Chapter 5: Nicknames

5 hours later...

I checked my watch to see it was already 9:35 PM right now. The kids must be sleeping by now no need to check on them right now.

My tests have proven I am not under some sort of illusion or dreaming right now.

My home is perfectly clear of monsters or any real threats nearby.

This is not the work of the fairies or some foreign/ pagan God, no traces of divinity were detected from the phone. Echidna had trained me enough to easily sense or see past any sort of Beyonder-based ability, this phone had no relation to anything of that sort.

The detection spell couldn't see beyond the device just being a phone. Recording myself holding the phone showed me holding nothing.

The angel blade that was stabbed into the phone by me at full force, and chipped the blade's edge a bit. These blades are supposedly unbreakable to mortals and meant to kill angels & demons.

Aurora Dawn didn't get enough sunlight since I was babysitting so I couldn't even use her to confirm the strength of the phone even more. I couldn't even leave her out to get sunlight. I had to be holding her in the sun for her to charge as I stood still. That was one of the few restrictions that came with her as a sealed artifact Echidna crafted for me when she upgraded the axe my parents gave me.

The final test was getting my mom's door open to her lab to borrow the magical microscope she used to study her own custom scientific magic she was trying to create alone. Yet, her so-called art refused to use technology or any sort of advanced online machinery. Mom said she'll teach me once she's done perfecting her craft and crafting it, but she's barely even made a single spell for this new branch of magic.

The results showed a solid patch of gray with no real details no matter how deep you go. This microscope could see atoms and go way past that to even see Quarks and the magical source elements on that level. It was also helpful for seeing the hidden magical side of most creatures, but when facing this mysterious phone it only saw pure gray without any sort of detail.

'Huh, seems the phone is legit. I was going a little crazy with all those tests, but better safe than sorry' I grumbled at the fact I spent over seven hours on MY BIRTHDAY doing all this crap. Yet I smiled as my eyes looked like they were on fire with all the desire burning off them right now.

I was anything but average for my circumstances alone, and this group chat was only going to make me more unique & powerful if I'm right.

Now with all these tests completed I was going to delete my post on the hunter's forum from my alternate account for safety.

I'll try to make up some kind of lie, asking if anyone has any ideas on how to combine our knowledge with this silly concept to write a novel.

The odds of my post picking up traction were low, but my post about it being about a novel would mask my secrets partially.

Since the system phone passed all the tests, this secret can't leave my mouth or ever be told to another.

I did one last thing before accepting, I wrote out a rough draft of a shameless overpowered protagonist with a group chat system filled with all women members for the MC's future harem. I left this on my computer's system so my story and online history will match up with any sort of investigation. Fuck, it seems I might have to finish writing that book to keep up the act.

Then I filled my search history with details involving the earlier search terms.

'If I can get a system so can someone else, what if they had it before me? They might have built an algorithm in place that flags, and hacks into any device with these terms.' I shook off my paranoid thoughts inherited from Dad before heading back downstairs to the basement.

As If it had sensed I was nearby a robotic voice appeared and repeated its earlier question.

*[Is the user ready to accept?]*

*[Yes or No]*

I hesitated a little before I stopped for a few seconds. I wrote a vague note with some paper nearby talking about me being sorry if I was found dead.

'The note doesn't talk about the system or my current circumstances, but if this thing kills me at least I would've said sorry to my parents one last time.' I thought while chuckling with a grim sense of humor.

This is probably the biggest and most idiotic thing I might ever do. The usual me would reject these unknowns to flee to safety. But, the rewards are too tempting.

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, SO LET'S DO THIS" I yelled out while inside my soundproof basement as if I was encouraging myself to take the last step.

>[Yes]<

. . .

Lucas T. Bellaster was a bit of a paranoid coward who would have rejected this offer immediately without a thought if he was his usual self.

He was fearful of death and greedy for life, his very dreams are impossible as he seeks true immortality and to be eternal with endless knowledge.

Yet his current determination wasn't strong enough to carry those nonsensical dreams.

Today was the day he changed, today was the first time he took any amount of true risk in his life by his own free will.

With the powers he gained during these three years he was able to have a back up plan no matter his situation. Win or lose Lucas could always make it out in the end besides those random chance events that were outside his plans.

He never sought to fight if they were too strong for him. 

The allure of power and massive opportunities overshadowed his usual cowardice as his curiosity blinded him.

Yet it was that same greed and curiosity that changed his fate forever.

[Welcome to the Dimensional Adventure Group Chat.]

[Lucas T. Bellaster welcome to the system.]

*[Ding!]*

*[Ding!]*

[No nickname detected, please select a nickname out of the twenty generated options.]

[How and why they were chosen are all decided by how the user lived their life. They are also chosen from future possibilities that are likely to happen.]

1. (Groomed By Greed) 

2. (Eternal Chaos & Endless Death)

3. (Arrogant Puppet)

4. (Robbed By God At Birth)

5. (Wandering High Human)

6. (Supernatural Fool)

7. (High Human Femboy)

8. (Archbishop Of Greed ) 

7. (Murder Of Minorities)

8. (Hunter Of The Supernatural)

9. (End Of Existence)

10. (Orange Moons & Golden Seas)

11. (Sovereign Of Endless Purity And Light)

12. (Friend Of The Fool)

13. (Slave Of The Outer Gods)

14. (Above Humanity)

15. (Hero Of The Majority)

16. (Villain Of The Minority)

18. (Future Outer God)

19. (Father Of Sin)

20. (Seen By The Error)

[Please choose the user's preferred nickname before continuing.]