Alex (POV) 1 week ago
Huuuh, I miss talking to people or anyone for that matter. After Seras became a person she was assigned a subsystem, the one I had created to help me in fact. He keeps me updated on some of the more insane things she does, like gaining an Aura of life for a freakin Vampire.
I actually got to talk to her though, so that's something, I guess. Or when she created her own cloning tree that sustains itself. She was a system before all this, doesn't she understand the amount of work I have to go through to create subsystems for every fucking Blood Purification Acorn, because they contain my nanites as well as her blood?!
Sitting back down on my desk I had created in Ravens Dao Heart, I looked over both of their stats. Seras seemed to be doing well enough, Raven, however, was turning into something truly amazing.
|Name, Raven Smith|
|Race, 10th Heavenly Tribulation Leopard|
|Sacred Beast of the Heavenly Tribulations: Raven, 10th Tribulation|
|Nanite Infused|
|Beast Contract with Seras Victoria|
|Classification Apocalypse|
|Divine Cultivation method Abyssal Fire Body|
|Title: Divine Blacksmith|
|Title: Harbinger of Death|
|Job Gained: Divine Blacksmith|
|Divine Dao Heart (Sealed)|
|Hell's Catalyst|
|Level N/A|
|HP N/A MP N/A|
She had turned into the physical manifestation of the 10th Heavenly Tribulation. She no longer had a level, health, or mana bar for that matter. Raven Smith was aligned with the very nature of the universe, and yet somehow she still had a contract with Seras and was still infused with my nanites.
Mosis and I still couldn't figure it out, after I had updated him when I noticed that she had surpassed all known System limits. Technically, once someone reaches that limit, the System will leave them as that person no longer needs to rely on the System Network to get stronger.
All we could figure out is that maybe, on a subconscious level, Raven still wanted me. Even though all the pain she was unquestionably going through to become a being of pure energy. Something that would exist throughout all known cultivation dimensions and worlds. She was still holding onto the memory of me. I was honored if our hypothesis is correct.
However, I truly pity the next generation of cultivators that try to become gods. First, they're going to have to get past the already difficult original 9 Heavenly Tribulations. Then they will have to pass Raven's test, which contains all of her powers. The stages appeared on her status a couple of days ago, Seras is truly lucky to have a life contract with Raven. I'm not sure how anyone will be able to prepare for some of these tests.
Funnily enough, she has 9 different powers that they would have to pass. Spatial Ice: Survive the temperatures of space for one minute, which isn't that bad; but it gets worse from thereon. The Core of a Planet: Feel the weight of the current planet that you are on for two minutes. Blue Hypergiant: Survive the heat of a Blue Hypergiant for 3 seconds.
I had to reread that third one 2 times before I accepted that that's what it said, at least it's not following the trend of doing it in minutes. No Empyrean cultivator would be able to last that long. No matter what cultivation art they practiced.
Then there was the fourth-fifth stage where Raven actually uses her titles as tribulations trials. Divine Blacksmith: Using your body as a forge the 10th Tribulation will conjure a manifestation of itself and hammer out your impurities while reconstructing your bones and muscles with Abyssal Essence.
The 6th stage, Hell's Sanctuary, was the worst in my opinion, because Raven had become Hell's Catalyst before becoming the 10th tribulation she was still categorized as an apocalyptic event. So, the would-be gods would be sent into Raven's Catalyst which would put them through every poison known to their planet. Luckily their minds and bodies have already been reforged, if they've managed to get this far, that is.
The 7th and 8th are actually pretty basic after all that, just survive the Draconic Black lightning for seven seconds. Then survive the Heavenly Foxfire for 8 seconds. Which I think is odd because I'm pretty sure the Foxfire was upgraded from the Heavenly lightning she had previously, but whatever, it's not my place to question the Tribulations.
Now here's the real kicker, somehow Raven connected both Seras and me to the Tribulation network. It's not a network like the System, more like a judging type platform. If one of the would-be gods manages to pass all of these trials they will then be sent into a courtroom of sorts where all three of us would question them to see whether we judge them worthy enough to join the god realm.
When I talked to Mosis about it he immediately checked Ravens' status himself, thinking I was mad. Only for his face to pale considerably.
"Good lord, I only assigned you a simple reincarnation on a class 3 planet as a joke because I was bored." He said slumping into a chair. "I thought it would be funny to see how a human combat system would survive in a cultivation world where his user wasn't even human." Glancing up at me with what I could only assume was regret.
"Yeah, well, now there aren't going to be anymore god realm experts once she evolves into the 10th tribulation," I said looking up at him with pride as well as a bit of anger. Just as he was about to say something a thought sprang into my mind causing my digitized face to pale.
"What, what is it?" Mosis questioned in a whisper, almost too afraid for me to actually answer. "Well, Seras should be able to pass the 10th tribulation because she has a life contract with Raven. That's fine, but because she is a vampire, and has a bloodline that rivals Raven's absurdness. However, all of her children will have the ability to become gods as well. As long as she absorbs the right amount of bloodlines."
"My god, how large is her coven right now?" Said a pale-faced Mosis. "Only four, but each one is powerful, I would encourage you to look over her status in depth while I carry on monitoring both of them. There isn't a lot we can do after Raven evolves. All we will have is vampire gods roaming the universe."
"No the high gods wouldn't allow that, they would exterminate the coven before they allowed that to happen," Mosis said with a sigh. I had to let a chuckle out at that. "You really think Seras would allow that to happen? She has created something called the Pearl of Rebirth which contains her genetic code, along with my nanites. Then she merged that into a purification sapling and then spliced gene spores into that creation.
I've already created seven different subsystems to keep track of the acorns that are going to release soon which will then create more and more. She is planning on creating Rebirth Pearls for all of her children. They won't be able to die Mosis, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it because she hasn't gone against any system laws. Trust me, I checked. Even I think this is overpowered and I watched OP anime in my previous life for most of my life."
After I had said my piece Mosis looked like a goldfish, his mouth opening and closing yet no words could escape. It took a while before he was able to get his bearings back in order. "Well….if no one will be able to pass Raven's trials right now then we will just have to make it so that people can." It seemed like he couldn't even reply to what I had said about Seras.
"Alex, you and I are the only ones who know what has happened and we are going to keep it that way. Now I'm going to ask you to help me do something that will forever change the universe, will you help me?" Mosis did not look happy with what he was asking of me.
"What is it that you want us to do?" I asked in a hesitant voice.
"You and I are going to create a System matrix for the universe. It will give everyone a system at the age of, let's say, 7 years old. We would match up each system to the planet they are on, of course, we wouldn't want a cultivation system on a planet without any spiritual power or qi. Because you are a nanite system and you inhabit quite possibly the strongest being in the universe we will place it within you." He said with a solemn voice.
"You want to do what!!?" I screamed in his face. After a long conversation about how it was the only way to stabilize the universe so that there wouldn't only be vampire gods who would inevitably devour the universe. Not that they would do it intentionally. It's just what they were built to do, drain the life of others to survive.
"Ok, I'll do it. You do realize this is going to take a while right? We won't be able to have personalized systems for every individual on every planet. It will be a standard subsystem that we can rotate out so that the subsystems can upgrade to actual systems. We also won't give anyone a store option that would take way too much work. Even if I was an X class system, which I guess I will be soon, I wouldn't have enough computing power to handle all of those requests from the subsystems."
"Of course, we will just give everyone a standard upload where they can allocate their SP to their attributes. We will leave out Luck and Willpower, those have caused too many problems, as both Seras and Raven have shown us. We will also give them an EXP, HP, MP bar as well. They will gain EXP by the jobs they have and the quests/tasks they are assigned. I'm sure there will be upgrades as needed but for now, that is the basic layout. I will begin planting parts of your matrix into each world's core while you begin upgrading. Are you still sure you agree to this because there is no going back afterward?" Said Mosis in a somber tone. He explained to me that he never wanted to put a universe in such a state. "This will change every world in the universe."
"Yes, I'm sure. The universe could use some change anyway." I said with a half-smile.
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Please tell me what you guys and gals think of this chapter. I wrote it at 2 in the morning but I think it tuned out well. Also if you want to see the full status pages of Raven or Seras let me know and I will post them. Thanks for reading.