Hahaha! Hello there everyone. Shadowedge27 here back again. It's been sometime and I felt a bit motivated to try my hand on something new. Well, not new since gamer fics have been around for a long time but this is something I want to try my hand in too. Also, to make this a bit different than some of the gamer fics I have read this gamer ability will be based on another manhwa rather than on 'The Gamer'. Or rather, I am taking a little bit of both and mixing in my own twist to the gamer ability.

Also, the situation is a bit similar to that of 'Playing our Roles' but it's not Roman.

Asterion

I crack my eye open and sat up quickly once the pain set in. I groaned when I felt like my everything hurt. I hugged myself for a bit while squeezing my eyes shut before realizing something. It wasn't eyes. It was eye. I only felt one of my eyes responding to my commands. In a panic I instinctively reach out and touch my left eye with my left hand only to feel a burned wound as if hot metal had been pressed on to my face.

I then looked down, only to see that instead of sitting up on my bed I was on solid ground. Looking around I find myself in what appears to be a quarry with the sun still able to reach me from my left. He saw that the other peoples around him seem to wearing simple shirts and pants (albeit dirty shirts and pants) while some of them wore what was more akin to rags. I looked down to see I was no better. The only thing I had on me was a badly torn pants and a shirt full of holes. In my right hand, I was gripping a pick axe.

That seemed weird since it was known that dust was incredibly volatile so using a pick axe seemed a bit risky…

Wait, how did I know I, no we, are mining dusts?

Suddenly, pain erupted in my head like a volcano. It was so painful that I could barely let out a whimper as images and voices are forced into me. After what felt like an agonizingly long the pain eventually subsided. I moved my head side to side in an attempt to shake of the pain but soon discovered that the action was meaningless when a message popped in front of me.

Skill: Longevity activated. Migraine is healed.

I looked at the blue text box with those black words on it blankly, blinking a few times to make sense of this. It couldn't be. This must be a dream. I am going to wake up any second now back at home. That's right. All I have to do is just lay back down and close my eyes and everything will be alright.

"Hey faunus! Get back to work! Those dust aren't going to mine themselves!" a voice called out. I turned to the source to see a very pissed off man wearing a white uniform glaring at me.

I gulped. I really hope this is a dream.

A few hours later

Like my previous life, I decided to just follow orders like a good little boy. I wanted to argue that I knew nothing of how to mine but that migraine earlier fixed that. Apparently, that migraine was caused by having Adam's memories being pushed into me. Either that or our souls merged but I ended up being the dominant personality.

I wasn't sure which to hope for, Adam dead and his memories are now downloaded into me or Adam and I fused together. I hope it was the first but there was a chance it was the latter as I find myself thinking things that I normally don't think or imagine. Because of this I had knowledge of how to mine.

Oh, I also figured out I was Adam freaking Taurus. What were the odds? After the first hour I was desperate and tried to see if anything would happen if I said 'status'. I wasn't sure what I was hoping for but when the blue scree appearing in front of me showing my name and stats, I knew that I was at least dreaming about myself being a gamer.

Name: Adam Taurus

Class: The gamer

Level: 1

Title: none

Job: None

Race: Human (Level 1)

HP: 30/50

MP: 18/18

STR: 8

ENDR:10

AGI: 5

DEX: 7

INT: 8

WIS:10

LUCK: 4

My eye brow rose slightly at the 'human' race thing. Shouldn't I be a faunus or does this system not have that as a race option and thus auto-assigned the race I am closest to. I was also surprised that my wisdom was as high as endurance. I wasn't surprise by endurance being that high since if the pain I was experiencing earlier was any sign, Adam must have gotten a lot of punishment.

I then looked at his four passive skills.

Blessing of longevity: Poison, status effect and disease will be healed and sleeping will explosively increase regeneration.

Rehabilitation: The ability to recover dismembered body parts.

Growth: The ability to grow stronger through increasing level and stats.

Mining: Level 14 (The ability to mine anything effectively. The higher the level the more effective your mining skills are. At current level you can mine low level dust with only 30 percent chance an accident will occur. Not recommended mining higher grade dust)

I looked at Adam's body and then looked back up. "I'm eight or nine and they could force Adam of all people, to push himself to work that much for them?" I felt disgusted at this. Who would be so heartless to… oh wait.

I sigh as I closed the menu and refocus on my work. If I don't wake up in another hour or so then I am definitely not dreaming.

Skill: mining has leveled up!

"Thank you." I grumbled underneath my breath.

After another hour I discovered a new bar.

Fatigue: 100/100 has been reached!

This instantly caused my body to fall onto my back, drenched in sweat. "Oh god, fatigue must be how tired I am and when I reach one hundred, I lose all my energy. Status."

True enough, there was a bar there that showed his fatigue but also another stat that he missed.

Stamina: 20

"Huh, so I guess I increase my stamina it will take longer for my fatigue bar to fill up." I muttered, "So that means I will have to either level up or train this bodies stamina the old fashion way." Now that I think about it, I could increase my stamina through any form of work out right? Though jogging and swimming were probably the best.

Intelligence has increased by 1

Wisdom increased by 1

Ignoring the messages, I continued my line of thought. That is, if I have the time. Slowly, fatigue overcame me and I closed my eyes for a bit. After what felt like seconds I was woken up by another miner. He seemed to be a lizard faunus if his eyes and scales indicated anything.

"Kid, you really need to watch what where and when you sleep. This is like the third time this week!" He chastised. According to Adam's memories, this man is called Greg. "I managed to cover you for a bit but I think ten minutes is as much as you can risk when taking a nap here. Don't want our overseers seeing one of us slacking off."

Greg sighed, "Adam, I know you do a lot of work, better than most really, but you need to pace yourself. Do things slow and easy so that you don't keep collapsing like this. I mean, being able to keep going at it for two hours of hard labor before you collapse completely is an amazing feat at your age but still…"

I nodded. He was right. The reason I pushed myself here was because I thought that I was like the first gamer who could keep going at it as long as he doesn't run out of HP and MP but I was wrong. This feels closer to the second gamer I read about in Solo Leveling. I looked at my fatigue to see it is now only 2/3 full.

I sigh internally. This means I don't have Gamer's mind, an OP mental buff, and Gamer's body, the ability where any damage I take is only reflected as losing HP. Meaning I can get wounded which would weaken me, if not momentarily disable me, in fights until I heal.

Great, just great. While I like Solo Leveling more than The Gamer it was obvious that The Gamer's version of the ability was better than that of Solo Leveling in some ways like skill books, being able to increase stats from training them and Gamer's mind and Gamer's body were better than the passive buff that the main character in Solo Leveling started off with. If I had a choice than I would have gone with the Gamer's version than the Solo Leveling. Not only that I was against the Necromancer ability since in Solo Leveling Necromancy is used by extracting the mana in the dead body. In other words, it is only usable on animals or peoples since Grimm fades away after they die.

And I am against using that ability on people.

Intelligence has increased by 1

Intelligence increased by 1

Wisdom increased by 1

Yeah, just like that. I don't recall solo leveling being able to do this but the gamer did. I nodded as the text boxes presented a good example of what I meant.

…

Wait a minute. I blinked a few times after seeing this. Oh my God, is it possible? Is my version of the system not that of Solo Leveling or The Gamer but something else completely? Now that I think about it Solo Leveling did not have DEX as a stat and the gamer has DEX but DEX was basically AGI in Solo Leveling. But here, they are two different stats. I also have Stamina as a stat too and luck was something in the Gamer, not Solo Leveling.

On top of that, there was a race level. I played a game where you are a certain race and by reaching level ten of said race you can then change to a better version of the race. Like a normal vampire can then change to high vampire then elder vampire. This was not in any of the Gamers system. But it is in mine.

Now that I think about it, DEX isn't supposed to be for speed but skill. So, that means the higher my DEX the better I can utilize my skills? If that is so that DEX maybe a stat that effects the effectiveness of a skill. That means it can be trained from me mining.

Intelligence has increased by 1

Thanks for telling me I am right. Or, at least, mostly right. I opened up my status to see my intelligence is now eleven and my wisdom is twelve. I tried to focus on intelligence and what I saw made me choke on air.

INT: Ones intelligence. The higher it is the larger your mana pool is. INT is also required to understand the theory behind a technique. The higher it is, the faster you understand the theory and the better said understanding is. Allows you to learn faster from reading and being taught.

Okay so Intelligence worked like both Gamers but with the twist of the last info. It basically means that I won't be able to learn skills from crushing runes or absorbing skill books. But wait, if intelligence only helped me to learn the theory then that would mean…

I change my focus onto DEX. I sigh at what I saw.

DEX: Ones skillfulness. The higher the stat is the more skillful you are. Assists you in applying theory of skills and techniques into practice. Also grants better eye and hand coordination.

Great, this means that even if I understood the theory, it would be useless if my DEX wasn't high enough to help me apply the theory into practice. On top of that, if the skill I am trying to learn require a certain amount of strength or agility or any other stats than he would have to train those too.

If anything, my version just made it harder for him to learn new skills.

"What are you doing Adam?" Greg asked as he stared at me, "Times wasting and you're just sitting there staring at a rock."

I closed my stats and smiled at him, "Sorry, I was just lost in thought you know. I've got a lot to worry about and feel like crap right now." I answered as I got up, "Thanks for taking care of me Greg and I'll be sure to pace myself better." After giving Greg a small bow, I returned to my mining. After all, right now I am Adam Taurus. I practically stole his life even if it was an accident so I felt obligated to do my best to take care of her while I am here. After all, after Adam's parents died in the accident, she is the only family he had left.

With that thought, a sense of comfort filled my chest for a moment before vanishing the next second. That was definitely a sign Adam is still in here somewhere. I smiled. Even with everything going on at least I know I didn't kill Adam from taking his body, at least not completely. Not only that I have a goal now. I have something to work towards and after figuring out how to leave this place I will start thinking about what to do with the knowledge I have about the future of this world.

But for now, I have a sister who needs me.

Okay so this is the beginning of basically another gamer fic. Not sure how this will go but I hope this can help me get back on writing. For those familiar with the fics I have written before. If all things go well, I might also release a rewrite of Hero, Beast or warrior and rise of the fallen. Even though I didn't write doesn't mean I didn't think about those fics and how I could have made them better.