Alchemist In The Apocalypse: Rise Of A Legend!

Primordial records, leveling up, and strange orbs.

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[Ace POV],

Ugh.

'Damn, the pain,' I thought as a slight smile appeared on my face for a split second before disappearing.

Today might be one of the best days of my life if I've ever had one.

Even though anticipation, excitement, and pain could not quite be categorized as emotions, I was still happy to experience them.

Though these three emotions were not what I was looking for, I was pleased to be able to experience something so intense for the first time in my life.

Even though they vanished immediately, except for the pain I'm still feeling, it was a good experience to be able to feel something that had been in me for a long time but was too weak to feel.

It's a shame I might not be able to feel them again, especially the excitement I later realized was me looking for a drive or, better yet, adrenaline.

'These weak emotions and feelings buried inside of me should probably be listed as one of my life concerns, well, that was my only concern in the first place before all of these strange events started happening,' I thought as I turned my head with difficulty to see the location where Anna collapsed and where her body was.

She may or may not still be alive, and judging by the surroundings, it doesn't seem like I was out for very long. However, I'm not sure if I'll still be alive to see the end of this in a few minutes.

Since I couldn't do anything and couldn't move, I summoned the Primordial Chronicle in my mind, and a familiar-looking panel appeared in front of me.

[You have acquired the Primordial records of Asmodeus Serpent Level 3],

[You have acquired enough Primordial records to level up],

[Reward for first kill; Three times the Primordial records acquired],

[You have acquired enough Primordial records to level up],

[Status],

[Name: Ace Blaze],

[Age: 17],

[Race: Human [Homo sapiens]],

[Level: 1[+]],

[Job: None],

[Store: Locked],

[Title: None],

Looking at the Primordial Chronicle panel in front of me, I noticed that, aside from the notifications indicating that I had obtained something called primordial record from the Asmodeus Serpent and had enough of it to level up or something, everything in my status remained unchanged save for the + sign next to the level.

This game of guessing what is really going on and attempting to understand things I don't understand by gathering whatever information I can is exhausting.

What exactly is the Primordial Chronicle about? Primordial Record: What is it?

These were the thoughts racing through my mind as I lay on the cold floor.

What I do know is that whatever is going on right now, the overgrown forest in the city, the mutated animal I just saw and killed, and the strange phenomenon going on is somehow related to the Primordial Chronicle, and the primordial record I obtained is most likely from killing the Asmodeus Serpent and gaining something from it.

And this leveling up that the Primordial Chronicle mentions, I'm curious if it works exactly like the video games my peers play, and if I can use some of the terms in video games to compare to some of the things on the Primordial Chronicle panel because they both share some familiar terms.

And if the leveling up here is similar to the ones used in video games, then leveling up should power me up or something.

I never really played those games because there was no fun or benefit in doing so in my opinion, but I am probably correct in my assumptions.

But if the Primordial Chronicles adopts the same premise as video games, where leveling up increases power, then its implementation is different.

Because it clearly states in the previous notification that I have enough 'primordial record' to level up and, in fact, if you include the first kill reward, I can level up twice, but it appears that the process is not automatic and the + sign in level may be there as a result.

'But what is the use if leveling up here might truly make me powerful when I might die in a few minutes, I thought as I called out the Primordial Chronicle and activated the + sign.

I'm not sure why, but ever since the Primordial Chronicle appeared, I've been able to use it as if it were normal, and it felt natural, and am sure it's the same for Anna too.

As soon as I activated the + sign, a new notification appeared on the panel, and I felt a surge of power.

Before this, my body was already defined with muscles, but when I pressed the + sign, I felt my muscles tighten as newly defined ones appeared.

The best part was that my injuries were gradually healing.

'Looks like leveling up also heals previous injuries,' I thought as I watched my injuries and wounds slowly heal.

When I was barely able to stand, the healing stopped.

'It appears that the healing from leveling up is limited,' I thought as I looked at the panel in front of me and activated the + sign for the second time as a new notification popped up.

[You have leveled up to level 2],

[You have leveled up to level 3],

[Status],

[Name: Ace Blaze],

[Age: 17],

[Race: Human [Homo sapiens]],

[Level: 3],

[Job: None],

[Store: Locked],

[Title: None],

My wounds finally healed to the point where my body only ached after leveling up for the second time.

After leveling up twice, I noticed that the + sign had vanished from my status.

'Looks like leveling up is manual then, and the + sign will appear only when I have enough Primordial records to level up,' I reasoned as I approached Anna's location.

Looking at Anna's appearance, I noticed that she was in pain from the expression on her face.

I placed my right hand on her face and lightly tapped the side of her cheek several times in an attempt to wake her up.

When I saw her eyelid twitch, I knew my efforts to wake her up had paid off.

She opened her eye and looked at me with confusion and pain as she said weakly'

"Ace huh? Is this Heaven?" she said.

I replied to her with a blank stare and a tone that suggested I was calling her a fool, as I said;

"Please do not group me with you even if you die. I'm far too young to die ", I continued speaking before she could respond.

"Does your Primordial Chronicle panel have any notifications?" I inquired.

"Yes, there is," she said weakly, continuing;

"There's something called primordial records and level up here, I don't-"

Before she could say anything else, I cut her off and told her how to level up as I made my way to the monster corpse while she leveled up.

Looking at the Asmodeus Serpent corpse and the pool, and remembering how much effort it took to take care of a single 'level 3' monster, I had a forthcoming thought that dealing with more powerful monsters would render normal science useless.

Looking at the pool that held the chemicals to kill more than 98% of the snakes in the world prior to this strange event, I knew it was time to change my reasoning about certain things and focus on what would happen in the future and how to deal with them.

I was walking around the pool, looking at the mutilated body of the Asmodeus Serpent caused by the acid in the pool, when I noticed some strange objects on the floor near the Asmodeus Serpent's corpse head.

Strange orbs of various colors were scattered around the ground near the head of the Asmodeus Serpent corpse, but not too far apart.

Orbs of white, blue, and rainbow color.

On the ground were four orbs: one white, one blue, and two rainbows.

I was about to examine them when I heard a small movement behind me.

Turning around to face what was behind me, I noticed Anna walking slowly and unsteadily in my direction.

I asked her how she was doing when she was close enough for me to talk to her without shouting, and she replied with a nod and a thank you.

When she got a little closer and noticed the strange-colored orbs on the ground, she asked me what they were with a curious expression.

I responded to her by saying;

"I'm not sure what they are, I was about to check them out before you came," I said as we both moved closer to the orbs when blue words appeared on top of the orbs and in front of our retinas.

White orb [can get an inferior ranked item from it],

Blue orb [can get a normal ranked item from it],

Rainbow orb[ can get random ranked items from it ranging from inferior ranked items to above legendary ranked items but for this particular rainbow orb and depending on how many people grouped up to get the first kill, an accordioning number of orb will appear[ You are guaranteed at least one item above rare from this orb].