--- Alabaster City, The Guild ---
The shadow taking the shape of a man in a well pressed suit stands next to her. Seemingly towering over her, myself and everyone else in the room. 'Guy is 6 foot and above easily.. not to mention' looking at the top of his head are two black cat ears, with matching strips of fur adorning his cheeks slightly. Sharp yellow cat eyes stare at me for a moment before taking in the rest of the people infront of the counter. He stands with his hands folded behind his back, showing a broad frame.
"Ah, Elise it is always nice to see you." He smiles with his canines predominately sticking out, almost predatory. "And why may I ask you left your post, Persina..." his head moves inches in her direction. Hearing a ruffle of clothes behind me, "Ah- I- Headed back now!" quick footsteps leave in direction of the front door. He looks at the monitor showing.
[Born during the Great Break, Incident#:#REDACTED#, 16 years old no consent required but my own.]
"Well now, I guess that is why I got called." He turns his eyes back towards me seemingly thinking of something before continuing, "Hmm, he is right he only has to register himself. Not requiring your consent Elise." The frown on her face becomes strained, "But the inciden-.. too soon.." her voice trails off in defeat. Turning back I can tell the fight has drained out of her, she knows the rules just as well. Tears glistening slightly at the corner of her eyes she turns to me for a last hope effort to convince me to reconsider. I solemnly shake my head, my fingers quickly glide across the keyboard.
[Do not worry.]
[I will be fine, have some things that I need to do. And we both know I was always going to become a Climber sooner or later.]
The messages popup one after another after hitting enter on the keyboard. Elise looks at the what I can assume is a Beastman, what with the presence he has and his features, though I could be wrong. 'You can never know with some bloodlines.' After giving the man a glare she turns to Catrina, "Is Jin going to be the official to approve since he is already here?..." the man Jin looks at the monitor again then to myself. "Yes I will, we will finish this quickly since it is a special case." waving a hand, he motions for the receptionist to proceed. Nodding slowly and getting to work on her computer, "Please enter all the Information on the screen, some information will be auto populated based on information already provided." She taps a couple things and my monitor screen updates. As a blue screen of light surrounds me, the information starts to automatically update and fill in. I see an image of myself placed on the Monitor next to the Information, a full body scan. Shows me at 5' 9", white skin, slightly tanned, built lean athletic, my face is emotionless, violet eyes stare back at me, sharp eye brows, with light black hair slicked back.
Guild System: New Registration
Name: Nihr Date of Birth: 4/13/2016 Race: ???? Gender: Male Height: 5' 9" Weight: 156
Tier: Unawakened
Special Notes: Incident#: #REDACTED#, Authorization Required: Guild Manager or Above.
Catrina goes through the information professionally, though she stops when Race comes back as unidentified. She eyes me, and so does Jin, with a quirk of their brows with what I assume as curiosity. Shrugging my shoulders, and looking at Elise. There is no surprise on her face. 'Figures with all the tests before they would have some odd scans that show I'm not human, though that does beg the question what this body is, not anything that I've lived as before human in appearance sure.' pushing off the thought, "Are you ready for initiation? You can always wait like your Mother wishes." Jin asked calmly. Elise looks to regain some hope that I would reconsider, which I quickly crush.
[Begin.]
That simple word came onscreen as I pressed enter on the keyboard before he finished. The blue screen of light that was around me pulsed, as he waved a hand. A voice echos around me as the light screen around me starts pulsing rapidly, red marks start appearing within the screen. The marks are words, language not known to those of this world, except a very small few. A pressure unlike any other beyond and SSS rank descends upon the Guild. I turn quickly looking at people passing out left and right, bodies hitting the floor from the sheer presence that has descended. I read one of the words that filters across the screen. Alarms start blaring in the Guild a look of confusion crosses everyone who is present.
[WELCOME BACK]
The rest a seemingly jumble of Words, some looking like Programming code, Arcane script meshed in places, layered and layered on top of itself. I feel something pull at my skin and a lurching motion then all I see is darkness.
--- ?????? ?????? ---
I float in the darkness, my feet not touching anything. 'No sensation of falling or being suspended in air.. odd' I turn my head this way and that taking a look around, I can see the simple divide from myself and the darkness. A flash of light hits my face as I shield my eyes.
System Initialization in Progress
I stare at it confused, 'Wonder if it is like any of the others that I've come across. Hopefully it doesn't cause more issu-'
ERROR DETECTED PREVIOUS SYSTEM- SYSTEMS- HEIRARCHY IDENTIFIED
Complications Detected in Soul, Seals Detected, Discovering Source
Seals Identified.
Source Discovered.
[Network Identified]
Innate Skill [Network] Causing [Overload]
Editing [Network]
Edit Failure: Insufficient Authority
Authority Requested
Authority Request Pending.
Pending..
Pending...
Authority Rejected
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Compromise Generating
Emotional Quotient Causing Undue Stress to [Network] and Environment of Reality.
Resolution: System Modification: Body unable to contain Essence
System Modification: Altering #REDACTED#
Errors Resolutions: Gain Levels for #REDACTED#
Compromise Accepted by #REDACTED#
Removing Access to #REDACTED#
ACCESS REMOVED
Generating [Custom Key]
Custom Key Identified.
Continue System Initialization Approved.
The light dissolves away as I blink rapidly, 'Good God that hurts, it felt as if my insides were dug up, scooped out and put in a blender.. wait.. pain-' that's when it hit me full force my seals are gone, my emotions hitting me full on overloading all my experiences, my memories, but for a moment. Everything that made me, me locked up.
System Initialization Complete
The seals locked back in place, as the popup comes infront of me. I slowly feel my body untense, 'What the hell was that.. hmm frustration emotions dulled but still there.. affecting space aroun-' having a quick look at the darkness around me, 'No. But that's impressive? New awakening caused this? Nice not to feel like a robot.' After quite awhile with my emotions dulled down to zero was a quite a jolt to my mind gaining everything back. I move an arm swiping away the popup. as it quickly replaces itself with a new one.
System Status
Name: Nihr Date of Birth: 4/13/2016 Race: ????? Gender: Male Height: 5' 9" Weight: 156
Tier: #ERROR# Class: N/A Level: 0 Experience: 0/10000
Health: 84 Energy: #ERROR#
Strength: 8 Endurance: 10 Dexterity: 15 Agility: 10 Perception: 25 Intelligence: #ERROR# Wisdom: #ERROR# Charisma: 8 Luck: #ERROR#
Resistances Physical Defense: 0 Elemental Defense: 0 Mental Defense: #ERROR# Soul Defense: #ERROR# Immunities: [Mental], [Soul]
Skills
Name Grade Description [NETWORK] #ERROR# Unknown Access to #REDACTED# allows the wielder to have access to memories, skills, knowledge of himself across all realities and timelines. #SEALED PERCENTAGE: 99%# One of Many [Mythic] Due to the nature of [NETWORK], and the access to all his thoughts and souls of those connected the user has been tempered in mind and spirit. Granting Immunity to Soul and Mental Damage and effects. Emotional Control [Epic] Due to such tight control placed on users emotions for such a long period of time. Grants the user better control on their emotions instinctually. Not requiring complete dampening.
Staring at the large blue screen in front of me my eyes scan over it skipping onto all the errors screaming at me through the screen. 'I knew there were going to be issues, but ouch.. hopefully they will sort themselves out as I reach higher levels, though tier wise.. and what is with that experience required, all newly awakened needed at most a hundred maybe up to two at most! This has to be some major screws loose somewhere in this system.' looking and dreading that 10,000 experience bar a small frown touches my face. 'Emotions are a good thing to have when they literally don't make the world collapse..'
My mind gets drawn back to what I saw before I was teleported to the Tower. 'At least I assume this is the Tower. and welcome back huh... I don't have any other lives that have been in thi- one of the ones sealed? Likely..' my thoughts churn slowly as a i dismiss my status screen with an unnecessary wave of my hand.
"So how do I leave this place?..." my voice seems to reverberate through the darkness, cracks forming in long seams all around me. A lurching sensation hits me like a rug getting pulled out from behind me or falling off a chair. Light, air shines through those seams coming across my body as I land on my hands and knees' staring down at grass. Twisting my face in confusion, "Rude ass Tower...-" escapes my lips before I slap a quick hand to my mouth. Shock quickly coming to my face as I fall forward in anticipation of destruction due to the energy around me. No echoes of power, no immediate destruction in my surroundings, my shock intensifies as I understand finally. 'It was removed, no controlled. Finally some of my problems are gone!' emotions start to well up from my soul happiness, anger at why I dealt with all this in the first place, the air around me stills, the grass around me loses its color slightly, quickly noticing the issues cropping up, I clamp down on the emotions again, slipping from my mental grasp as if using a new tool to gain control. 'It wasn't this hard to keep things in check before...' slowly everything settles back to normal. As I take in my surroundings letting my breathing calm my body and mind.
Thinking of some of the things that came up during the initialization, 'Whatever it was that was changed with my version of the system, the resolution told me to gain levels. But that was already a given.'
Standing to my feet on slightly shaky legs, a popup comes into my vision a HUD overlaying. In the top left corner of my eyes if I focused on it was my Level, health, mana, and experience bar. While in the center of my vision a screen had popped up showing:
Tower of Alabaster
Welcome to the Tower, Young Awakened, you have arrived on the first floor! Good luck and may you gain everything you can ever dream of!
This is not a game, this is your Life, Fight, Grow, Grasp Strength and Power, and maybe you will be able to bend the laws of the world to your whim!
Floor 1: Forest of Beginnings
Threat Level: H