ã€ŠThe price of divinityã€‹


 Room

    An empty and dazzling dreamlike world filled with stars instantly shattered. The awakened Note felt a sharp pain in his head as if someone had run over him. No, it''s more like someone destroyed every bone in his body.

    Ouch, why can''t I move? Note attempted to move, but none of his limbs could move. Laughter, screams, sorrows, crying¡ªevery sound made of human emotion¡ªhas been jammed into Note''s brain.

    Ahhh!!! Get out of my head!!! Note tried to scream, but he was floating in a vast environment with nothing but stars.

    Help, Help, Is anyone there?

    After a few hours, Note realized that no one was there for him. It''s just a vast yet dazzling environment. All he saw were the stars, like a god-like figure seeing over the vast universe.

    What is happening? Where am I? Why can''t I see myself? I can''t see it. Am I dead? No, I can''t be dead; I am still so young, even if I am. What happened? All I remember was that I was sleeping. Wait, did I die in my sleep!! Am I sleeping!?

    No, that''s not possible. I am in perfect health. How sad would it be if I died in my sleep? Think, think. There has to be another reason. I do remember that my soul and my body got pulled in and out.

    Note was now interested in the dazzling world. Everywhere he looked, the view was magnificent. His soul felt relaxed while watching the tiny stars glowing every once in a while. The thought of not having a material body disturbed Note; he felt that his identity was missing.

    All Note felt was his soul floating while feeling that he was watching and was being watched. The room had no sound, nothing except the beauty of it. While trying to figure out why he''s here alone. He felt a sharp pain throughout his soul.

    Note closed his eyes due to the pain. When he opened them, he was in a large open field filled with beautiful green grass. Noah looked around to see where he was. He didn''t recognize the place as the total opposite of his home. He was both happy and confused. Happy that the empty, dreamlike world he was in and confused to see that he doesn''t know where he is, still not being able to see his body.

    As he looked down, he saw a shadowy figure. It has a human structure, yet it feels weightless. When Note was examining this body, a large red barn caught his attention. He immediately felt attracted by the barn like a moth to a flame.

    When he arrived at the barn, Note''s body passed through the walls. When he was inside the barn, it looked exactly like the outside, and then the same barn in which he had just gone through appeared once again. He went through the same journey towards the barn.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.

    It felt like an infinite loop until Note entered the barn to see the outside transform from a sunny, breathtaking view to the grass now burned, the sun now replaced by a red crimson night.

    Voices started flooding Note''s mind until one of the voices called upon him.

    Run

    After hearing the voice personally call upon him, Note froze, not realizing what to do when he suddenly heard.

    Bang!

    A shot passed through Note''s head, and transparent liquid started gushing out.

    What the fuck is happening? Is this my blood? Where did that bullet appear? Note petrified by the large hole and the gushing liquid coming out of his ghost-like body.

    The liquid was coming out at an incredible speed out of a hole that was getting larger and larger. The more of the liquid that came out, the more of what made Note, Note was starting to fade away.

    Upon the last drop falling, Note felt his entire body weak. The ghost-like body was as translucent as his soul in the room. His body felt weak on the brink of passing out, where everything he once knew about himself was gone.

    All of what he had experienced throughout his life was gone. Only leaving his core emotions while taking away everything that he once valued. His mind had the mental fortitude and intelligence of a man but the knowledge of the world similar to a toddler.

    After waking up, Note hadn''t realized that he was no longer himself; all he did was frantically check if the hole was still there.

    After confirming that it was no longer there. Something caught his eye. In the vast room where only tiny stars resided, one suddenly started to grow more than the other.

    Note watched fascinated by its growth.

    The beauty of the lightness brought Note to the brink of tears. Note tried his best to try to reach the light, yet he suddenly remembered that he no longer had limbs. The star brightness was enough to light up the rest of the room.

    The star started spinning around the whole room. The more it spun, the brighter the blue light that emitted from the star. It''s absorbing the other stars into its main core.

    The room now had an incredibly large center star. A large, four-sided blue star has now stopped moving.

    There were still other stars throughout the room. Some are larger than others, and some have different colors and shapes. Yet nothing could compare to the beauty of the star staring directly at Note.

    After countless hours staring at the star, Note felt a pull far stronger than the pull that originally transported him into those experiences.

 Crimson moon

    Note woke up lying down in a stable. The second he opened his eyes, a white horse was staring at him as it was eating.

    "... Hello, what are you? Wait, you are a horse? How did I forget that? Note smacked himself for forgetting such basic information.

    The horse looked at Note and then returned to its place to sleep.

    Note stood up, and he was pleasantly surprised at how tall he was in his body. After celebrating for now having a material body, which he can move, he opened a door to leave where he was lying down. There were many horses, and the centerpiece was a unicorn.

    "Wow, a horse with a horn. ¡­ It''s a unicorn. I am probably still in delirium from being here." Note finally acknowledging that there might be something wrong but ultimately not paying attention to it.

    Note reaches the large door. He tried his best to open the door, but it took him 2 hours to open the door. When he first opened the door, he was taken aback by the large 3 crimson moons.

    The whole environment was covered in the light of the crimson moon. After deciding to explore to find someone to explain to him where he was, he stumbled upon a bungalow.

    After deciding to approach the bungalow, he knocked on the door to see if anyone was there.

    Knock! Knock! Knock!

    After hearing nothing, Note saw that the door was unlocked, entered it, and decided to explore it. The inside looked like somebody came and destroyed the house while selling the valuables. Note decided to check the kitchen.

    Praise the moon!

    Praise Crims!

    Praise Roms!

    Praise deve!

    Take my offerings!

    A man was standing above two corpses who were severely mutilated beyond recognition. The man standing above them wore a red cloak and was wearing the faces of his victims.The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.

    The first thought in Note''s mind was to run, but his legs wouldn''t move. His eyes were screaming with pure terror.

    "Do you want to be an offering?!" The mysterious man looked at him with his bloodshot eyes and a murderous intent.

    Note still stood frozen, only his pupils dilating and his legs trembling in fear. The only picture in his mind is the bodies on the ground. The more he looked at them, the more disturbing the scene looked. There was very little skin on their body. Blood covered the room; every recognizable trait was taken away. Combined with the large window behind the man emitting the ever-glowing crimson moon, Note''s mind went into shock.

    Note''s body in the fight-or-flight mode chose flight. He immediately started running away from the man. Running through the hallway until he reached the door. As he opened the door, the man was standing right in front of him.

    The man with a sinister smile gave Note an ultimatum.

    "Either you fight me head-on and earn your will to live, or you will be one of the fortunate enough to be a sacrifice to our glorious moons."

    Note''s dry throat made it impossible for him to say a word, but Note decided to get into a boxing stance to try and do something against the man.

    "HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You truly want to die for the moons. The man suddenly spawned many different moon-shaped figures surrounding him.

    The moons were thrown at Note. Note was going left, right, down, and up. Moving his body in positions only a gymnast can produce until one finally reaches Note.

    "Ahhh! Shit!" The edge of a moon attack managed to hit Note, dissolving his skin in an instant.

    Note ran through the large plains while the man was laughing maniacally.

    "I am tired of playing. I now need to do my thing, so goodbye." The back of the man''s head started to form the shape of the moon right beside him.

    In the blink of an eye, Note''s body was covered with daggers in the form of the crescent moon, with his blood making it resemble the moon behind the man.

    Note suddenly collapsed, making the dagger enter more into his body. The man suddenly grabbed Note by his legs, carrying him towards the house. At the house he proceeds to rip Note''s skin, eating some in the process.

    Note''s vocal cords were destroyed, preventing him from producing any sound without dying, which made him experience the whole process. Note''s mind wouldn''t pass out; all he felt was his nerves sending signals of incredible pain. Begging to die to finally stop the pain. After he finished mutilating Note, he was being thrown beside the mutilated people beside him.

    Note managed to move his hands and managed to touch the bodies. His soul was pulled with such strength it immediately made him enter the room.

    In the room, two stars started glowing, combining beside the large blue star. The other stars were making a path for those stars to start to combine and glow their crimson light. The room now had two main stars, one four-pointed star and one eight-pointed star.

    After gaining consciousness, Note was immediately transported into the lives of the people who were killed.

 Remembrance

    Note was transmigrated into the body of a man. The surroundings were the same as those where he was just when the mysterious man appeared. Note was initially very alert, having the trauma of the pain of his death.

    "Honey, are you ok? You look as pale as a ghost. Did something happen, or did you eat something bad?" A woman suddenly tapped behind Note and spoke in a worried tone.

    Note notices the woman''s deep blue eyes with her darker-than-night hair. His heart skipped a beat and instantly became disturbed by the fact that she was the other body that was mutilated beyond recognition.

    "Oh, nothing, I am fine; it''s just that I am daydreaming. I think we should go on a trip. Yes, let''s get out of here. Note frantically urged the woman while looking around as if someone was hunting him.

    After frantically walking through the house, he saw a small mirror and the reflection of himself. The first thing he noticed was the scar on the side of his cheek, making him look extremely masculine. The man''s reddish hair caught Note''s attention. Staring directly into his eyes, which, by every look, replayed those exact memories that Note had just experienced. Like in sync, the darker the memories became, the darker his eyes appeared, and the reflection of the memories could be visible in his eyes.

    Four seconds later, Note regained consciousness. His eyes, once having a luster of youth, were now dulled, eyes that had experienced unimaginable pain. His wife was now starting to get scared by her husband''s sudden action.

    "Ah! Are you sure that you''re fine? Do you want me to pray to the moon for you to get better?" The man''s wife was trembling after seeing the sudden change in her husband''s expression.

    Note immediately realized that he would be in a horrific murder. The memories of him waking up in the stable made his body immediately run to the front door with his heightened perception of seeing the bedroom, restroom, and everything painted in a monotonous color spectrum.

    Before any critical assessment of the situation, he immediately ran at the door, unlocked the three locks, and ran outside to find the stable he was just in. After running past the yellow-green grass until his body ran out of energy, he found the stable. Without wasting a second, he opened the door to see that everything was as he remembered. The horses were standing there, and the unicorn was in its center.

    Entering the stable, Note felt a cold wind, making his body shiver. Each step he made created an echo, tensing his heart more and more. Every part of his body told him to go back, yet he was determined to see if his past body was resting.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it

    The man''s wife was running behind Note to stop him from going inside the barn. She also felt the chill, grabbing his hand to stop and to go back to their home. She is using her entire body to pull Note''s hand to stop him from discovering her secret.

    "Let''s go back; I have dinner ready! Please, let''s just go! If you leave, I will tell you why you can''t see! So please, for the love of Crims, just believe me and let''s go back!" The man''s wife desperately tried to pull the man away.

    After pulling against the man''s wife, he managed to push her away, and he started running towards where he once woke up. He passed the unicorn. The eyes of his colors were the same as that of one of the crimson moons. The horse''s colors became duller as it stared at Note as if it were seeing into his soul.

    Note reached before opening the door of where he once rested while hearing the cries of pleading from his wife.

    "Roi, please don''t!!! If you open that door, you won''t be forgiven!!!" The man''s wife running behind like a madman while screaming combined with the echo alerted every horse in the stable.

    Hhuun!!

    Hhuun!!

    Hhuun!!

    The horses'' collective noise echoing through the stable made Note open the door without a second thought.

    There is nothing. How can that be? How did I appear here then? Did I just get transported?

    A million thoughts raced through Notes'' mind when he felt an earthquake causing him to stumble and fall into the ground.

    Note immediately got up and ran outside to check what had happened, passing through the man''s wife, who passed out from falling and hitting a stool. When he saw his worst nightmare. The mysterious man had once again appeared, carrying another body with him. The body was that of a young woman with short dark hair.

    Note looked back to see the man''s wife standing with the mask of a crescent moon, exposing only half of her face. She was the apparition of the god moon Crims. She is wearing the same outfit as the man. Note had no other option but to run away; he ran behind the barn while they were preparing the ingredients for the ritual to bring the moon god roms into the human realm.

    Note then realizes he changed the man''s fate, as it was destined for him to stay in the house and die at the hands of the mysterious man. Still confused about where the man''s wife was when he was being killed, he would notice if there was another person, yet he could remember nothing.

    After pondering for a while and arriving at nothing, he decided to peek and see what they were doing. Note saw that they were performing a ritual with the woman''s body; after feeling disgusted, in the blink of an eye, the mysterious man appeared in an instant. A journey that took Note four minutes to run at his full capacity was reached by the man in less than one-half of a second. The mysterious man had a piece of skin hanging outside of his mouth. Staring at Note with those crazy bloodlust eyes from before.

    Slurp

    Note saw how the skin of the woman was eaten while staring Note in his eyes with no remorse for human lives. Note was taken back from this, where suddenly the man went back where he had been before, not before cutting a piece of Note''s skin.

    "Ah, shit, it hurts so much. I can''t beat that monster. Am I really that pathetic that I can''t do anything against anyone?" Note on the ground complaining about the pain and realizing how he might not leave this fate again.

    Screech

    The sounds of the opening of the barn doors pierced Note''s ears. Covered by the dirt, Note saw a figure appear out of nowhere.

 Sorry what

    After the dirt settled down, Note saw that the man standing there was the same person that he was just in. Note now saw how the man looked; he looked even taller than he originally thought; his vibrant red eyes and white hair illuminated the space where he resided. It didn''t have the gloomy aura that Note was after entering the man''s body. The more he stared at his past body, Note blacked out.

    Note was now in a dream, seeing the world from a third-person perspective. He had the same body as he had in the room. A new insight was given; he could now see what originally happened to Roi''s body, which he is now occupying.

    The scene was similar to when he originally woke up. Roi and his wife act like a regular couple who are truly in love. A black screen suddenly appeared. The next second was them resting on the couch. The woman was sitting in Rois'' lap while feeding him chocolate-covered chocolate. Note caught a glimpse of her reciting something beneath her breath. Note noticed the clock showed 12:00. After she finished reciting, the clock went to 21:00.

    A black screen suddenly appeared again. A new scene appeared where Roi was about to open the door with his wife in the background carrying a moon-shaped dagger. The same earthquake occurred, bringing Roi to his knees.

    "Goodbye." In a soothing voice, the woman stabbed Roi in his neck, destroying his vocal cords, only producing the sound of him choking on his blood. Note noticed the mysterious man''s piercing look from the window that is now opened.

    The dream ends there. Note woke up noticing that he was standing with his hands extended, and his peripheral vision caught the two recognizable barn doors. He was brought back into the original body that he originally was. Note ran to see Rois''s body on the ground, coughing blood.

    "What happened? I was just at the barn; now I am on the ground. My body feels right, yet I feel something is missing. Wait, who are you?" Roi saw Note and was confused as he had never seen him in his life.

    I don''t know a-

    Boom!!!

    A sudden explosion interrupted Note. A warning sign that a god was descending into our realm. Before any further introduction, Note helped Roi up, and they both ran behind a tree. After feeling safe, they were both transported to Roi''s wife and the mysterious man.

    "Kath, is that you? What is happening, and why are you wearing that? I thought you left that life behind!" Roi asked for an explanation, completely ignoring the body just below his feet.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.

    Roi felt a hot sensation in his feet; he instinctively looked down, his eyes immediately became large, and his mind went into shock.

    "AHHH!!!! Please don''t tell me you did this!!!" Roi screamed at how disturbing the scene was.

    Note was disturbed at the scene, only screaming internally; the only thing it showed was his completely shocked face as he continued staring at the poor woman.

    "We now have all the necessary ingredients for the ritual! How nice for them. Kath is ready to kill them. Roms is waiting, and he is the most impatient of our moons." The mysterious man stepped up and raised his hand while forming many moon-shaped attacks.

    "Yes, ****, I will. Don''t worry; they will die, yes or yes." Kath activated the same moon-shaped attacks; the only difference was how dark the red was. Kath was lighter compared to the mysterious man.

    Note and Roi looked at each other and instinctively decided to combine to kill the enemies. Roi was the first one to run toward them with a barrage of punches. Only some hitting is doing minimal damage. They just stood there dodging like it was nothing. Roi''s last attempt managed to land on Kath''s face, causing her to stare Roi in the eyes. Not doing anything, just staring at him. At the same time when Roi was attacking, Note went inside the house, grabbed a cheap knife, and tried to stab Kath, only for the knife to be interrupted by a crescent moon.

    The three moons hit their peak: Crims at the center, Roms on the left, and Deve on the right. The outside was only illuminated by the moon''s crimson light. Everything was secluded and empty. The barn and tree no longer existed.

    Both Note and Roi stepped back only to be pierced by a crescent moon dagger. Their fast reaction time made them narrowly escape certain death. The dagger only hit their forearms rather than their hearts. Their adrenaline made them not produce any sound and take the pain.

    "Kath, stop playing and just kill them!" The mistress was starting to get visibly annoyed.

    "Ah, shit, this hurts." Note and Roi took out the daggers from their arms and started to get ready for round two.

    Hundreds of moon-shaped attacks were launched at both Note and Roi. With the help of the daggers they took, they managed to deviate from the attacks.

    Cling! Cling!

    Swift! Swift!

    Note and Roi managed to dodge the first attack, thinking the rest would be easy; they were caught by surprise when, in every direction, there were daggers thrown at them.

    After only dodging for three seconds, Roi was struck in the head with a moon-shaped circle. Note looked for a second only to see Roi''s head explode, leaving the hologram of a moon. Note stopped moving due to the shock when, in that one second, there were already ten moon-shaped circles around his body. Note''s first instinct was to stay there but with his hatred for what they did to Roi. He immediately ran towards Kath, where he exploded.

    The explosion caused Note''s body parts to fling everywhere. Every part where his blown body landed showed a hologram of a moon. Note''s last dish attack managed to destroy Kath''s arm. Her using her power left her right arm unprotected; if it weren''t for her protection, she would have suffered the same fate Note suffered.

    "Ah!" After returning to the room, Note''s adrenaline and delusion wore off. Leaving him with the image of Roi exploding and his own body exploding, not killing him instantly, causing him to experience the pain as if it was one explosion at a time, simultaneously.

 Exploring

    After regaining his sanity, Note was viewing the new shape in the room. Their brightness illuminated ten percent of the room. At first, Note thought that the room was small due to how little brightness the stars produced, but now that there are two stars and a moon, he viewed stars so far away that they look like a grain of salt.

    A sudden thought appeared; he tried entering the moon to try and get another chance to save himself and Roi. His soul standing there couldn''t move when he tried the first time he arrived at the room. Yet now all he knows is the room and not his experience. However, his body could now move. Immediately, Note launched his soul into the crimson moon only to pass through it. Note then saw that the moon and stars are two-dimensional figures. Only shows a silhouette of the figure in a three-dimensional figure and six times the size that it currently shows.

    After the failed attempt, Note began floating around the moon, trying everything to get inside, but every attempt was futile. Note decided to try the stars to see if any of them would work. The smaller star had the same effect as the moon. Only passing through the star with no result and a silhouette of its three-dimensional shape and five times its current size. Note''s last choice was the large blue star; he suddenly tried to find the star only to find it now below him. Changing his soul''s position, he dashed towards the star.

    After colliding with the moon, Note felt a huge shock surge through his body, knocking him out in an instant.

    After a while, Note woke up, now knowing he didn''t try again as he was scared that he would experience that shock again. Note decided to take his time and explore this room as he had already concluded that this would be his new home. Going around the whole space, seeing stars the size of a human with nothing making them stand out, it felt like an infinite loop; everywhere he went, the stars all looked the same. The further away he went, the more stars appeared. Note didn''t dare to touch the stars as he knew something would happen. While testing how long he could move through the room, he reached a point where his current body couldn''t enter. It felt as if his soul was being compressed the second he went into the zone, combined with its darkness only illuminated by the light of stars the size of a grain of salt, which made it physically impossible for Note to gain any more knowledge about that place.

    Deciding to return and pay extra attention to every part of the room, as he perhaps might never have time to explore the room. Note divided the stars into sections to observe all of them to see if any are different or carry an important clue for him to leave this place.

    The first place he decided to explore was on the left of the crimson moon. Note started seeing all the stars with carefulness to not ignore a detail that might separate it from the rest or a clue.

    The first star he saw, he set it as the standard star so that if there was another star different from it, that star might be the wrong one, or his standard was the odd one out. He set off on this journey. The first one hundred stars were all similar to his standard. There were still many left; another hundred were seen noticing nothing different. The next hundred stars were all the same, starting to lose hope. Note reached the line that he currently can''t pass, and there was still nothing. A long journey awaited Note to the center. He again decided to pay attention to each star once again just in case he made a mistake. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

    Note reached the center without seeing anything except stars. The next part will be to the left of the smaller star; exploring the back and front of the giant blue star was the last part that he would be exploring. The first star was the same as the part he just explored.

    The first one hundred stars had the same result. The next hundred were all the same at the same time. Note started to lose hope at this point; he wanted to find a star that looked different; even if it was not a clue, all he wanted was a difference. The last hundred stars were all the same; some were false alarms due to his increasing frustration of not having changed. One of those false alarms was his two hundred fifty-six star, where he thought he saw the edge of one of the points change color, but after examining the star for about an hour, he didn''t see it again and gave up.

    Note severely disappointed, came back to the center now very bored of seeing the same five-handed star the size of a small human. The next part was the back of him, where he is. Feeling a little frustrated but determined to find something to satiate and compensate for the amount of time he is spending looking at over six hundred stars.

    The first hundred all looked the same, the next hundred were futile, and the next hundred, nothing changed. On the verge of giving up, he looked at the last hundred stars and nothing. They all look the same. Note was trying so hard to find a difference, deluding himself that it would all be worth the time.

    Feeling extremely frustrated, Note, on the verge of giving up, told himself to do the front part and if nothing changed, to call it quits on the situation. A newly motivated Note arrived at the center after going across the giant blue star he set on his last journey across this place he once saw as beautiful. Now everything he can think of is the dumb star that is everywhere.

    The first one hundred was very mentally degrading due to finding nothing; the next hundred showed a beam of hope, shifting his whole demeanor from mental degradation to joy in the span of a second. While counting the last hundred stars at the end, he saw a star with a green color completely different from the standard yellow that covered the room. Note immediately started to pay attention to the next hundred to find the one green star. Note''s emotions were out of control after seeing the normally insignificant star being different from the rest of the stars. The insignificant star was something Note thought of as a gift from the heavens. Note tried checking if he could move the star, trying everything, including acting as if he had telekinesis powers to move the star closer to him.

    Not achieving his goal of moving the star, he went with the happiest he has ever been from finding that different star, moving toward the center to recap what he saw. Note couldn''t be happier that something was different and he didn''t have to endure seeing the same stars with the personality of a bland chicken.

    After arriving at the center, Note began to feel bored. His goal was completed, yet nothing was happening. He felt happy to find the different star, but after all, it''s just a star, nothing telling him why it''s different and why the rest of the stars all looked the same. Similarly, he felt happy that the encounter he had was not happening, leading him to think about what the reasons for all of that happening were.

    After reaching a point of extreme boredom, Note went toward the green star and decided to touch the star to see if anything would happen, but his experience made him overthink whether to touch it or not. After pondering and waiting, he gave in to temptation and touched the star.

    Note waited for a while to see that nothing happened; feeling a little disappointed, he went back to the center to stay there and wait for something.

    Note felt the same strong pull again, but this time it took the part of his memory about the green star and the idea that he once touched the star while leaving everything else intact.

 Nala

    Note is now awake, lying down in a bed; his first instinct is to observe the unique architecture of the bed frame. Note sits up only to see that he is wearing pajamas but, most importantly, sees that he has a cleavage. Note is dumbfounded to see that he is now a she.

    Note takes the blanket off of himself and stands up, where he sees a large drawer with a massive mirror. Note sees the figure of a breathtakingly beautiful woman who appears no older than twenty-three. Her lavender eyes combined with her luscious blood curls made Note happy and confused. Happy due to this time appearing to be born into a family of richness but confused as to how this story will unfold.

    Knock! Knock! Knock!

    Note hears someone softly hitting the door. At first, he is taken aback, but he then realizes it''s probably some maids that were here to wake her up.

    The maids open the door. Note that there are three maids. The maids are in a triangular position where the middle maid is wearing a white apron while the other two maids are wearing pink aprons.

    "Hello Princess Nala, your father is waiting for you to get ready for the meeting with the other leaders." The middle maid proclaimed.

    So my name is Nala; furthermore, I am a princess. Yes! I am so happy. Ok, calm down now. I have to ditch my personality as Note. I am Nala. I am Nala. I am ready.

    "Oh yes, how can I forget? Tell father I will be there in ten minutes." Note now as Nala, with a calm and soothing voice, replied while passing her fingers through her curls.

    "It would be my pleasure. May you wait for me? I am going to call our makeup specialist for your makeup. You will look even more beautiful. Who knows, you might get engaged today." A small chuckle was left by the middle maid.

    "Haha. Stop playing, but yes, I would like the specialist. Makeup has never been my forte." Note was disturbed by the thought of getting married but tried his best to act like how he thought Nala would act.

    The three maids leave the bedroom. Nala, now by herself, started to look at her room. Her room was covered in gold. It looked like a palace; her bedroom was as large as the bungalow where Roi lived. Seeing the closet, she goes and opens it to be greeted by an entire room filled with expensive clothing.

    Note came out, and I was surprised to see how everything looked so expensive, looking at everything and acknowledging that one piece of clothing was as valuable as Roi''s entire bungalow. Note: After the initial shock, she shook her head and entered Nala.

    Nala started picking the ten best-looking dresses. The three that stood out the most were a green dress where the chest area is covered with emerald green pearls and the sleeves knitted in a beautiful white with hints of green. Another was an entire white dress with a flower design with pearls in the bottom part of the dress. The sleeves and the chest area had a similarity to a wedding dress. The third dress was a lavender-colored dress. Its design was intricate with flowers in the chest area and sleeves with the same knitting in white with hints of lavender.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.

    Nala decided to go for the lavender dress due to it being her favorite color. After putting on the outfit, she decides to check herself out in the mirror. It fits her perfectly. Her beautiful natural curls matched the design of the flowers combined with her eyes, making it perfect for her.

    The makeup specialist was brought by one of the maids. The makeup specialist is a woman who appears way younger than she actually is. Nala, after seeing this, knew that she was in the right hands.

    "Hello, Princess Nala. Today I am going to make you the most beautiful woman in the world. Your face is already out of this world; your curls will also be enhanced. Just looking at your natural beauty makes me very happy to see the end results. Oh, before I forget, my name is Nora. Let''s begin. Nora, beaming with confidence, walks over to Nala and lays down her makeup and hair materials on the desk.

    "Thank you, Miss Nora. You don''t have to flatter me, but just seeing your beauty makes me feel very confident in your abilities."

    "Thank you! That means a lot to me. I am going to try my best to make myself worthy of those compliments." Nora radiates happiness and confidence.

    The makeup section takes about thirty minutes. Nala transforms from one of the most beautiful women with her natural face to a person so beautiful that it makes blind people gasp at how beautiful she is. The styling part of her hair made her beauty increase. At a level that animals feel attracted to her with her level of beauty, she can tame even the most ferocious animal.

    "Princess Nala, you are the most beautiful person to ever exist. Can you see that I am crying tears of joy due to how beautiful you are and that I took part in helping you look like that? I can now die happily." Nora wiped her tears away as she stared at Nala.

    Note came out extremely shocked at how powerful makeup and a good hairstyle are. He is still shocked at how an already beautiful woman became such a beauty with just makeup. Note gets over the shock value and goes back into Nala to not raise suspicions.

    "It looks fantastic, but am I really that beautiful? I mean, everyone tells me I am beautiful, but enough to make you cry? I am extremely flattered. Haha," Nala let out a small chuckle to get out of this situation.

    "Princess Nala, please, we have to go, or your father is going to be late." The central maid enters the room and looks surprised but remains with a calm attitude.

    "Yes, I am ready. Thank you, Miss Nora, it''s beautiful. If I need any more makeup work, I am sure to call you, but as you can tell, they need my presence. Goodbye." Nala stands up and leaves the room feeling worried as she doesn''t know how her relationship is with her father.

    After leaving the main bedroom, Nala and the central maid descend two sets of stairs to get to the main living room. Nala starts to see the architecture, realizing how rich they are and how her room was nothing compared to the white marble-covered palace with hints of precious metals spread throughout the walls.

    Nala and the maid arrive at the main living room to see her father staring at his clock and all the people staring at Nala, making her feel uncomfortable but not raising suspicion, acting like she didn''t notice.

    "Father, let''s go; this is an important meeting, and I don''t want to be late." Nala''s soothing voice encapsulates the entire room.

    Her father looks at her and nods. They leave the mansion to see a carriage ready to pick her up. The entire crew gasps at her beauty but can''t say anything due to their important job.

 Meeting

    In the carriage, there is a large table with expensive drinks. Nala is looking through the window, seeing how beautiful everything is. Everyone is in their mansion; the grass and people are lively. This is how Nala has always seen the world to be. An hour in the carriage, Nala saw the barrier outside the gates where there are always guards to keep anyone from leaving.

    When Nala was a child, they told children stories to prevent them from leaving the gates by accident. The story is about a little girl called Hana who, on a day disobeying the orders of her parents, sneaked out of the barrier. The first thing the girls saw was a large monster with a giant horn on their head. Hana tried to run inside, but they didn''t let her in. The beast kills any kid that goes outside the barrier, and any child that misbehaves will be fed to the monster.

    Nala, now an adult, knew that was a lie, but no one ever told her why she couldn''t see the outside. Before crossing the barrier, they closed the window covers as a ''preventive'' method for them to be safe. It has always been the norm for everyone younger than fifty to not see the outside unless you are strong enough to defend yourself from the monsters.

    The journey to another district was long. Not being able to do anything but smile like a fool irritated her, but she had to bear the pain.

    There were many bumps across the journey, but it didn''t raise suspicions for Nala. When they felt the last bump, they stopped and entered the Loro district. The guards opened the window covers, and nothing changed from her district to this one. Everything looked lovely, yet something in Note made him feel suspicious as he had not been indoctrinated into the beliefs, but he decided to continue to see anything that can change history.

    The mansions made a pathway to the central palace of the Loro family. Where the meeting is set to start. Nala was surprised by how large the palace was, almost twice the size of her mansion. The palace edges were covered in gold. The doors are made of a translucent material, and only the people with a key can even see and use it to enter.

    After arriving and seeing hundreds of statues in the front yard, Nala was ready for anything to go wrong. Having only given one step on the stairs to get out of the carriage, Nala felt the gaze of everyone as she continued to get down.

    Nala was happy that she was finally at the meeting to find any information on why Note was here and to try and prevent a tragedy. The gazes only amplified the more she walked towards the main entrance. The red carpet made Nala look like a celebrity. More and more people were coming out of their mansion to appreciate Nala''s beauty.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

    People started to get closer to the palace and started clapping to pay homage to her beauty. Nala, feeling extremely overwhelmed, could only smile and wave at the people clapping. Birds started to land on her shoulder.

    What should I do? Damn, it''s scary the power of beautiful women in the world. With my amount of beauty, I can arm an army and rule the world. I am so happy that I am Nala, but yet what can I do?

    Nala''s mind started to think of countless scenarios that made this suffering end. The doors opened, and Nala speed walked towards the inside. Only to find it difficult to enter. She, with a little bit of struggle, managed to get inside.

    Inside the palace, Nala was shocked at how magnificent everything was. The architecture was out of this world. Art pieces are so beautiful that they stand out by themselves. Precious metals everywhere, and a massive entrance all made Nala realize how rich everyone is.

    The maids and butlers all directed their attention to Nala; no one inside that palace could take their eyes off Nala. The sensation is a lot more bearable for Nala due to the lesser magnitude of people looking at her.

    Nala and her father made their way to the meeting located on the third floor. The door of the meeting was that of a safe with a passcode and everything. The guard outside opened the door and let them inside the meeting room.

    Everyone immediately stared at Nala but regained composure, as this was one of the most important meetings of their lives.

    There is a massive table. Nala counted and saw fifteen people in the meeting. Nala made her way to the top left side of the table, and her father sat across from her.

    "Finally everyone is here! Now let''s begin the meeting. Before anything, I would like to congratulate everyone present on their safe journey. You know how those nasty monsters are toward us." Loro stood up with a glass of wine, staring directly at Nala.

    "Hahaha, how can those monsters do something against us? But Miss Nala might be in a little danger; I mean, look at her; her beauty is unmatched; those monsters would love to have her as dinner. Like me. A man next to her father stood and started licking his lips at the thought of being with Nala.

    Nala felt an unparalleled disgust at how she felt touched by the man''s gaze. Nala decided to stand up and talk on behalf of her father.

    Nala looked at the name tag and proclaimed, "Haha, you are a jokester, Sir Franc, but today we aren''t talking about me; please don''t flatter me. Today, my father and I are here to discuss how we can take land from the monsters and continue expanding."

    "Correct, Miss Nala, those monsters have been ravaging for a while. It''s time to take back what''s ours."

    Long live the Astros! Long live the Astros! Long live the Astros!!!

    The whole meeting started to cheer; Nala, not feeling embarrassed, repeated it but with a softer tone.

    The meeting started fine with them coming to an agreement; however, at the later stages, it was interrupted by a breaking of the barrier.

 Power

    Nala ran towards the window to see how the monsters looked. The others calmly walked to the large window. To see everything unfold.

    There was no one outside. It looked like everyone''s daily needs were being halted due to the break-in. Nala was ready to see tall, bloodthirsty monsters ready to kill everyone.

    Nothing happened for a while. It all remained relatively quiet. Nala only saw tiny things getting closer. The more and more they walked towards the main palace, the more human they looked.

    Nala thought that they were people running away from the monsters, but they remained calm. They had poorer clothes, but they were still humans.

    "Atlas! Attack!" Sir Loro commanded the army to attack the people.

    Wait, what is happening? Why are they attacking these innocent people?

    It all clicked for Nala: "The monsters are just the poor people. There is truly nothing outside," she whispered.

    It all made sense; it was a riot to fight against the ruling class and to combat corruption. Nala realized how the rich stay rich. They steal their lands and demonize them to fit their agenda.

    "Hey, Nala. I think it''s about time to tell you that the monsters are just poor people. Haha, isn''t it funny to make them suffer? I love torturing them; they are subhuman filth." Sir Loro, with pure hatred, laughed at the atrocities he had committed.

    Nala saw the poor people carrying pitchforks, machetes, rocks, and everything they could arm themselves with. Leading the fight is a man with a sun-like figure behind him.

    Nala is observing the Atlas army guards align themselves in a straight line. Behind them stands a line of people covered by the sun in the twilight sun color. It''s a strong dark red with hints of yellow, standing on par with the light emitted by the main warrior.

    Nala stares into the beauty of colors mixing just below her. The war begins, and most of the peasants are holding their ground, dashing toward the guards and just taking every attack unbothered. One of the mages from the back line called upon the light. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.

    In an instant, the whole front line of peasants was eradicated, only leaving the ashes of what had unfolded. Nala was blinded due to the caliber of light. Once she opened her eyes and saw that most of the people were gone, she felt the ever-familiar pull.

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    Nala opened her eyes to see and hear hundreds of cries from the people who had just died. Nala gets transported into the accumulation of the tragic life of people outside the rich.

    Nala is like an omniscient being, only being a translucent figure watching a little girl severely malnourished and her father in a similar condition giving her the grains of rice to eat. The scene made the real Nala''s emotions mix into Note. The next scene is at the death of the young girl. The rest of the family cried after her death. The hatred inside the family against the elite only grew from that day until now. However, now they are all gone.

    Nala starts seeing another family being tossed out of their lands to continue expanding the rich''s territory. Using military force to kill everyone who resisted or just murdering to satiate their sadistic tendencies. Nala and Note became more and more one.

    The last episode started like the rest of the sky dark, all of the soul of the land was in the area where the rich reside. It all felt like two different worlds. There were no people; only sadness reigned over this dried land. The land began to shake; the undead started to arise.

    Justice! Justice! Justice!

    All of the undead started to cry for justice. They all simultaneously began to stare at Nala, extending their hands. Nala, now trembling with fear, felt all of the pain that those innocent people had to live for only for the rich to destroy everything they worked for.

    The one that pierced Nala''s soul was of that little girl in the first scene eating her arm while the other one pointed at Nala.

    "AHHHHHH! Stop!! Please stop!!!" Nala, feeling the entire hatred enter her mind, reached a point of breaking; if it weren''t for Note, she would go insane.

    Nala woke up from the nightmares to tears falling down her face. Note and Nala were now one. The real Nala dominated the emotions while Note controlled the mental fortitude. After mixing, Nala immediately ran down the stairs to finish any more madness.

    There were still many attacks between the peasants and the guards. The main attack force of the peasants managed to pierce the main guard force. All the strength of the man with the blessing of sunrise.

    While Nala was in the scenarios, the man retreated his army to not cause any more unnecessary casualties. The man took out his sword; the light sunrise surged through his entire body. A mass attack was organized to defeat him before his main attack was released.

    The guards and mages started attacking, but every attack vanished by the potency of the power. The power of the hope and dreams of all his fallen soldiers only amplified the brightness of the sword.

    Noticing nothing they are doing is working, they decided to retreat.

    "Sunrise!!!" the man let off the attack, eradicating everyone that has killed someone with malicious intention.

 Note

    Nala arrives outside to see many of the Atlas soldiers on the ground and once green grass covered red. The scene terrified Nala, but her determination allows her to continue forward and, true to her nature, solve the problem without anyone getting injured.

    "Please stop this madness!!! Sir, what do you want to do?" Everyone stared at Nala due to her screams and beauty.

    "Nala, what are you doing? Are you going to negotiate with that subhuman filth?" her father, running behind her, screamed just before collapsing due to his poor health.

    Boom!!

    Nala saw the head of her father land below her feet. Nala just saw the head, her mind spiraling out of control. The soldiers of Atlas were the ones to kill her father.

    "It was you; you made all of this happen. My colleagues died to satiate your sadistic hunger. Serve you right. One of the magicians used his threads to cleanly cut the head.

    Nala is there without moving; everything she once believed is now gone. Her father, who she loves, is a monster, but she still has love for him. The people that his community hated have gone through unimaginable suffering due to their sadistic tendencies. The love of power overruled their mental capacities.

    Tears started flowing out; everything was stuck in time. No one said anything; no one moved; it was all quiet. The peasants managed to fight against the rich. The rich managed to kill many of them and remain safe.

    Nala stood in the middle of everything, staring at her deceased father''s eyes. Someone decided to break the silence.

    "Haha, serves him right for the unfair judgment of our people. You, no matter how beautiful you are, you''re still a disappointment to the human race." One of the peasants started mocking Nala.

    "Note"

    The next second the head of the man stood on the head of Nala. No one saw the attack. Nala stayed in her position; the only evidence of her moving was the head of a man with blood covered on her hands.

    Everyone started to get into a fighting stance to eliminate the threat of Nala. Every person in a 100-meter radius had their hands cut in an instant. Nala speed blitzes everyone and everything.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.

    The grunting and screams of pain ran through her ears. All the people saw was the symbol of a melody. Note hanging above Nala. An eighth note is above Nala. Her entire body is surrounded by a lavender eighth note; pupils became the shape of an eighth note. Nala''s luscious blond curls became pure white with strands of lavender while still maintaining her curls.

    "What type of monster are you?" The man blessed by sunrise, holding his injured hand, asked Nala.

    Nala looked at the man and then the rest of the people in shock, scared all toward her. She begins walking towards the man. Leaving a path of eight notes everywhere she stepped. The once-trail covered in blood is now painted with lavender and eighth notes.

    "I am here to settle this suffering. Either you continue fighting and die, or you surrender and let me take over with the negotiations." Nala stares at the man now on his knees with strands of her white hair on his face.

    "Yes, I and my troops will surrender and just calm down." the man said as fast as he could to not die, he felt the difference of strength too much for him to even compete.

    "Very good, now let''s go inside and create a new world where everyone is happy. Isn''t that what you want?" Nala smiled as her natural self.

    Nala gets out of the man''s face and starts walking back to the mansion while the man is walking behind her like a scared dog.

    "Here, eat it," Nala said before anyone realized it. She steals the heart of the man that killed her father and gives it to the man.

    Thump! Thump! Thump!

    "I can''t eat it; I am not a cannibal. Please, let''s get to the negotiating." The man petrified tried his best to try to talk in a calm and soothing tone to not alarm Nala.

    "Very good, now let''s begin." Nala leaves the heart on the ground and walks inside, and the man follows the pathway she creates.

    "Everyone come out!!! Come here and explain yourself," Nala screamed for all the rich people to face her.

    Everyone comes out thinking everything is going to be alright, and Nala manages to put down the rebellion. Quietly they all start descending towards the first floor. Their grins of joy were quickly turned upside down at how much Nala had changed and the man standing beside her.

    "Nala, what are you doing?! Kill that man already; he is a monster. You know that your father taught you well. Now be a good girl and kill him!" Sir Loro, still maintaining his high horse, ordered Nala.

    All of the guards started to walk away cautiously after feeling the power of Nala. The rest didn''t have the capacity to see blessings.

    Everyone blinked and saw Nala carrying the lungs of someone. Everyone instinctively looked at Sir Loro. He started at his chest and started gasping for air. Collapsing into the ground, staining the expensive carpet with his blood.

    "Now is anyone in here that is not me the one who decides what will happen?" Nala, still having Sir Loro''s lungs, looks at everyone to see if anyone objects to her claims.

    No one objected to her; no one dared to even move a muscle. They were all petrified at how a beauty that looked so soft became such a powerful person.

    They all walked to the third floor to start the meeting. Everyone maintains their distance in the pathway she creates.

 Revolution

    Nala, sitting down with her legs crossed, ordered everyone to sit down. The rich sit on her left side and the rebels on her right side. Nala''s body started to feel the effects of the overexertion of her abilities. Feeling a little bit dizzy, she maintained her strong presence to negotiate.

    "Everyone, today we will create a new era in our continent. The discrimination by money will end. I am not here to be the leader, but if anyone starts to discriminate and separate people, I will make sure you will be gently punished." Nala uses a large amount of the energy left to make sure no one tries to fight against her.

    "The rich will begin to construct new infrastructure for the poor. In addition, there will be a huge investment in both farming and education. Everyone will be tolerated, no matter their backgrounds, religion, or views. You will live together in harmony. The rich can stay rich but without exploiting the poor." Nala''s legs start shaking due to how little energy she has left.

    "My name is John. I am the leader of the poor. May I propose another thing? I mean, if you don''t agree, I won''t say anything." John, trembling, raised his hand.

    "What do you wish to propose? Don''t worry; I won''t do anything." Nala understands that continuing to move at that speed will deplete her energy reserves.

    "I wish for you to look into the plague that is damaging our children and our crops. We could barely sustain ourselves, but now we are at a point where we won''t be able to

    survive for another year." John started seeing the flashbacks of all the people he cared about dying of hunger.

    "Don''t worry; we will try our best to find the cause of the plague and eliminate it. Am I right?" Nala stared directly at the rich.

    They all collectively shook their heads, not daring to even try and refute her claims for fear of bodily harm or death.

    The meeting proceeded smoothly; there was very little disagreement between both parties. Hostility was still interchanged from both parties, yet no one dared to challenge Nala. Nala''s body began to shut down from overexertion. She managed to maintain her image until the meeting ended. "That is a wrap; everyone, please leave. Tomorrow we will begin this new era. Now shoo" Nala is on the verge of passing.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.

    After the last person left, Nala''s body couldn''t resist how tired it was. Passing out the next second. The room became pitch black, totally silent. The entire palace was silent; every one that resided there was shut in their rooms. Not a single soul was roaming around the hallways. Nala sleeping with her legs crossed, hands on her cheeks with the notes around her disappearing. The pathway that she created was eliminated. The only evidence of her powers is her hair and the note-shaped pupils.

    Note went back to the room. Note was very happy with the ending of the scenario, yet he was confused as to why he was standing beside the green star. Normally, every time he gets back to the room, he stares directly at the giant five-pointed star; now that star is behind him.

    "Huh." Note is dumbfounded about why he sees Nala''s hair floating in the room.

    The more he looked at her body, the more he realized that he was Nala. Now even more confused about how she managed to enter, maybe because of him. Note couldn''t point out what the requirements for entering the room were.

    Nala touched the star, and the color suddenly changed to the color of her hair. Noticing the change, she was transported back into her body. This time there was no pull. It all felt like a gust of wind passed through her body.

    Waking up, Nala looked at the clock to see that she had been asleep for about twelve hours. Her body is now back to her best, but her capacity to use the ability she used was only fifteen percent of the max she can do. The room was the same as she fell asleep in. Nothing was moved, and no one entered; it was all the same.

    Nala stood up, walked towards the window, and opened the curtain to be surprised by the rich kids giving away their toys to kids who would evaluate them. A smile formed on Nala''s face; her hard work paid off. People are starting to change; the children are the ones most excited to have more friends and to have more room to explore outside the small place they have never left.

    Nala let out a sigh due to how people of an older age find it hard to socialize and deal with such a drastic change. They still maintain their high ego, not coming to the realization that things are going to change. Change won''t be fast, but it was already destined to happen. Nala was just the last sting to make the entire exploitation collapse.

    Nala looked down and saw that the trail she left was no longer there. In the reflection of the mirror, her hair still maintained its color from her transformation. Nala was very happy to see this new change in history yet felt alone. Like someone who made this possible to leave her. She instinctively thought of her father, but they never had a close relationship, never seeing eye to eye on the issues in their districts.

    Nala, for the longest time, was seen as the heir to the district due to her amazing leadership and strength; not even in one thousand years did she think that she would be a revolutionary. On the corner of her eyes, she saw kids playing with action figures. They looked up and waved at her with such a large smile it changed Nala''s whole demeanor. Realizing that people will no longer suffer in the place she calls home.

    Nala closed the curtains, turned around, and sat in a fetal position. Tears of joy flowed out of her eyes. The lights become dimmer, Nala wiping away her tears that flowed out like Niagara Falls. Nala''s crying wasn''t an ugly cry; she still looked beautiful. Her cries represented something deep inside of her being satisfied.

    Nala felt more relaxed after crying to her heart''s content. The feeling of loneliness still resided. A feeling of something touching her shoulder made her realize that she wasn''t alone, that there was always someone guiding her, granting her the ability to make this change.

    "Thank you, Note."

 One fifth

    Note is back in the scenario, however, this time he isn''t in Nala''s body. He again becomes the same as the one in the room. Note starts seeing Nala very happy with the change. He can only feel happiness to see a person who became one now be happy. Note feels as if he is the one who won. Note managed to touch her shoulder while she was crying and trying to find the answer to her sudden loneliness. Note could not communicate with Nala, only managing to graze her shoulders.

    "Thank you, Note." Nala managed to understand the meaning behind everything that happened.

    Note felt a sudden calmness from those simple words. He finally felt that he wasn''t just someone who was lonely; for the first time, he thought that he was getting recognition for his hard work. Note could only look at Nala as she stood up, her dress covered with blood but still retaining her unparalleled beauty.

    Note was still just there, floating in the realm of Nala. He could not return to the room only spectating what Nala does. Note wasn''t ready to leave Nala; he wanted to see what would happen to this scenario. He still doesn''t know if he will ever see the future of this scenario.

    Note followed Nala as she left the mansion to greet the people. Nala, with a new light blue dress, captured everyone''s attention. Note like a father a father tried to cover Nala, but he could do nothing. Nala started to speak to everyone and present herself the way she always presented herself. People were all drawn to her; she had a spell on everyone: kids, adults, and animals. No one was safe from the charm that Nala emits.

    After Nala introduced herself to everyone, she started to order people to start the reconstruction period. The first part of her plan was to start with feeding everyone well for they to have better energy to start on a road to connecting the people. Nala still hadn''t forgotten the people living closer to her district.

    Her district still had no idea of the change but prayed that it would be the same as the one where she currently is. Nala decided to check and break the news, bringing with her the others to show that they weren''t joking. Her main concern is the kids since they always tell the story of the monsters outside, unlike here where there is no such story, only more guarding preventing anyone without confirmation from leaving or entering.

    Nala was ready to fight back against any rebellion from her people. The only hope she has is that she is highly valued by her district. Everyone is in love with her. It was her only card, and she is willing to use it when needed.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

    The long journey back was similar to that; however, before leaving, everyone started clapping and screaming her name. This time she felt very happy and decided to have and blow kisses towards the crowd.

    Nala, on her way, started to order her followers to spread the news that they were going to live better, and that change was happening. Every town started cheering at the news; some believed it was fake, but the use of the people from those towns being very happy made them believe that it was true.

    Nala reached her home. Arriving, she went towards her mansion; seeing her home made her feel extra confident that this was for the best. Nala ordered an emergency meeting for all the people to listen to the news.

    Nala saw everyone cheering from seeing her. Her heart felt more at ease. Nala took a deep breath, grabbed the microphone, looked directly at the people, gave a small smile, and started her speech.

    "People of Lara! I am here to tell you that today you will be part of history. Today we will unite as one. The people we ostracized for centuries are similar to us. They all have families and lives worth living. For the kids, there are no things as monsters; the things outside are people. That means that there are many more friends to play with. For the adults today, I am in charge; my father died due to his own mistakes. All I am wishing for is that you all should accept this dramatic change. I am proud to say that I am part of the first generation to create change!! Long live Lara!!!"

    "New friends? No monsters? Yay! A small girl broke the silence.

    "If that is what the queen wants, then what are we to challenge her word!!" The people united to chant.

    "Nala!! Nala!! Long live our beautiful queen!!! Long live Nala!!!" The crowd breaks into a chant of Nala.

    "Everyone, I love you all so much. Thank you for being the best people in the world!!" Nala, with tears in her eyes, raises her hand for her people.

    Note watched with happiness from this development. He finally saw a happy ending; everything he went through seemed to pay off.

    Note felt the pull once again, but before he left, he heard.

    "Long live Note!!" Nala screamed before going inside her mansion.

    Note now in the room I could only feel so many emotions inside of him. The amount of happiness was too much for Note. A point from the star began to glow, changing its blue color to a lavender color. Notes emotions were put at an abrupt end; he was paying close attention to the change.One-fifth of the star was a new color. Note felt a surge of lavender color streams leaving his body and entering the top point of the star. Note became a new person as if his entire persona was left in that one top point of the star.

    Note''s new persona was ink. The true note was sealed off in the top point of the star. Note now as ink was teleported into a new star. The star was the same size as the star that entered him Nala, but instead of a green color, it was a dark purple color.

    Ink was very surprised to see the star; feeling the pull, he tried resisting but was overwhelmed by the power of the pull.

 Noctis

    Ink is awakened in a street; the colors all look dull; the more he looks around, the more dull and sad everything is. Ink tries to stand up only to fall down. Not knowing what the problem is, he decides to continue looking around. Everything was new to him.

    Ink still doesn''t realize that he has transmigrated; this is his entire present. Ink stares at the people walking, everyone either ignoring him or giving him a dirty look.

    This continued for a while until an old lady threw him a bag of food. Ink just stares at it before grabbing it. Opening it, the smells activated his brain, instantly biting it like it was his last meal. The meal looked like scraps, only a sandwich with whole and ingredients a day before expiring, yet it was all ink needed.

    Ink, with the surge of energy, stands up and begins walking without a clear destination in mind. The more he walked, the more bland everything looked. The houses, clothing, architecture, and even the sky were all monotone.

    Ink meets again with the old lady; the old lady takes pity on the child no older than five and takes him to her house to check if he''s okay.

    On the way to the old lady''s house, Ink starts to feel empty; this life is way too sad. There is no one smiling on the streets. Everyone either has a resting face or has a slight frown. The old lady was the only one that Ink could see having some sort of joy in her life. Walking behind her, it felt like her shadow had a ray of light compared to everywhere he looked.

    They arrived home; the first thing Ink noticed was the three lanterns covering the living room. Everything looked like medieval Europe. The old lady went into the kitchen to prepare something to eat, leaving Ink standing in the dining room not knowing where he was.

    After ten minutes of waiting, the old lady appears with two plates with chicken and rice with a side of potatoes. She sets the plates down, pulls her chair out from the table, and sits down. Ink follows her actions by doing the same. Both of them are sitting at a table; there is no sound; everything is quiet.

    "So, young man, what is your name?" The old lady decides to break the silence and know the name of the child she brought home.

    "My name? My name is Ink. That is all I know. I don''t know where I am from. I just appeared with no way to know where to go." Ink looking at the old lady with his darker-than-night eyes.

    "Ink? Huh, what a funny name; let me change it. How about Noctis? Since your eyes are as dark as the night, I think it fits you perfectly." The only lady smiling gives Ink a new name.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.

    "Noctis? I like it; if you say it''s better, then it''s ok." Ink now as Noctis lets out a small smile.

    "So, Noctis, you don''t know where you came from? You don''t know where the rest of your family is?"

    "Family, what is that? I don''t know anything. It feels like everything I knew is gone." Noctis stares at his hands, contemplating where he is.

    "Don''t worry; I am sure he will find out where you are from. You probably got it as a curse that forbids you from remembering." The old lady grabbed her utensil to begin eating.

    "A curse? Is that permanent?" Noctis asked the old lady, clearly shaken by the news.

    "Oh darling, don''t worry. It''s not permanent. The more you explore and learn things, the more the curse will gradually disappear. This is a very common reason why people are in the streets. Now begin eating before the food gets cold. The old lady starts eating after watching Noctis calm down.

    They both finish their meal. Noctis feels very full; it seems that for the first time in a while, he had a proper meal. After eating, the old lady begins to pick up the plates. Noctis stands up and stays there, not knowing where to go. The old lady advises him to go and take a bath before going to bed.

    Noctis is confused on what a bath is, but with the guidance of the old lady, he goes to the bathroom and gets bathed by the old lady. Noctis felt a warmth he had never felt before; it felt amazing to him. He started to see how the old lady washes his body, asking for the bar of soap to try and do it himself.

    After succeeding in bathing, he gets out to see a pair of clean clothes waiting for him. The size is way too big for him, but Noctis felt very safe in this set of clothes. Noctis left the bathroom to see the old lady prepare a mat for him to sleep in.

    Noctis just stares at the mat, not knowing what to do with it. He sees the old lady sleep in her own bed by opening the blanket and laying down. Noctis follows this, instantly falling asleep as soon as his torso was inside the blanket. Everything to him was special; the bath and his mat were the best moments he was living.

    Notcis wakes up to smell the food that the old lady is preparing to start the day. Noctis gets out his mat and begins to walk towards the dining room. To see two plates served on the table, the old lady sitting at the front eating and Noctis''s plate on the end.

    "Good morning, darling, did you sleep well?" The old lady wipes her mouth before speaking.

    "Yes, I really liked it. Thank you." Noctis stares at his food as he talks.

    "Don''t just sit down and eat."

    Notcis sits down and begins eating; tasting all the different unique flavors made it a fantastic way to start his day. After devouring his food, he remains seated for any instructions.

    "Darling, yesterday it was quite rude of me to not present myself. I am Dunning, but you can call me Grandma. I used to have little boys like you, but they are all grown, leaving me behind all by myself, which I don''t mind since they pay for everything. But an old lady does get lonely from time to time." Dunning starts telling her story to Noctis.

    "Grandma is a lot easier for me, and it also feels very familiar. Now you have me, so you don''t have to worry about being lonely anymore." Noctis, with a small smile, looks at Grandma.

    "Haha, that''s true. Now I think we should do some exploring to see if you remember anything from your past." Grandma gives a small chuckle as she picks up the plates.

 New Life

    Noctis and Grandma were ready to go out and buy clothes that fit Noctis. They both start walking towards the train to get them to the central business district. While walking towards the train, Noctis starts to see the world with clearness, the sun starting to rise, showing the town''s actual colors, which are still dull but not as much compared to the nightlife. The pollution is horrible everywhere Noctis looks. He saw people wearing cloth masks or violently coughing.

    While at the train station, Noctis still observed the people looking dull. The train was pure black, looking old with some parts rusting. The sun became dimmer due to the pollution, yet life had still to continue for the people. When they got on the train, people started swarming in, making the train extremely crowded.

    Noctis could only stand up next to Grandma while being squished in all directions. He suddenly felt someone touching his pockets, but due to the crowd, he couldn''t do anything; fortunately, he had nothing in his pockets. Noctis could only see through the crowded people a beautiful girl in a similar situation as him.

    Noctis'' heart skipped a beat, but he didn''t pay attention to it, quickly diverting his attention to the small part of the floor he could actually see. His mind only thought of the image of the girl; her red lips and blue eyes were a beam of light in the dull atmosphere. The train ride only took twenty minutes. The train stopped, and most of the people left, giving the space for Noctis and Grandma to leave; the girl didn''t have the same spot. Notcis could only look, but after seeing nothing, he decided to follow Grandma to see the central business district.

    Noctis saw that the city had a little more color than where he lived, but still everything looked dull. When they both entered, Noctis was blown away by the amount of people wandering the streets; the people had a small smile, surprising him. He saw people of many sizes, shapes, colors, and clothing. Noctis was fascinated by the fact that there are people like this.

    Noctis closely observed the stores, searching for something that caught his attention. Every store captured his attention; there were stores with many colorful items inside. Stores were inside and outside; everything felt new to him. The thought of so many new things to look at almost caused his brain to go into overdrive.

    They first went into the market section to buy new ingredients to adjust with the addition of one new mouth to feed. Noctis noticed the incredible smells of the market. Everything to him smelled delicious; all Noctis wanted was to eat everything that he saw. Noctis was about to take a plum and walk off, but luckily Grandma was there to pay for it and to give Noctis a lecture.

    "Noctis doesn''t do that. That is bad. You always have to pay for your food. So every time you want something, ask me if we can get it, and if I have enough money, I will buy it." Grandma starts smacking Noctis with her stack of money.

    "I am sorry. It just looked delicious. I promise I won''t do it again." Noctis looked at the floor from the embarrassment.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

    "Don''t worry, now let''s get going; the more we wait, the more the best ingredients are being bought." Grandma grabbed Noctis''s hand and started walking as fast as her old body allowed her to.

    While speed walking, Noctis could only stare at the food he desires to eat, drooling as his hungry child body is being dragged against his will. Noctis could only shed a tear as he left each food stand.

    When they arrived at the stand, Noctis was immediately drawn to the sweet smell of a drink at the end of the cart. Noctis could only drink his saliva before pulling his grandma''s dress to ask her to buy it. Grandma was too focused on being sure to pick the best ingredients, almost fighting against another old lady for a squash.

    Noctis could only stare at Grandma, doing his best puppy eyes, yet nothing managed to get her attention. After waiting for three minutes, Grandma finally asked what he wanted. Without a second thought, Noctis immediately pointed at the gallon of red-colored drink beside Noctis. Grandma looked at her money, giving him a smile and buying it for him.

    Noctis was very happy to get the drink. Noctis could only look at the drink he wanted, giving it the first sip. Noctis never felt this amazing combination of flavors hit his developing paladar. Noctis immediately drank the entire drink, not leaving behind even a single drop of the sweet juice.

    Noctis was now revitalized, ready to buy himself new clothing. They both left the food market. Noctis, now satiated with the drink, felt that he had enough, deciding to look straight ahead, ignoring the food. They went into the clothing section, and Noctis was amazed to see so much clothing. The things that caught his attention were the beautiful dresses on display.

    Looking at the dresses, Noctis finally saw a reflection of himself seeing a small child. His long and unkempt black hair caught his attention; his dark eyes made him look gloomy but childish. The clothes are way too big for him, almost giving him a gangster look. Noctis looked at his reflection for a while but ran towards Grandma inside the store.

    Inside the store it was beautiful. There were so many different clothing items of different colors. Noctis walked towards the male section and, with the help of his grandma, started picking new clothes that he liked. After picking ten sets of clothing, Noctis went to the fitting area to test out the clothes.

    Only four sets fit Noctis perfectly. The first set is a graphic t-shirt of a dinosaur with some shorts for his casual outfit. The next set was a long sleeve with red stripes as its design with black pants. The third set is a short-sleeve shirt with a black sweater on top of it. Another black pants was used in the outfit. The last set was his personal favorite. It consists of a long sleeve with many splashes of color throughout the shirt; its simplicity but colorfulness was love at first instance. The gray pants made the outfit perfect for him.

    They bought the four sets, and Noctis left wearing his fourth set. After leaving the store, they decided to give Noctis a complete makeover, which includes a haircut. His wavy hair type was very unique for the time when straight hair was the norm. Noctis wanted to continue having his curls; all he wanted was his hair to be cut a little shorter to show his face. The stylist made his curls stand out, finally being able to see his baby face and was happy to see himself for the first time.

    "Do you like it?" the stylist asked Noctis.

    "Yes, I love it. It fits perfectly." Noctis now finally gives a large smile.

    After saying goodbye to the stylist, they decided to mark the ending of their trip to the markets. They walked back again to the train; the same moment Noctis left the town, the colors of everything went back to dull; however, Noctis is radiating a beam of joy the whole way back.

 Positive?

    Noctis has been with Grandma for a year now. Right in front of him is a small cake to celebrate his 6th birthday. Noctis is a lot more accustomed to the new environment that he is in. He still gets fascinated with new things, but mostly everything is losing the life it once had.

    Noctis''s favorite thing is to explore the world, to explore everything. His young and creative mind has no limit. He tries to make something from everything. His dreams are becoming more and more vibrant.

    Grandma has been thinking for a while about whether she should send him to school to meet people his age or to show him more of the world. One part of her wants him to be free, but the feeling of being alone again consumes her. On the other hand, showing him more of the world will get dramatically more complicated with her aging body that can''t follow a child like she used to do.

    Grandma decided to call Noctis and make him decide whether he wanted to go to school or stay.

    "Noctis, you are at the age where kids start going to a place called school. In school, there are a lot more people your age with similar interests. I am asking you to tell me if you want to go or stay with Grandma." Grandma looked at a puzzling Noctis.

    "Um. I don''t know. School, there are many people like me, but I also want to stay with Grandma. I can''t decide!" Noctis'' two brain cells were not ready for a question like that.

    "Why can''t I have both? I mean, it''s the best answer." Noctis''s brain cells managed to create something

    "Darling, we can''t do that. Now that I think about it, I don''t know if I can teach you even ten percent of what schools will teach you. I have decided tomorrow I will try and make you go to the new school year." Grandma messes with Noctis'' hair before standing and going to the kitchen.

    The next day Noctis heard a knock on the door. He immediately ran and hid, only speaking to see who it was. Seeing that Grandma is speaking and smiling, he decides to come out and meet the man. Noctis sits close to Grandma while the man is in the spot where he normally eats.

    "Hello, Principal Sullivan, this is Noctis. I am asking for you to accept him to your school as he is way behind the education level. I have had him under my care for a year, and he is quite a unique boy. Not in my 30 years of teaching have I seen a kid this unique before."

    "That is quite the praise coming from one of our best teachers, Mrs. Smith. I mean, I can give him an assessment to see where he should be put, but it will be hard to make him learn things kids have been learning for years." Principal Sullivan looks at Noctis and feels a strange aura emitting from him.

    The meeting goes very well, and it''s scheduled for Noctis to go to the school of Richard to go and have an assessment to test his intellect.

    The day arrives; Noctis is anxious, to say the least, but confident and motivated to make Grandma proud. He and Grandma both arrive at the school. Noctis was surprised to see a building so large, yet the monotonous colors of the sky made him feel uneasy.

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    When he entered, Principal Sullivan was there to greet him. Leading him to the place where there was only one desk and a seat. The building was colored cream. The room he is going to have his assessment made in is colored the saddest tone of blue he has ever seen. Noctis sits down where a test is waiting for him.

    Principal Sullivan explained to Noctis how tests work and how it''s an assessment to test how much he knows. He doesn''t have to know all of them; he just has to answer them to the best of his abilities. Principal Sullivan puts a timer of an hour on him to answer the 20-question test.

    The test is the hardest thing that Noctis has ever done. It was struggle after struggle. His first struggle was trying to hold the pencil; not knowing how to hold it, he managed to hold it straight up. His next struggle was answering the question. He knows how to read, but the questions were about topics too advanced for him. Deciding to circle everything that he can create a picture with. The math and science questions were the easiest due to his unparalleled creativity and his hunger for those topics.

    The test was over, and Noctis was sweating bullets, not knowing if he did well. Principal Sullivan grabbed the paper and started to skim over it, getting more and more surprised at how he managed to get all of them right. Not saying anything to Noctis, he ushers Noctis to follow him to his new classroom.

    "Class! This is your new student. His name is Noctis. Please be kind to him, and goodbye." Without further explanation, Principal Sullivan dropped Noctis in a place where everyone started to stare at him.

    Noctis''s first reaction is to look down; however, when he looks down, he catches a glimpse of the exact girl he saw on the train. He decided to sit beside her. Her seat was separated from the rest of the students due to her talkative nature.

    In the blink of an eye, Noctis has now graduated middle school. His whole middle school journey was filled with calmness and learning about the world. Becoming friends with the girl on the train named Luna helped his development as a human being.

    After years of developing feelings for Luna, he decides to confess while on stage with everyone, even Grandma seeing him now become a teenager. Luna says yes, and the whole crowd erupts in cheer. Both class toppers are going to the same school and dating.

    Noctis, now about 170 cm, has his wavy hair becoming curlier and his eyes remaining the same pitch black. Noctis'' creative mind has managed to get him into a prestigious school for arts and architecture. Everything was looking up for Noctis; he started to date Luna, and he was accepted into his dream school. What could prevent him from living his best life?

    ¡­

    Noctis looks down as he sees the casket of Grandma being lowered in front of his eyes. Noctis only sensed the tears dropping, his face stuck, his heart and mind spiraling out of control.

    All he can think is, "What went wrong?"

 Grandma

    On Noctis'' first day of middle school, Grandma started showing signs of her imminent death. Grandma kept reassuring Notcis that she probably contracted a disease. Notcis believed her, as she had never lied to Notctis. Having a little bit of worry he continued to live his life as normal.

    Every month her body became weaker and weaker. Leaving Noctis to do all the house chores, leaving only the cooking to Grandma. Noctis'' high emphasis on education made him not pay too much attention to Grandma''s diminishing health.

    Every day was the same for Noctis; middle graduation was the happiest moment of his life. Grandma was able to see him become a handsome, strong young man. She managed to contain her sickness until her body couldn''t anymore.

    Only a month into his summer vacation, while cooking, Grandma suddenly collapsed. Noctis, who was in the living room drawing, stood up and ran immediately to the kitchen to see Grandma on the ground, her face burning with the hot grease.

    Noctis carried her body and sprinted towards the door, running to the local clinic as he was told to do if this ever happened. Noctis'' mind was very scared; all he wanted was for Grandma to be fine and to continue to be with him.

    The moment he kicked the door of the doctor''s office, he saw no one there; he started to feel doubt; the whole building felt sad. The colors were washed; still, Noctis wasted no time and asked for a doctor.

    The doctors, having taken one look at her, immediately dropped everything they were doing and started to resuscitate her. Noctis was told to stay in the seating area for any news about her. Noctis, on the verge of tears, could only pray to all the celestial beings that he knew of.

    A doctor wearing a red-colored face cloth came up to Noctis with full sincerity and told him that she had died from a heart attack. If that grease hadn''t been in her face, she would have had a better chance of surviving, but her body was too fragile for those events to happen at the same time.

    Noctis dropped down to his knees; before saying anything, he stood up and ran out of the clinic. The further he ran away, the more the tears came down. He started crying the whole way to the house. The colors of the city became as dim as when he first arrived.

    He opened the door now, bawling his eyes out, not knowing what to do with his life; he covered himself in the blanket of Grandma and cried and cried till his body ran out of tears. Days of crying led him to be bedbound, not wanting to fear. His body didn''t want anything; water, food, and pleasure were all useless to him. All he wants is for Grandma to come back. Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.

    Noctis could only relive the best moments with Grandma. The moments when he first met her, all the happy moments they spent together. All the experiences that she had made him live. He felt that she was his reason to better himself for them to live a better life outside of this dull town.

    The memories of her last seconds alive started to haunt Noctis. All he did was place the blame on himself. Noctis hates himself; all he is thinking is that he made all of this.

    "If it weren''t for me asking for that fried fish, she would have been alright. If it weren''t for me being very energetic, she would have never gotten sick. If it weren''t for me even being alive, she would have continued being alive." Noctis continued to repeat from day till night for three days.

    Noctis was able to leave his house after Principal Sullivan told him that there would be a funeral for Grandma. Noctis was in a horrible condition; he stopped caring about his own life. His body was severely malnourished; his hair and hygiene were worse than a homeless man''s.

    The day of the funeral the weather started to rain. The sky became darker; all the colors lost their shine. Notcis managed to wear the best set of clothes he could find to find tribute for Grandma.

    Noctis saw the lowering of her body; everyone started to hug each other. Noctis tried his best, but no tears came out; everything was dried. All he wants is someone to tell him that everything is going to be alright. Noctis started to look for Luna to get some comfort. He started to wonder if she was there, only to be brought to his knees when he saw Luna making out with another guy.

    Noctis looked at her for a good second, standing up and continuing to stare at Grandma as her body was being covered with dirt. Everyone''s tears were being covered up by the rain; Noctis, now soaking in the rain, could only fall on his back, running his white shirt, but at this point that was the least of his worries.

    After the funeral was over, all that was left was the tombstone of Grandma saying, "An amazing teacher, incredible mother, and an even better grandmother." Noctis could only look at it, not feeling anything. He stood up now drenched and started to make his way to his home.

    When he arrived, he got into the shower, taking a long, hot shower to reflect on everything that had happened and how his life changed so fast in an instant. How he went from the best moment of his life to the worst.

    Noctis started to leave his house for the necessities, always trying to be low-key. He wanted to be alone so that no one would suffer because of him. His body started to be healthier, yet it still had a gloominess that portrayed how he felt inside. Noctis didn''t attend high school, opting to get a job as a cashier. He wanted to be left alone; on one occasion, they even visited him, leaving him all alone to fend for himself.

    There were many times that Noctis was going to sleep hungry. Only relies on his job, savings from Grandma, and his mind to survive in this new environment. ¡­Noctis was now at the age of eighteen; all of his peers who were always with him had graduated from high school. Luna also graduated from Noctis''s dream school. Yet none of them even paid a visit to him.

    Noctis was at a point where all he did was survive, doing the minimum to survive.

    On his walk home, he saw a strange woman standing outside on the streets. Noctis didn''t pay attention to her, but the unknown woman started following Noctis to his home. Noctis didn''t even bother to say anything or even pay attention to her.

    When he opened the door he was about to say something when suddenly the woman jumped towards Noctis, pushing him towards the bed. Undressing and using Noctis'' body till she couldn''t, Noctis started to feel happiness once again.

    They both finished doing their deeds, only for Noctis to wake up in an alternate reality.

 Blink

    Noctis woke up after destroying the girl, but when he woke up, the girl was not there. Noctis felt that he might have been set up to get robbed. He didn''t care as there was nothing of value in his home. Noctis wants to feel that euphoria he felt, but he doesn''t know where to go about it.

    Noctis stood up from his bed, yawned, and saw himself drying in the restroom after his shower. Noctis was in disbelief that just a moment ago he was getting out of bed and now was ready.

    Noctis opened the door a little too fast to scare him. After flinching, he saw himself at a bar surrounded by women. He immediately ran off, now extremely concerned about what was happening.

    Noctis ran outside to see a carriage about to run him off. The next second he was in a bedroom with three different women; they were all lying around him. He only saw their hair: one had black hair, another one was red, and finally, blonde.

    Noctis stood up, taking time to think about what was happening. He is absolutely petrified about what is happening; he goes to the restroom and sees a reflection of himself. He looks totally different; his hair is longer, and his face looks a lot more masculine. Noctis started to be scared of himself punching the mirror. His hand was now covered in blood; he put his clothes on and left, being extremely paranoid.

    Noctis was paranoid about everything; after deciding to walk in a sketchy area, he felt a warmth in his back. Noctis felt weak only to look back and see a man very close to him. His eyes became filled with pure terror after realizing that he was stabbed.

    "AHHH!!!" Noctis felt the pain after his realization that his body was being constantly stabbed by a hooded man.

    Noctis opened his eyes to see that he was now in the same stand that he and Grandma always went to. Noctis immediately started to pat the area where he was stabbed, quickly running into the clothing area of the market.

    Noctis started to scan the stores to enter one; they were all dull. He grabbed a black sweater, and without alerting anyone, he speed-walked to the dressing room and took out his shirt to see not a single scratch where he was stabbed. Noctis was at a breaking point, grabbed the sweater, went to the register, and bought it without even taking his change back. He ran out of the store.

    Noctis, now covered in a black sweater to remain anonymous, couldn''t shake the feeling that they were people-watching him and his every move. Noctis started to walk, feeling a little bit calmer after leaving the market; he heard a large crowd of people running in his direction.

    Noctis started running to not be caught; his body felt like it was running very slowly. He knew that his body was better than this, but he was running in slow motion. Noctis could only look at the crowd now, less than a second behind him.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.

    Noctis felt the whole crowd running over him. Feeling every pound that he was stomped, he couldn''t produce a single sound due to his blown-out throat. Wanting the pain to end, he only lay there praying for his death.

    Noctis, after feeling like his time was here, was now a child version of himself the same day he appeared. Now everything was dark. Noctis could only sit down, paralyzed, shaking with fear. The more he lay there, the more people started to laugh at him.

    Noctis started to feel whole laughs targeting him. Everyone''s face was hysterically laughing while pointing at him. Noctis could only run to somewhere where there was no one, yet the voices continued.

    Faces started to appear all around Noctis'' mind; the people he cared the most about were all laughing at them, pointing at him. He saw their faces become more and more distorted until they weren''t even recognizable; their voices became deeper and deeper.

    Noctis could only bash his head to feel a temporary relief from the voices in his head. The wall that he smashed his head on was now filled with the faces of Luna, Grandma, Principal Sullivan, and all of his friends laughing with their faces severely distorted.

    Everything started to collapse on Noctis; the walls started to become hollow, the ground sucking him down. Noctis, while being sucked by the ground, started to raise his hand to escape. After the ground consumed Noctis, he was in another place.

    Noctis'' mind was one second away from collapsing; in another second, he would have gone insane. Noctis looked around the new place; the colors all looked vibrant, and the sun started to shine brighter than Noctis had ever seen in his life.

    Noctis is very cautious about this place due to how everything else ends by destroying him; after staying on guard for ten minutes and feeling calm enough to let his guard down, he starts to realize how different everything is. Everything was the total opposite of his life; the people he cared about were beginning to appear again. Luna in his arms, sleeping with her luscious blonde hair leaning on his arm, Grandma preparing cookies for them. Noctis'' mind was holding onto its sanity, leading him to believe that everything that was happening was the truth, his mind creating a delusion for him to live comfortably.

    Noctis sees his grandma with the tray of her chocolate cookie tray; Noctis drops Luna to go and tries to hug Grandma. When he reaches her, she transforms into vapor. Noctis looked back to see that Luna was no longer there; everywhere he touched started to evaporate.

    Noctis sees how this perfect world started to collapse in front of his eyes. Noctis feels his body falling into an infinite abyss. The drop felt like an eternity. Noctis suddenly feels the ground his body landed on the ground like a feather.

    Noctis starts to see an empty white room, everything covered with white. Noctis starts to walk to see where it ends; the room is not very big; he can easily touch the walls in the room with only a few steps.

    Noctis sits down; his sanity is only held by the strength of a piece of hay. Noctis starts to sit there for an indefinite amount of time; no thoughts are happening through his mind at this time. The more he stared at the white walls, the more his mind started to overthink the situation.

    Noctis decides to stand up and starts to pace around the room until he hears something on the opposite side of his body.

    Splash!

    Drip, drip, drip

    Noctis, feeling shivers down his spine, decides to look back to see a large sign written with wet ink reading, "Hello, Noctis." Noctis fell on his bottom to see his name written on a wall; the spatter of dark ink made it look like a death threat.

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    Noctis looked at the ink until it disappeared. The ins suddenly started to go on the other walls. The pure white walls started to get covered with dots of ink. Noctis started to look to see who was doing this; his legs trembling made identifying who did it more complicated.

    Noctis, everywhere he looked, there were new drops of ink around the walls. Some splashes of ink started to combine into a large drop only to disappear and appear once again. Noctis started to get scared due to how he was in an enclosed room with no room to escape and he thought the person or thing doing this made him suffer this much.

    The splashes of ink started to get bigger and bigger. Combining and exploiting, the ink started to land on Noctis only to disappear; letters, numbers, and drawings started to appear on the wall.

    The more Noctis paid attention to the ink, the more it reflected his life. The numbers were all special dates for Noctis: the day he met Grandma, the day after, his first day of school, his graduation, all days when he traveled with Grandma, all his and Grandma''s birthdays, and the days when he had sleepovers with his friends. They were all being displayed; following them, the ink started to create drawings of his memory.

    Memories that he forgot he had, memories that he held dear. Memories of the day he first awoke in this world, the first time he met Grandma, the memory of him getting the name Noctis, the memory of his first trip to the market, the memory of all of his best moments. To later be overshadowed by the worst memories of Noctis'' life.

    The memories of Grandma''s death, the moment he saw Luna cheat, the moment he saw Grandma''s body being buried, the memories of him in his worst state. Memories he forgot he had. It went even deeper; the thoughts he started to think due to Grandma''s death were all depicted by the ink.

    All of Noctis'' life started to show with flashes of ink only leaving the most impactful moments of Noctis'' life, the white room acting like a blank canvas and the ink creating paintings with it. The pictures started to shift into the left wall; the numbers rested on top of his head.

    The words started to appear; the conversations he heard, he spoke, were all being written in ink. The conversations that stayed stuck on the wall behind him were the conversations where he learned something new with Grandma. The conversations with Luna, the conversations with all his friends, were smaller than the conversations with himself.

    All of Noctis''s internal talks were being written by the ink; his deepest, darkest desires were being shown to Noctis, leaving him standing just reading everything and remembering all of it.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

    Noctis started to see that the right-sided wall was being colored with the progression of his life. The entire styles he used to wear were all there. The ones that lasted the longest look larger and more detailed compared to the rest. The center one is his current self. The body of a weak, frightened boy who doesn''t have a purpose to continue living.

    The reflection in the mirror made Noctis start to realize how horrible his life is going. He can now see how much one event impacted his life, how much he changed from a child with so much life to an adult with no purpose. The difference was truly shocking for Noctis; all the time he wasted could have been used to become stronger for his grandma, yet all he did was shut himself off, rejecting every opportunity that could have made an impact on his life.

    The ink started to personally speak to changing its color from black to dark purple.

    How do you see your life? Does your life feel complete? You have ruined your whole life due to a single event. Now you are a different person. You and I are far more similar than you think. The more you come to accept that life will never be the same, the more you will accept ''me.''.

    Each sentence appeared beside each other, and a collage of words started to make Noctis feel completely worthless. Every path he could have taken would have led him to glory, yet he picked the only path that led to his demise by his own hands.

    Noctis was out of words to say anything to the ink.

    You regret it, right? Remember you did it to you and me. You are extremely pathetic; everyone is pathetic, but you in particular are laughably pathetic. Everything we went through together was only for you to ruin the perfect chance that I gave you to live and become a perfect being. I kind of feel sad for picking you to be my main director.

    Noctis started to feel so many thoughts; his sanity was regained, but his whole value of himself plummeted. The only things he taught about were the words written,

    How am I the same with the wall? Me, his main director? Everything we went through together? All he talks about is how we are the same, but who are we? The only words that stuck to Noctis are the "we."

    You are so close to getting it right, Noctis. I want to tell you, but you need to find the answer by yourself. How can you forget about us? About me! You won''t leave here until you come to realize the gift inside you.

    Noctis taught while trying to figure out what the wall was talking about. He has never met someone with nobody and using ink to communicate.

    Someone who uses ink, speaking with ink. Writing with ink, drawing with ink, uses ink. Ink, Ink. Why does that word sound so familiar? Noctis feels his mind return to the day that he first introduced himself to Grandma. He remembers how he introduced himself.

    "INK, that''s me. You are Ink, and I am Ink." Noctis starts to evaluate his entire life.

    Bingo!

    Splash!

    Welcome back, Noctis.

    The ink came together to welcome back Noctis with Ink. Noctis felt the room opening, feeling that he was back in his room right after being done with the girl.

    "Dream" Ink managed to speak to Noctis.

    A normal human can''t comprehend the voice of a different being, causing Noctis to immediately collapse.

 Dreamer

    Noctis is awoken from the alternate reality; his environment is the same as the one after doing the woman. Noctis got out of bed and went to the restroom to see the once-beautiful woman he just slept with, a horrifying creature. Noctis was in shock yet maintained his composure; after walking inside and looking at the reflection in the mirror, he saw the woman again.

    It was all an illusion. Noctis, trying his best not to tremble, looks at the monster and ushers it to leave the restroom with a wave of his hand. The monster complied with his wants, leaving a dark red spot where it floated.

    Noctis'' vision started to get more adjusted to his original world; the more he saw the figure, the more horrifying it became. The monster was a combination of the girl and the monster when Noctis first saw it. Now the monster started to look more like a demon. Its arms were those of bats, there were no legs, the demon was floating, and its body became larger.

    Noctis could not see the demon anymore since it left the restroom. Noctis decides to take a bath and reflect on everything that is happening. Noctis'' main thoughts were about the white room and about Ink.

    What does Ink want? Did he do this, or was it the demon? The white room just disappeared. There was no answer. Is Ink still in me? Am I still one with Ink? Ink that''s a funny name. Anyways, what does the demon want?

    Noctis''s bath and thoughts were cut short when he heard the door collapse. He saw the demon; now his vision could finally see the demon''s form. Its body was surrounded by a dark red aura; everywhere it moved left a trail of sorrow and hate. The body was an eye, a large red eye.

    The next second, Noctis saw the demon transform into a more human form while still retaining the bat-like arms. Its legs are the same as humans; its body forms a more feminine look; its face looks like that of the girl in the mirror; however, now the distinguishing factor is the X around her face.

    The demon now knew that Noctis could see it by analyzing his reactions. In the blink of an eye, Noctis'' throat is being squished by the bat-like hands. Noctis resisted, punching, kicking, trying everything, yet nothing did a single scratch to the demon.

    Noctis passed out from the lack of oxygen only to appear in the white room once again.

    Welcome back; it seems like I need my help. Haha! What do I need? I don''t know, but I do. Let me think. I know, Dream. You need a dream.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.

    "A dream? But before that, you and I are still united?" Noctis could only look at where the ink was being drawn.

    Yes. Remember your¡ªscratch that¡ªour biggest talent.

    "So the yes is that we are still united. What is our biggest talent? Dream? What does that mean?" Noctis started banging the wall for answers.

    You are useless. You really can''t do anything without people telling you what to do. I am going to put a clock on a minute; if you can''t figure out what the answer is in that minute, you and I will die. I may come back; however, you won''t. For now.

    A large ink clock appeared on the top wall of the white room. The last sentence that was written by the ink disappeared after a second of being written.

    "What does that mean? ''For now''¡ªwhat does that mean? Fuck, our greatest talent?" Ten seconds passed.

    Noctis started to rethink everything that he had done in his life, trying his best to think of the answer. Nothing came to his mind; there was nothing. Panic started to take over Noctis''s mind after seeing he only had ten seconds left till the timer disappeared.

    Something clicked in Noctis'' mind, "I get it! Dream, I have always dreamed of better using my creativity."

    Noctis heard nothing; only the clock hitting zero, his mind was already ready to die; he tried but failed. When falling into reality, Noctis heard something deep inside his mind.

    "Congrats! Remember that you are the first." The voice of the same figure that talked to Noctis appeared again.

    Noctis teleported back into his world to see that the monster was no longer the scary figure that was there. The strength of the monster became weaker; Noctis could now easily free himself. Punching the demon was easy. Nothing prevented him from killing the demon.

    Noctis got onto the bleeding demon, smashing its entire brain. A piece of her head is all around Noctis'' body. The once formidable demon was now a weak woman being beaten to death. The more Noctis smashed the demon''s head, the more his punches left a mark of ink.

    After killing the demon, Noctis stood up to see his bathroom covered with blood, looking at his reflection as if his hair had some purple strands that reminded him of the galaxy picture he read.

    The ink was running throughout his hands. Noctis got dressed, left the bathroom, and left his house. Outside his house looked normal; however, the more he looked around, the more of the demons appeared, all staring at him.

    The demons were in their human form with the X around their head. People were starting to talk to them, yet none of them could take their eyes off Noctis.

    Noctis ran out only to be followed by the demons. Noctis ran into a building, hiding in a spot behind the main staircases.

    Why was the demon a girl now? Why is my hair like that? What is a ''dreamer?'' What is the ink trail? Noctis finally remembered that he was leaving an ink trail; now having no option to run, he decided to try everything that related to dreams.

    Noctis starts to hear their footsteps surrounding him; left with no options, he decides to sleep and dream.

    In the dream, Noctis sees where the demons will come and attack him; he dreams that they all have the strength of their human form.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Noctis is awoken by the sound of an explosion around him; his escape will start.

 Flight Or Flight

    Noctis started to run up the stairs, looking at all the directions of the building. The wall''s color became darker, infusing itself with the aura of the demons. Noctis decides to follow what his dream told him.

    Running away from all the windows and walls that were destroyed in his dream. The prophecies came true.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Crash! Crash! Crash!

    Noctis evaded the entire attack. Running, ducking, rolling, and doing everything in his power to only suffer minor injuries. The entire walls were being bombed, the windows blown out. Noctis feels the strong winds, his hair waving around at the speed of the wind. Noctis decided to have another dream for more clues on how to beat or escape them.

    ¡­

    In Noctis'' dream, he saw the demons, half human, half demon, entering through the broken walls. Some flew through the windows. They all attacked him at the same time. The result of his dream was him being dead. His entire limbs were being eaten like lions eating their prey.

    ¡­

    Noctis woke up from his dream. His first decision was to run away to the second floor by jumping out of the window on the opposite side of the room. Noctis, running with all he got, managed to jump away in time before the entire building was surrounded by demons.

    The building exploded, and the large fire and debris falling on the streets caused panic in everyone. No one knew what was happening except Noctis. Seeing the entire building fall, Noctis decides to scavenge in the debris to hide and dream about another vision.

    ¡­

    Noctis goes into his dream to see himself being found and thrown like a frisbee all around the houses. They started running, throwing him, breaking every bone in his body.

    ¡­

    Noctis starts to panic, running outside of the debris, his hand bleeding from the rough edges around the broken pieces. The fire only gained size with the chaos and more buildings being blown up.

    Noctis, the larger fire behind him, the screams and agony were only amplified the more the chaos continued. Noctis arrived at a place close to the train, sat down, closed his eyes, and decided to dream.

    ¡­

    In his dream, the fire that was once nonvisible where he is could now be seen. The entire city was destroyed, leaving only small houses fine; the people all stopped being heard; there was not a single soul alive. Noctis waited longer. The clock in the train station shows that he is seeing three hours in the future. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

    Noctis waited longer and longer. Four hours in advance, they finally arrived at the place where Noctis was. People start to come out of the train; the train is ripped apart by the large coalition of demons, the people dying in front of Noctis'' eyes. Noctis can only cover his mouth from producing any sounds that might reveal his identity.

    The night sky is so dark, only being illuminated by the fire and the dark red aura of the demons. Noctis tries his best to not move, yet a demon throws a body in Noctis''s direction; his natural instinct is to step back.

    Crack!

    Noctis steps on a tree branch, catching the attention of a demon close by. Noctis runs away in the opposite direction of the demon. The demon jumped around.

    Screech!

    The demon gives a cry for his team to unite, and their target is found. The demons all run with the speed of a horse in the direction of Noctis, reaching him in less than ten seconds. They surround Noctis, all of them looking directly at Noctis.

    Noctis feels how each one of his limbs is being eaten straight from his body.

    ¡­

    Noctis wakes up, deciding to run to the train waiting for the train to start for him to leave this place. His consciousness is having a fight with itself. Deciding between going back and trying to fight against the demons to save the people who are destined to die due to him.

    The train arrived an hour later, leaving him three hours until the internal battles remained. Noctis is very scared to die, yet the town is his entire life. His entire life, all the people he knew, and the place where Grandma lived were being destroyed due to him.

    The train passed going to the central business district. Noctis decided to run back and help his native town; his desire to live in the place that his grandma cared for so much was enough for him to run back.

    Noctis arrives at the town, seeing the demons about to kill a little girl. Noctis decides to call for their attention.

    "YOU WANT ME RIGHT!!!? I AM HERE!!! COME HERE AND FIGHT ME!!" Noctis screamed as hard as his vocal cords allowed him to do.

    The demons dropped the little girl, leaving her with some scars and trauma for the rest of her life. They all started to go inside the fire making. The fire started to change color, from a dull orange to a dark red. The fire became higher and higher; the town, almost in complete disaster, was only being lit by the ever-expanding fire.

    Noctis starts to run to another house to try and dream about the future, but before going inside, in his peripheral vision, just a heartbeat away, Noctis manages to do a backflip, escaping a fireball aimed directly at himself, the house instantly blowing up. Litting up in a fire just steps away from Noctis.

    Noctis tried to blend with the running crowd to try and find a spot where he could see the future. There were no chances available for him. Noctis is certain that death is imminent.

    The large central fire with the rest of all the fires in the houses started to disappear in front of Noctis. Confused where the fire is and, more importantly, where the demons are. Noctis started to look around the dull town now surrounded by the smell of death.

    Crackle, Crackle, Crackle.

    Noctis heard the sound of the fire; a large, dark light illuminated the entire town. Noctis looks up to see a large fireball; the demons below them, in an all-combined attack, are preparing right in front of Noctis. The fireball''s color is a deep, dark color, the size reaching that of a two-story house.

    The entire town, if the attack hits, will disappear, leaving a crater due to a large amount of energy; every sign that someone lived here will disappear if it hits. Noctis could not predict this, only looking at the fireball, losing all his hope.

 Daydreamer

    Noctis lowered his head, ready for his imminent death. Looking around, people dead, buildings destroyed, all of Noctis'' life is going to be destroyed, and he is not able to do anything about it. The town is in silence; no one decides to make a move; everyone already knows that this is their end.

    Noctis manages to enter his dream. In his third point of view, he sees the once lovely yet dull town as just a crater, the ground still burning by the fireball. Not a single living thing in a one-hundred-meter radius from the attack.

    Noctis could only cry; all of his life and his grandma''s life had disappeared in an instant. The entire place is covered in dust from the attack. Noctis tried to go more into the future to see if there would be people living here, but his current abilities don''t allow him to reach that much into the future.

    Noctis appears in his dream. Another Noctis takes the mind of Ink to prevent Noctis from passing out from hearing the true voice of a god.

    "You need more power, right? It''s simple. You can either lose yourself to get more power, but after you die. Or you can go into the worst realities of people that once lived here." Ink starts speaking to Noctis with Noctis'' voice.

    "What are the differences? And how sure are you that I will defeat them? Noctis, with tears in his eyes, asks for more context about his proposal.

    "If you decide on the first option, I can guarantee you that you will have a ninety-nine percent chance of defeating the demons. However, the second choice is you can beat demons, but it will mostly depend on how you use your abilities."

    "How does the second choice depend on me? Also, why a ninety-nine and not a one hundred?" Noctis asks Ink

    "Let''s just say that we don''t know how your body will resist the power and if you have the time to beat them, but that is for the first choice. The second one depends on you because if you manage to survive the realities, then you will be granted ''daydreamer,'' where now you can dream while being awake."

    "I don''t care about the first choice, but how is being a daydreamer going to help me beat those demons? They are far stronger than me!" Noctis starts screaming at Ink.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

    "Hey, don''t scream at yourself; you sound like a lunatic. Also, that is the reason why I told you that daydreamers mostly depend on you. If your imagination is vivid and your creativity is very high, you can come up with ideas that can defeat them. Remember your first encounter."

    "What does that mean, Ink? I tried to make them into their human form, yet I couldn''t. Could a daydreamer help me achieve that? Or with daydreamer can I make myself extremely overpowered? Or can a daydreamer make me imagine someone weaker than me?" Noctis starts questioning Ink about all of this.

    "I don''t know. Well, I do, but you need to figure it out. I will give you three seconds to decide as the clock is ticking in the real world. Currently, our conversation took only one second in your realm. After saying this, Ink starts to fade away.

    "Fuck it, I choose option two!!" Just when Ink is about to disappear, Noctis decides his answer.¡­Noctis is transported into a third point of view, seeing the life of a young girl. The young girl is Grandma. Noctis can not produce any sound; he can only observe. Noctis could see how horrible the reality of Grandma was.

    Her household was very abusive. Her alcoholic father beat her and her mother every day. They hid the knives, guns, and everything just to have a chance to see another day. Noctis can only resist breaking down to gain the abilities.

    Noctis is transported to the scene of Grandma and her mom being beaten so hard that her mother could only protect Grandma as she was being hit with a shovel. Grandma cried in her mom''s arms, only seeing the blood spilling into her face.

    The last swing was so powerful that it knocked out her mother. After being left alone with the monster, he also started beating her. After his fit of rage, he left them to die. Grandma could only see how the life of her mother was quickly fading away in front of her eyes.

    Grandma could only see the lips of her mother move as she let her last breath. Grandma cried for hours, moving her mother''s lifeless body to wake her up. Begging her to wake up, to not leave her alone in this cruel and dull world.

    Noctis could only see his entire mind going insane, his mind holding the thread of string. Nothing could prepare him for this nightmare. The worst thing for him is that this is what Grandma lived through. Her always happy personality had such a tragic past. Noctis could only resist breaking down with the thoughts about how much Grandma valued this place.

    The actions of Grandma remind him of his own experiences, feeling such a personal connection between the both of them. Noctis started to hear some voices in the back of his head. A voice so quiet, yet it is still prevalent enough for Noctis to notice. Noctis tries his best to ignore it by using his entire mental power to process the thing he is seeing.

    Noctis is transported into another scenario where an adult Grandma, her long, wavy brunette hair combined with her beautiful looks, made Noctis very happy to see how Grandma is living. The more and more he looks at her, the more the sorrows of her past start to seep through her body.

    Noctis can only appreciate how much his grandma changed her life and how much she changed his life. ¡­"Wow, you managed to survive. I am very surprised, but this is only the beginning if you want more power." Ink now disappears.

    "Welcome, Daydreamer." Ink uses his real voice.

    Noctis is knocked out from hearing his voice again. The next second, Noctis awoke ten seconds after entering his dream. The demons were still standing there, ready to destroy the place. A newly motivated and powered-up Noctis is determined to stop this or die trying to save the place he and his grandma care for so much.

 Stance

    Noctis gets up, takes a deep breath, and starts to look at the fireball. Thinking about a way to extinguish it. Noctis knows that he has a finite amount of time before it attacks. His new power, which he doesn''t know how it works, makes everything more difficult.

    Noctis decides to enter Daydreamer. While awake, he can see the different scenarios passed around him. Replaying one hundred scenarios till he reached the limit. Noctis could only see for a minute, and in ninety-nine of the one hundred scenarios, Noctis lost. The only one where Noctis could see that he survives the first minute, he decides to try it with some modifications.

    Noctis dreams that the fireball is starting to lose its size, and the demons are getting weaker. Since he doesn''t know their human form, he tries imagining how they would look like humans.

    The fireball starts to lose size, but the demons still maintain their form due to the lack of power that current Noctis has compared to them.

    Noctis realizes he only has thirty seconds before the attack, and the cooldown from seeing the different scenarios leaves him to try something else that worked in the scenarios.

    Noctis dreams that he is as fast as the demons, to has all the abilities that the demons have. Noctis starts running towards them only to be stopped by a demon that Noctis didn''t know was there. Noctis decides to improvise by throwing the ink falling out of his hands to cover his eyes.

    Other eyes start appearing out of the demon, making Noctis, in an act of desperation, use his imagination to expand the ink for it to cover his entire body. Leaving him with only ten more seconds.

    The demons casting the fireball start circling the fireball. Time is about to end for Noctis; his imagination had little effect on the size.

    Noctis reaches below the fireball, using his imagination to create a large explosion of a fire extinguisher just above the fire.

    Boom!

    The fire extinguisher caused the fireball to start quickly diminishing in size; the sudden change alerted the demons falling down where Noctis was. The fireball started to slowly get its size back, giving Noctis more time to think of a way to defeat them.

    With the demons on the same level as Noctis, his plan is now on set. Deciding to imagine a large puddle of ink swallowing the demons to the ground. Before Noctis'' plan starts, he feels a large pain in his left arm. When Noctis looks to his left he sees one of the demons carrying his hands on their mouth swallowing it completely.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.

    It was a blessing in disguise: it allowed Noctis to have control of his left arm inside the demon. Deciding to use his left arm to create an ink explosion in his stomach, however, before Noctis can do his plan, the demons all start attacking him.

    Noctis can only run, dodge, jump, and move his body in impossible positions using his ability to see half a second into the future while the demons were just playing with him to prevent any more problems in the creation of their fireball. Noctis saw an opportunity where he could use his imagination to create that ink explosion.

    Boom!

    A large hole in the stomach of the demon is exposed, flowing out with ink. The other demons now started to take Noctis as a bigger threat, forgetting to play with him and now to kill him. Noctis now decided to imagine that he had another arm made out of ink. The ink it left out is the color to blend with the ground.

    Noctis now can only create mini explosions with the ink he is creating; it is having minimal effect on the demons. They start getting very close to his neck. By pure luck, Noctis fell when a demon was about to have a clean cut.

    The way Noctis ran created a large magic circle he saw in the books back in his home. All of the demons were ready to dive toward Noctis; the dive managed to grab Noctis''s hair, making them all closer to the circle.

    "Ink!!!"

    Grrr, Grrr, Grrr

    A large ink spartan figure spawned where the circle was the top end of its hat, splitting the demon in half while the rest of the demons retreated from suffering injuries.

    The fire once again reached its maximum size, and the demons now seeing the figure that they had no chance of beating Noctis; retreated and entered the large fireball.

    Boom! Boom Boom!

    Shriek! Shriek! Shriek!

    Noctis saw the fireball being used to combine the demons into one figure. A large figure starts to form while the size of the fireball decreases.

    The whole town goes dark; Noctis, in between the legs of the ink spartan he summoned, could only see a small but bright red color in the sky. The thing opened its eye, revealing the color he was seeing as the eye of the monster.

    Boom!

    The whole sky illuminated by the explosion caused by the monster revealed itself as a demon in a form resembling that of a dragon. It is the shape of a dragon. The only thing differentiating them is the bat-like wings; aside from that, the dark dragon started to roam the sky.

    Boom! Boom! Boom

    A fireball the size of a house started to fall, aiming at Noctis. Using his ability, he commanded his ink spartan to create a shield to protect himself from the fireball.

    Swish!

    Boom!

    Noctis, at the last second, managed to dodge a fireball that had penetrated the shield; the explosion caused him to fly, hitting his back on broken debris, and causing his entire spine to break from the attack. Noctis uses his ink to create an ink spine to continue fighting.

    "Go!!" Noctis orders his ink warrior to start throwing his spear.

    The spears managed to hit their target, yet no visible damage was dealt. Noctis started to create more and more spears to throw at the dragon.

    Boom!

    "Ahhh!" A large fireball landed close to Noctis, causing his legs to explode.

    "How the hell am I going to defeat this demon? Ink, help me!!!" Noctis, recovering his legs in ink, starts to lose his sanity at how impossible the situation is looking for him.

 Ink Vs Dragon

    Noctis, with his imagination, starts moving the large figure to leave outside the circle. The large ink spartan resisted the fireballs and threw his spear at it.

    "More, more, more!!" The circles that Noctis created were spawning more and more Ink Spartans.

    Noctis could only spawn twenty Spartan warriors. The Spartans throw spears at the dragon, now causing some scratches along its thick scales. Noctis created a smaller soldier focused on defense to protect him from the fireballs.

    The town was completely engulfed in fire. Noctis, not wanting to give up in a last-ditch effort, used his creativity to merge all of the Spartan soldiers into one mega soldier strong enough to bring the dragon down.

    The fight between the dragon and the Spartan began; the dragon started flying around the Spartan, blowing up part of its body, and the Spartan just took the hits, recovering with the ink in the ground.

    Noctis imagines the spartan to create large spears around him, the tip with explosive ink.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Shriek! Shriek! Shriek!

    The dragon managed to dodge a majority of the spears; however, four spears managed to hit their target. Three of the arrows hit the left wing of the dragon, and the last one hit its eye and blew up.

    The dragon started to split itself into different forms. The dragons all started to blow the Spartan, causing it to fall. Creating a large shake in the ground, yet Noctis gave his all in modifying the Spartan to stand up and defeat the dragon.

    The Spartan managed to get one of the dragons. It grabs his spear and splits one of the dragons in half. Noticing this, Noctis feels like he is so close to defeating the dragon, yet he still needs one opportunity to beat it.

    The spartan starts to grab the dragons and either smashes them to the ground or splits them with his spear. The town is covered in fire, debris, dead bodies, and pieces of dragon scattered throughout the ground. Noctis starts to feel a little sad about his town but is motivated to stop it from destroying it.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

    "Go Spartan, go now!!" The spartan releases all of its ink inside its body.

    Shriek!

    All of the dragons were almost killed. The dragons decided to unite back as one now on the floor due to the pain of the attack.

    The spartan is no longer there; all of the town is left with particles of ink through the floor. The moon appearing again signifies that this is Noctis'' last attempt to eliminate the threat. His body was completely covered in ink to replace the broken bones and limbs from the attack.

    The dragon starts to get up slowly; he is raising his wings to go and attack a severely weakened Noctis.

    Noctis disappears from where the dragon can see him. The dragon started to panic, throwing fireballs everywhere to try and find Noctis to end him before he ended him.

    The night sky is so dull, perfectly masking Noctis''s existence; the entire town with the sound and color of fire is the perfect condition for Noctis.

    "Here is your death, you fucker!!!" Noctis appears on top of the dragon, aiming for a spot behind its neck that lost its protective shell, leaving it completely exposed to Noctis''s ink sword.

    Boom!

    Shriek!!

    AHHH!!

    Thud!!

    The sword exploded, hitting its main target. The dragon was finally killed. The explosion caused Noctis to fall to the ground with no arms. Using ink to create new arms, his body is half ink, half human.

    "There it all ended. I still have something to do." Noctis imagined that the town was not burning due to his lack of strength to imagine it before the attack due to him wasting everything to kill the dragon.

    Noctis passes out after seeing the town without a single flame in sight, giving a small smile and resting.

    ¡­

    Noctis wakes up to see a large crowd of people surrounding him praying for him to wake up. He wakes up, and the entire town erupts in happiness that their hero is alive. The person who defeated the calamity is alive.

    Noctis realizes that he can''t move all of the ink that disappeared; deciding to redo the ink again, he becomes functional again.

    Ink goes towards the dead dragon, climbing it and resting, seeing the sky that still looks dull but that dullness warms his heart.

    "We did it, Grandma. We saved our town. Now you may rest in peace. Noctis, with tears in his eyes, feels a huge weight in his heart to leave knowing Grandma and saving something she valued so much.

    ¡­

    Ink appears back into the room.

    One of the corners of the large central blue star starts to glow a dark purple color. Ink, seeing his spiritual body, doesn''t know what will happen, only having a sense of d¨¦j¨¤ vu.

    Ink sees a surge of power leaving his body, taking all of the creative parts of its body and adding them into the second eighth of the star.

    The parts of Note remaining of the original are its savior, thirst, and ? aspects of himself.

    The new part of Note takes the parts of his savior, creating its new persona, K. .

 K.

    K. awakes to see the large blue star with only three remaining points emitting the blue glow. K. starts floating around the room. I appreciate how beautiful it looks. At the corner of his eyes, he sees a star glowing a dark golden color. Confused K. starts moving towards it.

    Arriving at the star, K. feels a huge urge to touch it. He touches it, without him even second-guessing himself. K. is transported into the body of a young man.

    ¡­

    "Asher, hurry up; let''s get ready to get water at the well before anyone takes our share." A soft voice called.

    Huh, is it me? Where am I and why am I here? K. starts thinking without noticing his body moving towards the voice.

    "There you are, Asher; now let''s go!" A small girl grabs K. and runs with very little resistance from K..

    "Shit!!" K. screams, feeling a surge of thoughts suddenly enter his mind.

    So My name is Asher, and that girl is my little sister Dalia. I am from the Okafor family. K. decided to take the name Asher.

    "Asher, are you OK?" Dalia starts to worry due to the sudden scream.

    "Don''t worry, I am fine. I just stepped on a rock," Asher tried his best to lie without being caught.

    "You little crybaby, now let''s go." Dalia and Asher continue running with their buckets.

    Asher starts to see around his environment, seeing it covered in nature, the huts being very colorful. The ground is mostly dirt. After running past fifty huts, Asher sees a large well with many people carrying buckets of water, many filling their buckets.

    While seeing the people, someone passed through him, spilling a drop of water, bringing him back to reality. Asher start running past the well carrying two buckets. His sister ran close behind with only one bucket.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.

    "Hello Asher, surprising to see you here; it''s normally your sister and your younger brother." A woman starts speaking to Asher.

    "Hello, Ms. Yara. I was dragged out by my sisters due to my parents taking my little brother to the clinic. How are you?" Asher asks while collecting water.

    "I am fine. But what is wrong with your little brother?" Ms. Yara finishes filling her blue bucket.

    "He has a small fever, but don''t worry; he will be fine." Asher gives a bright smile and starts to fill his second bucket.

    "That''s very good. Well, I finished filling my buckets, so I am going back. Have a great rest of your day." Ms. Yara pats Asher''s head and starts walking back.

    "You too!" Asher waves at Ms. Yara.

    Asher and his sister start to go back home with their four buckets covered with water. The journey is hard for both of them. The walk takes them about ten minutes.

    "Mom, we''re home!" Dalia enters the house, seeing that their parents are at the table with a gloomy tone.

    "Mom? Dad? What is going on? Dalia questions her parents while both she and Asher put their buckets down.

    "We can''t pay for his medicine," Dad replies with a serious tone.

    "What do you mean we can''t pay for his medicine? Is he going to die?" Dalia responds by shaking.

    "Don''t say that! He is going to be fine! We are going to start selling our things to get the funds, Dad screams at Daliah.

    Asher and his mom are both quiet without saying anything. The house is in a standstill. Asher, still not having his entire memories back, doesn''t know what to think about the situation. Asher decides to walk to the restroom.

    In the restroom, Asher sees himself in the reflection of the water bucket, seeing a Black kid a tone lighter than the rest. His hair is short, and his eyelashes have a beautiful curl.

    Splash

    Asher splashes water on his face to see if he can remember more about his situation. After arriving at nothing, Asher decides to leave the restroom to see Dalia and his mother hugging while crying.

    Asher gets close to them, hugging them to try and help them with their emotions. Asher feels a strong feeling in his heart. Feeling like a fire is being created in himself. A wants to help those around him.

    Asher feels that they have stopped crying; he stands up and goes to his little brother''s bed. After seeing him looking almost exactly like him, Asher felt that fire increase.

    "Don''t worry, little brother; I promise that I will help you." Asher kisses his sleeping little brother''s head.

    Asher leaves the hut, sees the bright burning sun, takes a deep breath, feeling the burn increase; he decides that his life is going to have a new direction.

 War

    Asher and his family started selling their belongings to afford the medicine. Asher has a very little connection with most of his belongings, making it easier to sell. Asher began to see many people talk to his parents outside of their hut to borrow some more money.

    Asher saw his parents smiling and hugging after they had enough money to buy the medicine needed to save his little brother. Asher and Dalia saw their parents and his little brother leave their hut to go on a long journey to the doctor.

    Asher, smiling, decides to hug his crying sister, making her relax and reaffirm that everything is going to be okay. After seeing his sister now relaxed, Asher decides to stand up and go wash his face.

    ¡­

    Both Asher and Dalia were seated, waiting for their parents'' arrival. Asher could see the shadows of two people closing in on their home. It is his parents who are both very happy seeing their youngest now alive and well.

    The whole family unites and hugs how amazing their lives are. Asher has to go to school with his little sister. They both run to school with the brightest smiles.

    They both enter different classrooms. Asher first notices the wooden desks inside the classroom, noticing his classmates all looking at him. Asher decided to quietly sit down at his desk.

    Having very little knowledge about what they teach, he decides to stay quiet and pay attention. His silence attracts the amusement of his classmates since forever, Asher has always been the talkative clown of the class. Always making the teacher mad.

    No one dared to talk to him. The teacher starts to speak about someone who caught his attention; the teacher starts to talk about the legendary ruler who is native to this land. How their ruler was very generous, leading them to the greatest period of their history. The ruler is their hero, praising him for all his glory.

    It all started to make sense; the statues Asher sees everywhere and usually ignores are about him.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    "Everyone get the fuck out!! We are taking over this land." A large number of masked gunmen start shooting at the sky before breaking the door.

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    The whole room suddenly erupts in screaming. The only thought passing through Asher''s mind is where Dalia is. Asher can do nothing due to him simply being a child compared to those gunmen. Asher decided to calm down and think that his sister was alive.

    Asher sees how a large number of children start being dragged down in their classrooms. Asher starts to pay close attention to all of them, praying that his sister is there. Asher sees his sister and very quietly waves his arm while trying his best to show his face to his sister.

    She sees his arm and pushes the kids to get close to her. Without saying anything, they both hug and decide to stay close together to see what is happening. All of the kids'' faces are in terror, crying, but no one dares to make a sound for fear of dying.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Boom!

    Asher sees a large fireball pass and blows up the gunmen.

    Ahhh!!!!!

    All the kids scream due to they see slats of blood around their classroom and pieces of human throughout the floor. Asher sees this and immediately closes his sister''s eyes before she can ever look at the mess.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Boom! Boom!

    More and more chaos is happening in their eyes. Holes in their classroom and the once colorful classroom are now destroyed. Asher sees a gunman see their terrified faces and goes the other way.

    "This is a rebellion!!!" A group of people starts screaming just beside them.

    Asher decides to relax, embracing his sister to keep her calm. More and more fire between both of the groups continued. Hours and hours they were looking at how much of a mess everything is.

    The fire ceased, leaving an opportunity for the kids to make a run for it to leave, and to go to the forest to run and find their families. Asher and Dalia decide to take another way, which they go if they want to skip school. This decision saved their lives.

    Boom!

    A large explosion was heard in the direction where the kids were going; a large fire started. Asher could only look back for a second before running, ignoring the cries for help by the innocent children.

    Asher and Dalia managed to go home; Dalia, crying, went into the arms of her mom. Asher sees them packing to leave. His parents are petrified at the situation at hand. Without any further explanation, they made a run for it.

    "Where are we going?" Asher screams at his dad.

    Bang! Bang!

    "We are leaving; this is too dangerous! No more questions!!" His dad explains while hearing gunshots.

    They managed to run towards the forest, passing through the large forest is a very difficult journey with a lot of deadly animals, and deadly terrain, and the thought that the enemies were waiting for them still didn''t prevent them from entering the forest.

    In the forest, Asher sees the beautiful nature surrounding him while still running towards the next village.

    ¡­

    They arrive at the next village, but before leaving the forest, Asher''s dad urges them to hide as he sees that this village has had the same fate as their own.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Three shots were aimed in their direction, one hitting closely in their direction. They all petrified and looked at the bullet shot; no one moved a single muscle.

    "Fuck, what do we do?" Dad started to whisper.

 Run

    Asher and his family hide in the vast forest, going from town to town to see if any villages aren''t destroyed.

    After two years of living in the jungle and going to villages to steal some resources to survive, they find a village in the outskirts of the country still alive and thriving.

    They left the forest to try and live in the village to finally escape the forest. Asher notices how similar it is to his village. It has the same colorful elements: the night sky makes the colors pop even more than they would when the sun is out.

    Asher feels how all of the people were staring at him after his father talked to the leader and managed to convince them to live here for the time being. Asher feels how especially the girls look at him. He has seen his reflection, but not having an interaction with people for so long makes him anxious.

    Asher sees how a swarm of girls suddenly walk up to him. His first instinct is to walk faster; when he sees they are getting closer to him, he goes into a full sprint.

    "Is he your brother?" One of the girls asked Dalia.

    "Yeah, I don''t know why he ran. He is normally very talkative, but recently he has changed." Dalia, looking a little concerned, responds to the girl.

    Asher went into the house of the leader with his father. Seeing how beautiful it is makes his eyes expand. The entire house was covered in shiny luxury with people all through the house. Asher, in the corner of his eye, saw a woman.

    Asher could not take his eyes from her. She is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Her silk black skin, dark eyes, and straight, long black hair made Asher feel an emotion he felt he was touched by but didn''t know where.

    "Ouch!" Asher felt a strong emotion enter his soul; it was pure sadness as if someone had already broken his heart.

    Asher leaves the house while only thinking of that woman. He sees Dalia, and they both go into their new home. On the way home, Asher could still feel the stares of the girls, but his mind was completely absorbed by that woman.

    "We are here!" Dalia feels a large surge of calmness from saying something she always said in her original home.

    "Hello! Did you speak to the kids outside to make new friends?" Her mother asked DaliaLove this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!

    "Yes, they are very intrigued to learn what is happening outside the town." Dalia proclaimed.

    Asher decided to explore the new small house. Its design is very simple, only having two rooms and a bathroom. The design is very colorful due to it being the backup to the backup home of the leader.

    Asher sees the entire house, finding it very interesting, but nothing could make him forget that woman. Asher wants to see her again, but he feels something bad will happen if he does that. He decides to forget her to focus on living his life.

    ¡­

    Asher is celebrating his eighteenth birthday; it also marks a year since he has been in this town. In the year Asher got dreads to complement his already long hair, his mother hated it but could not do anything for him to change it.

    Dalia a few months ago celebrated her sixteenth birthday, and his little brother Amadi is going to turn ten in a few years. Everything is going very well in Asher''s life; the war was out of his mind, but the war only grew and grew until it reached them.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Everyone runs; they have reached it.

    Asher immediately ran outside, recognizing the sounds that caused his village to fall. Asher sees the enemy start to get closer and closer to them.

    Asher starts frantically to search for his family. Finding only his siblings. Asher tries to find his parents, but they are nowhere to be seen.

    Asher decided to take care of his siblings and pray that his parents were fine. Asher cannot shake the feeling that something bad is going to happen to his parents. Deciding to pay close attention to the front line only to see both of his parents, who are armed and ready to fight.

    Asher did not know, but the clause for them to rest was that both of his parents had to fight if the enemies arrived. Asher had a feeling that this was the last time he would see his parents live. Asher tried to run towards them, but he was cut off by the fire.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Asher can only see how his parents are fighting against the enemy. Seeing how they both are running, hiding, shooting, and doing everything to survive.

    Boom!

    Swift!

    Asher feels a large explosion in the direction of his parents. Asher, in shock, could only pray that when the dust cleared, his parents were alive.

    Asher saw only the remains of his parents holding hands. There is nothing left of them except them holding hands. Asher can only look back petrified and decides to run away with his siblings.

    Asher grabs his sibling''s hands and runs away into the forest. Seeing how little by little the last remaining town is now conquered by the enemy. Asher can only feel a large fire inside of him. The same feeling he had when his brother was sick was amplified by a hundred. All he wanted to do was eliminate the enemy.

    Asher decides to go back to his village, feeling that there is no one living there and that it''s a ghost town. Making it a good choice for them to live.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Three shots were fired at the sky signifying the capture of the town. The entire town is burning, with dead bodies everywhere. The enemy captured all the women in town for their feast.

 Savior

    Pant, pant, pant

    "We are back home. I am pretty sure no one is here anymore. It''s been more than three years since we left, and I don''t see anyone." Asher lays down exhausted from all the running; his sibling follows soon.

    "What happened to Mom and Dad?" Dalia asks

    "I don''t know, but I think they are together." Asher, feeling a deep sadness in his heart, tries his best to not show his feelings to his siblings.

    "Ok, now we need food. I am tired of eating only bread and water." Amadi whines to Asher.

    "Don''t worry; remember we have a secret stash of food beneath our home," Asher remembers his family hiding food beneath his room.

    Asher and his siblings cautiously walk into the now-empty town. They start to see the once-colorful town become dull; the smell of death still roams everywhere. Most of the bodies were already decomposed or eaten by animals, making the area now growing a lot of nature.

    Asher sees his old home, carefully opening its door. Entering and creeping at each corner to see if there is anyone there. After seeing that no one is there, he calms down and starts to find the food supply.

    "Amadi and Dalia, find me a shovel, but be careful; you don''t know what might happen," Asher orders them.

    "On it," they both proclaim.

    Amadi and Dalia leave Asher''s vision, leaving him alone with his thoughts, reflecting on his parent''s death. The thought moves him; the burning inside only expands due to that thought. Asher started to calm down, feeling more relaxed, feeling that everything was going to be ok.

    "What the fuck happened? Why am I bleeding?" Asher sees a large, glowing yellow knife piercing his stomach.

    "Another survivor?" A mysterious voice asks.

    "Oh shit, am I going to die? Why won''t the blood stop?" Asher felt his consciousness fading away.

    "Ahhhh!!! Brother!! Help!!" Dalia screams with everything she has.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.

    I am sorry; I caused this. Asher loses consciousness.

    ¡­

    "When the lights shut off and it''s my turn to settle down, my main concern is to promise that you will sing about me." A figure sitting down beside a campfire starts singing.

    Asher notices how much the environment changed. His environment is at night, a large campfire with a figure sitting on a rocking chair, singing; the large forest is opposite the destroyed town he was now in.

    "Where are my siblings!!?"

    "Wow, you don''t need to be angry. You need to find a use for the gift that I bestowed upon you to help the people around you. The fire inside you is a gift from me. Well, I bestowed it to an early version of me, but one day you will understand." K. grabs the fire inside Asher to show it.

    "Wait, so you are me? How does that work? I don''t want a gift; I want to protect my siblings!!" Asher ignores the fire to directly attack K..

    "Damn Ink took all of your intelligence. Wait, no, that''s next? Fuck! Ahh? Forget anything that you heard, but stop asking and just become strong. That''s all, bye." K. starts to fade away.

    "What, don''t disappear! I need answers." The world around Asher starts to disappear.

    ¡­

    "You fucker!!"

    Boom!

    Asher releases a large fire around him, causing the knife to explode.

    Asher feels the fire that was once inside of him consume his body. The feeling leads to Asher only thinking about saving the people he cares about.

    Asher leaves his room, seeing the enemy with a knife inside the stomach of both of his siblings. Asher feels a large surge of anger seeing his entire body get consumed by the ever-increasing fire.

    Help

    Asher runs towards the enemies, charging with his fist; the closer he gets to the enemy, the stronger the fire inside of his fist becomes.

    Boom!

    Asher gets blinded by the explosion, but his body moves by itself towards the other enemy. The enemy managed to dodge his attack. Asher finally sees again, seeing how the entire head of the enemy was destroyed by his attack.

    Asher, full of rage, goes and starts attacking without a clear plan. He misses most of his attacks. The enemy manages to stab Asher with a knife, yet nothing manages to impact him. In reality, all of the attacks have an opposite attack, making it even stronger.

    Boom!

    Asher manages to fake out the enemy, landing a good uppercut, and blowing his entire head off. Asher feels the power die out; the fire now becomes a strong urge to nurture his own.

    "Dalia, Amadi! Are you ok?" Asher starts to panic, only seeing the blood of his sibling pour out.

    "Don''t die on me; please don''t leave me alone!!" Asher, crying, tries his best to stop the blood by putting his hand on the wound.

    The fire that consumed him started to flow into the body of his siblings. Stopping their bleeding and taking the blood they lost, purifying it, and putting it back into their bodies.

    "Thank you." Both of his siblings go to sleep as a side effect.

    "You are fine. I am so happy. What just happened? Why did it happen to me? I was just stabbed, and now I am here?" Asher also felt a side effect of the burn.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    "What is happening? Dalia, Amadi, hurry up, wake up, let''s run away. They are here to get us." Asher tries his best to wake them up, but all his attempts become futile.

 Siblings

    "Asher, what happened to you? Why is there a thorn crown in your head?" Dalia wakes up and sees his brother, who is now a different person.

    "What, is there something different with me?" Asher feels the thorn crown in his head, not feeling the pain.

    ''Well, your dreads have a shade of gold. But most importantly, what happened to us? Dalia saw a change in her brother, which made her forget the main problem.

    "I still don''t know. All I know is that you''re safe, and that''s what matters. Now I need to leave the enemies close by." Asher is shaking Amadi to wake him up.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Asher grabs Amadi, carrying him on his shoulder, and they try to run outside.

    Boom!

    Asher gets blown by an explosion, causing his house to collapse. Seeing the enemy close by, desperation starts to enter Asher''s mind. Thinking of many ways to survive, all of which are impossible due to his sibling''s condition.

    "Fuck!" Asher runs behind the fallen wall, seeing the enemy closing in on his siblings.

    Asher''s nose starts to pick up a horrendous smell, a smell of rotten meat. The smell increases the closer the enemies are to him. The stronger the odor, the stronger he feels inside.

    The strong feeling is enough to make him go and fight like he has always done. Seeing the large difference in size, he feels a mix of fear and courage, but most importantly, he feels a strong sense of saving people.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    "Ahh!!" Asher feels the three bullets pierce his elbow; now with no way of backing up, he decides to throw himself at the enemies.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Asher sucks the pain to land the punches. The first enemy starts dodging his flaming punches. The stronger Asher is at the enemy, the stronger he feels; the drawback he is experiencing is a loss of consciousness.

    Asher manages to land an uppercut, a direct hit on the chin of the enemy; the strength of the punch knocks out the first enemy. The fire starts to diminish, allowing him to regain a majority of his mind.

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    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    "Fuck, I can''t take this!!!" Asher starts being attacked everywhere by the enemies that have collected to attack him.

    The ground is filled with holes from attacks; looking back to see his sibling escaping, he feels that his goal is semi-completed.

    Savior

    Asher hears a whisper; his body is now consumed with a golden aura. The orange fire that consumed his body is now a light golden color. Feeling all the pain erased, his body unconsciously jumps towards the enemies.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher starts to repel the attacks; the smell of rotten meat only increases the more he starts to get closer to them. The smell is so strong that it makes Asher lose consciousness for a second.

    After opening his eyes, he sees blood in his hand, one of the enemies down. His body moving by itself managed to land a hit. Seeing that there are five people left, he feels the power inside him constantly increase.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    "Ahhh!!! My fucking arm!!!" One of the mage''s attacks manages to pass through Asher''s aura.

    "Asher, we can''t leave you behind!!" Dalia screams with the now-awoken Amadi.

    "What are you doing!!" Asher, clenching his arm, starts to retreat.

    "Look at us!!" Amadi screams.

    Asher manages to look back at them for less than a second, only seeing a weak yellow aura surrounding them. Asher pays little attention after seeing a large attack closing by.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    "Asher, we are here to help you. You are the savior of K.." Both Amadi and Dalia scream while being shot.

    Asher feels his blood stopping, seeing how his arm is regenerating. Asher feels six hands all putting their faith in him to succeed. The light golden aura intensified, his thorn crown with no color now starting to glow.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Boom!

    Asher''s strength is just enough to beat the enemies. Managing to land punches on one enemy, seeing its head rip off clean. Seeing his arms both destroyed, only working by the power bestowed upon him.

    Asher manages to reach the mage, not knowing where the other two left. Reaching the enemy mage, he towers over him, throwing him at the ground, his eyes filled with pure anger, blood dripping from his thorn crown, falling in the mage''s head.

    Boom!

    Asher punches the top of the head of the enemy, causing the mage''s entire body to compress from the single attack.

    His aura starts to disappear, causing him to become dizzy, happy that they are done. Just when he is about to collapse on the burning floor, the thought of his siblings appears. Causing him to overexert himself to search for his siblings.

    "Haha, we did it." Amadi and Dalia are on the floor smiling that they both managed to eliminate the enemies.

    Asher sees this scene; he collapses, his aura fades away, and the thorn crown disappears. A large ring of fire starts to develop where he falls.

    The town, now destroyed, only had the sound of burning and the ever-growing fire surrounding Asher.

    His siblings both see Asher collapse and the expanding fire; they run immediately toward Asher. The fire expanded until it reached them; not knowing what to do, they decided to suck the pain to see their brother.

    When they both stepped on the fire, the fire burned a piece of their skin, causing the fire to create a pathway for both of them toward the direction of Asher.

    The fire expanded every time they got closer to Asher; the path started to get covered when they left the place. Reaching Asher, they both collapse. The fire outlines their body and protects them from all directions.

 Man Down

    <hr>

    Asher''s consciousness is transported into the same forest as K.. Now aware of the situation, he feels calmer about everything.

    "He, I told you that you need to use the gift I bestowed upon you. Now what do we do?" K. starts to teleport all around the forest illuminated by a campfire.

    "K.. Thank you for giving me another chance." Asher kneels.

    "Oh, don''t worry; I am you. All I want is for you to say my name. I want to have more followers. If you do that, you will be granted a large amount of power." K. sits down in his rocking chair, seeing the sky.

    "K. I have always wanted to say this, but is this your true form?" Asher, still kneeling, looks at K..

    "Yes and no. My true form is too much for you. Once you get stronger, I may show myself to you and my followers. This form is a copy of you except for the long dreads. I prefer medium size." K. stands up and goes inside the fire.

    "Do you think I will be able to save my country from the enemies?" Asher asks.

    "Damn, Note truly is doing everything." K. sits back down.

    "What? Who is Note?" Asher looks in confusement.

    "You don''t need to know. But you will be able to defeat them like you have done. I am telling too much. That is all; now time to complete your goal. K. turns around, disappearing.

    "I will try my best for you." Asher, while falling, is still kneeling.

    ¡­

    Asher wakes up seeing his siblings sleeping like children; the large fire around him starts to diminish due to his awakening. Asher stands up, and seeing the dead enemies gives him a sense of satisfaction. Two new goals are set for Asher.

    "Asher, good morning." Dalia wakes up, and the fire starts to diminish.

    "Good morning. So you actually managed to beat two enemies with Amadi? That is very impressive. I am proud of you." Asher walks up to Dalia and pats her head.

    "Yeah, I still don''t know how it happened; all I did was enter this weird dream where I saw horrible things. It was very scary, Dalia shivering from the memory.

    "Horrible things? Like what?" Asher, now concerned, asks Dalia.

    "I saw how those people killed a person in front of my eyes. I was very scared, but a voice managed to keep me sane, or else I wouldn''t have survived." Dalia starts to calm down.

    "A voice? Like what?" Asher, very confused about the entire situation, sees how Amadi starts to wake up.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

    "I can''t explain, but he introduced himself as K.." Dalia sees how fast her brother''s expression changes just from her saying the name ''K..''

    "Don''t worry. K. is a good guy. If it weren''t for him, we wouldn''t be alive. He told me to create a large amount of followers for him. His powers are real. If you hear him again, kneel to him." Asher, in a more energetic tone, starts shaking Dalia.

    "Hello Asher, I was listening to the conversation, and the same thing happened to me. I was scared to say something, but I know that it''s fine now. Let''s go eat. I am hungry." Amadi talks to Asher while he is also patting his head.

    The siblings started to go and scavenge the food that the enemy had. They managed to find many vegetables. Seeing some matches, they decide to create a fire to cook the vegetables.

    Finishing their meal, they decide to try and plan to see if they can liberate more towns. The huge success in liberating their town gives them a newfound confidence that they can actually change the country for the sake of the innocent people.

    They decide to liberate the five nearest towns, knowing that with the three of them, any enemies of the same strength as the ones they just beat will be easy to defeat by going together.

    They finish their meals, get stuffed, and start to walk towards the nearest village to see if there are any people alive and to liberate that town.

    Passing through the large forest, they see the town, seeing the people suffering. Seeing how there are only three enemies, their strength appears to be equal to those of the one they beat. Deciding to attack, they separate into three directions, going against each enemy.

    Crack

    "Who''s there?" Dalia breaks a tree branch alerting the enemies.

    Fire

    Dalia''s body starts to get consumed with a light yellow aura; the closer she gets, the stronger the smell of rotten flesh is emitted by the enemy.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Dalia runs towards the enemy, feeling the three shots; she manages to close the distance, her power increasing with her proximity towards the enemy.

    Boom!

    Dalia trips on a rock; with sheer luck, she manages to land a liver shot on the enemy, causing his body to collapse on itself.

    "One down!!" Dalia screams to alert her siblings to attack.

    Both Asher and Amadi appear out of the shadows of the trees.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Boom! Boom!

    Asher manages to close the distance without getting shot; seeing the enemy stumble on its legs, he sees a perfect opportunity to land a right hook. At the same time, Amadi sees two guys, one of whose presence was eliminated, causing him to retreat.

    Boom! Boom!

    "Amadi!! Are you ok?!" Asher manages to land his shot, yet the explosion in the direction of Amadi is very different from their attacks.

    Amadi''s arm bones are completely destroyed. Asher runs as fast as he can to help Dalia, who is following close to him.

    "Fuck! There is a strong guy here. Ready, Dalia.!" Asher sees the enemies look at him.

    "Yeah, I am ready! For K., Dalia is the first one to run to attack the weaker enemy, leaving the stronger one to Asher.

    "You are strong. I won''t underestimate you; that is what dumb people with no common sense do." The enemy takes off his cover to show himself, a muscular, dark-skinned man with short hair, standing there talking to Asher.

    Boom!

    "Congratulations, your partner is strong; I will not play." The enemy starts to move his hands to warm up.

    Swish!

    Asher, by a heartbeat, managed to dodge an attack strong enough to knock him out cold.

    Swish! Swish! Swish!

    Asher could only dodge his attacks; the smell of rotten meat only increased the longer he dodged.

    "Awk!!" Dalia gets hit in her stomach with one of his attacks while trying to sneak attack.

    "This is fun." The enemy starts emitting more of a horrendous smell of rotten meat, only amplifying the aura of the siblings.

 Liberated

    Asher and Dalia start to feel overwhelmed by the smell and speed of the enemy. The burning hot sun only amplifies the attention they are getting.

    Boom!

    "Fuck me!!" Asher screams in pain from a punch that the enemy launched, causing his shoulder to sprain.

    Dalia can''t manage to land an attack on the enemy, dodging it faster than she can even see. She reached her limit of power, which she could increase. Noticing that she has reached this limit, a careless mistake caused her to lower her defense.

    Boom!

    "Ahh!!" Dalia manages to raise her hands, but not before the enemy lands a punch, breaking her fingers.

    The villagers all start to come out of their houses, seeing the craters in the dirt and three people fighting against one of their oppressors.

    The villagers all start to stand behind Asher. Seeing him struggle for them captivates their spirits.

    Go! Go! Go!

    A large number of people started rooting for Asher, rooting for him to win.

    Asher looked back to see a tidal wave of light yellow aura transmitting from himself towards the people and them giving to him a slightly yellower aura. His strength started to increase; his arm started to recover.

    "I am done for. Well, either you or I die. If I see correctly, you get stronger the more people that support you. So you are a natural leader." The enemy starts to get taller and stronger.

    Asher didn''t respond to his deduction, deciding to attack him, running towards him, combining his energy with his left hand.

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    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    I lost

    Asher manages to fake out the enemy; seeing the imbalance of his body, he decides to attack his leg, causing him to lower his defense. The enemy saw an opportunity to land a right hook, and at the last second, Amadi and Dalia managed to hit both sides of his face.

    The enemy instantly got knocked down. Dalia and Amadi start to run to the bushes to throw up due to the foul smell. Asher, on his knees, managed to blow the leg of the enemy; seeing the dark red blood spilling makes him feel closer to his goal.

    Hooray!!

    The crowd all started to run toward Asher; people started to crowd Asher, throwing him up in the air to show their appreciation for him.

    Asher is overwhelmed with joy; the people start crying, hugging, and celebrating their liberation.

    Amadi and Dalia came out of the forest only to be crowded by people all tossing them in the air; not knowing what to do, they decided to laugh.

    ¡­

    Now that the whole town is all around Asher, in front of a large campfire, he starts to talk about his plan to liberate the rest of the country and show the people the blessings of K..

    People started to listen carefully, listening to how he planned on creating a large military presence strong enough to defeat the enemy and wishing that they never took over the country.

    People all decided to agree that they did want to liberate the other states and make the enemies pay but were confused about how they could do it.

    Asher found this opportunity to tell them about K.. Talking about that, if it weren''t for him, they would not be free. Leaving the key detail that inside him K. resides, combining himself with his spirit.

    People looked in awe at the description Asher depicts K.. Talking about the way he looks, talking about the grandiose power he gave him and his siblings.

    Dalia and Amadi both start talking about their experiences, talking about how they saw horrible dreams only to be personally talked to by K., and then when they woke up, they became strong enough to defeat two enemies by themselves.

    The crowd all stayed quiet, thinking about how two children managed to beat people who obliterated their men. Seeing by far how strong the children are, their suspicions were relieved.

    No one said anything; they all left for their houses.

    The night sky showed the beautiful stars. The siblings lay down on the dirt to observe the stars, seeing and talking about how beautiful they are, bonding like when they were with their parents when life was easier.

    Everyone fell asleep; the only sound in the entire town was the sound of the burning campfire, which was slowly dying.

    ¡­

    Peekaboo

    Ahhh!

    Asher wakes up from the screams of everyone in the entire village. Everyone screamed at the same time.

    Asher and his siblings wake up ready to fight. They are completely dumbfounded to see people running outside emitting a light yellow aura similar to those they showed when they were supporting Asher.

    "What happened?" Asher talked to one of the people who was emitting the light yellow aura.

    "I talked to him. I talked to him. He is true." A villager said leaving Asher''s mind empty.

    "You talk to who?" Asher, with no thoughts in his brain, asks.

    "K.!!! It is exactly as your siblings said!!" The villager exclaimed with the largest smile.

    "Wait, did you also have the dream?" Asher''s brain now starts to run again.

    "Yes!! It showed horrible things, only for him at the end to say, ''Peekaboo.''"

    Peekaboo? I don''t understand K.; everything he makes is a joke to him. Asher starts to see everyone coming out of their houses and everyone showing the same light yellow aura. Asher feels that they are ready to liberate the other villages.

    "Everyone!! We are going to liberate five villages today!! We have all gotten the blessing of K.; now let''s use our gifts to save others!!"

 Another one

    Asher and his new followers start to make their way to the first village. Passing through the large forest, the pathway became more and more difficult; there were many stops for the weaker ones to rest.

    Arriving at the village, Asher alerts his followers to stay silent; he will be the one to see the enemy''s fighting capabilities.

    Asher leaves the forest, sneaking behind trees, rocks, and everything to see how many enemies there are.

    Asher can only see six enemies; three of them are far weaker than the ones they beat. Two of them match the strength of the ones in the town they just liberated. Asher could not calculate the power prowess of the last one; Asher estimates that he can be equal to or greater in strength than the man who caused them to struggle.

    One of the enemies spotted Asher for a split second, deciding to go and investigate.

    Asher decided to be extra quiet and sneak attack him. Hearing his footsteps getting closer, he grabbed a stick and infused enough of his strength to create a clean cut.

    Slash

    Asher manages to get a clean cut, destroying his vocal cords. Asher grabs him so as not to produce a sound. Covering his mouth, choking on its blood.

    Seeing that he is now dead, Asher carefully lays him down on the floor. His black clothing and hands were now covered with blood, the ground absorbing the blood.

    Asher checks to see if anyone is looking for him; after confirming that no one is looking, he decides to lure another enemy to make the battle easier.

    No one came after Asher tried his best to give hints of his appearance; seeing that no one was close to him, he decided to stop waiting and start the liberation.

    Go!!

    Asher''s screams caught the attention of the enemy and gave a clear signal to go and attack.

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    Asher and his siblings surrounded one of the enemies of similar strength; the others got the rest of the enemies, only leaving the uncalculated one, who was staying on the other side of the town with another enemy.

    "Amadi, Dalia, let''s finish this quickly," Asher commanded his siblings. "Dalia, you go left and I go right; Amadi, you go and find us strong sticks to attack." Asher showed the type of stick he wanted, and Amadi went to go and find more.

    Fire

    Asher and Dalia both activate their blessings; the smell of rotten meat starts to enter their nostrils. Asher''s followers also start to activate their blessing, increasing Asher''s power.

    Boom!

    Dalia starts the attack; the enemy starts to dodge. They are in a stalemate; Asher is waiting to find a mistake that the enemy might make to finish this fast. Asher decides that rather than wait, he is just going to create his own.

    Slash

    Asher saw the enemy lower his arms to land a body shot to Dalia, leaving his arm an inch lower than before, perfectly leaving his neck exposed to Asher''s swift attack.

    Asher sees his stick broken, part inside the neck of the enemy gasping for air.

    Asher sees the enemy give a smile; Asher feels that something is wrong. "Run!!!"

    Boom!

    Asher feels his eardrums ringing from the proximity of the attack, trying his best to stand up and see where his sister is.

    "Dalia!!" Asher calls for her to see if she is alive.

    "Don''t worry, I am fine!! Just alert the others. Dalia, with multiple fractures, tries to put her shoulder back in the spot.

    Asher stands up only

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher starts to see explosions from where his followers are. Asher runs to one of them to see that most of them have a few broken bones, but no one is in critical condition. Asher sees the uncalculated appearance.

    Asher sees how similar they look, having the same hairstyle; the only difference is his large eye bags with no eyebrows.

    Asher sees Amadi appear carrying ten sticks he found before running to see what caused the explosion. Asher grabs one of the sticks, pats his head, and runs towards the enemy.

    Asher sees how people start coming out of their houses to see the explosion only to see Asher running towards the enemy. Asher''s followers start to explain what is happening and collectively cheer for him to grant him more power.

    Go!!!

    Asher feels a large surge of power enters his body; the entire world goes in slow motion, seeing how the enemy is standing still, accepting his attack.

    Slash

    Asher manages to land a perfect hit, cleanly cutting the enemy''s head. Asher sees a switch before he can even react.

    Boom!!!!

    Asher is flung from the explosion, landing on a pointy stone, seeing the point passing through his body.

    Asher can only look at his supporters as they start running towards him; everything he sees is in slow motion.

    ¡­

    "Damn, he blew your dumb ass." K. sees that Asher is not waking up. "Hey idiot, wake up." Asher is still sleeping. "Uh, you are going back." Asher goes back into the real world.

    ¡­

    Asher wakes up to see that there is no hole in his chest. Asher sees his sister crying, and the people around him are all shocked by his awakening.

    "Hey, let''s go for the next one." Asher stands up and jokes that they have to liberate the others.

    ¡­

    The next day, Asher and his followers are ready to liberate others after a large party.

    Asher goes to the forest near the nearest village to see how there are ten enemies. Asher feels very strong from his increments of followers.

    Go!!

    Asher orders his followers to go and attack, killing the enemies in less than thirty seconds.

    "How did y''all get that strong?" Asher was happily confused to see how strong they became at such a speed.

    Dalia looked at Asher and looked up. Asher immediately realized that it was K.''s doing.

    "Let''s go for another one!!" Asher lifts one of the enemy''s swords glowing with his dark orange aura.

 Chroma

    As Asher with his significantly larger followers starts to take over villages easily, the enemies are no longer a problem for Asher; he has reached the capacity of power given to him by his followers.

    Asher and his followers control six villages in three days. They must explain how K. gives his blessings and not be scared. All of the followers experience the same nightmare.

    A night, a burning village, an eerie atmosphere, a feeling of being watched. People recount how everything feels terrifying; all of their bodies are signaling them to run, that imminent danger is coming. A scream is heard. They then get scared by K. by saying, "Peekaboo."

    Asher still does not know why they get scared with such a basic scare.

    Asher and his followers start to liberate tens of villages in a week. None of the enemies can even have a chance against Asher, much less his followers reaching the count of one hundred.

    ¡­

    Ashers''s men caught the attention of the leader of the enemies. They are classified as a level two threat, meaning that they can cause some damage, but they aren''t strong enough to do anything significant.

    ¡­

    Asher''s followers are staying back to reconstruct their land, leaving only fifty to continue the liberation. Their target is one of the five major cities; liberating it will cause the enemies to pay close attention and might even go all out against them. Asher, knowing all of this, decides to continue fighting.

    Uniting his men, he tells them about his plan to liberate the city of Luka, telling how they will go all out and attack as if they try to infiltrate, they won''t be able to survive due to the large amount of surveillance.

    ¡­

    They arrive hiding in the forest, and they see many armed men guarding the entrance. If they all come in at the same time, it will cause a disturbance, so Asher decides to walk up to the entrance to see if there are any weak points to try and enter.

    There is a line of five people in front of Asher. Asher starts to look at the large stone walls, seeing them plastered with the symbol of the enemies; Asher finally sees the names of the enemies. They are called Chroma.

    Asher can only stare at their crimson banner, with two firearms behind a weapon as their logo. Asher, after waiting, managed to get a clearer view of the city, seeing many armed men protecting the streets. The thing that caught Asher''s eyes was the many hiding men on top of the houses; Asher saw that they could use their abilities to cause damage.

    Asher finally goes to the front to talk to the armed men. Seeing that they are alerted by his unusual looks, the men grab their weapons, ready to start shooting at any time Asher slips up. Asher considers this, and before even talking, Asher takes out a knife he hid in his pants; before the men can react, Asher slashes their heads in a clean, swift attack, instantly killing them.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.

    No one was behind Asher; he could only see that no one had noticed what had happened. Asher grabs the men''s firearm and starts shooting in the air to catch the attention of the people inside.

    Asher hears the people running to see what is happening since they always whistle before shooting someone to alert them that an enemy was caught, but now that no whistle was emitted, they know something is wrong.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher''s men start to come out of the forest, all of them collectible, charging and shooting fireballs.

    The walls start to collapse; chaos enters the town, and the people hiding in the shadows start to make their way up the walls to eliminate the threat.

    Asher predicted all of this already, positioning himself at the top of the walls to see these men face to face. Asher sees the men in the shadows start to surround him. Asher decided to activate his blessing.

    Now emitting his dark orange aura, the rotten smell that he prepared himself to endure was not being emitted by the enemies. Sensing that something is wrong, he decides not to back up and just take them on to buy more time for his men to invade the city.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Asher''s men manage to enter the city; the entire atmosphere of the town is covered with a light yellow aura. Asher knows that this is their time to shine; he decides to sit down.

    The men surrounding him are very confused, but they decide that one of them should attack; they know that something wrong is going to happen.

    Slash!

    Asher cleanly cuts the head of the one charging at him. The men all get alerted but stay relatively calm. Asher is surprised by this reaction.

    Slash

    "How are you alive?" The man he just decapitated stabbed him in his back. Asher, with his strength, could still fight the men, and for his injuries to heal, he decided to go and attack before they did anything else.

    Asher feels weaker compared to his fight with the other enemies; Asher realizes that the more they smell of rotten meat, the stronger he gets; however, they don''t smell horrendous, rendering him weaker.

    Slash, Slash, Slash

    Asher starts to cut the men up only for them to get up. Asher finally understands that the reason that they don''t produce a smell is that they are clones of another person.

    Asher needs the maker of the clones and eliminates him before it''s too late.

    Bling

    Perfect. Asher sees something hiding in the shadows, looking directly at him. A small miscalculation of their binoculars revealed their position. Asher decides to capitalize on this mistake.

    Asher retreats, having the eight clones in front of him. Asher grabs one of the hidden knives in his pocket and calculates the distance and the speed necessary for his knife to reach. Asher does a backflip to distract the enemy, and at the highest point, he takes out his knife, now infused with his power, and throws it.

    Slash!

    Asher manages to make a near-perfect hit, hitting the clone maker on his neck, and leaving him to die.

    Boom!!!

    YAY!!!

    Asher looks down to see that the city has fallen to his army.

    "We did it!!! Everyone goes and destroys anything relating to Chroma!! And especially let''s free the people.

    ¡­

    Asher, at the celebratory party at night, starts to smell a putrid smell in between his people; he gets alerted and decides to carefully, Asher sees a man celebrating with them who appears to be similar to the rest of the people.

    Asher goes back to tell Dalia to pay attention to the man, sensing that it''s most likely a mole that is going to be relying on information.

    Asher starts to think about what to do, thinking if he kills the man before he releases their information, tortures the man to reveal information, or feeds him fake information and only shares the correct information with his siblings, who are far stronger than the rest of the people.

    Asher sees Dalia coming closer to whisper in his ear.

    "Yeah, I smell it, and I saw a small little device as he left the crowd. He is a mole. We should kill him." Dalia, looking around, tells Asher.

    "Don''t worry; I have a plan for what to do; all you have to do is act normal and let me take care of this." Asher grabs a plate of meat and gives it to Dalia to act more normal.

 Mole

    Asher and his siblings go to a house to talk about the future of their rebellion. Asher also calls the people with the best commanding abilities he saw in fighting the major city.

    Asher laid down a map he found when raiding a mansion the enemies possessed. He decided to do this in a small house to avoid attracting the mole''s attention.

    "Here is the plan. I will go and attack where the leader of the enemies resides." Asher, with his knife, sticks it where the leader resides. "Amadi and Dalia, I know you are all very young, but I believe in your capabilities. I will command you to take over the other major cities." Asher sees them a little worried about how major of a task he asked them. "Relax; I will give you fifty followers each. I am pretty sure an attack can destroy them if not retreat."

    "If you believe in us, then I am sure that we can do our best." Both Amadi and Dalia now relax.

    "Very good. Now for the rest of you, I only have fifty followers left so I will give you ten followers. Your job is to go and attack other villages throughout the country. If possible, get more followers to help you attack." Asher starts to think if he can give them K.''s blessing. "If possible, explain the blessing of K. but don''t reveal too much."

    "We will do as you say. But why us?" One of them asked Asher

    "Well, because I have seen that the people in here are the best at leading an army and winning." Asher sits down in his chair, waving his knife, which he took out of the map.

    "Very well."

    "That is all. You will be departing tomorrow. How can I forget? You will be told that you are going back to look after the people back in the towns he liberated. Don''t tell anyone that you are going to go and liberate more. Only tell your followers once they leave the forest, then go to your designated place." Asher, with a serious tone, commands them.

    "Amadi and Dalia, you will do something different. Since you know about the situation, you will stay with me, and when I tell you, you will say that you are going to fight against a village while in reality, you will go to the major cities." Before Asher could finish, the alarm that he had created sounded.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.

    Asher senses someone getting close to the door in an area where they can hear information.

    "Let''s celebrate!!" Asher exclaims while signaling the people to shut up.

    He starts to wave his hand to act with him.

    "Yay!!" Dalia exclaims, very confused.

    Asher starts to act until he feels that the person left; not being super confident, he decides to go outside with the excuse of going to the restroom.

    I knew it. The moment Asher left the house, he saw the mole walking away; he was the only person who could be that far in such a little distance. Asher looks and sees a microscopic speck in his door. Asher decides not to risk it, so he decides to take it off and destroy it before anything happens.

    When he destroyed it, he saw a small shock of electricity.

    Asher goes back inside and officially calls off the meeting.

    ¡­

    The next day, Asher''s plans start. He sees his commanders getting their fifty men and telling them they will go back to fight any enemies. Asher pays close attention to the mole to see his actions.

    They leave and enter the large forest; Asher then sees the mole grab his stomach and go to the restroom. Asher knows that he will relay the information. As he leaves, Asher tells Dalia and Amadi to go to the small villages as a cover-up. Asher knows that the mole is smart, so he probably left something to listen to them.

    The mole returns to see that one hundred people are left.

    "Leader, where are they going? I thought the others were going home." The mole, acting confused, asks.

    "Oh, they are going to go and liberate some small villages. All we will do is relax here for about a month until they come back, and then we are going to attack the capital." Asher confidently answers.

    "Oh, so we are just going to wait?" The mole clenching his fists asks.

    "Yes. Now go relax." Asher urges him to leave.

    Asher decides to stalk the mole. He saw him talking to his shirt. Asher saw this and knew his plan worked.

    Asher sees that they finished talking and points his knife at the mole.

    "Do you think I am dumb enough to not know that you are a mole?" Asher cuts some of his skin.

    "How did you know!?" The mole starts to grab his pants like he is about to take something.

    Asher throws the knife at his hand.

    Ahh

    Asher sees the mole scream; he imminently supercuts the mole, leaving him knocked out.

    ¡­

    "Where am I?" The mole is in a dark room, only illuminated by a small candle, sitting and strapped.

    "You are going to tell me what you know about the leader. The easy or hard way." Asher, with a sadistic tone, questions the mole.

    "I won''t say shit. Torture me as much as possible; I won''t say anything." The mole starts to shake the chair to get himself out.

    Asher sees his assistant appear carrying many tools of torture. However, the assistant is the mole''s girlfriend; she was severely distraught when Dalia broke the news.

    "Sad¨¦, look at him. What should we do?." Asher asks her.

    "I won''t partake in any torture. I will do anything that does not involve blood." Sade looked scared.

    "Don''t worry; we will torture him without any blood." Asher now looking like the incarnation of the devil himself.

    Asher goes to the man, unzips his pants, and takes his everything. He then looks back at Sade, and he is about to jump on her.

    Asher DON''T

    Asher stops just before he starts to have sexual relations with her. Seeing her crying with no clothes, he feels a wave of disappointment.

    "I am sorry. Sade, you may leave. I am very sorry I don''t know what happened." Asher looked severely disappointed by himself and by being scolded by K..

    Asher looks at the man and leaves to call for another one to torture him.

 Capital

    Asher left the mole to one of his followers, going upstairs to leave the underground bunker that was used to store people and precious metals. Asher looks back with some shame and takes a step.

    Boom!

    A large wind passed through Asher. He looks back to see his follower and the mole both dead.

    Asher could only run and start to see what was happening. Asher saw both of them blown into pieces. The once-stone wall is now covered in blood. Asher realizes that it''s the mole''s doing; he is now scared to know that the enemies might have an explosive device inside of them.

    But why? That is the question Asher is asking himself. Questioning why he exploited, why now did he explode? There are three plausible scenarios Asher came up with: The first one is that the enemy had planned to blow himself up but was captured, so he decided to take at least one person with him. The second one is that it is embedded with them and the torture was the fire to blow. The last one is that they are being controlled by someone more powerful, and every time they are about to reveal any information, they blow it to not reveal anything.

    Asher decides that all of them are plausible. He grabs his follower''s hand to have a proper burial.

    Asher goes up the fifteen staircases, opens the top door, pulls himself up, and sits on the light brown floor of the main mansion.

    Asher, carrying the hand like a baby, starts to pass through the large marble and gold mansion. Passing through people with confused faces, I later turned sad to see a hand.

    Asher leaves the glass doors, goes to one of the ten trees surrounded by bushes, and buries the hand.

    Asher is now convinced that he needs to have revenge for an innocent man. He decides to call all of his men and alert them that they will have their most ambitious goal. To take over the capital and to stop the calamities that Chroma has created.

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    ¡­

    Amadi and Dalia both arrive at their place in a major city. The other five commanders all arrive at one village.

    ¡­

    Amadi starts to see how less secure this city is compared to the one they just beat.

    ¡­

    Dalia sees that her city is more secure now, so she starts to plan on how to attack. She has never had any experience commanding, but she will try her best.

    ¡­

    Asher and his followers start to prepare themselves for the war. Grabbing knives, guns, and everything that can kill or wound someone unable to fight.

    "LET''S GO!!" Asher and his followers start to go to the dense forest with the destination of the capital.

    Asher and his followers are cutting and passing anything in the forest that stops their progress.

    After an hour''s journey, Asher finally arrives at the capital. The capital is close to the city they just gained control of, and now that they have arrived, they see a large tower in the center of the city.

    Asher starts to see with the binoculars he stole and starts to inspect if there is a way for them to enter and destroy the city with the least amount of casualties.

    Swoosh!

    A figure appears in front of Asher, flicking his finger on his neck.

    "Asher, we know you''re here. You can take the capital. We truly don''t care, but if you want to win, you need to take over the tower." A young man with pale skin speaks to Asher.

    Asher clears his throat and gets into position to fight; the rest of his followers also get into position to fight; they are incredibly surprised at how he appears.

    "Who are you?" Asher grabs his knife and asks.

    "Don''t worry; I won''t fight you. I am merely a clone. My creator is on the top of the tower. Now it''s getting boring to have no one to fight." The pale man starts to disappear.

    Asher gives in and gets his followers to go and attack.

    They enter the town only to be greeted by a line of thirty armed men pointing their guns at them.

    Crack

    Asher cracks his finger, indicating that they are going on an all-out attack.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    The men start shooting, and some of Asher''s followers start to get injured, but ten men can do nothing compared to fifty people attacking them all at once.

    Asher''s followers manage to beat the men, leaving only two dead. Asher continues his attack; with no one left in the streets, he approaches the tower.

    The same pale man appears to greet Asher.

    "Congrats on beating level one. Now only YOU can enter. If you die, then I can easily beat all of them." The pale man starts to fade. "Welcome"

    Asher enters to see a pathway lit by candles. The walls are painted dark blue, every step Asher takes leaving an echo passing through the entire pathway.

    Asher follows the pathway which leads to a small room; the second Asher steps into the room, and blue fires start to create an arena around him. The arena no larger than a UFC ring starts to ring.

    Ding Ding Ding

    Asher looks up to see the entire room now illuminated, like a theater; the curtains start to rise, the fires disappear, and he is greeted with an army of approximately fifty people all going to fight him.

    Asher takes his knives and prepares his aura to consume his body.

    "What is happening?" Asher starts to feel his strength diminishing by the second.

    Dalia, Amadi! Fuck, they are probably losing; I have to finish this fast before they end up dying.

    Asher realizes that another factor has come into play in his fight.

    Slash!

 Cry

    Asher manages to dodge an attack at point-blank range due to his being weaker. He retreats, and the thoughts of his siblings losing their fights are starting to frighten him. Asher is very scared to lose anyone else that''s important to him.

    Asher takes a deep breath but gets interrupted by a surprise attack by ten enemy soldiers. They are all unarmed; they are just going to fight him with only their bodies. Asher starts to dodge the attacks, positioning his body in unnatural positions.

    What should I do?! My body is reaching its limit. The power I currently have isn''t strong enough! Why are the other forty just looking? They aren''t dumb? Are they clones? Are they weaker or stronger? Asher decides to leave the radius of the enemies deciding to attack; it''s a now-or-never situation.

    Asher starts to go towards the enemy. Seeing their movements for a while, he can map clearly how they fight; finding an opening is crucial for his victory.

    Asher decides to first throw one of his knives into one of the people resting.

    Poof

    I knew they were clones. Asher now starts to fight. Predicting their movements, Asher manages to stab three of the fighters in their necks, leaving them to die.

    Poof, poof, poof

    Ten clones disappear from the outside. Asher, with heightened confidence, ran out of knives; his punches are all that he needs; his only worry is his constant loss of strength.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher manages to land one uppercut, one left hook, and a roundhouse kick in an action sequence. The only thing worrying Asher is how they managed to break some of his bones. His aura is healing him, but the loss of it is making it harder.

    Boom!

    Asher gets a jab straight on his face; taking the broken nose, he finds a perfect opportunity to land a right hook, rendering the enemy unable to fight.

    "Congratulations! I didn''t expect you to understand so fast. Now the rest won''t be as easy. Especially the next one." The pale man appears again, clapping at Asher.

    Asher is only looking at him with a serious face.

    "Hey, you do have a time limit. Your siblings are¡­ The pale man takes a device that can show videos of what is happening at any spot they have visited. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

    "What about my siblings?!!" Asher tries to grab the pale man only to remember that he is a hologram.

    "They are losing. Wow! I have never seen so much blood." The man laughing cunningly sees how Asher''s expression changes from seriousness to scared.

    "Take me to the other level now!!!" Asher is trying his best to remain composed.

    The pale man disappears. The theater-like room disappears. A set of stairs appears; a row of dimly lit lights marks the pathway of the stairs.

    Tap, tap, tap

    Asher hears a man tapping something.

    Asher arrives at the end of the lights only to see a safe like a door. Extending his hand to touch it, the door opens.

    Woosh

    Asher is greeted by a man similar-looking to him, pointing a knife directly at his neck. The velocity of the attack surprised Asher; his good vision had never seen a man this close in the minuscule time he opened the door.

    Slash

    Asher falls to the ground, his throat bleeding; seeing his vision turned red, he can only see the man disappearing in the dark room.

    Asher starts to fade away, his strength dying. He passes out in a pile of his blood.

    ¡­

    "HAHAHAHA! He got you! Wait, didn''t I already say that? Well, it doesn''t matter. I will cut to the chase if you want power. I want you to be alive." A mysterious figure starts to speak to a barely conscious Asher.

    "O¡ªOh, it''s you, K.?" Asher recognizes the voice. His body is still on the ground, unable to move.

    ¡­

    Asher is in a room. A room covered in light gray colors. The sky, the floor, the walls, and the air are all gray. Asher is confused, only seeing a young man eating with his family. Asher can move, but nothing can do nothing.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    In the next scene, Asher is shown how the young man is being tortured with the torture of his entire family. Unable to close his eyes due to his cut eyelids.

    The young man is strapped to a chair, his arms strapped down, his mouth covered to not produce a sound, the walls dark. A light illuminates the center of the room.

    The scene of one by one each of his family members starting to die in front of his eyes.

    The first scene Asher is tormented in is when the young man''s father gets each of his limbs cut. His screams of pain and cries all torment the young man. A puddle of dark red blood started to accumulate at the feet of the young man. The young man can only muffle a scream, his eyes unable to cry; the young man can only move his body, trying his best to free himself.

    The young man''s father stopped fighting for his liberty; he took his last breath. Asher can only look in surprise, deeply saddened.

    The people cutting the father''s hand, their bodies covered in a dark-colored robe, start to wave the dead man''s limbs, playing hot potato with it.

    Asher is transported into another scene. The scene is now about the mother of the young man. When the mother arrives, she starts screaming like a maniac, falling on her knees and grabbing the remaining parts of her husband. Seeing the love of her life dead in front of her destroyed her.

    She looks up only to be hit with an axe, cutting her head in a swing. The young man can only see this happening, seeing how everything is destroying him. His entire mind is in shock seeing the two people he cared the most about dead in a day, killing the young man inside.

    The people started laughing maniacally; seeing the mother''s decapitated body, they began to have an urge to perform necrophilia.

    Asher can only scream; now he is in the body of the young man experiencing the emotions of the broken Asher inside just as the man starts to undress his dead mother, Asher and the young man disappear.

    ¡­

    "Tell me about it." K. talks now in the same forest he has always been in.

    "AHHHH!!! STOP!!!" Asher traumatizes screams.

    "Asher, you are truly blessed that you have me and not the other one." K. stands up from his chair to squat in the fire and throws a stick to increase the fire.

    "What are you talking about?!! You don''t have an idea of what I experienced!!! How is it possible that I am blessed!!!" Asher screams at K..

    "Ha, you truly are lucky. Also, I could make your experience worse. You know that you and I are one, K., in his calm way, responds to Asher.

    "What are you trying to say!!" Asher not taking an answer.

    "Do you truly want to know?" K. stands up and looks directly into Asher''s eyes.

    "Yes, you fucker, what else do you think I want?" Asher is still angry.

    "You truly are lucky." K. sits down in his rocking chair.

 Revelation

    K., sitting down in his rocking chair, takes out a book while giving Asher a small grin.

    ¡°Hey Asher, don¡¯t worry; your siblings are fine. You are currently in my realm.¡± K. starts pointing at the sky. ¡°This is my realm. The realm you live in is all my doing.¡±

    Asher can only stare at K., his face becoming more and more blank.

    ¡°What are you talking about!? So you are the one that created all the suffering!!¡± Asher tries to stand up, but his legs are extremely weak.

    ¡°Well, in actuality, it¡¯s the doing of the superior being.¡± K. closes his book; his voice becomes more and more deep.

    ¡°The superior being! Do you expect me to believe that? Fuck the superior being. Asher finally stands up and points at K..

    ¡°Believe it if you want.¡± K. shrugs his shoulders. ¡°Do you remember the large blue star?¡±

    ¡°Large blue star? What are you talking about!?¡± Asher, now more relaxed, mildly screams at K..

    ¡°As expected. I can¡¯t tell you much, but all I can say is that you and I are a part of the superior being.¡± K. recreates the blue star but is now in a smaller form.

    ¡°Is this the star? Are we the ones glowing a golden yellow?¡± Asher grabs the star and sees a color calling for him.

    ¡°Yes. As you can tell, I am the golden yellow point.¡± K., looking proud, responds.

    ¡°Then what about the rest?¡±

    ¡°I truly don¡¯t know the entire picture. All I know is that there are five of us, and I only have knowledge of Ink and ? the other two I have no idea about. But I have an idea.¡±

    ¡°Ink and ?? What do they do, and what is the idea that you have?¡± Asher now finally calms down.

    ¡°Well, I do know Ink; we are friends. He is the creative and dreamer part of the superior being. ? is the mysterious and intelligent part of the superior being.¡± K.''s mood changes when talking about Ink and ?.

    ¡°What are the other two, and what are we?¡± Asher is now very interested.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

    ¡°Since you asked. I am the savior part of the superior being.¡±

    ¡°What is the savior part?¡± Asher¡¯s mind starts to get confused.

    ¡°We are the good parts of the superior being. That is why you get stronger when you fight enemies with their hands tainted with human life. That is why I think I have an idea of the other two.

    ¡°That makes a lot of sense, but the other two?¡±

    ¡°Wait, I am going there. I think that the other one is the evil and selfish part of the superior being.¡±

    ¡°So the opposite of us.¡± Asher''s brain finally clicks.

    ¡°Correct, I knew you had me inside you.¡± K. changes the sky to a bright sunny day.

    ¡°So what about the other one?¡±

    ¡°The other one has to be the senses of the superior being. Or it¡¯s the spirit version of the superior being. I truly have no idea; I still haven¡¯t met them yet. You will be me eventually.¡± K. stops himself from revealing too much information. ¡°I said too much. Well, now you know the partial truth; also, now you understand why you said you were blessed to have me.

    ¡°I¡¯m lucky; I am calmer, but that experience is too terrifying to ever be thankful.¡± Asher''s tone changes to indignation.

    ¡°Just wait until¡­ yeah, just wait.¡± K., with a sweep of his hand, disappears from the world.

    ¡­

    Asher is back in his body, bleeding; however, now he feels a lot stronger, and his wound is starting to heal.

    Asher slowly stands up, his aura now becoming orange-red, and with incredible speed manages to land a sucker punch.

    The enemy turns around after stumbling due to the magnitude of the punch.

    ¡°So you are alive? I was sure that I gave you a fatal blow. Well, now that you are here, let the fun start.¡± The room suddenly illuminates, showing one hundred people all ready to attack the man that Asher went to sit down behind everyone in the blink of an eye.

    Asher sees the room appear like a palace, signaling that this is the king''s room. Asher starts to look at the men surrounding him, noticing how their strengths are equal to his before this sudden surge. Look at the king.

    ¡°W-what?¡± Asher looks at the king''s face, the same face of the young man he saw and became in the nightmare. It wasn¡¯t a dream?

    Boom!

    The one hundred men all start to calculatively attack Asher.

    Asher starts to see the world move slower; seeing the enemies attack, Asher marks the pathway the five closest to him are going to attack; seeing a weak point, he decides to capitalize.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher''s punches create a hole in the body of the enemies.

    The enemies take a backward step for half a second; they now start to launch their full attacks at him.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher starts receiving the attacks, his bones, and limbs all being ripped apart only to regenerate; Asher''s eyes, full of rage, start pulling the enemy''s bodies. Ripping their lips, crushing their throats.

    Asher''s mind is filled with pain and sorrow; every time he kills an enemy, his heart becomes lighter and lighter.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    Asher gets his head blown off only to regenerate, a monster starts to instill fear in the enemies; they know that they won¡¯t be able to beat if a monster like him starts to terrify them.

    Asher starts disappearing in front of their eyes; his strength is increasing in record time. It appears that the strength he lost is all coming back. Every time Asher manages to disappear, he takes a life with him.

    Whoosh!! Whoosh!! Whoosh!!

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    The enemies are trying their best, launching attacks that a previous Asher wouldn''t survive; now he is eating them and killing them in record time.

    Snap

    BOOM!!!!!!

    Asher flies away due to the magnitude of the attack.

    What was that? Asher opens his eyes to see a blood-covered room; every inch is covered in blood, and the king is standing on top of the fallen men. Asher realizes that it is all the king''s doing.

    ¡°Join me or fight me. Those peasants are way too weak for you to waste your energy. Your attacks remind me of a frog, catching every insect they see.¡± The king extends his hand, covered in blood.

    The rotten smell makes Asher unable to rationalize. He had never seen someone so corrupted in his life before the simple thought of joining him repulsed Asher.

    Boom

    Both of Asher''s arms blow up from seemingly nothing. Asher retreats gets into a boxing stance, and lets his aura consume him, the color now turning a light golden tone. His pupils become pure gold, the bottom of his dreads starts to become golden, and the thorn crown appears again, its color a light yellow.

 Sing about me

    The king looks at Asher with surprise; Asher''s transformation piquing his curiosity.

    ¡°Before we fight, what is your name?¡± The king starts to power up, increasing his dark aura.

    ¡°Remember my name. The person who will defeat you. I am Asher!¡± Asher, not giving the king a chance to respond, goes to attack.

    The king dodges the surprise attack, dodging Asher''s incredible speed.

    ¡°You get to work up. My name is Kenny. Now let¡¯s start. With an incredible display of speed, Kenny manages to cut one of Asher''s arms before Asher can even realize it.

    Asher¡¯s arm regrows; seeing the palace, he notices places where he can go and sneak attack. Asher lets his guard down, only seeing how Kenny immediately arrives close to his face. Asher manages to react, covering the left side of his face, only for Kenny to land a kick directly at his ribs, shattering them.

    Asher gets flown away, colliding against one of the ten pillars on the left side of the throne. Asher heals immediately; determined to continue to survive, he starts to get closer and find a weak point.

    Boom!

    Asher manages to dodge a flying kick by Kenny aimed directly at his head. The pillar falls by the potency of the attack. Asher¡¯s quick reaction manages to find an opening, faking a punch that was aimed at his head to a punch with his right hand directed at Kenny''s liver.

    Boom!

    Kenny¡¯s body is flung by Asher''s attack, landing in the front door; he stands up to continue fighting.

    Asher and Kenny both launch themselves at each other.

    Boom!

    Asher¡¯s and Kenny¡¯s fists both collide, causing both of them to fly back on their feet. Asher goes for another attack, moving from side to side, trying to create an opening.

    Kenny runs towards his throne, preparing for Asher''s attack; he calculates where he can inflict more damage.

    Kenny''s gamble paid off. Asher went to attack, launching himself like a falcon. Kenny goes behind the throne; knowing how it works, he manages to propel himself from one of the posts on the left side of his throne.

    Boom!

    Asher didn¡¯t expect this attack, causing him to be on the brink of losing consciousness; the attack landed directly at his chin, falling into another pillar and fracturing his spine.

    Asher heals again, feeling his body getting stronger and stronger each second; his nose is getting accustomed to the smell, and his body is getting more accustomed to the strength of Kenny.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.

    Asher gets up, predicting Kenny''s attack; he grabs his legs and starts spinning him, throwing him at one of the pillars, shattering it. Asher sees Kenny¡¯s lower defense going towards him again, grabbing him again and throwing him at another pillar.

    Kenny¡¯s head is covered in blood Asher starts to bang his head on the pillar.

    Kenny senses Asher''s grip loosen on his head turns around and manages to land a powerful kick, throwing Asher directly at the throne.

    Asher¡¯s body recovers, and a lesser speed recovers fast enough to protect his head from a fatal blow from Kenny.

    Asher''s bones are broken into pieces. His recovery continues; they start exchanging punches while Asher is standing on the throne and Kenny is seemingly floating.

    Boom! Boom! Boom!

    The potency of their punch exchanges starts creating ripples of sounds throughout the entire light blue palace.

    Asher manages to free himself by faking Kenny landing a nice jab, and sending Kenny back. Asher uses this time to leave the disadvantageous position for a better position to create something.

    Asher''s strength reached its limit, reaching a level of power strong enough to beat Kenny if he played his cards correctly.

    Asher''s body is completely healed, while Kenny¡¯s is still suffering but still standing all mighty.

    ¡°This is so fun, right?¡± Kenny, exhausted, asks Asher.

    ¡°I can¡¯t even lie; it is when you die I will remember you!¡± Just as Asher finished talking, he got hit with a kick directly at his calves.

    Falling on his knees Asher sees an opening; Asher takes out his knife to stab Kenny''s thigh.

    The knife breaks, only causing a minor cut on Kenny''s leg; however, due to the unexpected nature of the attack, Kenny instinctively retreats.

    They both start attacking each other; the walls start to break by the potency of their attacks, and Kenny¡¯s body starts to lose stamina. He can¡¯t compete toe to toe with Asher for much longer.

    Asher starts to change his movement; the patterns that Kenny memorized start to appear new. Asher sees this confusion and capitalizes by landing a jab and a left hook.

    Kenny¡¯s body reached its limit. As a last-ditch attempt, he starts to attack with everything he has left inside him.

    Boom!

    Asher falls back again onto the throne; Kenny launches himself, managing to land a barrage of attacks directly at Asher.

    Asher is beaten at a velocity that his regeneration can compete with; the once quartz and golden throne is destroyed.

    Asher, feeling hopeless, looks at Kenny¡¯s barrage and, in a split second, sees a weak point; Asher kicks Kenny¡¯s leg, causing him to lose balance. Asher grabs Kenny''s throat, putting him on the ground.

    Now it¡¯s Asher''s turn; he starts his barrage of attacks, each punch breaking his bones; his rapid recovery starts to fade away. Kenny manages to dodge a lot of attacks, but thirty percent hit.

    Asher¡¯s body can¡¯t resist for much longer the toll that his body is taking. Both Kenny and Asher are on their last legs.

    Kenny kicks Asher out of him; he tries to stand up, but the damage Asher inflicted was too much for him.

    ¡°Hehe, you actually managed to beat me.¡± Kenny, now accepting his fate, sees Asher still standing.

    ¡°I actually did. This is for all the people you murdered.¡± Asher''s legs can¡¯t take it anymore; he falls on his knees.

    ¡°You really did. All I can say is promise that you will sing about me.¡± Kenny¡¯s now relaxing his body, sensing that his death is imminent.

    ¡°Of course, I will; I will always remember you for being such a horrible human.¡± Asher also falls on his back due to exhaustion.

    ¡°Also Kenny I am sorry about your parents. I know this is too late, but is that the reason you are like this?¡±

    ¡°How do you know?¡± Kenny asks in amusement. ¡°The short answer is yes. It was the past empire that ruined everything in my life, and I had to take revenge. I completed my goals.¡±

    ¡°What were your goals, Kenny?¡±

    ¡°My goals were to beat the past empire and to rule this country. My other goal was to die in the hands of someone stronger with the same mindset as me. We both are very similar if you think about it.¡± Kenny responds on the brink of dying.

    ¡°Yes, we are. I promise I will do my best to never make another kid experience what you did.¡± Asher, on the brink of passing out, responds.

    ¡°Asher, these will be my last words, so pay attention.¡±

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry; I will remember,¡± Asher responds with a smile.

    ¡°All I want to say is that this world is fucked up,  so face your truths.¡± Kenny takes his final breath, finally succumbing to his injuries.

    ¡°Huh, Kenny, don¡¯t die!! What do you mean about facing my truths?¡± Asher manages to stand up with the revelation, and walks to Kenny, only to see his lifeless body.

    ¡°Kenny, tell me what you mean by that!!!¡± Asher shakes Kenny¡¯s lifeless body only for him to pass out from exhaustion.

    ¡°Welcome back, Asher.¡±

 Asher

    Asher heard a voice call upon him, a voice he had never heard. Asher opened his eyes; Asher was in shock. The room was beautiful; the floor was made of clouds, and on top, a large fog covered a large figure looking down at him. The figure radiates light of all visible light.

    Asher gets up to see the room transform into a courtroom. Seats on the sides of the room, made of clouds, all have versions of Asher sitting down.

    Asher looked down, seeing that he was now at the center of the room, his arms chained, the figure looking down at him, judging his every action.

    Asher realized that he was being judged by a powerful figure. He tried to speak, but nothing came out. Not a single sound was produced by Asher. He tried again, with the same results.

    Asher, tell me every deed that you''ve done and what you did it for.

    What is this question? Is it K.? No, that''s not possible; he doesn''t talk like this. I am feeling pressure because if I lie, I will die. What is happening? Asher calms down.

    Asher''s body starts to tremble; all of his deepest regrets, pains, and everything he hid is starting to flood all at once; the version of him judging him is the most broken part of him. His entire demeanor changed only by having his raw self to answer.

    "I saved people at their lowest point, giving them a chance to live again."

    Ok, tell me more.

    "I managed to liberate hundreds of thousands from danger."

    Ok, tell me more.

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    "I am trying to push peace in my country."

    But you love war?

    "No, I don''t."

    Yes, you do.

    "Then tell me the reason for all my suffering."

    You did well, but your heart is closed. I can tell traumas from your past linger and create a cell.

    "Enlighten me how an imperfect human liberates himself," Asher questions his entire life.

    Every individual is only a version of you. You need to forgive yourself, but others might not forgive you. Promise that you will not take your gifts for granted.

    "I promise I will never take my gifts for granted. I will do my best to show understanding to the people." Asher, on the verge of tears, still has a lot of questions. "May I ask for something?"

    You may

    "All I want is to know why I am here. What happened?" Asher, his tears streaming down, tries his best to look up, trying to maintain his composure.

    You are here since you are my greatest director. You and I are one. I want to show you that I know everything, your suffering, your happiness. You need to know your truths before facing more hardships.

    "K., that''s you, right? I knew it, but what is my future going to be about?" Asher felt the chains break.

    Your future will be far worse than anything that you have faced right now. The life you saw of Kenny is only one-tenth of the pain Kenny went through. You will go through about one hundred to one thousand times more than Kenny went through.

    "Do you think I can endure that much pain.?"

    You will, with me, we will all survive. You are a savior. You need to save yourself before you save anyone else.

    "I will try my best to carry out my purpose." Asher feels that one part of himself is free; many other pieces are still in shackles waiting to be freed.

    The world starts to disappear, and Asher''s soul falls back into its original body. While descending, Asher starts to see parts of himself that he doesn''t remember.

    ¡­

    Asher is now awakened back into his physical body. Sensing that he is lying down in a soft part, he wakes up alert for anything. Asher sees both of his siblings surrounding him; the people around him remind him of when he liberated his first village.

    Asher embraced his siblings, asking them how they did in their fight. Their faces turned with mixed reactions.

    Amadi and Dalia shared stories very similar.

    Both stories start with them winning the first wave of enemies. Their confidence started to increase; however, the second and third waves were not like they expected. Most of their army was destroyed in a short time. It all perfectly aligns when Asher starts to feel weaker,

    After their army was standing on its last legs, where the remaining soldiers felt that they wouldn''t live through another day, they felt a large surge of power. Asher realized that it was when he awakened back again after Kenny attacked him.

    They then recount how their senses got sharper; the enemies that they were once losing to are beating them with medium difficulty. Both of their stories end with them freeing the city.

    Asher looks at them with a lot of pride. Sensing happiness for the gift that was bestowed upon him.

    "Asher, we should probably establish ourselves and introduce ourselves to the villages that are still being led by a failed rebellion," Dalia says.

    "That is true. All right, let''s start this reconstruction." Asher gets up out of bed.

 Three-Fifth

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 Leia

    Leia is sentenced to one hundred years in prison. All the people are looking down on her. The old man judge is trying his best not to smirk; the people in the stands all appear to have two faces every time Leia looks at them.

    Leia is stunned, not knowing what to do. Two people grab her elbows, dragging her out of the courtroom. She doesn''t even try to fight back; her mind is trying to think about what happened before she arrived here. What did she even do?

    Leia sees the same guard she talked to running through the dimly lit, brown-colored wall of the hallway. Pictures of many people are plastered on the walls, and the navy blue carpet has a rhombus-shaped pattern.

    "I am here to take Leia to get a makeover for the last time before she never sees her face again." The woman talks to the people dragging her out.

    They both look at themselves and nod. Leia is now freed of the grasp of the people; she tries to turn around to see their faces; however, they disappear without leaving a trace of their presence. Leia is now thinking about what is happening and what is going to happen to her.

    The woman grabs Leia''s hand and starts walking out of the courtroom. The walls change color from brown to caramel to hazel, and the lights illuminate more and more. There are no signs of life in the hallways. Everything is empty, except for the occasional black leather couches located in different places.

    "Leia, are you ready for your makeover?" The woman''s face is of pure excitement and hints of sadness.

    Leia looks at the woman, now having a clearer picture of her face. Her face appears to be between twenty and twenty-five years of age; her skin is smooth, she has long brown hair, and her brown eyes complement her face.

    Looking at her, Leia smiles and nods.

    Leia leaves the courtroom; the shine of the sun makes Leia temporarily blind due to her lack of sun. They start walking to the stylist to get Leia''s last makeover. Leia feels that there are three people following her the moment she steps out of the courtroom.Stolen novel; please report.

    Deciding to ignore them, she starts to pay attention to the world; there are many modern-looking stores, cars are passing through her, and the crosswalk is a dirty pink color. The people walking around look very normal, all of them looking happy with their lives.

    Leia finally arrives at the stylist. The store outside has an LED sign showing the name of the store called "Bella. The inside of the store is very beautiful. The white-colored walls with many LED lights illuminate the entire room, a woman looking at Leia, then pointing at her chair.

    The woman appears to be in her early forties; her long, wavy hair with light makeup made the woman who carried Leia very happy.

    Leia sees that the woman goes to the stylist, and they start talking at a decibel level that makes her unable to hear at the distance they are.

    The woman signals Leia to come over and sit down. The woman goes to bring a large mirror. Leia starts to see the stylist get many hair and makeup materials for her makeover.

    The woman arrives with a large mirror before Leia can see her reflection; she finds herself blindfolded by the woman. She goes with it as she doesn''t have liberty anymore.

    Buzz, buzz, buzz.

    Leia feels her hair being cut, and later she starts to feel many things put on her face. They take the blindfold off, but Leia is unable to see anything, sensing color but unable to produce a clear picture; she starts feeling makeup on her eyes.

    "Are you ready, Leia?" The stylist asks.

    Leia nods and starts to see again.

    Leia is surprised to see her reflection. Her face is that of a beautiful young woman; her long, crimson red hair was cut in a way resembling that of a wolf cut. Her cheeks have a blush, but what captivated Leia was her red eyes; the eyeliner made her sharp eyes more defined.

    "Wow, you look beautiful, Leia. I knew that a haircut would suit you. No need to thank me." The woman''s eyes glowed in excitement.

    Boom!!

    The windows were shattered by an explosion. In the dust of the attack, there could only be seen a silhouette of five men.

    Whoosh

    The three people that Leia sensed were looking over Leia suddenly appeared to take care of the attack.

    Leia is surprised by this, but does not lose her opportunity to escape, she sees how the people are fighting; she pushes the woman and stylist into the battle for her to make a run.

    Leia pushes the backdoor and makes a run for it. She can only hear the effects of the fight. She starts to find a way out of the town. Seeing an obscured pathway, she decides to start running to the pathway.

    The pathway is very dark, and the houses look very sad; it''s a different world from the vivid place she was just in. The more she starts walking deeper inside the pathway, the more and more houses start to appear.

    Leia finds herself stuck in a place where she doesn''t know where to go. Her looks make her scared of whatever will happen to her. She then feels a lustful look from every corner of the place she is. The apartments and houses all look dark, making it perfect for people to hide.

    Leia makes a run for it, running to find a way out; the people all start running towards her. She continues to run with all her speed, passing through many houses just to run away.

    Bang

    Leia collides against a bucket covered in cement; she falls from the pain, her leg now injured, and she feels too weak to do anything.

    Leia sees a small rusting knife in the side of the bucket; she grabs it and manages to stand up.

    Pointing the knife, she instinctively hides her presence behind one of the doors, prepared to kill anyone who comes close to her.

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    Leia is now located in a throne room. In the center of the room, a golden throne with pink diamonds has a figure covered in fog sitting on the throne. The room walls are painted pink with sculptures on both sides of the room of sitting position lions made out of ruby. The eyes of the lions are made of pink diamonds.

    The floor of the room glows with precious red and pink gemstones, and the main carpet leading to the throne is made out of the brightest pink fabric ever made. The ceiling is made out of pink glass.

    Leia, still sitting on the floor, is looking around the room for signs that something is about to attack her.

    ¡°Hello.¡± The figure covered in fog talked. ¡°Welcome. You don¡¯t know what is happening. Let¡¯s first get rid of the fog.¡± The figure makes the fog disappear, showing an identical copy to Leia.

    ¡°Why do you look like me?¡± Leia, managing the strength to stand up, questions the figure.

    ¡°Calm down. I am you, but my name is Luna.¡± Luna stands up from her throne.

    ¡°What do you mean by that?¡± Leia, not taking anything from whatever Luna has to say, gets a knife from her left leg ready to attack Luna.

    Swoosh

    Luna catches the knife directed at her throat with little problem. Her crimson-red eyes became filled with bloodlust. Luna breaks the knife with a tap from her index finger.

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    Swoosh

    ¡°Ahh!!!¡± Leia feels her arms cut into many finite pieces. She falls on the floor, seeing her blood pour out, realizing that she will die.

    Luna is standing in her exact spot, grinning, her hands covered in blood. Leia knows that it is Luna¡¯s doing; however, with her rapid loss of blood and consciousness, she can¡¯t think clearly.

    Luna snaps her fingers, instantly healing Leia, leaving her as if she had never been injured. Leia, lying down on the floor after being healed, can only see Luna barefooted approaching her. Leia raises her head to see Luna having a kind smile with hints of sinister intention.

    ¡°Are you dumb?¡± Luna kicks Leia¡¯s head, sending her flying into the main door.

    ¡°Who are you!¡± Leia screamed, sitting down at the door after breaking her spine due to the force of the kick.

    ¡°This is punishment. You should have never attacked a beautiful and innocent woman like me.¡± Luna gets closer to Leia, who is unable to walk. ¡°Look, my pedicure is now messed up due to you.¡± Luna shows her foot with her leg with Leia¡¯s leg.

    ¡°Who cares? It¡¯s just blood, and it¡¯s just feet. No one cares about your nasty feet.¡± Leia spits on Luna¡¯s feet.

    ¡°I won¡¯t kill you as you are me so that I will allow it. I also agree with your statement, but they are necessary if you want power.¡± Luna creates a red fabric to clean herself.

    ¡°What do you mean about using them to have power!!¡± Leia is now being healed by Luna.

    ¡°Don¡¯t you need power to defeat the people who are just about to capture you? Don¡¯t you need power to take over and create chaos in this world?¡± Luna bends over, looking directly at Leia¡¯s eyes.

    ¡°I do want to do all of that! How do you know that and respond to my other questions? Leia is still on alert for anything Luna does.

    ¡°All you have to do is accept me, and you will get powers. Powers so strong that no one will be able to leave you spell. I am so beautiful that people fall for me, and I get everything I want.¡± Luna shows images in her eyes at Leia.

    ¡°Are you even capable of that? And yes, you are beautiful because you are me!¡± Leia, now calmer, still shows her suspicions.

    ¡°Did you not see what I did? That is only one-hundredth of my power, and I can be yours. All you have to do is follow my path, and you will become me.¡± Luna¡¯s eyes start becoming pinker.

    ¡°That''s strong!! How can I follow your path? Leia, having her suspicions, decides to see what Luna will make her do.

    ¡° Yes, that''s strong, and all you have to do is¡­ It¡¯s better to experience it yourself.¡± Luna flicks her finger at Leia¡¯s forehead, causing her to pass out.

    ¡­

    Leia is in a ghost body seeing how a poor young woman is being chased by two men in a dark and dense forest. She sees the poor young woman start to slow down while the men are just walking behind her.

    Leia tries to punch the men, but her punches pass the men. Leia realizes she can¡¯t do anything, but her instincts are telling her that something is going to happen to her, and she needs to be worried about this experience.

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    Leia, disguised in the dark, enters the city looking for her; however, now she has a goal in mind. Her goal is to control the entire state like little obedient dogs.

    Leia starts to think of ways to complete her goals while walking past some bounty hunters at her entrance to the city. Leia can only give a small chuckle knowing that they have just passed on a jackpot.

    Leia starts to explore the city; even though it is nighttime, the city is still vibrant, having many stores open with many people walking around. There are guards at every turn, but Leia acts normal to not call attention to her.

    The bright yellow lights of the city directed her to a motel to stay. The outside of the motel is very simple, only with the lights of the entrance opened and a normal-looking exterior. She enters the motel to see a receptionist sleeping. The walls are colored a dull green; behind the receptionist, there is a board of keys.

    Leia sees the couches and stairs, checking to see if anyone is there trying to hunt for her. Noticing nothing, Leia walks up to the receptionist and rings a bell to wake him up.

    Ding

    Seeing no reaction, Leia decides to smash the bell.

    Boom

    The sudden sound of the bell being crushed wakes up the receptionist with a scared look, his hands covering his head, all while Leia is confused, looking at the receptionist''s reaction.

    "One room, please." Leia slams the gold she stole from the bounty hunter.

    "What type of room would you like?" The receptionist asks with some nervousness.

    "I want a room that is in the middle of price and room." Leia, once in a while, looks behind her shoulders to see if anyone is there.

    "Yeah, I have two rooms. Would you like to see a tour?" The receptionist stands up from his chair and grabs two keys.

    "No, it''s fine. I am very tired; give me one. Also, how much will it cost?"

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    "There are two stars for both rooms." The receptionist puts one of the keys on his board.

    "Here, just grab what''s necessary." Leia extends the gold pouch she took.

    The receptionist looks at the pouch and grabs four golden coins. Leia doesn''t know how much a star costs but feels as if she is being scammed. Leia grabs the keys and her pouch. She goes on the left side of the room to the stairs. Her room is room twenty, which is located on the third floor.

    Leia starts climbing the stairs where she sees the number range of ten to fifteen. Leia walks up the curved stairs; the wooden planks have signs of distress, and the walls all have the same color.

    She reached the third floor, the stairs marking the numbers fifteen to twenty. Leia starts walking to the last room on the floor. The rooms look distant from each other; Leia sees her room number and opens the door.

    Leia sees a spacious room; the walls are cream-colored, and the bed is in the left corner of the room. Leia goes to the bathroom to check for any hidden cameras. The bathroom has an imitation quartz design on every surface.

    There are no cameras, leading Leia to check the main room to see for cameras. There are no cameras in the room. Leia takes off her hoodie. Her hair is messy, and she has a hot shower to sleep. Leia notices that she doesn''t have clean clothes that are not stained with blood, and not wanting to sleep with dirty clothes, she sleeps with nothing.

    ¡­

    Leia wakes up, goes to the bathroom, grabs her dirty clothes, puts them back, and brushes her teeth. Luna''s main advice is to keep a clean and attractive appearance to siphon power more efficiently from people under her control.

    Leia releases a small hit of her nice odor to mask the smell of the blood in her clothing. Leia is planning to control and kill some of the bounty hunters to have money and power. Leia goes out of her room and down the set of stairs.

    She passes the receptionist and leaves the motel. Leia sees the entire city in daylight. She knows that it will be weird for someone in the middle of summer to walk with a hood; however, her unique looks will call for too much attention to her.

    Leia walks to a clothing store and sees her face plastered on the walls with a bounty of ten thousand stars. Leia reads the description that they give and a picture of her while in jail. The poster talks about her looks, her beautiful face, and her characteristic hair and eyes. The poster also says that anyone hooded might be her advising people to be worried.

    Leia knows that they know her too much, with no other option. Leia walks to the clothing store to try and find a wig that she can use to disguise herself for a while before she makes her move.

    Leia finds a black-colored wig; its length is just long enough to perfectly disguise her hair from any slip-ups. Leia also finds some clothing that won''t make her stand out. She finds some makeup to make herself less beautiful.

    Leia goes up to pay; the woman is paying close attention to Leia. Leia knows that it is suspicious what she is buying but tries to remain anonymous.

    "Sorry, new policy: you first have to show your face for me to sell you this wig. There is a criminal on the loose, and they told us that she will probably do this. I am sorry it is an inconvenience." The woman, appearing to be in her sixties, tries to peek beneath Leia''s hood.

    Leia is at a standstill; not knowing what to do, she knows that she has been caught. She hates that someone is predicting her exact moves. Leia nervously acts as if she is going to take her hood off.

    Swoosh

    Leia releases a large amount of her odor and takes off her hood. The woman instantly falls under her control. Leia puts on the wig and runs off, taking the effect of the odor and realizing her control.

    Leia is now able to show her face and not be feared. All she needs to do is to apply her makeup and eliminate her recognizable traits.

    Leia sees a poster falling upon her. She grabs the poster, seeing how she was planning to look. Leia then realizes that the people outside are no longer there. She has been caught. Leia starts running back to her motel.

    Leia has fallen into the trap of the enemy; her only trump card is that hopefully, they don''t know her powers, or else she will be caught. Leia stumbles upon a gang of bounty hunters just a building away from her motel. They are reading the poster and then looking up to see the person they are looking for.

    Guys, we found her. Whoever captures her first can do whatever they want with her, then let''s throw her to the cops.

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 Rabbit

    Leia looks around to see if there is even a chance for her to escape. Leia¡¯s entire body is screaming at her to run away from the massive difference in strength. If she doesn''t run, she will die here.

    ¡°Why are you looking as if you can escape?¡±

    Leia goes to attack to see if she can waste his energy to make the chains either disappear or easier to break.

    Leia creates her magic sword and starts swinging at Hugo.

    Hugo is swiftly evading all of the attacks with little difficulty.

    Leia explodes her power odor as the now-encapsulated zone has little air circulation, making it easier to increase the potency of the attack. Leia simultaneously shoots at Hugo in a small area.

    Hugo looks at Leia¡¯s tired body trying her best to escape. He lets out a small sigh and decides that it''s getting boring.

    Hugo has now created a chain leg similar to that of a coil, creates two chains in each of his hands, and goes on the defensive.

    Hugo dashes towards Leia, carefully moving his chains to hit all the weak zones that Leia leaves open.

    Leia moves through the chain walls to escape from Hugo; however, Hugo propels himself to start beating Leia.

    There isn¡¯t an entire area of Leia¡¯s body that isn¡¯t covered in scratches or bleeding. The pain is enough for Leia to support, but her state of mind is suffering.

    Leia continues to shoot and run away from Hugo¡¯s attacks; every opening she has, Hugo perfectly capitalizes on it. No matter how hard Leia tries, she can¡¯t inflict serious damage on Hugo.

    Hugo¡¯s attack increases by the second; the walls made of chains start to get more and more compacted, limiting Leia¡¯s movement.

    Hugo makes the floor out of chains, once again rendering Leia¡¯s movement almost completely obsolete.

    Leia can only breathe heavily; her energy has run dry. There is nothing she can do to escape. The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.

    Leia looks at Hugo, completely winded. Her face shows that it¡¯s the end, but she remains as arrogant as ever.

    Hugo, seeing Leia out of energy, goes to finish her off before any outside factor intervenes and gives her a chance to escape.

    Hugo dashes towards Leia; feeling overly confident, he goes to attack with little defense. Hugo is also very tired, so it will help him to go and finish her to conserve enough energy to arrive in the city.

    Leia sees Hugo get very close to her. Leia closes her eyes, knowing that this is her end.

    Boom

    With her last amount of energy, Leia explodes her odor point-blank at Hugo¡¯s face, causing both of them to go flying back.

    ¡°Ahh!!¡± Leia looks down to see a chain pierce her hand.

    Hugo is lying down on the grass almost completely immobile.

    The chains start disappearing.

    The moon begins to fall, revealing the real moon.

    The chain stuck in Leia¡¯s hand disappears. Feeling as if she just dodged a certain death, Leia starts laughing maniacally.

    While laughing, Leia sees Hugo¡¯s body standing up.

    Slash

    Leia couldn''t even react before being stabbed by Hugo.

    The moon is upside down; I just died. Fuck everything.

    Hugo dissolves his chain sword, just seeing Leia¡¯s body spilling blood resembling a fountain.

    Thump.

    Leia¡¯s body falls to the ground. Her lifeless head was on the ground, staring at the moon.

    Hugo looks at Leia¡¯s dead body and walks back.

    Hugo leaves the mountains after half a day walking back and killing some animals that attack him.

    Leia¡¯s body is still lying there with beings close to it.

    Another day happens and nothing. The smell of the body attracts animals to it.

    A rabbit was the first one to get close to it. The rabbit looks at Leia¡¯s head and stands over it.

    Boom

    Leia¡¯s head explodes; her body slowly starts to disappear as it''s just dust.

    "Am I dead? If this is heaven, then it¡¯s ugly, as it¡¯s just like the forest where I died."

    Leia looks down to see red fur and a long red ear.

    "Where am I? What is this?"

    "HAHAHAHAHA!!! Leia, you are a fucking rabbit!!!"

    "Luna, what are you saying?"

    "I said that you are a rabbit. But don¡¯t worry; you will go back to a human once you get enough power to reconstruct your body."

    ¡°...¡±

    "I never expected you to die, but I had a backup plan. The ability I gave you wasn''t to change face but to escape death by changing into another creature. I know I am very strong. You don¡¯t have to thank me again."

    "So you''re telling me that I have to climb up in this dumb body to try and become a human once again!! Will I have my original powers?"

    Um¡­ Yes, you will, but you will get stronger with the abilities of the predators you will have to kill to get stronger. So don¡¯t worry; going back to a human will be easy. My record was one month."

    "What are you saying, Luna? What do you mean by your record? So have you died?"

    "Yes, I have died. I have the hardest work out of all the gods¡­ I think Note¡¯s world is also pretty hard, but he is extremely broken."

    "Again with Note, I am tired of hearing about him. But what about the other gods? Are they as hard or not?"

    "I don¡¯t know about the other three. Also, Note that the person with his blessing will be your future teammate. I still don¡¯t know a lot about Note, but I do know that he is very challenged, but he doesn''t die like us."

    "What do you mean by that? Are you saying that we are the only ones that die?"

    "Yeah, I think since we are just fragments. I also haven¡¯t had contact with Note since I became a god. I have no idea where he is. He might have been training his person, or I don''t know. What¡¯s important is for you to go back into a human and kill Hugo."

    "Luna, how will I do that? I am just prey for bigger animals and humans?"

    "Don¡¯t worry; you are smart enough to know what to do. If I tell you anything, you will become very useless in the future. Now bye-bye."