***A few minutes before the achievement announcement began***
3rd POV
'This feeling... it's not as oppressive as Father described it to be... or is it that it's just less dangerous than the First Apocalypse...?'
"...!" Yeonha jolted as she felt someone grab her from behind. Abruptly, she turned around to see the person who dared to try to catch her off guard, only to see Suho looking at her with his usual smile on his face, two people standing besides him, familiar faces.
"... Kim Suho? And... Jin Sihyuk? What is the 35th rank doing here?" Yeonha asked, her glare softening once she had found the person's identity.
"Hey, come on, you didn't even take a second glance at me... Oh God, my niece is still as cold as well..." The other person said while wiping the fake tears of his face.
"... I already knew you would be coming here, Uncle Jinhyuk, so there's no reason for me to greet you." Yeonha said with a cold smile, "And you still haven't said anything, Sir Jin Sihyuk..."
"Oh come on, can't I come as well? Besides, I was barely able to get here through my connection to the Chae Clan, but it seems like I'm also not welcomed..." He said as he patted Jinhyuk's shoulders, acting like they shared the feeling.
"Anyways, Uncle. Did you get any additional data on that person?" Yeonha said with a straight face.
"Ah... no... I tried to look at his past, but unlike how I was able to do it previously, this time, I couldn't see anything. I didn't appear in a world or anything, all that I saw was a completely black void devoid of anything...." Jinhyuk said with a worrying expression on his face.
"Hm... that seems plausible somehow... besides, that person did told me that he received his newfound powers at the time near the Final Exams. And the time when you checked his past previously was before that..." Yeonha paused for a second and continued, "It's possible that this "power" of his is blocking your gift..." Yeonha said.
'Somehow, I'm not surprised by this... maybe it's because I have witnessed much more...?'
[Second Main Senario : Extermination of Evil]
The system's voice was heard again after that short pause of a few minutes...
'...' Yeonha stayed silent, entirely focused on the square shaped interface that appeared before her, containing the details of the event.
[Humanity has completely recovered from the Great Apocalypse, however, Evil Beings still exist, which are disrupting the currently attained balance on the side of Evil. Remains of the Gates that formed on the rememberable day, Devils. Contracting countless Djinns, they are infiltrating Humanity from the inside. However, it is finally time for that to change.]
'Time to change...? What does that mean? ' Yeonha thought, 'No... maybe, just maybe, it's exactly what is says? Exterminating the Djinns completely... and... Devils... that's a new name, I don't think I have heard that anywhere in the files of our guild's database...'
"Extermination of... Evil...?" Suho said his thoughts out aloud.
[Introducing the major participants of the event...]
'Major characters? Ah, are they referring to those who will be playing a major role in this event? Will the key to exterminating Evil finally be revealed...?' Yeonha thought, coming up with various possible individuals in her mind that may be these "major participants".
"""!!!""" Everyone's expression suddenly turned tense as several auras of power exploded in the area. These auras felt so oppressing that they felt like their legs would collapse on the ground in just a few seconds.
"""???""" However, before that could happen, the oppressive feeling calmed down, somewhat lessening the extremely and unusually tense atmosphere in the hall.
'What was that aura?! And it felt so... familiar? It's almost identical to the magic Hajin used on the beach to create the borders... don't tell me he's...'
[Calculating Achievements...]
{Arthur Louise Alexander}
'The King of England, huh..... Well, I already suspected him to be at least someone of great importance in this event, this just backs up my calculations even more.'
[One Of The Nine Representative Of Humanity]
'Respresentative... that must be referring to the Nine Stars, the so called "strongest" of humanity, and... the group that my father was formely a part of...'
[Guardian Of The Chosen Ones]
'Chosen ones? Are they perhaps referring to... that person? But it said "ones", not "one". It means there are multiple of them, or at least two... I can already guess who though...'
[Immortal]
'Eh? That's something completely new... does that refer to his power or as in a litearlly immortal being? But... that shouldn't be possible, At least not logically... unless he also gained something similar to that person at least.' Yeonha continued her thoughts.
'Immortal huh? I never imagined that I'd hear that word as a literal representative of classifying someone in this world again... though, is he truly "Immortal"?' Suho thought.
[Strongest Nine Star]
""...""
Silence. Utter silence filled the room, especially around the nine stars.
' ' ' Strongest...? ' ' ' All of them thought at the same time.
'Oh? Does that mean he surpassed the human level? I'm quite sure that Shin Myunchul is, or well, now "was", the strongest one amongst us. But even he stopped evolving several years ago. According to him, he had reached some kind of "wall"... does that mean that Alexander overcame that wall?' Joochul thought. It interested him that there was another strong individual to challenge, but it also made him even more alert as there was now gonna be even more compitition.
'I have to step up my game than...' He decided in his mind.
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'The strongest, huh? It's been a while since I have heard that word being used on someone else than me...' Shin Myunchul thought.
However, it was not arrogance. He was actualyl called the "strongest" for a reason, because he WAS. He still IS one of the strongest, just not the strongest, because of obvious reasons...
' I guess I could finally receive some form of enlightenment to break the wall, then...'
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'Strongest...? Does that mean he surpassed Jonghak's grandfather? But it also makes sense... again... if he did receive powers like that person, which he most likely did, than it's only logical to be called that by the system itself. After all, just power that person showed at the Island was absurd, and according to him, he was still immeasurably supressing his power... if that person is behind this, than it makes sense that the King became the strongest of the stars.'
[King of England]
'Well, that's obvious...'
[Proceeding with the next individual... Calculating Achievements]
{Elizabeth Mary Windsor}
'Hmm, seems like it's the queen's turn'
[Guardian Of The Chosen Ones]
[Immortal]
[Major Representative Of Humanity]
[Queen Of England]
'It seems like nothing is too extraordinary with the Queen. Aside from this "immortal" achievent, everything else is already known or guessed...'
'Hmm? Why has it stopped? Was that it--'
[Proceeding to the Main Characters]
'Ah, of course. Who was I to think this would be over so easily, without envolving that person at that...'
{Rachel UI Nebula}
'..."UI Nebula"? Did the Royal Family change their head name or something? But it's not something to go unnoticed by the media... "Nebula" generally means an astrnomical construct, but... I don't know about "UI"...'
[Princess Of England]
'Yes, we already know that...'
[One of the Chosen Ones]
'It was already guessed. Since the King and Queen were "guardians", it was only logical for her to be one of the Chosens...'
[Second Holder of System]
'... "Holder"? Does that refer to her new powers? Did she get blessed by the system or something? It's not completely out of the box, some people in the past have indeed claimed to be blessed by the "system", and they were all extraordinarily strong... "Second" probably means that that person received the system's blessing first? Yeah, most likely...'
[Blessed By The System]
'... Seems like my theory was true. Still, it's unbelieably unfair how someone can be blessed by the sytem, who we thought was a truly neutral force of nature...'
'The system doesn't really choose a side. From recent theories and studies, we have deduced that this "system" is implanted into the world by a higher being, most likely a[?] God... In any case, it's extremely rare, to the extent that the possibility is close to extinction, that the System blesses someone... reality is harsh and unfair...'
[Loved by GOD]
[Blessed by the Supreme Being]
'I.... Jinxed it? is that what is't called...? I guess even God has favorites? And "Supreme Being"? Like the One True God? If that's the case, then this means that there is only one God, the supreme creator who created everything, including the sysytem...'
[Genesis Class Weapon User]
'Is that a grade...? The highest grade of weapons that we have currently is Legendary, of which there only exist 14 weapons in the entire world. But "genesis"... the world itself means something Primordial, the dawn of creation... it can also be meant as "origin"...'
Indeed, there were only 14 legendary grade items in the entire world. 7 were in the hands of humanity, while 7 were in the possession of Evil Society. The 7 on the human's side were mostly holy artifacts, or in the least, weapons on the positive side of the scale. It was the opposite for Evil Society's seven negative attribute artifacts.
To serve as balance, it was designed that a single legendary grade holy artifact is several times weaker than an artifact of the same grade on the negative side. However, holy artifacts complimented each other. If there were more than 1 holy artifacts on the same battlefield, they would boost each other to unbelievable heights.
At the same time, if more than 1 evil artifacts were together. They would do the opposite. Their powers would try to dominate one another, and as a result, their performance would be reduced by the same margin.
However, at their maximum, they were equal to each other. Each buff or debuff was constant, their values and ratios couldn't be increased or decreased. That was the sole reason that balance was preserved.
Genesis was, however, completely different. Because it transcended the duality of negative and positive sides. It was completely neutral and depended on how one uses it. However, weapons of this grade were only given the the Supreme Being. Only 1 or 2 existed within an entire multiverse.
They also indicated the overall power of one multiverse compared to another. A multiverse containing more Genesis tier artifacts would have absolute authority over those that contained a lower amount of them.
The absolute authority was so great that it was it was like the difference between a movie, which was a real life drama, to an Anime or Novel, something completely 2D. This ranking went on, with the highest number of them in the Cardinal World, in which the Supreme Being resided.
A multiverse with 3 genesis tier artifacts would see a multiverse containg 2 of them as fiction. And a multiverse with four of them would view the same prior multiverse as fiction. This went to and beyond infinity, flowing endlessly as an infinite amount of multiverse were created constantly just by the tiny bits of power intentionally leaked from the body of the Supreme Being.
Moving aside from cosmological facts to the current situation, Yeonha had a hard time believing that there was an even higher grade of artifacts than Legendary.
It was normal, though. How could one blame the girl? She even thought that Rachel and that person most likely had a legendary grade weapon, or at least power equal to it. But a grade even higher than legenary? That was beyond her imagination.
'It seems that that person is not the only anomaly here, the princess is as well...' Yeonha thought, 'That means we have to form a non-agression relationship with England as well... or at least, the English Royal Court...'
[True Immortal]
'Hmm, "True" immortal... does that mean the King and Queen are not completely immortal, but only in some aspects? But... if she's true immortal, does that mean there's no way to defeat her?'
'... this is just getting more and more absurd... I don't know if-'
[User Of Nihility : Supression And Oppression]
'This is most likely related to her gift... "Nihility"... It sounds like... nothing? I can't describe it... I can tell that it's something very powerful and dangerous, but my instincts tell me it's "nothing"...'
[Queen Of The Multiverse]
'...What?'
[Omniversal Royalty]
'Eh...?'
[Second Stronger In The Multiverse]
'EHHH?!?! W-w-wait... WAIT!'
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Word Count : 2023
Special Shoutout to @Yue_021, thanks for the powerstones ;)