《Unknown》 Chapter one Chapter One- New beginning Drip Drip Drip The sound of liquid falling was all he could hear. He looked around, he stood in an infinite emptiness the ground he stood on shone with a slightly silver color. He didn''t know when he got here, he didn''t know how he got here and didn''t know how long he had been here. Taking more notice of what was around him he seemed to wake up from a dazed dream state. Various thoughts ran through his head, he relived the past few hours of his life till now, the last thing he remembered was an explosion as he walked down the street. As he was trying to figure out why he was standing naked in the void he heard a slight chuckling behind him. He looked into the direction of the sound and for a moment saw nothing, then a man appeared with skin so dark it was if he was looking up at the night sky. The man smiled showing his pearly white teeth, it made sharp contrast with the rest of his body. The as he looked the more things appeared, a silver gold villa appeared behind the man with fountains spilling out a golden liquid, the man himself gaining pants and a robe leaving his chest with lavish definition out in the open. For a while we both looked at each other in silence. The man eventually broke the silence. ¡°My name is shadow¡± I stare at him blankly. He sighs and continues. ¡°You must be curious to what is happening, please sit and I will explain¡± He then speaks again as if suddenly remembering. ¡°If you could put on some clothes it would be appreciated, just imagine them and they will appear¡± I wasted no time in doing what he said and suddenly I was wearing black cargo pants a black t-shirt and a black trench coat, noticing a trend I looked at shadow who had a slight smirk on his face, he shrugged slightly his motions saying he liked the color black. Waving his hand two chairs and a table appear, we take a seat respectively. He immediately launches into his explanation. ¡°Right now you are in your head and my head, sort of a mental world that we share¡± I nod, I don''t know why but i''m accepting what he''s saying as the truth. ¡°The world where you come from is being subjected to mana for the first time in a long time, I''m not going to explain why it disappeared however.¡± ¡°You are here now so I can awaken your magical and martial prowess, this is being done for all humans or at least the ones who can be awakened by various gods, and yes I am a god.¡± He noticed my expression when he mentioned gods. ¡°After I awaken you I will leave you with a ring that contains the basics of the different paths to power. I wish you luck¡± With his final sentence he touches the middle of my chest with his index finger,I feel something like a static shock throughout my entire body my entire body vibrates and I feel myself change intrinsically. I feel some sort of round object form in my lower abdomen, then everything goes dark. After spending some amount of time in the darkness and void I slowly regained my senses and opened my eyes. Grimacing I opened my eyes and stood up, stumbling while doing so due to my body''s stiffness. Looking around I looked for any changes in the city around me, I see nothing, life carries on as per usual. Slightly frowning, wondering if what i experienced was some sort of dream I look toward my hand, a ring rests there. With my other hand I somehow reach into it, the strangeness of this is not lost on me. Feeling around the space I grab something random and pull it out. It''s a piece of print paper with some writing on it. Awakened This letter is an automatic notice to all who have been awakened. Due to the fact many gods had to rush in awakening some details were left out. Chief among them, mana and martial ki will be slowly introduced into the environment you have a head start. Eventually there will be monsters so when they appear don''t die. Second, No attacking each other early on (before the first beasts) If you do well your a stupid prick. Thirdly , remember the books are a guideline, look through their secrets and you will find what you need. Sincerely Arlan Scion of the Great God Wisdom. Reading through the letter I got the basic gist of it. Train hard or die fast later, don''t be a prick( that was clear) and the third point I would investigate when I got home. From where I woke up, which was a small alley way, That''s useful an alleyway in manhattan, I was able to navigate my way back to familiar territory and reached my building block. Entering the building I reach the third floor, my floor and enter my apartment. It''s a small place, Bathroom, Bed, Kitchen and a small living room with just an armchair and mac on the table. Entering the living room I sit down in the chair, grab the computer and start to check my emails. Looking through them it was just the usual stuff. Facebook notifications and some stuff about the upcoming first year of University. Dismissing it for now I moved onto the ring. Unlike Before in the alley when I reached in and only felt with my hand I stuck my face in. Looking in I could see a bookshelf with about 15 thick books. Bringing my hand forwards I grabbed the books one by one and stacked them in the real world. They all had titles. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. Basics of Mana Basics Of Ki Fire Earth Water Air Light Darkness Void The Path Formations Crafting Illusion Nature Soul Looking at the titles I could tell these books contained things that I once thought were imaginary. Chuckling to myself about the irony, When I was a kid I always wished and hoped for something like this to happen and not when I finally gave that up this happens, Don''t misunderstand I think this is awesome but still. I decide to start with the basics of mana followed by the basics of ki then the path. The book on mana, well the introduction explained the basic principles. Mana was the life of everything and yet it was also its death. It was the building blocks of every element but it could also be used as its own element. I suspected that studying this would take most of my time. Ki was simpler, It came from mana but was then refined and then used to strengthen various things about the individual, this I found interesting. In most books you use ki to improve as a whole with some direction, I needed to explore this soon. Thirdly the path, Essentially for higher levels of power you follow a path, the book about this was very vague and was by far the smallest book, presumably due to the fact the subject was high class. Closing the last book I sat in my chair reading for a bit, It sounded like I needed to absorb energy from the environment to advance. Both mana and ki. I assume what shadow did to me was allow me to access the energy around me. Both basic books on mana and ki recommend to feel the energy by entering some sort of state in which you could let go and explore, whatever that meant. Another thing was there was no magical technique to help me, I was on my own. I decide to go to my bed and try and find the state from there. Laying down I close my eyes and try to expand my mind to find anything, I find a whole bunch of nothing, Frowning I try to figure out what was wrong. I then remember the sensation I felt when shadow ¡°awakened¡± me. I try feeling my lower abdomen with my mind , which is slightly weird, I notice what seems to be the energy I was looking for. Now at this point I realised that some of the stories I had read had some merit. People would have somewhere in their body on which their power converged and then could take the power from, they usually called it a dantian. I tried doing so but when I tried I feel a feeling of...wrongness. I immediately stop and think back to the book on ¡°the path¡±. Perhaps this isn''t what I as an individual needed. Starting from then I started experimenting with the power molding it into different shapes or moving it to new parts of my body. Hours passed. Over the hours I found out that when the energy entered new parts of my body it tried to stay behind, or perhaps it was my subconscious, I don''t know. I gained an idea at that point. I took the energy and expanded it through my body, nowhere didn''t have energy and at that moment it felt right, the energy then flashed in my mind and I fainted. Well I thought I fainted, turns out this was some sort of second part to whatever I was doing. A projection of me appeared in front of me and information I didn''t know and would forget later appeared in my head. I needed to reformat my entire body in order to be able to use power. At that point I entered an ethereal state and started designing, perhaps due to my book loving past and imagination I planned for the future. I began with the skeleton, Essentially I made it so when I was absorbing mana and ki the bones would be strengthened by association, I made this change with everything about my body. Muscles I made so that they compounded and strengthened like bones. My organs, using the information which I had due to some weird cosmic power I altered my biology giving myself new and more efficient organs that could also grow with the rest of my body. I did the same general thing with about everything you could think of, yes everything that a man had. I also made it so my entire body was extremely mana conductive, this made my blood change color, from red to silver. I made my power storage in my bones, blood and soul. I don''t know why I added the soul but I did. Looking down at the new me with a chiseled body, black silver shoulder length hair waved slowly like in liquid, my blue eyes shone with a strange new light, my white skin more pale than ever didn''t look sickly it looked strangely good. Smiling I sat back and then this time I really did faint. Chapter Two Chapter 2 Waking up like one would in a movie I slowly stretched and sat up, stretching while doing so. Taking in a deep breath then letting it out I could immediately feel changes within and throughout my body. Looking down i could see that everything I changed had actually changed. Laughing slightly at the sheer awesomeness I moved. Almost like teleportation I speed into my living room and marvelled at how my body felt, it was like I was humming with energy. I wanted to try shit out. Quickly getting dressed in loose fitting cargo pants and navy blue t-shirt that now both seemed to small for me I charged out of the apartment and into the city for fun, forgetting I didn''t have shoes on. It was strange, When I started running everything seemed slow perhaps this was due to my enhancements after all I did enhance my brain as well. Grinning I push my body through the world that is slowly freezing around me, I ran on the street going faster than the cars, when jumping I could fly through the air much longer than a normal person, Thinking of the moves of a certain comic speedster I started running on walls, it worked, I grinned, I grin a lot now. I speed around the city for the next few hours testing my limits, It was impressive at what I assumed was a beginner amount of power I was already superhuman. Finishing my run, I ended up on the top of a 8 story tall office building. Breathing like I had just been on a light run, which had been anything but light I stepped of the edge of the building and fell, hitting the pavement I bent my knees and landed, hard, the pavement cracked under me. It took mere minute for me to get back to my apartment, I came in through the window this time, cause I could and returned to my living room, checking the time on my computer it was 11:47 I had left around 9 so I had been out around 3 hours. I sit down and start thinking about my current circumstances. One night and I had enough power to effectively become a threat to almost anything. Yet the letter said to prepare, this couldn''t be it this wasn''t truly powerful and that scared me. If this was the beginning stage how bad could these monsters be, apparently very very bad. I decided to start studying the books I had gotten to see what I could do. I''ve never been one for studying before though, so this eagerness to study is new for me perhaps it''s due to an actually interesting subject. I decide to start with the four classic elements of earth, water, air and fire. Spending a few hours per book I went well into the night, summarizing it all I have one word, convoluted. Every sentence was a god forsaken poem, I mean really, I understand what the letter meant by look past the secrets or perhaps a more apt description is riddles. By the end of my session my left eye was twitching and I was contemplating whether or not to introduce the book of fire to a lighter. Well I did get some basics from the books, Essentially you gather and align mana to the different elements and then use that energy and power in techniques or spells. However something in the texts bugged me, every element is different from each other even if it is the same. From what I could gather this was the reason that attacks worked, I mean if someone had the same fire as you and threw a fireball at them their fire would just absorb it. Again remembering the letter stating the books as a guideline I had some sort of realization, the deeper contents of this book are useless to me if I want my own power. From then on I just got the basics of the 4 elements and would later make my own understanding. 3 days later I have made progress in the 4 element s finally, when I mean progress I mean I have created fire. For the past few days I had been trying to science the fire from mana, that didn''t work despite what many fictions say or maybe it was just me. Well today I had succeeded, I pretty much grew frustrated and waved my hand a low and behold fire spewed from my fingers. I mean i''m pretty happy right now, even if I have to buy a new bed. Apparently fire is good at burning things and beds get set on fire easily. I managed to put out the fire buy using the same method I used with fire but instead water came out. Gradually I figured out that I had what is called unfairly high affinity with the elements or maybe just magic itself, even with ki but i''ll get to that later. My high affinities meant that all I had to do was imagine and shit happens, it''s great making toast and Mr.Noodles has never been so easy. Ki I definitely had monster aptitudes for, I mean for cultivating it one usually had a dantian as covered in the books, apparently however my bones blood and soul was good enough. This meant I was advancing at insane speeds due to the fact as my power grew so did the strength of my storage which was my body so this all balanced out and worked really goddamn well, If I could run as fast as a car before now i''m at the very least a plane''s speed on the ground. Speaking of flying machines I have an ongoing project on trying to figure out how to fly. I could hover like in zero G but that was it, I had no control. Sighing I get up from my ¡°meditative position¡± which was literally any position. It didn''t really matter as long as I was relaxed. Checking my email like I usually do I notice i''ve finally received my schedule for University. A few basic classes until I actually decide on what to do with my life, which currently i''m thinking of being a hunter, my own imagination came up with that one due to the fact monsters will appear soon and well shit would probably go down if they weren''t kept in check. Browsing news sites came after my emails, I had to do this in order to keep up with current events due to me having no TV or cable. Interestingly enough it seems my awakened compatriots were very open, by open I mean at least three were wearing spandex on a interview. I could barely not laugh, no I giggled. The interview was essentially a demonstration of their abilities, an explanation of their understanding of how this happened and the reason for the costumes, which were full body latex, still funny that. I didn''t disagree with what they were doing but I sure as hell wasn''t going to do that, I might dress up in something to hide my identity when monsters came but that''s about it. The interview finished with the three saying they were making a group to prepare for the future. I''m not joining. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it Then something happened that never happened, My phone started buzzing indicating that I had an incoming call. This was strange because there were only two people who had my number that called instead of text my parents(I count them as one entity) and my brother. I talk to my parents every sunday to catch up but today is friday so i''m left with the brother calling, this should be good. He never usually calls. I pick up the phone and speak first. ¡°Hey bro what''s up¡± I asked, having a slight tone of sarcasm in my voice. ¡°Hey man what''s up long time no talk¡± My brother responded in a friendly tone, overly so. This wasn''t right, my brothers a dick whys he being nice, he''s only nice when he needs shit. Shifting my tone to a flat monotone I speak. ¡°What do you want¡± He takes time responding. ¡°You know those spandex guys on TV?¡± ¡°Yeah why¡± ¡°Im like them and I don''t know what to do man¡± With that final statement things click into place. Most people aren''t like me and adjust immediately to the situation, My brother chief among the people who would freak out at powers being thrust on him. ¡°Where you at, your apartment¡± Yeah man, can you come over for a bit, Umm and be careful I can''t really control stuff yet ¡± ¡°Sure¡± The phone clicked signaling that the call had ended. Chuckling to myself I realized I really needed to figure out what the other people with powers are like. Considering myself who was in control of my power and then my brother who obviously was not. I also needed to tell him I was awakened as well, that should be fun. Walking to the window, as I hardly used the door anymore, I jumped and after I exited the window used my hover ability to get my bearings then pushed off the wall. Over the past few days I have made excursions through the city and figured out how to make my travels more efficient, using magic I could align my gravity to whatever was under my feet, normally that would be disconcerting but using a little ki made my mind ignore the fact I has hanging at impossible angles. Also using ki, I made little mats of ki to run off of so as to gain traction, I relearned about traction the hard way earlier by slipping and colliding with a building, They still hadn''t figured out where the hole came from. It didn''t take me long to reach his apartment, we were going to the same university in a few weeks so we lived in the same area but we both wanted to be independent so we got apartments on the ¡°opposite sides¡± of the university. I landed outside of his window, which thankfully could be opened, well windows were a preference, I opened and entered, His apartment has the same type of layout of mine. Living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. I found him in the bedroom in a fetal position on the bed. I called out. ¡°Hey, you okay¡± It took him a few seconds to respond. ¡°How are you here already, you live at least fifteen minutes away¡± ¡°I have more control than you, I can actually do shit and not have to curl on the bed in what I assume is pain¡± He digests my comment for a moment. ¡°You too huh¡± he grunts. ¡°Yup¡± ¡°Great, now help me then you''re excellence¡± he says this with more of a strained and pained tone. Frowning I move forwards, Despite my initial thoughts I realized I have no idea what to do. The books wouldn''t help here after all they were meant to be read after the full awakening from what I could tell. I decide to try and scan him, like in the books people injected their own ki or mana into another to sense them. I do that, making my mana and ki into cords I wrap them around each other and send it into his body, these two streams are invisible to the naked eye, all he sees is me waving my hands. The threads enter and suddenly they spread, like they already know what to do. Perhaps they do, I need to figure more of this shit out. The problem appears quickly. The same energy I had found in the beginning when I reformed myself was still there and unused, it was basically telling him to hurry up it seemed. Communicating him that, he looks at me like i''m an idiot. ¡°How exactly am I supposed to do that¡± He says I launch into an explanation, he seems to grab the basic gist of and tries it. From my threads I could see the energy start to move around and through my eyes I could see the pain drain from his face. As the energy move some more my threads were kicked out. I decide to sit down and watch the second part of the process happen, when it happens. I also slightly giggle as I realize my brother had magical diarrhea. Chapter 3 Chapter 3 About 6 hours have passed since my brother started his transformation. Contrary to my expectations there was barely anything magical about the process, the only notable change was at the end in which his body shifted there was no noise it was almost like he transformed in an instant. He change was weird to be perfectly honest, He got lean and his ears grew pointed. He looked like an elf. No two ways about it hes an elf, i''m confused however why would he turn himself into an elf? He woke up in the next few minutes blinked and looked around. He then did what I did and buzzed around the room, the way he did it though seemed different almost as if he was moving with the wind if that makes any sense. When he finished flicked in dying in front of me, I presume to try and surprise me but he ¡°flickered¡± into my arm clotheslining him. He looked extremely surprised on the floor. ¡°Howd u do that¡± he asked while massaging his face that was introduced to the floor. ¡°Im faster¡± ¡°No shit¡± He says while getting up. ¡°You looked at your books yet¡± ¡°Yeah 3 weird ass books¡± ¡°3¡± I ask ¡°Yeah how many you get¡± he says glancing at me. ¡°15¡± ¡°Well fuck you too bud¡± ¡°Ha¡± I let out a dry laugh. We take out his books, he tells me the god that awoke him told him the books were based on th whims of the gods and their ideas of our potential. He was a bit sour that a god thought I had more potential than him but we both got over it. His books were nature, wind and low and behold he got a technique, ki bow. Basically forming your ki into a weapon imbuing attribute and using it as a weapon, I wanted to try the idea later. My brother also had abysmal talent with mana by like me was a monster with ki. Hours passed as we talked about all this crazy shit that was happening, I realized I missed this with him just talking and fucking around. Growing up we were always competing and shit like that who knows why, eventually we thought the competition made us enemies, I wouldn''t let that happen this time, we would still compete but as rivals. I could tell he was thinking along the same lines as me as I left. ¡°See you later Kline¡± I say while leaving. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.¡°Back at you Arc¡± He says back as I drop from the window. ------ When I get home I have nothing else to do so I decide to either try making the ki weapon or starting the other books. I eventually decide on the weapons for two reasons, one swords and knifes are cool which are what I was going to try and make and second I am not in the mood for riddles and poems dear god I hate them. The technique book Kline had was basically a thin leaflet, I memorized it. Breathing in and out slowly I let my ki exit my body like I did before when examining Kline. Instead this time the amount I put out was huge it could be seen with your eyes. I realised this was like when I used ki as a foothold, could that be a technique also? An idea came to my head, if i''ve already created a tailor technique once why stop. I start with this current technique. It was essentially hardened energy outside the body it was useful because you could control the density of the weapon and consistency, however that meant it was a huge power drain. Plus I didn''t like it, the ¡°sword¡± I made didn''t look very good. I began thinking how to improve it. Perhaps I could add mana, sending that out as well it coiled like before and with a bit of effort it merged and suddenly I found myself in the same space I was in when reforming my body. Was this some sort of state in which I could design stuff, if so great i''m gonna have some fun. With an image of a claymore in mind I began. The blade being made of energy overruled the fact the most weapons worried about durability of the metal. I could coat the blade with whatever aura I wanted so I didn''t play with the element that much. All I did was make the blade longer than normal and made the blade pure silver and handle and guard ebony black. Not stopping with the one blade I design a blade with no handle that I could throw or control in the future, I like planning for the future. I could make a lot of these I sensed. I then made a glaive with a long black ebony handle and pure silver blade. I had the best color scheme. Finally I made a pure silver bow and the string would be made of mana and ki, same for the arrows. The main difference between my technique and the other one was the fact maintaining the weapons required no power but I could always add some, paired with the fact the other technique required you to focus on one weapon only. Smiling at my success I summoned a claymore to my hands, it was light and sharp, I like. With that I ended the day by absorbing more energy and cultivated my body before going to sleep. Chapter four Chapter 4 Waking up the next morning was a funny thing, for one I was happy I had made a sword, summoning a sword or any type of weapon to my hands was a childhood dream come true. Also I was on fire when I woke up so there was that. It wasn''t burning anything but I was till covered in fire, so I say again funny. It seems I should work on more control. Reigning in control of the wanton fire I went to the kitchen and made breakfast using magic, the appliances had not seen use in days. Going to the living room with toast and eggs I sat down and checked the news, my morning happiness went away then, News can do that to you. Turns out more groups had appeared and not all of them were nice, as the letter from the ring stated they were pricks. They had actually enslaved a small african country already. Not cool. One upside though was that they were openly being referred to as pricks as in on the news, now that''s some magic right there. Though from what I could see on the articles and through videos they were all really weak. I mean this one guy was bragging about his speed, he barely keeps up with a car. Another guy with strength that one was pathetic. Holy shit am I just better than these guys, if so why. Frowning I contemplated going out and doing shit to these guys, but what if they had a trump card and got the better of me? I had to make sure I was strong enough to fight them without breaking a sweat. I pull out a few of the remaining unread books. Light, Darkness and soul. Scanning over the light and darkness books it was mostly the same as the others. Light was basically buffs and darkness curses, RPG kinda stuff. I didn''t like them, to use them you had to believe in good or evil, when I tried to use them I found out something some magic have goddamn egos, they rebuffed me. Well whatever didn''t need them anyways. Soul however that was interesting. Soul finally gave me clues on actual cultivation of power, the bigger soul the more control, this book had some riddle but was actually mostly straightforward. There was also little info in the back about soul elements, Using your soul you could make a custom element that represented you, apparently it what the old gods did to gain power they gave out their power and in return their followers cycled the power back. I would try this soon, I wanted to check out my soul first. I wanted to see how much power my soul held due to the fact that where I stored my mana. Meditating again I delved inside myself, to see what I was truly. It took a few seconds then all feeling in my body melted away then returned by what I saw and felt was vastly different than my living room, the was mana and ki wantonly flying everywhere, was this my soul? Immediately trying to feel out the energies they came under my control. Sighing in relief I questioned myself, where did all this energy in my soul come from I hadn''t seen a fraction of this when using my power before. Thinking back to the book''s instructions I willed myself to veiw my soul from a birds eye and not be immersed in it. Immediately I see a sea of roiling energies. The books of mana and ki mentioned that within your core you are supposed to form different systems in your core and dantian to help manage the magic and ki, would I have to do the same in my soul due to the fact that''s where I housed my power. Focusing in on my soul bringing it stability I begin forming my systems. If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. I would form all my systems in a fairly simple way, I would create mini worlds of the element itself being feed by the mana and ki around it. Starting with fire I create a planet of fire, fire was solid and liquid i was fire it was power. There were river and mountains all of bursting fire. Water followed next, fast flowing river and even the oceans themselves all had the intensity of water, the ice mountain held fortitude and the storms of ice took all life. Earth was earth, it held nature and strength, it was indomitable in its existence and fleeting in its life. Air was a planet of hurricanes, lightning and thunder, It was swift and powerful it made its way when there was none. At the core of each of these planets lay the core elements, my soul elements. Fire that could be any fire, earth that encompassed all, air that was dark and stormy and water that was cold and unforgiving. I then realised I had created 4 soul elements that would grow with me, I would learn later the impact those 4 could make. I then thought why stop there and grabbed the very essence of my soul. Pouring mana and ki into the essence the mana and ki adapted and birthed from this fusion was my own personal power and magic. It was like a plasmatic lightning. It shine celestial blue and silver often solid then misty, all with lightning flashing through it. It formed like a sun and the four element planets rotated around it as if recognizing the superior existence. After doing all this each of the planets and the sun let out a blast of power that invigorates me and fills me with power. I exit my soul to explore the effects this has on me. Opening my eyes back in my apartment I felt more power at my beck and call then ever before each of the four elements were at call, fire curled around my arm like a snake, I formed ice spears beside me, I felt the earth and I knew I could use it. Their parted and worked for me. Above all my soul element was anything I wanted it to be, One function I gave it immediately was flight. Coating my body with a thin layer of blue silver plasma like energy I raised myself off the ground. I could control myself easily, flying was like riding a bike. It was differnt from what I was trying do with the other magics jury rigging them to fly, this part of my magic was made for this purpose and it was good too. Planning to go out and try out my new powers I check the new before hand. Im lucky I did because the first monster had just appeared. It was a gorilla, well it used to be. This thing was the size of a small house, bulging muscles hide underneath its thick hide and its eyes were bloodshot. It was in africa, coincidentally the same small african nation that had been taken over by one of the awakened groups. They were trying to fight it but it was pitiful, it straight up ignored them. On another live interview most of the other groups were saying they were insufficient to battle it, wow. I think I know where i''m flying to. Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Wind flew past my face, I have no idea what speed i''m going at but somehow I know where I am at all times, mystical shit again. After I took off I quickly broke the sound barrier, I flew close to the ocean for a bit I made something like a wake, then I raised into the clouds. All in all first time flying was pretty great. Now for the classic finish, I have no idea how to stop and land. Im quickly approaching the monster so I do the only thing I think of, coat myself in magic and hope for the best. Increasing the amount of my unique magic that surrounds myself I aim straight for the beast. Random POV Holy shit Holy shit I''m just a aid worker trying to help and this is what life gives me, a monster gorilla for fucks sake. To top it off the guys who supposed to have the power to kill it, there like fucking ants. I watch as they attack the beast. A guy who calls himself the king of fire throws a fireball, it does shit all and the gorilla smacks him. Smack he''s a puddle. Bunch of sword wannabes charge at him, same thing smack. Then one guy appears, he''s got heavy armour, maybe this guy¡­ nope he''s shiny meat stew now. Then BOOM. I see a blue silver streak and I go blind for a moment. When my eyes readjust there is a hole straight through the single story tall gorilla and behind it a huge impact crater. I just stand there with my mouth hanging open. ¡°Oooo WWWW WWWW, MOTHER FUCKING LANDINGS¡± I hear a voice and then I faint, too much bullshit for one goddamn day. POV shift back I hit the big fucker, you know for a big fella like him I kinda expected some resistance but nope I went right through him and landed on the hard ground. Getting up from my crash landing I let loose a scream something along the lines of ¡°I hate landings¡± I definitely was manly though. Turning around I see the gorilla still moving, it puts its hand through the new hole in its body, Probably in shock. It then turns around looks at me and falls forwards, dead. Then I realised something, I killed something. I didn''t particularly feel anything however. The gorilla had looked at me with the eyes of an animal, pure and simple. I felt bad but that was how life worked. Perhaps in the future id collect the big ass animals that were softies at heart, I kinda felt this big guy was like that but too late now. I get up and frown, My shirt disintegrated. Looking around I see a massive dust cloud surrounding me, people start shouting, what the fuck happened is the general thought it seems. Then one guy sees that that in the crater in which the blue silver thing crashed was a person he shouted out and suddenly they started to swarm me. In the spur of the moment I covered myself in the silver part of my magic, It created a quick silver robe with a hode that you ¡°magically¡± could not see inside of. In a few seconds I was swarmed and assaulted with questions.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. ¡°Who are you¡± ¡°How did you do that¡± ¡°You use some sort of tool man¡± I waited for them to stop, I''m gonna play the mysterious card. Eventually they stop asking cause i''m not saying anything. Then calls of make way make way are heard. The crowd splits and out comes a guy decked out in diamonds and animal furs. ¡°Hey there friend, mind explaining what you did here¡± He asked me, he seemed to be some sort of leader. ¡°I killed the ape¡± I''m just going to simply responded from here on out. ¡°Uh huh¡± He looks at me with an accusatory glare. ¡°Friend, My name is Tanton and I am the leader of this here country¡± He says with a sly smile Not sure what he trying to accomplish with that last statement than to perhaps annoy me. ¡°So¡± He looks baffled. ¡°Well you should be bowing to the king of a country, I could use a servant like you¡± I stare at him for a few seconds then backhand him across his face. My hand connects and he flies about a mile away and i''m left with silence. I decide to leave, but first some parting words. ¡°Weaklings and ants should not be arrogant¡± With that I took off creating a little shock wave from my takeoff spot. It takes me a longer time to get home than before, I used a lot of power so I wouldn''t go as fast. Throughout the fight I had time to go over a few things and realized I needed to evaluate what I was going to do. Me thinking I should join a make a guild before was rash. Seeing what those guys were capable of was honestly pathetic, I needed to help this world if the ones who supposed to couldnt or wouldnt. Secondly, I need allies to form the guild with. I''m currently heading to my brothers place to ask him. My magic was also fun to examine on the flight back. It seems most types of grand magic, something like heavenly phoenix fire was a soul magic from a terrifyingly strong entity that shared its magic. Now a person who could use this magic could only use what the phoenix dictates and is unable to create ability, the phoenix however can manipulate its magic and give it properties. Now you could give properties that matched the element but not to many, this wasn''t clear to me. What I do know is that I have 5 unique soul magics that can all be modded. I''m going to have fun in the future. Arriving at my brother''s apartment I glide through his open window, surprisingly my silver cover blended nicely with the grey clouds overhead. He wasn''t home so I made myself comfortable to wait for him. He gets home about 2 hours of me waitin. He opened the door just in time to see a silver cloaked and hooded man stuffing his chocolate chunk ice cream down his throat. He stared for a second then charged. ¡°My Ice cream¡± He was in mental pain. I slapped the top of his head and he crashed into the floor. ¡°I don''t know who you¡­¡± His words died in his throat, I had taken off my hood. ¡°Prick, that''s my ice cream¡± ¡°That''s what you''re worried about¡± I asked. ¡°Well you also killed the ape good job¡± He said glancing at the robe. ¡°Oh people know¡± I ask ¡°No shit people know, ¡®The silver Titan vanquishes evil monster¡¯¡± He replies. ¡°Heh silver titan, I like it¡± He glares at me. ¡°What are you here for anyways¡± He asks getting to the root of my visit. ¡°Before I get to that I need to ask you a few questions¡± I reply He waits for me to continue. ¡°In comparison whos stronger, those who fought the ape or your group¡± He thinks for a moment and grimaces before answering. ¡°They are, I see what your getting at, my group would be considered the weaker one¡± ¡°We could use the famous silver titan though¡± he said as an afterthought. ¡°No, If anything I am going to create my own group¡± I said ¡°Ha okay I get it, do I get an invite¡± ¡°You know it¡± ¡°Also kline, I''m not going to university anymore, you can guess why¡± He nods. ¡°Yeah I get that, I''m still going I could try and get recruits¡± He adds the last part as joke but who knows. We exchange parting words and I fly out the window into the cold night sky. I would need to be ready for what''s to come so I headed home to finish with the books. Chapter 6 Chapter 6 I returned to the apartment to get my books, on the flight over I realised if i wasn''t going to university I could live wherever I wanted. Grabbing the ring I looked around the apartment put a few personal effects into the ring and dissapeared. 6 Months later Manipulating the earth around me I finish with the final room of my new home. A few months ago I set out to plan for the future, I needed to get a base. I needed to make or find a place where I could grow myself and perhaps others. I found it in the canadian rockies. Deep in the rockies I carved out a sizable amount of space and make various rooms and training centres. I had created a massive entry hall first, truthfully I went a bit overboard. I made the entry hall the size of a football field. So I filled it up with stuff. Floating glaciers, Streams of fire flowing around the roof of the cavern. Small floating islands with trees and small ponds and rivers that changed into water falls. It looked magical, which was the point. I made various staircases to different section throughout the mointinan. Two sets of stairs led downwards to empty rooms, another set went to various large rooms that I made after learning formations. The rooms could be set to various scenarios for training purposes. I also made a space for a future library. The final room I had just finished was my personal room. It had a bed and a living room, and as it was located at the summit of a mountain a damn great view. I also made a space for a tv, for when I got one. The mountain had also been covered in defensive, offensive and illusionary formations. Furthermore I had made huge progress in understanding my power. I had set rudimentary guidelines for my unique magics and in turn influenced the way they appeared in my soul. Fire I made its form change into a red and black plasmatic fire, its form now appeared as a large snake. Water changed to ice and the form of it in my soul became a ice hawk. Earth became more attuned with metal, this worked very well with one of my original techniques due to the fact the weapons I can now make are very deadly, It shape now appears to be a black silver tiger. Finally wind, wind I made scouting but lethal type of magic. It focused on speed, sharpness and stealth. Its form took as a winged wolf. I sit for a small time after finishing my mountain base and meditating then I get up and prepare to somewhat rejoin with the rest of the world. I pack some food rare and valuable gems, even some mana and ki stones into my ring. This would be my revenue. I quickly took off and flew to where my brother resided to catch up with the world. Arriving quickly at where my brother said his guilds base was I noticed something strange. Apart from ruble there wasn''t much else. This posed a problem to me. I didn''t have a phone anymore as technology and mana, even ambient stuff don''t really mix. Now when I say ambiant I mean just my ambient mana.A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Noticing a few people on the ground below I change into normal clothes from my previous quicksilver like robe and descend. Coming up silently behind a man who appears to be clearing rubble I tap his shoulder and we launch into a brief conversation. Essentially a few monsters had appeared drastically less powerful than the ape but still plenty powerful and this guild wasn''t able to regulate the damages from the battle annihilating the city. I gained their new location and moved on, to texas as it would have it. Flying in I see the place as it was described by the worker, big white and gaudy, I have to say i agreed with him nothing should be this white it was blinding. It was a compound in style with a huge wall encompassing it and had various buildings in the walls. I have no idea how they made it either. I found my brother fairly easily, He was breaking up a fight between two teenagers. I landed behind him and waited. One of the kids saw me land stared in shock before pointing me out. Kline turns and looks. ¡°You jackass¡± Kline said after seeing me ¡°Nice to see you too¡± I grin back ¡°Sword master kline who is this person¡± One of the teenager piped up ¡°My brother¡± kline responded ¡°Sword master¡± I giggle ¡°It''s a title¡± He responds with annoyance evident in his voice. He dismisses the two kids and we go on a walkabout. He goes on to explain the current state of the world which was fairly interesting. Right now it was the guilds who ran everything and regular people could begin to use magic, with help from the guilds of course. Some guilds had aligned with the gods and the gods in turn could grant magic. ¡°So the god awful wall is from divine providence¡± I ask ¡°Yup, how''s it look from the sky¡± He asks ¡°Like white shit¡± I giggle Then i''m hit with something and go flying. Normally something with that little power wouldn''t even scratch me but i wasn''t [repared so i went flying. Now this made me mad, I was never good with assholes and this seemed pretty assholy to me. I could hear my brother arguing with the assshole, his excuse I made fun of the work of their great god and he in turn used the god''s power to smite me. He then goes on to say he will provide a funeral for me because i was kline''s brother. I get up from the rubble and appear behind the guy and tap his shoulder. He turns around with a self absorbed smile and then when he sees me the smile disappears, because I smile right back and punch him in the gut. His body creates shockwaves as it travels through the air and goes through the white wall like it was made of paper. Kline looks at me with approval, and the entourage the douche had looks at me like i''m a monster. Me and kline say our goodbyes and I hand him a communicator i made with some magic formations. I also told him he would join my group when I had a few recruits. I then depart with a sonic boom and disappear into the skies. I wait for the next day before doing anything else. Kline had notified me of a place in canada where lots of guilds had recruiting centres in which they recruited kids who wanted fresh starts or had nothing left, be the reason people of monsters. It was a unused football stadium they hosted the recruitment in. I appeared over it when it was in full swing and waited to be noticed, once one saw me they all started noticing one by one. The mysterious silver titan who killed the first and one of the most powerful monster to date had suddenly appear above the recruitment arena. People would be dumb if they couldn''t come to a conclusion along the lines of he''s making a guild. I grinned from above then descended, I had work to do. Chapter 7 Chapter 7 I descended into the stadium and below and space was cleared for my landing, it seemed I was known, good. Throughout the stadium there were various podiums in which the different guild were running recruitment centres. As my feet touch the ground the ground rippled and I made a small metal dome shaped pavilion. I made a chair inside and gave the pavilion a single entrance. I had already visualized a command structure for my guild. With me at the top I would have council that ran the actual guild. I planed to have 4 leaders who had connections to my 4 elements, a martial head and magical head. If more leaders needed to be introduced I would implement it. To clear things up me coming to the recruiting hall was nothing more than an announcement, that I am making a guild. However today I was not recruiting. After setting up the pavilion I rose again into the sky and disappeared. I began hunting for my new leaders in what the rest of the world now called the badlands, which was disturbingly close to my base. The bad lands was essentially canada and a small portion of the northern USA. I entered the badlands In search of prospective members for my guild. As i enter i discover why they called this place the badlands, there was a lot of monsters. Much of them more powerful than the gorilla. Seeing this I decide to hunt for a few days before actively searching for people. This would be an excellent way to practice and evolve my signature unique magic, i''d taken to calling it cataclysm. So far It had no form but it did have definite characteristics. Namely it had three colours that held its characteristics. Firstly silver, silver represented reinforcement and weapons. I used this mainly for armour and weapons, interestingly once summoned the weapons could stay forever they had no duration or upkeep and could be made into different qualities depending on the amount of effort put into initially making it. The celestial blue was almost like a different variation of mana, It looked like blue liquid that could turn into blue lightning. I also could use this as a power centre to power any other elements. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Finally the black was something I recently added, It was like a separate force. That is what it was plain and simple, telekinesis and gravity rolled into one. Using all three together produced a rune effect that I had yet to explore. Moving on I spent the next three days offing monsters as I saw fit. There were a few interesting ones and a few I was sure were near to being dragons. Over time my cataclysm magic grew more powerful. The shape also changed within my soul, coincidentally into what I looked like when wearing my silver robe. Instead of a face there was swirling masses of blue energy and the robe was lined with the black energy. A few days after the cataclysm soul formed I noticed something, someone was following me. It seemed to be a person. I smiled when I first noticed them, they were trying be discreet. Using mana steps to keep themselves off the ground and leave no tracks. However I could sense the ripples of mana they were like a shining beacon saying ¡®here I am¡¯. I toy with them for a few days, going faster then making bends in my direction seeing how they keeps up. It''s actually quite funny, I can see him scrambling, I have confirmed it is an guy, whenever I come close and struggling to keep up when I go slightly faster. What really kept me entertained was the fact he was improving while watching me, I think i''ve found one of my new leaders. I stopped for the night, something I had not done before, I could sense him watching cautiously. I make a fire and make some cooked monster meat, I leave one portion to the side. He exits from his hiding spot. ¡°How long did you know I was following you¡± He asks plainly I observe him before I respond. He was at least six feet tall, had shaggy blonde hair with hazel eyes. He was sporting tattered jeans, t-shirt and sports jacket. ¡°You''re mana leaked your presence¡± I said while gnawing on the leg of a monster. He grunts in response, he then points to the other portion of food and I nod. He grabs and eats it with a passion, probably hasn''t eaten in days. ¡°Who are you¡± He eventually asks ¡°Arc I respond, Most people call me the silver titan now¡± He nods. ¡°Why you here then, it''s pretty obvious you''re not stuck here¡± ¡°True, I have a reason to be here though¡± ¡°And that is¡± ¡°Im making a guild, because the ones everyone else is making are frankly garbage¡± He just nods when I say that. ¡°You want to join, I''m building up the higher ups before I get new recruits¡± ¡°I want you to join¡± I continue. ¡°You improved over the past few days and seem to a decent person, that opinion comes from how you didn''t try to attack me¡± ¡°How do I know your that good¡± I create a fireball and toss it a mile away, he looks fairly unimpressed then the shock wave hits and flies into a tree. He gets up coughing and looks at me. ¡°Teach me you monster¡± he says with a maniacal grin on his face. I laugh, this will be fun.