Chapter 27 - A Worldshaking Grand Scheme [Plot Intensified] (1/2)
Before long, the cupid spoke once again.
”Ahemm.. Ahemm.. Listen here, everyone.”
”...”
”...”
”!!!”
After hearing that sentence once again, everyone's body trembled instinctively; they then thought to themselves, 'It is the f*cking same speech! That cupid, he is acting like nothing has happened at all'.
Consequently, everyone felt more and more fearful towards the cupid.
As a result, he did not look like a four-year-old cute little cupid anymore. Right now, he was more of a devil who had disguised himself as a cupid instead.
After realizing that everyone was finally quiet and everything was in order as he wished, the cupid then continued his speech, not caring for what other people below were thinking within their minds.
”I will say it only this once. So, listen carefully...”
”Now, all of you, a total of 10,000 people.. err.. no, I mean a total of 9,914 people were standing in a place called Tutorial. This place will help you adapt and make you qualified enough to live in your new home, Ortus. Well... only if you 'survive' the Tutorial, that is...”
”You might be curious about why all of you have to pass the Tutorial before you can live on Ortus, right? The answer is simple... it's because the resources on Ortus is very limited. If your entire human race goes and lives there, most of you will die or become slaves instead.”
”So, here we come!! The Tutorial to make you get stronger and be qualified to live on Ortus without having to face 'too many' problems.”
When the cupid had finished its speech with a cold light radiating from his two narrowed green eyes, he asked further, ”Am I clear?”.
”...”
”...”
”...”
After not seeing any negative response from the 'clowns', it felt satisfied inside, and then it continued its speech.
”Then I'll introduce you to some basic pieces of information that all of you should know beforehand. First of all, every living and non-living thing on Ortus and within this place will have its own status window showing them their name, race, class, title, affinity, talents, traits, and achievement. Furthermore, those things can only be viewed by the owner; unless you want to share them with others, nobody can see them.”
”Now, you can call for the status window by saying the word 'Status' or 'Status Window' within your mind, or you can say it out loud. It's up to you.”
Not long after, the room was filled with noise and murmuring again. It was a result of those people experiencing something very extraordinary.
Most people now had an almost transparent status window at nearly 1 meter in front of them.
As for Jeremy, he was also looking at his own status window that was showing...
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Name: Jeremy Caesar Lakota
Race: Human (Le'Liac - Low-Rank Organism)
Class: Journeyman Mage (Peak - Substage 4 of Class 1 Mage)
Title: Mage of Origin (Rank 10 - Inactive), Prodigy Mage (Rank 8 - Inactive), First Mage (Rank 5 - Inactive), NEET (Rank 0 - Inactive)
Affinity:
- Fire (Common): 45.2%
- Darkness (Uncommon): 34.8%
- Space (Rare): 89.9%
- Divinity (Unique): 0.1%
Talent: Prodigy of Magic
Trait: Objective
Achievement:
1. For you, who is the fastest of your own kind to shed a mortal skin and become the first person to tread in a long and arduous path of truth-seeking. The system shall grant you the title of 'First Mage'.
2. For you, who was born a Prodigy. For you, who is destined to be standing at the very top of the universe's food chain. The system shall grant you the title of 'Prodigy Mage'.
3. For you, who achieves the impossible. For you, who defies the universe's rules. For you, who had reached the first substage of a Class 1 Mage within a mana-less world. For eternity, this attainment can never be duplicated by anyone; even the Gods feel helpless with its plausibility. It is thus considered an achievement that shall be chronicled at the highest level of Akashic Records forevermore. The universe itself shall grant you the title of 'Mage of Origin'.
...
”!!!”
”What... the... actual... f*ck?”
Jeremy mumbled dumbfoundedly after seeing his own status window. He had never seen something like that before. Even the demigods, dragons, and other exotic races shouldn't be able to possess something like that, a rank 10 title...
'Is that a rank 10 title, furthermore, granted by the universe itself? My traits and talents, aren't they looking too godly for a starter? After all, they are my traits and talents from when I was the former sage. And... is that a f*cking Divinity? Am I a god or something now? Are my eyes pulling a prank on me? Holy... shit...'
As far as Jeremy knew, only those self-proclaimed gods had the 9th rank titles, and also those same gods had Divinity powers when they wielded their power. But it was only a rumor after all... No sane god would expose their secret to mortals.
When Jeremy saw the information inside his status window, he was very startled that he had actually received a rank 10 title, which was unheard of before in his entire life... no... it was unheard of earlier in the whole Ortus history.
Meanwhile, he was in doubt and suspicious about that tad bit 0.1% of divinity affinity.
'Something is fishy here... really... really fishy...' Jeremy thought to himself frowningly.
He then thought and thought about many possibilities, began with the time before his demise, then when he suddenly 'feel' the purest mana particle on Earth, until today, when he actually saw his own status window.
Suddenly...