In the middle of a small dingy apartment, a young man by the name Klaus was reading in his room like any other day.
"Man, this one is getting boring, too," Klaus sighed as he tossed the manga on the floor.
"Nothing good to read anymore... It's all the same, rinse and repeat," Klaus said as he stood up and walked to his computer.
Booting up his old excuse of a computer, Kluas began looking at illegal websites for any good reads he could find.
After searching for a few dozen minutes, he found a website that seemed to have an extensive collection of all types of manga. Pressing the random recommendation, Kluas was taken to a screen that had a list of questions.
[Are you looking for something interesting?]
[Yes/No]
"What is this?" Klaus wondered as he scrolled through the page to see that it was a ten-question survey.
"Is this to show me the kind of manga I would like...I guess this page is way interactive than all the others I have been on
Pressing "yes" to the first question, Klaus moved on to the next.
[Please pick two:]
[Action/Fantasy/Adventure/Horror/Mystery/Hentai/Iseki]
[Fantasy/Hentai]
[If you could be any class, what would it be]
[Warrior/Mage/Assassin/Tank/Healer/Monk]
[Mage]
[What race would you be if you were to choose]
[Human/Elf/Dwarf/Dragon/Beatskin/Demon/Angel]
[Beastkin]
...
"Hopefully it will give me a manga I will enjoy," Klaus said as he finished answering the questions and leaned back in his seat.
As he watched the screen continue to load, a new message appeared, but it wasn't what he was expecting.
[New World Found]
[Beginning Transorting]
"Transport..."
Before he could even register the message, Klaus found himself being turned into small blue-and-white particles.
"What the hell!!?"
Suddenly finding himself flying past stars, planets, and solar systems, Klaus could not help but be in shock from what was happening.
[Host has chosen the class Mage]
[Host has selected the race Beatskin]
[Host has chosen the subclass: Summoner]
[Host has chosen a staff as a weapon]
[Host has chosen to live a self-indulgent life]
...
"Host this and host that, what is happening?" Klaus asked about the messages that continued popping up one after the other.
[All of the host choices had been registered. Beginning best route selection]
[New Race: Naga]
[New Class: Grand Magus]
[New Soul Weapon: The Weaver's Lament{Staff}]
[Beginning body Reconstruction]
As the last notification rang out, Klaus felt a sudden jolt of pain shoot down his back. But before he could even recover from it, another shock of pain filled his arms and spread.
It wasn't like breaking a bone or cutting skin. This was deeper. It felt like his very cells were being torn apart and then forced back together, one by one. A cold fire burned through his veins, rewriting him from the inside out.
He screamed, a raw, animal sound. His back arched off the table as his spine felt like it was being ground into dust and then forged anew, stronger than steel. His muscles liquefied and re-knitted, and his nerves were set on fire and re-woven like threads of burning wire. He was being unmade and remade, and every second was pure agony.
But through the pain, something else began to happen. As his old, weak body was destroyed, it felt like old scars on his soul were being burned away. The fire of the reconstruction scoured out every fear and every regret he carried. It was the most painful thing he had ever felt, but with every piece of his past that was destroyed, he felt lighter.
The pain began to feel less like torture and more like a forge. It was hammering his soul into something harder, sharper, and purer. He was being purified through suffering.
His senses exploded. He could suddenly hear the hum of energy in the void and see it around him. His mind, once a chaotic mess, felt as if it were being wiped clean and rebuilt, faster and clearer than ever before.
Then, it all stopped. The pain vanished, leaving a ringing silence.
Klaus lay there, breathing heavily. He was the same person, but everything about him was different. He had been broken down to his very essence and rebuilt into something more. The pain was gone, but the power it left behind remained.
"W...what was that?" Klasu asked, the feeling of the excruciating pain still fresh in his mind.
[Body Reconstruction completed]
[Mind Strengthening Completed]
[Soul Strengthening Completed]
Taking a few minutes to calm down and recover from the reconstructions, Klaus found himself able to sit up, no longer floating in the endless void but sitting on a mattress.
Looking around, Klaus immediately knew he was not in his apartment. This place was blamed just as if it were newly built.
[Welcome to New Gaia host]
"The message screen...what did you do to me?...where am I?" Klaus asked in anger as he saw the transparent blue screen appear once more.
[I gave the host what he wished for]
"...What I wished for...you mean the bullshit survey?"
[Correct...But I would not call it 'bullshit']
"Okay, so you're telling me that thing I went through, you turned me into a naga...and put me in another world?" Klaus asked
[Yes. But now the host can live the self-indulgent life he wished for. Most would kill to be in your position.]
"...self-indulgent life...okay, let's say I get to have this 'blessing' of yours...where am I?"
[This is the world of New Gaia]
"New Gaia"
[Yes, New Gaia was a world just like yours, but one day, 50 years ago, portals began to open all over the world, flooding the world with monsters, elves, dwarves, dragons, and other fantasy creatures. To survive, humans awakened the ability to use mana, allowing them to fight back and survive against the new challenges. Now, those who have the ability to use mana can travel into those portals and kill monsters to get stronger and prevent the flood of monsters from appearing once more,] explained the screen
"So am I one of those people...that can use magic?" Klaus asked
[Well, you are part Naga now but yes, you can use magic]
"I see...and you're saying I can live however I want, do as I wish?"
[Well, you have to get strong enough to stand unchallenged, but yes]
Hearing that, Klaus could not help but forget about the pain he had gone through. He realized that he was given a blessing a life away from the normal and mundane a life of excitemnt and constant chnages...a life worth living.