38 ANIMA
After being shocked at the amount of gold, I went back home with Emma… Turns out any system currency gained wasn't inputted in the chat log which I have input in the system, after a quick fix I saw that most of the gold was from the tower itself.
"Welcome back!" Rain and Viktor jumped at me as soon as I entered the house. "Welcome back, Ace" Kate smiled as she was holding Rolph. "Master" x8 Ele, Yama, Rag and the 6 figures welcomed me back with a smile.
"Kuku" Asura laughed inside startling some of them, I waved it off with a smile and began introducing Yu, Angela, and her children. After sitting down for a bit, I left the house and went to the tavern. Taking out my card I saw that there was a crown on top, I smiled and put it back in before going to my office.
"Rose, come out" Sitting on my chair I called out Rose, "Master" Rose replied as she entered the room. "How long until the open beta starts?" I asked her while looking outside the tavern.
"5 Months… Master, what happened during the 7 days that you disappeared?" Rose asked with confusion as it was beyond her knowledge. "You will see it soon, any progress on the adventurers guild in the game?" I looked at Rose while supporting my head with my hands.
"Used on daily basis, After a few calculations, I can say that it will be crowded… Master, can't we expand on the classes?" Rose answered and returned a question back. "Create an algorithm where only those that are able to do different things will gain the privilege of creating their own classes, as for the rest, create 99 hidden classes"
Rose nodded, "Master we have obtained buildings in all of the major cities equipped with everything needed, can I recommend something?", I raised my brow and looked at Rose, "Explain".
"To make people used to the upcoming future, we can make the game more realistic… allowing them to feel pain and death", I nodded, "That is good but what about the weak people? Won't they die if they experience pain and death?".
Rose shook her head "Master, this is created with the world's best technology, even if they all combined… not 1% can be achieved of what we did."
"Do it, also from today onwards the server room will be expanded, I need to create something to keep watch of the entire world before the invasion" I smiled and stood from my chair, looking out the window I heard the door close behind me.
After Rose words, I had an idea… something that may destroy the fairness within this war but first, 'open inventory' taking out the upgrade card, I opened the character panel and inserted the card inside.
[Would you like to upgrade System? Y/N]
'Yes'
The time stopped, I heard a ripping sound and looked behind me, a rip made in the space? After observing it for minutes, an old man entered my office from the space. "Young one, congratulations on choosing to upgrade ANIMA!"
I was frozen to my place when he mentioned that name, my body began to disintegrate followed by being swallowed by the black hole. Screaming I was but there was no sound, painful it was but who can I complain to… I hugged myself and closed my eyes, the more pain I felt, the harder I pressed my legs and squinted my eyes.
"Ace" I heard Emma sound, I didn't open my eyes, "Why did you kill me Ace?". I felt like this is still an illusion, something that cannot be explained. "You killed us all Ace!" I heard the people voices from Shanghai.
"Ahhhhh!" Screaming I was but that was heard in my head and not from my ears, after a few minutes I opened my eyes due to the pain going away. I found myself sitting on a table, looking around I noticed that it was the orphanage.
"Eat more, boy", I looked shocked at where the sound came from and it turns out to be Granny An! I jumped up and went to hug her but as soon as I touched her she disappeared. The pain returned to me, fiercer than before, this time I was in the orphanage in pain while watching the kids have fun.
"Haha! Look at this freak, he doesn't have friends!" The children laughed as they pointed at me while I was hugging my knees. Tears flowed down my eyes, I wanted to scream out at them, the pain kept increasing two folds, three folds… "Help…"
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『He won't survive』The shadow figure said as it looked at the scene happening on the large glass ball showing the scene of a man suffering.
The other 17 figures looked at the scene with worry, 「He will survive, his previous clones said it themselves, he surpassed his previous selves when he was a child」The old man who made the figure in the glass ball suffer said with confidence.
『This is too dangerous! He is still young!』 A shadowy figure standing next to the old man said as he was ready to enter the scene and save the man.
The old man smiled and shook his head 「Watch」
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"Master, do not give up" Asura voice came out, making me stop shaking from pain, my body was like a shattered glass… breaking into pieces.
I felt the pain continuing but there was something inside my body that wanted to break it apart, I didn't care about death but now, I wanted to escape it.
I felt my body being one within this place, "Oooohhh!" Screaming I began to push myself up, "STAND!" I shouted at myself to stand, the orphanage began to tear apart, the kids laughing at me vanished, darkness shrouded me. "WAKE UP!" I slapped myself, the shattered body parts regenerate faster than before, the pain couldn't keep up and began to slow.
The space around me began to crush me, it kept closing on me, I held it back with my arms, "Asura!" Six arms appeared and helped me push it but it wasn't enough. "Master, I will come out!", I nodded and noticed all six arms disappeared.
"Kuku, KAKAKA! MASTER MERGE WITH EVERYTHING YOU WEAR!" Asura shouted as he began to hold off the crushing force around us.
'Open Book!'
Waving to the fourth page, I took out my entire equipment from the inventory and applied the merge effect on them.
"FASTER!" Asura shouted as the pressure was getting to him. "Silence Asura! I will come out Master" Zeus appeared out of nowhere creating a cage of lightning around us. "15 breaths master, that is all I can give".
Zeus was a lightning figure, an old man… Wearing everything, I heard hollow speak "Master, Do it".
'Merge'
The entire set pierced my body, the pain wasn't as bad as the one I felt a few moments ago but it was close. "AHHHHHHH" My body floated as I screamed, the things I created began merging with my body, every time it merged, a skin was shown with tattoos appearing everytime it merged with my body. Light covered me, in a cocoon of light I sat.
