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Location: 7th isle

A flash of golden light blinded all to those who could see it. As soon as the light came to be it ended, and in its end in front of an orphanage was a baby boy. His name, Jacob Phaedra.

Time skips à 16 years.

Jacob woke up in the bed he has stayed in for the last 16 years of his life and for the first time in just as many years he felt excited. Why? Because today he was leaving, he was going out to explore the world and see what it has to offer.

Just as he was about to drift off into his indulgent fantasies of the future, a knock on the door startled him from his daze. "Come in." A woman, around 5'6 walked in. She looked to be in her later 30's early 40's and had a motherly warmth to her. She was called Marie and she was the director of the orphanage on the 7th isle. There are 9 islands known as the isles. All of these are part of the middle realm, the 9th isle being the smallest and the 1st being the largest and richest, Jacob having been brought up in the 7th isle was not a stranger to poverty and struggle and as such was not one to complain when it came to food or an allowance, or lack thereof.

The woman looked at him, with a curious smile and said, "What are your plans Jacob?" "I don't know. Travel, explore, make new friends. I have no idea; I just want to feel free."

"Well Jacob, I may have an idea. I think it would be good if you left with someone. It would be good to have a travel companion." "Who?" "Sophie?"

A moment of silence passed. Jacob did not have anything against Sophie, she was just… too chatty.

"Do I have to?" He asked, "Yes." Marie said that with a sort of maternal authority that was impossible for Jacob to go against, so he sighed in defeat "Fine." "Good then you will leave with her tomorrow as it will be your birthday. Oh, and don't worry I already told her she's going with you, she seemed quite excited about it." With that said Marie turned around and left the room in a triumphant swagger but not before she heard Jacob mutter 'scheming snake'. She smiled wryly as she closed the door behind her to let him rest.

11:59 PM

Jacob is sitting on his bed looking out of the window. Finally, he will turn 16. As soon as it turned 00:00 he felt a searing pain in his head as if someone stuck a hot poker in his brain and was twirling it about. After what around 10 minutes the pain finally subsided and heard a deep robotic voice and a screen saying [Jacob Phaedra, congratulations on receiving the divine assistance system] Jacob was shocked, he had no idea on what he should say or do so he looks blankly at the screen in front of him. "HUUUUAAA, sorry what?" [You heard me boy, I am the divine assistance system, as you can tell from my title, I can help you with anything and everything in helping you learn and master skills and other such things.] "Umm, why me?" [Unfortunately, you do not have access to this information] "Great what assistance you are." He grumbled [You will be eligible for such information when you have achieved authority or if you find out yourself.] "How do I gain authority?" Jacob asked, at this point he was utterly confused.

[You will receive authority to know the reason but not the details when you reach ascension realm or complete a xxxx mission]

"Hold on, you're telling me I have to reach ascension realm just to know, I don't even know how high that is or for that matter the cultivation realms in general. How am I supposed to do that then?" Jacob felt flabbergasted at this point from the influx of information he is receiving. [HAHAHAHA you are a funny child, did you not here me earlier? I AM THE DIVINE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM] "Great, then how are you going to assist me o' revered one?" he said in a sarcastic tone.

[Do not falter child for as a gift and my duty I will bestow upon you a small cultivation manual, but we will leave that for later for now I will show you the usefulness of your system. There are different options, including Missions, Store, Inventory and stats. As you can imagine it is all self-explanatory in what they do. Doing missions, or tasks will award you 'help points' and with those you can buy items, manuals bloodlines and upgrade pre-existing ones. Pretty cool right. Your stats who your realm, bloodlines, physiques and skills. I even threw in progress bars for them so you can monitor your progress, nifty, I know. My favourite part of all this is the inventory. It is a subspace pocket dimension only available to you. The greater your realm the more you can store.]

"ummm." Jacob did not know what to say to all this, so he sat there gawking.

[I know my greatness has rendered you speechless. Its ok.]

Jacob closed his mouth and then reopened it "You need to deflate your ego, you're a damned interface." With that said the system windows all closed and Jacob heard a disgruntled harumph before staying silent.

Jacob lay down on his bed and it is safe to say he is very much confused. For now, he ignored it and pushed it all to the back of his head and fell asleep.