Chapter 8: Chapter 7: Keeper’s Descent

For now, I had less than a hundred points to spend, so there wasn’t much I could do in the Admin Room. Instead, I had a different idea, one which would only be possible while the development of this world is still early. I began making preparations by looking over my map, and searching for the perfect area. What I wanted was a wide space with only low level monsters.

The stronger monsters were all being centered around the budding civilizations, so it wasn’t a very hard request. After all, the planet was basically the size of Jupiter, by my best guess. And, with only a few small colonies on the planet, the vast majority was uninhabited. Once I had the perfect area picked out, I decided to wait for a while, at least until Terra woke up.

Roughly an hour later, Terra began stirring, rolling around in the bed before slowly rising with a yawn. Thankfully, I didn’t have to wait too long for her nap to finish, because I wanted to ask her some questions. “Terra, mind if I ask you a few things real quick, again?”

She looked over to me with sleepy eyes, but gave a small smile and a nod. “Sure, what is it Dale?”

“Well, first of all, I learned how to see the ‘innate talent’ of someone, but I don’t know what the aura size and colors mean. Could you clear that up?”

She gave a long yawn while stretching her arms, followed by a light shrug. “The color represents their greatest talent, and the size is how good they are at it.” Closing her eyes for a few moments, she gave a small smile. “Looks like you looked at Ardra and Riyon, so let’s use those two as an example. Ardra’s aura is a dense green, meaning that her talent lies with nature. That could mean hunting, agriculture, anything like that.”

“Now, on the other hand, Riyon’s aura is a brilliant gold. That means that she is a natural born leader. You could say she was born to be a queen. Red auras mark battle ability, blue auras mark magic, yellow auras mark crafting or creativity, and so on. If you come across one later that you don’t understand, just ask me and I’ll let you know.” She says with a happy smile, rubbing the sleep from her eyes and moving over to walk to me.

“I see… what is my aura like?” I asked, curious. I doubted that I had any special auras like Ardra or the elf queen.

Terra tilted her head curiously, before shrugging her shoulders and stepping back. Next, she seemed to squint in my direction, before looking off to either side. “Hmm, yellow aura, about five feet thick? You could be a really good idea man if you tried.” She finished with a satisfied nod. Well, that definitely wasn’t the worst evaluation, I suppose. At least it wasn’t only a small battle aura or something.

“Well, anyways. Next question, after descending, how long does it take to come back to the Admin Room?” This was the question that I really needed an answer to. The last Keeper died because he couldn’t ascend fast enough, so I needed to know how long it took.

Terra blinked a bit in surprise, before smiling. “It doesn’t take long. You just have to pull up the system menu and select the ‘Return to Administration Room’ option. Most people can do that in just a couple of seconds, so there isn’t much of a problem.”

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That surprised me, I was expecting it to be a bit longer of a process than that. Was the previous Keeper just panicking and unable to find the button, then? Well… no use really worrying about it. “Alright. Well, I plan to go down to the world so that I can get a feel for the combat and properly earn the classes. Wanted to wait until you were awake, so that you could watch out for me.” Never hurts to have a goddess watching over your shoulder.

Terra froze for a long moment, furrowing her brows. Eventually, she nodded her head slowly, but her body was visibly more stiff now. “Just… be careful. I’ll keep an eye on things from up here, and if things get too bad, I can go down and buy you some time to ascend.”

I nodded with a smile, reaching out to gently grab her hand and placed my lips against it to comfort her. “I’ll be careful. I chose an area with only weak monsters, so I should be able to farm a few levels without worry. If I understand the system right, I can unlock classes and spells that my people don’t know, as long as I properly earn them through the system.” She nodded her head at my assumption, confirming it. And, since I assigned the conditions for unlocking the classes, I naturally knew what they were. Even the ones that hadn’t been unlocked yet. Well, granted I forgot a few, but there were really a lot!

“Okay… but really, be careful. The world is too new, there isn’t anyone capable of crafting weapons yet, so we can’t give you any equipment. You’ll only be able to equip yourself with rags. If you want anything better, you’ll have to make it yourself after you descend.”

I nodded again, having already taken that into account. “I know. That’s why I wanted to wait until you were up.” I gave a light chuckle, before turning to the screen. There, I right clicked on the bookmarked location.

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