《The Revenger》 The beginning of the end Today is the 23th of April, the fifth anniversary of my death and tragedy. I still quite remember how all of this happened. My past name is Kazuhachi I live at my mother¡¯s house. Ever since my father left my mother when I was still very young, I¡¯ve been in very close relationship with my mother to the point I can¡¯t imagine myself without her. It¡¯s 12 O¡¯clock in the morning, I strolling around the town to find the limited edition action figure of Manuto, a shonen anime that I liked so much. The thing I liked on that anime is how the main character evolved from the most hated person in his home village to become a hero and a leader to that same village that bullied and discriminated him during his childhood. One thing I¡¯ve learned from that anime is that effort and patience has unlimited potential to change impossible things. I¡¯ve admired the main character so much that I would¡¯ve wasted my pocket money on that anime action figures and posters. I¡¯ve watched this anime like 15 times over from the first episode till the last. I¡¯ve also remembered most of the lines and names of the techniques used in that particular anime. Now I¡¯m getting the April special of Manuto with his village flag as his cape as he defeated the main antagonist. I was so excited when I heard that the Manuto creator is officially at the store to sign the action figure. I went to the store with a bus. The store is quite far and probably when I reach there is already dark. But just like the main character I patiently saving my money for months for this very moment. The moment in my life that will be one of my best experience to meet with the creator of my favourite show. As time goes by the bus finally stoped then I proceed to exit the bus. It was night and because of it I can¡¯t see very clearly of what was in front of me. Then scary-looking tall muscular guy approached me and whisper to my ear ¡° Give everything you have to me and I will let you off easily.¡± I was frightened and at that moment I began to think, as a longtime anime viewer this one of the most cliche moment in a protagonist¡¯s life then as per the protagonists do all time I run for my life. Then a tall shadowy guy appears in front of me and I fell down then I predict again that the other guy will snatch of my belongings. After that the muscular guy began stealing my bag full of today¡¯s figure hunt and my wallet from my pocket. When they finally stop robbing me I get back up like the main character and started to fight back. As all animes that I¡¯ve already watched the main character usually wins or at least survives at times like this it is almost impossible that the main character dies off easily. So I ran into them at full speed and punch the muscular guy¡¯s face from the back and fell. ¡° Yess my theory works!¡± Then almost immediately the other guy kicked my stomach and I flew back to the nearest wall and broke my back. After that I woke up in a strange room with fancy decorations. I was very confused ¡° Where am I?¡± This is the question that keep lingering my mind at that very moment. I was a bit scared then I looked at my hands. My hands were small, I touched my body and go to the mirror nearby. Then I looked at myself and I thought ¡° This is not me how could I became very small its like I am in a 15 year old body.¡± Whilst minute ago I could¡¯ve sworn that i am in a 25 year old body and died, how in the world that I still alive? And now in a body of a child I looked closely at myself. I have long blond hair, a fair white skin, an oval face with dazzling blue eyes. Then I thought to myself ¡° Is it possible that I¡¯ve been reincarnated to this world? This is just like that anime spear art online. But that can¡¯t be true because I still have my past memory intact with me right now.¡± I thought ¡°At least I have a beautiful body of a girl.¡± Then I touched myself at the crotch and I found out that I was a male. That time I thought to myself ¡° Have I reborn as a TRAP?¡± I have so many thoughts going on right now like why was I here? What would I feel like at the otherworld? Why do i have this kind of body? Then my mind calmed down and my memories started to reorganise the events that led me here. After some thought I realised something, the fact I was here is because I am not strong enough to defend myself. At that moment I gloated at myself for being weak, I¡¯ve also regretted that I couldn¡¯t make up for my lost thus I even haven¡¯t said my last words to mother. Then somebody knocked and enter my door. A strange middle-aged woman rushing in and hug me as she utter this words ¡° Thank goodness you are alright next time don¡¯t eat anything recklessly okay? Not everything is safe to eat, you are lucky I am around or else.¡± She hugs me so tightly yet I feel love instead of pain. From her action I could tell that she is the mother of this body not me. It is painful to me that she is resembling mother from my previous life and I am not ready to move on. I keep mumbling why, why, why until i shouted and I went under my blanket crying. I kept thinking what if my mother is lonely without me because I am very worried about her. Then she sat beside me and say ¡° Ren are you alright? Do you need something? Just tell me okay I am your mother after all maybe I put too many of the medicine? hehe I know you don¡¯t like medicine that much.¡± I slowly said ¡°stop¡± then again I shouted, ¡°STOP! ARE NOT MY MOTHER YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME!¡± After that I left the room. I kept running to the exit where there is a butler-like person in front of me ¡°Master Ren where are you g- .¡± I pushed him and run over to the exit. At the exit I was stunned for a second to see a beautiful garden and above it a beautiful double sun shine brightly above the horizon. After that I continue running to no end until a strange thing happened while I run, my body feels like steering my direction to a nearby big and old tree. Upon arriving apparently there is a cavity inside the tree that coincidentally fits with my body. After that I stopped crying and trying to adjust my mental state at the moment. After some some moment I feel really guilty for saying those words to her as if i am the bad guy here. I thought to myself that I am an idiot and I shouldn¡¯t let my emotion take control, then again this further prove my weakness. Then when I became mentally weak something is coming out from my hands it is like a glowing purplish aura gushing out from my hands. As the aura keep burning, my head feels numb it feels like I went on a 5 miles run nonstop and I need to rest, then before I collapse I see my past life mother come and looked like she was worried for me as my sights faded to obscurity. I woke up again in the same room only to find my mother at my side.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡° I''m sorry for what I said bef-¡° before I could finish my words she slapped me and then hugs me again. ¡°What were you thinking I am your mother if I didn¡¯t stop your magic from overflowing your life force could¡¯ve been in danger¡± ¡°Then how could you find me? And why you still cared about me eventhough I said those things to you¡± this is the most corniest line I¡¯ve ever spew from my mouth although it was worth it for this kind of moment. ¡°For starters call me mom like you used to be and of course I know where you are hiding, you always hide there if you have some problems like this and I know this because I am your mother.¡± As of now this is the most anime-like and cheesiest moment in my entire combined life and truthfully I do not regretted that I was reincarnated here because I still have my mother with me. Although she is not the same as the previous this is more or less the same. ¡° Wait! Mom did you say magic?¡± ¡° Yeah and you need to control your magic from now on.¡± ¡° I mean can you please explain more to me about this magic?¡± After some talk with mom as I called her that from now on I know everything about Ren and the systems in this world. Apparently this body I am inhibiting is named Ren so I am going to call myself that from now on also. My family is actually a noble with my mother has the lowest title for a noble, Baroness. My father in this world has died from a disease and his body has grown up into that giant tree that I previously used as a hiding spot. The old butler that I ran into is named Sebastian and apparently he and his ancestor served my family for the longest time. Ive also learned about the mythology of this world. This world is known as Gaia and the creator is called Altia and the legend goes with Tia¡¯s battle with demon goddess Dusk over the dominance over Gaia. Then, Dusk alongside her followers is condemned of Gaia to the depths of hell after her lost to Tia then in the aftermath of that battle she gave a clone of her powers to her followers and their descendants known as magic. Magic also comes in 4 official colours red, green, blue, and purple and each colour has a unique ability. Also as I¡¯ve seen before my colour is purple, the magic that utilises concentration to forge anything from my own imagination by consuming my mana the longer I used it. Red has exceptional element control, blue has the ability to enhance anything good for offence, defence, and support. Lastly, Green has the element to manipulate anything. At this point all people already mixed one another with someone carrying the magic ability blood. The only separator between the elites here is between the potential of one¡¯s mana capacity. For those who has a mana capacity of 3 or below is called a victus while someone who has more is called a magus and the indicator to this is the mana pool system. At some point people at certain age can come to the town¡¯s cathedral and check their mana pool. Mom said that I just turned 10 and 10 apparently is the legal age to test out one¡¯s mana pool and I¡¯m going to the cathedral tomorrow. It is morning the sun is rising up to the horizon as I venture through my bedroom¡¯s window. It is a good sign that today I will reveal my role as a protagonist of my own life. I do everything like a noble kid would do I bathed myself, I have my maid to put on my attire, and have breakfast with mom. Then I rushed to entrance to wait eagerly with my mom for our family¡¯s carriage. Minutes past by and I heard a subtle yet loud neigh just outside the entrance. As I hear those sounds my heart flutters with joy then I swiftly open the entrance to see a majestic view. The carriage that I was going to rode upon is decorated in white with large gold ornaments painted the other side of the carriage and on top of that there is a miniature gold horse placed at the top of it. With no further ado I rushed to get into that thing. At that time I still don¡¯t know how to open the door so I took minutes staring at the beautiful decorated door until my door was eventually opened by our family¡¯s chauffeur Mr. Ronaldo. Inside the carriage the seat was two sided and facing each other so my mom took opposite sitting so that she can see my face clearly during the journey to the capital. During the expedition I kept seeing along the road people in poverty but the thing that interest me is that the people is happy even in poverty. Then I remember something from my last conversation with mom that this country although is the richest it is also the poorest. There is 4 major kingdoms in Gaia the west kingdom of Melgraad, the east kingdom of Zheng, the theocratic kingdom of Zune, and the great merchant kingdom of Zen. Right now my family is one of the nobles of Melgraad so although I am a noble in the future I wanted to maintain my relationship with a commoner. Apparently all people who served their country will earn the title knight and was given an armour to show the country¡¯s respect of their service. The armour usually used as a symbol and not meant to be necessarily used but they can otherwise. As I keep swimming in my own river of thoughts we finally arrived at the capital city of Melgraad, Zakoria. My jaw dropped as i venture deep in the streets of Zakoria as there is so many things I¡¯ve never seen before in my 2 life. There is a lot of merchants selling goods to their customers, ships docked in a mass whilst sailors come out from their ships. There is a magic performer that produce pyrotechnic from his body. This really gives off the vibe of the middle ages like I saw on various anime. Then at long last I arrived at the cathedral. ¡° Ren, this is the place that will determine your future. While I was your age I was shocked to see my mana pool is 8 so I highly doubt you will getting much less than that.¡± Did I hear that clearly my mom the mom than gives birth to this body has a mana pool of 8? Maybe this is my destiny as the protagonist. As I get off from the carriage I saw a large white building with pillars on it similar to the temple of Zeus back in my previous world. I also aware of the large crowd that came today to have one of the most important and deciding factor in their entire life. It appears that people with higher mana pool will get better privileges in this country. Apparently as I waited with my mom for my name to be called I saw many people pray to the Goddess Altia. It seems that not only Melgraad people come here there is also various people from around the world going to this cathedral for their future to be seen because allegedly this is the only cathedral to have the mana pool system that is required for your life because it appears that from jobs to restaurant menus is divided between the results from the mana pool system it is like social stratification here. Then a young boy with a large crowd of bodyguards appears from my back, as he pass right in front of me I can clearly saw his appearance, he is a tall guy with spiky black hair, white skin with deep blue eyes. He wore a white decorated garment with cape with Melgraad symbol on it. As soon as he appears closer my mom along with others around me begin to bow. ¡° Ren you must bow your head to the higher rank¡± On the face of it, it looks like he is the son of a high ranking noble. Then as I put my head back up I see him enters the altar where everybody can see him taking the mana pool test. He stands on top of a glowing rune and the head priest soon began chanting to start up the system. ¡° His rank must be higher than any noble as he is given the priority from all others.¡± Then I continue to hear the head priest¡¯s saying, I was far from the altar so I cant hear too well but at the moment when the priest says the prince of Melgraad I began to question. ¡° Of course, he is the prince no wonder he appears like that and have the charisma, as the plot of various anime I¡¯ve watched the prince always gets a high score but the the protagonist will score higher than the prince and I¡¯ve become a hot sensation to the public.¡± Then as the ritual begin people including me see something odd about the system, as I¡¯ve watched countless of people getting pooled I¡¯ve never seen anything like this. Usually the pool will generate bluish like light when it is pooling the results from the people but now it changes colour like like a rainbow. Then after the pooling ends the Head priest looked like he was shocked ¡° M-my liege y-your mana pool is one of the rarest, only 1 in every 10 years you have a mana pool of 9¡± After that the crowd cheers as he left the altar. People are shouting and praising as he headed to wards his own carriage. His carriage is a massive carriage decorated fully with rare metals and diamonds. The carriage is equivalent to a limousine back in my previous life and my knee fell to the ground as I see the animal that pulls his carriage was a dragon. All and all now with my name been called I thought to myself as I walk straight to the altar that now is my time to shine and show the world that I am the protagonist. This is maybe one of my pivotal moments in life if not the most since this moment is the reason why I ended up this way and that time I didn¡¯t know much about the horrors of this world may be. The end is just the beginning I stepped inside the altar. From afar the altar looks very normal to me but when looking up close it looks amazing, the rocks that encircle the altar has some hieroglyphs carving in each of them and they seems like a battery to the glowing of the rune in the area. I stepped inside the rune as instructed as soon as I entered the circle I closed my eyes. When I closed my eyes I feel my power flowing and glowing through my entire body then I pitch black darkness I saw a woman with long and slick black hair and wearing only her black undergarments is carrying a black flame in her hands as she smirked towards me. Subsequently she said those words that is going to forever stuck at my mind ¡° Your future awaits your dominance¡± Afterwards her face with black hollow eyes suddenly appears close in front of me then I woke up only to know that the ritual is over. That dream was a thrilling and haunting experience for me that explains why my face look pale at that time. The head priest shocked to see my results and proceed to tell me and the whole audience who was there my results. People¡¯s eyes including mom¡¯s is looking towards me and the head priest. Time ticking by as the head priest began to utter his words aloud. From the immediate silence I can hear people gulping and gasping as their faces tells me that they are curious for what the head priest would like to say. ¡° Sir Renitia Claudius you are the rarest of all I¡¯ve tested in my 20 years of serving as the head priest, only people 1 in every 100 years has the same results as you are now, your mana pool as astounding as it sounds is a magnificent ONE!¡± People in the crowd excluding my mom burst in laughter. ¡°What a ONE! What an unlucky bastard¡± ¡°People that are living in poverty now has a minimum pool of 2! I saw the whole crowd as they were laughing at me and I feel very much ashamed. My dreams, my confidence, mental state is shattered at the very same moment. I thought to myself why is this happening? Why am I blessed this way in this world? I started to blame this world¡¯s goddess for making me this way. I kneel and utter this words while looking to the sky. ¡° So Goddess this is what you want you make me born to this world to be humiliated then so be it.¡± ¡°Did you look at his face when the head priest is trolling him along the way? His smile is getting bigger the longer the priest trolling him then he is shattered to depravity whilst not knowing what sarcasm is¡± Then mom suddenly appears to the crowd hugging me while tears coming down from my and my mother¡¯s eyes. ¡° Its okay, having a low mana pool doesn¡¯t mean that you will not succeed in life. You only need to work hard to achieve your dreams and do not stop chasing it eventhough the roads may not work to well for you.¡± That is the words that saved me from total depravity. Mom is not at all disappointed with my results and she keep supporting me no matter my conditions. Fast forward I was at the streets with my mom looking for something to eat. I was so embarrassed at my results that I decided to cover my left hand one mark because apparently all results is printed on people¡¯s left hand. That sign is also a way cocky people boasted about themselves and shy people to hide it. My carriage is currently in the repair shop so me and my mom is tuck wandering around the capital until the maintenance is over which is at the evening. As me and my mom desperately finding some place to eat we finally found a restaurant. As we both get into the restaurant a waiter noticed us. ¡° May I ask to show your sign milady.¡± ¡° My goddess! please, welcome in my lady and your son we have special seats for people who has a pool of 6 or above.¡± The waiter were so nice to me and my mother, they showed us our seats. The waiter and waitress all gently smiled at us while we are going to our seats as a sign that we are very welcome here. The so called ¡®VIP¡¯ room here is beautiful decorated and I also petrified to see a beautiful diamond chandelier dangling in the ceiling right above us. The waiter showed us the foods and we ordered them. Then as the food arrived they put our napkins on our thighs and when I was at the difficulty in eating the waiter gently smiled and say ¡° Here master let me feed you if you need more just tell me me Jeremy okay ¡± They all treated me and my mom like gods then my napkin in my left hand slightly loose and the number in my hands showed a little bit then as I feared Jeremy saw my left hand. As he saw that he fixes my napkin on my left hand and surprisingly he served me more diligent than ever. Maybe there is someone out there not as evil as the people back then. After me and my mom finished eating my mom ask the waiter for the bill. As we waited for the bill my napkin suddenly falls off from my left hand at the same time the waiter has brought out the receipt and saw my hand. The waiter suddenly become aggressive and shouted at my mom ¡° Madam may I informed you that we don¡¯t allow pets here and clearly you have brought one.¡± My mind breaks once again, it is like then people are staring at me and pierce me with those disgusted eyes. Then I looked to Jeremy and he also joins the crowd to loathe at me the very same fun and elder brotherly-like person who has tolerated me when clearly back then he saw my hand said this words coming from his mouth ¡° Well I did see a glance of his number but I thought it was a 10 because his mother has an eight, wow I just serve a dog at one point in my career.¡± Surprisingly many waiter and waitress here serve the larger pools because they always leave a big tip for them if they serve thoroughly as judging by their comments. The waiter that is gentle is now being rough for me. In my defence my mom raised these wordsEnjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. ¡° Listen all of you for what I have to say why would a pool divided us like this, everybody should be treated evenly it doesn¡¯t matter if our pool is different were all the same.¡± After all of that the crowd stopped loathing about me the atmosphere is awkward and silence. Then my mom and I walked out of the restaurant I still can see many people glaring with their twisted eyes at me while they whisper and giggle with one another ¡° He is such a baby have to be protected by his mommy all the time.¡± ¡° Shush if the dog hears you he will barked to¡ªHIS MOM¡± Along the way I grabbed my mom¡¯s hand and hide my face. My mom pats my head while heading towards the exit and tries to calm me down with yet another of her inspiring words. This is the pivotal words she utter that would change my perceptive towards this world and build my confidence once again. ¡° It doesn¡¯t matter who you are if you are here to make changes because something will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.¡± At that exact moment I vow myself to change people¡¯s perspective regarding victuses and fix this broken class systems. On my way back to my home I saw a very traumatising site of Zakoria. Every time I see this city I remember all the bad things I experienced during my time at this city and for the longest time I wanted to avoid ever coming into that city again. After that Zakoria incident I was reluctant to see anybody besides the people that I¡¯ve already known I¡¯ve become the so called anti-social. Along the road I kept thinking to myself if I wanted to make this country a better place for victus what should I do first. At that point I don¡¯t even care that I¡¯m the protagonist or not I just wanted all of this to change. When I arrived at my home I ask my mom to teach me to become stronger. ¡° Mom I want to change this broken system and to do so I need to become stronger far stronger than I am now.¡± My mother looked at me with her eyes as I said those words, I thought to myself why? Is she mad? I she not willing to? Then she spoke while her knees bent to the floor while she subtlety smiles with her soft eyes staring to me ¡°No, not me I can¡¯t teach something that is different from my colour if you need a teacher you need a person stronger than me and more skilled at the battlefield, fortunately I have someone in mind.¡± After a small talk with mom I then proceed to go to bed. Whilst I was on my bed I asked myself Who is this someone in mind? What does he looked like? And is he that strong? Even stronger than my mom with a level 8 pool? That kind of questions usually excite me that build up my passion and spirit and since he will come by the day after tomorrow. I cant wait to be trained under him. I can imagine something like a legendary general come to train me like many anime and manga I¡¯ve read. The next day I came to thought that I should train by myself for a while until this teacher comes. Luckily my house has a very big library, I walked into the library there I saw many book shelf as tall as 10 meters spanning across the room. There is so many books around here and there is a lot to choose from from beginner to advanced. Then while I was looking for a book suddenly there is a book fell on top of my head, the book is heavy and my head is a bit hurt by that. After I stopped scratching my head I bent to take up the book. When I looked at the book the book is slightly bigger than any book in the entire shelf it is also black in colour with a red s Carved at the cover of that book. I went to the nearby desk and opened the mysterious book to only find a blank book at my hands. I was very confused at that time and I thought to myself how can a book be a book without anything on it. As I closed the book my finger suddenly got a paper cut and bleeds. As my blood drenched the front page the book started glowing in purple and words starting to come out in English. This is the most confusing thing I¡¯ve ever experienced, how can English be in this world whilst clearly that language belonged in my previous world. But remembering it now, that an unknown and mysterious book that I¡¯ve found years ago is very useful tool i¡¯ve used even now and without that I couldn¡¯t even come close to have this kind of power in me. Remembering things that shape me today kinda reminds me of how my life is if mom still alive and how peaceful life is without having to kill people like now. The book explains itself to be a blank and unowned grimoire that needed my blood to activate in order to know what colour I am and be its master. This is very coincidental to me on how an unused grimoire perfectly fall out of nowhere at the same time I was walking. This book explains to me throughly about the weakness and strengths of a purple class magician. Although i¡¯ve already known the properties of a purple class magician this book explains far deeper than my mom did. For instance I know purple class magicians utilise their mana to form anything pictured in their mind but this book explains that you not only to picture it you need to feel the atmosphere of it and details is the most important of all. This book explains, if you imagine a knife you not only image the shape but also the sharpness, how will it affect others, what type of material it used? hard, soft, light, etc. I found purple class magic needs a high amount of imagination for itself to be utilised completely. This book taught me the basics and now I can make a knife on my own in just one day. Back then I used 3 words to describe this book. This book is amazing if I continue to learn from this book I can become stronger in no time, this book is also fascinating as I still learn all of this solely from the first page only, But this book is also mysterious as it is still unclear about the origins of this book but despite all of that I decided that this book will be my epitome of knowledge and I will still used it to fulfil my dreams. Apparently this book has every page numbered at the end of right hand corner and each pages is numbered until 1000 that can only be revealed if I already truly mastered all the skills that has been taught to me at the previous page. Seemingly since the next page won¡¯t show up I assume that I have not yet mastered the knife well this also proved on how my formed knife cannot even hurt me and so I practiced by feeling the knife and using the knife all day long by using a real knife to cut food and cut myself to feel the pain when being cut by one. At night I brought the book that I left at the library to my bedroom. Then after reading the first page one last time I closed my eyes, imagine, and concentrate a knife a tool and a weapon to cut, it has a wooden handle and has a cold metal blade that is sharp as it can hurt others it it was used as a weapon. After all that concentrating I finally form a perfect knife out with my own aura for the first time. For the first time in my new life I feel like a winner, my confidence is restored and all the problems that i¡¯ve faced before vanished inside my mind. Then I tested the knife on myself and the result is exactly like a real knife would do. Then the book started a glow and when I checked on it page 2 was unlocked and I was thrilled to see what could I learn next. By that time it is already midnight so I went to bed rather than continuing my lessons. While I was asleep I dreamt about the same woman that i¡¯ve seen before at the altar. Back then I cannot see her very clearly but now I can see her with magnificent clarity she has a petite white-skinned body with small-sized breast and back, her height is about the same as mine, her hair is long and black in colour her hollow eyes are gone and replaced with beautiful scarlet eyes, she wears a black tank top and underwear with black long sleeves on both of her hands. ¡° Finally you have awakened your power master, and I will be beside you forever.¡± As she said those words I started to get the feeling like have I watched this type of thing somewhen in my previous life. Then she come closer to my face too close perhaps and with her skinny and slick arms touched my cheeks she kissed me as she keeps kissing me with passion I can feel energy come flowing down my throat. My right hand starting to carved a symbol and I can feel power from it as she keeps kissing me my body started to glow in dark purple aura then everything intensifies, I feel burn in my bodies and I started to feel pain in my right arm, many glowing rune-like symbols appear on my right hand arm. The pain won¡¯t stop then as I started to lose consciousness she suddenly disappears and I woke up from my dreams to only realised that it is already morning. I noticed something changed with my body on my right hand now there is a large red coloured rune-like tattoo spanning from my middle finger to my wrist. My voice became deeper and my appearance also changed and for some reason I became slightly taller. My eyes started to become slightly slanted its like my eyes become serious and focused all of the sudden. This appearance apparently making me look more handsome and mature in some way and by the way that was my own opinion.This is astounding because in this world I just turned 10 2 days ago. Then when I am exploring my new looks a strange sound like someone waking up is coming from my bed. Then suddenly the woman in my dreams earlier that night appears and was looking like she was waking up. Who is this woman? Why is she in my room? What is she doing here? ¡° Good morning master I am pleased to meet you my name is Levi and you are my owner from now on and I will be by your side forever .¡± I thought to myself in my mind right now that my life from now and onwards is going to get a hell lot crazier from here on out.