Currently sitting in her classroom with a bored expression on her face is a young woman named Lisa Tond. Lisa has fair skin with curly purple hair going down to her chin with green eyes as she sports an average build and is wearing a simple white T-shirt with blue jeans and sneakers on her feet as Lisa just looked around at the other students in the class with her.
Ben Ling, Level: 11
BattleBall Starter
Mink Rei, Level: 6
Cheerleader
Kira Ollie, Level: 6
Poetry Writer
For the past two weeks Lisa has seen the world differently as she had somehow developed a rather strange ability as the world around her has somehow transformed into a videogame.
At first Lisa thought she was going crazy and at her home computer she tried looking up any information possible about weird powers and what not and eventually came to the only conclusion possible.
She had somehow developed psychic powers despite how crazy it sounded. Lisa was honestly a person who did believe that magic is real and she didn't care what anyone said about it but that didn't exactly mean that she wanted to experience a situation like this first hand as she felt like she was learning how to ride a bike all over again but this time she didn't have her parents to help her figure things out and she more or less had to discover things about this power on her own and ironically she discovered things while playing a RPG on the home computer.
Her powers seem to work based on vocal and mental commands and when screens appear in front of her. Nobody else can see or interact with them.
"Status Screen." Lisa whispered as she raised her textbook over her face to avoid looking like she was staring off into space or something.
Status Screen
Name: Lisa Tond
Age: 17
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Title: The Gamer
Occupation: High School Student
Status: [Good]
HP: 110/110, Ki: 50/50, MP: 50/50
Level: 4 [23/300]
Strength: 4
Constitution: 4
Dexterity: 4
Intelligence: 10
Wisdom: 7
Charisma: 5
BP: 1.2
Bio: Lisa Tond is your ordinary teenage girl, but she has been given an extraordinary power from an unknown source. This power known as the 'System' can let Lisa do anything she sets her mind to. So, only time will tell what she will do with this power.
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"MP can be my mana at a guess, but I have no idea what Ki is." Lisa said to herself before class soon ended as she dismissed her blue tinted game like screen and packed up her bag as she made her way over to the library instead of going to lunch like the other students as Lisa is determined to learn the ins and outs of this strange new ability of hers.
"This power says that it can let me do anything and it is themed like an RPG so does that mean that I can learn skills and powers from research books like in an actual game?" Lisa asked herself as she sat in the library with a stack of various books with the intent on learning as much as she possibly could.
This test would either prove that her powers were mocking her when it said that she could do anything, or it would prove her theory correct that this power is a literal RPG styled ability and sure enough Lisa's idea was proven correct as she gained some new skills.
[Speed Reading, Active Level: 4
You can't just read but you can speed read as this means you read and retain information faster than you normally would!
Passively increases INT by 11%]
[Cooking, Active Level: 1
You have learned how to fry, bake, steam and boil which means you have learned how to follow a food recipe and cook for yourself and others!
Passively increases INT by 2%
Passively increases DEX by 3%]
[First Aid, Active Level: 1
You have studied a first aid book and retained the information needed to preform first aid to someone or yourself.
Passively increases INT by 5%
Passively increases WIS by 4%]
[Wilderness Survival, Passive Level: 1
You have studied how to survive in the wilderness as well as what is safe and what isn't. This isn't much but you can make it a few days in the wild now.
Passively increases CON by 5%
Passively increases WIS by 3%
Passively increases INT by 3%]
"A cooking book along with a book on first aid and wilderness survival has given me three skills already." Lisa said with a heavy breath as she was a bit happy that her theory was proven correct but now, she was at a loss about what to do with this information.
"Lunch is almost over and despite the skills I have I still haven't learned all that much." Lisa said before she looked over at the books she grabbed and decided to put them back and look around for at least one more book she can read through before one book caught her eye.
Magic and Chakra for beginners!
"I guess I could look through it." Lisa said to herself before she returned to her desk in the library and started reading through the book as she gathered some new information about magic as well as Chakra aka inner energy or Ki, but she didn't get any skills from the book, so she simply put it back and went on with the rest of her day just thinking about things.
When she got home, she just stayed in her room as she couldn't get the words from the magic book out of her head and soon enough, she decided to just try out what the book had told her.
Soon enough Lisa was on the floor in her room in a meditative pose on the ground in just her white tank top and matching panties as her eyes are closed and she just focused inward as the book instructed. She also focused on her breathing as she breathed in through her nose for seven seconds and then breathed out through her mouth for eleven seconds while keeping her eyes shut and focusing on trying to feel some form of sensation within her body.
Now for a good portion of time she didn't feel anything, and she simply just thought that this was a bit silly but soon enough she did feel two faint but noticeable sensations within her body as well as a familiar ding in her ear which alerted her to a new skill gain, but she ignored it and focused only on this new sensation she felt.
One sensation felt like a warm flame while the other felt like a cool stream of water and Lisa simply focused on trying to figure out what these sensations are. So, she focused her breathing more and discovered that both sensations responded with her breathing while meditating as she heard another skill alert in her ear but once again, she ignored it as she focused solely on these sensations in the pit of her stomach.
After a moment or two she was able to manipulate these sensations but only one at a time as she felt that the cooler energy was easier to focus on and she did just that as she was able to move and focus exclusively on this sensation as she felt it move throughout her entire body and after that she suddenly felt exhausted as she opened her eyes and saw the new skills that appeared in front of her.
[Meditation, Active Level: 7
Wizards and Martial Artists alike use meditation as a form of mental and spiritual refinement to get the most out of their bodies and minds as well as their Ki and Mana.
Ki Regen increased by 3%
MP regen increased by 4%
Warning! Cannot but used during combat!]
[Focused Breathing, Active Level: 1
Through meditation and focus you have created a new breathing technique that will help you focus your mind and body.
Increases all stats except CHA by 1%
Cost: 2 Ki per second!]
[Mana Manipulation, Active Level: 2
Through focused meditation and focus you have awakened your inner mana supply and you can now manipulate your mana into spells and incantations.
Passively increases INT by 2%
Passively increases WIS by 1%]
[Ki Manipulation, Active Level: 1
Through focused meditation you have awakened your Ki/Chakra/Inner Energy supply and can now preform various Ki techniques.
Passively increases CON by 1%]
By exhausting your Ki supply you have been inflicted with the [Exhaustion] Debuff!
"I guess that explains why I feel exhausted." Lisa said to herself as she stood up on shaky legs before plopping down onto her bed.
"Lisa dear. Are you alright? You've been in your room and haven't come out for a while." Lisa's mother said as she entered the room as this woman is Fira Tond.
Fira Tond, Level: 11
Proud Mother/Widow
"I'm fine mom. Just meditating." Lisa said honestly as she looked at her mother as Fira has fair skin with black hair combed down to her chin with green eyes and a average build for her age as she is dressed in a simple grey sweatshirt and pants.
"Meditating?" Fira asked back with some confusion.
"Yup." Lisa said back simply.
"Well alright then." Fira said as she left her daughters room as Lisa just laid down on her bed for a moment as she went back to thinking to herself.
"I exhausted my Ki supply by using Focused Breathing which isn't a good thing since meditating requires breathing to work or maybe I focused too much on my breathing and was doing something wrong. Either way this is seriously strange." Lisa said to herself before she remembered some more words from the book of magic and Ki.
"I can train my body and mind to enhance my supply of energy. So, I guess I should focus on exercising and studying for now and maybe an answer to these weird powers will finally come to me." Lisa said before a brand-new screen appeared in front of her.
Quest Alert!
Name: Training!
Objective: Train your body and mind to reach past 25 points in your physical and mental stats before the end of the month!
Bonus Objective: Reach 35 points in your physical and mental stats before the end of the month!
Rewards: 500 XP and unlock more of your potential!
Bonus Rewards: 1000 XP and 1x Random Skill Book!
Failure: Potential remains hidden!
Will you accept this quest? Y/N?
"Well, I don't have anything to lose I guess." Lisa said before she clicked accepted as she just accepted her first real quest which once again got her into thinking about what to do. "I can exercise and stuff, but I don't think that will help give me the bonus rewards so maybe I should join a sport or something." Lisa said to herself in deep thought before she decided to simply call it a night.
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East City
It was a normal day in East High School as Lisa has reached the end of the day and was in a school highway as she was looking at notice board of sport teams of the school that are looking for new members.
"Which club should I actually join?" Lisa asked herself as she knew of sports but wasn't overly interested in them as she honestly didn't know which sport, she should pick but when she looked at one of the flyers, she thought that the sport seemed rather interesting and today they are training in the gym, so Lisa decided to throw caution to the wind as she headed towards the gym.
"Hey there. It's nice to see so many girls looking to join the volleyball team." The team captain said to Lisa when she entered the gym and explained her interest as a few other people were also interested in the volleyball team.
Lisa also took notice that the whole team was dressed in the standard school colors of green jerseys and bloomers with white accents and numbers as well as basic street shoes and socks.
Some of the team members have bandages on parts of their bodies or sports tape and Lisa honestly felt a bit welcomed here since everyone seemed to be nice as Lisa started her tryout alongside other students as they had to preform various exercises and drills for a long portion of time before they were allowed to leave as they were told to come back tomorrow as the tryouts would be for several days.
When Lisa got home, she had to explained what happened and why she stayed at school so late to her mother who was actually very supportive and impressed by the fact that her daughter has taken interest in a sport and was getting out of her shell a little bit.
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East City
Currently waking up in her bedroom is Lisa who was woken up by an alert appearing in front of her eyes.
Quest Completed!
Name: Training!
Rewards: 500 XP
Bonus Rewards: 1000 XP and 1x Random Skill book!
The skill book has been deposited into your Inventory!
You have levelled up! Level: 4-7
"I actually, did it?" Lisa asked in mild shock as she didn't check her stats since getting this quest and instead focused on her studies and her time in the girls' volleyball team as she actually made the team and trained harder than any of the other girls which was actually saying a lot since the girls arguably trained harder than the boy sport teams.
Honestly Lisa couldn't help but smile at that as she actually felt proud of the progress she had made as she was now decently fit in both mind and body as her stats and abilities proved that as she got out of bed and gathered her clothes before going in the bathroom as she looked herself over for a bit as she looked at the muscles on her body but not in a vain sort of way as she simply examined them as she knew that she wasn't the strongest member of the team but at least she could say that she was an athlete none the less.
"I know I completed the quest, but I don't think that I'll be giving up my position on the team quite yet. I'm a 'Setter' on the team and I honestly kind of like it." Lisa said to herself before she cleaned herself up and got dressed in a simple blue hoodie and jeans with sneakers on her feet as she grabbed her set of house keys and her wallet before she left the house bright and early to go on her morning jog as she exercised in and out of school to get her stats up and she wasn't keen on breaking the routine now but as she ran she had various thoughts going through her mind about what her next goal should be.
"I improved my energy supplies so maybe now I can try learning how to make a magic spell or something." Lisa said before she remembers the skill book in her inventory and when she reached the nearby park, she took a seat on the empty park bench and summoned her inventory for the first time.
It is a grid like screen that has separate categories for various objects and when she found the skill book, she saw that she could learn it while it sat in her inventory and just like that, she selected the book and learned the random skill.
[Sizzle, Active Level: 1
You can condense your mana into a tiny flame that you can throw at your enemies.
Damage based on [INT]
Size: Baseball
Cost: 100 MP]
"I learned how to make a fireball?" Lisa asked with total shock as she didn't think that she would actually get a magic skill like that at all. "I probably shouldn't try to test it out or anything." Lisa said to herself since she didn't want to create a fire or anything like that and soon enough, she got back up and went on with her jogging before she noticed massive shadows overhead which caused her to look up and see numerous jets in the air.
"Cool." Lisa said as she was completely unaware of the danger before the various jets seemed to release something that fell to the ground in the distance which caused a large series of explosions as various car alarms sounded and Lisa felt a powerful wind push against her as she was shocked at what she saw as she quickly ran back towards her home as another quest appeared in front of her.
Quest Alert!
Name: Survive the Red Ribbon Assault!
Objective: Escape the city and survive the assault of the terrorist organization known as Red Ribbon!
Bonus Objective: Escape with your mother and save her life!
Bonus Objective 2: Find your friends on the Volleyball team and help them in escaping this assault!
Rewards: 3000 XP, Increased REP with all named people and your allies!
Bonus Rewards: 1000 XP per survivor you save!
Failure: Possible Death!
Do you accept this quest? Y/N?
Lisa didn't even bother questioning the quest as she quickly excepted it and focused on her legs as she wanted them to run faster and she experimentally tried pumping mana into her legs to make them faster and luckily her speed increased, and she ignored the skill alert she had saw as she quickly made it to her house.
"Mom! You've got to get up!" Lisa shouted as she entered the house and saw her mother in a basic T-shirt and jeans with sneakers as Fira had dressed in a hurry and looked frightened as the two of them quickly embraced each other as Lisa noticed that Fira had cut on the news on the living room tv announcing that the city was under attack by the Red Ribbon army.
"Lisa I was so worried about you. Now come on we've got to get out of the city." Fira said in a serious tone of voice as she rushed over and cut off the tv. "Hurry and pack as many things as you can that are important." Fira said as Lisa rushed to her room and quickly stashed everything she could into her Inventory as fast as she could before rushing downstairs where she saw her mother with a suitcase.
"Lisa, I told you to pack." Fira said in a firm tone of voice.
"Mom this is going to be hard to explain but-" Lisa was cut off when a Red Ribbon soldier kicked down the door to their house as he was wielding an automatic weapon in his hands and Lisa didn't think her powers would save her in this situation.
She could light this guy on fire with her new spell, but Lisa wasn't sure she could kill someone like that, and she didn't even want to kill anyone or anything.
"Don't shoot." Lisa quickly said as she stepped in front of her mother and raised both her hands into the air.
"I don't want to shoot a kid, but something tells me that I'll get over it." The soldier said as he raised his gun with a smile on his face before Lisa grit her teeth as she tried to think of a way out of this mess.
"Wait please. What if I could show you something cool. Would you let us live then?" Lisa asked as she tried to buy as much time as possible for herself and her mother.
"And what could you possibly show me?" The soldier asked as Lisa lowered her right hand and held her palm up as she focused and summoned her fireball spell as a baseball sized ball of red flame appeared in her hand which shocked both Fira and the soldier. "What the fuck?"
Lisa didn't answer as she willed the fireball to go straight towards her enemy as it flew towards the soldier who was a bit frozen in surprise at what he saw as the fireball came into contact with his chest and sent him back onto the ground from the impact as he dropped his gun as Lisa quickly ran towards the gun and picked it up as the man was screaming in panic as he ran out of the house and tried to roll onto the ground in order to put out the flame.
"Mom we've got to go." Lisa said as she stored the gun in her Inventory in front of her mother before touching her mother's suitcase and doing the same as she grabbed her mother's wrist as they both ran out of the house and quickly got into the family car as Fira took the wheel and started driving as Lisa placed her hand in the backseat and ejected her mother's suitcase from her Inventory as Fira then spoke up as she drove on the road past a lot of the chaos.
"Lisa what was all that?" Fira asked as Lisa started explaining things to her mother. She started talking about her powers and what she was doing for a while.
"Mom my other friends on the Volleyball team need my help just like you did, and I need to go save them." Lisa said back to her mother who stopped the car in a safe place.
"No way. The city turned into a war zone and there is no way in hell I am going to let you go out into the city even with these strange powers of yours." Fira said firmly and with sternness in her voice.
"Mom, I have to do this. Even if it wasn't in my quest log, I will still do it because I can't just sit back and do nothing if I know I can help them." Lisa said before she quickly got out of the car and started running towards where she knew some of the girls would be as she sneaked around a bit to avoid attention before coming up to the girls as a bunch of them had gotten taken by Red Ribbon soldiers alongside a dozen other people as everyone was being flanked by soldiers and they all matched towards the center of the city.
"What the hell is going on?" Lisa asked herself before a metal barrel was touching the back of her head.
"Move without permission and I'll blow your head off." A female voice said and soon enough Lisa ended up joining the crowd as everyone in the city that was still alive had been gathered in the center of the city.
Apparently Red Ribbon had surrounded the city entirely and blocked off all the exits and now surrounded the massive group of civilians as the number of people remaining in the city has dropped dramatically.
"Greetings everyone! I am General Silver of the Red Ribbon army, and I am the one leading this devastating attack on your city!" Silver shouted loudly as he stood in front of the massive crowd with one arm behind his back as the other hand is holding a megaphone.
"Today your city is going to serve as an example of our excellence and superiority to the other great cities! Now some of you might survive but others won't, and we will see how many of you survive this little game of ours!" Silver said as he smiled which sent shivers down people's spines. "The game is simple! We are going to fire our guns at you and anyone who survives the onslaught will go out into the world and preach the Red Ribbon's greatness to anyone who will listen!" Silver shouted before the dozens of soldiers unleashed their bullets into the crowd as dozens of people screamed and collapsed on top of each other.
Lisa was somehow spared death as a heavyset man fell onto her as the back of his head hit hers and knocked her onto the ground with enough force to knock her out cold as the last thing, she heard was gunshots and people screaming in fear.
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The sound of thunder woke Lisa up as she felt wet somehow as she managed to push the bodies of other people off of her as she stood up and not only realized that all of East City was dead quiet, but she also saw that she was covered in blood and saw the mountain of bodies around her.
"No. No." Lisa said in a panic as she looked around with the thunder crackling in the sky as she looked at dozens of corpses on the ground as the skill Gamers Mind struggled to keep her sane before she stumbled upon one corpse that made her fall to her knees as she saw her mother Fira dead on the ground next to her neighbor which proved that she didn't get away and that she had also been caught by Red Ribbon.
The only thing Lisa did for a long while was cry out in emotional pain as tears fell down her face and it seemingly had no end as Lisa just cried over her mother's corpse for a long while before Gamers Mind started working properly and despite how sad Lisa felt she slowly started to realize that she couldn't just stay here in the ruins of the city.
Quest Complete!
Name: Survive the Red Ribbon Assault!
Rewards: 3000 XP!
You have levelled up! Level: 7-10!
You'll be soft capped at level 10 until you enhance your stats to me your proper level!
"I can't leave you here mom. I can't do it for everyone but at least I can give you peace." Lisa said as she felt hollow on the inside as she picked up her mother's body in a bridal style as she walked over towards the nearby cemetery where she grabbed a shovel and gave her mother a proper burial despite it lacking a headstone.
"Goodbye mom." Lisa said as tears once again fell down her face as she slowly made her way towards the nearby mall where she took various survival supplies before she started making her way out of the city on a bicycle from the mall and soon enough she actually came across her mother's car and saw that her suitcase was still in it which hurt to see but Lisa chose not to linger as she kept pedaling as she was making her way out of East City.
Now honestly Lisa didn't have any real destination in mind, but she did know one thing and what she knew was that the Red Ribbon would pay for what they had done to her and what they did to the thousands of people in East City.
END!
A/N: Okay this is a bit short honestly, but this just felt like a decent stopping point and honestly it is a bit hard to write Dragon Ball, so I am just doing my best. Anyway, if you like this story then please fav, follow and review and what not.