Since that day, Freya couldn't forget that face and it slowly imprinted onto her mind, focused and A knock at the door from her secretary and she hands a documents saying "From the list of new EVO for the day these are the most promising ones". Freya looks over them one by one with just different types of displeased facial expressions. Nothing has caught her eye.
"Ok thanks" she says to her secretary before she leaves.
Meanwhile..
For the new group of EVO, there is a Naughty Nancy.
Arthur sits among them hiding himself amongst those around him. "NEXT" is shouted for the next person to come up and get tested. The potential EVO are seated on a row of chairs, but clumped up into groups. The next individual stands up and has darkness looming over him. Arthur gets a look at his face and subtly recognizes him, but he doesn't get a good look.
A couple minutes later, he walks out with the same feeling. Arthur looks up at him walking past and remembers why his face felt so familiar. 'That's Ethan' He thinks to himself. 'Wow' 'He is so different from how he looked in the future'.
He was everywhere doing whatever was needed to help anyone. Good, Evil and Villain or Foe, he would help you regardless. A man that stood for justice and righteousness.
Nicknamed the Saint.
Nobody knew about Ethan's past and his rise to fame was one that was natural. A man who selflessly stopped a rift release to help everyone escape, he was severely injured from protecting everyone and fighting back at the same time.
His health didn't matter to him, the constant worry for others is what gave him that moniker. People named him a hero, but he shied away not accepting that moniker. Eventually he grew to like it and it became a name that followed him everywhere and then it became a smile that you can trust.
Wherever there was danger, Ethan would be there to help. He couldn't be everywhere, but he tried his best and that was enough to give him the moniker, the saint.
But the saint looking like that... Arthur was troubled and attached a penumbra onto Ethan before moving up in the queue for testing.
"Oh" he thinks to himself remembering the skills he got from the goblin hunt quest. He opened his status window on the roof watching the sunset before meeting Freya.
On the roof:
As he sits on the edge kicking his feet watching the sunset across the city at the peak. He calls out his status window remembering his rewards for the goblin hunt.
[New skills unlocked!]
Skill: Unison]
[Granted the ability to combine skills to create a new variant]
[Some skills may be resistant to this as they have a higher grade boundary]
[Once unison is created, the original skill will disappear]
[Skill Proficiency: 4]
Another system window appears to his right.
[Breath of Tranquillity]
[The psalm of breath.
A tranquil breathing technique that increases the mental fortitude of the user]
[Skill proficiency is low, only when increased can this skill bloom]
[Skill Proficiency: 1]
"These are pretty useful" he says to himself and brings up his skill unison. Another window appears showing him slots where the skills can be placed. He puts Master of exodus and Eye of Odin in each slot and beings unison.
Red system notification appears, large and full of rage it says "A mortal who coveted my powers dares to mix it with those inferior beings".
"Your foolish Arrogance will be dealt with" he says as a the sky changes and only Odin's face can be seen as he is seated in his throne. He looks down onto him, before the system intervenes and stops his interference.
Arthur was joyful beforehand, but in his presence he felt how insignificant he was. In the face of true power, he was nothing but an ant. He breaths out after holding his breath and that gasp of air looking down and as he looks back up another system notification appears.
[Skill Rank upgrade]
[Breath of Tranquillity]
[Skill Proficiency: 1 > 2]
"Wow" "His presence alone felt like death" as he continues to slow down his breathing and composing himself.