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Jacks POV
"Summon Brakos," I said out loud.
As I did a magic circle appeared on the side of the large Oak Tree.
When I summoned Volt the circle looked like I was made of Lightning but this one looked to be made of paper.
When the circle fully manifested Brakos stepped out and smiled at me seeing I was doing better, he walked over
"Good to see you, Jack. How are you doing so far?" he asked
"Terrible and great at the same time. I feel bad from the attack but I am distracting myself with the Books."
He sighed "You already broke the seal, didn't you?"
"Yep," I said with a smirk
he sighed again and said "Well I did warn you. anyway, what do you need?"
"It helps with the black book. I love what you did and it works very well but one title I have is slightly concerning to me."
Brakos tilted his head "Titles? You shouldn't have any titles."
"I do have a look," I said, handing him the book.
Brakos looked at the titles I had. As he read them his eyes opened in shock.
'did he not know I would get these?' I thought to myself.
"half of these you shouldn't have and the others I didn't know were a thing," Brakos said in surprise.
"Having the [Spirit Summoner] title doesn't surprise me too much but the [One Who Entered The Library] title was one I didn't know was a thing. I know I keep the library hidden most of the time but I guess that in doing so I made it a rare event."
"The [Otherworlder] title I knew about but I made sure you wouldn't have it and the [Primogenitor] one was one you would get after you made your race. Strange."
"Can you help me remove the [Otherworlder] title? The skill it grants will become problematic for me later on."
"Sure I ca... wait, what skill?" Brakos asked
"Because of the [Otherworlder] I was given the passive skill [Heros will]" I said, thankful that I can talk openly with Brakos about the functions of the System.
"Fuck you have [Heros will]! You shouldn't have gotten it, so then why did you!?" Brakos said worried as he tried thinking of a reason.
"For now let's not worry about how I got it. Instead, let's focus on how to remove it." I said trying to calm Brakos down.
He looked at me with worry but turned and nodded his head. "S-sure. Um, how did you know you can remove it?"
"I asked the Book and it said I could either give up 100,000 Spiritual energy to remove the skill or I can give up 500 and remove its root, the [Otherworlder] title," I said explaining what I had learned.
"so we can remove it?"
"Yes I can. I know how to remove certain things I just need to rewrite the spell a bit it will take time but it should work. did you happen to Appraise the skill yet?"
"I decided to run an [Appraisel] on the skill earlier today just in case. I did so with the command that it would never generate a skill from it. To prevent the same situation from happening twice." telling Brakos about that as well.
"Good thinking. Even the Library has limited knowledge of the skill. If you let me copy that when it is done I will reward you." Brakos said with a surprised, excited and happy smile.
"Sure thing. It should be done in half an hour." I said "Though I do have a question. If the title [Otherworlder] exists, does that mean I am not the only person who reincarnated here?"
Brakos looked at me with an embarrassed face. "Yeah guess I didn't explain that too much. To put it simply yes other people from different worlds have come here before and more will continue to do so."
"How does it happen?" I asked curious how others could get here.
"Well like you, your soul was picked up by an entity and reincarnated here. You're the first I have reincarnated myself but I know there are others, but I should mention that you are a special case." I was curious about that last part but let him continue.
"Overall, people can come here in many ways. Some just fall through cracks in space-time, others are brought here by Gods and others have been summoned here by mages. I have met a few of them and have only heard about others. Hell, some have even entered the Library." he said
"And no, only [Otherworlders] that have reincarnated, been summoned or come here with the help of a God or Etherial with the intention of them becoming heroes can have [Heros will]," he added just before I was about to ask if all [Otherworlders] had the skill.
I realized something from his explanation and asked "You said Gods, does that mean they exist too?"
Brakos realized what he said and covered his mouth. "I wasn't supposed to say that I'm sorry."
"spill what should I know and what are the relations between Primogenitors and Gods?"
"I'm sorry. I can't say much," he said trying to avoid the topic, and failing when faced with the curious face of a young Jackson.
He relented after a few minutes of me asking "Fine! I will say this much, the gods do exist but they can only interact with this world if they gain enough followers. Right now only the 3 gods are worshiped in this world."
" you may think it isn't a big deal but you should never say the name of a god. Gods know when someone does and if either of us say their names they will know and it's not the kind of attention either of us wants."
"as for the relationship between the gods and Primogenitors... it's bad."
"The 2 gods, the god of the holy empire of Luminus and the God of the Seas and their followers believe Primogenitors are evil beings that bring nothing but chaos and will always try and kill you if they find out."
"The Dwarven God doesn't really care as he once was a Primogenitor himself and reached the rank of god but if you prove yourself to him he may offer his protection," Brakos said and I kept it in mind.
"If I remember correctly more gods will appear in the next era but that won't happen for a while. Keep in mind I am immortal and very old, a while is like a thousand years for me," he said giving me a time frame.
I don't know if he intentionally hinted at it or really doesn't remember how long this Era is but I will play it safe and assume more Gods will appear in the next century.
"Ok, I... sort of understand," I said still trying to process what I heard as I never knew that gods were worshiped in this world already.
After a few minutes, I calmed down and asked something else I meant to "Another question, earlier you said I was a special case, how so?"
"Between dimensions, time works differently but if you go by the age of existence itself, you die several thousand years from now."
"What?" I said almost shouting in surprise
Brakos answered, "When you asked me to bring you here I had to manipulate time a bit and had your soul reincarnate long before you were even born."
"the current era of this world was the safest and best time for your power to grow and the only time where I can enter Primus without risking meeting my past self."
"ok, that makes sense." I said understanding what he said. "if I reincarnated farther in the future I could be in danger and you would risk meeting your... wait what happens if you meet your past self does it break time!?"
"Depends on certain things, if it was a mortal being then yes but for me, I would have... backlash..."
"Ok, that makes sense. Do you want to check the rest of the system to make sure it works properly?"
"Oh, that is a good point. Have you gone through everything yet?"
"After the seal has been broken, no I haven't. Quests and contracts are ones I haven't looked at yet."
"ok, I will check the rest of the book then we can do them together while we wait for the [Appraisel] to finish. is that ok?" Brakos asked as he sat down.
"Sure thing," I said and we went over the book.
Brakos was surprised by some things but it all worked as he intended aside from the [Otherworlder] title and [Heros will] skill.
Brakos did note my Spiritual energy and said "It's surprising your spiritual energy is so low."
"what do you mean it is low the average is like 100 isn't it?"
"no the average among people who awaken it is around 800. Your energy when you first came here was around 10,000."
I nearly choked at that and yelled "What!?"
Brakos looked at me with a smile and explained "Spiritual energy is rare for a mortal being to have awakened. For some reason, you did in your last life and had an abnormally large amount of it. Expressed in a number it would be around 25,000."
I just stared at Brakos in wonder and questions ran through my brain but I let him continue.
"When you make a contract with a spirit your Spiritual energy is reduced by 1,500 multiplied by the Rank of the spirit, grade doesn't matter for some reason."
"I am a rank 10 spirit so you lost 15,000. Then when you made a contract with the books that are Rank 1 you lost 4,500 and if I'm right you made a contract with the Lightning Tiger who is Rank 2 so 3000. add that all up together and you have lost 22,500."
"then by factoring in that you read 3 Tier-1 books in the library which take 500 Spiritual Energy to so, you used up an additional 1,500 so in total you have used up around 24,000 Spiritual Energy."
"Of course, you can regain it by meditation and by doing certain exercises that you read while in the library to regain it over time. When did you start doing that sort of thing?"
Still in shock about what Brakos said I took a minute to snap out of it and answer. "I think I was about 4."
Brakos nodded and continued "If you were 4 then you should have gained around 950 Spiritual Energy every year. Considering you read a book that taught yourself how to do so it became a massive boost compared to most people who have awakened it and only get a 200 increase every year."
I sighed and put my face in my hand "I am overpowered, aren't I?"
"No, you're pretty weak," He said in a calm tone.
I turned to Brakos with a questioning look. "What do you mean weak?"
"The only thing your Spiritual Energy has been used on that can help you in combat is the Lightning tiger. I can't fight and the books are...well... books. You can't turn Spiritual Energy into Mana so your spells are extremely weak. The only thing you have that is strong is the Lightning tiger, your mind and your spear skills."
I turned to look at them and was about to say something when I stopped myself. "well... you're not wrong."
"Haha, yeah sorry I'm not trying to put you down but you have incredible luck and high potential, never give up Jack," Brakos reassured me.