Slowly awakening from his long slumber, Amon slowly opened his eyes. Rubbing his eyes to help his vision clear, Amon sat up and tried to stand, but felt a jolt of pain run through his whole body.
"Shit," Amon spoke, leaning against a nearby stone pillar.
Taking a moment to calm himself, Amon realized that he had just spoken.
"Just what happened to me?" Amon asked as he began to take in the lab that was mostly destroyed.
[The Proginator has awoken]
[Completing binding process]
"Proginitor...binding process...what is this?" Amon asked as he stared at the blood-red screen.
But before he could even fully process those messages, a new, longer screen appeared before him, and a feminine robotic voice spoke to him.
[Hello, host, I am Lilith—the assistant to your Proginator system. My task is to help you navigate the system and aid you in improving your abilities.]
"Proginitor...I have heard of them before...the heroes of legend."
[Yes, protagonists are the strongest beings after the gods. So I understand why they would make stories about them]
"So...so you're telling me I am one?" Amon asked
[Yes. The Progenitor of Flesh and Life]
"Flesh and life...after all this time," Amon said as he clenched his fist
[...]
[Host, please allow me to give you a guide to the system]
"...Yeah...go ahead,"
[The Proginitor system has four main functions]
[Status: Tracks your physical and magical abilities and displays them in a numerical value]
[Inventory: A sub-space that only the host can access and use to store any number of items]
[Summons: As the progenitor of life and death, you can summon servants and warriors from other lands to aid you. There is a cooldown of two weeks between each possible summon.]
[Store: By using gold gained by killing and absorbing enemies, you can purchase items of much better quality than anything in your current world and other worlds]
"This seems simple enough to understand...open my status," Amon said as he looked over the different functions.
[Status]
Name: Amon
Age: 18 Race:
Primordial Human
Title: Prognitor of Flesh and Life
Class: None
Level 50: 0/50,000 exp.
Health: 5000/5000
Mana: 15000/15000
Strength: 55
Agility: 55
Endurance: 50
Dexterity: 55
Intelligence: 55
Spirit: 50
Free Status Points: 50
Skills: Flesh Control[Lv.1] Decay Control[Lv.1] Growth Control[Lv.1] Intermediate-Dark Magic[Lv.100]
Innate Skill: Gluttony[Lv.1]
"Why is dark magic so high...and why am I level 50?"
[Well, you may not remember since you passed out, but you consumed that dark mage. The moment you did, you absorbed his skill, dark magic, and gained the experience of killing a level 120 mage.]
"I see...and those other skills?"
[All skills that were unlocked the moment you awakened]
"I see...so I have once more questioned you, said you would aid me no matter what, right?" Amon asked
[Yes]
"What if I wish to destroy the world?"
[Then it will be destroyed]
"And if I wished to kill gods?"
[It won't be easy, but it's possible, so yes, I will aid you]
[You are my host. My life and my purpose, no matter what you wish, I shall aid you.]
"Good...because I plan to break this world. I will rise to the top and shatter the world of those above so the light may reach everyone. I also plan to kill off those gods who believe they determine our faiths," Amon said as he stood up and looked up at the small hole in the ceiling exposing the night sky.
[Are you ready for the challenges that come ahead with that goal?]
"Yes...The pain and suffering I went through, that millions of others are currently going through, should not exist. So even if I have to become the villain that killed the gods to do so...I will," Amon said as he picked up a nearby cloak on the floor.
[Very well, then what shall you do first?]
"Money...I can't do anything without money, so that's the priority," Amon replied, putting on the cloak to cover his bare body,
Amon walked around the room he was in, looking for anything of value. Finding a shelf of potions and a book, he placed them all in his inventory before casually walking out of the only door.
To his surprise, Amon found himself in an elegantly designed room adorned with dozens of sets of clothing, weapons, and an assortment of jewelry. Quickly placing everything in his inventory and putting on a set of clothes that fit him, Amon stopped as he picked up a mirror and got a look at himself for the first time since his awakening.
He saw that they looked mostly the same as before, but his eyes had become a golden orange, and he had built some prominent muscle. But as he saw his neck, Amon saw that he still had a scar across his neck from the good doctor removing his lyranx.
Gently running his finger over the scar, Amon gently shivered as the pain came back to him.
[Are you not going to heal that wound?]
"...No, it's a reminder, so I won't forget the reason I take my path," Amon said as he placed the mirror in his inventory.
With the room completely cleared out, Amon moved to the next room, which was a storage room for monster parts.
"The heart of a troll...a wyvern's horn...the eyes of a dyriad...this man hunter everything," Amon said with a deep sigh.
[What will you do. With your gluttony ability, you can consume the flesh of these creatures and possibly gain thier abilities. Are you willing to consume those who suffered like you?]
Silently, Amon held his hand out, and with glowing eyes, his flesh grew and shot out, turning into hungry mouths, consuming every piece of flesh in the storage room, not leaving a single piece.
[New SKill: Novice-Regeneration[Lv.1]
[New Skill: Novice-Scale Armor[Lv.1]
[New Skill: Novice-Fire Magic[Lv.1]
[New Skill: Novice-Water Magic[Lv.1]
[New Skill: Novice-Earth Magic[Lv.1]
[New Skill: Novice-Wind Magic[Lv.1]
[Skill: Fire Magic/Water Magic/Earth Magic/Wind Magic: Has become Novice-Elemental Control[Lv.1]
[New Skill: Novice-Plant Magic[Lv.1]
[Skill: Growth[Lv.1] -> [Lv.10]
[Innate Skill: Gluttony[Lv.1]->[Lv.2]
"I will do what I must to grow stronger...But I make sure creatures like this aren't hunted just because someone needed a lab experiment," Amon said with clenched fist as he left the room.