The first thing that she saw when she opened the new envelope was darkness.
A fre of a memory that was snatched away a second ter. Elizabeth didn't fight the feeling, instead turned to look at Alice.
"Sorry about that," The girl said, lowering her head, "We did our best to remove as much as possible, but some was bound to leak."
Elizabeth nodded at that, she was aware that both Alice and Chloe were quite sensible about their time shared. And Elizabeth was willing to respect that.
So instead she focused into the notifications that she got.
Notice: You have managed to be reborn.
Experience granted.
Achievement granted.
Auto dismissal of notifications set up.
Integration into the System started.................
Error, user already has access to System.
Checking logs.....
Age 17 years old.
Name: Alice Ashcroft.
Error, no Alice Ashcroft within Akasha's Record.
Integrating...
Error, soul age does not match data.
Integrating....
Error, soul stability unable to hold soul memories....sealing.
Please contact the nearest administrator.
Okay, that was... That was something, Elizabeth.... knew it was a possibility, but at least now she knew how the System worked for a newborn...not that she could do much with that info, and that put some things into perspective, she hadn't paid that much attention when she came from her coma into a System enforced world after all.
She had more important things in her mind, like kissing Rossie, and kissing Rossie, getting Rossie to accept Elizabeth as a girlfriend, the normal stuff.
But Elizabeth was distracting herself, instead she focused in the data that was flooding from the test envelope.
Notice: You have felt true terror and kept your calm, experience awarded.
You have managed to escape impossible odds, experience awarded.
You have managed to survive your first night alive without external help, experience awarded....
The list was long; it depicted each day Alcie and Chloe spent in the run, granted experience for the times they barely managed to escape, achievements for surviving without eating for days, and simir kinds of achievements for the times they managed to steal food.
Achievements for managing to survive without help, achievements for straying away from human contact, and managing to learn the nguage?
"Wait a second, weren't you two together?" Elizabeth said when she noticed that pattern staying, she had assumed that the System didn't consider the other around since, at the beginning, they may not have spoken too much.
"Yeah, the System didn't thought of us as different people, more like how you would speak with an imaginary friend," Chloe said with a shrug, "Kind of rude if you ask me, but most of it is automated unless someone takes attention to you."
"And that rarely happens unless you are important enough, the fact that you had a System Administrator at yoru beck and call was an outlier and not the norm," Alice said nodding, "So till we rejoined you, we weren't that relevant to the System. More of an automated response to a glitch, really."
That was....sad.
"....sorry about that," Elizabeth said and focused once again on the notifications.
Notice: You have.........
You have............
You managed........
You.........
..............
It went on and on, Elizabeth didn't though that Alice and Chloe had managed to do so much in the time they had been running through Germania, she was able to track when the girls moved from a city to a new one by the fact that the achievement for arriving at a new city was dispyed.
Elizabeth wondered why she hadn't gotten those, but then again, perhaps she did and merely skipped them when she went through the achievements, mostly since she had focused in the killing and harvesting ones.
Either way, the list was long and Elizabeth honestly, didn't care that much, it was the private life of Alice and Chloe, she wouldn't look too much into it, at least till she got to the ones that actually affected her.
Notice: You have awakened to your inheritance.
Experience awarded.
Welcome back [Shadow Empress], may the world be enshrouded in your shadows and your path to power be open.
Linking................
Link complete, starting to subsume into original host.
Linking to Elizabeth Starbright complete.
Yeah...that was more or less what Elizabeth thought it would be at the end of those notifications; she had expected some to this degree to crop up at some time while she was going through these notifications.
She wasn't sure if she wanted to see more, but it was needed, by the amount of experience she was getting, it was good, she had probably gotten quite a few levels, but she needed all she could get....
"Will I get a set from Chloe too?" Elizabeth asked turning to Alice.
"Of course, do you want to mix them?" Chloe was the one to answer, walking forward and pulling out another folder, "Here."
Elizabeth took it and saw the folder shine; she decided that she didn't really want to mix them, instead turning to the notifications that were awaiting her.
"Almost finished with me Elizabeth," Alice said turning to Elizabeth, "Then you can get to Chloe."
In the end Elizabeth decided to do so, since she was going to need to get over with it at some point.
Notice: You have found The Debauchery Dragon.
Experience awarded.
You have survived being subsumed into The Debauchery Dragon.
Experience awarded.
You have managed to sy The Debauchery Dragon.
Dragon Syer [Title] awarded.
Experience awarded.
You have been offered a spot within the Divine.
Turning Achievements into Divine Power.
Achievements have been transformed, new Divine Rule being created...
You have transcended the System, welcome to the Divine Realm.
Morphing from Human to Divine Spirit.
Exp-
Huh?
"It got cut short?" Elizabeth said trying to scroll further.
"Of course, that is the divergence point," Alice said, nodding, "Look at Chloe's."
Elizabeth did so, most of the achievements were a repeat of Alice, a few were different, namely.
Notice: You have been resurrected.
Title achieved: Returner.
Among other things, but the rest were more or less the same. When Elizabeth got to the point where she had gotten with Alice, however, that was when things changed for...the worst.
Notice: You have survived being subsumed into The Debauchery Dragon.
Experience awarded.
You have managed to save someone important to you from The Debauchery Dragon.
Saviour [Title] awarded.
Experience awarded.
You have been offered a spot within the Divine.
Turning Achievements into Divine Power.
Achievements have been transformed, new Divine Rule being created...
You have transcended the System, welcome to the Divine Realm.
Morphing from Human to Divine Spirit.
Error....
You are pledged to another deity, checking...
Soul doesn't match with pledge....
Separating Soul from body.
Attempting again...
Sucess.
Welcome to the Divine Realm.
Chloe was pledged? No wait, Chloe had been using Akira's body right...That fricking cockroach...He was probably tied to Aetheria or something, she had been trying to cling to Akira's Soul too like a leech after all.
Well, good riddance. She didn't want to deal with that either, so with that out of the way...Elizabeth could take a deep breath, this was...too much.
"And now, we can get once again to you." Alice said pointing to the remaining pile of folders, it was kind of worrying how she had earned and lost some titles there...not that she was interested in some of those, but she would have liked to keep the [Dragon Syer] one...Perhaps controlling her [Dragon Empress] shift and urges would become easier...
"Okay, so....any way of keeping the [Dragon Syer] Title one?" Elizabeth decided to ask before moving on.
"Sure, just sy a dragon..." Alice said shrugging, "To be honest, the one that will probably get it sooner than you is Rossaline or Rena, but besides doing that, not many ways. There aren't many dragons around...unless you want to try to kill Nyx?"
Elizabeth shook her head.
"Then no luck girl. Not all of us are made of dragon-sying material." Alice said with a smirk, "Now stop deying."
Elizabeth sighed and took another folder from the pile, now that she was out of Alice and Chloe's stuff....Wait a second, "You haven't achieved anything after that?" That didn't sound right.
"We have, but those are us. These were yours because we were still counted as you." Chloe said shaking her head, "After ascending to this spot we are independent, we could probably even reincarnate into Zaanam if we wanted...or Terra Nexus for that matter."
....
"We will not." Alice said shaking her head, "We spoke at length about this, honestly... we haven't repaid you yet. Once you have this whole side of the circus running, we will broach it again, but there isn't really...anything for me in Zaanam at the moment."
That was an stretch, all of Alice's life was basically running around in Londonium, attempting to help Elizabeth not get brain raped, failing at that (Not her fault).
Her original life was in an alternate version of Zaanam, one that Elizabeth wasn't even sure she could send her to...Or that Alice wanted to go back to.
As for Chloe...
"I'm not leaving Alice with you," The blonde girl said hmping, "So I stay till she leaves."
Chloe was more of a weird case, the girl...was technically Elizabeth, she had most of her memory and grew in Zaanam...just like Elizabeth, if anything she was probably closer to what Elizabeth should be like.
A rich daughter of a good family... At least she dressed like one anyway.
"Okay, but if you want to tell me. I could build a Shadow Doppelganger for you and..." Elizabeth knew that was how Mordred had ended up existing, same with Aura, so perhaps...
"Please stop doing that," Alice said, sighing, "You have no idea how much work that gives us and how much it destabilizes this side."
It did?
"She doesn't understand," Chloe sighed, "Here, open these."
Elizabeth took the folder and opened it.
Notice: You have.......The list started, but the folder that Elizabeth had opened quickly made it so the notification was scrolled further down and so she wasn't able to read most of those. At least till she got to the ones that Chloe had mentioned anyway.
Notice: You have pseudo-reincarnated someone. Experience awarded.
The target of your reincarnation doesn't have a stable soul.......Going berserk in...
Interference from The Divine detected.
Domains detected Shadow, Divine, Death, Soul....processing........
Formation of Soul detected, assigning Spark of life.
.......................Done.
New Domain use detected Domain: Life.
........................What?
"So you see, we had to scramble quite fast and fix that, so you're welcome for your newest minion stability." Chloe said sighing, "Please stop making them like that, they should evolve naturally. Like Reginald, who moved from Pseudo life to a Kobold and then finally a Dragon Man."
Reginald was a what?
"Or Beatrice who was moving to Dragon Girl," Alice said nodding, "Most of your summoned minions are in their path to sapience to some degree, so they will end up either like that or choose their own paths, unless you set them up."
"I want them to move as they wish," Elizabeth said, shaking her head, "So...Beatrice would have..."
"Become Human?" Alice asked, to which Elizabeth nodded, "Probably, as soon as we finish fixing her and you prepare a body then she will return...We are making sure her memories of all that happened before will be lost. Do you want us to keep her personality?"
Did she?
"...No." Elizabeth decided, "I want her to be happy, to have a second chance, so no memories or personality... She deserves rest, and if she keeps her former personality, then she will probably try to be a maid or servant again. I don't want her like that, Rossie wants a daughter...and I don't think I can be a Mother to someone who treats me like a Master."
So Elizabeth decided, and before Alice or Chloe could say anything, she focused once again to her notifications, the st batch anyway.
Notice: You have managed to piece together your psyche after it was corrupted by Pride.
Achievement unlocked: Hubris.
Title Unlocked: The Debauchery Dragon.
Title Unlocked: The Dragon Empress.
Experience awarded.
You have managed to acquire two Divine Spirits. Experience awarded.
Title Unlocked: One who walks the path of Divinity.
You have managed to establish your Domain. Experience awarded.
Your Soul has ignited the Divine Spark.
You may feed it Faith to increase its power, you may accumute Prana.
Your Soul has the qualities of a Divine Domain, you may start making a World.
You have acquired a suitable Vessel for your World. Experience awarded.
Title Unlocked: Administrator.
Your World has no Anchor, please select a suitable anchor from its inhabitants.
No sapient or sentient life detected within World, please start germinating life or summoning sentient life.
".....what?" Elizabeth was fbergasted, what the hell was this? This was happening while she was...what had she been doing?
"Yeah, that was a hassle to do. Did you know that without actual sentient or sapient life, a World kind of...dies?" Alice said sipping from a cup of tea, were did she got that one?
"...So..." Elizabeth said turning to the notifications.
"Good thing Terra Nexus is a dead world, that would have been more of a hassle, anyway. Continue reading." Chloe said grabbing a scone.
Notice: You already have a servant willing to work as Anchor.
Setting up Idea chains.
Servant has previous links to Akasha.......Reading Records....
..............Finished.
Updating.........
Anchor: Nixfyre The Twilight Dragon of the End, has been subsumed into Local World. Setting new identity.......
Error: Current Administrator is a Mortal.
.......error........error.......
Local Divine Spirit intervention, solution. World will continue evolution and all Divine rights will be withheld, sending query......
Query accepted from Familiar.
Current Domains within World:
-Death
-Shadow
-Lightning
"...That was...interesting," Elizabeth said, turning to look at Alice and Chloe, "Can you..."
"Nope," Alice answered before Elizabeth could finish, "Sorry Elizabeth, but that is strictly problem for the Divine, we asked Mom about it. She also thinks you shouldn't get that information before time. So you will need to wait for your Ascension before you get any expnation on that front."
"Yeah, all you need to know right now is that we are taking care of it, and that Nyx is fine," Chloe said from the side, "Carry on, you still have a few extra ones more normal."
Elizabeth turned her head and continued on.
Notice: You have managed to defeat someone above your level.
Experience awarded.
Achievement unlocked: Killed of Giants.
Title....not avaible.
You have encountered a Legend, experience awarded.
You have stood in front of someone who could obliterate you.
Title unlocked: Bimbo at heart, brain, and Soul.
You have.......
The list went on for other stuff she did, how she dealt with [The Shadow Tide], how she dealt with [The Elementalist] when he had arrived as enemy. Stuff like that, but she was distracted by something else.
"...Did the System call me bimbo?" Elizabeth said turning to Alice and Chloe.
".....We removed it from your list of titles if you want to know." Alice said sighing.
"Of course, I'm not a..." Elizabeth said nodding.
"The effects were....detrimental to you after all, we don't need you to get the right answer by doing stupid stuff, you are already a menace as it is." Chloe said nodding, "Don't worry I'm sure you can still do enough stupid things to get more Bimbo achievements and titles, we know they exists."
....Point noted, Elizabeth would try to do better.
"So, is that all?" Elizabeth said turning to look to where the other folders had been, there was still a few here and there.
"I guess, time to see how much you will get...Prepare for it, this will suck." Alice said nodding, Elizabeth had gotten more notifications of course.
A few about staying loyal to her beliefs and not failing into Lust, others about helping Rossie recover when they decided to remain in Avalon. One for meeting her grandmother (Because that was another whole thing).
Overall, Elizabeth was confident in her level-ups.
Notice: Massive amount of experience detected....Auto set up status points to help host survive...Or not........it was not a good signal if the System was setting up some degree of control over her status...
Perhaps it wouldn't?
....Why was the world spinning?
