The Myriad Gate Apprentice

On the day the conscription notice hit, Logan Hall had just finished his last shift as a three-year temp at a hardware factory—no permanent position, but signing up for a colony planet slot was a sure thing. All five faces in his family looked at him: you're the most idle one at home. Then he fell asleep, and his consciousness was cast into a body named Kyle Knott, a college menial, landing in the Victorian-style steam city of Lamberton, with a medal that heats up in his pocket and a chatterbox named Pete who practices swordsmanship with him using a tree branch. The panel said: accumulate 80 points of information-state particles, pass the level consistently, and the skills are yours. Logan Hall did the math: die once, respawn in a new shell; if you can't die from training, train until you're dead. The only thing he didn't calculate was that his first shell would die in chapter thirty—before dying, he entrusted the medal and half a sword manual to his next life's self. — Description from novelcodex.org