Chapter 289 289 - Magical Path

Chapter 289 289 - Magical Path

Aiden was now in a dilemma wondering if he should kill Mia or not, if he didn't kill her then he honestly had no idea how to progress with the System Evaluation.

"Hey, um, Aiden why are looking at me like that?" Mia asked as she noticed that Aiden had abruptly stopped talking and started fixing her.

'Did I do something wrong?' She thought, unsure what was happening.

'Man, this is hard, why can't I know if she's real or not.'

He didn't want to take any risk regarding killing as this was the first person that he had cared about ever since

Seeing that Aiden was still not answering her, she slowly started walking back as she didn't want him to try anything weird with her.

"L-look whatever I did, I didn't mean to... I swear," Mia shouted as she was once again starting to get affected by her emotions.

Aiden seeing her being so scared finally made his choice as he needed to go forward.

'I'll just have to go to that world when I get out of this trial and check on her,' Aiden thought as he would only know later if she was a real person or not.

He hoped that she wasn't but that was only a prayer that might not be realized.

Then, he slowly started walking toward Mia who was trying to get away from him.

'I'm sorry, if I ever see you in the real world, I'll apologize,' Aiden thought as he could only pray that she would still be alive when he visited her world.

*SLASH*

Then, Aiden didn't make suffer as he quickly slashed her head off her body as quickly as possible, then Mia's body disappeared into particles just like the monsters that he had killed.

'Alright, now what?'

Aiden was waiting for that beeping noise that said that he had succeeded in the second level of the System's Evaluation, however, he was shocked when he saw the message that was written.

[You have failed the second level of the System's Evaluation.]

[Going back to the trial's world.]

[3...2...1 Teleporting...]

Then as Aiden saw all those messages he couldn't help but be extremely confused over what had just happened.

'Why did I fail? Didn't I need to kill her? Fuck, this doesn't make any sense,' Aiden thought as he realized that he was now out of the dark portal.

Realizing that he was out of it, Aiden got even more mad than before as he knew that he hadn't taken part in the Orientation test which meant that he wouldn't know what courses to take.

However, as he thought that he would have to go back inside that portal, he heard a beeping noise.

*BEEP*n--o(/V(-E..L-/b-/1/-n

[You have obtained <Optimal Magical Path>.]

'Optimal Magical Path? Is this a reward for that stupid evaluation?' Aiden thought as he was very mad about it

Then, he started hearing a lot of people murmuring around him.

"What Magical Path grade did you get?" One of the people close to him asked someone else.

"Intermediate, you?"

"Basic"

Aiden hearing people compare their magical path was truly confused.

'Doesn't this test show the best path that someone needs to follow? Is that why Anna was trying to do it again?' Aiden thought as he realized that this Orientation Test gave rewards based on the performance that you pulled off inside.

'Wait... so this <Optimal Magical Path> is it the highest grade?'

If it was then Aiden wouldn't be cursing out the system for their evaluation and instead thanking them.

'Let's see the description of that item,' Aiden thought as he opened the item's information panel.

*BEEP*

[Magical Path]

[Rank: Optimal]

[Description: A path that will show you your greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses regarding magic.]

'Oh, was I right? Is this really the best grade that someone can get?' Aiden thought as he perceived Evelynn not too far away from him, going toward her with a smile on his face.

'Let's just ask her, she'll probably know.'

"So, what Magical Path did you get?" she asked, quite interested in what someone so talented would get.

She was sort of expecting him to get the highest rank, but she still waited for him to tell more about it.

"Optimal"

"I knew it, there's was no way that you would be getting something else. So, what does it say?" Evelynn asked right away.

It seemed that she was quite interested in the path that Aiden would have to take.

'Actually, there's a small problem, where is that Magical Path?'

Aiden tried searching himself, but it was nowhere to be seen.

'Is it even a physical item or is it something like the system?'

"Um, small problem where do I find that Magical Path?" asked Aiden.

"You don't even know that and you got an optimal one, urgh, I don't know if I should feel insulted right now."

"Whatever, just think of it, it should appear in your mind. It kind of resembles a map connecting to all sorts of different elements."

If anyone from Earth were to see what was about to appear inside Aiden's mind, they would know that it was something called a Star Map which indicated what he knew and where he needed to go

Then, Aiden thought of it and he saw that there were an infinities of stars that were all shining as bright as possible.

However, it seemed that those stars were all surrounding what seemed to be a planet or at least one massive star in the middle.

"I see it, what does this stuff mean?" Aiden asked as he was really confused as to how this whole thing worked since he had never played a single video game in his life.

"Well, do you see that massive lump of light in the middle of your mind?" Evelynn asked.

"Yes, yes, I do, what about it?"

"That's you and the stars that are around that are all the paths that you can take. All the paths are usually connected to an affinity in particular, so, um, how many stars do you see?"