As he hauled himself from the static of the void, his thoughts were slowly becoming louder in intensity. It came to a point where he discovered himself becoming more aware of his surroundings as he struggled to focus under the intensity of his thoughts. It was feeling odd for him, as it felt as if one moment he didn’t exist and the next he was struggling to cope with all the sensations he was currently feeling.

Carefully collecting his thoughts, he noticed that reality seemed to snap into place around him. A slight pressure went through him making him ache with a strange pain that seemed to tear at his soul. When he focused on the pain, he found that his sight dropped into an odd focus. This caused him immense pain as he could see all around him, yet it was as if he was doing something foreign to him.

With a bit of force, he condensed his sight to what was in front of him, or rather what he considered his front. His form screamed strangeness to his mind, as with his new vision he could tell he was shaped like a ball that was glowing a soft blue. He could feel himself reaching out and touching the surroundings despite having no limbs of any sort.

Taking a look around he found he was currently hovering in a great white void. As he moved about, he found there was a series of invisible walls around the space. He estimated the entire space was about a thousand feet across. Where that information of accurate measurement came from he couldn’t tell.

Investigating his locale, a bright blue window popped right in front of his vision. Startled, he floated back for a second and took a look at what it said.

Struggling to make sense of what the window said, he came to the realization that it must be referring to himself. It said he was a system? Whatever could that be? Reaching out he found he was able to move the screen around with his mind. Eventually, he found he could close it with a thought.

After he had closed it, he took a closer look at himself considering the information he received. He asked himself, “If I am a system, what is a system? How do I even know what type of system that I want to be?”

After he had asked himself those questions, a new window appeared in front of him.

Reaching forward toward the screen with his mind, he touched the window. As he did so the location where it said insert name went blank. Carefully considering this he asked himself “How do I choose a name for myself? How does one choose a name?” 

While thinking this over a strong feeling began to build up within him as if his very soul was calling out an answer to him. Listening to this feeling he finally said “Jack. My Name is and always will be Jack.”

When he found his name, the glowing screen updated to show it and he felt more complete for a moment. Finished with that, Jack began to carefully examine the other items on the screen. Each of the parts seemed to flow knowledge of what they were into his mind. He found he could pull up explanations for everything that he saw on the screen.

Testing out this ability of his, Jack pulled up information about what exactly is a Neural Link. A new screen popped up to answer his specific query.

Going back to his status screen, Jack could see he currently had a thousand system power currently stored. He was unable to guess whether that was a high amount or a low amount for the moment so he put it aside and pulled up more information about what Users are.

Seeing the previous words of the window sparked a spark of fear within him, and Jack focused on what exactly a Failed system meant.

Once again Jack saw that the window referenced a Great Universal Realm. While he thought on this, he experienced an uncomfortable sense that it was referring to something so massive it felt hard for him to contemplate it. Gently shaking this feeling off, he then focused on what exactly a World is and what is Mantara.

When the information popped up, a status window popped up beside it detailing the status of the World of Mantara. In addition to that, a blue greenish orb popped up as well to Jack’s side and he got the feeling that this was the World of Mantara he was glancing at. Closing the information window, he read over the status screen of the world he was presently in charge of.

While examining the status screen he found up he could pull up examples of each of the races to perceive what each looked like. Next to the models more information about each race could be perceived, in addition to the average statistics of each. 

Notable culture characteristics additionally were noted in addition to various mating customs of each race. This information sent off an extraordinary feeling within him, after he examined this feeling he determined it to be some form of desire. Putting aside the feeling for the moment, he examined the question marks and found that some races were currently hidden from him.

Focusing on that he wondered why they were being hidden and a new screen popped up.

Closing that window, Jack directed his attention to the orb. Reaching out he spun the orb around. By handling it, he was able to zoom into where he touched. Jack could see a vast range of land which typically contained local areas where a bunch of sentient beings seemed to gather. A word popped in his mind that said these areas were called cities. Taking a closer look at one he was able to bring specific information up on it.

Not experiencing a need for the city status screen at the moment, Jack closed it and returned to the other questions he had. While he had a sense that Divinity was somehow related to gods he wasn’t confident at the moment. Therefore, he focused on what Divinity is, and it pulled up a new screen.

What is an Evil God? Jack wondered and a new screen popped up.

Feeling like he had received a lot of valuable information from these glowing screens he focused on that and asked it who exactly was answering him in these windows.

Jack focused on the last sentence of the glowing screen and asked himself “How am I supposed to advance to a higher level?”

The previous screen closed and a new screen popped up.

After reading it he asked himself how would he even begin to upgrade himself. 

Going over the choices that he had to advance himself, Jack then turned his focus on how to Upgrade Users options. Curious what he had available at the moment, Jack pulled up the User Options.

Carefully looking over the glowing screen Jack focused on how to upgrade the User Options and a huge screen appeared with a great deal of options available.

Examining them, he found that each required a certain amount of power to enact. Progressively eliminating the one’s he could not support at the moment to get a good idea of what he could do at the moment. Of the remaining options quite a little Jack felt he could not implement properly at the moment. Dismissing those and the options that would provide little benefit he looked at what he had left.

The most straightforward thing he could do would be to add classes to his selection. He could design his own classes or pick from the ones available to him. They ranged from classes that focused exclusively on a profession to ones that are focused on slaughtering monsters. Several that could be useful later on, he made a note of them.

Deciding not to purchase any at the moment, Jack took a look at the classes that he had. Examining each he noted something they were lacking was an immediate benefit. With a small amount of power, he nudged the classes to generously allow a User to gain a skill upon gaining a class. This skill would be semi-random influenced by the User inherent nature.

"Alright," Jack said, "I think it is time for me to look for a New User."