Chapter 562: Painful history
“Death game?” Sofia repeated, not very enthusiastic at the idea, “One of us has to die here? I would rather not participate, then.”
“No, I mean, yes, it’s, uh…” Velania said, flustered by Sofia’s sudden tone change, she took a step back, clumsily stumbling back onto the couch, “D- don’t you have ways to avoid death? I- I can revive you myself if you lose, but you will be stuck like Romuald…”
“Oh… I see, resurrection works? I can do that, yes. Can you also revive yourself?”
Velania nodded, “My mana just… Re-summons me?” she explained, sounding like she didn’t know herself.
“Alright then. I will participate if it is like that, but before that, I notice you just said mana? Since you’ve been here for so long wouldn’t you call it lifeforce or something like that?” Sofia asked.
Velania seemed happy that Sofia wanted to keep going for the divine item after all, but she seemed a bit distraught by Sofia’s new question, she scratched her scarred arm a bit, taking a while to answer.
“D- do you have the system too?” she finally asked.
“Everyone has it,” Sofia answered with a shrug.
“Oh… Just like Romuald said…” Velania commented, fiddling with her hair, “It… It was about two hundred years back, I think? It just appeared out of nowhere, magical transparent blue windows and white lines of text, Romuald got it too. It said the ascended had all accepted to start using the system, that it would help us get stronger and teach us more spells, as well as give us a scribble. I don’t really remember all the details…”