Sebastian's fingers hovered in the air.
He exhaled slowly.
"System," he whispered.
A faint glow pulsed before him, and a translucent panel shimmered into view. It hovered like silver fire, its lines precise, humming faintly.
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[ SYSTEM INTERFACE ]
Name: Sebastian Knight
Age: 17
Rank: Intermediate — Low Stage
Bloodline: SEALED
Potential: MONARCH (Sealed)
Talent: Soul Resonance — Enhances mind, greatly increases mana capacity
Title: One Who Shouldn't Belong
You are someone bound by the world's fate as you are not part of it. Fate cannot exert dominion over you. Any attempt to enslave, bind, or control you through prophecies or soul seals automatically fails.
Attributes:
Strength — E+
Agility — E+
Endurance — E
Mana Capacity — D-
Will — D
Charm — A
Intelligence — S+
Luck — D
Affinity: Darkness, Ice, Lightning
Trait: ???
Skills:
Mana Sense — A
Heavy Strike — C
Basic Swordsmanship — E
Mana Control — D
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Sebastian stared.
His chest tightened.
Bloodline — sealed.
He remembered what the old texts had said.
Bloodlines were rare. Extremely rare.
Only a handful in the entire world possessed one.
A gift from the gods, a mark of someone chosen.
It could appear randomly, skipped generations, or move to another family entirely.
He clenched his fists.
The seal…
What would it take to unlock it?
And then his eyes widened.
Potential: Monarch.
The highest rank known to Eden.
A stage only a select few — his father, the Emperor, the Dukes, maybe three or four in the whole world — had ever achieved.
Old Sebastian?
was Advanced.
Weak.
This… this was impossible.
His body, his bloodline, his potential.
All of it was beyond anything he had imagined.
His mind raced.
Ranks… the hierarchy:
Novice → Intermediate → Advanced → Expert → Master → Grandmaster → Transcends → Royal → Monarch
Each rank had three stages: Low, Mid, Peak.
He was at the lowest stage of intermediate currently and at this age it wasn't unheard but it wasn't common either… and his potential was Monarch.
Sealed.
If he ever unsealed his bloodline…
A shiver ran down his spine.
He looked through the other stats again.
Strength, Endurance, Mana…
All increased because of that reawakening...even though i never opened my system before i can feel the changes..
Intelligence… S+ ..highest amongs my stats
Charm… A....i guess I'm good-looking
Affinity…three??....rare..
Trait… ???
Everything unknown, waiting.
His pulse throbbed in his ears.
And then he remembered.
> "Welcome back, 539."
The words echoed in his mind.
A voice. From the other world. From the lab.
From death.
He whispered, almost in disbelief, "System… can you… speak?"
The interface pulsed softly.
And for the first time, he felt like he wasn't alone.