One lone ball appeared before him as the others slowly disappeared, the ball expanded and Elias could see the outlines of various internal regions within it.
"Do I need to learn all these right now?" he felt an incoming headache, he was more interested in the killing part of his new life, but he knew knowledge was still extremely important.
[Only the basics]
"Alright then, shoot"
The world expanded more until it divided into nine different parts. Elias could read the names written in small fonts beside them, but Azuron still explained.
[Your following objectives as one of the supreme harbinger include the following]
[Annihilate 90% of null population]
[Purge the sub realms of otherworlders]
[Find the harbinger of empathy and return to earth]
Elias was silent and then sighed,
"am I supposed to instantly understand all these?" it was nice that there was still a chance to safely return to earth. He had planned to send his sister the money he'd saved up but had forgotten along the way.
"In respect to earth how long am I going to stay in this world?"
[Your universe is bounded and separated from the other multiverses. All nine realms in your universe has all 1.2 billion earthlings scattered around. The others have only one mission, and that is to grow stronger and return to earth after 1000 years. You however, is a much more special existence because you were chosen by a watcher and not a mere god or outer being, so you will only be able to return to earth after 5000 years. The ratio is one day on earth to one year in the fictional universe. So a thousand years here would only be a thousand days on earth]
"What about those that die before their deadline?"
[They'll return to earth regardless of their progress]
"Hmm, okay then"
[Your objectives would be expatiated on a later time. You currently have ten minutes to choose your adequate vessel]
'hohoo, here comes the good part'
[Searching for appropriate vessels]
Then everything disappeared and five humanoids appeared before him, they were like small sized holograph and when he tapped on the first one the voice in his head began explaining.
[Avatar: Null prince (the prince of dread)
Description: The prince has just been born but is destined to be killed by his father because he is deemed weak.
Merits: Royal lineage, null divinity (fictional).
Demerits: Confinement, Apocalyptic upbringing.]
"Hmm" Elias said, the only thing that interested him was the part of having null divinity and as if Azuron knew what he was about to ask she explained.
[Null divinity is a forbidden divinity, but this ability will only work on worldborns and would do little to no damage on otherworlders]
In other words, he would be powerless if he was to face a conqueror, big no. He scrolled to the next body.
[Avatar: Demon prince (the banished merchant)
Description: The prince was born and has just been banished from the demon capital.
Merits: noble lineage, merchant divinity
Demerits: Abusive family, slavery]
"wait, do all of them just happen to have divinities? Because this merchant aspect would be very good for trading and building connections if that's true, and since I have zero knowledge about things like that it would be much easier being born in this body" after some thoughts he scrolled to the next one though.
[…]
Azuron said nothing in response to his babble.
All the avatars just had the shape of newborn babies so he had no idea what they would look like in reality.
[Avatar: The feather prince (stud of the feather kin)
Description: You are born as a young adult and only have ten to twenty years to live, during which time you would impregnate the entire race of featherkins.
Merit: Aphotic divinity, royal lineage.
Demerit: Stud horse, short life span]
"Azuron, how do featherkins look like?"
[Beautiful demi humans with beautiful wings, similar to an angel. Every hundred years for a duration of twenty years, male featherkins are born with the sole purpose to increase their population]
"Pin this one down then, I'll consider it"
Elias had always been a virgin but as much as he liked this avatar it's short lifespan was still very concerning.
He scrolled to the fourth one and gasped.
[Avatar: Dark spectrum (the lastborn prince of immortal spectrum)
Description: The dark prince of the spectrum emperor who was born from a forbidden union of divine and profane.
Merits: Spectrum lineage, Echo divinity,
Demerits: Sick beginnings, forbidden path.]
"This.." Elias loved this avatar, it was the one that resonated best with him, "Azuron, is it possible to choose more than one avatar"
He didn't want to hope but if it was possible he would have a faster chance of completing his task.
[There is a way. If you choose spectrum avatar you can choose a maximum of three other echoes. They are similar to immortal clones and since they will be born into the world they will still be connected to your other chosen avatars.]
Elias smiled, it was like the angel was making sure his foundation was solid enough through Azuron, it was like the mission was just destined to be incredibly difficult.
"Let me see the last avatar first"
[Avatar: The Abyssal virus ( the unstoppable killing machine)
Description: A unique humanoid abyssal creature born from the abyssal realm with the sole purpose of annihilating all lifeforms.
Merits: Soul divinity, abyssal cultivation
Demerits: Emotionless tendencies, inhabitable region.]
Elias smiled because he already had all his answers.
"Azuron, I choose the fourth avatar and from it I'd use the echo divinity to also gain benefits from the demon merchant, the featherkin, and the abyssal virus", Elias said and waited for her...or his reply.
[Understood, according to your harbinger profession your body is already compatible with even five forbidden divinities so all of these can be imprinted into your soul.]
"Okay, what else is there before I'm born", Elias said excitedly.
[Mistress has left five divine soul slots for you, you can choose any of the fourteen supreme divinities but since your chosen avatars each have one of the universe's divinities, they would all be upgraded to supreme levels to accommodate you in a single soul slot, leaving the other four unoccupied.]
"What other divinities are there?"
[The decreed divinites include, core, beast, devouring, dream, elemental, emphatic, universal. While the forbidden ones include; aphotic, void, abyssal, echo, soul, chaos, null.]
[including all your echoes, and slots, you can choose eight of the fourteen divinities. Four of which have already been chosen; Echo, aphotic, abyssal, soul]
"Aish, shouldn't you have told me these things first", he would have changed somethings "Can you tell me their strengths?"
[No.]
[only 1.2 million people from earth can reach your future level if they work hard, that is 0.1 of the 1.2 billion people sent to the fictional universe]
"You keep calling it the fictional universe, isn't it real enough since I'm here?"
[It's existence are written by the authors of earth's core. Each story bleeds into the other and creates the nine realms. The fictional verse is the combination of all of earth's knowledge and more, and it's existence depends on earth's survival in the coming war. Earth is currently being re-written by the outerverse and it's going to be managed by the newly created harbingers. The rest of you however are meant to train to be part of earth's army of what is to come in the future]
"I don't even want to ask what kind of enemy you need 1.2 billion people to fight against. But I'm exempt from this rule right?"
[You are. You are basically the only one because we need a harbinger of the fictional verse, a harbinger of the non-fictional verse have already been chosen. You wouldn't even cross part with him till your five thousand years are up]
"Okay then, let me build my body and leave all these things for now" it wasn't a bad idea.
[Your main body is already powerful so it would be advisable to get some decreed divine system which would then be upraded to supreme level. Once you select your chosen divinities you will be unable to own any other supreme divinites. Eight is the maximum you can contain, already twice the amount of the second Paragon.]
"Alright then so four slots are now taken. Give me the list of the other supreme divinities", he said as a list suddenly appeared before him.
"Since I can't use the null prince, I'll choose my second slot as chaos divinity, core, beast, and devouring" this was the best choice. They all complemented each other.
The echo divinity being the first choice would connect three more divinities and help him level up even when his main body was unconscious. Chaos would help him greatly because it worked well against cultivators, devouring would help him upgrade just through eating, core divinity will work alongside with the killing machine as he kills the body, soul and then core, making the merits tripled, beast would help him identify threats and track down things, bet it would increase his physical strength. The others were very tempting but he needed something that would easily compliment the others.
"Hey, am I the only Harbinger to have these many options though? I feel more and more like a cheat", afterall there was nothing stopping his opponents from choosing what he picked.
[The other seven are forbidden, allowing you to choose from them is already putting my mistress at risk. The average conqueror can only have maximum of three divinities…or at least it was like that before they started hunting down harbingers and stealing their divinities]
Elias inwardly shivered, "Don't you think I should have some safety measure incase I'm captured"
[Everything that would make you human would be taken from you. You will lack strong emotions, hunger and sleep. Your soul will be immortal and upon the death of your avatar your soul would be returned to the white room where you would be reborn, though you will be penalized if this happens]
'is this what the angel meant when she said I am destined to be the ultimate killing machine'
"Am I the only harbinger to have own a white room? I find it difficult the others were easily hunted down because of it"
[All harbingers have a white room but there are limits. Your body will remain in the physical world and can still be captured. And since all harbingers in your soon to be universe are transmigrators unlike you they are able to sense the presence of conquerors and vise versa. But since you will be reincarnating instead of transmigrating things should be easier for you]
"Thank you very much Azuron. You're going to assist me throughout all of these right?", this was Elias's fear, he had a literal encyclopedia in his head so he wanted to be well prepared but thankfully she...or he, responded with an acceptable reply.
"All right then, time to be reborn", and as he said that, everything went dark.
If only Elias knew that with eight powerful divinities, came eight powerful flaws.
Which may help him rise or will definettely be his fall.