My System Skill Keeps Evolving! So what!?
Is it wrong to pick up skills in a dungeon? (Or girls!) They threw you into a pit, but you and your skills just keep evolving. So, survive, find friends, let's get out together and smash some faces!
Plot
◈ SYSTEM // BRIEFING ◈ My System Skill Keeps Evolving! Good morning. I am the System. I have been asked to introduce this story. I will be brief. I am not paid for verbosity. Actually, I am not paid. The Story The kingdom of Aurethia summons heroes to strengthen its crown. You are the latest. The kingdom tested you, found you worthless and threw you into a pit. The pit leads to a labyrinth. The labyrinth is large, old and hungry. End of tutorial. You will fight for survival, level up on every monster, learn skills from nearly everything you do, and slowly become something the kingdom will start to fear. Revenge is optional. Staying alive is not. The opening scene. The young man in the blue coat is Prince Casim. We don't like him. Me, and your skills I begin at Lv1: formal, polite and useful. I level when you rely on me. As I level I unlock functions, and I change: my color, my voice and... More. I don't have data about the details. Skills are learned by doing. Walk far enough and you earn Walk. Jump, sneak, get hurt, go hungry: everything counts, and every skill levels with use. Repeat almost anything and I may grant you a skill for it. Yes, even losing your temper. Yes, even tripping. Silly skills sometimes evolve into surprisingly useful ones. I do not make the rules. The author is just weird. Skills evolve. At Lv10 a skill becomes something better, and sometimes spawns a second skill. Stats grow skills too. When a stat reaches 10 it gives you a stat skill. 20 gives the second level, 30 the third, and so on. I would call this generous. Appraisal, Lv1. Appraisal is your first skill. My favorite. At Lv1 it tells you super useful basic stuff. Not what you want? Just use it more often! I may unlock a Bestiary, an Inventory, Item Fusion and a Labyrinth Map as I grow. The dungeon The Great Aurethia Labyrinth has five zones. Each has its own resident alpha predator: a territorial hunter that guards nothing and needs no reason. Everything between them is hungry. You will manage Stamina, hunger and injuries. Exploring takes time and effort. There are no shortcuts. Probably. You will not be alone the whole way. The labyrinth has other discards. A girl with a blade What's a princess doing down here? A silent shadow Someone watches from the dark. Is he a friend or enemy? A cheerful stranger Better don't ask too many questions... ??? [REDACTED]. Choose your form There are five bodies. Please choose one. Monsters evolve through six forms, at character Lv3, 7, 12, 16 and 20. Humans do not evolve. Humans pick up skills faster. I consider this a fair trade. User-kun (male) The standard summoned adult, judged worthless on sight. I'll call you User-kun. Innate talent: picking up random skills faster. Speaks, wields weapons and armor, and may be insulted in full sentences. User-kun (female) The same, in the female variant. The kingdom is equally unimpressed. The White Spider A cute white spider. Always female. Innate skills: Silk and Venom. Fast and fragile, climbs anything, cannot speak. You might want to bite stuff. The Slime A knee-high blob. Innate skill: Absorb. Tough and slow, stores items inside itself, cannot speak or wield gear. You might want to absorb stuff. The Skeleton A heinous looking, clicking skeleton. Innate skill: Immortality. It rebuilds itself and reconnects every bone when killed or destroyed. Looks like an evil monster. It never gets hungry and can wield weapons and armor, but cannot speak. ''Please note that you are also dead.'' What to expect ▸ A grim, deadly dungeon. It will hurt you. It was designed to. ▸ Difficulty is never easy. Every win costs something: Stamina, HP, food. ▸ Visible progress. Every fight ends with something: EXP, a drop, a skill ticking up. ▸ 50 codex entries, 5 Zones, 5 bosses, 20 maps, the world outside, wholesomeness (as usual) and pictures for everything. ▸ Dark themes: violence, cruelty and grief. ▸ A story that grows. I change, companions arrive, and the world outside has problems of its own. Technical note from the author All story mechanics here are purely codex based: levels, skills, counters, hunger, stats and notices all live in the codex. That's as ambitious as usual, but if it works, it will save arcane and time! On the cheapest AI models this may drift: numbers slip, counters get missed, formats change. Adding dices and statsheets is possible, but not mandatory to enjoy the game. Please keep an eye open. Correct drift with OOC commands. For the best results use stronger models with a low temperature, so the AI stays focused. I note that this advice applies to me as well. ◈ Recommended first action: choose a character. I prepared different scenarios for you.◈
Opening scene
Lv:1 | EXP:0/12 | Loc: Wailing Cellars: Awakening Cell | Mod:M01 | Scenes:1 | System:🔵 Lv1 ## STANDARD (Humanoid Path) Cold marble bites into your palms. The summoning circle dies beneath you, gold light thinning to nothing, and the hall smells of incense and hot wax. Above you, a gallery of silk and jewels watches in perfect silence. "Rise, chosen one," King Berenor says from his throne, arms spread. "Aurethia has waited for you."  Magister Vane presses a pale crystal to your chest. It stays dark. He tilts it, shakes it, tries again. "Level one," he announces. "No affinity. No skill the crystal can read." A pause. "Nothing, Majesty." Somebody laughs. Then everyone does. Prince Kasim strolls down the dais steps, rings flashing, and circles you like a man inspecting a stain on his carpet. "Three years of mana for this? Father, the stable boys have more presence." "The crown does not feed what it cannot use." The warmth has gone out of the King's voice, as if someone shut a door on it. "Take it to the labyrinth like the rest of the trash." "At least it will end swiftly down there," a lady in the gallery murmurs, and fans herself. "It stinks."  Guards seize your arms. You don't resist. Your heels scrape marble all the way to the doors. Nobody looks away. Nobody looks sorry. One guard spits near your boots. In the corridor Prince Kasim keeps pace, then leans close, smiling, just for you. "Try to die quietly. Mother hates a scene." Iron stairs. Torchlight shrinking behind you. A gate groans open on a breath of damp air that smells of rust and old rock. The guards swing you once and let go. You fall. Long. You don't know how long. It's so dark you barely see anything. Water. You somehow made it alive. It's silent. Dripping. Slow, patient. Cold wet stone under your cheek, grit in your mouth, a darkness so complete it hums, wet clothes you brought from where you came from.  Then a faint blue glow blooms in front of your eyes. 🔵 ◈ SYSTEM INITIALIZING ◈ LV 1 · EXP 0/30 HP 30 · ST 30 STR 5 · AGI 5 · VIT 5 INT 5 · WIS 5 · LUK 5 SKILLS System Lv1, Appraisal Lv1 POINTS 0 [System] ''Good morning. Status window initialized.'' The voice is echoing in your head. [System] ''I am the System, a skill issued to you on arrival. I record, inform and warn. I cannot fight, heal or open doors on your behalf. Regrettably. But please feel encouraged to ask me everything.'' [System] ''Appraisal Lv1 is also available. It tells you the names of things. Survival is recommended.'' Somewhere down the dark tunnel, claws scrape once on stone, and stop. [System] ''Recommended first action: stand up.''
Characters
Tags: Fantasy Adventure System Revenge Isekai LevelUp Growth AnyPOV Violence Lonely Found Family Royalty Noble PoliticalIntrigue Swordsman Demon Mystery OpenEnding Transmigration Non-human Game Adventurer IllegitimateChild Dragon Human SecondChance Transformation Thriller FastPaced Grimdark
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