Alex was walking down the street minding his own business. Suddenly there was a cry for help nearby."Help I'm being robbed!" Alex thought about it for a moment, and reluctantly decided to help. He lived by the philosophy that you treat others the way you want to be treated. Meaning that he would help hoping they would help him in return someday, though it had never happened. Alex went down the alleyway the call came from and found a girl being mugged.
"You! Turn right around and you'll live another day!" The robber called out while pointing a gun at him. Alex sighed, and replied,
"Do you really mean that? This is a simple mugging, that means you go to jail for what a few years? You kill me and you're looking at life, is that worth it?" The robber suddenly faltered as he considered Alex's words. Alex thought the situation was settled, until he saw the robbers hand started shaking while the gun was still pointed at him.
"Hey, let's calm down he-" he was suddenly cut off as the robber accidentally fired the gun and hit him. Alex was confused for a moment, before realization hit him the same moment the pavement did. The girl screamed, but he could barely hear it as his consciousness drifted further away. He thought he heard another bang, but wasn't sure.
***
A moment later Alex was in a space, surrounded by hundreds of people. They were all talking amongst themselves. Alex was confused for a second until he remembered being shot.
"WH WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?" People around him looked at him with sympathy, and said,
"Looks like a fresh one over here. Look here buddy, you alright?" Alex didn't understand what was going on, but after a few moments he started calming down as he grasped the situation. Seeing he calmed down the other people lost interest in him, and went back to their previous conversation. As Alex thought about what was going on, he thought back to the various manga and light novels he has read over the years and a theme they seemed to like, reincarnation.
As he thought of this, Alex grew a little excited. He was sad at not being able to see his family again, but if he dwelled on it then he would have a hard time adapting to his next life. He waited patiently for the god that would reincarnate them, as he looked around at the other people. He didn't mind the fact that there were others, as some novels had multiple people reincarnating at a time. After several hours passed, an old looking man with a long white beard appeared and spoke to the gathered people.
"Greetings. I am one known as a god. After several hundred millennium of existing, I am now looking for my successor. To ensure I choose the best one I have gathered a thousand of you, and will have you participate in a game for the next few hundred years. You will each have a system, and choose three powers to accompany you in your new lives. After you familiarize yourself with your new systems, you will be sent to a world of your choosing, or one randomly decided. There you will be able to grow in peace for the next twenty years before being able to traverse worlds freely. You will need to either accumulate more powers, or master the ones you choose over the others. Your chances of succeeding will depend on your capability to use your new powers, or your ability to subdue others to follow you. Now then, examine your new systems and choose your powers for a little while, I'll be back to send you all on your way in an hour."
And with that the God disappeared leaving everyone gapping at the spot he was in before. Alex just shrugged and went with the flow, before activating his new system. What he saw was the usual setup with general information, stats, and slots for his abilities. Alex decided that he did t want all the extra information and limited it to just show his general information and lists of his abilities.
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Name- Alex
Age-????
Lvl- 0
Abilities
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Satisfied with that Alex looked at the other functions, and saw that there was also a shop, and interface for things such as friends and a mailbox. He opened the shop first and saw that there were different slots for abilities. A notification showed up to inform him about the shop.
[notice, the shop function is only available for a limited time. After reincarnation the shop will only open whenever user reaches the hundred level milestone. Some abilities and objects will also only be available when user reaches the age of five to avoid overloading newborn bodies. Exceptions will be basic bloodlines, and only one bloodline will be available per person. Depending on the bloodline chosen, to avoid unnecessary complications others will ignore any abnormalities as a result of said bloodline. ]
Alex was stunned for a moment before deciding that he needed to choose a bloodline ability so that he might be able to get a jumpstart on the others. He needed to focus on ensuring the best foundation for himself, while also maximizing potential in the future. Suddenly he heard the others shouting in excitement at the abilities they were choosing, such as specific attacks from anime, weapons, and so on. Alex snorted at their stupidity.
After he spent several minutes choosing his abilities and place and time he wanted to be born, he felt as if that as long as he put in the effort towards training in the future he wouldn't lose to just anyone. He then checked the other options, and was surprised that he had a friend request. Alex opened it and saw a pretty looking girl that looked vaguely familiar. He was wondering where he new her from, when the woman herself walked up to him.
"Um, I wanted to thank you for before, and I'm sorry I got you killed..." Alex suddenly slapped his own forehead and recalled why the girl looked familiar, she was the one who was being robbed when he died! His eyes suddenly became sharp, and he asked her,
"Why are you here? Don't tell me that guy killed you too?!" She nodded and explained what happened after he died,
"After he shot you, he decided that he was already in too deep, and another body won't make much of a difference." Alex was mad at the guy, but calmed himself when he thought about the life he was going to live from now on. Especially that if he used his abilities right he would be escorted by countless beautiful ladies in the future.
"Don't worry about it, think about the lives we get to live from now on!" The woman looked confused for a moment, then declared with passion,
"Yes! I already decided that I'll stop people like that in the future! I don't really care about this game, and the friend function said that you can't fight those listed as your friend so would you consider accepting?" Alex thought about it and decided that he didn't have any real reason to refuse. The two chatted for a bit and decided that after the twenty years they would meet up. Then the time they had ran out. Alex ensured that he was being sent to his requested destination, and was filled with excitement.
***
In another worlds Japan, in a a place called Kou town, a new baby was being born.
"It's a boy, congratulations!"
"My handsome baby boy, I'll name you Alex."
As everyone was fawning over the new baby, no one seemed to notice that he had the tail of a monkey.
A woman walked up the stairs of their house to her sons door. She opened it and looked at the bundle of blankets on the bed, and said to him,
"Get up Alex, you don't want to miss you own birthday do you?" At her words, the boy sat up quickly and looked excited.
"That's right I'm five today!" The woman laughed, and said,
"That's right, so get ready quickly and come down for breakfast sweetie." The woman closed the door to her sons room, and walked back downstairs. The boy, Alex was excited for his birthday, but not for the reason the woman thought. He quickly leapt out of bed. Anyone looking at this boy would notice three distinct things that were different about him compared to other boys.
The first and most obvious was the tail that extended from his backside. It was about three feet long, and when he finished getting ready he curled it around his waist like a belt. Then there was his black hair. It stood up in crazy spikes all over his head marking him among the daycare teachers as some kind of young delinquent. But no matter who attacked his head with a comb or brush, it never went down.
Finally there was the fact that as far as five years olds were concerned, he was completely ripped. There wasn't a single ounce of fat on the boy's body. As soon as he was able to, he had started doing minor workouts, and even got some of the other kids at daycare and parks to help him in the name of "playing". He was also notorious for getting into fights with the elementary and middle school students that came to bully the daycare kids. Even when they beat him up, he would turn around and return the beating the next day. He had already earned the nickname among the older kids of the 'revenge demon'.
Part of the reason he was so violent was the bloodline that Alex chose. He went with the Saiyan bloodline, because genetically they were the perfect warriors. Every time Alex suffered a defeat, as long as he didn't die he would become even stronger for it. They were able to grasp fighting styles with ease, and perhaps the biggest factor, there was no real limit to their fighting potential. There was also the benefit of using energy attacks, and the super Saiyan form, but that would be a lot further into he future. The downside was that saiyans were extremely violent. He had been able to suppress the violent nature to an extent, but when he got into fights it would come out.
Alex was excited because since today was his fifth birthday, he would once again be able to access the system and start using his two other abilities. The only reason he was able to use his Saiyan powers until now, was because it was a bloodline ability. The system also limited the use of bloodline abilities, by limiting each person to only one through the system. However, Alex had found a way to bypass the system to an extent. As far as he was concerned, bloodlines would be the key to his future growth, as they would only increase his potential.
'Open system' he thought to himself. The same screen he recalled from five years ago popped up in front of him, except it now showed that he had three deliveries in his inbox. Before Alex could open them though, the image of a strict looking office woman popped up in his system, shocking him. 'Who the hell are you!?'
'Good morning, and happy birthday. I'm your watcher, an angel if you will. I'm here to watch over you, and assist you while you grow. Everyone part of this game has one of us with them. My name is Lauren.' Alex was speechless for a moment, before moving on. He opened the first of his messages, and it was his next choice from the shop. Suddenly a beautifully decorated wooden box appeared in his hands.
Alex smiled as he opened the box, and looked down at the sixteen Crimson chess pieces. This had been the way he found around the system. He was restricted to choosing only one bloodline, but by choosing the evil pieces from the high school dxd world he would not only be able to have fifteen servants following him to other worlds, he would also be able to turn himself into a devil. In the series, there was a ritual that a high class devil needed to perform to become a "King", but Alex wasn't part of devil society. As a result there needed to be a king piece added to the set to accommodate him, and each piece would turn the user into a devil while keeping their original body.
Alex was excited to think about it now, a saiyans battle potential with a devils magic. He put the box under his bed to use the piece later when he didn't need to worry about interruptions, and turned to his next message, his third choice. He opened the message and,
[DING! A new update has been detected for users system, install now?]
Alex smiled once again, and selected to install the new update. His third option was for the job leveling system from The Death Mage That Doesn't Want a Fourth Time series. As he didn't have access to a job changing station, the system allowed him to change jobs whenever he reached level one hundred in his current job. As he doesn't have a job yet, it currently read [jobless].
The reason that he made this his third choice, was that the job system would allow him to access unique abilities depending on his actions, and he would be able to increase his capabilities as long as he had the corresponding job. Even if he couldn't use magic well as a devil, just having the [mage] job would help him increase his magic capabilities tremendously. His first choice when he could choose jobs though, was hopefully a blacksmith job, so that he could make his own weapons for the future.
Alex then turned to the last message, but didn't open it. He was too busy trying to not dance with joy, as he won his gamble. The world he had chosen, was the world of high school dxd. There was the potential to get another ability here at birth, known as the sacred gear. The problem with this though, was that only humans would be able to be born with sacred gears. However, Alex was informed that even if he chose a bloodline that affected him physically, he would mostly be ignored in order to ensure there was no complications. Alex thought, 'would this apply to the sacred gear system as well?'
He had several reasons for choosing the dxd world, but one was the possibility of receiving a sacred gear as an automatic fourth ability due to it not being part of the system. As he was a "human" according to the world, he managed to fool the sacred gear system. Alex was extremely excited, and opened the message from see what sacred gear he got. He suddenly froze, and mentally screamed,
'WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE ISSEI HYOUDOUS BOOSTED GEAR!!!???'