It has come to my attention that stories like this are technically against the rules so by the time this chapter is uploaded the first should be deleted, due to this I've had to start with suggestions I've already been given; This includes 6 reviews and 3 private messages so we nearly got our goal of 10, Tried my best to add at least one part of each suggestion you may not see it now, but one part of your suggestion will show up eventually. So, after a long week here this is! Thought this was a really cool idea and thanks to everyone who chose to participate! I'll try my best not to make him too overpowered but no promises. If anyone wants to know which part if their suggestion was put in feel free to ask as I understand some are more subtle than others.
Jason Cunningham; a British man, an average height well-built British man. Jason is a former member of The Royal Marines. While fighting in Iraq lost his left leg to an I.E.D, he was honourably discharged and granted medals for his service. However, he was granted no further support and he is now sat alone, depressed and cold in a back alley in Edinburgh. How had he got there? As he would say himself it's a long story. But that's not what we're here for right now, we're here for what comes after.
On a cold November night Jason found himself wrapped up in old clothes in his usual spot behind an Indian takeaway in Edinburgh, as he has every day for the past 8 months. This day was different… Jason is woken from his sleep to see a silhouette standing at the bottom of his feet, this "man" stood tall and was holding a weapon made of seemingly pure light.
Jason assumed it was a dream and attempted to wake up, then the eery figure spoke.
"This is no dream Jason," The man spoke, he had a deep raspy voice "I've been hired to end your life, out of respect for your time served I'll make your death quick."
Before Jason even had time to respond. He was impaled by the spear of light the man was holding, as he felt his life leaving him and his last breath edging closer, he managed to squeeze out one last word.
"W... w... why…?" The worlds fell out his mouth as he gargled on his own blood.
"You will find out soon enough," The man said, "Trust me, your next life will be better than this one."
As Jason exhaled for the final time, he heard a loud ping.
He finds himself in a dark room, with 5 books in front of him on a small glass coffee table. Next to the book lies a note reading "Choose Two". He looks at the table and takes a better look at the first three of the books in front of him, they all have a different word wrote on them in block capitals. The first, "Growth" the second, "Strength"" the last, "Knowledge". In the second row of books lay two books with no words instead they were brightly coloured. The first being red and green the second being black and white.
Jason lifts the first of each row Growth and the red and green books. Out of nowhere a loud voice booms.
You have selected Growth.
You have selected the Boosted Gear and the blessing of Great Red.
"Great who-" before he gets to finish his sentence he was cut off by the same voice.
For choosing Growth you have been given The Power of The Gamer. This ability will be further explained later by the menu provided.
You have been granted The Boosted Gear.
You have been granted the blessings of Great Red, for this you will gain the abilities of a dragon in your next life, on top of this you will have greater skill at imagination-based magic.
As the human memory is not suitable for a dragon's lifespan your retention has been increased.
You will now be transferred to your next life.
"What the hell's going on!" Jason shouts as he finds himself standing in an empty house. "What was that voice? Where am I? Am I not supposed to be dead?" Jason asked these questions, but he wasn't expecting someone to answer.
For further details open your menu, open the menu by saying "Menu".
"Menu?" Still not sure of what was going on he went along with the voice. A screen with many tabs shows up in his vision.
Status
Skills
Inventory
Store
Help
He taps the help tab. The voice from earlier speaks up.
"I am the system, what is your problem?" The newly named System asks.
"What the hell's going on!" Jason exclaims.
"Your death was untimely, due to good behaviour you have been granted the chance to live again." The System responds
"No! No no no no no!" The man repeats frantically.
"What's wrong?" The system questions.
"I got fucking Isekaid. Me, a grown man got isekai"d at 35 years of age." Jason says.
"This is indeed what you would refer to as an Isekai," The system says nonchalantly, "Other things have changed, you are now 16 years old, you look similar to how you did in your previous life, however, you are taller and stronger due to your draconic body."
"So, I"m a dragon now. How come I don"t have a tail or wings?" Jason asks.
"You are what is referred to as a humanoid dragon, you retain mostly human features." The system responds "But… you do have wings; you just need to learn to extend them but that will come later you have Ddraig to teach you that."
"Who?" Jason replies.
"You will find out shortly, while here you will pretend to be a transfer student from England, you should be able to speak, read and write in Japanese as you would in English. You will be attending Kuoh academy. Be wary, some supernatural beings go to that school." The System explains
Jason POV
I woke up tired. A lot has happened in the past 24 hours, it's been stressful to say the least, but today I get to go to school as a teenager again. With all of my limbs, The System gave me a quick rundown of the supernatural. The different mythologies, creatures, important figures etc. He also told me about sacred gears and how powerful mine is, but it also comes with an inherent cost one day I will have to fight the owner of the opposing Divine Dividing. He assured me that due to the gifts I have been given in this new life I shouldn't have too many problems with this.
I look around the room, there's a bed, a set of drawers and a TV, it's basic but it's a lot better than what I'm used to. The house is also pretty nice, four bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchen and a supernatural training room in the basement, which is as you would guess, awesome.
The system told me I should check my status so let's have a look.
"Status" I spoke out, looking around for a screen and then in front of me opened a transparent blue screen with white writing.
Status
Name: Jason S. Cunningham
Age: 16(Phys)
Title: The Gamer.
Race: Draconic Human
Level: 10
HP: 300 Regen: 30 Hp per minute
Mp: 300 Regen: 50 Mp per minute
Str: 20
Dex: 16
Vit: 20
Wis: 20
Int: 18
Luc: 6
Magic Types: None
For Skills say "Skills"
"Them stats seem way too high why am I level 10 already?" I observed.
"That's due to being a dragon, for every level gained you will get 5 stat points. Due to your dragon physiology you gain and extra 5 therefore you gain 10 per level." The system responded. "You may want to get ready for school, I will hide your supernatural presence after school has finished, I will show you how to unlock your sacred gear."
"Okay that sounds good but, where exactly is my school?" I asked.
"Eh, just follow the other students quite a few seem to be walking this way." The system replied
So, I get up to get dressed, the standard Kuoh Academy uniform with a white shirt. I go to step out the door and look around for the Kuoh academy uniform. Then I saw her, a beautiful young woman with black hair and violet eyes. I wanted to talk to her, but I stalled I stopped at my door and stared for almost a full minute, then she noticed.
"Is something the matter" The girl asked.
"Uh, no, sorry I was just wondering if you know where Kuoh Academy is?" I asked nervously.
"Oh of course, I'm Akeno Himejima I'm a 3rd year there, why don't you walk with me." The girl now known as Akeno replied.
"Yes, that would be great thanks, do you mind if I call you Akeno, I'm foreign and I'm not that good with honorifics" I said
"Oh that"s no problem, where are you from?" She questions as we begin to walk towards the school.
"I'm from England. London, England." I replied.
"Oooh, I've never spoken to a European before." She continued.
We spoke the whole way until we reached the front gates of the school, that's when I noticed the stares.
"I hate good looking guys... why is she with him... is that her boyfriend." basically the entire school was staring now and I was confused to say the least. Sure, she was attractive but Jesus.
"What the hell are all those stares about?" I asked her, she looked back at me, without any thought or hesitation...
"I'm pretty much the most popular girl in the school." Akeno replied.
I instantly realised that walking in with the most popular girls has both positives and negatives. However, they are mostly negative. Every single guy in the school now hated me for daring to walk beside the 'Princess of Kuoh'. The fact that such a name exists made cringe so hard I felt physical pain, "Yeah, definitely an anime world alright." I whisper to myself.
"What was that Jason?" Akeno asked as I was talking to myself. I broke from my train of thought and replied.
"Oh nothing, just thinking out loud." I replied knowing that I was being a bit weird.
"Oh, okay" she responded.
We walked into the school doors, Akeno says goodbye and leaves for her class. I realised that I have no Idea where the office is at the school, I walk around aimlessly for almost twenty minutes. Eventually, I am stopped by a girl roughly the same age as me. She was average height, she had a short; bob cut hairstyle and elegant violet eyes veiled by black spectacles.
"What are you doing outside of class, school started 15 minutes ago!" She shouts.
Flustered by her words I said, "Uh, I'm Jason, I just started today and I couldn't find the office."
"Oh... My apologies, lateness has become a big problem recently so I've been pretty on edge. I'm Souna Shitori, the student council president. I'll show you to the office." The now named Souna replied.
"Here is your schedule, here's a map of the school, would you like me to show you where your first class is?" she asked.
"No, it's fine. I'll figure it out myself I need to learn my way round anyway." I responded.
I said goodbye and left, I walk towards the math room as it's my first class.
Classes that day were uneventful and I rushed home to figure out more about my new abilities, I think I shouldn't've accepted this as easily as I did but meh too late to think about it now. As soon as I walked through the door I said the one thing I've been waiting to say all day.
"Skills" I spoke out, as soon as I said it a similar screen to the status tab appears
Jason's skills.
Gamer's mind - Lvl Max
Keeps the mind calm, immune to mental disorder and psychic attacks.
PASSIVE
Gamer's body - Lvl Max
Grants a body that allows the user to live the real world like a game. Hp and mana regen increases exponentially while sleeping.
PASSIVE
Observe - Lvl 1
Allows The Gamer to see target's information (to an extent). Ineffective on targets 10 levels more than you and higher, this will change as the skill is levelled.
Magic aptitude - Lvl Max
Due to Great Red's gift you are naturally gifted at magic and have an easier time retaining magical knowledge. However all magic has to be learned regularly.
PASSIVE
Dragon aura - Lvl 1
Due to your draconic body, women will naturally be slightly more attracted to you, men will naturally slightly fear you. Further effects will be granted when leveled up.
PASSIVE.
"Oh my god, that is incredibly cool. Gamer's mind is probably why I didn't freak out earlier. Oh wait... didn't The System say he'd show me how to unlock my sacred gear." I said while thinking.
"Yes, yes I did. As you were told earlier you have a very powerful weapon inside of you. I have already went into your sacred gear and filled him in on the details. As you may or not know The Gamer ability is technically a Sacred Gear and I am inside it so I am able to contact Ddraig through your soul." The system replied.
"I'm going to pretend like I know what any of that last sentence meant, so what do I have to do?" I asked
"There is many methods, but in my opinion this is the easiest. I will guide you through a quick meditation Ddraig is trying to release himself anyway so it should be simple and swift." The system instructed.
I sat down on the floor and listened to his instructions when he gave them.
"Breath in, breath out. Now imagine a power deep down inside of you, have you imagined it? Okay now, think of the most powerful pose you can think of." The system continued.
I stood up and got into the stance of a boxer.
"Now imagine that power being realized, as you punch into the air!" The system shouted inspiringly.
I felt something rush out my arm and I looked down in astonishment as my hand had transformed into a ruby red clawed gauntlet with two yellow spikes and an emerald green gem in the middle. That was weird enough, and then it talked.
"Hello Partner"
Well leave review if you liked it or even if you didn't, if you didn't like it tell me why so I can try improve if it is something to be improved upon :). Sorry I had to cut the deadline for reviews early, I will try to incorporate reviews given later aswell. Just to be clear if it wasn't already there will be a harem but it will only have 3 girls (4 at most) because it wouldn't be DxD without one. One other thing that I know some people are currently thinking about that sentence a couple lines before the end, yes I meant realized not released. That is all thank you guys for reading and I'll be back sometime next week :)
