"Just a start."
With such a thought, Lumen chose the 'New world' button, and after choosing his faction and lord, he begins to distribute all of his newly obtained resources to various benefits.
> > Faction:[Zera]
> > Advantage:
> Extensive Research Tree
> Advanced Tech
> Fortification
> > Weakness:
> No Diplomatic Presence
> Weak Start
> Limited Access To Mana and Qi
> Heavily Reliant On Resources
> > Unique Mechanic:
> Zera's list
> Mercenary Contract
> Mega Workshop
> > Unique Resource:
> Chaos Energy
>
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>
> > Lord: [Sylvesris]
> > Alignment — [Lawful Neutral]
> > Race — [Artificial Human]
> > Job — [Soldier]
> > HP — [2000]
> > MP — [0]
> > Size — [100]
> > Magic Aptitude — [ Rank -10]
> > Qi Aptitude — [ Rank -10]
> > Tech Aptitude — [ Rank 15]
> > Administration — [Rank 10]
> > Combat — [Rank 15]
> > Commanding — [Rank 10]
> > Logistic — [Rank 11]
> > Diplomacy — [Rank -5]
>
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Traits Body of Chaos ; Perfect Vessel ; Neither Perfect Nor Flawed ; Golden Ratio ; Siege/Defence specialist ; Engineer of War ; Transhuman; Blood of the Abyss ; Multi-Task ; Hyperion Constitution ; Duelist ; Horde Killer ; Revenge Killer
Personality
Duty Bound ;Savant ;Principled ;No Mercy ;Unbreakable ;Steel Mask ;Circumventor ;Apathetic;Undying resolve; Hatred of self righteousness ;Hatred of Neverborn ;Introverted
"Such extreme characteristics."
No matter how many times Lumen had seen it, it was a very extreme trait that shifted to either side with no middle ground. But lore friendly as an artificial human made by ordinary people for the sole purpose of taking their vengeance against gifted people who trampled their lives just for being unable to use magic or qi. And it became one of Sylvesris' unique mechanics called [List of Vengance].
"Well, then."
With maxed resources, Lumen began to check traits and personalities and began to pick them. But even with all those resources, he can't add only good things to his lord. In 'Just Out Of Reach' a lord's characteristics works with a point system so that the player can't let a character's points go into a negative. With being positive characteristics will deducting points, and negative ones will adding points. But positive traits would always be more expensive than negative ones of the same tier.
"Let's see. It should be around here."
Going through the list, Lumen quickly found the characteristics that his lord desperately needed.
[Personality: Armor Clad Faith -3 pt.]
[Personality: Principled -4 pt.]
[Trait: Suffer Not The Unclean -3 pt.]
Those three should fix one of her considerable weaknesses. Then added some negatives to balance out the point pool.
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[Personality: Gourmet +1 pt.]
[Personality: Vindictive +4 pt.]
[Personality: Hipocrite +6 pt]
[Personality: Unbreakable Mind -4 pt.]
[Trait: Ancient Relic -5 pt.]
[Trait: Curse of Kings +8 pt.]
[Trait: Chosen of Four -4 pt.]
[Trait: Golden Road -4 pt.]
[Trait: Legacy Stash -5 pt.]
[Personality: Workaholic -2 pt.]
"Now then, finally, I can try this one!"
With a faint smile Lumen, chose to add a thing without any downsides, as in the past, he would be forced to pick another negative trait to balance out the points differences.
[Trait: Quality over Quantity -5 pt.]
[Trait: Holy Spirit -5 pt.]
[Trait: Dragon -5 pt.]
"What is that ?"
Under the trait, Lumen he noticed a new one.
[Trait: New Road -5 pt.]
With curiosity, Lumen took the newly added trait putting his character score even further back.
"Haah, okay"
[Personality: Racism(Random) +10 pt.]
[Personality: (Random) +10 pt.]
"Now she became the next Hitler. I need to fix it. Thankfully I got extra points."
[Personality: Absent Minded +5]
[Trait: Calming Pressense -10]
[Personality: Empathetic -5.]
*Confirm*
After the confirmation, the opening cinematic began to play in front of Lumen.
"How many times can one world withstand the apocalypse?"
"For Terra? I have almost lost count. As we celebrate the rebirth of our world, darkness is growing. Each day it wishes to bring it closer to another end."
"Countless cycles later, the word itself has decided it would be different this time!"
"The world has decided to choose its defender against the incoming invaders. It doesn't care about the choices of Gods or the Devils. Be it Good or Evil. All are given support and a single goal. To to stop and destroy the invaders once and for all. If there can be no victory, then fight forever on."
After a short opening speech, he was introduced to a large world map. At the same time, the camera moved over the horizon and pointed various vast kingdoms and empires along with a short summary of their story and background, finally stopping at a small domain in a land the size of a single province before locking into a small castle.
"Many heroes and kings would appear and disappear daily in the far and wide world. Few could leave their mark in this world, but time would show no mercy to their legacy."
"But to survive the imminent doom, sometimes it takes a cowardly and greedy soul who loves its own hide and protects its pathetic life to decide to take action, supported by the grim reminder of what defeat means. Who knows what a coward can do when the only choice left is to fight or die."
In the midst of the opening, Lumen's eyelids start to waver as his full stomach begins to demand him sleep. Eventually, he decides to take a nap.
What is there to lose in taking a nap when he already knows what will happen anyway.
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"Is the subject's condition stable ?"
"It's stable, and there is no permanent change in the subjects. It seems like we finally succeeded."
"Stability 100%, Perfect compatibility %..." sighed an elderly man clad in a white-blue suit with a white lab coat.
In front of him stood a large vat filled with unknown liquid shimmering with a light green color. And in the middle of the unknown liquid is the fruit, of his and his colleague's blood and sweat.
Gently caressing the glass layer of the vat as if he were touching his grandchild, he went on as he gazed at his creation, with disdain apparent in his voice.
"Just you wait, Sylvesris... our new little sister, you will take our revenge for us."
With a warm look on his face, the old man spoke to the young apprentice standing behind him. “Don’t you agree, Marcy?” he asked.
The man called Marcy stood beside the old man. His voice filled with passion, and he replied, “Yes. But sadly, we can't be there to witness such a moment." Behind him on the cold floor lays countless dead bodies of their fellow comrades who died protecting their last hope.
Their pure white lab coats stained red by their blood, open eyes, and clenched jaws showed the resistance of each and every one of them before their death. Witnessing such a scenery, his teacher lowered his hand and spoke at him, with exhaustion apparent in his eyes.
“Marcy, it is okay. They did their part. Now, it's our turn to do our part.” the old man and his apprentice reached their hand to their weapon and unholstered their gun. Then they raised their heads and took their own life with a gentle pull of the trigger, taking all their knowledge and technology to their death as they knew there would be no afterlife for the