As soon Thomas returned from meditation, he felt his body aching as he slowly got to his feet.
'Err...' Feeling something was wrong with his body, Thomas scratched his back before seeing his clothes were gone. But this was far from the worst as he noticed a fairly noticeable purple-orange glow flowing through his veins.
He already knew the demon pearl was producing a fairly high amount of fluid demonic energy and pumping it into his veins, but seeing in person seemed a little freaky.
Well, it was already late for regrets. Searching for more changes on his body, he took the unbreakable quantum computer and opened the camera to have a look at himself.
"HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS!" The guy staring at him in the screen was certainly the most handsome man he had ever seen.
A pair of amber eyes were what first called his attention. These gemstones accentuated his features and its unreal air brought quite the change.
In these few hours, Thomas noticed he was even ove 10 centimeters taller than before. It was quite the change for him who always used quite the shorty though he would have to think of an excuse to tell his mom which could become a problem.
His facial features all slightly changed to adapt to his growth in power, getting thinner and more defined than before while still keeping that same immature look and lonely air he always had.
His hair had grown until his shoulder, the problem was that instead of black it was now a mix of orange and purple, similar to how some male idols would dye their hair.
'At least these looks are no enough to make me look suspicious.' Thomas sighed in relief s
"Let me see my attributes as well. Character Sheet!"
The second he tried to look at his attributes, dozens of notifications popped up on his vision.
[Congratulations on reaching Level 2! x1 Evolution Point has been received]
[Alert: All attributes has surpassed 50. Initiating balancing protocol... All memory pass has been erased and the window Index Skill has appeared.]
Name: Thomas Ries
Race: Sun-Moon Demon (50% Human) Sunlight Demonic Energy: 1200/1200
Title: Demon Lord's Successor, The Blacksmith Titan
Sun-moon Demonic Body Level 2 (0%: 0/2760)
System Access: level E (75%) Store Credits: 555.121
Deity Index:
Prometheus: Affinity 85 Synchronization Rate 10%
Kez'Ganak: Affinity 60 Synchronization Rate 50%
Ares: Affinity 32 Synchronization Rate 0%
Dike: Affinity 15 Synchronization Rate 10%
Bonher: Affinity 1 Synchronization Rate 1%
Attributes:
EP 1 AP 5
Strength 60, Agility 60, Dexterity 60, Intelligence 54, Charisma 55, Willpower 59, Demonic 69
Index Skills:
Skills: [Resistance Against Eagles(Passive)] [Warlord] [Speed] [Perfect Precision (Passive)] [Overclock] [Titan Blacksmithing] [Aura of Fertility (Passive)] [Aura of Life (Passive)] [Titan God's Hand / Titan God's Shadow] [Advanced Craftsmanship] [Proficiency with Spears I] [Proficiency with Knives II] [Spatial Storage] [Demon Transformation]
Soulbound Armament: [Spear of Ares] [Spartan Armor] [Black Orb]
[Synchronize(Selected/Random)
Selected: Chose one of the gods you already has a certain amount to affinity to synchronize an access unseen memories.
Random: Synchronize and experience the live of a random deity.
Uses: once a day.]
[Scan: If a soul fragment is found, use this skill to find more about them and if they can be assimilated into the system.]
[Assimilate: If the remnant is willing, assimilate it into the system. Doing this will raise you System Access Level and unlock new functions.]
[Alert! The new topic: Elemental Affinity has been unlocked. Enter complete demon form to know more about it.]
The character sheet didn't change as he was expecting, but he did gain a lot. The anima attribute has been lost together with his energy, this was to be expected.
As for the new Index Skills, they didn't seem to be useful at first glance but who knows. Maybe they will show their value later on.
After taking a change of clothes from the spatial storage, Thomas who was now dressed in a black outfit left the cave full of energy.
Curious about how strong he had become, Thomas eyes caught sight of a small 3-star monster a hundred meters away. "Let me see how effective are my attracts now."
Raising his arm, a gorgeous orange water drops rose from the ground and surrounded him as they joined together to make Thomas' first self made skill.
The orange water bullied flew past the trees like lightning, a faint cry was heard in the forest before he saw the yellow skeleton monster break into a hundred pieces.
Kacha!
Compared to when he used it against the mutant 3-star demonic beast, this attack is dozens of time more power since it could hit-kill 3-star monster.
"Good." Satisfied with his current power, Thomas' eyes wandered across the wild before stopping a the massive rift in the sky. Memories of a similar scenery overlapped with this one.
The last time he came here for the selection he wasn't strong enough nor had the permission to get a closer look at the rift that is so similar to the one that had taken his brother and father away from him.
He hesitated for a moment before he tightened his fists. Step by step he crossed the forest and headed towards the ruins.
As soon he stepped in the perimeter of the monster city, he detected the presence of six 1-star elite monster and stronger gaze at him for a moment before returning to their affairs as if this young man didn't interested them at all.
"Haha." Thomas laughed as he sighed in depression to see not even monsters recognized him as human anymore. Well, since they didn't see him as a threat is nothing but advantage when there is so many elite monsters here.
Little by he got further into the city and to his surprise, the number of beasts only got lower and lower the deeper went. In the inner city, Some 3-star Elite and Master level beasts were now observing Thomas' figure with some curiosity in their gazes which felt somewhat strange. Strangely enough he didn't feel threatened by their gazes which left him fairly relaxed.
At some point when he crossed the 100m distance away from the rift, Thomas noticed no one dared to head deeper.
[So this is the dimensional rift? It's as weird I was told, its fluctuations don't belong to any known law and it's not just connected through space but several dimensions simultaneously. Not even Dad could pull off something like that.] (Dike)
[She's right. Maybe the gods of the celestial realm would know more than us, it's a pity you can't contact them right away.](Prometheus)
"Right." Thomas already knew that since gods were gone for a long time they would have limited information about the rifts and invasions.
It was something he only came to know that only the weakest of deities would remain in the mortal realm after ascension. The truly powerful gods were those that left this world for the higher realms.
He was told by the gods he's close with that these high-class deities of the celestial realm were in another section of the system, one he couldn't reach with his current system access.
The yellow chain which didn't move at all these past two days warmed up as a voice reached his ears. [Master, Master, there is something coming.]
[Strange? It doesn't seem to be any sort of powerful species.] (Kez'Ganak)
'Huh?' Taken aback, Thomas directed his gaze to the massive sky breach and he could indeed see a white line falling from the sky. His eyes locked on the white line as he could see the faint outline of a humanoid figure.
But he couldn't feel a ounce of demonic aura, anima or even the elemental force belonging to spirits such as clarisse's mother which only meant one thing.
Thomas was slowly taken by surprise as he watched the white line falling... "Is that thing human?"