After reciting the description, still stunned at the information, Arthur looks up at the diety in front of him waiting for an explanation.
“Well, to be honest, I had anticipated the first two. The “Outworlder” title is pretty much a given since many have been through the same experience as you, although more intentional than your circumstance”
“There are other Outworlders out there ? ”
“Yes there are honey. Although rare, there are many that manage to move universes through multiple means”
“T-That means..”
“It could happen, so no need to lose hope okay” she confirms with a motherly smile of reassurance.
With renewed hope, Arthur sets aside his worries and gingerly states : “Okay… what of the other two titles?”
“Now that’s where things get interesting. The “Mortal God” title is a special one that I had some involvement in its conception. As it states you one of my many endless children to truly represent my quintessence, being the embodiment of two of the of the most extreme concepts. It also acts as a way for me to help you without enlarging the target on your back. ”
“How…”
“That would be for you to discover on your own.” She says in a firm, undeniable tone.
“O-okay”
“Now for the last title…I am confused”
“W-what?”
“I dont know how it came to be. ”
“You dont know at all?”
“I mean I can largely put together how it would come to be but its potential is unknown to me.”
“O-oh”
“But not to worry! At least it helps in your growth. So put it out of your mind for now.”
Before Arthur could add one more thing to his list of worries, Certus continues
“Alright first things first, be ready”
“R-Ready for w-what? ”
“For the titles’ effect to manifest and settle in you”
In the instant, without being given time to react, an overwhelming pressure starts settling on his shoulders, intent to crush him. Like the weight of a world, the pressure prevents a single breath from gracing his lungs as Arthur falls to his knees while his heartbeat starts to lessen. The loss of breath, overwhelming pressure and increased panic threatens to embrace him into oblivion, the pressure suddenly transforms to profuse euphoria, bothering to intoxication. The feeling stretches on for seemingly an eternity before it abruptly ended leaving craving for more.
“Now That we got that out of the way, let's go for the finishing touches” Mother Certus says as she lays a hand on Arthur, spring away the devastating and crippling craving that overtook him.
“T-Thanks. But… what finishing touches ?”
“Well, to remove the scent the gods are following so to speak.”
As he continues looking at her in confusion she continues :
“You see, when you arrived and assimilated the system, a huge pulse of divine power radiated from this location and spread throughout the whole of reality, this is usually the means by which gods recognize the rise of a newcomer in their fold.”
“O-Okay so that would mean that they are used to this kind of event right? Wouldn’t that make it so that the other gods wouldn’t bother to come check?”
“True… but the problem with you though is that the amount of divine energy that was released from your ‘Ascension’ was way more than usual due to the system trying to compensate for you still being a mortal”
“Oh…”
“Now dont be so glum. As I stated, we’ll throw them off and give ourselves some breathing space”
“H-How?”
“By doing the one thing they cannot interfere in… Creating”
“C-Creating?”
“Yes, Creating!! To be precise your Divine Realm.”
The Creator’s declaration makes Arthur remember the tab written ‘Realm’ that had Non Available on the side . Obviously she referring to that aspect of his status. After breathing deeply to settle himself he answers :
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“Okay. Let’s do this. ”
“Alright, Now I recon you got your beginning amount of creatia, so I'll have you open your skills tab and choose the [Hand of creation] skill”
At the comment, Arthur realizes that some changes have occurred to his status after the drug trip that was his title activation
Name
Arthur - Race Human Title
Outworlder, Mortal God, Impossibility
Level 0 HP 1,000/1,000 Mana 1,000/1,000 CREATIA 100,000 EXP 00000/10,000 Vit 115 End 113 Res 110 Str 116 Agi 105 Int 125 Wis 126
Realm :
N/A
Influence
N/A
More options
Skills/Mantle/Mercatus/…
Seeing the increase of his stats confirmed the activation of the titles’ effects even though he could not currently measure the extent of this proliferation. A thing for later. Right now though, he opens the skill option tab:
Skills :
* Adaptable tongue
* Environmental adaptability
* Divine tongue
* True sight
* Hand of creation
* High elemental affinity
* True descent
Selecting the needed skill, he gets its description :
Hand of Creation : the basic power of a god, the skill allows for the creation of anything imaginable, If you have the requirements necessary for such an endeavor. Utilizes Creatia as fuel to allow for the function of skill to take effect.
As he reads aloud the description of the skill, Arthur notices the sudden amount of Creatia he has gained and hesitantly asks about it,
“It's not really surprising for you to gain Creatia as all other gods do gain their starter amount just as they ascend and assimilate with the system. The wave of divine energy is an aftereffect of that. The peculiarity is the amount you have. ”
“Why?”
“Well you have approximately 100 times the normal amount awarded to a newly ascendant. But that is pretty self explanatory for your situation. Either way that means more to work with which is good.”
Arthur nods in response even though he was clueless to the implication.
“Now Arthur, we dont have much time left before the first arrive here, I need you to activate the skill okay? Just focus on it and think of the world realm and concentrate hard.”
Arthur does as tasked. He seats on his chair again to feel more comfortable and closes his eyes to concentrate : he thinks of the task at hand and tries to vainly empty his mind of all distraction. With that not working he takes a different path : since he is to create his divine realm, he’ll use the many creation myths from earth as examples to help him. He remembered the book of genesis from Christian faith, the genesis of Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, the creation of the world from Egyptian, Chinese and Japanese mythology all the way to African myths from the Yoruba and the San people.
As he visualized all of them and tried to apply it to the skill, he said by instinct : “REALM ”
And all went dark …