Yuni observed the state of the edge sensing Fractus , who traveled with a physical core component to absorb the fragmentation of the edge of the demon realm , while the other systems that Mir had bought remained stationary with only a few active " Come on , get to it ! " Naul yelled at Mir at some work he asked them to do .
" Shut up , don't you think you're rude to your elders ? " " Mom is younger than you , does that make you a pedophile " " Yuni , do you not teach manners to your children ? " "No" Yuni wrote as she checked the state of the edge of the world .
' There aren't a lot of towns as close as House and Fractus want to stay cause there is a lot fragmentation ' Yuni could sense that the edge was being repaired by Fractus's consumption of its fragmentation ' Now that I think about it , Fractus also has that kind of power with them too '
Yuni could sense that as Fractus absorbed fragmentation , the more bits that were once connected were connected back to the edge again due to the lack of fragmentation that causes its erosion .
' It's impressive to see that kind of power being drawn out , It's like the ruin points , but that one was drawn out from the kill count rather than how broken it is '
" Hey , maybe you should teach this kid some etiquette " Yuni turned to find Naul trapped in some delirium puzzle "So , how is the error making ?" " It's hard to work on something I'm not good at and Cron is still stuck in hibernation because you overworked their physical component "
' They named it already , Crowning hasn't even gone through the process that Mir gives systems like Fractus . Maybe there's a sort of cool down for Mir to recover from repeated abuse of that process they have ? '
Mir leaves after Naul frees himself from the puzzle " MOM I WANT A NEW PARENT THIS ONE SUCKS AS " "You don't have a choice on what I bring to the family" " Of course I do , I'm the child , I don't want a greedy bastard like that [Censored] "
"That's a terrible use of a slur" Yuni pointed out " [Censored] " "I'd normally encourage that , but Mir is technically an elder , I'm telling Fractus and Orse not to engage with you" " [Censored] sideways " Naul cursed and left begrudingly .
' Maybe I should take the tips in teaching him some etiquette , hopely he's the only one , but there's that other one ' Yuni taught back with Rein and wonder what she is up to or the other two , but knowing she has no way to find out other than cheat .
' I'll just leave them to it , I raised them to be able to survive no reason for them not to be able to do that here . They're all pretty more restrained than Naul . '
Yuni still thinks about what kind of trouble her kids likely got into , especially Zaun and Ceil , who are very , very interested in getting too deep into things .
' Only those two would actually be smart and cautious to not cause trouble unintentionally , but the problem is they can intentionally cause big trouble , unlike the other two ' "Mir is Rein still at your world ?"
Mir appeared , sensing Yuni's text " Yep she is a very nice child , always complimenting the culture I built myself on , do you think I can keep her " "She's my child too , you know" " You got a favorite ? "
"Surprisingly I don't because all four of them are equally a quarter of me" " Well I most certainly found a favorite child " "That's the type of decision most parents don't make so quickly"
" Not my fault the systems I took in have yet to impress me as much as Rein and you are just a horrible parent how could you already think Cron was ready they're not even properly activated "
"My previous experience had those four who were born with immense talent , so managing them with a weak body from a new account was something I was so used to , I got good at fighting" " Oh , so that's where your experience is from , no wonder you're generating a lot of steps "
"That and other times when I had to make another account because I was bored , I didn't take a month to raise my children to be independent anyways" Mir was surprised to learn that Yuni had done that .
" You did feel like you had a lot of admin access " "How does one feel that access ?" " I have no idea how to describe that sense , as it's like trying to describe scent but not knowing how it works . best comparison is a gut feeling "
' There goes that answer , but I'm sure that'll be uncovered soon in the future with a lot of systems around ' Yuni turned her attention to her familiars with Limos now spitting out loot from monsters she's killed and let him consume to create loot for her .
' I'm surprised that Limos is actually going with it . Did Naul try to do anything like brainwashing ? ' Yuni turned to where Naul disappeared from and checked Limos to find that Limos still had a stable mind but a massive stomach .
' Damo is pretty fine with Naul and House is really just staying down , they don't move around so often anyways . They're a house after all ' Yuni recalled the witch that gave it to her and how she tried to convince her not to take thankless .
' She must be one of the regressors if that was the case , but she seems to be like an NPC rather than a player . Maybe I should check on how one qualifies as an NPC ' Yuni checks through her understanding of it , but none of that makes sense at all .
' Wait , why do I bother about that ? I've got bigger things to worry about ' Yuni thinks about her other children she has not found yet after leaving home , recalling how she had effectively been ignorant of whatever they were doing .
' Oh my god , now that I bring my attention to them , I'm starting to remember the damage they caused ' Yuni felt a headache and this was the one thing that she was worried about .
" You okay ? " "I'm just thinking about my other kids , I remember that the other two would love to get themselves deep into the world's affairs ." " Why are you suddenly worrying about your kids now and only now ? "
Mir thought it was strange for Yuni's worry to be this delayed "I just got close to a few of my kids to start to worry alright ? This world is big and interconnected , so one issue will likely affect all and knowing those two , they will not just be satisfied with being a spectator"
" What did they do before ? " "A world with ruins , Ceil was caught in a war in that , which she ended with brute force because she had no intention of what she would call "minor inconvenience" stopping her from learning"
" And this minor inconvenience is ? " "The very structure of the world itself . And then there's Zaun , without a care for what the world is , he would challenge those who are strong , he has a lot of discarded accounts because he found that a lot of them were flawed and gave them away"
Mir could imagine a chasm full of bodies with a four-year-old boy sitting by it holding another body " Sounds terrifying , is he the one with the most accounts created ? " "Yep , that greedy kid you hate does keep all of them and the same with Rein , who has a collection of her old accounts"
" What about their first body , the account that split from you ? " "They all discarded it , from what I can tell now , I think they did it because they don't want the achievements they have made associated with me"
" Dang , your kids are very hard on themselves " "It's going to be our kids now" " Hey you raise them " "And you got into the family after that 6-week-long dating process" " You were absolutely horrible at dating " "Like you're one to say"
" I live a solitary life , meanwhile you meet with a lot of people " "and for some reason you're as bad as me" " That's generous of you to yourself " Mir said and Fractus thought , "Moms are arguing again"
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Rein finishes her studies on the tattoo making ' There is a lot to learn other than the usual painting , but I got it , I can totally add this to my character design menus . Although there is now a functional aspect to the cosmetic , Zaun might bother me a lot for it when I tell him . '
Rein thinks about something that she could also add to the character design menu that she makes ' I could try to search up a world system that gives Boons . But searching for that means I have to dive into the lore and search for something like that '
She thinks of Ceil , who is likely to have that kind of information ' I mean , I could use the code program of the talent penalty game , but it penalizes talent , not reward difficulty ' Thinking about that , Rein found herself lost in a forest and recognized her predicament .
Rein checked her body through a small mirror and found patterns on her eyes ' Delirium , I should really be paying attention ' she thinks of who could've forced a difficult challenge like this onto her and removes it as she looks around the forest .
' Oh right , there's no point in openingn your eyes if it's dark . Just like how the forest of lost is still the same even without delirium ' Rein stretched out her spatial awareness as she closed her eyes and mapped out a path .
She silenced her senses and followed the path she laid out ' I am more confused as to why I'm even here ' just following a random path she generated in her head was her best bet out as she has not done a lot of training .
Ceil , who was watching this , felt a little jealous because she was finding Welt influencing a part of Mir's territory with their presence gone with Yuni ' Dang it , is this Welt not letting me in because I have little combat capabilities ? '
As she predicted , Welt talked to Rein , who deciphered their indirect message "Will give reward boon system" Rein looked at the starter kit and quickly used it " Take me there " Ceil read Rein being teleported away and was disappointed that she hadn't met Welt yet .
' I even have their origin world lore with me already ' while Ceil complained Rein already found herself in another world ' Oh this world has a different kind of code ' Rein thought while Ceil already identified the location .
' Oh , it's one of those worlds closely integrated with Welt . I think there is a ranking for this , what was it called ? '
[ Welcome to the outer ring of the reward ]
Rein looked at the quest that was beside it " OOOOHHH " Ceil could tell that this quest was going to be important to Rein and thinks that Welt is likely going to pull them all into their problem ' It should have been me '
Ceil remembered the few times when they played another game behind screen ' Yeah , insert that edit of the "it should have been me" meme imaginary editor in my head ' " Ceil , is there something troubling you ? " Themiel asked .
" Sorry , it's just this book I'm reading that is driving me through a rollercoaster of emotions " Ceil said and read through the text , learning more about what Rein was doing ' Goddamn , she is starting to go for the rewards '
Rein was in a trance , completing quest after quest because of the boon that she could get . She grew more fascinated by the blessings that are granted by the end of every trial and quest .
' The fact that she is only doing this because she just really wants the blessing to be added for design is infuriating . And these boons aren't like the blessings granted by gods '
Rein collected the boons' physical manifestation and looked at her collection while Ceil was more focused on the lore that Rein would keep ignoring ' Sharpedge boon , equipped this and any attack that is sharp will become sharper '
The text's shortened description doesn't do justice to the real thing , which Ceil figured was because her lore gatherer is a first-person narrator ' Why does she get blessed with something like this , look at that collection , all just going to be rotting in another one of her glass case '
Themiel could sense Ceil's anger , confused about what she was reading , but didn't bother asking . Rein packed her collection , excited about fashioning it when she returned and so she made the log out button , but it didn't work .
' What ? ' " Yeah that doesn't work sister " Ceil whispered to herself and Rein checked the code to find something blocking it with a message "only the admin may leave this world" ' Oh looks like she is being pulled in . '
...
After three days , Yuni was back at the edge of the world , relaxing as if she didn't have the burden of countless crowns on her .
' Man , the kids are rowdy and I'm just stuck sitting on the throne of Monopoly ' Yuni could sense a few systems moving around with a core physical base while Naul chased them all . Yuni had to stay on the throne of Monopoly , which had grown from a crown to throne .
The hands extended outward as they held several crowns that Cron made ' I'm glad Mir worked up a routine for me , but sitting on the throne will cause some stiffness in my bones , but they just said they'll be able to gather up a lot of step points from healthy after I get off the throne '
" How is your seat ? " "I want to get electrocuted to loosen the stiffness" Yuni said " We can't have that , if you die , we don't cause a big enough error to break off the demon realm " "Or you're just keeping me here because I'm generating a lot of steps for you"
" I'm working too , you know , you're lucky all you have to do is sit on the throne while I'm going back and forth from my world and to the kids to make sure they're growing well " "And for some reason I'm doing the heavylifting"
" I like the people that do that , it gives me a lot of steps , but if your people take too long to give Cron materials , Orse might have to focus on feeding from your familiars because the errors are not big enough "
"I still feed them through Delirium" " Yeah , but it might make the other siblings outcast them cause they're feeding on something that isn't their mother "
' Speaking of siblings ' Mir watched Yuni reconnect the lore gatherer back to Ceil's lore receiver " Why are you doing that ? " "To punish Ceil for punching a hole through your barrier" " That's what it did ? I was having trouble wondering why a small percentage of the steps was being lost "
"Yeah sorry for that . It was because of Ceil , she's a very smart kid since she majors in discovery , but that also means she needs tools which she is good at" " But why is the punishment breaking her tools and then fixing them again ? "
...
" UNEXPLAINED TIMESKIP ? " Ceil yelled at the storybook Yuni " Ceil are you mad at the book again " Ceil had to calm herself down and put a filter on her thoughts .
" I'm just mad at the author of the book , they left a timeskip and the worst part is they skipped important details " ' Like how did mom get the throne of Monopoly , I understand that the throne of Monopoly is like an evolution of a crown , but that's not gonna be good enough for me . Where is the text that describes this evolution ? I need to have seen that or at least read it ! ? '
To make Ceil easy to understand , Themiel concluded that she likely was reading some story ' Maybe that's why she is so interested in the story of the country , It must be infuriating to her to have a blank time period that has no detail other than what comes after it '
" Maybe it's possible that the author had to make it that way because the timeskip's lack of detail was a lack of any recording material . Perhaps there was no scribe at that " ' Mom did sabotage my lore gatherer , so of course that's what happened '
" I know that's what happened Themiel , I have read many texts like these before " Ceil said with her voice bent with frustration " Perhaps I can entertain you with these texts I acquired " Ceil snatched the rolls of paper from Themiel and he sighed , knowing her attention would be occupied by those scrolls for a while .
...
" So that's the kind of person Ceil is ? " Yuni nodded "I want to punish Rein for selling me out , but since I got you for it , I'll just leave her be" " Aww thanks and even if you want to punish her , she's gone , probably left through another one of the bridges "
Yuni was surprised to learn that "That's a bit disappointing . I was thinking of getting my kids out with the breaking of the realm" Mir could sense that Yuni was not trying to think of ways to reach for her kids .
" Are you not going to bring them in ? " "I'm a mother , not a slave owner , those kids are free to do what they like . Obviously if they're in trouble , I'll have to save them" Yuni stopped herself , knowing she can't reveal Welt's secret to Mir .
" Hey , why did you stop ? " They sense further and found a secret being hidden by Yuni ' She's hiding something ' Mir was confused what it could be and while they were curious , it wasn't enough to warrant them to ask .
"Anyways , how are the kids ?" " They're okay , still haven't been properly born like the other kids . How do you do it ? " "My kids just have a quarter of my skill by default . But it's not very complete , but they were able to do things beyond the basic instincts of an infant , which are breathing and responding to certain stimuli"
" Oh , so the same thing as the kids we now have ? " Yuni thinks about the system having already a certain level of self-agency when they are born . But compared to her four other kids , they are practically just children .
' Weirdly , I keep treating my kids like they're adults , I've probably told myself that several times already , but I have to keep reminding myself that ' " But it's weird , if they're a quarter of your talents , why is it that their base talent is so much lower than yours ? "
Yuni was surprised to hear that kind of analysis "You can see that ?" " Why wouldn't I be ? Paths are about difficulty , but also about the talent to be able to walk them . I can sense a lot from you , but not a quarter of that talent that is in you is found in either of your kids "
"Oh really ?" " Yeah , I guess it's nice for them to know they don't have a quarter of your talent , but what happened to the rest of that talent ? " Yuni thinks back about her old world's system "You think it's related to my birthworld's system ?"
Mir tries to peer into Yuni , but couldn't since it was buried by many recent memories and experiences " This is a head scratcher , I don't think I can find it that quickly even if you give me permission "
"Cause it's a very old memory ? I have a very good memory , you know , it's constantly refreshed by looking at old records that I keep" " Maybe we can head there when we break off the demon realm ? "
Yuni thinks about the mysteries around her birthworld and its system "Sure , maybe the kids want to see how strong I was during my prime" Mir was surprised to hear Yuni bragging like this " There is more of this " Mir asked .
"Yah , I mean your challenges do help me reach my prime and first account strength much faster than the next accounts , so I'll probably reach that prime soon" Mir looks at Yuni and asked " So your goal currently is to be able to reach that state of prime strength ? "
"Yes , but I would like to go beyond" Yuni couldn't take back those words quickly enough when she suddenly felt an increase in difficulty " Hehehe " Yuni could only hear Mir's excitement ' You goddamn greedy... '
Yuni passed out on the throne as she suddenly appeared in the hall of transcendance , Except this time , the difficulty spiked ' Sht ' Yuni couldn't move her body as she was practically frozen .
She checked the challenges and only one single one appeared ' Are you kidding me Mir ? '
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[ Hunger ]
Yuni started to feel her soul starting to grow mouths , recognizing the challenge quickly and how it functions ' It's like interminient fasting , I can't make stuff up , but I sure as hell can handle something like this '
Cycle of life and death , an abstract perpetual machine that Yuni could think of ' Without life , death doesn't occur , but without death , life cannot go on . No wrong cycle '
' This is going to be different , since this hunger is gnawing through my very soul . I should try to feed it , but how do you feed a soul eater ? I think soul is basically experience , so how do I generate experience '
Yuni thinks about how she earned experience and how to make her experience ' I guess I do have a lot of ways ' Yuni feels through her soul and replicates the feeling of being quartered by her birthworld's system .
She now has four separate souls all at the same time ' Now let's get to making experiences ' she started to fight herself as the four clones attacked each other . The lack of order inspired her to create ideas that fed the soul eater .
Mir , who was watching , was glad to finally have fed another system some food " Mother , it's so tasty " Mir happily smiled " Yes yes just keep on eating , little one " Mir happily said while Damo felt a little terrified to look at the crown of hunger which Mir had secretly fed to another system .
' Master is gathering some really scary monsters around her ' Damo thought " Damo , I'm hungry " Orse said , waiting by a new obstacle course they made " Right away , Orse " Damo rushed through the obstacle course while Yuni finally finished the Transcendance quest .
"Mir , what was that ?" " I was giving you a way to push through your own limits you're welcome . And I needed to feed this little one " Yuni sensed a sphere with two holes for eyes and a massive one for a mouth .
The mouth was brimming with a light that shone brightly ' So this is the physical core of the soul eater ' "What'd you name them ?" " I don't know , I'm stumped in naming it from naming everyone , so why not you do it "
Yuni faced the soul eater core and thought "Vesol ?" " Oh sounds good , that's your name now child " Mir said happily while Yuni thought of what the next challenges were going to be like .
' I don't believe all of them will involve feeding a system but rather feeding Mir by making me do hard challenges , at least I got to use some of my experience that are so unique it's hard to apply them '
Deep in Yuni's mind were four parts all connected and generating a lot of experience for her . She is essentially living one life and four smaller lives . These smaller lives are based on her children , which allows her to generate soul while Vesol continues to take some for themselves .
' But since I'm going to be going through them , I'd better prepare myself , I highly doubt Mir will be able to give me a good challenge after Hunger , so I'll just have to figure that one out '
Yuni checked the transcendance challenge on cooldown , figuring that she would have plenty of time if she could utilize patience to the maximum .
' I'm starting to think that my prime account strength will be reachable within a single game '
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