Like hell he is going back there

[ the second stage has been cleared [Shen Mingze] has now officially been registered as a player ]

To say that Shen Mingze was utterly flabbergasted would be an understatement, for who knows how long he hasn't heard the voice of anyone, he wasn't ever able to speak in the black space and curiously enough even in his dreams people didn't speak. He simply just understood what they were trying to say.

Hearing the strange female voice in his ear, Shen Mingze's first though should've been him being concerned about who this voice belonged to or how they were speaking to him or were they responsible for what was happening.

* Can I speak as well * however was the first thought he had, it didn't take long for that theory to be proven right.

"Shen Mingze"

Shen Minze couldn't put in words how good it felt to feel the words escaping from his throat rolling onto his tongue and entering his ears. His own name felt like music to him.

"Master He, my father"

In his entire life Shen Mingze had never referred to Master He as his father, even when Master He had insisted that he can address him as such, he never listened. He regretted it too much to ever acknowledge this address after Master He's death.

His whole life Shen Mingze never had a father, until this very moment.

"Master He is my father"

"I am Master He's son"

"Shen Mingze is the son of He Wendu"

Saying the same thing in so many different ways, Shen Mingze doesn't know when he started crying.

"Hong Li and Hong Xiao wronged Shen Mingze"

"All the songs were mine! I wrote them!"

"It was me all along!"

"He Wendu never had a scum as his son! I was framed!"

He shouted and shouted, obviously there no one was here to listen to him, his throat felt sore after crying for a long time.

After venting, his sorrow was reduced a great deal. He just felt a bit wronged, as a 17 year old when he had the chance to say all this he was too scared and now that he is brave enough there was no one to listen.

[ player Shen Mingze, if you have calmed down I would like you to pay attention ]

Shen Mingze flinched

He completely forgot about this strange voice, and now that he was a bit more clear headed, he remembers hearing this same voice before the black space was transformed.

After gaining back a sliver of his reasoning Shen Mingze realized that this voice might actually be the cause of all this.

He blanks out for a bit, He's not sure how he wants to treat this situation. It's like he wants to get angry, he is supposed to be angry but he doesn't feel anything at all.

The anger is there, somewhere deep inside but he feels like something is not letting it show. It's like something is just not letting him feel it, like all his negative emotions were just shut inside a container and not allowed to come outside and express themselves.

When was the last time he felt Hatred? Or Anger?

When he yelled out all those things, he never expressed how much he had hated the Hong father and son, he thought that he had just forgiven them but did he really? can he even ever forgive them for all those things?

[ Player Shen Mingze is simply under a variant of "the flat affect" it is common for new players to experience this effect, Shen Mingze need not worry ]

"Flat affect?"

[ The state where a patient loses the ability to feel any emotions, currently the player has temporarily lost his ability to feel emotions such as fear, hate and anger. This was probably the response of the player's brain came up with to keep the player from going insane during the first teat ]

That did seem to make sense when he thought about it but who is to tell that the voice wasn't lying.

[ the system simply has no reason to lie ]

It was then that he realized that the voice, system, can hear his thoughts. Then what was this system anyway? Was it God or something?

Seeing as to how he didn't respond it was clear that it couldn't answer his question. Or did it not know the answer itself?

"Then what do I do now?"

[ player can choose one of two paths ]

"What are the choices"

[ One. Player can go back to the stage one, 'the black space' as player describes it ]

Okay so option one was out of question, he just got out of that hellish place why would he ever want to go back there?

[ Two. Player can choose to follow the system and go to a new world ]

"I choose the second option" no questions need to be asked, no negotiations need to be made.

[ Player has chosen to bond with the system ]

[ Player Shen Mingze has overcome "agoraphobia", "Nyctophobia" and "Megalophobia" ]

[ As a reward the player has gained an early access to the system, two personal attributes and three draw opportunities ]

The statement came as a shock to Shen Mingze, when he said he agreed to the second option; he was perfectly ready to be treated as a slave by this system.

Though he had no idea what the system was talking about, him overcoming agrophobia.. Or something and what not but the rewards he got he could instinctively tell were something good, that being said, maybe he should try to figure out what those rewards meant.

Shen Mingze recovered from the shock a bit too quickly and tried to follow the instructions that the system was giving him.

As he did what he was told he was able to open a screen like thing, the screen was white like that of a computer's and the words written on it were in golden colors, truly very flashy.

In front of him was his profile, which was detailed to the point of being creepy, if Shin Mingze still had his sense of fear he would be having goosebumps.

Why did there have to be a column registering his waist size and- nevermind, somethings are better left unknown.

When he scrolled down a bit he found the column for the "attributes", the system was talking about.

[ Personal attributes : Musician of the soul(Legend), A smith that doesn't only like smithing(Rare)

Note : a personal attribute isn't something the player can just buy, if the player wants to unlock other attributes as well please work hard to obtain and practice new skills ]

To his surprise the so-called personal attributes really did suit him, he was half expecting to draw something like "king of shadows" or something. No matter how old he was right now he still had the heart of a 17 year old.

And he wants to make a fact clear here, skills related to shadows can never not be cool.

While pouting Shen Mingze scrolls down further. It seems like there isn't anything interesting here anymore, oh wait..