2 The System (1/2)

After getting his mother settled Sagar made his way back to his room to continue his reading. He left his door completely open in case his mother needed him for something. She wasn't necessarily utterly hopeless that she couldn't do anything on her own she just preferred to conserve some of her already lacking energy. That and well Garris liked to spoil her a bit and didn't like her to do anything she did not need to do.

Continuing to read, Sagar thought back to everything that has happened since he has been reborn. He didn't really know how things came to be they just did. He didn't really remember parts of past life that may have been of relative importance to some others but he see it that way. He couldn't recall anything about his personal life who were his parents, friends, lovers, not even his own name. He could remember everything else besides that but Sagar didn't have a problem with that if anything he was grateful for it as it allowed him adjust to his new life faster.

Whenever he was just born and realized what sort of situation he was in he decided to act like an actual baby. He didn't want anything to happen to him when he was just born so he didn't want others to think there something was wrong or strange about his actions. He continued this act until he was able to speak that was when he decided to stop hiding his intelligence. Really though he was slightly too paranoid because as he found out growing up under his parents that they loved him deeply and even if he did act weirdly when he was born they probably would've loved him all the same.

He only knew English back in his previous life but luckily for him the language here seemed to be using something of Germanic origins and he used that to pick it quickly. Of course there were some words he didn't completely understand or some of the more complicated parts of the language but by now he's got a good handle of it. From there he's learnt to read and write from his mother as she was probably from some sort of background that allowed for her to learn to. Sagar's father hardly knew how to read himself he could read simple things but if it got complex he would be lost.

Since he was able to talk Sagar had been gathering knowledge about the new world that he was in and he's been fascinated with it so far. At first he thought he was just in the past or anything else along those lines based on his observations and his somewhat familiarity with the language but it turns out that he was majorly wrong. He was in a complete fantasy world with magic, different sentient races, and mythical creatures. Sagar used to think his father was merely stronger than most but he's actually insanely stronger to the point that he would be considered a superhero back on Earth.

The people here use different means to strengthen themselves, lets look a Garris for an example. From what Sagar has heard from him he used something similar to Qi in that it was an internal type of energy to not only augment his base power but also many of his attacks. Garris even used it to forge his body and now without using any of his energy he's able to beat anyone of a lower level than him.

So far the only tiers of power he knows of are Novice, Intermediate, Expert, and Master and he only knows of it because Master is the level Garris has reached so far. He didn't know where his mother was at as she has yet to tell him and his father never brought it up either. If he had to guess it would probably be around his father's level at the least.

Most of the things he learned from his mother's books were the geography of the world, history, the different races and there was also a bestiary which his mother herself made. From them he learned that they called this world as a whole Mellem, and it was composed of a few continents. The one he was currently located on was the continent Griffin obviously named after the famed mythical creature and was also the name of the Empire that ruled over the continent. It was a bit confusing to Sagar at first until he learned that the Empire encompassed the entire continent which made it so anybody talking about Griffin were talking about essentially the same thing.

With his father now gone what Sagar wanted to focus on was not only taking care of his mother but also consolidating power of his own. While thinking this he looked at the corner of his retina that seemed to be and initializing something and soon it finished. Since he had been born Sagar had seen the strange occurrence and now finishing it showed the words.

[Welcome User]

It then began to blink a little as if waiting for him to respond. Sagar wasn't sure if he needed to say anything out loud or it would simply read his thoughts. Sagar decided to try the ladder and thought, 'Hello, what are you exactly?'

[I am a system formed for the User to help with whatever he needs, as long as it's within my capabilities]

Nodding to himself Sagar was glad that it could hear his thoughts and he didn't need to speak to it out loud, but he was also pondering on what the so called system said. With another thought he responded 'Exactly what kind of system are you'

Without missing a beat the system told him [SMT system].

'Now that's interesting' , thought Sagar but he wasn't really talking to the system and somehow it seemed to understand that. Sagar remembers that there were games back in his previous life that fell under SMT or Shin Megami Tensei title. He wasn't exactly sure if he was right so he confirmed with the system and it told him that he was correct. He continued to ask it other questions and found out a variety of things.

The system told him that not only did it include the mainline games it also included its spin-offs. It had the different magics and techniques from the series, Sagar can learn them but not automatically. The system will show him how to learn it and that's it everything after that he would be on his own but the system itself may help out every now and then. The moves he had access to were just the basic and low level moves as for anything above that he would have to unlock them.

There were also hidden achievements he can accomplish that would reward him with either a certain items, points, demons, or moves. It didn't really have quests it gave out but doing certain actions such as defeating his foes for example, will reward Sagar with points. With these points he can purchase items or demons from the [Shop] function in the system.