Time seemed to blur as I stared into the big blue sky above of me, the fact that I had sobbed like a small child wasn’t a bad thing necessarily, as bottling up emotions inside of you was akin to bottling up poison within yourself. Sure it was painful at first to allow the overhwelming flood of sadness to get to me, but after I finally stopped I felt positively relieved, like the world was clear and focused again and earlier I was looking through a foggy filter of pain and anguish. But now the lenses were once again clear, and now that I had sight, had vision, I knew what i needed to do next..... I needed to find a goal, something to focus on in this new and confusing world, even back on earth I was a extremely goal oriented person. If I didn’t have something to focus on in life I tended to become a bit lost, not having something I was supposed to be doing for me was like being a fish out of water, breathless and dying. My general life goal back on earth was to just help people, whether that be helping out Old Woman McWrinkles across the street, or in my most recent act of bravery and kindness, becoming a martyr while protesting against a tyrannical government after being branded a domestic terrorist for staging a peaceful protest against governmental policies and then promptly imprisoned, after that what happened is self explanatory. So in short the question I wanted to pose to myself is what did I want to do here? I was basically the same person that I was before I was thrown and prison and died, and I still had every intention to help people however I could, I mean with those two spells I choose I was literally going to have the ability to cure any disease and heal anyone who wasn’t already impaled like a fucking kabob back to full health. Not to mention the possibilities that being able to cure depression or aniexty disorders brings.

,But I didn’t think being a healer was going to cut it, I knew from experience that a small amount of preventative measure meant that no one would have to be healed in the first place, that one bad man put in jail would mean 5 more innocents hale and hearthy. Also what about the people that could die before I could heal them? Not to mention the fact that God herself or at least one of them, had straight up told me that everything around her was fucked six ways from sunday and practically begged me to help fix it, I could potentially do way more to help by putting people down before they could hurt others in the first place. But even with all my rationalizations for why ethunizing people like rabid dogs was the best option to help people, I still couldn’t to bring myself to entertain the idea of killing another humanoid, maybe I could do it if they were so monstrous as to be redeemable or were a literal monster in appearance, as something that looked like it laughed while eating puppies probably didn’t look that way because they jumped in the way of a curse spell meant for their best friend Bubbles the friendly clown. I think for now at the most I would just knock someone out and turn them into law enforcement, I did not look forward to the day when that was not an option, but I would cross that road when I came to it, hopefully on that day, i would choose correctly.

A metaphorical light bulb popped into my head as I remembered I the discounts I had gotten for having pre existing traits in the karma rewards screen, I should probably do the first thing all the MC’s do when they first get transported to a game world in the light novels, it was time to check my status page, distractions from troubling and disheartining thoughst ahoy!

Gabriel Norris

Race: Human

Physical Integrity : 100%

Sanity/Emotional Wellness : 76%

Spiritual Wellbeing: 100%

(Spirit damage can result in a fate worse than death, avoid at all costs)

Alignment: Neutral (1) Good (9)

Class : None

Level : 1

Stat Points: 0

Skill Points: 0

Strength:14

Constitution:14

Dexterity:11

Agility:12

Willpower:18

Charisma:14

Intelligence:16

Wisdom:24

Perception:10

Luck:7

Strength is a descriptor of your physical power and ability and a good indicator of how much force output you can muster, This affects both the amount of damage you can do with physical weapons and things such as your running speed in a straight line, your capacity to lift heavy objects, how far you can leap, etc ---- Strengths sub stats are Muscle Density and Muscle Size

Constitution is a measure of your physical resilience to damage and how much general punishment you can take physically, It also affects your resistance to diseases and physically harmful magic transmutation spells ------- Constitutions substats are Endurance, Healing Speed, Body Density, and Pain Negation,

Dexterity affects how precisely you are able to move your body around and your body's flexibility, while a high strength and agility will make you very fast in a straight line, turning sharp corners will be very difficult with a comparatively low dexterity, as would running a obstacle course, it also affects how well you can execute subtle and complex movements, dexterity can help you achieve things such as silencing your steps to sneak past guards and pick locks, very useful for rogues -------- Dexterity substats are Balance, Flexibility, and Precision

Agility is a indicator of how fast and quick reflexed you are, this affects your movement speed and ability to dodge attacks on your person with a high enough agility you could dodge through a rain of arrows, or even catch them and throw them back or you could use it to PARKOUR. --------- Agility substats are Reflexes, Speed, Kinetic Sense

While constitution is a measure of how much physical damage you can take, your willpower is a measure of mental resilience, a person with a strong willpower take setbacks headon and finds opportunity in failures, willpower also increases the amount of mana that is allowed to be put into a single spell before becoming unstable and your general motivation to complete your goals as well as resistance to spells that affect the mind----Willpower substats are Motivation, Mental Resistance, Spellpower, Pain Resilience, Traumatic Stress Healing Speed, Belief/Faith, Self Control, And Courage

Charisma is a measure of your physical attractiveness, your ability to persuade others to your to your viewpoint, and how entertaining and magnetic your personality is, a person with high charisma can convince even a unruly mob to stand down with words alone, the ability to say the right thing at the right time is sometimes better than any amount of pure physical might ----- Charisma substats are Attractiveness, Persuasiveness, Charm, Leadership, and Deceit

Intelligence is a measure of your speed of thought, mental clarity, and creativity, even those with the highest willpower will not find it any easier to solve math problems, they will just stick at it longer, intelligence is useful for math, puzzles, pattern recognition, it also affects the maximum size of your personal mana pool and your general ability to learn spells and much, much more. -------- intelligence substats are Cognition Speed, Creativity, Spell Formation Learning Speed, Pattern Recognition, General Learning Speed, and Clarity Of Thought/Memory

Wisdom indicates how well you learn from experience, and how well you use that experience to make decisions in the future, it can also be used to figure out what's going to happen before it happens even when you don't have enough information to recognize a pattern, colloquially called "sixth sense" people with high wisdom can better make decisions on the fly making plans that would take most people half an hour to make in seconds, as well as having gut sense for whether and not someone is lying, finally it also affects personal mana pool regen speed able to turn you from a one shot wonder into a true spell caster --------- Wisdom substats are Sixth Sense, Common Sense, Decision Making, Insight, and Mana Regen Speed

Perception is a measure of the sensitivity of your 5 senses as well as more esoteric things like you general spatial awareness a person with high enough perception you could track down a trained ranger through the jungle after 7 days of rain, or smell a pastry from halfway across town, a must for hunters and trackers -------- Perception substats are Visual Acuity, Smell Sensitivity, Taste Accuracy, Vibration Sense, Spacial Awareness, and Hearing Sensitivity

Luck is a very nebulous thing that can potentially affect the entire world in small ways, the strings of probability and destiny being rearranged based on your luck score to benefit you, or screw you over, a person with high luck might often find bags of lost coin randomly just when they needed they needed it, or some kind samaritans that will let them live in their house after theirs burned down (which is unlikely for a person with high luck in the first place) ------ Luck has no substats

Character Traits

Determined (Derived From Ancient Soul)

Ancient Soul

Paragon Of Kindness (Variant) (Evolving Trait)

Innate Wisdom (Derived From Ancient Soul)

Knight In Shining Armor (Not Yet Redeemed)

The Determinator (Not Yet Redeemed

The Unconquerable Soul (Not Yet Redeemed)

The Paladin (Not Yet Redeemed)

Lighting Bruiser (Not Yet Redeemed

The not yet redeemed sub text certainly explained why I don't feel any more motivated, fast, or brimming with righteous fury than usual, it seemed I would have to wait for the Worldsoul to finally make up it's goddamn mind already and choose whether it used my karma to buy me the mystical fart spoon or the Umorgrosh The Sword Of Unmaking. I was starting to regret asking the Worldsoul to choose just because of the fact that I had been waiting for it to make up it's mind for about 2 days and at this point I felt like I had a fire lit under my ass commanding me to do something, anything really, whatever that something was. But I guess that on the bright side that because it was taking so long I had been given the time to work through my emotions and put myself mentally back together, otherwise I might have just ran off to go play hero and done something I would regret later. Which would probably would have been just me redirecting my anger at my situation at the first "evil" person i saw, as I was nowhere near emotionally stable at the time.

I was honestly acting like I was in a dream or a game at first instead of reality at first, which is generally unhealthy for you and everyone around you as people should not just be looked at like bags pf experience points, I guess despite my low luck score, I was lucky enough to be summoned by a God kind enough to actually explain what was going on to me instead of dropping me in the middle of the woods somewhere with whatever magical beasties exist in this reality, as they would probably with my luck immediately find me and eat my fucking face. Anyways it seemed that my statline was actually pretty damn good, the high willpower i could understand as my family had fallen on hard times when I was born, I had to live in what was commonly considered a slum in america and it took a lot of effort to drag myself from being in a poor neighbourhood to becoming financially self sufficient and then helping my parents get out of there too spot so they no longer had to live in a neighbourhood where they had to fear going to the store late at night, or been concerned about not being able to feed themselves. It took alot of will and effort to not resort to selling drugs or joining a gang and finding one of the few steady jobs left and then working myself to the bone from ages 15-21 saving up money. until I could make a down payment on a new house in a better neighbourhood. My physical attributes also made a lot of sense to me as I had worked out for about 2 days each week for the past 3 years of my life, which made me reasonably stronger than most other people. Intelligence I couldn't really say whether or not made sense to me as I had never really considered myself really smart, sure my parents and friends sometimes told me that I was smart but i always thought that it was just favoritism. Wisdom though, I had no idea how in the world my wisdom was 24, I had never been a zen philosopher, or made poems with hidden meanings within hidden meanings, the only ways I could possibly consider myself wise was that I always had a sixth senses for whether people were good or not. My wife affectionately called it "The Douche Radar" but other than that and being able to get a gut sense for the truth, I had never considered myself all that wise.

But I guess if reality itself was telling me what I am and am not good at, I really had no place, or desire to argue with it, arguing with a omniscient being i imagine is like stabbing yourself in the face, pointless and painful. I did not currently own anything so i didn't bother looking for an inventory screen, and I already knew the two spells I had, so i guess all the was left to do was look at the descriptions of the traits that I already had.

Ancient Soul

You have seen the eons past by over the course of your many lives and reincarnations, the rise and fall of empires, utopia’s and dystopia's, you have seen hero's lead worlds to prosperity and villains watch them burn. From empires spanning entire galaxies to small tribes of a few dozen, You have witnessed the last stars of entire universe dying and winking out of existence as entropy took its course. With this great age of soul and body of experience, however disjointed, it has given your soul incredible resilience, and given you a measure of innate wisdom and willpower for each of your lives, lastly the eons of experience you have seeing the passage of history from hundreds of millions of varying viewpoints has given you a boost to the ease of learning and power of predictive and divination powers and spells. The age of your soul even surpass the age of gods.

Requirements- Have a soul, Live over the course of your lifetimes for at least 5 Eons, Have at least 10 Million Incarnations

Wow I didn't even pretend to have any idea how I should react to the implications of that one, the idea that I had once upon a time in my life had the chance to see Entropy Itself work it's course and to see the last gasp dying gasp of an entire Universe.... that was some heavy stuff. In the interest of not wasting the next 3 hours thinking about this I mentally pressed the paragon of kindness trait.

Paragon Of Kindness (Variant)(Evolving Trait)

There is something special inside of you, something so immeasurably beautiful that it cannot be properly described with words. You have contained within your soul a concept itself, a piece of the multiversal concept birth of all that is good, even if it is an infinitesimally small piece of this good it is still capable of giving immense power even after Eons of gestating and waiting for any of the conceptual essence of the many virtues to help it grow into something greater than just a aleph zero piece of the original concept of kindness, know that the potential within you is more immense than than your puny mortal brain can currently fathom, feed this potential, and you join the gods on their holy thrones, or even surpass them. right now though it just allows you to better resist things that would alter your soul or force you to act against you good nature, you also get faster relationship boosts with good aligned beings.

Requirements- Have a piece of the primordial origin of good implanted in your soul

Wait, what?..... I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS, first of all I find out that I have literally seen the heat death of the universe once upon a time, and then I find out that I have some kind of multi universal reality concept construct fuckery going on inside of me? I mean sure I could be all excited about how much potential I apparently have and do my best emperor palpatine impression and scream UNLIMITED POWAH!!! into the sky like some mentally unhinged cosplayer, BUT HOLY CHRIST this day just kept getting more and more surreal, I felt like I was on the God's version of the reality television show Punked. Eithier that or i'm some mary sue bullshit character in some shitty author's poorly written litrpg novel on some crappy web serial website. right as I was about to go and just take a nap and think about all this crazy reality fuckery later, I hear the sound of trumpets blast through the air like the world's most obnoxious air horns, I twisted to where it was coming from, and then promptly seeing that the text on the Worldsoul bullshit loading screen page had changed, I sprinted over, excited at the possiblility that I could finally stop being trapped in a field of damn grass with invisible walls surrounding the perimeter, what I was greeted with made me made me so excited that after i made sure no one was watching, i did a little happy dance.

GOOD NEWS MORTAL, The Worldsoul has reached a verdict on your new abilities, and prepared the teleportation spells to take you out of this extradimensional space to the real world, would you like to finalize your choices and be tranported to Eo Aternis or change some of your choices and finalize later?

YES NO

My instinctual reaction would be to just press the yes button and get this waiting in a sunny field business over with already, but my mind whirred back to a warning I had ignored before. Something that if i wasn't acting like i was playing a videogame, i would have payed more importance and thought to.

WARNING THIS TRAIT MAY CAUSE PERSONALITY CHANGES

Was I really willing to possibly change who I was so drastically that i might not even be the same person anymore at a fundemental level for some perceived greater good? Was such a risk even worth being slightly better at fighting the ills and evils of the world? I felt like I could argue with myself for day over this one question, not to mention that there wasn't really an objective awnser to such a open ended phisosphical question, so instead i asked myself a simpler one that I already knew the answer to 100%. Something that i had asked myself and been asked by others over the course of my life hundreds of times. What means more to you? The happiness and wellbeing of yourself? Or the happiness and wellbeing of others?......

I had never been more sure of pressing a button with a warning label slapped near it all my life, I punched the button once, twice, and 3 times to confirm and a cerulean blue portal like the one Quaz has torn open in reality opened up below me and swallowed me up as blue screen after blue screen flashed before my eyes as I felt my mind, body, and soul inexplicably changing itself forever.