Chapter 514 - The G.o.ds Of The System
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Time rewinds itself a few minutes in the past.
In a distant and unknown Divine Realm, far away from any Mortal Realm, many G.o.ds gathered.
Their appearances were almost identical, resembling humanoid figures made out of pure white light.
However, to differentiate from each other, they had a slight characteristic, such as the robes they wore.
Those of higher status than the rest wore large and white robes, with different and strong colors each. While those of lower position wore paler colors.
They were all silently floating over a world that seemed to be made entirely out of pure gla.s.s and an endless crystalline sea.
Looking further into this gla.s.s, numbers, stats, percentages, and many other things showed themselves.
The crystalline sea was filled with digits of many numbers as well, words, system windows, and many computational interfaces.
The G.o.ds silently and peacefully floated in this gla.s.s and water world.
Although they seemed to be doing nothing but float, they were working diligently without stopping for a second to rest.
These were the G.o.ds of Genesis" System, children of the System Master. Often called the "System or Status G.o.ds".
They were created as artificial intelligence lacking emotions and ego thousands of years ago by the System Master, dividing his Divine Soul.
Such G.o.ds could be considered as the System Master"s children, though he did not treat them like that, and barely talked with them if even.
They were simply tools, each one was a computer for him, to facilitate the administration of the System.
Because each of these G.o.ds Divinities was related to an aspect of the System itself and nothing else, they were exceptional in that field, administrating the system like no one else could aside from their father.
They also worked as a pillar for the system to maintain itself without the System Master having to do everything.
However, through their long lives, they slowly developed greater sentience, emotions, and ego.
But because they were confined in this s.p.a.ce, they could not really evolve it and often did not seem to talk nor interact at all.
Even after developing personalities, they were very mild. Interactions between siblings were nonexistent.
The last time they spoke to each other was when they were given the task by the System Master to create children, by dividing a piece of their Divine Soul, which had grown rather strong since they were born, they created children, so they could receive the help from them to maintain the ever-expanding Status System.
But even to their children, they did not speak much. Only teaching the basics and then falling into deep silence for many years, maintain the system.
Their consciousness was completely endorsed into this task, no matter how much they developed emotions or personalities, even that was very mild for it to be interrupted.
Their father, the System Master, would often check on them and make sure that there was not anything weird with them going on.
The last time he checked was one thousand years ago. The System Master was capable of manipulating the System whenever he was, so there was no necessity of entering this Divine Realm to manipulate it.
For many years, things had been peaceful for them, and no errors had shown up.
But this changed this year.
Many strange "reincarnated" souls were forcibly put into the System by the System Master. Amongst many of them, there was one that grew at an exceptional pace, Kireina.
At first, the G.o.ds thought that it was not anything new, many beings had developed as fast as her but usually hit a progression wall soon enough.
But that did not happen.
Kireina kept growing and growing.
She took a break of one or two days, and then she would keep growing and growing.
Not even a year for a break, not even a whole week, she kept developing endlessly as she continued living.
Soon enough, their curiosity got the better of them and they became interested in Kireina.
Unknowingly, they slowly began to be… enlightened by her.
In their mild, computer-like minds, they had never been so interested in anyone ever in their whole and long lives.
But Kireina fascinated them.
Her endless growth was outstanding, something that was never seen before, not even in all the Realms.
Although there were many living beings stronger than her in many of the Realms, none of them ever took so little to become as strong as her.
Although they attributed this due to the blessing that their Father, the System Master, gave to her, they also understood that Kireina did not get everything from that blessing.
There was something inherently fascinating about her personality, life, and moral codes. Despite her appearance, she had an incredibly complex personality with many facets and alter egos of herself.
How could someone develop so fast without even getting tired of it? How could someone not even take a year for a break? How could someone be so fast and decisive in everything?
Although these traits were common for Kireina and something she learned from her parents, it seems that such nature was unique in Genesis.
She was just being hyperactive due to being overly cautious and also largely due to her own insecurities.
But it seems that this made her look like someone immensely talented that did many things at once, and worked immensely hard to grow immensely fast like anything ever before.
The System G.o.ds were fascinated but at the same time troubled.
Due to her unique nature, she unlocked various System features that weren"t ready yet, such as the Kingdom System and the Dungeon System, mostly because she was given the ability to do so through the blessing of the System Master, their father.
"Someone blessed by our father, such splendor," they thought.
In their fascination, they worked faster to serve her, fixing many of the errors she caused due to her large talents and powers, while also working harder to give her skills and cla.s.ses fitting her capabilities.
And the breaking point for them was when… she gathered over 9999 Cla.s.ses and made the whole System overload.
For once in their lifetimes, the System G.o.ds broke their silence.
"This… does not compute," said the G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points. None of the System G.o.ds possessed a name.
After seeing their sibling speak, the rest of the System G.o.ds glanced at him.
"A problem? A bug? Can I fix it? Let me fix" said a smaller figure, the DemiG.o.d of Bug Fixing.
He was a special DemiG.o.d born from one of the G.o.ds, he was given a divinity related to fixing bugs within the System and he worked as the main cleaner of any error that could appear, alongside the DemiG.o.d of Antivirus.
"Yes, please," said the G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points, as he let the DemiG.o.d of Bug Fixing check on his window.
All G.o.ds in here looked the same, as humanoid figures made out of white light. However, DemiG.o.ds were a bit smaller in height.
"This is complicated," said the DemiG.o.d of Bug Fixing, he would barely have any problems fixing any kind of bug, it was his divinity after all.
"Virus? Did you detect a Virus inserted by another authority?" asked the DemiG.o.d of Antivirus.
He was the sibling of the DemiG.o.d of Bug Fixing and were always together fixing anything that could happen to the System.
However, even after the two put their powers into the System, it kept being overloaded.
"What is happening?" asked the G.o.d of Levels and Experience Points. He was always worried about others, despite never talking.
"Problem… I cannot fix" said the DemiG.o.d of Bug Fixes.
"How can we fix?" asked the DemiG.o.d of Antiviruses.
The G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points began to put more of his intent into the System, even considering increased the cap of how many cla.s.ses could be unlocked… but it seemed impossible.
As long as Kireina existed, she would keep unlocking Cla.s.ses. And just recently due to having eaten Apollo, she became even more talented in many other things. She was even unlocking the Cla.s.ses of Heroes that have not been born yet.
"This is problematic," said the G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points, cleaning the cold sweat off his forehead.
"Brother let us a.s.sist you," said the G.o.d of Stats.
"If it is for her, we should be able to do something," said the G.o.d of Skills and Spells.
"It was hard when I tried, but I managed to give her something fitting, let us help you do the same for Cla.s.ses," said the G.o.d of Evolution.
"I did the same, so let me help you," said the G.o.d of t.i.tles.
"It is indeed very hard, but you are not alone," said the G.o.d of Dropped Items and Rewards.
"Giving a proper Task is hard, but it is also giving a proper Cla.s.s," said the G.o.d of Tasks and Quests.
Alongside the main system G.o.ds, many other smaller demiG.o.ds gathered together. Such as the DemiG.o.d of Skill Effects, the DemiG.o.d of t.i.tles Effects, the DemiG.o.d of Blessing Effects, the DemiG.o.d of Curses Effects, the DemiG.o.d of Strength Stat, the DemiG.o.d of Defense Stat, and so on.
There was even the DemiG.o.d of System Information, which gathered the information acquired by the users of the System.
The DemiG.o.d of System Information was the one that helped the most, as it gave the G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points, a lot of ideas about what Kireina could get as new Cla.s.ses more fitting for her.
"But how can we put them and make the other Cla.s.ses disappear?"
"I think we can do something about it," said the G.o.d of Skills and Spells.
"We did it before with her skills, when she merged them so much, we automatically generated new skills for her," said the DemiG.o.d of Skill Effects.
"Let me a.s.sist you," said the DemiG.o.d of Cla.s.s Effects.
"And me… let us gather our powers, siblings, and fathers," said the DemiG.o.d of Subcla.s.s Effects.
Although there was not a "DemiG.o.d of Skill Merges" or a "DemiG.o.d of Cla.s.s Merges" the G.o.ds began to consider creating one.
"Should we create a new sibling and son so we can a.s.sist her better?" asked the G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points.
"But the great father is not here, shouldn"t we ask him first?" asked the G.o.d of Levels and Experience Points.
"He might have created us, but he does not have authority over us, we are independent," said the G.o.d of Cla.s.ses, Subcla.s.ses, and Skill Points.
"I find… no mistake in our sibling words," said the G.o.d of Stats.
"Are you sure?" asked the G.o.d of Levels and Experience Points.
"Yes. It is not like our great father does not have a small fixation on her either. I doubt he will disagree with our decision, maybe," said the G.o.d of Skills and Spells.
The rest of the G.o.ds nodded together and no more words were said, dead silence fell upon their Divine Realm as they all gathered in a circle, each one of them gave a small piece of their soul and generated a new G.o.d in the same fas.h.i.+on they had done before.
However, this time, this G.o.d was made by a piece of all of them, even DemiG.o.ds.
A new existence was born, it had a size similar to a DemiG.o.d, so it was a DemiG.o.d.
"I am born," it said, nonchalantly and with a computer voice.
"We welcome you, sibling and son," said the rest of the G.o.ds at the same time.
"You will be… the DemiG.o.d of Skills, t.i.tles, and Cla.s.ses Merge," said every G.o.d at the same time, as if they had become the same ent.i.ty.
"I am the DemiG.o.d of Skills, t.i.tles and Cla.s.ses Merge, got it," said the new DemiG.o.d… he seemed to have a freer personality than the rest.
"He seems odd?" asked one of the DemiG.o.ds.
"It is odd, but not bad. He seems to be more expressive" said another DemiG.o.d.
"I am expressive? That"s nice" said the new DemiG.o.d.
After a bit of interaction that only lasted a few seconds in the outside world, the G.o.ds gathered once again with their new sibling and son and began to finally fix Kireina"s problem once and for all.
Using the help of the DemiG.o.d of System Information and the DemiG.o.d of Skills, t.i.tles and Cla.s.ses Merge, the ma.s.sive amount of Cla.s.ses that Kireina had unlocked were successfully reduced to around fifty.
What they did was merge the cla.s.ses and their capabilities, while using the information given by the DemiG.o.d of System Information about Kireina"s Earth and everything she had ever talked about or thought, and even the information about Earth deep within the mind of her alter egos, slime clones, and many others.
Such power would be immensely dangerous in the wrong hands, but these G.o.ds only desired the best for Kireina, the one they were fascinated with.
They created many odd-sounding Cla.s.ses that had never appeared before, such as "Uroboros" and the like, but they all agreed that they were the best Cla.s.ses that represented Kireina"s talents and powers, and were the only ones fitting her capabilities.
"We did it," said the G.o.ds.
Due to Kireina, they were forced to interact and cooperate more, deepening their bonds for the first time since they were born.
They felt strange… it was as if they were slowly becoming more complex persons, with their own ideas and personalities slowly shaping.
They were all tired but rather happy.
However, they were still bad at talking, so everything was dead silent.
They went silent until yet another day when Kireina would require their help once again.
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