‘?’
‘I can’t feel anything, I also seem to have lost all my five senses’
[Congratulations! The Infection System has been successfully installed!]
[You have received a quest! The First Step: pass through Binary Fusion for the first time! reward: status is unlocked!]
‘What? status?’
[Status is currently unlocked!!]
‘Hoh, I see, so I can open the status by simply thinking about it… but, Binary Fusion? I'm a virus not a bacteria isn't it?’
[ The user is currently in the form of a bacteria, the virus form is yet to be unlocked!]
‘?’
‘Hey, system are you some kind of AI or something?’
[The Infection System was made as a tool to help you grow, in order to achieve this an artificial intelligence has been implanted, the system will answer your questions as long as it is allowed!]
‘Allowed? by who?’
[The current question cannot be answered!]
‘...., I somehow knew you would say that’
‘System, how can I do Binary Fusion?’
[First, you have to replicate your DNA then you have t-]
‘No, I already know that, what I mean is “how” ?’
[The best advice the system can give is to follow your instincts, you are no longer human so your instincts are that of a bacteria]
‘Follow my instincts huh? Well, I just have to clear my mind and concentrate…..’
After doing his best to clear his mind he definitely feels it, the instinctive know-how, is almost like how a human can breathe without thinking consciously about it, only that because he was not familiar with it he hadn't done it yet, meaning that the only thing he should do is ….
‘Something changed, is hard to explain, is like I have 2 bodies but at the same time I only have 1…’
[Congratulations! you completed your first quest! The status window is now unlocked! a new quest appeared! First Infection: duplicate enough in order to infect the closest plant to you! time limit: 5 hours! quest reward: personal skill (Forceful Duplication)]
‘What!? It has a time limit? damm I better hurry up but it is very tiring to duplicate……]
After what felt like a few seconds Asher come to the conclusion that nothing good will come from complaining and doing nothing, that is something he learned in his past life after all.
-4 hours later-
‘Urghh! my head hurts so much!!’
[The user doesn't have a head currently]
‘I know that already! that was really mentally exhausting.. but I hope that the end is near, and it is really useful that I don't have to consciously duplicate everybody of mine individually, I just have to think of dividing as a whole.’
[ Congratulations! you finished the quest before the time runs out! The personal skill (Forceful Duplication) has been learned! a new quest has appeared! Infect the flower you are on top of! reward: personal skill (Infection)!]
‘That is true! I forgot that I unlocked the status! system open the status!’
{
[Asher] [Level: 1]
[Forms unlocked: Bacteria]
[Personal skills: (Forceful Duplication) ]
[Infection skills: none]
[Infected life forms: none]
[Divine Curse]
[Jagdees Divine Blessing]
[Slipshod Divine Blessing]
}
‘Hey system, I'm able to read a description like on video games from before the Doomsday?’
[Yes, a description will be provided whatever you as for]
‘Okay then, give me a description on, (Forceful Duplication), personal skills. infecting skills, my level, forms unlocked, divine curse, and the divine blessings’
[(Forceful Duplication): use 10mp of host’s mana, 30% chance to duplicate the user’s body that resides on the host. This is particularly useful to infect predators]
[Personals skills are skills that most of the time were obtained by the system or by the user himself, these skills can usually be used even if you are not controlling the host’s mind]
[Infecting skills are skills gained by infecting a host, these skills usually can only be used when taking over the host’s mind]
[You gain XP by infecting hosts, the stronger the host the more XP, you also gain 20% of XP the hosts gained, once a certain amount of XP is collected, you will level up, the chance to infect a host will increase, certain skills can only be obtained after a certain level]
[(Divine Curse): ⌊Can’t infect Heroes, Priests or Divine Servants⌉ ⌊Can't leave the Human Continent until the Demon King is born⌉ ⌊????⌉ ]
[(Jogdees Divine Blessing): ⌊Increased AI’s intelligence and emotions⌉ ⌊Unlimited “Skill Bank”⌉ ⌊Calm Mind⌉ ⌊Increased “Mental Adaptance”⌉ ⌊????⌉ ]
[(Slipshod Divine Blessing): ⌊Able to infect any kind of “Living” organisms⌉ ⌊Harder to obtain “Insanity”⌉ ⌊Increased charisma towards hosts⌉ ⌊???? (Blocked)⌉ ]
‘ I'm cursed? why?’
[The current question cannot be answered]
‘..... Who are Jogdees and Slipshot? and what does “????” mean? '
[The current question cannot be answered]
‘Fine…. I will concentrate on infecting this plant and finish that guest’
[ The user is a special entity, even though you are a bacteria you have a virus-like property, you can absorb the host cells in order to multiply, but the amount multiplied by will be lower than a virus, also because the user is a new type of microscopic being almost all living beings do not have a strong immune system against you, but it will create an immune system against you eventually unless you completely overtake the host, good luck!]
‘Alright then! Here I go!’
Asher then entered a plant that was extremely close to him, a flower, and began infecting it also used the flowers’ cells in order to duplicate faster, the flower was powerless against asher and eventually…
[Congratulations! you have successfully infected and taken over a flower! you have leveled up! you have obtained the skills(Photosynthesis) and (Infection), a new quest as arrived, An Animal!: infect a medium-sized animal, reward: (Skill Sharing)]
‘Is one thing after the other…. hey system what do you mean by a medium animal?’
[A animal smaller than a wolf would be considered as small, an animal bigger than a wolf and smaller than a bear is considered medium, any animal bigger than that is considered large, insects fall under the category of animal]
‘Give me a description of (Photosynthesis) and (Infection)’
[(Photosynthesis): the host will be able to absorb nutrients from sunlight, but will not be able to regenerate mana while this skill is active, 1mp = 20 sec]
[(Infection): a passive skill that allows the user to infect the host 20% faster, it also allows the user to infect any host without conscious effort]
‘Hmm…. system, how am I supposed to infect any animal if I cannot move?’
[The host that the user has recently taken over is a flower, the recommendation is to wait for an insect to try to pollinate you, talking about which, it seems that a bee is getting near you]
Just like the system had said a bee landed on Asher, it seems that it will pollinate the flower that asher has infected, Asher without wasting any time tried to infect the bee through the pollen.
[You have successfully taken over the small animal “bee”, you gained the following skill, (Poison: Weak)]
‘What do you mean by weak?’
[The potency of the poison created by skill is weak, if you want to increase the potency of the skill you have to level it up, once a skill reaches level 5 and goes into another level up, it will evolve into a stronger form, the higher the level the harder it is to level it up]
‘And how do I level up a skill?’
[Normally, you would have to constantly use a skill to level it up, but because the user has the unique property of coping skills you only have to constantly absorb the same skill in order to level it up, an example of that would be with the skill, (Fire Magic), any normal person would go to a magic academy and practice for years in order to evolve that skill, but you only have to infect enough fire mages with that skill and it will evolve, that would take between a few days to 1 year in order to evolve it, you could also infect a person who already has the evolved skill]
‘What? isn't that way too overpowered?’
[While it is overpowered it also has a drawback, you will absorb the skill but not the knowledge, so if you were to infect a human and use that skill it would be less powerful than a person that has trained it for many years, it also has the drawback that the stronger the person you infect the harder it is to infect them, especially mages as they build up an immune system made from mana as a side effect]
‘Well, that seems reasonable, do you have any suggestions on what to do next?’
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The gods want to make him kill the demon king
The divine curse is there to keep him from becoming more problematic
yes, they should have denied his request but by the moment they realised the treat he would be it was already too late, they may be major gods but they are also idiots with simple minds, that will be kind of explained by Jagdees
I read something similar to this on royal road once, tried searching for similar stuff but couldn't
Thx for making this
Thank you for reading this
! i know this is not too obvious but i kind of based this on the novel " The Death Mage That Doesn't Want A Fourth Time" i mainly graved the idea of gods, hierarchy between them and also the major gods being idiots. This is out of topic but this story wasn't created resently, infact, i created this many years ago, i was 9-10 years on at that time, i made many pages about it, i found the notebook of it and got the idea of making this a better story ( compared to the main script this is way better). Because my main lenguage is not English it is hard to keep track on the grammar, but it is useful in order to become aware of what im lacking, i hope that by the end of this story my grammar gets better
@Jairo481 even though it's not your main language you did good
i just found it, it is very similar to mine, i will erase a few things from future chapters so it doesnt look too similar
(T Virus System)
@Jairo481 you don't have to! It's good as is in my opinion