4 System Booting... (Edited)
֍ During the Birth of Prince Benedict, far away on a Plane of Existence no simple creature or normal being could ever hope to reach or see ֍
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"Ahh, so that lowly ant is about to be born…
Finally!
Some new forms of entertainment to help me get out of this rut of boredom.
Ugh… This place can really be a drag sometimes…"
She aimlessly complained to herself about her 'dire' situation living alone on this Plane of Existence, while thinking of ways to manipulate the 'ants' to do her bidding, all to pass the torment of time.
She would watch them fall into despair and anguish over their own actions till they became void of all emotions.
She was thinking of getting the newest worm to behave as an obedient child that would be loved and cherished by all, only for him to later then slaughter and torture everyone that showed him any ounce of compassion or love while under her control.
The misery of others made her existence locked in this Plane of Existence bearable, since it had been eons for her to experience any real joy or entertainment that interested her being anymore.
Rather, the joy of breaking down the ants' souls of compassion into dust was the most satisfying feeling she'd ever had the joy of experiencing in her whole existence up until this point throughout eternity.
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As she sat atop her golden throne, with her long radiant legs dangling over the arm rest, the being of great power stared at the images of her latest puppet's birth.
In her mind the experience of childbirth and its hardships were her own pain and suffering, instead of the actual mothers, who were referred to as ants as well.
She felt they owed her for giving them a purpose in life as her instruments within her almighty creation, as they played along to her melody.
She was a vicious form of existence if anyone ever took note of her actions, but in her version of twisted 'reality' they were basking too much in her brilliance and for that to continue, a price must be paid…
Watching her new puppet finally coming to life, its ear-piercing screams were enough to destroy one's hearing, with several doctors and healers struggling to battle the harsh affects to keep themselves conscious.
For a moment, the almighty existence too was taken aback by the influence of the little puppet's cry that influenced the surrounding worms.
In the next moment, the child stopped responding suddenly, alarming everyone within the room and afar.
The concern for the infant's well-being became the focus for everyone, as they paced about hoping to find a way to get some sign of response from the ailing child.
On the other hand, the Almighty Goddess sat up straight in her golden throne, trying to understand what just occurred before her very godly eyes, however it was too late.
When she tried to connect herself directly with the puppet's soul and body to learn of the anomaly around the ant, the Almighty Goddess sensed an ominous feeling overcome her very being as a deity.
Death was looming over her, and she could feel its bountiful hatred for her, that became increasingly terrifying as the source of its own power and strength continued too multiple.
'Who is this brazen to dare enter my Plane of Existence and threaten ME?!
Do they have a death wish…?!'
Such thoughts were running through the Almighty Goddess's mind, who tried to search for the intruders in her Plane of Existence, only to discover nothing.
Even though her mind was operating faster than the speed of light, all that the Almighty Goddess could sense was an impending attack from behind her golden throne.
In hopes to gauge the enemy's possible strength, she thought it would be best to get the first attack in and then flee.
After that she could figure out some idea to deal with the intruder and plan out an approach to contend with intruders' strength level.
Even if she felt her end was close, she believed that her strength as a Goddess of her rank would be more than enough to combat the unknown threat because there were only a few things that could contend against someone like her.
She soon learnt how wrong her thoughts were.
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The Almighty Goddess launched her first attack against the mysterious enemy.
She brazenly attacked sporadically with the might of her bare hands, sending shockwaves throughout the domain under her direct control.
Her powerful strikes destroyed eons of treasures and beauties that would make Mortal Kings cry rivers worth of tears for what could have never been theirs in the first place.
Once she had sent enough attacks at the unknown threat across her domain, the Almighty Goddess teleported a great distance away to safety so she could see her attacks land on the intruder.
Unfortunately, it did not happen…
Nothing happened…
There was no sign of her scuffle, no signs of her power detonating.
There was absolutely not a single scratch throughout her domain after the attacks should have detonated.
For the first time, the Almighty Goddess knew if she didn't escape with everything in her power, she was done for.
Sadly, the realisation of her fate came too late.
Before she could turn around and escape, her vision turned black suddenly, as if all of existence disappeared, leaving only the darkness of the endless void behind with the Plane of Existence swallowed whole too.
Within minutes, the Goddess was struggling to keep her mind intact, with the darkness of the void stimulating her thoughts excessively, she nearly lost her 'Spiritual Sense' to the empty space.
Thus, began her battle with a powerful and mysterious entity, the fiercest battle she had ever faced since her birth.
She had high hopes to overcome this obstacle, never believing she could ever lose.
Ready to fight with what little remained of her strength, the goddess was ready for her glorious victory.
Thus, she began the fight for her life or death…
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֍ 10 months Later, Kros Empire – Capital ֍ Imperial Calender of Merah, Year 3261, Fourth month of the year, Krillien ֍
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Within the extravagantly decorated palace, the Emperor slowly paced through the halls as his mind was lost in deep thought, wondering about his decisions while wandering throughout the giant palace.
He kept rethinking back to the latest reports from his spies that he sent to follow alongside his son's travelling caravan convoy to the Plano Ranges.
The report contained a summary of the events and the list of individuals that abandoned the baby Prince when trouble approached the convoy.
What left him in a hypnotic state was the final part of the report about the baby Prince.
It stated he had awoken just after a particularly one-sided battle.
Details about his 'rebirth' that echoed in the halls of heaven and his mighty roar that trembled the spirit of the earth left the Emperor wondering about many of his decisions so far.
Originally, he was ecstatic that his baby boy was awake.
He thought about sending the Imperial Royal Knights to quickly bring the young Prince home.
However, his Royal advisors stopped him before he acted.
They informed the Emperor that the news about the Prince's condition when he was born sparked unrest among the noble society within the capital once they learnt about the poor health of the Prince and the likelihood of his death.
Even the rumours had spread throughout the Empire and reached the ears of the commoners.
While many thought the Prince was just ill and sent away to some healer stationed within the Plano Ranges, their thoughts changed when they learnt the Prince was supposedly cursed after his birth, leading to a poor image of the Prince through various rumours, turning the public against the baby.
The people demand action and acknowledgement from the Royal family.
Many hoped the Emperor would send people to end the accursed Prince's life, while others wished he was banished from Empire altogether.
Only after meeting with his advisors, the Emperor finally chose on a plan of his choosing to enact, leading to the expulsion of the Plano Ranges from the Kros Empire.
It would mean the land would remain in the 'control' of the Prince, until his death, after which the Empire would take over once more.
To quell the fear of the curse, the advisors all believed this was the best method to deal with the odd situation.
The plan was formed just as news about people possibly migrating to other Empires reaching the throne room.
It was at this point they all knew something had to happened immediately, otherwise their economy could destabilise.
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The Emperor remembered back to two months earlier, when he was unaware of his child awakening, his advisors were discussing different ways to appease the public and nobles with the announcement to be made in due course concerning the Prince.
At the time, the Kros Emperor sat on his throne silently observing his advisors as they laughed and discussed amongst themselves the fate of his child.
He never wanted this to happened to his innocent baby boy, he honestly just wanted to be a father to his son, something his own father never was.
Due to his own father reigning as the previous Emperor, he was never allowed to meet him, unless it was worth the Emperor's time and effort to deal with personally.
Otherwise, he would send someone else in his stead.
The Emperor wondered whether his own father ever thought about raising him or did he leave everything to his advisors to handle.
Peering out towards his people from the cold seat of his throne, while looking through the tinted foggy window, tears ran down his grief-stricken face as the Kros Emperor thought about his son's cruel fate.
That son of his that would be publicly acknowledged as abandoned by himself and the Empire soon enough.
An innocent child with no prejudice and knowledge of the world and he was sentenced to be abandoned by his family forever.
Even stating his demise at a later time for the 'Good' of the Empire.
His mind was racing around, thinking of all the time his son would be alone without a loved one by his side.
He would face numerous challenges and battles all alone.
For the first time, the Emperor regretted the birth of his son.
If only he had died when he was first born and had not fallen into a comatose state.
If only…
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As he wallowed in misery silently, he suddenly announced to his aides that he would gift his son the Plano Ranges and would recede the area from the Empire.
It would become his personal fief and if the child were to pass on from this world, the region would be passed to the organisation protecting adventurers.
There was some stern opposition regarding this decision, since they felt the region could face civil war if the nobles decided to fight over the rights to the area.
However, once the Emperor explained his reasoning to gift the region to his son, much to the shock of the Royal advisors, they began to understand the underlying strategic benefit it brought the Empire, leading to all parties approving the decision.
The Kros Emperor felt overjoyed thinking back to the sound decision he'd made to gift the Plano Ranges to his son a couple months earlier.
With a faint smile across his face, to hide the broken soul deep down, the Emperor continued to stumble through the halls as he replayed the last image of his son in his mind.
He just hoped his little gift would be of some help to his dear son in the future.
Even the steps he'd taken in the last two months, were all in the hope of giving his son a fighting chance among the cruelty of the worlds power struggle.
Though it was impossible to bring him back to the Capital, it didn't mean he couldn't do anything else to support his 'abandoned' son.
After all, he was the damn Emperor and no matter what, he would do as he damn well pleased.
Besides praying for his son's health and wellbeing, the Emperor sent one last gift jointly with the Empress, all to ensure their son would have the best foot forward when making his presence known.
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֍ Plano Ranges ֍
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Towards their final push to Alynthn, two carriages consisted of the young Prince, with Alfred, Liz, and Agatha together and the Withering Roses following suit closely behind in the remaining carriage that was meant to be filled with other servants to aid Benedict.
Ever since they escape along with the Knights sent to protect the young Prince, the carriage fell into the hands of the Withering Roses who made sure the equipment and items sent along for the Prince weren't harmed or damaged in anyway.
After arriving at the first down since the ambush, the whole group finally relaxed and took action once they enjoyed a small meal, only to then search for supplies to last the final part of the journey.
Alfred and Zio more importantly searched for news from the Capital and the Emperor, in regards to His Highness.
What they found left the two shocked, as the report stated the Plano Ranges became the personal fief of the young Prince.
They were ecstatic about the news.
Only for the high spirits to come crashing down as the realisation of managing such a large territory frightened the two of them, which in no doubt would petrify the others.
The lack of manpower and trustworthy individuals meant the management of the region while taking care of His Highness education was near impossible.
It seemed like a tall order for the few followers of the Prince but their mindset to build a worthy Empire for their little Highness pushed them to purse the impossible.
They did not want to fail him, especially Alfred.
Ever since the attack, he was constantly scrutinising his own ability to serve and protect His Highness, since his momentary lapse in attention, nearly led to a grave mistake.
Alfred had never thought about abandoning His Highness, yet when the burley man spoke of his offer to send him away and to only leave the Prince behind, a small part of Alfred considered the thought.
But the idea was killed off immediately and removed by the strong will of the butler to uphold his honour and vow to His Highness, who knew nothing of the world.
He had to protect the child from the vile world that he knew of and grew up in.
Besides him, every member of the group had their own reasons to join and aid the young Prince, and just like Alfred, they kept their reasons to themselves.
In the meantime, Liz and Agatha remained with the young Prince as he slept in Liz's embrace, trying to deal with the mental exhaustion the System forced upon him.
The two sisters attentively watched the little Prince sleep, as the person himself was finally coming to terms with his current situation.
Benedict struggled to understand how be became subject to a 'System', but he realised it would be pointless to find a way to remove it or find its origin right now.
Taking the time while resting in Liz's arms, Benedict read through the list of notifications once more to make some sense of what was occurring around him.
'This… the System mechanism is very similar to those weird ass novels that I somewhat faintly remember for some reason!
Goddammit, those things are fucking cursed…
How did I even get here?!
*Sigh* I may as well try and understand this crap so I can make sense of what happened to me…'
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[System booting…]
[Corrupt data has been neutralized]
[Synchronisation activated: Body & Soul analysis beginning before merging…
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FAILED!]
[System unable to synchronise with Body & Soul of Host]
[Host is found to be below specified age for Full System Operations activation]
[Host soul is found to be damaged]
[Host Soul Data is corrupted and incompatible with Body & Mind Data]
[Analyse…
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Sender found of corrupt data!]
[System will analyse sender…
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Sender is Higher Form of Deity Being on a Grand Level, Plane of Existence]
[System has discovered location of Plane of Existence!]
[System will neutralise and collect Higher Form Data]
[System will combine neutralised Corrupted Data of Body, Mind, & Soul of Host's with Higher Form Being]
[System will begin operation]
[Beginning with Data Collection…
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Data Collected!]
[System will combine Various Collected Data!]
[Please stay on hold 😊
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Success!]
[Host and Higher Form Data combined!]
[Host's Corrupted Data has been partially recovered]
[However, a large portion of Corrupted Data will repair with System progression]
[Higher Forms Body Data cannot merge with Host's Body Data]
[Data will be analysed, deconstructed, reconstructed for Host compatibility]
[Data is not suitable for current age and body of Host]
[System will merge data with host at suitable age]
[System to reboot and reinitialise…]
[Analysing Host's Body, Soul, & Mind…
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System found current Body of Host is too weak!]
[Host's Body will go through an upgrade based on Soul & Mind Strength and Will]
[ERROR – Soul Strength and Mind Will exceeds current Body capacity compression]
[Restrictions found; System will analyse method for appropriate Body Formation match Soul Strength and Mind Will at current capacity, with room to increase]
[Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊
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Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊
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Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊]
[Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊]
[Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊]
[Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊]
[Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊]
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֍ 9 months later worth of continuously repeated notifications ֍
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[… System cannot discover ideal Body Formation to withstand Soul Strength and Mind Will based on System Restrictions]
[System has suffered immense damage that was unknown to System Operations with the System's focus on Corrupted System Data & Host's original Soul damage]
[System will place restrictions on System operations and available options for Host's use till suitable age/strength of System progression and development]
[System will execute Method #379]
[Host will experience pain that will shock Host's consciousness awake]
[Operation beginning
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[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[System cannot execute Method #379]
[System does not have enough power for operation execution]
[System has successfully connected and installation of one operational function of #379]
[System will send excess Host Power Energy Surge Data to undisclosed specified location]
[Host will gain access at appropriate age to Power Energy Surge Data]
[Host System will try to reinitialise again, please remain on hold while we fix this is issue…😊]
[!¡! ERROR !¡!]
[System is too weak to complete action]
[Body of Host is far too weak, affected by malnutrition, hunger, fragility]
[System will place all remaining power into Host's Body Repair and Improvement to adapt the Power Energy Data to the Host's Body Data]
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Successful!]
[Host's improved Body Formation is appropriately based on estimated Soul Strength and Mind Will for the future, when Host has access to Power Energy Surge Data sealed away by the System Operational Functions & Restrictions]
[System has requested for more power from <Error106t4761-8 > ]
[Please remain on hold while we fix the issue 😊
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[Success!]
[Abundant Power has been added to System…
[!¡! ERROR !¡!...TOO MUCH ENERGY!!!]
[ERROR!!!!!
REDIRECTING ENERGY!!!!!!]
[System corrupting from surge of energy]
[Forcing energy synchronisation in 3…2...1…
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Success!]
[Host and System combined!]
[Excess energy will go to System Restricted Zones and undisclosed specified locations…
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[Certain System data has been overwritten based on energy levels and updated System Operations…
[Hope Host enjoys <ERROR UNKNOWN> System!]
[System will pull up hosts information]
[Name: Benedict Khadraazil]
[Body Condition: Healthy]
[Status: The Accursed Forgotten Prince of the Kros Empire]
[System Level: 0]
[Soul Grade: ???]
[World Grade: -M]
[!!Stats Restricted!!]
