Capítulo 7: Yale's Chosen Path

"I choose the Origin Path."

Yale decided to make the great bet, the other Paths were safer, but with them, he would limit himself in some way. On the other hand, the Origin Path was dangerous, and Yale knew nothing about it, but it showed danger and difficulty as the main bad points.

Yale didn't believe that the system will offer some trash Path. He made a bet for the Origin Path because he already needed to conceal the system, and his Path for training had been difficult from the start.

Yale hoped that the Origin Path, besides being the most difficult and dangerous, would also be the most powerful.

And even if the Origin Path didn't meet Yale's expectations, being at least something from the system, Yale was sure that it would be a good Path.

[Since the user has chosen the Origin Path, the user will obtain some information about it. If, after hearing it, the user regrets the decision, then the user can change the Origin Path for one of the other Paths in exchange for not obtaining the originally offered rewards for those Paths and have all the information about the Origin Path wiped out from the user's memory.]

Yale paid attention to the system because he didn't expect such a notification. He also wanted to listen to more information about the Origin Path, so he paid attention to the system words.

[The first information that the user needs to know it that the Origin Path is an Ancestral Path legacy found by the user's past life and also the reason for his death.]

Yale was without words after hearing that. It wasn't only that the Origin Path could kill him, the Origin Path already provoked his death once.

[The Origin Path was the first Path that appeared in the universe in ancient times, and there isn't any information about the creation of the Origin Path.]

[However, the requirements to practice it and the difficulty to improve using it led to the creation of some weaker Paths derived from it. Almost all the derived Paths became lost in time, like the Ancient Archery Path. In the user's world, only the Warrior Path and Magus Path remain. Both of them are only third-class derived Paths.]

[The Origin Path allows all the stats to increase, having its difficulty as its only flaw. On the other hand, the best-derived Paths known as first-class Paths only allow five stats to increase, and with that flaw in the Path of training, a first-class Path is easier to train.]

[However, the first-class Paths weren't easy enough to mass-produce practitioners. The second-class derived Paths were born to allow more people to practice, they were still difficult, but they were way easier compared with the first-class ones. The difference is that those Paths only allow four stats to increase.]

Yale thought immediately of the Ancient Archery Path. One of the reasons it was considered very precious and led the archers to their golden age was the fact that they could improve four stats instead of only three.

[Finally, the third-class derived Paths appeared, allowing only to increase three stats. Any practice method that allowed to increase less than three stats will be impossible to train successfully. Since virtually all people can practice at least one of the third-class derived Paths, the third-class become the lowest class.]

To Yale, it was hard to believe that the two most powerful Paths of his world were only meeting the minimum requirements to practice successfully. The revelation that they were the weakest and any weaker Paths were impossible to train successfully would be a blow the mind of anyone. However, that was the truth. Excluding unknown Paths like the Origin Path, only by training into the two main Paths, it was possible to become a real expert.

[Due to the lack of talent in the world, the Origin Path disappeared in the flow of time, and soon the first-class derived Paths were also lost.]

[After some centuries, only the Ancient Archery Path remained from the second-class derived Paths and, in the end, was also lost. After that, the Warrior Path and the Magus Path become the most popular and become the only two Paths in the world, with all the others becoming lost.]

[There are only a few people in the user's world who know about the existence of first-class derived Paths, and even less who know about the Origin Path. However, any of these people could kill the user as easy as killing an ant. Furthermore, even though the Origin Path can only be trained from the start and can't be changed to another path midway nor be started after having practiced some other Path, the Origin Path is still useful for their descendants or even for their reincarnations.]

[The user still wants to choose the Origin Path, or would he like to change it?]

Yale's mind was too shocked to reply at that instant. He was still processing the information he just learned. However, once he calmed himself, a determined look appeared on his face.

"No matter the danger, the more valuable and powerful the Origin Path is, the more I want to train it. I still choose the Origin Path."

[Origin Path selected, Quest Menu updating.]

After a few seconds, the system continued.

[The user wants an explanation about the requirements to start practicing the Origin Path?]

Yale really wanted a detailed explanation of the Origin Path. He selected it while knowing that it would be difficult, and he was curious about that difficulty. Soon the information appeared in his head.

[Requirements to start training the Origin Path: Memorize the Origin Path training method. All the stats should be at the max before becoming ten years old. Once turning ten, the Origin Path would automatically enter at the 1-star Mortal Rank.]

Those requirements were really higher than the ones of other Paths. Having all the stats maxed before becoming ten years old was indeed difficult. However, compared with the following requirements, the first one was like a joke.

[Requirements to reach 2-star Mortal Rank: Master a battle skill and a magic spell in less than three months since reaching 1-star Mortal Rank.]

That was truly difficult. Mastering a battle skill or a magic spell was a normal condition to become a 2-star Mortal Fighter or a 2-star Mortal Erudite. However, there was no time limit like that.

The time limit was only at sixteen years old, and that was to reach Rank 1 Novice Warrior or Novice Magus. If there were such time limitations to become a 2-star Mortal, there wouldn't be a lot of practitioners. Having such a time limit to master both a battle skill and a magic spell, turned the success in almost impossible.

However, Yale had faith in the system. Since it gave him a ten percent chance, it wasn't impossible, at least for him.

That showed the real difficulty of the Origin Path, and that's only the information until reaching 2-star mortal, the system didn't show any information for afterward, only an alert.

[Alert: No more information would be shown for the next stages until the user becomes a 2-star mortal. If the user doesn't meet any of the conditions after reaching the time limit, the user wouldn't be able to continue practicing the Origin Path, and due to its incompatibilities, the user would never be able to practice any other Path.]

Yale understood how important it was for him to reach the requirements if he failed to become a 1-star mortal. If he failed, he would lose the system assistance, but he would still have hope to practice other methods. However, once he started practicing the Origin Path, he would never be able to change it, so failing to meet the requirements even once would mean the end of the way to Yale.

"No matter how difficult it becomes, I will never give up."

Yale was determined to succeed, and to succeed, he couldn't lose even a moment. Then, he opened the Quest Menu to see what the first sub-quest of the Main Chain Quest was.