"whoaaaaaaaa!!!!"
He yelled he was moving through space at a frightening speed.
It felt like something was dragging him to a specific destination, and as he was being dragged through space, he saw various planets, stars, moons, and... Space wasn't as he thought, it wasn't as colorful and beautiful as it was presumed to be.
It was bland. Just black and white. No colors, just white light and black space.
The moment he was dragged out of the solar system, he closed his eyes, but something was odd.
I can breathe? In space?
Dududududuguwong!
And in the blink of an eye, he was teleported to a room that was a white, endless expanse.
He was on the floor, still trying to figure out what happened to him.
Where... Am I?
The floor was white, the whole room was white, and it seemed like there were no walls.
He stood up and removed the 'convenience store worker' apron he was wearing, and it revealed his white tank top and blue jeans.
He moved his head left and right, in a bid to scan the room he had found himself.
"Just what is this place?"
He had started feeling odd when he was flying through space and even now that he had reached an unknown room, he was never scared nor shaken, the guy's mind was like a solid rock, any normal human would have passed out like five times.
And he discovered that he could breathe in space too!
I think I might not be human.
He thought to himself, his mind already starting to wander into the area of strange thoughts.
He shook his head, "No, now isn't the time for such thoughts. I have to figure out a way to get out of here."
And at that moment, he heard it...
Ding!
"Huh? What's that?"
He turned around, trying to see where the sound he heard came from.
[System Configuration.... 96%]
He saw the faint blue light from the screen in front of him.
Eh? A screen?
He wasn't impressed, he didn't feel the awe or fear one would feel from seeing a system.
He just tried to touch it, but his hand passed through it like it was a hologram.
"System?"
He muttered to himself.
"Can this get me out of here? I don't think I want that wish anymore, I wanna go back home to Cralfold, he must be worried sick."
That's all he cared about, the old man might be worried looking for him, he might even think that he got his memories and ran away.
He caressed his jaw as he slowly examined the glowing screen in front of him.
[System Configuration.... 99%]
"Is something special gonna happen once it reaches 100?"
He asked, his voice low but expectant.
Ding!
A warm blue light from the screen In front of him wrapped around him.
What is this feeling? It feels... Warm and cozy.
The system was examining his status.
And...
The warm light vanished. Leaving only a message on the screen.
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>[STATUS]<
Name: Delarus Matir Kafer
Age: 85
Height: 6'5
Strength: 100
Stamina: 100
Agility: 100
Intelligence: 98
Endurance: 100
Te: 50
Ta: 50
To: 50
>[TITLES]<
Moon Cleaver
Emperor of Kafer
First Lance of the Northern Continent
Great-grand-swordmaster
Warmonger
Angel Slayer
Immortal Slayer
The Enemy of Fate
Aggressor of the Eastern Continent
>[SKILLS]<
—???—
—???Sword—
—???—
—??????—
Era??re
[System remark: A terrifying entity with an existence shrouded in mystery.]
[Climber Estimated Rank: XXX Tier {+Potential} The first of his kind.]
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"De... larus? Is that my name? I'm Delarus?"
The only thing he cared about was his name, he didn't care about the rest, they did not matter to him, well, except...
"I'm 85?! Quit the bullshit! What the bleep even is this system? I'm a young man in my 20s! I'm only... I'm only..." Silence. "I–I don't know my age...am I really 85?" His tone became low as he started accepting his reality.
[The climber is ready to ascend the Tower of Caelum. Teleporting climber {Delarus} to the tutorial in 5.. 4.. 3..]
A corner of his lips raised and tightened as he saw the message on the screen.
"Wait, what do you mean? Another teleportation? I almost puked because of the dizzying feeling from the last one! I'm still feeling a bit disoriented!"
But he got no reply.
Then...
Woosh!
"No!!"
He was teleported into the tutorial.
***
Deep in an unidentifiable location in the tower, a humanoid entity that cannot be described sat on a throne, IT was watching the tutorial on a large screen setup in front of IT. IT saw the new batch of climbers in the tutorial and IT let out a sigh.
"Pathetic." IT'S voice echoed throughout the silence of the ever-present darkness around IT as IT stared at the blueish interface–the system screen, it was the only source of light illuminating the vast darkness of where IT was.
But then IT saw something, something that shouldn't be possible– a being that shouldn't exist in this age and IT'S eyes widened as IT gripped the armrest of IT'S throne, leaned forward and watched the system screen with great intensity, to verify the existence of the being that arrived in the tutorial.
"Hahahahahaha hahahahaha!"
IT'S vicious laugh echoed throughout the darkness as IT held IT'S forehead, laughing maniacally like a being bathed in insanity.
"The man, the myth... the legend himself. Delarus! The only remaining mortal that knows the face of the Shaper, the anomaly that defied fate. So he was still alive somewhere in the multiverse? I see, I see. This tower is about to undergo a qualitative change. And very soon... those beings on the 95th floor won't be able to lift their heads Hahahahahahaha! Delarus!"
IT'S laugh echoed throughout the vast expanse of the darkness.
***
As Delarus landed in the tutorial, he opened his eyes to see a dark, narrow space in front of him– like a passageway but he couldn't see the inside.
An eery wind blew from inside the dark passageway in his direction, making the bangs of his brown hair flutter.
He stood up and dusted his butt.
"Stupid system! Stupid place."
He was not frightened by the dark passageway. No, what frightened him was the fact that he wasn't frightened, but he shook his head and thought to himself, I've already accepted the fact that I'm not a normal human.
But the thing that bothered him was what he saw– the message on the screen in front of him.
[All the gods, angels, celestials, immortals, demons and the Five seats on the 95th Floor Shudder in shock at your presence.]
As soon as Delarus saw the word 'god' he felt a boiling rage, a rage that lay deep within him, a rage that he had never felt before, a rage so deep and mixed with so much hatred that it stirred deep inside his heart and his soul shook violently.
He scowled– his jaw clenched, his fingers curled into a fist, his eyebrows lowered into a glare and his breathing became more and more unstable due to the pure anger he felt.
He turned his gaze up but there was nothing there, it was just a ceiling made of rock and he narrowed his eyes as if he could see who he was about to talk to, his ferocious golden glare fixed at a particular angle, forming an intense eye contact with the ceiling.
And he said with a spite-filled voice layered with thick venom, "I'll be coming for you all." He didn't want to say this, and neither did he know why he said it too, it just came out of his mouth on instinct– it felt like the right thing to say at that moment.
[Climber {Delarus}. Your Te reverberates through the entire low and high realms of the tower.]
The transcendental beings had felt the heat of a burning rage eons ago, a rage so deep that it felt like it could destroy the entire universe with just its heat, a rage so aggressive that it made their divinity weak and disrupted it for a while, and when they all traced the source of the rage– they discovered it was Delarus the last survivor of the ruined world of Crys.
They and the entire universe itself heard his decree– his vow to kill every transcendental being with his sword, and the moment they heard it– they were all enveloped with fear.
But the rage died out, disappeared like it was never there, they all thought the source of the rage had faded into oblivion.
But now– Thousands of years later, the same ferocious rage and its source were at their very domain– their prison, and he had made a single statement that made his Te reverberate and ripple through the entire tower and they felt the murderous intent within his Te.
The owner of that rage that directed its heat at them was back, and,
He was coming to wipe them all out, to do the thing that C$#&*es couldn't.