《A Thousand Year Old》


 A Thousand Year Old - Epilogue

    I woke up. I finally woked up. I was in the middle of a fight with a demigod. The "Demigod of Dreams". She is a very alluring woman with pitch black eyes and long straight hair which seems like it took its colour from the void. Even if she is as flat as a board and a midget her snow white face is especially cute. She might look like a quiet person from her looks but she is a bitch... SHE IS A GODDAMN BITCH.


    Oh... who am I? I am a great magic user reknown across the "Grand Continent". My magic had reached the boundaries of mortal magic. One more step, just one more step would have made me a "Divine Being". In my point of view it is someone that has attained great heights as a magic user. Of course there are other ways but that is for later . In short while i was ascending to become a "Divine Being". The "Demigod of Dreams" put me in a sleep. A sleep that has lasted for a 1000 years which is just enough to exhaust all the magic energy or "Mana" in short. So now I need to start from the bottom to increase my power.


    In the world of "Grand Continent" there are several ways to increase youe power which will in turn grant you the ability to bend steel with bare hands, conjure fireballs out of air or use magic. My path was the way of magic. Which is technically increasing the amount of Mana inside your body and use this energy to bring miracles to the world. From summoning thunderstorms to turning metal to gold.


    She miscalculated the amount of Mana i had and she just made me as normal as your average man on street but i still retain my knowledge,talent and finally i can use the "Meditation Technique" named {Ultimage}. {Ultimage} is a inheritance left by an enormously powerful being which i had found by chance but it has the harsh requirement of not having used any "Meditation Techniques" beforehand. Even more because I had changed my Meditation Technique a lot my mana had the major flaw of not being pure.


    Now I can finally use this Meditation Technique even though No information was given. I can feel its brimming power. Now I realised that I was in middle of a desert. A transparent layer that I could detect slowly wore off and took a look again at the calendar conjured from magic right next to me it was woring off but i could see that it wrote 1000 A.A, according to my knowledge about humidity and temperature about the Grand Continent this place should be "Grand Desert". To be specific it should be in about northern parts as the humidity is a but higher than the average of "Grand Desert". I still wonder what does A.A mean and my clothes have been long gone. I realised that I was naked. A 1.80 meter man with straight but a little bit curly silver-white hair man which looked like to be in his 20s stood there. I am a thin person with my 55kg weight. I was naked and in this desert I will probably die because of the heat. I tried to train a "Strengthening Technique". Techniques devised to give a body the capability of incredible feats but I noticed that I couldn''t train at that moment but suddenly images appeared. The moment i saw it i recognised that these images were the same images I saw in the place I took the inheritance of {Ultimage}...

 A Thousand Year Old - Chapter 1

    First Benefits of {Ultimage}


    I remember these images. These images were the same images as i had seen in the {Ultimage} technique. Then I sat down and took my meditation position for {Ultimage} unconsciously. My mana veins, the veins that are integrated with my actual veins, the veins that allow someone to train in the way of magic, suddenly pulsated and my mana heart which is integrated with my actual heart started to produce tiny bits of mist mana and an almost unrecognizable mist formed around my mana veins it was formed around my veins it was very thin but you could notice it but this meant something else too. I have become an {Acolyte}. {Acolyte} is the title given to people that have formed 1 to 3 layers of mist. If i form 4 to 6 layers i would be called a {Disciple} and 7 to 9 layers mean {Adept}. I could feel the misty mana inside and now i had the confidence to cast rank 0 spells which are usually weak spells like bolt magic etc. and spells that {Acolyte},{Disciple},{Adept} ranked people are allowed to cast. On the other hand i could also feel something strange I know that some Meditatiom Techniques give mana with elemental attributes but this was something different. I casted a classic rank 0 spell {Fire Bolt}. The moment before the fire bolt was supposed to conjure on mt hand. A momentary change that I wouldn''t notice If I was not paying attention occured. My mana type changed to {Fire}. In the world of magic if you want to cast a spell there are 2 choices available for you. You use your mana to conjure and cast the spell as usual or you use mana with the same attribute as the magic you are casting to use %50 less mana and make your spell powerful enough for it to be in the same caliber as another spell at one higher rank. This {Ultimage} technique could manipulate my mana type to cast this spell but I used a tenth of the mana i was supposed to use and the spell was powerful enough to be on par with a spell 3 ranks higher. This was a cheat indeed. The spell I cast was on par with the spell cast by a {Arch-Mage} which can cast a rank 3 spell!! After that I tried to experiment with my mana but I couldn''t make it change its attribute. If I could it would be too much of a cheat anyway. Then I heard a sizzling sound. My foot were burning but before I could scream in pain I noticed that the pain was gone. When I looked at my skin I noticed that it was all scaly and greeny. {Lizards Skin} a rank 0 body strengthening technique which can make someone resistant to heat and have scales tough as rock if used to its utmost limit. {Ultimage} provided Mana inside me was emitting an aura which affected my body. This aura made my body the same as a person that has cultivated {Lizards Skin} to the limit. Even more with my will the aura changed my body to have the effects of other body strengthening techniques! Now folks presenting body changing naked man! It was a fun thing but most importantly i do not need to use any body strengthening techniques if i want bodily power. As I was crazy about this 4 man popped up in the distance.


    "WTF is this doing all naked?"


    "I sense an {Acolyte} level power from him."


    "Dude you know we are bandits we are supposed to be ruthless or something."


    "You dare show your face in front of us? A mere {Acolyte} against us?"


    Now I was truly mad. They think that they can simply bully me because they cultivated rank 1 Body Strengthening Techniques. I am gonna show them who is the daddy here.


    "It would be a real shame if a "mere" {Acolyte} beat the shit out of you till your moms cannot recognize your anymore"


    "You!"


    Before they could continue I casted a few {Water Bolt} on their limbs. A bolt of water which was fast and sharp left a gaping hole in their limbs before they could respond. Suddenly a cry of pain came from all of these burly bald men.


    "Aaaagh! Raaaaagh!"


    Then I closed in and said:"What mere Acolyte again?"


    "We were wrong please spare us!"


    The world was cruel the loser became the rogue so i cleanly cut off their heads with {Water Bolt}. After that I stole their clothes and noticed some miscallenous stuff like rations, water, {Sandly Body} Strengthening Technique. Finally I noticed a badge "Vulture Clan". These wimps were probably the part of some clan. Either way I will manage to survive and I noticed that the badge was glimmering in some part. The glimmering side was always at the same side. It is the way to clan according to my conclusions. Maybe I should eradicate this clan to prevent the more wimps corrupting this world so on. I walked to the direction of the clan. My feet was now accustomed to sand and with my ridiculous power I could easily walk for days without stopping. So I walked,walked and walked.


    (3 hours later)


    Why aren''t there even any "Magical Beasts" showing up. "Magical Beasts", beings that have been afflicted by the magic or some other external factor which made them gain tremendous power or abilities. They are ranked the same way as people using Strengthening Techniques. Rank 0 Bodily Trainers in "Magical Beast" counterpart it is Rank 0 Magical Beast as you might have imagined but these Magical Beasts are stronger than their Bodily Trainer counterparts and are on par with Magic Users. Just as I was thinking about this a scorpion the size of an adult slowly crawled up. It was a [Sand Scorpion]. My memory of the this Magical Beast says:


    Once a regular scorpion, it got affected by the magic after years of Magic Users using magic as it has affected the world itself. {Sand Scorpion Body} has been inspired by this creature. To train in this technique you need to crawl in sand ,and...


    My knowledge about this still continues but I wanted to use something to boost my magic as it has only broken to 2nd layer where a second layer of mist formed around my Mana Vein and the amount of misty mana got a bit higher. Magical Beasts Magic Core is formed after the it is affected by magic or when it is born if its ancestry is already a Magical Beast. A quick {Water Bolt} which has elemental advantage killed this Magical Beast piercing it in the brain. Then I dismembered this beast as all the parts were useful for many things be it armour making, weapon crafting, rune scribing and more. After that I got into meditation position with the Magic Core in my hand while absorbing the Mana from it I broke through to 3rd layer as it is the condensation of a 3rd mist around my veins and more misty mana it is naturally good for me. Then let me use these Magical Beast parts to make myself some add-ons...