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Chapter 32: We are what we are.

  Elizabeth closed her eyes a herself sink within her [Soul]. She went through all the yers of her owence].

  First maing her body at the outside of her [Soulscape], then sinking into the obsidian gem floating in the void that was her [Soulscape]. Appearing in the sky of Aqui, then sinking into the ground of the dead [World], first slowly then faster and faster.

  Soon enough she saw herself once more in the empty space that seemed to be the [Core] of her [Soul], the underground with hundreds and hundreds of crystal spires eg the floor with the [World].

  The same pce she saw [The Shadow Weaver] before, the pce where she sent who would end up being [Reginald] to look after Alid [Elemental Weaver].

  The pce that seemed to symbolize the true identity of her [Soulscape]..

  “What is the Soulscape.” A voice asked her.

  “Such a stupid question, aren’t you tired of it? The [Soulscape] is the refle of the [Soul].” Elizabeth answered, she felt as if this question had been asked to her before. But she couldn’t pce who or where had asked her this.

  “Not yet then.” The voice of a sed girl said, Elizabeth turned around and sure enough she found two girls.

  One blonde like her and a bck-haired.

  “Alice, Chloe.” Elizabeth greeted both of them, “Fancy finding you here.”

  “Not like we could be anywhere else, we aren’t precisely…[Dead], so no reason for us to go to your [Shadow Haven].” Aliswered.

  “Besides, you do need help on this side too.” Chloe said pointing around to the empty space, “Do you have any idea how messy this pce was? And then you made those as if nothing, giving us more job!”

  Chloe grumbled pointed a two crystal spires, one red and one pink.

  “Is that…” Elizabeth asked, she khe owner of those of course.

  “Yes, those are the [Foundation] of yirlfriends…oh god, just the fact that there are more than one is annoying by itself,” Chloe said while grumbling.

  Elizabeth regretted giving [Elemental Weaver] the name Chloe; the Chloe she remembered was nid hot). This one?

  Well…she was also Hot…

  “Don’t ever think about it.” Chloe said gring at Elizabeth, “Go and use a [Doppelganger] or something.”

  The other blonde said while hiding behind Alice, who was also cute…

  Wait…Did…Did her two [Shifts] somehow reflect Rena and Rossie?

  In one hand she had the shy-type cute girl, and iher she had the somewhat crazy one…

  “No Elizabeth, we are normal. It’s you people who are crazy here, who would even see a e of themselves and think ‘Would’?!?!?” Chloe said from behind Alice.

  “*Sigh* why are we even…” ht, Alice was also there. “Stop messing around sis, and you too Elizabeth.”

  It seemed as if Alice was tired, surely it wasn’t that bad?

  “So, as you may have surmised, we are in the deepest part of your [Soul] because your third job evolution is special,” Alice said, snapping her fingers and summoning one of Elizabeth’s blue ss.

  gratutions!

  You have achieved the middle point in your travel. You have achieved something only those worthy of their power, only those who have succeeded in their path for power and glory achieve!

  Stand proud [Hero], for you have arrived at a point in whiight will surpass that of your peers!

  Make your stand among this [World]’s mightiest!

  “See here? This one is special. It only shows up to [Heroes]. Yirlfriends got it, and now that your Mother and Papa have chosen you as a [Hero], you get ooo,” Alice said while pushing the notification toward Elizabeth.

  “So? Then show me the options.” Elizabeth said dismissing the blue s.

  “Here they go, please pie of these.” Chloe said summoning a blue s and throwing it at Elizabeth from behind Alice. “Please pie of those.”

  Elizabeth caught the blue s and started reading her options, to be ho. She wasn’t that impressed, but then again, they did evolve just three months ago. She had hoped to grow stronger a some achievements since leveling up was supposed to get harder the more they grew in levels….

  Avaible Jobs:

  -Witch

  -Sorcerer

  -Warlock

  -Enter

  -Battle Mage

  -Elementalist

  -Mystic

  -Druid

  -Neancer

  -Are Caster

  -Spell Weaver

  -Soul binder

  -Spirit eler

  -Shadow Mage

  -Soul Tamer

  -Sword Master

  -Dark Knight

  -Dragon Knight

  -Dragoon

  -Crusader

  -Shadow Knight

  -Eternal Knight

  -Padin

  -Tempr

  -Crusader

  -Berserker

  -Mystiight

  -Warlord

  -Shadow Weaver

  -Ruler

  -May

  -Murderer

  -Apostle

  -Acolyte

  -Daughter of God

  -Hero

  -Magical Girl

  But then again, her options always had some shenanigans from both her parents and [The World], and remembering what had happened before, Elizabeth had to ask. “Is that all? Don’t I get a [Bck S] too?”

  Chloe looked as if she had ate something sour, while Alice sighed.

  “Yes, you do.” Alice sighed as she said that.

  “Wait! Think this through first, okay? You don’t know where these e right? Maybe they are a trap! Like the Ethan thing! Or maybe they will again corrupt you like with the Pride’s !” Chloe said, bringing up very valid points.

  “Don’t they e from…you know… [The World] too?” Elizabeth asked.

  “They e from A World all right…” Alice mumbled. You o uand something. We are here because we are helping you with the most…. esoteric parts of your power.”

  Yes, Elizabeth had gotten that idea too when Alid Chloe showed up in the deepest parts of her [Soul], she thought they were doing something like that, especially sihe flow of Souls seemed more stable.

  “So? “ Elizabeth asked.

  “Well…we…didn’t have enough time to prepare those; we hadn’t expected you to actually go out of your way and deal with [Shadow Pact].” Chloe said from behind, “Why are you even doing this. What [Shadow Pact] did to us was wrong and everything, but you don’t o deal with him right now, you go about your way, graduate from School after farming more power and then go and deal with him.”

  “But I have to deliver [Chloe]’s Message.” Elizabeth answered.

  “My message to him is for him to go eat dirt, and you send that one by mail if needed.” Chloe answered. “There, just…leave and e ba like a month, okay?”

  “Not you, the inal [Chloe], [Chloe Ashcroft].” Elizabeth said pushing the blue s with her jobs options to the side. “So spit it out, what are the other options.”

  Both Chloe and Alice turned quiet, and in the end, it was Chloe who sighed and summoned another set of bck ss. “Like we said, these aren’t ready. repared them for ter. So they are half finished.”

  Alice took the sed bck s and said afterwards, “These, however, were made instinctually by The World. They are affected by you, so their names and w may seem weird. They shift and ge depending on how you look at them and how you perceive The World.” And like that, both girls pushed towards Elizabeth two sets of bck ss.

  Job Evolution avaible:-Goddess

  -Ruler

  -Empress

  -Saviour

  -Magical Girl

  -Heroine

  -Viliness

  -Shadow Weaver

  These seemed normal enough, even if somewhat ckluster, but they brought iing options.

  Elizabeth was tempted by a few ones here, but she had other oo see.

  Job Evolution avaible from The World:-Empress

  -Emperor

  -Queen

  -King

  -Dragon

  -Dragon Empress

  -Dragon Emperor

  -Dragon King

  -Dragon Queen

  -Pride

  -Sver

  -Debauchery Dragon

  -Shadow Weaver

  …..

  “The heck?” Elizabeth couldn’t help but say aloud, “How many variants of Queehere? And why am I being offered the [King] job? Don’t I need a few extra ans to qualify for that job?”

  That one holy weirded out Elizabeth.

  “Not like you ’t grow one, you have Shift after all.” Chloe said in passing from behind Alice, “But like we said, we don’t trol what shows up on that one! We also think it’s weird you get offered [Emperor] and [Empress] job!”

  Almost as if she could fulfill both jobs, well, she could indeed fulfill both jobs, she had [Doppelganger] and [Shift]. There was nothing stopping Elizabeth from making a male Elizabeth…

  Besides the fact that Rossie and Rena would probably hate her if she showed up as a Male. Well, Rena may end up being scared of her, which would hurt Elizabeth’s heart. But she wasn’t quite sure how Rossie would react.

  She could see her girlfriend both hating the ge and amping up her teasing in an attempt to get her into the bed. Rossie was like that after all.

  “Well, remove the male variants anyway.” Elizabeth said gring at the bck s, “Leave those that give things I use while being Female.”

  Elizabeth did add that at the end, but either way, all the male variants disappeared.

  “Most of the extra things that were added to the Male variant include some skills like [Edless Stamina] and [Body Liquid Replenishment].” Chloe chimed from the side.

  “It's not like I hat info. Also, isn’t a skill that recovers blood useful for me as a female, too?” Elizabeth asked, fused.

  “Well, that skill doesn’t focus on replenishing blood…or water, for that matter.” Alice said from the side as her face blushed red.

  “Then what….liquid….oh….eww……..e.” Elizabeth shivered as she caught on to what [Liquid] that one replenished, which was straight-up nasty. “Yeah, no, never bring that one again.”

  Elizabeth didn’t need or want for that skill to exists, unless she got arouing a male partner, but she doubted that would ever happen. She was just too happy with her two girlfriends. And since Rena hated men…yeah, tough luck for the males in Zaanam.

  “So, give me what we have to work with.” Elizabeth said turning to the survivors of her list of skills. “[Identify]!”

  And so she pointed her [Skill] towards the list of jobs, getting descriptions from them…well, most of them. Mostly those that ied Elizabeth.

  -Soul Binder:You have bound souls, both of enemies and allies alike. Those who work for you do it willingly as you hold the reins over their soul. You offered them freedom yes, but what freedom is the ohat you grant if what awaits for them is damnation? Do they even have a choice, if denying the option of w for you ends with them in a void? And if that wasn't enough, you took a sacred thing such as love and bound it uhe threads of mana. Do they love you? Yes, but what if they suddenly decide that the retionship must end? Whose soul will fracture from that separation? Will it be yours? Or them?

  Will you truly allow the separation to be equal?

  [Increase proficy to binding and sving the souls of others to you]

  [Increases the number of Soul tracts you sustain]

  [Reduces the side effect from breaking these tracts on you]

  [Increases profi Soul Surgery and Soul Replication]

  [Grants the user the ability to mend and fracture Souls]

  [Grants the user the ability to create new souls frments]

  [Earns 20 stat points per level]

  Spirit eler:You have taken upon you the work of using the spirits of the dead to do your bidding, be it to fight, scout, assassialk, or spy. You just 't help yourself and use the spirit of the dead one way or ahis will at least let you el some of their former power so they may rest and you finally do your thing and also have to work for it.

  [Grants you the ability to el the power of the dead using yourself as a medium]

  [Grants you the ability to imbue a spirit into an object so they may ma some aspect of their power or skills while living upon the mortal world]

  [Allows you the ability to speak with the dead and grants you the power to decide if they may work for you]

  [Earns 20 stats points per level]

  Ruler:You stand at the dividing poiween those who are ruled and those who rule themselves. Will you bow to those in power? Or will you stand up and stake your cim?

  This will help you make your case solid and prove to the world that what is yours is yours alone and no one shall cim it as theirs. [The World] will help you settle the disputes and grant you a pce for yourself and those that you care about within her embrace, but always remember Elizabeth Starbright. At the end of the day, you are also an inhabitant of this [World].

  [Grants you the ability to designate an area and Cim it as yours]

  [Any living being within the designated area must respect the rules set up by you]

  [Any rules within the area are enforceable at the expenditure of mana]

  [Any being that breaks the rules set up by you will suffer damage to their Mana, Mind, or Soul depending on the severity of the rule]

  [The rules must be something that the people within follow and are willing to follow at least under normal circumstances]

  [The area designated as yours must be ahat you actively monitor and enforce without assistance from this job]

  [Points earned per level 24]

  Murderer:You are what you are; some may cim it was in self-defense, and some may cim you weren't at fault. Hell, some even may cim that you are also a victim. But we know better, don't we?

  You killed someo wasn't an act, it wasn't something that yret deeply, and it wasn't something you even thought about before. That is how much of an impact it made on you. Were you worried about something else? Perhaps. Did it escape your mind? Of course.

  But even so, you are the reason people are dead. And no, this isn't the first time either was it? Didn't you end the st whisp of life of Aurelia Vitelius? Didn't you pn the murder of Suzuki Akira? Didn't you io "Kill anyone upon this world should X thing happen to Y?"

  To some it was merely a threat, a joke. But we both know how serious you were. Worry not Elizabeth Starbright, for [The World] will not judge you. But even if we will not, you do o take heed of this event. For people will eventually know.

  [Grants skills suited to eliminate evidenurders]

  [Grants skills suited to trad find suitable targets]

  [Allows the user to hide from w enfort skills so long they are of a lower quality or lower level]

  [Grants 22 stats points per level]

  Hero:You have arrived at a point in which it is obvious what you are and what you will do. But all heroes arrive at this point, and not all are the same.

  So how does one reward a [Hero] without shunning another? How we make sure that all the heroes have the same reward, a feels especial to ead every one of them?

  By the nature of a [Hero]'s work, they all are especial in different ways. One may need a [Hero King] to raise an [World]'s Nation from the brink of destru, but not all [Hero Kings] o do the same things; some may o fight a political mess left by their predecessors, some may o fight and revolutioheir ey. Some may o fight wars against other nations while also proteg the Throne.

  Not all [Hero Kings] are the same.

  And this isn't to mean that all [Heroes] are [Hero Kings]. No, we have so many more, [War Hero], [Sage Hero], [Healing Hero], [Nameless Hero], [Hero God]...So many variations of the same thing, all with peculiar powersets that make them unique for the situation they were made. And then...

  Then there is you Elizabeth Starbirght:

  Daughter of [Gods].

  Ior.

  The Shadow Empress.

  The Elemental Weaver.

  The Stardust Weaver.

  The Dragon Empress.

  The Emperor of Aqui.

  The Broken Hope of the Saintsworths.

  The Debauchery Dragon.

  The Camity Dragon.

  So many names, so many paths of power...You aren't the first [Hero] that causes this issue, nor will you be the st. And with all of those that came before you and those that will e after you, the answer remains the same. Our [Answer] will remain the same.

  [Especial privilege earned, you may pick this job and fuse it with another one avaible to you]

  [The sed job bonus will be added to this one as is, y will be received for either job]

  [You may upgrade all your Skills, and ara bonus will be added to any skill that is deemed Vital to your job]

  [You will earn 25 stat points per level]

  Magical Girl:Usually, a Magical Girl is the emblem of hope; they are born from the darkest pits of despair and e to illumihe city, t a ray of hope, to turn despair into joy. Tears into ughter, they are what turn the darkest pits of hell into a pce where you may ugh and cheer. They turn the worst city into a pce where you may walk at night without fear. They make their city so stupidly safe that you even sleep with your doors open at night.

  Do you resemble anything like this? No

  A you g to this title as if it was what you want. It isn't.

  So while we pretend to be something we aren't, we shall grant you this to ensure you don't do anything stupid (AGAIN).

  [This is the same as the Hero Job]

  [All the rewards are the same]

  [It is a copy-paste of the Hero Job, I am not kidding]

  [You will earn 25 stat points per level]

  “....some of them are missing, is this thing broken?” Elizabeth asked trying to get a feeling why not all of them had shown. “[Identify]!”

  And so she tried again, infusing more mana into the skill and sharpening the [Idea].

  “Not gonna work, you are using a square to try a to fit into a circle.” Alice said from the side.

  “I mean, there was that video of the woman shoving all the wood toys into the square hole…” Chloe said from the side.

  “Not now, sis,” Alice scolded the blohese aren’t part of the normal circle your skill belongs. You o use Idea.”

  “Didn’t I use [Idea] before?” Elizabeth asked, fused, “What are you talking about? See [Identify]!”

  And going through the motions, Elizabeth pointed her skill towards the bck-haired girl…only to find nothing. Elizabeth took a deep breath and focused, first she thought about what she wanted.

  She wao know the information that could be obtained, she wao see the data to decide what to do, with a firm idea of what she wanted, she fed that into her mana. She felt her thoughts travel into the lump of mana she had assigned for this, using that she focused on her skill once more.

  She felt the [Skill Node] ier part of her [Soulscape], right now it was a puter station in the tral spire in Aqui. There she fed the mana brimming with her [Idea] and opening her eyes fog into the activation of the skill… “[IDENTIFY]!” Elizabeth said, feeling one of her stro [Identify] yet.

  Error:Entity from outside the System.

  “Okay, that one, I am sure had [Idea] on it. What is happening?” Elizabeth said, trying not to think too much about her hurt ego.

  “You are using [Idea], ohat is tied to [Zaanam]; we aren’t on Zaanam, are we?” Alice said, pointing at the ceiling, “Where are we?”

  Well, they were in her [Soulscape]...oh…”Damned hell, we aren’t in Kansas.” Elizabeth grumbled. “Do I o learn a new path of power then? Is that it?”

  “Of course not, that would be silly.” Chloe said from behind Alice, how much more time was she going to stay there? “You already know how to use it, you have used it before. Feel your mana, think of what you wish, and say the words.”

  “This feels way more esoteric than when Mother taught me about [Idea].” Elizabeth said, that oime her Mother had turned her into a [Star] only to taught her how to [Speak], and that had been nuts. “Fi me focus.”

  Elizabeth closed her eyes once more, she thought about what Chloe had said.

  She already knew how to use it? Of course she knew, she had wielded [Idea] before, she had seen what those who wielded it did. How they rewrote reality.

  She was half sure Alexanders and Alexa could wield it too, way better than her or anyone else.

  So…how to do it…You focus what you want into mana, shove it into a package and make reality bend over to fulfill your wish. That was, in a nutshell, what her grandmother had taught her.

  But that wasn’t it was it? It was too crass, one would bruteforce their approach, and in turn would probably end witouth mana even with ges too small to even notice, there must be another way to do it.

  “First…what do I need, how it be achieved, what I wish…” Elizabeth said while thinking.

  She wao know what those [Jobs] would grant her…

  No, she wao know what those Jobs would grant her…

  It wasn’t the same, if these bck ss weren’t ected to Zaanam, then they didn’t grant [Jobs], the [Job] system was from Zaanam after all. Then what did the bck ss give? And from where did they got it?

  She also wao know that…In a nutshell what she needed was information, what she wished for was information. She o identify what they would give her.

  “Identify” Elizabeth whispered as she was focused on finding a way to feed her mana with that.

  Only for her Mana to grant her wish by itself, she saw the Mana travel from her navel into her heart, from there into her head, to her brain and then to her eyes. She saw a blue fme ma in her eyes for the briefest of seds, and sure enough. In front of her were a series of bck ss.

  StatusNameAlice StarbrightHealth: TitleShadow Of AquiMana: Passive TitleApostleStamina: Guardian of ShadowsEternalHeroineLevel Job:Strength ?????? ?? ??? ?????stitution Job Skills: Agility General Skills: Dexterity Title Skills Intelligenbsp; Wisdom Charisma StatusNameChloe StarbrightHealth: TitleLight Of AquiMana: Passive TitleApostleStamina: Guardian of LightEternalMagical GirlLevel Job:Strength ????? ?? ??? ?????stitution Job Skills: Agility General Skills: Dexterity Title Skills Intelligenbsp; Wisdom Charisma “Alid Chloe Starbright huh…aren’t we getting fortable here.” Elizabeth said as she read the first two bck ss, she found the nostalgic sight of glitched out parts. “Ah, glitches in the words how have I missed you…not. And hello missing information...Didn't think you would be a thing.”

  “Glitches?” Chloe said moving from behind Alice’s bad walking to the side of Elizbeth, “I don’t see any glitch-”

  “That is normal, the system is new and this is a mere interpretation of how you view and process the information.” Alice said elbowing Chloe, “The information will fix itself out eventually, for now focus on the feeling.”

  Elizabeth didn’t need Alice’s reminder for this of course, she was already trying to tto the feeling she had gotten.

  So, taking another deep breath, Elizabeth raised her hand. With her index finger, she poi the bck s with the jobs made by Alid Chloe, “Identify,” a her mana flow through her body.

  It felt right, as if this was what she was born to do as if this was sed nature.

  Job Descriptions:Goddess: You are taking your first steps into the unknown; your Domain has settled upon your soul. You have found loyal servants to manage your demesne, both ierial and ierial world. Open your wings, and prepare your church.

  The time for the Goddess of Shadows to desd upon the world is at the ready.

  [28 Stats points per level]

  Ruler: We copied this one from this from [The World] tehe ;p

  [28 stats points per level]

  Empress: You have an empire at your hands, and have decided to rule it following your whims, but even so. Your empire didn't fall, so long live the Queen. This job will help you keep your Empire and give you a more closer link with your empire and its inhabitants.

  [99928 stats points per level]

  [Don't fet to delete it before sending it to Elizabeth sis]

  Do we even have to make these? Not like Elizabeth will decide to e and take one, anyway. Copy paste Magical Girl and Heroine here, we o make something hat will keep her grounded so she doesn't go nuts or something. Also add the Shadow Weaver thing [The World] keeps poking us with....

  Also add a Viliness Job, as for perks...Maybe background music? Also a library of i speeches yes, and some [Shift] capacities to her [Minions], yes.

  The information was ly set up, giving her enough to know about the jobs that had been made avaible to her.

  “Oooh, didn’t k would give you this too.” Chloe said from the right, pointing at the status earned per level, “We didn’t know how many you would get when making them, nice.”

  Elizabeth didn’t feel a call to any of those, to be ho. Most gave below 21, but then again, going by the descriptions, most had been made in a rush and would require her to pull the quality up.

  No, Elizabeth wouldn’t be taking one of those.

  “Identify” Elizabeth instead poi the other bck s, the ohat had been made from how she saw and interpreted the jobs.

  “Yetting good with that.” Chloe said from the side as the new data was dispyed for the three girls to read.

  “It’s almost as if this was something I was meant to do all along.” Elizabeth said as the information started showing.

  Jobs:-Empress: We are of royal blood, those that surround us are weaker and pitiful beings waiting for our rule to better their miserable lives. Will we help them? So long they bend the knee we will. For we are kind to the vermin that tries to stick with us.

  -Queen: We are not only of royal blood, but we are also humble. We are willing to accept less than we deserve ale for a more humble title, what we do for our useless servants.

  -Dragon: It is in our blood, it is in our soul, it is what we are. And we will accept it, for it is our Birthright.

  -Dragon Empress: It is what we are.

  -Dragon Queen: It is what they should call us.

  -Pride: We are just better.

  -Sver: ...we are sorry.

  -Debauchery Dragon: Our mistake.

  -Shadow Weaver: Our duty.

  Now this? This was more like it... Elizabeth decided to ighe weirder aspects of the [Bck Ss] and pretend she wasn't seeing some parts of it, for...the sake of moving along this.

  Elizabeth could see how each of these affected her, and how they would evolve as she used them, she was half tempted to nab some of those. And wondered how her as had ended with the creation of those, for ones she roud…for others she was ashamed.

  And of course, there were those that reflected her darkest moments. And above all…There was a job that she was surprised to see.

  “How I pick again [Shadow Weaver]? I am already that.” Elizabeth asked, the description hadn’t ged that much either.

  “That will allow you to refine and increase the power and ease with how you use your powers. We just found out about this system too, it seems to allow you to increase your affinity towards some skills and powers, so you just are more at something.” Aliswered, “Like, for example, if I have the [Shadow Empress] job, then taking it a sed time would allow my powers as a [Shadow Empress] to beore defined and powerful. Maybe even awaken more skills in tuh it, perhaps I could end with a [Domain]-like area where my words are rules to be followed.”

  “Or she could awaken a [Skill] to let her bestow [Knighthood] into someone, granting them parts of her powers in exge for their [Loyalty], this being enforced by [The System] would mean absolute loyalty,” Chloe added, that was some…dark things.

  “So doubling down as [The Shadow Weaver]...” Elizabeth said, reading once more the description.

  “Would meaher increasing your powers as [The Shadow Weaver] or opening your path to get [Skills] to allow you to do what you are supposed to do as [The Shadow Weaver].” Aliswered. “Are you going to take it?”

  ….Did she want to?

  She could take another one and increase her versatility. Did she he powers of a [Shadow Weaver] right now?