Chapter9

[ Rank path mismatch detected ]

[ Current display: Shard Path ]

[ Recommended correction: Destined Path ]

[ Apply rank path change? ]

He stared at it with a strip of meat still in his hand, his brows pulling together.

'What does that even mean,' he thought, looking between the lines again, 'rank is rank. How can there be a wrong path?'

"Destined path?" he said out loud, frowning at the panel. "Is this thing trying to flatter me now?"

He tapped the warning and the status screen folded away, replacing itself with another set of lines that started appearing one after another.

[ Power in Ouro manifests through two recorded paths. ]

[ Common Path: Shards ]

[ Destined Bloodline Path: Rings ]

His chewing slowed as he read the next lines.

[ Shards are the standard manifestation used by awakened beings of Ouro. ]

[ Rings are the hereditary manifestation of those tied to the bloodline of the Goddess of Reincarnation. ]

[ Those of that bloodline do not walk the path of Shards. ]

[ They walk the path of Rings. ]

The food in his mouth suddenly had no taste at all.

'Bloodline?' he thought, staring so hard at the words that his eyes started to hurt, 'what bloodline? If something like this was tied to me then why was I thrown away like trash?'

He sat up straighter and felt his ribs complain, but he ignored that and kept reading.

[ Host lineage confirmed. ]