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System Upgrade

Callie dies during a school shooting, while protecting her students’ lives. As a reward, the Goddess of Sacrifice allows Callie to choose a life she wants to reincarnate into. But, overwhelmed with guilt, Callie doesn’t want an easy life. Callie wants a chance to make a real difference in the world instead. She asks to take her student's punishment, which is to live on a world called Arion while cursed by the God of Cruelty. In this world, everyone has access to a system with unbelievable abilities, magic, and evolutions. However, many have used this power to subjugate and use those less fortunate. No one has ever chosen to reincarnate on Arion before...could this one girl change the fate of an entire hopeless world? And what's all this about a SECOND system upgrade?

Tashi_Albertson · Fantasy
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20 Chs

7. Past Lives Rewarded

--Analyzing 10 Past Lives. Determining Rewards. Please Wait--

The screen before Callie's eyes blinked out of existence, startling her, only to be replaced by a slowly spinning circle. Callie grinned.

'It's like when my internet was buffering.' Callie giggled to herself. 'But wait, it said 10 past lives? I thought the goddess only said I'd had 4...'

Suddenly, the status screen returned, along with a small, status window, interrupting Callie from her thoughts.

--Reward Downloaded--

As soon as she was done reading, the message disappeared. Callie anxiously began looking at her status screen, trying to see what her reward might be.

--------Stats--------

Name: Caliope (Callie) Griever

Level: 0

Exp: 0/10

Race: Human

Life Stage: Newborn

Cultivation Level: 0 (Locked)

Magic Level: 0 (Locked)

Health: 230/230

Mana: 0/0

Recovery: 1050

Stamina: 10

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 5

Agility: 3

Intelligence: 15

Wisdom: 15

Willpower: 20

Endurance: 20

Control: 10

Charisma: 40

Perception: 10

Luck: 100

Faith: 10

Skills: N/A

Abilities: N/A

Traits: UNKNOWN ERROR DETECTED; Curiosity; Necromantic Legacy

Professions: N/A

Blessings: UNKNOWN (Error Detected); UNKNOWN ERROR DETECTED; Goddess of Sacrifice; Goddess of Luck; God of Power

Curses: God of Cruelty

Titles: N/A (Locked)

Stat Points: 10,000

Skill Points: 52,156

System Points: 0

Mission Points: 0

Building Points: 0

Gold: 0

Karma Points: 2,415,866

Divinity Points: 148,528

Universal Points: 2

Ally System (Locked)

Past Life Reward System: 10 Past Lives Rewarded

Callie blinked repeatedly, shell-shocked. What could she have possibly done in 10 lives that could have earned her all of that?

--Initiate System Analysis: Y/N?--

'Yes, please!' Callie gladly replied. 'I really would like at least some answers to what's going on with this weird day.'

A small message screen popped up over the status screen.

--System Analysis--

2 Upgrades were downloaded to the System when Initialization was triggered by Host's birth. First download was initialized by Goddess of Sacrifice. Second download was initialized by Unknown.

--System Upgrade 2.0--

-Added Skill Points and Store!

-Added Karma Points and Karma Store!

-Added Divinity Points and Divine Store!

-Added Traits!

-Added Missions!

-Added Professions!

-Upgraded Various System Features!

--System Upgrade 3.0--

-Added Titles!

-Added System Points and System Options!

-Added Mission Points and Mission Levels!

-Added Universal Points and Universal Store

-Added Ally System!

-Added Past Life Reward System!

-Added Building System!

-Added Starter Package System!

-Added Birthday System!

-Upgraded Various System Features!

-Locked Access to Premium Features!

Host accessed Status screen for 30 seconds.

Host thought of Status screen for 2.5 seconds. System loaded Status screen. Host rejected screen and advised System to be less sensitive to thoughts on Status screen. Host Preferences were saved.

Host called System 'Si*i.' System inquired if name change status was initialized to Si*i. Host denied name change status.

Host loaded Status screen. Host asked to (See Details). System loaded all unread detail descriptions. Host inquired about (Unknown Error).

UNKNOWN (ERROR DETECTED)

System loaded past lives rewards. 10 past lives detected. System analyzed Host's past lives.

--Past Life 1--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 2--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 3--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 4--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 5--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 6--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 7--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 8--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 9--

(UNKNOWN ERROR)

--Past Life 10--

Name: Callie Richardson

Level: 5

Exp: 500/1000

Race: Human

Life Stage: Young Adult

Cultivation Level: 0 (Locked)

Magic Level: 0 (Locked)

Health: 0/230

Mana: 0/0

Recovery: 600

Stamina: 10

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 5

Agility: 3

Intelligence: 15

Wisdom: 15

Willpower: 20

Endurance: 20

Control: 10

Charisma: 10

Perception: 10

Luck: 10

Faith: 10

Skills: Walking Lv. Max (See Details); Running Lv. 2 (See Details); Car Driving Lv. 5 (See Details); Reading Lv. Max (See Details)...

Abilities: Mentoring Lv. Max (See Details); Basic Arithmetic Lv. Max (See Details); English Language Lv. Max (See Details)...

Traits: UNKNOWN ERROR DETECTED; Curiosity; Kindness (See Details); Self-Sacrificing (See Details); Teacher (See Details); Tardy (See Details)

Blessings: UNKNOWN (Error Detected); UNKNOWN ERROR DETECTED;

Curses: N/A

Titles: Teacher (Locked)

Stat Points: 10,000

Skill Points: 52,156

System Points: 0

Mission Points: 0

Building Points: 0

Gold: 0

Karma Points: 2,415,866

Divinity Points: 148,528

Universal Points: 2

Allies: (Locked)

Past Life Reward System: 9 Past Lives Detected

System downloaded all results to Host's Status screen, rewarding past lives' endeavors.

Host initialized System Analysis.

--System Analysis End--

'Oh, of course. More unknown errors.' Callie rolled her eyes in annoyance. 'Just when the report was getting interesting. Well, looking at my last life's report, I can see where I got my rewards from, at least.'

Looking closer, Callie saw that she didn't get her old traits or her old title or any of her old skills as a reward, but that was about it. Everything else looked pretty much identical to her current status panel. I guess traits and titles and skills couldn't be applied to her new body?

Whatever the case, those point scores were RIDICULOUS. Wasn't all this a little too overpowered?

'System, how do these points work, anyway?'

--System Store is where Host may spend points on various things--

Callie nodded. 'Okay, open System Store, please.'

--System Store is Locked--

Callie honestly half-expected this answer. Nothing had been easy with the System since the beginning, so she didn't really expect this to be easy either.

'Alright, well, what can I do then?'

--Missions is Unlocked--

'Okay, well then, open Missions, please.' Callie said, her tone noticeably less friendly.

The status screen disappeared, to be replaced with a whole new tab in front of Callie's eyes. A list of missions appeared there, all greyed out, except for the top one.

Callie eyed the top mission warily. What could she really do as a newborn baby, after all?

'Open Mission 1.'

Yes, I know a lot of people hate seeing the stat panel. I personally enjoy it, because it pleases my OCD. However, this first (relatively short) arc is all about the system and is written when Callie is a newborn baby. There really isn't any other plot in this arc besides the system. This is the time Callie has to acquaint herself with her new life and also for you readers to understand the kinda complex system design I've made. I promise, though, once the time skip happens, you'll see a lot less stats panels! I'll just show pertinent information most of the time after this arc, and occasionally throw in a stat panel to update the readers!

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