Luckily I don’t need to venture into the wilderness, just like how


    I created a gateway from the divine kingdom of the sleeping Second


    Sun Ognian I can create a gateway anywhere else. Usually I can only


    create gateways to places I have seen or experienced: Unusually when


    I was in danger of being parasitised and prayed I accidentality


    created a gateway into the divine kingdom.


    Now, I should


    probably head home. Back to the sanctuary, Sacrarium, a place I


    created myself in times of danger. I wasn’t always able to protect


    myself with the powers of light.


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    More than a decade


    ago, I ‘awoke’. I had no memories, I just woke up in the city I


    just ‘revived’. At some point in the distant past it was called


    Penates. At the time I didn’t realise my power and was merely a


    lost child in a dangerous world rotting at its core.


    Luckily there was


    someone still alive when I awoke, no one uses names any more but I


    called him Arm. When I was almost attacked after I awoke, he saved


    me. His left arm was extremely toned and monstrous. There was a vine


    attached running up towards his neck, which seemed to radiated a


    golden glow.


    The monster was a


    disciple, originally a small dog but now a large and grotesque


    monster. It stalks its prey until it sees an opportunity and lunges


    and it grows five times the size. With a momentary burst of power its


    bite strength can overpower any normal human.


    Just as it gaped its


    mouth open to consume me, it stopped mid air. Losing its opportunity


    it shrunk again and tried to run. However it was stopped for a


    reason, Arm had stopped it. With his extreme power in his left hand


    he grabbed the beast and stopped its attack mid-way.


    Once it shrunk


    again, Arm took the opportunity to use his strength to crush the


    beast’s head form sheer strength.


    That was how I found


    Arm, and to cut a long story short he took care of me until I found


    my power. Once I found my power I was able to take in more survivors


    and form a colony, Sacrarium.  This was my life’s achievement,


    creating a semblance of civilisation within chaos.


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    It wasn’t too big


    but almost everyone had something special like Arm and could defend


    from beast until we moved using my gateway. Sacrarium didn’t have a


    permanent position, it moved every time a group of disciples too big


    to defend attacked.


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    But that’s enough


    reminiscing, now I should really make a gateway home.


    As


    soon as a connection is made, a bustling atmosphere is created. A


    streets of vendors and shoppers filled my vision. This is home.


    I


    take a step in and prepare for the greetings,


    “Saviour is back!”


    “You’ve


    returned! Arm was looking for you”


    … The full street


    seemed to stop what they were doing to greet me. Ever since I


    gathered everyone I too got a nickname, Saviour. I really don’t


    like the name but its too late to change it now. Normally people got


    a nickname based on their ‘power’, I count myself lucky I wasn’t


    called “Mr Door”


    Immediately after


    hearing Arm was looking for me I took a step and quickly created a


    gate to the strategy room. Hearing my arrival Arm came bursting into


    the room.


    “where were you?!


    You’re a leader now, you cant just leave without announcement”


    “Just let me know


    why you wanted me first”


    “we found a new


    Symbiote…”


    “is it one we know


    of?”


    “no, this is a


    completely knew species”


    Powers are based on


    Symbiotes. Essentially they are the same as Parasites, plants filled


    with divinity. However, unlike Parasites you retain your sanity.


    There are two main things that change what abilities you can gain


    form a Symbiote, location and species. Vine type plants, like Arm’s,


    give an enhancement like super strength. But this is only in the


    location the Symbiote latches onto. Just a mere thought can trigger Sunlight to be released and the ability to be activated.


    This is why Arm


    needed to inform me of a new Symbiote, it can give someone a power


    up. But because it’s power is unknown we need to decide who to give


    it to and where.


    But there’s a


    problem, Symbiotes contain large amounts of Sunlight, the Twin Sun’s


    divinity. This can attract the malice of the Dark Deity, causing


    strong Disciples to appear. We need a human host to bond to suppress


    the divinity. If not, we’re going to have to move Sacrarium to


    ensure the safety of everyone here.


    “lets go through


    the candidates, announce to all eligible that a new power has been


    located”


    “yes sir”