I knocked then opened the door, inside i found a boy....or a young man, he looks to be about 16 or 17 years old, thin, tall, black hair and weirdly dressed, he was looking out the window but as soon as i got in he immediately looked at me, he seemed to be in pain, his expression is one of those you make when you wake up with a hangover.

"Hello, I'm Geld, the village Chief" i said, extending my right hand.

"Oh. I- I'm Venir, nice to meet you." He said while shaking my hand, i see, it seems like he's not a noble, even though he looks like one, or maybe he's one but in disguise? why would that be? running away? Or the son of a rich merchant?

We sat on the simple wooden chairs that were close to the window.

"So, how are you feeling? You must have been through so much"

"I'm fine now, i had a headache when i woke up, but after i ate the meal your maid provided the pain subsided, now it is only a mild discomfort"

"I see" maybe he was just hungry.

"Mr.village Chief..."

"Call me Geld."

"Ok, Mr.Geld could you please tell me how i got here?"

"Right, first answer some questions"

"Ok"

"Are you a noble?"

"No, I'm a commoner" he said, I'm a veteran knight captain, i can tell if someone is lying and he's not.

"Are you the son of a merchant?"

"Yes, i am"

"I see, what is the last thing you remember before waking up here?"

"I remember being in the beach and i was attacked by some monsters"

"I see, right, you were brought here by a hunter named Bill, he found you unconscious in a forest nearby, the End Forest, a very dangerous place, he said that you were about to be eaten by a boar."

"..."

"About what you said, in a beach...you see, this village is located close to the border between the shimauma Kingdom and the brightmoon empire, the closest beach to here is in the empire, 15days on horse."

"!?" He looks genuinely suprised, hm...could it be?

"Can you describe the appearance of the monsters who attacked you?"

"...they were black...they looked like moving shadows and their eyes were shining." i see, so he's a victim.

"Venir, those 'moving shadows' are black demons, they are impossible to kill monsters who cause a massacre everywhere they go, i guess the gods had mercy and sent you here.”

Something like that happened 7 years ago a village was attacked by those shadows and 5 of them were transported here, they worked here until they saved enough coin to return home.

*I wonder how they are now*

"...demons?"

"Yes, they are immune to magic attacks, fast as a horse and very strong"

"..."

"The beach in which you were attacked, is it close to where you live?"

"Yes it is...close to the city"

"Oh...i see, do you have any money with you? The journey to the empire from here is quite expensive."

"No, i don't" Hm that's a problem, but i expected that...a commoner doesn't walk around with that much money.

"I see, well, you can find work here and save enough coin for the journey and if you want, tomorrow i can find a job suitable for you"

"Really?"

"Yes, you just need to tell me what You're good at"

"Hm..." With his hand placed on his chin, he began pondering his alternatives. His expression one of full concentration, i wonder what he's good at.

He's on the thin side, and his arms don't have that much muscle, he looks smart and i can tell that he has a substantial amount of Mana in him, I guess he can do some magic? Hm or maybe he's an herbalist? An alchemist? Nah, he looks to young to be either of those, well, he can do something if he's an apprentice of an alchemist or a herbalist, we are in dire need of some medicine, the merchants don't bring enough and they are quite expensive

He mumbled something... he's probably checking his status.

Hm...can he be an apprentice mage? His father is a merchant, so i guess he has enough funds to hire a mage to teach him and if he has the talent it shouldn't be hard to get an apprenticeship.

He opened his eyes wide then.... nothing, he continued thinking, i guess it is hard for some people, to answer what they are good at so suddenly.

A couple moments later he looked at me

"...I'm good at alchemy" He said with confident smile

"Good." well, I can find him some basic alchemic tools and depending on what he can make...even provide him some coin, this village is really low on medicine.

"Right, since you don't have any coin you'll live here for a little while" i said while standing up.

"Yes, thank you" he said with a relieved smile.

"Now rest, tomorrow I’ll take you to John and Andy, they are retired adventurers and they can help you get started."

"If you need anything call Mavis, i have some business to take care of, see you tomorrow"

I decided to go talk with the adventurer couple about the young man that i'll put under their care.

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"Hello, I'm Geld, the village Chief" He said while extending his right hand.

"Oh. I- I'm Venir, nice to meet you." I promptly introduced myself back, we sat on some chairs that were close to be window.

Is he a warrior of some kind? His movements are smooth and seem to be calculated.

After the introductions, I asked how I got here and after I answered some of his questions he proceeded to tell me about how I was found in a nearby forest by a hunter named Bill, I was apparently close to being attacked by a...red boar? Oh, different world, right, then he brought me here.

The village chief had asked about the last thing i remembered, I told him the truth, well...a part of it, why?, well, they were kind enough to let me stay in their house and I didn't know if there is some kind of lie-detecting magic, so at max i should keep everything as 'technically the truth ', I obviously couldn't just tell him that I was transported here from another world or that I was stuck on a void for an hour, so I would just have to keep inventing excuses if he ever asked something that would make me reveal anything.

I remember reading a webnovel where the main character was considered a demon just because he wasn't from that world.

Fortunately the village chief conveniently assumed that I was from the brightmoon empire, since it was there where the closest beach is located.

Does he really believe that i was brought here by gods?

He called them black demons...do they really exist here too?

Anyway...he then mentioned the issue of 'returning' to the empire, I don't have any coin. After Mavis had left i went to observe the outside from the window, from what i could see this village is quite peaceful and developed, it's different from what i expected a rural village to be. The houses were like what you would see in Europe if you returned to the middle ages. They used horse drawn carriages, i saw carts full of vegetables and some wagons with goods from people who appeared to be merchants.

This many merchants on a rural village? I guess the village is quite well business wise...what do they even buy here?

Since the only apparent way to travel to the empire is by horse and the journey is 15 days long, it will obviously be expensive.

"...well, you can find work here and save enough coin for the journey and if you want, tomorrow i can find a job suitable for you" said Mr.Geld, i kind old man huh?

I had to keep pretending to be from the empire, he then asked what i was good at.

Well, definitely not good with manual labor, i mean-Look At My Arms.

Magic? Don't know... never tried.

Math is useful here right? I can be an accountant or etc...nah, they probably don't use Arabic numerals and this is just a village, they don't need one

I tried to think about something but nothing came up.

Looks like your dear Venir will have to start doing manual labor.

Well... it can't be all that bad right?

I'll just have to deal with it until i learn some magic or the numeral system here.

Magic?...Magical power? I wonder...can i see my status now?

"[Status]" I mumbled in a low voice, and unsurprisedly...

「Name」: Venir「Race」: Human

「Gender」: Male 「Age」: 18「Class」:

「VIT」: 120「STR」: 10 「AGI」 :100「DEF」: 18「Mana」: 900/900 「INT」: 450

《Skills》

「Heavenly Barrier」「Create lv.2」「Enchant object lv.3」「Magic Circle」「Identify lv.4」

This information appeared on a translucent board in front of me, with 'Status' displayed on the left upper corner.

Ooh, a status window, Mr Geld didn't react so i guess only i can see it...makes sense.

... I'm weak, But those skills, they should be helpful somehow.

I'll think of something....Mr.Geld is waiting for an answer.

My class is '' and is blinking red, maybe...

I focused on the word 'undefined' that was displayed, it changed to green and then...

Available classes :

-Alchemist

-Druid

- wizard

- Magus

- Warpriest

- Farmer

- Hunter

Hm....things that i don't understand again, privileges?

Ah, i got it, there are some RPGs where your class is picked automatically when you obtain certain skills, perform certain actions or learn certain spells, i have the option to choose my class, so maybe in this world you have to fulfill certain conditions to gain a class? And my privileges allow me to bypass that mechanism and choose my own class.

The option i will choose is obvious, Alchemist Venir....oh yeah that sounds good, i don't think fighting is for me.

I focused on the Alchemist option.

•Alchemist

-Druid

- wizard

- Magus(recommended)

- Warpriest

- Farmer

Huh? One of two? I can pick one more?

I didn't want to make Mr.Geld wait any longer than he already did, so i just selected the recommended one.

[Status update]

Yes.

HOLY SH#t, I'm basically op now, nah, kidding but man, this sure are some awesome skills.

I'm sure this are more than the normal initial quantity of class skills, there probably more because of those privileges

That warning looks serious, I'll go sleep as son as Mr.Geld leaves

Well, I'm going to become an Alchemist.

"...I'm good at alchemy." I said giving him a confident smile, yeah, all this filled me with confidence, i can make and do anything now, I'm the Magus Alchemist Venir.

"Good" he said, returning me a gentle smile that could make divorces happen, yeah, he's that handsome.

"Right, since you don't have any coin you'll live here for a little while" he said, standing up.

"Yes, thank you" i was relieved that i wouldn't have to sleep in the barn with the animals.

I remembered a lightnovel where the mc was found by villagers, he slept with the pigs until he was able to build a hut... Tough life.

"Now rest, tomorrow i'll take you to John and Andy, they are retired adventurers and they can help you get started." I nodded.

"If you need anything call Mavis, i have some business to take care of, see you tomorrow." He then left, well, i need to rest.

"I don't want any brain damage."

Incomplete NPE pathway?

"Hm? What's a NPE pathway?"

also known as Mana by the inhabitants of this world, manipulated by the brain or world system through the NPE circuit to modify, improve or produce effects inside and outside the body>

Upgrade Status:

「NPE Circuit」 : 53% (on hold).

「NPE pathway」: 57% (on hold).

「Artificial Genetic Mutation 」: (Completed 7 hours ago).

"Ooh mana, WAIT.WAIT A MINUTE. you are doing what? You changed my genes? WHY?"

"HEY, answer meee..."

Damm system, well, at least i now know the reason of that headache, from what i know, that headache is going to return...so...erm... I'll just go to sleep.

I laid down on the bed, closed my eyes and....immediately fell unconscious.

.

-The next day-

"Ahhh" i grumbled, writhing on the bed.

"MY EYES, MY ARMS, MY LEGS, EVERYTHING HURTS, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?" Yes, there was no headache....but in exchange, everything else hurts.

Is this because of all the changes? Can't the system nullify the pain?

.

.

"Hm? I'm hearing things...evolve?" I mumbled, confused.

Huh?

Well, i was expecting something like this, and yet, it still surprised me.

I was transported here, not reincarnated. That means that i was not eliminated in the selection process, although my body isn't exactly the same...it is still my body, i just had a small upgrade.

My body? Wait, what was the description of the void again?

"System, can you answer please something for me?"

Why am i talking to it as if it is a person you ask? It's THE WORLD SYSTEM, it's job is to keep the order here, there is no way such a system doesn't have an A.I, i mean, would you let a planet in care of a system who can't adapt to the environment? The world is always changing so....it must have an I.A that adapts to the world as it changes.

"Display the previous [Analyze] results"

Results:

Localization: [VOID]

Description : A Place entirely made of where souls are kept on for reincarnation.

Name: Chaos

Description : primordial element of existence.

Name: Soul Stasis

Type: Function

Description: A function to keep a Soul on hold, similar to sleep, it stops a soul from perceiving the flow of time.

'system display previous results.' haha...it sounded sooo cool.

"Hm...'where souls are kept for reincarnation' i'm even more confused" i thought that i died, then woke on my body, and the void is supposed to be a place where souls that will be reincarnated are kept...did i die? Was my body transported or rebuilt from scratch?

The good thing is that i wasn't hearing things and...the other...WHO WOULD GIVE WORLD MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES TO A RANDOM DUDE?, Wait, I'm not a random dude, there was a selection. But who said i would accept this position? Well, I got the feeling that everything about me was analyzed in that selection, from all my memories to all my desires, whishes, regrets, accomplishments(if there is any) and failures, it was concluded that i would love this position, well, who wouldn't?

Analyzed everything. Can't blame anyone, this is a important position.

Now about the admin state...

"Hm... activate? How do i do that?"

"I, who rule everything in this world, the being who has the authority that bends the natural laws, i command the heavens to..." >

"That's...." I said, smiling awkwardly....

"That's super cringe..." Ah, i want to run away.

"Can't i change it? I'm the admin right?"

A Mere magus? Oh amm...I think i pissed the system off.

"Ok, i understand, i will use it" Let's see...

⟨"I, who rule everything in this world, the being who has the authority that bends the natural laws, i command the heavens to recognize me as it's Master and grant me my throne[Administrator State]" ⟩

I was expecting something flashy but...ok.

Localization: [VOID]

Description: A Place entirely made of pure where souls are kept on for a variety of different purposes, the main one being reincarnation.

Oh, so it's not only for reincarnation, that means that my soul was just stored there and my body body was transported here first.

Name: Chaos.

Description: primordial element of existence, the building block of everything that exists in all dimensional planes.

Name: Soul Stasis

Type: Function

Description: A function to keep a Soul on hold, similar to sleep, it stops a soul from perceiving the flow of time and allows the extraction of information.

"Every time i try to understand Chaos i get a headache, i won't think about it anymore."

Hm?

I was still laying down on the bed looking at the ceiling, when...

"!?" The scenery suddenly changed.

I was now floating in a big white room with a giant black laptop, it was the size of a 3 story building.

"Ahh" the laptop suddenly became much... much bigger or it was i who became microscopic, i floated to the hardrive or the laptop moved so i could see a specific part, i was now seeing the hardrive at a microscopic level.

As soon as the system spoke, the laptop grew smaller.

On the screen was now displayed a picture of a beautiful sunset.

It expanded again, i was now looking at the picture , but it was divided into various squares , a representation of the megapixels.

The color of a pixel is defined by the computer reading information from it's memory.

The information is saved as gigabytes>megabytes>kilobytes>bytes>bits.

A Bit is binary number(1 or 0), bytes have 8 bits and kilobytes have a 1024 bytes. In a computer there is no information unit smaller than a bit>

The laptop shrank to it's normal size then disappeared, right after that the white room shone bright, i reflexively closed my eyes, 2 seconds later... i opened my eyes and saw the now familiar ceiling.

I was on 'my' room again.

"HOLY MOLLY, all this information, my brain is going to melt."

"Haa..." I sighed, the system did it's best to try and make me have an idea of what is, so i guess it is important.

Well, i do have some idea of what Chaos is now. I'm going to become an Administrator in about a year, so i guess i should know This.

//A couple moments later...\

*Knock* *knock* *knock*.

"Wait a minute." I said, dressing up.

I couple moments later "Enter", that is probably The maid.

"Excuse me" a soothing female voice said as the door opened slowly, she entered then bowed.

"Good morning" i said

"Good morning Mister" she responded seemingly surprised that i greeted her first.

"Master Geld instructed me to accompany you to the apothecary."

"Oh, right." i was so distracted with the system that i totally forgot about that.

"Let's go." I said.

"Follow me" she said, so that's what i did.

She closed the door and started walking, we were side by side in a wide corridor, i wanted to say something but couldn't find a topic.

Oh right, I'll ask about when she began working here

Then i realized that i didn't know her name.

"Umm, so what is your name?" I asked, Yeahh...natural.

She opened her eyes wide, probably realizing that she didn't introduce herself before.

"Ermmm, oh, sorry, it's, i mean...ermm....my name is Mavis"

"Mavis, what a beautiful name..."compliment the name...yep, i read that somewhere.

"Right, my name is Venir, you can stop being formal, I'm a commoner and besides I'm going to live here for a while so let's be friends or something"

She looked at me, then quickly looked away. Cute.

"Okay" she said "so, what happened to you? I heard you were brought here by Bill."

"I was unconscious most of the time, but i remember being attacked on a beach by monsters, then i woke up here, Mr.Geld told me that i was found in the forest and about to get eaten but luckily the hunter bill was there and saved me"

"Oh ,i see, i remember someone telling me that, a couple years ago there were people in the same situation as you"

"Really? I see." well that's why the village Chief came up with that story.

We left the Residence and i realized that it was actually a small mansion... quite the fancy mansion, 2 stories, big garden and... small gates, guess he doesn't need big ones.

We walked for about 10 minutes to get to the more concentrated part of the village, i saw a couple shops selling meat, what appeared to be monster parts, clothes, veggies, fruit and the like, but sadly, no Adventurers Guild.

I know that this is just a village but.... there's always that small possibility, oh well.

"This village is really beautiful" i said, surprised by how developed it is.

"Yeah, that's thanks to Master Geld and the Carpenters living here, they worked really hard to make the village as beautiful as it is now"

We chatted about the village a bit more a bit more until...

"Hey Mavis."

"mm?"

"You really like Mr.Geld huh?

"Yes, of course i like him, he's a very kind and gentle person, besides that he took me in when i-oh we're here." She said pointing at one building with a particular sign above it's door.

Is that a potion?

The wooden sign had a drawing of a glass bottle in a bag of what appeared to be plants? Medicinal herbs, i think.

Mavis got in, so i followed her, the interior was like what you would expect a apothecary to look like, the walls were filled with shelves with all sorts of medicinal things, a lot of glass bottles with what seemed to be potions, there were some wooden, mason and glass jars containing dried herbs, oils and some powders.

To put it simply, it was a small, peaceful and cozy mediaval pharmacy.

On the counter were some weights and a scale.

Behind the counter was a muscular young man, probably in his late 20s, with brown hair, black eyes and a little tall, he was staring directly into a young lady's eyes, probably in her 20s as well, she had red hair, brown eyes and on the short side, unsurprisingly she was doing the same as the young man, looking at him as if she was trying to see his soul through his eyes.

They weren't blinking and were so concentrated that they hadn't even noticed us yet.

Mavis wasn't doing anything in particular, she was just standing there, i guess she doesn't want to interrupt their game, so i decided to just wait too.

The man blinked.

"Ha, i won, you do the laundry." The young lady said, putting her hands on her waist and laughing.

"Ah, come on, just one more time." He said with a defeated expression.

"Nope, you do the laundry today."

"Right. Right, next time we do rock, paper and scissors." He said, sighing, then he noticed us standing there.

"Oh, Mavis, what's up?" He said jumping over the counter.

"Hey, moron, don't do that, you'll make the potions fall." The lady protested.

"Right. Right." he said, waving his hand at her.

"Master Geld told me to bring him here." Said Mavis.

"Oh right, the young alchemist" he said, looking at me, he then extended his right hand, "Hey, the name's John, and that beauty right there is my wife.." she waved her hand from beyond the counter, "we're the ones who run this apothecary."

"I'm Venir, nice to meet you" i said shaking his hand.

After i introduced myself, Mavis said she had to leave, so she excused herself and left.

She had said that the village chief was busy, but he would come here as soon as he could.

This young couple are the people for whom i'll be working for from now on, let's give a good first impression.

They seem to be good people, let's see how this goes.