Guy's POV
As I was lost in thought, something caught my eye. The faraway sea had a very familiar looking yet unfamiliar creature.
'Was that a shark? No.....no, sharks are not of aquamarine skin colour.'
'Can it be a mutation? But that type of thing is not even.....'
Just as was lost in thought, the creature showed itself by jumping outside the ocean. And what I was unbelievable for me. Even after calming myself down by saying that this is all fiction.
Why you ask? Because I saw a dragon! A living and breathing dragon. And not just any, what I saw clearly was a water dragon.
I was dumbstruck. I was barely able to keep my shock to myself by acting as if I was asleep.
'What have I seen?!' I thought to myself. Then, thinking that it will of no use to think otherwise I just accepted it. I am just a normal person, but after thrust into some fiction novel I had no choice but to adapt.
And that too in a fictional novel that I have never read. 'What can get worse?' I thought to myself. And how wrong was I? Even I don't know.
Because after the water dragon re - entered the ocean, I saw a variety of other sea creatures of this fictional world.
No, I have to correct myself. This world may have been a fictional world before, but now this was my real world. It's sad. But I had no lingering attachments to Earth aside from my hellhole of a house and a 24/7 government doctor job.
How sad, goodbye Earth. My dear mother Earth.
To hell with sadness, it looks like of I have to survive in this world I will have to gather more information and resources. And I will also have to determine if it was a novel world or game world.
Thinking like this, I was dazed for a moment. Just as I was about to continue making my plan. I was awestruck again.
This time it was not due to a living organism but due to a transperant bluish screen that suddenly sprung in front of my vision out of nowhere.
I barely controlled myself from shouting at the top of my lungs. It was my first seeing such a thing happening. Well, although I had read about similar things in those novels which I used to love reading in high school and college.
I calmed myself as much as I was able to. Finally, I threw my other thoughts at the back of my mind.
So, I focused a bit on the transparent bluish screen infront of me. The following was written on it in white:
[ Ding! Existence has been selected by System to bind with.]
Then the screen flickered as if malfunctioning. After that a new prompt was presented.
[ Existence has two choices:
1 : Accept to bind with the System.
2 : Refuse to bind with the System. ]
I was about ponder for a moment when my gaze fell on the fine printed text below the choices. I decided to read it.
[* Make your choice in 10 seconds or you will explode.]
[Friendly reminder: Refusing to bind with system will also result in self explosion.]
And sure enough, there was important stuff written in fine print. Was this system a loan shark in its previous life.
[{ Ding! 8 seconds remaining to make your choice. }]
A warning sounded in my head. I was jolted awake from my reverie but I still pretended to be asleep. And sure enough, no one noticed anything.
[{ Ding! 7 seconds remaining to make your choice. ]}
I reluctantly accepted the proposal of being bond with system. I surely didn't wanted to experience the how it felt to self explode. Maybe it was like being blown like a baloon and then bursting after a being filled with energy or gas.
Just the thought was enough to give me chills down my spine. You see, I was a normal man.
How nice would have been if anybody else other than me was here in my situation, struck in a fictional yet real world. And bond by a loan shark like system.
[ Ding! System has been bond with existence. ]
[ Ding! Existence is now given the title of ' Player' due to having System. ]
'Player? Did you mean that there are other system holders like me? ' I thought to myself.
[ Ding! Yes, host. There are other ' Players' like you. ]
' What do you mean?' I asked the system. Soon, the System screen started to flicker like an old television screen yet again.
[ Ding! Detected that other ' Players' have ceased to exist! ]
' The hell?!' I thought as my mind was blown away this single prompt. I had just started on the path on becoming a player and the others have already ceased to exist. In other words, they were dead.
Their situation felt even more miserable than my current state. ' Am I going to die too?!' I thought to myself.
[ Ding! No host! ]
The system replied to me.I sighed in relief. Then I caught on something. ' Can this system or whatever read my thoughts?' I asked to myself. But the screen started flickered before the answer came.
[ Ding! Host has been chosen by other Six Systems as their new holder.]
I was now number from surprises. This I showed no reaction. But I repeated my previous question yet again, mentally.
But as it gave me no heed, the System screen flickered. And this time, it kept flickering for a long while. Then it turned from transparent bluish to transparent greyish.
[ Ding! Due malfunction, seven systems cannot remain together with host! ]
I gave it no heed. I can just become a merchant or something else in this fictional world.
[ Ding!Ding!Ding! In compensation, host will recieve seven wishes! Host can ask for anything! Ding!Ding!Ding!Ding!]
The system prompt came on screen. I thought for a moment. ' How about sending me back to my home world?' I asked the system, or should I say systems.
[ Negative. Unable to fulfill this wish of host. This wish will be excluded.]