Chapter 2

Israel walked away from the crowd to a less crowded place, taking a sit under the shade of one of the trees at the outer circle of the forest .

"He said status right, let's check me out then "

{Status}

Name: Phanes

Age: 21

Race: human

Enlightenment Affinity: mávros

Title(s): none

Body Realm: Mortal

Spirit Realm: Mortal

Enlightenment: Mortal

Legacy: none

Bloodline: none

Physique : none

Strength: 60

Vitality: 45

Agility: 50

Stamina: 54

Intelligence: 79

Map(location): Forest of Genesis

Inventory: 20 silvers.

" Wow, I always knew I was smart... Hehe.. now that this is done let's go on '

Israel stood up from where he was and started navigating the foresest cautiously, he might be bored but he's not all clueless and stupid, with the repeated signs, warnings and even the rambling of an old man calling the game a plane, he knew there was more to the game than what meet the eyes .

Although he felt the game was obsessed with old men rambling in parables and incomprehensible set of words , he knew better than treading without looking back . Call it an instinct from a bored gamer or whatever, he must try and finish the game in the time range he set for himself.

As he went forward he noticed that the trees had a consistent pattern

"What do we have here" he said , but as he was about the start solving this puzzle called genesis he felt a sense of foreboding, accompanied by the rumbling of the forest

"A beast horde, wow, what a nice welcoming event" Israel commented sarcastically.

As he was trying to find his way around the beast horde, he found a weird looking rock, as he was about to check it out, he heard the growl of a wolf behind him

"Damn this shitty game .... Well, I think it's time to put that '54' stamina value to test' Israel said.

After saying all that, he burst into a sprint through the forest, a lot of twigs and leaf design his silver hair making him look like a witch in front of a failed experiment.

As he was running, he found that he wasn't being pursued again,

"Was I hallucinating,.... Damn, I'm so tired .... Those values given are a scam ."

He stopped running and decided to start navigating his way out of the forest again, he decided to open his map.

"Alright, this way straight down; but why is a forest having a straight road,... Whatever, let's get to genesis town, wow... A nice naming sense " Israel said

As he followed the way he say on the map, he found that everything was getting very quiet

"Damn, it's a dead end, why is the map to the town having a dead end, I'm login out, what the fu*k is this game doing right now " Isreal said.

As he was about to log out, a message popped up in his eyes which made him extremely furious

{You are in a special area and can't log out currently}

Just as he was about to throw a fit, he kicked a weird looking stone and he stumbled with his face perfectly immersed in the soil.

Isreal went into a brief moment of cursing the game, exalted and their six generations, after about twenty minutes of profound cursing he calmed down and decided to continue moving forward.... he looked at the stone and decided to throw it away

He is a very petty person, yes, but as he picked up the stone, it felt like that was the final piece of the puzzle to kick-start a chain reaction.

The sounds of old chains creaking and the turning of wheel and axle reverberate in the air .... Revving like an old monster waking from it's slumber. A cave like hole appeared after the 'engine' went silent.

"I wonder how a cave is powered by an engine, this game keep getting weird and even more weird" Isreal thought, "now do we enter or not?" .

As Isreal pondered, he went through series of multiple risk and rewards scenarios in his mind, this went on for about ten minutes before he finally decided to enter the cave.

" let's just hope this was not a wrong decision" . He proceeded to enter the cave after sighing over and over again

But, all those thoughts of leaving vanished the moment he entered the cave, with walls made from agate stone which Isreal doesn't recognize but he was nevertheless totally captured by how it looks.

The steps were made from rainbow flourite ... It felt like the place was created by lucent himself, if Isreal knew how true his thoughts were, he'd be absolutely terrified.

Isreal continued walking down the stairs of the cave which kept on becoming darker and darker for an indefinite amount of time, as the time passes he was getting annoyed and frustrated.

' I'm definitely going to report this trashy game, he kept on fuming, until he saw a bright light .... He stopped walking, resumed walking, till he started jogging, running all towards the light.

....

In another location, a place that will make you think heaven will be overrated, A place buried in the embrace of the clouds,two old men were conversing.

{A/N: like what's with this game and old people.... Were you killed by a... Sigh}

Just the breath coming from their whispers made the space around them quake, they looked very calm but theirs eyes said otherwise, their expression turning serious with each passing moment.

"Sigh you shouldn't have done that, you've perfectly put us on their radar... Sigh" the first man sighed repeatedly

" I had no choice the more we wait, the faster they...." The second man wanted to continue but was cut short by the first man

" don't give me that heosphorus ..." Just the sound of that name made space itself quake all over again.

" we had a choice, Lucifer was about to break through, nothing drastic would happen in a few centuries .... But you just had to, if lady nyx finds you, I'm absolutely not involved, if that shogun should show up, you're on your own'.

He sounded calm but even a fool would notice that his voice shook when he mentioned the 'shogun' . After he said all that he left immediately

Leaving heosphorus alone all by himself. The man in question was seated on a pillow with the ying-yang diagram beneath him.

" It was necessary, please don't blame me for this, let chronos be our witness this time, the prophecy cannot be stopped, the wheels of fate are rolling.... Sigh "

...

While that was happening Isreal finally made his way to the end of the tunnel.

As he got there he heard a voice saying to him,

{What is the greatest thing In the world}

"Wow, another invisible question,my answered is destruction" Isreal said this with a sadistic smile on his face

The thoughts going on in his mind were absolute madness.

" The developers think they can screw me over , I'll be their fucking nightmare" a perfectly sadistic thought

Exalted games is a futuristic company backed by the supernatural, a company that has been on the top for over 60 million years in different cosmos .

With a legacy that long they ought to have been able to react to every situation perfectly.

Finesse once said ' A true monarch is not a scheming one, but one who's actions are unpredictable. '

That's the utmost truth, no one is ready for Isreal monarch... No one

As if the person asking the questions was chokd by the reply 'cough... why destruction??'.

" Strength is king, destruction us inevitable, it can't be stopped can be avoided but can't be fooled" after all is that why we're all seeking for enlightenment?.