Encrypted Message to Jax999: It’s done. You are a ghost now.

Encrypted Message to NTTT: Thanks, good work. I'll set up your half-a percent now.

Encrypted Message to Jax999: Okay.

Isa woke with a start. The pain was like a constant pulse in her stomach, not her head or feet; it was all over. As time went on, the throbbing subsided. Once the throbbing subsided, Isa decided to look into what had happened.

Be Aware: You have manifested a soul. This process was not meant to be part of the game, and you are now considered tainted by higher beings. Would you like to view your soul's makeup?

[Yes] or [No]

Isa nodded yes.

Soul Make-up:

Power Level 1: Soul’s power on your attacks.

Defense Level 1: Soul’s defense on attacks on you.

Alteration Level 1: Soul’s ability to alter the world around you.

Attributes Level 1: Soul’s ability to influence game mechanics.

Soul Points: 100

Soul Abilities able to be upgraded: 4

Would you like to view upgrades?

[Yes] or [No]

Isa nodded yes again.

Soul Upgrades:

Power Level 2: Will increase the power of your soul on your attacks. It will cause mana disruption on impact. It can be used to cancel a spell in the making or being projected at you, as long as it's made of mana. It cannot stop a physical object but can slow it if propelled by mana.

Defense Level 2: This will increase your skin's defense through the soul. It will cause pain to distract you less and more grievous injuries to bother/ slow you down less. It will not speed up the reconstitution of the body.

Alteration Level 2: This will allow you to alter the physical world through the use of your soul. Some say this is a god's power, but who are they but soulless? Level 2 allows altering up to 50% of the object or item.

Attributes Level 2: This will allow you to increase your attributes through leveling at an increased rate. Is permanent. Level 2 allows for a 1.2x increase in attribute changes. The base rate is .08x.

Would you like to upgrade your abilities?

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[Yes] or [No]

Isa moved her attention to what the soul powers did at level 1 before she looked into if she would like to upgrade or if she would like to check on the cost of the upgrades.

Soul Upgrades:

Power Level 1: Increased power of your soul on attacks. Current power increase: 0%

Defense Level 1: Increased defense of your skin through your soul. Current defense: 0%

Alteration Level 1: Ability to alter objects and items in the game world. Current ability: 0%

Attributes Level 1: Ability to affect the speed of increase on attributes when leveling up. Current ability: 0%

Isa thought that that was interesting that she already had some significant attribute boosts. The other items were nice, except the Alteration one, but she was primarily interested in the Attributes gain. But there were two last things to check into for this… The cost of the upgrades and the changes throughout each level.

Isa mentally scrolled through the menu until she got to the page for the changes throughout each soul level. Isa said out loud, “Changes for soul level.”

Be Aware: This information is restricted. It is gods level changes. You must spend the soul points to unlock this information.

Isa was not too thrilled about this information, but she wanted to look into the upgrades' cost.

Cost of soul upgrades:

Power Level 1 -> Power Level 2 = 1 soul point

Defense Level 1 -> Defense Level 2 = 1 soul point

Alteration Level 1 -> Alteration Level 2 = 1 soul point

Attributes Level 1 -> Attributes Level 2 = 1 soul point

Now Isa was almost concerned. The cost of upgrading her soul was so much cheaper than she thought it would be. Isa assumed each upgrade would be somewhere around 50 soul points each.

Now what am I going to do? Hmm, I think I'll upgrade Alteration; it seems like the soul talent that would help the most.

Be Aware: Would you like to upgrade your soul talents?

[Yes] or [No]

Isa intoned yes.

Soul talents able to be upgraded: 4

Power

Defense

Alteration

Attributes

Which soul talent would you like to upgrade?.......

Isa assented to Alteration.

You have chosen Alteration. You have enough soul points to reach Level 6. Would you like to invest more soul points to upgrade soul talent further?......

[Yes] or [No]

Isa wondered what it would cost to go to Level 6 and what that would mean. Isa asked the system to define what it meant and its cost.

Soul talent Alteration Level 6: Able to entirely alter objects and items in the game world. As well as allows for some minor alteration to objects or items against their nature.

Upgrading to Level 6 will cost 100 soul points. Would you like to upgrade?.....

[Yes] or [No]

Isa wanted to know what “minor alteration to objects or items against their nature” meant. Isa asked the system.

Alteration of objects or items against their nature is not part of the codex and cannot answer your question.

Isa went ahead with the Level 6 upgrade. It seemed to have life-saving promises while the others offered that, but maybe to a lesser extent.

Soul Talent Alteration Level 1 -> Level 6……

Alteration Level 1 -> Level 2: 1 Soul Point

Alteration Level 2 -> Level 3: 9 Soul Points

Alteration Level 3 -> Level 4: 15 Soul Points

Alteration Level 4 -> Level 5: 30 Soul Points

Alteration Level 5 -> Level 6: 65 Soul Points (Approximately 31% discount because of mass upgrade)

100/100 Soul Points used

Alteration Talent Fully Upgraded

You can now fully alter objects or items with minor alterations available against their nature.

4th of March, 2192

Internal Memo to all employees

The breach in the system has been found, identified, and dealt with. What happened will not be possible again. To offset this problem, we have increased the capacity of the A.I. monitoring the game. The A.I. will take a more direct approach to keeping the game clean. As the company, we have put restrictions and guidelines in place so the A.I. can function independently from our input without going outside the bounds of its directive. All found projects during this investigation are being reviewed by the board today to see if any have merit. I will email you directly if your project has the green light to go ahead.

Herald, CEO