"I guess I'm Xenon Prasedymum now." Brayden/ Xenon said to himself softly, he sat still on the wooden chair, finding it hard to move after the shocking discovery he just made.
"Xenon!... Xenon!... Xenon where are you!" He heard a voice calling out to him, not so far from the study now.
"Ah, I guess that's Elsa looking for me." Xenon recognised the voice as his sister's, or more appropriately, as the voice belonging to the sister of the previous owner of the body he was now in possession of.
'I wonder how Melcrow is'. Brayden, now Xenon got reminded of his real sister on earth while listening to the call of the new sister he got.
He stood up and walked to the entrance of the building, which was his father's study. He stood by the open door and watched a tall, slim, light skinned beauty walk across a sea of flowers, approaching the study.
"Where has this boy gone to..." She muttered loudly. "Xenon!... where are... oh there you are." She smiled when she saw Xenon at the doorway from a distance. She picked up her pace, almost running. Xenon stepped out of the doorway and met her just at the boundary where the lawn around the study met the flowers that populate the rest of the land.
"Xenon, I've been searching for you all evening" She said breathlessly as she pulled him into a hug.
"Sorry for worrying you, Elsa" Xenon replied dryly, which prompted Elsa to break the hug and rap her knuckles against his head.
"Is that all you have to say, do you know how worried I was, I thought you were dead,or worse, lost." She said angrily.
"Hey! don't hit my head!" Xenon grabbed his scalp in pain "I might pass out if you continue to hit me, I'm extremely weak right now."
"And whose fault is that?" Elsa scoffed "I heard from Qweri that you were meditating again and you've been consuming a lot of potions as of recent. Why won't you stop, Xenon, do you want to kill yourself." Elsa's expression changed from anger to worry and her eyes began to tear up.
'Sorry to bust your bubble, but the Xenon you know is long dead.' Brayden thought of giving her that reply but swiftly decided against it. "Let's just go back to the mansion, I'm to tired to argue right now."
"You and this nasty attitude of yours, you're gonna get a spanking soon enough." Elsa playfully replied but didn't reject her brother's wishes.
Xenon wrapped his right arm around his sister, using her to support himself as they walked past the large flower fields, they reached a wooden bridge, stretched across a large stream.
The study was built on a recursive island, hence the bridge to access the rest of the manor.
They alighted the bridge and continued through a stone path, past a few trees and bushes until they came to a low wooden fence, and just beyond the fence was a mansion that towered over everything in the distance –it's an average mansion, don't go imagining an unusually enormous building.
"Dinner will be prepared soon, do not fall asleep". Elsa ordered as she left Xenon at the sitting room and left for the kitchen.
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"So there are only three explanations for this situation I'm in, I have either gone crazy, or I'm in a coma and having this bizarre dream, or... I truly died and have been somehow transported into the body of a 14 year old in another world". Xenon –formerly Brayden– said to himself as he lay down on his bed.
"I think I'm gonna stick with the second option". He decided"
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•INCORRECT CONCLUSION!
•I as well you are an oddity in this world taking refuge in the body of one of it's inhabitants.
•I am quite sure this is not a dream as your mind before death is incapable of forming such a complex construct as an entire new world.
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"No thanks system..." Xenon grimaced to the unsolicited reply that came from the system. "Wait, are you calling me dumb? Fucking system. This is totally fucked up...
"According to the memories I got from the system, this is a world where spirits and humans coexist, people interact with spirits and has learned how to channel the energy given off by spirits. The energy is termed Àse –a word from the runic language that originated from the spirits– by the spirits, but the humans choose to simply refer to it as spiritual energy.
"The humans of this world have learnt how to store this volatile energy in their bodies and employ it to perform superhuman feats. Everyone except the dying out ancient warrior family, where I'm from...
"The Prasedymum family has rejected interaction with spirits since the beginning of time, but my birth somehow changed that. Apparently my mum was of questionable origin and my birth has brought nothing but calamity unto this family, my father lost his mind gradually after my birth and vanished a few years ago. And I am openly hated by everyone in this family, most especially my grandfather and my father's twin sister. Only Elsa, who is actually my step sister cares for me." "What type if bullshit situation is this?". Xenon sighed.
"And to make matters worse, I can't channel spiritual energy because of some disease I got since I was just an infant. And my father's legitimate wife, Elsa's mother died shortly after I was born after, of unknown cause". Xenon sighed again. 'So not only am I dying slowly, I'm also openly hated'. Xenon sighed. "Great, just fucking great!".
"Young master!" Qweri, an old butler knocked at the door to his room. "Dinner is ready." He said in his old, but energetic voice.
"I'll join you shortly." Xenon replied.
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Xenon joined his sister at the dining table, but barely ate anything, partly because most of the food were strange to him –not because they were completely foreign but because they were dishes that were extinct or very rare on earth– but mostly because of the overwhelming situation he found himself in.
He abandoned the meal in front of him after picking at it and went for some fruits he could identify. He picked an apple, pomegranate and a bunch of mulberries into a tray then went to the sitting room. He sat down, took a bite of his apple and decided to tinker with the system. He opened up his status tab.
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NAME: XENON PRASEDYMUM
AGE: 14
LEVEL: 1 | EXP: 0/50
STATE: DISEASED; WEAK
HP: 3/10
OUSIA: DAMAGED
ATTRIBUTES[<]
|Strength: 3| |Agility: 2| |Endurance: 10|
|Intelligence: 17| |Senses: 5|
[Fatigue: 50% | Vitality: 25%]
SYSTEM SKILL: SCAN(Lvl 1)
QUESTS²[>]
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"It's good to know I'm healing at least". Xenon said after seeing that his health and vitality increased, while fatigue decreased. He then opened the quests section.
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QUESTS² :
▪︎Main Quest – Form Ousia.
▪︎Drink 2 litres of water before midnight.
•Focus on specific quest for more info
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He saw the note by the system at the bottom then he focused on the main quest.
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MAIN QUEST – Form Spiritual Core (Ousia)
•Your ousia which is to aid your control of spiritual energy is currently infected by a harmful entity, preventing it from completely forming. Remove the harmful entity to successfully form your ousia.
REWARDS: 100 exp
New tab unlock
5 stat points
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He decided to check out the information on the other quest too.
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QUEST: Drink 2 litres of water before midnight.
•This is an awfully straightforward quest. Your intelligence points is enough to understand, the system will only provide necessary data and not irrelevant ones.
REWARD: 12 exp
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"How I wish I could give you a punch right now, shitty system. You know I died because of you in the first place. Fucking sassy bastard" Xenon vented on the system. He went back to the status tab and to see if he could get more info about his disease by doing the same thing he did with the quests.
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NAME: XENON PRASEDYMUM
AGE: 14
LEVEL: 1 | EXP: 0/50
STATE: DISEASED; WEAK
HP: 3/10
OUSIA: DAMAGED
ATTRIBUTES[>]
SYSTEM SKILL: SCAN
QUESTS[>]
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He focused...
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DISEASE : ? ? ?
•Disease is unknown but the foreign entity in your body has been draining life force and spiritual energy since birth.
????????????...
•additional info...
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"Ah! Why does the body I was given has so much bad luck!". Xenon lamented.
"Did you call for me, young master?" Qweri who was passing by heard Xenon's shout and came over.
"No, not really... but could you get me two litres of drinking water? Take them to my room please."
"Okay, I'll do that shortly".
Xenon took his half eaten apple, dug his teeth into it and took a bite. He dropped the tray with him on the dining table along with the uneaten fruits, finished the apple and walked to his room where he found water in two big glass bottles, one litre each, with a steel cup placed on his desk. He opened the first bottle, filled his cup and drank...