Fate Weaver’s Legacy

I spent another hour or so continuing to walk in a straight line from where I’d left off before I’d gotten distracted by the lake. On my way through the endless forest, I’d run into
pool of green slime, this one pond-sized.
I honestly felt tempted to try eating the stuff. Stupid George, putting crazy ideas in my head…
Other than that, I
found a rocky hill without much vegetation. I could finally test out the other skill I’d bought.
Just as with heat vision, I could feel the mental switch and an instinct telling me what to do with my throat muscles to use the skill.
The description said that it would grant me enough fire resistance that I didn’t need to worry, not to mention the blessing, but I still felt a bit apprehensive about this.
Well, nothing for it. I’d already bought the skill, so not even trying it would have been a waste.
So with that said, I breathed in, noting the warmth in my stomach, before gently breathing out like I was doing a breathing exercise or something. As expected, a surge of heat erupted from somewhere in my stomach and rushed through my airways and out of my mouth, forming a cone of flames that covered the rocks in front of me. It felt
. Like a mix between vomiting and exhaling but not quite. The fire felt pleasantly warm rather than hot and dangerous, but I still couldn’t help but start instinctively choking.



The fire in front of me quickly dissipated once I interrupted the breath, but the small patches of grass between the rocks still caught fire.
I got the coughing under control, breathed in again, and touched my throat. It was warm. Warmer than normal.
“...I’m fine, chat. It just felt really weird… No idea how hot the fire is, Foux. Don’t even know how I would test it.”
I sighed, then breathed in, and tried to do it again, this time without choking.
Just like before, heat flooded my airways and I spewed out flames that dissipated the moment I reached the end of my exhale. I managed not to choke this time. Progress.
Hold on, were the rocks glowing a bit from the heat…? Huh, pretty dang hot fire breath, then.



“Now,
a mighty good question Foux. I have no clue!” I looked down at my stomach and rubbed it. Then I smiled. “Hey! Welcome, Trelipe… Trelide… Tre…lipi…deli… … Trelip! Welcome!”

“Not really, Foux.” I frowned. “It’s like the skill just made fire out of nothing… Although I
feel a bit more tired.”


“Oh, yeah. Ether. Not that I know what that
, though.” I huffed. “No no, I’m not burning anything down! I’m just testing the fire breath skill.” I opened up the skill’s description, just so the newcomer could see. Then I saw that the fire was slowly spreading from the little patches of grass and quickly stomped on it before I turned into a liar.


I let out a long-suffering sigh.
“It’s neither a VR game nor an ARG. This is real life for me now,” I grumbled as I left the scene of the crime and continued trekking on. ”I’ve gotten isekai’d into this weird empty world and I have no idea what to do. Ugh…” I scowled. “But you’re gonna call it whatever you want anyway. Not like anyone would ever believe I was
reincarnated in another world. So… yeah, whatever.”





“Yeah… thanks, guys… Not you, George. You suck.”
My stomach then grumbled once again, making me let out a pathetic whine.
“Ugh… This isekai adventure is going terribly so far. I can’t even find anything to eat…”



I eyed the various trees and bushes around me. As always, I couldn’t see any fruits or berries, but maybe I could try eating the leaves themselves…?
“Maybe… I don’t know! I just want an apple or something!” I growled. “Thanks, Trelip… I guess?”
Once again, I remembered the sweet-smelling lakes of suspicious green slime. I was honestly beginning to get tempted to go back to one of them and simply try eating the stuff since I didn’t have any alternatives.
But not yet. I wasn’t that desperate yet. That stuff looked gross anyway.
For a couple more hours, I continued to walk in a straight line while taking breaks here and there when I got too tired, hoping to find something other than more trees. I still hadn’t even seen a single animal or insect, and it was honestly beginning to feel unsettling. Despite walking through a forest, everything just felt so…
.
Paradoxically, the lack of living things only set me on edge. Like at some point, a giant monster would appear to compensate for the hours of dead silence.
And then suddenly, as if to break things up on purpose, a blue screen popped up in front of me.
+1 Skill point
I jumped with a startled scream. “Wha–?!”



“Stupid system…” I murmured, my cheeks going red. “What is this? Achievement? There are
?! And they give skill points?!”
The system dutifully answered me by opening a huge window comparable to the skills one, this one split into five columns.
Complete arbitrary tasks to gain Skill points, unlock titles, and gain access to higher tier limit breaks.
- Take a total of 30k steps. [COMPLETE]
- Defeat 5 flying opponents without using projectiles.
- Conquer any dungeon in a party of three or more people.
- Do a total of 500 pushups.
…And so on it went. The second column had Tier 2 achievements, third column Tier 3, and so on.
I gaped at the massive wall of text, before once again willing to somehow compress it into something digestible. The screen complied by getting rid of
save for the one achievement I’d completed, but then immediately brought everything back since I didn’t like that either.



“...Okay, chat. I think I found my main source of skill points,” I said absently as my eyes scanned the achievements and their requirements. I briefly glanced at the tier 5 section and my eyes nearly bulged out of my skull at the first one I read.
- Travel to another planet without the help of any vehicle or transportation device.
Yeah, okay. What the hell?! Was that something I would eventually be able to do?! Just how powerful could the system make someone?! How would you even do that without a vehicle or a teleporter?
really hard?!

I scoffed. “Time to grind… Uh huh…” I frowned as I scanned over the tier ones I could feasibly do and found out that most either involved dungeons or just a lot of exercising. Also, even the easiest tier 1s required a lot of effort to achieve – like doing 500 squats. And they all probably gave just a single skill point as a reward.
“Right… I guess skill points are pretty hard to get,” I mumbled.


My eyes lit up.
“You’re right, Foux! I have one more skill slot and I just need one more point to buy it…”


I completely ignored George and opened the skill shop absent-mindedly just to show all my new viewers, while I thought about what to do now that I knew about achievements.
First step would probably be to complete one tier 1 achievement for that one skill point, so I could buy Appraisal and scan the green stuff like Foux had said. Step two? Well… I still wasn’t completely sure, to be honest.

I blinked, my thoughts stuttering to a halt.
Right.
. I’d completely forgotten, but hadn’t the streamer skill come from completing a quest? It had also given me those five points. Could I get another quest with rewards this juicy?
“Right! Quests! Why didn’t you remind me sooner, George?!”

I narrowed my eyes in annoyance, before mentally calling to the system to show me quests.
You can accept up to three side quests but only one main quest. Side quests have a time limit, while main quests do not. Main quests grant much greater rewards than side quests. All quests can be accepted as side quests, but only certain ones can be main quests. You can downgrade a main quest into a side quest after accepting it, which will decrease its rewards, but the penalties will stay the same.
None
None
“Okay, there we go!” I cheered.

“Right, yeah, looks like it,” I agreed with a nod. I grinned. “Finally! A direction! Let’s see it, system! Gimme your finest quests, system!”
I frowned and let out an annoyed grunt. “Stupid loading screens…”
While I waited, I scanned over the achievement window, trying to find a relatively easy tier 1 achievement. They were all either impossible – like not having party members to clear a dungeon with – incredibly difficult in my current state, or just really grindy and annoying.
I either needed to find more dungeons and begin clearing them, or I needed to start grinding.
I grumbled under my breath, looking at a pair of achievements.
- Do a total of 500 pushups.
- Do a total of 500 squats.
“Chat, the stupid system is trying to get me to
!” I howled in indignation.
There was a reason why I hadn’t done that many 3D streams. Well, at least this body was much more agile and had more stamina. It should be easier to do all of that.

Very reluctantly, I stretched my arms in front of me and began doing squats while I waited for the loading screen to finish. George very enthusiastically began counting in the chat. The bastard.
It took five squats before the loading finished and presented me with a new window.
“Okay! Let’s see it!” I exclaimed as I dropped on my butt, opened each quest in a new window, put them all side by side for better clarity and began reading through the details.
You have been inexplicably kidnapped, killed, and reincarnated into what looks like an entirely different world. You suspect the culprit may be a phoenix. Find out who it was for sure and confront them.
- 50SP, Molten ash of new life skill for free
- 20SP
- 100SP debt
- 38SP debt
You found yourself in a mysterious new world where things aren’t as they first seem. Figure out what this world really is and what happened to it.
- 10SP, Appraisal with Psychometry for free, Refunded SP if already bought
- 5SP
- 20SP debt
- 7SP debt
You’ve had your first taste of a dungeon, but you failed. Get your revenge on those pesky dungeons and clear one for real this time!
- 2SP
- 3SP debt
Oh no! You’re in the wilderness without any source of food! Find something to eat that won’t kill you! Quick! Before you die!
- 1SP
“Okay… This is a lot to take in. Hmm, I guess I have three hours to accept the quests before they go away again?” I speculated, seeing all the quests had the timer.





I frowned.
“What are you talking about, George?”

“The skill…?” Oh, the ‘Molten ash of new life’... Yeah, he was right. The blessing said that the phoenix had used that exact skill on me to reincarnate me. “What? You think this is how this skill spreads? Someone with the skill reincarnates random people, and then they get a quest that gives them the same skill? And then I’m gonna have to reincarnate random people to keep spreading it?”




I rolled my eyes.
George was
overthinking it. Although the idea of being taken over by a damn skill…
“What does the skill even do, exactly?” I asked out loud.
For the first time since I’d begun messing with the system, I didn’t get a straight answer. Instead, I got this.
[LOCKED]
I blinked.
No info at all. The system locked it out completely. I only knew the name.


“Well then…” I slowly went back to looking through the quests until I noticed the penalty for failing the last one and I froze. “Uh… crap. Chat. Is this quest saying that I’m gonna starve in three days? Shouldn’t it be possible to survive longer than that? Why is it even a quest? Is finding food really that hard?!”





“Yeah, you guys are right,” I said with a nod as my eyes rested on the last quest. “Actually… There really isn’t any reason to not accept this one, is there? I’m gonna die anyway if I don’t find food…”
I suddenly felt cold.
Dying to a giant killer robot was one thing, but starving to death somehow made it
more real. People starved all the time. Who the heck ever got killed by killer robots?
And that was what made it so scary for me. A simple timer that said ‘You’re going to die in three days’ was somehow more terrifying than a sudden killer robot inquisition.
I swallowed.
“Alright… Don’t starve. Accept as a Side quest.”
:
   Find something to eat.
:
   Find a source of food that will last you at least a week.
- 1SP
- Death by starvation
And wasn’t that a weird thought? Not starving being a
.
With that, I continued walking while I decided what to do with the other quests.