01 slammed the box down on the table and commands it to open. The box disappears with a small green flash. It leaves behind a green note and give 01 a panel.
God picks the note up. It's a message from The Jack.
"Now why are you not letting him become stronger hmm? Don't want to get invaded? Oops."
"Really? You had to interfere personally when you saw that it was a matter with me didn't you? I guess someone is up for a beat down. Last time it was the Gauntlets, this time it will be..something that hurts more."
Meanwhile 01 was reading his new panel showing what he got. The challenge needed him to get an item so he was hoping to get something. What happened was kind of troubling.
[Jack Box opened.]
[Jack Decided to have some fun.]
[Jack has chosen to personally take and give.]
[What is yours is always mine.]
[JACK HAS TAKEN AN AVATAR- Ulfish.]
[Since I am generous this can be yours.]
[Jack has granted you an item- Tampered Box.]
[Jack sends a message-
He doesn't want you to get Overpowered. WELL TOO BAD CAUSE THIS BOX IS GONNA DO EXACTLY THAT. For the very low price of....this...disgusting...fish..thing....]
01 was surprised. This Jack guy is helping him to get stronger just so he can annoy God more? Is there even a point to that?
"So what did you get? " asked God in a mischievous tone.
"Something that's gonna blow your mind."
01 commanded system to put the box in front of him on the table and the box appeared. It looked like a regular cardboard box from the outside. It had a little warning symbol of an eye which was crossed out.
"What exactly is this... An itembox?" God said tilting his head.
01 commands it to open and the box started to glow glowing with a leaf green colour and slowly started the same multicoloured glow from a G O D G I F T E D skill.
"WHAT IS THIS? WHY IS THIS GIVING A SKILL THAT ONLY I CAN GIVE?" God said, standing up from his chair. Clearly shocked by seeing something that shouldn't be possible.
01 smiled and replied,
"This, is a Tampered Box given by Jack."
God sat down slowly and replied,
"Oh then this shouldn't be a big deal. That guy loves to mess with people this will probably be a rare skill a-
The room gets so bright as if a sun just exploded. 01 closed his eyes to save himself from the bright light and God didn't even flinch on this but was very shocked.
[Skill Name- God of Combat (Active/Passive) ]
Effects
Rarity- Modified Epic+
-Proficiency and Skills on all weapons will be at Maximum Capacity.
Can summon a weapon from anywhere in the world that you have touched. Must be classified as a weapon. (No a random stick you found on the ground is not a cool sword.)
The weapon gets damaged by only 2% of any damage it endures.
Fatigue build up is reduced to 10% when using a weapon that you rightfully own. Looted from the dead counts if no one witnessed it.
When using Fists as a weapon your damage is increased by 80%
-Combat Gods Blessing-(Passive)
At all times during combat you have full awareness of your surroundings
-If the target is unable to use tools, only [Combat God's Blessing] will be active.
-Jacks tempering- (Active)
You can grant this entire skill to someone for as long as you want and take it back from them whenever you want. [No matter how far you are from them.]
01 was satisfied with this. He felt excited not only because he got a great skill but also because now he can have his answer. But before that 01 tries to upgrade this already powerful skill,
[Tampered skill. Cannot be upgraded.] this saddened 01 a little. But now wasn't the time to be sad. It was the time for answers.
So he questioned for answers but God started to laugh,
"You are an idiot aren't you. The quest said specifically for you to get a good thing. And you said that Jack took an avatar from you as well thus making it ineffective. And since you don't have any more Jack Boxes that turns the quest impossible to complete for now."; He brings out his stop watch from a black void and flips it open.
"Oh, it's time again." he closes the watch and throws it to the side. Before it hits the ground it disappeared back in the void. "Oh, the next mission is going to be a tutorial again. It should have something to do with flying. I wish I could witness your scared of height face but nope. I have some work to do....and a face to break." then a void opened behind him and a black silhouette came through it. The silhouette looked like a tree.
God approached it. Different noises came out from the silhouette and God made that same kind of noise. They were talking to eachother. Then God turned around and looked at 01,
"Start the tutorial in a while okay? I'll be back soon."
Then he and the silhouette left through the void and it closed on its own. The White World became silent and still as if it got frozen in time.
01 looked at the little patch of grass God and the silhouette was standing on. It was now blackened as if it was burned by fire. Then it slowly turned back to green and looked good as new. But unlike all the other patches which was frozen. This grass patch was moving like normal.
Ignoring that 01, who was sitting on the chair now asked system,
"How long are you planning on not telling me about the challenge reward."
[I calculated that you wanted to use it when ****** is away thus I waited and since he left you can have this reward.]
01 thought about getting the answer from the God directly but he couldn't make him say it by himself. The guy didn't even give him a chance to argue with him for the answers. But his original plan was to open this reward in front of God and threat him a little but system thinks he did this on purpose si he let it slide.
He opened the his system.
[Name - 01]
[Creature - Soul of a ******]
[Soul Strength - Lower Peak ]
[Soul Titles- Invincible Soul, First Subject,Died in Tutorial, What Challenge, Make It Look Easy]
Soul Skill - *Expand*
[Rewards - *Recieve*.]
First thing 01 noticed that he felt happy and sad at the same time.
Then he noticed that there was a "Creature" in the panel. It was in the scenarios before but now it was in the White World as well. What really peaked his interest is the fact that it was unreadable for him. The other thing was that, he is now a lower peak in case of soul strength. This was a surprise because he didn't really even try to improve his strength but it did on its own.
"System how did my strength increase?"
[Your soul level increases by a little every time you gain a skill>title>complete a scenario. In that order you get more progression. After you hit a certain threshold your strength will increase. Giving you more access to many and different features and authority in the White World. But it will never be more then the creator of the White World.]
"Cool. Anyways, what is the reward for that challenge." Said 01 pressing the button.
[Reward - Memory Fragment #9.]
"Use it." 01 said and a panel opened in front of him. It was a video of God.
He was looking through at a globe that looked like a planet but it was yellow and pale instead of our blue and green.
There was another person in the video, a person in dark green. The person had the same features like God in his regular form. But unlike God this person had a face....which the guy hid wearing a dark green hoodie and a green jade coloured mask that covered there entire face. The man in green started to talk,
"So you have finally decided to get yourself a Subject. My strategy for the subjects are to get many Medium Middle levels and then strengthen them up to being Strong Mid. They might have less potential growth but what my strategy does is making up for the weakness with number.
God was looking in the globe very attentively. He probably didn't even listen to the person in green. The person in green then simply appears next God and gets his face as close to where ears are normally supposed to be then he screamed,
"WHAT IS YOUR STRATEGY VOID FACE ?"
God who's hands were empty, instantly had gauntlets in his hands.
The gauntlets were both Black coloured in Yellow and purple details which made it look like a snake from the front. He punched the person in green so hard that he flew through the room, into the white wall and appeared on the other side of the room on the floor face first. Then immediately appeared in front of god again. This time upside down.
"You just hurt my feelings. You know I'm just trying to help you." Said the person in green.
His gauntlets disappearing, God finally spoke,
"Don't talk nonsense. I know you're unkillable. And...the fact that you enjoy getting attacked. And how is screaming in a persons ears supposed to be helping."
The person in the next moment stood beside God and touched the globe.
"You, Mister, was lost in the train of thought. So I though to bring you back."
God sighed.
"There are too many paths to take in this Subject hunt...which I am not doing out of necessity. So my plan is to get one somewhat weak and get it to become strong overtime."
The guy stopped touching the globe and looked towards God and started complaining,
"Ehhhh? One? Not ten thousands? You're gonna do only one?? What a garbage idea. You should get at least a thousand and strength the- what are you doing?"
While he was chattering on and on God already had a golden orb in his hands.
"I picked a Golden one. It's already a Lower High and it has the potential higher then these other ones. Also...it can talk to me." God said looking at the shiny orb he had in his hand. His voice sounded like he was very happy.
The guy in green had his jaw open.
"WHY would you ever pick the golden ones. Those are annoying because they have there ego intact because of this you need to listen to there demands all the time. AND they needs especial care or these guys or...oh.... I see. You will use your own powers on this thing too huh.. This is actually pretty smart. It probebly has a higher potential then the normal ones.But you can't get another one for a loooong time."
God raised his hand with the gold orb,
"That's fine by me" and crushed the gold orb.
A panel comes up on the top of the room.
[You have gained your first subject.]
[Ego detected.]
[Potential - Unimaginable]
[Next Hunt- Till this one dies due to Potential Penalty.]
[Story of the Subject is being searched...]
The guy in green looked at the panel, appeared behind God and slapped him on the back,
"Congratulation. You've played yourself." and immediately got punched by God. This time it was an uppercut to the jaw. He landed on his arse and laid down.
"Ah that felt good." he was beside God again in the next next second.
"You do realise you can't do much with just one subject right? You do realise that you won't be on the leader board like this right?"
The gauntlets disappeared again and he said,
"I can be on the leaderboard whenever I want and with only one soul if I want."
Green guy laughed.
"That would be a little hard considering that the orb you picked has a ego."
"Don't worry about me." Said God and opened a panel. It was the leader boards.
[1.*****{Foflin. Herder of Souls.}] -
[2.******{Eolsine. Bringer of Retribution.}] -
[3.*****{Torsha. The Star Eater.}] ^
[4.*****{Jack The Unknown.}] v
"Oh... Looks like you just lost your place Ms.Jack. Better hurry."
Jack was already gone. Where Jack was last seen was now a green card. He picked it up. It had a message written on it.
"See you soon. Maybe on the Flipside instead."
God burned the card in his hand and looked at a system panel.
[Story has been found. Playing...]
The video ends. 01 had his on his ghostly forehead.
"What did I get myself into."
[Launching scenario-
{Tutorial #2} in 5...4...3...
"Can I at least process the information I just got. Like ple-"
1...0] just like the first time he was warped instantly and this time he was in a little nest on a rock beside the sea all alone again like the last time.
"Kyaaaaaaaaa" (ase...)
'Oh boy. What creature am I gonna be this time. It better be something cute or fluffy.'
"Kyaaaaaa Kyaaaa." (Open Status.) 01 this time, expected everything from being cute to being disgusting. But this time, he was,
[Species - Great Black Back Sea Gull.]
"Kyaaaaaaaaaa" (Well at least I am cute. But damn this is annoying.)