Rex relaxed, letting himself fall into the embrace of the Cosmic pod's allure.
He completely lost his sense of time.
The spiral lightning soon phased away amidst his grogginess.
Replaced by a vast dark emptiness
After an amount of time, which felt hard to quantify, following his mild disorientation.
He was awoken by a wavy, light that began to pulse in the darkness. Rex could feel himself being dragged towards the wavy light, he seemed to be floating in space and surrounded by nothing but dark vacuum as far as his eyes could see.
As he was drawn within range of the wavy light, it began to pulse, rhythmically increasing and decreasing in intensity as the rays from the light struck his body. He felt every single aspect of his being analysed.
"EARTHLING 5671E, STATE YOUR NAME",
Rex heard a voice, questioning him directly in his mind.
"Must be the player ID" Rex thought as his attention was drawn to the title EARTHLING 5671E.
Based on his past months review and his study on the book, "A Beginners guide to Cosmic Ascendance", an introductory guide, writing by a high ranking player of Cosmic Ascendance, "Big-Fish Lord".
Rex quickly tried to get a better grip of himself as he prepared for the next series of events that were soon to happen. Based on his research, there wasn't much that he had to be wary of in this particular phase.
It was referred to as the "Creation Phase" by Big-Fish's guide, and this was also the popular title, urban gossip had given this introductory ritual.
As Rex quickly scanned through his mind about all he knew about this phase, according to Big-Fish Lord's; this phase involved an in-depth scan of the players physique by the cosmic pod.
The wavy light was synced with the scanners on the Cosmic pod, which scanned the player's body. Then the players attributes were inferred through the analysis of the scanned result.
As Rex was trying to get himself adjusted to the invasive pulsed rays of the wavy light. He noticed a string of letters that were beginning to appear in the dark expanse to his right. The letters seemingly made of clusters of starlight, appearing neither too close or far.
Continued to form new strings of letters and then words as he turned to observe it.
Focusing on the continuing writing of words,
Rex tried to make sense of what they were, he quickly realized that these were his currently inferred status.
Focusing on the first written word;
NAME: NONE
He was reminded that he had not given any reply yet to the light entity.
"Rex Axel", he said. But no sounds were produced. The silence that prevailed in the dark emptiness persisted.
Stunned by the occurrence, Rex took the time to analyse himself. He had been so busy analysing his environment since his consciousness was awakened by the wavy light that he had totally ignored his own person.
Rex, bringing his two hands forward to look at them, only now realized that he was completely translucent.
Not the type where the skin and muscles were translucent, and your vision would be assaulted by the chaotic framework of the circulatory and nervous system.
But the form where all you could see was the slight distortion of light as it refracted through you.
"The guide did not mention this," Rex thought, but quickly dismissed the thought as even he knew how much work it would be to recount every single peculiarity of a game bathed in mysteries and peculiarities.
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"SPECIAL PHYSIQUE DETECTED!"
"ANALYZING SPECIAL PHYSIQUE"
"OVERLORD PHYSIQUE DETECTED!"
Rex was suddenly assaulted by a series of announcements from the Wavy-light entity.
"Special Physique - Overlord Physique", Rex repeated the new information in his head as he parsed through the plethora of information he had built up about Cosmic Ascendance. But nothing was coming to mind.
In all of his research on the game, he had not come across any information on special physiques.
Filled with excitement, Rex awaited further announcements from the light entity. He had no idea what a physique was, but he knew that it could only mean something good.
"Maybe it's some form of rare gacha pull" Rex thought. "But even if it was rare, someone must have mentioned it" Rex's thought process continued to spiral through a series of excited thought as he tried to make sense of his assumed blessing.
"Could be an ultra rare gacha pull, that is based on player id" Rex's mind continued to spawn explanations for his situation. This reverie of thoughts were broken by a new development.
The Wavy-light, that he had assumed, to be an entity of its own. Changed form morphing into word projections displaying a series of text.
The Text displayed:
Overlord body constitution noted,
INITIATE Overlord Class Quest
CLASS GRADE: Prismatic
Main Quest Reward: Overlord Class Insignia
Secondary Quest Reward: Performance dependent
Punishment: Cosmic Ascendance Ban
Quest Resource: Overlord Body Set (Tier I)
IGNORE CLASS QUEST
50% chance of obtaining Rare Class
3% chance of obtaining Unique Class
As Rex stared at the text, he could feel excitement and a raging desire coming to life in his still translucent being.
"A PRISMATIC GRADE CLASS!!!!", his mind was literally screaming. Based on Big-Fish Lord's entry, class quests were only available after reaching Rank E. With most classes being of common class, rare class holders were very few, and were all re-known "Cosmic Gamers".
Unique classes were a myth, based on popular information. But the Overlord Class quest was indicating that the class was a prismatic tier class. Rex's excitement was literally choking.
"A 50% chance of obtaining a rare class and a 3% chance of obtaining the mythical unique class"
"Both are up to probability and I have no idea how common this class are actually, as I can't fully trust the guide, as it seems to not have a lot of information," Rex contemplated.
"My goal is to gain power from this game, and I have a 100% chance to obtain the Prismatic class right now, as long as I don't fail this Quest." As Rex considered this he could feel his will and drive enforced. His goal was to gain power in Cosmic Ascendance. Rex knew himself; he was a perfectionist, always obsessed with obtaining the most perfect result in everything he did. He could not stomach losing this opportunity for a lesser result.
"With my own effort, I can obtain this prismatic class, but losing will get me banned from Cosmic Ascendance. If I were to fail, I will accept that Cosmic Ascendance was never the path to achieving my dreams." Rex could feel his confidence reinforced with his decision. A 50% and 3% chance of obtaining a rare or unique class. He wasn't the type of person to leave his chances to faith.
As Rex made his decision, the projected text morphed into a new set of words.
"CONFIRM ACCEPTANCE OF CLASS QUEST WITH SPOKEN WORDS"
That was when Rex noticed that he was no longer his translucent self, but a nude young man floating in a dark emptiness.
"I ACCEPT THE OVERLORD CLASS QUEST", Rex gave his verbal consent.
Once these words were uttered, the projected text dissipated, as Rex was once again left alone in the dark emptiness.
Moments later…
"CREATING TIME STAMP"
"BACKING UP, ENTITY STATE"
"BACK-UP COMPLETE"
"ESTABLISHING TETHER"
"INITIATING TRANSFER"
As the last announcement was uttered in Rex's mind, he felt a strong suction force as he felt himself rapidly descending. Still trying to familiarize himself with the sensation.
He felt his consciousness slowly slipping away from Him.
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