Chapter 70: Ancient one
"HEY, WAIT! COME HERE!" Jayce shouts as he chases after a walking meat bun running ahead of him. For some reason, he suddenly finds himself in this godforsaken place, but that wasn't the issue; it's the fact that he's extremely hungry! Coincidently a "meat bun" fell from the sky, perfectly placed in front of him.
'FOOD!' Others might not understand his feeling, but his "hunger" hurt not just physically, but also in his soul, every single second that passed, his soul gets inflicted with damage! So that's why he had been chasing the darn meat bun for ages! But...this thing has a conscious and is extremely nimbly!
Every time he gets close to the meat bun, it just teleported away, just to appear a few meters out, wiggling its butt, taunting him! How could he not be pissed!?
'You're just a meat bun! Why are you so arrogant!' Jayce yells hysterically in his mind, the chase continued for what feels like an eternity!
'Wait...I have an idea!' Jayce suddenly thought of something as he fell to the ground, pretending to have succumbed to his injury! This is a gamble; he will wait until the meat bun comes closer while risking his own life.
And it works! Like a curious monkey, the meat bun slowly but steadily walked closer to Jayce.
'Cmon....just.... a....bit.... more...' The meat bun is already 3 meters away from him, but he decides to wait a little more.
2 meters....1 meter....0.5...
'NOW!' With vigour and adrenaline coursing through his body, Jayce suddenly woke up as he instinctively bounces on the meat bun like a tiger.
'GOT CHA BITCH!' He got a hold of the soft, and delicious smelling meat buns, drool slipping out from the corner of his mouth. He couldn't hold himself back anymore, with a wide-open mouth, his sharp teeth descending on the delicious flesh of the thing
But...
*BANG* Out of nowhere, an invisible force hammered on his head.
*crack* The surrounding space suddenly started to crack and soon shatter as Jayce finds himself falling into the deep void beneath.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
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"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jayce sat up abruptly as he rubbed the side of his cheek which has a five-finger palm print on it. Looking toward the culprit he found a blushing Caitlyn with an expression that mixed with embarrassment and anger.
Crossing her arms across her chest as she puts up a defensive manner, giving him a poisonous leer.
"PERVERT!!" 3 simultaneous shouts resounded in the room as he finally noticed that they were not the only ones within. Looking in the direction of the sound, he found three other familiar figures standing at the door.
They are Powder, Vi and the little girl with pink hair! Powder with her usual childish but mischievous personality as she gazes at him with a blame expression, Vi is also giving him a meaningful look as she alternates her vision between Jayce and Caitlyn, only the little demon is oblivious about the situation as she giggles while walking towards Jayce with her arms open.
"Papa!"
"...." The room descended into a strange silence...
'Papa...?' They all thought at the same time.
Jayce who is still groggily from his exhaustion after he blew all his energy on killing jhin, doesn't understand about the situation. He just subconsciously opens his arm as the girl dives onto the bed, heading toward him, giggling with her soft and melody-like voice.
'"Caitlyn, what happened?" he asks, ignoring the leer that she is giving him. The last thing he remembers is that he passed out after smushing the body of his enemy into oblivion, but why does he feel that something is wrong with the situation...
'Open interface'
Name: Jayce Talis
Age: 2 years
Arcane: 5,535
Stamina: 5,545
Strength: 4090
Defense: 3990
Agility: 5010
Luck: 10
Abilities: Gura-Gura no mi, Fire Dragon-slayer magic, Reincarnation, World Rune, Bandit's secret, flash, Heaven's voice. Dao of creation, Inventor's mind, Sacred Alchemist (new).
Pet: Unknown seed,
Items: Zhoyna's hourglass, Straw hat, Badge, ticket x1.
His sleepiness suddenly flew out of the window.
'!' With mouth agape as he stared at the panel. Three things seem to have changed since the last time he checked the interface. His AP and Stamina stat increased, which isn't that surprising since this is a new day, but the fact that not only did he get a new ability out of nowhere, but his luck sign also seemed different than normal...
*rub* rubbing his eye to make sure that he isn't hallucinating as he intensely gazes at the stat once more.
'!' HE ISN'T HALLUCINATING! His previous negative luck turned positive! But how...?
Then it hit him
He suddenly recalled that a system notification sound might have rung out before he passed out at that time, but his mind and body were too exhausted to pay attention.
'DING! Congratulations Player for completing the mission.
'Description: Participate in a life-or-death battle against the Virtuoso, Jhin, and achieve victory.
Reward: +20 lucks, Sacred Alchemist.
'Finally!' hot tears gushed out of his eye. After so many days of enduring hardship and suffering, no longer would he be shackled, no longer would he be getting random bird shit landing on top of his head, and would no longer be unlucky! FINALLY!
As Jayce was immersed in his euphoria, the others looked at his crying face while laughing at the same time like he was crazy, wtf is wrong with this dude?
"Ahem....sorry...." Jayce rubs his head in embarrassment as he lets his inner self slip out. Soon he adjusts his bearing got back to normal.
"Tell me, Caitlyn, what happened to me, where is this?" Jayce asks her once again as he rubs the pink hair of the little girl. Apparently, finding nothing strange out of the ordinary. In his mind, Jayce treated the girl as a little kid and him caressing a little kid isn't strange, but Jayce seemed to forget something... "HE" is also a little kid, only taller than her by a little. So, from another point of view, the situation indeed looks a little strange.....
"You...." She could only point fingers at him as tears brimmed in the corner of her eyes. Her heart aches so badly as she looks at Jayce caressing another girl in his embrace.
Seeing her being like that, Jayce knew that she might have been mistaken about the situation, he hurriedly spoke out, trying to defuse the predicament from getting worse.
"Wait wait, stop! Before you cry, let me explain!"
But he didn't get to say anything as Caitlyn ran out of the room, crying.
"Caitlyn, wait!" Although she doesn't understand what was going on, seeing her friend being like that made her feel uncomfortable, so with a hurried step, Powder quickly follows her. Vi also went out as well, but not before giving her "master" a disdainful look along with the little girl.
*THUMP* The door was forcefully closed, making a loud thump. Leaving Jayce alone with the oblivious girl, not knowing the amount of trouble she has caused.
With a tired sigh, Jayce dropped his body back to the bed, thinking about how he could solve the problem. His initial excited mood turned ashen; he didn't bother to check on the new ability that he just got.
'What do I do?' Jayce doesn't know what to do, he's still stuck with the mentality of a 21st-century person, thinking that what he just did can be considered "cheating", but he doesn't know how to solve the problem! He was single in his last life for fuck's sake!
'DING! Player, please choose one of the following options:
Ignore Caitlyn. -20 Relationship points. Reward: +500 strength
Chase after Caitlyn. Reward: x5 U.R.F tickets.
'Name: U.R.F tickets
Usage: Once used, Player will enter a special mode called Ultra Rapid Fire:
"ALL" cooldowns' abilities will be reduced by 90%
Infinite AP/STAMINA during the duration.
Note: Dispose of after one use.
'Well, isn't this easy...' Jayce muttered as he gets up from the bed while his body is still exhausted for some unknown reason, but he didn't even put that in concern as finished the mission- *ahem* preventing Caitlyn from getting worse with her misunderstanding.
'Oh right...'
"What's your name?" Jayce turned his head toward the pink-haired girl and asked. Although it seemed long, it hadn't been a whole day since they met each other, Jayce had a lot on his plate during the time, so he forgot to ask the girl her name.
The girl rests her chin on her left hand as she contemplates hard about the question, but soon she looks at Jayce with an expectant look as she said.
"Mhm...? My name...Dunno...Papa name me!"
"Name...you?" Jayce was flabbergasted, the girl did not remember anything. Not even her own existence... it's like her previous self disappeared, replaced by a new identity...
'DING! A new mission has been issued
Description: Create a fitting name.
Reward: ??? (Depending on the satisfaction meter) 0-100
Failure: Death
Note: You only have one chance.
"....." Another death threat! You're telling him that his life and death is depending on this little girl's satisfaction!????? What kind of concept is that?
*gulp* Jayce gulps as he looks at the sweet little angle-looking little girl that doesn't seem like she would even hurt a tiny ant with fear and horror. Something is wrong about this...terrifying wrong.
'This is not simple...' Jayce thought as he recalls the scene where the girl cried out back then that managed to hurt his very soul! One had to know that his soul had been forged ever since he was a baby and is extremely tough/durable! Even the gigantic void monster that invaded PiltOver's city with its soul screech, could only scratch the surface of his soul prowess, but this little monster is worse than that void beast. It could hurt him!
Now that even the almighty system is involved in this, the girl's identity must not be simple!
While Jayce was contemplating, giving her an unnatural look from time to time, the girl thought otherwise, she thinks that Jayce might not like her, that's why he isn't responding to her.
"Does Papa not want name me...? *sniff*" The little girl sniffs as her bright blue eyes glazed over with tears, the surrounding space started to shake as slowly colour started to fade from the world.
Seeing the world shake as the same phenomenon happened earlier happening again, Jayce snapped out of his stupor as sweat drenched his back.
"Nonono! I will name you okay? Stop crying, please!" Jayce said, he reaches out his hand to caress the girl's head, trying to calm her down. And it works! The surrounding space stabilizes, and beautiful colours start to come back to the lively world.
"Really...? *sniff*"
"Yes really! How about this name...." Jayce said as he tried to find a fitting name for her. Since his life and death is on the line, he can't just leisurely come up with a random and simple name! But a good name is hard to come up okay...?
'what's a good name? anime name? cartoon name? or the bibl-wait... the bible!'
'!' Then suddenly, a perfectly fitting name popped up in his mind as he recalled his past life.
"Seraphine." In his past life, his mom used to tell him stories about the bible verses, Seraphina means "Burning one" in Hebrew origin, and in the Jewish scripture, Seraphim are the highest-ranking angels of the god, they have six-wing and are known for the zealous love. And it's a fitting name for her!
When they first met, the girl was amidst the explosion perimeter, where only she survived. Burning buildings and crumpling towers were happening beside her but for some reason, they didn't hit, or rather, they didn't dare to hit the girl as a mysterious force controlling strings in the background. Plus, when he copied her ability using his skill, "Heavenly voice" was the name. She is definitely an angel sent from the realm above. So, combining the two, he came up with this name.
When the girl heard the name, her bright blue eyes shone with radiance. Up in the sky, if one uses Arcane's eyes and coincidently looks up in the sky, they would be able to see a silhouette of an angel with six wings as it suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but it soon disappeared a moment later.
"I love it!" The girl shouts out happily as she hugs his waist.
'DING! Satisfaction meter: 100'
'DING! Submit the result? Yes No'
'Yes'
'DING! Congratulations Player for completing the mission.
Rank: SSS
Reward: Ancient one.
'Name: Ancient one
Description: Blessing or curse
Usage: Player gets an indefinite lifespan.
Cost: Cannot be deactivated.
'DING! Does the player want to bind with the reward?'
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