Realising they could select each of the paths to learn about them, Aldric and Anastasia were reading over the descriptions of the two unique paths they discovered.
[Path of Darkness: You will grow through utilising the power of the energies of the dark, you will learn to manipulate these energies and enlist creatures of the dark to serve under you. Though weaker than a traditional mage and warrior initially this path has one of the greatest potentials of growth. However, be warned there can only be one ruler of the dark.]
The path of Darkness appeared to be hydrid of a rogue, warrior class along with a mage attuned to the dark attribute. By the description it seemed weaker initially, yet hinting in having one of the higher potentials of growth among the different paths.
The feeling seemed confirmed at their expectations of the path as they found a description of the abilities that the path would offer them. The first was shadow step, an ability to transverse in the darkness to reappear in a specific distance depending on the users abilities.
Aldric felt it sounded similar to a rogue-like ability found in videogames back on Earth, Tom was an avid player of such games whereas Zoe never played one, but the concept of them was still similar to them both and the windows they were looking at seemed to mimic them.
The second ability offered was a ranged ability called shadow-bolt, sounding similar to the classic fire ball that most Mages gained in their novice classes but was obviously darkness attuned.
Aldric felt the class appeared good and also seemed to suit him, as the Tom on Earth always seemed to have an affinity for rogue-type characters in games and adding a slice of magic always helps, yet the last skill listed on the path seemed foreboding to them both.
[Create Spectre: You have usurped a portion of the Ruler of Darkness Sha’zeels authority by devouring his soul-bound servants. You have created an inconciliable grudge by stealing what was promised, by accepting this path you will bound this power to your soul unlocking a unique skill-tree.]
With a gasp both their minds went back to the encounter with the strange entities in that dark space, the eerie void where they met. It was there that Aldric somehow managed to fight back against the creatures that have entrapped them, succeeding in doing what they intended to them back.
Despite this Aldric and Anatasia still did not regain the memories lost to the entities but somehow attained something more, and judging by the description it was a power that could be both a boon or curse depending on how they view it.
However, noting that the grudge was called inconciliable by the system Aldric decided it shouldn't be a factor that disuaded him from the path.
Anastasia on the other hand began to view the description of the other path. Both of them shared a similar perspective, can feel the thoughts, emotions of each other but their distinctive personalities still shone through despite sharing the same soul, it was like having split-personalities that can control two different set of limbs.
Anastasia knew upon reading the Path of Light it was clearly intended for her, as the Path of Darkness seemed to be for Aldric.
[Path of Light: You will grow through utilising the path of light, using the energies that provide boundless vitality to support and uplift humanity. You are a beacon of light that exposes the truths, darkness of the world. Though be warned your soul holds a deep potential that is attractive to beings that would want to consume you to uplift their own power, continuing on this path will increase that attraction towards these entities.]
The skills of this path again seemed to reflect the description, such as the first being a skill that transformed the individual into becoming a human lie detector being able to detect any deceit, machinations from an individuals soul.
Additionally, the skill after that was a healing growth based skill that will improve as the individual progresses further on their path. It is cost dependent on the extent of the injuries and strength of the target, with similar to a video-game the user will possess a certain amount of ‘mana-like energy’ that is not limitless and needs to be regenerated after it is used up to utilise the skill.
The final skill was a type of soul-sight that allowed the user to view the unseen truths of the world, and can view the natures of souls.
It is the complete opposite of the Path of Darkness, reflecting their differences, whereas Path of Light is about revealing the unseen, deceptions of the world and healing, the Path of Darkness is about remaining unseen, conquering from the shadows. Strangely both complimented each other with the two of them being conjoined as they are.
Though this path similarly seemed to promise to attract enemies from unknown powerful beings.
Yet neither of them felt turned off by the path due to this, in fact judging by the description of the path it seemed that it had already brought attention to them previously.
Such as the mysterious entities that seemed to be servants of the being called the ‘Ruler of Darkness’.
A notification from the system that described there being a enmity being formed due to stealing what was promised.
The complex mystery of their arrival upon this world seemed to grow even deeper as they grew even more puzzled at the thought of their circumstances.
Though Aldric was always a pragmatic type of person when he was on Earth, and Anatastia now shared these feelings as she felt the comfort of the togetherness of their soul.
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They knew there was no use concerning over these issues, especially since the souls of the two nobles youths seemed to have also melded into them seeming to shape their personalities on top of the conjoining of their souls.
Therefore, already used to their strangely quick adaption of the events, they swiftly made up their minds on their chosen paths, after briefly reviewing the descriptions of a few others like Warrior just to compare and see it if was similiar to what they expect.
[Path of Warrior: You will grow through slaying your enemies utilising the strength of utilsing your weapon skills such as the blade. A standard combatant class, Warriors are a common presence among awakened, often having an all-around augmentation in physique alongside their weapon skills.]
Comparing the skills to the previous paths, they found it was just a bunch of generic weapon skills, with the option to choose the weapon you would like to base your path around.
And after scrolling through the description of rogue, mage finding them to be similar to the generic versions of these classes in video-games, without hesitation they made their decided, locking in the selected paths.
Finding the decision made the system notification sounded.
[Paths selected… intiailising]
Aldric and Anatasia awoke to suddenly find their bodies bursting with energy.
The energies brought from both paths seemed to be entwined, enfuse as it filtered to each of their bodies through their conjoined souls.
Unknowingly to them, it led to their bodies experiencing an even bigger change than intended, as the originally frail bodies of the noble youths experienced a quantitative improvement in physique.
Though their bodies remained frail-delicate-looking in appearance, the injuries such as the scrapes, scratches and bruises formed from their last few days from the rough treatment spent in the prison completely vanished under the baptism of the energies that washed over them.
At the moment despite still reeking from all the dirt and filth covering their bodies from their time spent in the prison, they felt as if their whole world was refreshed as the originally gloomy dark prison cell appeared clear in their eyes.
It was then that they finally reviewed their situation with the presence of the system, turning their attention to the matter at hand the first thing of utmost importance is securing themselves in this world.
According to the memories of the twins, even despite their new-found power, the precarious situation they have found themselves in still remains.
Loslosean, the world Aldric and Anatasia now found themselves in was much like a fantasy world from one of the stories on Earth. The level of technology was low, reminding them of a feudal society from the Middle Ages. Unlike Earth, however, this world was inhabited by number of fierce monsters, supernatural entities that could rip a human apart with no effort, not to mention ignoring the most obvious and pressing danger, humans.
Memories of the fierce beasts that littered outside the walls outside the prison they currently reside in caused them to shudder, the dangers in this world were numerous but even then, these are the same beasts their father Clayton would regularly venture outside to hunt and thin their numbers down to protect his territory.
Equally dangerous if not more so were the humans who have awakened great powers.
These humans awoken a core that would form in their souls, these cores gifted them supernatural powers that took on many forms, some similar to Warriors in fantasy novels, would boast great strength and vitalility making them ideal front-line combatants whereas others though may have a weaker physique compared to these awakened may awaken other supernatural powers such as manipulating and controling flames.
The humans who awoke their cores were referred to as awakened and were those that ruled and protected humankind from the vicious beasts that plagued the world, yet often not the biggest threat and danger to humans, were not the fierce beasts but themselves and the awakened that possessed great power over the common people were the first to often abuse their leverage.
Aldric and Anatasia father Clayton was one such awakened, and a powerful one at that, being the peak of the first stage of awakening, he was on the brink towards progressing to the next stage before he met his end, making him viewed as being rather strong among the nobility that held the rank of Baron within this Kingdom.
With Clayton being dealt with by the mauraders, even with the poison weakening him meant that the leader of the marauders was at the very least an awakened and was maybe even near the peak of the first stage similar to Clayton, which if so meant they were in great danger since not many would be his match in this region, and with Claytons death the value of his two non-awakened heirs would have shrunk tremendously making the likelihood of a noble in the region coming to support them being slim-to-none.
Dwelling on these thoughts, Aldric and Anatasia decided the first step was to start utilising their new-found abilities and trying to discover just how the system works, since there were no records of a system in the memories of the noble youths, either making it a secret among awakened or something that might be unique to them.
Either way, it was time to spend their time attempting to manaveur outside of this mess.
‘Now where do we start…’ they thought as they looked through their skills before landing on the one that stood out in this situation.
‘That could work…’ Aldric thought evily as Anatasia harumped wondering if they were the evil ones.
‘Ha… this skill does seem pure evil, but it seems way too perfect for our current situation not to use it.’ Aldric thought as he reviewed the skill that was described as being usurped from the Ruler of Darkness Sha’zeel.
[Create Spectre {1}: Form an apparition from the darkness realm, a sinister and cunning being, a spectre can posses the chosen target as decreed by its creator. Once the spectre has possessed a host the spectre will devour their soul entirely, assuming the role of the person, holding all the skills and memories they held in life making the spectre indistinguishable from the person they devoured. The spectre will be linked to the creator, and you can issue commands, or assume control of their sight, senses when needed. Once a spectre has consumed a host, they will now become linked to the body and be no longer able to separate from the host until they are vanquished. You can only create a set limit of 0/200 spectres, this limit may be increased depending on your realm, skill level. The strength of the beings a spectre can possess depends on your realm, skill level. New abilities may be unlocked at further levels.]
‘No wonder Sha’zeel is filled with hatred…’ Aldric thought reviewing the skill, it was not just this either, the skill was only the first in a long-line belonging to a third separate skill tree across from the other two skills that have their own skill-tree that was linked to the Path of Darkness.
‘Guess I better see how this goes…’ Aldric thought without a hint of guilt as he thought of the perfect target to send an evil ghost to consume their soul.
Anastasia splitting off from his train of thought was looking over her own set of skills as she wondered what could be helpful in this situation, trying to ignore the fact that she, well they were about to bring a horde of evil ghosts into the world, maybe the first of its kind after all, neither the noble twins have heard of anything like a spectre and the thought of there being creatures that are similiar to them currently roaming in the darkness in this world was a terrifying thought.