"Wait what do you mean?.. " urked the receptionist.
"Hm..—?" I looked at her with relative suspicion as I knew she was hiding something.
she then would've brought a wooden board with a circular inscription created on it in white chalk. Typically looking like a transmutation circle or something wizards use before executing some sort of spell. After the receptionist brought it out, she'd bring my finger which wasn't really bleeding anymore onto the center of the circle and pressed it firmly onto the circle.
The inscription on the circle glowed a bit before she tapped my shoulder.
"Alright, imagine the very essence of magic to you. No matter how minuscule, when the word magic pops up what do you imagine? And when you imagine magical abilities, creating them of your discretion, what pops up?"
I took a long hard moment to decide what that meant to me as the toxic amount of content I've gorged on in the last few years of my life has had magic or at least some reference to it. Wizards are people who use magic based on draconic abilities which are supposed to help them slay dragons. A witch who completely put an entire island of relatives into despair at their annual family meeting just because people either did or didn't believe she existed. full counter. Magical weapons. Discord arguments on dragon ball ki being magic.
And then, finally, something happened as a result of all these thoughts coming together.
Shockingly a large light filled the room and everyone was genuinely surprised by the outcome. A black piece of paper with chrome inscriptions on it, however, no one other than me could read what was on it, mainly being it was in Japanese as opposed to this world's language. Everyone was in awe for many reasons and I simply just grabbed the paper to read what it said.
"Hi again, I see you're trying to use magic in this world, and well good luck on that! I should really just not let you but because of the benevolence I hold being such a supreme and awe-inspiring deity I'll allow it. Along with that, the ability based on your own situation and being is called 「Divergent」. Know that it's not specifically and only based on you, but it's made to act off of you and to mutate, and grow stronger. And possibly surpass me! or y'know, cause your depravity and downfall."
below the message would've been a dotted list"
"The one who has become the wielder of Divergence no longer acts within common comprehension or reason as you are entirely separate from everyone and their entirety. No longer bound or strapped down by concepts everyone else needlessly abides by as you're completely the ruler of your own world." "Possibilities which never ever occur become open to you, as you're completely outside the wheel, the box which confines all of creation and its children. Not even the entities who've transcended beyond its confines are truly free, except for you. You exist solely alone and by yourself no longer within the infinite spectrum which 'everything' is defined on and defined to be on." "You alone can adjoin and create things, ideas, and solutions that would ultimately fail anyone else. No longer are you simply a slave to the causality of existence. Specific dualities no matter how important they are, you are now independent of."
"Divergent objectifies all that is considered to be an absolute outcome, anything inevitable, or unavoidable. Whatever considers or holds those stances becomes subjective and irrelevant. Regardless of the complexity, or how essential it may be.
"Abilities can be created, applied, and utilized via Divergent. Simply trying to erase divergent will prove to be futile as circumvention is going to apply to the event, all but refuting any form of erasure leaving divergent forever with the user regardless of their own will and discretion. No Entity, force, natural law, phenomena, etc can remove Divergent. Simply trying to think of ways to remove it would be futile as it'd only add to the list of things which can't remove it."
• "A grace that diverges from the other graces. Set forth on your journey to the linked horizon."
It'd come off as a bit shocking as I'd be left speechless, especially because of the PS message written on the very bottom. However, I simply folded it up for later. The receptionist was just a bit more in awe as there was little to no chance of being born adept at Chordatta and the ability to use magic. It was simply unheard of no matter where you searched. A singularity, someone truly special had just appeared.
The guild lady walked forward after I had finished reading that little note.
"Well.. Sumire, it looks like you've got a pretty bright future ahead of you.. I'm not sure who to contact first. The Mage council or the Harmonic Council. I guess I'll leave that to your discretion. But in any case congratulations!" She said dotingly as she didn't expect the random person to walk in the guild today to basically be a 1 in 10 million entity.
"Hmmm… I need some time to think about it but in any case is there any chance I can start going on quest right now!" I said this pretty eagerly since I had no reason to not try immediately.
"Well sumire.. You listed no previous experience regarding combat, or even sacred arts. Unless you want the top half of your body blown smooth off by a roaming vampire.. I'd suggest you take some supplementary adventuring classes or ask any parties if they'd be willing to take you under their wing. Better yet, I could just contact the councils to see which one wants to teach you first." She said this concerningly as if she was scolding me, more so to make sure I didn't die frame one as soon as I became an adventurer. I can only assume she's seen this happen before with others. It annoyed me a bit that she was basically looking down on me but in retrospect.. I don't know anything about this world or its inhabitants.
"You're… right." I said dejectedly.
"But! Look on the brightside, you've got a full guild who frankly wants to have you in their party just from the spectacle that took place." She said this optimistically as I failed to realize the whole guild was in an uproar talking about the fact I had aced the aptitude test for both magic and chordatta.
"Oh… I didn't even realize." Right behind me was an entire guild of individuals of different sizes, cultures, colors and proportions basically debating on who'd have dibs on me first. I felt a bit objectified but at the same time I was a bit excited at what was about to come. Maybe I'd have a really good teacher who'd be willing to show me the ropes to adventuring and make everything a memorable experience full of laughs, love, highs and lows!
"MOVE OUT THE FUCKING WAY I'M TAKING HER WITH ME!" A short girl with blonde hair and green eyes wearing pretty standard female adventuring gear stampeded through all the adventurers sending them flying on contact. It was horrifying. I just saw a 7ft broly built dude get thrown into the ceiling in the span of like 5 seconds. I backed away a little terrified as she got closer to me.
"YO!--.." she started gasping for air and wheezing as she was in the back of the guild and ran full speed to stand right in front of me. "The name.. Is claris, I'll be taking you under my wing from this point forward. I've got a pretty decent party and we're gonna do everything to make you as profitabl-.. Er I mean as strong as possible!" She stumbled on her words at the end. What did you mean by that.
"I uh.. I'm gonna have to decline the offer. I do apprec-"
"YOU'RE GONNA JOIN." she said in a demonic voice.
"Alright my bad, what's first." I said defeatedly as she put her hand over my shoulder and started feeling up on me.
"You know, I like you already. You're kinda weak, soft and the clothes you're wearing is odd for an adventurer but we'll get you set up shortly. Let's get out of here. Ignore these other guys. They might offer you more money, possibly a better tuition but that's not relevant." She said pretty confidently as she egged me outside the guild hall hurriedly. Wait.
"You said more money? Wait we're not gonna brush past that. Wait."
"I didn't say that anyway, lets go… actually, what's your name again?" She said this completely ignoring the fact that she openly admitted the other parties are clearly better options.
"It's sumire.. " I said this a bit defeated before going into my pocket to finish the rest of the note that I had gotten initially after doing my magic aptitude test.
"Oh shoot, what's that.. What's strange writing? It looks like chicken scratch." Claris said this as she didn't know what japanese was naturally so it probably did look like chicken scratch. But I read the rest of it defeated as I've basically already signed my adventuring life away to some whack job and then I've got to deal with the depressing fact that my special ability is foreboding a weird dilemma for me.
I looked at the note and read the very end in my head as Claris walked me out the guild.
P.S.
"Finally, as one who wields divergent. Your past, future, and present remain incinerated for the rest of your days. No longer to exist in the true sense and simultaneously there will never be a moment where you're truly non-existent. But, you are indeed dead, Sumire. One who is divergent can never exist through normal means as everyone else does, this is merely the effect of being recluse from all that is around them."
Whatever this means.