Chapter 166 - Let the games begin (1/2)

(A.N. Added the updated statuses to the end of last chapter)

After he read the first notice, Alex swiftly started looking through the rest.

[NOTICE, friend function has been reopened]

[NOTICE, title function has been unlocked]

[NOTICE, world portal had been unlocked]

When Alex finished looking through the new notifications, he then saw the last one was different, it was a message from a friend.

-Hey, it's Anne.

He was quite surprised when he saw he had a new message, but he didn't recognize the name. He did have that one girl that was there when he died as his friend, but he didn't recall her name being Anne. Suddenly Lauren spoke up to explain,

'She is the girl from that time, but she wanted a full start over and didn't keep her original name, unlike you.' With her explanation Alex recalled he could've changed his name if he wanted, but chose not to. What surprised him was that she was apparently looking forward to meeting up again, when they only ever had the one conversation together twenty years ago. He sent back a reply asking how as was doing, then started asking Lauren about his new functions.

'Well the general idea behind the titles is that as you travel between worlds you'll become well known, and the image you make in each world would affect how you're treated in the next. It's the same as the titles in the ”Death Mage” world, just not part of your job system, but a function on everyone's system. It was decided to leave it until you turned twenty so that you wouldn't spend the first world using it to try to get good titles to use later.' With her explanation Alex understood the ideas behind the titles, and the reason they waited until later to give them access to them. In the ”Death Mage” world, it was said nobles would try to take advantage of the titles system to help their children gain advantages for the future. He then looked at the ”world portal”, but saw something that surprised him.

'It has a year long cool down?' Lauren once more swiftly explained,

'This is to keep each of you from abusing the ability to get more power, for example jumping to the Dragon Ball world to get a wish, then to Naruto to get a tailed beast, then to One Piece to get a devils fruit, you get the idea.' Alex nodded at her explanation, knowing that with the system shop only being occasionally available when they reached the hundred level mark, everyone would be looking for other outlets of power instead. At that moment he got another message from Anne saying,