Ok, let’s examine the possibilities. First one that comes to mind would be that I’m a dream. But I should ignore it for 2 reasons. First, the complexity and the realism of the situation are unlike the ones possible in a dream. For the second reason let’s go with something similar to Pascal’s wager. If it’s a dream I lose nothing if I’m being careful. If it isn’t and I’m going all crazy it can end badly.

  The next thing that comes to mind is that I’m in a VR game, but that quickly falls as I should be able to log out by now. If I’m somehow trapped in a VR, then it comes down to Pascal’s wager again. If I am and I play along I have nothing to lose. If I’m not and I lose my life trying to find a way to log out, well, let’s say it wouldn’t be a smart idea.

  This leaves me with 2 other possibilities. One, this System is trying to make me believe I’m in a game for an unknown purpose. Two, this dimension’s or this world’s laws make the reality resemble a video game from my old world.

  The System was able to perform modifications on my body, even operating on my brain, so I can assume it could have killed me many times over if it wanted to. I also don’t believe it would have been hard to extract information from my brain if that’s what it was after. Opposing the System at this point doesn’t seem possible, so playing along would be the better option.

  Before the collapse of the game industry at the hands of Mario, there were over a thousand coming out every year. Even after, it didn’t drop below a hundred a year. Each one had its own set of rules. If this world really works like a game, the first thing to do is learning its rules. The Identity tab should be self-explanatory, so let’s try it like this. Explain stats.

  Help stats. Stats help. Stats explanation. Help.

  What the fuck is with this number of commands, you goddamn stupid program? You can perform genetic modifications in an inter-dimensional space, but can’t understand more than 5 commands. Even the most basic of Earth’s A.I.s is able to extract commands from human speech. Speaking of which…

  -Use my connection with the System and send the Manual command. Store all information received and sort it. From now on use the same display method as the System, except for urgent messages. Send me everything related to stats.

  Ok, the first 7 stats are easy to understand, but magic? Am I in some kind of fantasy world? Maybe this is how the wolf was able to use electricity. My base intelligence probably comes from my thinking speed, so I can assume that adding stat points don’t improve this aspect as well.

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  If I remember correctly, the A.I. chip identified a mutation in my brain that enabled the generation and storage of a new type of energy. Going by these explanations, mana is the name of that energy. Without the 5base stats boost coming here my magical talent would have been 1, but it makes sense as Earth didn’t have this concept.

  Now, I can roughly understand the stats, so moving on we have the paths. It’s a bit creepy seeing that I’m 0.2% percent human so I hope it mean what I initially thought. Maybe it’s something that started when I got here. Let’s see what the A.I. chip got on paths.

  Ok, this is quite a lot to take in, but before recklessly choosing a path, I’d like to learn how to earn these path points. Spending them all, then finding better paths only to be unable to embark on them wouldn’t be the most well-thought out choice. The A.I. should have found something on the topic.

  So starting paths costs path points and finishing them gives path points. There is a lot open to speculation here, I don’t have enough data to make even a calculated guess on how this path system works. Some examples would have clarified the situation a bit, but the A.I didn’t find any.

  After I requested to see my available choices, I’ve received a list of more than 200 paths. I quickly went through them and selected a few that caught my eye.