Hey, I actually really appreciate the feedback. I plan to take some time to flesh out details like what you brought up more. I had just been writing to keep myself awake for my overnight work schedule, so I rushed a lot of things but this comment really grounded my perspective.
Thrust into a game he was playing the night before and now in the body of an extra, Theodore must find his own path to surviving in this new world. His goal? Finding a way to avoid the bad endings of the game, while discovering the 'True' ending.
When was it that I was transmigrated? I couldn't remember exactly how old I was when I suddenly became aware of memories from a past life. One where I lived on a planet called 'Earth', and was passionate about video games. However I didn't like playing games for the story, instead I liked to perfect the combat. However that life ended at some point.
Now I was in a game I had played the most, a game with incredible combat, and thousands of different playstyles when it came to combat. Unfortunately, it focused heavily on the story, and I had skipped all the cutscenes.
My name was Atlas Black, a member of the infamous Black family, and a minor villain in the story. I could remember most characters, and their fights, but Atlas was a disappointing person to be. He was the first person to get beat by the Hero, and subsequently expelled from the school.
However when I gained the system from the game, I realized that Atlas was just a bundle of wasted potential. Perhaps I could change my fate as a minor villain.
Transmigrated into a world, the same as his, except this world has magic and dungeons.
However I don't have magic, instead I have supernatural powers?
Will I be able to become the strongest?
Alexander Kingsley is a 42 year old single father, who is about to lose his position as project manager at a multimedia advertising company, to a younger employee who just so happens to be related to the CEO of the company.
The unfair demotion leads Alexander to have an angry outburst, and during which he accidentally shoves another employee to the ground. The employee ends up hitting their head on the corner of a desk, and sues Alexander! Faced with charges of assault, and legal fees he can't afford, he opts to kill himself so that his debt cannot be passed onto his only daughter.
Alexander took a jump off a bridge, down towards the icy cold river beneath, but when he jumped he began to regret jumping.
But it was too late.
As he plummeted towards the water, he was overwhelmed with regret and guilt. Guilty that he would do something so selfish instead of making things right. Leaving his daughter to deal with the death of a parent.
These were the thoughts that Alexander thought as he watched the surface of the water fill his vision. Right as he hits the water, his thoughts seemingly slow down. He felt face hit the surface of the water, which retained it's surface tension, and his bones break upon impact. He felt his neck snap.
One vertebrae.
Two.
Then his vision went black, and he thought death had finally claimed him. But instead he found himself laying on the floor of a dark cave.
[Welcome to the Tower of Wishes!]
[Floor 1 will now commence.]
[Activating Gift.]
[Technomancy Gift awakened!]
[Hosts health critical! Performing emergency treatment with materials on hand.]
Alexander found a new, mysterious lease on life, and finally figured out a way to potentially solve his financial problems.
Viktor was a homeless child, who was currently getting beaten by a group of delinquent kids, when he decides to bite a kid on the leg.
They quickly beat him to the brink of death, but as he swallowed a mouthful of blood, he awakens something hidden deep within his soul.
My name is Adam Lichter, an 18 year old who had spent too much of his time playing video games, and struggling with his mental health. I had thought that my life would be filled with struggles of meeting people and having money troubles...
But that all changed when I suddenly woke up on the ground in the middle of a forest.
[Welcome to the War Games.]
[Each of you is the ruler of a Kingdom, and you all have a Gift that will help you build your kingdom. There will be a three day grace period, before you will be in charge of your own safety. Periodically you will be matched with another King or Queen, and be forced to wage war until there is only one left.]
[Good Luck!]
[Congratulations on receiving the Gift: Android Army]
I then went on an epic journey of establishing the most powerful army, consisting entirely of Androids!
Modern Society changed 82 years ago when the entire world received the same message.
[Welcome to the League!]
[Since your world is so underdeveloped, you will be given a grace period of 100 years.]
[To help your species grow, Dungeons will be available to conquer, along with Gates.]
[Good luck!]
After that monsters appeared all over the world and more than half the population was wiped out before Human's began to learn to defend themselves. Modern weapons were useless, but Humanity discovered something far more potent.
The system.
Everyone on Earth received a status screen, much like a game, that rewarded them with insane growth when they killed monsters in dungeons or gates.
Through the past 82 years, society changed into one that abided by the law of the jungle again. Only the strongest survive, which also gave birth to preconceived notions of what classes given by the system were strong.
If you got a weak class from the system, you were condemned to a life of struggle, and the conceived weakest class was the Rogue. There were almost no Rogues who were able to fight any other class the same level as them, since the class was only useful as a scout, or to spy on your enemies.
Yes, while Humans had developed and grown stronger, they grew more divided. Causing people from Guilds to be at odds with other Guilds, forgetting that the original purpose was to grow stronger as a collective for what was to come after 100 years.
What came after 100 years was that we were now in a dimensional tournament to bid for our survival. Failure to win meant that your dimension was wiped clean, to be grown from scratch to try again billions of years later. All for the enjoyment of various Gods.
Follow Xeon as he discovers that the Rogue class he has been relentlessly bullied for having, has more potential than the world previously thought.
Michelangelo Sun, an awkward 18 year old high school drop out, suddenly has his phone explode on him one day. Having just lost his job, and now not having the money to get a new phone, he feels down until he comes across a phone on the ground. The box fell off the back of a truck, but he figured that no one would notice if he took it.
After taking the phone home, and turning it on, he notices there is a weird app installed on it. Opening the app, which didn't have a name, he is greeted with a screen like in a game.
[Welcome to the Universe Management App.]
He then finds out that he is now responsible for this entire universe, and that the benefits of doing well can carry over into his own world.
I woke up in an unfamiliar world, without any idea of how I ended up there, but when I began to feel crushed under the weight of the unknown my system awakened.
However it was a little different than normal, and it was really much stronger than it seemed at first.
[Hacking into the World's Setting.]
[Major story event will take place in 3 months. To prevent it, enroll into the Academy and siphon the system of others.]
My journey as an unintentional, black hat hacker, in another world.
Photographic memory is incredible, but I didn't want him to have to waste the chance on something he could emulate with hard work.
[Concoct Flask (F-Rank) skill has been rewarded.]
Becoming The Villain By Accident
Fantasy · LibrarianOfTheosis