When the doors of the elevator opened, Aven saw only a white reinforced door and a scanner for the ID.
The door is clearly enchanted by multiple arrays and no one at Tier 5 would be able to destroy it quickly without alerting everyone within the skyscraper.
Aven put his ID card in the scanner and an instant later a cold mechanical voice echoed from the scanner.
[ Welcome home, administrator Blackwolf, I'm the Virtual assistant n.147. ]
The door opened revealing the bowing figure of a woman's hologram dressed in the blue uniform of the staff.
Behind her, there is a 5 meters long hallway, halfway there is a door on both sides, and another one in the end.
"Rise, how have you managed the floor until now?"
The hologram raised her head and talked with her mechanical voice, similar to that of the system.
[The floor is divided into three zones, on your left, there are the warehouse and garages, on the other side there are the training rooms, while in front of us there is your apartment.
The administrator can change this arrangement whenever he wishes.]
Aven went immediately toward the warehouse and garage.
The garage was prepared for small flying vehicles and is perfect for the 7 snechus but there will be a problem in the future. Even if he can put 7 snechus here, there is no way to add any other undead without expanding the garage.
The warehouse instead is too big and completely empty.
'Well… I'm sure that this warehouse will be filled in a heartbeat if I start to assault every gate around the world ' Aven thought while walking toward the training rooms.
There are three training rooms in total:
Team training room, it is also the largest training room created for multiple people to train at the same time.
Spell testing room, a room smaller with a mana gathering array that would help to cast more easily strong spells.
Meditation room, it's the smallest room, (around 5 square meters) and there is a Time-slower array, it is probably the highest level array in the floor beside the defensive array, it can slow the time to a ratio 1:2, 1 minute in the outside world is like 2 minutes within the array.
A lot of people don't use it since it would reduce their lifespan, but Aven couldn't care less about lifespan at the moment.
'I'm a necromancer… the mana gathering array is useless to me. As for the Team training room, I can use the Team training rooms on the lower floors.
I can remove those two rooms and expand my garage…'
The apartment is like the others used by Tier 4 slayers but larger, there are also multiple bedrooms, the big difference is the sight of Hope city from a higher floor.
From the wide windows, hundreds of floating cars could be seen going around the slayers' association.
While looking through the window, different waves of emotions assaulted Aven's heart.
At first, he felt surprised by the sight, then he thought that if he wanted to reach supremacy, he would see a lot of similar things like this.
At the same time, he thought about the higher floors, killing intent flashed through his eyes as he thought that he would need to become stronger.
When he imagined himself on the highest floor, he imagined the sight of the whole city, but when thinking about it, he couldn't help but think about the images that he saw on TV 4 years ago…
He felt once again powerless.
In that instant, he realized that even if he obtained the highest floor, nothing would change, he would be nothing more than another one of those slayers that arrived too late to save the victims.
He shook his head while thinking about how narrow-minded he was until now.
'If I wish to obtain supremacy, I can't rely on Hope city, I need to build my own tower, and my tower shall be my immortal legion'
His fighting spirit could be seen through his eyes as he decided on what to do for the future.
'System, show me the contract that you talked about'
[ Initializing contract between party A ( System and Dodo empire) and party B ( Aven Blackwolf ).
1 - Party A will continue to provide all benefits to party B as a 'hidden ally'.
2 - Party A will share secret information regarding the celestial cores and the technique to build and upgrade a celestial core.
3 - Party B isn't allowed to share the information received from Party A to anyone without Party A permission.
3.1 - Party B's undeads are allowed to use the secret techniques to build and upgrade their celestial cores.
4 - Party B won't purposely cause damages or initiate hostilities with Party A and his allies.
5 - Party A will unlock for Party B the achievement, 'Friend of the system' and all related benefits.
6 - Party B will fight alongside Party A in case the mystical races engage a large-scale battle within Party B's range of action.
6.1 - Party B will obtain rewards proportionally to his contribution in battle.
6.2 - Party B is allowed to retreat from the battlefield if Party B's life is in danger.
7 - When Party A will counterattack against the mystical races, Party B will follow Party A's troops in the Celestial plane and help Party A in battle.
8 - Party B isn't allowed to remove the system from himself.
9 - Only Party A can choose when to terminate the contract.
Does the user agree to the terms of the contract? ]
Aven was stunned by the contract.
'Too many benefits for me… I am even allowed to retreat from a dangerous battle… And the clause n.7… following their troops to kick the ass of those bastards monsters is my dream.
There is something weird about the contract… it feels too good for me to be true, maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong perspective? '
Aven read again the clauses that force him to do something and when doing so he realized what is the weird thing.
'From a contract like this, the clauses that force me to do something are things that I would accept to do even without this contract… meaning, what the system wants is within clauses n.4, 8 and 9?
Does he… fear me? Clause n.4 is necessary for them so that I won't attack them, clause n.8 is necessary for them to control me, and it also means that if I become stronger, I will be able to remove the system, as I thought, the system isn't a God or something like this.
Well, with my infinite scaling is possible, maybe he simply wants to feed me and make me stronger so that if the system finds a strong enemy he can use me.
The true question now is...what is the Dodo empire? The system is called 'Dodo tutoring system'… does that mean that the system has been created by the Dodo empire?'
[ The Dodo empire is a faction that works together with the system, we are supporting each other, user can think about the system and the Dodo empire as the same thing, the 'Ghosts' that appeared in large scale battlefields are soldiers of the Dodo empire tasked by the system to help in large scale battles.
In the future, it will be possible for the user to obtain a status like the Dodo empire. ]