Chapter 7: Orange Moons
The time is now, time waits for no one.
While (Hunter Of The Supernatural) is a cool name, (Orange Moons & Golden Lakes) has been calling to me since the moment I saw it on the list. If you can't change your nickname, I'll be content to have this one be my nickname.
*[Ding!]*
[Welcome to the system Lucas T. Bellaster.]
*[Ding!]*
*[Ding!]*
[(Orange Moons & Golden Seas) has been selected as the current nickname.]
[Welcome to the system (Orange Moons & Golden Seas).]
*[Ding!]*
*[Ding!]*
[You have been given 1 Supreme ticket]
...
[You have temporarily unlocked the Gacha Plugin]
I looked around and found the gacha feature on this system was vital alongside the system points or DGSP. Only the group chat feature and apps built into the chat were unlocked for free. Some of the affiliated functions were locked via a steep cost of system points.
The apps on the phone also followed the same pattern since the message feature, notepad, calculator, internet feature, and many more were soft-blocked with system coins.
The hard blocks came in the form of the fucking gacha part of this system. Many of the useful features like the inventory space and other similarly useful features often found in systems like these were only unlockable through gambling through the gacha to get the system upgrades into your grasp.
No matter how many points I may have in the future all those useful features would be permanently locked till I unlocked it through gambling on the gacha. The best I had was to test out the supreme ticket later and save up ten tickets later to see if getting 10 tickets guarantees a good drop. The gamer in me is screaming for me to save the ticket now and get the ten tickets later to not get scammed by the system, but I needed to know what I was dealing with before I could even attempt to save ten tickets in the future...
I'll play with that gacha feature later. I need to see who's in this group chat before I even think of doing anything.
Let's see if the system settings are telling the truth about this shortcut command feature or not.
*[Ding!]*
>[Opening members list.]<
*[Ding!]*
1. [Thieving scumbag of gender equality]
2. [Fairytale Animal]
3. [Gold Blood Cultivator]
4. [Island Devil]
5. [Rabbit Ghoul]
6. (Orange Moons & Golden Seas)
OL:[6/6]
ML:[6/6]
I have no idea who these people are from these vague nicknames alone...
OL probably means online leaders, online lurkers, maybe Online list if I was going by basic common sense. ML by that logic would be the member's list for the online list. Just like total members vs online members in these kinds of group chats. It would make sense in a design choice if I was basing the
(Thieving scumbag of gender equality)...
How terrible were his nickname choices to proudly declare themselves to be a scumbag? I mean terrible people usually try to hide the fact that they are terrible in some way, but this guy over here is calling themselves the (Thieving scumbag of gender equality)...
Maybe some people are just built differently and it's a cultural thing instead or they got insults for all their nickname choices and this was the least bad among them. were they forced to pick the lesser evil among their nicknames and shallow the poison the system gave us all?
Guess It's time to hop in and enjoy whatever this system has in store for me.
*[Ding!]*
[The 6th member (Orange Moons & Golden Seas) has joined the chat.]
I was about to type my first message in this group chat, but I saw something I'd never seen like this before. It was an unknown amount of digital-like eyes and mouths who were watching me. They looked upon me like I was like a character in a book whose struggles & stories didn't mean much to them. They were all chanting something, almost as if they were trying to change my opinion...
They kept saying Praise The FOOL over and over and over again almost as if they were on repeat. A few said something about Propane. A bunch were saying something about Zero & Re, and many more kept saying things I couldn't understand.
I heard the voices, I listened to the voices, I...
[Orange Moons & Golden Seas]: PRAISE THE FOOL!!!
[Rabbit Ghoul]: @(Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality) Get in here we have another member. This one seems to possibly be crazy if that's their first choice to message. Remember our bet Scumbag.
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: Quit pinging me you bi... women. Ya ya I remember.
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: You might be right, but the guy's nickname tells us he must be a cultivation nut like Gold.
[Gold Blood Cultivator]: Has anyone summoned me or mentioned me? Oh Junior Scumbag, how is life treating you. Did you start bragging yet about beating that game before your friend?
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: Why the hell did you show up, I thought you were cultivating in that hut in that secret realm you found yourself in.
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: More importantly why, did you even show up here. I didn't even ping you how did you know I mentioned you before?
[Gold Blood Cultivator]: I have a clone watching the phone constantly for new updates while I cultivate in peace.
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: How... you never mentioned a clone before in your stories...
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: A clone would have solved over half of the issues you told in those vague stories of yours.
[Gold Blood Cultivator]: It is wise to not give away every secret about yourself to others, some things must be kept to yourself and only yourself in life.
[[Rabbit Ghoul]: @(Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality) You need to stop playing around and farm points on those quests. Get out of your house like you told us and search for more possible quests.
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: You're not my mom woman, shut up and keep grinding like a peasant.
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: I won't start grinding yet after my first quest guys, I need to sleep after this is all said and done.
[[Rabbit Ghoul]: The nickname seems to fit the bill if I was one to give us a nickname.
[[Rabbit Ghoul]: Peace loser...
[Thieving Scumbag Of Gender Equality]: YOU DON'T KNOW ME YOU... WOMAN.
The chat is rather interesting, but why did I feel the need to even say praise the fool as my first message? Was I dosing off again like mom keeps saying I do or was it something else?
Chances are it was probably nothing I should try to think too deeply about the pointless weird things I do. Was that normal since when did I stop? Stop....
I smiled as I looked toward the white spider with eight black eyes and a black book symbol on its back. The spider was next to the Alien X doll my uncle had given to me a few years ago on Christmas. Soon enough I started to feel sleepy, but I felt a quick power nap wouldn't hurt anyone.
. . .
Without even noticing a lady in a black dress appeared in the bedroom. She had snow-white skin and hair as white as bone, her eyes were like a dark abyss that sucked in all the light near them.
'My student changed somehow, just like the prophecy in my vision for told all those years ago. He didn't get any stronger nor did his body or soul get altered, but his mind was altered some altered by whatever it was. From the work it left behind it was clearly beyond my power. So any memories related to the thing he has is sealed and blocked from my vision no matter how hard I look...' I thought before I looked outside my student's house in shock at what I had seen before me.
A crowd of people were standing menacing outside her student's home. They all came from different backgrounds; Some appeared to be rich from how the objects that covered their bodies, and others were poor as they all only wore rags. They even appeared to come from different countries from the outfits they all wore or the languages they were speaking earlier.
They all shared something in common, no matter the race or background they shared, they all were saying Interesting... no matter the language they were speaking essentially that one phrase over and over again. I looked at them once again to then notice the shining crystal monocle adorned all their faces under their right eye.
"WE ALL SEE IT ECHIDNA" The crowd of people spoke just before they dispersed into the distance as they all started to walk away going into the distance. Some of the people from the crowd even turned to smile at me one last time before heading into the nearby homes and closing the doors in my face.
I looked around to notice eyes, be it from The Astral Plane, The Spirt World, Hell, Heaven, The Shadow Realm Gods, The Demon Plane, The Gods of those hidden universes, and those Hidden Realms famous for standing by to be observers.
They had all noticed an oddity had joined her student, we all didn't know what it was, but whatever it was wasn't trying to hide itself from our eyes for my student's protection. I knew he could still be hurt and this entity wouldn't do a thing to stop me nor would it care if I messed with all unrelated memories to the ones it concealed from my eyes. It gave no protections to hiding the abnormal nature of its sudden appearance besides hiding its information on its carrier. We had all noticed the gap it had around my student and the fact we all couldn't see his future no matter who tried to do so after he had received it.
It was as if someone went to a famous museum that held an untold amount of art and one of the vailed pieces of art that only VIPs could see was now down for all to see. Yet the art of this once vailed piece was gone and the VIPs who saw the restricted art before were only left wondering where this masterpiece had gone off to. The owner of said art piece didn't take it home as they would have noticed. Nor was the painting stolen, it was as if the painting and its mysterious veil had vanished from the world. Naturally, that would leave anyone who knew about the art piece to investigate what had happened to it...
The tests my student had been doing weren't hidden, but why they were being held was hidden. I'll just try to get this information another way since I doubt he would tell me just yet. THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS WAITING FOR ALL THOSE YEARS AGO... I WANT TO, NO I NEED TO KNOW!!!