Chapter 107 Insights Of The World

Chapter 107 Insights Of The World

Alex was unconscious for a while and once he started waking up, a barrage of cold mechanical voices rang in his head and then the system's screen appeared in his mind.

[Quest completed... handing out rewards...]

Information poured inside Alex's head and it was so much that he felt a sharp pain once again.

It was bearable and not as bad as before.

Soon, Alex found out that this sudden pouring of information was related to the reward of his quest.

There was so much information that Alex didn't know where to start. Though, it was not a problem for him.

The easiest approach to absorbing vast amounts of information was to ask questions. This skill was something he had learnt during his long hours of cramming medical books.

The first question Alex started with what did the system mean by the insight of the world and eventually began asking more and more questions in relation to the prior ones and got their answers.

By insights of the world, the system was handing him out information regarding the things not available in the outside world for everyone.

One such example of it was the things regarding Blesseds.

What Alex knew of Blesseds was completely different than what the actual truth was.

First and foremost, yes, Blesseds were people that got blessings of the stronger deities.

However, there was more to it than that.

Most of the deities weren't magnanimous beings and there were hidden agendas behind giving their powers to a mortal.

Not to mention, it would cost them to send blessings and make a person powerful.

The most common agenda behind making a person strong was to send a part of their souls within the person's body and appear in this world.

What they would do after appearing, this was something the system didn't answer. It was not within the scope of 'Insights of the world'.

That aside, Gods could directly hand out blessings to a person, but that would be too wasteful as the person may not know how to make full use of it.

Hence, there was the concept of systems. Through this system, a proper flow of power was done from a higher being to a lower being.

The higher entities sent out challenges and provided appropriate rewards in regards to that. The more powerful the being, the better is the reward.

What sort of challenges did they issue? As Alex thought of this question, a long answer appeared right in front of him.

The challenges could be anything from as small as helping an old cross the road or as difficult as clearing a dungeon.

When Alex saw this, he was shocked to find out that Earth had dungeons in it.

How, when, why were the questions that popped out further regarding it.

As everyone in the world knew, Earth definitely wasn't the only world in this entire universe. There were more worlds and naturally, life as well.

There were strong, weak, intelligent, and various different types of creatures in the universe. If everything was left open, they would be on the run to become powerful and then invade other worlds, causing life to go extinct.

Such destruction wasn't allowed and the universe had laws to maintain a balance.

There were restrictions on going outside the world and into someone else's. One had to be much more powerful than the world they were residing in to even think of breaking out of it.

Secondly, if one was stronger than their own planet, they had to be strong enough to survive the void of space and break through the barrier of the other worlds.

This was difficult and hence, a pointless struggle.

However, restrictions like this could cause life on a planet to go extinct in case of drought, earthquakes, overpopulation, and so on.

This destruction wasn't allowed either and to maintain a proper balance, portals to the other worlds were available.

To trigger these portals was not as difficult as with time, the laws of the world itself will guide the people in it to discover them. nove.lb-In

The job of the World's Laws was to look after its welfare and the living beings residing in it. It was something that happened on its own and wasn't controlled by some deity or anything.

Once the people from a world discovered a portal and went through it, the other world which they would be invading would open up and start resisting.

A defense mechanism would be triggered and a dungeon would be formed in between the two worlds.

The dungeon was in a separate dimension between the two worlds, like a bridge connecting these two places.

This bridge would take up resources from both worlds at the start and keep it fair for everyone.

Eventually, it depended on the people inside the dungeon. If the invading party, which would now be considered as monsters by the defending party, attacked heavily, the defending world would put forward more resources in the dungeon.

If the defending party went ahead and killed more of the invading party, the invading world would put forward more of its resources.

In such a manner, both parties had a fair chance and it depended on how they used it.

The invading world would be at slight disadvantage at the start as the strongest people would be trapped onto different floors, which was usually termed as boss rooms.

It was done to protect the defending world's people.

The people from the invading world were usually very strong and the defending world's people would not stand a chance against them. Hence, a balance was made in such a manner.

Alex was fascinated as hell knowing this!

He never thought there was so much deep stuff involved in the mere concepts of dungeons!

Feeling so interested, Alex dwelled deeper into the knowledge of things.

Eventually, he understood quite a lot of facts with some interesting ones being that Blesseds had a long life.

A Blessed could easily live up to a few hundred and maybe even a thousand years. The blessing they would get from the deities naturally contained elements that provided vitality and prolonged the lifespan.

To Alex's surprise, this had been happening since ages and there were many old farts in this world like that.

The world wasn't normal since the beginning. Though, it was just that everything was concealed in a very sophisticated manner, making the general population get not a single hint of it.

However, it wasn't that hints weren't there. They were actually out in the open for everybody, but people ignored it easily.

For example, Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Demons... all such species weren't just in mythologies or folklore. It was actually something real, but people thought it wasn't.

With continuous blessings from a deity, a Blessed's body would eventually undergo changes and become something related to the deity they worshipped.

The God of Moon that people worshipped, depending on the pantheons, she could be anyone. A vampire, a werewolf, or even just a normal divine being.

The pantheons that belonged to Eastern Europe, their God of Moon, or rather, Goddess of Moon Hilda, was an actual Vampire. She was a higher entity not from this world and her blessings usually turned people into vampires.

There weren't enough blessings to turn them into actual real vampires, but they did have their skin turn really pale, and have a few more features here and there of the vampires.

Due to the skin losing melanin, the sun could actually kill the people and they had to avoid it. This is the reason why people believed vampires died in the sun.

The thirst for blood was something related to vitality. A vampire would not live for longer periods of time if it didn't consume the vitality from others. This was usually done through sucking the blood of different people.

As for why they sucked blood only from the necks, well... it was more convenient, that's all.

Sneaking behind someone, then completely locking their body would leave only the head free of a vampire. They couldn't bite the skull because it was hard, so the only option was the carotid artery at the neck, a very good place to get blood from and also to kill somebody instantly.

From all these facts, Alex realized that the folklores weren't just bedtime stories and something very very real. He had to find someone to tell him everything about folklores and learn more about the world.

The insights didn't provide insights on folklores after all and just the world.

Next, a few more shocking things were revealed to Alex.

The deities didn't bless people at random just because they were happy to see their devotions. They selected people with respect to their potential, which had various factors to it, and only at the very odd times, did they go for devotion.

It was no wonder that billions of people prayed everyday in the world, yet only a handful ever got Blessed.

Passing the selection criteria of a deity was difficult and one had to be really diligent in their work or be born with a naturally high potential.

Also, it was from this thing that Alex understood one highly important thing. And that was...

The deities were always watching!