Somewhere in the Universe
Not long ago
Sariel Evergreen taps her finger on the balcony in front of her, ignoring the masses of adventurers going in and out of the Adventurer's Guild beneath the balcony. She just gazes out at the city made entirely of tall, marble buildings. Each reaching high in the sky with elves walking in and out of them.
The adventurers walking into and out of the Guild are all wearing mostly white and silver armor. Colors very common amongst elves. And the armor is all metal, with no uses of leather or animal parts at all. As is the way of the elves.
Then, after staring out from the balcony for a while, the blond-haired elf finally turns her attention to the System Broadcast menu and navigates to the latest of the new worlds the Primordial of Chaos has been binge initializing. And, out of sheer boredom mixed with her duty, she looks through the tutorials going on, looking at the total number of skills each new users' Skill Trees have.
System Broadcast Menu
Val's Tutorials
Name:
Possible Skills
Followers
Selam Tadesse
20
2
Emily Johnson
21
3
Raj Patel
41
17
Li Wei
4
0
Elizabeth Taylor
22
4
...
She just selects the ellipses one time after another, repeatedly expanding the menu while making the previous ones hide themselves to make room. Occasionally showing a break in the users when it moves on to a different tutorial.
But none of them particularly interest her in any way.
The most common number of skills in a Skill Tree tends to average between twenty to thirty skills in the tree. With any number beneath twenty being considered poor unless they're simply high quality skills. And Skill Trees with fewer than ten skills are considered trash and nothing to pay any attention to.
Meanwhile Skill Trees with above thirty skills are uncommon.
But Sariel doesn't care about those.
Is that normal? That can't be normal.
Ugh.
Well, whatever. I'll just distract myself by checking out that Successor Menu thing again. Because I never did look through the entire thing.
Primordial's Successor Menu
Successor Forums
Claim Gift
Pause Broadcast (Only once per broadcast)
Successor Skills
Primordial's Orders
I try to select all of them again before finding that I can't select any except for Successor Skills. Which proves my theory about the red and underlined ones being things I can select and the gray ones being things I can't.
When I select Successor Skills, two different skills are voiced out by the System and run along my interface. Just like with the Skill Trees.
Except these are blood red in color.
{Unchained – As the Successor to Chaos, you may not be bound by anyone or anything. Not even Chaos himself.}
{Torrents of Chaos – Once a week you can draw Chaos Energy directly from nature itself, refilling your Chaos Energy reserves to full.}
Well those are convenient.
I think.
The first one would probably explain why that 'Primordial's Orders' menu is grayed out and unusable. Assuming that menu is like some sort of directive that Primordials give their Successors. Forcing them to do what the Primordials command them to do.
Either way, the latter should be very useful.
Meanwhile the number in the corner of my interface keeps growing. Which makes me wish I could pause the broadcast again.
I turn to look at the others after crossing another bridge and ending up on the platform. Meanwhile the usual System Message plays out in my head.
{You have been granted 1 Skill Point for reaching a new platform within the tutorial.}
At this point our trek across the platforms is as silent as the dead, with everyone just looking around as we walk. They're not even looking at me anymore, seemingly having given up on trying to figure out why they recognize me.
Good.
I almost pause after noticing a strange smell. One strongly of dog. And right when I'm about to turn my head towards the source, I hear Julie suddenly say, "Wait, more hounds."
That has me turning towards her to see where her eyes are looking for a better sense of direction than a smell as Sean states, "Hounds?" Clearly asking for clarification for the use of the word in plural form.
Then I turn to look in the direction I find her looking, and I manage to make something out. Not much though. They're just too far away.
"There are three hounds and four people," she answers, making my eyes narrow ever so slightly.
And we have more people...
But that's a lot of hounds in one place.
Without hesitation, Sean bursts into a sprint in the direction of the people while shouting about saving them. Then James and I begin to run after him, with Julie and Jack following after us, the two shouting as well. Just about being careful and waiting for them.
Meanwhile I'm running to test out my skill on those hounds.
Because there are still a few things I need to figure out about the skill.