Myriad Realms: The Empyrean System

There was a dimly lit private room at the top of the stadium where several people sat around a table having a discussion about what had transpired outside the front gate. They had all now watched the footage several times over. An old grizzled man turned to a young middle-aged man behind him ”If that boys last strike were aimed at you Neal, whats the odds that you could survive it? ”

The whole room stopped their discussion to hear the response. ”Realistically, sir, I have less than a ten percent chance with my current abilities. Of course, thats because he has at least five levels on me currently. If our Levels were even, then Id place my chances much higher. ” The man with the white hair nodded at his answer. ”In the meantime, while he is out, you need to close that gap just to be safe. We are the government. The moment a being like him starts making his own rules, the others will notice and we will fall into chaos. It is hard enough to manage these people already. Neal, you are our ace and what we will need to rely on. You are dismissed. ”

The man called Neal, nodded, and walked out of the room. A woman across from them spoke up next. ”More importantly, we need to prepare to send people into the dungeon that has opened and the others as well. That boy must have gotten countless gains from his starting point being inside of the dungeon thats closest to us. ” The white-haired old man rubbed his chin. ”Make the arrangements to send people into the dungeon and someone bring that boy to me when he wakes up. Is his companions still letting no one near him? ”

A spectacled man to his right nodded his head. ”She says that her own abilities, along with the supplies and the private room we have provided, are good enough. It does not help that the little girl that is with them is rather fearsome; she fiercely protects them both and while we don know how she is capable of using several elements at once. One of our officers was too aggressive with the woman known as Camille, and the little girl took it badly. She conjured a wind blade that left the mans arms mangled and a stone that broke his ankle. Thankfully, we have recently found a healing skillbook. ”

The old man grimaced and nodded his head. ”Give them their space. We don want hostile relations with them and we have already started off on the wrong foot. They all nodded and got up while the man grabbed a sword from behind his chair and walked out with mighty strides. ”Let me know when the boy awakens, Im going out to Lvl. ” The rest of the room nodded their heads and echoed in unison, ”Yes, Mayor! ”

The door closed behind the man while they all saw the glowing text that had illuminated the sky. The trial period was finally over and the system would be blessing all the remaining humans. ”Welcome to the new world, young warriors! The Empyrean system exists to give you a fighting chance against the menace now plaguing your world. Exp can be gained from a number of ways, but the most important of them being killing your foes and turning them into your own strength. I look forward to the growth of you young warriors. Struggle with all your might! ”

All across the world, humans looked up at the sky and read the words that had appeared there and new vigor surged into everyone still alive to survive in a world that was vastly different from the one they had lived in just 24 hours ago.

It would be another 24 hours until Rowan woke up wrapped in bandages. He stared up at the ceiling and thought about the sword stroke that had almost claimed his life and the strength of the being that had almost taken it. The thought that burned at the front of his mind, though, was that while what Garda abilities did look amazing, nothing he did could compare to the armored mans slash from his dreams. A single stroke to drain the light from the world and decimate his enemies. That was still what he wanted to chase after.

He sat up and winced in pain, and looked down. His bandages were fresh, but they were still wet with blood, while the wound did not look as fearsome as when it happened. It was still pretty bad. He felt the wound tingle while his eyes stared into it. His hyper vision could allow him to see other spectrums so as he stared at the wound, he could easily see what it was that was stopping his natural healing.

Garda had left behind mana that was slowing his natural healing. Rowan pressed a hand to the wound and Cyan mana flooded out of his hand and attacked the wound, causing him to grimace in pain. He drained most of his mana in the process, but he purged the brown mana that infested the wound, while at the same time, the action made him so nauseous that he coughed up brown blood. The mana had begun to infect even his blood and finally, being conscious, he purged the blood along with the foreign mana.

He realized he was in a room when the door opened and Camille and Em came running through, causing light to spill into the room. Em came flying past Camille, a child sized rocket as she slammed into Rowans mid section and causing him to bite his lip to not scream out loud. She devolved into a blubbering mess almost instantly. ”MR. ROWAN! I thought you were gonna wind up like mommy and leave me too. Please don leave me! ” Camille had been laughing at Rowans plight before the tears and her words but the smile fell from her face the moment she did.Rowan could only sigh and rub her back while she got snot and tears all over his bandages. This continued for five minutes until she passed out right there. Rowan stood and placed her in a bed that was close to his and pulled a blanket over her.

Camille saddled up next to him. ”She hasn slept since the moment we got here. She said that with you taking a nap, she needed to be able to protect me because Im too weak. ” Camille shrugged at the words, though. ”Shes a little monster, just like you. She can learn skills of any element, so she learned a few while we were back at the auditorium and with her creations, she fits into this new world as well as you do. ”

Rowan leaned against the wall as Camille slowly began to undo his bandages as they talked. ”What about you Camille? Do you think you can fit into this new world as well? ” She scrunched up her eyebrows as she tried to get to a part of the bandage that was giving her a hard time, when her eyes finally looked up and met Rowans. ”If you asked me that when we were under the bleachers, I would have given you a much different answer, but Em needs me and based on the skillbook I found, you do, too. So it turns out my role in this new world is the same as it was in the last, helping those that need it. ”

Rowan cocked his head to the side with a smile. ”What skill did you get and please tell me yall managed to find something for me while you managed to loot? ” She snickered. ”Em threw some stuff into her inventory. Not even I know all of whats in there, but I think she did grab some things that may be useful to you. ” She offered Rowan her hand, and he took it and she led him to a seat. ”The caravan zombie you killed dropped a white book that Em grabbed while we were leaving. The girl is like a bloodhound for treasure, I swear. It was a skill called the flame of healing. It allows me to heal wounds with my flame, but in the offset, my flame no longer burns humans. It is very effective against zombies, but it changed all of my flames.

My attunement even changed. ” Rowan cracked a wide smile. ”Well, at least someone benefited from the drop rate boost thats gone now. ” She nodded. ”I was having a hard time though something was stopping the wound from healing before. ” Rowan nodded and explained the foreign mana he had to purge from his wound just before they came into the room. Camille nodded in excitement.

”Perfect, then this time should be better. ” A pale white flame with flickers of deep red lit up on her hands and she pressed them to his wound. He felt the wound begin to itch as a soothing feeling spread throughout Rowans entire body. He let out a moan that made Camille blush, but her healing flame was accelerating his natural healing so much that he could physically feel the wound closing. It fully closed and then she took her pointer finger alight with flame and dragged it down the wound, erasing the scar like it was drawn on and her finger was an eraser.

Rowan stood up and stretched his entire body. His stat page had changed once again. He decided to take a quick look at it after turning in the emergency quest. ”Camille, anything I should know about this place? How are people being treated? ” Camille sat down across from him and started with the handsy guard that Em had taught a lesson before moving on. ”They are scared of you after seeing the confrontation between you and Garda. They haven seen anyone use that level of power, so they gave us a private suite with several rooms in it. We can stay here since you are considered an expert, while the majority of the people stay in tents in the center of the stadium. New survivors show up all the time, but between the stands and the field there is still plenty of space.

People have begun to trade items given by the system and in the halls, people have turned the food stalls into treasure stalls. People barter with food but mainly in items from the system. The government distributes food three times a day, but everyone is free to come and go as they please. Ive healed some people in exchange for information and while Evergreen College has become a dungeon, so have the two separate hospitals and the subway. My seer ability has evolved. I can also see the first two lines of someones status page and the system has been giving me comments as well. ”

Rowan smiled at that. ” A real jokester, isn it? ” She smiled at that and nodded, and then her face got serious again. ”When the skill evolved, peoples names changed. Unique individuals have their names shown differently in my eyes. Like Em her name is wrapped in gold and there is a small hammer symbol after her name.

You, on the other hand, your name is a rainbow of colors followed by a cyan tornado. Most importantly, though, it allows me to see if a person has wrongly killed another human. Their names show up blood red like Gardas. ” Rowan nodded at this. , anyone we should be worried about then? She shook her head. Not at the moment, but one of the advisors to the mayor of the system gave the comment, [What a snake.] So I would say just watch out for the advisor with glasses. ”

Rowan stretched and realized that his previous clothes were ruined when Camille sat two chili cheese dogs and fries out of a microwave in front of him. ”I know you want to go back out, but wait until Em wakes up, just eat and look at your status ill be back. ” She got up and gently touched his shoulder as she left the room and left the suite. Rowan dug into the food while turning in the quest from earlier to survive the chase. A box slowly materialized in the air in front of him and gently fell to the table.

He opened it with one hand while the other shoved fries into his face between massive bites of the chili dog. A book floated out of the box. [Twin Tallon style] [A fighting style that relies on the use of a weapon held in each hand to execute strikes of unparalleled speed.] [Comment: Time to stop randomly slashing about.] Rowan laughed and the book broke apart into golden light that drained into his mind and filled it with info. He polished off the rest of the food and realized that his weapons had shattered during the previous fight.

He picked up two plastic forks that were laying on the table and began to brandish them in silence. His wrist snapped out and a short bout of cyan light followed it before the fork couldn take the pressure and snapped. He sighed and sat back down, he would have to wait until he had real weapons to truly test it out but he finally called up his status to see what had changed now.

Name:Rowan Raid

Title: Silent Surgeon

Level:11

Race: Human

Bloodline: 25% Awakened Slaughter Fairy

Exp:0/1100

Class: None

Attunement: Storm

Strength:70+16

Agility:70+16

Mind:80

Mana:1600

Luck:20

Skill Points:37

Passive Skills:

Silent Surgeon Lvl 1 (+10% Hand speed and Mind when Not Speaking)

Early Bird (+5 luck permanent)

Tier Zero Soul Lvl 1 (Heavenly Gifted +5 to all stats on a level up +5 skill points on level)

Mana Body Lvl 1 (Use mana to naturally increase their prowess and awaken their bloodlines. Lvl 1 grants the user an increase to agility and strength based on 20% of the mind stat.)

Perfect Mana Core (Users mana core was born perfect due to the influence of the system in conjunction with the tier zero soul. Mana capacity doubled.)

Hyper Vision of the Peregrine Lvl 1( Vision enhanced by 10 times as well as UV capability and to see at immense speeds.)

Slaughter Fairy Primogenitor Lvl 1 (The first of your kind! Born to lay waste to enemies. +20% Battle effectiveness when in battle with more than one foe. +10% when against a single foe. Weak point detection.Natural Charms +20%)

Mana Manipulation Lvl 1 (Exert your will over your mana to various effects dependent on attunement. Allows the creation of unique skills.)

Two Talon Style Lvl1 (+10 Agility and Strength when wielding a weapon in each hand.)

Active skills:

Meditation Lvl 1 (User can enter meditative state to gather mana towards him)

Cut Lvl 10 (Use a bladed weapon to cut into a foe, can be leveled up and evolved by host)

Stab Lvl 10 (Use a bladed weapon to stab into a foe, can be leveled up and evolved by host)

Storm Steps Lvl 3 (Apply mana to the feet to better maneuver on the battlefield can be evolved through continuous use and the innovation of the user. Drain one mana point per second.)

Storm Stoop Lvl EX (Accelerate downwards through the aid of the storm to land a powerful blow onto an enemy. Power Varying on the amount of mana used and the amount of connected storm points.)

Storm Point Creation Lvl EX (Create a storm point that can aid the user.Costs ten mana. Can also be created through a direct attack on a weak point. ”

Rowan noticed the Ex next to some skills and noticed that the twin talon style also gave him another bonus. It meant that with two weapons in hand, all his stats were at an 80 while his mana pool had improved considerably. ”System, what does the ex represent next to skills? ” [Ex denotes a personally created skill that will increase in strength as the user does, therefore there is no level for them. He had also leveled up, cut and stab while mana manipulation had appeared. He looked at the whole list and scratched his head as he waited for Camille to return and Em to wake up. He sat back in the chair as he thought about everything he had gone through in the last two days, including almost dying, but all he could truly think about it was rather simple. ”I really can wait to head back out there. ”