《THE GODS GAME》 The KIller Chapter 1 It was a crisp night. I was walking down the streets of New York just like I normally do. Then I saw her a woman looked to be about 24-47 years old, cream skin, brown eyes but of course none of that really mattered it was her eyes its always there eyes. Hers were hazel with a tinge of blue and at that moment I knew I wanted them. When it comes to eyes it¡¯s not that I can¡¯t resist I can but I just don¡¯t have any real reason to. With that thought in mind I followed her. I was careful though I always am and my patience paid off when I saw her go into an alley. At that moment I ran carefuly so I wouldn¡¯t alert her. And there she was walking barely a foot ahead of where I was standing not aware of the danger behind her not aware of me. I struck, I had already slid my knife out of my pocket and when I struck it went straight into her back. The blood poured out but it didn¡¯t bother me I¡¯m used to it. At the moment she died I twisted her around to see her eyes. It¡¯s always the moment they die that the eyes are the prettiest. And with that with that out of the way I started walking home. If you haven¡¯t discovered by now I am a serial killer. Why do I kill them? Just because, I mean I want to say that it¡¯s their eyes that make me do it. But I didn¡¯t discover how interesting it was to see the eyes of the people I kill until my 15th maybe 16th kill. I could give you plenty of reasons, in fact after I started killing I even made a list of them. Honestly though it¡¯s cause I¡¯m so bored. As I ponder on my thoughts of the latest victim. I finally arrived at my house. My house is a loft it cost around 70,563 dollars. How do I know, I got the money from killing my parents. Now don¡¯t get me wrong I didn¡¯t kill them for the money it was because I didn¡¯t want them discovering my uh habits. I mean I¡¯m only sixteen and a year ago I wasn¡¯t nearly as good as I was now. When I get into my house I can immediately tell there¡¯s someone else in there. Not because I can sense him or any of those crazy reasons. It¡¯s because he¡¯s sitting on my leather couch. I can immediately tell he¡¯s not someone to be messed with. Why because his eyes are black not just the irises but the entire eye. Not just that but the fact he¡¯s slightly floating over the couch. So how do I respond, well theirs only one way of course. ¡°Do you need something from me?¡± ¡°Why yes I would love refreshment if you have any.¡± I walk to the cabinet and take out dear old dads old vintage and pour two cups then I sit on the couch directly across from him after handing him a glass. ¡°So what do you need from me?¡± ¡°You are nothing like others Zion, when they see someone in there house they scream or threaten them but you are taking this quite calmly I like that.¡± If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ¡°Well let¡¯s just say I¡¯m used to strange situations, so if you could be so kind as to tell me who you are what you need.¡± ¡°My name is unimportant. As for why I am here it¡¯s because you were chosen to be part of a game between gods. Now you would normally be taken and would have woke up in another plane with all the other contestants, clueless of how you got there and then would have been given an ability and a mission to clear the game. After that all would have been told that it was the only way to leave is to clear One hundred levels or some other bullshit reason. That however is a lie the plane you will be transported to would really have been a higher plane consisting of 100 different worlds.¡± ¡°Why tell me this?¡± ¡°Because I want you to stop this. This game is just a way to decide the next Elder god. The one who beats it would be able to ascend to godhood while the others will die.¡± ¡°You still haven¡¯t told me why you chose me. To know all this you¡¯re probably a god so you already know what kind of guy I am and what I do.¡± ¡°You even guessed I¡¯m a god you are truly impressive and I do know what you do. But I also know that you¡¯re bored being here and if you help me out I can make your life way more interesting.¡± ¡°You said I¡¯m already a contestant in this game of gods. How could you make that more interesting?¡± ¡°I can let you choose your own ability. Normally there completely random but I can make a special exception for you. I can also give you information that would give you an advantage over all the others and all you have to do is help me.¡± Well I am bored so what the hell I guess I¡¯ll do it. ¡°I accept your deal.¡± ¡°Perfect¡± he says with a brilliant smile. ¡±Now as for what you have to do. Each world will have a gatekeeper you need to beat to get to the portal leading to the next world. The gatekeepers have a very special core. You have to take at least ten of the stronger ones. As for the stronger ones you¡¯ll be able to tell which ones are stronger and which ones aren¡¯t by the color. The ones you need will be half black and half gold. Now listen closely when you get to the final portal in the last world throw them in and the gate will close. After that your done.¡± ¡°And here I thought it would be hard.¡± I say sarcastically. ¡°Well now I¡¯ll give you all the information you need. But first you have to choose a power.¡± ¡°Where finally down to business. Well for the power I need something original something exceptional I want- ¡° Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The room I woke up in wasn¡¯t my own. At first I was surprised but remembering my conversation with that god yesterday I start to calm down. After that I start to check around the room. Honestly it¡¯s completely plain. The only thing in here is a bed, a door and white walls. No use staying in here and with that thought I open the door. The door opened to a hallway. It seemed to lead on for about ten minutes before it opened up to a gigantic room. The ceiling looked to be thousands of feet high and the room looked like it could easily house Hundreds of thousands of people and it was doing just that. There seemed to be thousands of people in the room and even more looked to be coming out of hallways just like I did. Strangely though even the oldest in here didn¡¯t look to be out of their teens and the youngest looked to be around ten. After ten minutes when the room looked to have at least Five-hundred-thousand people and the amount of people coming out seemed to calm down a giant head appeared over the crowd It had no hair, no nostril, a slit for a mouth, one golden eye and another black eye honestly I¡¯m not really sure it could be considered a face. After a minute or two it opened its mouth and started speaking what would later be known as the First message. ¡°WELCOME CONTESTANTS YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BE APART OF THE GAME OF GODS. YOU WILL TRAVEL THROUGH 100 DIFFERENT FLOORS EACH ORE MAGNIFICENT THAN THE OTHER. YOU WILL BE GIVEN MIGHTY ABILITIES¡­.¡± Honestly this is going just as the god said it would so I start ignoring the giant head and instead focus on the crowd. After observing their reactions I find the normal fear, surprise, shock. However I did find a few oddities. There were some people just observing like I was and others who seemed to be enjoying themselves. There was one girl who especially stood out to me. She was about 5 foot 4 and had pink bubblegum hair her eyes were blue and her skin was a nice caramel. Her eyes were nothing special but what really stood out was the look inside them. It was madness. How do I know this, because I¡¯ve seen it in one of my victim¡¯s eyes before. She stood out because she laughed while I killed her. Well anyway it looks like the giant heads speech is over. Then a door appeared. Well even though I say door it was more like a ramp and from the looks of it I can guess It leads to the first world. As if to confirm my theory everyone started at the door and a series of bouts to get out followed. Well that¡¯s enough for me and with that I return to the hallway, I didn¡¯t even get three feet before a thought popped up in my mind ANATOMY MANIPULATION. I was taken a bit off guard till I realized it was just the name of my ability. That¡¯s right anatomy manipulation in other words the complete control over your body. Well it has some other parts to it but I¡¯ll get to that later. Right now I have to follow the weird gods advice from last night. Flashback ¡°Anatomy manipulation huh it¡¯s an interesting ability well at the very least one that I¡¯ve never saw being chosen. However if you¡¯re going to choose that you¡¯ll need to train it for a while. No need to worry though I know just the place. To test people in how far they¡¯ve gone in their powers every ten worlds will have a place to train.¡± This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. ¡°How do training centers work?¡± ¡°Good question. You see all abilities need energy to use them. The more you have the more you have the stronger your ability. Of course the more you use the ability the more your energy grows. But training centers give you unlimited amounts of energy so you¡¯ll be able to practice as long as you want to there. ¡°And the gods just give you the information to these training centers.¡± ¡°Nope normally you have to find it but I¡¯m going to do you a favor and give the information to you. The center automatically appears in place of your room the second time you go in. Take your time most people will be in a rush to get to different worlds so if you get stronger now you¡¯ll be better off later.¡± End Flashback So my first goal is to master my power then I can enjoy the world. Arriving at the end of the hall I finally enter the door. Honestly it¡¯s nothing I like I thought it would be. It¡¯s a meadow that stretches on as far as I can see. However theirs this feeling here, I can feel this energy here coursing through my body. I instantly sit down and feel for it. I can feel everything from my bones to the thumping of my heart. I concentrate on my hand and imagine it growing bigger and it actually does. I then will my nails o become sharper longer and they do now my hand looks just like a claw. Thrilled with myself I move my hand to fast and the nails cut me. Its actually a pretty deep cut. Blood starts spilling out and I get an idea I imagine the blood moving upward and it does. Then I imagine it being hard. To test the hardness I try to cut the blood with my claw to my surprise the nails are stopped. The cut is actually staring to hurt now and I¡¯m getting dizzy from lack of blood. To stop the dizziness I make all the blood come back into the cut. I then imagine the cut closing and the skin actually closes and all the pain goes away. At that moment a gust of wind passes around me and a thin blade of grass that blows by me. The wind quickly blows it out of sight and that¡¯s when an idea strikes me. I will my eyes to see farther and I can actually see the blade of grass out of hundreds of others not to mention the fact that it¡¯s probably hundreds of yards away. After that I experiment with all my senses and I¡¯m amazed at the reaction. I¡¯m practically able to feel in every direction. It¡¯s like my senses have grown so far that they have been made into a sixth sense that lets me see everything around me . After that I tamper with my bones making them harder than steel. I change muscles making them hundreds of times stronger. I morph my body into hundreds of different shapes and experiment and experiment. Just like that a year passed and I was ready to go Chapter 3 Chapter 3 After I leave I quickly make my way to the exit wanting to enjoy the world I¡¯ve missed out on for a year. At my speed it only takes me moments to get to the exit. Leaving the sight outside only slightly surprises me. It¡¯s a meadow just like the training center. However with my sixth sense I can see that this meadow only goes on for a mile in every direction. However after that there are vast differences. Directly in front of me is a normal town. The majority of it seems to be made of wood and is pretty bustling with people. Off to my left is a town on an ocean. It looks like the town is literally made out of solid water and is inhabited by people and what looks like mermaids. Honestly it¡¯s pretty intriguing. To my right is a city made out of earth. It kind of look like a giant mountain turned into a city however something seems to be blocking me from looking at the inhabitants. I weigh my choices on one hand those other cities are pretty interesting on the other hand I could use some information about the world I currently live in and the normal town would be best for that. Hmm for now I¡¯ll go learn the information of what I missed the past year and then go enjoy myself at the other towns. After experimenting on my muscles for the past year travelling a mile doesn¡¯t even take me a minute. Funny thing about my muscles instead of being bulky there all lean and compressed. It took a while to learn which muscles to increase to get such an effect but I worked it out. I¡¯ve also increased every muscle on my body so I have relatively no fat, but to others I probably just look like a really muscled skinny guy. As for my face I completely redid it. Before I had spiky hair, brown eyes and a round face. I wouldn¡¯t say I was handsome but I guess I was relatively above average. Now I have a sharp jaw line, spiky hair, and heterochromia eyes. As in my eyes completely change colors. Sometimes hazel, blue, purple, violet you name it. I only let it change every couple hours though that way I¡¯ll avoid attention. However that¡¯s going to be pretty hard now that I look like a complete stud. Frankly I¡¯m not even sure how I came out this way. Well anyway I had finally arrived at the town and it looked just like a fantasy. The people were all bustling about just like a normal town but there were some distinct differences. Like some guy was mad entirely out of rock, a girl with her hair on fire, some kid who couldn¡¯t be older than twelve was flying from roof to roof of stores delivering packages. There were two men who looked exactly alike yelling ¡°spirit stones only fifteen crystals¡±. A woman yelling ¡°Will enchant weapons, best enchantress in town get your weapons enchanted while it¡¯s still cheap ¡°followed by a rush of people going to her stall. I thought the speed I was going would attract a bit of attention when I showed up. I only got a few glances and I heard comments like another speedster and he looks cute from girls passing buy. First I need a source of information and I knew just how to get it. By randomly walking around, and that¡¯s what I did I walked and looked at the sights. It¡¯s actually amazing that all this was made in a year. I mean this town had everything from some glowing rocks that were called Holo-phones that let you see who you were talking to Holo-maps that let you could actually picture where you wanted to go and the map would show you a hologram of it. I¡¯m currently standing in front of said Holo-map trying to make the map work so I can find the portal to the next world when I¡¯m rudely interrupted by the owner of said map. ¡°Excuse me if you¡¯re not going to buy it then could you leave.¡± Glancing at the owner of the voice I saw a red haired girl with short hair, freckles and big brown eyes, hmm she¡¯s actually quite cute. ¡°Ah yes could you be so kind as to point me in the direction of the portal that would be great.¡± She raises her eye brow ¡°How can you not know where the portal is they made a huge deal when they found it. You must¡¯ve been living under a rock somewhere.¡± ¡°Yeah I¡¯ve been training. Haven¡¯t had a chance to really explore yet so it would be amazing if you could tell me where it is¡± I said in my nicest voice. She actually looks a bit freaked out from my nice voice which honestly isn¡¯t surprising. I remember when I used it on one of my rowdier victims one time and to my shock she started to scream more. I¡¯ve never been good at socializing it¡¯s one of the reasons I was a loner. ¡°Sure just don¡¯t talk like that again also you have to buy a map¡± she adds huuriedly. ¡°I can do the first thing but I kind of don¡¯t have any money¡±. I say with an awkward grin. ¡°Of course you don¡¯t¡± she says voice dripping with sarcasm. ¡°No money no idea where the portal is your just one unlucky little soul aren¡¯t you.¡± I¡¯m actually pretty tempted to take the map and kill her but I''ve always been a levelheaded guy so I won¡¯t do that instead I¡¯ll wait until tonight and kill her I think walking away from the stand. After leaving the rude girl and walking for a bit a girl approached me. She looked to be around thirteen or so and was crying looking ruffled. ¡°Help there hurting my older brother she says tears streaming down her face.¡± Honesty I can already guess where this is going but as this will be a good chance. I play the good guy for a bit. Patting her shoulder I deliver the clich¨¦ line ¡°I¡¯ll help tell me where he is.¡± She actually looks surprised but she points at an alleyway and starts walking toward it motioning me to take the lead. As we get in the alleyway I notice it¡¯s big, and has several exits breaking down into paths nut no brother I put on my sixth sense and of course I see people hiding in the paths. ¡°Good job¡± says a deep voice. Looking behind me I see the girl being given what looks like crystals and then without even casting me a glance she runs out leaving me with a giant dude with a pure black mask. At this moment everybody steps out of the exits in the alleyway and I¡¯m surrounded by if my count is correct which it always is fourteen people. ¡°Listen man all you have to do is drop the threads and you¡¯re free to go¡± This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. Looking down at my clothes I can understand why he would want them. I was wearing plain black plants and a blueish black shirt. However they were seamless and looked like it was made out of silk. Over that I had a jacket but it shined metallically. Lastly were my shoes which looked like an expensive pair of Sneakers and were a mixture of metallic blue and black. Al in all I looked badass. The secret though is that all these clothes were made out of my skin and the metallic colors that probably ignited this attack were just my bones. Of course all my clothes were reinforced with my bones but I had to work extra-long on getting that metallic color. Frankly I knew the girl was lying about her brother and that there were people waiting for me before I even walked into the alley. Why did I come in anyway? It¡¯s obvious really to gather information. ¡°No.¡± ¡°Listen man no one will be able to hear you we got a barrier set up over the whole alley. So just drop the clothes and be on your way.¡± ¡°Is the barrier what¡¯s making the alleyway seem bigger¡± I say looking at the alleyway obvious in size then from when I came in. ¡°Yeah now are you going to drop the clothes or are me and my friends going to have to persuade you.¡± Grinning I reply ¡°I think I¡¯m going to need some persuading.¡± He grins back ¡°I¡¯m glad to do the persuading. Everybody attack!¡± Instantly I turn on my sixth sense and look at all their positions. Then from the side I feel somebody creeping up on me even though I don¡¯t see anybody there. I grin then rush to where he is nails already extended any cut his throat in half. Before he falls I grab his arm and throw him at the nearest person. They already put a shield up and the body crashes into it. To bad when I slit his throat I turned him into a bomb by messing with his chemicals. BOOM! The shield person and someone next to them are instantly blown to bits. ¡°Eleven left c¡¯mon someone give me a challenge.¡± Too bad I¡¯m not waiting for one I think rushing into the nearest person. They try to stop me buy making boulders out of thin air and throwing them at me but at my speed it barely even registers as a threat. Within seconds I¡¯m in front of them but instead of using my nails I extend a bone out of my wrist and stab it straight through his heart. ¡±Ten left.¡± Seeing an attack come from rear flank I slightly bend and it fly¡¯s past me but miscalculating it brushes past my cheek leaving a small cut. Turning around I see someone hovering balls of water that are spinning at insane speeds. Not even waiting for their next attack I flick the blood off my finger after making it sharper and it passes through there skull. ¡°Nine¡± By now everyone has already spread across the alley. Except for the first guy I saw give the girl the money but me and him probably have the same idea. Saving each other for when the small fry are dead. I¡¯m actually getting tired of this fight so I start morphing my body. First my feet into a more cat like shape increasing agility of course the shoes originally being part of my skin morph with them Then I retract my bones and morph my hands into claws and bend down just like a cheetah would and strike. I move faster than ever just as someone decided to shoot a flame thrower at me from their hands, but instead of attacking them I jump on the wall running on it on fours just like an animal. I bounce off the wall and changing my teeth into fangs bite off their throat. Before they even hit the floor I¡¯m jumping on to the next person and then back to the wall then next then wall. I¡¯ve already taken out six before someone had the bright idea to collapse the wall I was running on. The wall collapsed right on top of me and with my sixth sense I saw the remaining three with grins on their faces thinking they had killed me. The walls didn¡¯t even hurt me being as though I was harder than steel and when I emerged from the rubble back into my regular form. I could tell they were shocked. ¡°Three.¡± They nodded their heads and simultaneously attacked me. One shot blades made of shadow at me and the other sent giant extremely sharp rocks at me. This time I didn¡¯t even bother to dodge and let the attacks hit me full on. ¡°Bang!¡± The rocks didn¡¯t even scratch me but surprisingly the shadows did. As a reward I used the blood to kill the one who sent the rocks by flinging blood through their head while I let the other off with just flinging it through the arms and legs so they couldn¡¯t move. Of course my wounds instantly healed themselves. After that I turned to the giant guy who hadn¡¯t moved the entire time. ¡°One left hope you¡¯re ready.¡± ¡°You¡¯re not going to kill the other one.¡± ¡°Nope as a gift for injuring me I¡¯m going to let them live.¡± I was hoping for some more banter but what felt like a giant wall rammed into me. Realizing he was the one using the barriers I decided to use my sixth sense, I was able to dodge the next one, but they kept on coming till I was starting to feel my bones crack a little. They would regenerate but the process kept repeating and it was irritating. Enough is enough. I put my hands out blocking the barriers but my arms cracked from the pressure. Ignoring the pain I used that moment to spread them out. I morphed my skin and black wings as long as my body spread out from my back and with one great flap I flew into the sky. He looked frustrated at that and I knew he couldn¡¯t reach me and so did he. ¡°So what if I can¡¯t reach, you can¡¯t get through my barriers so what are you going to- Before he finished one of the people I killed got up and started strangling him I took that moment to fly down and slit his throat with my nails. Releasing my control over the dead guy¡¯s blood which I was using to move him I walked over to the one I didn¡¯t kill. Removing there mask I saw a familiar sight the bubble gum haired crazy eyed girl from the room with the giant head. Before I could even respond she kissed me. Chapter 4 Chapter 4 As she kissed me I felt something rush into my body then as if being directed it rushed straight to my heart. With my control over my body it didn¡¯t take me long to stop it and push it out but the process was extremely painful. I had to push it out of the nearest open entrance in this case my mouth. The substance obviously didn¡¯t want to leave though and tore up several important organs on its way. By the time it finally made its way out of my mouth there was a bunch of blood mixed with what looked like liquid shadow. The shadow wasn¡¯t done though and tried to attack me. I had to crush it with the blood it was mixed with. Looking up at the culprit she was¡­¡­ gone. I could just stretch out my sixth sense and find her but I don¡¯t feel like chasing her. Instead I go to look for the girl who pointed me into the alley. How will I find her, I left some blood on her shoulder when she first approached me. Fun fact about my blood I can locate it and control it. Not just mine but others to that¡¯s what I did to the dead guy who I killed. I could¡¯ve used this ability to control the people I was fighting but I was curious how just my body would do in body. It was actually disappointing that they didn¡¯t even make me use a fifth of my power. But before I leave I have to clean up this mess. With the barrier down people will be able to tell what happened soon so I have to do this quick. With one hand I pulled all the blood out of there bodies through the injuries I made and into a ball. The ball was way bigger than I expected but I simply compressed until it was the size of a golf ball. Then I cut off a piece of my skin with my nail and wrapped it around the ball then I changed the color of the skin to black leaving me with a plain looking ball which I quickly put in my pocket.. Then I had to concentrate for the next part. I felt for each of their bodies and slammed them into each other crushing them and compressing them until I got a small square which I put into my other pocket. For some reason I have to concentrate if I want to move other peoples bodies a fact that I¡¯m quick to remember. Satisfied with my work I leave the alley but not the way I come in. No I leave by flying into the air and straight to where the blood I placed on the girl is. It would only have taken me a minute to get to the girl but I decided to enjoy my flight. I even came up with an idea for my wings as I closed in on her location sharpening my wings. As soon as I give them a barely noticeable but extremely sharp bone blade covering my speed quadrupled. After that I instantly arrived at my location and I landed in front of a simple town¡¯s house quickly retracting my wings of course. Going for the knob the door was locked but I just pulled a little blood from the blood ball in my pocket sharpened it and shot it straight though the lock. I did this all nonchalantly of course so I wouldn¡¯t be noticed. In fact I probably looked like a wierdo just randomly moving his finger around. Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. Going for the lock it opened easily and I stepped in. Normally someone would have made noise but with my precise control of my body my steps couldn¡¯t be heard. Before I walked up the stairs I concentrated on my hearing making my ears there times more sensitive to sound. I heard two girls¡¯ voices one was the one from the alleys and the other didn¡¯t know but from the content of their conversation I could guess. ¡°Claire these injuries go straight through your bones.¡± ¡°Wasn¡¯t my fault that guy was a monster his whole body kept doing strange shit and he even transformed into a monster. Even the boss didn¡¯t stand a chance against him.¡± ¡°And yet you got away. That¡¯s pretty lucky.¡± ¡°Nah what¡¯s lucky is that he let his guard down otherwise I¡¯d be dead I even had to use my shadow to carry me here. I wonder what someone that powerful is doing on this floor.¡± ¡°No idea but I¡¯m done healing you c¡¯mon try moving.¡± ¡°Thanks a bunch Skyler but with the team dead it would be best for us to go back to a higher world get your stuff ready.¡± At this moment I decide it would be best to reveal myself. ¡°Hello my name is Zion nice to meet you.¡± The expressions of shock they showed was actually pretty amusing but the shadow girl who I¡¯m guessing is Claire quickly bounced back and pointed her hands at me. ¡°Hey I¡¯m not here to fight I just want some information. I would¡¯ve got it before but someone just had to run away.¡± The other girl Skyler stood up. ¡°What do you want?¡± ¡°As I said before I want information and your crystals of course.¡± ¡°Claire go get the crystals I¡¯ll watch him.¡± ¡°Watch me, that¡¯s amusing but If I was you I wouldn¡¯t be so feisty if I was you. I¡¯m still feeling a bit twitchy from our kiss earlier.¡± Her face was a mixture of terror and disgust it was actually pretty funny. Just as I was about to make another comment the girl Skyler came up to me with a bag of crystals. ¡°That¡¯s all you wanted you can leave now right,¡± ¡°Yup I just need some information now I said sitting down with the bag.¡± ¡°What do you need to know?¡± Claire said. ¡°Oh just this.¡± And before she could react the bone in my pointer finger extended and went straight through her eye. Chapter 5 Chapter 5 ¡°Noooo! Why, there was no need to kill her.¡± ¡°Shut up she¡¯s still alive but if you keep complaining she won¡¯t be.¡± ¡°What are you doing to her?¡± ¡°I¡¯m looking through her memories.¡± Yup that¡¯s one of my abilities reading memories. Of course I need to be touching the brain to do it and if I even slightly make a wrong move I risk killing her instantly but I think it¡¯s worth it. How did I find ability like this training by myself? Well let¡¯s just call it a fortunate accident. ¡°Why would you do that if you need information? You could have just asked us for what you needed. I mean do you really think we would have lied to you, you¡¯ve already proven you could kill us.¡± Why did I do this? That¡¯s a good question. To her it probably looked like it was for revenge or maybe she just thinks I get a kick out of it. But both answers wouldn''t exactly be wrong, but It was her eyes that made me do it. They had the same madness in them even when her face was distorted with terror and disgust her blue eyes never lost that look of madness. I was simply intrigued enough to want to find out why. That¡¯s when it happened, the rush of memories. First thing I saw was her childhood but I ignored that it wasn¡¯t interesting enough to care. Then I saw her growing up ignored that. Finally I got to the good part. Then I was done. Long story short her father went insane after her mother died so he decided to throw his daughter in the basement. After being tortured and beaten for a year she finally got a chance to turn the tables on him. How does she proceed from there? By beating and torturing him for a year of course. Shortly after he died from malnourishment the police busted in and she was taken to an asylum. That didn¡¯t go so well though and before long she burns down the whole got damn asylum after killing half the staff. Fortunately for her one week before she was to be sentenced to death she got transported here. Honestly I like her. With that thought retract my finger, I could take the information about the portal but I kind of want to get that from Sky over there and yeah I gave her a nickname. ¡°I¡¯m done. Claire starts gasping causing sky to rush over to her. After a few more gasp she manages to get out a few words. ¡°What was that.¡± ¡°Oh did you live through your memories too I gotta say that is one hell of a track record you got there.¡± ¡°You went through my past.¡¯ ¡°And you attempted to kill me I think where even. Now for that information.¡± ¡°You went through her memories and didn¡¯t find what you were looking¡± for she says incredulously. ¡°I¡¯d rather get that from you Sky.¡± ¡°Alright what do you want to know.¡± ¡°All kind of things really like what are crystals worth, where is the portal, how many worlds have been reached so far but right now what I want to know is will you survive the experiment I¡¯m about to try out on you.¡± At my last words they both try to react but I simply raise my hand to make them stop. ¡°Here¡¯s the deal if you survive the experiment you get to live. This buy the way is not up for discussion unless you want me to kill you now. Well you can think about it this way I¡¯m giving you a chance at life which is more than I can say about you for pointing me into the alley.¡± After glancing at Claire and having what looks like a discussion with their eyes she responds rather resolutely. ¡°I¡¯ll do it.¡± ¡°Perfect.¡± I go into my pocket and pull out the white square made out of dead people. After breaking off a fifth I tell her to take off her shirt. After taking it off she leaves on a black bra. Motioning for her to take it off her face starts to harden but then she takes it off revealing a nice set of tits not to small not to big pink nipples but that¡¯s not want I want from her. Taking the small square I put it on her chest and making her skin spread apart with my ability it sinks in. You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.After a few moments she starts screaming but I rectify that by sealing the skin on her lips. Pushing my sense into her body I watch fascinated as the square starts breaking apart in her body hardening her cells. Uh oh I think and start moving the square to her bones after a while of moving it from one to the other all her bones are hardened then I have to move it to her muscles. From one muscle to another I repeat the process just like with the bones. Now that her muscles are hardened she can¡¯t move so now the fun part. I force the blood to go through each of her muscles tearing them but allowing her to move. The process seems to be way too painful though and she starts convulsing and having spasms. I start regenerating the torn muscles but I don¡¯t think I¡¯m going to finish before she dies which I don¡¯t have any problem with but I don¡¯t want to fail the experiment. Right when I think her hearts going to give out I finish but she just barely manages to hold on to her life. Unsealing her lips I can¡¯t help but make a sarcastic comment. ¡°Well that wasn¡¯t so bad was it.¡± She really looks like she wants to kill me for a second but she faints before she can make the attempt. ¡°Is she okay?¡± ¡°She¡¯s fine.¡± After saying that I start trying to sense the extent her body was changed but Claire takes that moment to speak up. ¡°How much of my memory did you see?¡± ¡°All of it.¡± ¡°And yet you¡¯re not surprised or freaked out.¡± ¡°Hah I¡¯ve killed hundreds more people than you and I¡¯m not exaggerating when I say hundreds. Your little skirmishes don¡¯t even compare to mine.¡± She looks a little interested by that. ¡°Who are you? No better yet what did you do to Skyler?¡± ¡°I uh modified her and she should wake up later. As for who I am, not important. What¡¯s important is you answer the questions I had earlier. You do remember them right?¡± ¡°Ah yea crystals are the currency used. Each crystal has rings of color in it. Each color is worth a different amount. Pink-1, Blue-10, Green-100, Orange is 1,000 and so on. There are more but there only used by guilds and warlords.¡± ¡°Guild and warlords?¡± ¡°There groups of people who explore higher floors or regulate towns. There basically the government unless a town is ruled by a local warlord who normally rules by a group of strong fighters. Since this is the first town all guilds agreed this was to be a neutral town. As for the portal if you go keep going straight from out of town you¡¯ll be able to get to the first portal. Lastly sixteen worlds have been traveled to so far. How do you not know these things it¡¯s been a year since we got here?¡± ¡°That¡¯s also not important, but what is that she wakes up so that we can go.¡± ¡°We! What do you mean we?¡± ¡°Well from your conversation earlier you¡¯re leaving anyway I see no problem with you escorting me. Now I¡¯ll be right back and don¡¯t try to lave I don¡¯t feel like tracking you down to kill you. Oh and Sky over there will a bit sturdier when she wakes up so be careful.¡± ¡°Where are you going?¡± ¡°To finish exploring, I was interrupted earlier remember.¡± ¡°But its night out.¡± ¡°Yea and that¡¯s when the real fun comes out¡± and with that I walk out the door. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If i can get Five reviews or ten ratings ill post a bonus chapter Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Since ancient times the night has been something people are afraid of. It¡¯s a pretty common thought but it¡¯s also one of the world¡¯s biggest misconceptions. You see the night is when those who have no place for it are afraid. However there are those who aren¡¯t. There are those who bathe in the night live in the night and those are who I¡¯m looking for. While I leave the apartment I change my face to have brown eyes, a round face, and brown long hair. After I leave the apartment I spread my wings out and fly over the city increasing my eyesight I look down trying to spot what I¡¯m looking for. It takes me a while but I find it in another section of the city which I¡¯ve decided to call it since its way too big to be a town, are a group of people ganging on some random guy in a back street where no one can see them. There were about four of them and three had him preyed against a wall while another was standing a god five feet way presumably on lookout. Landing I decided to test out how sharp my wings are by twirling them at their necks while I land. They don¡¯t even notice me till my wings connect with their bodies but by then it¡¯s too late and their heads hit the floor. The lookout finally notices me but I stretch my hand over to him and enlarge it to the size of his body crushing him but careful so I don¡¯t kill him. Then I leave a piece of skin on his moth hardening it so he can¡¯t scream. After all I¡¯m going to need him alive to question him. Looking at the guy I rescued he has a horrified but grateful look on his face. Honestly nothing stands out on him at first glance average face, average eyes, and nothing at all to remember. Something seems off though using my sixth sense I discover something else entirely. The puny weak person is nowhere to be seen and instead I see a chiseled guy with green eyes and long brown hair. On his back is what looks like a sword and his expression isn¡¯t what it was before but instead is annoyed. Looking back in forth between my regular sight and my sixth sense I¡¯m sure of it. ¡°An Illusionist right?¡± ¡°Oh you even knew that but you still killed them you¡¯re a pretty interesting guy.¡± In reality I didn¡¯t know what was going on but I could guess this guy want in any real danger. That however isn¡¯t what I killed them for. I simply need to know who control the thugs in this territory. I¡¯d ask Claire but from what I can gather they were probably an independent group from a higher world. ¡°So why were you pretending to be scared of them?¡± ¡°I¡¯m looking for the boss of this territory I figured if I let these guys take me to him then I would be on the fast track to meeting him¡± he says dropping the illusion ¡°Well then it seems for now our goals align.¡± ¡°Is that so? Then I¡¯m guessing you got a way to bring back the dead otherwise we are royally fucked.¡± ¡°I left the one over there alive so we can get the information from him.¡± ¡°You think hell talk.¡± ¡°Yeah I can be pretty persuasive.¡± First I remove the hardened kin from his mouth. ¡°Listen I¡¯m going to ask you some questions and you¡¯re going to answer them.¡± ¡°I ain¡¯t telling you nothing and if you think you¡¯re getting away with your wrong, the boss is gonna kill you.¡± Honestly I¡¯d rather just go in his brain and take the information but then the illusionist would see. I could kill him but his ability could come in useful. So proceeding directly to the torture I put one hand over his mouth sealing it and use the other to make a cut in chest with my nail. Then I put my finger in his cut and kept pushing in until I reached his heart. I concentrated on the heat in his blood flowing from his heart and started increasing it letting the heart take it to every part of his body. After ten minutes of what probably felt like burning alive I stopped. Removing the hardened skin from his mouth I asked my question. ¡°So where¡¯s your hideout.¡± Ten minutes later we were in front of a brown warehouse. ¡°So illusionist you take one half I take the other.¡± ¡°Sure but call me Ren.¡± ¡°Sure and you can call me Zion.¡± ¡°Well then let¡¯s kick some ass.¡± Kicking down the door I saw twenty people wearing suits guarding a staircase. Using my sixth sense I could feel there were three floors and around thirty people on the second floor and fifty people on the third. Too bad that the guards weren¡¯t going to wait for me to be done checking and started attacking¡­ the spot next to me. Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. ¡°Get your ass going why the hell are you zoning out!¡± Ah so he casted an illusion. Recovering I took out the ball of blood and materialized it as a shield in front of me just in time to block a ball of fire. I separated the ball into ten thin lances of blood and shot them though their heads. Looking over to my right I saw ten Rens attacking his opponents. Sometimes the attacks would hit him just to go straight through him. He would thin slash his sword through there throat. Instead of helping him I gathered the blood of the people I killed into a giant ball and started walking up the stairs. It didn¡¯t take long for Ren to catch up though. ¡°You could¡¯ve helped me out.¡± ¡°It looked like you had everything under control.¡± ¡°Did it now? By the way that¡¯s a nice ability you got there¡± he says looking at the giant floating ball of blood. ¡°I know right¡° and with that I harden the ball of blood put it into my pocket and spread out my wings. ¡°Bet you I can kill more¡± I said flying away. ¡°Hmph will see about that.¡± The people on the next floor were ready though and as soon as I emerged blades of winds flew straight towards me, dodging the blades I flew straight at the woman who shot them cutting her straight in half with my wings. Retracting my wings I ran towards them but before I could make it a bolt of lightning blasted me off my feet. In midair I turned landing on my feet. Then I was knocked off my feet again this time by a person going faster than I could see. Getting angry I turned on my sixth sense. When he ran at me this time I extended my elbow bone out and turned around plunging it into his chest right when he ran at my back. Then I turned toward the biggest group of people. Sharpening my arm bone until it was sharper than a sword I cut a giant wall of earth coming towards me in half. Then I extended it until it was thirty feet long and whipped it at them faster than a bullet cutting fourteen people in half. Looking at Ren group he had already taken out ten people and was still going hard. There were still three people on my side left and they seemed to be the stronger ones. To prove my point a laser beam shot at my head and if it wasn¡¯t for my sixth sense I would¡¯ve had a hole through my head. I guess I¡¯m going to take them seriously. I concentrated on their bodies and after a minute of two of dodging laser beams and ice blades I could feel their hearts and of course I instantly crushed them. It was actually pretty interesting watching there shocked faces as they coughed out blood. ¡°You got a weird ability don¡¯t you?¡± ¡°Yea but there is still fifty left so could you let me handle the last ones.¡± ¡°Sure but don¡¯t kill the boss.¡± ¡°I wasn¡¯t planning to I got some questions for him.¡± As soon as I got to the top of the stairs I tighten my bones like a spring shot all my bones out of my body and out at the crowd. Humans have a lot of bones and everyone on the floor either instantly died or was injured. Of course I made sure to avoid killing the blond blue eyed girl in a fancy suit sitting at the desk in back. After waiting a few seconds all my bones regenerated and I got back up. Then I walked straight towards the back and sat on her desk. ¡°Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Which one do you want?¡± Looking over at all the dead bodies littered across the room and Ren who was walking toward us she made up her mind. ¡°I surrender.¡± ¡°Good Ren what did you want with her.¡± ¡°My guild wanted me to report back who the leader was of the people making trouble on the first world but being as though you decimated the entire place. I was just going to give her to the higher ups. Why¡¯d you want to find them?¡± ¡°I was bored.¡± They both looked at me incredulously. ¡°Could you guys do me a favor and spread my name as the one who did this but only in the underworld of course it would increase my reputation that¡¯s all really wanted to get done. I was going to ask you who could do it but being as though you had so many people under your control. I¡¯m guessing you¡¯re more than qualified to do it.¡± ¡°Wait who are you the blond ask?¡± After changing my face back right in front of them I respond. ¡°I¡¯m Zion.¡± After that I fly back to Claire¡¯s place and before they can respond I lay on her floor and go to sleep disregarding all the blood on my clothes.