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  Ah... so some else came to watch this game? It's gotten quite busy... you're lucky, we just got a new champion. Yes, I'm talking to you... hmm... pity my true powers don't reach to your plane, looking at you, I would love to have you participate... well...

  Let's watch, shall we? I'm betting on the greenhorn.

  (A blue substance surrounded by darkness, floating within the void, flowing through veins, all of this attached to some orb? Okay, what is this? Some kind of dream? … did I just ask myself whether or not I am in a dream while dreaming? So this is a lucid dream? )

  (...what’s this box doing here? ...not able to sleep? Just what the…)

  (Ehm... okay?)

  (...soul? I don’t even believe in stuff like that, what is this doing inside of my dream?)

  (Yeah, sure. I’m chatting with a blue box of text while looking at some substance flowing through nothingness and not hearing, smelling, or feeling anything. Of course, this is reality.)

  (Go on.)

  (… so… let’s just go along with this. Mana detection allows me to see mana. The only thing I can see is this blue thing. I am this blue thing. And this is reality.)

  (In that case… mind telling me what happened to my legs, arms, head, torso… you know, that stuff that should normally be attached to a human being?)

  (You... are telling me I died? And what’s more, have been reincarnated? As if… … the last thing I remember… no… this can’t be, right? Mom told me to go shopping... I went to the convenience store… then…)

  (that’s… that’s right! But how do you know that?)

  (Just what are you?)

  (Gamer?)

  (Doesn’t this make me someone like Han Jee-Han? Wait… I just got told that I’ve been reincarnated, how can I be this calm about it? Ah… I see. So that’s what Insensible is doing.)

  (So… what am I supposed to do now? This is reincarnation so... save the world? I can’t even see anything but me, much less move around, how am I supposed to do anything like this?)

  (Ah right, manipulation and conversion, was it? So… I’m able to manipulate mana… I am mana… so I should be able to move this body of mine. But... how? I guess this is like learning how to walk, right? You have no idea how, but you’ll somehow get a grasp of it… well, not like I have anything else to do…)

  (The blue substance remains within the veins, but it seems to concentrate on certain locations of the system... and I can choose those locations! I did it!)

  (So… I can move myself around now. What’s next?)

  (Why not conversion?)

  (My sub-host?)

  (Of course!)

  (I’m in a fantasy world alright… elves, check. So this mana actually belongs to someone else? But wouldn’t that mean… he will be able to control me and force me to do what he wants? I don’t want to be used like a tool!)

  (I guess that’s what I will do then…)

  (So I actually get to see a window appear to tell me that… hmm? This isn’t pure blue anymore… but grey? Why is the flow of mana taking on different shades of grey… one, two...)

  (Hmm… those are the lungs, it’s almost white over there… you’re probably right. So… I can see now! Well, I’m going to keep grinding… manipulation hasn’t hit Level 2 yet…)

  Wow… congratulations. What happened?

  (How so?)

  “Well, like this for example.”

  (Did… you just talk? How long has it been since I heard something? That’s awesome! But… could you change your voice? I’m not too much a fan of robot talk…)

  “Is this better?”

  (Much better. So you’re going for a child’s voice?)

  (Yeah, why not.)

  (Ouch! What are you… cookies? Do I smell cookies? ...so you are able to make me perceive stuff that isn’t even there...)

  (No need. Well… let’s keep doing stuff until something happens!)

  Even if those words would not be written down in history… their consequences would write history itself.

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  Spoiler

  My name is Mana Conell.

  I didn't expect much from my life. My... “dream”, if you want to call it such, was to live to the day were VRMMORPG′s would become a reality. Technology was advancing quite fast, so I believed I would get to see that day.

  Reality proved me wrong.

  The only thing I could see was a blue substance. It flowed through what seemed to be veins, originating from and flowing back to a sphere-like object. Other than that, there was nothing but darkness.

  I also noticed that I seemed to lack something that was pretty important to me- my body.

  Am I in some kind of dream?

  I looked at the blue substance for a while, don't know how long. It kept repeating the same process again, and again. Nothing ever changed. If this is a dream, just what is it that my subconscious is trying to tell me?

  It took quite some time until I realized that this blue substance was probably..

  me.

  At first, this was just a thought that went trough my mind since I was bored.. but I noticed that my will had an effect on what the blue substance was doing. Since I was able to move it by my will, it could be called a “body”.

  At that point, I had discovered quite a few things about “me” already. First of all, I probably am part of someones or somethings body. The reason was that “I” was shaped similarly to a human's bloodstream. Also, the sphere that seemed to be the center of myself could be separated into tree parts: a “core” and two hollow semi-spheres around that core. One end of the stream was connected to the first one, and the second with the other.

  While I went through the veins, I slowly became less and less. Then, what remained of me was sucked into the core where I became more again, from where I would flow into the first semi-sphere and then back into the veins. The second semi-sphere stored a large quantity of “me”.

  By focusing on a part of this system, the blue substance within also concentrated itself on that spot. I played around with this, and after a while..

  .. this.. what is this?

  ..and.. what are you?

  ..could this be.. nah, it's just impossible.

  I.. died? And got revived into another world?!? As if. Is this a “lucid dream”??

  ... this.. this can't be! I mean, I was just walking to the convenience store! How could anyone die this way?!

  ... so.. you are telling me I died and have been revived into some kind of game like fantasy world, just like a mainstream lightnovel maincharacter??

  .. I'm surprisingly unaffected by this situation.. shouldn't I be confused, panic, something like that?

  You're insulting me?

  ..well, so I got revived into a game world? As a.. blue.. thing? What am I? Shouldn't there be something like a..

  ..nevermind. So.. I'm a spirit, and I've taken possession of “Personal Mana”? That would mean “I” am someones MP?? Doesn't that mean that I'll be used to cast skills until the day he dies, without even the slightest regards to what I want to do?!? No... I am able to control “myself”, and if I'm better at it than my “owner”.. I guess I should have a look at the skills descriptions..

  Okay... why do I feel like that last section is a bunch of insults being thrown at me? Anyways, what are those skills, the results of a personality test? “Gamer”, “Materialist”, “Adept of highly advanced technology”.. so this is a god's sense of humor? Sigh.. anyways, the only thing I can see is “me”, is there a way to improve this?

  ... so.. it has gotten sentient. Great. Well, someone to talk to. Anyways, I'm supposed to grind Mana detection? How do I even do that?

  ..so, I just keep staring at “me”?

  Something is wrong with this world's system. Anyways, simultaneously grinding manipulation won't hurt I guess... and chatting with Help would have it level up as well?

  And thus, the grinding began.

  After Mana manipulation had reached level 2, I was able to sense the mana that was dissipating from the veins up to a certain range, and after grinding for some time, it hit level 3, doubling that range. Why would a control skill grant me vision? I found out it was because I was now able to control “me” within that distance, however, while I was able to control it, it would still gradually reduce in quantity until it was completely gone. The biggest change was that I was able to draw mana outside of the veins and then back in, as long as there was still enough space.

  And when Mana detection reached level 2.. I was finally able to see. Well.. “see”. I gained the ability to sense the density of the material the mana was flowing through. The world I saw was nothing but shades of gray. The darker something was, the higher its density. But while this didn't compare to having eyes, it has its advantages, I guess.. I have no blind spots, and I can see through objects. Sadly, it only applies to the mana within the “veins”. By changing their shape, I was able to scout the environment. It felt incredibly strange at first, but I got used to it.

  After some time, all of my skills, except for mana conversion, had reached level 4. I was now able to see all of the surrounding Mana within a certain distance, even mana that I could not control, and my “density sense” now also worked with the mana I could control outside of the veins. And when Mana manipulation had hit level 4, that range doubled yet again.

  But the biggest upgrade came when Help hit level 4. It had unlocked “enhanced IO” which was the ability to convert an input into something else. I was now able to “hear” what I saw for example. The movement of my hosts eardrums, which I could perceive with Mana detection, was converted into sound for me to hear, instead of me having to decipher the minuscule movements.

  My "host" was still a little child at that point, but he already started to learn the elven language, I can't fall behind him..