A New World

In an alleyway down the side of a large school, an overweight 16 year old boy was lying on the ground. He was being kicked from all angles by a group of boys who seemed to be members of the same sports team based on their attire.

The boy on the ground was Roman, he had been bullied his entire life due to his weight, especially because he was tall and still fat. He was 6'3 and still overweight, he had attempted to lose weight, but nothing ever seemed to work.

After being kicked in the head a few times, Roman fell unconscious and the boys left. His body lay sprawled out, and nobody bothered to attempt to help him or even wake him up.

It was two hours later when he woke up, and it was six o'clock. He had already been at school late because he had been revising, and now the school had completely closed. This didn't really matter to Roman though, as there was nobody at home waiting for him.

His mother had died while giving birth to him, and his father had left to tour the entire world a few years ago. However, he had heard nothing from him and did not know if he would be coming back any time soon or even at all.

Roman sat up and opened his eyes, when he did this, he was startled as there was a strange holographic screen in front of him. All it said was 'World Swapping System Has Been Activated'.

"What is this?" Roman blurted out loud.

The screen then changed, and more text appeared, 'This system will allow you to travel to another world and back to your own. You will now have to answer some questions to decide what type of world you will be able to travel to.'

Roman did not know if what he was seeing was real or not but decided there was no harm in answering the questions.

'Do you want to be able to travel to a world with both humans and monsters, just humans, or just monsters?'

Roman immediately spoke, "Just monsters, I'm tired of people in this world, I don't need more of them."

'Which difficulty would you like to pick? Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert, Nightmare, Ultra Nightmare. The difficulty you choose will decide the type of monsters in the other world, as well as the skills and loot you will be able to obtain. The harder the difficulty, the better the rewards.'

Roman spoke again, "Not exactly like I have a lot going for me here, I'll choose Ultra Nightmare."

'Would you like to enter the other world now? The first time you enter you will be given the choice of one Unique Skill from a list.'

"Sure thing, I have nothing else going on."

As soon as he said this, Roman disappeared from his previous location and found himself on top of a mountain. A huge list of skills appeared on a holographic screen in front of him, and he took his time to look through them.

There were a lot of powerful ones which seemed like they would give him immediate power, such as 'Excalibur' and 'Magic King', but he decided on a Unique Skill which would benefit him immensely in the future.

Roman chose the skill 'Ultimate Evolution', this skill would allow him to evolve any skills, classes, titles, loot, or familiars he obtained in the future to their maximum evolution level. However, this would not increase their level or, in the case of familiars, age. If this skill was as powerful as it seemed, then any minor skill he obtained could potentially become as strong as the other Unique Skills, if not more powerful.

Once he confirmed his Unique Skill choice, all of the screens disappeared. Roman did the first thing which came to mind when it came to a situation like the one he was in, and said 'status' to see if something like in fantasy games existed. As he had hoped, his status appeared on a holographic screen.

Name: Roman

Level: 1

Experience: 0/20

Class:

Unique Skills:

Ultimate Evolution: Able to evolve anything into its most powerful form, this depends on the original potential of the target.

Skills:

Appraisal: Able to see the information of things in your possession.

Stats:

Attack: 10

Defence: 10

Speed: 10

Magic: 10

His status did not have anything particularly impressive except his Unique Skill which he knew about, however, he knew this already and was not bothered. He was also happy that he had an appraisal type skill and planned to use it a lot in the future.

Roman was glad that he had obtained such a good Unique Skill, but he also knew he was not prepared to go into the new world and should return back to his original world and prepare.

He thought of going back to Earth, as he did not know of any other way he could potentially return. When he thought of it, he was back where he had previously been in his school's alleyway.

He left the school grounds and started walking home, which only took fifteen minutes as he did not live far from the school. Once he returned, he started rummaging around for anything that could be of use in the other world.

After searching for a while, Roman set out what he had chosen. This contained the largest knife he had in his home, a torch, and the sturdiest set of clothes and shoes he owned.

Roman lay them all out on his bed and, one by one, used Ultimate Evolution on them before appraising them.

The knife evolved into a sword.

Short Sword

(Uncommon)

+50 Attack

A short sword which increases the user's attack.

Next was his torch.

Reusable Flash Bang

(Uncommon)

A reusable flash bang which does not increase stats.

Full Body Light Amour

(Uncommon)

+50 Defence

+20 Speed

A set of full body light armour which increases both defence and speed.

Roman was happy with his items and put them on, before thinking about returning to the other world.