Chapter 219
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Vincent would drop by later, so Alec headed back to the apartment that he shared with his mother, finding the inside the same as he remembered it.
The bonds from the various things in the apartment started calling out to him the moment he neared, the bonds between him and his Awakened sung joyfully in his veins.
Alec smiled, letting out a flood of magic that they gleefully soaked up.
Now in the privacy of his own home, Alec relaxed, sitting down on the sofa that he hadn't sat on in a few years.
Compared to the growth that his familiars showed, the Awakened here were of lower sentience. They did indeed exist, but just barely so, surviving off of Alec's magic instead of being able to produce magic on their own.
He unfolded his mother's letter once again, reading through it properly this time instead of just skimming the first few pages.
Alec could still feel traces of his mother's magic that had seeped into various furniture and other appliances over the year, causing him to feel nostalgic.
He hadn't expected that he wouldn't even catch a glimpse of her at all. Honestly, he was disappointed, something else he hadn't expected.
In the first place, he mainly came back to the Neil Clan because he wanted to see his mother again.
In the letter, it spoke about the various things that had happened since he left, a page a day, creating a truly tremendous amount.
Still, even though the envelope was so heavy, it didn't show at all, with how slim the envelope was.
She'd used a seal of her own making to create this effect, intriguing him.
Though someone else might have started skimming with how much there was written, Alec took his time, absorbing the words that she wrote one by one.
Alec could picture his mother's figure in his mind, hunched over the desk, writing about the things that happened throughout the day right before she went to sleep.
Certainly, that sight was something familiar to him.
His mother always wrote before she went to bed, but she never said who her letters were for. Alec always thought that they were for his missing father, but he never had much interest in the absent man.
Now, these letters were for him.
Though they did not have any overly sentimental feelings written down, Alec was able to feel the care that she had poured into the letter.
Slowly, something warm started creeping into his heart, but Alec just attributed it to the bonds that were in close proximity to him.
By the time he finished, a few hours had passed.
Alec gave a silent sigh, and Ye Sha, who was normally noisy, was silent as well.
Ye Sha could feel the emotions that had practically seeped their way into the words, making him feel slightly emotional in a way that he didn't normally feel.
So, this was a mother's love, huh? How nice.
Still, something like this happening seemed very in line with a Main Character's plot progression, and Alec was definitely a Main Character, with the intrigue of his birth, and the hidden status of his Societype.
While Ye Sha could see the advantage of hiding his Societype, he didn't understand why Alec's mother had to go to such lengths, to even hide it from her brother.
Unless, of course, there was something more about Alec that she couldn't tell anyone.
Probably something to do with his father, right?
Ye Sha said as such to Alec, who agreed with his friend. He'd always been thinking about why he needed to hide his Societype, especially from his clan.
Originally, he thought it was because of the elders of the clan, but he realized that there was indeed the presence of Sins in the clan.
So, why had his mother so desperately tried to hide it?
Why did she need to go to such lengths?
The only reason he could think of was that it had something to do with his father, instead of just having the Sin Societype.
Alec, who was both a Sin and a Cher, was unheard of. In the Kaoriht continent, at least. While Alec had not yet scoured for various pieces of information on it, he was quite versed in the matter of written word about Magitypes and Societypes.
Privately, Alec thought that a lot of it was hogwash, so he always took the information in with a grain of salt until he was able to confirm it.
Nothing had been documented, nor had anything been spoken through word of mouth that he was aware of.
Alec knew his father's name. Aeden. It was Alec's middle name, which was apparently tradition from his father's side.
And clearly, that bastard wasn't dead yet, as his mother had confirmed later.
She'd clearly written in her letter that she was going to find his father in the time that he was out exploring the world, and that he probably wouldn't be able to get a hold of her any time soon.
Alec frowned with annoyance.
Where was she exactly?
She wrote that she was heading to the Next Realm, with capitals, indicating that it was the name of the realm, and that he shouldn't look for her unless he was strong enough.
Alec stared at the words dryly.
Didn't expect that the Main Character plot route can worm its way even here.
Alec was inwardly helpless in his heart. Just how strong was 'strong enough'?
What he hated the most was vague words like these, where he couldn't judge properly.
"Do you know anything about the Next Realm?" Alec asked Ye Sha.
Ye Sha shrugged. "No idea. Then again, this world's technology has advanced a lot since the time I moved to the crack between realms."
Alec nodded.
He would ask his uncle if he knew about a way to get to the Next Realm later.
Even if they were Systems, they could only interact with sub realms or cracked realms. He wasn't able to touch the real realms at all.
This was because misfortune would strike them down from out of the blue, obliterating them from the planet if they tried to interfere with the world's natural laws. Basically, you would encounter a string of bad luck until you eventually died when you weren't lucky enough to survive.
It was hard to guard against things that were natural order instead of coming from human hands.
It was the reason why Ye Sha had to create a legacy hall in the first place. Otherwise, he had no chance of coming into contact with humans at all.
From this, you could see that Systems weren't invincible. They were also constrained by rules, natural or otherwise, just like every other existence in the multiverse.
At this moment, there was a slightly apprehensive knock on the apartment door, causing Alec to smirk as he put his thoughts away for the time being.
Ye Sha raised an eyebrow at Alec's reaction, confused. "Why do you have that look on your face?" he pestered Alec. "Nothing good ever happens whenever you look like that."
Alec gave a low laugh, but it only sent chills of unease up Ye Sha's spine.
"Well, haven't you realized anything special about this apartment?" Alec asked with a raised brow.
"Realized what? There's something special about it?" Ye Sha said instead, baffled. He looked around, but there didn't seem to be anything that was out of place. "What aren't you telling me?"
Alec shrugged, moving his eyes to the door instead.
"Hey, aren't you going to open the door for your uncle?" Ye Sha was growing increasingly baffled.
"No need."
Indeed, the door that had previously been shut tightly rattled as the lock slowly turned on its own, before creaking open slowly with an ominous sound.
Ye Sha instantly felt all the hair on his arms stand up straight even though he was a System that should not be afraid of supernatural things. Nor should he believe that they existed. Yet, secretly, Ye Sha felt like he was quaking in his boots.
"Woah, woah, wait! I did not sign up for this," the System let out a hysterical laugh in the inside of his mind.
Alec stifled his laughter at both Ye Sha reaction and his uncle's discomforted face.
It was honestly hilarious, and it was actually his favourite application of Awakening that he employed everywhere.
Of course, he loved increasing his strength, and he loved doing things with magic, but seeing people freak out was like his hobby at this point.
Vincent stiffly strode in, his entire body tense.
"Alec, you saw that, right?"
Alec put on a puzzled expression. "Saw what?"
Vincent felt like he was going to lose his mind. Why did he always have to come back to this place? Just when he finally felt that he was free of it when his sister left?!
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Vincent would drop by later, so Alec headed back to the apartment that he shared with his mother, finding the inside the same as he remembered it.
The bonds from the various things in the apartment started calling out to him the moment he neared, the bonds between him and his Awakened sung joyfully in his veins.
Alec smiled, letting out a flood of magic that they gleefully soaked up.
Now in the privacy of his own home, Alec relaxed, sitting down on the sofa that he hadn't sat on in a few years.
Compared to the growth that his familiars showed, the Awakened here were of lower sentience. They did indeed exist, but just barely so, surviving off of Alec's magic instead of being able to produce magic on their own.
He unfolded his mother's letter once again, reading through it properly this time instead of just skimming the first few pages.
Alec could still feel traces of his mother's magic that had seeped into various furniture and other appliances over the year, causing him to feel nostalgic.
He hadn't expected that he wouldn't even catch a glimpse of her at all. Honestly, he was disappointed, something else he hadn't expected.
In the first place, he mainly came back to the Neil Clan because he wanted to see his mother again.
In the letter, it spoke about the various things that had happened since he left, a page a day, creating a truly tremendous amount.
Still, even though the envelope was so heavy, it didn't show at all, with how slim the envelope was.
She'd used a seal of her own making to create this effect, intriguing him.
Though someone else might have started skimming with how much there was written, Alec took his time, absorbing the words that she wrote one by one.
Alec could picture his mother's figure in his mind, hunched over the desk, writing about the things that happened throughout the day right before she went to sleep.
Certainly, that sight was something familiar to him.
His mother always wrote before she went to bed, but she never said who her letters were for. Alec always thought that they were for his missing father, but he never had much interest in the absent man.
Now, these letters were for him.
Though they did not have any overly sentimental feelings written down, Alec was able to feel the care that she had poured into the letter.
Slowly, something warm started creeping into his heart, but Alec just attributed it to the bonds that were in close proximity to him.
By the time he finished, a few hours had passed.
Alec gave a silent sigh, and Ye Sha, who was normally noisy, was silent as well.
Ye Sha could feel the emotions that had practically seeped their way into the words, making him feel slightly emotional in a way that he didn't normally feel.
So, this was a mother's love, huh? How nice.
Still, something like this happening seemed very in line with a Main Character's plot progression, and Alec was definitely a Main Character, with the intrigue of his birth, and the hidden status of his Societype.
While Ye Sha could see the advantage of hiding his Societype, he didn't understand why Alec's mother had to go to such lengths, to even hide it from her brother.
Unless, of course, there was something more about Alec that she couldn't tell anyone.
Probably something to do with his father, right?
Ye Sha said as such to Alec, who agreed with his friend. He'd always been thinking about why he needed to hide his Societype, especially from his clan.
Originally, he thought it was because of the elders of the clan, but he realized that there was indeed the presence of Sins in the clan.
So, why had his mother so desperately tried to hide it?
Why did she need to go to such lengths?
The only reason he could think of was that it had something to do with his father, instead of just having the Sin Societype.
Alec, who was both a Sin and a Cher, was unheard of. In the Kaoriht continent, at least. While Alec had not yet scoured for various pieces of information on it, he was quite versed in the matter of written word about Magitypes and Societypes.
Privately, Alec thought that a lot of it was hogwash, so he always took the information in with a grain of salt until he was able to confirm it.
Nothing had been documented, nor had anything been spoken through word of mouth that he was aware of.
Alec knew his father's name. Aeden. It was Alec's middle name, which was apparently tradition from his father's side.
And clearly, that bastard wasn't dead yet, as his mother had confirmed later.
She'd clearly written in her letter that she was going to find his father in the time that he was out exploring the world, and that he probably wouldn't be able to get a hold of her any time soon.
Alec frowned with annoyance.
Where was she exactly?
She wrote that she was heading to the Next Realm, with capitals, indicating that it was the name of the realm, and that he shouldn't look for her unless he was strong enough.
Alec stared at the words dryly.
Didn't expect that the Main Character plot route can worm its way even here.
Alec was inwardly helpless in his heart. Just how strong was 'strong enough'?
What he hated the most was vague words like these, where he couldn't judge properly.
"Do you know anything about the Next Realm?" Alec asked Ye Sha.
Ye Sha shrugged. "No idea. Then again, this world's technology has advanced a lot since the time I moved to the crack between realms."
Alec nodded.
He would ask his uncle if he knew about a way to get to the Next Realm later.
Even if they were Systems, they could only interact with sub realms or cracked realms. He wasn't able to touch the real realms at all.
This was because misfortune would strike them down from out of the blue, obliterating them from the planet if they tried to interfere with the world's natural laws. Basically, you would encounter a string of bad luck until you eventually died when you weren't lucky enough to survive.
It was hard to guard against things that were natural order instead of coming from human hands.
It was the reason why Ye Sha had to create a legacy hall in the first place. Otherwise, he had no chance of coming into contact with humans at all.
From this, you could see that Systems weren't invincible. They were also constrained by rules, natural or otherwise, just like every other existence in the multiverse.
At this moment, there was a slightly apprehensive knock on the apartment door, causing Alec to smirk as he put his thoughts away for the time being.
Ye Sha raised an eyebrow at Alec's reaction, confused. "Why do you have that look on your face?" he pestered Alec. "Nothing good ever happens whenever you look like that."
Alec gave a low laugh, but it only sent chills of unease up Ye Sha's spine.
"Well, haven't you realized anything special about this apartment?" Alec asked with a raised brow.
"Realized what? There's something special about it?" Ye Sha said instead, baffled. He looked around, but there didn't seem to be anything that was out of place. "What aren't you telling me?"
Alec shrugged, moving his eyes to the door instead.
"Hey, aren't you going to open the door for your uncle?" Ye Sha was growing increasingly baffled.
"No need."
Indeed, the door that had previously been shut tightly rattled as the lock slowly turned on its own, before creaking open slowly with an ominous sound.
Ye Sha instantly felt all the hair on his arms stand up straight even though he was a System that should not be afraid of supernatural things. Nor should he believe that they existed. Yet, secretly, Ye Sha felt like he was quaking in his boots.
"Woah, woah, wait! I did not sign up for this," the System let out a hysterical laugh in the inside of his mind.
Alec stifled his laughter at both Ye Sha reaction and his uncle's discomforted face.
It was honestly hilarious, and it was actually his favourite application of Awakening that he employed everywhere.
Of course, he loved increasing his strength, and he loved doing things with magic, but seeing people freak out was like his hobby at this point.
Vincent stiffly strode in, his entire body tense.
"Alec, you saw that, right?"
Alec put on a puzzled expression. "Saw what?"
Vincent felt like he was going to lose his mind. Why did he always have to come back to this place? Just when he finally felt that he was free of it when his sister left?!
Vincent would drop by later, so Alec headed back to the apartment that he shared with his mother, finding the inside the same as he remembered it.The bonds from the various things in the apartment started calling out to him the moment he neared, the bonds between him and his Awakened sung joyfully in his veins.Alec smiled, letting out a flood of magic that they gleefully soaked up.Now in the privacy of his own home, Alec relaxed, sitting down on the sofa that he hadn't sat on in a few years.Compared to the growth that his familiars showed, the Awakened here were of lower sentience. They did indeed exist, but just barely so, surviving off of Alec's magic instead of being able to produce magic on their own.He unfolded his mother's letter once again, reading through it properly this time instead of just skimming the first few pages.Alec could still feel traces of his mother's magic that had seeped into various furniture and other appliances over the year, causing him to feel nostalgic.He hadn't expected that he wouldn't even catch a glimpse of her at all. Honestly, he was disappointed, something else he hadn't expected.In the first place, he mainly came back to the Neil Clan because he wanted to see his mother again.In the letter, it spoke about the various things that had happened since he left, a page a day, creating a truly tremendous amount.Still, even though the envelope was so heavy, it didn't show at all, with how slim the envelope was.She'd used a seal of her own making to create this effect, intriguing him.Though someone else might have started skimming with how much there was written, Alec took his time, absorbing the words that she wrote one by one.Alec could picture his mother's figure in his mind, hunched over the desk, writing about the things that happened throughout the day right before she went to sleep.Certainly, that sight was something familiar to him.His mother always wrote before she went to bed, but she never said who her letters were for. Alec always thought that they were for his missing father, but he never had much interest in the absent man.Now, these letters were for him.Though they did not have any overly sentimental feelings written down, Alec was able to feel the care that she had poured into the letter.Slowly, something warm started creeping into his heart, but Alec just attributed it to the bonds that were in close proximity to him.By the time he finished, a few hours had passed.Alec gave a silent sigh, and Ye Sha, who was normally noisy, was silent as well.Ye Sha could feel the emotions that had practically seeped their way into the words, making him feel slightly emotional in a way that he didn't normally feel.So, this was a mother's love, huh? How nice.Still, something like this happening seemed very in line with a Main Character's plot progression, and Alec was definitely a Main Character, with the intrigue of his birth, and the hidden status of his Societype.While Ye Sha could see the advantage of hiding his Societype, he didn't understand why Alec's mother had to go to such lengths, to even hide it from her brother.Unless, of course, there was something more about Alec that she couldn't tell anyone.Probably something to do with his father, right?Ye Sha said as such to Alec, who agreed with his friend. He'd always been thinking about why he needed to hide his Societype, especially from his clan.Originally, he thought it was because of the elders of the clan, but he realized that there was indeed the presence of Sins in the clan.So, why had his mother so desperately tried to hide it?Why did she need to go to such lengths?The only reason he could think of was that it had something to do with his father, instead of just having the Sin Societype.Alec, who was both a Sin and a Cher, was unheard of. In the Kaoriht continent, at least. While Alec had not yet scoured for various pieces of information on it, he was quite versed in the matter of written word about Magitypes and Societypes.Privately, Alec thought that a lot of it was hogwash, so he always took the information in with a grain of salt until he was able to confirm it.Nothing had been documented, nor had anything been spoken through word of mouth that he was aware of.Alec knew his father's name. Aeden. It was Alec's middle name, which was apparently tradition from his father's side.And clearly, that bastard wasn't dead yet, as his mother had confirmed later.She'd clearly written in her letter that she was going to find his father in the time that he was out exploring the world, and that he probably wouldn't be able to get a hold of her any time soon.Alec frowned with annoyance.Where was she exactly?She wrote that she was heading to the Next Realm, with capitals, indicating that it was the name of the realm, and that he shouldn't look for her unless he was strong enough.Alec stared at the words dryly.Didn't expect that the Main Character plot route can worm its way even here.Alec was inwardly helpless in his heart. Just how strong was 'strong enough'?What he hated the most was vague words like these, where he couldn't judge properly."Do you know anything about the Next Realm?" Alec asked Ye Sha.Ye Sha shrugged. "No idea. Then again, this world's technology has advanced a lot since the time I moved to the crack between realms."Alec nodded.He would ask his uncle if he knew about a way to get to the Next Realm later.Even if they were Systems, they could only interact with sub realms or cracked realms. He wasn't able to touch the real realms at all.This was because misfortune would strike them down from out of the blue, obliterating them from the planet if they tried to interfere with the world's natural laws. Basically, you would encounter a string of bad luck until you eventually died when you weren't lucky enough to survive.It was hard to guard against things that were natural order instead of coming from human hands.It was the reason why Ye Sha had to create a legacy hall in the first place. Otherwise, he had no chance of coming into contact with humans at all.From this, you could see that Systems weren't invincible. They were also constrained by rules, natural or otherwise, just like every other existence in the multiverse.At this moment, there was a slightly apprehensive knock on the apartment door, causing Alec to smirk as he put his thoughts away for the time being.Ye Sha raised an eyebrow at Alec's reaction, confused. "Why do you have that look on your face?" he pestered Alec. "Nothing good ever happens whenever you look like that."Alec gave a low laugh, but it only sent chills of unease up Ye Sha's spine."Well, haven't you realized anything special about this apartment?" Alec asked with a raised brow."Realized what? There's something special about it?" Ye Sha said instead, baffled. He looked around, but there didn't seem to be anything that was out of place. "What aren't you telling me?"Alec shrugged, moving his eyes to the door instead."Hey, aren't you going to open the door for your uncle?" Ye Sha was growing increasingly baffled."No need."Indeed, the door that had previously been shut tightly rattled as the lock slowly turned on its own, before creaking open slowly with an ominous sound.Ye Sha instantly felt all the hair on his arms stand up straight even though he was a System that should not be afraid of supernatural things. Nor should he believe that they existed. Yet, secretly, Ye Sha felt like he was quaking in his boots."Woah, woah, wait! I did not sign up for this," the System let out a hysterical laugh in the inside of his mind.Alec stifled his laughter at both Ye Sha reaction and his uncle's discomforted face.It was honestly hilarious, and it was actually his favourite application of Awakening that he employed everywhere.Of course, he loved increasing his strength, and he loved doing things with magic, but seeing people freak out was like his hobby at this point.Vincent stiffly strode in, his entire body tense."Alec, you saw that, right?"Alec put on a puzzled expression. "Saw what?"Vincent felt like he was going to lose his mind. Why did he always have to come back to this place? Just when he finally felt that he was free of it when his sister left?!
