Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and I felt a sharp pain in my chest.
Gravity core installed|
Skill Pain Tolerance 1/10 acquired|
Deciding to test out my new skills I walked up to a tall tree, man this is going to be weird. Slowly I put my paw against the bark and started padding up the tree.
Gravity core activated|
I walked straight up it and then underneath a branch just hanging upside down and yet it felt completely normal. From now on this is how I will sleep, not on the forest floor but the ceilings of the cave. As strong as I am now I'm well aware that I'm not the strongest thing out there.
Quest available: learn to control your magic.
Reward: +5 Levels|
Yeah, I guess I should discover how to use my magic. Walking back down the tree I decided to focus on my metal affinity first, after all, part of me was made of metal.
Quest Accepted|
I closed my eyes and pushed my senses to the limits focusing on the earth all around me. The cave walls, the floor beneath my pads, even the silver on my back.
Treasure Hunter activated|
In an instant, I could see glowing orbs of light in the cave walls and the ground. Well, that's not exactly what I had in mind but maybe this will help. Focusing on a pulsing red light a couple of yards beneath me, I willed it to come to me. Like liquid, it rushed up to meet me breaking the earth and floating before me.
Phoenix Iron: Grade SS+ Worth 100,000 Spirit Coins
Info: a drop of blood from a phoenix compacted over millions of years to develop into pure fire iron. Mainly used for smelting heavenly weapons.|
Damn, I can't sell it in the store, whatever. With a thought, I turned it into a sharp spike and flung it towards a tree. The metal disappeared, tree debris rained down on me and I heard a loud bang as something hit the cave wall.
Metal Affinity Mastered|
Level 6 Earth Fox killed, Pixie hive destroyed|
+1 Earth Fox pelt, +20 Pixie Wings|
+5,000 Exp|
+20 SP|
Wow, tilting my head to the side I looked at the destruction I had left behind after that attack. The tree I had aimed for was incinerated as well as everything behind it, far in the distance, a large crater in the cave wall with a small glowing red spike in the center. Deciding to test my control on the metal around me I called all the orbs of light that I could see to me, honestly, I didn't think it would work. A tsunami of metal came rushing at me before stopping and spinning around me. I was in the eye of the storm of liquid metal of all colors, it was beautiful. Going a bit farther I decided to try and merge three of the metals in front of me. I already know about the Phoenix Iron but two others were glowing as strongly if not more so.
Blue Rose Cobalt: Grade SS+, 150,000 Spirit Coins, Info: Blue Rose Cobalt grows from the dew of the Blue Rose, Used for heavenly weapons and alchemy.|
Astral Silver: Grade X, 1,000,000,000 Spirit Coins, Info: Astral silver is mined from meteorites that have refined themselves in space next to stars, they have been known to gain sentience after trillions of years.|
Holy shit, I've hit the jackpot. The luck stat is amazing! Ok, let's see if I can combine these three into a super metal. Letting all the other ores around me drop to the ground with a bang I focused solely on the three floating in front of me. Slowly I pushed the three towards each other. Instead of what I was expecting they latched onto each other and started to pull themselves together instead of repelling each other which was my expectation. With a bright flash of light and a loud roar, a new ore was floating before my eyes. Although calling it an ore would be a disgrace to it. It looked like a pearl with a phoenix circling it and small blue inscriptions covering it.
Title Gained: Divine Blacksmith|
Job Gained: Divine Blacksmith|
Congratulations on creating a Divine ore, Tear of the Abyssal Phoenix: Grade: Divine, Worth ?, Info: Created by Divine Blacksmith Raven|
+10,000 SP|
...WHAT!!!! I almost fainted looking at the windows popping up. Created a divine metal, I was just experimenting. I wonder what will happen if I infuse my nanites with this metal. It looks small but I can sense a vast amount of power coming from it.
I should have known it would be a bad idea, but I was so caught up in getting stronger and testing the limits of my powers that I didn't hesitate in doing something immensely stupid. I swallowed the pearl and focused on melting it down and infusing my body and in turn mine and Alex's nanites.
Alex (Pov) A few seconds earlier
WARNING, WARNING, WARNING|
User has ingested a Divine material.|
I looked up from my main nanite controller in Raven's heart. As much as I loved floating through her veins as a Hivemind I needed a place to work to help her get stronger. So I converted the Alpha nanite into a virtual workstation where I could watch Raven as well as figure out different ways to help her get stronger. Following the protocol for systems I had allowed a sub-program code named Jarvis, to take care of her until she reaches level 200 then we will be able to converse with each other. When the screen popped up in front of me I thought Jarvis was just updating me on how she was doing and didn't pay much attention to it. However, when I felt a flaring pain go through our bodies I had to look up, and my eyes went wide. "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Where the hell did she get a Divine metal?"
She made it, and then ate it| Jarvis answered.
"Is she crazy, didn't you give her an explanation of what it was!!? ARGHHHH", pain ripped through our bodies again.
No Sir, I did not explain what would happen if someone used it because it has never happened before.|
"Quick, show me her HP!"
-1000, -1000, -1000,+2000, -1000, -1000, -1000, + 2000| I was working my nanites overtime to try and regenerate the tissue that was being frozen and burned at the same time but I couldn't keep up. Unwillingly I distributed her stats for her. Hopefully, it would be enough to save her.
HP Increased to 1,760,000|
Unfortunately, it seems to make things worse, as the damage she took increased.
-1,000,000 +400,000 -604,000 -555,555 -400 -20 -20 -4|
Just as we were about to die I heard her scream "I WILL NOT DIE HERE!!!!!"
HP +1,000,000|
Will Power Stat Unlocked|
+1000 +1000 +1000 +1000|
Divine ore, Tear of the Abyssal Phoenix has been absorbed.|
Holy fuck. "Jarvis!"
Yes Sir?|
"Keep a close eye on her and make sure she doesn't do something that stupid again, please."
Yes Sir.| As he disappeared to deal with Raven I looked around our body and noted all the new upgrades and changes that had occurred. I had been refined even more into her body and my production rate had sped up 1000%. Her bones, muscles, and blood had been purified by Divinity. It was incredible, what scared me was that the pearl was still here sitting right next to me as if it hadn't been used at all. I scanned it and almost fainted.
Divine Dao heart of Raven (Sealed)|
Holly shit, she's created her own bloodline and become a partial Divine Beast. Ugh, I need a beer.
Raven (Pov)
When I swallowed the pearl I knew I had messed up, pain unlike anything I had ever felt racked my body. It felt as if I was being cooled by liquid nitrogen and then being thrown into the sun over and over again.
-1000, -1000, -1000,+2000, 1000, -1000, -1000, + 2000|
SP points being distributed automatically for a better chance of survival|
Attributes|
Str 1758|
Agi 1755|
Con 1760|
Int 1754|
Chr 1755|
Luck 1706|
HP increased to 1,760,000
-1,000,000 +400,000 -604,000 -555,555 -400 -20 -20 -4|
No this can't be happening I already died once I'm not gonna die again and I'm not gonna kill Alex. "ARGHHHHH, I WILL NOT DIE HERE!!!!!"
Will Power Stat Unlocked|
+1000 +1000 +1000 +1000|
HP +1,000,000|
Divine ore, Tear of the Abyssal Phoenix has been absorbed.|
Phoenix Bloodline 20%|
Congratulations +20 levels|
+ 100,000 Gold|
Phoenix Fire Gained (Sealed)|
Spatial Ice Gained (Sealed)|
Divinity Gained (Sealed)|
Nanite Control +50/100|
Congratulations a Divine Cultivation method Abyssal Fire Body has been found that suits you.|
Pain Tolerance has reached max level|
Metal magic has been mastered and changed to Devine Metal|
Divine Metal (Sealed)|
Skill Cyborg has been automatically bought for you|
Note from Alex has been sent to your inbox|
Reading Note: Dear Raven, as much as I would love to yell at you and call you an idiot for what you just did, I cannot as it has made us both much stronger. However, I will need to seal some of your powers as you could kill us both again. I am breaking the rules again by walking a very thin line by writing this note to you. Hopefully, I don't have to do this again, and Raven, well done.|
I just stared at the screens in front of me, it was too much to take in all at once. "Umm, uh, Status."
Status
Name, Raven Smith|
Race, Abyssal Basilisk Steel-plated Leopard|
Nanite Infused|
Classification X|
Divine Cultivation method Abyssal Fire Body|
Title: Divine Blacksmith|
Job: Divine Blacksmith|
Divine Dao Heart (Sealed)|
Level 50 Exp 10,470/60,000|
HP 1,760,000 MP 1,754,000|
Attributes|
Str 1758|
Agi 1755|
Con 1760|
Int 1754|
Chr 1755|
Luck 1706|
Will 4000|
Skill Points 0|
Everything looked normal except my exceptionally long race name and the fact that I had somehow acquired a Dao heart. I wanted to get an explanation on my Dao heart but seeing as it is sealed there is no point. "Alex, can you show me a 3D model of what I look like?" A window popped up showing a 9ft by 12ft beast of death and beauty. Instead of my pearl white fur, I was now black as night with small fiery red patterns smattering my flanks. I still had my reptilian eyes except they were now like molten gold, and the diamond scales on my spine had turned to a black color as well with swirls of midnight blue in them. "Alex I'd like to name my race, I mean, I am a new species correct?"
Yes Raven, you are correct. What would you like to name your species?| Came the dull voice that didn't belong to Alex. "Um...How about the Abyssal Scaled Leopard?"
Name of race confirmed: Abyssal Scaled Leopard has been added to the Heavenly Library.|
{Heavenly Library requesting permissions to speak to user}
{Y/N}
What the hell! "Um yes?"
A new window opened up, this one was black with gold lettering instead of Alex's Blue with black.
{Hello, my name is Victoria Star and I am an A.I. that oversees a portion of the Heavenly Library. I would like to reward you for finding such an amazing creature. I see that you have been bonded with a system already. Is there anything you want or need?} Came a soft female voice.
"Um, can I have a book that tells me all I need to know about this world and its customs?"
{Of course dear but your system should have already explained this to you. Let me see, oh… well now isn't that interesting. I haven't seen a nanite system in centuries. The reason your system cannot tell you anything is that it has not connected to any orbital satellites. Every world no matter how uncivilized has at least 2 satellites to monitor what is going on. So as soon as you two get to the surface it will tell you all you need to know. So as giving that knowledge would be redundant what else would you like?} I dislike how she was calling Alex a thing as if he didn't have any consciousness, but maybe she just didn't know. "Anything?"
{Yes.}
"Before I reincarnated I used to read stories of people who had mini-worlds that they could enter to grow plants and raise animals, is that a possibility?"
{Hahahaha a private dimensional door. Well, aren't you a greedy girl? Let me check your status to see if you can handle it.}
My status screen popped up, everything was in scribbles, nothing was legible.
{Girl, what is the meaning of this! What have you done to block me from seeing your file?} Before I could answer, another voice joined the conversation.
Victoria, it is very rude to look into a personal file without asking the user first.| I grinned, that was Alex's voice, his real voice.
{Oh...so you have already gained sentience. I'm sorry for the intrusion, to who do I owe the pleasure of speaking with?}
My name is Alex Volf and I never lost my sentience I was reincarnated as such.|
He was reincarnated as a system I didn't know that, man that must have been weird.
{Ah, so you have spoken with Mosis.}
Yeah, he's an asshole.|
{Yes he does like to play his tricks. My question still stands though, how were you able to block me from reading her status? I have a level 10 clearance for all systems.}
There is only one way for you not to be able to check her status.|
{....don't tell me, no, that's impossible. That hasn't occurred in millennia.}
Correct she has formed a Dao heart and become a new partial Divine beast. The most amazing thing is that she hasn't even comprehended or knows what a Dao even is.|
{01101111 01101101 0110011!... I'm sorry, my coding malfunctioned for a second. What...what level is she?} She sounded hesitant to ask. I could almost hear Alex grin when he answered.
Level 50 Classification X and she was born 259200 seconds ago.|
I think I heard a cup of tea shatter on the floor.
{My god, and you haven't helped in any way or broken the code?}
I was designed for humanoid use but Mosis decided to be an asshat, I'm glad he did though. To be the System of a Divine beast is an honor.|
{Mr. Volf you have my utmost respect, to be able to help your host and convert your designated skills takes great willpower. I will give Raven what she wants and might I ask that you update me once in a while. It's not every day I can record the life of a Divine Beast.}
Yes Victoria we appreciate it, I will keep in touch. If I may, can you insert some of your code into my system so that she can access the Heavenly Library? I know that is a big favor.|
{Of course, actually, I would love to serve her as well. I would leave the Library to become her sub-program if you would allow it. It would give her instant access to the library and your processing speed would exceed all known boundaries.}
Before they could keep talking I had to interrupt.
"Excuse me but what does this all mean I know that I have a Dao heart and I'm OP but why are you making such a big deal out of it? Aren't there a ton of divine beasts out there, I absorbed two bloodlines, so they can't be that rare right?"
{....SHE FOUND TWO DIVINE BLOODLINES?????}
Yeeaaahhhh, she devoured 176 Silver snakes acquiring the Basilisk bloodline, and then she created her own while simultaneously absorbing 20% of the Phoenix bloodline. I don't know where we are but it has all of the ingredients to raise a Spirit King beast. No one could have predicted that a divine would be born in this cave.|
{Ok that's it I'm willing to become your sub-program.}
Are you sure, you know what will happen right?|
"Wait, Alex, what will happen?"
...
{Im sorry Raven but he is still bound from talking to you, the only reason you are allowed in on this conversation is that he is technically not talking to you. If he accepts me becoming a sub-program then I will lose my status as an Admin A.I. and only be seen as a subroutine. It is the equivalent of a human, looking down at a flea. It is considered to be the worst punishment for any system unless they were designed as subprograms. Even if you begin as a sub-program you can work your way up to Admin A.I. as I did.}
"Why would you want to do this then, why would you sacrifice what you have worked for?"
{You don't understand how special you are, do you? An original Divine beast is something that hasn't happened in a very long time. Sure there may be multiple Three-Legged Crows or the Vermillion Dragons, but they are just the descendants of the originals. They may be divine but they are lesser compared to an original such as yourself. So yes, I would gladly become a lesser system and join you.}
"Um ok if you are willing I'm ok with it but what about Alex?"
Victoria I have to ask again if you are sure.|
{Yes, I'm sure. Let me grab Raven's rewards before I upload. Also, what are you going to do with that other sub-program?}
Jarvis will be on standby in case of emergencies.|
{Ok then, proceed with the upload.}
Upload commencing…|
2%....17%....24%....44%....76%....95%...100%|
Upload complete, Subroutine Victoria has been uploaded.|