23: Strange woman again

"Yo, second mother."

"You have guts, son."

Sure enough, the strange woman calling herself Asher's mother was there subathing by the side with some cold ice tea.

"I don't even know who you are yet. Although we strangely look alike..." Asher retorted.

"True that." She replied. "My name is Evornia Ecrizich, the ninth and current leader of the Ecrizich clan and your mother. I have chosen you as my heir."

"If you've been observing me, you should know I hate being tied down and restricted or I might burst from the pressure one day and let's just say, it won't be very nice." Asher spoke as a cool breeze bathed his body.

"I said the same words to my mother and I still ended like this, although the circumstances may be a little... different."

"How so?" Asher pondered.

"You should have seen it by now, you awakened on of the thirteen mythical celestial edicts. An anomaly even among celestials." Evornia replied him.

"Quick question, what are edicts? What is the Thousand Eyes edict? What... am I?" Asher hesitated a little on his last question.

"To your first question, Edicts are codes and laws that form the celestial. In other words, it's like the program of a game. The edict defines a celestials soul, identity, power even up to your weird habits. You can't kill a celestial unless you completely destroy thier edict and replacing the edict in another body 'reincarnates' the celestial.

For example, if you kidnap a baby celestial from a secluded place, and rip out the edict into another body. You reincarnate the said celestial.

Awakening the edicts gives various forms of power and each celestial's edict is different from the last.

To your second question, The Thousand Eyes Edict is as you read in the description. Imagine a celestial awakens just one power from their editct and the rest is down to themselves but you awaken 1000 although there are some special conditions to unlock all those 1000 slots.

To your last question, you are an incomplete celestial. Something is missing from you but I'll let you figure it out yourself." Evornia ended with a cheeky smile.

"Am I the only one you call up here?" Asher asked.

"Yes. I'll be leaving Cashel in your hands. Don't tame his core for him. Since you can exchange skills, he should be able to do it."

"Ah, I see."

"Time is almost up so I'll leave you with our parting warning. Beware of system users that aren't you and your brother."

~FLASH!~

The whole place cleared up and Asher found himself back in the bathroom. Outside at the window, the sun was rising so Asher decided to take a bath and get ready for classes.

"Ah, shoot. I didn't ask about the system."

As he took care of his body, he toyed around with the system screen.

[Store]

[A.I assistant — 2,000,000E

1 keg full of absolute grade regeneration potion — 87,000,000,000E

1 koel longsword — 10,000,000,000E...]

Asher didn't bother looking at the rest of the items. The number of zeros made his eyes roll.

[×1 A.1 assistant purchased.]

[Random name selection activated. Name chosen – Noel]

"At least let me choose a name! Dammit!" Asher's voice echoed through the building again.

"Hello, master." A realistic female voice echoed in his head.

"Hello yourself, change your voice to Eva's voice."

"That's–"

"Take my essence, just do it and stop wasting my time." Asher retorted.

After a minute, his essence points had dropped again and Eva's voice filled his brain.

"Hello, master.~"

"Oh my." Asher dropped the soap.

———

Everyone was watching as the legendary "Celestial Destroyer" was hopping along on his was to classes with a delightful smile on his face.

"Hey, is that him?"

"He looks weak, not gonna lie."

"I heard he was able to tear space with just one scythe swing."

"Oi oi, that's clearly exaggerated. You believe that nonsense?"

"Here, someone captured the scene with a camera."

"Are you stupid or what? That's obviously photoshopped rubbish. Why are you even my friend?"

Meanwhile, Asher peacefully hopped on and throughout homeroom, his mind seemed to be absent.

Magic Combat, Weapon combat, Magic Engineering and Martial arts. Although he was never hit, he had this stupid smile on his face all day.

That's when Cashel finally broke.

"Hey bro, what's up with you today?" he asked.

"Ah, Cashel. You still have tamed your core?" Asher snapped back to reality.

"Tamed my core? What are you talking about?" Cashel asked with a confused tone.

"Ha... I still haven't told you. Meet me at my dorm later, also, what happened to those guys?"

Asher looked over Cashel's back and he saw a tired Marigold and an exhausted Luke barely standing up and maintaining thier balance.

"You don't remember that you gave them the toture books yesterday?" Cashel raised an eyebrow, was this really Asher?

"Oh yeah! Teehee~"

The reason for Asher's current predicament was because he'd told Noel to keep whispering lovey dovey phrases from his memories to him in Eva's voice so he was constantly hearing,

"I love you,"

"Honey,"

"Darling,"

"I can't live without you."

...and the likes.

"Ahh, that's okay for now. I've had my fill." Asher said contentedly.

Immediately Noel stopped, Asher's whole countenance changed. The formerly playful aura turned serious and it caused everyone to turn heads.

They were all in a classroom and some people had decided to stick back and chat, including them.

Asher flashed a bit of his aura for a second and everyone immediately got out except the four of them.

"Cashel, I'm sure you've received the [Beserk] skills right?"

"Yeah, you got a tame skill." Cashel nodded.

"Now I want you to exchange our systems and use my skill on your core. It won't be hard. I think..."

"Okie." Cashel sat in a lotus position and satrted the process.

"Now, are you three rats done listening in on us?"

In the next moment, the ceiling caved in and three bodies fell straight on the chairs and tables rather roughly.

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