Surviving in my Own Unpublished Failed Novel

The existence of Towers, Dungeons, System, and Constellations… one of the overused genres a person could read in modern world literature... where there were Towers that appeared suddenly one day, and everyone was granted a System from an unknown origin alongside the appearance of mysterious Towers and Dungeons that gives a person various rewards upon its raid completion otherwise death, and the myths of humanity which are called Constellations or simply put, 'Gods and Demons' that have absolute 'Authority' within their holy or unholy domain became the reality as one might think that they were just a product of human imaginations through countless eons of adaptation and delusions and yet…

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Date: July 19, 2022

- Ding!

[Astronomical Event!]

[Emergence of Races]

[The Constellations of the Great Realms have decided to move the different races from different habitable planets across the Great Universe to Planet 342!

The Constellation, 'Earth's Mirror Image' had stretched the Planet 342 or Earth like a dough!

New lands of various climates and bodies of water will begin to bloom in this world.

Temporary Universal Warps have been set randomly in different coordinates to be opened across the world.

The Constellation, 'Warper of Space' had warped multitudes of different races on Planet Earth!

Races from other worlds have arrived, scattered randomly in their new world!

The new races will now adapt to the Earth's atmosphere and will cause the "Mana" to be consolidated in the said world.]

...

The date when a cataclysmic event called "Emergence of Races" shocked humanity as the landscapes and bodies of water stretched in and out like dough through an unknown force.

The Earth became seven times its original diameter, and unknown lands, mountains, forests, and bodies of water suddenly sprouted out of nowhere that caused an earthquake that broke the number of the seismic scale, thought to be an extinction event where the human population had been stripped down to three billion people where almost 5 billion died with the incident dubbed as the "Forlorn of Humanity" where normal order instantly crumbled.

This event caused the seven continents of the planet to be combined into one, destroying the normal climate, and turning everything into chaos.

Great confusion and fear plunged the people's minds that day.

...

Date: July 21, 2022

Two days after the unknown disaster struck the human world.

- Ding!

[For the natural inhabitants of the said world called "Planet 342" or Planet Earth, Status Window and System will be granted to adapt to the new conditions unknown to them, and Towers and Dungeons will open and be formed respectively!

General information about the Status Window, the System, and many more will be announced seven days from now!]

The message from the System informed the whole of humanity as the new species that was plunged onto a fantasy-like world all of a sudden.

People who play games and read fantasy novels as a hobby at that time had at least a general idea of what the Status Window and the System were unlike the people who were not so engaged in the said game-like element and novel genres.

...

Date: July 28, 2022

- Ding!

[Announcement for the whole of humanity!]

Here is the general information regarding the Status Window and System!

PLAYER

- You will be called a 'Player' from this moment onwards.

STATUS WINDOW

- You can check your own "Status Window" by saying it verbally or through your mind.

- Status Window provides you the information about yourself, here is an example of the Status Window:

STATUS WINDOW

Name: XXX YYY

Race: H

Title: ???

Health Points: XX

Mana Points: YY

Stamina Points: XY

Age: XX Years Old (Earth Years)

Sex: Male/Female

Height: X

Planet: Earth

Rank: ???

Profession/s: ???

Constellation: ???

– STATS:

Strength: ???

Dexterity: ???

Constitution: ???

Agility: ???

Vitality: ???

Perception: ???

Willpower: ???

Tenacity: ???

Charm: ???

Luck: ???

Magic Power: ???

Divine Power: [Can only be unlocked if the contracted Constellation is a Neutral or Divine Constellation]

Evil Power: [Can only be unlocked if the contracted Constellation is an Evil Constellation]

– Unique Skill ???

– Skills: ???

– Trait: ???

– Authority: ???

[There are three types of Status Window; first, the Simplified which only shows general information such as name, race, profession, and Constellation; second, the Standard which shows what's written above, and lastly, the third, the Detailed which shows the average Growth Rate of the 'Player' as well as other information that might be helpful, depending on one's circumstances.]

SYSTEM

The one that provides information regarding different circumstances. The functionality of the System sometimes depends on the person's rank ranging from F- to SSS+

HUMAN REALM RANKING LIST according to the SYSTEM:

F-, F, F+

E-, E, E+

D-, D, D+

C-, C, C+

B-, B, B+

A-, A, A+

S-, S, S+

SS-, SS, SS+

SSS-, SSS, SSS+

F- being the lowest, and SSS+ being the highest.

Some even theorize that there is beyond the SSS+, but no known human has ever achieved such a feat.

CONSTELLATIONS:

"Gods or Demons that we thought as Myth, and gods or demons never known by the human mind until they were mentioned in the System"

There are good, evil, and neutral gods that oversee humanity and the other races that started to live with us during the Emergence of Races.

Authority is given by a Constellation

TOWERS:

Gigantic Towers appeared out of nowhere during the Emergence of Races.

There is no exact number of Towers known as the modern satellites during the Emergence were all destroyed due to Earth's size, getting wider.

DUNGEONS:

It can be found inside the Towers where monsters of Chaos reside, but there are also dungeons outside the Tower, hence the existence of dungeon core, without it the dungeon outside will be automatically closed.

CHAOS MIASMA

No known information aside from the System telling a player, "You have killed a monster with abundant Chaos miasma" when a player kills a monster from a Dungeon.

...

Date: May 07, 2062

An average-looking man with deep black hair, deep blue eyes, a height of at least 170 cm, and a type of body that was not thin, but not thick either was lying on a single bed perpendicular to a gray, comfortable, long couch that could at least fit five people in sitting position and a small yellow-brown study desk intersecting them.

The man closed the book he was holding which was called, 'Encyclopedia of the Emergence' that was written by a renowned someone called, 'Emmanuel Lyncoster' — a scholar and researcher, that was contracted with the Constellation [One Who Oversees the Past].

Due to his contracted Constellation, specifically the Authority that's given to him which was called 'Backward Clairvoyance', he could passively memorize all of the information that the System had shown him, especially major announcements that concerned humanity.

For some reason, System messages that concern the world or the entirety of humanity cannot be browsed again after some time after its announcement, that's when Emmanuel's Authority comes in.

It was the notion of most people who didn't know Emmanuel Lyncoster personally, but the 'Backward Clairvoyance' could let him sneak and observe the past of a person, vividly at that as if it was another reality, thanks to the divine authority that was granted to him.

...

The man with deep black hair and deep blue eyes put the book written by Emmanuel Lyncoster beside him, atop the study desk.

Then after a few seconds, he muttered...

"Status Window"

Russell Moon

Race: Human

Title: None

Health Points (HP): 200

Mana Points (MP): 90

Stamina Points (SP): 150

Age: 16 (Earth Years)

Sex: Male

Height: 170 cm

Planet: Earth

Rank: F

Profession: Summoner, Swordsman, and Reaper

Constellation: None

– STATS:

Strength: 15

Dexterity: 14

Constitution: 15

Agility: 12 (+4)

Vitality: 15 (+5)

Willpower: 11

Tenacity: 11

Charm: 7

Luck: 7

Magic Power: 9

– Unique Skill: NONE

– Skills:

Summon Creature (Lvl. 0)

Rank: F-

Cost: 10 MP

- Summons a creature you have once defeated

- The summoned creature will have an additional all stats + 1

Creatures that you can summon:

1. Slime

Cost: 1 MP per minute to retain the summon

- A fluid-like creature that is considered the weakest, it is very flexible.

Basic Swordsmanship (Passive) (Lvl. 0)

Rank: F-

- You can perform the basics of swordsmanship which does not make you stronger, so never hope that you can survive a dungeon with only this.

Basic Scythemanship (Passive) (Lvl. 0)

Rank: F-

- You can perform the basics of scythemanship which does not make you stronger, so never hope that it can defend you in grave danger, this can even kill you if you are careless by accidentally culling yourself.

– Trait: NONE

– Authority: NONE

...

"Sigh…"

A sigh escaped from Russell's mouth as he read his Status Window because he was reminded of how trash he was based on his stats. Also, as if the System was mocking him with the description of his Basic Swordsmanship and Basic Scythemanship, causing him to let out a self-deprecating chuckle.

Russell then stood up from his bed, stretching out his arms as he yawned, looking around the room where he was right now. A room where the living and bedroom were combined into one, a simple kitchen and bath. No food stocks were stored in the mini refrigerator and no notable pieces of furniture could be found aside from a 16-inch rectangular television with its four sides colored in black and a wall clock sticking itself in the wall just above the television as if the two were partners in materialism.

'If I'm not used to this, I'd probably complain by now.'

After stretching for a few seconds, he took some clothes and a towel from a small cabinet, a meter away from the television's left side before taking a bath.

"At least I know many things that others probably don't."

Russell randomly mumbled, recalling again his trash stats as he walked into the bath with an expression of contemplation.

...

After doing some grocery of ready-to-eat meals, he quickly shut the door and got back to his seat where two computer monitors were brightly on that seemingly do not rest.

"Yes! That's 100k USD baby!"

A heterochromatic man with deep black hair and a thin build shouted in his bedroom inside his very own apartment, prompting him to stand up from where he was sitting just now.

He just made a hundred thousand dollars from shorting the stocks of S.S. Pharmaceutical company, though it may not be that big from the super-rich people's perspective, as a hardworking person in regards to stocks or investing, it was a fine sum that would help him for a few months.

Ding-! Ding-!

An endless notification from one of the monitors stopped the man from celebrating what he just earned and prompted him to take a seat and look into it.

Click-! Click-!

JustYourReader: [Yo! When are you going to release your novel? I can't wait to read it!]

YouWannaSlap?!: [Da hell! Why can't you just wait?]

[Message…]

...

The heterochromatic man was a novel writer or at least aspiring to be one, and those messages were from a forum where different writers and readers gathered to publish and read novels respectively.

Aside from doing stocks or investment, the man just got the urge to write a novel, though he was not confident in writing one as he considered this as a past time when waiting for stock results sometimes, in the span of three years, he managed to finish his first novel called [The Forgotten Swordsman of Ruined Star], but it seems like a twisted fate as he was on his way to go to the publishing company that he had talks with prior, an unfortunate accident happened where he saved an old woman crossing the pedestrian lane from an incoming supercar at that and died at the age of 33 years old.

...

Russel Moon was snapped out of his thoughts, sending his senses into reality as he looked in the mirror, seeing his reflection where he saw his wet, deep black hair as he just finished taking a bath, deep blue eyes that seemed like they contained the deepness of an ocean and highness of the cloudless skies.

Yes, he was reincarnated as an unknown character inside his novel that he didn't manage to publish.

That also means that he has the knowledge of the future, and easter egg-like scenarios that he can utilize that might hardly affect the main story.

These easter egg-like scenarios were scenes in the novel he have written that did not have an elaborate explanation for it, but catches the main function or purpose of it; also some items, skills, unique skill and trait that can be acquired, and great authority that was forgotten in the novel… that he can utilize.

"Sweet…"

Russell muttered, combing his wet, deep black hair.

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[Author's Note]

Thank you, Reader, if you started my "first" book.

I hope you read the two reminders before reading Chapter 1. Enjoy the story along the way!