I stared at the two people before me, shocked. Did I unknowingly do something absurd? Is that why I slept for 700 years?!
"Ah... It seems like you are unaware of what you did. Let us talk after we free you from your petrific—"
"Wait."
Hearing her cold reply, the emerald green haired woman looked at her with a look of inquiry.
"Bring both of us into somewhere private first."
"Ah yes. I almost forgot," the emerald green haired woman nodded before she ordered the remaining guards to bring both statues to the palace's prayer hall. As the guards went to take a carriage here, I asked an important question.
Nathalia looked at both of them and asked, "Now then, would you mind introducing yourselves?"
"Right, we haven't really had the chance to introduce ourselves to each other hundreds of years ago. You can call me C.C. while this is L.L."
C.C. gestured to herself before introducing L.L. to Nathalia. As for Nathalia's reaction, to say she wasn't surprised was a lie. Although she didn't react much in the eyes of the two, she was shrieking and shouting with glee inside.
'So that's why they looked eerily familiar! It's Lelouch and C.C.!! Ahhh... the tragic emperor who've lost much and sacrificed many for faux peace.'
Despite the shock I felt inside, I kept a calm demeanor on the outside.
"I see. It is indeed possible for you two to live for 700 years. But if I may ask... how?"
C.C. stared at me while Lelouch talked knowing what I was implying, "I would like to know how too from you. As the one who summoned us, I thought it was logical that you would know."
I don't know how they lived till now too! Seeing the guards arrive with the carriage, I dodged the question for now and said that we can continue this conversation after they'd freed me and Julienne from the petrification.
"I will go and sleep first... using spirit manifestation is taking a toll on me."
That's a lie. I just wanna escape their inquiry and check the system for answers. The system probably has answers.
As soon as I opened my system, I was greeted by countless notification panels along with my status panel buried among them. Greatly annoyed by the overwhelming amount of them, I minimized them and only kept the status panel.
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|| Nanami Yukihime (Nathalia) ||
Race: Human
Age: 3718
Status Ailment: Petrified
Karma: 500 (Lawful Good)
Skill/s: [ Manifestation (A) ] [ Goddess of Wisdom (S) ] [ Martial Art—Kyokushin (B) ] [ Thought Acceleration (B) ] [ Clarity (C) ] [ Persuasion (D) ] [ Mind's Eye ( B ) ] [ Eternal Youth (A) ] [ Recall (B ] [ Dimensional Travelogue (A) ]
|| Storage || (!)
|| Chat Group || (12 Unread Messages)
|| Achievements & Titles || (!)
(99+ Notifications) [Expand]
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I see that many things happened during the time I slept. There were a couple of new skills and new features now, with them is the Karma thing that I was supposed to need to sustain the activation of the system. Five hundred. I don't know if it's a huge number or not.
Then I expanded the notifications and my vision was soon drowned by countless notification panels again.
[Gained +1 karma due to an indirect act] [Gained +8 karma due to an indirect act] [Gained +5 karma due to indirect an indirect act] [Gained +1 karma due to...] [Karma threshold reached, unlocking new system function] [Achievement:100th Year] [Achievement:500th Year] [Achievement:1000th Year] [Title:"Eternal Beauty" unlocked] [Title:"Long Lived" unlocked] [Achievement:1 Good Deed for a Million Others] [Title:"Benevolent" unlocked] [Title:"Destiny's Grace" unlocked] [Achievement: ...]
The amount of text almost overwhelmed me. After skimming through them, I think I now understand where those skills came from. Reading it all would take such a long time. I will read through them later. I will check the messages from the chat group first.
[Required Karma threshold reached, deactivating || ZetC0DE: Y || ]
[ (White): I finally escaped! Curse those human bastards! ]
[ (Girly Mecha Fanatic) has changed their nickname to (Ernesti Echeveria) ]
[ (War Criminal) has changed their nickname to (Major Degurechaff) ]
[ (Major Degurechaff): @N are you a god? If you are, get me the fuck outta here!! I am gonnalwoakaaiq ]
[ (Hajime): Hey, hold up soldier, you good? ]
[ (White): They're not replying. I think they're dead. ]
[ (Sega Cultist) has left the chat group ]
[ (Ernesti Echevalier): YOU CAN DO THAT?! ]
[ (White): Nai wa. ]
[ (Hajime): Hoh? ]
[ (Ernesti Echevalier): Why are your reactions so lukewarm! ]
[ (Hajime): Not my problem. Also I'm busy hunting prey. ]
That's where the conversation stopped. Seeing that someone left the chat group, I immediately felt odd. You can't leave interdimensional chat groups usually right? That's how it worked in the novels I read in my past life at least. And apparently you can leave in mine. Wait let me check the system storage. I haven't checked it either 700 years ago.
Due to either time constraints or my impatience or both, I forgot to check the system storage if there's anything there and immediately turned the system off.
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|| Storage ||
• Isekai Chat Group: System Guidebook
• Administrator's Starter Kit
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There's a guidebook here? Fuck there's also a starter kit... I am dumb. I should've properly looked through the system back then.
Well, no point dwelling on it now. What's done is already done— oh? Oooh! This feeling—!
"Finally! I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Posturing is important to improve other people's impression of you. So as soon as I felt that I regained the feeling of my hands followed by the rest of my body, I went and got THE pose. Arms wide with my nude body in all it's glory.
[ A/N: the pose in question :3 ]
"Pff—"
"Who dares laugh at my great resurrection!"
I looked below me to see Julienne looking at me with teary eyes as if caught between laughter and tears. I immediately went bowed down and wiped her tears with my hand.
"Fear not, mademoiselle. For I am by your side."
Three thousand years spent in darkness. Many times I've been almost driven to madness by the ever encroaching darkness that loomed over my head. Resisting all because I yearned to see her again as our last reunion was brief. Here, now, three thousand and seven hundred years later, we finally see each other again.
"I didn't think our summoner was this... eccentric."
A sarcastic voice cut off our emotional reunion and both of us mechanically turned our head to the source. There was CC eating pizza while looking at me with... what's with that annoying look you're giving me? Your expression is as if you're looking at an idiot.
At this moment just as I was about to berate the witch further, I felt a poke in my shoulder making me look at Julienne. She wore an expression of embarrassment with her arms trying to hide her supple peaks. Then she whispered in my ear.
"Ask her for... clothes..."
"Ah! I forgot!"
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A/N: A new chapter from the author Verz ;3
Someone gave me powerstones so I thought I should write. Anyways see y'all :3