Fatelord? System?

--- Ancient Whisperer's Graveyard, Underground Area---

The moment Yale descended from the stairs, after walking for a while, he reached a very wide cave-like area. The walls were made out of weird-looking bricks that were shin in color. There were a lot of magicka crystals of varying sizes scattered around that lit up the place.

After a few minutes of walking around, Yale reached the end of the underground cave. The area he was in now was a bit weird.

There was a medium-sized lake, thousands of magicka crystals that were scattered around the walls, and a large skeleton floating on the lake.

"Jay said that this Ancient Whisperer or something won't attack unless I grab anything. He also said that I needed to kneel down and pay respects to that skeleton..." Yale thought to himself before kneeling down in front of the lake.

"Paying respects to the whisperer." Yale said and tried his best not to screw this up and laugh at himself. Then after a few seconds, the skeleton floating in the lake suddenly stood up and a hysterical and childish voice came from it as it laughed.

"Ahahahahah!!! Don't embarrass yourself kid! AHHAHAHAHAHH!!!"

Yale almost wanted to beat the s*it out of this skeleton but Jay said that if he did that, all of the loot in the underground gave will be devoured by the skeleton so he just decided to ignore the skeleton and keep kneeling down.

After a few more seconds, the skeleton stopped laughing and took Yale a bit more seriously.

"Alright. Let us get straight to business. You came here because you wanted some of my precious crystals right? Tell you what, as thanks for amusing this lazy and crazy skeleton, go ahead and take a hundred of the crystals. Not one more or less." The skeleton said as he looked at Yale and gestured him to stop kneeling.

But instead of taking this offer of his, Yale still knelt down and spoke up.

"Great whisperer. What I desire is not your treasures. What I desire is far more greater than that. I desire power, strength, and fame." Yale said trying to stop himself from laughing since he was just repeating the words Jay told him to say. It was a bit... weird saying all of this.

"Oh? Interesting. And why do you think that you can find what you seek in this lonely cave of mine?" The skeleton asked without any signs of annoyance in his voice, but instead, it was very curious.

"Because I've heard tales about you. The Whisperer. One of the greatest necromancers who lived for the past thousand years."

The moment the skeleton heard this, it started laughing again.

"AHAHAHAHA!!! There is still actually someone who knows about me being a necromancer... AHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

After laughing for a while, the skeleton stopped and suddenly turned into a young and pretty lady wearing black robes that had intricate patterns on it. She had long black hair that reached her feet and touched the lake.

"Wait... Jay said that the skeleton was supposed to give me a choice to choose from three rare items..." Yale thought to himself and was not sure if he f*cked up or not.

"Rise. I want you to look me in the eye."

Yale did not even hesitate since things were not part of the 'script' Jay told him about.

"Alright, tell you what. I will grant what you desire. The only thing you need to do in return is that I will absorb your soul during the moment of your death. So, final decision. Do you want to do this or not?" The young lady said as she looked at Yale and approached him.

"Yes please..." Yale just decided to do it and just ask Jay about all of this later on.

The young lady grinned and placed her right hand over Yale's head before muttering some weird phrases from an ancient language.

"There you go. Feel free to try it out for now." The young girl said while she looked at Yale who was stupefied.

...

The reason why Yale was stupefied was because after that weird ritual the young girl did, a lot of information appeared on his head and weird things happened. It was as if he had the Fate System again. But it was weird because it was not the Fate System, but something else entirely.

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[Dark Star System operational...]

Name: Yale Flanders

Age: 23

Occupations: Ranger/Blacksmith

Souls gathered: 0

[All of your stats will increase by 1 for every 10 souls gathered]

[Reach a certain milestone from gathering souls to earn new skills:

50 Souls = Dark Harvest

500 Souls = Dark Void

1000 Souls = Grasp Heart

2500 Souls = Heart of Darkness

(More skills will be shown after reaching the final milestone displayed.)]

-As someone who uses the Dark Star System, every time you kill something that has a soul, those poor souls will immediately be absorbed by you.

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"What the f*ck... this is just too awesome!!!" Yale thought to himself after a lot of information regarding the Dark Star system got imprinted on his mind. But he was still weirded out on who the hell was the young lady in front of him. Was it still the same lord-ranked NPC Jay told him about or someone else entirely?

"Thank you for everything my lady." Yale said respectfully, hoping that he can have a chance to ask the young lady who she was. But this chance of his came naturally when the young lady introduced herself.

"My name is Shera, the Fatelord of Darkness. I hope you remember it." The young lady, Shera, said before turning back into a skeleton and floated back to the center of the lake.

"A Fatelord?!!" Yale could not control himself anymore. So he thanked Shera once more, even though he was not sure if she heard him in her skeleton form. After that, he immediately rushed towards the exit of the underground cave.

...

--- Ancient Whisperer's Graveyard ---

The moment Yale returned to the surface, he immediately told Jay about everything that happened to him and how he got this Dark Star System that looked a bit overpowered.

"WHAT??!" Even Jay did was not sure why those events happened, but he congratulated Yale since he was probably the only person besides him in the Golden Phoenix that has a system.

After listening to Jay's words, Yale immediately went off towards the next treasure spot called 'Greyhound Canyon,' a place where a few players and NPCs hunt some Grey Wolves.

"500 knights from Holtheim was it..." Yale grinned evilly as he activated 'Light Steps' and ran towards this next destination of his.