Chapter 42 - 40

Unknown location, underground.

A sleeping young man with darkened eye bags was awaken by an alarm from the main computer. The youth had been suffering from lack of sleep since the disappearance of their Master because he was always bothered by Blu. That stubborn kid was insisting that he should still monitor the systems as he said that Master could be there.

'Why would Master joined this system travellers when he was the one who created the mother system?' Ryder rolled his eyes as he thought of this. He then scrolled through the monitor of the main computer to see what happened that made the alarm rang.

"The heck?!"

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"Finally! We could now put a seal on him," the witch suddenly stated as she presented the finished spell, it was in a form of a red liquid inside the bottle.

"Izi? Izi? Is it now finished? Can we open him up now?" The girl with excitement on her voice stated.

"Now, now, don't be in a haste."

'This twisted brats,' the young man thought as he looked with glinting scarlet red eyes.

He gained the first part of his memory from the so-called system. The system that suddenly talked on his head was a control system under the hold of the mother system. It allowed him to see his memory about what happened before he fell into coma.

The young man had a deal with a deity in order to gained the blood of Asura - he's a descendant of the Creator that was the ruler of the deities. As Asura would picked another successor, Zero knew this so he wanted to get a hold of that power.

Though, he accumulated this memory , he was still confused. Why did he wanted that power? What was the use of it?

That deal between him and the deity happened hundred years ago but what was their deal? What did he bargained in order to have Asura's blood?

He knew that he had now the bloodline of the descendant of the Creator, from the statements of the cat-eared girl that kept talking with herself.

["System, how many memory files left? Can you download it all?"]

[Memory file contained three files, downloaded one out of three. Command prompt…downloading memory file 2 and 3…]

[Denied. Restricted.]

Zero frowned as he heard this. Restricted? Who restricted him?

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A young man on the main computer sneezed as he tried to blocked the system bug who was accessing the memories of the Master.

"I'll totally annihilate this crazy bug! All the bugs can't escape m--- No! He slipperily got away!"

Ryder cursed as he located the system bug which suddenly disappeared with no traces left. He ruffled his messy hair as his red eyes with darkened eyebags looked for his communicator.

'I need to call the others. There's a system bug that got escaped!'

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[Host, you're restricted by the mother system. Do you want to access Manual mode?]

Not knowing why, the young man agreed to it. If the mother system denied him, then he'll deny that thing, too.

[We shall now operate independently.]

Zero noticed that the witch was now nearing him with a red bottled liquid on her hand while the other girl who was named Aries was grinning with joy as she readied the scalpel.

They're really going to dissect him up. The young man thought that they weren't serious but it was the opposite.

"You can drink this potion so that you'll feel less pain," Izi advised as she grabbed the jaw of the young man in order to forcefully open his mouth.

With scarlet red eyes, he glared at the witch that made her paused, momentarily due to being intimidated by the youth's death glare.

"Just let him drink it now, Izi! I can't wait anymore!"

"Yes, yes, Aries loves blood of deities! Truly heavenly!"

As they were distracted on their excitement, Zero inquired the system.

["Do you have any escape item or something?"]

[Do you want to access the system space?]

'System space! It would do right now.'

The young man easily agreed as the system started preparing him to teleport inside the space. While Izi was about to let the youth drink the potion, the young man suddenly smirked as he stated, "Bye."

Then he disappeared from the spot, even the ice structured table was brought with him.

Aries dropped her scalpel with surprised, "What h-happened, I-izi?" With her shaky voice she asked the dumbfounded woman.

Izi finally regained clarity as she helplessly smiled, "Well, he escaped. The Circus got him."

"Eh?!"

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Zero saw the familiar place that he migrated into, it was the black space. So he unintentionally accessed the system space at that time? The young man smiled, knowing that he could go a cultivation spree inside this space as it had a very abundant energy.

["So this is the system space?"]

[Host, if you want to know the privileges within the system space, you can open the display screen.]

["Open display screen?"]

[Command prompt…allowed.]

A status screen immediately appeared infront of the young man. It displayed several usual descriptions like his name, skills, stat points, and others that the youth just scrolled through not giving a glance to it as he looked for the privileges of the system space.

He changed into another screen and saw the privileges.

[System space - a black space that was suspended between time and space.

Privileges:

• Resting space (regeneration)

• Cultivation ground (2 hours)

• Bring a living state (locked)

• Renovate the space (locked)

• Gain the aether (locked)

All locked privileges can be obtained through a task mission.]

After examining it, he wanted to ask the system again when he observed that he was still restrained on the ice-structured table. Did he accidentally brought the table?

["System, can you untie me here?"]

The monotone voice didn't responded as Zero helplessly sighed and struggled to the tight rope. After finally figuring out the locked mechanism of this unique rope, the young man held his reddened wrists as it slowly healed on its own.

'It must be the regeneration effect of this black space.'

He observed the unique rope as he put it on the ice-structured table, deciding that he could put it in use in the future.

He followed again where the silver light was heading to. It was the same barrier again but he noticed that it was in a form of a door.

'Oh, the dumb person was here again!' The voice stated to itself as it observed the pondering youth.

["System, does this door needs a key?"]

[This is a restricted space. Host can access it with the gold key on the system shop.]

["Shop? Open display screen."]

Zero skipped again his personal stats as he looked at the icon of a shopping cart. It opened and various items appeared.

There were three types of key, the silver key, gold key and the aether key.

'Aether key? It appeared again.'

The young man closed the system shop and opened the system space' privileges and confirmed his hypothesis. He tried clicking the 'gain the aether' phrase but it only showed the locked word. He went back to the system shop and clicked the aether key but it only said 'you can open the gain the aether privilege through the use of the aether key'.

He sighed as he decided to set it aside. Zero then examined the requirements in order to obtain those keys.

[System shop:

Silver key - 5 side tasks

Gold key - 1 main task, 3 side tasks

Aether key - 10 main tasks]

The young man creased his brows as he saw this, tasks? So it's not coins or any common currency?

["System, what's a task?"]

[System task definition can be found on the Performer's objectives and relevance.]

Should he need to apply a change of system? All the system did was to make him read things. Is there any auto-read or auto-explain something here?

As if reading his thoughts the system stated.

[Host is prohibited to be lazy. Reading is a training for a new host.]

Zero cursed the creator of this system as he started to skim through the said display screen.

Performers were called to a system traveller as they jump through realms, dimensions and worlds. Within each worlds that they were at, the system could issue a system task which had three types of - the main task, side task and the emergency task.

'Emergency task? Strange and weird. Though, how can I trigger it?'

Main task was a mission that the Performer should accomplish, if failed, a punishment would be issued.

Side task was a mission that the Performer could just ignore if he wanted to.

Emergency task was a mission that included the life and death of the Performer.

"Life and death? So it was literally for emergency purposes," the youth sarcastically quoted as he still didn't know how serious was an emergency task was.

Without nothing to do, Zero decided to examine his personal stats.

[Performer: 0

Title: ?????? (Locked)

Task completed: 0

Intelligence: 10

Strength: 1

Stamina: 5

Agility: 1

Skills:

Charmer: 10

(No further skills) ]

The young man facepalmed at his situation and he was very irritated to the '0' tag on the performer. Did they literally put just a number '0' as his name?

["System, can I do a rename?"]

[Command prompt rename…denied.]

'Well, let's live with this 0 number name for now.'

'Right. If I had time, I will visit that ȧssed Circus organization to complain for their defected product.'