The four look at the crystals John put on the table and Lounoni seemed to turn serious.

“ We call them soul crystals... well the system does. They are the stones we adapted to prisoner bands. Which can reduce every stat not over seventy-five down to ten. If Mary... If Mary only put hers on, she would have been allowed outside of her house arrest. She could have had a normal life and...”

Lounoni puts a hand on his shoulder and John takes a deep breath.

“ She is gone now love, it is time to move on.”

John nods and pushes a pair of crystals toward each of the other two.

“ David I suggest you wait to do your’s till you lay down. You probably have a lot of changes to go through without the system.”

David picks the crystals up as Azanii does as well. While he looks at them, she puts hers on her temples and a black visor appears over her eyes.

Warden

Operating

System v1.00.01.26

Initializing... 100%

System compatability... Passed

Detecting [Divine] element...

Species [dragonkin]

Name [Azanii Silverwing]

...

As more and more information about her scrolled passed her eyes faster than she could see Azanii heard her sister's voice.

“ The startup reads your system log and menu and compiles that info to a much more understandable and comprehensible form. No more long lists of stats and numbers, and the interface is completely adaptable. You can turn on damage numbers, health bars, even give people identifiers over their heads.”

Azanii blinks and the long list of info finishes scrolling by and she sees David looking at her. Unlike before she is seeing much more information. In the top left corner of her screen are her name and three bars under it. The red one is nearly full, the blue one is just under a quarter from being full and a green bar is at the half but noticeably rising.

Under the bars show several icons. The first looked like a seed of fire and a timer under it. Then she realized that was not a seed but an egg. This made her pause her breath a bit before moving on. The next icon showed her looking happy. Which was easy enough to figure out. So was the plate of food beside it.

After the icons, she started looking at the other corners of the hud. The bottom left had a box with words appearing in it from her sister. She turns to look annoyed at and noticed information, including her sister’s full name, appear over her head. Not only that, but the three bars appeared under her name as well. The red bar was full, while the blue bar was at the half and the green bar was under a third.

“ Lounoni, what do the three bars mean?”

“ Well, what do they think they mean?”

Azanii gives her the stink eye as John coughs.

“ Red states your general state of wellness. In gamer terms, hit points. When these hit zero generally the person is unable to fight anymore. We set it up so it is incapacitated instead of death because we know if you hit zero you are more or less out of any fight you are in, but might still live. More important for us in the back lines to know who we can save instead of fighting. You can customize it how...”

Azanii now started giving him the look and he coughed.

“ Anyways, blue is the special bar. For using magic or any other power source. We have noticed dragonkin have a much higher capacity for magic than the other races, but in turn, charge theirs slower. As an example compare me and your sister. Lounoni would have a capacity for a thousand mana but can only regenerate one mana a day, while I would have a capacity of ten, but can recharge fully in an hour. Mind you this is an example and not the actual numbers but...”

This time Azanii nods in understanding. She knows her people of magic as well as physical.

“ And the green bar?”

“ Well, I wanted a stamina bar...”

Lounoni cuts John off as the two looks at each other.

“ But a hunger bar sounded better. You can easily tell how tired you are...”

John interrupts her back and pokes his wife’s arm.

“ You mean satiety bar? Well, yea... with that it should be self-explaining.”

Azanii takes a look at her slowly rising green bar and understood. Ignoring the left side of her screen now she noticed what looked like a compass icon with a long bar beside it. And she noticed this already when she was looking around the table and figured it out. Next to the top right corner. Which had some quests and tasks listed. Some of which ranged from mundane daily things to tasks she forgot to do for a century. Seeing one, in particular, made her feel real bad involving feeding one of her other sibling's pets. And she never did. Deciding to go threw this one later in private, she moves on to the bottom and bottom right sides. They appear empty purposely.

“ You have no weapons or potions or anything like that. You are literally bare ass in a chair.”

Azanii snorts a little fire to her sister's comment.

“ Fair enough. These are mine right... I mean to keep?”

This caused both Lounoni and John to turn to look at David. Who was playing with one of the crystals he got under his finger.

“ What?... I am not going to like this next question am I?”