《Chronicles of the Sword Dragon》 Prologue One: Life Before Prologue One: Life Before Pressure, that¡¯s all I felt, a slight tingly pressure as I watched myself die. I always knew I wouldn¡¯t die a normal death. You could say that I have come to accept my existence as it is. A colossal mistake. My life started off like any other, born to a middle class parent. We lived in a small apartment in one of the worst neighborhood in Virginia. They did try to get out me of there. It just wasn¡¯t easy. They didn¡¯t hit me or abuse me, but at the same time, they weren¡¯t there. And I don¡¯t blame them. It¡¯s hard to provide for your family in a corrupt world doing honest work. Especially when you find out your kid is a genius and will be one of the smartest person alive. My IQ was recorded at 390 when I started talking and reading at 9 months old. My parents had one of their neurologist friends test me. When it was found out, my parents tried to keep it a secret because they knew if they didn¡¯t I would be taken away from them like a lot of kids had been. So my parent instead spent every waking moment of their lives to make sure I had a good education My father ran his own appliance store, and my mother worked for him. All day they tried to stay afloat as big cooperation¡¯s took over everything. They stayed a little later every night hoping for one more customer. so most of my life I was neglected. It didn¡¯t bother me much. Most kids wouldn¡¯t be able to walk to kindergarten or feed themselves and stay alone by themselves till 12pm at night but I was different, I knew you had to be strong and that no one would give you anything. I had seen kids get bullied at school only to report it but instead of getting help, they are kicked out of school or something tragic happened to them and their parents. Everyone knew what was going on, but no one wanted to step up and help. The days of super heroes was long gone. Now the good people just tried to stay afloat and keep their families safe. It was better to be safe than sorry right?. The bad profited from their hard work and increase their desire for greed and corruption. Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. All this started in the year 3009, when the Dezix cooperation made a breakthrough in micro nanotechnology. It was nanotechnology but more efficient and 1/3 the size but twice the capability. With it, they found the cure for cancer and viruses. Virtually every virus no matter what it was. Soon they began building other companies, monopolizing thee market. Dezix Store, Dezix Hospitals, Dezix Law firm, almost everything you could think of, they had a hand in it. They started buying president and soon countries. Not publicly but over time everyone knew who truly ruled the world. The Dezix cooperation. They were as corrupt as they were rich. To keep a monopoly of their empire, they began abducting children. Strong, smart children, training and using them to further their goals. You might ask what happened to the Cops, didn¡¯t anyone try to stop them. The cops had been bought out. Forget the cops, the Dezix cooperation bought out and owned armies and not from one country but multiple. The good cops and people did try to take a stand at the beginning, however they were brutally and publicly killed to make an example. Back to me, I had a lonely life because of that. I read a lot and trained my body not because I wanted to be strong but because I was truly and honestly bored. I read because I loved books and solving things and I trained to stop thinking. You could not imagine how much information rattled around in my mind per second, so I trained a lot. All forms of martial arts. It was fun for a while. Prologue Two: Death Since I was four, I did the same things over and over. Wake up, read, go to school, come home eat. Run, train in martial arts, read, eat, and sleep. That was my life for 8 whole years starting from when I was 4. I had no reason to stop, or feel the strain of doing things over and over. Most people would have been depressed with the never-ending d¨¦j¨¤ vu. Not me, I felt comfort. Knowing where I was going to be and what I was going to do always proving a blanket of control. All that came to a halt, one Feb morning my Life completely changed. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Running home from school in the pouring rain, excited to go home because today I was turning 12 and like all my other birthdays I knew my parents would be home. It was the only time of the year that they would come back home before I did. Taking the steps two at a time to our apartment, I couldn¡¯t help but feel excited. Even when I ran through the open door it didn¡¯t register that something was wrong. I knew my parents would never leave the door open. No one would considering where we lived but I was too excited to notice such obvious things. ¡°Mom, Dad, I¡¯m home.¡± I screamed as I ran into the house, but all I heard was total silence Just as I turned the corner from the dining room into the Living room, I heard a shrill. It¡¯s a sound that has haunted me for seventeen years. Have you ever had a moment where everything comes to a standstill? While you know everyone is going about their business in the usual speed, but your brain is so overloaded that it slows down time for you to grasp what is happening in that very moment. That how it was for me, turning into the living room. The first thing that registered was that something was very wrong. The living room was a mess. A man with black hair and glasses was talking to a pretty lady with long blond hair right by the television. And as I walked in he turned and look at me while smirking. That was when I noticed my parents. Both on the chair facing each other, both had their hands tied behind their backs. ¡°Max, RUNN!!¡± even as my mother screamed that. The tall guy who I had just now seen, 6ft with blond military haircut and a scar running from his right eye till it disappeared under his shirt was standing behind her, slowly took out his knife as if it were the most natural thing in the world and slit her throat almost as slowly as he took it out. All the while staring at me, as if daring me to go ahead and do something about it. After that, all I remembered was a sharp pains on my neck while I watched my dad screaming my mom¡¯s name over and over.. I was in and out of consciousness. And every time I would come to, my father was sitting in front of me bleeding and screaming. Oh, the screams. Every time the screams were loud enough to wake the whole neighborhood, but no one came to save us. No one had even bothered to call the cops. I had to watch as they cut off one piece of my father¡¯s body one at a time. The first three times was hell. That continued for four days. By the fourth day, my father had stop screaming. It was as if he had exhausted all his strength. The only thing I could hear was a low moan. It wasn¡¯t till I was 25 that I finally understood that the neurologist my parents took me too to get my IQ checked had sold us out. He had gotten fired from his job and without money to feed his family, he had happily sold me and my parents to the highest bidder: Dezix Cooperation and they had in turn sent their three favorite assassins to kill my parents, both as a message and as punishment for hiding me. They were ordered to make me watch, as the butchered my parents in hopes of controlling me and breaking me so that I would be their perfect docile little scientist. Little did they know that would bring about their end.. I pretended to be obedient, and I vowed to myself that I would do so till I saw them all dead. For seventeen years I worked for them, solving their little problem and being their perfect little scientist. Starting from when I was 12 to when I was 29. I was locked up in a bunker somewhere. I never was able to find out where. Mostly because I knew it would amount to nothing if I just left. I worked for them diligently. I produced many things that made them money. Both weapons and medical. I knew I could escape whenever I wanted to. I always knew that. But what about the people that put me here? I could never get to them. They were protected 24/7 by their private military and they were spread all over the world. If I were to kill one of them, the rest would run to their little hole and never come out. The only time way I could kill them all was if for some reason they come together. It wasn¡¯t until three years after I had been abducted that I found out what I wanted to know. That the only time the three Leaders of Dezix were ever to gather together, was if something world shaking had been invented and they wanted a front row seat to look at their precious money maker. So I devised a plan. I had to invent something that would appeal directly to the leaders of Dezix Cooperation. Something that they would not help but risk it all to come see. So I told my supervisors that I had a way to prolong life. Make someone immortal or almost close to it. You see the three heads of the Dezix had make all the money they could ever make but still they would have to die sometime and leave it all. What I proposed was a way for them to keep all the had forever.. It was effective to say the least. The very next day I got more than $200 billion worth of funds from them to run the research and I was to ask for anything I would ever need to make it happen. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. I had this idea that the only reason people died apart from accidents was their life force. Whatever people called them. Chi, Qi, mana. All that was energy which every human was born with, but slowly it would start to seep out of them as they grew older. Some had more than others. That¡¯s was why some people were sick more often and some were never sick. The more you had, the better off you were. I told them I had a way to gather energy with the micro nanotechnology that I had improved on. It would be designed to take energy from everything else, be it the trees or animals even a little off humans for them. The more energy they had, they would never die. It was a sensation, and I didn¡¯t lie. I wanted to create something like this, but I would never give it to those bastards. I planned to overload the system with so much energy that the raw force of the energy itself would blow everyone apart. No messy radiation. In fact plants and animals would thrive there. I had effectively created the world¡¯s first and only cleanest nuclear bomb but only I would know that. For the next 12 years, I spent everything to design and create it. And I finally did, I had a breakthrough. I set the unveiling of the Phoenix Life (what I called my machine) to be demonstrated on my 29th birthday, the day of my parents death as a memorial to them. It was hilarious that the Leaders of Dezix would get to die on the same day they had ordered the deaths of my parent and they were absolutely clueless to it. It was the only joy I had known since my parent¡¯s deaths and I was adherent to hold onto it as long as I could. And I had to in order to tempt them more and make sure every one of them would be there. I advertised that I was so confident in my work that I would be testing it on myself. The day came like any other, I couldn''t help myself. All I did on that day was smile, smile and smile some more. And what added to my pleasure was when the three heads of Dezix walked in with their respective armies and my favorite three assassins. They all took a seat. All the while looking at me and believing that I was so excited that my work was a success. They hadn¡¯t the slightest notion that their greedy lives would end here and I would be the bringer of it. The one to serve justice and free the world of their corruption while they smiled and payed for the weapon of their own destruction. Honestly it was fitting. Strapped in my machine, I felt like a guinea pig on display. I was in an oval room built like a stadium.. I was the only one on the ground floor, as I had instructed everyone to go up to the top floors to watch. It would be disastrous if they found out what I was doing. So I sent everyone up. Strapped in I injected myself with my improved nano, plugged myself in and turned on the Phoenix Life. It took about 10 minutes for everyone to realize that something was wrong. I don¡¯t know what clued them in first, whether it was the shaking of the whole building or the really bright light that emulated from my skin. But everyone began to run to the exits. Even as they ran people began to fall to the ground and immediately turned to dust one after the other, starting from the closest to me. Shots were fired by private armies at people as they tried to get the three bosses out first but before anyone would reach the elevator they had slowly died and the last was the three heads of Dezix, turning to face me as they faced their imminent death. I couldn¡¯t help but smile and wave at them. And at last when every single one of them was dead, all that remained was me watching the dust that filled the whole building drift down slowly like grey snowfalls. As I stood there I was overcome with an intense itching which began on my hands, slowly spreading to my whole body. Wherever it went my skin began to fall off till the intense itching centered around my chest area and the whole place went dark just before a huge fiery explosion went off directly in front of me.. No pain, just pleasure from cleansing the whole lot of scumbags. The last thing I saw as I closed my eyes was the flames which were surprisingly blue being sucked into my body. What Max and the people that were there didn¡¯t know or see was that at the beginning of the show before people started dying. Pure energy being drawn from the surrounding, and from everyone else began drifting to Max, floating and slowly entering his body. All this energy or life force was being drawn to Max which effectively turned everyone else to empty husk void of any energy or life. And without their energy they all fell one by one to the ground and shattering into dust. At the same time, the strong pure raw energy that was circulating around Max and seeping into his body got so intense that his body not being able to handle that much energy began to melt, as his skin fell off piece by piece. But the most amazing thing was that more than half of that energy was absorbed by him. Chapter One: Merge Sorry about the late post. I had some family issues. Still not in the best mind to be writing.. haha but enjoy the new chapter and hopefully, I will post another one later today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pain, all I feel is pain. Struggling to open my eyes, I find myself in a dark room, I can¡¯t see two feet in front of me but somehow I know that this room his huge to the point that it as no end. ¡®Where am I?¡¯ [???]: you are in the halls of reincarnation. ¡°Who are you?¡± I asked as I spurn around looking for the voice I just heard. [???]: sorry, you are not allowed to know that and you can stop spinning now. I¡¯m right in front of you, you just can¡¯t see me.. All I can tell you is that you are here to be reincarnated but there¡¯s a problem.¡± ¡°Does it have to do with me killing all those people?¡± [???]: Yes, but that¡¯s not the problem. The problem is that when you killed them, the machine you created not only ripped their souls or as you call it energy from their bodies. It immediately transferred it to you before you died. Having that much pure energy is the reason you died before the explosion and if we reincarnated you, the same thing would happen again. Get my point? ¡°Is that why I am still in pain after dying? [???]: Exactly why. What you are feeling is soul trying to process and absolve the huge amount of souls that was transferred to you.¡± ¡°And is that bad? Is it going to kill me again?¡± [???]: No. you already died. And no matter how much souls you absolve now, you don¡¯t have a body so you can¡¯t melt like you did. The pain is coming straight from your soul. ¡°You haven¡¯t answered my question. Is that good or bad?¡± [???]: Haha both. For you it is absolutely good, but for those people. No. They have to wait in this void for close to a thousand years to regain the soul force. But for you, you absolved so much that we cannot reincarnate you. ¡°Wait? So what, am just going to be stuck here too?¡¯ [???]: Well yes, but we have a solution that could allow you go be reincarnated if you want. ¡°Hmm okay, that sounds a little too good to be true. What is the catch? And am I going to regret it?¡± [???]: Haha, no you won¡¯t regret it. You can be reincarnated if only you let me cut off half of the soul force you gathered. It¡¯s the only way you¡¯re new body would be able to handle so much soul power. But in return, we will let you keep your memories. It a brilliant plan Right?! Haha, I thought of it. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. ¡°Okay.. two questions before I accept it or not. One: who is this we you keep referring to and two. Is everyone reincarnated to a different world or their former one?¡± [???]: You caught that huh? Well I am not allowed to tell you who we are but for your second question. Yes everyone is reborn to their former world without any of their memories.¡± ¡°Alright thanks. I will accept your offer on one condition that I am allowed to be born into a different world. One that I choose.¡± ¡®I really don¡¯t want to go back to that shitty world. It would be great to go to a place where I can fight with swords¡¯ [???]: Haha, I like you. Done. What world are you looking for? Something with swords and magic right? ¡®Can he ready my mind?¡¯ [???]: You¡¯re thinking if I can ready your mind right? Yes, you¡¯re in my domain so I can. It¡¯s the only place where I can do that. ¡°Well, yes and monsters. It needs to have real monsters, not the human kind.¡± [???]: The human kind? ¡°Yes, human monster. Those humans who do so much evil.¡± [???]: Can¡¯t do that. Everywhere you go, there will be always people to take pleasure in hurting others. But also there are people who always try to do the right thing, like you did in your world. Because of you thousands, even millions of children and families were saved. It only takes the right person willing to do the right thing. All worlds are the same way, both good and bad. But you don¡¯t have to worry, with the amount of soul force you have even when I take half of it, you would still be a very strong person. [???]: I found a perfect world for you and I have also given you a gift that no one else in the world you are going to has. It¡¯s something to help you control your strength and also help you keep you alive. All you have to do is say ¡°Status¡±. Okay, Bye Bye now little human. That last thing I saw was a little kid around 5 years laughing as I slowly lost consciousness -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [th_0v.gif] [th_0v.gif] Done Finally lol Not a Chapter. Poll Unfortunately, i wasn''t able to post a chapter yesterday but one will be up later today. The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. i just want to get your opinion on how the MC should develop. Chapter Two Monster ranking D class C class B class A class Saint class [th_092_.gif] [th_099_.gif] Guess who back. Back again ------------------------------------------------------------- I¡¯ve been in this disgusting goo for almost eight months¡­ serious, was it too hard for him to just get me reincarnated a day before I am to be born. Eight months, or so I think. I lost track after four months, I already when through my 5 stages of grieve.. I just feel bad for my new mother who had to endure my anger stages. It must have been hell, I will make sure to than here when I get out of this prison. This is cruel and unusual punishment, I¡¯ve done everything I could do. From reciting the alphabet to counting to a million and backwards, to screaming ¡°GET ME OUT OF HERE¡± but of course no one hears or answers me. But today is a great day.. I finally see the Light and it is beautiful.. I hulled ass out of there, to the light. I believe I was the fastest baby to ever be born. [Third POV] Somewhere outside a little cottage house at the edge of a very small village, a good looking young man with long purple hair could be seen pacing up and down at a brisk pace. If one was to look at his hand, they would see that he was holding onto the hands of a 3 year old girl with long purple hair as well and blue eyes as she tried to keep up with him. ¡°Father, is mom done yet?¡± ¡°No Veria, your mom should be done soon.¡± ¡°Am I going to have a baby brother or sister?¡± ¡°We don¡¯t know yet swe¡ª Just as he was about to respond the door of the little cottage opened up and an old lady came through.. ¡°Stop that walking up and down young Alon, you are disturbing your wife¡¯s rest. By the way, Sebri is just fine and so is your son. You can go see them now.¡± [MC POV] As I came out, the first person I saw was an old hag, I mean lady who was probably in her eighties looking down on me before handing me over to my mother. But did I care about all of this? No because finally ¡®Air, sweet blessed air.¡¯ I was so happy I started crying. And if the people from my former world could see me now. Grown man crying but I don¡¯t care, I am just really happy I didn¡¯t suffocate in there. Finally just when I stopped crying, the door opens up and man with purple hair comes in with a little cute girl ¡°Veria, come say hi to your little brother¡± ¨CMother I watched as the purple hair man came closer to kiss my mother. Well I guessing this is my father then. ¡°What should we call him?¡¯ ¨C My mother asked looking at me. ¡°Arthur sounds nice.¡± ¨CFather ¡°No honey, how about Maximilius?¡± it sounds better and it suits our son ¡°Haha okay woman. Maximilius Zeurs. My son¡± and then he stared crying, I kid you not. How does a grown man cry?. Even though I cried too and I was a grown man in my previous life, now I have an excuse. I am a baby. What is his?.. weak. I guess I still got my name from my previous life or close to it. So sleepy, I tried to keep my eyes open. The last thing I saw before slipping off to dream land was my mother Serbi. She was young with cute dimples and snow white hair. [Time Skip] I am now six months old, I am currently in our library. I have managed to learn this world¡¯s language but I still can¡¯t speak, I guess my larynx (voice box) hasn¡¯t yet developed. It was a little difficult at first to learn the language because I didn¡¯t know what which word stood for, but one day three months ago, I was finally left alone at home with my little sister who fell asleep. I crawled to the very small library we have. There were only three books there. One was an encyclopedia of some sort about this world while the rest were about magic and about using battle qi. It took me the whole of 2 hours to learn how to read the words and write. The language was sort of a mix between Latin and Celtic. Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. The world is called Erhmos. It is like the fantasy world I used to read about in manga back home. This world is divided into four parts. The north part is called Molor, it is home to the Dragons who love the cold and make their den of the highest peak of the mountains. But Molor not only belongs to the Dragons but also Dwarfs who make their home inside the enormous mountains. Molor is filled with mountains so high that it touches the clouds. The further north you go the higher it goes. The dragons and the dwarfs have a unique relationship. Dwarfs mine the gold inside the caves and offer it to the dragons as protection. They also worship the dragon as gods. ¡®Wow, really? Dragons and their gold. That is real. Hahhaa. I definitely want to steal it when I get strong enough.¡¯ On the south lies the Siest desert which is home to the Beast folk which include Cat, Wolf and a lot more. The Beast folk make their home inside the sand dunes of the desert, only coming up to attack innocent or not so innocent travelers or sneaking into other kingdoms to kill and steal. They are the perfect assassins, which is also not surprising their most popular profession. On the East where I live is the human kingdom of Hethat. Hethat is broken into 3 different kingdoms Leon, Muska, Jerha which ruled by different kings. I live in a little village in Jerha near the ocean. The human kingdom is the most populated and slavery is the most popular practice. The Western territory belongs to the elven folk and demon folk. The western territory is made up of light green forest and luscious green trees and sky blue lakes. It is also horizontally divided into two. The top side Elmror belongs to the Elven folk, elves, fairies and such, while the bottom part Sapri belongs to the dark-elven folk who are also called demon folk. The dark-elven are dark fairies, dark elves. They only difference between elven folk and dark elven is that the dark elven tend to have dark wings and red tails. The dark and elven folk are friendly to each other, as they see each other as family. The elven folk tend to be more arrogant than the dark elven. They believe in their supremacy which causes conflict with the dragons, as the dragons also believe they should rule supreme. The world Erhmos is broken up into for pieces: Molor, Hethat, Siest, and Elmror/Sapri. The world is chaotic. The dragons and dwarfs are united to hating and killing the Elven folk and Dark folk, while the Beast folk have no preference, attacking anyone that crosses into their territory or who is willing to pay enough to have someone killed. The Human kingdom although the smallest, are very arrogant and seem to want to rule it all. One of the reasons the world hasn¡¯t gone into a full state of chaos is because of the Dark forest that is smack in the middle. The dark forest belong to Monster, animals who have absorbed too much soul power either from the world round them or eating their kind. The second is that all races have supreme rulers except for the humans The Dragons have their Dragon god Veltent The Elven and Dark Elves have the Queen Elven Surmi and the Demon or Dark king Dasmrid The Beast folk have their Humorous Beast King Xender The humans on the other have no supreme rulers, but they make it up with their population and their massive armies. ¡®This world seems fun.¡¯ The strong dominate the weak. Honestly I¡¯m not surprised. It seems to be the case either here or back on Earth. I guess I need to get strong quick. I have a good thing going here and I won¡¯t let some idiot kill me or my new family. Closing the book I crawl back to the room lying down as I drift off to sleep. -------------------------------------------------------- [th_084_.gif] Oh yeah, look at me dance. go go. its my birthday lol