After Anton made the fire and cultivated with the mythic stones for two hours, he went to sleep in the igloo in the land of the ice beast. This was also a location his sponsor told him about before he died, he didn't really feel sad that his sponsor died because they didn't spend much time with each other but he still felt anger inside him, like something, was taken away from him without his consent.
When Anton woke up the next day, he felt that something terrible had happened, he didn't know what had happened. Maybe his friends were in danger or something happened to Anna, he didn't know so he made his way back to the middle city and wanted to go to the next level.
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Entry is prohibited. Your identity is unknown.
The system does not recognise you, you are neither a player nor a person.
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Anton was confused, how could the system not know him? Was it because he was away from the city for too long? If he was forgotten by the system, did the players and people even know him anymore?
Anton walked around the city for two days and asked the players and people who he was, but no one knew him. Anton sat down in a dark ally, his eyelids started to tremble and tears came flowing out and thoughts filled his mind.
Why him, why did it have to be him?
Bad things happened to him from the beginning and nobody besides his friends understood him.
But exactly that was now getting stolen from him, the system made him a forgotten player. Anton's whole body trembled as he thought all he had left were his friends. His parents died just before everything happened and now he was about to lose his friends without being able to do something.
It was unfair, Anton didn't even have time to process and handle his parent's death and now he was losing his best friends. He was alone now, he pushed against the wall of the house he was sitting before his hands started to bleed and it hurt him.
When Anton felt the pain, his only hope had vanished, the hope that this all was a bad dream, a dream that should end quickly. But you can't feel pain in a dream or if you felt the pain you would wake up immediately.
Anton sat down again and held his head in his hands and he wished he stayed in the world shown to him by the silhouette.
Wait the silhouette?
That was right Anton could to him, maybe he still remembered him. The silhouette wasn't a human, it was a mythic being. Anton who had just lost his hope regained it in a second and set off, to where the silhouette's cave was.
The door was closed, just like when Anton arrived here first. He pushed the door open and went inside, he walked the long way until he saw the graveyard and at the other end there was the throne. But something was off about it, the upper half of the throne was missing and beside it, there was a dark puddle.
Anton went over and saw that the dark puddle was a part of the silhouette. Suddenly two white circles appeared in the dark puddle and pictures flowed inside Anton's head, it was too much to process and Anton's mind chose to only give him the most important pieces of information.
The silhouette was killed by a being even darker and stronger than it, but before the silhouette died it got one last task from the other being, it was to make a new grave. Anton was shocked by that last information because not only that picture appeared in his mind, but the voice of the silhouette also appeared.
[I am sorry Anton when that being asks something of you, you have no other choice as to do it. But I found a little loophole in his request and changed his order a little bit, don't be shocked by what happened to you or what will happen. The only important thing is that you get stronger and kill it]
The message ended and Anton walked around the graves, there were many names on it but he didn't know them until he came to a grave that looked a little smaller than the rest. The name on that grave was Anton Miller, it was his name.
Anton's mind shook at this revelation, he fell to his knees and his whole world broke down before him and all he could do was scream in pain.
"I WILL KILL THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, I WILL KILL EVERYONE HE LOVES AND DESTROY HIM, JUST LIKE HE DID WITH ME"
"WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE ME, FROM MY PARENT'S DEATH, TO NOW ME BEING FORGOTTEN BY EVERYONE WHO IS MY OTHER FAMILY"
"Why does it always have to be me?"
Anton couldn't understand it he sat there, on his knees and thought about all the things he did in his life till now. The only bad things that came to mind were, that he killed Anna and Tim, but apart from that, he didn't do anything bad. Or so he thought.
He didn't know what to do now. He felt like doing nothing, like sitting here until he dies but that wasn't the life Anton desired. He desired a life where he could be together with his friends and family but that wasn't possible now, or so that's what he thought.
"If you can make someone forgotten, maybe you can do it the other way around?"
Anton muttered out this thought and somebody talked back to him.
[You are right about that my apostle, this will be my last time speaking to you but not my last time seeing you]
"Sponsor?"
Anton was a little shocked, he didn't expect someone to talk to him. And he least expected it to be his sponsor.
[Anton, do the task I gave you. Even though we will see each other again it is still a goodbye. So Anton, keep your head up, and be sure to remind me if you see me again.]
"What do you mean by that? How will we be able to see each other again?"
Anton couldn't understand what his sponsor was talking about, the only thing he got from talking to his sponsor was the same the silhouette told him. It was that he should become stronger and kill the one responsible for everything that happened.
Anton went outside the cave and started running in the direction of the snow land. When Anton passed the igloo, he thought it would be better if he got some sleep; it already got night and he was up for 24 hours.
Anton woke up again, he was completely refreshed and took a look at his status window.
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Name: ???
Age: ???
Sponsor: --
Titles: Discipline of the Goblin King of Death (Legendary)
Elements: Wind Lv.6, Fire Lv.7, Darkness Lv.4
Attributes: Strength Lv.35, Agility Lv.29, Speed Lv.37, Stamina Lv.34, Mythic power Lv.9
Skills: Fire pistol Lv.6 Wind jumps Lv.10 Fire sword Lv.5, Fire Fists Lv.3, Living flame Lv.???
Amount of coins: ???
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He was surprised that the status window even worked, so that meant that he wasn't forgotten by one part of the system. When he looked at the status window a few things were new, for example, his name, age and the number of coins.
There were three question marks instead of information and the other thing was the status of the sponsor. Before he became forgotten there was 'dead' written behind his sponsor's name but now there wasn't even a name.
There was just a blank space, on the other hand, his title was still there, so what did that mean? Anton didn't know and pushed that thought back for later. He then looked at his stats and saw a huge improvement from when he fought in the tournament.
[Wind Lv.3 ––> Wind Lv.6]
[Fire Lv.4 ––> Fire Lv.7]
[Darkness Lv.1 ––> Wind Lv.4]
[Strenght Lv.29 ––> Fire Lv.35]
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While Anton looked through the skills and attributes to see how much he actually progressed, something reached his interest, it was the new skill 'Living Flame Lv.???' it wasn't odd that he got a new skill, especially after the tournament. What was weird was that there were question marks instead of level information.
Anton tried to use the skill, but it didn't work. He tried his hardest until the day was over and he collapsed from overuse of mythic powers. He woke up the next morning, his mythic power was filled up again and he wanted to cultivate it again.
But he only had the purple stones from the silhouette and he didn't want to use them. So he opened the system window and clicked on the button that said 'System shop' but it didn't open and he got an answer that he should have expected.
[You are an unknown individual, you cannot buy something in this store]
Anton sighed and looked at the purple stone in his hand and made his decision.
It doesn't matter if I die or not, nobody even remembers me so all I can do, is to do it.
Anton held the stone in his hands and let the mythic energy flow inside his body, he felt how the purple energy flew through his blood veins. But to his surprise, the purple energy stopped at what they were doing, and instead of spreading around in his body, it focused all on one point.
It was his heart, it hurt badly when the mythic energy entered his heart. Anton started to scream in pain, the mythic energy started to tear his heart apart and new veins started to appear in his body, they weren't blood veins, they were veins filled with mythic energy.
Anton wanted to throw up, his hands gripped the snow on the ground and dug into it. The procedure was finished after an hour and Anton felt terrible, he nearly passed out multiple times and his hands were all bloody from digging into the ground.
But as a result, Anton felt that his body got lighter and that his mythic powers were now bigger and more powerful. Anton went outside and thought that it was weird how nobody came here after hearing his screams of him.
Any monster would have come and tried to eat him, that reminded Anton, he was here because he had a monster to fight. He checked his body and was satisfied with it, and went running exactly where his dead sponsor had told him.
Anton ran up a mountain, and while running up Anton thought that the mountain must be at least over 3000 meters high. When he got to the top he could see a gigantic landscape before him, the landscape was only out of ice, Anton had never seen so much ice before and in the middle of the ice, there was a temple.
And a way was going from the bottom of the mountain to the temple, so Anton had to go the mountain down again when he got to the bottom of the mountain, Anton used one of his fire skills and made water out of the ice around him and drank it.
To his luck he still could use the backpack in the status window, if he couldn't use that, all of his food and weapons would have been locked away. When Anton finished drinking and eating he stepped onto the long path before him.
There were statues left and right from the path, some statues were human and some were something else. Anton walked on this very long path for quite a while before an icy wind came. The wind was so cold that parts of his body started to freeze.
Anton tried to fight against the freezing by using his skills, but sadly he didn't have a skill that turns his whole body in flames. Or does he?
Something in Anton flashed and he tried to use the skill by picturing himself as a flame this time Anton was sure that it would work. Back then in the igloo, he had his doubts about it, but now he was sure that the skill would work.
The skill worked and Anton felt that his body got a lot heavier and that he lost much of his mythic power in return for activating the skill. Anton didn't hesitate and flew through the ice storm until he was standing before the temple.
What he couldn't see from the temple was that it was huge and that there was an ice dragon on top of it. The ice dragon noticed him and Anton felt a hostile aura coming from the dragon.
[An insect, how boring]
The dragon said that and turned his head away from Anton, Anton felt angry at this action of the dragon and attacked him immediately, but the dragon anticipated that and defended his attack with a small breath.
Even though it was only a small breath, Anton got thrown away quite a bit. From here on Anton attacked the Dragon every day for two whole months, until one day the dragon proposed a deal to him.
This deal made him into the apostle of death, and when he looked at his status window, he saw two changes.
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Name: Apostle of Death
Age: ???
Sponsor: --
Titles: Student of the dragon of a cold death (???)
Elements: Wind Lv.6, Fire Lv.7, Darkness Lv.4
Attributes: Strength Lv.35, Agility Lv.29, Speed Lv.37, Stamina Lv.34, Mythic power Lv.9
Skills: Fire pistol Lv.6, Wind jumps Lv.10, Fire sword Lv.5, Fire Fists Lv.3, Living flame Lv.???
Amount of coins: ???
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Two changes happened, the first was that his name had become 'Apostle of death' and the second thing was that the title had changed, he wasn't the 'Discipline of the Goblin King of death' anymore, he was now the 'Student of the dragon of a cold death'.