CHAPTER SIXTEEN

So even evil gods can bleed, I guess that's good to know...

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Twig stood up and hugged his mother just for a moment

He was starting to get what the healer might have meant

“Yes, the System told me I should go now, silently

I wish I could tell you more, but I should go quickly”

System Message

Warning, do not mention what the System has to say

You must share your orders in a slightly more vague way

Any further threats to this timeline must be erased

Go now, while the source of this anomaly is traced

Twig’s face paled as he read his new message quietly

Michael had a feeling why, and he felt uneasy

“Quickly boy, get out of here before you doom us all

The System is no fairy tale, and you will heed it's call”

Twig’s father was solemn and he nodded his big head

“Listen carefully to what the town healer has said

Legends tell of System Messages preceding doom

What you read today must never ever leave this room”

Stories weren’t uncommon among veteran heroes

But the System Message myths were of the worst of those

No one dared to guess what lay beyond the realm of gods

Even guardians had never dared to test their odds

Achievement: This is Bad

I don’t know how this all went so wrong, but then, it's you

Whatever that message said, do what it tells you to

I can’t risk you screwing everything up yet again

Bring harm to that town and you’ll wish you had died back then

Twig was almost happy to see such a normal screen

“My old guardian is back, although he’s still so mean!”

“That cruel god is still a bother to you, you poor boy?

Is torturing the innocent something gods should enjoy?!”

His mother hadn’t heard him complain of the god for years

She remembered well his messages brought him to tears

But he’d simply chosen to ignore them while he trained

Even when the cruel relentless words left his mind strained

“Yes, he never left me, but he can’t hurt me again

I will train until I have the strength of fifty men

So I’ll leave you now, and forge a unique destiny

Even gods and curses aren’t enough to frighten me”

Achievement: Nonsense

Not if I can help it, I’ll make you the weakest thing

I’ll make you so weak that you could die to anything

You’ll be slower than the slowest slug upon the ground

Now let’s figure out how to move these numbers around...

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Achievement: ...

What the heck is all this garbage, where did your stats go?!

Aren’t there only supposed to be six options or so?

Maybe it’s a glitch caused by your own incompetence

Let’s see if I can lower these, is this one defence?

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System Message

Warning, further infiltration into this blue box

May result in a low scale temporal paradox

Further attempts to alter this artificially

Will be seen as a willful act of hostility

Achievement: OUCH!!!

Holy smokes, that message hurt, it’s not messing around

Any more of that might just have put me in the ground

I mean, as your god and guardian, I’m still in charge

But the damage to your system seems to be quite large

Twig just watched in silence as the System warned his god

If he wasn't so scared he felt he might want to applaud

Such great powers were conversing in his status screen

Still he failed to understand what half of it might mean

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