"So that's what happened. That son of a bitch really did me big time. How could they do this to me? I always tried to be the best son for her, best brother for her daughters. I always respected that son of a bitch brother-in-law too. Damn how could they do this. She raised me as her own since my mother died while I was still a baby. They were always so kind too. But just as my father died, they cut me off like a rotten limb?"
"Damn, what do I do now? And why the hell my head hurts so much, if I was healed from poison?"
*Answer: Users headache is a consequence of a memory erasing procedure. This state has been severely worsened by performing memory restoring procedures in sequence within a short time span.*
"Great. I did not die from poison but now wish I would be dead just from using my own system…."
"Wait what? My system?"
/System window/ willed Noah in his mind.
Translucent rectangle appeared in front of him, showing him his own state.
"It loads! It really works! My system works!" Startled Noah jumped up from the ground, and even a headache did not lessen that excitement.
"Ok, ok, lets see the system name…."
"System are you fucking with me?"
*Unable to recognize user inquiry*
*WHAT IS THIS UGLY BASTARD IN THE SYSTEM NAME GRAPH?" Said Noah seething with anger.
*Answer: Initial System name has been corrupted in the transfer process. Troubleshooting has analyzed the process of system transfer as well as the soul of the user and found an optimal word pattern match with the best performance.*
"Ugly bastard? This is the best system I could get? Sigh'' said Noah as if deflating from disappointment. "Well something is better than nothing at all"
/Open skill tree window/
Translucent screen in front of him suddenly changed form and became black as ink. Black tentacles rushed at him enveloping him entirely until he was totally covered in blackness then he disappeared entirely.
"WHERE AM I? Wait…this feeling. I've been here before. The place where my thoughts eco like I am talking aloud. Hold on, white canvas, where's the white canvas? Oh there it is?"
"So what is this place?"
*Answer: user is on the skill tree page of his system window*
"This is a skill tree page? That's not how it usually is, right? At least no one ever mentioned something like that. System is there a problem with my….with you?….or is it with me? Anyway, is there a problem?"
*Answer: On rare occasions the system may create additional dimensions for the user to learn the skill that needs a special type of comprehension. In the chronicle of the Great Library such rare occasions are named heroic souls. People with heroic souls have been granted special types of systems that normal souls are too weak to hold. Such systems can sometimes have unique skills in their skill tree that are too hard to train in the normal world environment. As the user poses a heroic soul, the system deemed it necessary to create a special dimension for the skill comprehension*
"I see. So I am special? You know some examples that had this type of soul as me?"
*Yes. In the Chronicle of Great Library it is written that many among the heroic soul possessors have become Server administrators and even developers*.
"Now explain in "human" once again"
*People with heroic souls has become Gods looking over entire worlds and galaxy's"
*Well know examples: Hell fire lord Samael, Gilgamesh, Odin, Amatersu…*
"Ok, ok I get the gist. So I am really great."
*Heroic soul is only referring to the talent you are in possession of. In the Chronicle of Great Library it is stated, only a small portion of these people achieve greatness, and most of whom wasted this gift, by for example becoming alcoholics or drug addicts and ending life in misery as bums. On many occasions they have turned into sinners, criminals and murderers ending in a noose or electric chair. Some, although achieved partial success, have veered off the immortality path and never reached God hood before death, leaving in their path only meager achievement barely better than those left by some normal souls. Putting yourself on an equal pedestal as those rare occasions that managed to reach the top would be inappropriate from a statistics point of view, as your chance of ending up dead in a gutter after living your life as a waste of world resources is far higher than reaching Godhood.*
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"You just ruined all my motivation before I even began my path to greatness you asshole"
*Still your chances are greater than people with normal souls*
"Sigh. I get it. I have to work hard. So where's my skill tree?"
*You are watching at it*
"All I see is this white canva….."
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"WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THIS? WHERE ARE MY SKILLS? HOW DO I DEVELOP THEM? WHAT SKILL SHOULD I GET FIRST? WHAT TASKS I NEED TO PERFORM TO GAIN NEW SKILL? THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE! JUST A BUNCH OF WEIRDOS TALKING TO EACH OTHER!!!!!!!"
*Answer: In the process of system activation it has been found that there is no data library containing enough information for gradual development of users skills. The second best option was connecting to the data source with the most information regarding the system word pattern match: UGLY BASTARD. Although a gradual and measured development plan can not be created, by learning from the people in this so-called "Comment section" the user has the chance to reach the full development of his system. It has been analysed and confirmed that the people listing here are in possession of all the knowledge the user may need. They are the most d̶e̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶t̶e elite beings you may find.*
"Oi, there was something there that you wanted to say instead of ''elite ``.''
*Answer: system does not understand your question*
"????"
*????*
"Fine. So tell me how did I get cured from poison?"
*Answer: one of the d̶e̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶t̶es enlightened beings in this "comment section" has performed a ritual that was applicable in regards to Ugly Bastard system capability. Which created a new skill"
"???? There's that unsaid word again. Right so I have a skill already"
/Open skill list/ willed Noah and before him another canvas opened. This one instead of a pure white background had a very realistic picture of a blue sky and green grass on a hill. The only questionable thing was some kind of crest in the form of a bent window in the corner, and three yellow rectangular objects in the middle of the blue sky. One of those three rectangular objects had words "Skill List", the second signed "Very important stuff" and the last one had the word "Homework" under it.
"What's this?"
*Answer: system is monitoring the "comment section a.k.a. CS" live 24/7 while saving any and all useful and applicable to system Ugly Bastard information into the system library to create an educational material for future possessors of the same or very similar systems. The picture you see is called a "desktop". Desktop background pictures may be changed to any of the user's preferences. Three yellow rectangles are called: File Folder, or in short folder. Folder is a place to hold things. Open the file folder to see all the things contained in this folder.
"I get what the "Skill List" folder is for, but what is the "Very important stuff" and "Homework" folder are for?"
*Homework folder is a special type of dimensional pocket, with an unlimited space that can contain any object user don't want others to find*
"The name is somehow misleading"
*According to systems analysis this is the name with a best performance of hiding your possessions from "Scan Pocket", "Identify possessions" and "Dimensional thief" skills listed in the Great Library*
"I see. So it is named this way for a reason. Fine then. What about the other one"
*The "Very important stuff" folder is a normal dimensional pocket with limited space and no special ability. It needs to be updated for enlarging and it can be scanned by "Scan Pocket" and "Identify possessions" skill without problem, as well as be robed with the help of "Dimensional thief" skill*
"I see……" said calmly Noah. But felt a slight anxiety. He felt like this system chipped away his normal and very ordinary logic piece by piece. And it scared him what he would look like at the end of that process.