Dear diary

First day of seclusion, it is as the world said, Skills are literal manifestations of the mind. A skill for an action greatly enhances it and makes it almost automatic. However it also looks like Skills can’t just be learned through thoughts, there is a need for years, decades, sometimes centuries of repetition for a single Skill.

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Day 19 of seclusion. I still can’t completely divide all the Skills in categories, so I will instead make it very broad like attributes of mana. The ability called Skills are too powerful, and I can’t simply monopolise it either. Humans are too weak, I had to continually strengthen myself so I won’t explode from the passive multiplication of power. Of course I solved it now by altering the passive slightly so it would also make my physical body tougher. Anyway I made new laws using Ruler, making it much easier to acquire skills. I also made it harder to get skills of opposing nature as well as made an affinity system like mana.

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Day 32 of seclusion. I have made artificial life, perfect artificial life. I made them as helpers for the laboratorium. They don’t really have emotions, and I’m pretty bored. The concept of Skills, there are a lot of different Skills, but the theory around it is the same and also pretty simplistic. I’m thinking of experimenting with artificial life.

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Day 41 of seclusion. I created a new energy. I call it lifeforce, although a lot of other names suit it too, qi, aura, neigong, chi etc. There are many manifestations of it. I decided to experiment on energies first and also made this energy to help non-mages. They can refine it and also lengthen their lifespan with it. It greatly boosts their endurance and overall attack power, I hope they stand on equal footing to mages. Mh, I also guess that if you accumulate enough lifeforce, you can live for eternity.

Dear diary

Day 42 of seclusion. I created new laws. Everything alive is born with a certain amount of lifeforce, after birth the lifeforce is very slowly used up, once you have no lifeforce left, you die. The average amount of lifeforce a person has is around 100. People can meditate to increase the lifeforce, becoming stronger and living longer, or they don’t or they die earlier than when their lifeforce is used up. For mages, they can already live longer than normal people due to mana.

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Day 57 of seclusion. I found it bothersome to ask the world the entire time when I experiment things so I have managed to recreate the system that I made in a different timeline in the future.

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Day 300 something, lost count of seclusion. I made the system usable for every intelligent creature. There are a lot more functions on it. First and foremost, it summarizes your existence. Then analyses you and puts your strengths in numbers, as well as make lists of skills you have. Then it also has a mapping ability which you can connect to the maps of other people. Then I also made it so those who are on the system can talk to each other, regardless of distance. I think this will be revolutionary. Also there are a lot of notifications so I separated the source code for the system and made a subsystem for my personal use. It reports every action and reaction relevant.

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Around a year of seclusion. I didn’t write much since I forgot. I made quite a few discoveries. One, this is not my first life, this is my third reincarnation in fact. The first life was from a place called earth, which was in the age of information. I found out a lot through those memories. The second life was in a world of mana, according to my first life, it would be similar to the middle-ages. Honestly though, humanity surprises me. I thought they were useless without mana, that only mages were superior, which is why I made the energy lifeforce. But in my first life, without mana or skills, they managed to conquer space, they went outside the embrance of their planet and survived, without mana I’m telling you. They managed flight, and fast travel, not as fast as teleportation though. Buildings reaching the clouds. Weapons that would allow a normal human to be able to kill a court mage with ease. A weapon of mass destruction on par with a meteor. I really shouldn’t underestimate human intellect.

Then, secondly, using the memories of those previous lives, I updated the system several times. I also named it the World System. First of all, I added the concept of levels, taken from ‘video games’, there are a lot of factors about the leveling system since things aren’t as simple as the games, there are no ‘NPC’ and I can’t just set quests and force people to do things. Nor is there a constant stream of monsters, or what even categorises as a monster instead of a beast. Plus people only have a single life and wouldn’t be willing to fight for their lives every day just to get stronger, so I had to think a lot about the factors regarding experience for leveling. I also made a title system which grants bonuses. Made it so you can get skills even more easily through scrolls which I spread across dungeons. Changed the layout of the connectors, making it more and more similar to ‘internet’. Also made a quest system which auto generates quests according to actions and words from the person and people nearby that give experience and stat bonuses, sometimes even skills. Anyway you get the idea, there was a huge revamp on the World System.

Dear diary

Also around a year of seclusion (a day after the previous entry). I altered the way health is quantified and altered the physique. Because, erm, yes there were several problems with it. I mean, same wound, same damage, but not the same amount of health. So for instance, beheading someone is instant death, but due to high health the person remained alive. So I changed it so that the same wound means the same percentage damage. The higher the health, the ‘tougher the skin’.

Dear diary

Another year has passed, around 2 years of seclusion. I did it. I made a perfect artificial life before, now I made a complete and perfect artificial life. Self awareness, ability to learn, emotions, adaptability. Out of partial boredom, partial interest, I recreated a few species from video games. Vampires, kobolds, orcs, dwarves, elves, griffins, demi-dragon, werewolf, slimes, demi-humans and so on. I uh, also released some of them into the world, also planning on releasing all of them later on.

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Around ten years since seclusion. I met Gods, real, in the flesh Gods. They were very obedient for some reason.

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I checked my memory and can say it is exactly a hundred years since I secluded myself in my research. I have learned a lot of things over the past hundred years.

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I’m a bit afraid of meeting my mother so to kill time and boredom I decided to hone my skills in magic.

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It’s been a year since I last wrote, I can say that I have completely mastered all the ways of magic, to be honest, now that I think about it, I could have just used Ruler for that, but then I wouldn’t be able to kill time and it is even more boring. I have decided to try my chances on other things, swordsmanship, spearmanship, craftsmanship etc. I won’t stop until I have mastered everything.

Dear diary

I created my own sword art, it consists of 108 formations, each consisting of 3-40 movements, and each also having several transformations. A sword art usually consists of 5-10 formations, but I was too bored you see. But the base for all those formations are the first three. I named it Batsu, there is no particular reason, just rolls of the tongue I guess.

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I altered Batsu, there were too many openings and weak points, with the change, now through the transformations there are no flaws or openings, and it is much easier to learn.

Dear diary

I studied movement arts too, and created my own. Now I decided to make an entire series of arts. The previous Batsu sword art can still be called that, but it will be also named James’ Sword art. James’ movement art. It can be divided into 3 main methods. ground, air and water. I won’t go into the specifics but I reckon if a person who mastered this movement art was in a battlefield, he’d dominate it alone.

Dear diary

I managed to do it. Sword art, Movement art, Spear art, Saber art, Blade art, Staff art, Needle art, Leg art, Fist art, Palm art, Poison art, Blacksmith art, Bow art and so on. Quite a few practice chambers need to be rebuilt though, I’m thinking of just using the helpers for this, it’s more fun like that instead of using Ruler for everything.

Dear diary

I think it is around 600 years since I entered seclusion. I have learned and mastered a lot. I’m not sure if mother is still alive or not. I’d rather not know for sure. I guess I’ll just make a few things. Also the helpers made their own community.

Dear diary

I made multiple weapons, also tried recreating a few weapons from the first life.

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I created 3 new metals. Literally created, using Ruler. I was bored, okay? All three have their own characteristics, the strongest one, Bardium I call it, is tougher than diamonds, much much tougher, all three of them are, and Bardium is the toughest.

Dear diary

I remade the previous weapons, armors and trinkets using the three minerals, I also spread them around the world, waiting to be dug out.

Dear diary

I made Gods.

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It just hit me, 965 years of seclusion, I’m 978 years old. I have decided to leave seclusion after 35 years. 1000 years of seclusion, a round number. As such, I will recount all the gains I have made.

A few million of new species were founded by me. I have reached a level of power unrivalled, I had to strengthen the dimensional barrier so it doesn’t try to kick me out, since I have the power to destroy the universe. Because of this the spatial laws are much stronger now and teleportation is harder to do. I have created and altered energies. I have created new universal laws. I have made the World System. I have created several battle arts. I have mastered as good as everything there is to master. I have several treasuries filled to the brim with artifacts that I made. I have created new elements.

Dear diary

Tomorrow is the big day. This will be my last entry here. Also… Mother is still alive, it is a miracle really. I didn’t interfere at all. This is all from her own ability. She is over a thousand years old. A mage, even the Great Sage, would be limited to 400 years old.

May 15, Jackson Calendar, James Signe Miller.