Evolving Ghost System: Phantom Universe Expansion Pack

"Welcome to Ghost Cape Falls, Adventurer."

"You've gotten a new quest, survive the culling."

"Wait… error… error… something is wrong! I am unable to offer you a quest! There appears to be a glitch with your soul! Please go to the nearest NPC or face deletion in 3 minutes."

"Huh, Error? Harvard fluttered open his eyes. He appeared to have two arms and two legs with normal eyes. When he looked at his clothes, a small blue box appeared floating over it.

[Basic Leather Armor]

[Defense 1]

[Durability 1 / 5]

'So this is really like a video game?' Harvard had played a few MMORPG games in his day, but never one with ghosts as the main characters. "I don't get it. I'm a ghost. How can I be wearing armor?"

Harvard stepped forward and walked over to a small mirror on the side of a brown room.

The sun had started to come in through the window of wherever he was currently placed. A stat window appeared next to the window that stated it was made of glass and had 3 durability remaining.

It had been a few years since he walked on a surface, and when he made it over to the mirror it was also the first time he saw any semblance of himself.

A man with completely transparent skin appeared in the tinted glass with a set of brown leather armor on his torso and feet. He also had white pupils which made him look especially terrifying to himself. Not exactly the most normal looking ghost in the world. He sighed and looked down at his hand.

[Time remaining to contact NPC]

[1: 46 seconds]

'I guess everything I look at will show me a dialog box? Wait, what am I doing. I should hurry.'

Harvard turned and rushed up to the door.

[Open door?]

[Yes / No?]

"Yes,' Harvard clicked on the dialog box, and the door opened. He walked outside and saw a bustling city full of hundreds of different stalls, shops, and normal looking humans.

He figured one of them was an NPC. A beautiful woman in a white dress paced back nervously a few feet from him with a letter in her hand.

When he looked at her, a dialog box appeared.

[Would you like to accept the quest, rush mail]

[Reward: 5 experience, 10 Lograms (Form of currency)]

"Uhm, excuse me. I need to talk to you." Harvard walked over to the NPC and patted her on the back. "I-I have an error message."

"Oh, that's a shame. You don't want to deliver my letter?" The NPC put away the envelope in her dress pocket and stopped pacing back and forth. She looked up and adjusted her blue eyes to look at him. "What's the problem? Error messagE? Hmmm, is this your first day?"

"I have one minute! Please save me!" Harvard replied. "I-I got told I had a system or something? Could that be the reason."

"A system! Ah, do you have a bandana in your inventory! Look at your right wrist, and a box will appear with 6 different inventory slots."

Harvard nodded his head and focused on his wrist.

[Inventory]

[Current slots available 5 / 6]

[1 /6] [Orange Bandana (special)] (withdraw?]

"Withdraw," Harvard clicked on it once. "Withdraw damn it!"

[Bandana withdrawn. Equip? Y / N?]

"Yes!" Harvard clicked on it, but nothing seemed to happen.

[Are you sure you want to equip?]

"Yes," Harvard screamed! "Equip it!"

[System is activating…]

[Error has been rectified. You are now free to choose a screen name, adventurer.]

"How about Vortex?" Harvard got a username taken message. and tried again "Harvard? Iis the screen name Harvard taken?"

[You cannot use your own name as your screen name. Please try again.]

"Is King Gear taken? I-I don't mind that name too much."

[Username input failed. You've been granted the username Hamlord automatically. Harvard, may you have fun on your conquest."

"Hamlord... Are you serious?" Harvard wanted to puke at his username. "What do I do now?" He asked the cute, dimpled NPC. She'd returned to pacing with her letter, and seemed to take it very seriously.

"Oh, you're back!" She smiled. "Would you like to deliver my letter. You shouldn't have to worry about the culling with your system! Thanks Hamlord!"

'I-I'm going to hate this.' Harvard took the letter and put it in his pocket.

[Quest accepted!]

[Deliver the letter to location 96.53.25.]

[System feature activated! Compass!]

"Well, that's handy," Harvard noticed a small compass appeared when he looked forward. "So, I just deliver a letter."

Harvard found the location pretty easily. It was just on the other side of the small town.

The ghost town had hundreds of small shanties on the outskirts with some spawning creatures. There were ghost slimes, which literally were just slimes with transparent bodies that looked like rain drops moving around.

A few players took turns slaying them. Luckily, the respawn was pretty good.

[Ghost Slime]

[level 1]

[Vitality : F-]

Harvard ignored the slimes and walked over to a small house by a large tree. It had a sign 'do not trespass in the front, but since he had the letter he knocked on the door.

"Go away! No more damn letters!" A voice complained. "I quit! I'm not being an NPC anymore, damnit! Go away!"

'Quit being an NPC?' "Excuse me, but can I slide the letter under the door."

"You're the last one!" A tall man opened the door and grabbed the letter from Harvards hands. "I don't know why King Yama got me to do this! Dammit! I'm stuck collecting letters for all eternity! What a shit job!"

"Thanks." Harvard sighed and looked down at his quest box. 'Wait, why doesn't it say complete?'

[Quest Update: Return to the female NPC to receive your reward.]

[You have 10 minutes before the mission is failed.]

"This is exactly like a game world," Harvard marveled and walked back towards the NPC. He made it back in 5 minutes, and had enough time to spot 10 other beginner quests. "However, this is real right? What the hell does my system do anyway?"

Harvard walked back to the NPC and received his reward.

[Quest complete: + 10(x2) experience, 12 Lograms (+2)]

"I-I got extra experience because of the system? Is there a tutorial or something?"

Harvard had gotten a chance to read almost 10,000 webnovels in his time in his cell, and knew a little bit how systems worked. Some had earth defying features, while his just seemed completely normal.

"Ugh, does it do anything else! Anything?" Harvard walked over to another NPC, and prepared to accept a quest, but along the way he looked at himself in the mirror.

[System quest available]

[Accept Y / N?]

"I-I have to look in a mirror to use my system menu? Seems kind of inefficient," Harvard muttered to himself while looking at the window on the street. "Accept quest!"

[Quest accepted!]

[Defeat 10,000 Ghost Slimes!]

[Reward: One System gift package!]

"Are you kidding me! Who could kill 10,000 slimes! What is this, the useless quest system?"

Harvard shook his head and tried to tell himself not to do the quest no matter what. There were plenty of other quests! He wasn't going to kill so many slimes in the beginning of this new patch! Wouldn't people greatly out level him if he just killed so many slimes?

He sighed, and went across the town and accepted 10 quests. Luckily, two of them also required him to kill 10 slimes and hundred slimes respectively.

"I'll see how quick I can kill them, and if I can do it in a day, I'll do it! Damn it! I can't imagine what this is going to do to my reputation!"