Warlock of Oceans: My Poseidon System

"We do, but I refuse to let you meet her. In addition, she is currently out on another mission against the disgusting dark temple."

"Then I won't be telling you anything. Let me join, or let me talk to your leader. Either of those will do in order for you to hear what I can explain, what I can tell, and what I can give."

The air in the room was getting tense, but I refused to back down as I was just getting the upper hand.

"You have a lot of confidence for somebody so weak."

"You won't be killing me now that you know I have valuable information. And I doubt you'll be getting some kind of information out of a dead body since that is a skill exclusive to the dark temple…." I smiled, and upon hearing the man click his tongue, I knew I had won.

"State your terms. I'm sure you have other things you want to ask or know ...."

"In exchange for me telling you the information I know, I will, in return, get to join your religion free of charge. I won't need to worship your god, but I will still do work for the army that you all have created. On top of that, tell me what you really want from me,"

"Huh? What do you mean?" The man attempted to play dumb, and his act was convincing, but I had a hunch that there was something else to this invitation.

"Sure, I'm an apostle, but you could have easily withheld the information of your army from me and introduced me to the lower ranks. I mean, I'm a child, and you seriously gave me the opportunity to become a general?"

The man's eyes narrowed, fixating sharply on me while he began to think things over.

"How old are you really?"

"Just know that I recently started middle school. That's really everything you have to know and would want to know."

"*sigh*... Okay, we'll start the ritual later. Normally, anybody can just chant the words that give up part of their soul to our god, but as an apostle, you have no need to do that. You already have a connection to our god, and I doubt he would want you to give up such a thing."

"Does it cut your power in half or something?"

"I guess you could say that. Anyways… you want to know why I found you so special?" The man asked, and upon seeing my swift nod, he continued. "You have a strange connection to our god. It's just through the power of being an apostle, but you almost seem to embody the very being who died back then. It's almost like you're his vessel."

"Hm… Then what do you want to do with it? You can run tests on me if you want because I've also been curious about this connection."

"You were aware?"

"Of course. It's also connected to the information I hold…."

And as the man leaned forward intently, I decided to just say it. I could trust these guys with such information, but that doesn't mean I'll be saying everything until I've confirmed one thing.

"I've had a dream where I found myself in the body of this god back in the past. I could confirm this through my status, which had various skills locked off besides two. His passive skills, though, were all activated and were quite interesting."

"And how can I confirm what you're saying is the truth? And if that is everything that you have to say, then…."

"I can give you a rundown on the very last moments of Ser's death. Everything down to why and how he even managed to get killed. This almighty being who seemed practically immortal… was somehow killed. Strange, right?"

"I've also been wondering about that, but wasn't the demon lord just stronger?"

"No, in fact, the demon lord was weaker. Much, much, much weaker… but there was a traitor. Ser was wise enough to be aware that there might have been a traitor, so he stayed weary, yet the traitor was somebody he had trusted so much and someone who had so much power… that he couldn't make a recovery. In the end, he was stabbed in the back, allowing the demon lord to create a finishing blow."

I weaved some lies in as if I told them Ser had killed himself, essentially sacrificing his empire and himself in order to rid the world of all the evil, he would most likely not believe me.

I'm aware of how crazy these religious fanatics can get, and I wasn't about to let myself get mixed into something so ugly.

Bzzzzt…

『Status』

[Name: Ser]

[Race: Human]

[Class: Aether Celestial]

[Level: --/--] (--/--) XP Needed

[HP: --/-- MP: 1000/1000 SP: 1500/1500] - Normal Human

[Strength: 0] - Normal Human

[Defense: 0] - Normal Humann/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

[Magic: 5000] - Normal Human

[Speed: 0] - Normal Human

[Aether: 10000] - Non Human

[Skills: [Aether Imaginative Creation] [Angel Blissful Wings] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted] [Restricted]

[Passive Skills: [Light Allied Aura] [Dark Enemy Aura] [Trait: Aether] [Angel Core] [Angellic Aura] [Third Eye of Truth]

[Master of Aether: [Foreign Aether Control]

…

Now the skills are restricted? And why does this keep popping up on its own… I'm so fucking confused.

"Hey, how do I stop getting his status to pop up in front of me?" I asked, swiping the panel away, and as the man's face contorted into a bit of a smile, he slowly opened his mouth.

"You really are special… fuck… okay… well, it shouldn't pop up so frequently and on its own. We have to do an entire ritual just to see part of his status… yet you can see the entire thing, right?"

"Yeah… is that a problem?"

"It's the exact opposite. This is incredible. You are truly connected to our god… you may be the one to bring peace amongst the war against the dark god worshippers!"

"I refuse."