《Chaos Godking (ReWrite)》 Oops(prologue) I was but an outer disciple from a sect. Everything was fine if not for that one day. As I was gathering herbs for the sect as a mission, I found a cave covered by vines. In that cave, I saw a dagger. The blade is beautifully adorned with black and red colors. The blade is black but as it goes to the back side it starts to have a red tint. The handle is blood red with a black gem at the end of it. I slowly reached for it but between every step, I make sure that there is nothing or no one around. Granted it is just a single cave with a single passageway but it doesn''t hurt to be careful. As I grasp the handle of the blade, it started to------ I woke up. In front of me are the elders of the sect all of them bloodied, some loss their arms, some have slashes on their faces but they all share a single thing in common. The look of fear, anger, and desperation. "OUTER DISCIPLE QIN YU, PUT THE DAGGER DOWN!!" ( Elder#1) "STOP NOW OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO KILL YOU!!" (Elder #2) What happened? Why am I surrounded by elders? And this power surging through me, it is so much at the same time so violent. Where is it coming from? What is the elder talking about? a dagger? I slowly look at my hand and saw the dagger there. From the dagger, this violent power is being poured into me. Is this dagger giving me all this power? "Isn''t it what you wanted in the first place, master?" (??) "?!?....WHO WAS THAT??!?!!"The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "It is me, master. The one you found in the cave." (??) The dagger!?! Why can it talk? How does it have this much power? What happened? I just remember holding the dagger then it went black. "I just made master worthy of wielding me by killing and absorbing every killed being. Like right now, with my help you destroyed half of your sect. Which helped you advance your cultivation." (dagger) I can really feel the power. Then memories flooded me. Everyone I killed. My best friend, my sect brothers. Jade, the person whom I admired. My own father. I saw as the dagger drains their vitality, blood, and soul. How it refined it and forcefully made it flow through my meridians. So powerful but it came with such a high cost. I KILLED THEM. "Master, a little bit more and you can breakthrough to the next level and ascend!!" (dagger) I could hear the anticipation of the dagger. It wants me to kill everyone to get their power. I feel that it wants power not for me but for itself. I need to warn them. but I could only say a few words as the pain of being forced to breakthrough is now rising from my dantian. "DAGGER...DANGEROUS....KI.....KI.....KILL MEEEE!!!" I scream at the elders. The elders looked astonished. Then, they nod. The fear in their faces vanished, it was replaced by determination. They started to make a formation. Then it came. From the sky, a man came down. I can say that he isn''t from here because of his clothing. A black and white footwear that looks like clothing with a leather bottom. Blue pants that have some tear on the knee parts. Then a shirt that has an extra cloth that covers his face like a hood. The footwear and the shirt may have a connection because both have the same symbol, a blue star in a white circle that has some markings near the edge of the inside of the circle. (#notsponsored) "The Equalizer Dagger, patented, of course, I think it should be around here." He looks at the elders then said " Elders! Have you seen a dagger that is a foot and a half long, red and has a gem in it? " He then looks at me, "How about y------" His eyes stopped at my hand, looks at me, at the elders and all of the carnage around us then says "Oops" Oops.mmry(Re:prologue) "I''m really sorry, this was my fault." said the man as he is looking between me, the elders and the burning sect building. "But I still need that dagger" He then looks at me and starts to raise his hand. Then out of nowhere, I heard a shout. "STOP! THAT DAGGER WILL BE MINE!!"(??) Someone with a luxurious clothing suddenly flew towards me. Hands, encase in golden light. Eyes that seem to be burning with greed. "That''s....!!" "Ti-Tiger cliff Sect!!" The man with the weird clothing looks at the newcomer and scoffs "You won''t be able to control that, just so you know" The luxurious man stops, looks at the weird man "I''m the sect master of the strongest sect in the Kingdom, Tiger Cliff sect. My name is Tian Mu. Do not insult me for I am already at the pe----" He was cut off. Literally. His body got sliced by the dagger in my hand whilst I''m holding it. The dagger controlled me to cut a man in half. Before his upper half falls, he looks at me with a horrified look. "How?" He spits blood. His upper body slips off his lower part. Then it started to wither and be sucked into the dagger. "He killed him!?!!" (Elder #1) "He is now faster than before." (Elder #2) " Told you so. "(weird man) I''m scared. How did I kill him? Why didn''t he dodge? "It was simple, master. He couldn''t"(dagger) I looked at the dagger and felt scared. Then I heard those words again ''You won''t be able to control that, just so you know''. He wasn''t warning Tian Yu, he was warning me. I was even more scared than before. But at the back of my mind, I was thinking "What if I can control this power? I would be so powerful." " Stop right there, boy. This has gone too far and I still have to give that dagger. " I look at the weird man as he removes his hood. I was stiffened by what I saw. There is no face. Just darkness and a pair of red slits in the place where the eyes should have been, I also just noticed that his hands were not normal as well. Contrary to his face, his hands are all just white. Not emitting white light, but just white. He raised his white hand. At this moment, the elders rushed the formation''s activation but it was too late. The man snaps his fingers and everything stopped. The elders that were activating the formation, stopped. The formation above our heads shining. I looked around. Everything was not moving like they were all frozen. There was no sound. Nothing at all. Even the fire at the burning building is frozen in place. Strangely, I can move. Unfortunately, so can the man. He lowers his hands and walks towards me. The dagger still in my hand raised itself. The anger and danger it felt are seeping into me. I also started to feel angry towards the man. ''I should defend myself''. He must have seen something on my face that made him stop, smile and said "I won''t kill you, I just need the dagger. I might even compensate you for it."Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. " Compensate? My sect is destroyed, I killed friends and family, ME!! Because of YOUR DAGGER!! HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA COMPENSATE FOR THAT?!?! " He snaps his fingers. His figure changed. The blackness was replaced by a beautiful terrifying face. A face that you would think that belonged to a woman, but still able to say that he is a man. Then the eyes. There is no white part nor iris, instead, it was black and red. The left is pure black and the right is pure red. His hands also changed. Smooth, like they weren''t used since birth. As I look at him, my anger, fear, frustration, and confusion is slowly dissipating. He continued to walk towards me until we are face to face. He is taller than me by about a head. "Now that you calmed down. I''m gonna show you something cool." He pokes my forehead with his forefinger and thumb. He pulled something out. From my forehead, a golden thread was pulled. He opens his forefinger and thumb and the thread expanded. There are paintings that came out. Each painting is moving, and for some reason, they are all familiar to me. "Of course they''re familiar. Those are your memories of what happened just moments ago"(weird man) " So your name is Qin Yu, your father is the Sect Master of your sect. You just joined the sect, incognito for some reasons and you are in love with the sect''s jewel, Liu Hao. So any questions? " I froze. How did he know all of those? Is he really looking at my memories? WHY is he looking at them in the first place? AND WHO IS HE?? "Yes, I am looking at your memories. I need to look at them to know what to change and no, I can''t give you my name. Yes, I can read your mind. Think for a second, I''m already looking at you memories, reading a mind is just a piece of cake." Can he read my mind? How--wait he just answered that. And what is cake? And why am I so calm even though so many things happened? "Wha----" "Stop. I have already read your mind. I won''t or more like can''t answer the cake thing. This figure is the reason. I can change my figure, face or even form, into whatever I like. I changed my form to " A human form that can calm anyone even if they are seeing the world end" form and it will work. " Even if he just told me some impossible, I still believed him. Is it the effect of his form change? "Found it. I''m gonna start now." (Man) "What have you found? What are you even doing??" " You have so many questions, you know that? I''m changing your memories. Even though you won''t remember this, I''m explaining because this will hurt like hell" "What will??" " This!" He thrust his hands in a painting. And I felt so much pain that I have passed out. ------------------- (3rd person) As Qin Yu falls down because of the pain. The man is reaching into one of Qin Yu''s memories. In this one, Qin Yu is on the verge of grabbing the dagger. The man, however, prevented that by reaching in the memory and pulling the dagger out. As he is pulling it out, the scenery changes as well. The flames of the burning building, the wounded and dying elders, the Tiger Cliff sect master and the dagger in Qin Yu''s hand. All of it flickering between what is happening and what it was before the dagger was found. When the dagger was dragged all the way through. The one in Qin Yu''s hand vanished and all went back to how it was before. "All done. Now for the compensation." He stored the dagger by making a black sphere and "feeding" the dagger into it. He then pulls out a Silver ring from the sphere. The ring is shining silver. It has 8 gems embedded and all have a black color. The difference between each gem is that there is something drawn in each one. If one looks at it with each "something" will be seen. They will see a sword, a spear, a battle-ax, a war hammer, a bow and arrow, a chain, a shield, and a full-body armor. The man reached into the memories inside the cave and left the ring where the dagger was found. "Then to complete my compensation, I''ll promise to make you one of my disciple. Maybe that is why you are incognito. Having a pure drop of chaos bloodline in you will definitely be noticed even by a simple bloodline detector from the mortal world. Well, now i can finally finish my plan." he thought. Qin Yu''s body then also vanished and the man then said "Play" ------ (Qin Yu''s POV) I was but an outer disciple from a small sect. Everything was fine if not for that one day. As I was gathering herbs for the sect as a mission, I found a cave covered by vines. In that cave, I saw a ring. Wait.What? In a country-side in Japan, we can see a young man walking on the side of the road. Sweating profusely as it was the middle of summer. "Damn, why did my bike broke down in this heat? Should''ve checked it yesterday.Sigh." As he was walking he suddenly hears this ringing in his head. His eyes started spinning. He passed out as his body isn''t able to cope in this heat. A few hours later, his body was found on the side of the road by a couple. He died of heatstroke in the middle of the road where almost close to none is going through. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The young man woke up in a corridor. The corridor is adorned with lit candles that extends...where does it extend to? He can''t see the end in either way. "Where am I? Who am I?! What am I?!?! He looks at his hands. His body is now glowing red. His "flesh" is now see through. But in a weird way, he suddenly felt relaxed. "Hmmm. Do I like this? I should walk. I''m already here and I doubt someone is going to find me here." He started walking towards one end of the corridor. He walked for what seems like hours, but he strangely didn''t feel tired at all. As he was walking he started to hear voices. He couldn''t understand them at all. That didn''t stop him from going to the voices. ''They might help me'' he thought as he goes where the voices are. As he goes near the voice he saw an open door. He went near it with caution. "##$#$%&&$$#5" He peeks inside to see a pale middle-aged man with a full black suit, hair slicked-back, a body built like an athlete and, a cane. He would look like a gangster if not, for one thing, his eyes were pitch-black. After one look, he doesn''t want to look at them ever again, but he couldn''t help it. The more he looks at it the more dread and hopelessness he feels, at the same time, he feels like he wants to just close his eyes and rest. "#$%%&49dfhsk73''$(#$#" (This one right here) The pale man looks at the door and sees him. He panics as the man pale man looks at him with one eyebrow raised out of curiosity. The pale man started walking towards him with an emotionless face and he stood like his feet were being held on to. He looks down and there are hands holding him in place. "WELL, LOOKS LIKE THE LOST SOUL FOUND US INSTEAD." He almost pissed himself as the voice was so rough that it sounded like a distorted bass just played a video. Couple that with the face and the eyes, he seemed like the devil was just standing right in front of him. "Oh, I''m sorry. My voice was still out of tune for your lot. Here does that sound better to you? The man just nods his head. Stunned as the voice changed from the devil to an angel that instantly made him feel good but he can hear the annoyance from the pale man. "I have many names but you can call me Grim. Not my original name but your people know me better using that name," said Grim. "I usually don''t meet souls like this but you accidentally came into this place which was supposed to be impossible," he said while aiming a glare towards inside the room. "*$%#"%#&$sfh234#$,"(This too.) a second voice came from the room with a slight annoyance in it.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. "Lower the level of your language. He won''t understand you," said Grim towards the room. "Well, come on in. We have to talk about something as your case is a bit special" The man still mesmerized by the Grim''s voice just nodded and entered the room. The room looks like a victorian office way back then. A bookcase on the side with books and scrolls on it. The desk and table look like it was made from a rare material as it has a slight glow to it.'' I wish I had these when I was still working from home. Wait where did that come from? How do I know that I had a job at home?'' thought the man as he is walking inside feeling confused and lost. Grim just looks at him with a slight interest on his face. "Names are very powerful. They usually stick to your soul for all eternity even if you reincarnate. You really are an interesting case." "Did you just read my mind?" The man was surprised because Grim said something as an answer to his thoughts. "I''m death himself. My domain handles souls, and you''re a soul now. Why do you think you look like that?" Grim asked. "So I died? How?" "That is what we are going to find out now. Every soul should have the memory of everything that has happened to it. Meaning your soul will remember everything it ever saw, feel, smelt all the way to what it thought 3-4 reincarnations before. It should remember everything from its creation until now."Grim explained. ''hmmm. He didn''t notice that I just called myself Death? Or he didn''t care? I should look into his destiny at least before opening his memories to see if he could be trouble, Father (this term is like how some cultures say "God knows what") knows I have too much on my plate already.''thought Grim. "?!?!?!?!?!" Grim was shocked. Every being and everything have destinies. Destiny is like a road that you can walk on as you live. Grim has one as well but he can just avoid it or just straight up make it not happen. This man has no destiny. ''No, more like destiny is avoiding him. It seems like destiny is AFRAID to give him a path to walk on to.'' "Grim, bring him closer so that I could test him." said the voice coming from the desk, specifically from the mirror on the desk. The shock Grim felt was broken by the voice. "Sister, I think you should come here in person. This man is something special and he might break something because of it." The man just looks at Grim with more anxiety than earlier when he entered the room. "What do you mean?" asked the man. "Never you mind. Just seat down first and we''ll wait for my sister. She can tell you who you are and might even be able to tell what you are." Grim said with his stoic voice. "But I thought souls are your domain? How come you can''t tell me what I am?" asked the man with a raised eyebrow. ''He did hear me. He still didn''t react about that.'' "My domain is the soul but unfortunately if I try to find out what you are without knowing anything about you when you are alive I might destroy your soul. There are spells that can protect one''s secret to the point that if I even stand a meter from you, you will explode." The man paled once again from fright and thanked god for not having that spell as grim already stood less than a meter from him. ''Wait, why did I just accept that like that was normal? What is happening to me?'' A bright light suddenly flashed and in the middle of it, a woman appeared. "Flashy as usual Vita. You have to use that kind of entrance." Grim rolling his eyes at his sister. "Long time no see to you too, brother." said the Vita with a smile that could heal a blind man so just he sees her. "Let''s get this over with. Mom was shouting in excitement earlier before you called. I didn''t know why though." " You didn''t ask her?" "No, you called abruptly telling me about this soul that entered your palace. I told that to mom and she squealed even louder and just said to concentrate on you." "That is weird. Usually, this is the decade that she will be sad and quiet and now you tell me she even squealed? "Grim asked. Vita shrugged her shoulders and looked at the ignored soul just moving his head between the two as the siblings were talking. "Sorry for ignoring you, little one." "No problem. So he tells me you could find out what am I?" asked the man. "Yes. It might take a long time. I could just look at your previous life but Grim tells me you are a bit special. So I would be looking from your first life until now. You wanna see it with me?" Vita said while showing a smile. "Sure, but will I regain all of my memories or just my past life?" "That is for you to decide after showing them to you," interjected Grim. "I''ll handle it personally." ''I might really have something special in me for having these two help me to this extent.'' He looks at Grim and says "Thank you." He turns to Vita and says "I''m ready." Vita sits right in front of him and says "Let''s go" ~~~~~~ Grim stood there as he watched his sister and the man go through the souls'' memory. He could have done the same thing but he doesn''t want to. This soul already trespassed into his palace. If it wasn''t for his sister''s interjection, ( She did interject, that was the weird characters I put up, I even pointed it out.) he would''ve already banished the soul to the void. A few hours went by when Grim was startled by his Vita who screamed. "What happened?" asked Grim as he looks like he is ready to destroy the soul. The soul on the other hand just calmly opens his eyes "Woah, that is really really weird." He looks at Grim with the biggest smug grin on his face. "WHAT HAPPENED?" Stressed Grim. He is already annoyed that a soul of a mortal appears in his palace and now this fool is looking at him like this. His aura started to leak. ''I should really torture this soul as I banishe----'' "GRIM, STOP!!" screamed Vita with a laugh. "IT''S DAD!! HE''S BACK!!" Grim stops and looks at his sister. Then at the man. Then turned to his sister. "Wait. What?" Nope.Dont want that. A few hours earlier, inside the soul''s memories. The soul and Vita are standing inside an airport. People walking around with bags and whatnot. A large voice announcing which gate is open and which is about to close. "Where is this place? It seems familiar."The soul said. "Before something happens I''m going to explain how this works." Vita started. "Each lifetime will have what we call, Impact Points. They are literal points in your life that will have a memory that sticks with you. It is either as big as trauma or as small as seeing a butterfly fly." "You''re telling me that this place is an Impact Point for me? How will this return my memory?" "Just wait, it is better to experience it than explain it," said Vita mysteriously. As the soul looks around the place, he is starting to remember something. He couldn''t point his finger on what it could be. Then, screams were heard, people started running and panic starts to rise from the crowd. Shots were being fired from the store that vita and the soul were in front of. "We have to help them! Let''s go!" The soul exclaimed. Vita just looks at him sadly. The soul went and tried to help an old lady that fell down after trying to run away. As he crouches down, arms about to touch the old lady, his arms just went through her. The old lady with fear in her eyes tried to get up. Another man came up to her and help her get up to leave. As the soul looks at the man, his eyes widen up. "Dad?!" The soul was surprised. This was his father. But he died when he was--- "Dad!!" a small voice screamed. The soul looked behind and saw a 5-year old boy with tears in his eyes, red from crying. "Just hide!! Come on, ma''am. We have to get out of here." The man said with a calming smile on his face. He helped the old lady get up. As he was helping her get up, someone emerged from the store with guns held up. He points at the man and the old lady. "STOP!!" The soul stands up, arms raised to block the gun but it just went through him. The bullet gets the man and the old lady. "DAAAAD!!!" The little boy screamed and attempted to run to his father. At this moment the police came through and stopped the boy right on time before the gunner pointed the gun at the boy and shooting. The memory stopped and fades to black. The soul still raising its arms, tears on his face. "My name is Oswald. I was 5 when I became an orphan." Oswald said through tears that started flowing from a while ago. "I''m sorry," Vita said. "We have a lot of memory to go through, but we can stop and rest for a little." "I''m fine," Oswald wipes his tears and looks at Vita "Let''s go."The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Oswald and Vita saw various memories of the previous life of Oswald. When he had his first crush. When he fought a kid for taking his lunch. The most awkward or traumatizing was his first intimate night with someone. "Vita look the FUCK AWAY!" Oswald screamed as he remembered how awkward this went. "What is it with you? This is just procreation. This is normal. In your standards anyway." Vita said. ''I am the incarnation of life, do you think this will faze me?'' She thought with an eyebrow raised towards the scene before her. (There won''t be a lemon scene here. A little risqu¨¦ but not lemon. I think.) Oswald, on the other hand, started paling and sweating bullets. He watched on as his memory-him started to remove the clothes from the girl. He saw that her chest was almost flat. He didn''t mind he liked the behind better anyways. They kissed, as he caresses the girl''s body. But as he starts to remove the pants, he felt a bulge. "Oh my," Vita looked at the soul with a teasing smile. "Seems like you made a mistake somewhere sometime during this night. Or I didn''t just didn''t see your interests in the same se¡ª" "STOP!!" Oswald screamed with a red face. The memory stopped when the memory-Oswald was about to scream because of the bulge he felt. The soul-Oswald is covering his face with his hands from shame. If he could cry blood right now he would cry a river worth of it. "Oh hush you, there are googols upon googols of worlds out there. This sort of thing is just normal as long as the two species have the capabilities to consent and intelligent enough to know the repercussions of their doing. There was even a case when two worlds collided. A dragon from a magical world and a human from a normal world with no magic fell in love with one another. Both are females and are now happily married. It was a real shock since the dragon was the princess of the dragon king. They were at war with the humans at that time as well." Vita said Oswald stared at Vita, he then raises his finger to point at one of his posters. "Ummm, do you mean them?" He pointed the poster of an anime with a dragon maid and a normal human. (If you know it, I see you are a man of culture as well) "Oh, it is them. So they appeared here as a show huh?" Vita said curiously. "Does that often happen? Or are worlds created after being imagined by someone?" Oswald asks. "Not necessarily. Sometimes there are people whose minds travel to worlds and they retain some of the events of the world. There were even people who not only make their experience into an entertainment piece, they remake the whole events." Oswald wants to say something but he still sees his memory self still mid shock in front of the "girl". "Can we move on from this? I really don''t want to be reminded anymore of what''s happening next." Oswald says with his face in his hands. "Why? What happens next? We should take a look." Vita said teasingly. "Come on. Stop that, let''s just go." ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Memory-Oswald went to Japan where he started his job as an accountant. His employer, however, lives in the countryside. And that is where he got hit by heatstroke and passed away. "So that''s it? I lived until 20 and died before I even started my first day at a proper job." Oswald said with a sad smile. "You look sad but for some reason, I feel like that you are satisfied," Vita asked. "I am, or I was. I was satisfied, I only did what I wanted and made sure that I go by with my morals. Even though I became an orphan." *sigh*" Oswald said. "But you could have someone if you had gone with her and you didn''t stop." reminded Vita. "Nope. Don''t want that." Said Oswald with a deadpan face. Chaos. Vita was now sure that this soul is very strange. She has never seen anything like it before. It has all the paths of life, Grim told her that destiny was avoiding it, and now the soul didn''t go through the samsara cycle, where it would be cleansed of the previous life''s memory and be sent to a random world, it went straight into a newborn. Now she knows why this soul was born into the same world, twice. But even though it went straight into a newborn, it still forgot it''s previous life. This soul doesn''t make any sense. The soul is also changing bit by bit as they go through its past lives. It turns redder and redder everytime they finished a reincarnation. Black spots also appeared. One spot per life. Vita looked at this soul more seriously than before. ''What are you?'' ----- The two of them went through a lot of lives. Vita just accepted that this soul doesn''t go to the samsara cycle and just latches on to the next available life that has no soul in it yet. The more they go from memory to memory the more curious Vita gets about the soul. The soul almost never left earth. After a few dozen reincarnations in this world, they finally saw themselves go out of it. But by this time though, the soul has seen so many memories and lives that belonged to it, that it doesn''t know what his appropriate name should be. It had been a girl, Amazonian. It was even ironic when he was killed by a Spartan when he was Persian, then be reincarnated into the son of the Spartan that killed him. The crazy stuff happened when he was Zeus. Zeus existing was a shocker, an even bigger shock when the soul found that he was Zeus. Zeus came from a different world. The world was full of magic and Zeus was experimenting with lightning transport. He wanted to transform into lightning, ride the skies and land into another place. It did better than he anticipated when he transformed into a bolt of lightning, rode a storm that headed outside of his world. He couldn''t escape for a long time until he found earth and made a literal religion by experimentation on humans. He created gods and a lot of myths from the results. They all died though. His experiments weren''t on the genetic level so every experiment died, one way or another. He also perished because of old age. ----- After the millionth life, Vita and the soul ended up in front of a seal. ''A seal in a soul sphere?'' Vita looked curiously at the seal. ''It''s old, really really old. A few billion chaos cycles at least.'' Vita was looking at the inscriptions in the seal. Some of it is ancient even by her standards. That is a lot coming from her since she existed for more than a googol of chaos cycles now. ''No. This is not right. It''s cracked, more like, it was created with the intentions of being weakened as the years go by.'' She then looked at the soul who is now just a pure black humanoid with red parts. "A seal that stops me from seeing my memories? No, It stops my memory from coming out." The soul exclaimed. After seeing the lives of a million beings, he was also gaining all of their experiences and knowledge. He was a cultivator, a mage and a warrior, the three ways to gain power in the multi-verse. He already lost count on how many chaos cycles his soul went through after counting up to 2,000,000 chaos cycles. One of his lives when he was a cultivator, he lived for 150,000 chaos cycles, only to die because he was betrayed by his wife. For one reason or another, he was always a man, or woman with no interests with men, he doesn''t complain though. "By the looks of it, it is simply blocking your soul from being whole. I think the moment it becomes whole, something big will happen. I wonder what." Vita said. ----- If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.During this is happening, something else was brewing around the multi-verse. A lot of this is because of some beings who practice the dao of space-time, the dao of destiny and the dao of karma, is seeing a future that something is coming. It will create a ripple that will reach everything, or it would seem like it would create a ripple. None of them can be sure, every time they try to know what is coming, something is stopping them. -------- In one of the universes. "Your Majesty! Something is happening!" A human soldier who is wearing a golden armor runs towards a throne. Sitting on it is a radiant dwarf. A full, long beard that is braided. All of his hair and beard is black as it can be. He wears an armor that looks like it was made from a dragon. All black with scales that glistens. Two small dragon heads on the shoulders. It was Godking Hornum. He is a god-king of the dao of the forge. He rules over a thousand of universes, he was revered by all of them as he makes sure that every one of them is properly armed and provided. "What is it? Come out with it. I have a lot of people to see today Lord Neil." said the Hornum. "The Colony is making a lot of noises sir. The ants have been celebrating something, in fact, every universe under them are also celebrating. Some of them are even invading other universes for the celebration." Neil said. The god-king''s eyes widen from the news. ''Something is coming. The ants were never this excited for something.'' The ants were one of the oldest and one of the most powerful clans in the whole of reality. They were there even before even Hornum was born, and he was already exactly a billion of chaos cycle old. The ants were peace-loving, even if somebody attacks them, they won''t retaliate by killing. They will capture you and hold a trial in front of your original world''s top experts and their own top experts. It will be fair. Heck, even if they went to war, the casualties are only the people with so much negative karma that their soul-memories actually have to be erased to remove the karma. For these ants to actually invade other universes now means something is coming and they are preparing for it. "Have you contacted them yet? Which universes are they invading? Does it include universes under us? Have you asked why they are invading other universes?" Asked the god-king. "They deny that they are invading them, sir. We already asked them and they only told us that it is time, he''s returning according to the Misstress. They have to prepare for his return. They said that they are not invading the universes and they are only spreading the news. In fact, they also want us to spread the news." Neil reported. "As of right now, we have no idea who is returning or who is this Misstress they''re talking about," added Neil. "Very well, thank you for the report. You can go now. On your way out tell my secretary to cancel everything I have for today and just call the council and all the representatives of the chaosverse." Hornum is now a bit worried. ''If the ants are this agitated, who is returning? I might need the ancestors'' advice for this. I just wish that whoever or whatever it is, it will not endanger my chaosverse.'' ----- In another part of reality. In the middle of the void, a voice exclaimed "My tracker is appearing. I need to go there, I might even see him opening his eyes. Here comes your servant." Out of nowhere a portal appeared and closed again. ------ Somewhere. A beautiful lady was sitting on a mat that is floating on space. Legs crossed, sipping tea and looking at the void. She wears a traditional japanese kimono that has a lot of things sewn into it. It doesn''t look sewn though. The things on her dress are moving out and about in the kimono. Fire, water, earth, wind, a black shadow, a shining light, a picture of a hammer, an animal drawing that is moving around her dress, there was even a tree that changes like how trees change every season. There were a lot more. The most eye-catching of all, however, is that there is a drawing of a halo that goes around her waist. All of the things that are moving around her dress comes in and out of the halo. The fire comes in and a book comes out to fly around the dress, the water is sucked into the halo and a star come out the other way. As she was looking at the void, she smiles and says with the gentle but high voice "Here he comes, my darling, my husband, my love. Come back to me, ...Chaos." ~~~~~~ Cultivate The soul is inspecting the seal, as Vita was inspecting the soul itself. The seal wasn''t that large, it is square-shaped, 3 meters by 3 meters. "There is a cracked spot. It looks deliberate." said the soul. "I saw that as well, maybe the one who made this made it so that a portion of the soul comes out," Vita said as she touched the cracked spot. "Well, there is only one way to find out right?" Says the soul as he pushes his hand into the seal with the cracked spot. "DON''T!!" Screamed Vita, but she was too late. The soul felt he was sucked into it and everything went black. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª When the soul entered the seal, he wasn''t looking at it from outside like all other Impact points, the soul is looking from the inside. In the beginning, there was only primordial chaos around. Chaos cycles upon chaos cycles passed until that primordial chaos gained consciousness. That simple consciousness had nothing to do it just is. It started to gather primordial chaos as it has nothing to do. It doesn''t even think, it just does it. After gathering it for a year, the gathered amount looked like a black hole. The consciousness was learning though. Looking at the black hole, it created another one, looking exactly like it, in under a second. He doesn''t know what it is even after creating it. It tried to combine them. It clashed the two black holes together. As it exploded the consciousness fell asleep. After an uncountable number of years later. The consciousness began to stir once more. In front of it, there are glowing white things, round things that have different colors on them. It even saw a creature that is so long that it couldn''t see the head nor the end of it. The most eye-catching for the consciousness, however, is the beautiful flowing mist. Inside of this river-like mist are balls of light, seemingly riding the mist. A ball of light sometimes goes out of the river and sometimes a ball of light rides the river from the round thing the consciousness saw. It went to the round thing, directly from where it saw the wild ball of light came from. It even dragged the ball of light with it. ------- Someone''s POV A few moments before his soul entered the stream. ''I guess this is the end. I tried my best. I''m so sorry my love, I couldn''t return to you.'' Thought Razzeroth. He is a demonkin with a lean but toned body. His skin is grayish with a tribal tattoo that covers his right arm to his chest, then extends to his back. Horns above his eyebrows that go to the side of his head, the tips pointing upwards. His pitch-black pupils are dilated, because of the pain. He is inside a forest with a big part of his stomach missing. A few meters away from him, a wolf-type beast is on the ground with a hole on its side. A chunk of his flesh still between the teeth of the beast. He was in the forest because he was searching for a medicine to give his wife. She was sick with a disease that will kill her according to the local doctor. The sunlit-lily is the only flower that can save her. It can be found in a pond at the middle of the forbidden forest. The forest was riddled with beasts that has cultivation levels up to Primal Daoist levels. [1] He was attacked by a shadow hunter. A black wolf that enters the shadows to travel. A shadow hunter is usually a meter long, but as they advance in cultivation, they grow in size. The one in front of him is 3 meters long. This one is even at the wanxiang adept level, the same as him. He should''ve seen the shadow hunter, as he was a practitioner of the dao of destiny. However, because Razzeroth wants to save his wife, he didn''t care what beasts may appear, as long as he can find the sunlit-lily.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. The shadow hunter jumped up from his own shadow. He was surprised, to say the least, but he deflected it. They had a few exchanges. He used an art that gave his punch a piercing power that struct the wolf on its neck. The part that was hit now has a fist size hole on it. After the hit made contact to its neck, the wolf aimed a swipe at Razzeroth''s leg. The swipe did a deep cut that took a bit of his flesh. One of the gashes is opened enough to see bones. They separated and began to look at each other''s eyes. The wolf-beast has white eyes that contradict its black fur. Razzeroth readies his arm as he uses his taiji-force to strengthen it. He also starts to use his dao of destiny to see the possible ways the wolf will attack. The wolf''s body starts to exhume aura that is also as black as its fur. The white eyes are now turning red. The two of them are now aiming to end their battle. A loud growl coming from the wolf''s mouth, muscles tensing, it charged. Razzeroth also charged with his arms glowing. Using his dao of destiny, he saw how the wolf enters the shadow and almost seemingly teleported, and exits behind him aiming its mouth at his side. Razzeroth still went with his charged and waited for the opportune time to counter-attack. The wolf enters a shadow and teleports behind him, aiming its mouth at him. Razzeroth suddenly turns around. He aimed a punch and pierced the side of the wolf. The punch went through the wolf''s lung and heart. The wolf then bit Razzeroth''s side. The bite went through his skin like butter. With a pull from its mouth and the momentum of its charge, it took half of Razzeroth''s stomach. Razzeroth looks at his stomach and fell backward onto the ground. The wolf still landed on its feet, but it still fell on its side, as it has now a pierced lung and heart. As Razzeroth dies, his soul flew away. But instead of joining the river of souls like the stories has said, a black mist is dragging it back to him. ------- The black mist arrived where the ball of light came from. On the ground, he saw the body of a man. The black mist just looks back and forth between the body and the ball of light. It tried to push the ball of light into the body, but it feels like the ball of light can''t enter the body. The black mist is confused, so instead, it copied the man on the ground. Another Razzeroth is now standing, but it also has a part of his stomach missing. The new Razzeroth then tried to put the soul into himself, and it did. The black mist saw Razzeroth''s full memories. From his birth, to how he was orphaned because of poverty. As he sees the memories, he looks at his stomach and heals himself using black mists. He also began to learn the language, cultures, a few geographies that Razzeroth knows. But what impacted him the most is Razzeroth''s personality. Razzeroth was, above all else, kind. Even with nothing left, he still tries to help everyone that needs help, even now, he helps the orphanage that took care of him. He also saw the endless love he had for everyone he loves, his wife, the mother at the orphanage and his comrade in arms that he lost in a hunt. He wanted to emulate Razzeroth''s personality because he feels the love that returns for him, but one of them is a bit weird. ''I''ll ask him later'' the mist-man thought. But that wasn''t all the mist-man saw inside, he saw what people use to fight, to kill and to defend. Cultivation. He saw a path that Razzeroth was going through. The path that the people call, the dao. As he looks through with it, he starts thinking for himself, ''Can I cultivate too?'' He sits in a meditating pose and started cultivating. ~~~~~~~~~~ [1] I used the Desolate Era''s naming of cultivation, maybe a bit of its description as well, but I will add my own twists to it. You''ll see. Good Morning (part 1) The man-mist started to cultivate while meditating, he doesn''t exactly know how to meditate though, so he just copied what Razzeroth was doing back then. He began by trying to power-up his body so that he can refine and use energy inside of it. He then gathered energy and used 3 ways to refine and materialize them. The mist-man''s body turned obsidian black all over. 9 white rings formed and entered his body. A heavy pressure appeared around. He then infused laws that Razzeroth learned to reach his current level. His skin turned back to normal, the 9 rings entered his body and the pressure around conglomerated inside and you can hear a shredding sound coming from his body. As of right now, he is at the same level as Razzeroth. If Razzeroth was alive, he would probably die of envy with the thought of ''I was wasting time''. Razzeroth took almost 30 years to have the power he has now. The man-mist did it in a second. The man-mist then started to think of what happened in order to understand it from his own point of view. There are 3 main types of fighters. The mages, the warriors, and the cultivators. The first level everyone needs to achieve in order to power-up is houtian level. Where the practitioner will ready its body to handle the power of energy that is flowing through the air. It can be achieved by using medicine, harsh training or refining one''s own body with the use of nature around. The next level is the xiantian level. The practitioner will now attempt to gather and refine energies for his own uses. They all have to make a dantian so that the collected and refined energy will not escape their body. This is where the 3 paths will split or maybe even intertwine, depends on the practitioner. The mages will gather energies, convert said energies by means of refining. By doing this they will create mana. Using that mana they will then create rings of power around them and the dantian will act as the center where the rings will spin(imagine an atom with nine rings). The cultivators, on the other hand, will convert those energies into Qi. They will then make it enter their dantian, the dantian''s color will change accordingly to the level of the cultivator. Bronze, silver and then gold, each realm having 3 different stages, early, mid and late stages. The warriors, on the other hand, will gather and refine these energies then inject them into their bodies. Muscles, bones, skin and even their own organs. Their body will turn into different shades as they advance in power. Blue, Purple then obsidian black, each of these having 3 different levels which will be seen in the density of the skin color. At this level, the line will be drawn from geniuses to their peers. 50% of the practitioners will not be able to practice 2 paths. The other will have 2 practices. Among those double practitioners, most of them will consist of either mage-warrior or cultivator-warrior paths. These double practices are the most common among the 2-path practitioners. A warrior''s powerful body can stand to tank a spell or a martial art at the same level unless the spell or arts is something that can overcome the body of a warrior. Cultivator-mages are very rare, almost 1 in 100,000 is the usual case. The reason is that most practitioners at this level don''t have that good of a control over their powers. Mages use their mana to control the natural energies around them to produce spells. Meanwhile, cultivators'' qi is very similar to the natural energies around, and they use it in coordination with their body to use arts. There were stories of how cultivator-mages fire up a spell that instead of using the natural energy around, used the qi inside their dantian for the spell. This kind of accident happens, and in the worst case, they will die because the qi that they accumulated will all be used in the spell.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Of course, they can practice either mage-warrior or cultivator-warrior first and then train for the 3rd one, but it will take a long time of training. If they don''t want to waste time like that, they would have to use a ridiculous amount of energies to make these 3 advances at the same time. Gathering and refining take time but can be bypassed by the use of resources. The real geniuses are the 3-way practitioners that already has 100% control over the energies in their body. They can refine the gathered energies and completely even them out between the 3 practices. They can make their cultivation completely stable because of it even with a small amount of time refining. But that is not all there is to this realm of power. During this realm, they have to discover laws that belong to the dao they want to follow. Without such laws, they will not be able to ascend to wanxiang adept. There are 3 big differences between wanxiang adepts and xiantian experts. The usage of the laws, the appearance of their mindscapes, and divine sense. Forming a mindscape is different for the 3 practitioners. The mages will have to condense their rings of power to form an imaginary palace inside them. This palace will house their techniques, laws they found and even daos they practice. The cultivators, on the other hand, will make a seed that will grow into a dao tree as they grow themselves in power. It can have a lot of branches that represent the different techniques and daos they learn along the way, but the main trunk has to be the dao that they follow. The warriors have a more different and slightly more difficult way. They will use the energy in their body to form scriptures, formation, scripts or even symbols that will show what dao they are following and inscribed them to their skin, muscle or organs. As they are making these symbols with the energies of their body, the obsidian black color of their skin also goes away and return to their original skin color. If they want to form other daos they have to do the process of refining and inscribing again from the start. They can also do it in a way that will make the daos interact with each other. In an odd way, this makes warriors better inscription makers than the intelligence oriented mages. The next level is Primal Daoist. The appearance of the Dao is what separates the wanxiang adept to the primal daoists. They will have to fuse the laws they have discovered and form the dao that they will follow. There really isn''t that much different in the appearance of the wanxiang adepts and primal daoists. Except of course the power that they can use. The moment they turn into primal daoists, they almost always have at least 100 times more power than wanxian adepts. That is only at the very early stages. Primal daoists need to fortify their cultivation by discovering the other sides or laws of their respective daos. The more they find about their dao, the more stable and powerful it can become. They can also discover other daos to help or to support their main dao or they have to discover them, otherwise, they might just perish. This is where the man-mist stopped cultivating. He can already advance to the primal daoist realm and he did. As soon as he entered, his eyes turned white and it shone. The last information about cultivation he saw in Razzeroth''s mind is the tribulation. Once he is satisfied with his daos, he has to face a tribulation in order to become, an immortal. Good Morning (part 2) The tribulation for immortality is like taking a test. You call upon the heavens and make it challenge yourself. ''The heavens shall come, a storm will brew and the tribulations will fall. You live to be immortal or fail to be an example.'' This is what the people on this world says when it comes to the tribulations one shall face. Nobody truly knows where the tribulation comes from, all they know is that the tribulation comes when one is ready and when one wishes it to come. They only have to flare their cultivation and the power of their dao to reach the heavens. This will be taken as a call and the heavens shall respond. Of course, you have to face it alone or the tribulations will be twice or even thrice as strong as the normal tribulation. The man-mist with his copied dao of destiny wanted to face said tribulation to see what it will feel like. But as he was about to call the heavens, he stopped. Most of the time a cultivator will ''feel'' that this is not the time to face a tribulation, or that their dao is not ready for it. The man-mist felt the same way. ''This dao is not mine, I want my own one.'' He thought. The man-mist picks up a rock near him. With his eyes, he discerns the property of the rock. It can''t even be called a rock, it was just a pebble that has the size of a fingernail. But as he looks at it, he saw a law in it. The law of sturdiness. He threw it upwards and saw it fall. The law of gravity and law of weight was seen as he watches it fall down. He played with the pebble for a couple of minutes. By the end of it, his eyes glowed and his skin can be seen glowing and turning to stone. He comprehended and formed his dao of earth. He was still not content with it. While he was contemplating on what dao to look for, it started to rain. He looks up and sees water started to fall down and sees the law of raindrop. He used the dao of earth to create a small bowl and he collected some raindrops. The water inside his bowl gave him a lot of ideas and laws. After a minute, his eyes glowed and the rain that was close to him stopped and started spinning around him. Sometimes slowly like the calm sea in the afternoon, sometimes the spinning water spins fast and dangerously like the raging river in a storm. The dao of water was just discovered by him. But he wasn''t satisfied, he was starting to get annoyed. He kicked the ground. He saw a rock flew but when it hit something, it created a spark. He ran towards it and picks up the kicked rock and the thing that hit it, a flint rock. He picked up the flint and the pebble. He tried to create that spark again. After seeing the spark for the 5th time, the law of spark and law of friction appeared in his mind. He continued doing it because he expects fire to come out the same way as he saw it in Razzeroth''s memories. He looked at the sky as it was still raining. Using the dao of water he made an area around him that would expel water. Now that it is dried, he created a spark once more, not from the flint and stone, but by using the law. After the spark, a small fire was created on his palm. He watched it burn. Again, his eyes glowed with fire coming out of them. The fire in his arms, turned into a small ember then into a meter long raging fire that point towards the sky.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. He was still not satisfied. This happened for many many times. After an hour he has discovered over 30 daos that are just around him. The dao of nature from the grasses and the trees, the dao of lighting and the dao of wind was found when the rain turned into a storm. The dao of blood when he saw it flowing from the dead body of Razzeroth. The dao of darkness when he looked at the shadow wolf that was nearby. He had more daos that he found, each within a minute or two after finding the law connected to them. He was still not satisfied and knows for sure that all of this wasn''t his dao. He was not just annoyed now, he was angry. His anger can be likened to a child throwing a tantrum when it doesn''t get what it wants. His rage somehow cracks that space around him, and he saw it. He touched it at got his arm almost destroyed because of it. It wouldn''t matter because it was just a black mist. But he saw it, another dao. More powerful than what he had so far, the dao of space. But as he was meditating about it, he saw another aspect of it. Space with another dao, time. He was intrigued by this. ''How can one dao connected to the other?'' He thought. He put that in the back of his mind and continued to meditate upon the dao of space and dao of time. He found another one during meditation. The combination of these two, the dao of spacetime. He found it because of the connection between space and time. ''What is that connection.'' As he was contemplating about this, he felt it. He felt his dao of destiny pointing him towards Razzeroth''s body, telling him that his answers are just by the body. He walks towards Razzeroth''s body and there he saw, a red string attached to a band around his horn. In the demonkins'' culture, the horn of the demon is his pride. Once a red band is tied around it, it means that the demonkin is married. The man-mist saw the band was attached to something ethereal. A red string that is connected to somewhere else. The man-mist can''t see where it leads to as the string goes towards outside of the forest. He concentrated on it for 10 minutes. 1 hour. And in the 3rd hour, his eyes glowed. The dao of karma. One of the hardest dao there is in existence. If there were cultivators watching this man-mist right now, a lot of them would''ve probably died of envy, jealousy or frustration. He found and stabilize more than 30 daos in a matter of hours. While even the biggest geniuses can''t even find a dao within 10 years. But he didn''t stop there, he knew that it wasn''t over. He knew that the dao of karma is the actual starting point. He sat down and he started to meditate. The dao of karma has a few laws within it. But the man-mist is focusing on one of its laws. The law that he will abuse to know what his dao his. The law of connection. It was stated that the past, present, and future is connected according to this law. ''But what if those three are not only the connection that the law is talking about? What if everything is connected by said karma?'' The man-mist continued to contemplate about this thought of his. He meditated for 5 days straight. The sky above is now clear. Having the body of a wanxiang adept, Razzeroth''s body still looks fresh but the blood has already dried. Animals and beasts avoid this place as they can feel a dangerous threat coming from this small clearing. The man-mist''s meditating body is still in view. The sky suddenly brightened up, the sky became clearer. A particular ray of sunshine is shone towards the body of the man-mist. As if the heavens is welcoming him. The man-mist slowly opened his eyes, one is pitch black and the other is pure red. A golden string is starting to form from his back unto the sky. He looks up towards the sky and said "Good Morning, sorry to keep you waiting" Good Morning (part 3) The Mist-man found out a lot of things when he was meditating. The first one is the levels of cultivation after the primal daoist stage. After the tribulations, one will become an earth immortal. This is where cultivators (#1) will acquire their divine sense. Their power will increase by at least tenfold. The next realm is the sky immortal realm, this is the realm where the cultivators gain the ability to fly using their qi unless they have an art that allows them to fly. Then they will face another tribulation. The tribulation upon entering the world immortal realm. The 3 paths'' tribulation will differ with one another. For the martial artists(see #1), their tribulation will test their resolve and will when it comes to their dao and cultivation, an illusionary world will be shown to them, they will be trapped in there until they remember who they really are and devote themselves to their main dao. If they failed their tribulations, they will stay in that illusionary realm and die with it after it ends. For the warriors, their body will combust in black flames. They have to endure said flames for 3 days and 3 nights as it will refine all of the daos marked on their body. After that, the refined substance will converge and turn into the mark of their main dao. A sword for the dao of the sword, a symbol of infinity for the dao of time, a timeline mark that has 3 branches for the dao of destiny etc. For the mages, their tribulations are a bit more special. They will also be brought into an illusionary world. The heavens shall test their knowledge and prowess in accordance to the dao they have. They will be stuck in a spot unless they have a spell to teleport or anything of the same sort. They will be stuck there for 3 days and 3 nights defending from waves after waves of monsters, cultivators, warriors, and mages. They can only use the spells they have learned or discovered, if they can''t handle the waves of enemies, then it is their fate to be buried inside the illusionary world. The moment that they have successfully faced their tribulation, they will enter the earth immortal realm. The true start of the path to power. The advancement of realms from there will not only depend on the amount of energy inside their body, but it will also depend on their understanding of their respective daos. As the mist-man is thinking about it, it will be quite long. After the Earth Immortal realm there are other realms of power namely: Sky Immortal- The ability to fly using the laws will be available World Immortal - The ability to travel to other worlds will manifest. Reached by condensing your own dao into a pellet or orb inside your dantian. Then coat it with a heavenly dao of the chaos world True God-Reached by perfectly fusing your dao and the heavenly dao that was coating it. It might look simple but it is a very hard thing to do. The heavenly dao will not fuse with a dao that is not on its level. You need to gain insight into your own dao and make it reach the level of a heavenly dao. Elder God- Reached by breaking the pellet with your dao. In order for you to do this, you have to surpass the level of the heavenly dao that you used in breaking through the True God realm. This shall also remove the shackles one has that is connecting them to their respective chaos worlds. World God- The creation of a dao seed by using the chaos energy from the prime essence is the way to break through to this realm. Samsara Daolord-Making the dao seed bloom will make you reach this level. Creating a dao tree will determine how powerful you are. Eternal Emperor-The heaviest and most dangerous trial in every step of the way. The daomerge. The daomerge in layman''s terms is for you to make your dao tree bloom even further into a flower of eternity. Autarch- Using your own dao as the base, you will fuse it with other daos that are a level lower than your main one. Chaos Lord- there are two ways to become a chaos lord. One is being the first one to break through into an Omega Autarch, an autarch that has a perfect dao as the main dao. The other is to bind a chaos world to oneself. Chaos Emperor- having 10 Chaos verses with each different daos to fuse and empower your own dao. Basically owning 11 chaos verses and fusing them all to your main dao. Godking- having 10 Daos at the Chaos emperor level support your main dao. Creating a chaosverse based on your own daos will mark you as a peak Godking level Incarnation Of the Dao- When even the reality you live in can''t offer any more to further your own dao, the reality you live in will give you one final test. If you managed to pass that test, reality will break a piece of it and give you its control. That piece is your dao that managed to surpass the reality it is in. Anything, as long as it has to do with your dao, can be controlled by you.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. One thing people should be careful about is this. No matter how specific or dumb the dao one has, never underestimate it. Someone could carry the dao of hair. Before you make fun of it, the daoist of hair could have already invaded your body and meridians and trashed it all. Someone could carry the dao of flowers. They could turn you into a true cultivation ingredient for their own dao if you make a mistake in insulting them. The incarnation of the dao is believed to be the apex of cultivation. Of course none of the lower worlds now of its existence. Even Chaos Lords'' existence is known only to select powerhouses in the higher realms. The mist-man is now contemplating these realms of power. He didn''t through any of them. How could he? He had a higher cultivation level than the incarnation of the dao. In fact, his level of power can''t be on the same scale as the others. "Enough of that." Says the mist-man to himself. He turns his attention to the golden thread that is attached to him. The thread stretches towards the sky. The end of which can''t be seen. A golden thread is basically a red string of karma but stronger and a lot more important. This thread signifies that somewhere out there, someone is connected to him by fate and they will have to see each other, one way or the other. Of course, with his level of power, he can just cut it off and be done with it. Which he did. He raised his hand and swing it towards the thread, immediately cutting it off from him. Before it was cut through, he sent a message towards the other end of it. He then looks back at Razzeroth. "What to do with you?" He thinks to himself. He now owns Razzeroth something. "But if I help him, he''ll become a fated one." Something he doesn''t want to associate with. "You will really become one. Hmmmm. Why couldn''t you have been a chosen one instead" the mist man is now holding the bridge of his nose as he thinks about Razzeroth, the original owner of the face. ================= (A reality far far away) A beautiful woman was just floating around the void. She is flying around aimlessly with a bored face and a slight pout. Her kimono just flowing behind her. It was a weird kimono as there are things floating inside of it. "I haven''t learned anything this past few chaos cycles. I guess no one is discovering any new daos.*sigh*" she sadly said. If anyone was around the time she said it, they would have puked blood. She speaks about daos like they are nothing but apples ready for picking. But who could blame her? The floating woman is "The Dao". Reality is made out of three main things. Reality itself, chaos and the dao. These three things have special interaction and/or relationship with one another. In order to have balance, in reality, there needs to be a yin and yang. The woman has yin and the other yang. Then those two will share the three things for themselves. The woman became "The dao" and the man was reality. What about chaos? If chaos merged with the woman, the dao would be in chaos, different laws would change on the daily, chances of being an ant to a god because of enlightenment in the dao in a single day is possible. So chaos can only go to reality. If we see it in a way, chaos is the mind, reality is the body. Reality is limiting chaos in a way in order for it to not go too far. While the Dao is the road the body is walking in. Now back to the woman, her being the dao itself, there is almost nothing she can''t learn. If someone or something discovered a dao, she would know of it, and train it to the apex. But no matter how hard she tries, the dao of reality and the dao of chaos can only be learned to the dao incarnation level. She deduced years ago that either someone already reached its apex or those two daos is just incompatible with her. While she was thinking about it, she felt a pulse. A pulse of power that signifies that something is coming. She looked at the place where it came from and got shocked. A string, a thread, a golden thread is connecting her towards where the pulse came from. A golden thread that usually connects two souls that should find each other. She was planning on just teleporting to that place when the thread was cut. She was even more shocked when she heard a voice. "Good Morning my other half, I''ll explore a bit before I come and meet you." Then the thread was cut off. She pouted her mouth," Nobody orders me, I won''t wait for you, I''ll come for you." As she was planning to do so, she stopped. The third shock came. Realities, in general, don''t have a sequence or order of appearance, but they are, most of the time, static. Her eyes widened, the past arrangements of realities have never been changed since the creation of the first reality. Now, they are all jumbled up like someone just picked a handful and threw them all down. "Reality and chaos, in one body, my supposed partner, so you have wakened up? I''ll get you for this." She said with a mischievous smile. Warning Shot Chosen ones are those beings that are powerful seemingly without reasons. No matter how many times they could''ve died, they will always survive, one way or another. It looks like fate has given them a protective armor that helps them until they reached the pinnacle of their powers. Fated ones, on the other hand, are much much more important than measly chosen ones. In fact, chosen ones can be killed or be produced by fated ones even with the protection of fate itself. Fated ones WILL survive until the fated day comes. On that day, they will be given a choice. These choices will not have a single right or wrong question, but what a fated one chooses on that day, at the very least, WILL effect a chaosverse. Depending on the choice it could even affect multiple realities. Fated ones are either born naturally or created by the interferences of higher powers such as godkings and up. The mist-man is now contemplating in front of Razzeroth''s body. If he revives him, Razzeroth will become a fated one and his choice will have a humongous effect. He waves his hands and covers Razzeroth''s body with a cloak made from qi to at least cover the body, something he should''ve done earlier. The mist-man thinking on what to do mindlessly walked towards the body of Razzeroth. He didn''t even take a couple of steps when he heard "STOP RIGHT THERE PEASANT!!". The mist-man looks up from where the voice came from and saw 3 men in knights armor standing on air. They were knights from an empire in the south that came to this place when heaven opened up earlier. Heaven opening up, at least for them, means that a treasure emerged and the heaven gave it its blessing or someone broke through and the heaven instead of giving a tribulation, gave it a blessing which is a very rare occasion. That is the reason why the countries sent some of their most powerful personnel to where the phenomenon happened. As the head knight in front of the other 2 were about to say something else 3 more groups of 3 came flying in. Each in different kind of garbs. One group was wearing a traditional wizards` cloak that came from the west side, the group that came from the east were wearing fur as cloaks and boots, and the last group that came from the north were wearing blue armor that has a crest of a snowflake in front. "So you imperial scum already started the oppression of others huh?" said with disdain in his voice by the one in fur coatings. "Barbarians don''t deserve to speak to me." said the Imperial Knight. "Hah! said by the muscle-heads from the empire." sneered by the people from the north "What did you say?!" As the three parties were exchanging "pleasantries" the leader of the wizards just stares at the mist-man who was now wearing a curious look at the various groups. "Forgive my colleagues, they have a bad history with one another," said the old wizard as he closes into the mist-man. The mist-man looked at the wizard and smiled. Unlike the other groups, this old man wasn''t carrying any kind of greed nor hostility towards him, only curiosity and interests, the same as himself. Fortunately, he read Razzeroth''s memories so he understood the wizard''s words. "No worries, I wasn''t angered or anything," He said with a smile. This earned the anger of the other group. "Are you saying that you will do something if we did anger you?! Puny mortal!!" -Imperial Knight "Who the fuck do you think you are, slave?!?!" - Northen Knight "Better back up those words of yours!" -Barbarians Each of those three groups was now releasing pressure towards the mist-man who was now looking at them with an expressionless face. The wizard with two apprentices was near him so they also felt the pressure that the three groups were releasing towards them. The old wizard merely looks up and smiled. The apprentices who were trying their hardest to even stand up from the pressure were now relieved from the pressure. The old wizard protected from the pressure. The others were now surprised and they start to tense. All three of the leaders from the groups were already in the sky immortal realm and their combined pressure was defended against by a single old man. This means that the old wizard in front of them has a higher cultivation than them. "That is not very nice of you now, is it?" said the old wizard. He looked at the mist-man. The mist-man looks like he doesn''t care for a single thing in the world. The wizard is now also intrigued. The old wizard didn''t protect the other from the pressure but he was still standing like nothing is happening. "My name is Faust Digger, may I know your name, traveler?" if the groups flying above were tense, now, they were sweating bullets. Faust Digger, the man who was said to be the most powerful immortal on the planet. Who said to ascend and came back from the outer realms. Nobody knows how powerful he really is, but when there was a war between the countries 50 years ago, he single-handedly stopped it by freezing everyone in their places and pointed an earth spear to everyone`s head in the battlefield. He ordered for them to stop and made the rulers of each country sign a peace treaty.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. Faust came to this place to investigate like the other countries. He noticed something wrong about this picture though. The nearest kingdom didn''t send anyone even after seeing the heaven''s open up. ''Why? They were the closest and they didn''t notice? or did they already took the thing that opened the heavens? or --'' his thought was cut off. " My name is Luan Shi(#1). And if you are curious about the phenomenon earlier, you don''t have to worry about it anymore" said the man-mist. This further irked the people up above, but they couldn''t move. They were all thinking that if they move, the legendary man below would blast them all to hell and back. When Faust heard this, he wasn''t surprised nor angered, he was actually relieved. Now even if a fight starts, it won''t be between the countries anymore, it would be between them and Luan Shi. [Thank you, and sorry for the burden] Faust said through divine sense. He knows that the Luan Shi is at least at sky immortal realm as he wasn''t affected by the pressure earlier. Faust also knows that Luan knows he just became a scapegoat. [No worries, You wanted to avoid a fight between them. I''ll be the scapegoat for a favor though.] [What favor?] asks Faust. [Knowledge, your knowledge. Everything you know] said the Luan. Faust got confused with his answer, nevertheless, he still agreed. [I''ll give you knowledge, as long as it is something that won''t compromise my country.] [Thank you] Luan simply replied. Faust reached out his hands and a jade slip appeared in it. He closed his eyes and the jade slip glowed green. The jade slip was then taken by Luan and crushed it immediately. After nodding to Luan, Faust looked up "Go back to your kingdoms, tell them that I''m watching all of them." Faust flew away with the two apprentices of his. After a few minutes of flying one of his apprentices asked [Master, Why did you agree? We could''ve worked with them and attacked him even if he is powerful]. Faust looks at his apprentice with a smile. [I wouldn''t dare to move against him, the nearest kingdom is full of seers and diviners but they didn''t send even a scout to see what happened? That simple fact is already ominous for me but the appearance of Luan made me even sure of the fact that something will happen if we try to do something.] As he answered them, a bright light came from where they met Luan earlier. They looked back and just saw 9 pillars of light charged with lightning energy. After the light disappeared, they heard a voice filled with coldness "That was a warning shot. Your move." The apprentice that asked the question earlier paled and sweat was now forming on his forehead. That pillar felt like it was powerful enough to kill an immortal. "Told you," said Faust with a chuckle. ======= (A few minutes earlier back where Luan was) Luan watched Faust and his group flying away with a smile. ''There really are kind and commendable people left.'' He thought as he was sifting through the information held in the jade slip in his head. He looked back at Razzeroth''s body that was covered and started to walk to him. He was again stopped, not by one but by three different attacks from the three leaders. Those attacks created a deep singular line in front of his feet. "Don''t dare move a muscle you plebian, whatever that is covering is mine" warned by the imperial knight. "Yours? Are you ignoring me?" said the northern knight. "Are we gonna fight or not?" asked the barbarian with an excited grin. Ignoring Luan they all started releasing pressure once more. Luan seemed annoyed but he didn''t do anything, he still continued on observing the tension that is appearing between the three. With a sigh, he starts going to the direction of the shadow wolf instead. He may not need to eat, but he still wants to see if he can make something "delicious" as he hasn''t experienced the thing called "eating". For the third time this day he was once again stopped. Another sword mark appeared in front of him and embedded itself to the ground in front of him. "Fucking mortal!! How many times do my master has to say that you shouldn''t move! Faust''s warning can only hold us for so long," This time the man behind the Imperial Knight was shouting. He also began to release pressure. Maybe not as strong as the leader but he is also a sky immortal. "That will be my last warning shot. The next time it will be your head that will be hit." Luan was now pissed. While looking down he raised his hands and brought it down. The next thing they know. Lightning so dense, powerful and heavy came down that they looked like pillars of light that fell down from the heavens. Each one fell down the vicinity of the nine people flying above. The leaders now have fear on their faces. As they were near that attack, they know that if even a sliver of that hit them, that part of their body will be burned to crisp. "That was a warning shot. Your move," Said Luan. He also made sure that his voice will be heard by all of the countries that surround the forest. He then looks at the leaders. "If you have nothing to say anymore. You can go and scram the fuck away from here." ---------- Notes #1. Luan Shi is two Chinese characters that I found. Luan being the character for random/chaotic then Shi being the character for reality. I don''t know how right or wrong that is, I just experimented with the Chinese characters to make them sound cooler but at the same time have a meaning to the name.