Administrator Rewards

[Your Class Awakening Scroll Upgrade Ticket has been used!]

[Your Class Awakening Scroll has been used!]

[Your Class Awakening Scroll is being Upgraded further!]

[You have Awakened the Class "Depraved Hero[Legendary]"!]

[Your Stats have increased massively!]

[You have awakened a Mana Stat!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Accelerated HP Regeneration[B-Rank]"!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Accelerated Stamina Regeneration[B-Rank]"!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Accelerated Mana Regeneration[B-Rank]"!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Basic Swordsmanship[D-Rank]"!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Basic Spearsmanship[D-Rank]"!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Basic Archery[D-Rank]"!]

…

[Seventeen Skills are being condensed…]

[You have Developed the Skill "Basic Weapon Mastery[B-Rank]"!]

[You have Developed the Skill "Absolute Authority[A-Rank]".]

[Absolute Authority[A-Rank]: 

Your voice holds great Power and Authority over beings weaker, as strong, or a little stronger than you. To those weaker than you, your orders are Absolute. To those as strong as you, the orders can somewhat be fought against. To those stronger than you, the orders can be defied. 

The "Absolute Authority" Skill belongs to an ancient, sacred, and extremely powerful Species. 

]

[You have Developed the Skill "Slave Mark[C-Rank]".]

[Slave Mark[C-Rank]:

The Palm of your hand holds the secret to a Seal, originally created by an Ancient Goddess.

By placing that Seal on another Being's body, the latter's standing in the world will be shamefully revealed to all. 

One Marked by the Slave Mark can never hurt or damage their Owner. One Marked by the Slave Mark will always follow their Owner's orders.

For one to be descended into Slave-Status, Conditions must be met.

The "Slave Mark" Skill was used by the Ancient Goddess for many different purposes.

]

The young man remained silent even after having read everything.

"Rude." He uttered. "Who do you think you are to give me a name?"

The figure in the darkness, referred to by the System as Administrator, smiled. 

"And Depraved Hero? What's that supposed to mean? I'm neither Depraved nor Heroic."

"But aren't you happy with the gifts I come bearing? Absolute Authority and the Slave-"

"You want me to focus on that when I still don't know anything about what's happening?"

"All you need to know about it…" The Administrator's gaze turned towards the fuming building in the distance. "Is that it's real."

"And why are you doing this?"

The Administrator smiled as they turned back towards the Depraved Hero.

"Why do you care?"

He sighed and let out a sigh. 

"I don't." 

"Then why ask?" The Administrator as well as the darkness engulfing them disappeared as they snapped their fingers. "Why ask when you don't care?" The Administrator reappeared behind Elijah, and lazily wrapped their arms around his neck. "This might be the best thing to have ever happened to you, you know?"

"What's the point?"

"Chaos."

"What's an Administrator?"

"A guard dog."

"Do you bite?"

"Only those who fail to follow the rules."

"What are the rules?"

"There are none."

"Whose guard dog?"

"The Apocalypse's."

Elijah slowly turned his head around and stared into the red piercing eyes.

"Can I make you my guard dog?"

The Administrator smiled.

"For the right price."

A quiet chuckle exited Elijah's mouth.

"Maybe one day." 

"Indeed…" The Administrator whispered, seeming almost shocked by something. "Maybe one day."

"So you came to give me the rewards and to give me a name." Elijah said as he picked up the knife he had obtained as part of the Tutorial Quest. "Seems strange to come just for that. Could've done it over the System or whatever."

The Administrator remained silent for a couple of seconds. 

"You have more Rewards waiting for you. Things to choose from." 

Screens appeared in front of Elijah.

[Remaining Rewards:

1-B Rank Quest Clear Rank Reward: C Rank Item of your choice.

2-A Rank Quest Clear Rank Reward: Two B Rank Items of your choice.

]

"Since you're here, can I get Skills instead of Items?"

"Huh?" The Administrator seemed surprised or disturbed, as if having been lost deep in thought a second earlier. "Sure, whatever."

"Cool."

Four screens appeared in front of Elijah. 

One for C Rank Items and one for C Rank Skills. A third for B Rank Items and a fourth for B Rank Skills.

"Choose quickly." The Administrator said after a couple of minutes. "The Main Quests will start soon, and you're outside of every Main Area."

"Outside of every Main Area? Then is going to one of the Main Areas a Quest in and of itself?"

"No."

"I see…"

The Administrator stared at him silently as he debated with Skills and Items to choose.

'Yes, neither Depraved nor Heroic. That's exactly what I need.' The red eyes narrowed. 'The one who will walk perfectly down the middle. I need a candidate like that, so that I can put an end to this suffering. So that I can put an end to the destruction of innocent worlds…'

"Oh, Healing Touch sounds good." Elijah nodded. "Plus, it has Sub-Skill potential? Whatever that means…"

'So that I can make this Apocalypse the last one.'