CHAPTER 251: STORE UNLOCKED

Riven stared at the screen, his face was a different mix of emotions: surprise, shock, and confusion. He listened to every word that Frozen Fish spoke, in hopes that he would gain some sort of understanding from them.

"You see, Riven, you are a character who wasn’t fully built. You weren’t developed with goals and an end aim; you were a blank canvas thrown in for fun.

Like I said before, Noel was the important factor of your family, but I believed that having only one important member from his family would be a little off, so I made you."

"Why did you put me into this world? Why didn’t you allow your story to go as it was already?" Riven asked. It was the question he had wanted to ask for so long now, the question that made him search for Frozen Fish everywhere. He needed to know.

"Why? Because you asked. You said you could craft a story better than what I did. That’s the reason I pulled you in," he responded.

"What? You did this because you were petty, because of a simple comment?" Riven asked.

"Oh no, beyond your comment, I saw an opportunity, an opportunity to create a new perspective in my world. And so that’s why I took you.

The reason I brought you to this world, Riven, is because this work is stuck," Frozen Fish said.

"Stuck? How come? What?" Riven asked.

"That I can’t tell you, but I need you to understand that this world was stuck. Then I saw the opportunity. I saw you, Riven.

This is the most I can tell you, Riven Von Grave. Continue on your path of strength and fix this world, stop it from being stuck. This is the most I can tell you," Frozen Fish said.

"Wait, you said something about Riven not supposed to be hated, but rather disliked and ignored," Riven said, wanting to understand what that was about.

"Yes, you were only despised because to allow you to exist in this world, chaos had to be part of you, a logic I can’t explain to you. But due to it, people instinctively wanted to hate you, and your character helped.

That is the reason everything was hard at the beginning. You altered the story and that pulled chaos. It would take you twice the work to make someone like you as it would a normal person," Frozen Fish explained.

"What? So everything I went through was just a reaction to me being here?" Riven asked.

"Yes."

"Then what about people like Dark? He had no issues with me," Riven said.

"Where there isn’t any influence, chaos can’t take hold. You had not yet given him an impression, and beyond that, Dark is a neutral and sensible character due to his past.

Now, Riven, this is the final part of the message before I leave you. The reason I chose a goalless and insecure person like you was because I believed that broken bones heal and become the strongest.

Only someone who has been through helplessness can understand the desire to protect and change something," Frozen Fish said.

"Alright then, goodbye. You might never see me again, so enjoy your story, Riven Von Grave." Frozen Fish said, and the message vanished, leaving a blank screen.

Riven sat on his bed. He looked at the blank screen for a few seconds. A lot of questions had been answered and a lot of new ones had come. But if he knew something, it was that his coming here wasn’t a mistake.

"I still don’t understand how your sister is tied to the system and the system is tied to Frozen Fish. I don’t understand the goddess Lumis, if she is below Frozen Fish or if she is above.

I don’t know if the world that the monsters come from is under Frozen Fish or not," Riven said. He fell backward on the bed, his hands spread out.

"We will understand all of it as time goes by," Twilight said.

"I guess so. There is so much that is left to be known," he said and then turned on the bed.

[Store feature has been unlocked]

[Master has now been given the ability to purchase things from the system using system points. System points can be gathered from killing monsters, beasts, or any race, and completing system missions]

Riven shot up the moment he saw that message, his eyes shining.

"A store?" he asked. With only a thought, the system screen changed into a store. He saw tons and tons of stuff, techniques, items.

His eyes widened. Though their prices were huge and he wouldn’t be able to afford them for now, he was still excited.

Then he recalled something. He turned to his side and picked up the book, holding it over the system.

"Hey, you’re more advanced now, right? What is this book? You were in it," he asked.

[Information on ##############]

A jumbled mess came up as the system tried to give information on the book.

[System level too low]

"Nothing is ever simple, tsk," Riven said and dropped the book aside. If the system was too low to understand, then it meant the mysteries of the book were a lot.

"I’m patient," he muttered. He would wait until he could open it.

Knock knock.

Silva walked to the door and unlocked it. He opened it and Noel came in.

"Hey, bro."

"Yeah, what’s up?" Riven asked.

"Nothing much, just thought to inform you that mum and dad have left, and they also left with a representative from the king to check the barony and judge if dad is ready to become a count," Noel said.

"A count? What happened to viscount? That’s a big jump," Riven said.

"I don’t know," Noel said. He walked on and lay down on Riven’s bed.

"Oh, and school is starting in two days, so we are headed back to the academy from here," he added.

"Already?" Riven asked.

"What the hell do you mean, already? We’ve been out for more than a month."