《First Of My Kind》


 Prologue: Death, Goddess and the Monster

    (Unknown Goddess POV)


    The soul I am watching is called William Harlton, he is 20 years old and is currently studying Engineering at collage. He has no family as they all died when he was 15 and has been independent ever since. To save up for collage Will started working at a marquee company, and earned enough money to go to college, he has been studying for two years now and still works for the company during his summer vacations.


    Will had been working at the marquee company helping putting up and down marquees for 4 years now, working there since he was 16 while he was on summer vacation. Now he is just coming back from a site which he and 5 others, had just taken down one of the larger marquee available from the company.


    Jumping out the van he told the young newbie to help him signal the lorry as it backed round into the unloading bay. But the thuggish looking teenager ignored him and started to walk off towards the break room.


    [Disrespectful bastard!] ¨C Goddess


    ¡°Oi! Jack get your ass over here and help me¡± ¨C Will


    He shouted this as the boy ignored his initial request, the young teenager scowled at him but did as he was told. I smiled to myself


    It was quite obvious that the scowling teenager didn¡¯t like Will what so ever, but due to Will being 5 years older than him and the fact he was monstrously strong caused Jack to slightly fear him and this was more than enough to make him obey Will.


    ¡°What!?¡± ¨C Jack


    ¡°Help me guide the lorry back then we shall unload¡± ¨C Will


    Hearing this the Jack let out a groan, unfortunately for him Will heard it and shot him glare.


    ¡°Uh!!¡± ¨C Jack


    Harry jumped and quickly proceeded to start helping him. As the lorry started to reverse into the unloading bay my faced darkened as poor Will was about to die and it was a very painful death. Suddenly the back wheel hit the high curve and the lorry¡¯s cargo slipped off it back straight on top Will crushing him, one of the metal supports pierced his chest filling his lungs with his own blood and severing an artery near the heart, thankfully though it was a quick death and he did not need to suffer. Suddenly I realise.


    [He is still alive¡­he didn¡¯t die instantly! Wow poor child] ¨C Goddess


    Instead of an instant death which I had been expecting, he had survived the initial impact from all the falling cargo off the lorry, and now was dying slowly as he was suffocated by his own blood.


    Lying under a pile of metal rods and boards is Will with one of the metal rods piercing through his chest. He is dying, and there is nothing anybody can do. I wanted to do something to ease his pain, so I sent some of my divine energy to elevate some of his pain.


    [Why is there resistance?] ¨C Goddess


    I was trying to suppress some of his pain with my divine energy but he was resisting me, this shouldn¡¯t be possible but he is resisting my magic. I sighed and stopped, I looked at him and thought to myself


    [What an interesting soul!] ¨C Goddess


    As I watched this child lying there dying I prepared myself, after 20 years of waiting the soul I need is in my reach.


    Shifting as I watched excitedly I slowly started to approach the boy so I can take his soul to my domain. I feel sorry for him as dying is not fun, so I am told as I have never experienced it. The boy¡¯s life-force is starting to fade I can feel my excitement boiling over.


    [Finally its time!] ¨C Goddess


    ******


    (Will¡¯s POV)


    [Dying is meant to be a scary thing, something everyone fears when they are young but why as I am lying hear dying do I not feel any fear, regret.]


    It was a normal summer¡¯s day at work Jack was being an ass as usual and I have been crushed and pierced by the lorry¡¯s load.


    [Even though I am laying here slowing bleeding out without any chance of rescue] ¨C Will


    ¡­...I feel as if I am¡­.not alone¡­.someone is here I just thought I heard someone say ¡°finally its time¡±


    [But why can¡¯t I see them¡­.no I¡­.don¡¯t understand¡­...] ¨C Will


    I was so confused as it was a female voice and it sounded ethereal. Then my co-workers arrived and started shouting and trying to get me to respond to them. I thought about trying to say something but I have no family to morn me, no real friends, no real reason to hold on and I knew there was nothing they could do to save me.


    Tears start to form in my eyes as my confusion increases and the pain increases as my so called rescuers attempt to remove some of the cargo crushing me. I could feel as I started to leave that world the light started to fade from my eyes but at the last second I sensed something and realising what it was I thought to my self.


    [¡­..no I know this is not my end¡­¡­] ¨C Will


    ¡°Oh¡­this young one can sense my presence¡­.and partially sense my intent....hahahaha excellent I really have found an interesting soul¡± - (Unknown Voice)


    As I faded I thought I heard someone say something but they darkness had already rolled in and I lost all sense of everything there was only darkness!


    ******


    In the eternally darkness I felt as my consciousness started to slowly fading back to me, I slowly felt myself coming back, I could feel my body but it felt strange, something was wrong but I could not put my finger on it at all.


    Slowly I opened my eyes, and the light seeped in.


    ¡°I am not dead...No I am dead but where am I? Am I facing judgement?¡±


    ¡°Ha not many so easily accept their death as you child, and to answer your questions you are in my domain and no you are not facing judgement.¡± ¨C Ethereal feminine voice


    Turing my head I realise I am in a beautiful room, and sitting on a throne like chair in front of me is a girl who looked between the ages of 12 and 14. She had a wry smile on her face and looked to be twitching with excitement. She was wearing a beautiful dress not modern mind you but still lovely, she had nothing on her feet bar an ankle type bracelet thing on one of her legs.


    She was very beautiful, she had light delicate skin with golden eyes and long fiery red coloured hair that looked as if it was actually fire that flowed down her back. Blushing slightly I turned and started to walk away from her, while thinking and looking around.


    ¡°Where are you going? You can¡¯t leave you know¡± ¨C Girl


    I jump slightly and realise I have been ignoring her, I answer while continuing to admire the architecture of the room.


    ¡°Nowhere, was just looking around. You¡¯re a god aren¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°Goddess!¡±


    She said with a slightly annoyed tone of voice. While I continue to look around the room nonchalantly.


    ¡°My name is Athreal Goddess of Fertility, Strength, Fire and soon to be a Patron goddess of a new species!¡±


    I stayed silent as I could tell there was more coming and what a weird name!


    ¡°You I have brought here so I can resurrect you in the world of Abraitera as the first of my new race I am about to create and your soul shall be reborn, do not worry there are plenty of other sentient races on Abraitera, Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Demi-Humans, every god apart from me had put their chosen creation on Abraitera, but now I shall put mine there and ¡®YOU¡¯ shall be the very first!¡±


    Again I stayed silent trying to soak everything in, and after a few seconds I suddenly jumped round shouting,


    ¡°WHAAATTTTT?!?!?¡±


    Half in excitement over the other races and half in shock over that I was not going to be human. My shout caused Athreal to jump slightly. She repeated everything she just said, there where so many emotions running though me, excitement, shock, fear, happiness I sat down with a bump. Because of the shock the goddess had just given me with her statement I completely forgot my nervousness of her.


    I was sitting there shacking slightly inaudibly mumbling to myself trying to rap my head around everything. I mean I have read in many light novels and manga of something like this happening it was so clich¨¦ that I almost bust out laughing but I didn¡¯t.


    What caused me the most shock was the fact that I was not going to be human, I mean I wouldn¡¯t mind being an Elf or a Demi-human but I don¡¯t even know what the race looks like, and that is what scared me the most.


    I was standing there with an open mouth, there were so many questions in my head but the most important one came out first.


    ¡°Glup¡­erm what will I look like?¡±


    Suddenly the goddess jumped up from her thrown with massive excitement all over her face. She looked like a child about to open her presents on her birthday.


    ¡°Ooo¡­hahaha my new species look so cool, all the other gods will writhe with jealousy!¡±


    She stepped towards me stuck out her virtually non-existent chest smiled and clicked her fingers


    ¡°That is what you will look like fully grown!¡±


    She pointed behind me, I turned and saw what she was pointing at and only one word could come to mind¡­.monster! It was huge standing about maybe 2.5m tall with huge horns curling over its head, ears pointed like an elves but bigger and a bit longer. Facial features were mine except I had large fangs and all my teeth were pointed.


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    The body looked humanoid but was slouched over and had longer arms, the arms had what looked like gauntlets and of bone growing over each hand, along with long claws coming out of each finger.


    ¡®I will not be reincarnated into this!¡¯ I thought to myself.


    ¡°You will look so cool, your impressed aren¡¯t you, I bet you can¡¯t wait to try it out!¡±


    ¡°NOOOOOOOOO!¡±


    I shouted as loud as I could, Athreal looked shocked and jumped back.


    ¡°w..w.whats wrong?¡± she asked with slight tears in her eyes.


    ¡°I will NOT be reincarnated as that, it looks like a demon gorilla!!¡± I was angry and walked towards the goddess and I lean in close to her and say with a calm and cold voice


    ¡°Let me change what it looks like!¡±


    ¡°what..¡± she looked shocked and slightly angry but she looked like she didn¡¯t know how to respond.


    So I walked over to the demon gorilla and started to think what I would change. I was not going to completely change it as it was her creation.


    As I started to think what I would change I noticed that the body changed to what I was thinking,


    ¡°so she is letting me change it¡± I whispered to myself


    First of all I made it 2m tall, it was still tall but a little closer to normal, I then sorted out the body proportions so that they were normal for someone that height, then removed the horns and the bone gauntlet type things. At this point the goddess gave a little whimper but I ignored it and carried on.


    Next was the face, I set it back to look similar to my face from my old world I made the fangs shorted to the point where the just looked like long canines, the ears I shortened and dulled down massively, I set them so they looked similar to my old worlds idea of a half elf.


    I stood back and glanced at the goddess to get an idea of what she thought, she had utter misery on her face along with a bit of shock. I thought I need to do something to it to make her a little happier, with it.


    I stood there scratching my chin,


    ¡°¡­.fire!!!¡±


    I whispered to myself, suddenly all over his chest, shoulders, upper arms and back tattoo like markings started to appear they twisted around the body and looked amazing in my opinion, stopping about halfway down the back, they twisting black flame marking made it look really ferocious.


    Stepping back with a smile on my face I was pleased with myself.


    ¡°¡­¡­..It looks like an elf¡¯s and a demi human¡¯s love child!¡±


    The goddess had a very annoyed tone of voice.


    ¡°it looks awesome though and the fire tattoos shown that it is related to you!¡±


    ¡°I will admit that the markings look really good and I wish I had thought of it myself, but the rest is just soooo plain. Can¡¯t we just give him the horns and bone hands back?¡±


    ¡°No¡­ unless¡±


    A thought popped into my head and a give a slightly sinister smile.


    ¡°Unless what¡±?


    The goddess had a hopeful glint in her eye


    ¡°Unless you can make it so I can freely attach and detach the bone gauntlet things, a bit like a skill or magic¡± the goddess looked a bit confused so I continued, ¡°you know like I can summon them and they will grow or appear on my hands and then when I am done I can dismiss them so they disappear and I can have my regular hands back¡±.


    ¡°hmmm¡­¡­ok I can do that and it is better than nothing I suppose, are you sure you won¡¯t put the horns back on???¡±


    ¡°no they make it look like a demon¡±


    ¡°I suppose your right, and Durggh would not be happy if you looked like a demon¡±


    ¡°Durggh?¡± I gave her a questioning look


    ¡°Oh he is the patron good of the demon race, speaking of which be careful of them, there males are very aggressive and love to kill and the females are very single minded when it comes to finding a mate and will stop at nothing once they find the one meant for them, and that not something I or any of the gods can control so try and avoid the demons please!¡±


    I shivered slightly imagining a female monster demon chasing me wanting nothing else except what is between my legs.


    Suddenly I realised ¡®why was she letting me do this¡¯ she is a goddess and should have final say on what it looks like, so why was she letting me change it.


    ¡°The reason is that even though I will create you in your new body, your soul has to accept it, if it doesn¡¯t then it is impossible for any god to forcibly reincarnate a soul. Normally when we reincarnate a soul the soul just accepts it as they are too caught up in their death, where as you have accepted your death and unconsciously sensed that you could change they body.¡±


    The goddess while saying this got up from her throne and walked towards my new body. She sighed and looked at it for a minute, nodding to herself like she had accepted it.


    ¡°You can read my mind?¡±


    ¡°Of course what kind of goddess would I be if I couldn¡¯t do something as simple as that?¡±


    ¡°so I don¡¯t even get the privacy of my own mind¡­..ahhh¡­.well fine fine I don¡¯t care and not surprised. So anything else I should know before you send me off?¡±


    ¡°hahaha well yes one more thing, have you ever played one of those video games back on your old world where you had to level up and improve your stats?¡±


    ¡°ok let me guess¡­..in this new world I can level up and improve my stats making me stronger a bit like those light novels I have read back on earth!¡±


    ¡°Yes exactly. You are much smarter than I thought you were.¡±


    ¡°Ha well it was pretty obvious really you basically just told me by asking the way you did¡±


    I glared at the goddess, I knew she was trying to butter me up so I would allow the horns


    ¡°awww no fair¡­¡­.please the horns were so cool and they will be different to demon ones.¡±


    I didn¡¯t even give her an answer as she already knew what my answer was. She started pouting and returned my glare. Is she really that hung up on the horns, my goddess she is such a child.


    ¡°¡­crap¡±


    I forgot she could read my mind. What should I do I can see she is really pissed off how should I calm her down¡­crap crap crap and then it came the eruption suddenly everything was covered in flames.


    ¡°I AM NOT CHILDDISH!¡±


    I stood there unable to move. I could feel her anger and the vast power she could wield and even though I did not have a body I still felt cold sweat running down my back.


    For the next 20 minutes she was fuming and was screaming at me like I was the child. And to be honest I did feel like I was in front of that. Finally after calming down she walked up to me.


    ¡°I will forgive you if you allow the horns!¡±


    That¡¯s what the last 20 minutes were about, the fucking horns, what is her obsession with them, I really don¡¯t want permanent spikes sticking out of my head.


    ¡°you still would allow them.¡±


    Damn her mind invasion trick. She look at me with a pleading look but nothing would change my mind.


    ¡°no I will not allow any horns and never will¡±


    ¡°Fine I can¡¯t give you a body you don¡¯t accept, I suppose I should send you off now¡±


    ¡°Wait how will I be born if I am the first of my kind, who or wat will be my mother?¡±


    ¡°hummm oh you will be born from fire, and then I will find you a suitable family to raise you and love you as one of their own. Ok it is now time for you to be born into the world, good luck and if you are in trouble pray to me and I might send you help.¡±


    I started to feel my consciousness starting to fade, I had so many more questions but no more time. The last thing I saw was the goddess looking at me with a gentle smile, then everything was black and my consciousness left me.


    ******


    ¡°Are you sure he can survive, you know what awaits him down there¡± ¨C (Unknown God)


    ¡°I know¡­........He will survive I am sure of it, he must. ¨C (Athreal)


    ¡°Let us hope it is true then. I shall take my leave.¡± ¨C (Unknown God)


    ******


    Ok that is it for the prologue I hope you like it.


    Please comment and tell me your thoughts, and please remember this is a working progress and is subject to change.


    I am a slow writer but have the first Ark planned out, the next chapter I will post as soon as I can.


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 Chapter 1: Birth, Dear and the Hunter

    When my consciousness started to come back to me, there was nothing, no sight, sound, taste, pain there was nothing, but there was something different, it was not the void like place from before. I could sense some sort of energy all around me, I started to concentrate on that energy as it was the only thing there.


    It was like nothing I had ever encountered, it was indescribable but as it was the only thing that I could even sense I concentrated on it. It was constantly shifting in one spot constantly changing, then it started a slight itching all over me almost at the exact same moment the energy started to become even more erratic.


    The itching sensation started to gradually get worse and worse I tried to move but could not and it carried on for what felt like hours, if it did not stop I knew I would go crazy. Then out of the blue suddenly I could taste.


    It is the strangest sensation tasting your own mouth after what felt like an eternity of nothing, as I got my taste back the pain I felt from the itching sensation started to die down rapidly and very soon after I could smell again.


    This did not surprise me as because I remembered reading somewhere that taste and smell are very closely linked.


    But my joy of getting my senses gradually back suddenly ended as I could smell a very strong odour of burning wood I started to get agitated as I could not tell where it was coming from and if it was dangerous, and then suddenly as it to add to my worries I could hear again.


    The sound of burning all around me and to top it all off I could start to feel the heat as well, I started to panic as I still could not move then suddenly the goddess¡¯s words came to mind ¡®you will be born from fire¡¯ this calmed me slightly but I was still on edge.


    My perception of time was a lot better now as I had the majority of my senses back but I still could not move and I could still hear a roaring fire all around me gradually the itching faded away completely and when it had completely vanished I could suddenly move, and I realised why I could not see was I had my eyes closed. I knew this as I had instinctively opened my eyes and virtually been blinded.


    Imagine being in a pitch black room for hours after hours and then suddenly you look directly into the sun like I just had, all I can say is it was very painful. I started rolling round holding my face in pain, while whimpering. After the pain had died down I rolled to the side so I would not be looking directly into the sun, and started to open my eyes again. It was still very bright but after about five minutes of opening and closing my eyes finally adjusted, they were still a little sour but I dealt with it.


    As I looked around I realised I was in a forest, it was very beautiful and peaceful place, I was lying in a clearing, I could hear running water not far away from me and I could occasionally see wildlife moving around, mainly birds and small rodents but there was this one larger creature that was akin to a badger, the main difference being, instead of being black and white like the ones on earth, it was green and brown and looked like vegetation was growing from it. Soon after looking me in the eye it retreated and disappeared.


    After taking in my surroundings I realised that all of the forest floor around where I am sitting is burnt like a fire had recently been raging some parts where still smoking. Anyway the next thing was to inspect my new body, first major thing I noticed was I was not an adult anymore, I was a baby. Judging from how bad my movements are I would guess I looked around 6-9 months old in human standards.


    Now I say 6-9 months because I do have some control over my body, for instance I can sit up and look around, I can crawl and have reasonable motor control over my extremities. I attempted to stand up but ended up falling on my arse. My body looked like the infant version of the one Athreal showed me, feeling my head I could feel a small amount of hair but I had no idea what colour it was. Anyway moving on the next thing to try is speech.


    ¡°Gaaaa eera ell¡±


    And nope not quite there, what I attempted to say was ¡®Athreal¡¯ but it did not really work. I guess and infant¡¯s vocal cords need time to develop.


    ¡°Grrrroooowl¡±


    And that was my stomach, I just realised I am really hungry, well not surprising really I was just born, this is a problem I really need help, usually new-borns are fed on their mother¡¯s milk but as I have no mother I am on my own. I start to look around to see if there is anything that I could maybe eat.


    Looking around I soon realise there is not much of anything that looks like it is edible, the only thing I spot are some weird looking mushroom like things, so I crawl over to investigate. Arriving under the tree where they are located I inspect them. They have a long stem which is a plain brownish grey colour the cap is inverted compared to a normal mushroom, the cap is very brightly coloured with yellows and blues all over the cap. This worried me slightly as somewhere in my memory I remembered something about bright colours meaning danger.


    I decided to leave the mushroom and continued to look around the clearing but found nothing, I crawled back to where I was ¡®born¡¯ and started to think, although that was getting hard now as I was really getting hungry.


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    By my guess it has been around 1-2 hours since I was effectively ¡®born¡¯ and the light was clearly getting dimmer, it must be some time in the afternoon maybe 5 o¡¯clock. It was also starting to get a bit cold and all I was wearing was my birthday suit, I was starting to get a bit worried, I was hungry, naked and getting cold. Didn¡¯t the goddess say she was going to give me a family? Something must have gone wrong.


    ¡®Crack¡¯


    Suddenly I hear a noise, it was a stick being trodden on, and then it walked out a dear like creature the main difference being that its antlers were a crystal like substance of which it had three one at each side and one in the middle. Compared to a normal sized dear it might be a bit smaller but it was hard to tell as I was infant sized so everything was out of proportion.


    As it moved through the grove it stopped and looked at me, it showed no fear in its eyes only curiosity. It then obviously decided that I was not dangerous and proceeded to ignore me, and carried on grazing in the clearing.


    Unsure how to react to this I decided to ignore the deer like creature like it was doing with me, and carry on trying to solve the problem of my growling stomach.


    ¡®Whoosh¡­..thump¡¯


    Suddenly I hear a whooshing noise followed by the sound of something falling over, looking up I saw the dear lying on its side with an arrow in its chest dead. I froze at the sight, then there was a noise of something walking through thick bushes. Someone had just killed the dear and was nearby I felt excited and slightly worried at the same time, but before I could move myself a man came out of the bush.


    He was tall with short dirty blonde hair, and a well-kept short beard, he was the ruggedly handsome type. He was equipped with a short sword and dagger on his belt and carried a bow. On his back was a quiver with some arrows in it, he wore what looked like leather armour which was under a sleeveless jacket.


    He had not seen me yet and moved over to inspect his kill, as he moved I saw his ears which were pointed, but not massively so a bit more than mine but less than I would expect and elf to have, he must be a half elf of some sort especially with that beard, as elves don¡¯t grow facial hair, well from my knowledge they don¡¯t.


    As he knelt down by his kill he finally noticed me, and we stared at each other for a few seconds and then the hunter started to look at the burned ground where I was sitting, a look of confusion appeared on his face.


    ¡°??? ?????? ???????¡±


    Crap that is not English, looks like I am going to have to learn a new language.


    ******


    (POV: Hunter)


    The Dilk I have been stalking for the last few miles finally is in sight, in a clearing about 30m ahead of me, I nock my arrow and draw my bow, slow my breathing, exhaling and then I released. The arrow flies true and kills the creature almost instantly as the arrow imbeds itself in the dilks heart.


    I am grateful to my elven heritage which gives me high affinity with ranged weapons like bows as it make my hunting trips much easier. This dilk will provide a decent amount of meat which my daughter and I can live off for the next few weeks the hide I can tan myself and then sell the leather to the blacksmith, and the antlers are a sort after alchemist ingredient I can sell to the traders for about 15 silver each.


    I was very lucky with this kill as dilk are usually very alert and very fast, very difficult to successfully hunt, but this one seem distracted my something.


    As I knelt down to retrieve my arrow I saw what had distracted the dilk, a very young child completely naked and covered in dirt. He looked to be about a year old, he had pointed ears along with strange fire like markings all over his body. And his eyes were the strangest, they seemed to be changing colour almost constantly, it was strangely enchanting. I managed to tear myself away from looking at his eyes and looked at his surroundings.


    Where the child was sitting looked like a fire had burnt all the surroundings with the boy in the middle it was very strange.


    ¡°So what do we have here?¡±


    I spoke while looking at the child, then as if answering me.


    ¡®GROWL!!!¡¯


    Suddenly the child¡¯s stomach growled, to which the kid looked embarrassed as his cheeks reddened and his eyes started to turn pink as well, this really shocked me. Opening my bag I pulled out a banana and peeled it for him while walking over.


    The kid looked longingly at the banana but didn¡¯t move a muscle, I broke of a small amount and handed him a bit. Quick as lightning he snatched it and shoved it in his mouth and looked at me expectantly. I proceeded to feed him the rest of the fruit and then took out a blanket from my bag and made a sling around my neck. I then picked him up and placed him in the sling and made sure he wouldn¡¯t fall out. I then picked up the dilk and put it over my shoulders and then proceeded to head home.


    ¡°Right then kid, let head back and fine out who you are.¡±


    ******


    Hey guys sorry for the long wait I had exams and the such you all know the drill anyway I will try and speed up my posting of mew chapters.


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 Chapter 2: Temple, Priest and the Stats

    Well the hunter decided to feed me and take me along with him, currently we are approaching a large village. The Village is almost too large to be called a village, it has a wooden palisade surrounding it and the houses inside vary between wooden and stone ones, some a single story and some multiple.


    We exit the forest and are heading towards the gate where there a few guards dressed in leather armour guarding it. As we get closer they spot us and start shouting to one another. I have no idea what they are saying but, it does not sound aggressive or hostile.


    We stop for a few minutes while the hunter who found me, has a chat with the guards. One of them appears to be human or at least very close, whereas the other is defiantly not human, he was about 6.2 ft tall with large muscles dark black hair with wolf ears on top of his head as well as a black wolf tail wagging back and forth behind him.


    The wolf man bent over to get a closer look at me. His eyes were glowing and dint look human at all. I was a bit nervous but couldn¡¯t take my eyes of his switching ears. All that was going through my mind was I couldn¡¯t wait to see a wolf girl.


    Back on earth a was a bit of a light novel and manga fan, my favourite being fantasy based ones and I always wish that I could see a beastman/demi human and it seems like my wish will come true in this new life.


    Anyway the hunter finished his conversation and proceeded into the village. It was a little hard to see everything from the sling but by the looks of it the village was a very prosperous and active village. There were a lot of armoured people walking about but I guess this is a rough world.


    The strangest thing about the village was that there seemed to be virtually no humans, maybe the odd one or two but all the rest were demi humans, beastmen or something else, I did spot what I assumed to be dark elves. There was even a couple of dwarfs walking along.


    We kept walking for a while stopping every now and then so the hunter could either have a chat or buy something from the stalls. I was starting to get tired and before I knew it I had drifted off to sleep.


    (POV: Hunter)


    I am making my way through Russell Village, I met my old friend Kellern at the village gate. He was very interested in the boy and it the same said about the boy, as he was staring at Kellern¡¯s ears. Kellern was asking why the boy smelt like ash and burnt wood. I said I would explain later, and carried on through the village.


    I had a few things to do before I collected my daughter from sister Bertha, during this time the boy drifted off to sleep.


    I dropped off the dilk at the butchers to be skinned and prepared for me, then I made my way towards the temple to get Ellena my daughter and see the priest to identify this boy!! As I entered the temple sister Bertha saw me and waved me over.


    ¡°Hello Oberon, Ellena has just fallen asleep, what have you got in the sling? You didn¡¯t find an abandoned fox cub for her to rise did you?¡± Bertha was sitting on one of the temple pews with Ellena curled up on her lap. Her tail was slightly switching from side to side happily. Ellena¡¯s mother was from the fox tribe like my mother was, Ellena¡¯s fox tribe heritage was very strong in her so she inherited her mother¡¯s tail and ears. Unfortunately Leina (Ellena¡¯s mother) died during child birth three years ago. Ellena looks exactly like her mother except for her white hair.


    ¡°No it¡¯s not a fox, but¡­¡± I said as I revealed the sleeping boy wrapped in the sling.


    ¡°Where an earth did you get that¡­.Half-elf??¡± Bertha said this while looking at the boy, with a questioning look. It seemed she was unsure what he is as well due to his strange tattoo like markings over his body.


    ¡°I found him in the forest and I have no idea what he is, his ears are too short to be a half-elf and with all these tattoo like markings on him I have no idea. Oh and you would not be able to tell to tell at the moment but his eyes change colour, I think it has to do with his emotions.¡± As I explained this bertha looked slightly shocked but interested. ¡°Anyway that is another reason why I am here, is Priest Tura here?¡±


    ¡°Yes he is but has been all over excited all afternoon, Athreal¡¯s candle is a little active, he is in the shrine room praying¡± In the temple the shrine room is behind the main hall because it contains Athreal¡¯s candle. The candle never runs out and the flame will change now and then to tell us things. The shrine is in the back because ever since one of the temples of Athreal went up in flames because someone knocked over Athreal¡¯s candle. So as a precaution the shrine room is completely made of stone and no wood is anywhere near the candle.


    ¡°Can I go in and see him I need him to identify this boy¡± Bertha chuckled ¡°I am sure my husband would not mind. Go ahead I will keep an eye on this one¡±.


    I made my way to the back of the temples main hall towards the shrine room. I knocked on the door and after a few seconds a short man with red brown hair opened the door. Tura is one of the rarest half breeds you can get, his mother was an elf and his father was a dwarf. This is rare because the dwarves and elves are notorious for hating one another. But due to this he inherited the strength of the dwarves and the magic affinity of the elves.


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    He is a few hundred years old and very strong both in magic and wielding his axe. But after meeting Bertha who is a half-elf human, he fell in love and became the priest of this church. This all happened over 30 years ago.


    ¡°Oberon!!! What do you want??¡± he said in a rather frantic voice. As he spoke I suddenly felt the heat coming from the room and then I saw the candle of Athreal the flame was massive and it was flickering and changing colour a bit like the boys eyes.


    ¡°This is a little active!!¡± I said as I turned and looked at Bertha who was smirking at me. ¡°Anyway Tura can you identify this boy, I found him in the woods and have no idea who or what he is and I could not access his status window with the identify spell.¡±


    ¡°YOU STUPID IDIOUT!! Did I teach you nothing!! Hmph This child has not had a naming ceremony yet! Can¡¯t you tell, he has no traces of the ritual magic on him and unless he is over ten years old which I highly doubt he is, he would still have traces of the ritual magic. Fool follow me lets name him.¡± After reprimanding me he turned on his heels and walked into the shrine room to start preparing the ritual for the naming if this boy.


    Due to Tura shouting at me he woke the kid up, strangely he did not cry but remained quiet and is now looking wide eyed at Athreal¡¯s candle, but unlike most young children he showed no fear, if anything he showed a slight annoyance like he was cross with the flame.


    After a few minutes Tura had prepared himself and signalled for me to approach and began the ritual. He pricked the boy¡¯s finger and collected about ten drops of blood in a small bowl. While chanting he then pores the blood on the naming scroll. The blood forms a magic circle and then he turns to me.


    ¡°So what are you going to name him??¡± He says while looking at the boy then me. I have no idea what he should be called and quickly start trying to think of something.


    ¡®Thorin¡¯ I thought I just heard a voice say something. I look around the room a bit thinking someone came in.


    ¡°Well what will you name him¡± Tura was getting a bit annoyed that I started looking round the room and was frowning at me.


    ¡°Oh¡­erm...¡± Suddenly a name came to me. ¡°Thorin, he shall be called Thorin¡± Tura nodded approvingly at me.


    ¡°A good name, in the Dragon tongue ¡®Thor¡¯ means flame and ¡®In¡¯ means born. Pass him to me.¡± I am shocked at what the name means as I had no idea, it just popped into my head.


    Tura takes him from me and places him on the magic circle. ¡°I NOW NAME YOU THORIN, MAY YOU LIVE LONG AND IN HAPPYNESS¡± the magic circle glowed for a few seconds then on Thorin¡¯s left hand signifying he can now access his status.


    Tura then leans down and picks Thorin up who is inspecting the fading magic circle on the scroll. ¡°Right now we can see what he is¡± He takes him over to the identifying stone which is similar to the identify spell but will show the status of the person touching it to everyone in view. The then takes the kids hand and puts it on the stone.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td>Name:</td><td>Thorin</td><td>Level:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Age:</td><td>0</td><td>Gender:</td><td>Male</td></tr><tr><td>Race:</td><td>Fireblood (Sealed)</td><td>Class:</td><td>Child</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles: Divine Blessing Of Athreal, First Of My Kind, Born Of Fire, Unbound</td></tr><tr><td>Health:</td><td>100/100</td><td>Mana:</td><td>1170/1170</td></tr><tr><td>Strength:</td><td>8</td><td>Vitality:</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Agility:</td><td>1</td><td>Intelligence:</td><td>117</td></tr><tr><td>Dexterity:</td><td>2</td><td>Wisdom</td><td>65</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''2''>Status Points:</td><td colspan=''2''>10</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡°What is this, how is this even possible¡± I could not resister the stats in front of me, this child only has 40 less intelligence than me. Normal kids will have only 1, 2 or 3 as their highest stat, and those titles.


    ¡°H..hh.h..he has A-Athreal¡¯s blessing, and is the first of his kind. Great Goddess you have finally created your species!!!!¡± Tura is almost crying as he kneels in front of the flame coming from the candle.


    I am in complete shock the child I found in the woods is the first of Athreal¡¯s new species. Suddenly I thought of the scorched ground all around where I found him and realised that his title ¡®Born Of Fire¡¯ was quite literal.


    The flames started to change again, this time they filled the room with flames but they did not burn us instead I could sense a very very strong barrier being formed.


    ¡°Hahaha I take it you like my new species then¡± A beautiful voice come from the main candle which now showed a beautiful face in the flames both Tura and I knew it was the Goddess herself. I fell to my knees in shock and awe. Waiting for her to continue.


    ¡°Now I need you two to do me a favour.¡±


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 Chapter 3: A Favour, Titles and Language Comprehension, sort of!

    (Oberon POV)


    ¡°Now I need you two to do me a favour¡±


    As I look into the flame I could see a very beautiful girl in the flames, she was seated on a massive throne of fire, and looked to be wearing a dress of fire as well. This was defiantly Athreal, though she looked slightly younger than some of the paintings and statues I have seen around the temple, the golden eyes and red hair, which is very rare, are unmistakable. That and the fact I am looking at her through a flame.


    ¡°W..what can these lowly servants do for you oh great goddess?¡± Tura asked the goddess as Thorin who had glanced at the goddess in the flame decided to crawl away and started to inspect the flame barrier that had encompassed the entirety of the room.


    ¡°Well as you both know, he is the first of my new species, the Fireblood¡¯s. Now as you would have seen from his status, he is a lot stronger than any other new born, he is still a lot stronger that what a Fireblood new born will be, but he has no idea how to use his power and his strength, that is where you two will come in.¡± The goddess pauses so we can absorb this flood of information. It is obvious that this young boy will grow to do great things as well as be immeasurably strong. ¡®What could the goddess want from us?¡¯


    ¡°Hehehe that is a good question Oberon. And yes I can read your thoughts, hehe. Well I need you Oberon to raise him please, teach him how to hunt and survive, but also I would like you to give him a happy childhood. Next Tura I want you to be his teacher. Teach him about this world, and about all the different cultures and races, but your most important job will be to teach him about magic. Teach him about the good and bad sides of magic, warn him of the dangers of certain rituals. ¡°Tura looked very pale but determined, the god he worshipped is giving him a task and he will for fill it even if it meant his death. ¡°Oh and he will be very strong in fire magic, as you might have guessed, but you don¡¯t need to train him in that as part of my blessing is a complete understanding of fire magic¡± As she finished she smiled and nodded to herself.


    ¡°Oh hang on, where is Kellern he was also meant to be here!?¡± The Goddess put her hand to her chin and looked to be thinking after a few seconds of silence she shrugged and carried on. ¡°Oh well I suppose trying to manipulate the fate of three people without being noticed is bound not to completely work. Anyway can you get Kellern to tech him to fight and train him in the use of a variety of weapons, Thorin can chose what to specialise in. Right any questions??¡±


    ¡°Oh great and beautiful Athreal, may we know the effects of the titles he holds?¡± Tura who looks to have regained some of his colour, requests that we know what benefits his titles will give him. He is asking this because only the person in question can look into his stats in greater detail, and neither of us have seen these titles before.


    ¡°Hummmm¡­.I don¡¯t see why not, but you must not tell anybody else the details of these titles¡± The goddess gives her permission and then with a wave of here hand 4 windows appear in front of us.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Divine Blessing Of Athreal</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>You Have recived a blessing from the great goddess of Flame, this blessing gives you a greater understanding of fire, due to this when using fire magic no chants are needed and your spells will be more powerful.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>First Of My Kind</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>You are the first of your kind, there are no others of your race, so you have to breed with different races. To ensure that your races numbers increase, there will be a 50% chance that you children will be born pure bloods of your race. This will stay in effect for the next 20 generations.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Born Of Fire </td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>You were born of fire and because of this fire can never hurt you or others of your choosing, as long as you are withing 100m of them.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Unbound</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>Slave Collars do not and never will work on you, once you touch them they will break. Whether you use this to free others is up to you.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    These are some amazing titles, his divine blessing gives him insight into fire magic, the ¡®first of my kind¡¯ title is the same as it was in the history books. ¡®Born of fire gives him even more control over fire and finally that unbound title, if it is revealed he has the ability to free slaves without the masters consent, he will be hunted down and killed. Especially by the human kingdoms as they have the largest slave populations and treat them very badly, if he went round freeing slaves, it would not be long before he had an army capable of defeating one of the human kingdoms.


    Just then I noticed Thorin had finished inspecting the barrier and was crawling back towards us. He sat down between Tura and myself. And looked to also be reading the windows that had appeared in front of us. Then he looked towards the goddess and gave a questioning glance.


    (Thorin POV)


    After being woken up by the short loud man, I was brought into a stone room. At the back of the room is a beautiful stone alter, all over the sides are carving of people lifting large objects, others look like they are farming and a man and woman standing together holding a baby. Surrounding these scenes are flames all carved into the stone.


    On top of the alter is a candle with a huge flame burning from it. On each side of the candle are various stone carving, one seems to be an older looking version of Athreal. However you look at this, it is obviously one of her shrines, and the short man must be a priest or the equivalent.


    I briefly looked at the flames but what interested me more was the short man was preparing for something, he laid a scroll on the floor then poured a little bit of blue liquid on the scroll. What slightly confused me was that the scroll didn¡¯t stain blue, in fact it didn¡¯t even look like it even had a liquid poured on it.


    After a few more vials of varying colours were poured onto the scroll he signalled the man holding me to approach. The short man then took my hand and pricked my figure and collected some of my blood in a bowl. Walking towards the scroll he starts to speak in a rhythmic way, I think it is some sort of chanting, anyway he proceeds to pour my blood of the scroll which forms a magic circle. He then takes me from the hunter man and out of the cloth as I do I look at the huge flame coming from the candle, and within the flame I can clearly see a smiling goddess, my eyes widen in surprise and she winks at me. Then I am placed on the scroll.


    It is only as I am sitting there that I realise someone, while I was asleep had put a cloth like nappy on me. The short man then asks the hunter man a question, to which he seems deep in thought, then suddenly twitches and starts looking round the room, as if he thought the short man was speaking to someone else.


    After some prompting the short man seems to get an answer he likes and starts speaking loudly, when he finishes the magic circle I am sitting it glows and I start to feel a slight itching on my right hand.


    I was then taken over to a stone orb to the left of the alter, the short man places my hand on the orb and then a window appears in front of me.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td>Name:</td><td>Thorin</td><td>Level:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Age:</td><td>0</td><td>Gender:</td><td>Male</td></tr><tr><td>Race:</td><td>Fireblood (Sealed)</td><td>Class:</td><td>Child</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles: Divine Blessing Of Athreal, First Of My Kind, Born Of Fire, Unbound</td></tr><tr><td>Health:</td><td>100/100</td><td>Mana:</td><td>1170/1170</td></tr><tr><td>Strength:</td><td>8</td><td>Vitality:</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Agility:</td><td>1</td><td>Intelligence:</td><td>117</td></tr><tr><td>Dexterity:</td><td>2</td><td>Wisdom</td><td>65</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''2''>Status Points:</td><td colspan=''2''>10</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡®Cool it really is like a game!¡¯ I scanned through the status window that had appeared in front of me, strangely I could read it. It seems my new name is Thorin and my race is called Fireblood. Athreal has really good naming sense, not! The titles seem quite cool but I have no idea how good or bad these stats are.


    ¡®Oh looks like I have some status points to spend, but I will wait until I know a bit more about the status window before I allocate them.¡¯ As I am thinking about this I feel the short man start to shake and tighten slightly, he then starts sparking very quietly and then falls to his knees, once he is on his knees I decide to wriggle out of his embrace.


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    Just as I escape from the clutches of the short man, the room suddenly fills with flames, it perfectly covers the inside edge of the entire room. The sealing, floor and walls, even the door is completely blocked. A few seconds later I hear Athreal¡¯s voive coming from the flame, but she is speaking the same language as the others so I can¡¯t understand them, so after a brief nod to the goddess, to which she acknowledged I started to crawl towards the flames covering the wall.


    I don¡¯t know what it is but I am getting a strange feeling while looking at this wall. As I crawl closer I almost feel as if I understand it. Subconsciously I reach out and place my hand on the fire covering the entire inside of the room.


    I realised I had just placed my hand in fire and snatch my hand back expecting pain to surge into my hand, but it never came. I inspect my hand for damage but couldn¡¯t find any. ¡®hummm ok, so I just placed my hand in fire, for a good few seconds and I was not burnt at all. So that means one of two things, first I have very high resistance to fire or am completely immune to it, this might be due to my birth, considering my new body was made by flames. The second possibility is that the flame barrier thing Athreal conjured will not harm you if you touch it.¡¯


    There was no way for me to confirm either of my two theories until I can touch another flame. The strangest thing is that I can still feel heat from the flames but it never feels like a burning heat.


    ¡®Hehehe.. Well done Thorin, your first theory is correct!¡¯ Suddenly I hear Athreal laugh then speak in my head, I turn and look at the two men kneeling in front of her flame, but she is still talking to them. ¡®Must have been telepathy¡¯ I say while sighing to myself.


    With Athreal¡¯s conformation I now know that I have an immunity or very high resistance to fire, so I proceed to place my hand on the flame barrier. After a few seconds, I don¡¯t feel any burning so I relax slightly keeping my hand on the barrier. Just as I relax a surge of information flows into my head. Then a blue screen pops up in front of my face.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Ever Flame Barrier has beed comprahended and learnt. Do you wish to view the new Fire magic you have just learnt? (YES/NO)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡®Yes¡¯


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Ever Flame Barrier </td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>A Flaming barrier that can for an shield during battle or conpletely cover you and your allies when you are in a tight spot. The strenght of the barrier is proportional to how much mana you pour into it. (Initial casting cost 20)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡®Wow, ok that will come in handy, and as the strength of the barrier is proportional to how much mana I pour in, this spell can be very strong, shame it is not offensive.¡¯ I am pleased with the spell but I would have preferred a slightly offensive one.


    ¡®Humph, I give you a very powerful defensive spell and all you do is complain that it isn¡¯t an offensive one! Humph¡¯ I think I might have annoyed my patron goddess.


    ¡®I didn¡¯t mean it like that, I am really grateful for the magic skill you gave me but, it is more in my nature to want to be more offensive than defensive. If you use your godly powers and look at my history all the MMORPG¡¯s I played I was a bruiser or DPS. I am very sorry for complaining though.¡¯ I hope that is enough and she sees that I am sorry.


    ¡®Sigh, ok I forgive you as I was going to give you an offensive spell as well.¡¯ Just as she finishes another window pops up in front of my.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>The Goddess Athreal, through her divine grace has gifted you with knowlage of the spell ''Fire Arrow''. Do you wish to View this spell? (YES/NO)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡®Yes¡¯


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Flame Arrow</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>Produes a flaming arrow that you can fire. You have a very small amount of control over the arrow and only 1 is produed. As you improve this spell it will gain, more power, more control over the arrows and the number of arrows. (Cost per cast 200)(Beginner Lvl 1)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡®Thank you this looks really cool!¡¯ I smile to myself as now I have both the offensive and defensive spells. I look over and see that the three of them look to be done so I start to crawl back over to them.


    As I arrive next to the hunter guy, a few blue windows appear in front of us and appear to be my titles with the explanations. But the long and the short of it the ¡®Divine Blessing of Athreal¡¯ and ¡®Born of fire¡¯ both give me more control over fire magic, ¡®First of my Kind¡¯ allows more pureblood Fireblood¡¯s to be born and finally the ¡®Unbound¡¯ title means I will never be a slave and can free others if I so chose.


    After I read over what each of my titles did, it suddenly came to me, because it is obvious from the two men¡¯s expressions that they can read it as well. ¡®Why is it in English?¡¯ I turn to the goddess and gave a questioning look.


    ¡®In short I am translating it for you but once we have finished here you will have to learn the language before you can read it again.¡¯ She keeps on speaking to me telepathically, while she was smiling at me.


    ¡®Aww come on there must be a language comprehension skill, all the best light novel stories have them, you have to give me something like that!! Please!!!¡¯


    ¡®Hummmm¡­..well I can¡¯t magically make you understand and speak all the languages in this world, your head would explode from all that information flowing into it.¡¯ I gulp when it hear her say that. ¡®But I can give you a skill where you can learn the spoken and written language in about a week. I do suppose it will make things easier in the future, ok I will give you the skill ¡®Language Wizz¡¯ I hope it helps.¡¯ I smile at the goddess as another window pops up in front of me.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Language Wizz</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>You are able to pick up a language in about a week, both spoken and written.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    (Third Person POV)


    After a few minutes of the young child and the goddess staring at each other, the goddess finally spoke.


    ¡°I have just given Thorin a skill that will enable him to learn how to speak within about a week. Tura I want you to start to teach him all you can in two weeks. That will give him plenty of time to settle in and learn both the written and spoken language.¡±


    After the goddess had finished speaking Tura raised his head and said ¡°Yes Goddess¡±


    ¡°Great. Ok I have to go now as if I stay any longer other gods will notice me and find Thorin and we don¡¯t want that. Oh and don¡¯t tell anyone what he is, just say he is a mixed blood of many races, and don¡¯t let him use fire magic in front of anyone. Ok I have to go now. Bye¡± The goddess waves her hand and then the Athreal flame returns to normal.


    After the goddess leaves Tura picks up Thorin and says ¡°Well you have a big future ahead of you. I will serve my goddess to the best of my ability¡¯s. Tura smiles as he starts to think of various ways to teach and train the young boy in his arms.


    In contrast only one thought passes though Oberon¡¯s mind. ¡®You poor boy!¡¯ As Oberon had been taught and trained by Tura he had an idea of what was to come.


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 Chapter 4: New home, Worries and Skill list

    After Athreal had left and the flame died down back to a normal size, both of the men both started talking enthusiastically! They were obviously planning out my future as I am almost sure that Athreal told them I am the first of my kind, incidentally I had found out what my race was to be called. The Firebloods!!! A cool sounding name but it did lack a little imagination.


    The pair only talked for a few minutes then left the shrine room. Sitting outside was the lady with the young demi human child on her lap, I would guess she is around 3-5 years old. From her ears and tail I would guess she is either a fox or a wolf, it is really hard to tell just by the ears and tail, but also because her hair, ears and tail are all white.


    The short man starts talking and the woman who is holding the child on her lap starts listen. After he had finished talking she looked at me with a slight twinkle in her blown eyes. She stood up with the girl in her arms and handed her to the hunter.


    ¡®I wonder what is going to happen now. Am I going to stay here or go with them?¡¯


    After the nun lady handed over they girl, who must be some sort of relation to the hunter man, or and adopted child, he started to walk towards the exit, the man holding me started to follow. As we left the temple place I managed to turn my head and get a good look at the building. It was a very simple building, but it had a sort of beauty to it. The whole building was surrounded by a beautiful garden full of flowers and plants I have never seen before.


    It was starting to get dark and the two men mad their way through the streets at a slightly faster pace than I expected. The architecture of the houses we passed were all notably different it was obvious that each person build their own house the way the wanted to.


    Some looked like a typical medieval village house, some had and eastern style to them, and the nicer ones were even made of stone. Anyway after five or so minutes we arrived at an average sized house with a nice sized front garden with some plants growing in it.


    The house itself looked a bit better than some of the others, it used a combination of stone and wood. It had two floors and looked like a nice medieval family home. The hunter walked up to the door and took out a key and opened the door and walked in and the man holding me followed.


    From what I could tell their seemed to be four rooms on the ground floor and I am assuming four on the top. The design reminded me of Br**zehome from the game S**rim but with a slightly more modern appeal to it. Firstly the furniture was much better than I thought it would be, almost rivalling modern furniture. Instead of candles or lanterns there seemed to be these orbs that give off light. They were really strange because they gave me a weird feeling like I could feel they were there.


    But before I could think on it more they stared walking upstairs and then entered a room. The room had the same design as the rest of the house except this was obviously a bedroom, and judging by the pink teddy monster thing on the bead o guessed it was the girls. They girl was put into the bed and then the man holding me put me in a cot on the other side of the room. I did not see the cot but it looks like I am going to be sharing this room for now.


    They man puts a blanket over men and then leaves the room. Well as there is nothing else to do I decide sleep is the best option, and so I start to drift off.


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    (Athreal POV)(Just after giving instruction for training and looking after Thorin)


    I have just finished giving my instructions to Oberon and Tura regarding Thorin¡¯s education. I stand up and dismiss the throne I was sitting on and I started to wait, because I knew that Alair was sneaking about watching the exchange.


    ¡°Come out will you!¡± All his sneaking around was getting on my nerves, he may be a good friend and the only other god I trust but he does have some weird quirks. One of which is he can never just enter a room, he sneaks in and waits for you to notice him. If you don¡¯t notice him he will leave.


    ¡°Haha I loved your little speech to the mortals, you really so like to show off!! Was it really necessary for your throne to be made of fire? And isn¡¯t that dress slightly to revealing for your tastes?¡± He comes out from his hiding place laughing and teasing me.


    Alair has long gold blonde hair reaching to his waist, sky blue eyes and pointed ears. He has a hansom face but you can see the sadness in it, ever since his race was wiped out he has been a shadow of his former self and puts up a front in public. On his back are ten wings, they are a whitish grey colour, during the time his race was at its peak they were a beautiful white. Apart from that he has a slim build and is wearing a blue suite that he copied from Thorin¡¯s old world.


    ¡°Hmph I was not showing off!¡± I quickly change my dress back to a more conservative one. Then Alair starts to snigger so I throw a fire ball at him. It hit him strain in the face and he falls over but is still sniggering.


    A vein pops on my head and I start to bombard him with fireballs. ¡°OK ok I will stop ¡®snigger¡¯ I am sorry it was j..just your fa¡± I through another fireball at him before he could finish and he falls flat on his arse.


    He stands up and brushes himself off, he has no damage whatsoever to him or his cloths, he is a god after all. He then walks over to the flaming mirror I use to keep an eye on Thorin, he watches him for a while with me standing next to him.


    ¡°Why didn¡¯t you tell him his mission yet, he only has 100 years to prepare, he might not be strong enough.¡± Alair¡¯s mood clearly changed and was not the cheerful self he put on in front of others.


    ¡°He needs to have some time to himself I don¡¯t want to burden him with the responsibility just yet, but remember 100 years to mortals is a long time. And I think just suddenly saying ¡®oh hey Thorin Just so you know you have to fine a safe place and people you trust so they can help you raise 200 infant Firebloods¡¯ would be a little much for him. When he is stronger and has companions he trusts I will tell him.¡±


    ¡°Humm I suppose, but he might not be as driven to get stronger.¡± Alair trys to point this out but I know what he is like from his old world.


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry he will be ok, I just hope that evil doesn¡¯t find him, or slavers. Not that he can become a slave through a slave collar, but there are still other ways to enslave someone.¡± That is the one thing I am a bit worried about. If he is discovered he will be experimented on, tortured and then farmed for his blood, which could grant someone very high affinity with fire magic.


    ¡°That was one of the things that drove my race to extinction, but you have chosen a good place for him to grow up, there is no slavery there and no discrimination because the majority of the populous are mixed bloods, but he will have a shock when he leaves.¡±


    ¡°Yes I might warn him about that when he decides to leave.¡± What Alair has said has made me worry slightly as it could get him in trouble. Humans especially are one of the worst when it comes to greed.


    ¡°hum right I am off to annoy Durggh¡± with that Alair leaves and I am left standing staring at Thorin who is now sleeping in a cot at Oberon¡¯s house.


    ¡°Good luck Thorin¡±


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    (Thorin POV)


    It has been two weeks since I was ¡®born¡¯. I can now speak the language like it is English and I am getting better at reading. Even though I can now speak I rarely do, I just don¡¯t see the point in as most of the questions I want to ask I can find the answer in books, and I want to be able to read this language so I just read to get my answers.


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    I have discovered a few things in these two weeks, the main being everyone¡¯s names. I have also figured out I have to say ¡®status¡¯ for the stat screen to some up. I have decided not to tough anything until I start my lessons with Tura in a day or two. I have also managed to start walking normally and I noticed that I have had some status increases.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td>Name:</td><td>Thorin</td><td>Level:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Age:</td><td>0</td><td>Gender:</td><td>Male</td></tr><tr><td>Race:</td><td>Fireblood (Sealed)</td><td>Class:</td><td>Child</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles: Divine Blessing Of Athreal, First Of My Kind, Born Of Fire, Unbound</td></tr><tr><td>Health:</td><td>130/130</td><td>Mana:</td><td>1200/1200</td></tr><tr><td>Strength:</td><td>9</td><td>Vitality:</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>Agility:</td><td>3</td><td>Intelligence:</td><td>120</td></tr><tr><td>Dexterity:</td><td>5</td><td>Wisdom</td><td>66</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''2''>Status Points:</td><td colspan=''2''>10</td></tr></tbody></table>


    It seemed that both my dexterity, agility and intelligence have both increased quite a bit and all the others have just increased by one. I guess the intelligence and wisdom increased because I have learned a new language and been reading.


    Anyway since my birth every day was more or less the same, we would wake up, have breakfast and then Oberon would drop Ellena and myself off at the temple and then go hunting or do his shift as one of the village guards. Bertha looked after us and a few other children. During the day the other children would play and have some very basic lessons from Bertha. Then the parents would come and get us and takes us home for dinner.


    For the first few days Ellena would not stop staring at me but she kept her distance, I was not quite sure what to do, but that soon all stopped when I smiled at her during the second day at the temple. She ran off and I didn¡¯t see her again until we were collected by Oberon.


    The next day she was by my side all day talking nonstop while teaching me games. Even during the lessons she would come sit with me and play with my hair. I am guessing that my hair colour is very unusual.


    It took me four days to get a decent enough grip of the language, after that I asked Bertha to read to me so I could get some knowledge of this world and learn to read. When I did ask her she was very shocked at me being able to speak but after a quick conversation with Tura she happily obliged.


    While Bertha read to me I sat on her lap so I could read the book as well and learn the language. Ellena did not like this and tried to sit on her lap as well but that ended badly with the both of us falling off.


    It only took me two days to completely learn to read and then the rest of the time up until now I have been reading. Ellena is usually near or next to me, at the moment she is playing close by with a few other children while I am reading a monster encyclopaedia under the big tree in the temple garden.


    I have seen a lot of monster from old earth legends in the book like, monitors, hydra¡¯s, hellhounds etc there are also a lot of the typical fantasy creatures like goblins, orcs, trolls etc and a few others that I have never heard of. As I am reading the page about the basilisk, and A rank monster Ellena make her way over.


    ¡°Thorin stop reading and come and play!¡± She says this while half picking me up. She is quite a bit bigger than me as she is 3 years old and my body is the size of a 9 month old baby.


    ¡°N..noo please put me down Ellena I was reading about a basilisk it¡¯s a really cool monster¡± As I say this she stops. ¡°Hey how about I read it to you then we both can enjoy it.¡± As this she puts me down.


    ¡°Ok!!!¡± she cheerfully says and sits down next to me. I start to read out loud to her, with her interjecting with a question every now and again. This carries on for another hour and then it is time for lunch and Bertha comes to get us.


    While I am eating my lunch, and also trying to teach some table manners to Ellena Tura walks up to my table.


    ¡°Thorin come and see me once you have finished I will be in the shrine room.¡± He says this in a very serious tone and then walks off out of the room.


    ¡°Thorin what have you tone? Why is Mr Tura cross with you?¡± Ellena asks in a half concerned half annoyed voice. She is giving me a slight glare.


    ¡°I have not done anything wrong maybe he just wants to talk to me¡± I give her a smile and carry on eating. Ellena shrugs and carries on as well.


    I finish my lunch and send Ellena of to play with the others while I make my way over to the shrine room. I knock on the door and enter.


    ¡°Excuse me, you wanted to see me¡±


    ¡°Thorin, good you¡¯re here. From now on I am going to be your teacher, I will teach you magic and other things you need to know. Firstly I am guessing you know how to open your status screen?¡±


    ¡°Yes I do¡±


    ¡°Good right then do you know how to open your skill list?¡±


    ¡°Skill list?¡± I tilt me head to the side giving him a confused look.


    ¡°hmmmm ok you just need to say skill list and it will come up. Place your hand on this orb while saying it so I can see it as well.¡± Tura pulled out a small looking orb from his pocket and held it in front of me.


    ¡°Ok ¡®skill list¡¯¡± Just as I finish another screen appears infront of me.


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Skill List</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>Bone Gauntlets (Active)


    Everflame Barrier (Active)


    Fire Arrow (Beginer lvl 1)


    Pyrokinesis (Beginer lvl 1)


    Martial Arts of Another World (Master lvl 2)


    Cooking (Novice lvl 7)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    The first thing that I saw was the skill ¡®Martial Arts of Another World¡¯. This must come from my training in muay thai. I started taking classes when I was 8 and enjoyed it so much that I carried on. When I was twelve an old man came and observed one of our lessons. Afterwards he offered to train me in the traditional muay thai rather than the modern competition style. I accepted his offer and he trained me up until I died. He is the only person I miss from Earth.


    ¡°show skill ¡®Martal Arts of Another World¡¯¡±


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''3''>Martial Arts of Another World</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''3''>A fighting style unknkown to this world, strong and deadly there are not many fighters who can match the masters of this style.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    I realise that I am master level 2 in this skill, I am guessing that that is quite high, but if I am a low level master I can¡¯t even imagine what my old master would be. He could still beat me in a spar in less than five seconds back on earth.


    While I was reminiscing about my old master I realise that Tura was staring at one particular skill ¡®Martial arts of Another World¡¯.


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 Chapter 5: Lies, Stories and TIME SKIP!!!

    Tura was staring at my ''Martial Arts of Another World'' skill, he slowly looked up at me and then closed the window.


    "Thorin are you from another world?" He asks looking at me with slight fear and wonder on his eyes.


    Shit shit shit shit I didn''t want anyone to find out that I have been reincarnated, well it looks like my only solution is to lie my ass off!!


    "From what Athreal told me I have been reincarnated or born again. Unfortunately I have very little memories of my previous life, it is more like a dream than anything. Although sometimes certain things are a bit strange. For example, swords and spears feel outdated to me, like ancient weapons!" I completely lie my ass off to Tura as I really don''t want to be always asked questions!


    Tura looks at me for a second, and then continues to speak.


    "So this is your second life and you have very little memories of your last world, and in your world your weapons were more advanced than swords and spears. What about magic in your world do you remember any of the spells??"


    Tura got excited at the prospect of leaning otherworldly magic but I had to burst his bubble.


    "I am sorry but one thing I do remember is that magic didn''t exist in my previous world." Tura looked disappointed but carried on questioning me for the next few hours.


    I ask him not to tell anyone about the fact I am reincarnated and he agrees. He then tells me to come to his office for lessons everyday in the morning and after lunch as this is what his goddess ordered him to do.  After that I head home with Ellena and Oberon have supper and go to sleep.


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    (Ellena POV)


    It has been a week since daddy brought home the strange baby, he has already started talking but not very often. And it only took him a day before he could walk.


    When we go to the temple so Bertha can look after us he doesn''t play with the others, he just sits under a tree or on a chair and just watches.


    I feel bad so I go up to him, I am really nervous and as I approach him I get a foot look at his eyes for the first time, they were beautiful, they looked like the shimmered different colours all the time but occasionally one colour would come out stronger than the others. He realises I am suddenly staring at him and I get really nervous again and then he speaks in a general voice.


    "Hey do you want to hear a story?" I am really nervous but I like stories!


    "Y...yes p..please" he then taps the ground next to him and then starts his story.


    His story is about a pesent girl who is badly treated by he Sep-mother and stepsisters, then the whole kingdom is invited to a ball to find the prince a wife. But the girl is not able to go, and the dress she prepared is destroyed by her step sisters.


    Then a fairy helps her and gives her a dress and a carriage. She then goes to the ball and the prince falls in love with her. But she has to leave as the fairys magic is about to wear off. She looses her shoe in her escape, the prince try''s to follow but couldn''t. After that the prince searches the whole kingdom for her and eventually finds her locked in the basement by her stepmother. The stepmother and stepsisters are arrested and the price and the girl live happily ever after!


    I loved his story, all my nervousness has gone and now I just want to hear more stories and look at his beautiful eyes.


    He then strokes my ears, which feels really nice and smiles at me. From then on I rarely played with the others, instead I stayed with Thorin and listened to his stories and talked with him. While looking at his eyes. He for some reason always stroked my ears but it felt really nice so I don''t mind.


    After a while uncle Tura took him away for a few hours, I was really scared as I though he did something wrong, but when he came back he said Tura was just going to teach him.


    I started to tear up when I heard he would spend less time with me, but he stroked my head and said he would tell me more stories and spend every minute with me when he was not with Tura.


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    (Thorin POV)


    It has been five years since I was reborn into this world. During this time Tura has taught me many things about this world, firstly I believe that it is much bigger than earth and there are thousands of kingdoms and empires. The biggest empire was split up into kingdoms over 60 years ago and they are all fighting for control.


    I also learned that humans are the most numerous of all the species, closely followed by beast men. I also found out that there is huge discrimination between races, especially humans. Half breeds and mixed bloods are looked at as filth, that is why in Russell there are mostly half or mixed breeds. It is a place where they can live in peace.


    As well as teaching me about the world I have been learning magic from Tura, there is Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Ice, Lightning, Light, Darkness, Shadow and finally Space magic.


    Tura tested my affinities and I have high affinity with Fire, not surprising there. But I also have high affinity with earth, lightning and light magic. I have medium affinity with wind, ice and space. Finally I have low or no affinity with Darkness, shadow and water magic.


    Tura told me that to have four high affinity elements was almost unheard of and especially to have fire as high affinity was a first, usually it is low affinity and on extremely rare occasions.


    Tura taught me as much as he could about magic, the history of it the laws of magic and the taboos. I am now so good with my fire magic and control that I have begun experimenting with it. One spell that I have perfected is ''healing flame'' I created it and it is very good at healing, as it stimulates the cells at a massive race to heal themselves rather than the conventional healing magic, which just creates them from magic.


    My relationship with Ellena has not changed, she still is stuck to me whenever I am not in lessons. It is getting a bit embarrassing, after a year of me living with her she suddenly just stared sleeping in my bed. And now can''t sleep unless she is touching me!


    Also Oberon has been teaching me about hunting tracking and survival in the woods as well as skinning, tanning and equipment repairs. I have also killed a few monsters with my bow so I have increased in level a bit.


    I am now about a meter tall my hair is longer but shill short, it is messy and the fire like colour is getting more prominent. I have lost a lot of my baby fat and now I am slim with muscles but they aren''t over defined. This is due to in secret I have been practicing my Muay Thai to that I don''t get rusty and strangely enough I have increased to master level 3.


    I am currently walking through the Temple garden after my lesson with Tura looking for El (Ellena). Suddenly I am tackled from behind and fall flat on my face and someone is sitting on my back.


    "Hehehe I got you Thor!! Can you tell me a story!! The one about The dark knight who saves people from the evil doers!!" (Yes that is b*tm*n)


    She then gets off me and we stand up, she grabs my arm and we start to walk off.


    "Thorin wait we need to speak with you!" I then here Oberons voice and see two others walking over with him, Tura and Kellern.


    "I wonder what Daddy wants?" El muses to herself as we make our way to them.


    "Thorin I believe you are big enough to start weapon training with Kellern." I then look at Kellern who is eyeing me with a serious look. After a few seconds he then speaks!


    "Sunrise outside the east gate, be there!" He says that and then walks off. Well it looks like I am going to start weapons training.


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 Chapter 6: Training, Spy and Choice

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    It is just before dawn and I am now standing outside the east gates of Russel, I am waiting for Kellern to arrive so I can start my weapons training. As I am waiting I decide to check my status, I have put off looking at it for the last few months as I want to see how much I improve.


    ¡°Status¡±


    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td>Name:</td><td>Thorin</td><td>Level:</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Age:</td><td>5</td><td>Gender:</td><td>Male</td></tr><tr><td>Race:</td><td>Fireblood (Sealed)</td><td>Class:</td><td>Child</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles: Divine Blessing Of Athreal, First Of My Kind, Born Of Fire, Unbound,</td></tr><tr><td>Health:</td><td>410/410</td><td>Mana:</td><td>1870/1870</td></tr><tr><td>Strength:</td><td>93</td><td>Vitality:</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td>Agility:</td><td>72</td><td>Intelligence:</td><td>187</td></tr><tr><td>Dexterity:</td><td>121</td><td>Wisdom</td><td>99</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''2''>Status Points:</td><td colspan=''2''>60</td></tr></tbody></table>


    ¡°Hummmm not bad, my strength is about that of a normal human male adult. Not bad for just training and growth.¡±


    I still haven¡¯t distributed my status points, I keep thinking if I come across an enemy who is only a bit stronger than me, I might be able to surprise them if I have a sudden burst of strength from distributing my status points. Anyway skills next.


    ¡®Skill list¡¯


    <table><tbody><tr><td>Skill List</td></tr><tr><td>Bone Gauntlets (Active)


    Everflame Barrier (Active)


    Fire Arrow (Novice lvl 2)


    Pyrokinesis (Advanced lvl 6)


    Earth magic (intermediate lvl 7)


    Lightning magic (Beginner lvl 8)


    Light magic (Beginner lvl 2)


    Wind magic (Beginner lvl 1)


    Ice Magic (Novice lvl 5)


    Martial Arts of another World (Master lvl 3)


    Cooking (Advanced lvl 1)


    Appraisal (Active)</td></tr></tbody></table>


    I have a close look for a minute or two and then realise my martial arts mastery has increased by one. Even though I still have a few things to learn I still have managed to increase my mastery of muay thai.


    I am bored of waiting for Kellern, it is nearly an hour after sunrise so mi decide to start my own training. First I stretch and make sure that I am fully ready for training, I start with a running. So I know if Kellern arrives I decide that running to the edge of the forest and back is what to do, it is about 500m to the forest.


    I do 5 reps and then have a few minutes rest. I then take the narrow stance that I prefer when using muay thai, it is a good stance for attacking and mobility, it is less of a defensive style but that is not my way of fighting.


    I breath out and calm myself like my master taught me, I then imagine my master in front of me just before we spar, I then start my shadow boxing with my masters shadow, as I go in for the attack I can already see what my master would do to defend then counter. I carry on like this with the odd small break every now and then while I wait for Kellern.


    (Kellern POV)


    A few days ago Tura and Oberon came to me and asked me to start to train the boy Oberon found in the forest, at first I refused as I didn¡¯t want a pupil, but those two did not give up and nagged and nagged me until I agreed.


    After I finally agreed they took me to seen Thorin, I have not really seen him since he was brought in by Oberon and I am wondering how to start to train a five year old, he won¡¯t be developed enough to start any muscle training, so I guess I can teach him a few stances and start muscle training in a few years.


    The three of us are making our way towards the temple where Thorin is being looked after by Bertha with the other children. As we approach I see Thorin¡¯s fire like hair but I can¡¯t believe my eyes, he looks like an 8-10 year old human. I thought he was a half-elf, he must have some beastman blood in him as we mature a lot quicker than other races.


    As I get closer I realise why they asked me to train him, he already has well defined muscles on him, and looks like he works out regularly. Oberon had said he had taught him how to hunt and let him come with him quite often. I am interested in training this boy.


    "Thorin wait we need to speak with you!" Oberon calls him over, and he comes over closely followed by Ellena, who seems very attached to this boy.


    "Thorin I believe you are big enough to start weapon training with Kellern." He then looks at me and seems to be sizing me up, this is making me very excited to train this boy.


    "Sunrise outside the east gate, be there!" I tell him where to meet me tomorrow and then walk off as I need to think of how to train him.


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    I wake up an hour before sunrise prepare myself and head to the east gate. I have decided to test the boys patience first, as a warrior patience is very important as rushing in can get you killed.


    I arrive at the east gate and I am surprised to see he is already here, I hide myself and proceed to watch him. To start with he just sat there perfectly still, after a while he started inspecting his stats and then sat there again.


    It is now nearly an hour after sunrise and the boy has still not moved, it is unusual for a boy his age to be able to sit still that long. He suddenly starts to get up. ¡®has he given up?¡¯ ¡®is he going to leave?¡¯. Thinking he is going to leave I prepare myself to stop him at the gate, but then he does something strange, he starts stretching. Some of the poses I recognise as I use them myself but others I see him using are strange but I see how they would be useful.


    After he finishes stretching he starts running, he does this for just under 30 minutes, then he does something even stranger. He takes a weird fighting stance, it is a solid stance I cannot see any openings, then he starts to fight an invisible opponent. I am shocked the moves he is using are some simple and others massively complicated, they use his hands, feet, knees and elbows. I wince at a few moves as I can imagine where they are landing and they would cause a lot of damage.


    I have no idea where he learnt such a deadly martial arts, he is only five but looks like he is a master of this fighting style. It is only just then that I realise that I have been watching him for two hours since he started fighting his invisible opponent. I make my way towards him, he sees me approaching but continues to fight his opponent. Just as I am within talking distance he finishes his practice. He then turns to me and bows.


    ¡°Good morning master. Thank you for teaching me the lesson of patience.¡±


    This brat saw through me so easily!! It seems he really is much more mature than he looks. I start to smile as I know that this boy will be very interesting to train.


    (Thorin POV)


    I have been shadow boxing my old master for two hours. I notice that Kellern is watching me, while trying to stay out of sight. ¡®This must be like some of those movies where they try and teach a young active boy the meaning of patience. Hehe I am going to say something to shock him!¡¯ I am not an idiot my old master already taught me patience so it is not needed.


    I carry on shadow boxing while I think to myself. ¡®I wonder what weapons he will train me in. I have seen people carrying a lot of different types, hammers, axes, swords, spears and even one person carrying a staff which had two blades at each end which were slightly curved, it looked very cool. There are even katana¡¯s but they are not used by many. I think it must be that people prefer the bulkier looking normal swords.¡¯


    After another hour Kellern finally comes over, I thank him for his lesson in patience and enjoyed the look of shock on his face, but when he started to smile I shivered slightly.


    ¡°Where did you learn to fight like that?¡± Straight to the point I see, hmmm what to say well I will give him a partial truth.


    ¡°From my master.¡± Short and truthful. He looks at me for a few seconds, he seems to be analysing me.


    ¡°Where is he?¡±


    ¡°Not around anymore¡±


    ¡°How long did he train you?¡±


    ¡°Too long¡±


    From what I can tell Kellern is a man of few words, he doesn¡¯t show emotion on his face but his ears and tail give him away. For instance I know that my short uninformative answers are annoying him slightly as his tail is twitching and so are his ears.


    ¡°Hmm have you trained in armed combat¡± I have done training for the use of the Krabi Krabong, the are two single edged blades with a slight curve at the end, the handles are guard less, and about half the length of the blade. (AN: Look it up they look cool)


    ¡°Yes a small amount but they were for one on one fights not large scale fights.¡± This again is only partly true as I am very well versed in using the Krabi Krabong dual blades, but their weakness in a large scale battle is that they are made to be used together on the same opponent. ¡®Two blades as one¡¯ that is what master use to say. But I would like to learn other styles.


    ¡°hmmm ok tell me your current level, Strength, Agility and dexterity¡±


    ¡°Why?¡±


    ¡°So I can tell you the best weapons for you¡± He tilts his head and gives a confused look like it is obvious.


    ¡°Level six. 93, 72, 121¡± After I give him what he asks for he blinks a few times and then looks serious.


    ¡°lying will only cause you to suffer.¡± At that I glare at him and don¡¯t answer. I think he gets the message, he then looks like he is thinking. A few minutes later and he gives me my options.


    ¡°Great Hammer, Great Sword, Axe, Great Axe, Halberd or Odatchi¡± What a choice, I guess because of my abnormal strength I am being given heavy weapons, but there are also a couple that will be faster to handle than others.


    ¡®Hmmm what to choose, what to choose. Humph there are a few I want to choose, damn  this is annoyi¡­.. Hang on, Oh I know what to choose now.


    ¡°Can you train me in¡­..¡±


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 Sorry and Whats next!

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    Second during the summer my work gets stupidly busy so I have been working 12+ hours every day with only one day off every 2 weeks. Unfortunately because of this I wrote less often and in my opinion very badly, I didn''t want to post bad chapters hence no releases!


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 Chapter 6.5: Gods and Creation

    There are many Gods that watch over, guide and protect the world of Abraitera. Some just came to be, born from the energies of the universe, forming a conscientiousness initially with any personality, as they live and learn a personality forms, others were the offspring of gods and finally there are the mortals who ascended to god hood. There are many stages that gods can climb as they gain power and understanding of the universe, but only mortals can become Demi Gods.


    When a mortal is born fate gifts each soul a certain power and a certain potential. Fate is not a God, it is the guiding force for all life, it may not be a living being but fate does have a will and ability to interact with the world to guide those that need it. For mortals this is shown through their affinity with the elements and magical potential, but even if they reach their peak as a mortal, they won¡¯t be able to ascend to a Demi God as fate didn¡¯t grant them a Divine power, also known as a divine affinity. Those born with Divine power are exceedingly rare and will be completely unaware of the power the poses as there are no signs, the only expectations to this are the progenitors of each and every race, who always receive a Divine power from fate. Only those that have been granted a Divine power by fate are capable of ascending, becoming the Demi God of that power. (e.g. Demi God of Revenge)


    For a mortal to ascend first they must discover themselves, see who they truly are and accept it completely. This is the most difficult part and the most time consuming. Once they have done this the Divine power within them fuses with their soul, revealing what their power is and enlightenment of what they could truly wield. Now they must master their power until it becomes one with them, once achieved they will gain immortality and ascend into a Demi God.


    Part of the powers they receive are the ability to easily communicate with the gods their power is close too, as well as the ability to travel to the realm of the gods, although this will be unknown to them, but is possible to discover or they are told by a god they are close too.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    Demi Gods are weakest stage of godhood, because technically they have not fully ascended, meaning they are still part mortal. Due to this they can live in the mortal realm, not bound by the rules of the gods. Despite how it sounds they are not that much more powerful than a mortal who has reached their peak power because they are still part mortal, the can be killed by mortal weapon. The reason they are not fully ascended is that complete ascension requires three truths to be discovered. First is the truth and acceptance of oneself, second is finding the truth of their power and mastering it and thirdly the must know the truth of the world, understanding the truth does not matter only that they know.


    The only way a Demi God can discover the truth of the world is when they enter the god¡¯s realm. When they arrive the truth will reveal itself to them, and they will fully ascend into a Lesser God.


    In the gods realm the lesser gods are the lowest ranked and weakest. After them there are the Gods, then the High Gods, then the God Kings, then the God Emperors, then there are the True gods and finally the Primordial Gods, of which there are only 11. One for each of the elements Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Ice, Lightning, Light, Darkness, Shadow, Void magic and then there is the God Of Time Chronos, time is not an element or force, time is time nothing else. Through void magic simple time magic can be used to simple degree, but none other than Chronos himself can control time. These eleven were the primordial gods of this universe, combining their powers with each other they created the world of Abraitera.


    They filled it with basic life and watched it grow into something beautiful. As time passed and more gods came to be they grew frustrated, there beautiful world was thriving but felt incomplete, after discussing it with each other for an untold amount of time, it was decided that each god would create a sentient race in their image and guide their growth. Ten of the gods created a sentient race in their image. Athreal was the only Primordial not to create a species, she really wanted to but she could feel fates influence telling her to wait, and so she did for millennia until she was the only one who hadn¡¯t created a species. Eventually after eons of waiting she felt it, a soul from another universe formed a link with hers, which was meant to be impossible for any mortal or god to do, but not impossible for fate. Filled with happiness as now her race can finally be born into the World.

 Poll!!

    Ok I want to introduce a new character but not sure when to introduce them if at all!


    This is character is a creature that without revealing too much, is basically has a familiar like bond with Thorin. But they are not a familiar. If you vote to introduce them very soon, within the next few chapters, they will have a large and important role in the story. The later in the story you decide to introduce them into the story the smaller their role will be but they will be equally important.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    Option 1: Introduced next chapter


    Optikn 2: After next time skip


    Option 3: When Thorin is fully grown


    Option 4: Much later in the story after the big event that happens soon after Thorin is fully grown.


    Option 5: Don''t introduce this character at all. Screw what you have planned! Lol


    Can''t add poll for some reason so just comment your choice!


    Sorry guys!