Chapter 31: Warning
His skin crawled. "Servitude? To whom? How? When?"
Riven swallowed as he asked those questions. He watched the book intently as he waited for the words to write themselves. Beside him, Kivara shrugged because, as usual, she couldn’t read what was happening.
The red words appeared again. "You have gained the title: Dimensional Necromancer!"
"What? What’s that? Kivara, do you know anything about a Dimensional Necromancer? What are you talking about? What title?" Riven felt as if he should rip the book in two. He felt an invisible chain binding him, and he wanted to do nothing but break it, but he knew instinctively that the book wouldn’t be destroyed.
Kivara shook her head with a frown. "I’ve never heard about that before. It’s not something that’s put together that often either. Dimensional Necromancer?"
The red words continued to write themselves. "Congratulations! You have gained approval to enter the assassination servitude without payment, in service of ###########!
"Warning! You must complete each assassination. Kill your target, or you will be put up for assassination as well!"
"Wait... wait! Don’t approve it! I don’t want to be doing anything in anybody’s service! And why is the name canceled out? Leave me out of this!"
But the book just kept updating without listening to him. "Continue your good work in the service of ###########, and you might one day get rewarded!"
Riven moved away from the book, his whole body feeling cold.
"...What is this?... Is this how the practitioner world is, where I’m just bonded into servitude without giving my approval... just like that?... No... I refuse to accept this!"
Anger filled him then. His whole life had been spent being useless, and now that he was finally free from that, something somewhere thought it could force him into something he didn’t want and had no idea about?