In the Dark City, inside a secret room on top of the cathedral, a man was lying on the bed.
His face was covered with a black Demonic mask which looked out of place compaired to his otherwise white appearance.
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This man hasn't moved from this position since Two days.
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Suddenly, the man shot up from the bed, making the bed release a loud sound.
"Hahahahahahhahaha." He started laughing like a maniac.
"I did it,.... I did it, I finally did it. .....I finally broke the rules.....hahahahahhaa,..... I broke the rule using it's own mechanism..... Now even spell can't stop me..... It can't stop me....." He started laughing again.
"This is what I was looking for.....this is the ultimate feeling.....This is the peak....aaahhahahhaa" he again started laughing.
But then he froze.
"No, no, no, it's too much, it's too much, I can't take it,.... it's overflowing. ...this is bad, ...I can't break my streak....I need to do something....I can't let it take control...."
He dashed out from the room, running as fast as he could.
Another figure watched him run away in distance.
"What's wrong with that bastard now? Where is he going?"
He saw the figure disappear in distance.
"Ahhh, who cares, I am tired after all this hunting, I should go to bed."
He moved towards the same cathedral the person before had just left.
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"huff ...huff.....Sunny,..... my ..friend.., you don't know what was going to happen to me....huff ...huff" Raine said, still out of breath.
"That's true." Sunny said simply, not interested in the situation.
"I finally broke the thousand mark, I broke it..., but heavens couldn't see me succeed. So they conspired against me, and I was once again overwhelmed with the feeling of restlessness."
"I felt like I couldn't keep it in anymore. The dam was about to burst open." He said in serious voice as if he had faced a catastrophe.
"But it didn't know who they were dealing with. I have accumulated my wisdom through hard earned experience. That's why I knew how to deal with this situation very well."
"That's why I ran..., I ran so fast, I couldn't even manage to move afterwords, let alone try to do something indecent...."
"And That's how I kept my streak of thousand days... So hear from a veteran man, my friend..."
"When it's overflowing, don't fall for it, just spent your energy so much that you won't be able to move afterwards."
"Self love is a good practice, but it isn't good for your energy if you take it to next levels, you hear?" Raine once again gave Sunny his 'Wisdom'.
Sunny didn't say anything.
He didn't know what the man was talking about.
"So you broke the thousand mark? How did that happen? Isn't it impossible to consume anything beyond thousand soul shards for a normal aspect?" Sunny asked.
"And who decides that, hah? ... It's only because of the spell that people can't consume anything further then thousand soul shards, but with that divine memory, even spell couldn't keep it that way."
"Now, I have One thousand and nine fragments. And it is only going to increase from now on.....but I need to be careful of not losing control again. That was scarry." Raine said.
"Ok, then, now that you finnly succeeded in your plan...what the next move... Are we still continuing the hunt as usual?..."
"Of course,.... the grind will go on. No one can stop it. ...and you should also use this golden opportunity to rise in class as much as you you can, it will be difficult once your rank increases." Raine told Sunny.
"What do you mean? I don't understand." Sunny showed a confused expression.
"You still don't know how your divine rank aspact work? Let me tell you then...."
"Once you reach the thousand fragments mark, the spell will create a new core for you. ...Your power will rise like never before...and the beauty of it is that you can keep doing it again and again...Until you will become a mighty Titan..." Sunny was shocked after hearing all this.
"But .....if you rose in rank, then this process will become extremely hard. ...you will receive less and less fragments from same monsters who give you so much fragmats right now and that would be just a waste of low level monsters.... With their population, they are perfect of grinding, you see."
"So that's why, my friend, you should grind them as much as you can when you are still a low rank awakend...."
Sunny understood what Raine was saying. But he still had some doubts...., and this man was really good at explaining things so he decided to ask.
"Hey,.... wouldn't that be unfair,... like shouldn't we get more fragments from killing higher rank monsters? ...Why would spell give us only the half amount when I kill more powerful creatures then what I'm doing right now..Why dose it matter what rank I'm at?.. That just didn't make sense..."
"Oh, it dose make sense. If you look at it the way it really is."
"Didn't I tell you that this world is just a trial ground for us? And spell is judging you constantly on your performance? ...That's why it gives you rewards, that's why it gives you fragmants..... Not because they come from the monster you defeat. Everything comes from spell itself... If you prove that you are doing your best, it will give you more Fragments, but if it see you not using your full potential, then you get nothing..."
"That's why the same rank monsters as you give one fragments while higher rank double the amount, but if you hunt something of lower rank, it won't give you anything."
"But... class is a cheat code to this system. Your previous achievements were so impressive that you are given a chance to rise in strength without raising your rank. ...and that's the class system,..."
"So you get it now?... We'll continue the grind. So you can rise in power while still a dreamer...."
"...I also want to collect those Thousand soul shards for that storage memory so this is the perfect chance for the two of us...."
"But dark City is running low on monsters so we won't be able to use this place for too long ... that's why I suggest that we move away from this city for a glorious adventure....and this way you don't have to be afraid of someone looking for you from the outer settlement....what do you say?"
"What? Are you really serious about buying that memory? I thought you dropped that idea?" Sunny asked.
"Didn't I say that I will go bring the money?" Raine asked, confused.
"But that was almost two weeks ago? That isn't how this works, you can't decide to bring the shards months later?" Sunny shouted.
"Why? Isn't that how it works? I don't think anyone will buy that memory from him. So our chances of it not being sold are quite good even after months? ...And isn't that how buisness works?"
"Time is the only thing that brings a buisness profit."
"That's why it's a buisnessman's job to wait for their customers. I don't think going after a month will upset the guy, Actually I think it will make him really happy! Don't you think?"
Sunny just held his head.
"Ok, let's start our adventure..." Raine announced.
"Where we rome around this god forsaken land of forgotten shore...."