[A/N: Forgot to put disclaimer on the first chap so ill put one here.Oh and just to clear things up, ill be making seb a little introvert in this story, Im not really into nonsensical dialogues that does not really impacts the plot. Im not saying I wont let him interact to people, cuz i cant do that without ruining the chance of plot making, but I have a plan for him so you guys dont think this fic has no dialogue whatsoever.Another is that im fairly sure ill use time skips as my bitch, but not frequently as to make you guys irritated or something, just grumpy, maybe? hahahaha.
This fic is an amalgamation of different Gamer fics here so some of the concepts from them are here and sadly, i was not the first one to think up this crossover so I cant claim originality on different concepts cuz we. are. fvcking. many. its inevitable, k? k.
Pairings: Ehh, not really my cup, but im not opposed against it either, rn i have no inclination with pairings cuz seb'll be traveling a lot in and outside of universes, so even if i did give him pairings, its not relevant to the plot if ever, sorry. And no harems, i... Dont like it, no offense to those who do like it, its just, to me, its just like writing porn to the orgy genre and, srsly?, i cringe away from those, skip it if i like the fic, more so if its het couples, i dig SLASH, people, but i can do Het too, im not that too biased about it.
Lastly, yes I intend to make seb nearly unbeatable here, but not always, he needs the growth of what loosing brings, so yeah. He'll be pretty op, borderline super godlike here cuz why not? if ur against this idea, or unsatisfied with the unrealistic way im intending this fic to go, then ok, tnx for reading, love you~
Again, sorry if there are grammatical errors, just point them out to me and ill try to remedy it asap.
K, Ill end it here.
(Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine ofc, and either the other universes and characters I'll be using in this fic. No monetary income was intended, this is purely for entertainment only.)
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Chapter 2
Hogwarts Castle, Scotland
"What."
Sebastian stared ahead, unfocused.
Slowly, memories and knowledge from his past life about anything Harry Potter related trickled in, his brain functioning to full capacity in absorbing and dissecting them one by one, slotting them to canon facts, to fiction facts, to theories, to fan-facts, and to the unrelated things his brain then disregarded to the 'trash' section.
From book knowledge when he, himself, read the book, to movie facts and information, to fanfiction. A literal storm of information was dragged in from his past on the forefront of Sebastian's mind, like a tsunami of thoughts swirling around his mind one second only to be processed and learned the next.
He processed the Harry Potter stuff first, getting the whole picture first then after it settled and he was sure he got everything, he now factored in what his present predicament is, everything he saw and experienced, what relevance and connection it has and will have with Harry Potter, this apparent universe, and then to him.
Like a silent prompt, subjects, topics and everything from his last life that could possibly connect with his situation right then, bludgeoned their way to the forefront of his thoughts like some sort of an army of trillions of puppies, eagerly wagging their tail, demanding attention.
All this happened for all of one second.
Sebastian stumbled slightly, ruffled and mildly stumped from the way his brain is functioning right now. He knew this was not normal, at least for him.
Somethings changed.
Returning his focus inwardly, he saw that the oceanic chaos of memories were now disappearing in a steady stream, adding to the whole.
Honestly, he doesn't know if he should be awed or horrified with the way his brain worked now. All he could compare it to is to a computer, processing everything methodically and swiftly.
A bit hesitant, he tried accessing a memory, the first book of Harry Potter to be precise. With a mental prod, it came to him, although not the way he expected it. He literally remembered everything about the first book, it's whole story, cover, pages, pictures, words, sequences of events, characters, where the book was when he last saw it, how he read it, where, when, with whom, everything. All thoughts and memories that could even be connected to the first book, was just there and he knew and oh my god and how is this possibl-
A sudden burst of calmness suddenly settled over him, making him level-headed once more like nothing happened.
Oooo-kay. That's borderline creepy but nonetheless useful and effective.
With the bout of calmness surrounding him, he came to the conclusion that, most likely, his brain worked way beyond what is normal. Like way way beyond. He can now remember everything instantaneously and vividly.
Almost like he has perfect memory or has a higher control of his brain functions.
'Well, isn't that just grand?' Sebastian said inwardly, tilting his head in silent wonderment.
To anyone outside, if there was someone to witness the event, all they will see is a white nondescript glowing mannequin abruptly appearing from nowhere literally an inch away from the stone castle, floated backwards slowly, then suddenly stopping, hovering a meter away from the wall it was almost kissing awhile back. A 'what' leaving its lips, it stumbled mid-air then slowly tilted it's head while slowly descending back to earth.
Sebastian opened himself to everything, he let every memory, thoughts, feelings, and more to come back to him, he let himself process it all.
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Sebastian silently mused that remembering now is like seeing for the first time vividly when all his life he remembered like he was looking through murky waters, such was the improvements it was, its astonishing.
He just stood there for a whole minute doing nothing but remembering.
Refocusing once more after he was sure that he was done remembering, he regarded the floating screen in front of him once again, knowing where this might possibly go and deciding if he should just laugh hysterically till he go insane, or just accept it like a man because this was not cliche at all, nope, not at all.
He decided to go with the flow.
"...Settings?"
Nothing.
"Menu?"
The Gamer
Menu
[Messages(3)]
[Status]
[Inventory]
[Skills]
[Save]
[Load]
[Options]
Aaaaaand there it is. Figures this is the cliches of all cliches.
Well as he had said, just go with the flow and all that rot.
'So this seven panels replaced the welcome screen, two of which are grayed out; Save and Load. So I could have Save options here, although it's not available as of the moment, probably only after finishing a requirement or quest should it be accessible to me. Okay, that's agreeable, a worthy achievement I would totally aim for.'
Load is self explanatory.
"Hmm, let's see. Messages."
The seven panels disappeared and was replaced with three new panels slightly bigger than the first seven panels, all highlighted.
First panel was titled "Welcome", second was "Daily Random Reward", and lastly and the confusing part was the "¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿"
Frowning at the cryptic last panel, Sebastian tried to mentally select it, hoping that this kind of command is available. The third panel glowed and the message screen was now replaced with the cryptic message.
!Error!
Level requirement not met;
Lvl.50
Lvl.100
Lvl.150
Lvl.200
Lvl.500
Lvl.1000
The levels are grayed out mini panels so that means it has a message or reward of some sort inside if his supposed level meets the requirements.
Sebastian felt excitement and eagerness roll throughout his being. Thinking and imagining what item or reward this mini panels might have awakened his interest in this new developments that now revolves around him, the indifference that Sebastian have garnered before vanishing when he fully comprehended what this 'Game' can now possibly bring him.
Finishing his morbid fantasy of epic and legendary rewards, Sebastian mentally shook himself away from it. Focusing, he mentally swiped the cryptic reward panel away, said panel vanishing sideways, revealing the messages panels once again.
Curious, Sebastian raised his still glowing mannequin-like hands to the first panel, curious if physical commands is accepted as a command function.
Hesitating only a fraction of a second, Sebastian touched the blue glowing screen, a curious feeling of touching surface water but with a certain solidness to it that he assumes that the screen could be moved. Doing so, he touched the screen, moving his hand to his right, smiling slightly when the glowing screen followed. Trying to mentally swipe it to the left confirmed he could do it mentally too.
Now he knew it would not be a total distraction if a screen suddenly pops up in front of his face in a critical or important moments.
When the screen was back to focus, he mentally selected the first message, distractedly noticing that highlights the of the third panel was now gone.
Welcome Gamer!
You, Sebastian of Earth, was the fortunate soul of which was granted a second chance at life.
As of this moment you are gifted this power of which you recognize as The Gamer. This power was plucked and manifested specially for you from your own memories, for this was once what you perceived as the highest power.
Certain informations are, as of yet, restricted and are only available in certain events or quests in which you are given three(3) free questions for the system to answer once you finish said event/quest. Said events/quests are undetermined or just randomly rolled, so be aware and vigilant for this events/quests for they are once-every-chance-only opportunity.
As you know, your kind has not evolved yet to the point where your specie could have achieved energy manipulation and never will for the next million more years, caused by the infection your kind has dubbed 'Technology'. This parasite of a disease you called 'Technology' has been steadily leaching the ambient energy from the planet you resided since the first of its kind has been made. This abomination has been burrowing its teeth deep inside the essence of your planet and slowly, for the past hundred years, energies from your planet has been continuously leeched, making evolution close to nil, and at this point, has no more chance of recovery.
So as another gift to you, I give you the power to use, manifest and mold Energies to your will and its limitations are only your imagination and willpower.
You are now in a universe randomly selected for you to inhabit.
What you do here may or may not affect this universe positively, but the choice is yours to make.
Now, I leave you with the hope that you do not let this second chance go to waste for this might be just the last that your innate luck will save you.
-Benefactor
Rendered speechless, it took Sebastian a few moments to compose himself and accept that this, in fact, was true and he will not let this chance pass to make himself strong and powerful so as not to die again and be brought back to that hellhole of a void. Just thinking about that place brings dread and chills to his old soul, numbing his thoughts in terror and nightmarish illusions of endless darkness and loneliness that eats at his being and-
Calm.
'This abrupt suppression of strong emotion is getting out of hand, I wonder if I can do something about it? Well, I'll just check up on it later after I read the last message.'
Mentally willing the current screen away, he selected the second and last message from the message panel and readied himself for anything.
The screen for the daily rewards flashed in front of Sebastian, a note, timer, claim panel, and a medium sized space below it that he figure was for the reward to appear.
Note: This is your daily rewards section where various prizes and rewards are given to you every after Twenty-Four(24) hours via message.
[00-00-00]
CLAIM
A welcoming treat, maybe? Sebastian doesn't know but he wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth so he selected 'CLAIM'.
A sudden cartoon-ish sound of things being shaken inside a hallow box accompanied by a drumming tune for the added dramatic effect was heard, ending with an item suddenly appearing on the space on his screen together with the sound and image of fire crackers igniting.
Sebastian regarded the item.
SP x50
Sebastian was not entirely sure what it was, but he was sure he would be knowing soon enough.
Swiping the two screens away, Sebastian was back to the original Menu page.
"Options"
OPTIONS
MUSIC- OFF
MINI MAP- OFF
AUTO-LOOT- OFF
ASSIST- OFF
EVOLUTION- ON
AUTO-TRANSLATE- OFF
COMMANDS-
Mental- ON
Physical- ON
Audio- ON
DIFFICULTY- INSANELY HARD
CHEATS- [?]
GAMER'S MIND- - 80%
GAMER'S BODY- N/A (Avatar not yet selected)
AVATAR- OFF
'What?! This is bullshit! This won't do! Okay, let's get this thing straightened out.'
OPTIONS
MUSIC- OFF
MINI MAP- ON
AUTO-LOOT- ON
ASSIST- ON
EVOLUTION- ON
AUTO-TRANSLATE- ON
COMMANDS-
Mental- ON
Physical- ON
Audio- ON
DIFFICULTY- NORMAL
CHEATS- [?]
GAMER'S MIND- - 100%
GAMER'S BODY- - 100%
AVATAR- ON
Sebastian changed all Off to On except music, cause it's a distracting option. He tried it, he didn't like it. He can't access the cheats tab which disappointed him because that would be a boon that could make his life here easier. He hopes he can find a clue on how to access it, like, fast. For his avatar, there were a variety of options to choose from, many of them tempting beyond belief but in the end, he chose an Asian boy with natural shoulder length white hair, soft but sharp facial bone structure, healthy porcelain skin, a curious light purple eyes, almost like lilac, and elfin like appearance. It's the most beautiful child he had ever seen, his eyes were instantly drawn to it once he set his eyes on it, ignoring the other equally alluring avatars.
Changing from his almost-mannequin-like form to his chosen body was an experience of it's own. The ethereal green glow cloaking his body slowly absorbed itself inside his body, starting from his finger where once the green light was absorbed inside him, transparent skin tissues appeared in conjunction to disappearing light, continuing on until the body of the child was complete, bare to the world.
Gamer's Mind, unlike what he had first expected was not, in fact, considered as a Skill here but one of the options where he can manipulate how much percentage he want's, same goes to Gamer's Body when he had chosen his new body.
With the Gamers Mind, 80% handles all brain activity with half control to emotions and feelings. So as to not distract him again, he notched it to max so no more stray emotions or turmoil will run all over the place. It does not mean he doesn't have emotions anymore but he will no be in total control of them now that he can choose what and what not to show outside. Same calming effect, total immunity to psychological attack or mental attack/intrusions. Gamer's Body is the same as in the other fics he knew.
Only the mini map on his lower right corner has made a noticable appearance from his various activated options right now, so at least he was sure the rest will show if they are needed.
Satisfied, Sebastian mentally commanded 'Inventory'.
A blue glowing screen appeared, as big as his torso, movable and resizable when tested. He even tried resizing and moving it to totally cover every angle of his body and when it performed what he wanted it to, he grinned in delight.
'That's so broken and OP that I'll totally abuse the hell out of it.'
Looking around him, he crouched down to the ground and picked up a leaf. Leaf in hand, he closed his fist around it. Opening his fist, he obsereved how the leaf uncrumbled itself slowly once free from his closed fist.
'Now to test a theory.'
Sebastian once again crumpled the leaf on his fist, pushing his closed hand to his inventory. He saw his hand enter his inventory, fascinated with the tingling sesnsation he cou around his fist. Focusing back to his mission, he opened his hand and let the crumpled leaf inside and closing his inventory.
After a few seconds, he mentally opened his inventory again and thought of the leaf appearing on his open palms. Instantaniously, the leaf appeared on his open palms, appearing somewhat like it was slowly beeing remade atomically from air or something. Once whole, it uncrumpled itself once again, as if he just released it from a closed fist.
'Stasis. Cool. But how about...'
Discarding the leaf, he picked up a small pebble next.
Enlarging his inventory, he threw the pebble directly at his open inventory, and once through, he willed his inventory to face a random tree to his left an then willed it to spat out the pebble as hard as it can.
The pebble materialized instantly, flying all but a blur to Sebastian's now small, sparkling lilac eyes, hitting the intended tree, bored itself through it, nailed the tree on its path, through it once again and hitting one last tree where, half-way through, lost all its momentum and stayed imbedded in there.
Sebastian giggled hysterically, mind whirring with the sheer versatility of his inventory and its many possiblities.
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"Status"
Sebastian Cross
Title: The Gamer
Level: 1 - 0/100XP
HP: 1,000/1,000
EP: 1,000/1,000
STR: 3
DEF: 5
DEX: 9
VIT: 6
INT: 47
WIS: 42
LUC: 20
CHA: 19
SP: 50
PERK(s): -
"Wow. That kinda explains it. So if I remember right, STR = how strong you are and how strong one can hit,
DEF = how sturdy I am and how much I can take hits, DEX =how good my aim, balance and coordination is. VIT =my total health, INT = how smart and knowledgable I am, WIS = how I use and apply my knowledge, LUC = how lucky I am and how much probabilty and chances of gaining good loot, CHA = how much chance I can pursuade people to my side, my overall appeal to people and what they perceive me as, SP = skill points I can allocate at all times to any stats, and PERKS = things I can have for certain achieved requirements that could enhance me if activated."
'I can leave my SP alone right now,what with most of my stats I'm sure are way beyond average. I still don't know if gaining SP is easy or not, so a lucky x50 from the Daily Rewards is a welcome gift.
'STR, DEF, VIT, and DEX could be raised normally now, so I need to level those up as soon as this game starts.
'INT, WIS, and LUC might be carried here from my past life, maybe? That's pretty damn good for me, I think.
'CHA is obviously because of my chosen avatar. But what about perks?'
PERKS
Please choose two(2):
Greed
Gluttony
Envy
Temperence
Courage
Prudence
Not really minding which, Sebastian selected the first two options.
Greed: This perk allows user to double the amount of gains he has in terms of loot. A chance to land x5 if lucky enough.
Gluttony: This perk allows the user to eat anything; be it living or non-living, food or not, to satisfy ones appetite. User can choose to 'eat' a certain skill, characteristic, or anything the item possesses and be absorbed and used by the user when activated. User needs to eat every 3 hours or else.
"I'm starting to love this game more and more." Sebastian murmured to himself, a disturbing grin on his childish face, making a very creepy look a child of his appearance shouldn't have the capacity to make normally.
Grinning from ear to ear, Sebastian roamed his eyes around him, admiring everything.
Ping!
Start Game? Y/N
Blinking at the screen, he pressed 'Y', darkness encompassing his senses. Sebastian had only a few seconds to panic before he knew nothing, his consciousness leaving him.