1 vol 1, chap 1, the goddess

the evening sun was to settings and Jo guest it was four judging by the sun. He was on his way back from the convenience store. after buying some instant ramen for dinner because he couldn't afford anything since his paycheck was in the next couple of days.

Jo' s was parked a block away from the convenience store. It was an old utility van that he renovated for living in. Not because he was purely poor but out of a choice. Sense leaving college needed to save money to pay of his student debt.

Jo considers himself to be very smart for coming up with this plan as its basically. "I live in vehicle with a P,O, box as address and use gym membership to take showers and stay healthy for without rent and utilities I can save ton of money to pay off crippling debt." Of course he had to pay things like maintenance, gas and food but comparatively he's actually saved up 300 USD and its only been two months since he started. Of course he would have more if it wasn't for debt.

Jo got to his car then opened the back door and pulled out a portable gas stove from under his bed and spent five minutes cooking the instant noodles in a small pot. He poured the pots contents into a small bowl and ate the noodles. When he finished he quickly packed up everything and hopped in the drivers seat of his car and drove off to find a place to park and sleep.

Jo found a large shopping center parking lot and parked near the edge. After looking at his iPhone he realized it was only six in the after noon. So Jo went into the back of the van and used his phone to browse around online.

After perusing for 30 minutes he decided to watch some Yo*t*be videos. He found some good content creators lately and wanted to watch a handful of videos before bed. Sense work stared at seven and he didn't want to be late. At around ten a clock he decided to head to bed.

Soon Jo was starting to enter a deep sleep when he heard {Ding, host is entering mystic world.} then his mind went spiraling into a white room like the infinity room from a certain movie.

{Ding, scanning for possible bloodlines... analyzing} Jo was confused he's had a couple of lucid dreams before where one is self aware and conscious during the whole dream. but never experienced anything like this.

{Ding, detected bloodlines from Europe, North America, Asia. Which one would the host like to choose.} ' the fuck, bloodline, what is this ' Jo couldn't make heads or tails of it.

{Ding, bloodlines come from those who descend directly from those who had achieved great feats during their lives and they gave bonuses in the mystic world.}

"This is one weird dream but fuck it sounds interesting, sure show me the European first then show me the North American and lost the Asian bloodlines."

{Ding.} Jo saw a screen appear in front of him with a list of names most of the name of them seemed to have a bronze color with a couple of them with a silver color. One name was cut off in half meaning it might scroll down but he didn't know how.

Joe try to touch it but realized he had no hands, no body and was unable to touch it physically. So he decided to try the audio option. "Scroll down" the screen moved slightly showing two more names both of them having a bronze tint to it.

He read through the names using this method or at least he tried. Practically all of them written in some different language and even if it was translated they probably had some sort of pronunciation that made near impossible for him to understand it. They also had some sort of weird color coding most where bronze with a handful of silver and only one to two with gold colors.

"what's with the color coding I can somewhat understand the name since their foreign but what do these colors mean." he was getting more and more confused by this weird dream.

{Ding, bloodlines have different rarities depending on the greatness the individuals achieved during their lifetime the greater the achievement the higher it is on the ranking, bronze is the lowest, gold is the highest. The higher the ranking is the larger the bonuses are.}

' okay I see. If I want to have a large bonus I'll have to pick the gold, easy enough to understand.'

Jo decided to look through all of the bloodlines before he decided to make his decision since he just saw a couple of gold ones he was sure that he would be able to have a really good bonus.

he scrolled down a little bit and saw the North American bloodlines, it was listed with the North American being bolded in the text like the Europe ones, not much can be found in the North American bloodlines he did see one gold bloodline. he quickly came across the Asian bloodlines were there are the fewest blood lines but one of them stuck out well has he actually knew who It was mainly since the name was in English and it was none other then Queen Himiko the first known ruler of Japan.

This was the only name he knew in the whole list but he was hoping for Napoleon, Alexander the great or maybe Jean of Arc from at least the European bloodline. but was disappointed or just can't read it. But Queen Himiko came from a time of Japan that didn't have writing so it was most likely the reason why it was in English.

Jo know about Queen himiko as he literally just watched a video about the history of Japan before he went to bed and he know that most of what we know about early Japan is left to the Chinese scholars that had written about them when they interacted with them. Since the Japanese then didn't actually have a written language of there own and couldn't record things.

But from what he could remember Queen himiko didn't have descendants as there was a big ruckus after she died on who would inherit. Maybe it was politics maybe it was something else since there is no written records from the Japanese side nobody knows for sure.

Jo decided on Queen Himiko's bloodline since nobody really knows about her and it was a gold rated bloodline with the plus side that he can actually read it. "I choose Queen Himiko's bloodline"

{Ding, are you sure you want to choose this bloodline as your main bloodline, if Host decides host cannot choose any other bloodline after this and if you fail the bloodline trial you will not receive the benefits of the main bloodline.}

'wait trial nobody told me about a trial ' he was beginning to become very confused as if this was just a normal dream why would there be such a thing.

{Ding, bloodline trials are to ensure that people will not choose the best bloodline for the greater bonus, so the higher the rarity the more difficult the trial will be.}

'there goes that plan out the window what kind of trial well I be receiving ' he was beginning to ponder on what it could possibly be like.

{Ding, trials are mainly based off of the individual the main bloodline comes from and depending on what they did and the kind of person they were determines the type of trial.}

Oh this peaked his curiosity since nobody really knew what Queen himiko was like but considering it was a gold rating bloodline it would probably be very difficult and if he didn't succeed he might not get the bonus. but in the end it was just a dream.

"why not I'll go balls deep into this. Okay give me Queen himiko's bloodline." it was just a dream and everybody has to wake up from them eventually or this was his lines thinking at least

{Ding, acknowledging host request... commencing bloodline trial.} the surrounding around Jo change from a white infinity room to a flat plane with a spiral staircase climbing into the sky. the steps seem to be made out of some transparent material floating in mid-air and there is no center column. His body seem to be there as well for he can now see his hands, feet, and body.

"so do I have to just climb up the staircase hmm. Maybe it's just the length that's the trial and I have to endure like when she did as she fought against all the other clans to be recognized as Japan's ruler. Taking each step one at a time getting ever closer to the goal." because they did say a journey of a thousand Miles begins with a single step.

he began to climb up the staircase but with each step he felt like things were getting nowhere and he would look over the balcony he first looked up to see if he was getting any closer but all he saw was a staircase continuing to head up, when he look down blow him saw that he was actually going up has the floor kept appearing farther and farther away as he continue to climb. After what felt like hours Joe decided to sit down and take a rest and think.

this whole thing reminded him of something he saw in a cartoon when he was very little on a TV show he watch with one of his cousins when they were kids. In the show the main character had to climb up a staircase just like him but it was a never-ending staircase and so the character decide to use magic to flip them upside down and to use the staircase has a slide to got down to the bottom and the bottom was actually the top and they entered into a secret chamber underneath.

The idea came to him when he realized that most dreams are based off of random things that one experienced in life. So he wanted to try it out, and although he didn't have magic he had some muscle so he decided to try it out and if it wasn't it he could just climb all the way back up and head to the top.

with a bit of a jump he grabbed the stair above him and flipped upside down. As expected there was gravity constantly pulling him down but his feet actually connected like a pair of magnets to the stair.

"Well this does feel uncomfortable but it seems to be working. hmm it's just a dream so obviously it would have worked, something so stupid always works in a dream." although it did take him a little bit to get used to it he managed to start walking up / down the stairs.

eventually he did reach what was supposedly the bottom. but the staircase began to shift away. The ground disappeared and gravity gave way and he was floating still connected to the stair that he was standing on and he was inside another infinity room floating on top a single stair.

"did I pass or did I fail maybe the system, announcer, thing will let me know." although this felt disappointing he just let it happen since it was just a dream.

"Brat to have past the greater secret trial of the main trial and yet denounce himself without giving himself gratitude, most shameful." Joe nearly jumped out of his skin as he was not expecting other characters to be in the dream.

"I was just doing this for the more shits and giggles of it I didn't actually expect it to be anything." he was frantically trying to turn around to see who exactly was talking to him while giving an honest reply.

"oh I see. they do say curiosity does kill the cat but curiosity can lead to greatness. Exploring the unknown can both be dangerous but also fruitful. Questioning everything that we know can give scrutiny and humiliation or can lead to Discovery and revolution." as soon as he turned around he was met with a gorgeous woman with long black hair and was surrounded by floating triangular prisms and wore red and white traditional Japanese robe with a bit of Chinese inspiration.

" Oh may I be a bit rude and ask your name." although he's had wet dreams before Jo never thought it would be like this. so much build-up for something so simple.

"hehe this child is very humorous to think of such a thing in front of a divine. but it is to be expected this child does not know that what he is experiencing is not to merely a wishful dream. But is a fragment of reality and has yet to experience the true hardships that lay before him. but if you wish to know who I am I'm Amaterasu kami of the sun and your very great grandma." the lovely lady announced

Jo was very very very very confused Amaterasu was Japan's greatest deity who all Japanese emperor's say they descend from. although he did have the queen Himiko bloodline which means he descends from Queen Himiko. This was most likely a dream meaning he probably got the queen Himiko from watching that video so he wasn't actually related to her.

"Brat you've got to realize that this is not a mere dream and not so easily denounce your true heritage. although you possess just a sliver of my blood as it has been watered down do to many generations you are still a grandchild of mine. Although as a divine I could not claim you as you have many beside you and only those who managed to pass the secret trial will I give my full support which you have done so. Many have actually attempted to do the trial but have either given up or have failed by falling off the tower and even none have managed to figure out the secret trial to obtain my sun goddess bloodline. But you child just on a mere whim manage to figure it out to get here to me. and you didn't even know what you were doing the whole time."

Jo was baffled just unable to compute on what's going on most dreams are simple things and happen randomly often all over the place but this dream just seems to be something straightforward similar to reality.

"what the hell is going on here I thought this was just a dream but you're acting to normal or real."

"it seems that the brat is starting to come to understand the situation he is in. and he has yet to understand the true trial that he waits." Goddess Amaterasu began to giggle and float around mocking him.

"all right all right if this is not a dream and it is actually real explain what's going on around me this doesn't seem real this whole infinity room I've only seen it in a movie AKA fiction, not real, not existence, imaginary, Made Up."

"good good brat is questioning the world around him instead of making blind stories to fill has curiosity and lack of understanding." she continue to float around and teasing.

"Be thankful that I allow you to think and I am not a deity that wants nothing more than loyalty and share devotion from followers, and scoring those who seek the who, what, when, where, and why. But if you really want to know this is a dimensional space created by me with my powers. I have brought you here from The trial which is a place between dimensions. You may not know this for the world you were born in now relies on tools to see the universe. But these tools are good but also bad. They're good because they can see the truth and anyone who use these tools will get the same answer, but it is bad because it limits what one can hear, see, feel and understand. if the tool cannot see, hear, feel and understand then you can not." A serious look came on her face when trying to explain to Jo.

"all right I do have my doubts but for the time being I'll just believe you no harm no foul I guess." the answer he got wasn't really expected but maybe the whole detail of it was too hard to explain for his mind like dealing with some kind of quantum crap.

"I was hoping for more but at least this will be enough but you will realize that soon this is not just a dream and you will experience are very very real world, a world separate from your own. but enough procrastinating let us begin I shall Grant you the bloodline of the sun goddess or sun god for you although you won't be a full God you'll be a demigod, well not even that is more pseudo, pseudo, demigod as you right now don't have very much deity blood in you only a very teeny tiny sliver so you'll have to cultivate it if you wanted to gain the true power of a demigod and then after that a true God." the goddess pointed out of her finger and touched it upon his forehead a glimmer and glow appeared and he felt vigorating heat all through his body.

"you are now going to be entering the mystic world the world parallel to your own it may not seem real at first, but but soon you will realize that this dream is more real. all that I can give you right now is my bloodline once you enter into your cultivation I will contact you again and guide you upon the path of a sun deity." with that Jo site turned black and was unable to see anything. He felt a sensation on his back as if she was lying down.

"Oh boy that was a weird dr-" what he woke up to was not a fancy bed but rather strange lush evergreen forest surrounding him.

" the fuck"