Chapter 0:

V1 | Chapter One - Wait I'm A Wraith Now!

Re:Wraith


You got to be kidding me, did I really kick the bucket just now?

All I remember is walking to my high school and soon as I reached the main entrance there was a blinding white light above me followed by a moment of excruciating pain throughout my whole body.

For some reason everything around me is pitch-black, however, I don't seem to be missing any limbs or anything as far as I can tell. I continue to move my body around more or less there didn't seem to be anything out of place from what I could tell.

Was I dreaming about that moment outside my high school? Maybe right now I'm still in a deep sleep, but was having a bad case of sleep paralysis.

If that's the case I suppose it explains that almost real nightmare that I just had, but when you're in sleep paralysis you're normally aware of what's happening to your body like you're in some sort of third-person mode of yourself?

Whatever is happening I need to wake up soon, after all, I can't be late for school. If I turn up late again to class, Mrs Agawa is going to give me an earful about it.

I try to stand up only to feel a weird sensation sort of like I'm floating in the air with no weight holding me to the ground. In fact, it felt like I didn't have any weight on my body in the first place.

I wasn't particularly the most athletic guy in my year, but I sure as hell don't remember being this light. Something weird is definitely going on here while racking my mind for an answer I tried to move again only to once again feel that weird sensation of floating through the air.

Okay, I have no idea what the hell is going on, however, I am pretty certain this has something to do with that nightmare I just had.
I tried to say something only for nothing to come out. It was unusual even though I didn't say anything yet it felt like that part of the body was partial moving and responding to signals that my brain was sending through my nervous system.

A-Am I really dead?

No no no no, this is just a dream. A bad nightmare, soon I'll wake up in my room as if nothing happened. Obviously, I would be a little sketched out by the experience, but who wouldn't be, after all, being in complete darkness not knowing what's happening is always a dreadful feeling to have.

I heard a light chime ringing through my ears I slowly tried opening my eyes only to still see nothing but darkness surrounding me.

Then I noticed the small diamond symbol flashing right in the bottom left of my vision.

What is that?

I focus upon the symbol expecting something to happen, at first, nothing. But then a few seconds later a large window enveloped my vision with the following words filling up space of my empty vision before me.

[Necessary Protocols Being Installed...]

[Please Stand By...]

The voice of a monotone woman like a lifeless android spoke to me. Normally anyone in my situation would be asking who this person was, however, for me I was more concerned with what was happening right before my eyes.

[10%]

Hey, what are you installing?! I tried to say only for no words to escape my lips.

[20%]

The voice continued to speak ignoring my question.

[30%]

Look I didn't sign up to be some weird lab rat for a scientist egghead!

[40%]

Okay, think there's got to be some way of stopping this or at the very least pause it so I can figure out what's going on.

[50%]

Come on lady give me some clue on how to stop this thing!

[60%]

Stop ignoring me goddammit!

[70%]

I try moving my body again feeling that awkward floating sensation. I don't know how I was going to do it, but I thought if I blindly looked around enough I may find something of use in this situation. Only to realize how the hell am I going to find something to use if I can't see anything in the first place.

[80%]

There has to be something I can do!

[90%]

I wouldn't be panicking if I knew what this damn thing was installing!

[100%]

[Thank You For Your Patience...]

[The Administrative System Algorithm of the Evolution System, Has Now Been Installed...]

[We Hope You Enjoy This Premium Service, Your's Truly, Providence...]

Before I could even respond let alone conjure up a tangible thought in my head I suddenly saw another bright light shining over me. My body felt much lighter as some mysterious force pulled me up.

I looked around wondering if I could see what state my body was in, but I could only see this unusual blur ghostly light source. It was like I had no physical body as if I turned into some spectral energy.

Before I knew it the shining light that was shining over me suddenly used a massive amount of force to pull me up like the G-Force power of a jet fighter. As I neared the source of the light I could see that there something on the other side, but the pressure of me being pulled upwards was so intense that I couldn't do anything else but blackout.

The only thing I felt before falling complete unconscious was the quick relief of the pressure against me relieving my body flowed by the gentle touch of floating through the air.

The sensation of stirring awake from a deep sleep was a sudden shock to my system that when I started to get my senses back it felt somewhat like a deja vu effect. My eyes were too weak to even open I wondered for how long I had unconscious for was it minutes, hours or days?

That was when I could feel the uneasiness swirling throughout my body making me feel uncomfortable for the most part. That sudden overflow of information from my senses was overpowering at first it almost made me want to barf.

I'm not joking I was feeling sick just moments after waking up, going through that mysterious portal really did a number on me. Heck, I thought I was going to puke up who knows what, to be honest, I didn't even know if I was even capable of doing such a thing.

After what I just experienced I was hoping that something like that wasn't going to happen again anytime soon. Then again as things are at the moment there's really not much to complain about except for the fact I died the most ridiculous death in my opinion, but beggars can't be choosers as they say.

After a few moments of getting my senses together, I was able to start making out my surroundings which seemed to be some sort of underground cave I wasn't quite sure about it. But the weirdest thing was my vision it wasn't like how I would normally have seen things instead it strongly resembled a sonar radar like that of a submarine or dolphin.

There was one thing that I was able to discern from the rocky surfaces that surrounded me and that was the intricate architecture that was woven into the rocks themselves.

Although I could see like a typical human being my sonar vision could detect what looked to be a light source. Where it would normally reveal everything in the surrounding area, with my vision, however, it came across as a small little blip of light. From what I could tell the general locations of these blips seemed to be fixed to the rocky surfaces which suggested that they were torches or something very similar at least.

At first, I didn't realize it, but I felt that sense of floating through the air once again. I could tell that I had some form of body mass keeping me together, but it was so weightless that just a small current of wind felt it would blow me away for miles. And to be honest, that scared me.

I need to figure what is going on and fast cause at this rate who knows what will happen to me. Heck, I don't even know whether I am safe right now.

Looking down I tried to see if my body was intact still only to find that it wasn't quite how I'd thought it would be. My sonar vision was capable of out-lining the edges of various surfaces so when I looked down I expected to see my human body, but instead, I could only sense this weird misty effect surrounding me.

Okay, no need to panic this is...this is part of the whole dream sure it is. I closed my eyes for a few moments before opening them again and looking down at myself it only confirmed my suspicions that this wasn't a dream or at least I wasn't imagining this.

Breath I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this.

Looking to the bottom left of my vision I spotted the same diamond symbol flashing.

Well, I guess I have no other choice.

I focus my attention on it for a few seconds only for the diamond to disappear. Expecting something to happen I waited for what seemed like forever only for nothing to happen as a result, at least at first it didn't.

[Greetings.]

A soft monotone voice of a girl rung through my ears or at least whatever I hearing sounds through. The voice was coming from my mind it seemed similar to the voice from before, however, this one had a different atmosphere about it

H-Hello, who are you exactly?

[I am what you would call an Advanced Support Algorithm, that came with the Administrative System Algorithm of the Evolution System that was installed not so long ago.]

Okay?

[Please call me Asa for short if your human brain cannot comprehend the pronunciation of the words 'Advanced Support Algorithm'.]

She's quite the sassy one, isn't she?

[My computing power at the moment only allows me to have my Sassiness Protocols at ten per cent. I was only taking into account the possibility that you may still have the brain capacity of a Neanderthal.]

I've barely known this Asa and I already want to delete this damn thing from existence.

[I advise not to try such a thing, as I doubt you would live past a few days at best without my assistance.]

Can you stop reading my damn mind for one second!

[My apologies, it's just...so fun to tease a human.]

It was pretty obvious to me that this Asa was going out of her to get some sort of reaction out of me in order to mock me. So I thought it best to just ignore her annoying quirks.

If you can read my mind, would you tell me what's exactly going?

[It would be my pleasure...]

I held my breath figuratively speaking for the coming explanation.

[You have been reincarnated.]

I paused for a moment waiting for the punch line, but nothing happened.

Wait, that's it?

[Precisely, you got hit by a stray spell and was reincarnated due to the generosity of Providence.]

You got to be kidding me that's all you're going to tell me!

[All other information regarding your reincarnation requires a higher access level, which I, unfortunately, do not have.]

So much for finding out what's going on around here.

With what little information I had acquired from Asa there wasn't much that I could use to formulate an explanation of my own. From the looks of things, it seemed I would have to play it by ear for the foreseeable future if I was going to find out what I needed.

I moved my body over towards the rocky surface mostly so I could get used to this new unsettling sensation of floating around instead of actually using legs, to be honest, never thought I'd get thrown off by the lack thereof of human legs. Little did I realize when floating over to the rocky surface that the rock itself had a slightly reflective surface upon it.

As peered closer I noticed that I wasn't entirely human, in fact, I was just a mass of white and blue almost burning like a flame. I know that I wasn't with my all human body parts, but I never expected to see myself like this.

Asa, I have a question.

[Please ask away.]

What exactly did I reincarnate as?

[Oh that would a Wraith.]

Really! Not even as a hero or a demon lord at least? Well, I guess it could be worst I could have reincarnated as the weakest monster here.

[By the way, the Wraith species is considered one of the weakest species of monsters on this world.]

Wow, way to break the bad news Asa real smooth.

If what you say is true then I'm going to have my work cut out trying not to end up as some midnight snack for a monster. There's got to be a way of making myself stronger in order to survive.

Suddenly a window of information appeared on my screen almost making me jump out of my skin if I had any that is.

Species: Wraith

Level: 1

HP: 47

MP: 25

SP: 23

W-Why do I have this stuff in my vision? Actually, this appears to be similar to something like a role-playing game?

[These are your vital attributes, excluding all of the minor attributes at the moment.]

W-Wait there's more?

[Indeed, however, for the time being, these are the attributes we should focus on improving.]

You say that like it's easy.

[Precisely.]

And how do I do that?

[Why you kill those that are weaker than you.]

For some reason, I expected a slightly different response, however, I wasn't too surprised by the answer either. After all, if this all works like a role-playing game where you're killing things it's usually the number one way in becoming stronger.

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