'Extend'

A New week soon started and Shawn was confused as to why he wasn't logged back into the game.

"Is everything alright?" He thought before he pushed open a door and returned home with his younger sister, Stacy, and Brother, Lucas, after a stressful Monday.

As he climbed the stairs leading right into his room, thinking about how he was going to leap into the bed, he subconsciously stared at the ceiling.

Today, he had to use one of his breaks to teach a classmate who had nearly turned to his bully, and it always felt unreasonably strenuous. Now, he felt a lot of pity for his teachers who had to bear with him as he reminisced about the day teaching mathematics.

After spending an unknown amount of time unaware that he was still frozen on the stairs, he shook his head and promptly resumed his walking, “Good thing, I have no assignments today," He muttered before reaching the door to his room and sprang towards his bed closing his eyes and within a matter of seconds he was finally asleep. "Who knows maybe I'll see the notification come."

At that moment, a System Panel appeared in front of his face. *Do you wish to enter your world?*

"Yes" was the word that left his mouth by accident or so he thought.

“Wait what!”

Before he could say anything, the panel closed, and a bright light flashed in his face, followed by pitch darkness that surrounded his consciousness, changing it to that of a dark-themed room with light, giving off the vibes resembling a movie theater.

Now, he was seated on a brown-colored couch when a small blue tab swirled in front of him before a large screen the size of a plasma followed, showing a round-shaped world similar to Earth, and close to it was a cross-shaped one lying vertically on the system gravity.

“It's been two days now and you didn't let me in!” Shawn screamed, letting out an intense rage that had been building up within him.

[Pardon me, Master Shawn, but after a user upgrades a stage, they are given days of rest before they would be logged back in ranks. You are now in stage 2 as well as your world's, when you make it to stage three, you'll also be given a break.]

“Couldn't you have told me that a long time ago, yet you made me worry unnecessarily!” Shawn screamed with even more rage in his voice.

[My apologies.]

The Teenager harrumphed before closing his eyes, taking deep breaths to soothe his rage, “So when I enter Stage 3, another break will be given?” He asked.

[Yes.]

“Better.” Shawn rolled his eyes before charging a request, "Show me all the quests for Rank 4 then.”

The empty blue tab in front began to write a series of letters and words before ending with a mechanical voice uttering the word “Done”

Shawn proceeded to carefully read the contents written.

Complete all Quests

1 Earn at least 60,000 CP - 35,000/60,000.

2 Witness a new change that occurs in the world of Yorn - 0/1

3 Create 2 new realms for yorn - 0/2.

4 Create new energies to place into the world - As many as you want.

5 Have an overlord being - 0/1.

6 Have Ten races in Ornio - 8/10

7 Complete at least 25 quests - 15/25.

8 Set rules concerning the boundaries between Ornio and Yorn - As many as you want.

9 Get overlords from the Yorn Realm - 0/...

10 Watch the next 1000+ years of progress in Yorn and 500 years in Ornio - 0/1000, 0/500

11 Have an extended realm - 0/1.

12 Have two realm races - 0/2.

As he looked at the quests he began to contemplate which of them he had to complete first. Currently, it seemed as though the system had completely reaglined his CP as he now has 12,000.

“Let's start with the extended realm quest first then I'll watch the 500, 1,000+ years go by while completing the other tasks.”

He didn't have time for any research to improve the world due to how busy he was with teaching Richard so watching might just be enough until he could properly adjust. Not to lie, but Richard was quite the inquisitive type and his revision speed was slower than Shawn had expected. Now he was stuck, dealing with a pickle because he didn't want a penalty on his mark.

He quickly took a deep breath about the matter as his thoughts were acting on overdrive and he returned himself to the current reality, "What do you mean by an extended realm?"

[It's as the name states. It is simply a realm that has part of it linked and made to interact with another realm.]

"Alright but aren't the world's borders between Ornio and Yorn already like that?” He said before a panel appeared in front and he touched the tab, clicking on realms.

The Plasma-sized screen in front then changed its view from the visually orbiting worlds to the general information about Ornio.

[There's a slight difference. Those are naturally occurring; when made to stretch out their reach by your instructions, then they become extended.]

"How do I create an extended realm?" He asked.

[You can create an extended realm by tapping on the realm you want to extend and click on "Extend"]

“That simple, then”

[Also keep in mind that you cannot extend a world but only the realms within that world to another world or world realm.]

“Alright,"

[Now that you have two worlds under your control. You can upgrade or extend a realm to affect more than one world and you can extend a realm to have interactions with another realm. Once a realm becomes extended to go into another realm. Part of its energy can go into the realm it is extended to and vice versa. However, this extension bridges both of the realms involved.]

Name of World - Ornio.

Age - 1,118 years

Sentient Races - 8

Number of Realms - 3

Population of Sentient Beings - 1,200,000

Population of Animals - 200,000,000

Number of Overseers - 6

Number of Higher beings - 8

Shawn returned to the main orbiting world's image and clicked on Ornio. The screen changed, listing the properties and other options on the right side, including Name, Realms, Energies, and others. He instantly clicked on the realms section on the tab and the screen changed again, showing the realms of Ornio.

He then clicked on the Jury realm and the screen changed again to reveal info about it.

Realm - Jury Realm

World - Ornio

Purpose - Judging, Gathering, and Storing the souls of the dead from the World of Ornio.

Race - Soul Hunters.

In the middle of the bottom of the tab was a button with a plus icon on it with the name under it written in some font 8 text, 'Extend', which he clicked on.

[Which realm or world do you want to extend the Jury realm to, and how will this place be involved and affected by the interaction?]

"I want to extend the Jury realm to the higher being realm. This extension will cause a weird dark fog to appear in certain areas of both realms that have been affected by the extension. This extension will act as the gateway to both realms and also contain soul energy."

[To implement this, you will have to pay 500 CP to extend the Jury realm.]

"Alright. Your money-grubbing ways have returned." Shawn said, and within the next moment, he heard the sound of coins being withdrawn and sighed.

"This system truly loves to rip me off." He thought.

[That's the way I was programmed.]

"Damn it. You heard!”

[I can read your thoughts, remember?]

Inside the Higher Being Realm, in a vast plain filled with the riches and beauty of nature in the form of lush gardens and magnificently tall trees, eight figures stood, each doing their own thing.

The peaceful atmosphere they enjoyed suddenly became tense as a weird dark fog appeared and expanded towards them.

The sudden appearance made the figures, who were higher beings, turn alert and quick to respond to the danger.

At that moment, a gigantic eye appeared in the sky and a voice spoke from it. "There is no need to be scared.”

The higher beings who understood that it was Shawn who was talking then halted their steps and fell to their knees.

"Master Shawn, Forgive me if I ask but what is this?" Ikdo was the first one to speak.

"The dark fog is the bridge between the Jury realm and the Higher Being Realm. With this fog, you can absorb a part of the energy that is within the jury realm without entering it." The voice from the eye responded.

"So this fog is the extension to another of the realms within the world?" asked Kadan.

"Yes," Shawn replied.

"And there is energy in the fog which you are free to try and absorb. If you dare?" The Voice added a chuckle right before the eye disappeared.

The eight higher beings then stood up and looked at the dark fog with both suspicion and curiosity.

A few minutes of contemplating passed and Kadan was the first to move, walking towards it. The other higher beings stood alert and watched from the moment he entered till when he began his inspection.

Kadan sat on grass covered in the dark fog and concentrated on absorbing energy from it, feeling that the energy he absorbed was a bit ethereal

Sometime later, he opened his eyes and waved his hand toward the other higher beings.

"The energy is strange but it is not harmful. Come let us explore it together." He said with a cheerful tone.

Himlo was the next to come forth after hearing Kadan's outburst. Slowly, the other higher beings followed, and before they knew it, all eight of them were in the dark fog, meditating in their unique way.