Jason woke up to the soft and warm golden rays of morning as well as soft whispering smell of the day which stacked through his nose in a blur. He awoke with a stretch, bone letting out a pleasant—pop!— from the movement as he proceeded to crack his knuckles.
He sat there for some moments, staring at the ray of sunlight which pierced through his window, lazily watching dust motes swirl in the air.
After a few minutes of admiring the beauty of the morning, he soon stood up from the bed, as he made his way to the bathroom.
With a sharp and quick, brush of his teeth, he hurried off to the kitchen, wipping up the morning breakfast in a blur, as he ate in quiet devotion. Soon after, he dropped everything in the kitchen sink, as he made is way to the bathroom in perfect routine. He took a warm and clean bath, drying off his hair and body before with a sequence of calm steps found himself in the wardrobe, eyes scanning for any good cloth to wear.
He felt better today, lighter even! Staying up last night and really thinking of his life seemed to do the trick, he felt better.
He picked up the black hoodie on the hanger and he situated it, right on his frame. He then took out a black joggers and wore it, to which he added a suspiciously clean white sneakers.
With a walk to his room mirror, he looked at his figure.
With a defined and well brought out jawline, soft brown and black eyes, black two block haircut as well as a 6 ft 2 physique, he had a good body. If not for his quiet and lack of talking in school or at places, he will already have had probably more girlfriends.
Enough of that!
Jason left his room soon after, steps rushing down his apartment building steps, as he walked calmly towards the bus station. He was just a few seconds away from it when suddenly, it resounded perfectly in his ears.
{ Ding! }
{ World update in progress: Please stay calm inhabitants of earth!}
"Uh?" Jason instinctively thought, as his feet came to an abrupt stop in the air, just a few inches from the ground.
He turned his face like a doll and looked behind him, mind swirling in early confusion as he saw other people had also stopped. Some looked at each other with confusion, as they eyed each other with suspicious eyes.
Jason thought in his mind "I heard something. I heard someone talk..but who was it?" There was no one relatively close to him as he turned, and the voice seemed to have come out externally. He wanted to chuck it up to him, just imagining things afterall it is natural, but he also saw most people stop in their tracks, as if they had experieinced the same thing.
It wasnt until it came that this confusion disspeared!
Suddenly!- A shadow!
A shadow suddenly descended the city skyline, like a war god, covering the very sun from reaching the ground. It was like a treee preventing plants from recieveing sun light. Not long after, something black and lock slowly descended.
It came down like a gods hammer turned snail, but in the blink of an eye, it suddenly dematerialised as soon after, a golden swarm of firefly like light, shot down from the sky like fireworks as it descended unto the city scape.
It landed down in what was not expected. No massive BOOM or theartrics, just the rapid movement of light. Then the firefly light suddenly, upon reaching the ground, began forming the outline of what looked like a tower. They stacked on top of each other like burger, the lights reaching the clouds, ripping a whole through its heart as suddenly with a flicker of white bright light, the appearance of a dark and brooding tower could been seen.
Gulp!
Jason swallowed siliva down his throat in a massive Gulp, as beads of sweat formed, falling like hope down his face.
His lips trembled as his eyes was opened wide in the biggest it had possibly ever been, as he managed to muster up the word: "W-what..is that"
Around him, countless people had already started screaming, some falling to the ground in pure panic, as some bravely recorded the scene.
"H-hey, do you see what im seeing." A man wearing short jeans trouser, with a bag at his back said hurriedly, his eyes constantly flicking between phone and the tower, as he etched farther away from the tower with each step.
A pregnant woman too, after seeing it, suddenly began screaming in hurried gasps, as what seemed like water poured out like a dam out between her legs.
Jason still staring could only stand still in awe, suprise and raw panic, as his field of emotional fusion suddenly was interrupted.
{ Ding! }
{ World update complete! }
{ The Ever spires has currently been erected into all corners of the world! }
Jason shaked calmly, as he listened to the word of that voice.
World update? Ever spires? What is going on, what is happening?
Just at that moment, Jason caught a flicker of something, with his eyes, curiousity taking him far from his earlier swirl of emotions, as something, huge, bright and massive approached him.
"W-w..what th—!"
Before he could even finish his sentence, something hot, huge and massive, like divine judgement shot at him at lightspeed, smashing into him with a thunderous —BOOM!— rattling the very air. The air seemed to still in pure fear as the young man's body, rippled with goddamming heat as he felt, something take root into his very bones as if something was etching itself in him. His body slowly began levitating, shoes pulling from the ground, in all ways defying gravity as he slowly like a snail ascended towards the sky. All the people there saw him, their heart skipping a beat as the earlier guy now even more shocked turned his attention to Jason.
"A-are..you seeing this" The guy could only manage to muster, as Jason's bldy began to glow, and in a flash of light suddenly disspear from sight.
….
In a blur of incredible bright and white, the outline and body of a young man suddenly materialised in the apartment room, the air stilling from the impossibility. Soon the boy's figure stood tall, clothes now applying themselves unto his naked body as he slowly descended from the air like a god, his shoes touching the ground.
Creak
The dull creak created by the force of the young man foot, quickly dissipated as his body steadied, his eyes staring in absolute shock at his hands.
"Insane!…absolutely insane!!"
Jason stared at his hands, his gaze swollen with nothing but the blanket of shock. He stared at it until it was soon disrupted by the flash of blue light which highlighted its presence unto him as a floating blue panel, designed with golden edges shimmered into view. On it we're tattood, countless words, golden in colour as they seemed to pulse with impossibility.
Jason's mouth hung open at the impossibilities, but due to the soft drip of saliva out of his mouth, it was shut tight.
Then suddenly—
"System Interface "
Name: [Jason Farel]
Ability: ???—(Lv1)Infinte card domain.
Age / Sex / Level: [21] / [Male] / [1]
〔 Status Overview 〕
Rank: [???]
EXP: [0] / [300]
〔 Attributes 〕
Physical — Strength: [10] | Agility: [11] | Endurance: [9] | Durability: [9]
Mental — Intelligence: [15] | Luck: [7]
Vital Essence — Soul Line: [100/100] | Health: [100/100] | Stamina: [90/100] | Vitality: [12]
〔 Notable Traits 〕
[Empty..]
The system panel then suddenly dissapeared into oblivion, as a new system panel showed, this one gold in colour with black writing.
On it, words with a very unique and different type of font swam as, the formation of sentences appeared in it.
After a brief few moments, Jason stared at a new panel, this one ready in his eyes.
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{ Name: …. }
{ Awakener profile: N/A }
{ Awakened ability: F rank — Red gate summoning }
{Description: User has the ability to create or improve any type of gate he is in by one level, increasing its tier permanently.
{ Awakener soul line: [100/100] }
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The eyes of Jason thoroughly scanned through the words and stats written on the system panel and after a few breaths of time he was done. He exhaled sharply as he fell unto the sofa his head spinning with thoughts. He had countless questions, each nesting in his mind giving birth to more, but soon enough with a sharp intake and exhale of air, he calmed himself down.
He needed to understand his situation!
"First... a huge and massive black structure materialised into the city after I heardd the voice of that thing" A pause, and a cross of his legs, his back straightning on the sofa "Then white light suddenly attacked me and I suddenly found myself in this apartment, my body levitating"
These words were just a summary of what happened. Soon Jason continued:
"After that a blue panel suddenly appeared and it showed attributes and other thingsof me and it had my infomration, name.." This particular one reminded him of game systems in most anime and manhua stories
Then with a swiping of that thought he returned to his previous endeavour:
"After that, another panel appeared, this one different in in color and in it's writing…"
"With this I can guess that this world is slowly turning into that of manhuas, or possibly it had already happened." The black structure was like a tower in tower novels, the world update was similar to evolution, system panel materialising was very similar to monster or missions based stories and another system this one different reminded him of that. A golden finger!
With now, a smile tudging at his lips, Jason swiped his head in arc in an attempt to remove his thoughts from his previous questions. What he had explained to himself seemed roughly similar to those anime's and manhuas.. it might be quite different in some things but that didn't change his impression of it. As right now he wanted to check his golden finger!
That cheat that people receive in manhuas. If he had two system one showing his real personal stats and the other showing something else, then that absolutely in most certainty meant that the first one was a cheat.
With a call of his voice, his voice echoed in the air as he said the word 'system'
Soon after, in a flash of blue, the blue and gold system re–materialised, floating silently in front of him as his eye instantly picked at the ability in the system panel.
A grin formed on his face as he tapped on it.