B1 | Chapter 2

Aidan

When I regain consciousness, I find quite a few things happening all at once.

For one, the smiling guy that was sitting across the desk in his own chair is now pacing back and forth while muttering about Guide bonuses or something. And for two, I have quite a few messages playing out in my vision.

Before I can get to reading them, though, the no-longer-smiling guy notices me and quickly asks, “What the hell just happened?!”

I blink before asking in return, “Isn’t that your job to tell me?”

He opens his mouth, only to close it again. Then he mutters, “Right, I suppose it is…” He shakes his head and focuses on me, “Okay, just read what your messages are telling you. We’ve already lost a lot of our time in here, so we need to hurry if I’m to get a good bonu-” The man pauses mid-sentence and continues, “If you’re going to survive.”

I narrow my eyes a little at his slipup – not that it’s the first time he’s mentioned bonuses considering his previous mutterings – before I focus on the words in my vision. Of which there are many, with quite a few talking about things I’m guessing already happened. Considering how I’m currently awake now.

As for the changes to my body that I feel? I decide to ignore those for now.

◊ Searching for species qualified for the user’s Bloodline and void affinity… one species found. ◊

◊ User will now be changed into a Void Crowne by the System. ◊

What’s a Void Crowne?

Also, isn’t crowne kind of old and outdated as a word?

I glance down before looking back up at the messages. Only for my eyes to immediately bounce back to my hands in my lap that I now realize are paler than before.

But more important than that is the strange black mist rising from my skin.

The mist is rather eerie and doesn’t look very natural. Which should be obvious, seeing as it’s, well, rising from my skin and all.

“What the…” I mutter with a frown while raising my arm over towards my face.

It looks like the mist is also passing through my clothes as I see it rising from my shoulders as well. But the mist is the only thing I see that’s different about my body now.

Well, except the black claws at the tips of my fingers in the place of finger nails.

“Please inspect yourself later,” the former smiley guy says, sounding rushed. “Check your messages first. We don’t have enough time for you to be looking at yourself.”

I look at him with my eyes slightly narrowed for a moment before returning my gaze to the messages again. Because he’s probably not wrong.

After all, I do have questions. And if he really does have a limited amount of time to talk with me, then I want to be able to ask those if I can.

So I continue reading the messages.

◊ User has successfully been changed into the Unique Lifeform known as the Void Crowne. ◊

◊ As there are now two Unique Lifeforms known as the Void Crowne, the species will no longer be- ◊

◊ERROR◊ ◊ Unable to remove the Unique Lifeform label. ◊ ◊ERROR◊

◊ Your source mana has now been awakened! Congratulations for becoming one of the Awakened of the Multiverse! ◊

[As a newly awakened Void Crowne, you now have access to your System Status! To see your status, simply state out loud, ‘Status’, and it will appear before you! As a Unique Lifeform, your Class and Profession have been automatically assigned to you!]

I blink as I begin to realize how similar this System thing is to a videogame.

Also, I can’t help but notice that my hunger really does seem to be fading for some reason. But I’ll get to asking about that later.

For now I state out loud, “Status.”

Then more words appear in my vision.

◊◊◊◊◊

Name: Aidan Vale

Species: Void Crowne(UNIQUE)

Bloodline: Void Devourer – Grants a passive drain that drains the source mana of anything the Devourer touches except for living organic creatures.

Class: Void Devourer – Level 2 – Iron Rank

Profession: Void Creator – Level 1 – Iron Rank

Affinities: Void(500%)

Titles: Preawakened Iron Rank

Physical: 7

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Magic: 7

Mind: 7