《Seven Pillars of Heaven》 Prolog - when every sides lost. The woman give birth to a boy ¨C and with this seemingly very normal childbirth, prolog to our story starts. There was nothing special nor in the country where this happened, nor was this place some unique world, only universe itself was a little strange one - but that was it. What about the child then? On first glance boy was nothing above average infant, he wasn¡¯t blessed by great talent for magic nor he possessed a gift for sword, or even simply exceptional intelligence. There was only three things, that where truly special about him. He had incomparably strong will. He was always sincere to himself. And he was born an evil person. In a way this was the most nightmarish combination possible. He could not lie to himself, nor could he give up, or waver under society pressure. He could only accept his differences and act accordingly. And so he become the worst monster ever seen. He craved to destroy things like you crave for meal. He craved to hurt others like you crave for drink. He craved other¡¯s hate like you crave for breath. He craved for everything to warp and rot, for any virtue to become twisted, distorted - this desire was as strong as your desire for finding happiness. Monster was weak in the beginning, but he got stronger, not fast but very steady, never slowed down, never stop. He learned how to change love into hate, and how to use feeling of guilt. He learned manipulation, how to use magic and fight. He found ways to prolong his life, one after another. He twisted, changed, corrupted and finally monster¡¯s entire world was formed on his image. But this was not enough for him, for this boy ¨C now man - changing one world into place, where dying after birth was mercy, was far from enough. Then, in the following years he tried to reach different planets, for a long time without result, but at that point he was accustomed to troubles. He continued - as for him there where never other way of living. And finally one day something make a contact with him, or maybe he find something inside himself? Whatever really happened new path opened before monster. This was the moment when war started. One after another worlds fallen and get conquered by his plague, and ones that get wiped out completely could be considered lucky. Even worse thing, was that for every world completely defeated ten rotten just from his influence, and every tragedy, every misfortune, every life destroyed by monster, be it directly or indirectly seemed changing him. This was not anything so simple like making him stronger, but rather like he have become more real, more¡­ himself. But the universe is vast and finally even he find something that could stop him, albeit barely¡­ ¡°this is not me that should stay here¡± probably no one could tell exactly, how many times Claig wornstone uttered this words inside his mind. But despite this belief he was here, in front of the most nightmarish creature that ever existed, closed in the shape of older, yet still handsome man in his fifties. On the contrary Claig himself seemed younger ¨C and in all actuality he was, indeed younger than this¡­ something before him, though both of them long surpassed anything that any normal being could consider as ¡°lifetime¡±. Admiral of the united fleet ¨C that was mister Wornstone current title - looked around on nearly absolute nothingness surrounding them. The only two things disrupting it was faint shining of distant star rivers, and beautiful colorful light of slowly closing gigantic seal.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ¡°Ehmm¡­ Claig right? ¡± human shaped creature spoke in friendly tone ¡°I think that I remember you from Glatius you have a daughter yes? And son too, twins right? ¡± Admiral did not answered, speaking with this monster was not his job and he regretted, that he could not turn off his hearing. Unfortunately not listening to this being words seemed impossible. That was just one within countless of his warped and illogical abilities, that allowed him to speak in every situation. Even in the place like this where there was not even air around. ¡° I have good news for you, well maybe not really good, but still¡­ the boy died but your daughter managed to live quite long, even after fleet abandoned Glatius ¡± ¡°stop. ¡± ¡°Was this you who gave an order? No at that time, you did not have enough power, so this is not your fault right?¡± ¡°I said stop¡± ¡°She get raped soon after and later even born a child. Despite the circumstances, she loved it at last partially you know? This is something more rare than you could think. ¡° ¡°Enough this!¡± ¡°Still, there was part of her, that was happy when this child get murdered, she was feeling very guilty because of that. I think this was main reason why finally she decided to kill herself, well that and lack of hope after five years on this planem, and not even shadow of the fleet to be seen.¡± ¡°Stop! Stop! Stop this! Why you are like that!? This¡­ This was all your fault! Who you even are!? What you are even thinking!? why are you doing all this!? GAAAAAAH!!! ¡± Claig cries change in midway into animal scream, before tears started to flow from his eyes. ¡°¡±I- I- I hate you! I hate you so much! Lately¡­ Lately I even think that this hate is all that I have left. I do not even remember life without fighting with you, I and others¡­ you have become part of us and sometimes when I look inside myself, I have a feeling like there was nothing here, only you, but still I do not understand. I simply can not understand why¡­ ¡± Monster didn¡¯t stop Claig sudden emotional outburst yet with every next word his face have gotten more warm. ¡°There is no answer on this question admiral. I find it unfortunately that you have a problem with understanding that but this is one thing that even I can not help you. It is sad since I really like you Claig¡± creature words was friendly and his face shined with bright smile ¡°Actually not only you, all this alliance of yours - I have so much fun with it, especially with yours soul-formed. I do not want to hurt you, but I will really appreciate it, if this was one of them here Instead of you. It is truly unfortunately, that they are all dead. ¡± Admiral bitten his lips to stop more tears. His voice was weak and he did not even have enough strength to mock his opponent obvious lie about not hurting him. ¡°Their death, this was your fault! You killed them and the ones that survived-¡± ¡°Given up their life to create this seal, I know. Truly great sacrifice, though personally I find it pointless-¡± Monster¡¯s voice was like polar opposite of Claig. It was like he was speaking about weather or new furniture in the room. For admiral this was one more thing that was infuriating him. ¡°it is not pointless! They won! Are you hear this !? YOU WERE DEFETED!!! Even you can not stop this spell!¡± It does not seemed though, like fleet leader words had any effect on old man in front of him. Monster¡¯s only reaction was taking clearly amused expression. ¡°This is only seal Claig, it won¡¯t stop me forever, as there is no seal that can do that. I am very patient my friend, and I can wait as long as necessary before breaking out of this prison sooner or later. But don¡¯t worry Claig, this kind of escaping before something inevitable ¨C I don¡¯t hate it. ¡± ¡°This is not only about seal, there is more-¡± ¡°Ah, you mean this plan that they did not tell even you right? Oh Claig¡­ You are speaking about Victory and plans, but how little you know. In your ignorance you think that I am just strong, but I am so much more Claig. More than you can ever imagine. You and your aliance does not dare to kill me, and they couldn¡¯t even if they find enough courage. Stealing for time is already your limit. You are speaking about Victory but my Victory was already decided long ago on that day when I stood on my homeworld and suddenly understood what I should do, and what my destiny was. I must admit to you, that some of the greatest among yours soul-formed where able to see fragments of this truth, but even this does not change anything. There will be day, when I will be free again, and then maybe, just maybe ¨C your new plan will be able to restrict me again. But how many times can you do that? I can not be stopped for eternity, nor killed and I only need to win once. Don¡¯t fool yourself Into thinking, that you are doing anything other than escaping. ¡± Claig opened his mouth, but he simply could not find any answer. Oh how much he wished to negate his eternal opponent words, but he was not a child and know that lying here was completely meaningless. Suddenly he feel tired, so extremely tired, that he could collapse at any moment. Claig know that, he still have one thing to do, a cruel order given by his rules, with they last dying breath, but suddenly he understood ¨C with terrifying brightness ¨C that he will never manage to fulfill it. He could not let himself be sealed with this¡­ thing. This was simply impossible for him. ¡°I was able to travel this far, but this last step¡­ it is to heavy. Ancestors and gods forgive me. I¡­ I am not strong enough. ¡± He close his eyes and feel his knees bend, and so one of the greatest people born in this universe cried over his own weakness and defeat. Somewhere in the middle of interstellar nothingness. Time unknown. This place is empty. There is no earth here, no air, no water, no heat. Only darkness without ending and freezing cold. And the giant planetary-sized crystal. And in the middle of this crystal old man with warm smile. He is waiting patiently for the Day when he will be free again. But for now he is dreaming, and his dreams are worlds nightmares. Chapter 1 - reincarnation and its complication Imagine, that you are diagnosed with advanced brain tumor, on the first month after starting medicinal study ¨C sound like quite bad joke right? Personally, I think that you could compare it with obtaining the high grade ¡°Fuck yourself! ¡± from the universe. Ok, enough with rampaging, my name is William Barke and my dream was always to be¡­ No, not a doctor, or at least not a normal one. What I always wanted to do was working to police, or one of this government organizations with cool acronyms, and carrying autopsy on dead bodies. Just to make it clear I don¡¯t have any ill interests, or anything like that, it is just¡­ living things are beautiful, they are work of art, and evolution with a right dose of mistake and error, and human bodies are the absolute peak of them all. Obviously as a person with high moral standing (though self proclaimed one) I will never allow my personal interests to directly hurt anyone well being ¨C and this will probably happen if ¨C putting an example ¨C someone will stop in the middle of operation, bewitched by perfect harmony of heart and lungs. Solution? Working with someone that is already dead. OK, I suppose that I am a little strange. Obviously all this no longer matter, since right now this is me who is dying. First thing that I have done after becoming diagnosed was searching over the internet for five stages of grief ¨C they where denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But thinking about getting though all of them somehow make me angry, so I decided to go straight to acceptance. In the first place I did not have enough time for all of this shit anyway. So I go straight to my doctor and we have short, but sincere chat, during which I learned that my condition was truly hopeless. Considering that my death was inevitable, I rejected all kind of treatments, tell my family, that they should remember, that all of them will die one day too and ¨C because I was curious ¨C make one bungee, and one parachute jump. After them I decided that dying from brain tumor was still better, than dying from heart attack when you see earth closing to you, with speed high enough, to make you do ¡°splash! ¡± sound. Rest of the time I spend under anesthesia, catching with the last books and novels from my beloved series. By the way this was probably first time in my life, when I was thankful, that I did never have any girlfriend ¨C at last, no one will be grieving after my death. Well there was my family of course, but all of them ¨C my parents, grandparents and two siblings were strong people, and I think that they will mange it, while knowing that I will never want for them to be sad because of me. Or so I hope. And like that, in the age of 19 years 3 months and 6 days I William Barke have fallen asleep never to wake up again. William(?) 3 POV Fire. This was first thing that anyone would see in this place. Endless domain of flames was surrounding William from every direction, but strange thing ¨C he was not afraid nor he feel any pain. Fire was bright and hot, but it was not stinging. It was endless and powerful but does not seem¡­ threatening. Then William feel surrounding flames sinking inside him ¡°sinking? Strange word to choose from¡­ ¡± it was like something natural, like¡­ sleeping, or breathing. So he relaxed and allowed them to infiltrate. Golden light seemed to become one with him, and with it burning within his insides, while spreading pleasant warm, his consciousness started to vanish. ¡°is it really okay? ¡± Yes this was not a bad thing, he could feel like all his memories are vanishing, one after the other, but this was not anything bad. That life¡­ has already ended. ¡° is it really what I want¡­ to stop at this point? ¡± Yes it was¡­ it was right? Even if all of what was William will disappear in this place, the most important thing, something far deeper than his name or memory, will stay untouched and just go further. Despite this rationalizing William(?) could feel a little doubt inside his¡­ heart? But even this tiny bit of reluctance instantly made surrounding fire ¨C or what ever it really was - tremble. William could feel like his memories stopped to disappear and his consciousness instantly get sharper. ¡°Just the fact that something isn¡¯t a bad choice¡­ doesn¡¯t necessarily mean that it is best one, I don¡¯t know if this will end with troubles, but if possible I want to still be fully myself..¡° It seemed that sea of flames was capable of somehow comprehending his wish, as fire moved away leaving around William circle of pure nothingness with radius of around five meters. Finally at peace, former student could start to look around. But before this he decided to look at himself first. Quite unexpectedly ¨C or maybe he should expect exactly that? There was not much to see. He could notice only white glow instead of his hand or legs¡­ most likely his head was like that too, but then how he was even able to see?Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! Unfortunately it doesn¡¯t seemed like anyone would answers him, so after pondering by few minutes Will just starter roaming around. Soon this proved unexpectedly boring. This place seemed unimaginably gigantic, consisting of nothing but endless fire. From time to time he could see other souls here, but they did not seemed to make choice similar to him, and vanished quickly without answering to his calls. More or less around the moment when he starter to feel uneasy, William started to feel kind of pulling¡­ and again in a way similar to when he first appeared in this place, he simply know, that it was possible to leave this place, simply by allowing this strange force to work. It was obvious that time for it was anything, but coincidental and that finally made former student ponder, about how convenient this place was. Whoever build it ¨C was it perhaps a god or the universe itself? Seemed very careful and cautious. At this point this was quite obvious for William, that this place was something akin to circle of reincarnation, or at least something similar. Still, it looked like it was extremely protective and obedient, careful about not forcing any- ¡°oh! This one is interesting! ¡± ¡°mhmm? ¡± sudden voice ¡°was it even a voice¡± broke wondering soul way of thinking. William turned around and looked straight to its source. The source, no surprise here - was other soul similar to one¡¯s that he already se- No, it was not exactly similar. First thing ¨C the soul was surrounded by ring of nothingness without fire ¨C just like William, and second ¨C there seemed to be kind of strange structure in its center, something impossible to describe like¡­ geometrical shape, but built within at least ten and not three dimensions. ¡°It really is unexpected to find another formed Just like that. This is definitely destiny! Definitely! Can I call you friend, my- ummm¡­ friend? Oh sure I can! So what is your name? From where you are?... Hey friend, where are you going?! Wait! Wait! ¡° Under the bunch of suddenly thrown at him questions and remarks William decided to draw back a little. It looked like this make foreign soul a little panicked. ¡°I¡¯m sorry, mum told me to not speak with strangers¡­ ¡° William answered while acting nervously. ¡°ehh!? Ch- child? Soul-formed one and with preserved memory. Th- this is bad. What should I do!? Should I help somehow? Hey! I¡¯m not scary you know! Seriously I-¡° ¡°don¡¯t fret this was a joke¡­ who you even are exactly? ¡° it seemed that whatever this being was he, or she, did not have any bad intentions, especially considering it earlier panicked state. ¡°you can call me Raber¡­ or Rabe¡­something like that, well I will have a new name after reincarnation, so it does not really matter. Ah! But considering that, there is no meaning with asking you also¡­ then I will call you Bernee are you okay with it? ¡° ¡°I am most definitely not okay with it. Why would you even think that I will be!? Call me William and in return, I will keep calling you strange person. More importantly this place really is something like cycle of reincarnation heh¡­ ¡° This was something that Will already guessed, but it was always nice to get confirmation. ¡°yes it most certainly is, or rather have you never heard about it? Are you possibly from some low level world? But wait even if, as a soul-formed¡­ Ah I understood you are a new one, like me right? And¡­. ¡±strange person¡± is a little to much, can you think about something better? ¡± ¡°with no doubt about it, I don¡¯t understood nearly anything of what you are speaking. What do you even mean by soul-formed? And no I could not¡± ¡°you are not really a nice person are you? Well this is¡­ complicated to explain, if you did not have any basic¡­ and sincerely, I do not have much time, if I want to be reborn into the same world where I died and I made a lot of effort for this to work¡­ Making long story short soul-form are special property of¡­ well soul, that can be acquired under certain circumstances, usually death, or birth though theoretically you should be able to take a form during life too, but I never heard about it¡­ Well they are unimaginably rare in the first place. Anyway, this entire matter is much more complicated, but I unfortunately do not have time for exact explanation. ¡± ¡°is this somehow related to this figure inside of you? And actually I am trying to be nice, just somehow it does not work well¡± William decided to interrupt his new companion. ¡°ah, it is indeed quite hard to not be sincere and truthful to himself in this place, right? Also figure? Is it like my soul-form look for you? In my perspective yours is like void space, that seems infinitely growing the more I try to look at it¡¯s center. ¡± Well that was unexpected. There was no mirror in this place, so Will could not See, how his own soul central parts looked. That itself was worth meeting with this strange person. ¡°Well it was nice to meet you and all, but I will be going, or are you perhaps willing to go with me? My world is one with really high level, just so you know. ¡± This was strange proposition and Will did not have any real reason to refuse, especially considering that person(?) in front of him was definitely no ordinary. There was no way, that normal existence could somehow affect place, where it will be reborn. This space was certainly also interesting, but thinking about it deeply, even if he somehow was able to keep his memories intact, he was not someone capable of searching for its secrets. And another thing ¨C he was definitely to calm for all of this, yes ¨C he died prepared and all, but it was still obvious, that this place affected him in many ways. Not necessarily bad, as there will be nothing good to obtain from panicking, but still¡­ perhaps this was time to leave. Exactly in this moment ¨C and Will would bet his left non-existed arm, that it was not a coincidence, pulling force got significantly stronger. ¡°to go with you¡­ I guess that I have to just go right after you vanish? ¡° ¡°certainly my dear Will! ¡± His acquaintance looked rather happy seeing his consent. ¡°when you start adventuring or something just look for greatest young genius in space-time magic, this is my specialty! ¡± The pulling force grow even stronger when Will stopped resisting it, and in the same time soul of the one called ¨C in his previous life - Raber started getting transparent. ¡°Oh this is really exciting, after so many years, I have finally managed to form my soul! I am really full of expectation about what soul-formed skill will be constructed for me! ¡° Suddenly William have a hunch, that he hard something outrageous. ¡°What? What do you mean skill!?¡± ¡°mhm¡­? I mean that power of soul-form will manifest into the skill, in accordance with the system. Is not that much obvious? ¡° ¡°for who!? In the first place what do you mean by ¡°system¡±? ¡° ¡°ehh¡­? What do you mean by ¡°what do you mean-¡±? ¡° Vanishing soul¡¯s voice, stopped in the moment when it disappeared completely. William cursed silently, while thinking of what kind of strange world he send himself, before pulling force make him also vanish few second after that. Chapter 2 - how to be born strong and healthy (1) Initializing¡­ Connecting¡­ Scanning¡­ Sudden return of the feeling of touch was strange, especially without any other sense working properly. At last I did not feel any pain. Actually it was rather pleasant¡­ temperature was comfortable, and I felt very secure, unfortunately I could not see anything, nor could I move. Well¡­ not exactly, there was this strange feeling, that I probably could do something, but it was definitely much harder that it should be. Scan completed. Task completed. Status loaded. Special condition confirmed, soul-form discovered. Activating proper procedures¡­ Come to think of it, if I focus on listening I can somehow hear two different sounds. One of them is kind of regular pulsation, a little like some sort of drum, while the other resemble muffled, but still understandable melody. Unique skill construction procedure activated. Construction skill in accordance with data obtained from scanning¡­ Skill ¡°life severer¡± constructed properly. Compatibility verification¡­ Compatibility 37% skill rejected. Construction skill in accordance with data obtained from scanning¡­ Skill ¡°demonic stigma¡± constructed properly. Compatibility verification¡­ Compatibility 43% skill rejected. When thinking about it properly it is rather obvious that I am a fetus huh¡­ I mean this will explain everything ¨C warm and comfortable environment, problems with moving, even this two sounds¡­ I¡¯m pretty sure that this drum-like is actually sound of my mother heart, when second is probably her humming something. And let¡¯s don¡¯t forget about most important thing ¨C that¡¯s all this strange reincarnation matter, while suddenly becoming a fetus can sound ridiculous normally, it doesn¡¯t seem that strange, after remembering all that weird flame ¨C like space. Speaking about it the more I try to recall this place, the more nonsensical this memories seems to be¡­ Like I remember that I was able to speak there, and even everything that I spoke, but I am unable to regain memory of any sound¡­ in the first place how I even was able to talk, while not possessing vocal cords? How was I capable of seeing without eyes? Or speak in English with someone definitely from another world? For all gods sake how was I even able to move without a single muscle fiber!? Well this is quite obvious, that normal laws of physics where on the break in that strange place, or maybe even they never got there¡­ Construction skill in accordance with data obtained from scanning¡­ Skill ¡°Crown of Death Apostle¡± constructed properly. Compatibility verification¡­ Compatibility 99.97% skill rejected. And¡­ yup it looks like acting as if all this notification appearing inside my head, with astonishing speed where only illusion made by my tired mind, will not make them disappear huh¡­ well I suppose this is time for accepting the reality. I was reborn Into strange world, with something called a system, that make constant notification pop up in your head¡­ We are no longer in Kansas Dorothy¡­ Though sincerely speaking this is my fault, for going together, with this strange person¡­ how was his name exactly¡­? Oh, whatever, I never have good memory for people names, furthermore doesn¡¯t he himself said something about changing his name after reincarnation? Come to think of it, this will probably met me to, I mean probability that I will be called Will again is pretty much non-existent. It is gonna be pain, to get used to a new name¡­ Or maybe I am too pessimistic about all of this? I mean all this new world can possibly be pretty interesting and if what¡­ this guy said about soul-form being rare, and powerful is the truth, then maybe I will obtain some amazing ability¡­ And have I really right to complain, after something so amazing like reincarnating with my memories intact? Yeh! Let¡¯s think positively from now on, maybe even I can become someone amazing, and have a harem of beautiful girls¡­ Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Construction skill in accordance with data obtained from scanning¡­ Skill ¡°heavenly shadow three changes¡± constructed properly. Compatibility verification¡­ Compatibility 99.99999999999% skill rejected. There is quite much of nine¡¯s but it seems, that whatever is deciding about this ¡°compatibility¡± is resolved to go after hundredth¡­ But¡­ Is this only me, or all the skill names that I have seen up to this point where all suspiciously dark¡­ Construction skill in accordance with data obtained from scanning¡­ Skill ¡°netherworld domain¡± constructed properly. Compatibility verification¡­ Compatibility 100% skill acknowledged. Procedure of skill assimilation start¡­ Procedure of skill assimilation finished successfully. This was short, but strange feeling, like kind of sudden and hot sensation in all my body, and even mind¡­ It was not painful, but very encompassing, to a degree never earlier felt by me. Somehow I could understood that no mater how much time will flow whenever I will remember this moment, this feeling of hotness and change won¡¯t ever disappear nor fade. It was like something very important have taken it¡¯s root inside this very moment of my life. Just a while later something moved, and I was left the same¡­ but different. Well¡­ at least it could be worse, it seems like there is no problems, and this name doesn¡¯t sound as ominous as I was afraid. Receiving interference from object BB9C34E3. Rejecting interference¡­ Rejecting impossible¡­ Activating emergency security procedures¡­ Fine! I am taking it back! It just could not be easy, right!? Security procedures activated succ- Unknown interference from object BB9C34E3. Security procedures activation failed. Oh come on system! I know, that you can do better than that! If you do not believe in yourself, then believe in me that believes in you! Scanning information about object BB9C34E3¡­ Researching obout danger degree. Interference acknowledged. Oh, and now I feel just normally betrayed! Loading ¡°Seven Pillars of Heaven¡±¡­ Loading successful. Skill assimilation¡­ Assimilation successful. And then again, this strange feeling of hotness and something moving and changing. But it seemed a little different this time. It is very hard to put it into words but it was more¡­ foreign? Not that encompassing too, but instead, I have a feeling that the movement this time was imaginably complicated. I don¡¯t really know what is normal and what is not in this new world, but if I have to compare this feeling with the previous one, then first was like straight and uncomplicated miracle, outside of any common sense, while second was similar to incomprehensibly advanced technology. More importantly I¡¯m worried about this interference thing, will it be okay? At last I don¡¯t want to die so soon after rebirth, as I¡¯m not so optimistic to think that I won¡¯t lose my memory in this flame-like space again¡­ somehow I have strange feeling that I was just really lucky this time. ¡°Seven Pillars of Heaven¡± was assimilated into object 12FT6H8IK3BGDS79FQSd3js89e34mtd3x7e2eb9¡­ Requirements meet, ¡°Seven Pillars of Heaven ¨C pillar of wisdom¡± awakened. Is this strange word some kind of ID? There is really a lot of letters and number there¡­ Thankfully it doesn¡¯t looks like I¡¯m in any imminent danger. Also wisdom huh¡­ well I have indeed spend most of my previous life on reading, and except of things like novels for pure enjoyment, there where a lot of books about science, academic textbooks, and even one¡¯s about philosophy¡­ still it is quite nice when you got acknowledged for you work. Good job system! Interference from object BB¡­ &@%::$)) +$... Huh? Unknown interference¡­ Requirements meet ¡°Seven Pillars of Heaven ¨C pillars of faith¡± awakened. ¡­And this is unexpected, well I was not an atheist, but I was not a devoted believer too¡­ though considering this ¡°unknown interference¡± thing, it was not because of me that it activated¡­ somehow I have bad feeling about that. By the way, it looks like whatever this ¡°seven pillars¡± is, it seems based on fundamental virtues¡­ it make me hopeful, that at least people here are not that much different than one¡¯s on earth¡­ maybe. Ugh¡­ I have to little information! But it doesn¡¯t look, like anything more is gonna pop out, is this all then? ¡­Then I suppose this is time for confirming all of this by saying ¡°status¡± or something¡­ Will it even work? I think that I have seen notification with the word ¡°status¡± appearing in the very beginning¡­ My stomach hurts¡­ please let nothing too weird appear¡­ Praying to whoever was capable of hearing me right now, I sighed ¨C or rather I would, if I was not a fetus that could not even breathe, and commanded clearly in thoughts. ¡°status! Appear!¡± ¡­ I was thinking that it could work, but it really do huh¡­ Indeed inside my head wall of text suddenly appeared. Name: - Surname : - Species: human Age: unborn (5 months) Class: none[0%] Life Force: 0,18 Magical Power : 0,17 Spiritual Strength: 247 Skills: none Unique skills: Netherworld Domain (lv - ) Subskills: <> <> <> <> Special skills: Seven Pillars of Heaven (2/7) (lv -) Subskills: < > < > Mhm¡­ I must say that this is¡­ less informator than I was expecting. Most of it is rather easy to grasp a general content, but hard to really understood. And there is hardly any details. Fine then let¡¯s try how friendly that system is, if it is capable of reacting for commands like ¡°status¡± then maybe it is capable of showing additional info too. I tried to strongly imagine myself clicking Into row that displayed ¡°name", just like when using computer. Name: - This row shows your name. This¡­ is not helpful, but Hey! At least this is working! And well, partially it is my fault for choosing something so obvious, right? Let¡¯s go for ¡°life force¡± row then. Just¡­ let the description not be something like ¡°this is your life force¡±¡­ Life force: 0,18 This row shows amount of your life force. Oh, come on! You are doing it on purpose, right!? Uhhh¡­ Calm yourself Will, anger won¡¯t help you. I will just take a deep, calming breath and¡­ ugh, I forgot that you can not take a deep calming breaths when you are a fetus. Fine, let¡¯s say that it was my fault¡­maybe focusing directly on certain terms, instead of entire rows will work better¡­ Life Force Life Force is basic energy allowing for life to exist. Amount of life Force within your body largely specifies its performance. With greater amount your body specs will grow, reversibly, as long as your body performance gets better your Life Force will also increase. ¡­ So this is like resultant of all body statistics? Well it seems like there is more to it, as definition clearly says that this is some kind of existing energy rather than simple estimating. Let¡¯s try next one.