《Blessing》 1 Blessing Blessing There are two ways an Angel is born, first there is matting just like many any other races, and then there¡¯s spawning as the originals did. After God created the universe he created a fountain in Heaven, the ¡°Fountain of Light¡±. In this fountain all the positive energy leaked by the many worlds in the universe gathered and eventually when enough amount was obtained an Angel was born. There are three main differences between mother born and fountain born, the first one is that the MB come to the world as babies and follow a normal growth process, while the FB are spawned with the body of an average 10 years old Angel. God made it that way because he thought it would be bothersome to take care of thousands of babies when the originals were born. The second one is conscience and innate soul energy; the babies are in all effects babies, small, noisy, and have small week souls. While Fountain Angels are born with a developed consciousness and high amount of soul energy as a result of the refinement of the energy gathered which gave them birth. The last one is family and friends, it¡¯s quite obvious that a Fountain Angel doesn¡¯t have parents and since the body is that of a 10 year old kid it¡¯s hard to make friends since the other kids had years of advantage to meet and form groups. In the beginning this wasn¡¯t a problem since in average a Fountain Angel was born every a couple of days or at most weeks but as time went on this decreased and nowadays it only happens once every a century or so. My name is Zenith and I¡¯m one of the youngest Fountain Angels in Heaven. After I was born, as it is the tradition, together with all the other 10 year old kids we were sent to the Angels academy where I spent the next 90 years learning about universe, its many races and our role as Angels. This story actually starts when I was taking the final exam to graduate and be finally free of school, it was the hardest and final task ¡°Blessing¡±. Heavens usually are forbidden from interfering with the mortal world except for one thing Blessings, to help the universe prosper an Angel can obtain permission from God to Bless an individual. The individual is analyzed and if is found worth then a Blessing is approved. There are many levels of Blessings: Basic, Average, High, Advanced, Epic, and Heroic, while Basic Blessings such as increase in intelligence or strength are a granted quite frequently, something like Heroic Blessings are granted under unique circumstances and since the origin of the universe only two individuals were granted this kind of Blessings. Not only a huge amount of energy, but also many Archangels have to participate and usually it comes with consequences. The two occurrences where required during the two big wars with Hell, stories for another time. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Back to the exam, four Angles were taking the test and we were supposed to grant a simple Basic Blessing, an increase in sight or strength would do to pass. Each of us was standing in front of a Blessing Crystal, an artifact with the shape if a crystal ball which allows the user to navigate through the many worlds and grant a Blessing to a selected individual. I was randomly moving from one world to another searching for a random someone to Bless when I saw her. In a world called Treim I was watching the Elven villages when I found one undergoing a Demon attack, the village was on fire and the few remaining Elves were running for their lives. Among them a small Elf was crying in front of the bodies of her parents. She looked young, around 7 or 8 decades old, green hair, petite body, and pretty almond eyes currently clouded by tears. The Demons, big black wolfs weren¡¯t paying attention to her and instead were hunting the fleeing Elves. Demons attacks are something common in many worlds, contrary to us they are born from Dark energy and come into existence in many shapes. Though it wasn¡¯t something I hadn¡¯t seen before during classes for some reason I couldn¡¯t take my eyes out of her and without knowing I started pouring my energy into the Crystal. It wasn¡¯t until the Wolves run out of prey that they realized there was a small elf still alive. They surrounded her and were about to attack when I felt it ¨Cdesperation-, I felt I had to something, anything I could do to help her. My thoughts at that moment were to make her stronger and faster than the Demons to give her anything to help her escape and survive, give her two Basic Blessings instead of one but before I realized it I had already poured all of my energy into the Crystal. At that moment a bright light engulfed the Elf and the Wolves around her vaporized, the Crystal I was using cracked before exploding and my sight went black. It was a week later when I woke up in the infirmary that I found out I had caused a commotion in heaven by granting her an Epic Blessing and in the process almost killed myself. What I didn¡¯t know at that moment was that this would be the beginning of our tale. ------------------------------------ Author notes: This is my first novel, inspired by the many novels I read in this amazing forum. English is not my native language so please let me know if I did any mistake! Hope you enjoy the story. Btw, Im accepting recomendations for the picture and summary. 2 Sole Survivor -Yura- Today started just like any other day, dad had gone hunting with the other men of the village and mom stayed with me at home. It was a peaceful morning and I was helping mom prepare lunch when it happened. The door of our house burst open and dad was standing there, his clothes tattered and dirty, he was carrying his bow on his back and his short sword on his right hand was stained with a dark bluish liquid. He was breathing heavily, mom run to him and he briefly told her something which made her face pale. Mon run to the store room and came back with her bow on hand and a dagger on her belt. She took my hand and together with dad we rushed out of the house, it was then when I saw them. Big black wolves had surrounded the town, a pack of 50 or so according to dad, the villagers were running towards the center of the town but some had already died to the wolves whose teeth were stained with blood. When I saw them I froze, and mom had to pull my arm to force me move. We had run past a couple of houses when suddenly a couple of wolves blocked our path. Dad immediately engaged them. I¡¯ll delay them as much as possible, take Yura and run! Mom started to cry but silently nodded, took my hand and forced me to run again. Dad! No!! Come with us please! Honey I love you. He smiled at me and then his attention went back to the wolves. Unfortunately when started to exchang slashes with the wolf on the left the other one ignored dad and came after us. Mom immediately pulled her dagger from her belt . Yura, get into the nearest house close the door and block it with anything you find! Warriors from the kingdom should be arriving soon, hide until they arrive! No! mom please come with me... Do it now! Crying I run into the nearest house and while doing as told, I could hear the sound of the fight outside. Minutes seemed to be hours crying while waiting for mom or dad to come but none did. Finally when I couldn¡¯t hear any more sounds outside I decided to take a look, what I found were two bodies badly injured lying on the floor not far away from the house, and no wolves around. I run to them with all the forces I had left, mom was panting but dad was¡­ unmoving. I was starting to cry again when I heard mom. Sweetheart, shh, please listen to me¡­ pant¡­ pant Mom and Dad love you and will always do, so please go and hide until the wolves are gone okay? pant¡­ pant Everything will be okay, take my dagger it will keep you safe, it¡¯s been in our family for centuries. With her remaining forces she put her dagger on my hand, smiled, and then didn¡¯t move any more. I was there sitting on the floor next to my parents and couldn¡¯t move, I wanted to do what mom told me but my legs wouldn¡¯t answer to me. I remained there silently crying until the wolves returned, having hunted all the elves around they had come back for me. I accepted my destiny, I¡¯d be together with mom and dad but then I felt as if someone was watching me. This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. Mom¡­ Dad¡­ sniff¡­ niff¡­ Somebody, anybody, please I don¡¯t want to die... At that moment a bright light came out of my body and I felt a warmth coming from my heart. The light was so blinding that I had to close my eyes, when I opened them again there were no Demons around, only the sound of houses burning could be heard and a small window blue blocked my view. Eh? No wolves? What¡¯s this blue thing? ....
Blessing of survival
Rarity:Epic
Description:May the week become strong and overcome any hardship life may present. A blessing granted by an Angel. Greatly increases survival capabilities.
Skills:
Last resort light wave Lv.2 20% (Active - EPIC):When hope seems lost the light may open a path. A light wave is generated from the body damaging all Dark Foes around. Damage: Low-med (Light) Radius: 10mts, Charges: 1/2, Recharge time: 300 days per charge. Damage, Radius, charges and recharge time depends on Skill Lv.
Defense Stand Lv.1 0% (Active):Temporally increases defense by 5%. Cost: 50 mana. % and cost increases with Skill level.
Strength boost (Passive):Increases Strength, % increases with User level. Current Increase 10%.
Agility boost (Passive):Increases Agility, % increases with User level. Current Increase 10%.
Vitality boot (Passive):Increases Vitality, % increases with User level. Current Increase 10%.
Defense boot (Passive):Increases Physical Defense, % increases with User level. Current Increase 10%.
Resistances boot (Passive):Increases Resistances to all elements, increases with User level. Current Increase 2%.
Granted by:Angel Zenith
Angel¡­.Zenith¡­ Eh??! An Angel¡¯s Blessing??!! I felt exaction taking over my body and fall to floor. The following morning I woke out to the sound of people talking. When I opened my eyes, everybody shut up and looked at me. Warriors? Did they save the town? Where are Mom and Dad? Child sorry, you are the sole survivor, we were too late¡­ ------------------------- Author notes: So first table, not so prety, I''ll try to improve it later. Let me know if you find errors. 3 Dark times - Zenith- It¡¯s been 50 years since I Blessed her, as punishment for breaking the rules I was assigned to monitoring her for the rest of her life. In mortals standard would be a very long time since Elves measure they ages by decades can leave up to 300-500 years old (3000-5000 human years) but for immortals it¡¯s not that much or at least I was told so, since I am only a little over a century old I can¡¯t tell. It was supposed to be one of the hardest ever imposed punishments, over 3000 years watching a mortal daily life was supposed to be boring as hell, God forgive me, but for some reason I enjoyed it. Some other Angels recently started to address me as the Loly Stalker or similar nick names but I simply ignored them, since I didn¡¯t have many friends it wasn¡¯t that hard. During my watch I got to learn many things about her. First her name Yura Elvengreen, it seems in her family the green hair is hereditary, then that she is around the same age as me ~13 Elven years old right now. Finally some other miscellaneous stuff such as favorite color (green), and favorite food (mushrooms soup), of course during her private time I close my eyes yeah always.. Anyway, the day after she woke up and the Warriors found out about her blessing, first there was chaos (pretty much as here in heaven) and then she was treated as a sacred object which required protection. It seems she kept crying the whole week until they took her to the Elven capital, all of this was told to me by one of my few friends since I was in knocked out at that time. Due to my blessing she was taken to the presence of the Elven Queen, and the council decided she would be taking the Elevens Knights training in order to prepare her to lead a part of the army in the future. I got sad when I heard she was treated as an object but it seems she took the job happily since it gave her a purpose. It was told to her that if she succeeded she would be able to save many children from situations similar to hers. And so she spent the last 5 decades training and still has a couple more until she graduates at the age of 18. Though I enjoyed my time stal.. watching her it¡¯s not the only thing I did, since the wolves attack I¡¯ve been watching around Treim for the source of the Dark force which gave them life, according to what I learnt that amount of Demons appearing at the same time can only mean one thing¡­ The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.But I don¡¯t want to reach a conclusion yet. Today I am checking one of the north continents of Treim as I had done many many times already but something is different, the island I am watching used to be all green without humanoids but I found that pieces of the forest are missing, the trees had been cut and black orcs were carrying them to a settlement, this is the confirmation I was looking for, my fears have come true. From the Angels academy one of the things we are thought about is the life cycle, new worlds are born and old ones die almost daily following this cycle. Summarizing the process consists of, Light gathers and a new world is born, then life forms start to expand and there is a period of peace and prosperity. Unfortunately mortals always end up generating dark energy somehow, be it wars, contamination, or many other possible ways, they tend to be quite creative in this regard. The world keeps gathering this energy and eventually when it can¡¯t bear with it anymore the energy is released. In some cases it becomes diseases or epidemics which kill all life, in others it takes physical form and a so called Demon King/Lord is born. In both cases the world ends up as a desolated ball of earth at the end. Triem is not the exception, the mortal races have been warring for many centuries now and without them realizing the world is now reaching its saturation point. In this very island Demons are now gathering and an ominous felling can be felt from one of the main caves used by the Orcs, it seems their Lord will be born soon. The second big war with Hell was caused due to Heaven interfering in a particular world, Gods favorite. The world was saved but with serious consequences. As a result it was agreed upon not interfering with this cycle under any circumstance, by doing so another war my start. Though now that I have found what is going to happen to Trein, to Yura, I don¡¯t feel at ease. I need to keep her safe. There is not much time left. A couple of centuries at most. The only option I have is to get permission from God to help her again, I don¡¯t know if he will allow me though¡­ 4 Resolution - Zenith- As expected the answer was no to be specific. You¡¯ve done more than enough! I¡¯ll not allow you to cause more trouble, do you want another war to start?! And it went on for a few more hours but that summarizes it. So now I¡¯m supposed to silently watch and wait for Treim to reach its end, Yura has improved a lot but the blessing I gave her is not powerful yet to save her. If only she had a millennia or two to train then maybe there would be a chance but that¡¯s not the case. So I¡¯ve decided, I¡¯ll break the rules once again, even if I¡¯m exiled and become a Fallen Angel I¡¯ll save her. The plan is simple I¡¯ll create a Hero in Treim who will defeat the Demon Lord, unfortunately it¡¯s easy said than done since unfortunately my Blessing ability was sealed after the incident so the only way to do it now is through a Blessing Artifact. So I¡¯ve decided I¡¯ll ste.. borrow some artifacts from the Academy museum and flee to Treim. The artifacts I¡¯m planning to taking with me are:
Creation Seed (SS):When God created the universe he also created these, it allows the user to modify a world to some extent, the higher the lever the more one can change. In this case I plan to use to create S class dungeon where I can hide and wait for a proper Hero candidate to appear.
Celestial Sword (S) and Celestial Armor set(S):The main equipment of the Archangels used during the last war.
Blessing Artifact (Blessing of the Hero) (SS):One of the few heroic Blessings, this artifact is one time use only and God created only 2 when he tried to save his favorite world, this one was the backup plan.
Compendium of Light magic (A):A grimoire with all the known Light magics. Mainly used to teach young Angels, tough it will be useful for the mortal who will become the Hero.
Angel¡¯s Halo (A):An item all Angels have, it¡¯s an all porpoise accessory. Apart from mine I plan to take an extra one.
The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. With list in hand I put my plan in move, in heaven there is no concept of day and night but we have defined times to work and rest. In half an hour the Academy classes are supposed to end and it will be then when I¡¯ll perform the deed. ~ 1 hr later ~ I¡¯ve managed to safely sneak into the museum, actually it was way too easy, it seems since the last war was so long ago the peaceful time has made the Angels lazy. Not many guards were present and the only patrol I saw wasn''t actually patrolling and instead was playing cards in a corner of the museum. I¡¯ve already picked all the items I need and placed them into my Halo, as said before the Halo is quite a convenient tool with one of its many features being storage. And I¡¯m now walking to the old teleporter which was used during the war to warp Archangels around the universe to the many battles. As I reach the room I rush to the teleporter, by now someone must have found out I¡¯ve sto.. taken some of the treasures, you can¡¯t take a SS without alarms going on. Conveniently next to the teleporter there is the instruction manual, strange, I don¡¯t care. Let¡¯s see, activation procedure¡­. there it is. Think of the world you want to warp to and, if any, the specific place which to appear, then pour energy into the crystal in the center of the teleporter. Well that¡¯s quite easy¡­ Since I have already selected the place all that¡¯s left is to go ahead and do it. As I¡¯m filling the Crystal with my energy I see someone approaching though the door, sorry dude too late..!? That not a simple dude, it¡¯s God!? Why is he here!? As I was thinking this white light covers my body and in the next instant I''m standing in the middle of a plain. I don¡¯t waste time and immediately use the Creation seed. The Dungeon I¡¯m creating is a 100 floors one, classified as Legendary, this one is going to be the first one in existence in Treim. As the process is completed and I¡¯m sent to the treasure room as the Dungeon Master I remember God¡¯s face at that time, he was¡­ smiling? -------- Author notes: last chapter for now, setting up the story.