mission, your rewards will naturally be greater. ]

" This… Nightmare Realm… Contestant no. 1018… Terminator world." That man babbled while reading the page. Then suddenly he started laughing.

' If this is not a joke then I must have transmigrated just like in those novels I used to read in my free time. This familiar starting indicates I must be in ultimate evolution world and this body belongs to Sheyan, protagonist of this novel.'

'He used to be my favorite protagonist, his scheming and cunning nature, always coming out on top even with minimum advantage always fascinated me, even our names are same my codename in past life used to be Seaman. And now I am him, looks my soul passed through after dying and took over his body.' Seaman thought while looking at his hands.

'I am sorry for your loss brother, I can never make up to you. But I promise I will take good care of your father figure and Sanzi as long as I am alive.' He spoke in his mind while looking at himself in mirror.

TAP! TAP! TAP!

Words started to appear on paper again as type writer once again started to operate on its own.

[ Time: Year 1984, 12th of May, 4:51 in the afternoon. ]

[ Address: California, Los Angeles. (North latitude 42.19 Degrees, west longitude 83.2 Degrees) ]

[ Scene: Terminator's first appearance ]

[ Difficulty level: E class (Easy) ]

[ Pain limitation: 70% ]

[ Bonus individual capability enhancement: 50%. ]

[ Present exploration rate: 0.31% ]

[ Additional tips: In a peaceful setting, contestant's death will not trigger any loot to drop. Initializing personal digitized character information sharing. Contestant can use his nightmare imprint to scan personal attributes. ]

[ You are free to roam about and interact with any character. ]

[ Mission counter: 1 ]

[ Your original appearance has been settled. You are free to adjust your appearance within this Nightmare realm. For any doubts, inquire through the Nightmare imprint; if your scope of authority is sufficient, you will receive an answer. ]

'Well since I am already here let's do this mission first, other things can be done when I leave this Terminator world.'

Seaman took the previous paper and looked at the achievable milestones section.

'Seven milestones? In original novel only five appeared, looks like my power rating is higher than original Sheyan.' Seaman pondered a little.

'In original it was mentioned that if someone completed a total of 12 milestones in his first three worlds then he can get +1 Legend point. Just 1 legend point was already very beneficial to Sheyan which he got in Harry Potter world so I should try to complete as much milestones as possible.'

Seaman then selected to initiate Digital transformation of his body. A light appeared from his chest projecting a holographic screen in front of him.

[ Contestant no. 1018's information as follows. (Attributes calculated according to a fully grown adult male) ]

[ Contestant number 1018 innate ability: Endurance (Passive) – Any character's attack on you will be lowered by 25 points, if the damage is beneath 25 points then overall damage will count as 1. ]

[ Pointer: Current innate ability is not awakened and unable to train to greater ranks. Hence, it can only display its power within the nightmare realm and nightmare worlds. Only when you successfully grasps and awaken the power of your innate ability, then you can use it in any environment. ]

[ Pointer: Innate ability grading: C rank ]

[ Your serial number is only related to your relevant genetic coding, it has no relations to other elements. ]

[ Your basic attribute are as follows. (Average human male attribute is detailed in the parenthesis) ]

AN: Meaning strength: 8 Points (Seaman) Normal male: 5 points

[ Strength: 8 points (5 point). Strength determines your close combat prowess. This affects your ability to carry heavy objects, which includes certain heavy but powerful weapons/equipments. ]

[ Agility: 6 Points (5 points). Agility determines your movement speed and attack speed, and your ability to dodge. It also affects your ability in far-range attacks/defense. ]

[ Physique: 12 Points (5 points). Physique determines your ability to resist an attack, it also determines your stamina in battle, and affects the speed of health regeneration as well as defense. Health regeneration: Physique divided by 2 (This means Seaman's health regeneration is 6 points per minute). Your life force (Health Points) is your Physique x10. ]

[ Under critically wounded state, speed of health regeneration will greatly decline. ]

[ Base defense: Physique/2 ]

[ Seaman's current defense is 6 points. ]

[ Defense is the primary attribute governing reduction of opponent's attack damage. Defense can also protect against negative buffs and abnormalities (Dizziness, slowness, stuns, frost and burns etc). ]

[ Defense damage reduction formula: Decreased damage percentage = (defense x 0.4)/ (Defense X 0.4 +10)×100 ]

[ Statistics: 1 point of defense is equivalent to lowering 4% +/- of incoming damage. It also shortens the duration of any negative buffs on your body by 4 percent. ]

[ 5 defense can lessen approximately 16 percent total damage and also shorten abnormalities by 16 percent. ]

[ 10 defense can lessen approximately 28 percent of total damage and shorten abnormalities by 28 percent. ]

[ 15 defense can lessen approximately 37 percent of total damage and shorten abnormalities by 37 percent. ]

[ 50 defense can lessen approximately 66 percent of total damage and shorten abnormalities by 66 percent. ]

[ 100 defense can lessen approximately 80 percent of total damage and shorten abnormalities by 80 percent. ]

[ 100 defense can lessen 80 percent of damage. However from here on, the higher the defense the rate of reducing damage grows much slower. ]

[ "Perceptive Sense: 25 points (5 point). Perception is what you hear, feel and see. Perceptive sense allows you to feel possible danger and give a better understanding on the situation/area allowing for critical planning. A person with high perceptive sense is able to sense danger quickly, the bigger the danger the earlier it will be sensed, allowing to make preparations in advance. This influences attack precisions, a long range combatant naturally uses his Perception sense to pressure his opponents. ]

[ Take note: If an opponent's Perceptive sense is higher than yours, your sensing of danger may decline and even counteract against you! If your opponent's perceptive sense is overwhelmingly higher than yours, he can easily trick you or throw you off track easily. ]

[ Charm: 27 points (5 point). Charm refers to your appearance, speech, class, and the ability to comprehend, connect and gather information from others. Charm mainly determines how well you can bond and interact with others, which may increase the rate of mastering various mysterious abilities or even lower the chance of people attacking you. Certain specialized enchantments or summoning abilities may also require certain charm level. As such, charm influences other attributes greatly, and a person with a high charm level has certain advantages in dire situations. ]

[ Intelligence: 29 points (5 points). Intelligence determines your mental power (MP) and also the rate of MP regeneration. Strictly speaking, it determines the amount of times you can release a skill. Your current MP: Intelligence x 10. ]

[ Spirit: 33 Points (5 points). Spirit power is able to enhance your skills formidably, it also influences skill damaging frequency. ]

[ Once you have entered the Nightmare world, your wounds will heal faster than a normal person by 400%. Your MP regeneration is also 120% of a normal person. Your current HP is 120 points, MP is 290 points. Once your HP is lower than 2 points, your movement and perception will be greatly impaired, and you will die once HP reaches 0 points. When MP is at 1 point, where this state will induce symptoms of headaches, nausea and vomiting, and fatigue. Once MP reaches 0, you will black out. ]

[ Your body attributes has already been digitalized. Once you face any danger in this nightmare realm, any fatal attacks directed to your brain/ heart will not result in instant death. It will only increase the damage you receive greatly. However, if an enemy injures certain functional organs, like your eyes/nose/ears or other vital areas, you will still be affected accordingly; be it the loss of hearing/sight or crippling etc. ]

[ Losing of functional organs cannot be treated with just rest or ordinary medicines. Under normal circumstances, one must return to the nightmare space for medical treatment. This is unless the person finds a special medicine/item or a character that possess healing abilities, that can rejuvenate your functioning organs. ]

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