《It's cause I'm a genius》


 Chapter 1

    "Maaaaaan, I forgot the dream again. The only thing I vaguely remember is a guy with dark clothes standing in front of an open door. I wish I can remember the dream. "


    Those were the first words spoken by the 18 year old guy, who is still in his bed when it''s 3 pm, looks 15 and appears to be extremely lazy, while he was opening his eyes.


    In a different realm, a dark silhouette of a person, who looked like a 3d shadow, was observing the MC. He was sitting in a palace that looked to be made of white marble. Not much is known about that dark figure except that considering his strength he can wipe out humanity with the flick of a finger. Wiping out humans though isn''t what hewants. It''s actually the opposite he wants to save humans, but unfortunately it''s not as easy as annihilating them.


    The 18 year old guy wakes up and grabs his phone. He is wearing a blue t-shirt, and from the state of his closet, this seems to be his only option as he has tons of blue plain t shirts. Looking at him he seemed to like the color blue in an exaggerated way as his shoes, watch, glasses, and jeans were also all dark blue. The bed and wall of his room were also deep blue just like everything else. After an hour of doing stuff on his phone he finally leaves his bed, gets ready and leaves the house. He goes to the supermarket gets tons of sweets and comes back to eat while playing games. He''s lazy, but he''s good enough to never lose despite him holding the controller, which was blue, with only one hand and using the other to eat.


    While this lazy ass is having fun, the shadow was setting formations over and making final adjustments to his plan of preventing the extinction of humans. The reason he''s working so hard despite how the death of that race won''t affect him, is that several mellenia ago he was also a human, and so it would be sad if his original race gets wiped out.


    He knows no one though, the time of him being a powerless human was long ago, far before the current recorded history. Anyway, his plan needs a human to act as a spearhead. And that''s why he''s been searching for a human who would be useful to his plan.


    This guy has an ordinary life. A first year engineering college student, but he''s not really into academic stuff. The only reason he went this far is cause of his parents always pushing him. He has typical teenager interest.


    He also has few friends, but among them are 3 very close friends to the point where it''s hard to say who is his real family. So far he''s pretty plain and the shadow wouldn''t have glanced at him again if he didn''t notice how the teen becomes a different person at midnight.


    His eyes which always look lazy suddenly turn sharp, and his face, which always seems to smile, suddenly turns serious. For people who personally know him, this transformation would make him look like he''s possessed. None of his family ever notices though because they all sleep by 11 pm.


    After that he turns on his laptop, gets his headset,he starts a call, and after listening to the other side, starts speaking with a voice full of authority: "OK, send me the data and delete it afterwards". He moves the data to his phone and closes the laptop, laughing quietly to himself.


    That''s the first time for "shadow" to see him close his laptop after only 30 minutes of usage. Usually, he spends a lot more time and doesn''t turn it off before 5 am, but shadow knows why the teen is so happy to the point he looks like he''s gone stupid. Shadow helped him get the data he was looking for after all.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    The teen spent 3 hrs translating it till he finally smiled. " Finally, today I, Ka-" he pauses for a while and after thinking for some time says " only the initial would do, today is the day I, K, will take the first step to gain superpowers. My lifelong dream will finally be fulfilled. "


    After observing K, since that''s how he decided to call himself, for a month shadow knows how excited K is, his eyes were shining despite them always being dead before. Even when he was serious his eyes were still glazed like he was bored to death of this world.


    On the notepad he was currently looking at, there was a set of breathing instructions that would take 35 minutes to complete. At the end was a minimum requirement of being able to hold your breath for 2 minutes. At the top it said "Breathing method to activate internal energy" .


    Shadow can read the minds of humans but for some reason he can''t read K''s mind. At first, shadow was annoyed, but now he''s glad that happened, even though he still doesn''t understand the reason he can''t read K''s mind. If it weren''t for that shadow wouldn''t have observed him long enough to find out about the night switch.


    Despite the thought absence, shadow can still sense feelings, and if K gets dreams or goes into a State where he isn''t physically aware, shadow can see what''s happening in K''s mind. Well.... Except for the dream K was talking about. He has been getting it about 3 times a week. That''s the only dream shadow can''t see.


    After the first 5 minutes of practice, K starts to feel a burning feeling in his chest. It keeps spreading through his body. About 35 minutes later his skin suddenly started to give off a black slimy substance. Those are the impurities that were in his body. The moment he activated his internal energy, they got ejected.


    "I feel refreshed, but that slime feeling is annoying" he goes into the shower. His body isn''t on an Olympic athlete level, but his muscles are pretty well toned and considering how his resting heart rate is 55 beats per minute, his health must be in the top 1% of the globe.


    "Time to experiment and get used to my powers". He starts doing some push-ups, and after reaching the 50 mark, which was his maximum, he stops. He just needed to breathe normally now to generate internal energy from his cells,and then he directs it to his chest and arm muscle, so they start healing quickly.


    After that, K tries to do push-ups again and he manages to do 60. "hmm so the healing amplifies the usual hypertrophy as well. I can make my body reach an Olympic champion level in a day, and if I keep using my I energy I can pretty much have infinite stamina... Shit. This ruined things." he mutters to himself.


    Looks like he decided to shorten internal energy into I energy. Shadow thought K would be disappointed, but to think he''ll be straight out angry. "All is still not lost, maybe I''ll be able to integrate this with my other findings". He spends an hour on the laptop, and then celebrates internally. "If things progress this way, I''ll be able to become stronger without limits."


    The reason he was angry is due to him realizing how he''ll max out his strength in a day but won''t be able to progress further.


    *bang* Suddenly the sound of a gunshot echoes, and K stands up alarmed. He takes a Crowbar he leaves under his bed for whatever reason (shadow already gave up on trying to understand his weird habits) and then 2 other shots follow *bang* *bang*.


    He quickly goes outside of his room to the front door. There the scene that meets him is a guy holding a smoking gun standing right in front of the door, and the moment he notices him he points his gun at K and tells him " Don''t move"


    To which replies by saying :"Maaaan, I finally remembered the dream. That''s the guy with the black clothes and there''s the door..... I wish I hadn''t remembered it."

 Chapter 2

    K can''t see the bloodied body of his parents and brother as they are on the other side of the wall, but he seems to already know as he suddenly squeezes all of his I energy making his right arm have what looks like electricity around them except they are black.


    While the energy was in his body and when he used it for healing it looked like green lightning but with the destructive setting it looked fearsome instead of calming. K ran forward and the robber shot him with the gun but K lunged forward taking the hit and slamming his fist into the robber''s head.


    The fist directly knocked him out. The robber would have died of brain damage if K had let the energy go into the robber''s mind. After knocking the robber out K retrieved his energy and hurriedly directed it to the bullet hole in his stomach. Green lightning could be seen on the surface of the wound as the bullet got pushed off while he closed the door.


    K then rushed to his family to see that while they were all shot none of them were insta kills which means he still had a chance to save them. He then directed his energy out of his body with as much intensity as he could to get their wounds closed.


    He didn''t even aim for a full recovery just stopping the bleeding was enough but even then he barely managed to do it before his face became pale, and he looked about to faint from the lack of energy.


    K forced himself to stand up and with agonizing efforts pushed himself to get some ropes and bind the robber.( Again don''t ask why he keeps ropes in his room. His room has so many weird things that a normal person would think that K is either a terrorist or a mentally ill person and I''d say he''s the second)


    After he was done with that he got his family to their beds and went to crash on his own bed. A few hrs later he woke up he went to see the robber trying to free himself from the chair. "Hi,you should stop. I''m looking for an excuse to kill you right now."said K.


    " I don''t believe a kid like you has the guts to-" those were the last words the robber got to say before he left this world. Holding the robber''s head with his energy coated hand, K sighed "I guess my control over my energy isn''t enough to tamper with the brain. Welp he died for a good cause, he should be happy"


    Then with an a cold look across his face K muttered "If you hadn''t died I would have tested how much pain can I make u feel if I target my energy at ur sensory neurones"


    The morning had come. K''s dad never got late to his work not to mention actually skipping a day. He''s actually the opposite he''s the type to go even on weekends." People are gonna notice my family''s absence if I don''t do anything."The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    K started by going and fully healing his family''s wounds but they still hadn''t woken up. His I energy maximum capacity increased a lot during the time he was sleeping as well as his recovery speed. The speed at which I energy quantity increases relates to how much use it as well as ur vessel.


    Before he slept he had every drop this allowed the most effective increase. As for the vessel, the more emotional a person is the harder it is for his body to store and use a large amount of I energy. K is the most emotionless person shadow has seen since he started to observe earth.


    K even calls himself the blank in games and it seems it had attracted a certain sort of karma due to how a lot of people acknowledge him as the blank and thus he seems to gradually be fading. He''s harder to spot if you''re not actively looking for him and he''s getting less and less emotional.


    The karma along with his mentality caused him to get an "empty vessel". That''s the best type of vessel for training I energy and it was rare to the point were it literally didn''t exist.


    The empty vessel wasn''t a legend or a myth but rather merely a hypothesis someone suggested, and it had just been proven true. Thanks to awakening his I energy powers recently, having an empty vessel and using up all his energy before sleeping Shadow managed to slip some information for him about the vessel types.


    K doesn''t know how he got this info but he should be sure it''s correct. Shadow wishes he could interfere more directly but anymore than that and he''ll be noticed, not to mention he was being pressed on his side as well. In a few days he''d probably reach a point were he won''t even be able to continue Monitoring K. Other than vessel knowledge, shadow gave K some tips that will perfect the idea that occurred to him as well as confirming that it''s possible and finally shadow gave him some history knowledge that will be useful to him.


    After fully healing his family they still didn''t wake up which was making K annoyed. "So shocking doesn''t work neither does filling their body with energy.... Should I just wait" mused K.


    K got rid of the robber''s corpse by taking it into his car''s back, driving out of the city, and then burying him in the desert. He went home afterward straight to his bed. It''s one of his habits, during the past month, K spent an average of 20 hrs on his bed daily. He checked the messages his friends have sent and then asked them on their private group if anyone of them can hold his breath for 2 minutes.


    After joking with his friends for a long time,and going through tons of meaningless conversations (it''s the specialty of their group) and wasting about 1000 messages of getting sidetracked, they finally reached the point where they all admited to not being able to.


    However 2 of his 3 friends were able to hold their breaths for a minute so he sent them the first 5 minutes of the steps. These can be accomplished with a one minute breath and it won''t cause a backlash if interrupted.


    "Listen guys, for once I''m being serious. This is not my daily prank and u won''t lose anything from trying the breathing anyway so just try it u should feel like ur chest is burning after the 5 minutes but the feeling will quickly recede once u stop."


    K''s friends tried it out and started to believe that there''s something interesting finally happening after telling that to the last guy he also got convinced. After that K explained how they need to hold their breath for 2 minutes to make the practices and how useful I energy is, and how important is it not to let anyone know.

 Chapter 3

    K spent the whole following day doing all sorts of physical training, and healing himself with I energy. By the end of the day his muscles had already reached their maximum capacity."I''m pretty sure I can break all the the guiness world records related to physical stuff"


    He sat cross legged on the bed, and looked around at his room''s blue walls while pondering. "Looking at my family''s vitality, they should be waking up pretty soon". He then stood up and started pacing through his room.


    "But my problem right now is this information that suddenly sprang into my head. It supports the theory I already had, so maybe I realized it subconsciously but even then what about the history memories?"


    "At least I know that going that way to prepare my body for cultivation is called the origin path, and that it will actually work. I''m glad all the research I did before didn''t go to waste, I can now use everything I gathered through the past 10 years"


    After a while of texting on his phone and convincing his friends to call him K, since a new start needs a new name, they make a group call. "Hi guys. So.... How is your breathing limit going?" says K


    "It''s having a terrible progress I can barely hold my breath 5 more seconds than my original record after a whole day of training,and by the way I decided to do like u. Using my initial, Y, I''ll call myself Yato." says Yato


    "... When I said K I meant the letter not the name kei.... But I guess that also works. "K replies.


    " I''ll be Andy then" *ding* "hey u finally entered the call. It''s been a long time since u last bothered to be online" After everyone rebukes him due to how he never shows up to hangouts, and is almost never online, they explain to him their new name thing.


    "In that case I''ll call myself Sam" says the always offline guy. "Shut up, ur Jimmy." And after yato says that the other 3 support it. "So now your official name is Jimmy" After K says that they proceed to talk about a meeting time tomorrow in Andy''s house.


    "And one final thing before we close the call. Jimmy you are coming tomorrow. If you don''t, after I finish helping them awaken, we''ll come to your house and kidnap you."And with that kei closed off the call.


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    " Looks like they really decided to call him Jimmy. I don''t know why but it was already his nickname ever since I started my observation."- shadow said to an entity that was resembling a humanoid diamond.


    "Dude you suck at this. I won another gamble. Anyway, overall specs.... You shouldn''t choose him.... But then again he has some mysteries. Variables are something we are on critical need of. Don''t worry about randomizing stuff. We already only have a 5% chance to pull of our plan successfully so screwing up the chances will only make it better to us. We can''t get in a worse situation. "- diamond


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    Kei then starts training his control of his I energy. He goes in front of a wall and focuses his energy onto his finger tips. "Time for a spider man session" he says, and with that he puts his energy coated fingers on the wall.


    The sparks look brown and he starts lifting himself upwards and climbing his bedroom wall. Following that he put his hands on the ceiling and made it across his room. While he was in the middle of the ceiling, his brother, who had just regained his consciousness, walked into the room.


    "I told you to knock when entering my room. I''ll kill you the next time." while kei said so with a plain face, his brother was struggling to keep standing. "Is that one of your pranks? Nice one, how did u do it?" spouted kei''s brother after regaining his composure.


    "Seriously man, I know I do a lot of pranks to relieve my boredom, but did I really reach the level where people suspect just for saying hi? And no I''m really stuck to the ceiling I''m an expert prankster not an illusionist". With that Kei dropped from the ceiling onto the floor.


    "My fingers are strained and being hanged like that doesn''t fully make a spiderman image. I need to split the nergy evenly between my hands and legs, while making sure the area isn''t large so that I don''t lose my energy quickly." mused Kei.


    Looking startled his brother just went out of the room and came back a few seconds later with a knife saying" Can you explain what''s happening with more detail?"


    " what''s the knife for? "


    " just insurance "


    "..... "


    Kei needed to rest anyway as maintaining I energy out if his body was draining him quickly so he sat down and explained everything. During the explanation his family also woke up and joined them. While his parents were skeptical of his claim at first, they all believed him when he materialized his energy on his hands.


    After the session of half hearted explanation. K announced: " I''m not going to college again. I''ll start pursuing the path I''ve been meant to follow throughout my life. During the next few days I might have to leave the house a lot and maybe even stay outside for days to continue my training."


    After a 15 minute talk from his parents his surroundings had become littered with gum wrappers. He has the habit of eating gum when he feels irritated. That''s why he has a stock that never seems to run out.


    The gist of the talk was that kei can''t do that as he''ll be destroying his future and the only way to guarantee a stable life is by following the academic path. "We are telling you what''s for your own good. Other than this path you won''t be able to guarantee a job"


    His parents said that sounding concerned to which came the reply " I don''t care. I never did and I won''t keep pretending. Securing a job isn''t what I want. What I want is to enjoy the ups and downs of life while adventuring and being free. The so called job where my income is guaranteed is basically a slavery contract."


    " If it wasn''t why would an employee have to spend all of his active daily hours doing work that he hates, nets his boss a lot more money than he gains and even forces himself to endure the stupidity and annoyingness of higher ranked coworkers. "


    " I already decided and you won''t be able to change my mind. Don''t bother saying any more words. I''ll finish the training that can be done in the house and get going tomorrow morning. I already left the paper that has the instructions here is you become interested. "


    With that kei goes to the kitchen, leaving behind his parents who are at a loss on what to do. Once in the kitchen, Kei grabs a cup of water and starts practicing. First he tries to make his I energy enter the cup but he fails.


    He tries to increase the intensity but the cup shatters and the water falls all over.

 Chapter 4

    A fluctuation shadow has been waiting for occured when Kei broke the glass. "Hurry up and get stronger". Shadow barely managed to send Kei these words. Shadow was almost caught, but "that entity" shouldn''t have noticed it.


    At those words Kei''s pupils shrunk. His whole body got coated in black I energy, and he started observing his surroundings cautiously. After a few minutes of looking around, and trying to communicate back. He just let out a sight and went to his bed. After setting his alarm clock to 9 am he directly slept.


    Being able to hear these words made shadow believe he hadn''t chosen wrongly. Shaodw couldn''t send an easier to receive mental message. At K''s current level of strength it''s practically impossible to receive it. But he did.


    Certainly it was nice that he had good health, was smart, a genius in fact, cause he wouldn''t have collected all of this info without being one, and his personality wasn''t outright horrible. That isn''t enough though cause he isn''t best in the world in any of those regards.


    But he had something that makes it easier for shadow to help him. A black hole in his chest. The reason an empty vessel was only hypothetical was cause an empty vessel isn''t exactly having no emotions at all.


    Not having emotions at all made a mythical type of vessel called the absolute zero vessel, but the empty vessel was on the premise of having a negative value if quantifying emotions was possible. It''s not possible to have a natural empty vessel as a body is like a room.


    Even if you don''t put anything there and it appears empty. It''s not really empty. To make it fully empty you need to suck the air out and make it into a vacuum. His black hole sucked emotions. He wasn''t born emotionless, but he seems to have been forced to keep accumulating his rage and not act upon it.


    Eventually it solidified and kept compressing. After doing this a lot he stopped putting in effort, as he managed to make a black hole when he started compressing all of his other negative emotions as well.


    The black holes base was rage, and so all of his emotions turned to rage upon getting sucked, and that''s what shadow needed a person with a sea like rage. His alone isn''t enough to be the person with the most rage in the world, but his body being vacuumised of emotions caused him to suck in other people''s negative emotions as well.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    He doesn''t feel that rage anymore and doesn''t act upon it. Anyway his black hole kept getting larger the more he absorbed other people''s emotions. On the other hand, people found themselves somehow getting comfortable when they get in touch with him.


    Shadow hasn''t been observing humans one by one. He was looking at a high concentration of wrath. Instead of emmiting it he was actually sucking it in so he was hard to notice. It took a great deal of investigation. Eventually shadow noticed a low level of negative emotions in a certain area which made him wonder if someone was accumulating them.


    After observing for a while and noticing how he can''t read the mind of kei, shadow paid close attention which led to his night switch and eventually shadow noticed how negative emotions flow toward him and get sucked inside but K never shows it on his face as if he doesn''t feel them.


    After connecting with him and sending him this message shadow finally became able to read his mind. Not completely though. He can''t tell if the black hole was formed consciously or by instinct. For all he knows it can''t have possibly be formed by instinct as to form it that way he''d have needed much more rage than what K originally had.


    On the other hand, he couldn''t have done it consciously as It would have needed an amount of control unfathomable even for shadow. Not to mention if K really can control it he just has to stop rotating the black hole the way it is right now and start rotating it in the opposite direction.


    The abyss in there will flood out and it should bring catastrophes with it. The will inside that abyss had reached the point where it doesn''t want to obtain justice for the suffering he had went through, but rather it wanted to exterminate the whole world.


    The sun rose up. A "kuroko no basket" opening started going from the alarm set on his phone. Kei practically exploded out of bed. In a matter of 5 minutes he got done with everything he had to do and was already out of his house. Compared to the power saving mode he''s been in during the last month, it feels like he was hit by lightning to suddenly get all of this energy.


    After going to Andy''s house at the appointed time they went to the living and played some games while waiting for their other 2 friends. Andy was a 1.81m tall guy. He was pretty tall but being so thin that he was underweight made him look like he was a stick.


    Kei had an average height of 1.72m, but when standing next to andy specially with how Kei has a good build and Andy has a skinny one Kei seems like he''s a dwarf. "So when do u think Yato and Jimmy will come?"-Andy


    "Yato always comes 15 to 20 min late so he should be here any minute now, as for Jimmy....you have been his friend even before me so you should know that not to mention coming on time even just coming is something highly doubtful." - Kei


    They hear the ring of the door bell afterward and Andy goes to check out who''s there. Meanwhile Kei grabs the controller and starts playing with both sides to increase his score goals in fifa." That''s what you get. I''m the best in almost all types of games except for football related ones since I hate them, and yet he always makes us play fifa cause he knows it''s the only game he has a chance of winning against me in."


    Andy walks back with Yato and Jimmy in tow, which prompts Kei to turn off the console." Well, now that we are finally all here and no one else is in this extra house let''s stop wasting time and go directly into business. "Said Kei while cracking his fingers in expectation.

 Chapter 5

    Yato looked a little plum but in good health. He wore glasses like everyone in the group except for Andy. Jimmy was almost as tall as Andy and his hair style resembled that of Hurry Potter.


    "Wait a sec, before we start. Didn''t you say that you could heal with your I energy? If so why don''t you restore your eyesight?"-Jimmy


    "I did. On the way here I restored my eyesight to make it just minus 0.25 and got new glasses. I got used to how I look with those glasses since I''ve been wearing glasses ever since year 3, and ,unlike you, I don''t look like a nerd with them on." - Kei


    "cmon man, you know I''m not a nerd you''re the one who looks like a nerd, not only do you wear glasses you''re also short."replied Jimmy. "I''m not!!! My height is average you''re just abnormal."-Kei


    "Also I plan to become barbaric, so this gives me scholarly looks that will help." Kei took a breath "let''s start" . After telling them about the plan, Kei sat cross legged on the carpet with the other 3 sitting in front of him with their backs to him.


    "breathe in for 10 seconds then hold your breath for 35 seconds....." Kei continued giving them instructions while generating I energy to them. Having the constant stream of energy their need for air was almost nonexistent. After 35 minutes all of them suddenly got covered in black slime.


    " So that''s why you told us to get extra clothes. I''ll be the first to shower" yato ran for the bathroom.


    "hey that''s my house I should shower first" shouted Andy while going after him. Kei went to the kitchen and got a glass of water. "sorry man... But I already broke all the cups in my house. They have only a 10% chance to break right now though". His energy turned blue the moment the sparks entered the cup and they became invisible afterwards.


    A moment later he flipped the cup upside down but the water didn''t fall. It''s surface stayed still. Jimmy saw him and thought it looked nice and so he grabbed a glass of water. "No wait if you-" *crash* the cup broke.


    In reality while holding the water looked simple it was an excellent training of control as first one needed to get his energy past the glass without breaking it. This needed extreme control to break extremely small channels while reinforcing the areas around it so that the glass won''t crumble.


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    Then, the energy needed to form a layer at the top that forced all the water molecules on the surface to bind with each other and pushing that layer towards the rest of the liquid. This way when he flipped the cup the water still wouldn''t fall down.


    "Don''t tell Andy" Jimmy said and proceeded to gather the broken shards, hide them in a plastic bag and then throw it into the basket. "Forget about the cup. You did a good job. It took you less than a second to find out that the normal I energy can''t pass so you switched to destructive"-Kei


    "wait, there are types? And I have to manually control them? I thought the turned to healing inside the body and destructive out of it" - Jimmy


    "Hmm, that''s weird I could freely control the energy type switch even out of my body. You can''t do that?" - Kei


    "nope" -Jimmy. "neither can I" - Andy. It appears Yato managed to go in first. Putting his hands behind his head he said in his signature laid back style "welp I guess you guys need some control training after all"


    "I was thinking you only needed to increase the amount and get some combat experience. Having the amount of control I''m aiming for is not necessarily, but since you guys suck at energy control you need to train to at least reach the basic level. Can''t have you accidentally healing yourself with destructive I energy. "


    Following that Andy and Jimmy started training on paper by breaking it with their energy and trying to restore a small cut, Kei gave to them, on their thumbs, using a kitchen knife.


    By the time the 3 were done showering Kei had already almost mastered his new training of dipping his finger into the water cup and trying to lift the water out without a single drop of water falling. When the water was out of the cup it wobbled slightly like jelly then broke and drenched him. "well I''ll return to training later"


    "It''s getting late and I have a few other stuff to do before I go home, so I''ll have to leave soon for now I''ll teach you something that you absolutely can''t use except if I tell you to do so or if your life is in danger."


    "It''s actually a simple action just put your hand on your chest and gather all your I energy there and think of words like blaze, spark and ignite. This should activate your flame energy. It will increase your power exponentially but-"


    "you will lose it quickly" interrupted Jimmy


    "no you won''t lose it but you will be greatly limiting your future prospects." continued Kei" I won''t elaborate much further as there is something I have to talk about right now." He proceeded to tell them about the robber incident.


    "And you didn''t feel anything when killing the guy?" - Jimmy. "Nope. In fact killing someone who deserved it was more convenient than having to go out of bed"-Kei


    "Just how lazy are you?"-Yato


    "I''m not. I used to be hyper active but there was nothing else to do. I reached the phase where waiting was the only option. So instead of becoming normal I decided to go to another extreme. Being normal is a nightmare. It''s essentially calling urself a background character of this world. "- Kei


    " I didn''t think it would go that way since it''s your first kill and all. Plus, it''s not a game, he was a real living person with no respawns. " -Jimmy


    "Reality IS a game, just a crappy one. Or at least it used to be. But I got this power now so things are gonna get entertaining. I''ll restructure this world since it''s become so boring and devoid of any adventure". With a beaming smile Kei continued "Are you gonna wreck the world with me?"


    " Wait you just said 2 opposite things. Will you wreck the world and destroy it? Or will you restructure it?" - Jimmy


    "Both are the same thing I''m gonna rebuild it, so I need to demolish the old society. As for building a new one.... I''ll count on you guys. Since I''m only good when it comes to creative destruction. I''m not into building."-Kei


    "Fuck so the real work is left to us as usual"


    After finishing joking around. Kei was leaving but after taking a few steps from the door, "I still can''t get it out of my head. Why is it so easy for you to control I energy when we are struggling?"At Jimmy''s remark Kei smirked and without turning back said "It''s cause I''m a genius. "

 Chapter 6

    A week has passed since the group''s hangout. Yato, Andy and Jimmy followed Kei''s advice of using all of their I energy to train their control and ignore their muscles for now. They made a huge progress during the week as they spent 5 to 6 hrs of practicing daily.


    Kei was in his room, sitting  cross legged, with his eyebrows furrowed in concentration. He touched the water in the cup with his finger tip letting the I energy go inside and fill the water. Afterwards he returned his hand back, and focused on using the energy without direct contact. The water started to rise out of the cup and formed a ball. ''appearing to control water, tick''.


    Then he started to make the molecules separate, splitting the water till it wasn''t visible. Following that he got the invisible water in the air to move quickly in a mini cyclone shape right in front of him. This made it look like a mini tornado. ''appearing to control air, tick''


    The tornado stopped and the water ball reformed. Quickly sucking away the energy from the core of the ball, and passing it to the other layer to make it vaporise, the ball turned to ice. ''Some people may argue that making ice doesn''t mean I can control earth, but I''m willing to kill those people. It''s solid so it''ll count as earth. I can''t get it any closer than that.''


    Finally the water vapour that had already accumulated energy from the freezing process got gathered together and the energy quickly compressed and made friction producing a spark. At the same time the water molecules got split by his I energy.


    Using the hydrogen as a fuel for the spark and concentrating the oxygen to maintain it a candle flame appeared on the palm of his hand. ''And appearing to control fire as well. Now I can convince anyone that I''m a full fledged magus. Just in time I have to leave the house in 2 hrs to meet up with them.''


    ''I think I have enough control now to attempt restoring my eyesight''. Healing flesh wounds was quite easy, as long as you directed the right type of I energy to the damaged area. The cells would supercharge and speed up the division process, thus resulting in a fast regeneration process.


    While this method will work on flesh wounds it won''t work on other problems, as it can just speed up the natural body recovery. In other words if the injury is not something that would be naturally cured with time this method won''t solve it.


    Organ failures and eyesight problems won''t heal with the increase in the rate of cell division. They need detailed altering, something which can''t be done without extremely minute control over one''s energy.


    Naturally before Kei didn''t have the ability to heal his eyes. When he told Jimmy that he did he was just spouting nonsense cause he liked to show off. Showing is among the main hobbies Kei picked to relieve his boredom of this slow paced world. After 10 minutes of relaxation Kei went back to his focus mode.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    The I energy in his body started going toward his eyes. After half an hour of focus kei opened his eyes with a bead of sweat rolling down his face. He took of his glasses and looked around. "perfect. Time to get lenses that don''t have a correction factor, cause I''m really used to how I look with glasses"


    Later that day Kei and company were sitting at Andy''s house eating while chatting. The reason they always grouped at Andy''s house is that this was his extra house. They prefered going to a house where there will be no family members and thus guaranteeing that there will be no interruptions and freedom to do whatever shit they felt like doing.


    After eating and admiring his new glasses, that were exactly the same as his previous one, they started discussing their progress in I energy. Once they were done with that they decided to start some sparring matches as combat training. " Weren''t you talking about a new start? You even went as far as choosing a new name, so shouldn''t you change your default style? You know what I mean... You have blue in everything you''re wearing" exclaimed yato while going to the empty room in the house.


    "yeah I was actually thinking about dying my hair blue" - Kei. "you know what let''s just start". They tossed a coin to determine who will fight. First Andy was paired with Kei. Yato was appointed as the refree. Standing at opposite sides of the room yato started the match" ready, steady, go! "


    The match was over in a second as the moment Yato said "go", kei raised a finger and a while I energy bolt slammed into Andy''s forehead shocking him and knocking him out.


    "Now yato and Jimmy. Don''t hold back, we can all heal now, so fight to your heart''s content. I''m even thinking that, if in the future we reach a level where our regeneration makes us immortal, we can try to kill each other in creative ways for fun" Kei dragged Andy''s body to the side.


    "But I don''t want to fight" Jimmy said feeling aggrieved. He was never the type of person who enjoyed harming or being harmed by others. "In that case you will be yato''s punching bag. This match will stop only when I say so or one participant gets knocked out. You can''t give up. Fight start!" - kei


    The match was basically one sided bullying. Yato kept pummeling Jimmy, while Jimmy didn''t try to retaliate. Eventually after Andy woke up Kei announced an end to the match, as Jimmy looked pitiful. "Before we start the final match, I want to point out how, other than me, you all seem to have forgotten about your I energy. Yato you didn''t use it at all. I hope you''ll use it now"


    With that they started. Yato lunged towards Kei with I energy tendrils coating his whole body. Kei ducked dodging yato''s right swing that was aiming at his face, and countered with an upper cut. It connected but the energy blocked most of the attack, and the damage was barely noticeable.


    Directing most of his energy to his foot he caused a mini explosion that propelled him backwards and out of yato''s reach. Yato tried to imitate Kei by shooting out his energy like a projectile from his hand. As a result Kei absorbed it with a laugh.


    "Hey that''s cheating" shouted yato. "you didn''t attack just now. You simply just discharged your energy. Why shouldn''t I absorb energy that''s lying around with no owner? Did you think just getting your energy out of your body would make it become an attack? If that''s true I would have been wasting my 15 hrs of daily practice for the last week"


    Suddenly kei compressed his energy into a ball and fired it at yato. Despite trying to block yato still slammed into the wall and gave up saying he depleted his  energy to block that attack.

 Chapter 7

    Everyone had woken up and were recovering their power. "OK everyone pay attention. Remember the 35 minute breathing technique we used to activate I energy? If we breathe according to it our recovery speed increases by 10 times. Just 2 full cycles are enough to fill out your body if you have been sucked dry."


    " Just take the deepest breath you can take and hold it. I''ll take care of the rest". Following that Kei proceded to place his hand on each of their backs. 10 minutes later the lung upgrade was done, and they were in the training room.


    "now we will train our combat and team work. We need to fight together so we''ll split into teams. Before we start just give me a second." Kei closed his eyes and the other 3 were discussing some stuff. Inside Kei''s body I energy was raging everywhere fully increasing his neurological adaptability and other tweaks to his body making him a lot better at heat, cold, and fatigue resistance.


    He also gave himself an upgrade regarding immune system, sleep and food needs. Kei opened his eyes to see the 3 of them looking at him. "we decided that we''ll be making the group battle a 3 on 1" Jimmy said while laughing to himself.


    "k" kei gave only a simple Rey and stood at the rooms center. Hurriedly they surrounded him in a triangle formation. "start". The three lunged at him at the same time. A blinding flash of I energy came from Kei''s body and after opening their eyes he wasn''t there. Looking up yato was met with the view of an energy coated fist that slammed him to the floor and knocked him out.


    Kei had jumped and layed flat on the ceiling when they were blinded. Then followed up with a buzz hit. That''s how kei decided to call due to not caring as he won''t be shouting the name when he uses it anyway and due to him having a terrible naming sense. Normally with the protective cover on yato''s body he won''t be knocked out but the buzz hit gets the energy past the defense and shocks the nervous system into a blackout.


    "With this the only one who actually was capable of putting on any fight is knocked out" kei stretched his back. Andy used the opportunity to charge into his back. Kei jumped and performed a backflip in the air so that Andy would pass under him, and right then kei, while being suspended upside down in the air, slammed a buzz hit on Andy''s head knocking him out.


    Energy tendrils went out of his hand and connected to the ceiling, quickly pulling him up so that his feet are in a launch position against the ceiling. He was planning to leap towards Jimmy and end it with the final hit, but right when jumped and moved his gaze to lock on Jimmy he was met with the sight of supercharged shoe. The shoe rammed into his face blasting him to the opposite wall.


    The energy in the shoe was unique as it did some heavy damage and left kei disoriented. However, he didn''t lose focus. Right when his foot touched the ground I energy sparks appeared and he blasted towards Jimmy. The moment he got within range, and ready to punch Jimmy threw his other charged shoe aiming at Kei''s face. Kei flipped backwards and while dodging the shoe Kei''s leg connected with Jimmy''s chin and sent a buzz kick at him.


    Completing the flip and landing on his legs kei announced. "I wo-" *bam*. The shoe had an energy which got attracted to the energy transferred to Kei''s head from the first shoe making it actlike a boomerang and slam him in the back of his head. The moment the 2 energies collided the exploded and had a similar effect to the buzz hit. Thus knocking him out.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    The reason the buzz hit is able to bypass the defensive layer is that, it stays as energy without any destructive property which gets absorbed instinctively. After it''s inside kei turns it into a shock, with no defences inside it knocks out the opponent. Jimmy lacks the control to change the nature of the energy when it enters someone else.


    So, he split the attack making the first act as attraction to his energy and this isn''t recognized as being harmful. The second attack has an instruction that triggers the shock. An hour later kei woke up, and right after it the others also woke up. Kei barely had time to pretend that he was trying to wake them up.


    "Finally I''ve been waiting for hrs". - kei. "fuck Jimmy so you screwed it up after all."- yato. "wait a second. The whole fight was planned? No way! You aren''t some combat experts who can simulate what an opponent would do" - kei.


    "yeah but neither are you. You just did what anyone would do if they possessed your abilities and were in your position. The only action out of expectation was you knocking me out while back flipping. I thought you''ll finish before trying to attack and in which case you would have lost. " Jimmy smiled bitterly "I really wanted to win too".


    "it''s fine. It''s not like we had stakes and you really did a good fight, actually I was thinking of bluffing my way through this, but I''ll just admit it. The boomerang shoe knocked me almost at the same time as I knocked Jimmy so we can count it as a draw. "- kei


    " dude we aren''t that desperate. A loss is a loss we will win next time for sure" - Andy. "Actually your talking so seriously when your saying you''ll win in a 3 VS 1. If that''s not desperate then what is?" kei burst out laughing and the others rained down curses on him.


    "seriously though, there must be something you aren''t telling us? If not then why is it that you''re still winning despite it being a 3 against 1?"- Andy


    Kei smirks and says in a laid back tone "It''s cause I''m a genius". "Cmon man. Is that gonna be your answer for everything? Don''t pretend you aren''t hiding anything. At least tell us how you got to know this info about I energy" - Andy


    Kei sighed "I actually told you before"


    "there is no way we won''t remember something like that. Can you tell us again?" - Jimmy


    "Ever since I was 9 years old I''ve wanted super powers. When I got asked in class one time about what I''ll become when I grew up and I said I''ll be a person with superpowers who doesn''t care about money and just seeks thrills in adventure the whole class laughed like crazies and I got mad. When I went home I started a large scale research to get super powers."


    " I knew it would need a lot as if it was easy it would have long since been found. So I started by reading a book to increase my reading speed then I learned hypnosis to give myself more time for research. I started spending 18 hrs on the pc per day and by the time I was 10 I had already almost finished everything related to mythology or any other leads to super powers that can be found easily."


    " I had also reached the idea that important info like that will be hidden and while researching that topic I came across knowledge regarding the deep web and dark web. So on my 10 birthday I had polished my hacking skills and was ready for my first deep/dark web dive. Following that the following 2 years consisted of unending research. "


    "Along the way I started running some businesses from behind the scenes. Right now I''m actually the owner of almost 80% of the famous businesses you guys know of. I''m the richest man on earth from behind the scenes. I used a huge amount of that money to investigate places with strange occurrences without knowledge of any other person."


    " Does that include area 52?"- interrupted Jimmy


    " Actually that is the only place I wanted to investigate but wasn''t capable of doing so. I''d rather not talk about the reason why I wasn''t able to do so. Other than that I even managed to go into permuda triangle. In fact the I energy breathing technique was found on murals there. "

 Chapter 8

    "I remember you telling us this story before, but we thought it was just a joke. You were actually serious?!!!!" - Jimmy


    "Yeah. In fact let me tell you that when I feel like lying, I''ve read enough psychology books and know enough about human manipulation that no one would ever suspect me. The only times you guys brushed something I said as a joke or suspected it was a lie were the times I was saying the truth without adjusting any part of it. " Kei took a breath. " I can''t blame you though I know my life is so abnormal that it feels like I''m living in an anime. "


    " Anyway, I passed by college before coming here and I noticed something. In one if the buildings there is a ward that makes people subconsciously steer clear of a certain section of the building. I decided to check it out and it seems that the hidden area leads underground and extends on for a long distance. That''s worth investigating. So can you guys come? I''m not sure how long it will take so you need to notify your families that you might be absent for a few days."- kei


    " I can''t do that. My grades have been going down and I need to catch up not ditch even more classes"- Jimmy.


    "Cmon man, we''re finally going on an adventure. Stop being a scaredy cat. Who gives a crap about your marks when you''ve got super powers. They aren''t much right now but Kei told us that eventually we''ll be able to destroy planets." - Yato


    " I''m not sure I can come but I will try."- Jimmy. The friends continued to chat for a while and went home afterwards.


    The appointed day for the exploration came. During that time kei has been training a bit and finally managed to transform his energy into a non volatile form. In short he was able to crystallize the energy outside of his body. In the future if he ever runs out of energy he could absorb the crystals to replenish his energy.


    Right now crystallizing all of his power allows him to make a crystal that''s one sixth the size of a finger. Another useful application was that while fully recovered absorbing the crystal increases his body''s maximum capacity by even more than the amount he gets if he uses up all of his energy and gets it refilled.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.


    Using this method his I energy has been increasing by about 50% each day. Each one of the group got a backpack with basic necessaties, and met close to the close gate. " So as usual Jimmy didn''t come" - Andy " worse is we''re not even sure he will come. He''s the type of guy that keeps you waiting till the last second only to tell you he won''t come." - yato


    Kei was looking at the finger sized energy crystal in his hand. He had spent the whole week to make it this large. When Jimmy finally appeared kei pocketed the crystal. They finished greeting each other and went into the college.


    Eventually they arrived a large old looking building. They proceeded to the section without people. After a a bit of searching around they found a hidden entrance by lifting one of the floor tiles. Following it they reached an underground area that was full of statues.


    Leaning down and acing his hand on the floor Kei sent a spark to scan the ground. "found it". A particular golden statue that looked like a meditating man only with six hands, and a blue marble on his forehead.


    Kei went forward and pressed the marble causing the statue to move and reveal a staircase beneath it. "How did you know you should press the blue marble?" - Andy


    "There were other options?!!!" - kei. While going down the stair well they found a torch. Although they already had flashlights they decided to get it anyway. At the bottom of the stairs there was a gate that had 4 flower marks on it. They attempted pushing it, but It wouldn''t budge.


    "Don''t tell me we''re going back. We''re just 5 minutes into our first adventure."- yato. "what should we do then? We even tried hulk smashing." - Andy


    "Maybe if I water the plants...." sparks started to go off of Kei''s body. I energy spread through the air and quickly compressed the water vapor into droplets that directly went to the 4 flowers on the gate. The flowers greedily absorbed them and the door opened revealing a circular chamber.


    At the end of the room a treasure chest was placed on a pedestal but a statue of a dragons head was covering it as if it was its guardian.


    The moment the stepped into the room a formation lit up, and their I energy surged and increased at a rapid pace. " everyone transfer your energy to me as fast as you could." kei shouted and took out his crystal and started pumping energy into it.


    Kei''s friends were puzzled, but put their hands on his back and transferred their energy to him. Kei then started to explain to them about his energy storing crystals. After that he proceeded to explain about the formation.


    Their bodies could increase their maximum capacity by only 20% at a time. While Kei could increase by 50%,but even then it would be a waste as the formation would stop the moment they can''t absorb any more energy. That''s why if they never become full and keep expending their energy they would be using the formation to its fullest.


    After a whole day of energy flow the formation dimmed. They all collapsed to the ground after that looking extremely tired. While their energy wasn''t that lacking the concentration for so long made them want to faint.


    "So, how is your progress? I''m currently at 20%,when I fully recover I would reach the limit of my body. I won''t be able to accumulate any more I energy no matter how much I train. " - Kei. He turned to the three and the they indicated that they have the same situation except for the fact that their body limit was much lower than his.

 Chapter 9

    "Now that our body has reached its limit, and our energy crystal has become even larger than me, we should probably ignite. We need to make the crystal increase first though. This size is still not enough. I want to increase it a bit more."- kei


    "How can you absorb all of this? I can''t take any more even if it''s just for the ignition." - Jimmy


    "Well it''s hard to explain, but other than my body limit which already was almost as high as 2 of you. It feels like there is a black hole in my chest. At first I thought It was bottomless and it kept sucking emotions but I think I might be able to fill it out with just a bit more of energy crystal. "- kei


    " You should do the ignition right now since you''re ready. I''m gonna catch up quickly once I ignite. Anyway, knowing what you are doing will help you progress faster, so I''ll tell you now. You already know that I energy comes from your body, and through your practice you must have realized that it''s released due to the flow of blood."


    " The whole internal energy phase was basically a foundation for flame energy. Since, the more I energy you have the more intense the ignition. There are 2 aspects of flame energy. Its depth and its type. Its type is related to the person and the I energy has no influence regarding it, but the depth increases and to some extent the depth is like the vessel. It determines how fast and to what limit you can progress. You can start now " -Kei


    Yato, Jimmy and Andy, after fully recovering, placed their hands on their chest. All of the I energy within their body converged to their chest. The moment they willed the ignition the I energy hurricane exploded. The explosion didn''t harm anyone. When the dust cleared they all looked fine but exhausted. They all had a ring in the hand they held against their chest during the ignition.


    "Oh I forgot to tell you about the life rings. That''s probably why you feel exhausted. It has a lot of uses, but for now let me just point the life saving meusure which is to advance to the next stage. You just have to pour everything into the ring and will it to shatter. The flames would then temper your whole body. "Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    "The I energy was lacking in both quality and quantity. The flame phase solved the quality problem and the aura phase will solve the quantity. After tempering your body with flames each cell would be like a nuclear reactor. Just like the last time that''s a last resort. This phase is a foundation for the following phase."


    " And just as usual the difference would be immense. If the I energy could be likened to hydroelectric energy. Then your aura would be nuclear energy. That''s why even if we could have skipped the phases we would have still gone through them as otherwise your control won''t be enough and you would blow up your body just from breathing." - kei


    By now maintaining the breathing method while doing other stuff had become easy for kei. So, he kept going around the chamber, and whenever he recovered some power he would pour it into the crystal. Meanwhile, the others were getting used to their new powers.


    The flame energy was naturally coursing through their body and it was enhancing it. Other than the basic enhancement, which increased all physical aspects by almost doubling it, Andy had a blue flame. When he pours it into the life ring it summons a light blue, ocean colored, sword, as well as a speed boost. Along with the sword a stream of information appeared in his mind, and Andy was sorting it.


    Yato had a black flame. When poured into his life ring his body gets numerous times more durable and his stamina becomes effectively infinite. If a double deck bus at 100km per hour speed rams into him he will probably survive. Seeing how tough his body became, yato started training to increase his power.


    Now that his body won''t get damaged easily he can keep increasing the training limit without worry and he would see results almost instantly as the damage would almost be nonexistent. With that his power started skyrocketing.


    Jimmy got a white flame. When poured into his ring he was able to make white spheres that can explode when thrown. The spheres were small in size. Usually they were the size of marbles, and it takes about a second to arm 10 of them. The marble sized bombs did about the same damage as a normal grenade would. Those are the C - energy bombs.


    However, he can charge them to make their size go into being billiard ball sized. It takes about 1 second to make one of those and they make him a lot more exhausted. Those are the B - energy bombs. Finally, he can make a bowling ball sized energy bomb. It does almost as much damage as a tank''s shell can do, however it takes 10 seconds to arm and it would leave Jimmy exhausted throughout the day. If he forces himself to make a 2nd one he will fail and will go into a coma. Those are the A - energy bombs.


    Jimmy tampered a bit with the energy bomb, and got used to its structure. He realized that he was supposed to be the long range fighter of the group, but his bombs were restrained to how far he could throw. That''s why he was making adjustments so that he can use one bomb to propel the other,without detonating the propelled bomb and without harming himself. There was also the accuracy matter.


    Other than that he also made an A - energy bomb and kept it in his bag after making sure to turn the energy into a storable one. It didn''t make his bag heavy as the bombs were as light as a balloon.

 Chapter 10

    It took a whole day till Kei was finally able to make the crystal as large as he wanted it to be. During that day Andy started training in accordance with the information that appeared in his mind when he started. It turns out it was a technique for sword users. It was called infinite swordsmanship.


    The opening description said "The absolute swordsmanship. One sword to transcend time, space and reality. Everything fades in front of the swordsmanship that took an eternity to craft". Whenever Kei saw the blue flames he''d stare in jealousy and whine about how he''s the one who deserves the blue colour.


    About an hour ago, Jimmy had finished his adjustments. He was just loitering around. He claims to be thinking of new tactics, but he was just hoping inspiration would hit him while he''s lazily sitting. Yato was basically in the same situation he looked to be training but he was also just stretching and admiring the murals.


    He can''t increase his power any further here. He needed some specialized equipment. While Andy was training it was more of just trying out the sword moves. He wasn''t really in the mood to learn them. Overall, the team was ready and were just passing time waiting for Kei.


    "Before I ignite, I want to say something. Right now we seem to have a tank, a melee damage dealer who''s more of an assassin due to the focus on speed, and a ranged damage dealer who is actually the real heavy damage dealer. I knew our personalities fit well together and that''s why I wasn''t worried that we''d overlap when we make a party. "


    " However, I''m scared..... cause the only role left is a healer. I''m going on a murder spree if I turn out to be a healer" Kei said so while trembling.


    Kei stood in front of the crystal, took a deep breath and pressed his hand against it. Placing the other hand his chest he said "ignite". The crystal became an energy storm that poured towards him. In Kei''s mind he stood in a dark space and I talked to him.


    "There''s no time, so I can''t explain everything. For now just get stronger I can talk to you when you level up your phase. The stronger you are the more we''ll be able to talk. Other than that, I''ll tell you a list of things to do and I''ll explain why we need them later, we need to work together or the human race would perish."


    Talking to him was starting to give me a headache, but what totally blew me was his answer. "If you don''t have enough time to fully explain right now then just explain a fragment and we can continue next time. If you want me to just blindly follow your instructions without explanation you can keep on dreaming.I wanna know the full story "-KeiStolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    "you know this concerns almost a lot of races and not just humans." I wanted to talk more, but I wasn''t able to maintain the connection. When Kei finished his ignition, his friends looked at him and waited for an answer.


    "Hmm.... I... When I put my flame into my ring it gives me a strength, speed and durability boost. Making me a jack of all trades. I''m the second best at everything. Other than that..... I can heal." - kei


    "So you are a healer" - Yato


    "Shut up. I''m not a healer there''s no healer who can deal more damage than the fighter of the party" - Kei


    After a few minutes of joking around they went towards the chest. During the time they had stayed here kei had investigated and found out how to make the dragon guardian move. He lighted the torch and aced it in the dragon''s mouth. The dragon''s head rose revealing the treasure.


    Opening the box they found a blue pearl inside. After trying to pour some power on and seeing no reaction they started all types of weird experiments. Eventually when they started to get desperate Kei even tried to eat it.


    A few hrs later they were tossing the pills to each other absent-mindedly. During one throw it touched the floor and a hole opened there. Going over there to investigate the hole, they found it expanding and so they retreated. When the hole had a 2 meter radius a disc came out.


    "I see. The pearl was a key."-kei. They all proceeded to stand on the disc. After that the disc started going down like an elevator. Once they were down they arrived at what looked like a natural cave system.


    Seeing the countless branching paths kei said "Wow a natural labyrinth. Or not. There''s a weird energy here. It feels like I''m a bit weightless."


    "Well there is a rule to makr sure we reach the goal in labyrinths. Always choose the right path and never choose left. If you arrive at a branch where there is no right go straight and if the only choice is turning left, backtrack to the previous crossroad and choose a path that''s not left. I can explain to you how I got this extremely reliable method, but I won''t cause it will make you all worried. "-Kei


    " Feels like you got it from an anime. I guess I''ll just record our path as we''ll get lost in 5 minutes of we follow your lead. "-Jimmy


    With that the group started marching. A few minutes later kei took out some ice-cream from his bag and started eating." How do you have ice-cream that''s not melted? "-Andy


    " One of the applications of I-energy. I made it so it doesn''t absorb energy from the surroundings as long as it was coated in the veil. And now I removed the veil."- Kei.


    "mmmmm, ice cream is one of the few joys in life. In fact I can count everything worth living for on my fingers" - Kei.


    "Let me guess. Anime, manga, light novels, games, ice cream, gum and the other 4 are probably fight related" - Andy


    "yeah the other 4 are training, fighting, getting stronger and defeating opponents." - Kei


    "I''m surprised you don''t have anything romance related in the list" - Jimmy


    "The reason is that I, unlike you, don''t crush on any girl who says hi to me. That''s why despite my fan club I''m still single. My GF can skip the fighting part in my life joys but she absolutely can''t skip the first 6."- Kei


    "You don''t have a fan club you delusional retard. And you won''t find a girl who likes all of those weeb stuff." - yato


    "I do have a fan club composed of 60k girls, but it''s only natural you won''t believe me. When I say the truth without any filtering it never gets believed, and there are girls like that. I''ve seen a few of them, but I wasn''t able to date them" - kei.


    "well after the deep web story I don''t know if I should trust you or not. Anyway, where did you see this girl and why weren''t you able to date her?" - Andy


    "I saw her in an anime, and I wasn''t able to date her cause she was in an anime." - kei


    "fuck off!!!!" a hail of curses ran down on him from his friends.

 Chapter 11

    Right at that moment the cave began to rumble and many huge worms bigger than the size of an ordinary grown man came out of the ground. "run?" seif got ready to run only to find the rest of them racing towards the worms as of they were worried they won''t have enough points by the end of the round.


    Kei got coated in his red blaze, and went forward like a train directly catching each one and splitting it from its mouth. While occupied by one several other would attack him but he just brushes off the injuries as the get healed by the time the following attack reaches him.


    Yato was even more direct the worms attacks weren''t even able to scratch him. He kept going forward like a bulldozer and smash into one carrying it till he slams into a cave wall with it. Once he got used to this strategy he stopped getting away from walls and enjoyed the fun of pancaking them.


    Andy looked like a blue lightning bolt. He rushed between the worms using his sword to split any worms that it was hard to properly see his feautures. By the time Jimmy adjusted himself the 3 had managed to kill almost half of the worms and it had taken them only 5 seconds. White energy marbles suddenly blasted of and annihilated the rest of the worms in 2 seconds.


    Before they had the chance to celebrate 10 more worms came out but they were about the length of 3 grown men. They tried following the same nonexistent tactic but despite their size the worms were fast enough to dodge all attacks except for Andy''s.


    But while finishing the first one Andy got slammed into a wall by another worm and his whole skeletal frame got filled with fractures. Kei sprinted to Andy to heal him. While yato rushed to the worm that attacked. While Kei was healing Andy he got hit by another worm from behind. It blasted him off into a wall, and although his body didn''t suffer except minor scratches he said "retreat".


    Jimmy didn''t have a problem as he was the furthest and Andy was fast enough to reach him easily Kei also caught up almost immediately. While yato, thanks to being slow and durable, actually got blasted towards them, prompting Kei to catch him.


    They all started to run but they were adjusting their speed to Andy''s so the worms were gaining on them. "OK that was a terrible performance. None of you was able to focus on his role other than seif. Yato you should be a tank. Yet you rushed to fight when I was trying to heal Andy. There are a lot more errors, but you know how a proper formation should work. We will just make some adjustments to that."This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    The worms were almost upon them, so Jimmy started shooting  his energy balls at them. But this time they didn''t dodge they barreled through them. "send the tennis ones"-Kei


    "B types" Jimmy seemed to be pissed off at the tennis term, and threw over one of his stored bowling ball bombs. The explosion blasted them and caused a section of the ceiling to fall down. The rubble isolated the worms and Kei and Co.


    It looked like they don''t need a detour though as they could hear the worms smashing the rubble on the other side. They started improvising the original default party setup, and in 5 minutes the worms had broken through.


    The moment that happened the worms were greeted by the site of yato jumping towards them and grabbing onto 2 worms while holding. Kei got ready to do something but discovered that those 2 were the only 2 left. The explosion had killed of 8 so he relaxed.


    Jimmy bombarded them with his B type bombs. The battle ended with no chance to show off the new tactic. " I got a good idea we have our original tactic that we didn''t get to show today. How about we make some custom versions of it. So that no matter the situation we know what to do." - kei


    They agreed and they proceeded through the cave. After they got finished discussing the custom versions of the formation they started chatting about random topics." Right, you said before that everything we are doing is to get our bodies ready for cultivation. I surfed the internet and found out that it''s closely related to qiqong. Most of those masters however are just con artists."


    "I can see why even the real ones among them don''t get super increases. It''s due to their bodies not being in the right condition. I want you to tell us exactly how many stages are we going through to become ready to cultivate and....." Jimmy got cut off as the kings of worms got out.


    They were each as long as 10 grown men and the were gold skinned. " Custom 2"-Kei sprang into action running towards one and jumped towards it. The worm opened its mouth in response and devoured him.


    (The End. Author''s note : thanks for reading it''s cause I''m a genius.)


    (Just kidding)


    Yato, Andy and Jimmy, with black, blue and white flames surrounding them, acted like nothing happened and rushed towards the other worm taking their positions. Yato in the front was at the front. The worm dived towards him only to find yato hold onto it refusing to budge. The impact caused yatos feet to dig into the ground and the flailing tail of the worm caused a cloud of dust to rise.


    While the worm was rooted Andy went around its body like a blue bolt leaving deep scars where ever he passes. The other worm was getting closer but they didn''t even glance at it and right then it started whimpering, convulting and shrieking in pain.


    Jimmy blasted the B type bombs into the scars made by Andy. After they exploded the worm died.

 Chapter 12

    The other worm also fell and Kei went out of its mouth. "I get why your body is intact, but why are your clothes still without any tears?And what did you do in there anyway? " - Jimmy


    " I punched my way to his heart and tore it apart. As for my clothes..... I guess my flames don''t only speed up regeneration. They seem to have restorative powers. "-Kei


    " Anyway it looks like we killed the king and queen. Let''s go on. We shouldn''t meet any more worms. "-Kei


    As the group continued advancing they started to feel restless." Hey is there no way to get stronger. It feels like I''m already at my limit and increasing the flame energy is going at a snails pace. "- Andy


    " There is a way. It was something people used to do but it poses great danger if you fail. The failure percentage was about 90%. Not to mention that the only ones who even dared to attempt it were the geniuses and not random nobodies. "-Kei


    " In that case forget about it. I''d rather grow stronger at a leisurely pace than to risk my life. We are only doing this for fun after all. "-JimmyThis story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    " Yeah. I wish I had that option too. Unfortunately I have to take the hard path. Despite me not caring about humanity..... I can''t just ignore the extinction of the whole race. I mean who would make more games and anime if that happens. "- Kei


    "what''s that about extinction?!!!!" - Andy


    "oh look light." - Kei. At the far end of the current tunnel they saw a thread of light, and rushed towards it. Pushing the rock sunlight came in and they went out.


    "Shouldn''t it be night now?Also you should answer me about the extinction thing I''m not Jimmy so I won''t forget my question" - Andy


    "Yeah I thought there was a spatial distortion when we entered the cave. According to the sunlight position and the time we should be in.... Permuda triangle. That''s assuming there was no time dilation though. Not to mention that I''ve sent a team to permuda triangle before and the reports don''t match what I see here"-Kei


    "So about my question..... What will happen to the human race?" - Andy


    "oh I''m not answering that question. So stop being annoying."- Kei


    With that they started walking. Usually they would have made a fuss but having walked all of this distance and being to several fights they were all almost depleted. So,they decided to just take a break then look into this matter.


    The surroundings were full of trees. It looked like a normal tropical island. Except for the Inca temple in the distance.

 Chapter 13

    The group decided to rest a bit, and then go to the Inca temple. They originally wanted to rest for only a few minutes. However, the stress that came from their first real fight and the effect of the spatial distortion caused them to fall asleep the moment they relaxed.


    After they woke up, they started going towards the temple."I''m in a really bad mood right now "-Kei


    "Why?"- Andy


    "Cause I had a dream and I can''t remember it."-kei


    "Well that''s normal" - Andy


    "Not for me. I always remember my dreams. There was only one time in my life that I couldn''t remember a dream. It ended with my family almost dead.The only thing I can remember is the presence of a mountain and a river."- Kei


    "Well this seems peaceful" - Andy


    "Yeah... But I''m 99% sure the mountain was made of corpses and the river was made of blood. It feels like the dreams I can''t remember are future visions"-Kei


    "That''s brutal. Your dreams are always way over the top" - Jimmy


    "By the way I forgot to tell you but the entrance we came from isn''t there anymore" - Kei


    "What are you talking about?" - Andy


    "Didn''t we come her through a cave? It''s not there anymore. Well we will figure it out when we come back."-Kei


    They reach the temple but try as they would they couldn''t find an entrance. Jimmy tried busting his way in and as a result he just wasted one of his bowling ball(Type-A). The temple looked like it was made out of stone, but it was harder than steel. After about an hour of searching they decided to rest. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.


    They went a nearby water fall and before they could start descending Kei seemed really excited "Hey, let''s make a race. We''ll jump and see who reaches the buttom faster. Don''t worry as our bodies are much stronger than before. If we push our reinforcement to the limit even Jimmy who has the weakest body would be fine upon falling down. Just a few broken bones that I can heal in a few minutes. "


    "Shut up I won''t participate in that. I''m not crazy. Not to mention that what are you trying to do? It won''t be a race it''s up to gravity. You will all fall at the same rate. How did you even manage to get into an engineering college with a mentality like that? You must have saved the world in your previous life to get that luck. Or else you would have died long ago"-Jimmy


    "Whatever" Kei jumped and while falling with the waterfall he noticed that it was just a thin curtain, and there was a cavern behind it. "worth it" smiled Kei.


    He called up to the rest telling them to come down quickly. Yato had to carry Jimmy and jump with him. After they all landed, and entered the cave they found it to have glowing blue writing scattered on the wall illuminating the passage. The writing was of a language that they didn''t know of.

 Chapter 14

    The group proceded through the catacombs. It seemed to be a burial site of some unknown race as there were gaps in the wall with tombs in them. The tombs were different sizes varying from the size of a finger to the that if an elephant.


    They continued walking for half a kilometer without any interruptions aside from Kei occasionally stopping and getting entranced by how the blue color looks nice. As they were walking Jimmy started a conversation :"Is there a particular reason you aren''t telling us why the human race will get extinct? Is it something like a secret that we can''t know cause if we know we will die or something?"


    "well... You get the general idea. I can''t tell you. If I do you will get convinced, but it will lose all meaning. I can''t say any more than that." - Kei


    The group came across a branching path. It had 4 branches. "We aren''t in a hurry, so we can explore one by one" - Andy


    "Actually I''m in a hurry. Sorry, but I''ll have to ask each of you to go on a separate path.I''ll teach you now that method that can help your power to grow by leaps and bounds. Though it has a huge risk, so use it only if your life is in danger. " - Kei


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    The four had picked their path, and were marching through it. It turned out that only one person can pass at a time. If they all tried going through the same road they will have to wait till the first person passes or dies. So going this way was the fastest way. These paths were a trial. Only those who pass it were qualified to go into the temple.


    Yato was making his way through the green glowing path. The air was growing thin despite him not moving upwards. It kept getting thinner to the point where he was wheezing. At the same time the surroundings got so hot that he was starting to have dehydration problems.


    Even the air started to become acidic causing him extreme pain with every breath. He wanted to rest so much but he persevered. Kei had told him that he managed to gleam some info from the walls. According to it he absolutely can''t stop to take a break. If he does he will never get out.


    Eventually when the pain of his burning lungs was starting to become unbearable, he passed the green lit section and entered the orange lit section. The moment he entered he felt like gravity had suddenly increased and was increasing with every step. The pressure kept in increasing step after step. You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.


    He kept solely focusing on marching and putting one foot in front of the other.''not yet'' he kept telling himself. ''Can''t let Kei reach the end first''. His agony reached a level where his mind entered a state that made him lose sense of time. It felt like only a few seconds when he had been walking for hours. Finally his surroundings changed color to red.


    The already thin air became thinner. He was gasping just to stand still. The air was so acidic that he was starting to bleed from his lungs. The heat and gravity were also pushed to the point where his whole skeleton started creaking and making popping sounds. His clothes started melting and the weaker, more flammable parts caught on fire which burned him and reduced the oxygen even more.


    When the situation became so dire that he was thinking he''s going to die for sure. Hundreds of black colored humanoid monsters appeared. His perception level wasn''t high, but it was enough to tell that any one of those Blackies could could kill him by alone even if he had been at full strength.


    ''No way. That''s just absurd. Even without the monsters I wouldn''t have been able to to walk to the end. What''s that trial? Isn''t it just a death trap?'' - yato


    The monsters started to get closer. Their miasma was making his soul feel faint. ''shit I have to use that method. I have no other choice, I can''t even scratch those things since I''m so lacking when it comes to damage dealing.''


    ''But... Would that even work. This method is practically suicide in a fancy way. Even Kei can''t guarantee that it''s an actual me this and not just a prank left by someone''.


    The monsters were almost upon him. ''Shit I guess I have no choice''. He directed his flame energy to his life ring. The black flame was darker than anytime before. Following that he circulated the rest of his energy in the specific way Kei had taught him, and plunged the ring into his chest. He burned a hole straight to his heart where he lit it on fire.


    The moment he did that his body glowed with a blinding light, and it vanished from its original spot. When yato opened his eyes he was in a dark space that had a huge black turtle standing in front of him. The turtle had a snake for a tail. The tortoise was so steady that a person loses their footing and falls when in from of it. This happens due to subconsciously comparing yourself with the tortoise.


    As a result the person who looks at the tortoise would find that he isn''t steady at all and that in fact he is so imbalanced that he falls in the next moment. This effect is enhanced by illusion power coming off from the tortoise''s shell.


    When yato appeared there he also lost his footing and fell to the ground. The tortoise opened its eyes and gazed at him. "Wow, a human. It''s been a really long time since anyone of your kind has managed to see me"

 Chapter 15

    Each one of the friends were having a hard time, except for Kei of course, he had passed the tunnel and was eating ice cream while feeling bored. He looked like he had gone for a walk instead of a hard trial.


    Back to the others. By this point they had all reached the red zone. They had different challenges that were customized to their abilities. The one thing in common was that by this point they were all at the brink of death and activated the Ancient spirit contract method.


    This method allows a person to go to the space of one of the ancient spirits or beasts. They all managed to get a meeting with the highest ranking. The divine beasts. This method allows a person to meet a higher rank being the closer the person is to death when he activates it. They were all basically dying when they activated it, so it was natural.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit.


    The risk came from not being able to obtain the acknowledgement of the being. In that case a person already at the brink of death would lose his last option and die.


    Jimmy was standing in a similar space. The ferocious white tiger seemed to contrast with his timid personality. "A timid person like you can never ba allowed to use my power." roared the tiger.


    "But I have to get it. I''ll die if I don''t." - Jimmy


    "You think I care? The only people who can possibly make a contract with me have to be people who understand their role. You need to continuously be the center of all attacks. Without the will to destroy, your attacks will always be shallow. I''ll do you a favor and not kill you. I''ll even give you a chance. Get rid of your timidity. Prove yourself. If you do, I''ll discuss a contract with you".


    The word byakko appeared on Jimmy''s hand and he woke up again surrounded by those terrible beasts again. Without a single drop of power left.

 Chapter 16

    Andy had a similar situation. He was standing in front of the proud azure dragon. The only difference was that the dragon was clearly telling Andy the requirments for a contract.


    " The way I understand it. Each one needs to have a similar temperament. If my powers had resonated with byakko I would have needed to be ferocious, with you I need to be prideful, and so on. I think we all already have those attributes. " - Andy


    " You do. However, it''s hard to maintain and display them in front of us. For example when you came here. The first thing you felt was how proud I was, this suppressed your own pride and made you get a lot more humble. I need you to display that pride. You still aren''t prideful enough. "- azure dragon


    " I don''t get it.... You don''t look like someone full of pride. I have a friend who is a lot more prideful despite him having nothing compared to you. "-Andy


    " You are misunderstanding pride. Real pride is something that comes from the depths of the soul and has sunk into the bones. It''s not something for outward display, but rather is a form of confidence. It is that confidence that can create miracles or even change fate. That''s what real pride is about. Not that display royalty would do. "-Dragon


    Andy felt shaken by what he just heard. He had confidence and pride in his speed as well as swordsmanship . He didn''t need to always brag about it, but when he started fighting they automatically get displayed and his power soars. Andy gripped his sword and drew it. In a moment his gaze transformed to become a gaze that looked down on everything as if only his sword existed and everything else is fake.


    "Nice. You did a good job. Your manifested pride can even rival mine. You might be able to walk the sword Dao to the end." - Azure dragon.


    They established a contract. The contract made the divine beast transfer some of their flame powers to him increasing their quality and quantity while also gift him a secret technique. This technique is the core technique that made them rise to their current position. In exchange any life forms killed by the contracter will have some of their spirit power absorbed but the dragon.


    The contract benefits both parties. They both get stronger without any disadvantages. The knowledge about the special technique isn''t gone, while humans can''t absorb the spirit powers of who they kill anyway so it would have been wasted. As for the flame energy transfered it''s like stamina and gets recovered quickly. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    "Do you know among my friends who will suffer the most?" - Andy


    "The guy who gets paired with his majesty" said the dragon sarcastically. " well I''d say the guy being paired with suzaku. He''s the vermillion bird. His dominant trait is being graceful. However, he is also majestic. In the sense of the royalty I spoke about before. He''s arrogant but unlike them he''s actually the strongest so he sort of haves the qualifications. "- Azure dragon


    " It might seem someone graceful is a good match but in fact just like how my pride suppressed yours it makes the ungraceful part appears as the graceful part gets suppressed. When the darkness awakes and you humans are specially prone to that."


    "He starts becoming even more overbearing and makes life hell for the contractor. Among the four of us he has the lowest accepted contracts. By a large margin at that. If you have a healer he should be paired with him. "-dragon


    " oh then Kei is the one who gets paired. In that case I''m not worried. The most likely scenario is that Kei will bully him instead of the opposite. "-Andy


    "... ". ''he didn''t hear what I just said right.'' - dragon.


    Andy returned to the trial region in high spirits. His life ring had changed. It had a dragon insignia on it. He focused his flames on the ring and the flames that were usually the size of a finger covered his whole body. It blazed with a saffire blue color instead of the original light blue.


    Being bathed by the flame he found his understanding towards all the sword forms rise exponentially. He could now use all of them without any limitation. ''I''m not just a sword wielder. I''m a sword user. I know how to use he sword and not just randomly swing.''


    The monsters rushed toward him and were about tear him with their fangs and claws. ''absolute swordsmanship, the ruler series : 3rd form, submission'' Andy held his sword backward and made the tip face the ground.


    This move broke the monsters will to fight and made them submit. They all stopped moving and knelt down. ''Azure dragon dashing technique'' blue light appeared on his feet and in a flash he had moved through them and killed all of them. He then proceeded to go out thinking he was the first.


    The sight that greeted him was "Finally I thought you were planning to spend the night there."-kei. By that point he had countless ice cream packets around him.


    "How are you the first to finish? I thought you had the hardest time with making a contract."-Andy


    "who do you think I am? I am a genius. I don''t need to contract with anyone to pass this trial." - Kei said while adjusting his glasses.


    "you say so but I can see the life ring has changed and has a Phoenix like insigna on it. And your flame got darker. You probably had a terrible trial and you just came out,but you just want to continue with he act. I bet you only healed your skin but you''re filled with internal injuries. " - Andy


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    Yato was in an ever changing environment. It was the sea a moment an earthquake the next moment and a Volcano after it. Sometimes he''s in the middle of a falling glacier and the other he''s on the top of a train.


    "Stay steady. It''s your job. You should be an unmoving fortress" - tortoise. Yato was being thrown around by the constant changing scenes yet he still tried to hold himself with every changing scene.


    After a day of constant changing gravity and whirlpools and various other maps that make losing your footing easier he went back. " it has been one second. Now that I finished my illusion let''s see if you are still so unsteady." - tortoise.


    The aura became even more Radiant and yato found himself losing his footing but remembering all the times he fell in the changing environment he managed to stand. An aura burst out of him the floor cracked where he was standing and yet yato gritted his teeth and said " I''m not falling again no matter the situation. Much less if it''s on solid ground. "


    "congrats. We can make a contract now. Your steady enough" - tortoise. After making the contract yato appeared in the trial region.

 Chapter 17

    Yato stood in front of the monsters. His new flame that was now darker than black. It seemed to draw people into it made his body countless times stronger. His environment which used to be extremely demanding became nothing.


    ''Black tortoise armor technique'' green aura surrounded his body. After getting coated with the armor he went forward totally ignoring the monsters. The monsters kept pounding at him but it had less effect on him than if you tried to push a mountain by blowing air from your mouth.


    When he reached the end of the tunnel he found that he wasn''t able to go out. The monsters that were attacking without any results were actually getting hurt as the armor seemed to continously get stronger. By the time he had reached the end any punch the monsters made either ripped off their arm or badly mutilated it.


    Yato looked at them and made each one see the others as himself. The monsters started fighting and killing each other. His armor technique had the ability of trapping whoever touches it into an illusion. A few minutes later they had all died except for one that was on the brink of death.


    Yato gripped the head of the monster and squeezed resulting in the skull of the monster breaking. He proceeded to leave the tunnel and saw Kei and Andy playing X O. "what are you doing? Was your trial so easy that you feel like playing games the moment you go out?"


    "Andy has been here for 10 minutes and I have been here for hours. We didn''t just exit." - Kei. Yato started looking sick. From the last tunnel the figure of Jimmy came out.


    "I survived this time. But I''ll die next time for sure." Jimmy was muttering to himself listlessly. When he saw Kei and the others he started crying and went over to them while whining" I''ve had enough of this life style I can''t go on any longer. I''ll really die. I don''t wanna die a virgin please help me get out of here" Jimmy cried out while holding onto their legs.


    " wow the trial had enough pressure to temper and harden both of them... Don''t tell me it was too much for you that instead of tempering you It broke you.." - kei. ''No that''s not possible. He has made a contract. How did byakko accept him? This form is the opposite of ferociousness.'' - Kei wondered.


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    It took a while to convince Jimmy to follow them as they can''t go back. Eventually as they kept marching they reached a dead end. "I''m feeling depressed" - Andy. "you''re not alone" - yato


    "well I''m still as devoid of emotions as I''ve always been, but it''s not like we have no other options." - Kei closed his eyes and focused. He retreated a dozen steps then jumped and grabbed onto a stalactite. While holding himself up he pushed against the roof of the cave.


    The roof that used to look incredibly natural and part of the cave was actually a trap door. They went through it and came out in a treasure filled room. The whole room was full of gold every where.Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.


    "Wow. See all of this gold. We''re rich!!!!" - Andy. "dude chill out. I have a lot more money than what you could get by selling this gold."-Kei


    "Yeah sorry about that we aren''t rich. Anyway I''m gonna grab some of this gold. By the way how did you discover the trap door?" - yato. " I don''t care. I just want to leave quickly." Jimmy said in a shivering voice.


    " It''s cause I''m a genius ". Kei said while ignoring Jimmy." man that doesn''t even make sense. I asked you how and not why. The answer can''t have a because " yato sighed.


    " I know it doesn''t make a lot of sense to you. But that''s because you aren''t smart enough. In truth it''s actually incredibly wise. Maybe one day I''ll decide to enlighten you and help you see how my catchphrase holds and expresses the secrets and truth of everything. "-Kei casually said those words in a matter of fact tone.


    " hey my divine beast told me that you will have the hardest time. How did things go. " -Andy. Kei thought back to the time he split with his friends to go into the tunnel.


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    After splitting Kei took his first step into the trail he did the technique and appeared in front of suzaku." You.... Don''t look desperate. I''m the highest rank so you can''t possibly meet me unless you are on the brink of death. What did you do? " - suzaku.


    "Look here. I''m gonna establish some rules. First you won''t talk unless I allow you to do so. Second you should know that I''m superior to you. Third-" - kei got interrupted.


    "shut up." pressure burst out from suzaku body and suppressed Kei. "Who do you think you are? Don''t you know who I am. I''m the greatest divine beast. I''m the elite of the elite. You dare to stand in front of me without feeling reverence to me. I''ve been around for thousands of years and -" - suzaku suppression got shattered.


    " First, no I don''t feel anything. I''ve been devoid of feelings for a while now. Second, If you were as great and mighty as you are claiming why would you bother making contracts with any other creatures then? Don''t be stupid. If you do one more action that shows off your mental retardation I''ll pluck off your feathers bird brain. The people I can''t stand the most are idiots followed by slow pokes. Sometimes it''s better to shut up and let people think you''re stupid than open it and remove all doubt. "-Kei.


    Suzaku got angry. However, being unable to refute him with words his power blazed and he attempted to kill Kei in his frenzy." You dare to anger me in my territory right? Then see how I roast you. " suzaku shouted while Kei took of his glasses and wiped them then put them back on just in time for the dust to settle after the attack.


    Suzaku''s expression changed. That was a full power hit. However the human didn''t even try to dodge or block and he''s as fine as ever. This ancient divine beast suddenly started to feel a feeling it had never felt before. Fear. Though it was pretty much immortal it felt like the human in front of it can make him seize to exist.


    "You see I am weak. However, this isn''t your territory. It''s a mental realm. That''s why you thought it''s your territory. No one has come here that could rival your mental strength. You''ve been alive for many ages after all." - Kei.


    " Then why are you fine? "-suzaku was losing his mind. Kei smirked and said " It''s cause I''m a genius. "


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    Kei was brought back to reality by his friends shaking him. There was more to that encounter, but I can''t view it.

 Chapter 18

    "so..... When I arrived suzaku told me congratulations you''re the person number one thousand to arrive so I''ll make a contract with you without making your life miserable. I accepted and so the trial was easy." - Kei


    "So lucky? That''s not very believable" - yato.


    "I know but I don''t feel like making up a believable story and the real scenario is more unbelievable than this one so.... I''m saving energy. Anyway enough of staying in the treasure room. We won''t take anything anyway as everything here is cursed" - Kei


    "Nooooooooooo! I''m not hearing it. Don''t say that. You just ruined my dreams of becoming rich." - Andy started crying


    "hey man we already have one crybaby. Our group is gradually falling. People are starting to cry left and right." - kei


    "I''m not a crybaby my concerns are valid concerns" Jimmy said while tears were rolling down his cheeks. "Yeah whatever. It''s time to go." - Kei.


    They arrived in front of a door that had a smiling sun painted on it. They tried to move it for a while till they discovered that they can press the left eye. The door opened after they pressed the eye and they went into a long hallway. The hallway led them into a circular hall that had doors on all sides.


    They decided to check them out one by one. They started chatting while doing so. "I made some fire Spotify play list. Wanna listen to it? " - Andy


    "what''s Spotify" - kei


    "welp I don''t how to break it to you.... Have you been living under a rock?"- Andy


    "Actually no. But you''re very close. 1 cm away from a bull''s eye. I''ve been living under my bed. There is no problem with my bed. I just like to act retarded. I basically place a blanket under the bed. Then I place a sheet above it and take my pillow and sleep there. " - Kei


    "..... That''s..... Not how you use a bed"-Andy


    "you know I asked my parents for the bed''s instruction manual. But they gave me nothing. Now I''m using it wrongly. It''s all their fault." - Kei said in a wronged tone. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    Finally one door opened. Going through it they found another circular chamber. "oh man not this" - Kei. "what is this? Is it another labyrinth? You had some good tips about the last one." - yato


    "I don''t know there are several possibilities and we have to try them one by one. For now let''s just keep doing what we did in the last hall in every hall. I know it will take a long time but it''s an ideal time to clear some things up."


    "You have been wondering how far are we from actual cultivation. You see the reason we are even bothering to go through all of these advancments, from I energy to flame energy to aura and so on, is that we need to prepare our bodies for cultivation. All of the recorded history so far, ever since the nomad lifestyle of human is actually the modern Era."


    " Entering the modern Era was one of the great losses for humanity. Before the modern Era there was the cultivation Era. Everyone was born capable of cultivation. Sure some had better talents than others, and not everyone was able to reach certain realms, but at least they aren''t like us who need to do all of this work just to start. "


    " The major difference between us is that back then humans were born with a spirit root. That is needed to sense your internal qi and condense your dantian. That''s also the major reason qiqong masters of the modern Era never achiev any strength. They don''t have dantians. They know where it should be, but it''s simply not there. "- Kei.


    " Well it''s not that bad. Sure it''s unfair that we have to do a lot of work, but we aren''t really doing some impossible work. "- Yato


    " Actually no. We still have a lot of advancments left before we can make a spirit root. By the time we can actually make a spirit root you''d be cursing the guy who caused this great loss. When I constructed this path I had to do it backwards. "


    "To make a spirit root I needed to use spirit energy. I can''t use spirit energy. After developing a method that can make me control spirit energy and allow me to increase its potential, so that I can make the best possible spirit root, I found it also unusable for the current me. "


    " With this as my starting point I started making a trail. With one method causing me to develop another method. Till I reached the flame energy. I found out that I don''t have any flame energy and I made the I energy cause igniting it would make flame energy. Obviously everything was built upon methods other people already did from various eras. My hard work was adjusting them and making them into a ladder that would lead me to the start of cultivation. "-Kei


    " Bro, just how many advancments do we actually have? If it''s not something exaggerated then it''s fine. It''s not like we have to risk our lives. We can just train at home. " -Andy


    " Actually each advancments has tons of variations and stuff in it. Starting from the next advancement you guys will have to start discovering your Dao path and stick to it. Not to mention that you will constantly need pressure and fights to temper your wills and make your Dao heart stable. As for how many advancments.... It''s a number I still didn''t learn. "- Kei


    By that point they had already lost count of how many halls had they gone through." By the way I''m sure the halls we''ve passed are already larger than the building was from outside. Either it''s a spatial thing. Or we are going in circles. I have my own way of dealing with these stuff" - Kei smiled evilly.

 Chapter 19

    "what''s your method?" - Andy. "Hmm well let me give you some pointers."-Kei. They stood 10 feet apart. "I''m sure you are doing something wrong, but I can''t exactly tell what is it. I''m thinking that if I spar with you I''ll find out." - Kei.


    "start" kei dashed toward Andy. Andy unsheathed his sword ''Absolute swordsmanship, kill series: 9th form, massacre''. Kei suddenly stopped his dash right outside Andy''s range by kicking the ground and causing a part of the broken rock to fly towards Andy.


    ''Absolute swordsmanship, pulverize series:1st form grind'' Andy looked like he swiped the sword horizontally once and the head sized rock got disintegrated. Andy looked up to see Kei having jumped and became directly above him. ''absolute swordsmanship, thrust series: 11th form, pierce''. Kei pushed of the ceiling sideways to dodge the energy ray that made a seemingly endless hole in the ceiling.


    Kei once again right outside of Andy''s 5 meter range kicked a slab of rock toward him. Andy made a vertical slash and split the rock. His sword was almost touching the floor, but Andy had used the rock as a cover and was lunging right at his face. Kei had decided to make the buzz hit part of his main skill list and decided that he will make an adaptation for it with every advancement.


    Using the buzz hit for the first time with flame energy he slammed his hand into Andy''s face and knocked him out. After waking him up they continued going through the halls. "Ok I found out what''s wrong. You use each move that fits into a certain situation, but you use them as individual moves. You need your fighting style to flow from one form to another easily."


    "At the same time if should be unpredictable by the opponent. I''m sure the swordsmanship has some foot work, but you never use them due to not arriving at a situation that needed them. They are there for you to link the techniques."


    "Lastly, you need combat experience. What happened now was due to you never watching anime. You actually fell for the oldest trick in the book. So, you have to watch anime to expand your horizons and increase your creativity." - kei


    "How did that help us finish the halls?" - yato. "I was thinking that maybe this is an illusion. I guess it''s a spatial compression after all. Which means there is no easy way out. Unless we can tear the fabric of space ourselves but we are too far from that point right now." - kei


    Eventually they reached a room that had cliff behind it. The cliff overlooked what seemed to be an endless abyss. They saw a sandal floating in the middle of the space that was between the cliff they were standing on and the opposite wall. Over all it was like a normal room but with a huge hole in it.


    Kei threw a coin. It hit the sandal and became still in its place while the sandal continued floating. Following that Kei jumped toward the wall opposite to the cliff. In the process he made sure that this space was indeed devoid of gravity.


    Using the ceiling as a propeller they jumped and went downwards as fast as they could. Convincing was so hard that they had to tie him up and force him to come along. After they made the jump things starting getting darker the more they fell. Eventually only the light from their flames was visible.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    By that point Jimmy fainted from fear. He only closed his eyes for a few seconds when he opened his eyes again, but they were different from the Normal. They were so aggressive and they had white and blue sparks on them


    "Finally. That fool is gone" - Jimmy


    " Are you fine?" - Kei


    "Shut up" - Jimmy


    "should I be happy that you finally got the courage to talk back to me or should I get angry cause you aren''t Jimmy?" - Kei


    "I told you to shut up" roared Jimmy and blew him away a blast. After getting slammed into one of the nearby walls, yato and and Andy stopped descending and were at a loss about what to do.


    "shit schizophrenia should make a person act differently. It''s not drugs so why is he getting stronger?" - kei


    "if you want to keep your life you would get out of my way" - Jimmy said coldly


    "Hand over my friend''s body first" - Kei while getting closer and getting ready for a fight.


    "White tiger slaughtering technique" - Jimmy punched toward Kei with his hands on the shape of a claw. An aura that took the shape of a white tiger with blue runes on its back went out to destroy Kei. "Black tortoise armor technique" yato stood in front of kei with black aura surrounding him and took the hit. As a result they were both blasted into the wall. Yato and Kei were severely injured from that attack.


    The secret techniques had 9 mastery levels. Yato had used the first level a while ago which was a green armor, and now he barely managed to unleash the second level. Jimmy, on the other hand, had used the ninth and final level of the technique. That''s why the tiger appeared vivid and lifelike from the skill.


    The difference in the level is what caused yato to lose miserably despite both of the techniques being of equal strength. Yato with his body full of wounds while more than half of Kei''s body got pulverized. "vermillion bird revival technique" a projection of the Phoenix surrounded Kei and in one second Kei''s body was fully restored.


    "that''s absurd, how can you regenerate half of your body in a second!" - Jimmy. "what do you think revival means? I can even regenerate if I die, so why would I take more than a second to heal a wound that didn''t even kill me?"-Kei. ''although the revival can only be used once per day and that''s while my strength is lower than a certain level'' - kei.


    " you aren''t the only one who can reach the ninth level. I understood when you used it. The mentality influences how fast your technique advances. You can''t become stronger with just a change in personality. Seeing how you used the ninth level I was also able to reach my own ninth level"-Kei


    "originally mastering a secret technique of a divine beast would have taken a year. However, it had never happened for 4 wielders to be together. Yato survived your level 9 so when he wakes up he will be able to access his level 9. I used mine as well just now thanks to you, and since you already performed it once when Jimmy regains his body he will be able to access it as well. "-kei


    " the only one left is Andy, but after seeing the 3 of us doing it and trying it out himself he should be able to do it too. Thanks for giving us a 1 year time skip"-Kei smiled and flames burst out from his body and engulfed a huge amount of space that included his friends as well. When the light cleared Yato had fully healed and Jimmy was looking around in a sleepy way and yawning.


    "what happened here? The last thing I remember is entering the trial and almost dying there."-Jimmy. " just a little heart devil problem. By the way, it''s time you change your attitude. You could be a lot stronger with just a slight change in your mentality. " - Kei.


    Yato tried off his 9th level technique and he managed to do it. He summoned a black turtle that surrounded him and it had a snake tail. His illusions also got stronger.

 Chapter 20

    After Andy saw the 3 max level techniques, he was able to max out hi as well. He took the group on the blue dragon''s back and dove downwards at breakneck speed. After a long time they finally saw light.


    They escaped the abyss to find themselves in a forest of some kind. They started going through the forest aimlessly. There was a source of light that illuminated the forest but due to the obstruction of the tree branches it was unknown if it was the sun or a similar light.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    They roamed aimlessly occasionally eating some of the fruits. The forest had all types of fruits and they were all perfectly ripe. After a while of roaming that was spent eating fruits and joking around they heard the sound of crying.


    The group followed the sound to see a an Elf stuck under a tree.

 Chapter 21

    "oh an Elf. That''s worth celebrating" - Kei started smiling while his imagination ran rampant. He considered all power up methods that involved elves, since she was a kid anyway. "what is worth celebrating. That I''m stuck here?" - elf.


    Kei blazed and lifted the tree trunk. The moment the Elf saw him, she got frightened and ran away. "shit I told you to wear a mask. She got horrified by how ugly you were" - Kei said sarcastically.


    "let''s chase after her. She might go and alert her clans men and then it would be troublesome." - Jimmy. " Even if she does. Is there any people we need to fear. Even if they are stronger than us we can just escape and return after training a bit more to get revenge." -Kei.


    They decided to chase her anyway since they didn''t know their way around here. The Elf only about 1 m tall and looked to be 8 year old by human standards. It was easy to catch up to her. She was just a child while they reinforced their bodies with flame energy.


    Catching up and running right beside her Kei gave a smile that would make even paranoid person trust him. "hey why are you running? We are kinda lost and can''t find out way out. Also we haven''t eaten in a long time. Can you help us?" - Kei.


    Finding that she can''t escape them the Elf stopped but stayed on guard. " I ran because humans are evil. We are taught to immediately flee if we ever encounter a human"- elf.


    "Hmm... Wait does that mean you encounter humans on regular basis? You know how humans look like and all. Also I also hate the human species. I''m of a different race. We just happen to have the same outer appearance." - kei


    " we don''t we are teached so in history books. But you aren''t human? Then what are you. "- elf." I''ll tell you but you have to tell me your name first. Mine is Kei by the way"-keiThe narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    "I''m Lori" - elf. "my species is a species that is far superior to the humans. I am a weeb. We basically spend our life watching anime reading manga and light novels and playing games. One sentence that sums up the whole purpose of our race.... it''s alright as long as I have fun" - Kei. "must be nice to take it easy" - Lori.


    "It''s not the same as taking it easy. Training to win and improving yourself. Devoting yourself to what you enjoy. Isn''t that what it means to have fun." - Kei.


    "That''s surprisingly deep. I didn''t expect having fun to have something like this behind it. I guess you gotta leave it to the race of fun to perfectly explain it." - Lori.


    From this point they easily became friends and started going to the village. On the way the rest of the group asked Kei to tell her that they were humans to show her that humans aren''t evil. However, Kei convinced them that removing a deep rotted thought is a pain, and that it''s easier this way.


    "hey man. We are getting stronger, but let''s face it. We can''t destroy capitalism. We will really have to wreck the world to do so." - Jimmy chatted along the way.


    "what''s wrong with that? remember Michael Jackson''s song? Wreck the world, make it a better place. For you and for me and the entire screwed up race." - Kei. "what''s wrong with you. That''s not even remotely close to the song. It was the opposite of wrecking. "- yato. "oh really? I guess everyone perceives music differently" - Kei shrugged.


    "let''s talk about a serious topic now. You already know that in the cultivation Era humans were born with a spirit root. I told you that is one of the great losses of humanity. All in all there are 4 great losses. When we left the cultivation era was on of them. The other 3 were the Era before the cultivation Era. The ancient Era, before it was the immortal Era and before it is the origin Era."-kei


    " the origin era was the time humans were really at the peak of their existence. I don''t have a clear description on what happened on the origin era, but all I know is that it was infinitely more prosperous than the immortal era. Cultivation gets you stronger the more you advance. You advance and breakthrough various realms, and each realm has 9 stages inside it. "-Kei.


    " The collection of the first few realms that are focused on the physical body are called a great realm. There are 2 more great realms. The second is for the soul, and the last one is for immortality. The 2nd great realm is where you unlock most super powers like flying, telepathy, teleportation and so on. "- kei


    " I''m the cultivation era people were born ready to start unlike us. In the ancient era people were born into the second great realm. And in the immortal era people were born into the 3rd great realm. Yep they were born immortal. Yet some of them were whining about how life isn''t fair. Anyway that''s what makes me believe there is something that lies beyond being at the peak of cultivation. "-kei


    " after all there was a hierarchy in the origin era. They had to at least be born at the peak of cultivation or else ot wouldn''t have counted as a great loss. Before the origin Era, however, there was an era that was terrible for humans. " - kei

 Chapter 22

    " the dark era. Humans were as weak as the ones in the modern era. However they didn''t have our technology and unlike now, there were predators everywhere. Demons and dragons were abundant. The number of races stronger than humans at that time was number in the millions. We shared the last place in strength with a race called the nuumer. " - Kei.


    " however they had a better situation than us. They had super reproduction. I''d say it''s equivalent to bacteria. First they were asexual and they rapidly multiplied. Dragons and demons were ruling creatures and all. There was also something called the abyss that spawned some terrying creatures. "- Kei.


    " so far all races fought with each other while humans were treated as snacks. We weren''t even useful enough to be slaves. Until a race called the old dues suddenly appeared. They have been known but were locked in a certain region and no one was able to go in there. When they suddenly decided to appear in the world and leave their seclusion, they had a pitifully low number for that time. " - kei


    " They were only 300 thousand strong. Even if each one was to fight a race alone it would have been not enough to kill off 1% of the races and claim the ruler position. However, they asked the races to randomly choose one of them. That person went and slaughtered the demon lord leading the demon clans to get divided. Then went and killed the dragon king as well as 80 other leaders of the strongest races" - kei


    " these races falling into anarchy dettered the other races. Eventually old deus was acknowledged as the overlords of the world. The races stopped fighting all out wars. Minor scuffle still occurred but the mortality rate had dropped significantly. However humans circumstances were as bad as ever, they were still snacks." - Kei.


    " A brave human risked his life hoping that the human''s situation would get better. He worked hard and devoted pretty much all of his life time to find out the secret of the old dues strength. Now I''m not sure, but I''m guessing that he discovered cultivation. If not then he must have discovered what''s beyond the peak of cultivation. He continued researching till he made it possible. Back then humans didn''t have spirit roots just like us, so they were forced to take our path. "-kei


    " humans started rising and fighting back. No one ever cared about humans and they didn''t venture outside their villagers. Since they were only snacks, no one noticed the disappearance of those who go to eat humans. "- keiThe genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.


    " the guy who discovered cultivation and made it available to other humans became known as the prime originator. They acknowledged that he''s the beginning of the human race and everything before his era shouldn''t be recorded. They kept growing in secret and one day all old dues vanished. " - Kei.


    " the races started to fight again and this time the prime originator lead humans to victory after a 3 melenium war. The prime originator called the whole path of getting a spirit root and cultivation, the origin path. The origin era started after humans became the dominant race and was built after this method. It was hard to rediscover the origin path(which is what we are doing right now.)"- kei.


    " as humans got even stronger in the origin era they killed off the more dangerous races and drove them to extinction. Leaving only a few hundred thousands of other races that could only serve as slaves. "-kei


    "The immortal era found some of them to be dangerous so they cornered a lot of them, the other races were reduced once more to a few thousands. The same happened in the ancient and cultivation era which is why we have no predators right now. "- kei


    "so..... if no one has any history before the modern Era then how did you know about it. You can''t possibly find records of this history right? "- Jimmy. " oh I didn''t. The history lesson actually suddenly appeared in my head. A person who''s..... On a different level gave it to me. "- Kei was met with disbelieving looks.


    " what? See that''s why I have to lie, cause when I do, no one figures it out, but when I say the truth no one believes me"- Kei. " it''s not that we don''t want to believe you. It''s just that we haven''t reached that level of mental retardation yet." - Jimmy.


    The village was coming into view, and before they could get a good look at it the sky was covered in a rain shower. Yato immediately unleashed the black tortoise armor technique and covered all of them in a huge turtle shell that reflected damage. Along with the sound of the arrows bouncing of the armor harmlessly the sound of pained gasps and screams could be heard from the archers.


    Originally they were riding upon Andy''s blue dragon but the speed was greatly reduced or else the air pressure would kill Lori who seemed to have a body that''s only a slight bit stronger than a normal human. The moment the first volley ended they all blazed. "yato protect Lori, Jimmy get ready to destroy the village in one blow at a moments notice. Andy get us there in a blink." - Kei.


    The moment yato took Lori and jumped the dragon arrived at the village in an instant. Jimmy and Andy stood on the dragon while Kei jumped down. The archers aimed at him and got ready to fire, but right at this moment the cheif archer''s voice echoed " hold your fire"


    "He has an incarnation blazing around him that looks like one of the divine beasts. The same goes for the other 2. At least they are acknowledged by the protectors and won''t be vile like the other humans." - cheif.


    "hey just cause I didn''t use my secret technique yet doesn''t mean I don''t have one" - Jimmy launched a huge white tiger that destroyed a Boulder and made it into pebbles. "dude you are destroying public property!" - Andy


    "I prefer to call it landscaping" - Kei had already withdrawn his blaze and started eating ice-cream.

 Chapter 23

    "how come your ice-cream still didn''t end? How large is your bag?" - Jimmy. "how large is my bag? I''ve been known to be a genius at storing food to the point that even my pockets were known as large scale food containers."


    "I once put 5 chips bags, 10 chocolate bars, 2 juice and 20 packets of gum in my pocket and it looked like nothing was there from outside. Then what do you think will be in my bag when it looks like it''s about to explode? By the way, I also managed to fold my jacket and put into my pocket before. Common sense knows to stay away from me." kei smirked with pride.


    The elves that were originally hostile but ceased their fire when they saw the divine beasts insignia suddenly became much more welcoming when they found out that Kei and CO. had saved and protected Lori. They quickly arranged residences for them.


    After going into the room Kei jumped on the bed a few times then said it''s time to sleep. " well you can sleep if you want to I''ll go to explore the village first." - yato. "nope we are all super tired. We need to sleep now. You feel good now, but just lie on the bed. In a second you won''t be able to move."


    "Do you think that all of this fighting and continuosly advancing while skipping a lot sleep and having a terrible diet won''t take a toll on our bodies? Other than being dehydrated, sleep deprived and fatigued, going through all of those spatial compressions and being in the mental realm to get the contract also pressured your mind and body to the breaking point. If you don''t rest now you will be crippled for life."


    " the only reason you aren''t feeling pain is cause I forcefully got you in a special state of "DOMS". The normal meaning is delayed onset of muscle soreness. The special one I logged you in does the same for all aspects. Once I remove it you will immediately faint. "-kei


    " why didn''t you tell us about it before? "-Andy. " it wouldn''t have had its best effect. You thought it was your own power so you kept pushing. If you knew that what you are feeling isn''t the real state of your body you would have had a lot more hesitation and misgivings. "-Kei.


    A small flame left Kei''s finger and entered each of their minds including his own. They immediately felt tremendous tiredness and went to sleep.


    After an 18 hr sleep they woke up feeling refreshed. The elves got them food and took care of them and they just relaxed for the following week while trying to find a way out. The entrance they came from wasn''t there anymore.


    "Maaaaaan I want to cause trouble, but I''m not getting any chances. I''m getting withdrawal symptoms due to not causing trouble for the past few weeks" kei said feeling aggrieved. "why don''t u just cause trouble then?"- Andy


    "to who? Unlike me everyone here is a good person. If I annoy them and cause trouble only for them to forgive me and not hold it against me, I''ll probably get a heart attack" kei whined.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it


    On the night of that day the village chef''s daughter came to pay them a visit. She looked to be 18 year old, and she seemed to have a pair of water melons that made it harx to walk normally. When Kei saw that scene an evil glint appeared into his eyes along with a smirk.


    He opened his mouth and got ready to say something, but the Rast of the gang had noticed him and they immediately leaped on top of him. "nope. You aren''t gonna say what you were just about to say." - yato. "cmon man it''s gonna be fun" - Kei.


    "hi I''m the village chef''s daughter. My name is Laura. It looks like I intruded at a wrong time. I''ll leave now and come later." Laura''s face was turning red and she was hurriedly leaving.


    "hey wait we''re not gays. Stop! Don''t go. Come right back. This isn''t what it looks like. They are just retarded." - Kei shouted which prompted Laura to stop. She came back as the gang separated to have more personal space.


    "So what did you want?" - Kei. "I want you to take me along. I want to visit the outer world." - Laura. "nope. No way that''s gonna happen. You''re gonna be enslaved within 0.3 seconds from the time you get on earth. Not to mention that there isn''t a law that prevents enslavement of elves. And lastly we don''t know how to go out." - kei.


    "what a shame. I knew a way out, but if it''s this way I guess I''ll just go back" Laura was disappointed. "hey wait a second you should have said that first. What are you waiting for? The world is such a fantastic place that we have to go there right now. Don''t worry about being enslaved we aren''t in the dark ages. I''ll even protect you myself" - Kei immediately changed his tone. It can be seen that he was a successful business man for the time he was pursuing super powers.


    "there are 2 questions I want to ask first. Why do you want to leave, how many people know about the exit?"-Kei. "I want to leave cause it''s so boring here. And everyone knows about the exit, but they won''t tell you. They don''t want you to leave. They think you might cause trouble to the village if other humans knew about it." - laura.


    "Maaaaaan. Talk about being irresponsible..... I like it. And your reason is an S grade reason. The pursuit of fun is what drives me to do everything in my life. Now I thought it might be so due to the sentries. You need to cooperate as a hostage if we will go out. "- Kei.


    From this point things proceeded smoothly. They managed to get to the outskirts of the village whithout any interruptions. However once they were about to reach there a force with the village chief as it''s commander appeared to stop them.


    " we have a hostage. We will let her go if you let us go." - Kei. "A sacrifice of one person to protect the village is worth it." - cheif. "what the fuck?????!!!!!!! Hey what''s wrong with you fake Elf? No way a real Elf would act this way. You are supposed to be the people most warm hearted. Yet you''re willing to sacrifice your own daughter?" - kei


    Kei''s expression started to turn colder. "move out of the way. The hostage thing was just a joke. I just wanted to have fun with it. If you don''t believe that we four can destroy the whole village ourselves then stay where you are for 3 more seconds. 1. 2." - kei


    Kei jumped in the air while lifting Laura to land on the blue dragon that suddenly appeared." you''re lucky that I don''t kill those who feed me."-kei shouted and disappeared in a blink. Laura opened the gate, and in a few seconds they were in the middle of desert. A highway road could be spotted at the far end of the horizon.


    "OK. I''ll leave my backpack with you. It has enough food and water for a year." - Kei got interrupted. "dude be realistic" - Jimmy. "we will go check things out and come back to get you soon. I''ll leave a flame mark on you to make it easier to locate you." - Kei.