[3 Days Later...]
A brilliant, boundless blue sky stretched eternally in both directions, the vastness of the blue somehow so different from the ocean he'd once been held captive beneath.
The midnight blue grass he laid on rustled gently in his ear, the clandestine breeze playing with the shoots of grass and his pale strands of hair.
If he were to close his eyes, he would be able to feel the thrum of the earth, to hear the whispers of spirits and the movements of the animals—all things he'd never had the chance to see before, at least not that he could remember; for millennia he'd slept beneath the rolling waves, the darkness and the cold of the deep his captives as he laid unable to move, unable to breath.
Of course, he technically was still in that deplorable prison, but he didn't feel like he was—instead, he felt like he was free for the first time in forever; he felt like he could breath...
*briing, briing
The soft sound of the notification interrupted his peace, and Jörmungandr's which had finally closed to rest opened slowly, the notification scrolling across the the screen:
[System Assimilation Complete. Please enter Main Menu.]
'So she's finally done with it.'
After the siblings had discovered the System's poor naming sense, she'd ran away in an excited frenzy while yelling something about preparing their leveling systems, since they were going to be Patrons, and apparently Patrons had different systems than Players.
A button appeared saying
[Welcome to Nine Kingdoms; the Game will be starting soon—please explore your current system functions in the meantime.]
Jörmungandr swiped the message, and started fiddling with the system the System had granted to him.
[Identity]
[Stats]
[Knowledge]
[Abilities]
[Ingrained Talents]
Curious, Jörmungandr pressed on [Ingrained Talents], his eyebrows slowly rising at the list of "talents" he had.
>[Ingrained Talents]
• Transformation (hereditary): The user is able to reconfigure their body as much as is desired; modifications include race, gender, and species.
{*Special Transformation*}: User has ability to resume their original form—User is also capable of adjusting size of transformation.
Who'd have thought of all things, he'd have inherited this from his father?
"What else did I get?"
• Lord of Water (hereditary/exposure): Due to User's prolonged exposure to an enormous quantity of water, User had been given the ability to command and "understand" water down to the molecular level.
He didn't understand what molecular meant, but it sounded like an interesting ability considering his background—his suffering was for something he supposed.
• Spirituality (inborn/learned): By sleeping for an extreme duration of time, User has gained ability to connect with and communicate with others that reach for them; can help with understanding the reality of the "World's" and can help guard against spiritual attacks.
There were a few more, but he was bored now; closing his view, he instead chose to rest his eyes, finally feeling assured that when he wakes up, he'll be able to see the World again...