'What is ultra tier aether energy?' Van asked the system as he was interested in how the power system worked. It was a new experience for him to grow in strength and get new boons like in the few video games he had gotten the chance to play.
'Like skills, attributes, and powers Aether Energy is also broken into categories based on a few factors. The first is the purity of the aether energy and what other kinds of other energies are mixxed inside it, these range from elemental energies all the way to the life force energies of the beings that have interacted with the aetheric energy's source.'
'The second is the density or amount of aetheric energy that can be found within the celestial body, or a specific area, energy is normally spread out evenly unless there happens to be some kind of conductor or treasure cause an area to have a more dense amount of aetheric energy.'
'The final determinant of the level of aether energy is the age as aetheric energy also grows and matures in cases where it matures enough it can attain its own sentience. The ranks are as follows, weak, sub-par, strong, super, ultra, and beyond. Consciousness can only be formed by súper and up.'
'God you're long winded but thanks now I understand, do you think my source will ever become beyond ranked?' Van replied feeling like everytime he asked a question that could be simply answered he got an info dump and the questions he wanted specific answers the system would talk in circles.
'It's highly likely once that black hole absorbs this galaxy it will evolve to have beyond aetheric energy but you should be happy with what you have now it could probably be counted on 2 hands how many celestial bodies have ultra aetheric energy within this universe.' The system replied.
'Good to know good to know, I'm going to go get some fresh air forming a connection with that thing was pretty taxing…' Van got up off his bed and stretched before putting on some shoes and walking towards the door.
*ding*
A ring sounded in Van's mind as the systems voice chimed in, 'The host has unlocked mission tab by forming a connection with his home planet, host can now accept missions from the system, and will be given missions to help the host advance. A mission has already been assigned to the host.'
Hearing this Van couldn't be happy about what he just heard, it felt like he just got hired for a job he didn't apply for with no choice but to go to work. He reluctantly decided to go to the missions tab to see what it was before walking out of his room.
[Missions]
[Escape the orphanage with max before doctor vixen comes back in 1 month. Reward: 5 skill points, 100 shop points and unlock system shop. PENALTY FOR FAILURE: host will be dissected and have his organs transplanted into other people]
After reading this a dreadful expression formed on Van's face as he began thinking about how he would get Max to agree to escaping the orphanage, the rewards would have made his expressions little light but that penalty thing made his skin crawl.
He decided to find max and have lunch with him so they could talk about some things, but as soon as he stepped out of his room door he bumped directly into max.
'Is it speak of the devil or think of the devil?' Van thought to himself. "Yo max I was just going to look for you, wanna go get some lunch?" He then asked after getting his thoughts together.
"Sure i was actually coming to get you for that exact reason, but I know a place way better than this orphanage food and we can talk more freely" max said while placing a hand on Van's shoulder as they disappeared from where they were and appeared in another forested area, but behind the trees there could be seen the outline of a city.