On The Tree
After Lexi finishes explaining her story to Astrid, Astrid finds herself lying back on the branch of the tree feeling exhausted just listening to her twin sister. Both due to the jumbled up explanation that she only managed to understand because of her experience with her sister, and because of just what exactly the explanation entailed.
She really killed the creator of the System… really and truly. That means the Reset can theoretically be blamed on her if people tried.
Astrid’s first instinct is to figure out how to hide that fact, just for her to realize that most of the people in the Reset probably don’t mind the Reset itself.
Most of the people who weren’t at the top in terms of power at least.
“So why are you guys setting up this base as if it were a permanent one?” Astrid hears her sister ask, making her sit up again to look down on the base down below. Then she looks at her sister again and says, “We’re preparing it for after the Tutorial. Turning it into our permanent base.”
Astrid watches them continue their preparations for a little bit before turning to look at Lexi to find her with a confused expression on her face. One that reminds her that Lexi wasn’t able to ask questions of the creator of the System’s memory since she had a clone instead of a memory with her. A clone that only lasted for ten minutes rather than the hour it lasted for everyone else.
“One of the things I got out of the clone,” Astrid begins, briefly pausing when the bat on her sister’s shoulder finally begins to stir awake, “is that this world, this Tutorial Block.” Her eyes meet her sister’s again. “Will be where we’ll be after the Tutorial finishes as well.”
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Alexia
I blink in surprise at that.
“Wait, so we aren’t going to be teleported somewhere else after the Tutorial?” I ask, rather surprised by that information.
Astrid nods and says, “No, we won’t be. This is where we are now, even after the Tutorial. The only thing that’ll change is that the Tutorial Blocks will just be called Dimensional Blocks instead, and they’ll open up for travel at certain points between the Dimensional Blocks.”
That’s… not what I expected. But then again, this is a Reset, and there are already a lot of things different between this dimension and the old one.
“Does that mean there aren’t planets anymore? No space, no galaxies, no universe?” I ask while leaning forward a little bit in my interest.
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My sister nods her head with a stoic look on her face just like always. Then she turns and looks down on the base again as she says, “Instead of planets, the World Council, the World Leader, and the World Champions, this new dimension has Dimensional Blocks, Dimensional Councils, Dimensional Leaders, and Dimensional Champions. A very similar setup, but also different in that all people need to do to cross from one Block to another is pass through one of the checkpoints along the Dimensional Walls.”
Interesting… a new setup for the universe. Or can it even be called a universe now?
I guess dimension would fit better. It’s what the System says anyways.
But if that’s the case… I raise my head to look up at the moons above us.
“Why are there moons and suns if there isn’t anything outside of the atmosphere?” I ask, genuinely curious about this topic. Probably because my old affinity used to be Astral.
Astrid looks at me for a second before focusing on the base again in the corner of my eye as she answers, “The memory said that it’s complicated. That magic runs it and there is no actual way to leave the atmosphere.”
Interesting.
I’ll have to check that out when I’m strong enough to punch through the quantum barrier or whatever the System has set in place above the atmosphere. But for now I’ll have to be patient.
Wait a second.
I turn to face Astrid again before asking, “What’s this about a Dimensional Wall?”
She answers without looking at me, “It is what it sounds like. A giant wall that covers as far as the eye can see all the way both up and downwards in a massive square perimeter around the Block. One made entirely up of quantum energy so thick it’s tangible in a solid wall.”
Okay, I want to see if I can poke through that as well.
Astrid turns to face me while continuing her explanation of the stuff she’s learned about this new dimension, “Instead of Noble Titles that the System gives out, this time it will be giving Levels of Authority. Which is basically the same thing but with a different name as it doesn’t actually give authority to change the System or anything. Although it isn’t hereditary, and it doesn’t give any actual control over a region like the Noble title gave. Just authority in Dimensional Block Councils and Dimensional Councils.” She pauses for a moment before continuing again, “After the Tutorial finishes, we’ll be sent to a Tutorial Shop where we can use our Tutorial Points to purchase anything in the shop, ranging all the way from items and even some skills to species and class changes. Although the skills are apparently rather expensive, and rather limited. And everyone in the top ten at the time of the Tutorial’s end gets their Authority boosted to Level 2, with the #1 spot getting Level 3 Authority.”
Interesting. Not sure why the System is changing its way of naming everything, but not entirely against it.
Actually, it might be because of the system creator’s situation in the old dimension before I killed him. I can definitely see him disliking nobility, and having a System where authority over regions is based on noble titles isn’t something I can see him liking much.
Before there was ten different levels of Noble titles. The first ranked Noble, a Knight. Then there was a Lord or Lady, a Baron or Baroness, a Viscount or Viscountess, a Count or Countess, a Marquess or Marchioness, a Duke or Duchess, a Prince or Princess, a King or Queen, and an Emperor or Empress. And Nobles could claim land around dungeons with the amount of land and the amount of citizens depending on their Noble rank.
But this new system doesn’t seem to have claiming land. At least not dependent on authority.
Actually, I ask, “Is claiming land still a thing?”
Astrid shakes her head and answers, “No, it doesn’t. There won’t be any System enforced land claims after the Reset.”
My eyes widen in both surprise and glee.
No more Nobility.