Chapter 2: Status
Eight months had passed, and then the old man took him home.
Now his whole body had healed automatically.
When he opened his eyes at last, regret was the first emotion that struck him. Slowly, he stood and scanned his surroundings. The room was neither large nor small—just a modest space with a single bed fit for one person. The ceiling was plain, the walls were normal, the room was not very decorated.
The first emotion he remembered was regret, not about his condition, not about the surroundings, not about being alive—only regret.
Regret of betraying his friends, the ones who believed in him.
"Sorry…" he murmured to himself.
And tears started coming from his eyes. This was the second time the first emperor of the universe cried.
"I must not lose myself to the greed of power again. The past is gone… I have to change."
He quickly understood his condition.
"I have to move on," he murmured to himself.
Then a memory came—his friends were fighting with him before all were sealed like him.
And their cold words hit him in his heart because of his mistakes they all sealed like him and before sealing they all said that they would kill Ank after their unseal even if he was dead.
After regretting for some time, he decided to stop thinking about the past.
Slowly, he wiped his tears and summoned his Status Window.
To check how weak he had become, he knew he had become weak but wanted to know how much.
[Status Window: Ank]
[Race: Fallen True God] (Locked)
[Title: ????? – The First Emperor of the Universe and more… ?????] (Sealed)
[Rank: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Level: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[HP: ?????] (Life Force Burning – Temporarily stopped, resumes after 2000 days)
[Energy: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Magic: ?????] (All Elements Exist – Locked)
[Strength: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Constitution: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Stamina: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Charisma: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Intelligence: ?????] (Sealed – 0.001% unsealed)
[Skills: ?????] (Sealed)
[Spells: Basic spells only. Forbidden spells cost life.]
[Temporarily, basic spells cannot be used for some time, so the host has to wait at least until the gods give permission before using spells.]
System Note:
To unlock Seals: Complete the tasks issued by the God of Creation, the God of Destruction, and the God of Protection.
To erase the Life-Burning effect: Complete a quest issued by the God of Protection.
To unlock Spells: Complete quests issued by the God of Creation.
To unlock Titles: Complete quests issued by the God of Destruction.
Quest: Not available [Accessible one month after Ank awakens].
A secondary window appeared—his current unsealed state:
[Status Window: Ank]
[Rank: Noob]
[Level: 1]
[HP: 10]
[Energy: 5]
[Strength: 5]
[Constitution: 1]
[Stamina: 1]
[Charisma: 1]
[Intelligence: 1]
[Skills: None]
[Spells: None]
System Note: This is your status after unsealing.
Ank's eyes did not believe what he saw on his status.
The first time, he saw something this weird.
"What is with my status? What is Noob? How am I supposed to survive like this?" His voice cracked with both anger and despair. "Why do I have to complete quests just to unlock my power?"
"I have to complete quests to regain my power, and why do I have to do this first thing?" he thought.
And the quest will unlock in one month, so that he can do it within one month.
He clenched his fists.
"Why…? Why are the Gods of Creation and Protection doing this to me? That I can't understand. The God of Destruction… fine. That one makes sense. But you two… why?"
"I understand the God of Destruction hates me.
But why are you both doing this as well?"
He walked away from the bed and tried to summon both gods.
But he failed.
The system screen popped up:
You cannot summon.
You cannot summon.
You cannot summon.
It was like a spam message surrounding him, and his head started hurting.
"Fine. I won't try to summon them."
He lowered his head, eyes dark.
"But what is this… system? I don't understand anything."
The last thing he remembered… was waiting for his death.
Ank was on the brink of death before someone sealed him to save his life.
"Where am I?" he remembered, fighting with his friends and then waiting for death.
"What the heck is this?" Ank tried to summon his armor or weapon.
A new message popped up:
You cannot summon.
You cannot summon.
You cannot summon.
When Ank politely asked why he could not summon his armor and weapons,
The system replied in a cold tone: "The owner's level is very low, and all of your weapons are not available because you have to first complete the quests. In reward, you get your weapon and armor."
"Why do I have to complete quests for my items, my armor, my weapons? All are mine.
And why is this system attached to my status?"
He asked the system who attached him to it.
When the system replied in its usual cold tone: "This information is confidential; you have no access to it until the system creator wants to reveal it."
When hearing this, Ank became very furious.
"I swear I will kill the system creator.
Wait, then I found you and killed you."
From far, far, far away in Duskwild,
Somewhere in the universe,
A person was standing in space and started laughing. Ha ha ha ha. The person was made of dark energy; from top to bottom, only darkness could be seen.
"You want to kill me? Ha ha ha ha.
I am waiting for you to come and kill me. Ha ha ha."