"You know? This sounds really over the top. For example, why should this thing be inside of me?

And why did it attract you only now?"

/She just guessed, but that is still a valid idea, which crossed my mind as well for a moment since I could feel the presence of that thing in you as well. Also, there must have been a reason for your rampage and your power outbreak./

" Just let this whole thing be, and let's get to my second question.

What am I, no better, what are we now supposed to do in your opinions?"

[Since you just received it, how about checking your system out? Let's decide after we know what this thing can do.]

"OK, so I'll try to open the system"

Now, how do I do this?

Maybe I just have to think About it!

Soooo...: STATUS!!!....

Ah! there it is! Please, let me be strong!

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Name: Civitas

Race: [̶͖̆Ḙ̸̐r̶̟͆r̵̪̽ô̶͉r̶̮͝]̴̦̃

HP: 10/10 | MP: 0/0

Class: none

Level: 1

XP: 0/100

Vitality: 1 | Strength: 1 | Agility: 1 | Dexterity: 1 | Intelligence: 1 | Willpower: 1 | Magic: 0

Passive Skills: none

Active Abilities: none

Innate Talent: [̶͖̆Ḙ̸̐r̶̟͆r̵̪̽ô̶͉r̶̮͝]̴̦̃

LOCKED

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/We are completely lost.../

[We are going to die here for sure...]

{It was nice to get acquainted with you guys...}

[May all of you rest in peace...]

/I will finally see my mother again.../

What is this reaction?

"Do you guys know something about this? I only ever heard about level and classes, but what is this stuff?"

[You probably only know about those because the technology in your village was trash. We know of tools that can show you these stats, but the tools are single-use and really expensive. Although I have to admit I have no idea what this "XP" stuff means.]

{I know about "Stats" as well and yours are... garbage}

"That's harsh"

/It's reality! A normal grown man who never fought before has average stats of 7 in everything but magic which should be around 1 or 2./

"Is it really that bad?"

[You have 10 maximum hp. I fear, if you sprain your ankle it's going to deal like 5 damage, That's half of your HP. Do you now understand?]

"So HP represents my life force or something? and it's that bad? And I am THAT weak?

But I got these horrible memories, when I,

*sigh*

, ripped grown warriors apart, how does this fit together?"

{We really don't know, maybe it has something to do with the ritual they did to you, or maybe the thing inside you did something, but that definitely wasn't something any one of us could currently do. }

I have to think of something! My whole life I hoped to get strong! Now that there is a chance I don't want to die! My stats are crap, well I expected that, I never trained before. Since I had no mana so far and I never bothered to try and learn to control it I wouldn't be able to use mana even if I had the stats. But something is suspicious. My race only is an 'error', since we technically are 4 races together, which makes sense. But why is there another error?

"Did any of you have some kind of Innate talent?"

/I'd prefer not to reveal this to the other two, but I just can't help it. I do have a talent, that is passed down from each Dragon King to their successor. It is the ability to gain the Skills, Abilities, properties and some of the stats of every living being I consume./

"What about you, Gabriel and Zabula?"

{I have one as well. I can read the emotions, and feelings of everyone I get in contact with, and I always know the way to influence it in a way that will benefit me.}

[And I can absorb mana in a by far stronger way than anyone else. I can use this to boost my stats a bit or to speed up ability learning. Oh and I can purify mana in my surroundings, so I can basically absorb every kind of mana.]

"The reason I asked you all this, is a theory of mine. As you all can see, there is an error with my race, which makes sense if you consider the awkward situation we are in, as there are four answers to something, where there should only be one.

But I realized, there is one more error, and I hoped my guesses are correct, and they are also correct for this one, as this is our only hope."

/Now, that is at least better than having nothing, I guess./

[I just hope you are right...]

{We have to try atleast}

But even if this works, I am all alone, as I destroyed the last town on earth with my own hands. Or was it the last?

"Do you perhaps know, if there are other human settlements? This may sound dumb, but I grew up while always getting told this town was the last on earth so... I'm kind of desperate now?"

{There sure are settlements, even giant cities! There are even really strong ones with which we didn't want to fight so far! We definitely could've to beat them, but that would have made an opening for the other two. There are many, many more although I do not know where exactly they are, we can definitely find one, so don't worry my dear Civitas, what you did may seem bad to you, but the world won't end from that}

So everything I learned so far was wrong? What else do I not know? Now I feel really kind of lucky to have these guys around, as they really can help me, although I still do not trust them fully, since they are the reason, everything came to this in the first place. And their goal was to take over my body, which they almost accomplished, as they are killing my last nerves for sure!

But never mind.

"Let's go, find a town and get stronger! I want to finally enjoy how a real fight feels!"

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"I take back everything I ever said about fighting. I hate it. AHHHHHH"

I can't even beat the weakest of them all! Now I am just running away from some grey cave rabbit, as it almost killed me by slightly scratching my leg with one kick of its hind legs! It ripped my leg open with a kick of its hind legs, but its fur seems to be made out of steel!

(Author note: Although it looks just like a rabbit, it

IS

mana imbued and probably more like a normal tiger in terms of strength.)

/I think you are just under-powered/

"Shut up!"

I keep running until I reach something that seems like a gift from some god.

There is a corpse lying in one corner. I know, I should not be happy about someone's death, but something is glittering beside it! A Sword!

As I try to reach down for the sword while still running I slow down noticeably.

The rabbit notices this and Jumps in my direction, with its hind legs pointed at me while performing some kind of dropkick.

But as I anticipated something like this, as soon I get hold of the sword, I turn around while slashing horizontally, where I expect the rabbit to be. This whole thing is purely luck based, but I do not care, as luck is the only thing that could help me out in this situation.

And I really am lucky for the first time in my life.

#Critical Hit!#

This little message saved my day, as it was enough to finish the rabbit off in one hit.

That was way too close, but there is my hard-earned reward! After this super-strong monster, I at least have to be level two!

...

#Gained 5 XP#

.....

wow...