《I am infamous》 Prologue#1 In a dark room, a young man sat secluded and alone. He was handsome with blonde hair and blue eyes. His eyes were at the moment bloodshot with dark circles under them, revealing his lack of sleep. "Come on!, Come ooon!! " He shouted at his greatest enemy.......or at least it seemed like it from the amount of hate that could be felt from his voice. He was playing the latest game from the infamous series, infamous: second son. "Die you red haired hag." He shouted with a hysterical tone ....too hysterical in fact. He had watched numerous demos and walkthroughs of the game, but was stumped by how difficult the last boss encounter was on the expert evil difficulty. "This is ridiculous, goddammit why is this game so hard?"The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. Seeing the slow moving scene which indicated his avatar''s death, he shrieked while reloading the save data. He was intent on beating the game in one sitting but he failed to notice that his console was radiating foggy green lights but whether that was from the week long constant playing or some other reason was unknown. He was too excited to notice. "Come on! i will definitely beat her this time " which he most certainly did but after a few more tries. Coincidently the moment he beat the concrete queen and relaxed his tense nerves he saw a sudden green light fill his vision. ''What the? Who turned the lights on?'' Was his last thought as he fell unconscious. chapter 1- i am a baby???!!! Chapter 1 ¨C I am a baby???!!! ¡±Congratulations it¡¯s a boy,¡± Said the young man to his wife on the bed, she looked exhausted but had a smile of satisfaction on her face. ¡°Give him to me I want to hold him, wahh he¡¯s so cute¡±. She looked really happy with a sweet smile on her face. ¡°WAAAAAHHHHH!¡± ¡±Ha Ha, what loud fellow so much crying he is going to be so healthy and lively in the future ¡± ¡­¡­¡­¡­. ¡°Whew damn I thought I was going to die there, dammit which bastard put me in such a sturdy bag I couldn¡¯t breathe, woah I still can¡¯t breathe holy crap, oh what¡¯s that sensation on my back ¡­..Oh, I can breathe now ¡­.. Eh! ¡± I suddenly widened my small eyes. ¡°What is that! A giant ahhh¡­ no, they are not giants I am just tiny¡­. wait ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­. AM I A BABY!!!?????¡± ............. ¡°It seems that he is hungry honey, I will go get you some food while you feed him¡± ¡°okay, come here for some milk baby¡± ¡°WAAAAHHH!¡± ......... ¡°NO WAY, she¡¯s not going to do that right? I am 17 years old dammit lady stop noooooo¡±Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. After getting fed I felt pretty sleepy so I closed my eyelids to get my beauty sleep. ........ When I woke up I started thinking of what i remember before i found myself in this situation. ''The last thing I remember was beating Augustine then everything around me turned green ¡­¡­. shouldn¡¯t it have turned black if I was losing my consciousness though? Hmmm, the green light quickly filled my vision but I remember that it originated from the front ¡­¡­¡­¡­. Was it the PS? Well I guess playing for a week was too much after all'' ¡°Hmm, the most important thing though is ¡­ am I still on earth? Or is it another fantasy medieval world full of monsters and heroes?" "I guess I will have to figure it out later then and that giant¡­ wait no I am the baby, that normal sized couple should be my pare..." A sudden stomach ache interrupted my train of thought. ''¡­¡­ damn why does my stomach feel so uncomfortable I want to throw up, someone help me!!'' ......... "Waaaahh" ¡°Oh you want to eat again Kessler come here.¡± ........ ''DO YOU THINK THAT RAISING A CHILD MEANS ONLY FEEDING IT?? I AM NOT A FISH!! No wait, more importantly, my name is Kessler now?'' .......... After another round of "feeding" ¡°Okay then let¡¯s assume that this is still earth, why is my name like that of the last boss in infamous 1 ¡­¡­¡­.. It can¡¯t be, right? Am I in infamous right now?" Just the thought of it got me excited as who wouldn''t be happy when they''re in their favorate game? ¡±But then there is another issue ¡­¡­. Which year is it? How far am I from the explosion of the ray sphere? Did it already happen? do I have time to stop it? should I even do that?¡± I started getting very confused by the random thoughts in my head so i shook my head. ''Stop, I shouldn¡¯t think of that, for now, my main objective is to grow and see what sort of power I have¡­¡­¡­ I do have powers right? Man I really want to pee right now I guess I can only cry and hope they notice me WAAAAHHH!!'' ........ ¡°ohh my, you still want to eat more?, my oh my this child is quite gluttonous, come here baby" ''WHAT IS UP WITH THIS WOMAN !!.'' Growing up (1) Chapter 2 ¨C Growing up (1) ¡°Kessler where are youuuu? Stop hiding and come eat your food¡± . ¡®like I would tell you!¡¯ I am now hiding from that milk crazy woman i call mother, it''s been 6 months now and she has been ¡®feeding'' me everyday, so many times I stopped counting ,while blaming me for being gluttonous . The person who usually took care of my various needs was my father but when he''s at the clinic working, this woman tortures me while complaining about how I drink too much milk. I swear she''s crazy!! ¡°hah I hope she doesn''t find me this time¡±, I already can walk for a bit but I still can''t move very well and not for long but for now it''s better than helplessly waiting for a certain someone to pick me up and play around with my tiny body. ¡°I''m home!¡± Finally my savior!! I ran to my father at the door and jumped into his arms happily. ¡°ha ha, are you still bullying him honey?¡± ¡°why does he hate me so much I just want him to be well fed¡± she pouted. To this even my gentleman dad had black lines on his forehead ,¡° you call 5 times a day well fed? Even a body builder wouldn''t eat so much also... where do you get so much milk in the first place?¡±. ¡°humph even you are bullying me you father and son combo are really horrible¡±, me and my dad turned speechless. I forget to introduce them, this crazy woman is my mother Nicole medlar and she is a 24 year old housewife ( i still don''t what she works )and the gentleman is my father Terrance medlar who is also 24 years old . He comes from a hidden family of doctors and each descendant is expected to walk the same path and that of course includes me. I learned later that the medicine ways my family practice are 180 degrees away from the conventional medicine practiced everywhere but my father still learned the normal ways and only used his ¡®special'' skills when the norm failed him. To be honest I was pretty excited when I found out that I could learn medicine as it was my dream in my previous life. I even sent an application to Harvard but due to several unfortunate events and opinions from my foster family I focused on gaming and getting money from it to support the family. Anyway as I had thought this place is empire city from infamous and I am currently less than 10 years away from the game''s events. As for why my name was Kessler; it is definitely not a coincidence that my name and the last boss''s name is a match.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. But the most confusing thing about me was that my body was growing way too fast compared to the average human , heck i learned from my parents later that I stayed in my mom''s womb for only 5 months. All of that only served to confuse me more. ¡°Hah , thinking about it will only hurt my head maybe its related to my power¡± I shook my head, ¡°But what kind of power would hasten my growth like that?¡± ¡°Speaking of powers I still don''t know if I even have a power but my growth speed is definitely unusual.¡± . . . And with that 2 and a half years passed and I can now talk normally , run and do all sorts of things that three year old shouldn''t be able to, my parents were horrified at my growth so much that my father ran straight to his family mountain( turns out that my family is filthy rich) to check it out with my great grandpa , who is the best medicine practitioner in the family. He''s your typical old guy who acts strong but is really cute when in front of a child. He was very tall almost 2 meters and had a fierce face with a white hair, a trimmed beard, and a very well built body, one that is not suited for a doctor who saves lives. I think it''s safe to assume that he is not only a doctor. ¡°when did you adopt a child terry?¡± ¡°this is your great grandson Kessler.¡± ¡°WHAT! Why is he so big? He looks like a 6 year old wasn¡¯t terry born 3 years ago?¡± ¡° Yes ,this is why we are here, we want to make sure that he is fine.¡± ¡°oh Nicky is here as well? i haven''t seen her in such a long time i remember the days when you were tiny children and were always playing with my bear..¡± ¡° Focus old man!¡± This was the first time i saw my dad this irritated, but i was beginning to understand why my father never visited here. ¡°Oh sorry i really talk too much¡± then winked at me,¡± so this is my cute great grandson huh show me your wrist Kessy¡± The moment he held my wrist the old ba.... my grandpa¡¯s eyes were full of seriousness. ¡®At least he knows when to be serious, he''s not the best in the family for nothing''. ¡°...T..THIS IS!!!¡± suddenly his eye suddenly contracted, then he said some thing that almost made me faint from anger ¡°his hands are so tiny and cute !!¡± ¡®WEIRD OLD MAN!!¡¯ . . . . In the end he couldn''t find anything that might tell us why i am growing so fast. ¡°Hmm, i might have to go the ancestral library to look for some answers¡± He paused for and continuedwith a solemn and serious face. ¡°When i do i will send for you but you guys must stay here for a month or so as it will take some time¡± he said ¡°Just be honest i know you want to play with Kessler¡± the old man reverted to his silly face, ¡°Hehe, it seems i can''t hide anything from you terry¡± man what a cute old man. . . . Its been two weeks here and i got pretty familiar with the people of my family and every time i told them i was Terrance¡¯s son their faces turned pale and they quickly avoided me, when i asked mom later she told me about dad''s dark history. From young, dad was probably the most mischievous child to exist, he didn''t leave anything bad not done. Peep on the ladies? That was a daily routine, bully the other kids? He became the local gang chief, name one bad thing in your mind and he definitely did it. My first reaction to that was total disbelief, how can the extremely gentleman i know be such a trouble maker . ¡°He met me¡± mom said ¡°An even more trouble maker than him and i tamed him, tee hee .¡± I was still filled with disbelief but when i remembered the people''s reactions i was half convinced. Of course i asked dad later, but i very much regretted asking, maybe if i didn''t ask then i would have still held onto a bit my father''s gentleman view but when i asked him he answered with a embarrassed face. "Yeah i was a bit wild when i was young but your mom set me straight¡± sigh this family of mine is really abnormal *face palm*. Growing up (2) Chapter 3 ¨C Growing up (2) It''s been two weeks since i came to the family mountain and the people began to understand that i am not the trouble maker my dad was. ¡°Kessler pass it here!!¡± ¡°okay¡±, i am currently playing with the younger generation of the medlar family, they include my cousins the bodyguard trainees the servants'' children, etc. I was relieved when i found out that my family doesn''t discriminate in social statuses and that there none of the expected jealous , arrogant cousins, the cold uncles and all that clich¨¦ stuff. As it turns out, it is the normal for the family members to be loving to their family , who would have thought!! But i guess it can linked to the old man''s foul proof raising of his children and their children, why? Because according to his reasoning he was the only one allowed to spoil them and he did it so much that even their mothers thought they ought to be disciplined more strictly. And so this generation was raised into such upright and capable human beings. ¡°young master Kessler the grand patriarch is asking for you¡± ¡°I''m coming¡± If you''re wondering about the young master part then yes since i am from the main lineage then i am one of the candidates to the patriarch and truthfully if i do get the position i will give a heck about the responsibilities that comes with it and just enjoy the power that comes with it and leave everything else to the people i trust. Unfortunately, yet fortunately, the next patriarch is supposed to be the most skilled, medical practitioner among this generation. . . I went to meet the old man , and i was shocked by the size of his ¡®room''..... how the heck is that a room? That''s a friggin soccer field, does a room even need to be that big? Okay might be exaggerating a little but his room was not really a room at all, but more like a hall the walls where made of a green jadelike material. If i didn''t know any better i might have thought it was jade. Later i learnt that it was really jade but the reason for the hall being made solely of jade and the place where the old man slept wasn¡¯t just a show of noveu riche. As i entered the hall i saw a solemn looking old man wearing an old bronze armour over his chest ¡®huh, isn''t that the old man?¡¯. ¡°WHO ART THEE!!!¡± suddenly his extremely loud voice resounded in my ear and made my head spin so hard i felt like dying and then everything turned black ¡®so it is supposed to turn black when you faint'' was my last thought as my body fell to the ground. ¡°Eh!!It wasn''t supposed to be like this .....umm Kessy, wake up my boy¡± the old man''s solemn face suddenly became filled with panic and concern. ¡°What do i do? Terry will be mad at me ¡° Thankfully i was knocked out then or as the chinese would say i would have spit a mouthful of blood from that. 5 hours later ~~ ¡®ugh......¡¯ As my vision slowly retuned to normal and i escaped the dazed condition i was in i became more aware of my surroundings. I was still in that great hall, just on the bed, which looked much greener than the walls. Sitting on the side of the bed the old bastard, who made his own great grandson faint (yes l am still salty about that sneak attack.....), was looking very panicked and concerned while holding my wrist. I may have not been here for long but i have been long enough to know how amazing he is. Don''t be deceived by his usual shameless act as only my family of three and the young innocent can this side if his, the others can only see an awe inspiring stone cold ruthless clan head. I was told multiple stories but the one which surprised me the most was when the clan was at war with another clan (yes its clear my family isn''t only a clan of hidden doctors) The other clan used treacherous methods and invited three other clans of the same power and managed to ambush the clan head at the time , my grand father, and kill him.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. My great grandpa was enraged after he came out of seclusion and went on a killing spree to massacre the four clans and their respective heads. ¡®he came back with his whole body drenched in blood and injuries¡¯ i was told, some was his but most was his enemies. After that he went on another killing spree, this time though, he massacred the traitors who gave the enemy my grandpa''s location. He purged more than 60% of the clan elders who were involved in the inner conflict of the clan and the remaining ones where punished and demoted for being neutral and not helping unite the clan and suppressing the conflict when he was gone When i had heard all of that i thought that the medlar clan also had its internal issue..... Every other clan thought the Meddlar clan would decline rapidly after that, but were very quickly proved wrong as grandpa chose new fit elders and changed the clan rules and put new rules as well, including how a child was to be raised and spoiling would beget harsh punishment but children were children after all and needed to be spoiled as children. And that role actually fell to grandpa, i think he was using that to quell his grief though. Even though he treated that generation of children very well, the way he treated my father was pretty extreme. Whatever dad did no matter how bad it is he would forgive. He must''ve felt guilty towards my father for not being there when his son needed him. ¡°kessy, you''re awake!¡± no matter how salty i was i was still pretending to be a good boy in front of my parents and had to keep the old man deceived. ¡°ugh, grandpa what happened just now¡± i said with the most honest and sincere face i could make. And it really worked ,the last bit of the suspicion he had in his eyes were totally gone instead replaced by a look of awkwardness ''so the old man had moments like this too'' i thought. ¡°errr ,you''re probably really confused about what happened¡± ¡° the reason i just attacked you with my spirit was to see if you would have been able to take it.¡± ''Attack me with his spirit? Wasn''t this a game world....how would you attack someone with your spirit in the first place'' ¡°Was it something you found in the library grandpa?¡± ¡°Yes and i will tell you but first i need to explain to you something about our family......our species to be exact¡± When i heard his story I, for the first time in this world, had my poker face broken down like ice melting. So basically from what i understood from grandpa there are some people in this world who have an extra gene.....the conduit gene. Many organizations know that but not many know the origin of that gene. It is said in the story passed down in the main lineage that our first ancestor is actually not from earth. He and a group of others crashed here on earth millions of years ago when they were traveling across the galaxy. This group of aliens were actually just human, but as a result of evolution their bodies changed fundamentally. They became much stronger and gained an extra organ called ¡®Elemental root¡¯, which was said that be situated in the pubic region of the human body. This group spread across the different cultures of the world and decided to settle down on earth since it was impossible to go back to their home with earth¡¯s technology at the time. They started communities and made use of their abilities to explore the planet. They were astonished at the natural resources this planet had and thought to build their own eternal empire. Of course that was only a thought which was quickly purged as each one had their own selfish desires of sole power belonging to them. They first put built their advanced shelters which had actually become invulnerable to the attacks of the various species at the time. The group intended to not interfere but quickly changed their minds as they were enraged at how arrogant and domineering the dinosaurs acted and used their powers to annihilate them. Actually not all of the group made a move as some felt that they shouldn''t affect the natural evolotion of the still growing planet. The other few though didn''t care and indirectly controlled the earth''s atmosphere to a degree using their powers skillfully and caused a natural disaster to spring up and annihilate the dinosaurs. And that was only few of them, the weakest few in fact. The group of seven then separated into various places on the planet and started their own cultures while carefully introducing the different new concepts like fire to humanity. They also wanted families and so but humanity at the time was too primitive and ugly (yes i know it''s not nice but it''s the truth) and so they decided to speed up their evolution. It seems that the civilization they came from was THAT advanced! After that they began to leave behind their offsprings and the very first generation was the best of both worlds. They had both elemental roots & strong bodies, and the strong evolutionary abilities of humanity at the time. But as the generations increased the elemental root alone became scarce and eventually degraded to become only a recessive gene hidden deep in the human genotype, which came to be known as the conduit gene of today. When i digested what the old man told me i was stunned for quite a bit. Unfortunately, he didn''t give me time to gather my focus before telling me some thing that made me almost crumble inside. ¡°You must be wondering why i am telling you this ...... well,when i was in the ancestral library i found two reasons that might be the cause of your growth rate¡± ,at this point his face was extremely solemn with a hint of grief in his eyes. ¡°I tried to confirm if it was the first one just now but unfortunately that wasn''t the case....¡± ¡°Kessler what i am about to tell you might be very shocking but you must get a hold of yourself¡± I was pretty numb at this point and felt that nothing was going to be so surprising any more but boy was i wrong. ¡°Kessler............your mother is dying!¡± . . *Dong* Growing up (3) kuk! He''s right there''s no way she would agree sniff¡± I pray that you understand before it''s too late for regrets Terry sigh dogs are barking so early in the morning huh¡± heng" Confession Chapter # 5 confession After school mom picked me up and we flew directly to my family mountain and damn it''s still huge. ¡°listen here kessy we will only be here for a couple of days so do whatever you want while you have the chance. ¡°okay!¡± No time to waste I have to meet the old man quickly. ¡°mistress Nicole , young master Kessler it is truly a good surprise you have giv...¡± I directly cut off the housekeeper since it seemed like he would take forever at this rate ¡°we don''t have time to waste i want to meet the ol......err grandpa quickly¡± His mouth twitching the old housekeeper replied politely ¡°of course please follow me youngest master and mistress can just consider herself at home.¡± . . In front of the great hall ¡°please don¡¯t get too surprised at how the old master looks it¡¯s been rough on him the last couple of years¡± He said and opened the door to a shocking sight of an old man with a weird sly smile playing around with a bunch of 4 and 5 year old children. ¡°oh Jasy get down from there , Lety are you okay? Don''t fight with each other kids and get along , ow stop pulling on my beard.¡± It was a truly chaotic yet warm sight ¡°who is it hmmm isn''t this my cute great grandson kessy come over and give grandpa a hug¡± I will pass on that thanks ¡°grandpa I have an issue I would like to talk to you about.¡± ¡°Is that so? but as you can see I am quite busy at the mo..¡± ¡°it''s about mom¡± ¡°I see.....¡± his attitude changed 180 degrees ¡°okay kids go and play with the uncle over there as grandpa''s kinda busy¡± It took a while but the room eventually got quite with only the sound of grandpa¡¯s and my breath. He spoke in a slight cold tone ¡°so are you finally ready to confess?¡± I blanked a bit and thought he was joking but I couldn''t see any humour on his face. I took a deep breath and began to speak ¡°hey grandpa I missed you, I wanted to talk to you about the issue of mom¡± ¡° I thought I told you that there''s no solution to her on this planet¡± ¡° yes, that''s what I came to talk to you about.I think I found a solution¡± He looked a bit stunned by what I said but his face became a but grim so I hurriedly continued. ¡°does grandpa know anything about an organisation called the first sons?¡± His tone became increasingly cold as he asked ¡° how do you know that name and who exactly are you?¡± I was secretly speechless damn the old man''s got a sharp mouth. ¡°I am your great grandson Kessler but I guess you won''t believe that so First I will explain to you why I am so much more mature compared to my others my age.¡± Good his face became a bit less grim so that means there''s a chance to trick him ¡°when I was born I was like any other kid my age...well, minus the hyper growth but when I was 2 years old i started having weird dreams........dreams of another life , the dream came randomly and had no common point between them but for some reason I understood and remembered them each one.¡± ¡°sometimes I dreamt of meeting people.....people whose faces I have never saw before, other times I dreamt of playing with other kids , growing up and learning.¡± ¡° I gradually became aware that these dreams were very abnormal but I had no one to share this with and became very distressed¡± At this point I put on the most distressed face I can fake and continued to bullshit. ¡°eventually I stopped having these dreams but in my last one I was 17 years old and was playing a game when everything suddenly became dark and then I woke up.¡± hehe it actually became green but won''t tell him heheheh i am so smart. His stoney face slowly became gentler and he started to talk ¡° I can tell that you''re not telling the full truth but I will believe you since you¡¯re my great grandson¡± d...damn did he figure that I lied at the last part? The old man scary sharp. ¡°I won''t ask anymore how you know the name of that organisation since it seems like you''re avoiding the topic.....so.....what kind of solution are you talking about and how is it related to the first sons?¡± I sighed in relief since I actually didn''t prepare an answer for how I knew the first sons. ¡°do you know of the project they are recently developing?¡± ¡°hooo you even know that? It seems like your parents really spoil you too much to even tell you about this¡± that''s rich coming from you.....wait my parents know? Damn things just keep getting more and more complicated. ¡°does grandpa know any details about what they developing?¡± ¡°how can I not? I am one of their most generous backer and has been financing them for decades¡± His words were seriously too shocking to hear. so the kind grandpa is the one of the people responsible for the tragedy of empire city? ¡°does...grandpa really know what they''re researching?¡± ¡°isn''t it a way to awaken the conduit gene that is dormant in humans?¡± grit ¡°so grandpa also knows the monstrosity involved in the procedure?¡± ¡°ehh doesn''t it just take a huge amount of nuclear energy?¡± I let out the deep breath I WAS holding sigh thankfully grandpa wasn''t totally involved with the tragedyThe narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. ¡°actually it uses a huge amount of life energy which is taken from tens of thousands of human beings¡± ¡°WHAT!!!¡± my heart nearly stopped at grandpa''s sudden roar. ¡°grandpa didn''t know?¡± ¡° kessy are sure of this?¡± ¡°yes but the reason I came to talk to grandpa is because of this device......i think this may be the thing to save mom..¡± ¡°YOUUU!! are you actually willing to take so many lives to save your mother? Do you think she would accept such a thing?¡± ¡°no she wouldn''t........which is why i won''t take any HUMAN lives.¡± ¡°what do you mea...¡± ¡°I want to activate the device in the amazon forest.¡± ¡°kessy......you would go so far to save her?¡± ¡°yes, even if I have to become the biggest sinner in history!!!¡± ¡°haah alright I understood your resolution boy but you definitely wont have to take another life.¡± ¡°what do you mean??¡± ¡°when did i say that you have to take life force from humans or animals? All you need is right underneath your foot¡± what? It was as if a fog in my head was cleared and my thoughts gathered together into a terrifying idea...... beneath my feet? The earth? Boom I .....don''t need to kill anyone??? The weight I felt on my heart felt very non-existent right now. ¡° thank you grand father ¡° those words were truly from my heart. ¡°don''t get too excited yet we still have no idea about how extract the life force from the earth.¡± ¡°that''s true¡± my eyebrows gathered together into a frown. ¡°well, don''t let that get to you we still have 3 years left, we can use that time to figure it out.¡± His eyes became cold all of a sudden ¡°Those bastards at first sons though ......will need to pay every single coin they took from me¡± I suddenly felt that the first sons were really pitiful. . . . ¡°did you enjoy your talk with grandpa kessy?¡± ¡°yes mom grandfather was really cool¡± ¡°hehe, great, grandpa has been very lonely ever since my father in law....¡± at that point her voice became meaningless murmurs but I had already understood what she meant. ¡°don''t worry mom I will cheer grandfather up!¡± she smiled gently at my words and ruffled my hair while saying ¡° thank you kessy ,thank you¡±. . . We came back the next day and every weekend after that ,except the next one ,I went to visit Abigail at her house and played with her. When I met her family , especially her brother, I had a very serious suspicion but I quickly pushed it down as it was too ridiculous. And from then on my relation ship with grandpa became great. Grandpa even started teaching me the medicine ways of our clan and from what I read from our ancestral library the origin of the medicine profession is three other professions fused together. Alchemy the art of converting seemingly useless things into the most useful of pellets which can be used for almost everything, whether it is building ,healing or even killing. Biologia total understanding of living beings whether they are humans, animals , or even aliens. Elementalistia the very basic path of all elemental warriors , it is divided into many parts, classes and ranks which are known only to grandpa and a minority of people on the planet. It is said that the advanced path of medicine requires the perfect fusion of all of these respected professions and that all medicine masters are practically worshiped everywhere they go. However in my family only the master of the clan who is my great grandpa has the qualifications to learn this great profession since it requires a certain cultivation rank in elementalism. Thankfully though the basic parts of the medicine path only needs the biologia profession and that is the specialty of our family. I learned that all paths are separated into 3 stages as a basic rank when one reaches the 3rd stage one can officially advance to the advanced rank and then the master rank, masters of any profession are true treasures that one can''t become without the accumulation of many lucky occurrences and they are always treated with utmost respect wherever they go. Grandpa, however only reached the 3rd rank and to advance to the 4th he needs to reach the 3rd rank in the two other professions. even I after spending a year of continuous study I haven¡¯t even reached the first rank as a biologus. And finally grandpa told me that what I learned is enough and its seems I don''t have enough talent for the family''s medicine ways. Sigh so even this time I can''t huh Even so that didn''t stop me from racking my brain to find a solution to mom''s problem. If the ray sphere sucked people''s life energy from them why can''t it do the same for the earth? It can it just needs a much bigger explosion radius and needs to be blown up underground quite deeply. Also it needs to be very far away from civilization. And I found the perfect place for that . . . On grandpa''s advice I took a break and started focusing on school and making friends. So when I came back the first thing i did was to try to meet up with little abi and try to catch up, but I was shocked to hear that she moved to another city with her parents. Its seemed like I wouldn''t be able to make any new friends at school so I just went there to sleep and stayed at home to study. And so I continued planning to save my mother and stop the tragedy from reoccurring. Until something horrible came up. When I came back from school, I found mom had collapsed. My reaction was total panic. I called dad, the ambulance, anyone I could think of. Finally after getting her to the hospital and having her examined. The doctor walked out of the exam room. "Congratulations, your going to be a father, again." I lost myself to rage after hearing that and accused dad of killing mom, but as I heard his answer, I was stumped and felt my eyes grow misty. ¡°Your mom insisted... She didn''t want you to be lonely in the future.¡± My heart broke into pieces from that and I found myself unable to hold back the tears. That woman... No, my mother, I can''t....... I won''t let her die. Steeling my resolve and shedding the lastbit of hesitation from my heart. I had to start the plan to take the ray sphere and its developer, the original Kessler from the first sons. Chapter 6 beginning training Chapter 6 _ beginning training When i met grandpa again and told him he was as moved as i was and told me that we needed to begin the plan as soon as possible. ¡°and so kessy you need to start preparing as well. I thought that Nicole had about 3 years left but now i don''t even know if she has two.¡± ¡°which means you must begin your elemental training and reach the first rank as soon as possible to be able to have any part in the plan¡± I nodded but i was writhing inside as i knew that reaching the first rank was the simplest and most direct task, but it was also the most difficult one since prior to it one was basically a normal human but when I take that step I would have already distinguished myself from ordinary humans no matter how strong or how athletic they are. And to be able to do that i have to make my body surpass human limits in all aspects Usually such a task would take decades if not more, but fortunately my family isn''t really a usual one. ¡°prepare yourself and tell your parents that you''re going to be absent for almost a year. More importantly prepare your self mentally as this one year maybe the most torturous one you may ever go through in your life.¡± ¡°yes grandpa¡± i replied without any hesitation. Before, I might have hesitated greatly but after all the sacrifices mom did for me i wouldn''t be even an animal if i did. . . At home. ¡°WHAT!!! No way!!¡± ¡°dad i don''t know what happened between you and grandpa in the past but i do know that for mom you should put down your pride.¡± ¡°what does that have anything to do with you being absent for a year with that old man?¡± I hesitated a bit but finally told the truth ¡°I.......want to begin my elemental training.¡± ¡°Are you crazy? It requires decades of hard work to break past the first step, even i only broke past it a year ago and your mother......still haven''t broken past it yet and you prefer spending the time you have left with Nicole training?¡± ¡° Kessy i know you''re a sensible boy and wouldn''t do any thing without reason so tell me why you want to do this.¡± I was stumped by that and didn''t know what to do, dad needs to spend whatever time we have left with mom in case.......in case me and grandpa fail but i won''t be able to convince him otherwise. Sigh I guess I need to play the idiot card huh. ¡°dad I promise it won''t be later than a year. Grandpa said i need to start when I am very young or else my chance to break through in future will be much lower, and i also want to make mom a bit more happy by seeing me work hard.....¡± I saw him hesitate a bit and knew that i should hit the iron while it''s hot. ¡°plus i won''t be able to do anything at all to help mom so i should try to make her proud one last time before......before she......¡± at that point the grief on my face was genuine. ¡°sigh i really don''t know what to do with you child but you will come back when it''s time for you mother to give birth or you will suffer the consequences¡± with that he glared at me. ¡°YESSIR!!!¡± I was so happy i forgot to keep my grieve filled face. . . . ¡°And so we are here......NOT, where the heck are we grandpa!!!?¡± ¡°ohh this is our family forest.¡± ¡°WHAT! WE HAVE A FORE......nevermind i should have expected it so what are gonna do first?¡± I asked but the response i was expecting took a bit longer than expected when i saw how hesitation filled grandpa''s face. ¡°kessy......are you sure you wanna do this?...i mean you have no idea what kind of torture awaits those who want to become elementalists.....its a neverending path of torture and hard work in fact and the first step is extremely diffucult for most people...i.....i really don''t have the heart to put you through so much torture at such a young age, you may appear much older and at a perfect age ti begin training but you are still boy who isn''t even a decade old¡± I nearly couldn''t stop myself from rolling my eyes at his words the old man still wants to test my will huh. ¡°don''t worry grandpa i don''t know about later but i am definitely not going to regret doing this for mom¡± I spoke with sincere determination filling my eyes. Grandpa smiled and said ¡°that''s my grandson you really didn''t disappoint me well....let''s start your first journey to hell¡± with that he grinned with an almost sinister smile.......i may be hesitating a little now. . . . Four weeks later... ¡°come one boy run for your life¡± an old bastard said while sitting on a not so sturdy tree branch and looking at half naked boy running in desperation from a brown bear.....yup it was me TT_TT ¡°i ...want ....to...go...HOOOOOMMMEE¡± The old badie grinned and said ¡°ohohoho what happened to the ohh so steady determination you had huh¡± To that i replied in the loudest voice i could muster ¡°i threw it up with the poisoned berries you gave me the first day!!!!!!¡± ¡°hohoho nono your still so energetic in the mourning seems like you could take more¡± My OCD kicked in and i couldn''t hold it in but i quickly regret it afterwards. ¡°IT''S YOU''RE!!!!¡± The old man had nerve popping out and squinted eyes as a result ¡°ohohoho you really seem like you could take more huh¡± ¡°NO I CAN''T!!!!!!¡± . . . Night time... I was sprawling on the ground lookung deader than dead but i still had enough energy to crawl to the wonderfull food grandpa was cooking. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.¡°grandpa is it done yet?¡± ¡°stay patient boy good things come to those who wait.¡± I pouted and said in a way that i thought was cute ¡°pweeeease¡± ¡°normally that would get me but you should look at your current reflection in the river¡± I looked at the puddle in front of my and damn i looked ugly. ¡°oh my good my poor parents what happened to my face!?¡± ¡°oh the black eye was when you fought with the white haired gorilla¡± ¡°i hate harambe!!! Why did it have to bruise me like this....i just wanted to touch a bit of its furry comfortable body.¡± ¡°humph serves you right for trying to run away while i was taking a nap¡± Ugh he was right ¡°any way after eating you need to begin training.¡± ¡°okay¡± i replied with anime tears. After eating... I tried to ignore the pain that filled my body and got into a lotus position and began to breath in a weird rythem. Hah Hou i inhaled and exhaled, sometimes quickly sometimes slowly eventually i seemed to have found peace as my breathing steaded in a specific rhytem. I kept on for two hours before i felt a weird feeling of something entering my body.....it was weird but comfortable and i began to feel itchy in the bruises that filled my body which began to heal with a noticeable effect. That weird feeling was a certain invisible type of energy which my grandpa called elemental bits. This type of energy can only be absorbed by people with the conduit gene who awakened to the first rank. Yup you heard that right i already awakend the first step or more like i think i was born with it awakened. Well maybe it has something to do with the peculiarities of my birth and my strange body, anyway i am now working on awakening to the second rank. Something to mention is grandpa''s wonderful face when he found out that i already could absorb elemental bits from day 1 was simply priceless. . . . Four weeks ago... ¡°listen here kessy the first step is as i said the absolute hardest one and the reason for that is because the human body is simply not built to absorb elemental bits maybe it was long ago but unknowingly humanity has stopped being a part of nature and so has lost the chance to be able to absorb it.¡± ¡° millions of years ago when our ancestor crashed on this planet it was full of nature and beauty and correspondingly elemental wholes which is a more powerful type of energy compared to elemental bits¡± ¡°all life on earth at that time were able to subconsciously absorb elemental bits and grow faster and more powerful that way, and the even more powerful beings could absorb a sliver of elemental wholes which only rank 10 masters are able to do subconsciously.¡± ¡°But after the various selfish activities of humanity the atmosphere now barely contains .01% of the energy millions of years ago.¡± ¡°and now we have to rely on the special breathing rhythm our ancestor left us or would have no way to cultivate elemental energy.¡± ¡°usually the first step is to forcefully get the body to absorb elemental energy but that requires years of trying and surpassing the human limit can also allow you to better sense the energy and be able to force it in your body¡± ¡°at the start the pain may be intolerable but with years of practice you learn to ignore it and focus on forcing it in your body¡± After he finished he clasped his hands and said ¡°now then let''s start i will teach you the breathing rhythm and you''ll try to get the hang of it and then we''ll see from there. After that i was able to absorb the energy and when i told grandpa this was his reaction. ¡°WHAT!! T...THIS CAN''T BE!! EVEN GENIUSES HAVE TO TAKE AT LEAST TENSOME YEARS...I MYSELF TOOK 9 YEARS AND WAS NAMED THE MOST GENIUS IN A THOUSAND YEARS SO HOW?¡± I grinned and showed him how my injuries heal after cutting myself. His face fell and he mumbled ¡°n...no i...i refuse to believe this noo !!¡± . . . Back to the future... I continued to absorb energy but suddenly i felt my already slow absorption speed suddenly stop. ¡°phew so this is the bottleneck grandpa said i would have to face in my quest to second rank.¡± ¡°i should tell him already the..¡± Suddenly i felt duzzy and before i knew it i was in a void like location with which glowed very very slightly green. ¡°WHA!!WHERE AM I ?? GRANDPA ARE YOU HERE?¡± I panicly looked around just to find holographic sentence in front of me System charged 1.1% Seeing this my first reaction was confusion for a few seconds but before i knew it i suddenly felt extremely agitated. ¡°This...this can''t be right? This could it be one of those systems that are in the brain or something? OH MY GOD YAAAHOOO!!¡± I already forgot my earlier panic and felt so excited as i had already thought that i got no sort of cheat when i got here but this...this was was simply a gift that i simply despaired at the thought of not getting it. ¡°but wait 1.1%? This does it mean elemental energy? So that means all the energy i have been absorbing was gathered in this thing? Now i don''t know whether to laugh or cry.¡± ¡°It seems I''ll have to gather more energy huh. Well first things first i need to get grandpa to tell me the rhythm for the 2nd rank but how do i get out of h...¡±i suddenly felt the same dizzy feeling from before and voila i was sitting where i was before. ¡°so i just think about it huh¡± i tried it few more times until i felt too dizzy to continue. ¡°well lets go tell grandpa hohoho i can''t wait to see his wonderfull face again hohohohoho¡± i walked joyfully to where grandpa stayed. Chapter 7 half and half power world Chapter-7 half and half power world I was running to my grandpa''s ¡°tent¡± which happened to bemade out of jade as well... As it turns out the old man''s power is controlling jade....haaa no wonder my family''s so damn rich. I knocked on the door of the majestic ¡°tent¡± and heard grandpa''s lazy voice ¡°you done trainin¡¯ kessy?¡± ¡°let me in first grandpa.¡± The door opened and grandpa''s sleepy face was what i saw next ¡°ugh... i am out here fighting for my survival and you are here enjoying your beauty sleep what kind of responsible adult are you?¡± I gave him a weird look only to be glared at ¡°tch waddya want? I am busy right now so Talk quickly before i close the door.¡± I was so speechless at his rascaly behaviour that I only responded when he was about to actually close it. ¡°w...wait ol....grandpa i need the breathing rhythm for the second stage.¡± ¡°why would you need that when you''re still practicing the firs......¡± He impatiently said before he quickly froze up. I grinned and cheekily responded ¡°Yup you geussed it right I reached the first stage bottleneck.¡± Still shocked, grandpa said ¡°y...you didn''t you just start training 1 month ago? You fellow what kind of monster are you?..... whatever come in and rest for the night and we''ll continue training tomorrow.¡± ¡°you''re letting me in?¡± I was very surprised since every time i wanted to sleep in his ¡°tent¡± he refused sternly and told me to live like my ancestors did before........what is a selfish childish oldman being so nice now? ¡°tch before i wanted for you to suffer and be on the brink of death so you''ll be able to awaken earlier but since you already are awakened you have no need to suffer further¡± This old.....punk!! If that was so why did he have to make me go through all of that this past month..... gritIbetter shut it and accept defeat silently......for now. ¡®humph that''s what you get for correcting me this morning you''re still too young boy¡¯ Meanly thought the old man. Thankfully i couldn''t hear what he thought or i would have risked my life to destroy him.....or at least do so in my mind. . . . In the morning.... ¡°Alright this here is the rhythm for the second stage boy but before you practice it i need to warn about a few things¡± I was quite pumped for practice so I tried to calm my tense nerves. ¡°First of all, you have no need to suffer from now on....unless you want to of course¡± The corners of my mouth twitched a bit on hearing the last part. ¡°Second of all you need to know that awakening the second stage grants you a power that is based on a variation of a part of nature.¡± ¡°usually the less it is variated and more pure the more powerful and the harder it is to gain control but if course there are exceptions which we will ignore for now.¡± ¡°As you see i awakened to the jade power which is an earth variated ability ....it also happens to be quite pure and powerful¡± His tone was filled with pride at the mention of his power...akin to a child telling his parents how he got good grades. ¡°I get the feeling that you thought something incredibly rude just now but I''ll ignore it¡± HE''S STILL SO SHARP!! ¡°i have no idea what yours might be but i am anticipating it be quite pure since you are the descendant of the great Meddlar family¡± We sell drugs and jade to rich people why are you so proud? ¡°But keep in mind that this is the second most difficult step in the path if an elementalist as it involves integrating your body with one of natures forces and as such it is incredibly dangerous and painful so make sure not to panic when you get to that point¡± Yup I''m definitely going to panic after hearing this. ¡°Anyway without further or do lets begin. As usual empty your mind and begin breathing¡± I began breathing according to rhythm and almost instantly I was able to absorb energy again and so kept at it for a couple of hours until i heard something click within me and i knew that it began so there''s no going back now. Suddenly i heard grandpa speaking ¡°you will now feel as if you teleported into another world this world will be your power world the world from within you draw your power from. When you do you need to grasp a hold of a sliver of power from that world and try to receive it in your body¡±This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. As he talked i felt dizzy and like before i felt like i was in a diffrent dimension....only one i have never seen before. It was a weird roomy world.....as though someone split it into two. Half of it was full of colors while the other half was pure black. Normally you would feel as though black is scary though right? But no when i saw the colored half I "felt" it distorting itself as though it wanted nothing more than to destroy the space fabric itself but at the same time i felt a sense of harmony and peace from it as though it was healing the distorted space fabric. Yin and yang Was what popped in my mind when i saw this scene. The harmony it had was comforting. Then i turned my head to look at the pitch black half. It was so black like the darkness origin of the whole world. It was as if you could put your hand in it but not get it back. All i felt from it was extreme emptiness as though the whole world could be swallowed in it and it wouldn''t be filled at all. When i looked at the meeting point between the two halves i saw an even more shocking sight. The two halves where combining in a strange way that''s could only be witnessed but not described. I was dazed for a few minutes before i regained my focus. ¡°This....what kind of place is this. Grandpa said that''s it my power world but what kind of power is this?¡± ¡°Haaaa I can''t think anymore let''s first try to initiate contact with it.¡± With that i moved forward but was stopped by a weird interface. System found highly potent suitable energy source requesting host for permission to absorb. ¡°this....so all of this is energy to you? Just what kind of system are you? Most importantly absorb? Maybe this could activate it.¡± With that i pressed on the big yes botton. Confirmation. System absorbing highly potent energy. 1.2% 1.3% 1.4%.... While the system was doing it''s thing i also began doing my thing and "walked" to the meeting point between the two halfs and grapped onto the weird looking mixture. ¡°Wow, it feels just like cotton candy..... Wonder if it tastes like it.¡± I swallowed a mouthful and quickly regretted that decision. Instantly, my whole body was stabbed by countless needles, a sensation that overwhelmed my senses. ¡°What... Did...I??!!!!¡± Regaining my mind''s foothold, my body was being assailed by an enormous amount of pain, that relentlessly assaulted me from every direction. As if trapped and tortured in the molten heat of scorching lava and being mercilessly tormented by the freezing tundra. The unbearable pain, I could feel my mind slowly but surely creaking under the colossal pressure. Thoughts of losing and submitting to the pain swelled in my mind. But, for some reason mom''s kind image popped up in my head. She must have gone through this everyday, knowing she will die. Seeing me and nagging every morning, feeding her life to me, knowing it only accelerated the inevitable Her hair which kept growing whiter by the day ,a constant reminder of how much time she had and how it was being helplessly ripped away from her. Yet, she surrendered it freely with just a meager solemn plea to see me healthy. "She didn''t lose to despair! SO.....I.. WILL.. NOT.. LOSE.. TO.. THIS..EITHER!!ARRGH DON''T SCREW WITH ME ..!!" Gathering whatever left of focus i had to try to forget the unbearable pain or i knew i would become a vegetable. I forced myself through the punishment as my mind clashed through the pain, winning myself a short reprieve to regain my focus. Moments later the fire would quickly return to continue its unforgiving onslaught. It would continue this vicious cycle for what would be like an eternity, until there was a ''ding'' sound. system fully charged: initiating install:install finished Ding ding system detected atomic error in host''s body resulting in rejection from highly potent energy. Would the host like to fix the atomic error? Yes No I wanted to say yes but what came out was just a hoarse voice that wouldn''t be acknowledged even as a voice but the system seemingly understood. Initiating atomic fixing on host......... After that i didn''t remember anything as i had already blanked out from fighting the pain for so long until finally the pain started lessening and lessening before becoming numb and finally began to feel comfort....yes comfort, a feeling i was longing for. Atomic error fixed host body reached perfect match for great karmic shift Recommending completing cosmic soul cultivation for best results would host like to learn the great cosmic soul maual? Yes No I still had questions in mind but i was attracted by the big YES so i just pressed it and felt a little sting in my head, which compared to before was like comparing a truck hit to a wasp sting. I felt memories flood my mind....unfamiliar memories..... "So this is how cole and delson felt when they read people''s minds huh." I thought out loud after regaining the ability to talk "normally". After sorting out all the i information pouring into my head i became quite excited. It seems that this cosmic soul manual was actually a breathing manual and not only did it include the first ten stages for elemental cultivation it also had another part which was sealed in a foggy corner in my memory before i could reach the tenth stage but just the first ten breathing rhymes where priceless enough. Once I calmed down I immediately felt the changes in my body and I had noticed i had much more energy than before so i think it''s safe to say that I entered the second stage. However,I suddenly controlled allthe elemental bits i gathered before and willed it to get out of my body and suddenly i was like an ordinary person all over again. Why would i do that? Because in the manual it is mentioned that to practice the cosmic soul manual you need to do so from the beginning with at least elemental perfects.....what the hell are even elemental perfects!!? Thankfully when i tried the cosmic manual i suddenly felt the black and colourful energy enter my body, this time though i only felt comfort and even a bit of pleasure. i first began to breath according to the the first rhythm and......it felt amazing. "So it seems like the energy in the power world can substitute for these elemental perfects." The energy i could breath in each time was incomparable to before. In fact,If the energy i could absorb before was comparable to a bicycle in speed then it is now comparable to a quantum train.....well not that far but the energy intake is simply incomparable to before. And that''s just the absorption speed the quality alone can even make the elemental wholes mentioned in legends seem like bird dung. I was able to refinish the first stage in half an hour......what before took me four weeks to accomplish only took half an hour with the cosmic soul manual. "This is simply unbelievable........i have to keep this a secret.......from everyone...including mom." Don''t get me wrong its not that i don''t trust them its just that this manual is too dangerous that if it spreads out accidently......i can''t even imagine what kind of disaster would happen. Shaking my head silently i thought to myself ¡®i don''t know when i might be able to comeback here so i should use it as much as i can and reach the tenth stage as soon as i can.......then i can finally be invincble on this planet and not suffer needless injustice like my father and his father did.¡¯ Then i finally turned my focus on the system interface. ¡°Whoa this is.........¡± Continuous breakthrough Chapter ¨C 8 continuous breakthrough In a half dark half colourful world a young boy was standing blanking staring into empty space. ¡°I...what is this?¡± In front me was a semi holographic screen that actually looked like an old Egyptian papyrus with a few things on it. Main system: Karmic shift Sub system 1: ????????????? Sub system 2: ?????????????? Sub system 3: ?????????????? Sub system 4: ?????????????? Sub system 5: ?????????????? ¡°what the hell is this? Karmic shift? Wasn''t that the thing when the system finished ¡°fixing¡± the error in me? What about the other four? Sigh this is getting needlessly complicated.¡± Shaking my head I touched the karmic shift option and the screen in front of me changed from a weird looking Egyptian papyrus into a sci fi looking blue screen. Karmic shift: INFAMOUS I On the sci fi looking screen a very familiar scene was in my sight. ¡°this is.....isn''t this the interface of the first game from the infamous series?¡± ¡°no wait it looks similar but it has so much more options than the interface in the game whoa!¡± I started browsing through the different options and I noticed a few things. First off the different power usages in it were full of question marks. However that wasn''t the problem, the problem was that the sheer size of the question marks was immense. I was like a tiny ant looking at a 100 meter tsunami.....one word......overwhelming. I took a deep breath and continued browsing. . . A few hours later ¡°haah damn to think that my long awaited cheat is so useless.¡± ¡°There''s nothing here for me........wait maybe I require another catalyst like just now when it absorbed the black and colourful energies.¡± ¡°well the cheat can wait, the most important task now is to reach the tenth stage as quickly as possible and leave this place.......speaking of which how long have i been here for i completely forgot¡± ¡°well thankfully the system has a time function that signifies the time since it was awakened so for now I can distinguish the time.¡± With that i sat down and started breathing in according to the cosmic soul rhythm second stage. Haa huu i breathed in and out, feeling the extremely pure energy entering my body & soul and nurturing them. I quickly forgot about time and began to lose awareness of my surroundings. A while later I lost awareness of body, and finally I entered a semi conscious state where my body absorbed energy according to its natural instincts. Click a click sounded out from within my body but I completely didn''t notice as my body automatically switched rhythms. Deep within my consciousness a transparent foggy material was slowly becoming more and more solid, squirming about like it was trying to take shape and changing from transparent into half black half coloured pattern l would recognise as the meeting point between the two different energies if I saw it, only it was so much paler than the one in the power world that without careful observation it didn''t look any different from its previous colour. Inside my body though an even weirder transformation was occurring. I was changing down to the cellular level and my bones and muscles were maturing even faster than before and were gaining a weird looking half black half coloured pattern, thankfully the change was very subtle and i didn''t look any different from before on the outside. After a day another click was heard and my body automatically switched rhythms again. At this point the pattern in my consciousness and body looked much deeper and it was obviously still going strong. A week later if reached the fourth stage and the foggy material in my consciousness became jellylike and was starting to look humanoid. While my body stopped showing any obvious change from the inside but kept getting stronger and sturdier. A month later another click was made signifying the fifth stage and my consciousness looked like it had a weird looking jellylike baby version of me. Two months later I reached the sixth stage and the illusory baby was growing up a little but had no other obvious change other than its deepening colour and it growing more solid. . . One year later my body clicked for the ninth time and in my consciousness a half black half coloured version of me was floating naked while hugging its knees like a baby in it''s mother''s womb. While my body still didn''t look any different outside, inside was a whole other mess. The power world pattern was fusing with my bones and started to fade into it while the muscles and organs also automatically contracted slightly on their own to absorb what they can from the energy but they were also almost nearing their limit. I suddenly stopped being able to absorb any further so I naturally began to wake up. ¡°huaaaaaah phew that was a nice dream, wonder how much time passed since started hmmm........¡± when I gazed at the system to check the its watch I completely froze.... ¡°What? 15 months passed?????!!! why didn''t I wake up??¡± ¡°Never mind I need to quickly leave this place first.....but how do I...¡± I once more felt dizzy and before I knew it my background changed again and I was back in the jade ¡°tent¡± with grandpa staring at me. ¡°huh why did you open your eyes when you just closed them?¡± What....don''t tell me that was all a dream? No that can''t be .......that pain I felt in there was most certainly real. Which leaves me with only one guess. I calmed down and started thinking rationally before quickly coming to a conclusion. ¡°Time in that dimension was stopped.¡± I murmured. ¡°hah? what dimension, did you already enter your power world?¡± I noticed grandpa was staring weirdly at me so I coughed and told him to go out so I can concentrate on breathing. ¡°hmm what about the sy...¡±I was suddenly in a dark green space again with the same annoying dizziness. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.On the system interface was a different situation though . System detected a variant earth power user: recommended for host to acquire the user''s power. Was the most obvious message after it came another volley of messages. Initiated system main mission help the user become (in)FAMOUS throughout the multi omega verse Time limit: infinite Quest reward: complete control over the karmic shift main system( grants total control over all four subsystems) Quest failure leads to complete destruction of host in body and soul Initiated quest mission: save host''s mother from imminent doom Time limit: eighteen months Quest reward: advanced section of cosmic soul manual Quest failure will lead to eternal regret and damnation of host''s soul Initiated quest mission: save the people of empire city from the looming shadow hovering above them Time limit: 1 month Quest reward: karmic value becomes positive gaining extra abilities for the host. Quest failure: karmic value becomes negative gaining extra abilities for the host. ... User reached stage 1 granted one power lottery chance User reached stage 2 granted one power lottery chance User reached stage 3 granted one power lottery chance ... ... User reached stage 10 granted one power lottery ... User reached first extremity and thus rewarded a golden lottery chance would you like to use it now? Yes No ¡°Lottery??¡± Just the thought of it got me shivering from excitement. ¡°accept of course!!¡± suddenly the system interface changed into another screen that had a machine which looked like a golden slot machine except was HUGE with 3 slots within it like a casino royal slot machine. However other than its huge size it also had another big difference. The rewards on it were much different than the usual municipal gifts and there where no opening under so i wondered where the rewards come from. Breathing in I carefully pulled the small lever on the side and the golden slot machine began to glow and started spinning so fast it almost didn''t seem to be moving. ¡°sigh guess I can''t cheat here and have to rely on luck huh.¡± With that I closed my eyes and stayed still for a while. . . 3 hours later... I suddenly opened my eyes and carefully pulled the lever to stop the machine. I stared intently at the transparent screen until the first slot stopped spinning at a majestic seven. I took a deep breath to calm my tense body and again pulled the lever. This time it just slowed down but didn''t completely stop until it was almost about to leave the seven where it finally stopped. Phew I released the deep breath i was holding and started at the lever for a long time and finally........I pulled it with shaking hands. This last time it slowed more and more till it was moving on turtle speed but kept steadily rolling for a few more minutes. Before it finally stopped at the final seven. Ding dong ding while the machine was letting out its jackpot sounds i was calmly assessing the situa....LIKE HELL I WAS!!!!! ¡°OH MH GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS YEEEEESSSS!!!!¡± Seriously what are the odds?, I think I can now come out in a tv commercial saying ¡®¡± I used to not believe in beginners luck but after trying this magnificent product I was able to let go of my prejudice, I implore everyone to try this truly epic product¡¯¡± of course I would need to be paid enough for that though. While if was basking in my daydreams the giant slot machine transformed into gold like light which shrunk down into a tiny golden dot that suddenly shot over and entered my head while poor me was unprepared for the painful impact so I was knocked out from the sudden headache. . . . Opening my heavy eyelids I became aware of my surroundings. ¡°hmmm I am back in the tent now ahh..¡± all of a sudden I felt new information in my head like when i got the cosmic soul manual. Cosmic origin arts(incomplete) Since the beginning of the omega multiverse numerous living beings walked about and developed many new arts and ideas. Some were faulty while others were near perfect but all had a specific merit. Cosmic origin art is the compilation of all arts to ever exist since the beginning of time, and is the most perfect one of them all. Requires one to have reached the first extremity to begin its practice. Warning this art is supreme perfection so it is also the hardest art to exist, not recommended to practice without cosmic soul manual. Chapter 1 the atom The body itself is an infinite arrangement of atoms so complete control over it is nearly impossible without special circumstances. Reaching the first extremity allows one to have a certain control over a small part of his or her atoms. Using only that it is possible to dominate all beings made of the atoms that are less than your own however it is a double edged sword that can harm the practitioner much more than the opponent so careful use is required. This art can allow you also control general elemental power as easy as breathing. Going through the information i was astonished on the idea of directly controlling the atom. ¡°hmm this is pretty interesting, to be able to dominate atoms while at extremity.......the system said i reached it but... what exactly is an extremity.¡± While pondering on it I noticed other new information in my head. ¡°oh this is the part that was hidden before I reached the tenth stage...oh I can hide my exact stage from anyone? That''s helpful since I don''t want to be a beacon for mosquitos to gather around.¡± First things first I can already feel my power seeping out of my body so I should seal it away until I need to use it Let''s just make it into the second stage. ¡°It also seems like tenth stage is the first extremity so if there''s a first there''s a second and maybe even a third.¡± ¡°Wait the first message i saw mentioned acquiring a nearby earth variant power, could it be grandpa''s?¡± ¡°if so how exactly do I acquire it?.......¡± While I was thinking I heard the ¡°tent¡± door open and said person was there carrying a bloodied deer. ¡°kessy, enough training already help me prepare breakfast.¡± ¡°Okay grandpa.¡±