Chapter 21: The Unbinding |
Ace woke up in the middle of the night, feeling groggy after an exhausting day. He found himself surrounded by the soft bodies of his Family but lacked the energy to move.
He remained still for a while, not wanting to disturb their sleep, before finally mustering the power to get up and make his way to the bathroom.
Groggily as it might be, he reached the bathroom, as he turned on the tap and adjusted the water temperature, he settled into the bathtub and rested his head against the headrest. The warm water provided much-needed relief to his tired muscles, and he closed his eyes, allowing himself to unwind before facing the challenges ahead.
Again, Falling asleep inside the bathroom for a while, he woke up after a while, but he couldn't rest completely yet,
So he looked up and called 'System' in his mind,
A dark watery Screen popped up in front of him, skipping every detail, even his new ability copied from his mother,
he moved his gaze away from everything and looked at his pleasure points
[Pleasure points : 0]
As expected, it was zero
[ The Unbinding Process Completed: 100% ]
It surely did eat away at his points, all the points he had worked hard for yesterday had been completely sucked dry, it had even sucked out some of his strength and body stats itself, luckily they decided to fuck wake him...
But that was reasonable, No, to use such an absurd feature, only using that many pleasure points was supremely unreasonable and ridiculous.
Clicking it, he soon found its further details.
and just as he understood as he fell into a coma and fought for survival, it really was happening,
This was the reason the system unknowingly released its own aura,
it had unsealed something from itself, and in the process released an aura only he could sense, and made him go unconscious due to its passive strength,
[The Unbinding Process:
As the Heir and Successor of the Flowing Blood Of Eternals, the Host is expected to achieve eternality if they survive long enough.
However, the path to this goal is shrouded in mystery, with many unknown requirements and steps.
One of the simplest yet most challenging steps is detaching oneself from fate, time, and space.
Only a completely 'singular anomaly' has any hope of achieving Eternity, meaning that the creature must embark on its path of strength without any predestined destiny or fated path.
As the host of the system, you are naturally detached from fate. But to truly transcend space and time, you must undergo an (Infinity Warp). Fortunately, the system offers an option to do so, unbinding you from the restraints of time and space. It can bring you back in time.
Do you wish to proceed? YN]
Harry pondered on it and then calmly came to some conclusions.
As of how he was now, he could slowly build his power up and reach strength and status probably even much higher than the King himself.
But he would never reach the so-called 'Eternal level' if he continued in his current path of infinite absorption of other abilities, as, to reach that level, you have to be this 'Singular Anomaly' when you are at stage 0 of your own ability or Gift.
So, he asked himself, Was a Status higher than the King enough? Was not being a so-called Eternal okay? was it all worth it? what were the gains in all this and what were the losses?
Clicking on (Infinity Warp), Another data bar appeared
[Infinity Warp - A process that requires a tremendous amount of energy, energy equal to 1 million Pleasure points to achieve a warp worth 10 years. This is a process that will take a soul into the astral realm and throw it back into time, the time is moved back as much as the energy is provided. A soul could only go through this process once before becoming Eternal.]
Hmm... he closed his eyes as he circled everything around the proposition and soon came to a total conclusion about everything,
The system was telling him that he had to go back in time if he wanted to have the highest potential in the cultivation of abilities, and to become an Eternal, it even helped him go through the process basically freely,
A free one-time help.
But he was rather reluctant.
even though the only thing he was reluctant to lose was his mom and sis, and they won't be completely lost from him even after time travel, after all, they will be alive back in that time period too...
But they won't have any memories of their sweet times with him, Then were they even the same person?
They were his only restraints keeping him from already clicking yes and going back in time, so he pondered deeply,
When suddenly, an Idea came to his mind.