Baby steps (3)

The illusory screen lit up as soon as the healing finished. After returning to his mother's embrace burying his head in her hair and speaking those brief words, He began ignoring everything around him and focused on the screen several notifications were listed but instead of cycling through the way they normally would they were listed as ********* waiting for a response or him to activate it and certain ones were flashing. So he started at the top.

* Royce Shepherd level 4

*level capped for 3 years 6 months 22 days. these were the notifications that were flashing.

*Strength +1 unable to add status

*status capped for 3 years 6 months 22 days. Maybe his level was exceeding his physical ability.

*Endurance +1 unable to add status

*status capped for 3 years 6 months 22 days. there was definitely no rush or energetic feeling during this level up.

*Dexterity +1 unable to add status

*status capped for 3 years 6 months 22 days

*Speed +1

*Speed +1 unable to add status

*status capped for 3 years 6 months 22 days

*Magic +2, status points+2

*spell slots +4

*Physical body undeveloped, caps will remain in place for 3 years 6 months 22 days.

'So my magic can still go up but the rest of it is capped for now. too bad the system doesn't give a briefing or a tutorial or a help option in the menu.'

That's when the system blinked again a slightly more severe glitch than when he thought about spell and ability descriptions. A second later just like he'd asked fb

or a silvery option lit up.

*Help 1x.

'1x? Hope it's not just one question.' He thought, as he selected the option Help. The effects were not what he expected. his body relaxed and he could feel his consciousness separating from it. Just as soon as he could see himself in his mother's arms his father rapping his arms around them And the curious looks on the doctor and the nurses faces. The scene just flashed and he was staring at another illusory screen not his own at least that's how he felt because he couldn't read the language or more like the runes that made up the words, same for the numbers. But if he was seeing things right the being on the other side of the illusory screen had six digits in HP, seven digits in MP, and five digits in SP.

"Hello?" No words came out But he could almost feel his message projected.

"I thought I was imagining you. Who are you and how did you get in my system?"

With no other way to explain it. "I guess I'm here because I asked for help. something similar happened when I wanted a description of spells and abilities. But this time instead of giving me a brief description of what I wanted to know it brought me to you, sort of."

Royce watched as the being waved his hand The illusory screen disappeared and was replaced by several more. "You're a mortal. You haven't even reached a full human cycle in age how do you have the system open to 100%? Or open at all, the system shouldn't be open to 100% till the being is past puberty." He scanned over the screens as they all continually changed. "How can I only raise limited information on your system?" He flipped another screen several times. "I created the systems, You shouldn't be able to block me. What are you? You have to be very unique to be able to do this."

After waiting a second for Royce to speak the being parted the screens so now they were looking face-to-face "Hhm?"

He mentally cleared his throat and said "I activated the system almost a week ago. My name is Royce Shepherd I was born a little over 8 months ago. Just before that I was killed alongside my sister by her assassins. In that life my name was Royce Pierce."

"An unscheduled reincarnation. That could explain why I can't see your whole system. But not how you were reincarnated." He flipped a couple more illusory screens. "Since no one was scheduled to be reincarnated, and you didn't do it yourself, what planet did you die on?" The tone in the beings voice made it clear he expected an answer.

"I thought I was the one asking for help." Royce realized at that point there was no way to mumble in this form. But he pointed to the section of the galaxy his people were expanding in. "My people have met many other races and have expanded rabidly in the last 800 years. With your level of technology, and this mapping they should be easy to find. I was on my ship above the planet when I died. The planet was unnamed, and was just beyond their furthest inhabited solar system."

The display magnified that part of the galaxy. "These are the inhabited planets in the area."

Royce decided to interrupt "The planet wasn't inhabited there may have been life on it. It's near a cluster of solar systems three very close to each other. here's the three near the edge of your map so the system I was in is just a little farther off of it"

"Trust me I'm helping I had to work a lot of bugs out of the system, now we're adding in reincarnation I can't be sure there won't be any negative side effects." The map adjusted to show a solar system just a little further away. "Yes it only has plant life. let's see why." The map changed to show only the planet. Several of the screens around them changed as well. "Well this makes a little more sense now. there's a spirit stone on that planet a powerful one at that. Other than you and your sister how many crew members died?"

"Being that the ship's infirmary is on the deck below where she and I died up to 12 others." Royce just left out that the others weren't really crew.

The map shifted again the visual of the planet changed slightly and then there was a ship in orbit.

"It's still there?!"Royce blurted out.

"No, this is just after you arrived." if you shifted angled up from the bottom of the ship another ship could be seen in the distance magnified by another part of the map Royce remembered what happened next but from a very different angle. He watched as the second ship fired a weapon he had not seen before from an extreme range and it blasted a hole straight through his ship.

The view changed again and he had a third person view of the bridge on his ship just as the weapon disintegrated his sister and hole through his ship. He watched the decompression as his own body was pulled into the beam. The scene shifted again. This time to the infirmary. They watched as the beam punched through the ceiling and the floor and three of the bodies the 12 he had collected that didn't require mechanical life support suffered the same fate as him. the other nine were locked down well enough the decompression didn't pull them from there beds. All of their conditions were so severe they likely passed before they suffocated.

The images shifted again. And this time he was staring into the eyes of his sister as the weapon broke through the ceiling then disintegrated her body and continued through the floor. But the scene immediately changed as if the stars flew by at an incredible pace and once again he was staring into the eyes of his sister but there was a cut on her head and as her eyes opened the cut was healing at an incredible rate. But before the wound healed a illusory screen popped up between them. He could tell she was looking at it She had activated her system as soon as she was reincarnated. It was definitely his sister It said Allison at the top of her screen. That wasn't even the interesting part though. She was Lynn, a silver with long dark stripes. A feline people.

The scene flashed again. This time he watched his own experience from death to rebirth to the activation of the system to asking for help. when the screen changed again it was on the first of the bodies to be destroyed. A man that Royce had actually known before his condition had become hopeless But when the scene changed it didn't last for very long but there was a clear image of the reincarnated from 800 years earlier but showed nothing after.

Then it changed to the second of the bodies to be destroyed. A woman who was in some sort of accident, had been kept alive by her mother who had recently passed herself the woman's siblings were getting ready to pull the plug anyway so he paid them for her body But promised her death would be humane and quick if his experiment didn't work. Her image also flashed by quickly showing her as the majority of her body was incinerated, then reincarnated and she looked like a soldier. because of the uniform he knew she was part of the Solaren Military. The next shift showed the last one effected by the decompression. Royce couldn't help but to mutter "Oh no." The body flew through the cabin the beam had finished passing through the ship everything had decompressed by the time it was floating toward the opening in the ship But only milliseconds behind the beam The head slammed into the edge of the opening creating a great mess of brain matter the whole head was smashed horizontally to the shoulder's. The scene flashed next to a boy taking a gasp of air. Royce new the child's body had just come back to life. He was in a large life pod strapped into a seat directly across from what looked to be his mother and father who obviously perished from what looked like hypoxia.

"It's likely somebody ripped them off, sold them a ship with the wrong oxygen generator in the life pod. probably good for one or two people but three people will eventually kill each other as soon as they died off the oxygen replenished and there was more than enough for one person." Royce said.

He thought it was over but the image flashed again.