(The Next Day)
[ Location: System Space, Training Room ]
" A Class? really? " I was in awe when I see the System Window Screen on my face showing me that since level 12, I already unlocked a Class.
< (!) Message [Unread] (!) >
< Class Unlocked: [Shielder] >
< Class Inspiration: Ragna Orion Mamoru Kent or Ragna 12 >
< *Requirement Level 12 >
" But when did I ... oh!!! oh!!!! I remember it now!!!! " I suddenly remembered that back in the Dungeon, I skipped many of the System's messages since I was too focused on slaying the monsters there.
As I was saying that, Twelve then talks to me from the other Room inside the System, telling me that it is time for me to accept the Class as I did just that but before I do it, I take my time asking if accepting the class will also give me an instant change or some sort like in the game where after choosing the Class, the player will immediately receive a Set of basic equipment for the chosen Class like a basic shield or a basic sword.
Hearing that, the System then tells me that the Class feature works like that but unlike the usual RPG or MMORPG games, the user can still use other types of equipment even after accepting a Class.
" Wait a minute, so even after accepting the [Shielder] Class, I can still use my sword equipment? " I ask the System as it immediately says yes for the System itself doesn't limit the user to be locked into the usual rules of a Job Class where the Player in the Games usually can't access other weapons besides the weapons available on the chosen Class.
After the System confirms it, I immediately feel that something is wrong in my body, as suddenly I hear Twelve's voice in my head as he still used the mind communication and ordered me to stay calm for this is the way for him to integrate all of his existential traits fully into me.
" Existential Integration ...? "
< Existential Integration is being processed >
< Memory Integration is being processed >
< Emotion Integration is being processed >
< Trait Integration is being processed >
< Integration Complete >
< Class [Shielder] has been completely installed on the Player's body >
< (!) Warning (!) >
< Player will receive the effects of the Class Installation in .. >
< ..1.. >
< ..2.. >
< ..3.. >
When the System announces that, my head suddenly felt dizzy as I felt my brain is receiving many things from the class installation, making me asleep.
( While Sleeping.. )
After I entered the world of dreams, I begin to see a sight where I saw myself sitting in a chair, and from my left, comes a little girl with black hair calling me.
" Grandpa ... " the girl says to me.
Hearing that, I then looked at the girl closely as I was confused about who is this, and why did she call me Grandpa. While being confused, I then accidentally looked at myself in the mirror near my seat, only to see that I was on Ragna Twelve's body.
"( This is Twelve's body!!!?? )" I said in my mind remembering that the System back then also said
"( This is Twelve's memory ... )" I said while touching my beard which is Twelve's beard.
As I was thinking to myself, the girl then approaches me and asks me what is wrong she ask if I was being senile again and she then explains that she is Carla, Carla Ranggina Hikari Kent, my granddaughter.
" It's me, grandpa .... it's me Carla your granddaughter ... do you forget? " Carla asks me as I then realized that this girl is the granddaughter that Ragna Twelve had back in his Timeline, the very same granddaughter who gave him the chance to survive every [Universal Reboot].
As she introduces herself to me, I begin to ask her about herself since I want to know her more, Carla then answers me for it seems I am being forgetful again due to my age as she then explains to me I was being asleep for 6 hours after battling some Deviant Monsters with Marticorax her Divine Holder, the god responsible for giving her Divine Grace.
Hearing the name Marticorax, suddenly my left eye hurts as my mind suddenly received visions of what happened on the end days of this Timeline where I see the whole scene*.
" No no ... " tears come out of my eyes as I see Carla's fate at the end of this Timeline which confuses her as she looks at me with her plain eyes.
In the visions, I see her being poisoned, stabbed, shocked, burned and tortured heavily by the gods or their race's real name Diviners, for knowing the truth behind their rule over the Universe as she is one of the mortals that knew about the Reboot the very thing that make the Diviner able to rule over us.
Not just that, I also see what happens to her after her life ends and see myself as Ragna Twelve battles the Diviner Marticorax before the Universal Reboot's light engulfs everything as I see and see more of it afterward.
Seeing that, I cried and screamed heavily as Carla my 'granddaughter' from the 12th Timeline then hugged me and tells me that everything will be alright as she will be with me.
" Don't worry grandpa, everything will be alright. "
" Carla is here with you and will never leave you alone again," she says as suddenly.
" You've returned, how does it feel to live inside this old man's memories? " Ragna Twelve says to me as I see myself returned to the place I was before.
< Location: Medic Room >
"( I've returned? to the Medic Room? )" I ask myself while touching my left eye as it suddenly hurts.
" What is happening? Twelve ... System ... what have you done? " I ask them about it, especially Twelve as I ask him about the dream or whatever visualization I had just before.
" That was part of my memories and visions. "
" My dearest memory of my granddaughter, my only family member that I had after countless battles between the Divine, the Mortals, the Monsters, and the Deviants," he says to me as he then tells me to forget those things memories and emotions I received for now and start using the Class's skill as the System Window shows me my basic class skill which is.
< [Class Skill] >
< Parry (Active) -- lvl.1 >
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Extra:
* This happens between Chapter 1 to Chapter 7 where Ragna 12 fights the Diviners for the sake of his granddaughter, Carla.