God Of War: Gacha System

You know, when I said in the morning, I didn't mean this early in the morning.

But in retrospect, I went to sleep early yesterday.

If I slept eight hours then I'd wake up at midnight. Fortunately, I slept longer and woke up when the sun was barely up.

My mind is good... I think. Because I don't think I'm thinking.

I feel blank, I don't have any strong thoughts in my mind to discuss.

"Haah..." A sigh escapes my mouth without me noticing.

I wake up from my bed, simply because I don't want to lay down with my thoughts again.

What even happened yesterday? My best guess is that I got overwhelmed, but why? I'm fine. Or, well, that's what I think, but I shouldn't trust my thoughts.

Let me distract myself for a while.

Looking out the window, the sun is barely up and I wonder what hour could be.

Accommodating the only robe that I have worn for the past few days, I get out of the house and run through the city.

In Sparta, children are treated horribly and they basically don't speak unless they are spoken to. This didn't change here. I remember one time I was in history class and I made the comparison that the only thing treated worse than children was slaves, my teacher looked at me weirdly. As if he wanted to correct me but he couldn't find the words to.

Actually, I would give another history lesson, but I'm just not in the mood now...

I ran through the city, confirming my thoughts that this was indeed a big city.

While I run, I notice that I'm surprisingly aware of the small things in the space around me.

The sounds of steps, the shift of the air as people walk, I think I'm even feeling the smell of some people... This feels like a bit of a privacy invasion, but I don't have the luxury to be bothered by iy.

Not thinking about anything specific, I bring up the gacha.

[Gacha - 1/3]

There aren't any options there, so I just switch to my inventory and start browsing through things.

Since I have time now, I inspect everything that I have just by the description on the cards. They don't give any kind of opinion, it's all basic information.

For example, the card of the chakra papers describes their uses, their amount, when were they obtained, and their classification. Simple things.

I'm not inspecting simple things like those. I wanted to inspect the more special cards that I have.

The strongest things that I have are The Leviathan, Ludwig, and WhiteNight.

Unfortunately, the assimilation buttons are blocked in all of this, well, there aren't any buttons, but I feel that if I try to assimilate them, I wouldn't be able to.

I was told I needed a card to overcome this or assimilate things similar to them. 

So I would need lesser cards first, something like assimilating a church giant before Ludwig.

The problem lies in my question : Is it because they are monsters, or too different to humans?

What if I got a Saiyan? That's different but similar to humans. Just like Ludwig, a human mutated by the old blood, is.

That's not something I can prove right now, let's change the subject...

Fun fact: Did you know that if I press where the cards come from I can make them change? I discovered this with my inspections.

What I mean is that I accidentally pressed the origin of WhiteNight, and it changed from ¨Project Moon¨ to ¨Lobotomy Corporation¨.

Cool, I guess.

By the way, how am I doing with my assimilations? I got into a fight yesterday, that must be worth something.

[Status - 3/3]

[Name: Arian Wolkoff]

[Race: Human(Demigod)]

[Assimilations: None]

[Assimilation Process:]

-Jason Todd - 71%

-Roland Deschain - 31%

-Peter Parker - 51%

[Progress Bar: 10%]

Big progress.

I get their memories when I sleep as dreams and nightmares, so it would be a bother if I had to do everything that they had done in their lives to complete the assimilation.

Jason started with the biggest percentage and is the closest to completion, I assume it's because my body was already trained (Spartan, you know) and I needed less of his body and more of his experience.

Peter is doing alright, as expected of a Superhuman like him. He's also really smart, I had forgotten about it, but I'm being constantly assaulted with images of academic knowledge. And images of Mary Jane. I'm not talking about that.

Roland is the slowest assimilation by far, and now that I notice, they are 20 percent apart from the next one. I don't know why is he taking so long, maybe there's something special about him.

Like, maybe he's really old and I'm taking time to assimilate his experience, or maybe he knows some magic or has some magic resistance, something that is too different from the current me.

As I said when I pulled him in the gacha, I have never read the Dark Tower, actually, I barely knew it existed, I only remember it because that one time I saw IT, and a friend lore-dropped me that his biggest nemesis was a turtle.

Whatever, I can't do anything about it.

Ugh, why do I have so many problems and I can't do anything about them...

And the spider-sense tingle that I got since yesterday hasn't gone tamer in any manner. 

To top it all off, my mind keeps looking at the world travel card in my inventory.

I have thought much about it and decided that I shouldn't use this card. It's just not the right point.

To where would I even go? Low-level world but with high technology, which one is that? Even if I went there, where exactly would I leave what I obtained from that world? In my house? The one that barely has a door? 

Let's take this even further. Can I even bring back stuff from there? What if I go to said world, take all of their technology and it gets lost in the travel back?

"Hah..." A small and fast sigh escapes my lips.

Damn, I'm stressed.

Can you blame me? I literally have to go to war tomorrow.

Sure, I could get a lot of feats but they wouldn't matter if I lost a leg or something like that, I got Spider-Man's healing factor, not Wolverine's.

Actually, What exactly is a feat? Is killing someone a feat? Subduing them? I didn't made any progress in the feat bar...

[Progress Bar : 10%]

Wait, I did. Is it because I beat up those five yesterday or because I got that weird talk with the Admirer?

If it is for the latter, then that gives me a reason to perform well in the military, if it's the former then I could just go beat up people and that would make it progress faster.

Still, that doesn't answer my question... What exactly is a feat?

[A ¨Feat¨ is...] Too much text about the specifics in this part, I got some parts but not all of it, but basically what my gacha told me is that feats are basically achievements.

I bested five people, so that's an achievement. If I defeat a god, that's an achievement.

Of course, defeating a god won't just give me 10% in the bar, it might give me 200% and I could do 2 ten pulls straight.

Wait a moment... Are these achievements farmable? I mean, if I kill Zeus, then I go to a parallel world, and kill him again, would I get the double credits?

I worded my question correctly and asked the Gacha.

[¨Feats...¨] I've noticed that terms that I gave to the gacha are put in quotation marks, like card and feats [...Are repeatable, but they are also calculated depending on your abilities and the problem. In your example, killing Zeus for the first time won't give you the same reward as killing him for the second time, the same applies to killing him with difficulty and killing him easily] Woah, a detailed explanation, thanks for that Gacha.

Now, why did I ask this? For some ideas, but I'm not going to use them now, maybe after the war, when I'm sure I need them. For now, I have something better to do.

"Gacha, can I be notified every time one of these achievements is fulfilled or repeated, if the notifications can show how much they influence the bar, even better" I ask of the gacha, much different from my orders.

[It shall be done so] Great, thanks.

The sun rises through the buildings of the city, no sweat drips off me as I didn't put too much effort into jogging, and I feel no hunger or thirst.

And I feel great. Not the ¨I'm fine¨ I felt earlier in the morning, but going to jog cleansed my soul, even if just a little bit.

Maybe distracting myself was worth it, for now, at least, I've always heard that running away from your problems doesn't last too long and isn't good for your health. I wouldn't know, I've never faced them directly. 

"Heh~" I laugh at my joke before realizing that didn't sound as fun as I thought.

...

Moving on.

I need to get back to my house quickly, but since the sun is already up, there are more people and I can't teleport or run faster than a normal human could. 

That ¨Normal human¨ loses meaning when you discuss in what world am I, but still, too much attention.

Actually, the world I'm in is high-level, right?

I'm focused on low-level worlds. Shame on me for not thinking of my biggest advantage.

Said advantage is...

Me.

I'm the advantage.

Let me explain while following my thought process.

I'm bothered because I can only go to a low-level world, right? So, I want to go to a high-level one, not exactly but that thought process will work.

But then it hit me.

In what world am I? God Of War, where the current gods beat the Titans, said Titans beat the primordials, said primordials created the whole existence, not even on purpose. If I remember correctly, they had a war, and that resulted in the creation of the universe.

What I'm trying to say is that this is a high-level world by itself, no need to go to, let's say, Dragon Ball and learn Ki when I can just learn this world's power system.

And yes, this world has a power system. It's what I used the day I arrived here, the magic to make myself invisible.

Passing the path to my house, I run faster until I reach the gate, exiting the city and following the forest trail until I'm out of the sight of the guards. At that moment I take my grimoire of my inventory and start summoning mirrors to the same place as yesterday.

Now that we're here, I need to focus and meditate.

And think about the magic of God Of War.

From where do I begin...

Let me start by saying that everyone has magic in themselves, in this universe, magic is basically your life energy, you can specialize in magic, but even if you do, you'll still have to be strong. 

There isn't a fully mana-based build or pure barbarian build.

Since Magic is your life energy, it is also your soul. And certain aspects of magic don't change even if you go to another realm or your original realm dies.

The definition of magic is one of those aspects, magic is your everything because your soul is your everything. If you didn't understood then that's great, because I wanted to explain this further (A/N: Don't blame me, blame the God of War explanation pages)

Souls are the non-physical form of a being, it's made of your whole existence, your luck, your mind, your nature. This doesn't change. I don't have another explanation so you will have to do with this.

The second most important thing about magic is that magic is the source of power. Yes, your size, your muscles, weight, and every other physical aspect matter, but magic matters more.

That's why we see Kratos doing things like resisting Kronos's attempts to crush him, he has more magic than him, and now that I think about it, so will I.

Those are the basics of magic, it's annoying, but it can be even more bothersome, imagine the magic from World Of Darkness...

I swear if I hear the word ¨Tellurian¨ again...

Anyways, all of these are just the basics. Demigods such as myself and Heracles have a different type of magic that's related to Greek godhood. It's not godly magic as it's less powerful and versatile than it. 

As an example, the gods can bestow their powers upon others, teleport at will, curse people, revive them, etc, etc. All of this just by using their magic, their innate divinity. I don't have that

Of course, If I follow canon and kill Ares, then my magic will receive a substantial upgrade once I step up to the god of war.

Then again, it's not like he has killed my family, so no reason to do that. 

Well, if I need an excuse, I can just say that he kidnapped my brother and blamed him for it. But wasn't it Zeus who ordered that?

Ugh, no need to bother with those thoughts. Since I already got what I wanted.

What did I want? 

Well, you see, I wanted to distract myself, enough so that I could feel inside of me and bring out my inner magic. Basically, the same thing I did when I wanted to find the Gacha in me.

Of course, I succeeded, If I was able to find the gacha in the depths of my mind, then magic, which is my literal soul and encompasses my whole existence, should be way easier to find.

I open my eyes.

My body is shining slightly with the same energy that I felt when I turned invisible.

It feels... weird, as in, unfamiliar to my body, like moving a limb I didn't know I had until now. 

When I say ¨shine¨, I mean that the energy shines in my body with no color whatsoever, it's not a color, but it isn't black either.

It shines pale, not pale as in white, but a different kind. 

The kind of pale that comes from something untainted, like a newborn soul. Not that I know what those look like, it just feels like that. Pure.

I try to move this energy.

My first attempts I do it slowly, as if I'm afraid of breaking something in the air, but soon enough I'm fully manipulating my godly energy.

"Why is it so pure, though?... Maybe it's because I'm not a god of anything yet..." It makes sense.

This energy is easy to use, is it because of the essence of control? Damn, I think I'm underestimating it.

"Experiment time." I stand up and start doing, well, experiments.

...

"Useful, really useful" Was my conclusion once I fully passed through everything that this magic had to offer.

Which are(As far as I know); minor telekinesis, sound amplification, invisibility, and body enhancements. This last one can vary greatly. More strength in my punches, more ear range, more flexibility, etc. Maybe with practice, I could enhance specific parts of my body, like a super stomach, or a super kidney.

Still, minor telekinesis is probably the best one here. As sound amplification isn't strong enough for sonar attacks, and invisibility is useful, but not necessary since my assimilated characters are good in stealth.

Unfortunately, they consume my mana, so I can't use them indefinitely.

Now, it would be good to test the resistance this gives me, but I wouldn't know where or how to start. Perhaps by getting sick and using my godly energy to dispel the disease?

No, that's dumb.

"I suppose that we finish here for today." And now what do I do? It's not like I can train something... Well, I can train my body, but that wouldn't give me too many benefits, only a really minor power-up for my godly magic.

I could try to do something that my assimilations would do to further their assimilation progress. Yes... when I fully assimilate them I would also get their life force, right? Another human's life force isn't too much, but it's good for my strength at this point.

The only other way of getting another human's life force is to, quite literally, soul-steal them. I can't or want to do that. Want because that really seems inhumane, can't because I have no way of doing so.

At least Kratos's blades of chaos could do that, but I don't have them. Maybe in the Norse realm could be ways of soul stealing, but I can't go there, can I?

...I can't, right?

Can I use a ticket? No, because, it's a high-level world and I'm weak, but I could just travel the same way Kratos did, right?

Not that they ever showed how he did it...

Well, the most popular theory that dropped once we got the teasers, was that since the GoW world is flat, then he traveled through the border of worlds until he arrived at the next one.

It doesn't make too much sense, but the theory crafters had to make do with what they had.

If this doesn't work, then I could get a world travel ticket that is high-level by nature. That should be pullable. Yes, that's a word. God, I hate this language.

"Wait, what language am I speaking, Greek or English?"

Questions... Questions...

...

...

...

After testing out my godly energy, which I needed to come up with a better name for, I wandered through the streets. 

"I quite literally have nothing to do" Haah.

Some people looked weirdly at me, but I paid it no mind.

Actually, they seemed pretty nervous overall...

Oh, right, tomorrow is the battle. And it's already like 1 PM so people are enjoying what could be their last moments with their family.

Hum, I don't like that too much. 

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to think about this, but this is the normal, right? Both the taste I have and their indifference to battles.

I remember reading that Spartan mothers told their children ¨Return with your shield or in it¨.

Now, that I think about it.

This city sucks.

"Why was I thrown here?" It was probably at random, but still. 

"What happened with reincarnating in Naruto, Dragon Ball or One Piece... No, scratch that, why couldn't I be thrown into a low-level world... Like classroom of the elite, I would be god there with my gacha. " I complained while walking through the streets.

I wasn't just walking though, I was thinking about the things that my assimilations do.

Shooting people? Leave that for the war. Fighting people? Same thing. Helping people? Well, I'm walking through the streets and I'm not finding anyone in need of help.

So, I can't do anything.

But it's not that I needed it. My spider sense stopped flaring, and I hope it's because everything is resolved and I will be safe tomorrow. Was that even Spider-sense at this point? It feels like low-level precognition now...

Godly magic had some level of that, now that I think about it, not that Kratos would know since the only thing he could do was empower himself with it.

Let me check one thing though...

A normal person passes through my side, there's no one else around in case I need to make him believe nothing happened.

And suddenly, I use my godly energy and show it off in his face. Just as raw energy, not telekinesis, just moving my energy in front of him.

In spite of the jumpscare, he doesn't flinch in the slightest and continues on his path like normal.

"Fully invisible." I wanted to test if my energy is invisible by nature or if being invisible is just one of its applications.

Since it's godly energy, I thought it would be invisible to mortals, but it's good to check.

Well, seeing as I have nothing else to do. I will go to eat something.

After that... I don't know, I don't have any plans, and I can't just go to the barracks that my team had assigned. That'd be awkward.

But I'll have to meet them eventually.

Whatever, I'll improvise.

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A/N: Hey.

Not too much to say, so far I've been loving my fic. Also, I've recently learned how magic actually works in GoW, it's easy to oversee since you don't see too much of it besides the results. And because it isn't until the Norse saga that we get an exact dialogue of the magic, even then, I can't fully use it because it's only the same in the basic things.

Eventless chapter btw, war tomorrow.

Hopefully, you enjoyed the chapter, leave a review, and bye bye.