'I really am smart. Or I am a narcissistic piece of shit. I don't care either way. The point is these two are related. Unawakened Soul and Rite of Awakening. Anyone with a bit of brain would analyze the two terms and put two and two together to conclude it is related to Soul Awakening.' Noah thought.

'So, if I'm not wrong, the entire Initiation Phase is based on Soul Awakening. We are brought to this place just for that and people here could help us achieve it. Maybe Awakening one's Soul could give someone supernatural abilities aka superpowers.'

'This is so frustrating. Making assumptions upon other assumptions. I really need to go visit the library soon.' Noah sighed in frustration at the lack of information.

'I should move on. We should know about it soon enough if it related to the Main Objective.'

Noah thought as he moved to the next section, Profession and he again got a pop-up.

[Scholar - A Scholar devotes themselves to learning new knowledge. Pursuing new fields of study and their applications. They attain mastery in their research discipline and are well-recognized throughout the multiverse for their thirst for knowledge.]

Base stat growth per LVL: +0.2 in Wisdom & Intelligence and 0.1 in Willpower

Noah whistled in appreciation. This was something entirely new. Reading the summary, he got a general idea of what it was saying. This was basically an option for path specialization. He focused a bit more on the Profession and a prompt appeared.

[Confirm?]

"Hmm." Noah hesitated to confirm at this moment. He wanted to choose this Scholar Profession. The Profession was perfect for someone like him but he didn't know if there were other professions that are better out there and Noah didn't really want to make a hasty decision. So, he regretfully closed the window for now.

He then moved on quickly to the next section since he didn't really trust himself not to go back and choose it without caring about consequences. The next section also offered a reaction.

[Blessing: Universal Tongue (Limited) - Grants ability to understand and converse in every language present within the Multiverse.]

Limited Time Period: 45 cosmic days

'So this is the culprit behind our sudden understanding of the language here. Also, it seems to be a limited-time thing. About half the entire Phase I. Must be granted to be able to interact with the people here.'

Confirming there was nothing more to the blessing, he moved on. The next thing made Noah more than a bit surprised.

[Blessing of the Titanos Ragnarok - recognized and granted a blessing by the Titanos Ragnarok herself. Grants slight growth bonus to all stats and small growth bonus to Strength, Vitality, Endurance and Constitution. Grants access to paths related to Titans.]

'She really kept her promise.' Looking back, Noah felt a lot more time has passed since their last meeting than the actual half day. He almost forgot about the titan lady with who he made a contract. Well, not really but he wasn't really able to think about her in this mess of a situation.

This blessing could be summarized in one word, OP. It offered bonuses to every stat and even stronger bonus to his physical ones. On top of it all, there was some extra benefit he didn't know right now but probably related to his profession or maybe even his race. Now that he thinks about it, She said she had offered him her bloodline.

Though, what was with the designation. Was it something like her title or something different? He felt slightly curious but focusing on it gave no more information so he chose to leave it be.

Finally checking on the Talents, he again got reactions in the form of two blue screen pop-ups.

[Intelligent: Possessing exceptional intellectual capabilities. Grants small growth bonus to Intelligence and slight growth bonus to Wisdom and Willpower. Increases chances of acquiring Intelligence-based skills]

[Focused Mind: Possessing exceptional concentration and focus. Grant small growth bonus to Willpower. Increases chances of acquiring Willpower based skills]

'They are general talents. They should be rare but still found aplenty." Noah heaved a sigh of relief having finally completed checking out the entire Status Page. Turning his gaze to the other two, he saw they were still busy so he decided to not disturb them and relax after the mental exercise.

A dozen minutes passed in relative silence. Noah was disturbed from his rest by someone nudging him awake. Opening his eyes, he saw Ava looking down at him.

"You done?" Noah asked with a yawn.

"Yeah, we're waiting for you to join us." Ava said pointing towards Shaun sitting at the table looking at both of them with an amused look.

Sitting upright, he moved to the side of the couch. Ava took the other side.

"So, how did checking your stats go for you two. I presume it must have been fun."

"You can see for yourself." Shaun said while passing a paper.

[Nimble - Possessing extraordinary reflexes and fine body control. Grants small growth bonus to Agility and slight growth bonus to Willpower. Increases chances of acquiring Agility-based skills.

[Perceptive - Possessing enhanced senses and spatial awareness. Grants small growth bonus to Perception and slight growth to Willpower. Increases chances of acquiring Perception-based skills]

"As you can see Nimble Hands just gives small bonus to Agility along with slight bonus to Willpower while Perceptive gives small bonus to perception also with slight bonus to Willpower." Shaun explained.

Noah put his left hand on his chin while reading the talent summaries.

"Here, this is mine." Ava said putting a paper on the table.

[Tough Will - Possessing extraordinary willpower and determination. Grants small growth bonus to Willpower. Increases chances of acquiring Willpower-based skills.]

[Prodigy - Possessing extraordinary talent. Able to learn and master new skills easily. Grants slight growth bonus to all stats. Grants small growth bonus to two build specialized stats.]

"My Tough Will gives small bonus to just Willpower while Prodigy gives slight bonus to all stats along with small growth bonus in two stats I will specialize." Ava clarified while looking at the different status sheets.

"Now, here is my talent sheet." Noah said handing his own paper.

"Similar to the other talents, Intelligent gives small bonus to Intelligence and slight bonus to both Willpower and Wisdom while Focused Mind gives small growth bonus to Willpower." Noah continued and added his observations.

"I'm seeing a pattern here. There seems to be grades to talents."

"Yeah, there are two. Normal Talents giving small bonus to one stat and rare ones giving small bonus to two stats. Of course, there seems to gap between the two with some slight bonuses to stats appearing closer we get to rare talents. " Ava answered with a smug look.

"No, there should be three. Notice the difference in names. The more stats bonus it gives the less specialized and more general the term becomes. First is specialized talents like Tough will and Focused Mind. Then the general ones which include just one word like Nimble and Intelligent. Finally, the rare ones that are an archetype like Prodigy. We can point the obvious divide between the normal and rare talents but can you find out the one between specialized and normal ones?." Noah explained and added the last part looking at Ava with a smirk.

"I'm not so sure about that. There doesn't seem to be any obvious differences except slight bonus to other stats." Ava said with a tinge of bitterness in her tone.

"Let me give you a hint, Range" Noah said playfully.

"Range, hmm" Ava went deep in thought thinking over the word.

"Range of bonuses. The summary says small bonuses but we don't know what that means. It is safe to assume that it should be a range of bonuses. So, stat growth by specialized Talents should lie in low-mid range while normal ones should lie in mid-high range in terms of the small bonus." Shaun added suddenly joining the conversation led by the two.

Sensing the silence, Shaun looked to see Ava and Noah looking at him with a strange look.

"What?"

"No, it's just you don't normally do something like this. It's generally me and Ava doing the smart talk."

"Just because I sit quietly listening to you two having a childish competition doesn't mean I don't follow along with the conversation."

Noah and Ava had a sheepish expression on their face after listening to him say they were behaving childishly. They couldn't even refute him after looking at their past behavior.

"Anyways, It seems we are quite talented." Noah fake coughed and tried to change the topic.

"What do you mean?" Ava asked innocently joining in to steer the topic away.

Shaun shakes his head seeing their antics.

"I ran the statistics. Having a talent should be rare. Otherwise, it won't be named talent. And having double talents should be even more. There should be less than 10000 people having double talents. While for Ava here, she should in the top 100 for talented people, maybe even top 10. We should be in the top 1000." Noah said looking at the calculations he did in the paper. Obviously, it wasn't entirely accurate since he was assuming the probability of having one arbitrarily but it would give them a general idea about their talents.

"That's amazing" Ava said engrossed looking at his calculations paper.

"It's fine. We have got a general idea now but there are some things still left. For example, there was an extra blessing on top of the language translator one in Noah's status page. It should be related to the titan you mentioned, right. Is everything okay with that?" Shaun asked with a worried look.

"Oh, Everything's dandy" Noah's eyes were smiling while sliding in the note he wrote.

Reading the note, Shaun and Ava bore a surprised look.

"What is with this! This Blatant Cheat!" Ava shouted in indignation holding the paper.