《This world is strange》Chapter 1. New life in a new world
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Joseph dialed the phone number from the poster. A young woman picked up and spoke through the phone.
"Isekai Transfer Service! What can I help you with?"
'Huh! They went this far with a joke?'
"Hallo! Yes! I want to get isekaid!"
He hardly suppressed his urge to laugh.
"Alright! We will take care of it! Wait for the van to hit!"
'Wait what? What kind of line is that?'
His eyes fidgeted when he heard the woman spout this nonsense.
"Excuse me, but when could I expect it?"
"Any time you go out of your house!"
He looked around his house nervously.
"How do you know that I am not outside?"
'She hung up already.'
He put down the phone. Stroke his dark brown hair.
'I mean what did I expect? It was just a prank. There is no way, that a poster I found, saying: - Isekai Transfer Service! Call if you are in need of a new life! - is true.'
He picked up his wallet and got on his bike.
'Anyway, I need to buy some groceries.'
As he went out of his garden gate he got hit by a van.
'Wha...'
As he came to his senses, he did not feel any pain. Though his bed was really hard, which is really unusual. As he opened his eyes and got up he realized, he wasn't in his house lying in the bed. He was in the middle of a clearing, inside a forest. The feeling of confusion got cleared pretty fast, when he assumed, he was actually reincarnated in another world.
'I can't believe it actually worked! Now I can start a new life in a fantastic world filled with magic, different species, adventures, and romance! No more boring life with boring jobs. No more bosses shouting with me when I mess up something! No more overtime at work, just because someone messed up something and I have to fix it! No more lonely nights!
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As his head was filled with these kinds of thoughts, he did not realize the weight of the situation. He was in a forest in everyday clothes and only his wallet and a pocket knife was with him. No food, no shelter, no sense of direction, no actual knowledge about the world he was in. He did not even think about the basic things. He only felt happiness, because he assumed that this world is just like every other fantasy worlds he read about.
"All right let's see how can I see my stats! Maybe: Status!"
A slightly transparent window opened before his eyes, showing all kinds of things. It moved with his line of sight, always staying in the middle.
'Huh?! It actually worked? I was just joking around! I did not expect this! But well! It's an other world with magic! I shouldn't be surprised! Now let's see the stats! There must be something really good amongst them'
Name: Joseph Smith
Race: Human
Age: 21 Gender: Male
Job: None
Level: 1
Experience: 0/100
Health: 40/40
Manna: 160/160
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 8
Constitution: 4
Intelligence: 16
Wisdom: 14
Charisma: 10
Abilities: Imaginative Magic F
Titles: None
'Hmmm... The health is bad if I think about the usual 100 as LVL 1. Though my manna should be high then. My intelligence seems really high and my wisdom is really good as well. But all the physical stats seems to be low. Also, what is this ability? If I touch it, will it show some information? Maybe?'
As he touched the Imaginative Magic F, a new smaller window appears in front of the previous one.
'Ahh! Can I move this? It irritates me!'
As he touched the new window and moved his hand around, it followed it.
'Ok! This is better, right next to the other window. Now let's see what does it say!'
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[Imaginative Magic F
You can create different kinds of magic with your imagination. The higher the rating of the skill, the better things you can make with it.]
'Ohhh... This skill seems to be really overpowered! I can definitely be the strongest one in this world! Let's try to make a firebolt!'
He closed the windows with the "X" on their right top then held out his right hand. As he imagined a flame arrow appears in front of his hand and fly forward the way he held his hand and then! Absolutely nothing happened!
"Then! Imaginative Magic! Firebolt! Common!"
'What? Shouldn't the skill activate? I mean firebolt is the lowest level of the spells I can imagine?! Maybe magic missile?'
The same thing happened as before.
'Why is it not working? The ability said it should work! Let's look at it again! Hmmm... Maybe the rating of the ability is low? But then! What can I use this for?'
For the first time, he looked around and surveyed his surroundings.
'I should get out of here. Forest usually has wolves in it. And I don't want to fight them with an ability, which does not even work. Forget fighting. I'm just an ordinary man! I can't even run away from them!'
He looked for some moss on the trees and then climbed on one and looked around, but he only saw a vast forest all around. He decided to head to the other way then the mosses grew. Not knowing, he took the worst path possible.
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. 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