Next day, Fang Tang woke up at 5:00 am. He opened his eyes and saw that ragdoll staring at him.
"Well…why would I know it's five o'clock now without checking my phone or watch?" He wondered.
When he looked at this alien countrified cat, a set of data appeared in his mind automatically:
Name: Shariel
Title: The Mother of Cat, Goddess of Travel, The Wandering Lady
Symbol: Cat's Paw Print
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Godhood: 3 (Weak Divine Power)
Portfolio: cat, celebration, hedonism, vagrancy, travel, exploration.
"What's this? Why would I know this? And what happened to me?"
When Fang Tang was trying to figure out his present condition, another set of data appeared.
Name: Fang Tang
Age:20
Life Race: Mankind
Career:: Chef (Lv.4)
Alignment: Neutral and Lawful
Godhood: 0
Domain: Electricity
Attribute: STR: 13, CON:12, DEX: 14, INT: 13, PER: 12, CHA: 12 (all the attributes gained one score after merging the godhood.)
Identity: The owner of Six Flavors Restaurant, the chosen people of the Mother of Cat and Goddess of Travel (perception and charm gained one score)
Skill: Spell's effect permanent—True Sight
Spell's effect permanent— Data Perception
Chef (Lv4) has a solid foundation of cooking skills and over 3 years' cooking experience. He is familiar with the features and cooking process of each kind of food. Besides, he has a relatively comprehensive knowledge of food, and is equipped with the capability of flavor cooking, raw material processing and side dishing of more than two cuisines. Therefore, this is an excellent chef.
Where does this chef rating come from?
As to 'all the attributes gained one score after merging the godhood', what does that mean? And what is godhood?
"Lucky boy, why are you still lying there?" Shariel patted on Fang Tang's face with her pawns.
Fang Tang still can't find a reasonable explanation for all these changes he makes. This weird alien cat is the only one that may know the answer. So, he sat up and asked:"Do you know what happened last night? I can only remember that I knocked off the milk on my laptop…what the fuck, is that my laptop?"
Fang Tang looked at that black shit on the desk, which seemed to be his laptop. At the same time, the composition of this coke was appearing in his mind: [epoxy resin0.67%, copper 0.23%, silicon…]
"Enough! Why would I have to know this, I'm just a common mankind!" Fang Tang knocked his head heavily and tried to stop this.
Shariel waved her cat boxing on Fang Tang's belly helping to calm him down. But it's also painful as hell.
"What on earth is that black stone? Why would everything I see become a set of data?" asked Fang Tang.
"You should feel happy for this! Do you know how fortunate you are? You get the extremely powerful force without any efforts." said Shariel gloomy. It felt like she happened to get a certificate that would help her inherit the billionaire's legacy, and she gave it to a roadside beggar by accident.
"That stone might be a Godhood Fragment. Usually, the Godhood Fragment would break into pieces after separating from the deities, and the broken Godhood Fragments will soon be dissolved and disappear except they were sealed by a special magic." Shariel continued with her tail wrapped around her body scratching her chin"This fragment must go through some variation, which is beyond my understanding, so that it can be sealed to prevent the devouring of Abyss Force. That's also why I couldn't sense the force in it before. I have never encountered this situation. You can tell me what you saw and felt last night, and I can make a better analysis based on that."
Fang Tang told her exactly what happened to him. There is no need to hide anything either because the principle thing is to figure out what has happened to his body. And their conversation was more like a patient talk with his attending doctor, besides, he had to explain what computer, system and 404 to Shariel.
"You are my people, so your body has some of my deity. When you used the magical potion, which you called 'milk', to dissolve the Abyss Force Seal, it will naturally choose the deity life that is close to it and merge with it." said Shariel. Even though she was a more casual and unreliable than other gods, her experience and wisdom shall never be doubted.
"Usually, a muggle like you who has no deity level would be exploded by the massive force and information this Godhood Fragment contains." Fang Tang shivered his show after hearing that. He had just realized that he had narrowly escaped from death last night.
"But you told me that it firstly touched your computer and then released its force and information. So, I guess it's the law in this world that was limiting its divine power. Your computer worked as a buffer for it so that it can make the second variation to adapt to the new law of this word and finally merge with you."
"Based on the explanation you just made, formatting is to delete the things in hard disk. So, the marks left by its original owner as well as the knowledge and information accumulated over thousands of years were deleted. Otherwise, you won't be able to talk with me now. Because the things this godhood contains would make you the carrier for the resurrection of its original owner even if you didn't explode. After all, things like the original owner possessed the body of the man who inherited its godhood have happened many times." Think of the fortune he got, Shariel gave him an envy glance.
"Hahaha, I'm really blessed. Is there anything I need to be aware of? Can I switch off the data perception function? It keeps telling me the information of everything I see, and I'm driven crazy by this." said Fang Tang.
About his question, Shariel thought for a while and suggested: "According to what you said, the so-called system installation helped this variant godhood make a computer-based reorganization. Maybe you can try to use the way you operate your computer to command the new function of godhood."
After hearing her suggestion, Fang Tang tried the meditation of closing data perception several times and finally found the way to make it. Then he looked at the things around him, no data analysis information appeared in his head any more. He jumped into his room with excitement.
"Don't be too complacent. Since this variant godhood has merged with you, you have to use the new function it brings to you. It is part of you now, are you going to just leave them there being wasted?" Shariel interrupted.
"I…I am a god now?" asked Fang Tang with doubts. He agreed with what Shariel had just said, but it is still a little hard for him to totally accept all these weird changes.
"I don't understand the law of your world, it seems like there is no god. But my hometown Olund is in the multiverse of Crystal Wall System where gods live in the kingdom of the outer plane." Shariel recalled.
"There are five elements of each god—deity, divine fire, portfolio, godhead, and the kingdom." said Shariel.
"These five elements need to be obtained one by one. If an ordinary mankind wants to be a god, he needs first to obtain deity, which is the foundation of everything. It is also the most important step for fading mortality. There are different ways to gain deity, such as inheriting the blood of the ancestors who have become gods, being granted by gods, obtained it through rare opportunity or formed it through the power self-cultivation."
"Once you obtained deity, you need to improve the nature of self-cultivation so as to ignite divine fire. Usually, only those whose power is above the Epic Level would possibly ignite the divine fire, but very few of them can really make it.
"When the divine fire is ignited, you are really on the path toward immortal. What's next is to look for a suitable portfolio, confirm your path, spread doctrine, gather faith and finally form your godhood. Only when you have a godhood, you can be a real god."
"Those who ignited the divine fire are half way to be a god. And people like you who only have a godhood without igniting the divine fire and can't turn the Faith Power into Divine Power are not even half way to being a god. Don't mention the comprehending portfolio. You can have a blank godhood is really a rare and odd thing."
Fang Tang doesn't care whether he can become a god or not because things will eventually sort themselves out. As long as he is still safe and sound, he is satisfied enough. Either superman or monster, food is necessary for both of them. He feels very hungry now.
"You have neither divine power nor magic, so it consumes your biologic energy each time when you use your godhood. But you shall feel lucky that it doesn't consume your vitality. Shariel knew that Fang Tang was hungry and told him the real reason.
"I might become a foodie pretty soon. I'll fix a nice breakfast for you." said Fang Tang.