"Reawakening of the legacy?" Diana asked. "I thought that you haven't been using it lately after the death of the Scholar Guardian."
Arthur paused. "You can read these words?" he asked. Diana nodded. "That's strange. The only ti soone was capable of seeing my legacy was when Suyin saw use it. And that's because she was the daughter of Morana."
"Maybe it's because of this ichor," Diana said. "Do you know what the reawakening can do?"
"The legacy should know," Arthur said. As if on cue, the words began to change in front of them. Diana took a step aside to read the rows of words that hovered in front of them.
[You have obtained the Ichor of a Divine Being.]
[Your legacy has been created from a different Ichor.]
[You can now use the divine blood to reawaken your legacy.]
[Warning!]
[Reawakening the legacy will reset all paraters.]
[Reawakening the legacy will delete all previous skills and abilities (allowing for a new scan of the user).]
[Reawakening the legacy will restructure the frawork.]
[Reawakening the legacy can grant it a sentience.]
[Reawakening the legacy can cause recalibration of the body.]
[Reawakening the legacy can remove all benefits granted by previous legacy.]
[Reawakening the legacy can mark the user for astral beings.]
[Reawakening the legacy can cause loss of the previous legacy.]
[Reawakening the legacy can release it from the control of the owner.]
[Reawakening the legacy can release it from the control of the user.]
[Reawakening the legacy will request a new purpose for the legacy.]
The rows kept appearing, flashing in the room. Arthur and Diana read them with grave expressions, understanding that none of these things sounded beneficial, only harmful.
"Why would anyone use the ichor in this way?" Diana asked.
"I don't understand it myself," Arthur said as he began to scroll through the notifications as if he was used to it. Then, once he found no explanation of what it would do, he dismissed them. "Maybe the main legacy will have it."
Diana watched as Arthur waved his hand, and a giant screen appeared. She began reading it, and realized that it contained all the information about his stats and abilities and several other functions.
"What's that party function?" she asked.
"Oh, it allows to share experience with others. I don't use it anymore after I gave everyone access to the legacy."
"Experience?"
"It's what allows to level up," Arthur said. "Levels are a little weird, but the general gist is that it's a level regarding the legacy and not my power. The higher my level is, the more adept I am at using the legacy and the runes."
"You haven't been using runes lately," she said. "I always felt like it was a sha. Creation is your thing, right?"
Diana couldn't read his expression, but then she saw it in his eyes. A slight shift, as if he rembered sothing, and knew that this was what he needed to hear.
He needed to know he was more than just an instrunt of wrath.
"I can't use them against the gods. Wrath works best against them," Arthur said. "I have to cancel their abilities instead of clashing against them."
"That makes sense," she said. "But what if you used both? Wrath can be a great thod to protect yourself and force the gods back, but I think that the runes carry an inexplicable power too. For example, it would let you teleport, or cast a shield, or duplicate yourself."
"The last one is hard," Arthur said with a laugh. "I can now write runes, but I cannot write anything higher than my own level."
"How would you know which is which?" she asked.
Arthur paused.
"I don't know. I just feel it."
"Maybe this legacy thing can help you. It said it would… reset the paraters? That should an it would know what changed and what you need, right?"
"It would help to know what this reawakening does," Arthur said with a sigh. Diana looked at the giant screen again, and then spotted sothing at the bottom.
"Is that the legacy itself?" she asked and pointed.
Arthur raised his head and looked at what she was pointing at. He scrolled down to get a better view, and the text floated to be in front of them.
[Spiritual Artifacts]
[- Level Up Legacy (↑↑↑)]
[- Legacy of Spirits (↑↑↑)]
"This is new," Arthur said with a frown. "It seems I can also reawaken the legacy I obtained in the Spirits Realm."
"These blinking arrows seem like they are asking you to reawaken the legacy," Diana said. "Maybe they would tell you what it does."
Arthur nodded and clicked on them.
[Reawakening of Legacy]
[Legacies are as old as life itself. It's the connection between the past, the present, and the future. In usual instances, the legacies are created by sacrificing one's soul to help another in exchange for one or more requests.]
[In rare instances, a legacy can be reawakened under special circumstances. The first condition is for the owner to release the legacy. The second condition is for the user to be capable of full control of the legacy and its frawork. The third condition, the hardest to et, is the material needed to reawaken an existing legacy—the Ichor of Gods.]
[Reawakening the legacy is resetting and turning it from a legacy to a true artifact. It will design the optimal path to reach a specific goal that the user can determine, and will resolve once that goal has been achieved.]
[Legacies are more powerful once they have reawakened. However, it cos with a great cost: if the goal is not t before the death of the user, then the legacy will consu the soul to resolve.]
[The goal for the legacy is called The Endpoint. Once it has been set, the legacy will provide whatever ans necessary to achieve that Endpoint. The harder the goal to be achieved, the more powerful the legacy would be, and the more sentient.]
[Endpoints co with a risk of deviation in the sentience of the legacy if the user does not reach Progress Points toward the Endpoint. If no progress has been made to resolve the legacy, it will orchestrate scenarios where that happens.]
"That's a lot of explanation," Arthur said. "And there is more? But the general gist is that this is like running a treadmill that you can't stop unless you finish your session."
"A treadmill?" Diana asked in confusion.
"A device that lets you run in place."
"That sounds silly," she said. "Why would I want to run in place when running is to get sowhere?"
"So people prefer to run without having to interact with the outside world, or sothing," Arthur said with a smile. "That's a debate between joggers and gym-goers, I think."
Diana shrugged. "In any case, I don't like this reawakening thing. It sounds like a self-oath."
"Is that like the oath you demi-humans have?"
"More like aiming a sword at your neck and screaming at yourself in the mirror," Diana said. "It's an oath taken against oneself to achieve sothing. Many knights take a self-oath to grow stronger in a year."
"And if they don't?"
"Not much different than this," Diana said. "The oath wants to be resolved. Sotis I wonder if their re existence is tornting for them."
Arthur was silent and then turned his head toward the following explanation.
[Reawakened legacies will assimilate Unawakened Legacies and evolve them as well. The new structure will include the best of all legacies to help the owner reach the Endpoint.]
[Once reawakened, a legacy needs sustenance. Progress Points are the major need for the legacy, but Minor Progress Points contribute to the ultimate goals, and these can be divided into several categories.]
[The Endpoint needs a strict definition and needs to avoid ambiguity. Endpoints that don't have a clear end, or ones that remain vague and personal to the owner, will result in a deviation that allows for the interpretation of the sentient-legacy.]
[If the user dies before the legacy is fulfilled, the sentient legacy will be in control of what happens to his soul, including reincarnation, transmigration, soul-destruction, recalibration, resurrection, reanimation, possession, fragntation into soul-shards, conversion into an astral beacon, consumption by the legacy itself, binding into a spiritual artifact, dissolution into ambient mana, fusion with the body of another host, transference into an unborn vessel, banishnt to a sealed realm, condensation into a soul-core, being rewritten as a new legacy, summoning as a wraith-bound familiar, entrapnt in the dream of a god, preservation within a tiless vault, offering to an astral tribunal, burning in an eternal karmic fire, erasure from the cycle of causality, conversion into a runic script of power, inversion into an anti-soul that corrodes worlds, sublimation into pure ichor for another bearer, collapse into a void fragnt, shackling as a servant to the legacy's will, rebirth as an artificial divinity, projection into parallel realms simultaneously, dissolution into forgotten history, crystallization as an eternal monunt, assimilation into the mories of the living, fading into an echo that haunts the chosen Endpoint, reshaping into a phantom conscience of the legacy, imprisonnt within a cycle of unending trials, reforging into the first stone of a new reality, repurposing as nourishnt for future legacies, enslavent to the will of astral beings, conversion into a key that unlocks forbidden seals, dissipation across every star as scattered whispers, shattering into anomalies across ti itself, and condemnation into silence where no thought can exist.]
Arthur and Diana stared at the long text that almost sounded like every possible fate that Arthur's soul would suffer if he failed to reach the Endpoint of this reawakened legacy.
"That's not scary at all," Arthur said in sarcasm, which Diana received like a comforting glimpse of his old self.
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