One day Hassan was sitting on his bed meditating when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his chest region. It felt like someone is cutting his heart.
He started to sweat bullets, as he tried to not scream from the pain. He clutched his chest and tried to lay down on the bed. He took a pillow and bit it as hard as he could.
He tried his best to control himself yet he was writhing in pain. He didn't scream even once in this excruciating pain.
This pain was much more, the the pain of the bullet in his previous life. once around 1 minute of this torturous pain passed, he felt something warm in his chest which wasn't painful, it seemed as if someone put a painkiller ointment on his wound.
Hassan also saw that his mouth was bleeding, even though he was biting a pillow, he had somehow managed to hurt his mouth with his teeth. He was busy checking his body for changes using magika he didn't feel any physical change at all. Be increased power of all his neurons with magika to check for changes especially his chest area didn't see any physical damage.
However, he felt a weird sense of being complete, Before this event, he had never felt like he had something missing but after this event, he felt like he was complete and was missing something before.
He also thought of what might have been the cause for pain but didn't get any results, as before this he had never sensed any injury in his chest with magika.
And his father was an anatomy teacher and had found no hidden injury other than the obvious damage to bones and cranium(skull). So it couldn't have been some hidden injury.
But before he could think about further reasons he heard a voice. "host has achieved the third condition for unlocking system, congratulations to host".
condition 1 " confirm hosts can wield the magic of the world"
condition 2 " confirm must-have a certain level of control over the elements"
condition 3 "soul of the host is in perfect condition with maximum potential for growth"
"The 3rd condition was boosted by the system by using host magika to heal the damage done to the soul in hosts previous life". "The system couldn't boost the soul recovery of the host before, as the host had a pathetically low amount of magika, and the process of healing soul might have killed the physical body".
Hassan thought back to the announcements and the timing matched with the conditions mentioned.
1st when he used fireball
2nd when he levitated the glass
3rd when his soul was healed.
Hassan started thinking about how to remove whatever this thing was. it hadn't done anything harmful so far,(no damage was done by the system it only healed his soul which caused the pain as a side effect) but who is to know it won't take control of his body.
The inner voice in his head as if knowing his thoughts continued. " Host should not worry about system taking control of host body,". "unless, host is willing to hand over the control of the body to the system and even than system can control the body for only a few hours and then must return the body"." The reason for this is because system occupies an extremely small part of the soul only a small shard".
Hassan didn't trust this voice and was still thinking of removing it, but for now, he didn't know of a way so he decided it would be better to get some information about it. He knew that system could read his thoughts but he had no control over them.
System after reading his thoughts replied, "The host shouldn't worry much about the system, the system would help host get stronger much faster than his peers". "However, It won't be without any advantage for the system. System is a part of the soul of a celestial god known as the 'silver blade' ". "System was made by the celestial as a way to revive himself in the future with most of his memories".
"The system will give the host a boost in power by providing the host with important information. The system can't provide the host with the resources but with almost the best cultivation technique correct way for meditation and physical techniques".
"All of this will not be given for free, host must perform certain tasks given by the system to receive a virtual currency, which the host can exchange for information".
"Currently host have zero points as no mission have been assigned yet. As a sign of goodwill system will show the host his power, and others power who are near host level in numbers this ability is permanent".
host current stats are
system currency(points) 0
physical strength. 15
agility (without spells). 10
magical strength. (depends mostly on control of magic). 30
magical energy. (storage) 40
" physical strength refers to the strength that can be exerted by the host using only the physical body. agility refers to speed and reaction time. magical strength refers to how strong the spells commanded by the host are. And magical energy refers to the amount of energy the host has.
" if the host wants to know stats of someone much stronger than the host, then the host must use some points (system currency)".
Hassan had realized he couldn't hide anything from the system, and as it could read his mind. He didn't need to talk to convey the message thinking was enough.
The first question Hassan asked was how to do this celestial God plans to revive himself when his soul is shattered into pieces and how many pieces are there?.
"There are 2 thousand shards spread across this universe, Once a host comes close to a shard of the celestial God host can ask the system to forcefully remove the shard from the holder and fuse with it, Currently there are three holders of celestial god soul shards on this planet".
"Host is included in these three, However, other than host none of the other two are receiving help from the system". they failed to complete the system conditions in the given time. But host should not underestimate them as both of these users are currently at top of this world".
"Host is currently not prepared for most of the missions so system suggest that host
use a soul strengthening meditation, that will be provided by the system as a starter reward".
Hassan understood that this system was a game-like feature in real life, this was used by the celestial God so he can revive by getting all the pieces of this soul.
And he tempted others with his immense knowledge, Hassan would be lying if he said he wasn't interested in knowledge of a celestial being.
Hassan didn't know what a celestial God was but he was sure that it was a being far above anyone on this planet as this being could revive himself from being shattered into shards.
AUTHORS NOTE
I hope you understood all the things in this chapter if you don't understand anything let me know or if I have left anything unexplained.
have a nice day : )