Genesis: Tale of a Jobless Engineer

Chapter 02 - An arrogant kid!

Mike appeared in a white room...was that a room, there was no walls any roof except the floor he was standing on everything else just seemed endless,

<Long-Long ago the world of 'Genesis' was at peace without any fights or wars>

Various panels started to hover all around him like a video clip, there were images of people smiling happily, children running around full of innocent smiles...

<But as the saying goes, Forever is a lie, nothing lasts forever, the peace collapsed with the invasion from the hell>

The panel containing the peaceful images of people and happily running children were shattered as new panels of the various demon race attacking and killing people came into his view...

<The world was thrown into chaos>

<Countless lives were lost, blood was shed like liver which formed a sea over dead corpse>

The rampage of demons massacring the people, the tears of the victims, and the pain of the wounded were deciphered in the images.

<The rampage of the demon lasted until one hundred years until finally, the 11 saints rose, the saints who led the humans, elves, dwarves, fairies, and numerous other races came forward with an alliance>

The image of 11 people appeared in front of him, their appearance was not visible as only their back was shown, people were following them confronting the demon,

<The seven Arch-angels descended at the call of people providing support against the demons>

Seven bright stars were shown spreading the light of salvation among the despair of people.

<After a long and fierce fight, they managed to push them back to Hell, but the price was hefty as well>

<Seven among the eleven saints sacrificed their life and two lost their limbs>

<But all was fine now since the demons were gone...>

The people sobbing happily hugging each other and some shedding tears for the ones they lost were visible to him,

<but that was just what the people thought!!>

All the images greyed out as they stopped playing and shattered...leaving Mike absent-minded throughout the entire visual glimpse.

The shock was visible all over his face, he was amazed at the visual glimpse, the sadness of the NPCs which felt too real to be virtual, the cruelty of demons, the sacrifices of the saints, everything made him completely speechless but...

The reason Mike was shocked was that in one of the panels that appeared, there was a man beside the saints, and around him, there was a small ball-like thing that was hovering!

"What was that??"

Besides, on that man's body, there was a gun that looked too advanced to be a pistol, he had a prosthetic arm, made of some kind of metal and a small turret was firing something towards the demons, all of these appeared only for a second and even then, they were overshadowed by the dazzling portraits of the saints and angels, but being an engineer who was specialized in robotics he was not someone who could lose the sight of machines, he was thrilled by the image of that man.

'Will I be able to create machines like that?'

He was already fantasizing about all sorts of things he would do in the game...

<Randomly selecting the spawning village>

<Blueleaf town...confirmed>

It seems like that was the end of the video glimpse as the system prompted him to teleport,

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Mike appeared in the square of a small village, He could see people moving back and forth, It was quite easy to distinguish the players from the NPCs as the former was staring at various buildings and people in an exciting way with curious eyes,

Well, Mike was not the one to say that as he himself was quite astonished by the sight in front of him,

The majestic tree that stood rooted on the square, under the shade of such a huge tree, the rays of sunshine pouring down as if escaping from the hold of leaves, The medieval age like houses and people who were busy with their day-to-day life.

"Wow! It is impossible to not like the game when it is like this!!"

The people in the current era didn't even have a chance to feel the beauty of nature, most of the forests had become reserves or national parks to save what was remaining of plant and animal species.

Most of the kids born in this era haven't even seen monkeys in real life, that's how much worse the situation had become in 2040. seeing this beauty of nature made him feel both happy and sad at the same time.

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<Tutorial Quest- 01: Basics>

difficulty: None

Objective: Learn to use basic function

                -access Status

                -Open inventory

                -Equip the clothes present on inventory

Reward: Basic health potion*2, tutorial quest-02.

penalty: none

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The system bought him back to the game as he read through the quest and looked down!

“...!!", only now did he notice that he was still wearing nothing but the undergarments. No wonder the NPC children laughed at him like he was a clown, who wouldn't be looking at a madman in an undergarment feeling all good over sunlight.

Mike hurriedly opened the inventory and equipped everything even before looking at the item's name, and it seemed as if just calling out the name would open the relevant system options.

Now that he was covered in a grey shirt and brown pants with shoes that had multiple holes like a rat had feasted on them, he looked at the item options.

                      __________

              <Worn out grey Shirt>

        Donated by the citizens for the 'outsiders'                                                                                  that came to their land. It is in poor condition.

       effect: Covers your upper body.

                      ___________

              <Worn out brown Pant>

        Donated by the citizens for the 'outsiders'                                                                                  that came to their land. It is in poor condition.

  effect: Covers your lower body.

                        ___________

                    <Worn out Shoes>

        Donated by the citizens for the 'outsiders'                                                                                  that came to their land. It is in poor condition.

   effect: nothing seems special, well better than nothing!

                        ___________

"....."

"The developer seems like one hell of a b*tard!"

Leaving the pieces of trash...ahem! I mean equipment aside, for now, he opened his status to complete his quest,

"Status"

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                      <Status>

Name: Mike

Race: Human

level: 0

Profession: none

Titles: none

Affiliation: none

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HP - 50              MP - 100

Strength    - 05 (Enhance Physical damage)

Intelligence - 05 (Enhance Magic damage)

Dexterity    - 05 (Enhance agility, movement, and handling objects)

Constitution -05 (Enhance Stamina, increases HP)

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free attribute points - 0

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Skills: -

->Active: none

->Passive: none

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There was nothing special, as every player starts off with the same number of stat points being distributed equally among four basic attributes.

and there are some people who opened special hidden stats for meeting certain requirements.... Well, it has nothing to do with him so he just brushed it off.

Ding!

<Tutorial quest -01 -- Complete!>

<Rewards: basic health regeneration potion*2, Tutorial quest-02>

<Rewards are directly delivered to inventory>

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<Tutorial Quest- 02: Level up>

difficulty: None

Objective: You know the grind right? level up enough to gain experience.

                  - reach lv.10

Reward: Basic mana potion*5, Basic health potion*5, class selection quest.

penalty: none

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"So, what should I do now??"

According to what the system suggested he could simply kill some monsters and level up till lv. and gain the class he desired...but he didn't feel like fighting!

After seeing the beautiful scenery Mike lost his motivation and just wanted to lay back and enjoy this for a little bit longer, he went near the root of the tree as he leaned on it gazing at the treetop...

"Haaaa...How many days has it been since I relaxed like this?"

He chuckled at his state and continued to enjoy the beauty of the scene in front of him.

Ugh! ugh! ugh!

As if the heavens didn't want him to rest, a low voice of grunting was heard as he looked towards the direction of sound from the corner of his eyes.

A boy was pulling up a bucket of water from the well, he was thin and his face was pale he looked to be about 9-10 years old, it seemed as his strength was not enough to pull up the bucket, but the boy was too stubborn to give up as he continued holding on to the rope.

Mike got up as he dusted off his butt walking towards the well,

He held on to the rope as he asked the boy,

"What are you doing, Kid?"

In return to his question, the boy looked at him menacingly as he said, "I am not a Kid"

"Ah...Ha...ha…I mean what are you doing, sir"

Mike was taken aback by this kid as he asked again sugar coating his words,

"Don't call me sir, my name is Max"

"Oh...Then what does our Max is doing here?"

"Can't you see? I am pulling up water"

The nerves on his forehead bulged as he was losing his cool,

'This arrogant prick'

but the experience of dealing with five smart as*es in his house was not short in vain, as he quickly asked the kid again,

"Then can I ask why you need water, isn't there someone older in your house who can do these kinds of work?"

"Max is the old one in house, I need to pull this water to complete my work so I can buy bread for my brothers and sisters"

Mike got silent at the replay of the kid, what a poor fate for a young child like him...

"How about I help you complete your work?"

Mike asked feeling pity for the kid.

"No Max needs to do his own work, strangers cannot be believed", but  it seemed like the little ba*tard was too eccentric for his own good.

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