Suddenly the surrounding around him vanished and Thomas saw himself in his own body standing in a vast shadow space.
At the same moment, several texts appeared before his eyes together with the same voice he heard before.
[Congratulations for completing the first stage of the tutorial.]
[You have experienced one of Lord Bonher's memories, Affinity raised by 2 and Synchronization rose to 1%.]
[You have now received access to your character sheet, journal and low-rank shop.]
[Receiving the rewards for completing the first stage of the tutorial:
Aura of Life (Passive Ability) and Aura of Fertility. (Aura of Life's alternate form)
Affinity with children and babies are also higher, wood elves and other creatures connected to nature will feel closer to you.]
[Tutorial part two, Experiencing the real world.
Description: Now that you experience some of the moments of a god, it is time to descend to the earth and fight by yourself and bring some devil souls.
Objective: Kill ten demons and gather their souls. (Demon's Souls: 0/10)
Reward: Physique Bestowal (Elemental Mortal Physique), Attribute Points x1, Memory Pass x1 and skill points x9.]
When the texts vanished the space returned to normal as his eyes opened revealing the familiar surrounding of his home.
Still a bit overwhelmed by what he saw and felt, he saw that the yellow chain had not tied itself on his left wrist.
[Master why don't you check your character sheet. Master will be surprised.]
"Should I try it?" His eyes betrayed his fear as it showed some signs of excitement. He wanted to see if anything really changed.
Preparing himself, he proffered the words. "Open character sheet."
To his surprise, a three-dimensional model of himself appeared before him together with a lot of information.
Thomas Ries.
Race: Human (Mortal)
Deity Index access level: F
Attributes:
Strength 4
Agility 5
Dexterity 11
Intelligence 7
Charisma 3
Willpower / Focus 10
Deity Index:
Bonher, Lord Protector. Affinity 2/100, Synchronization 1%.
"Wow." Thomas was really amazed by the interface before his eyes. It sure felt like a game, especially how it turned his abilities and attributes into numbers. But what really left him gasping in terror was the description of the skills he had.
Mortal Skills:
Boxing Mastery (Low-grade): Intermediate.
Knife Mastery (Low-grade): Proficient
Divine Skills:
Aura of Life (Passive Ability. High-grade 1 star): In your body now resides the innate vitality of the deity Bonher. Your body will now heal faster, and become more powerful in areas filled with the breath of nature. (Can be upgraded)
Aura of Fertility: (Aura of Life's alternate form) The couples mating within a 20m from the user will receive a boost of 80% of chances of impregnating the female. Evolving this ability can make it possible to affect males as well. (This skill is always active)
"Urg." The description of the first divine skill seemed good, but the latter nearly made him throw up the lunch he just ate. How in the hell would he want the ability to increase the chance of others getting pregnant? And it could affect men as well? Fuck! He imagined how others would act if they knew about this ability of his, it would be way worse than when he was treated as a trash.
Grabbing the yellow chain he spoke. "Hey, couldn't you have given me a more useful ability. Who would want to have this shitty Aura of Fertility, even worse I can't disable this thing."
To Thomas' furious gauze, the yellow chain was indifferent
[The selection of both deity memory and skill is random. And who cares if you have this skill, it only affects others and not you. As long as you keep quiet no one will know a thing about this ability.]
[In fact you should be more worried about others discovering about me and chasing after you. Who knows what will happen then.]
Thomas went silent, his face slowly grew serious. Upon these past few hours he experienced in first hand how strange this Deity Index System is.
He may be only sixteen, because he knew very well that this existence could bring him a lot of trouble.
"I see no..." Back in the past decades were a lot of fictional works about things similar to what he was experiencing right now.
"Son, are you still here?" Suddenly Thomas heard sounds of steps coming from downstairs. A middle-aged woman dressed in officer clothes then walked in the room and opened the door revealing the teenager kneeling on the floor while grabbing the yellow chain on his wrist.
"Mom ?!" Thomas didn't expect his mom would appear so suddenly while he was in the middle of speaking with his chain. Hoping she didn't hear anything he said.
She immediately dropped her bag on the ground and embraced him as she cried on his shoulder.
"My child! You have no idea about how worried you mom was when she received the news of the dimensional rift opening in the center. When your friend told me you attracted the attention of all the demons to help evacuate the cake shop. I know how things are going for you in that institute for Adepts, why don't you leave there and look for a normal job. "
Patting his mother's back from her, he felt bad for worrying her so much and said. "I'm so sorry mom. I won't act like that ever again, but I don't agree to leave the Dexia Institute."
His mom then gave a few steps back and stared at him deeply. Sensing the resolution in his glare of her she knew what he was thinking and wiped the tears off her eyes.
"I know the reason you always try so hard. I want the same, but mom can't help to lose you as well."
"I know mom." Thomas handed the bag back to his mom and turned to leave the room.
As she left the room, she immediately recalled something. "Oh, that friend of yours is also here. She came looking for me to know if you were fine, and I invited her to dinner. Come downstairs after you finish bathing.
Pang!
Only when the door closed did Thomas come back to his senses from him. Dinner? It was already this late?
"Then I should take a bath like my mom told me to and later see who came looking for me." Thomas had a certain guess about who was here to see him, but he went to the bathroom first to take a shower.
As he washed his head in the shower, he decided to ask the system about something. "Hey, If you have been close to me these past two years you must know. Do you think it is possible for me to grow as powerful as those big adepts by using this System?"
[Er? Yes, yes of course. The Deity Index System is the record of every deity that ever existed, if you couldn't grow as power as the Adept King of your race then it would be a shameful thing for Sisi.]
He then thought of the event that happened in his life back when his family had gone visit his grandparents on earth. He was too little to remember exactly what happened, but there was a huge incident close to their house in London, the same place when the first demon invasion started.
He was three to four years when both his father and elder brother were sucked into a massive spatial rift that opened in the sky.
Thomas wasn't old enough to remember much about them, but from his mother's melancholic gauze she would look at the blue planet about them every night would leave him with a pain in his heart.
If he had the chance, he wanted to know exactly what was on the other side of these dimensional rifts and the invasions. And the system was the only thing that could help him in his mission.
"All right, tomorrow I will start hunting for demons." He talked to himself as he was filled with confidence.