Healing System

'Woah... this is massive'

Michael was currently in some sort of penthouse situated in the outer part of the city.

While it was not as luxurious as the ones in the inner part, the sheer amount of money kind of closed the distance.

However, the only reason he was allowed to stay here was because Amanda had let him.

She said it was her personal guest house, rich people's stuff Michael could not quite understand but nonetheless, he appreciated it.

And now, it was time for him to absorb the special feather.

He took the glass cage out of his little pocket and placed it on the desk in front of him, inspecting the feather a bit more closely.

However, besides the mana it was radiating, it did not feel that special, he could definitely see himself mistaking it for a regular feather.

Take it out and sit down already. How much time are you planning on wasting dawdling around the room?

'Fine..' Michael snickered and twisted the glass cage open.

However, the moment he did so, it felt like the time around him froze, the feather was suspended in the air just in front of him and the TV that he had been watching was now stuck on one scene.

'System?' He called out, but did not receive an answer.

'Well, isn't this a little familiar...' Michael thought and suddenly, the feather began emitting a faint golden aura while slowly floating towards him.

"Do you wish to go down this path?" A voice resounded, however, he could not tell from where.

But as realization dawned upon him, he turned back to the feather in front of him 'No fucking way is a feather talking to me.'

'Unless.. it is?' Michael reached out to the feather and it backed away slightly, not letting his arm reach it.

"Do you wish to go down this path?" The voice, which he assumed was the feather in front of him, spoke out again.

"What path?" He asked, not expecting a response, however, the feather flew over to him and stopped just in front of his face.

"Seraphim."

Upon hearing those words, a sharp headache assaulted him and just as quickly, went away. He had obtained a few memories.

The influx of memories was little, however, they definitely seemed important. Important enough for even the system to recognize them as such.

[+5% Synchronization]n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

But just as he was about to rejoice at that fact, another message plopped down in front of his eyes, it was golden in color.

[25% Synchronization Reached: Entering -> Halls of Reflection]

Michael attempted to scramble to his feet and cancel it, but the moment he was about to touch the golden panel, his hand went through it instead.

And just like that, his vision shifted, and he found himself in some sort of dark room with eerie chandeliers covering the ceiling.

He was sitting by a table, seemingly alone, but his silence was soon interrupted by an ear-piercing noise.

-Ding

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The noise made him scrunch up, it was way too loud, almost as if someone detonated a grenade inside of his ear.

However, as he gathered himself and looked up, he saw a completely red status screen in front of him that displayed a strange message.

[RECOMPILING ANOMALY, PLEASE WAIT]

'What the fuck is happening?' Michael looked around himself, the surroundings still seemed eerily quiet, he almost thought that they were frozen in time.

But upon a closer look, he noticed they were not, a grandfather clock was situated on the ground and it was constantly making noise, he just could not hear it earlier.

'System?' He attempted to call out again, but no response came, it seemed like he would really be doing this alone.

Michael did not know what went wrong, he was planning to go to the Halls of Reflection after hitting Tier 2. However, it seemed like his plans were pushed forward a tad bit.

As he was debating his next course of action, the loud noise once again assaulted his ears.

-Ding

[Halls of Reflection Difficulty Readjusted]

[1:1 Difficulty Set | Realistic Depiction of Events Initiated]

After those last few messages appeared, silence once again returned, however, Michael felt a bit uneasy.

The system had not told him a bunch about whatever these Halls of Reflection were, he thought he could ask it just before he was about to enter.

Though the difficulty might prove to be a bit of a challenge, from what he could tell, it was a 1:1 replica of the original events of whatever memory he was about to replay.

Coupled with the fact that his knowledge regarding the Seraphim might have been the reason why the Anomaly happened in the first place, he was not feeling exactly confident.

Even in his memories, the Seraphim were portrayed as mighty beings who stood on the same level as god, there were not a lot of them, but each one could destroy an entire galaxy in just a mere moment.

He even remembers one of those beings patting his head, it was pretty silly, but that's where his memories ended.

All Michael managed to find out was a bit of history regarding them and a bit of a gander at their strength. He could not remember any names, maybe he did not know any in the first place.

From what he knew of Archangels, Michael was one of the more important ones, however, the books never described an encounter between him and the Seraphim.

'So.. what's the plan now?' He instinctively talked in his mind, as if seeking the system's opinion, however, no reply ever came.

Michael looked around the empty room and table before kicking back and standing upright.

The room looked oddly abandoned yet at the same time, he could tell someone was living there.

Dust was scattered everywhere, yet a few places were completely spotless, those being, his seat, and the seat right in front of him.

But despite that, he could not feel anyone in the house.

Michael was glad that his skills worked at the very least, if he had gone in prior to obtaining a mana core, he might have struggled a bit.

But now that his skills were all mostly connected, it was no problem at all.

He decided to head outside of the room, not like he would gain any more information from it, he had already scouted it to the best of his abilities.

It was a pity that the map was not available, he would need to learn how to use it similarly to the system once he gets back.

However, just as he approached the door and opened it, instead of the hallway, what greeted his eyes was a field of grass.

'What the..' He let go of the door handle and went into the grassy field, the air around him felt a little suffocating.

It was almost like the mana was way too overwhelming for the current him.

'1:1 difficulty my ass..' He grumbled and turned back around, there was another door he had seen in the room previously, maybe that would take him into the hallway.

However, just as he turned around, he noticed something strange.

The door and the room that had been there just mere moments ago, was now nowhere to be seen, as if it vanished while he had his back turned against it.

And as that happened, the mana in the surroundings slowly began to grow denser, causing him to feel slightly overwhelmed.

'This isn't how I expected my evening to go..'