Arthur, now the embodiment of confusion itself, stares on dumbly to the game like vision in front of him, unable to wrap his heads on everything occurring to him so far.
“What the hell is going on ? ” his voice barely whisper, for fear of more anomalies popping up from his question. Unfortunately it seems not all the weirdness of the moment was done.
“Interesting”
“What?! Who?!” With a sudden surge of energy, Arthur gets up and whips his head in all directions, searching for the origin of the voice.
“Calm down Arthur, there’s nothing to fear. ” with an unnaturally soothing tone, the voice manages to calm him enough not the fall into another panic attack.
“Where are you? ”
“I am everywhere my silly child” the voice’s tinkling chuckles seems to lessen Arthur’s panic even more.
“Who are you then? What do you want from me ” Arthur asks, now with a calm tone betrayed with a layer of caution.
“I go by many names, the Administrator to some, the mother of all, Father of creation, even the Never-ending Authority, but you can call me Mother or Father Certus .”
The voice, Arthur realizes, has a genderless tone, making it impossible if it was from a male or female speaker.Before he muses more about this, the voice continues
“You are an interesting specimen, you do know that right?”
“How so?” Arthur asks with unease
“You do know you’re no longer on Earth, correct? ”
“W-What do you mean ?”
“As a matter of fact, you’re not even in your native universe”
“This, this…” he mutters in mind numbing stunners
“A joke… it must be a joke. ha ha ha Yeah a prank that those assholes pulled on me again ” he says, laughing deliriously.
“This isn’t Shawn or Kevin’s doing Arthur nor is it fake”
A silence descends as he recognizes the name of his two friends
“How do you know them?! What did you do to them?!”
“Silly child, How would a parent not know their children’s names”
“B-But that would what you said is true that I’m not…” he mumbles incorrigibly unable to continue.
“ No! its Impossible! For me to not be in my universe… how would I have left it !!!”
“That is a mystery to me as well”
“But you said you’re known as the father or mother of creation, right? If you are as you claim to be, How would you not know?”
“You remember the vision right?”
“Which vision ?”
“The one where you saw the beginning of all”
“The vis- AAARGH!!!!” A splitting headache suddenly flares from trying to remember the vison he saw in the trance. Falling over once more, he is thankfully caught by firm but tender and loving hands, the figure starts to sing to him, easing the headache and taking it away.
“It seems that you are not ready yet to see it again, peculiar”
Still too dumb from the pain to speak, Arthur tiredly lifts his head to look at the person holding him as beholds them.
A being of impossible beauty stood there holding him. They were taller than him, the size of which a comparison with a parent and their young child would be appropriate. They had genderless features veering closely to female, with eyes that nothing but orbs opening up to universes inside of them. The figure held a loving, parental gaze as they watched him. Arthur instinctually became embarrassed, like a child would , beholden to such affection.
“W-who a-are you?”
“I told you silly”
“M-Mother Certus?”
A widening smile was all the answer he needed.
As he beheld her, he saw more than the form that the entity took, her face seemed to encapsulate a millions suns, casting a halo of light around it; her every breath reminiscent of the gales of all kinds of winds from the normal to the cosmic types. The solidity of her figure, seemed to emulated the heavy presence of mountains and planets, her smiling lips casting a shadow of resemblance of the crescent moon on a calm night.
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“G-God?”
“Well that was how you called me on Earth as I recall. So yes, it is me.”
As Arthur started understanding the situation he was in, he numbly asked in whimpering tone: “A-Am I dead?”
“Oh far from it dear child”
“So… how are you in front of me speaking to me?”
“It would be better to look again at your status screen to better understand ”
As if on instinct, the status screen reappears in front of him and Arthur forcefully calms himself to better read the wordings of the nonsensical screen floating in his vision
System initialization Complete
All Hail the rise of a new DEITY!!!
Welcome to the world of Alphina
Loading user status…
Name
Arthur - Race Human Title
Outworlder, Mortal God, Impossibility
Level 0 HP 1000/1000 Mana 1000/1000 CREATIA EXP 00000/10000 Vit 100 End 98 Res 95 Str 101 Agi 91 Int 109 Wis 110
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“A-Alphina? ”
“That’s the name of where you are right now”
“I dont know how…”
“I know you’re still confused but we have to speed things up, okay?”
“O-Okay..”
“Here, sit and eat. You’re just skin and bones”
As if by magic, a table and two chairs appear on Arthur’s right, the table filled with all the food he used to eat when he was still a kid living with his parents.
Like a switch, his stomach rumbles a mighty sound, and Arthur, realizing how famished he was, sits on the table and gorges himself of the food presented.
“Slow, silly child”Chuckles Mother Certus “The food isn’t going anywhere”
Like a sheepish child, Arthurs slows his speed and continues eating till his fill.
“All good?”
“Y-yeah thank you for the food”
“Aww, don’t mention it” she responds with a smile “Now I want you to look at your Status again, carefully this time okay?”
“O-Okay”
Arthur starts reading the status again, and near instantly he noticed a weird thing
“Why does it say the rise of a new deity?” He nervously asks
With the widest smile he ever saw her make She responds :
“Because it is.”
“W-What?”
“Arthur, you liked to read fantasy stories right?”
Embarrassed he answers meekly “Y-Yeah”
“Well what happened to you is much the same as in those story. You got.. what’s the word… Oh yeah Isekaied” she says while chuckling
Mouth agape, Arthur really sets in the circumstance he’s in.
“So the system is also real?” He asks himself with almost childlike excitement
“Yeah it is, kinda.”
“Huh?”
“Read the name of the system”
“Godus System?”
“And after?”
“All hail the rise of a new deity?” Realization sets in as he asks in stutters: “It doesn’t mean…”
“Yes it does ” with an excited proud smile “It means you, my newborn godling”
“H-How? This system is…”
“… not meant to be accessible to you at all”
Arthur is even more shocked by the new revelation
“Now I know that in many of your favorite fantasy, the Main character would arrive in a new world with an edge, that being a system, but reality is different. Which is why your situation is at the same time an overwhelming momentous but also infinitely more dangerous occasion”
“W-Why?”
“Because only Gods have access to the system, It is called the godus system for a reason”
As if his mind exploded, he finally understands the position he is in. At first he is overwhelmed with immense excitement and wonder at what he has access to and the potential paths open to him, but , not soon after, he becomes overwhelmed with intense fear and dread as it fully sets in what he has.
“T-Take it back, please”
“Im sorry but I can’t, unless you want to be erased from existence” seeing his horror stricken face she continues “when the system is fully assimilated, it becomes ingrained into your being, becoming inseparable to you.”
“B-But those gods…”
“While it is good you understand the danger you’re in, it is not hopeless either”
“H-How”
“Easy you just have to fully become a god yourself. As you are, you are in a special, never before seen, position in the divine hierarchy. Check your titles, what do you see ? ”
As he goes to check, numb to the goddess’ declaration, he sees three titles. Just as he focuses on them new words come to accompany each title :
OUTWORLDER : A being out of space and time, You have managed to live not only your home planet but also your home universe. For such a feat you are granted the title of Outworlder. With it you gain : [adaptable tongue], [Environmental adaptability],+ 5 % to all stats
MORTAL GOD: A Living Dichotomy worthy of being called a child of Certus . Being both a mortal and a god, you enjoy the best of both world no matter how meager in comparison. You Gain : [Divine tongue], [True sight], [Hand of creation], [High elemental affinity], [True descent], CREATIA stat unlocked, +10% to all stats
IMPOSSIBILITY: You are the epitome of impossiblity, an ineffable existence anathema to all the existential origins. You are inconceivable to all but the three, yet even they cannot fully understand your being yet you can slowly understand them. You gain : [ineffable],[Unlimited potential], [????]