Chaos System

[Thity minutes remaining, till the Choas System starts]

[Fifteen minutes remaining, till the Chaos System starts]

[Ten minutes remaining, tlll the Chaos Systems starts ]

....

Roland watched the countdown slowly drop, he couldn't help getting a little jubilant. The previous excitement he had for the system started to return.

Luckily this time there wasn't any wait, after a few minutes, Roland felt his mind shift and his conciousness move. 

Darkness.

That was the only thing that Roland could see, he looked around and saw nothing. It was a dead and dark space. 

'Is this the system? Or did I go blind?' This type of development was weird but Roland thought it was the former. He appeared in this place as soon as the countdown ended. But now the question is, what exactly is this place? 

'Can I at least get a speck of light.' Roland was annoyed at the lack of light.

Just then, his vision became clear, well more like it turned into night vision animal detection. The entire space seemed to be filled with dark smoke that floated everywhere. 

The smoke slowly parted. 

The first thing Roland saw was the over-sized robe and weird clothes he was wearing. He looked like a kid wearing his parents clothes'What are these clothes?'

He shifted his focuse and found himself in an empty square, similar to an empty swimming pool. There was a plethora of giant statures standing around the square. They were at least the size of a house, and were surrounded by black smoke and only their outlines were prominent.

The statures were wearing robs and armour, while others held weapons and staffs, others held books and weird apparatus.

Their faces were blurry, Roland couldn't see their appearances, but from the vague outlines, he could tell that they were all attractive.

Curious about their identities. Roland noticed that all of them were facing one direction. He walked out of the square and saw a huge temple. Behind the temple was a tall mountain, concealed by dark clouds.

The temple had pillars serving as walls, it was in the shape of a rectangle. It resembled the temple of Greek God, Zeus, from Roland's memories, but this one was intact.

Driven by curiosity, Roland quickly arrived in front of the temple, the black smoke parted away in front of him. Similar armed statures covered in black smoke were 'guarding' the temple. 

"Am I just small or is everyone big?" Roland said some misunderstanding words, while touching the stature. His words were unfounded, his total height didn't even reach the statures knees.

It was cold to the touch, and had a glossy yet metallic feeling. Roland couldn't discern what material but it looked sturdy.

'What is this place? Are these statures? Or where they people once?' Roland felt like this place was apart of something big.

With a curious mind he wandered inside and arrived in a giant hall. He couldn't really see properly but he noticed a huge throne the size of a house at the end of the room. Looking at the huge exquisite throne, Roland had a strong urge to seat on it.

'Everything's plus size huh..' Roland thought as he looked up the thrown, which was taller then him. He jumped up and climbed on the throne using the decorations.

As soon as he sat down, the long robe and clothes on Roland's body slowly shrank to his size and adjusted. A bunch of prompts and screens popped up one after another.

'What a novel design of a system.' Roland felt his blood kick up due to excitement.

Roland focused his attention on a screen, the screen suddenly enlarged and appeared in front of him. There was a three-dimensional image of a human body. It was similar to the statures outside but this one was wearing Roland's clothes. There was information right besides the figure.

[Interface]

Title: none

Species: Dragon,(hatchling)

Experience value: None

Fabric substance: 17 500

Assasment Comprehensive strength: Value is too low, ignored.

'Is this like my status window? Experience value? Looks like I'm actually a dragon.' Being a gamer and a fantasy lover in his previous life, Roland's mood improved when he saw this 'interface'. 

He realised something and was infuriated,' Comprehensive strength is too low? Am I not gonna get instantly strong? Where's my golden finger? Who designed this piece of trash? After all my hard work!'

Roland's dream of having an instant success was shattered, he became gloomy and a bit depressed. He shifted his gaze and the 'interface' window was closed, the one behind it enlarged.

'This... looks like a skill tree!' Roland became interested. 

There were three icons in the middle and two lines that extended outwards, towards other icons. The others were greyed out, except one. When he focused on the middle icon, the corresponding motion followed. A large eye opened and closed, repeatedly.

[Skill tree] 

[1. {Fabric conversion: intermediate}(Active skill- able to convert various substance into fabric substance and absobe it. Each time costs 1 fabric substance, lasts for an hour)]

This one was a hand with a stone, and the stone was tuned into a pile of sand. Roland instantly recognised this one, it was his saving grace.

[New skill]

[1.{Keen intuition}: early (Passive ability - grants the user an in-depth understanding of their surroundings and enables the analysis of the status of any target.).

'Just two skills? How am I suppose to make bricks without clay?' Roland felt like ripping out his own hair, he vengfully closed the 'window'. 

The one behind it enlargened and he heard the corresponding prompt, [The pond of Styx is available; move to pond to increase experience value and start evolution]

'Pond of Styx? Where is it?' Just as he wondered that, his mind became foggy. His eyes became dull and he looked in a certain direction and his eyes wavered as if he was attracted by something. His body begun to move on it's own, like a zombie, he got up and left the temple.

He walked out the temple, past the stature and onto a sandy road, filled with Sharp rocks. The black smoke slowly cleared and made way for him. He walked for a while and he stepped on a sharp rock that caused him pain, his mind cleared and he regained his consciousness. 

'Which lowlife designed this system? What kind of feature is this?' He broke out in a cold sweat just from thinking about it. Roland felt his mind getting drowsy but he fought the drowsyness, there was a vague feeling in his heart as he looked towards a certain direction. 

'Where is it trying to take me? Is it that pond of Styx? If so I'll go on my own.' Roland was a lazy person in his previous life but the idea of not being conscious and your body being in use, scared him ever since a sleeping boy was assaulted during his high school year.

'Hopefully I can find my way back.' Roland thought of the times he'd get lost in his previous life due to his terrible sense of direction. 

He couldn't see past five meters around him, the smoke cleared for him, but returned back to it's position afterwards. It was as if there was a sphere around him

Roland felt the ground beneath his feet change from, sand and rocks to lush grass. 

Roland frowned, without the pain, he felt the feeling in his heart get stronger and stronger, every step he took made his heart tremble in anticipation. 

Before Roland realised it, he had lost control of his body and his mind was filled with fog. The last thing he remembered was seeing a Forrest.

After a while, Roland's mind cleared, 'Damn it I lost control! Can't this feature be turned off! Where are the settings?'

Roland didn't dwell on it further and felt that his body was actually floating in a body of water, strangely enough, he couldn't discern the temperature of the water.

Roland frowned, he moved forward attempting to get up, but his body actually moved backwards, plunging him into the water. He panicked and instinctively held his breadth and tried to swim up, but the more he struggled the quicker he plummeted further into the water.

As soon as Roland's whole body got submerged, a tingling feeling started appearing around his body, but he wasn't paying attention to it.

[Body cleansing initiated, removing impurities, 1%]

[Body cleansing initiated, removing impurities, 2%]

[Body cleansing initiated, removing impurities, 3%]

... 

Just then, the voice of the system sounded, along with a familiar screen, but Roland busy struggling to swim up. A few seconds later, Roland couldn't hold his breadth any longer and took a deep breadth. Strangely enough, he discovered he could breadth 'underwater'. 

'Aren't I a dragon? When did I become a fish? I don't remember jumping over a gate!' Roland calmed down. 

Because of the familiar screen, Roland was confused by this system. He hadn't seen a system like this, from the multiple light novels in his previous world. Weather it was the interface or the 'world', everything was new to him.

[Body cleansing initiated, removing impurities, 30%]

The progression-bar was climbing at an increasing rate. Suddenly Roland felt a mild but irritating pain. The pain was coming from all over his body, every nerve and every cell, felt like it was on a sizzling frying pan, even though he was 'underwater'.

After a while, Roland frowned, the pain was becoming more irritating, and unbearable. Roland grunted in pain, even with his pain tolerance, he couldn't bare it anymore. He screamed out and almost fainted, luckily it didn't take long for the progressions bar to finally reached it's destination.

As soon as the progress was done, the pain stopped and a familiar cool and soothing feeling appeared. Roland's body begun to rise and floated to the surface. 

*Bang* 

Just then an explosion came from the sky and some of the dark clouds parted, and became less dense. Roland had an innate feeling, that the previously dead space, was 'alive' somehow.

Roland found himself in a pond surrounded by trees, what was strange was that the trees were moving back and forth and leaves were blown into the air, but there wasn't any breeze or wind.

'What type of system is this? Don't tell me it's some survival thing!' Roland swam ashore and looked around. 

He thought of something and looked back at the pond and the corresponding information appeared.

[Item]

[Pond of Styx: Function; Helps clean the body and remove impurities. Strengthens the body.]

Roland's mood improved a bit, ' I guess, it isn't a useless skill After all!'

[Plant]

[Chaos tree]

The skill was still active, Roland was surprised when he saw the information. 'The hack is a chaos tree? Come to think about it, what is this system even about?'

This was his new skill, {keen intuition}. Although he still thought it was useless it came in handy just now.

'Forget it, let's return to the temple, but which way is it?' Just as Roland thought of that, the familiar foggy feeling returned and his body began to move on it's own.

Roland quickly entered the forest. While walking on the forest, he noticed that there weren't any animals in sight, not even the common fireflies or ants. 

It wasn't long before he reached the outskirts. This forest wasn't that big.

The black fog had cleared consirably, not far away, was a huge mountain with lush vegetation, but his dull eyes were drawn towards the temple located at the bottom.

Roland's mind cleared and he found himself standing in a square. 

'Hopefully I won't start going mad.' Roland wiped the cold sweat from his forhead. He didn't realise when he got here.

Just then, he felt the whole space shaking and his mind returned to his body. 

Roland opened his eyes, and saw a bunch of burly man surrounding him, he frowned and looked down, his heart nearly jumped out of his chest because he was naked.

'!!!'