'Emperor? So mother was the Armdal's house cleaner... Something even more fascinating, Armdal is my father!' he thought before turning his face to the green screen. the screen was saying:
[Stats
Skills
quests
help]
"Hey lady, what is this?" Kirito asked
[This is the tab menu of the system, all you have to do is say one of the names on the menu, and it will give you information about it, so tell
me what you want to see on the menu]
"So... ok, I wanna go through everything. Start from stats to help." Kirito said
[ Stats
Level 1
Exp: 0/100
Strength: 10
Agility: 10
Endurance: 10
Points: 10]
Korto understood everything that was on the screen except Points.
"Hey lady, what are points for?"
[Points are to unlock different attacks, transformations and weapons. They can be won by completing quests only]
"Alright, so let's go-to skills now if you don't mind," Kirito said.
[ Skills
Inferno blast (projects a large fire blast that can travel 20 meters. The blast will get larger and will go further the more you level up)
Cooldown: 5 seconds
Requirement: 5 points]
"So I can unlock it now?" Kirito asked the system.
[Of course, you can, do you wish to unlock it now? Once you unlock it, you automatically know how to use it, however, the stability and firepower of the blast will not be exceptional since you are still level 1]
"Alright, unlock it!" Kirito said
[ Unlocked successfully!
Next skill, fire roar (Fire beam that comes out of your mouth
Cooldown: 5 minutes
Requirement: 10 points]
"Right, so let's go to quests now."
[ tier I quests
· Kill the marauders
50 Exp
2 points
· Find the scroll
150 Exp
3 points
· Do 100 pushups
5 Endurance
5 strength
· Travel 10 km
10 Agility
Tier II quests (unlocks at level 10)]
"Wow, so I can level up of two levels today..." Kirito said, "Tell me lady, what is the max level?"
[The max level is level 500, there are five quest tiers, so the more you level up, the more you will be able to unlock tiers which give you more Exp and points]
"So, what is help now," Kirito asked
[Every time you have a problem or you want to know more about a given topic, you can ask for help to find more info about it.]
"Alright I think I'm done here... Kirito murmured after going through everything on the menu, " ok system, bring me back!"
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In the cave, it has been almost an hour of waiting for Kirito to wake up.
"Anyways, how do you know all of this about Kirito," Shoto asked
"I use to work with Armdal before he died, and he said that one of his sons would be given the emperor's system," Elza responded after lighting up her 3rd cigar, "It's a family thing, it goes from generation to generation, and I was given the duty by Armdal to awaken the system, so here I am."
"You should be old by now then, how is it that you are still looking like a woman in her 20s?" Shoto said
Elza sighed because she was tired of answering his questions, "It's because I stopped ageing, I used a spell to stop my ageing time. It is an infinity spell, so it cannot be reversed. I'm a magician from Britain, but over there, they burn people like me, so I seemed refuge here..."
Suddenly, Kirito woke up, but he has silver-white eyes. This was what usually happens when someone awakens the emperor's system.
"Well, welcome back princess, so have you understood the tutorial properly?" Eliza asked
"How do you know?" Kirito said as he was standing up.
Elza didn't answer, but just simply looked to the other side of the cave, where there were two passages.
"That doesn't matter, what matters, is that we find the right way to the scroll" she replied
"Just for information, I'm still getting the scroll," Shoto said to put things.
In Kirito's village, he used to taking underground tunnels built under forests to prevent the monsters of the night from killing them. He learnt how to distinguish the good and wrong passages.
He went towards the two passages, and he first looked went towards the one on the right, then he went to the one on the right.
"There's a problem", he exclaimed with his arms crossed, " Those two tunnels have a breeze, so either way, we are going to reach the outside world, but we don't know which of the two is the one that leads to the scroll."
They all started thinking for a moment until Elza found a solution, "It's quite obvious, the only solution is to go separate ways. You and Mr Kawaki go left, and I go right."
They all agreed to the plan, started to go separate ways. Elza's tunnel was full of water, and the more she was moving, the more she could see grass and flowers, while Kirito and Mr Kawaki's tunnel was full of bones, and sometimes, they would see a skeleton lying on the wall.
"I don't understand, did these people die of hunger, or did they put an end to their lives." Mr Kawaki wondered.
Kirito didn't answer and just continued walling because himself he didn't know what happened, but one thing all those bones had in common was that they were all marked with scratches as if it was rubbed to something hard.
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Elza already got outside of the tunnel and she was already in a place full of Mango trees, Apple trees etc. What made her question this place was that she hasn't even seen a bird or an insect and it had been 10 minutes since she was walking in the forest.
'Strange, normally, this would be a great environment for animals such as snakes and birds etc. I don't understand, it seems like this is a tropical forest, with no animals...' she thought as she took a few berries from a bush.
As she was walking, she saw an old temple, but this time, there were people in front of the entrance. They had a kimono and a katana with them. They seemed like guards. Suddenly, as she was inspecting the temple, one of the guards emerged from behind and knocked her out with the handle of his katana. He lifted her and brought her to the temple
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Kirito and Mr Kawaki had been walking for 30 minutes now and they still haven't found any glimpse of light. Additionally, the breeze seems to come and go in a repetitive sequence.
"I am so tired! I need a rest Mr Nagasaki, you go forward, I will catch up to you later." Mr Kawaki said, who took out the food he brought and started eating.
"Take your time Mr Kawaki, if I find the way out, I will come back to get you, for now, stay here and get sine rest," Kirito said helping Mr Kawaki to sit down.
As Mr Kawaki wasn't a problem anymore, Kirito started jogging rather than running because he didn't feel comfortable about leaving Mr Kawaki behind. In a few minutes, he found an entrance but it was just a chamber with a table in the middle with a paper rolled in like a burrito.
"Hold on a minute, is that the scroll?!" Kirito shouted in joy
[Congatulations, you have completed your first quest, you receive a bonus of 100% on your Exp and point gain for this first accomplishment!]