One last pop-up appeared saying the following as it seemed to be a direct message from the God of Games:
Congratulations on the coming the 9th First Awakened. I expect great things from all who have gotten that title, but from you especially. Every other candidate that I thought could live up to the challenge on your world died or ran away. You were the only one to live and succeed. I will admit that I did not believe that you would be able to as you were at the very bottom of my list of potential candidates. Consider me impressed..... That said as you know all first awakened must go to a special planet I have prepared. Although the travel there is not instantaneous as I will need to verify who all will be going with you from your world that will also seemingly have what it takes to survive on that planet. Verification will take 3 days and then transportation to that world through special needs will take another 3 days. Until then I would suggest saying your goodbyes for now and getting your affairs in order as you most likely will not be returning to your homeworld for quite some time. But travel back here is definitely possible. As a reward for being the very first to awaken on this planet consider this a gift.
Sincerely,
Palpha
A notification then appeared informing Augustus of the reward for becoming the First Awakened of his world. The God of Games, Palpha, gave him 100,000 gold, a random Epic weapon chest, a random Epic item chest, a random Epic armor chest, and 5 ally teleportation tickets.
While all of them caught his eyes it was the last one that specifically stood out to him. Going through his character sheet he was able to find the items section and upon clicking on the item to read its description. It explained that the tickets could teleport a single individual from anywhere in the multiverse that he considered an ally and has met previously to his location instantaneously by portal. It did specifically specify that the person that he wanted could come through the portal only but he could not go through it to get to their side. To his surprise, he also learned that if the person did not choose to come through the portal after 10 minutes, the ticket would be refunded so that it would not be destroyed until successfully used.
Meaning if he wanted to he could keep in touch with his family by using the ticket to open a portal for 10 minutes to communicate with his loved ones from elsewhere in the galaxy. That was if on the world he's going to, there was no actual way to communicate off-world.
After absorbing the information in he starts to think to himself only to be cut off by the sounds of his sister as she walks up to him and places a hand on his shoulder, "Augie was that a character sheet?" He could hear the concern in her voice as the moment he was about to answer her she seemingly already realized what was going on.
Being very aware of the situation, she got sad as she knew that it meant that not only was everyone on the planet now afflicted with the Player Plague, but her brother was clearly the First Awakened of their world. She knew that each of the First Awakened was required to go to a different world in the galaxy that received specific and special attention and treatment from the God of Games. For her, this meant that she wouldn't get to see her big brother anymore, and if she did it would be a very rare occurrence that only would happen very very very occasionally.
Before she could start crying again Augustus quickly pulled her in for a hug. Seeing that she was already an emotional and nervous wreck after everything that had just transpired and everything that was still going on; he just held her close.
After a couple of hours had gone by and he had assured his sister that everything would be okay Augustus was now back at his home preparing dinner for not only himself but also his parents and his sister and her husband and daughter. Augustus was all over the news. Camera footage from onlookers in nearby buildings, as well as from street cameras, and from people on the street at that time after the attack had ended captured from beginning to end the moments when Augustus left the restaurant with his sister to get to safety all the way up until he was asked by his sister if he was the First Awakened of their world.
A couple of reporters even came by his house after finding out who he was to verify whether or not he was the First Awakened of this planet. He simply showed them his character sheet that confirmed it through a window. Then he held up a sign asking them to please leave as he needs to prepare for his trip. To his surprise it worked in getting them to leave. Upon confirming that, he was considered instantly extremely dangerous. Especially as his character sheet showed off his special skills that all seem to be based around making even the most mundane ability he used overwhelming effective.
People even started to speculate more about his past. Thankfully not much about his history is public knowledge due to some very good services that he has paid for over the years to keep most of his information in history removed from any online sources. Especially the event that traumatized him for so long and still haunts him as he thinks about it now, but to a lesser degree.
Thinking about his traumatic past on that starship is somewhat easier to do now as fighting that monster that shared the same face as Donkuulii gave him some of his self-confidence and bravery back that he had been completely stripped of by that event. Today he remembered what was more important than being afraid. And as he looked at the dinner table nothing could be more clear than his love for his family.
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