Okay, okay. Black cat don't sound that bad... And at least, high luck and high intimacy will boost my level up easier.

He thought like that in his head, trying to be optimistic, ignoring the -30% of half the stats and the sarcasm of the window status. Well, everything could be worse if he was picked some other trash races instead of a beastmen species, as that Decayed Zombie. He shrugged as he recalled about the foul creature that he almost became one, afraid that he would suicide as soon as he start in the game.

"Let check this cat out then, I hope the penalty wasn't that severely. Character Status!"

A familiar blue window popped up immediately:

Status WindowName:???Alignment:NoneLevel:1Class:NoneRace:Beastman - Black CatGender:MaleTitlesnoneFame:0Infamy:0Basic StatusHealth:14/ 14Health Regen:1% / SecMana:10/10Mana Regen:1% / SecStamina:30/30Stamina Regen:1.5% / SecStrength:4Agility:12Vitality:4Endurance5Intelligence:12Wisdom:9Leadership:0Luck:31Attack:1-2Defense:1Elemental ResistancesFire:0%Water:0%Wind:0%Earth:0%Light:0%Darkness:0%Abilities???First time note: Stats of your character will be based on your old body back on Earth, with 10 in each stat is the average of an adult human.

He felt like he want to strangle himself by his very own hand. Why, you ask? Other than his race bonus in Agility, the other physical stats were extremely pitiful. And if he calculated it right, even without the penalty, these stats were much lower than an average person. He didn't bother to train his body back when he was alive, since it was boring, or so he thought.

Scratching his head again, he poked at the abilities screen, but all he got was the ??? mark, indicated that he didn't unlock it yet. For now, his future seemed to be gray, with no ablility yet and these shameful stats.

"Haha, it's no use crying over spilled milk. Whatever goes, then."

With a dejected feeling, he asked the spirit to change him into the new body. The spirit bobbled up and down again, then twirled round and round around him. Then slowly, a pillar of light descended from the top of the building, landed lightly on top of the boy. At first, the light was faint, but in a short amount of time, it gradually became brighter, and started to spread heat on the area where it came in contacted with. The young man's body felt like it was on fire, burned and then got stabbed many times, but he tried to bottle up his scream. The light went away quickly as it came, but the feeling hasn't left him just yet. Tired, exhausted, pained, itchy, hot,... these statuses affected him all at once. Breathing heavily, he tried to lift his new body up, but it took him nearly ten minutes just to push one of his legs against the ground. Finally, after he managed to sit up right, he started to checking his body out.

"Cat ears, check. Paws, check. Long tail, check. Yep, this is certainly parts of a cat body. One problem though, why my race was shown as Beastman, but I look more like a beast than a man?"

Truth to be told, his body right now is the body of a real cat.. Not even kidding.

Why can't I get Lion instead of a cat back then? It would look much badass than a black cat, and should have higher strength than this tiny little body.

Waving his tail around, he began to jump around inside the building. He used to own five cats back at his house, so he knew many benefits to be a cat, beside extremely high agility (i.e. he tried to catch the cats every once in a while by surprise for fun, but they just out run him every damn time), they also have quick reaction time and absolute hearing to pick up the tiniest sound. And so, he practiced high jumps, sprinting, rolling, leaping, dancing,... etc etc, to get the hang of becoming a cat. With his new body, he felt like he was weightless, basically flying through the hall. Even at first he didn't have any confidence with a "cute" cat body, now he was having a great fun toying with it. The cat even jumped on the spirit to try, and surprisingly, he didn't pass through it. Actually, he was bounced into another direction. Found a new game, he then proceeded to jump directly on the spirit head, like a trampoline. The spirit didn't seem to pay any mind, instead it also bounced up and down to push the cat as high as he can be.

I can't remember the last time I had this much fun with physical works, this feels so good!

After some basic moves, he copy-cat the soldiers training in a TV series on the discovery channel he has seen when he was still alive in the other world, and incidentally found a small pool of water nearby when crawling around. He was never a good swimmer, but in this body, he found some confidences that he could swim easily. And so, our silly cat stepped back for a few steps, then sprinted toward the water pool diving head first. The result? He didn't measure the depth of the pool, and knocked his head onto the floor two feet under the water. Went into a daze, he couldn't swim, or even thinking straight. His lung gasped for air, the cat struggled to get to the surface of the water, but to no avail.

Understood the cat was sinking, the light spirit floated to the pool with a fishing net it found somewhere around, and fished the black wet cat out. Seeing that the cat was still black out, it began to jump on the cat's belly, made the cat puffed the water out like a spring fountain.

After played around for another while, the spirit showed him another blue window:

System noticeThe New World will start in one minute, are you ready to connect?

"Meow." (I'm ready.)

And so, just like the time when he was on the airplane, the light engulfed the room, once again.

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Author's note: Sorry for the delay, I was so busy with the big table [th_093.gif]

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