1 System 'Arcadia'

"Found the host."

"Begining the test."

"Ding!..it is tested the host's soul and psychologically suitable for binding."

"Binding beginning."

"Error...Host's body is heavily damaged."

"Begining to repair."

"Error...Damage done to the body is beyond the system's limit."

"Searching for another solution."

"Search complete."

"Begining to construct body to fit the system's requirements."

"5..20..40..50..70..90..99"

"Complete."

"Merging...Merge complete."

"Binding ends."

Followed by an electronic voice sounded in her mind. Shigure opened her eyes after some blur, lively forest entered her vision. Her face was expressionless, but her eyes were filled with surprise.

"What a?" Shigure couldn't help ask in a low voice. She tried to remember a thing, but she could only remember parts of her memories. Just like the damaged CD, memory jumping around all over the place.

"Is this an afterlife?" said Shigure looked around herself searching people or god of this place, but she didn't find anything.

"Host, this is not an afterlife." a serious and cold electronic voice responded to her question.

"What? Who said that ?" Shigure starts to look around her surrounding, trying to find a source of the electronic voice. But she could only find tree, plants and few bugs.

"Host, you don't need to look for me. This system is bound to your soul, so no use for searching it." When electric voice sounds inside her head, Shigure believed the system as knowing there is no one except her.

The electronic voice continued, "This system is Arcadia System. During its search for a candidate, a system found a host for fulfilling all presented requirements."

"Oh, didn't I was dead ?" After calming her self down, Shigure laid on a nearby tree with her back and asked.

"To be exact host was dead for 152 years and two mounts. Due state of the host's body system decided constructing new body is more beneficial in every way than repairing the host's body and as a result of a long-time, there may be some loss of memory. If you want more information, other pieces of information have been displayed in your mind in written form. You can just concentrate your attention to see it." The electronic voice disappeared.

"Oh, is that so... WHAT!" While nodding her head in agreement, Shigure suddenly startled and tried to check her body.

However, the system's cold electronic voice interrupted her, "Due to a sudden emergency situation: Quick-time mission activated."

"Emergency situation ?" Hearing an emergency situation, Shigure quickly focused her mind and saw the mission's description.

Mission: Save the Spirit Wolf Pups from the hands of poachers.

Optimal: Kill the poachers.

Description: Spirit Beasts are creatures that blessed by nature and divine spirit. Killing or hunting them is considered extreme heresy as killing or hurting them is same as going against nature and spirit itself. As host of the Arcadia system, how could you leave those bastards alive?

A moments later, an arrow appeared in before her pointing towards the mission's direction.

"Ah, f*ck it!" Shigure began to run following the arrow's direction. While on her way as seeing passing scenery, she noticed she clearly faster and stronger than her past self.

Eventually, she found countless corpses of wolfs and people armed all kinds of firearms laying on the ground. Shigure quickly understood to understand those there is a large fight happen between poacher and wolfs. Knowing advancing unarmed is same as suicide, she quickly began to search for something she can use.

"Sh*t! what are those things ?"Shigure couldn't help but curse as holding the weapons was used by poachers. All of them are some kind of sword and bow along with weirdly shaped guns with no trigger.

As (previously)modern person she doesn't know how to use the swords or bows as for guns without trigger it was clearly something didn't even exist in during her time.

"Well, at least it is better than nothing." Shigure reached towards one dagger, but the system's voice spoke."Warning. If the host continues destination with current equipment system calculated your survival chance is will be lower than 50%."

"Then what are you telling me to do? I can't use those weapons or are you telling me to throw them or something?" Shigure couldn't help but complain when she hears her chance of survival.

After hearing her complain system became silent for some time and spoke."Based on the fact current situation, and thus improbable to survive, the system will give free chance to spin the Tier 0 weapon roulette."

A big screen along with lever appeared in front of Shigure.

"Well at least better than swords." Said she pulled the lever. Words on big screen began to spin in insane speed that impossible to follow by any eyes and a few seconds later it began to slow down until stoped at a certain weapon.

"Congratulations host, you won 'Custom Marlin Model .450'" Followed system's voice a brand new lever-action rifle along with two box bullet appeared before Shigure.

Just on the moment, she touched the gun, Shigure felt a sudden feeling of nostalgia as if she done this kind of action so many times. Without need any instruction she pulled the rifle's lever opening the feeder and began to load the bullet one by one in a fluid motion. Then after loading, the last bullet she closed the rifle's feeder.

Then with the push and pulling of the rifle's lever.

*Click* with nice sound Shigure finished reloading the rifle and took step towards the place that arrow pointing.

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