Angel Monarch

"How do you know that?" Sera only smiled and showed him her status window, on it he could clearly see the race change counter. She even showed the description.

"As you can see, when you achieve full Heritage status before evolving you gain the ability to change your race after a while. Do you understand now?"

Otto was frozen, he thought there was some feeling within ones body when they get closer to race change, but if the Watch showed it that could only mean one thing...

\'It\'s part of the system...\'

He might have accidentally said it out loud because everyone began staring at him, like he was insane.

"What system?" Asked Sarah, even she wasn\'t aware of this truth. Otto never got the chance to share it with her. He took a deep breath and collected his thoughts.

"Our Watches, you probably already noticed they know things that they shouldn\'t be able to. The descriptions containing the history of other Realms, how could a piece of tech possibly have that information. The answer is very simple, it doesn\'t.

"There is this dust humans found after Madness ripped open our world and the Apocalypse began. That they this dust fell from the sky and we quickly realized that placing it in this Watches not only powers them, but gives it an self writing A.I. We didn\'t code these Watches they coded themselves.

"They also give you and interface where you can see what do you have in your storage, it doesn\'t actually gives you one. It is still a mystery how we gain items and how we can summon them, one working theory is that the soul evolves with the body and you store the items there..."

"Otto get back on track! What is important about this system?" Asked Sarah somehow at the same time emotionless and annoyed.

"I was just about to get to that. A couple years prior we discovered something else, when we made contact with the first of the other intelligent species. They had a similar event happen in their Realm as well, but they said that this system was The Path to the Divine.

"Its main purpose is to help any individual reach their highest potential and even godhood."

Finishing his monologue there was only silence, even Vicky stopped eating to listen. Sera thought about this information quite a while, then she realized what Otto was saying.

"You mean that the last rank and class in evolution is becoming a god?" Otto smiled at her satisfied with her deducing capabilities, it made explaining things much easier.

"Indeed, but it is not that simple. The ranks before Ethereal is easy to achieve, you collect thousand essence which becomes more difficult each rank because you can only absorb monsters that have equal or higher class then you rank. Oh, by the way you can only use monsters that are higher class than you for evolving.

"But after Ethereal it all changes, I\'m not exactly sure of the process since father was never in a sharing mood. What I managed to discover is that it has to do something with ruling or belief. But that isn\'t really important, the problem is that after you reach Empyrean there is no top. Your soul can absorb infinite amount of essence and can even generate its own, which means..."

"Which means given time and killing all the competition you can even rule every single Realm. Are they really doing this, the Empyreans? They are killing each other for more power?"

Sera\'s words made Otto\'s expression fall, since she figured it out already he could explain the last bit of knowledge he has.

"Yes... Yes they are... There is a reason why on Earth there isn\'t any Celestial or Empyrean. Other Empyreans hunted them down for more power. The only reason they don\'t kill the Ethereals and anyone lower than them, is because we aren\'t worth the effort. Just one Celestial has more essence, than all of humanity combined.

But it isn\'t all bad, because of this they killed all of the strongest monsters as well. They doomed and saved us at the same time."

When he finished none of them said a word, this wasn\'t really what they gathered here for. They only wanted to ask them to help kill their power hungry father, instead somehow the conversation reached levels previously unknown to all of them. After a while Bea was the first one to speak.

"This is not important currently. We can\'t do anything about Empyrean level threats or even Ethereal ones. All we need to do currently is focus on getting stronger and take out your father. Sarah, you are an Evolved as well right?"

She nodded and Bea continued.

"Then I think it would be the best if you followed our example. Go and try unlocking all your Heritage, then come with us for a long hunting trip. What do you say?"

Sarah\'s expression didn\'t change the slightest, but it felt like her cold demeanor decreased a notch.

"Okay, but I want to talk to that Will guy. He is the emotionless right?" The trio looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Eventually Sera said, "Yes, but it\'s weird that you know his name."

The confused this time was Sarah. "Why would it be weird? I read through all of your files dozens of times. Everyone in your close group, the only person we know basically nothing about is that Faith woman. She was very secretive."

The trio looked at her with a hint of anger and concern, Otto on the other hand just facepalmed.

\'Did I say something wrong again? I was just honest aren\'t we friends or something?\'

With a sigh Otto apologized. "I\'m sorry about Sarah, she is not the most considered person in the world. But she replaces that with diligence."

They nodded and continued talking.

"Sarah do you have at least one Heritage unlocked?" Asked Sera. She just nodded, held out her hand and around it the air and water particles condensed into a breathtaking trident.

"Good. And do you need help with figuring out the rest or you don\'t need our help?"

"Thank you for the offer, but I got it. Just in case though I will talk to that Will, I\'m curious about his transformation as well." She had a small smile on her face and Otto was frowning at her. He didn\'t seem to like the idea of her sister meeting with a boy. The scene was quite hilarious.

Since there was nothing else to really talk about, they just chatted and ate themselves full with the mostly cold food. Then Sera, Bea and Vicky went back to the campus while Sarah and Otto went back to the castle.

When they came back home it was already quite late, so they decided to speak with the others tomorrow. Vicky was already sleeping in the bed, while Sera and Bea talked about everything in the children\'s room.

"Do you think this is a good idea? I mean we could just let them do whatever they want, or we can just leave, maybe another city will take us in." Bea said these options although she wasn\'t convinced at all about it. In truth she was perfectly fine with killing people who try to threaten her loved ones.

"I don\'t know either. I think it is the right thing to do, but it is very dangerous. But there is no guarantee that other cities are any better or that we can survive the journey there. Considering our current situation the best possible route is to stay and get stronger, we can leave anytime so that shouldn\'t be an issue."

Bea nodded, she agreed with her thinking a hundred percent. She reached out her hand and held Sera\'s. There was still a slight tremble, but it was barely noticeable. She could even plant a kiss on it without her face going pale.

She was just about to ask something, when a very sleepy looking Vicky walked in. While constantly yawning and wiping her eyes she said, "Mommy, I can\'t sleep because of the beeping. Could you turn it off?"

They looked at each other, initially they thought she was just dreaming about something and woke up while still remembering her dream, but then they heard it. A very small periodic beeping sound coming from right under their bed.

Sera began walking towards it, but then she realized what the sound was. She ran back, closed the door behind herself while summoning her wings and pulling Vicky and Bea under their protection, she also shouted, "BEA! PLANTS AROUND US! NOW!"

Without question she summoned it and just in time. One second there was total silence in the dorms, next a loud \'BOOM\' could be heard and destruction soon followed.