Reborn as System

A cunning lawyer shot dead by a plaintiff's victim for defending a sexual predator, his soul hovers in various universes trying to slip through the dimensional cracks.



Until... Fate brought him to a new body named Liam, a child in a mystical world in a civilization inhabited by dangerous entities and untold conflicts. Not only was he born again, but he also has a mysterious existence called “system” that authorized him to ravage the world.



He, guided by the mysterious entity referred to as "system" will take him on various types of adventures; learning every magic, mastering every weapon, understanding every martial, and destroying anything that stands in his way.



But wait, something went wrong... Turns out there was no system! It was nothing more than a cunning lawyer’s scheme to manipulate an innocent child. His soul failed to take over the child's body, now he is silent with a foul plan to wait for the time of rebirth.



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[Warning! Host caught up in the enemy's plan!]



"Three seconds before he attacked, I knew. My system is never wrong," Liam whispered as he plunged the knife into his enemy's throat.



Reality: He developed extreme paranoia after being betrayed multiple times. Every stranger was considered a threat, they were enemies before he even met them.



[Host uses a skill named: "Predator's Gaze"]



'As soon as I look into their eyes, they tremble. This system makes my aura scary,' he said to himself, marveling at the entity called system.



Reality: The look in his eyes was full of hatred and emptiness, as well as not sleeping for more than a week and being locked in a dark room for 40 days.



[Congratulations! Host successfully unlocked the skill: "Unbreakable Focus"]



"If it wasn't for this skill, I would've panicked when my guts were spilling out," he said flatly, while reinserting his intestines.



Reality: He was experiencing acute derealization due to severe mental illness, his mind could no longer distinguish between horror and reality.



[Congratulations! Host successfully accessed the hidden skill: "Mind Split"]



"One part of my mind fights, one part thinks. This skill is amazing," he said in a life-and-death battle.



Reality: Liam has dissociative disorder, multiple personalities formed due to constant mental torture; one of his alter egos is a coping mechanism from guilt.



[Congratulations! Passive skill acquired: "Emotion Suppression"]



"Hahahahaha!!! I didn't feel anything even when I killed those children!!!" he said, in a hollow maniacal laughter.



Reality: Liam suffered emotional numbness from being forced to make cruel decisions for the sake of survival too many times, system is just a cover for rationalization.



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ZERO TO HERO



Protagonists can't just turn someone into a tomato juice within the first chapter. That also doesn't mean readers will be faced with boring repetitive leveling, like having to kill 1 million slimes just to level up 1 level.



TWO PROTAGONISTS?



Lawyer and Liam are one person even though they have opposite personalities. The combination of a naive kid who could die silly without knowing his potential, with a cunning lawyer with no real power other than his insight; is the journey of one complex individual.



RPG WORLD SETTINGS?



The system is nothing more than a falsity that the lawyer has created, hence he does not have the godlike abilities that the general system is known for. Even so, the world mechanics still work within the framework of popularly known RPGs.



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