Chapter 4: System Usage, Grind Time

Hades Pov

It's been almost a week since Charon came with his message though it may still feel like yesterday. Time progresses weirdly when it comes to gods and other immortal entities. Hades has been alive for almost 1000 years and while it may have seemed long at first, time started to fly by very quickly. He and his siblings only had 50 million years to gather the strength needed to take the throne and while It may seem like a long time to us mortals, to god's it seems much shorter.

Imagine this, Our universe began at around 14,000,000,000 BC being born from Chaos or it's many names. Then around 11,000,000,000 came the primordial who was birthed from very concepts and ideas. Soon enough the Titans were born at 8,500,000,000 BC with Kronos gaining the title of King a billion years after his birth. The current time line sit's around 4,620,900,000 BC give or take a few thousand years. 

Hades wouldn't confess this to anyone, but it was a frightening thought knowing you would have to fight again entity's with more than a billion years of experience with only a couple million to prepare. Hades however, Looked down at a small purple screen and smirked.

"System, Open my status"

{Status}

Name: Hades

Race: God (Imperfect Titan)

Multiplier: 1x

Skills

Godly Physique (Rank A): Grants host the physique of a god and improve strength, durability, stamina, speed, reflexes, and other physical attributes to a godly level. 

{Unique} Will for survival (Rank B): The host displays a will of immense strength to survive, which allows the host to think clearly and not be as affected by emotions.

Immortality Type 1 (Rank A): As the child of two titans, the Host no longer ages past their prime and is unable to die due to age.

Weak Matter Manipulation (Rank D): Grants the Host the ability to meld two objects and combine them into one item

Weapons Master (Rank D): Grant's the Host the ability to instinctively use any weapon at an advanced level along with being able to find flaws in various weapons. {Please note that flaws are usually made during the creation of the weapon}

Perks

(Unique) Host of The System: As the system's host, the host is allowed to grow as strong as they desire as long as they put in the effort.

Gacha (Locked Function until 1st rebirth)

Rebirth: First Rebirth Available! 

"I see, so this is how my system evaluates my skills after around a thousand years of non-stop practice. To think matter manipulation kept me busy for 200 years straight and its only D rank, seems theirs much I don't understand. System, Please explain what rebirthing does"

{Rebirth}

Rebirth: The Host will receive the chance to rebirth once he reaches certain thresholds in strength. Rebirthing causes the Host to lose his Skills and Perks. Unique perks are exempt from this as they are something only the Host has. Generic abilities like Semi-Immortality are also exempt from this as they will be instantly obtained back. When rebirthing, the Host will have the option to upgrade one of his Skills, Perks or Race to the next rank and keep them afterwards along with a growth multiplier and a Gacha chance. Please note that after upgrading one skill, it cannot be upgraded by the next rebirth.

"And explain to me what Gacha is system, It seems after a thousand years I can't perfectly recall all of my memories from before."

{Gacha}

Gacha: Also nicknamed "The Bane of Human Greed" is a type of gambling system created by humans gaining notoriety in Japan before spreading across the globe. This version of Gacha grant's the user to draw a random skill from ranks E - EX depending on the type of skill the host chooses. The host may choose whether the skill is Physical {Such as Martial Art's, Combat, Genetic Change and more} or Mental {Such as Magic, Psychics, Chi and more} in nature. The System will then spin a wheel to decided the skill's rank and category.

'I see, it's been such a long time since I've heard the word Japan. If I'm not mistaken life on what's going to exist as earth dates back to 541,000,000 BC. Chaos I'm going to be old by then.' Hades let out a deep sigh as he soon focused back on the rebirth option

"Hmm, I could rebirth...I don't see any downsides to it. Most of my skills are genetic so I wouldn't have to worry about my immortality or my physique. Will of survival is Unique so it won't disappear. Thought that would leave me the choice between Weapon's Master and Matter Manipulation. Honestly I don't really have to choose which one is better. System, Please rebirth and upgrade Weak Matter Manipulation"

{Rebirthing Commencing...10%....37%...86%...Done!}

As the rebirthing finished, Hades would feel a sense of pain rush through his body. As if he was being burned from the inside out, Hades would start to vomit a black substance that would sizzle upon contact to the ground and dissipate into nothingness. As Hades came to, He looked towards his panel with wide eyes

{Weak Matter Manipulation (Rank D) had upgraded into Matter Manipulation (Rank C)

'System, Bring up Matter Manipulation'

{Matter Manipulation (Rank C)}

User may Construct, Destruct or Meld matter together within a 50 meter radius with 5 finger contact to an atomic level. Please note this does not work on biological matter

'This…This is only Rank C? Not even A and I can reconstruct matter on an atomic level?'

{System Notification}

Skill, Matter Manipulation, Shall no longer be forgotten when rebirthing. 

Hades in that moment broke out into a hysterical laugh. If people were to hear him now he would sound like a mad man whose lost his mind. After his laughing attack, Hades grinned and smiled widely.

'It took me 200 years just to learn the basics of matter manipulation but with system one rebirth took off possibly thousands to hundred thousands of years worth of research and training in an instant. And then theirs also the Gacha…' Hades would look over to another screen with a notification

{System}

Host has been granted a Gacha ticket from rebirthing, please use it when you see fit.

'Hmm…Ok, let me simplify this down. Rebirthing is available once I reach a certain level of strength though it is unknown and allows me to upgrade one skill to the next level and permanently keep it. Currently, I have a 2x multiplier which to my best guess multiples the level in which I can learn and understand skills. Gacha is a gambling type system that allows me to gain new skills of a specific type. Ok, System use the Gacha for the mental category'

[A/N: Yes I did use a wheel spin for this as I will do with all Gacha pulls]

{Gacha…Pulling…Determining Rank…Determining Type…Done!}

Congratulations! Host has received [Fire Manipulation (Rank D)]

'Fire Manipulation, How fitting for who I am. System, Pull up my status'

{Status}

Name: Hades

Race: God (Imperfect Titan)

Multiplier: 2x

Skills

Godly Physique (Rank A): Grants host the physique of a god and improve strength, durability, stamina, speed, reflexes, and other physical attributes to a godly level. 

{Unique} Will for survival (Rank B): The host displays a will of immense strength to survive, which allows the host to think clearly and not be as affected by emotions.

Immortality Type 1 (Rank A): As the child of two titans, the Host no longer ages past their prime and is unable to die due to age.

[Unforgettable] Matter Manipulation (Rank C): Host may Construct, Destruct or Meld matter together within a 50 meter radius with 5 finger contact to an atomic level. Please note this does not work on biological matter

Fire Manipulation (Rank D): Host may create / extinguish mortal flames within a 15 meter radius.

Perks

(Unique) Host of The System: As the system's host, the host is allowed to grow as strong as they desire as long as they put in the effort.

Gacha: 0 tickets available

Rebirth: Requirement Not Met

'It looks as if my status is fine for now, Definitely won't be enough for the tournament, but I have 50 million years of preparation. Hopefully I can get 1 or 2 more rebirths at least. Though Fire Manipulation specifies Mortal flames, perhaps it may get to the point to control divine or hell flames? I could always ask Hestia for help, for now I'll make notes of everything I have, I may forget the information when rebirthing but I can always re-learn it via studying my notes. What was the one quote from my past...As yes, It's to to Grind