1 001 - The Beginning
Greetings! My name is Michael Smith, Mike for short.
On my way to work today, I found that there was a small child running across the road with a fast-moving truck speeding towards the girl.
Like the Cliche I am, I pushed the girl out of the way and got splat myself...
I guess Truck~kun strikes again...
My vision slowly faded away into black and I fell asleep.
Suddenly BAM!
I found myself in an abandoned house in the living room.
I could see everything around me as if I was a 360-degree camera.
Why am I here?! Didn't I just die?!
Did I reincarnate?!
I looked at my body using my weird 360 vision and was shocked by what I saw, I was a solid black box with a glowing symbol of a Skull.
Then before my eyes appeared a black screen with golden letters!
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Name: None
Race: Divine Game Console
Status: Unbreakable
[Materialize Avatar]
[Enter Dimension]
[Create Guardians]
[Open God Menu]
[Enter the Webs]
Divine Energy: 1,000 DE
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"What the hell? I am a Game Console? And not only that I am a God?" I asked out loud in surprise.
I looked around the living room I was in and found that it must have been abandoned for quite a while.
There were a few broken windows in the living room and upon focusing outside them I found that I was in an abandoned farmhouse...
I went into my Menu and Entered the Web.
As I was on the Web I found myself in a hub of countless lines and each line held information.
To my surprise, I felt as though I could manipulate anything I wished in the net with my will alone...
I scanned through the countless lines of information that made websites and found something shocking.
It was a hidden video located deep in the Web in a secret...dark section.
I read through the data and comments and found that this section of lines is the Dark Web!
I started the video and was quickly surprised by what I saw!
It was a man standing before a weird-looking Statue.
I was surprised because I recognized what the statue was!
It was SCP-173!
Did I become an SCP in the SCP universe?!
Wait if I am in the SCP universe...crap!
That means that I will be constantly in danger!
But If I am unbreakable I should still be able to survive even if the earth explodes right?
But wait...if that happens wouldn't I float in space for all eternity?
No! I cannot let that happen!
But what could I possibly do?
I am a Game Console!
I cannot even move!
Not to mention I appear to be in an abanded farmhouse away from civilization!
Sigh...I guess I could alert the SCP foundation of my presence?
But...they will most likely just imprison me and try to destroy me...
I did have that [Create Guardians] button, but who knows what might happen if I do that.
What if I summoned a world-ending entity?
But what about [Materialize Avatar], [Enter Dimension], and [Open God Menu]?
Both the Materialize Avatar and Enter Dimension sound like they could be incredibly dangerous...
So I guess the next thing I will do is open my God Menu...
Upon clicking the button I found that I was staring at a screen with countless options.
I could materialize an item from my dimension, create 'laws' in my dimension, incarnate a physical form in the dimension, and the option that caught my attention the most.
[Soul Search]
According to this [Soul Search] allowed me to gather souls into my dimension and slowly earn some Divine Energy from them for however long they are in the dimension.
Like a player joining a game and I earned a profit for however long they are in the game.
I then had a plan.
I needed to use Divine Energy to create, manipulate, and destroy in my Dimension.
And since I am a Game Console why not create a Game?
I could silently gather random souls around the world during the night and allow these players to play my game in their sleep!
Of course, I would have to make enough entertaining content for the players...
I took in a deep 'breath' and mentally clicked [Enter Dimension]
Suddenly I felt my conscious being pulled into my body where I found myself floating in an empty void...
I immediately got to work.
I first created a floating piece of land surrounded by a thick immovable fog that no one but me could go through for 100 Divine Energy.
The piece of land would be the 'starter zone' for the players and would feature a 'Tutorial Village' and a low-level monster zone.
The piece of land was 200 Square Miles in size and at its center was the empty village.
And just like that because of the details, I put into the land I lost another 200 Divine Energy.
I had 700 Divine Energy left to use...
I created my first-dimensional law, Players cannot destroy unless a few criteria are met, for example, if it's a farmer that owns the land he could plow and plant their field or a miner mining some ore.
I then created my second law, Materials will regenerate over time. For example, a mine filled with ores like iron will regenerate over time and the rarer the ore the longer the regeneration time. I also included a few other details like some materials cannot regenerate so they are destroyed, as well as new materials will generate in a different location and they will regenerate until destroyed and so on and an added detail is that people with a mining skill can mine ores and people with a woodcutting skill can chop down trees.
The Third Law was mainly for players, upon dying in the 'Game' they will be able to respawn in an hour, but they will lose something in return, mainly EXP, it also places everyone in what I call the Character Creation area, which is just a white box in their head, where they can modify their appearance slightly and choose a class.
I created a few classes, Warrior, Ranger, Rogue, Mage, and Preist.
For now, I placed the max level to be 10 and gave a skill every few levels.
Later on in the 'Game', I would create different paths for the common classes to take and perhaps make different grades of classes like a Rare Class or Legendary Class.
A unique feature I made for the players is that they could mentally enter the game at any time and play but their bodies would enter a deep sleep that would make them appear to be in a coma, but this is only because their souls would be in my dimension in their Game bodies.
I also added a few more details to this Law, but I won't name those details unless needed.
These three laws cost me a hundred Divine Energy each which means I have only 400 Divine Energy Left.
Next, I created the Monster Zone which would be the entire forest around the village.
I also made sure to make a dirt road that goes in every direction.
North, North-East, East, South-East, South, South-West, West, and North-West.
I created Slimes, these slimes would range between level 1 to 5, and at the center of their slime body would be a core, to kill the slime the player would have to destroy the core.
The slimes would stay away from the roads unless agroed by the players.
I also created a few skills for the Slimes.
[Slime's Unity - When another slime is getting attacked within 25 Meters all nearby slimes will converge and assist the slime in defeating the attacker(s)]
[Slime's Body - A Slime will not die unless it's core has been destroyed and the slime cannot feel hunger, thirst, fatigue, or be afflicted by poison]
[Core Manipulation - If a slime fears that it is in endanger of being destroyed it can move its core away from harm, but if the core leaves the body of the slime then it will be destroyed]
[Corrosive Slime - When a slime touches flesh it will usually harm the being and deal damage]
[Slime's Reproduction - Slimes have the ability to split and form other slimes]
[Slime Evolution - If a Slime is left alone long enough or eats enough beings it can evolve into a higher level and once it reached its max level it gains the chance to evolve into a higher form]
I added the Slime Evolution skill because I don't want zones in which I used precious Divine Energy to become useless. So I made it to where slimes can evolve into higher species and give the players more interest in going back to these starter zones.
I also created a basic status and item table for the slime.
[Basic Slime Level 1-10 (100-1,000 HP) - (1.0 DPS - 10.0 DPS) - (EXP: 10-100)]
[Basic Slime Loot Table: 80% of dropping Slime's Slime(Alchemical Ingredient(Corrosive Agent)), 50% of dropping Copper Coin 0.01% chance of dropping Slime Summoning Staff(Item), 0.001% Chance of dropping Token of the Slime King(One-time use item)]
To my surprise, the Slime's skills were quite cheap in creating as well as most of the item drops which only cost me 18 Divine Energy.
It cost me 150 Divine Energy to make the monster zone which left me with 232 Divine Energy.
I added the details to the village before creating the NPC's.
Sadly I could only make them 'Essential' which means they cannot die, and their intelligence was quite...basic.
They were so simple that it hurt.
They could not think and act like robots that followed their predetermined paths.
In the end, I made 32 NPC's and used most of the remaining Divine Energy editing a few laws and etc.
Now that I only had 25 Divine Energy it was time to find my first beta testers!
