[Elio’s POV: ]

[Ding!]

[You have reached (Level-100)!] Your next journey awaits at empire

[You have achieved the conditions!]

[First awakening has been achieved…!]

-Oooooooooooooooooooong!

The silver mark on my hand started glowing in a golden light.

At the same time, I witnessed the runes on the giant key coming out of the carved surface and going towards Sera who was now standing before the key.

-Oooooooooooooong!

Something was happening. And, I don’t think it was simply because of our awakening…

‘I’ve heard about awakenings a lot from not just Alex, but also from the others who wish to achieve it one day.’

(Level-100).

It wasn’t a simple goal.

Many of the players who have been playing this game for over a year aren’t able to achieve this level.

And it simply isn’t about Exp accumulation.

Yes, it’s true that anyone can achieve awakening if they get to the level threshold but, as the players know, there are some certain conditions that vary greatly from person to person.

‘Just like how each and every individual is different, the kind of experience that they gain is also different.’

The exp that one gets from killing creatures and monsters might be the same, but the Exp that comes from miscellaneous tasks is simply different for everyone.

Experience points are actually just quantified experiences that accumulate over time and are given to the ones who learn, who live, and to those who experience different things.

The reason there are people who get to that level despite not going into the fields even once is simply just that.

‘There is a world. The world is made of various elements. Killing monsters is one part of those elements, but that is not all.’

Many different factors make up experiences in this world. So, it’s difficult to achieve the first awakening by simply killing creatures Occasionally.

[Your Mental and Matter body will go through a reconstruction.]

[Accumulated achievements will be awarded after the completion of the task.]

[It has been noted that your Servant is reconnecting with a Lost Fragment related to their past.]

[It is advised that you take a close look at the process.]

-Ooooooooooooooooong!

The system was telling me to watch Sera, and that’s exactly what I’m doing right now.

‘Sera…’

We have been together for a few months now, and, yes. She is someone that I admire greatly.

In a place that is filled with strange things and unknown creatures, a closed off ‘Paradise’ that turns into a hell every once in a while, she was the only one who I had depended on all this time.’

She was a friend of mine, even though her status as my servant was the only thing that the system recognised.

She wasn’t a divine creature that had run away from us and had made us find it for so many months.

She was someone who had been with me since she accepted me as her master.

‘A long time has passed since then, and in all this time, we have gotten quite close.’

But, she still calls me master, and I still treat her as not a subordinate or a friend, but as someone I have to look after. As someone I must protect… and, it’s not because she is weak or anything.

‘No, it’s the opposite.’

The words from the golden key were absorbed by Sera and she was glowing intensely.

Her silver feathers were turning gold, while the golden feathers were turning into a brighter silver that Resembled the silver fog of the divine creature that we left outside.

She was changing right now… she wasn’t a small bird with a long tail anymore.

She was changing… and, despite the blinding light, I knew what she was changing into.

“I was right.”

Sera Heru Phanim.

Her name was pure. She could use the light element as well as any other element that I can.

There was a unique synergy between her and that element which, in fact, was much different from what I had.

She had skills that were too advanced for her level.

And, she had characteristics that pointed at a simple thing.

“She’s an angel.”

She had taken a humanoid form.

She seemed to be someone a little older than me, but someone who now had the same height as me.

Her pure skin as pure as her white feathers, her eyes glowing even brighter gold than what they used to be, her hair so silver that one could see their reflection on them… a voluptuous body that could mesmerize even the toughest of the minds…

And lastly, her three pairs of wings.

Wings of angels.

Pure as the heavenly Truths.

‘…’

As I looked at her, I stopped perceiving even the changes that were happening to me.

I ignored all the notifications that followed.

My eyes, my heart, the only thing I could see right now… was her.

But, she was looking at the key that still remained before her.

She had transformed into someone else.

She wasn’t a small creature anymore, she was an angelic being. A being that was the symbol of purity, something that, different from the biblical angels, was the symbol of Purity and the existence of the Origin.

‘She’s pretty…’

She lifted her hand, her human like hand and pointed it towards the grand key before her.

That thing… the relic, was connected to her past. Connected to what she was, and connected to what she could not remember.

It helped her remember a few things, perhaps, but from the looks of it, there was more to this Key.

-Ooooooooooooooooong!

The key reacted to her command, and, as if a holy sword returning to their master at their command, the key once again glowed with a bright light, shrunk down… lifted off the ground, and went towards Sera’s hand.

Then, it went inside her hand as another bright light exploded from not the key, but from Sera.

-OOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!

This one was the brightest of the lights that this lake had perhaps ever seen.

It was so bright that it must have pierced through the lake and reached the surface as well.

So, I think the creature that didn’t want to get wet, would have no choice anymore…

{ “What the hell is going on here!” }

It cared about us somewhat so, as I knew, it came down to us in a bubble of its own.

That too, with an expression so worried that even I wasn’t expecting from it anytime soon.

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