Authors Note: Please answer the poll after reading this chapter.

Hey guys, Nerdy CEO here.

I see that you are headed for one of the portals! Probably not a bad idea, all things considered, but not that I could stop you anyway; free will, remember? Everything here requires a choice.

Anyway, that portal doesn’t lead to the Celestial Plane, or even to one of the Divine realms. So since you guys kind of got screwed over, I decided to upload a little compensation gift into the soul-link I gave you. It’s not really much of a gift, and the most it will ever do is give you a bit more information about how much ‘universe juice’ various effects and abilities require, and also how the abilities will actually work if you train them.

You need to know that how you choose to cultivate your power is the most personal thing in the universe. Even taking advice from someone can be immensely harmful! Nobody who follows a path laid down by others has ever achieved true greatness. You will have to come up with your own personal abilities, whatever form they may take. So my little gift can’t actually directly help you in any way.

But hey, information is power, right? I also included some other tidbits here and there, no big deal. Nothing that you couldn’t have looked up in any public library on the Celestial plane.

So feel free to use this to make informed choices, or simply ignore it if you wish. You guys should have a pretty big leg up on the competition… but Mortal realms can be insanely dangerous, and I do hope you end up using my system. I had a lot of fun making it!

Last thing, there is a silver lining to all this: Beings born directly to the Celestial Plane are powerful, but it’s a generic power and they don’t start off connected to the universe at all (no juice). This means that people who start from the bottom and work their way up have a huge advantage… if they ever actually get there. Fair warning; not many do.

PS. Again, if you end up working together to cultivate, you will destroy your greatest strength: Diversity! Each of you marches to a different beat, and you have never tried to be the same in the past. The path you forge yourself will always be the one you know best.

I wish you both the best of luck,

CCEO

Authors Note2: Most of you can probably guess why I included RPG/Game like elements in my updated description now. As I said, it was pretty much foreshadowed all the way back in Chapter 3, though not at all obvious until you see the full picture.

It's a pretty important part of the story, but not at all the focus. This is meant to be a character driven story. This is just how I see the story being written.

Anyway, thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy it!

Given that the holidays are upon us I am just going to say right now that there will be no further updates until the 28th of December. My apologies!

:bye:

I wanted to add that, in this story, the world is NOT a game, and will never be a game. But because of certain *cough* celestial *cough* influences there will be game like elements. It will be up to the MC how he decides to react to these developments.

As I said before, this is a key part of the story, so I really hope everyone likes it! Don't expect it to be like any other story you have read though. I'm doing my own thing based on what I want out of a story. I know, selfish, right? Sorry if you don't like it. :(

But man I sure hope you do! :D