System, please just shut up

The room fell was silent, not the kind of silence that invites rest, but the kind that makes thoughts louder.

Kael lay on his bed, eyes fixed on the plain ceiling.

'A man without a purpose… is already a dead man.'

'Do you think I'm this nice to everyone?'

Theo's words kept looping in his mind like a spell he couldn't break.

And, if he was being honest with himself, Theo was right.

He hadn't truly come to terms with anything since arriving in this world.

New place, new body, new rules and logic.

He'd spent thirty years on Earth doing… nothing.

He had no ambition, no goal.

Just waking up every morning, going back to sleep at night, and repeating the same thing over and over again.

His parents were rich, so he never really struggled for anything.

He had every possible thing people thought they wanted, money, attention, access.

Women threw themselves at him, people tried to get close for connections.

But he never cared.

To the outside world, it probably looked like he was just physically weak, avoiding responsibility.

But Kael knew better.

The truth?

He felt nothing, no desire to chase, no urge to build, no hunger for more.

Just an emptiness that no one could see, but he lived with every day.

He was used to blaming his body, telling himself that he was just sick.

But now?

New world, new body.

Same emptiness.

So it's pretty clear what the problem is.

It wasn't the body.

It was the soul.

And tonight, for some reason, maybe because of Theo's words something about that truth finally bothered him.

'Honestly, I still don't understand how someone with your personality managed to live this long.'

'It was almost like your soul had just been born.'

Theo had a point.

Who lives without any goals or desires?

Babies.

Kael let out a long breath.

He didn't know why he was reincarnated. He didn't know what this world expected from him.

But he was sure of one thing now, he didn't want to repeat the same story over again.

This was a new world, overflowing with wonders and dangers, magic and monsters.

A world just waiting to be explored.

He just had to find the will to stand up and walk through it.

Maybe he'd find something out there worth caring about.

Maybe not.

But...

'I guess I'll just have to try.'

...

[Hidden Task Completed: A Purpose]

[Archive Access: GRANTED]

[Status Window: UNLOCKED]

[Skill Tree: UNLOCKED]

[Weapon Mastery: UNLOCKED]

[World Task: INITIATED - "Zeveth, the Herald of Damnagoth"]

[Task Description:]

Three children, born to the same village, forged an unbreakable bond.

They rose together, fought together, and saved humanity side by side, ushering in an age of peace and prosperity.

But love broke what war could not.

Two of the three fell in love, and from their love, a child was born.

The third, consumed by rage and betrayal, vanished, seeking power beyond the world's laws.

And in the deepest darkness, he found it.

An ancient, sacred evil long buried: The Damnagoth. The End of Worlds.

It promised him vengeance, it promised him power and most of all, it promised her love .

Thus, the third became its Herald.

When he returned, the world burned.

The two lovers torn between the choice of their friend or the world and their child, decided to try and bring him out of the darkness.

But upon facing him, they discovered he was already too far gone.

The darkness had consumed him completely turning him into an unrecognizable evil.

So they had no choice but to end him, but unfortunately he had grown immensely powerful from all the darkness he had consumed, so they only managed to imprison him while sustaining immerse injuries

Knowing the seal wouldn't last, they gave their final breath to create Hope.

The Archive.

And to their newborn child, they passed the key to that hope, praying that one day… their descendant would finish what they could not, and correct all the mistakes they made.

[World Task Initiated: STOP ZEVETH FROM AWAKENING DAMNAGOTH]

[Task Outline:]

Gain admission into Obsidian Fang Academy

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[Time Limit: UNKNOWN]

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Kael stared at the glowing text for a long time, silent and motionless.

Then he smiled.

'I just had to jinx it, didn't I?'