Mikael looked up after hearing the words spoken by Jamar. He saw an enormous eye, no that isn’t doing it justice immeasurable would be a correct adjective. It was a single eye with only a iris and nothing else, no pupil, no sclera. This terrifying eye gave Mikael the chills
This horrifying se caused his heart to start pounding at a fast rate. There was also a naggiion i of his stomach but, Mikael know that he ’t afford to show fear so he spoke while being uneasy “Fuck, if this thing punch the Earth we would all be fucked.”
A couple of seds only after saying this sentence Mike saw a blue s appear in front of him just at the level of his eyes and heard aionless female voice speak directly in his mind.
[Humans in World ‘Earth’ you have been lio the Akashic Records and have gaihe opportunity to evolve].
[By accessing the Records you travel to a near infinite number of different worlds. You grow also your power by traveling from world to world. Even gaining magimortality is not impossible if you have access to the Akashic Records]
[If you want to obtain the right to go into the Records you o pay a monthly subscription of 1 year of lifespan]
[Do you want to pay?]
[Yes No]
Mikael heard aremely loud sound just after finishing listening and reading the text sent by Akashic Records. He looked into the sky and saw the enormous eye gradually leaving from the viity of the Earth.
The Ground started shaking and Mikael was having difficulty staying on his feet.’Fuck, why does the ground shake soo much that it is ahquake? Don’t tell me it’s the eye that actally touched the earth or something!
After Mikael thought about it for a couple of seds he cluded.’ It doesn’t make sense for the eye which is probably a maion of Akashic Records, aremely powerful being probably near-omnist but not even capable of trolling her own body, proje, or whatever this thing was.
‘The only thing I think is that she wants to intimidate the humans of Earth so that we want to join the Records and bee stronger by using the fear of this situation as a catalyst. But it could also backfire because some people would be scared of joining the Records sihey could die a every moment and this a reminds them of this fact’.
“Jamar, did you see ahis message?” Ask Mike rapidly.
“Yes, it was a female voice that was talking in my head about joining the Records and that by joining the Records, I could gain strength and travel to different worlds” Answered an astonished Jamar.
“Ok, and you Leia, what did you hear?” Inquired Mikael.
Leia was visibly shaken by what was happening and took a couple of seds to answer with a shocked “Eh it was the same as him i also heard the voice about the Records”.
‘I don’t uand this handsome guy. Five minutes ago he was threatening to kill me or kill other i people if don’t stop my iigation, but now he is asking me a question like nothing happened. Is he is bipor or something’ thought a weirded-out Leia.
“Boss Mikael, what should we do” questioned a scared Jamar.
“Let me think about it” spoke Mike.
‘Now that this Akashic Records have appeared the world will ge it is iable. Some people will accept the offer and bee strohan it is humanly possible, they will start to rebel against the gover and the society will gradually fall into anarchy’
‘It is also probable that the society will beore strength based but without a plete colpse of the current social system’
‘In this situation, no matter whie of the two possibilities happens, the only thing that is certain is that strength is a thing that I need’.
Suddenly Mikael had a thought that made him extremely angry. ‘The only thing that is really, really annoying and enraging is that all the work I have done in the past few years to create and grow the Crow to the level it is now will be fug useless because now that the opportunity of obtaining real strength has e to the members of the Crow. They will probably go all in with this Akashic Records and will stop obeying me.’
‘I o calm down.’ Mikael took a deep breath to help him calm down. ‘It isn’t only bad news, I go into this Records thing and bee stronger myself’ he thought while loosening his fists which were ched because of the anger he was feeling.
“Jamar” spoke a now calm Mikael.
The voiikael attracted the attention of Jamar ahat was still there in shock thinking about what was happening.
“I will join the Records because this i will definitively ge the world and will transform the current society into a strength-based ohe w of the jungle if you prefer” announced Mikael.
Leia was visibly anxious about this possible future and spoke.“This isn’t a novel where people start to kill each other because they have acquired some powers”.
“You seem to be a kind person so you won’t do it but a lot of other people will feel liberated of having gained some strength and will want to use it, they will start not respeg the ws and think about it do you will want to obey a cop that you kill by throwing a simple punch?” spoke Mikael
‘She probably won’t st long in this new world with her mentality’.thought Mike
Sigh
“Maybe, you're right I see some people, like you for example ag like you said” uttered Lea.
“Oh, you're not that er all. This versation was fun and all but I have more important things to talk about” spoke Mikael.
“Jamar, talk tuys and ask them to join the Records, don’t fet to expin to them what I just expio you”.
‘It’s the only thing I do to keep some influen the Crow without taking too much time. If Jamar helps them uand the ge that the Akashic Records will cause the society and as a sequence help them, maybe they will be grateful to Me and Jamar and that will help me keep some influen the Crow but I don’t give it much hope’ thought Mikael.
“What you won’t expin to the guys?” spoke a surprised Jamar
“No, I am joining the Records right now” announced Mike.
Right after Mikael spoke this sentence as he looked at the blue s.
[If you want to obtain the right to go into the Records you o pay a monthly subscription of 1 year of lifespan]
[Do you want to pay?]
[Yes No]
‘Let's try if I speak to the Akashic Records directly from my head’ thought Mikael. ”Akashic Records I want to pay the monthly subscription for 1 month” Mikael spoke to Akashic Records directly by talking in his head.
[Payment accepted, your lifespan has diminished by 1 year. Your payment is due by 1 July 2025 of Earth time. The payment is automated if you want to cel your subscription don’t fet to get it done before the 1 or will pay for another month.]
[Transport in the Records possible, do you want to go into the Records?]
[Yes No]
“Accept the transfer,” said Mikael to the Records.
[Transfer initiated in 10, 9, 8…]
The moment Mike accepted the transfer he began to be illuminated in a blue light that grew with each passing sed.
[...3, 2, 1, 0.]
The instant the timer reached 0, he was indisible because of the extremely bright light. Just after the light gradually started to vanish, and at the pce Mikael was there was nothing anymore.
As the teleportation process began a strange feeling washed over him. It was like he was being pulled apart and put together at the same time but without any pain. His sense of time was also being affected he felt like 1 sed had passed sihe start of the teleportation, but he was also feeling like it was ay sihe start of this weird experience. Finally, he felt the ground under his feet but because of the experience he failed to stay standing and fell on his knees.
“Fuck, that was weirder than an LSD-irip could ever hope to be” spoke a knelling and shaken Mikael.
Mikael gets up and looks around, he sees that he is alone in what looks like a ‘ic library’, it’s the only term that es to his mind. There was an endless number of bookcases in all dires, the bookcases were all different from each other but this only added to their beauty.
There was also a near-limitless number of books. Some books were in the bookcases but some books were levitating in the air, some were even moving.
At some distance from Mikael, he could see beautiful spiraling wooden stairs. The stairs were big enough so that 4 people could go up simultaneously and be fortable, but the weirder thing is that the stairs didn't seem to have an end. No, they seemed to tinue infinitely.
Last but not least the ceiling, or more precisely the ‘sky’. Oh, the sky is of an incredible beauty. The closest analogy to what he was seeing would be the night sky view from Earth but without pollution and with an x1000 zoom. The and by sequence biggest thing, he could see was a rge blue p with a few green spots that looked like tis.
‘If this p is the Earth how does it work for people of other ps, or are we the only world lio the Akashic Records?’ thought Mikael.
Just after that, Mikael saw the blue s, which represented a message from the Akashic Records appear.
[You are officially in the Records and have gained access to the System’s features of [Status], [System Store], [Tutorial], and [Request].To gain access to more features, you buy ‘System Upgrades’ in the ‘System Store’. I wish you an enjoyable assion pyer. Spoke the emotionless female voice of the Akashic Records.
‘Ok, so “Status” ’
[Status Information
Name: Mikael Angelini
Military Rank: Recruit 0/10 MP
Life Points(LP): 1000]
‘That says literally nothing and doesn’t help at all, but maybe if I try to see a detailed description’. “Records show me detailed information oatus window”.
[Name:
It is the hat is used to call you, what more do you want?]
[Military Rank:
A Military rank is a rank uo the Records and won’t have an effe the various worlds you will explore. This rank is a social standing indicator in the Records and allows you to unloew features in the Records and gain various dists on your purchases.
The way to upgrade your military rank is by doing a special mission that will be issued by the Records. In These missions, you will pete with the natives from your world, the better your performances in these missions the more Military Points (MP) you will gain.
Your current Military Rank is Recruit and gives you no be.]
[Life Points:
These are the Life Points that is the currency used ihe Records. You start with 1K. This is the value of your sacrificed year of lifespan. The primary way to gain Life Points(LP) is to do the quest in the world. Life Points(LP) be used to buy ‘System Upgrades’, they have a fun which is to make a ‘Request’ to the Records but they also have other funs to discover.]
‘For now, I should probably focus on the Life Points because they should be the biggest help in the short term. Military Rank also looks important but it would be better if I focus on it when I am strohought aed Mikael.
‘For now, let’s look at what the system store is selling.’
[System Store
Basibsp; System Upgrades]
‘Let’s look at basics for now.’
[Basic
Sandwiches 2 LP
Water Bottle 2 LP
Toilet Paper 1 LP
Toothbrush 1 LP
Toothpaste 1 LP
5x Men Shirt 2 LP
5x Men Short 2 LP
8x Men Underwear 2 LP
4x Sock Pairs 1 LP
Small Backpack 5 LP
Large Backpack 12 LP
Tent 8 LP
Sleeping Gear 5 LP
Fshlight 1 LP
Large Military Knife 30 LP
……]
The list went on, there were even firearms, bullets, books, and even a kit of kit utensils, but sadly like the name of this part of the system let us guess there was nothing magical on it. Just ahat could easily be found oh but now we o pay with our lifespan to get them.’ A nice scam if we take a couple of seds to think about it.
'Let’s check the System Upgrades Store.’
[System Upgrades
[Basic Stats System. Requirement: None
Allow the unlog of the base attributes. Them being strength, agility, and endurance. Price: 100 LP]
[Level System. Requirement: Basic Stats System
Unlock the level system and allow the possibility of gaining experience points(XP), which will allow the level up of the global level and the css level, which will in turn allow the gain of stats. Price: 200 LP]
[Multi Css System. Requirement: Basic Stats System, Level System
Unlock the prospect of gaining and leveling a css. The user still o unlock the css by perf corresponding as. Each level-up of a css gives some stats to the user, after a css is maxed it is possible to switch csses while keeping all the stats gained, but losing all the pertile and multiplier-based effects. Price: 200 LP]
[Quest System. Requirement: None
Allows the user to have a quest tab, that will allow trag the quests even from an alternative world and also track their pletion. Price: 100 LP]
[Notification System. Requirement: None
The user will receive a notification whehere is a ge in the system, the notifications are fully izable. Price: 100 LP]
[Skill System. Requirement: None
Allow to gain skill after perf repeated as. The skills will have a description of them. Price: 200 LP]
[Race System. Requirement: Basic Stats System
Allow the activation of the base race of the user with all of its bes and demerits. Price: 500 LP]
[Universal Language System. Requirement: None
In the multiverse, there exist innumerable numbers of different nguages, the user ’t be expected to know them all. With this system, the user will be capable of speaking, reading, and writing after hearing a nguage for the first time, except for some magical and runiguage. Price: 100 LP]
Of course, Mikael saw other system upgrades but for now, these were the more relevant. He took the time to look into the ‘Tutorial’ and ‘Request’ features, but for now, there was nothing particurly useful, the only couple of things that he learhat were relevant was that there were three different types of worlds.
1: The first and rarest type of world is an in world. These worlds are unique iire multiverse and the natives of these worlds are also unique.
2: The sed type of world is the Unique world. These worlds like their 's guess are also unique iire multiverse like the in world. The difference is that trary to the in world natives, the natives from a Unique world aren’t capable of transding their world without exterior help.
3: The third and most on type of world is the Alternative world. These worlds are created by the imagination of an in world native for example anime worlds like One Piece, Dragon Ball, etc, or even movie worlds like Terminator, Pirates of the Caribbeac. The natives of these worlds will be incapable of leaving their world even with outside help.
There are a nearly infinite number of alternative worlds, and from eaime or movie, there are at least a trillion different worlds. Ahing Mikael learned is that to leave a world you o say “Records I want to leave this world” and stay put without moving and without being attacked for 5 minutes before beied from the world in exploration.
‘Holy, I don’t think I’ll go into an alternate world like, for example, One Piece. I just don’t find it appealing or iing to go to a world that other people have already explored. For example, you might bee the Pirate King in One Piece, but in another version of that world, it could be someone else, or i another version, all your friends might be dead…’
He didn’t think much of it before he decided to buy the system upgrade of [Basic Stats System], [Level System], [Multi Css System], [Skill System],[Notification System], and [Quest System]. With these purchases, his LP dropped directly to 100.
[System Upgrade purchased look into your system to see the modifications]
Directly after making the purchases and seeing the notification from the Records, His body started itg and feeling cold, but after a mihe itchy and cold feeling tio worsen.
“Fuck this feeling it an annoying one. If it tio bee worse, it will rapidly start to bee painful.”
5 mier
Mikael was starting to suffer, and his teeth were ched because of the pain.’The pain right now is at the level of getting tinuously hit by a unch, individually they don’t hurt much but when all your body gets pu starts to hurt a fuck ton. If it keeps getting worse I don’t know if I will be capable of enduring it.’
Fortunately, after reag this point, the pain started to diminish, and after 5 more minutes, it was finally gohe only thing that was still there was a sweat-covered Mikael.
“Damn, that really was not a nice experie has only been what? 1 hour since I accepted the offer of the Akashic Records and I am already suffering. I dread what it will be in 1 week or even in 1 month” muttered Mikael to himself.
‘There was a notification about some modification in my system. I hope they are worthwhile and I didn’t suffer for nothing.’
“Status”
[Status Information
Name: Mikael Angelini
Military Rank: Recruit 0/10 MP
Global LVL: 0 XP: 0/500
Css: None LVL: 0/0 XP: 0/0
Stats:
Strength: 12
Agility: 14
Endurance: 13
Active Skills: None
Passive Skills: None
Life Points(LP): (-900) 100]
[Average stats of a human male from the in world, Earth, are 10]
‘Ok, that's niow I have the possibility of obtaining level, stats, and skills. The only thing is that I don’t seem to have a css for now.’
[Selectable Css: None]
‘I remember the description said that you o take a to unlock a css. To unlock the Assassin css you probably o assassinate someone. Or, for example, the Painter css where you may o paint a painting.’
The moment Mikael started to pund kiothing for a couple of mirying to imitate martial arts.
[Selectable Css: Tier 0 Css: Martial artist]
When Mikael focused on the martial artist css, he saw more detailed information about it.
[Martial Artist 0/25
Tier 0 Css
Description: A fighter that fights using his body and only his body. You sider that using ons is for the weak, your body is your on.
Stats: +1 STR, +1 AGI and +1 END per level.
20% increase in the learning speed of unarmed martial arts.
10% more damage is inflicted when using your own body to fight.]
‘This css looks nice, I will gain 3 stats points per level, and will help when I am learning some unarmed martial arts. I think I'll do a simple world befoi some uraining done.’
[Martial Artist Css selected]
‘The st thing I could need would be a on and after I would be good for an alternative world.’
[System Store
[Large Military Knife
A good 12-inilitary-quality knife fed using steel.
Price 30 LP]
[Purchase pleted]
The instant Mike makes this purchase a bck military knife in a military-themed case appears before him and falls to the ground with a loud ‘Thud’ because Mikael wasn’t expeg that.
‘Oh, yes fet that I don’t have an iory so it makes sehat the knife is teleported before me.’ thought an amused Mikael
Mikael squats and takes the knife before putting it in the pocket of his jacket just beside his Glock.
‘I think I am ready to go into my first world.’
