3 Chapter 3 - The First Step
"Thank you, for all those kind word, Almighty Dragon Gods"
If he can bow, he would bow them showing his happiness. But he didn't realize that he already showing his happiness with the light around him that keeps getting brighter. Soul cannot lie with their feelings. Dragon Gods know that, it is a common sense in the Realm of the dead.
"So, we will reincarnate you, but you will be reincarnate as a 15 years old male human"
"You will be living in the middle of the woods by yourself, without family"
"Why without family?"
"Your true family is the one from your previous life. We can't let you suffer the trauma anymore"
"Thank you for the consideration"
"But you will fully be marked with our mark this time"
Mark of the Dragon Gods is common sense for mortal. This mark can be sense in the mortal's body, which mean, the mark was run through the blood of the bearer. To sense these marks, an empty magic crystal is needed to check the mark of every mortal. The empty magic crystal will produce colored light. Vermillion is fire, White Crystal is Ice, Green is Nature, Yellow is Earth, Pure White is Light, and Black is Dark.
"Thee bestow by thy, bless!"
As the Vermillion Dragon chant, it blesses, Crimson Red dragon stone appears above the soul and reach inside the soul's soul and resulting the soul producing a quick red light.
"Thee command by thy, bless!"
Same as the Vermillion Dragon, Crystal Dragon chants its blessing toward the soul and giving the same dragon stone but with more crystal-like color. And then, one by one, green, yellow, white, and black dragon giving their blessing toward the soul and resulting the soul producing rainbow color when all the mark of the Dragon Gods combined.
"With Crimson Red dragon stone, you will have unlimited growth on strength, not only that, you can use the highest magic of [Body Strengthening Magic]"
As the Vermillion Dragon said, with his mark, the soul will be able to growth his physical strength unlimitedly unlike before. On top of that, he even able to use the highest tier magic of [Body Strengthening Magic] which is really helpful.
"As for my blessing, you will have both fire and ice resistance, of course, it is the highest resistance which is able to annul the fire and ice magic incoming damage. Increasing magic affinity and also you are able to breathe underwater too"
"The Green dragon stone will let you to break your AGI attribute limit it means you can train your agility as much as you want. You'll be able to have a conversation with the plants for gaining information through plants"
"The Yellow dragon stone will increase your physical resistance, although it is not as good as the Crystal dragon stone, it will reduce at least 90% of physical incoming damage. You'll also able to speak any language that available in your world"
"The White dragon stone will grant you the dragon eye. The dragon eye can appraise anything in your world. With the help of other Dragon Gods mark, your dragon eye can see through anything, lies, truths, even personal information. With my mark, your perception, instinct, and even sensing danger will be greatly increased"
"As for me, the Black Dragon, with this Black dragon stone, you'll be able to use unique skill called [Status] and [Infinite Storage]. Both of the unique skill also called [Menu], in the future, you may be able to unlock other [Menu] as you venture out. My mark will also allow you to conceal and change your status as you see fit. Combined with other Dragon Gods mark, you are immune to instant death magic and all the negative buff. But remember, charming magic might still affect you, but since the White Dragon increase your mind capability, you can completely immune to mind magic if you train further"
With all six Dragon Gods marks, the soul felt really happy and grateful. But he is still confused as what he should do to actually save the world, where to start? As the Dragon Gods seeing light of the soul getting dimmer, the Dragon Gods open their mouth.
"One more thing, your reincarnation will be unknown in the world, even Gods won't notice your reincarnation. If you want to hide your mark, you can do that with the Black Dragon conceal ability. We prepare a few things in your new hut which is in the middle of the woods. Since we cannot prepare high level equipment with your current level, you have to get your own equipment yourself"
"With all the blessing from the Almighty Dragon Gods, I cannot ask more than this, I'm really grateful"
"Not a big deal. Anyway, you should change your appearance since the old you already perish. You can set up your own appearance before you fully reincarnate, so choose carefully so you won't attract any unwanted attention"
"Yes, I will"
"Then, we will only be able to watch you from afar. We wish you luck in your new life"
After the Dragon Gods gave their regard one after another, the soul finally reincarnated to his new life. With the appearance of 15 years old, the body of a male, with brown hair, and a new name, he left the emptiness where he met the Dragon Gods to his new hut and new life.
"Ugh... Compare to old me, this body a bit hard to control"
As he about to stand up, he fails to measure the balance because his new body and falls back to the bed. After trying a few more times, he finally able to balances himself.
"This hut is pretty nice"
While he looking around inside the hut, he sees a sheet of paper on the table and a small bag. He reaches upon the paper and start to read.
[This is 'Us', the Dragon Gods. Just in case we forgot to tell you something, we summarize the important things. You might need a fake bag if you want to hide your infinite storage. Learn as much magic as you can. There is a map in the bag, once you learn the map, new [Menu] will appear. The woods where you live right now is full of monster, so be careful. Every mark in your blood will increase your magic power about three times than the original magic. With our mark, you will level up three times faster than other normal mortal. There is other magic that not covered by our element, but with our mark, you can learn various element magic easier. I think all important things are already there. Then, your next move, at the moment you need to get stronger until the next demon lord revival which is about 5 - 10 years from now. But still, beware of the lesser demon lord, they may appear sooner than the greater demon lord. The rest will come later on when something urgent happen. Until then, just do your best and have fun]
"Alright, with this kind of ability, I need to train harder"
After reading the paper which the Dragon Gods prepared before, he took the map in the bag and read the map. While scanning with his dragon eye, information of every area shows up. At the same time....
*You Unlocked New Menu: [Map]!
Before he opens the [Map] Menu, first, he checks his status.
"Do I have to say the name of the [Menu] or just say the name in my mind?"
As he pondering about how to bring up the [Status] Menu, he unconsciously thought the word "Status". In front of him, appear a hologram-window kind of thing and showing his own status.
{Original Status}
[Name : Arlan]
[Races : Human]
[HP : 300/300 (9HP/Min)]
[MP : 300/300 (9MP/Min)]
[SP : 300/300 (9SP/Min)]
[Level : 1 (0% Exp.)]
[Title :{The Chosen One};{Reincarnated};{Vermillion Dragon's Mark};{Crystal Dragon's Mark};{Green Dragon's Mark};{Yellow Dragon's Mark};{White Dragon's Mark};{Black Dragon's Mark}]
[Affiliation : None]
[Skill : {Body Strengthening Magic : Unique Level};{Dragon Eye : Unique Level};{Conceal Ability : Unique Level};{Nature's Talk : Unique Level};{Spirit Summoning : Unique Level}]
[STR : 10]
[AGI : 10]
[INT : 10]
[WIS : 10]
[DEX : 10]
[END : 10]
"Unique Level... Is that mean it only appears for the skill that granted by the Dragon Gods?"
Unique Level is something that no one can reach without all mark and blessing from certain Gods. In this case, it's Dragon Gods. Arlan, as he sets his own name, has to learn all of his new ability and skill.
"I can change my name, title, affiliation, and skill as much as I want"
He changes the Tittle and Skill.
{Public Status}
[Name : Arlan]
[Races : Human]
[Level : 1]
[Title : None]
[Affiliation : None]
[Skill : None]
[STR : 10]
[AGI : 10]
[INT : 10]
[WIS : 10]
[DEX : 10]
[END : 10]
*You Unlocked New Menu: [Skill]!
"HP is my Health, MP is my Mana or Magic Capacity, meanwhile SP is my Stamina. There are even 2 [Status] shown which are [Original Status] and [Public Status]. But the [Public Status] not showing my HP and the other apparently"
As Arlan start to learn his own status, he realizes he can use the dragon eye on his own status. He even obtained a new menu called [Skill]. [Original Status] is his current status, meanwhile the [Public Status] is the status that he edited himself and shown to the public or for appraisal purposes.
"So all the skill that I'll learn will store in this [Skill] menu..."
As he checks the attributes on his status and his skill, additional information appears.
[Attribute: STR]
Every point on STR will increase your physical strength by 0.04%. With all Marks of Dragon Gods, every point in STR will increase your physical strength by 0.12%. The more strength you have, the tougher you are.
[Attribute: AGI]
Every point on AGI will increase your movement speed and attack speed by 0.04%. With all Marks of Dragon Gods, every point in AGI will increase the movement speed and attack speed by 0.12%. After learn how to control your own speed, you'll be able to maintain your speed.
[Attribute: INT]
Every point in INT will increase your magic power by 0.2%. With all Marks of Dragon Gods, all magic power always has 300% output power regardless the INT points. If the INT point reaches 300 points, the output power will eventually become higher. INT mostly needed to learn higher tier magic.
[Attribute: WIS]
Every point on WIS will increase the max MP by 10 and MP Regeneration by 0.1%. With all Marks of Dragon Gods, every point in WIS will increase the max MP by 30 and MP Regeneration by 0.3%.
[Attribute: DEX]
Every point on DEX will increase the max SP by 10 and SP Regeneration by 0.1%. With all Marks of Dragon Gods, every point in DEX will increase the max SP by 30 and SP Regeneration by 0.3%.
[Attribute: END]
Every point on END will increase max HP by 10 and HP Regeneration by 0.1%. With all Marks of Dragon Gods, every point in END will increase max HP by 30 and HP Regeneration by 0.3%.
[Skill: Body Strengthening Magic (Unique Level)]
Magic that can increase the strength of the user's body. Blessed by all of the Dragon Gods, the user's body strength will increase by 300% of total STR and AGI points. Cost 10 MP, last for 60 seconds, cooldown 75 seconds.
[Skill: Nature's Talk (Unique Level)]
Skill which allowed the owner to "talked" with the plants. It means that the owner able to understand the condition of a plant just by touching it. Only work for non-withered plants.
[Skill: Spirit Summoning (Unique Level)]
Blessed by all of the Dragon Gods, the new skill added. Spirit Summoning is one of many summoning magic which exist in the world. With this skill and blessing from all the Dragon Gods, the user could summon every element spirit. Fire will summon Fire Spirit, Ice will summon Ice Spirit, Nature will summon Nature Spirit, Earth will summon Earth Spirit. No MP required, but the user must make a contract with the mentioned spirit first before summoning them. Nature Spirit is available for summoning.
Dragon Eye is an ability to see through anything or called appraisal skill and Conceal is a perfect conceal ability, not much of a different than the normal appraisal and conceal, only far better.
"Now I've checked my status and every skill that I currently had, let do some warm up"
Arlan, with his experience with sword, he grabbed the sword by the door and gave it a few swings to make his own body get used to it. After a hundred swing, he wear the leather armor that hanging on the wall near the door. As Arlan open the door of his hut, he was greeted by the scenery of resourceful woods. Plants and animals can be spotted as soon as Arlan get used to the light intensity.
*You Acquired New Skill: [Light Intensity (Passive)]
"Hmm. So, I can acquire new skill as long as the skill is related to common sense"
[Light Intensity]
A passive ability to be able adjusted the light intensity. It can heal temporary blindness in a short time.
He never knew acquiring new skill will be this easy. With the help of 6 Dragon Gods, he could become stronger faster, at least, that what he is thinking.
"I guess I should try the [Spirit Summoning]. Now, how can I activate it?"
