The Earth After Rebirth

"System, can I rename the things you\'ve question marked?"

Ding!

[Maybe the queen gave a few hits too many to the head guardian, there are no question marked items.]

The system had always been kind of useless he didn\'t readily expect for it to be suddenly useful. He was still half-expecting. He still double checked just to be sure he didn\'t imagine them. Sure enough, they were there.

Ding!

[Congratulations on going above level 50 and unlocking the wealth stat. It keeps your wealth safer, depending on how much experience you lose after dying, your wealth may stay intact. It\'s not full proof, so don\'t go dying on purpose.]

"Huh? Wealth stat? There was something like that in the past? I don\'t quite remember." He took a closer look.

In his hurry, he looked over everything else and landed directly on the fact that Hubris was still listed as his mount, meaning one way or another Asgard and the Underworld were connected. After seeing his mount nothing else really mattered.

He took a closer look at his stats this time, he could see how strong he had become. He couldn\'t believe the system was so weak that it thought his kaos energy was infinite. If it were he wouldn\'t be sitting here right now.

"I\'ve gotten quite strong. Ancient robe? Holy sh*t! The monkey King strikes again!" He proclaimed looking at the heavens, excitedly.

With each and every stat he looked at, it surprised him greatly. He was even level 90, no one could hope to catch up to him now unless they discovered the same thing he had.

"Hold on, system, how come I\'m level 90? I was level 46 and you gave me 20 levels!"

[...]

It wasn\'t being sassy this time, it truly had no idea what he was talking about. To it, he\'d always been a level 70 and adding 20 meant 90.

"So, I did level up while down there? That\'s amazing and confusing."

He stopped trying to figure out how all of this worked and focused more on healing. While at it, vibrations was always on, only this time he was able to handle the vibrations that attacked his senses. He was able to filter out frequencies that were too annoying for his liking.

So he laid there, his physical body feeling the world around it and healing, while his astral body was working tirelessly in Paradise. Practicing jump.

What he liked the most about the training in the astral plane was that, none of the side effects came to his physical body. They were experienced by him, but not by him, at the same time.

He could even sense the queen\'s body shrivel up at a distance. He tried going further, maybe, just maybe he could sense other realms, specifically the Underworld. He was connected to it already anyway.

But alas, except for the energy he was getting from there. He couldn\'t sense it, much less opening a doorway. He gave up, for now.

"Oh, you guys are back? Lay it on me what did you find."

Since Kiro was pretty familiar with the mountain having fought it\'s monsters too. Their report was pretty spot on, except for some little missed important details.

What impressed him the most was the fact that the clumsy Ren wasn\'t so clumsy anymore. He took the leading role in this one mission and successfully lead them to safety.

While they were invisible with semi-ethereal bodies, they weren\'t completely free from attacks. But with his leadership, they managed to hide completely in plain sight and observe.

Kiro got up, and stretched his body. He felt really refreshed, He stepped once at the stone floor and disappeared, appearing at the foot of the amount. Just a minute later, the spectres caught up. -official

"You guys are a bit slow." He mentioned with Ryu in his hand hanging on his shoulders, he was still walking barefoot but it was so comfortable, he didn\'t notice.

There were still players attempting a world boss. It was the same earth slug. It looked like a fire-breathing creature made entirely out of mud. He caught a glimpse of the same group, hoarding the monster to get most of its rewards through contribution.

He had never tried this before, but he threw Ryu into the air. He followed with a jump, so heigh that he was able to land ontop of his staff. Surpringly, he didn\'t fall he had perfect balance ontop of his weapon.

He hovered above the monster, changing it\'s properties bit by bit. It went from a mud monster, to frozen mud, to crystallised and eventually, it shattered into thousands of shards.

A naughty smile appeared on his face, he disappeared at the crime scene before the system even gave him a notification.

With a single breath, he was at their home base. After months, it hadn\'t changed a bit. But reminded himself no time had passed.

"Okay gang this is where you\'ll be living, but before that, I need to go scouting. There\'s a dungeon called Armageddon, also, collect information on the crow mafia gang." He finished thoughtfully.

He knew the dungeon from his past life, it was ranked S. But knowing how almost everything was changing in this game, he couldn\'t trust his past knowledge much. He didn\'t even need it with his strength currently.

He still liked being prepared. He walked into their base, and went straight for their shop. He could hear the hammer going at it, even before opening the door.

He creaked the door, darkness was all the room was, except for the furnace that kept the room alive. A little light entered from him opening the door, he peeked, seeing his friend he hadn\'t seen in months.

He simply watched him, creepily, as he worked on whatever he was working on.

"Kiro, the light is disturbing. Come in." Hiro invited him in, he truly preferred being closed off while working.

Kiro entered but he still didn\'t close the door. Hiro hadn\'t looked up once since his friend got here.

He annoyingly took his goggles out, instead of anger, at Kiro\'s appearance, shock and concern plagued his face.

"The hell happened to you?" He asked with a warmer tone than he intended.