Jace sighed one last time as he looked at the screen in front of him.
[Skills]
[No skills available]
The stone of death which was supposed to give Jace unimaginable power was a fake. Thinking about it, Edgis had said something similar.
Jace racked his head as he pondered on the events before the stone of death. Most of his memories were hazy but Jace was sure Edgis had promised him a weapon, right.
Finally with yet another sigh, Jace gave up. He needed to stop sighing too often.
Moving away from the screen, he checked his stats
[Strength: 7] Health [20/20]
[Speed: 8]
[Resistance: 6]
[Stamina : 7]
[Reflexes: 9]
[Perception: 4]
[The Average stats for a peak human is 10]
Jace looked at his stats. Most were easy to grasp, all except perception. Jace associated it with senses, almost like a sixth sense or something similar but he couldn't be sure.
Jace dismissed the system window as he lay on the bed. It was soft, just like home and for a second Jace found himself missing home.
Missing Eric and their games of chess, missing Edgis and the stories of long lost history, missing his father. Jace shook his head at that last line.
Nothing could make him miss that man, except the time he had taken Jace to the intergalactic softball championships, but even that had been a form of training.
Anyways, Jace missed his cousin. No, that was too far. His cousin was too much of an arrogant manipulative piece of shi-
As Jace pondered on his complex relationship with his only remaining family members, an alarm resounded
'Doors will be temporarily open. I repeat the doors will be temporarily open. Please exit the room and leave the ship orderly. The exit will be easy to notice. Thank you'
As the voice spoke the metal wall blocking Jace from leaving slowly opened. It creaked and sighed but it opened, revealing Jace to the outside.
Jace rose from the bed and walked slowly, hesitantly. This was the last opportunity for him to leave, for him to go back to home, for him to watch the artificial sun go down as he gazed at the distant sky, completely at peace.
But Jace knew. The choice had been made when he had grabbed the stone of death, even though it had been useless.
Somehow he couldn't go back, not with his invisible to fate and mark of fate title watching him.
And so with a heavy sigh he walked out, his head not turning back.
As he did the door shut behind him highlighting what he had always known. He couldn't return.
Jace noticed others around what appeared to be a hallway, mostly teens but a few looked slightly older. Some of them were wide awake while others kept yawning.
A few people searched their pockets as they watched, as if looking for something which gave Jace the information he needed. All of them had been searched while unconscious.
Jace wasn't too bothered by this. Others, he wasn't so sure.
Looking around Jace was able to see the full scale of the ship. On both sides of the ships were rooms which seemed to go on forever.
Aside from that a stairwell heading up from the floor Jace was in reached into a higher one making Jace aware that there were even more rooms.
Turning to the front, Jace could see a bright light originating from the exit of the ship. A slight breeze passed over Jace as he frowned.
And then an idea came to him. No, not an idea, a theory.
Jace walked towards the exit, this time with purpose and a vague sense of clearness.
A few others seemed to notice the same thing Jace had as a minor stampede slowly occurred. The once orderly crowd devolved into mindless creatures with one singular goal, to reach the light.
Jace, meanwhile, ran until he reached the landing. There he saw it.
The cool wind blew around as he walked down the landing slowly. In front of him was a grass field that looked to stretch on for a mile.
Jace slowly walked down the landing as he gazed upwards. Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, there was no dome, no protective surface or measure.
The sky was light blue, exactly as Jace had heard. The sun meanwhile, Jace couldn't see it due to a few clouds containing it but he could feel it.
The warmth was similar yet different from that of an artificial sun. It had a unique tint, something Jace couldn't understand.
Jace directed his gaze downward reaching out to pluck a blade of grass.
Rubbing it against his fingers, it gradually took a shredded appearance, not at all like the synthetic ones which always felt hard and brittle.
At that moment Jace smiled. He had heard of this place thousands of times. It was the location of the first battle in this intergalactic war, the birthplace of humanity and one of the only 'pure' planets Humanity could live in without the domes.
This was Earth.
Jace had heard about it in stories but never had he thought he would one day be standing there.
Some of the stories Jace had heard could only be considered fairytales: a land where plants grew without synthesizing them, a place where the ocean contained vast amounts of salts, a place where animals could live and breathe easily without requiring any form of tech implants.
As he thought, he heard the soft crunching of shoes. Turning, he noticed a young man in a blazer.
Stretching out his hands in a welcoming posture and with the sun turning his blonde hair golden. With a small smile on his face, he declared
"Everyone, welcome to Earth"