Sitting down on the couch William reluctantly called the system.
[ does host want to collect the rewards]
The systems voice sounded out, William took a deep breath and nodded, "yes" William said
[ host has 3 rewards with three choices for each reward please choose]
[reward 1: technology trees ]
[ 1: entire level two civilization technology tree, with entire level one civilization technology tree](can't have one without the other, be advised the civilization level isn't from the Kardashevscale it covers all aspects, biology, physics etc )
[ 2: Star Wars universe technology tree, with alternative technology tree for substitute for tibana gas, fuel etc](without the force, capable of making substitutes for Star Wars materials and other technology.)
[3: halo universe technology tree,human, covenant and forerunner]
[the reward will stay up untill host chooses the reward please choose wisely] William heard the system say, William also thought he heard the system laughing at him.
Ignoring that he began to think, although the Star Wars universe is technically a type two possibly three civilization William felt that it was a trap, as for the halo universe he thought it was also a form of trap especially since there wasn't any () , sighing William laid back on the couch.
He stared at the Stars in the sky through the back door he came through earlier and a spark went through his mind, sitting up a flicker of realization came across his face.
"I choose halo universe knowledge" he said confidently the system was silent.
[ fuc- ahem congratulations on choosing the halo universe knowledge, host the rewards will be distributed after you choose all rewards] the system said and William had a smug expression for a second qas he heard the system accidentally slip in its speech.
He didn't care about option 1 as he just didn't want the system to give him some alien civilization technology archive that he could not use , so he dismissed it entirely.
Nodding he said "next reward please" and the system continued.
[ reward 2: abilities]
[ 1: inter-dimensional trader](capable of trading with other dimensions) (from a novel on YouTube think it's called sold a bucket of noodles to get a interstellar battleship or sold a bucket of noodles to get an elf maiden or something misleading like that)
[ 2: percent memory/photographic memory](capable of remembering everything perfectly)
[ 3. Ability to take anything out of games,movies etc](basically if you reach your hand to the screen you can reach in and take anything out whether it be a video game or anything) (also from a YouTube video (though it has a bit of propaganda about how great a certain country is) it's decent, the video is called I can reach into the game and bring it to the real world or something similar)
William thought for a long time weighing the options, the ability to take things out of games,movies and more is great and all but William felt it wasn't worth it in the end because what if he reaches into a game and brings out more than what he wants, he doesn't want fucking space marines coming out of the game if he reaches into games like warhammer or anything so that was immediately rolled out and as for the interdimensional trader, it's a good ability and all but he might not get anywhere with it like what if he can't trade with someone cause they want his soul so the ability will be stuck untill he trades or something similar.
So after going through what ifs and the pros and cons he finally went with perfectmemory, for two reasons,one he thinks the system will yeet the halo universe knowledge into his mind and not give him a hard drive or anything and the knowledge would go to waste or crash his brain,two he thinks the system fucked him over somewhere and thinks he should remember his past life's better to actually understand if he was being toyed with, well he knows that getting the ability from the system to find faults with the system is kind of stupid but he doesn't have any other options that he can think of currently anyway.
"I choose number two, perfect memory/photographic memory" William said calmly.
[*bang* *extremely faint whispering*….okay host congratulations on gaining the ability of perfect memory/photographic memory,host the rewards will be distributed after you choose all the rewards] the system said, William's right eye twitched but he ignored the system.
The next reward popped up without William asking.
[reward 3:the last gift ]
William's eyebrow raised at the name but continued to see the options.
[ 1. Biological immortality]( your body will be at the peak of human potential, your body will have eternal youth and lifespan, your healing factor is improved to the fullest extent possible but you can die if three(actual)suns fall on you)
[ 2. The wildfire virus]( from the world of the walking dead, will receive a complete vial of the virus and host can choose to destroy the world if he so chooses)
[3. Complete immunity ]( able to be completely immune to any virus and illness, able to completely stop attacks that cloud the mind etc)
[ those are the reward options host please don't choose rashly and think, once you choose the reward, they will be distributed to you]
William heard the system say as he read the options.
Several days passed and William completely sold everything he owned even the luxury clothing and shoes, the screen was still up in the corner of his vision.
He had bought some brand less plain clothes and shoes and went to a five star hotel booking a suite for a month,after eating in the restaurant of the hotel he returned to his room.
Sitting down he sighed, William had been thinking about the three options for quite some time and he was quite indecisive.
First is every single human's dream to be immortal, indeed he wants to be immortal but does he truly?!?, second is the wildfire virus which is a zombie apocalypse virus that is based on a tv show which is really popular in America there are even spinoffs, William thought about it, he doesn't want the world to go into chaos because of one reason he doesn't want humanity to lose itself.
So he waved that option, and finally the immunity William thought long and hard the system gave him this option and William couldn't feel any traps, his gut told him to choose this, his heart told him to choose this, but his mind wants immortality, he battled for a few days with all the options and couldn't make up his mind so he got ten quarters and decided to let fate choose,heads for immortality, tails for immunity.
Laying them on the table he began to flip them, the quarter went up flipping and he grabbed it putting it on the table.
Heads,tails,tails, heads, tails, heads, tails, tails, heads, tails.
He looked at the numbers 4 in favor of immortality 6 in favor of immunity, 6:4.
William pulled up the system and said with full certainty.
"I choose immunity" his voice was clear he no longer needed to think the coins have decided his fate.
[ *clap* . *clap*. *clap*, I am surprised you didn't choose immortality, we thought you would but you didn't, how unpredictable humans are, congratulations truly William the rewards will be distributed to you when you go to sleep, this is goodbye William son of man you have impressed us, from all the people of the TriangulumGalaxy we congratulate you and hope to see you again one day William son of man or your descendants]
William heard the system say and was confused by the information, Triangulum Galaxy, the system wasn't real?!?, there were aliens watching humanity, but he calmed down quite fast.
"Triangulum Galaxy?, so the system wasn't real" his voice sounded out.
[indeed we are from the TriangulumGalaxy and the system it was a concept we found in what you humans call the internet and after choosing you we had sent you into two distinct universes, although a few of the programs went rouge through an unknown method and awakened your consciousness so we had to improvise] the being said through his head.
"I see and the rewards and choices were that improvisation" he said and got an affirmative response .
After a few seconds he asked "well did I pass?" His voice was very quiet but full of expectation.
[ if you didn't we would not be talking, now this is goodbye William son of mankind we are no longer staying in this solar system our experiment is over, this is a final goodbye son of man I hope your race will one day be on par with ours..] the Triangulum Galaxy alien said before it went silent
William nodded and going out to the patio he waved his hand goodbye to the night sky, after a few minutes he returned to the room.
"So they were simulated universes or worlds , how interesting" William said as he laid down on the bed, he wasn't mad anymore because well you can't fuck with aliens or else earth might be atoms if they are mad, and well he seemed to be relieved in a way, a weight off his chest.
He came to a few conclusions such as the aliens of the Triangulum Galaxy were advanced enough to be able to copy technology from the halo universe.
William was calm although he wouldn't forget the lifetimes he had he would move forward and he would race to the stars with his fellow humans and together mankind would defend itself against all the milky ways galaxy had to offer just because the aliens of the Triangulum Galaxy were friendly-ish doesn't mean that other races were.
So William though skeptical that the aliens might put in something in his body to possibly kill him if they wanted he could only lie down and go to sleep.
——
Several figures appeared in the room, William was sound asleep his breathing calm.
The creatures had crystallized bodies their forms similar to humans in shape.
One of the crystal beings body seemed to change color turning into a green like substance.
"Don't be nervous the human is asleep" a crystal creature appeared behind him and said calming the anxious crystal being.
"I'm not nervous, but are you sure that it is okay with the galactic council to give-" before the being could continue he got a stern look from across the room, shutting him up completely.
" enough recruit" the being said and all the crystal being went back to a clear crystallized glass showing they're calm.
The recruit nodded and with several scientists and others began to hook up machines to the humans body.
" are we going to add a tool sir" said a crystal scientist looking at the commander of the operation.
" the human does not deserve it, their civilization is of no threat to us even if we gave them everything and tought them how to use it ,they are like mere children not worthy of our attention if it wasn't for the captains orders I would not be here plus the human races lifespan is so short that even if we gave him the life extension technology and what humans call halo technology it's still not worth the resources to give him a biobomb or a control tool " the crystal beings leader said in contempt for humanity and scoffed at the scientist.
he was absolutely proud that his civilization was a level 3 civilization on what humanity calls the Kardashev scale though if it was using a different scale his civilization would be a level 4.(biology,chemistry,technology etc)
The scientist thought for a second and distain was also etched into his crystals and nodded continuing to work on the human imbedding the knowledge into his head and improving his body's immunity.
The crystal recruit who was on the mission wanted to speak but got a stern glance by his leader to shut it, so reluctantly he stood guard his weapon at the ready for anything though it was rather useless.
After a while the beings left, leaving Williams body and returning to their ship, they didn't care about Williams earlier promise of leading humanity across the stars if anything they scoffed at him being foolish.
A few moments went by before William opened his eyes slightly he could somewhat understand their speech and heard the conversation but he then silently went back to sleep as his brain was constantly pounding him.
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The next day William saw on the news that a massive asteroid the size of 4km came from behind the dark side of the moon scaring astronomers and fellow humans alike, it was a massive buzz before a man in glasses appeared just as there were about to be zero dollar shopping spree on a wide scale.
"Attention ladies and gentlemen" the man in glasses appeared on tv screens all over the planet, his calm voice and composure instantly calmed down everyone but before it did 34,000 men and women were raped and 30,000 human men and women were killed in cold blood across the United States abroad was worse even countries like china where hit hard but their murder rates were slightly under the United States by 3 deaths.
"I am doctor John gardener, I have been informed by my colleagues at the Lowell Observatory and UnitedStatesNavalObservatory that the asteroid jokingly named jumbo pop by the masses will cause no harm whatsoever to earth, this asteroid has been hidden by the moon and has just recently escaped the dark side of the moon, I have come here by order of the United States with a joint effort of the United Nations to inform you of this." Doctor John gardener spoke calmly.
William turned away from the tv ignoring the news anchors questions or whatever they do and sighed, "so they were hidden in the dark side of the moon how…ironic" he mumbled.
The next couple days William got used to his refreshed body and watched the news about a gruesome string of murders by this individual or how a billionaire's daughter was raped by her security guards and lost her virginity etc, William was quite speechless about the various news stories that kept coming out.
"Humanity such a complex race" he murmured as he looked at the billionaire daughter's picture on the phone screen, she was quite pretty and around his age as well, William was currently 26 years old though he felt way older.
" pity i couldn't take her first time" he said outright as he then scrolled to the pictures of the bodyguards, they had bulky bodies but they were very ugly looking.
He sighed and smiled, it seems he is going to indulge himself like an animal but first he will buy a abandoned factory and land, then he will purchase materials..
Getting up he proceeded to take a taxi to a car dealership he needed some wheels.
William continued to scroll through his phone on the taxi surprisingly the world went back to its original self before the asteroid or well alien ship, there was a few price hikes for survival supplies and guns and stuff but it quickly fell apart back to it original price , though William noticed that the military and police were out in force arresting people who had been involved in muders and other crimes.
After going through a police checkpoint he went to a ford dealership and after paying the taxi driver he entered the store.
After a minute a cute girl wearing a simple white shirt, black jacket with black pants and high heels approached she had long silky brown hair and bluish grey eyes.
William looked at her she was very attractive but he had more pressing concerns such as buying a car, going to prison and killing a few rapists etc, William wasn't a hero or anything like that but he saw the billionaires daughter and decided to make her his woman almost immediately when he saw her picture but then the news anchor began to talk and he grew upset , but then again William wasn't one to touch second hand goods but with halo technology he could help the girl so he decided he was bored anyway so might as well do something plus she was a 10/10 in Williams view.
"Hello sir are you here to buy a car Or do you need help with servicing your vehicle?" The girl inquired as she approached.
William smiled and said " I am here to buy a cargo van and possibly a everyday car as well" , the girl looked thoughtful and looked at his appearance, but decided not to judge.
" okay sir ,follow me" she said, William walked through looking at the cars and after some comparison with what he had envisioned he then pointed to a white 2024 Ford Transit Cargo Van T‑150 which costed around 46k not far away.
"I will take this one and that one, let's do the paperwork" William said and also pointed to a black colored 2025 Ford F‑150 STX, William didn't actually have a place to store them yet but nevertheless he wanted to buy them.
"I-I excuse me sir are you sure?" The girl asked tentatively.
"Yeah, come let's go do the paperwork please I have some business soon which requires my attention so if you would be so kind as to help me do the paperwork and quickly do the payment process I would appreciate it" William said while looking at a 300 dollar watch he bought and said politely as possible.
The girl quickly nodded in a polite manner and smiled "very well sir if you could follow me this way I would be very happy to help you" she said looking William up and down before leading him towards a room.
Entering the room the girl quickly asked to wait here for a while before she left, William waited for a while untill the girl came with another person.
After some time William walked out of the building with the car keys to the truck and after setting the paperwork in the passenger side he quickly started it up and left, he would return tomorrow to pick up the truck.
After some time he made it to his next destination….