Death... and me

*Pin!*

Just as Rean closed the door behind him, the Soul Gem System began to speak.

[Congratulations to hosts for starting a new era in the cultivation world. The merge of modern technology and spiritual energy has just given its very first step towards a brighter future. This change has the force to affect all the cultivation worlds of this half of the Universe.]

[Hosts have earned 10 levels of authority.]

[Authority Level: 13.]

[Notice: Authority level has surpassed level 10. Hosts can now access more secure information.]

[Authority Level increased, Reward List will now be upgraded.]

[Warning! Users' cultivation is too low. Some rewards will be locked until the cultivation threshold is achieved.]

[Reward List Upgrade Time: 720 hours.]

[Destiny Points will be rewarded according to the changes caused by the Host as time passes.]

Both Rean and Roan heard all the information at the same time. Obviously, they were taken aback by what they heard. Roan immediately got up from his chair and left the alchemist hall in a hurry. At the same time, he talked with Rean.

'Go back to our rooms, we need to check it.'

Rean nodded.

'I'm on my way.'

Rean and Roan didn't waste time and arrived in their rooms quite fast. Right after, they entered the Soul Gem System together.

"Sister Orb, that was the Soul Gem System talking, right?"

[Well, I'm also part of the Soul Gem System. However, it was indeed not this 'me' who talked.]

Roan didn't care about it, though.

"Forget that. It is pretty apparent when Sister Orb is the one to say those things and when she isn't. On the other hand, I'm a lot more interested in the new information available. What can we access now?"

[It will depend on what you want to know. The system will decide on its own if your authority level is high enough to get that information.]

Rean and Roan nodded and decided to start with the questions they made several years ago.

"Well, first, how did the Universe get divided into two halves?"

[Authority Level is too low, request denied.]

The twins' didn't seem surprised by that.

"As we thought, this is probably one of the highest authority level needing question."

Rean agreed with him.

"Anyway, let's go to the second question we did back then. Why did you bring me from the other Universe? The Soul Gem System could have simply selected someone from here, and everything would have been easier. When I asked the first time, the authority level was too low, though."

[Authority Level Accepted.]

[Host Rean has a connection that will allow bringing the two halves back together. Without this connection, the merger would be impossible. That's why it has been arranged for the Host to come.]

Rean was taken aback.

"I remember Sister Orb saying that my Soul issue in my previous life was necessary to keep the system intact. At that time, I simply thought I was selected by it by coincidence."

Roan pondered a bit before saying.

"It still might be a coincidence. The Soul Gem System only said that you have a connection that could allow the two halves to merge. It didn't say that the other inhabitants of the other half of the Universe don't have it too."

Roan looked at the Soul Gem Orb (aka Sister Orb) and asked.

"Does everyone in the other half of the Universe have this necessary connection?"

[No. Host Rean is the only one who possesses it.]

Rean couldn't help but ask.

"Wait, wait, wait! Before, when we said that we didn't want to help with this endeavor, the Soul Gem System said that it would kill us and look for new hosts. In the end, we had to accept it. However, if I'm the only one with this 'special trait,' then how can the system say that it would search for new hosts?"

Roan didn't have to think much to understand the answer.

"I see... You are the only one with this 'special trait.' The system needed to bring you to this side of the Universe to bring this 'connection' with it. However, the system had never said that this thing can't be transferred. If I'm not wrong, the main problem was to get 'it' on this side. Now that 'it' is here, any new host will do. Soul Gem System, am I correct?"

[Host Roan is correct.]

Rean was once again shocked.

"That means I'm just a carrier. Soul Gem System, was I born with this 'special trait,' or was it put inside me together with you?"

[Host Rean was born with it. The Soul Gem System was added a few moments after Host Rean's conception.]

Rean and Roan couldn't help but be confused.

"If Rean was born with it, how can it be transferred to someone else?"

[Because the System has fused with it.]

Only now did Rean and Roan understand. The system and this 'thing' are now the same. If the system leaves, the 'thing' will go with it.

"Very well. Soul Gem System, just what was this thing I was born with?"

[Authority Level is too low, request denied.]

Rean and Roan's mouth twitched.

"You already said so much, couldn't you go a little further?"

[Authority Level is too low, request denied.]

"Sister Orb, that's not you, right?"

Sister Orb felt aggravated.

[I told you, this 'me' that you are hearing now did not answer those questions.]

Rean nodded.

Roan, on the other hand, decided to ask something else.

"Soul Gem System, it seems like I got involved by coincidence too. At the moment, both Rean and I have this connection between us. At the very center of this connection, there is you. You said that you fused with the 'thing' Rean was born with, and now we are all somehow attached together. Does that mean I have it too?"

[Host Roan is correct. This 'connection' with the other half of the Universe is now shared by both hosts.]

Roan nodded.

"I expected as much. Otherwise, I couldn't really see a reason to keep Rean and me together like this. Anyway, let's continue..."

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Author's Note: Weekly deal is back, check the notes.