I am now boarding a carriage to a small village near the mountains.It is called cairn village.For obvious reasons.Yes,cairns are used to mark a grave.They also told me that place was once a battlefield.There are so many cairns in the mountains that it is called cairn village.As for why would someone live there,answer is simply bountiful lands.Those villagers had some balls.

It seems I am a prince!Even the first born son of an emperor.Rightful heir to a dynasty!Yes we all know what happens in royal families!Schemes,betrayals and assassinations!Since crown prince is appointed if I go I will be a threat to him.So if I go as I am now,I am sure to die even if I had thousand lives!I thanked elder for saving me.As for why I dropped my act as a child,elder was aware from beginning!

Elder told me many things.About his history,how he was dying how the place we were going was where he buried his family.How he wanted to die there.I learned I was a dragon!Muahwhahahah!If you were a child you admired dragons and I was a dragon,how awesome!Then he told me to drop the act of a child!I was astonished,how did he see through my act?

It seems dragons are not meant to be born.They were meant to come into existence by themselves!But since dragons wanted to have descendants,they found a way to fool heaven.When I say it like that heaven seems like a computer or something like that.Well,it might even be true,who knows?

Anyway,when they are pregnant dragons use a complex spell called ancestral baptism and it formed a core inside my body,which expanded according to how much latent dragon blood I had.This core was meant to replace a star's core.You know black holes?It seems in regions that have mana these holes gather mana instead.After gathering enough a dragon is born.Carrying core of the star as its magical core.

We had magical cores,whereas mortal races had meridians.When mana actually filled my core that is when birth began.After that I was supposed to drink blood of an ancestor.Which would awaken my own blood.Then all mana stored in my core would form a dragon body.Which would make me an adult in both mind and body.This mana shit is weird.But it seems my body was fully formed,but because of my strong foundations I ended up a child.I needed to drain more mana to grow.

As for how we came here...I don't want to remember.Elder says the Everdark city was built upon a massive fissure.Thus was rich in mana.This mana was chaotic in nature.It floated to sky and then massive storms would be unleashed.But for a period it was safe.That was how we got out.Elder and aunt turned to dragon form and I was carried in elder's mouth since I did not have enough power.Experience was VERY unpleasant.When I got out I kowtowed and kissed the ground.They laughed at my behavior.

After that elder turned to an old man with long beard and no hair who barely carried himself with a cane.Auntie turned to a woman straight out of ghost movies with a ghastly face that did not have cheeks and her body...Ugh,I don't want to meet her in a dark alley.Then she disguised herself.showing nothing except her beautiful eyes.When a man flirted with her she then showed her face.He fell uttering a KYAAA!Poor sod,but it was funny!It seems she is a trickster.

I am bored and there is long way to go.Lets go to my soul palace to access powers of Ashar and Asura!Though I am going to go through a replay of my life.It seems to access my soul palace contained memories of all my lives.I had to enter there through my own memories.Damn this shit is gonna hurt.

Ah!Here it starts!I was born in the Galactic Empire of Humankind.Ruled over by autocrats,a militaristic empire.People rising up everyday,going to their work or school and then returning home.Day after day.They return home because there is a curfew states that no one will go out of their homes after 9 PM to 6 AM to reduce crime.I would sleep everyday at school.I would be able to pass anyway.I never revealed my genius.If I did then I would be taken to a government facility,would be trained and finally would be worked to bone for the rest of my life in underground labs.

Everyone worked for government.People dreamed of becoming soldiers since soldiers had good money and status.If you can survive that is.Empire was embroiled in a constant and meaningless war with United Humankind.Meaningless because the only reason both fight is to reduce population since they wouldn't have the resources to feed it.It was more like a game actually,where winner took some prize money.I say some because for countries like Empire and U.H. that kind of money is nothing,while for citizens it is an astonishing amount.It is like a chess played with human lives.

Of course the only ones who died were mostly volunteers,who was either of willing kind or not-so-willing kind.They would not expend their elite soldiers,naturally.But if you managed to survive you would manage to have a military status.But the deck was stacked against common soldiers from beginning so you either had to be really lucky or very talented.In that sense I guess luck too is a talent.As for why they volunteered,it was naturally because hope of joining military caste.Military was like nobles after all.

Since we began to colonize space humans experienced an great increase in population and life expectancy.We ended up with billions who lived for two centuries.Who colonized planets one by one.Many factions emerged.U.H. and Empire is just the foremost ones.There are many others.Clustering around two major powers which was The Empire and U.H. ,forming alliances.Disputes,empty threats,empty ideological bickering about ideologies they do not believe and stuff.Nothing serious.

For all their ideology of freedom,United Humankind did not really differ much from Empire actually.They were hypocrites who spouted freedom and had appearance of a democracy with equality and freedom from outside,but on the inside was a rotten system where money ruled over all,assassinations,mafia and elite secret police that killed people that were troublesome.Compared to them Empire was honest oppressors of people.In other words, you either obeyed or you died.Rebellions quelled by extreme prejudice,streets running red with blood.You had to lower your head and hope that no one in your immediate vicinity was a so-called traitor.

Only two differences was between them,which could be called the ideologies they truly believed in.First difference is that in the Empire people worshiped whoever held all military power while in the U.H. people worshiped whoever held all money instead.Second difference is the fact that Empire showed stick before carrot while U.H. showed carrot before stick.Leaders were more than centuries old.

My parents who idolized soldiers and worshiped passing high ranked officials,worked endlessly while being proud of Empire.School,teachers and bullies.The more I grew the more I saw.My ex-"girlfriend" and my ex-"best friend" both was actually going out way before.They were even engaged.They were just messing with the child of a civilian.As for others they wanted a target who would not fight back.I think I used wisdom lord back then.It allowed me to calm my turbulent emotions and sever my bonds.After that I did not care one whit about what they did.

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Are you surprised?What happened to me was nothing.There were worse fates that I do not even want to remember.As I grew up I had to learn why some greenhorn soldiers would drown their sorrows in alleys everyday.Watching things they cannot stop no matter how much they feel guilty.Some even committed suicide,poor sods.

This was an alright city too,mind you.There were cities where if one wanted to kill a murderer or a rapist all one had to do was to shoot a random guy.Soldiers would not care too,if you gave them some so-called gifts.Most of the real shit happened to people who lived in slums however,not really a concern of normal civilians-out of sight,out of mind.Of course a civilian could become a second rate too if they were accused with a crime serious enough.Most people in slums had nowhere to work.They were descendants of criminals and war captives.Empire's version of slaves.

That was where I came from.A world gone mad.I found peace in religion.As science progressed mankind learned more and more.In the end most of old religions fell out of favor.There were new ones.But I had found the old church near entrance of slums.Old Father Xalus was my first friend.Normally people like the Father would have ended up as someone's organs.But he was the youngest brother of the one of the most powerful crime lords.To dare to cause trouble you either needed dozens of lives or not enough brain muscle.Funny thing is Father Xalus was a real saint.When he died entire slums grieved to the point of slashing themselves with razors to cry tears of blood.

When I had asked why he lived here like this he said"You know that my brother is a crime lord.If I had wanted I could terrorize this city.None would dare to do anything." and closed his eyes"Atoms can be broken down for energy or you can build atoms from energy.In the same way I can make a palace or a prison.I thought a prison was boring and easy,why not make a palace instead?"he heartily laughed.I truly admired him from bottom of my heart.

Then the invasion happened and those elite groups fled Earth.Aliens rushed to Earth directly and conquered it,along with the rest of planets in their path.Then we just stayed.Strengthening the bastion of our invasion.In response to alien threat humanity formed Alliance of Mankind.Since they lost all most of their money some old leaders were overthrown,some new leaders came to power.Then they began a campaign under name of retaking Earth and anti-alien propaganda.Just cliche stuff really.

Before I died I got my hands on one of their history books.My name was so vilified that it became synonymous with betrayal,evil,of the devil.They even had my quotes!Since out of all those former humans,I was never configured.They taught that when you are captured,they will brainwash you and then your personality would be destroyed.Thus all were encouraged to commit suicide when capture was imminent.By the way we call such people recycled.There was nothing in their head that was worth saving.It was not our fault that they were complete assholes!

They fought desperately and valiantly.Our objective was to capture systems in its entirety.Including its people.Even though I defeated them they fought back,unyielding.They really forced me to get serious.I had to resort to using my expertise which is biology.Casualties numbered billions.Those who survived killed themselves anyway.Truth is I even liked it.The feeling of squashing their fragile lives in my hands,I loved it.But this was a huge failure for me.I failed the objective.That was all I thought at the time.

I never thought I failed even worse than before.I never thought I had betrayed even myself.I admired Father Xalus,I admired the teacher.They would both spit on me if they saw me back then.WHAT HAVE I DONE?I screamed.It was easy for me to withdraw.I could escape,I did not have a single casualty and it was not like this was a true expedition.More like an expedition to test the waters.A true expedition would not be led by me.I did not have any expertise and could not capture mos of them alive.Even I understood that.I never truly had any reason to kill them at all.I did it because I could and I liked it.My greatest failure.I had failed.I had not failed the objective.I had failed myself.

A boy too bright,too knowledgeable for his own good.Who had convinced himself there was enough death and suffering.Who had resolved to solve them.Who hated the empty eyes of people he always looked every day.Who had wanted to kill every last one of those bastards who indulged themselves in sin at the expense of others.Who wanted to break the world,which tried to break him."When did he faded away?"I mumbled to myself while lowering my head in shame.

I turned my ship around and escaped into a distant world.I could not face what I have done.Some years have passed.When I had finally found peace with what I have done and was ready to meet teacher,I died.Yes,I fucking died...In the end it did not matter at all.OH!SHIT HERE IT COMES!

                                                           [A recap from prologue to current]

Phew!That was some shit I never want to see again.A mirror comes before me and I enter into it.

OH MY GOD!Is that my soul palace?It looks like a mansion.It has a single entrance and many towers made of many precious things.Walls are adorned by statues.Upon the entrance is carved a single skull.In a place that looks eternal only symbol of mortality.I enter the mansion.Before me is a hall with many black mirrors.They look like someone tried to make a mirror out of iron.After a time that feels like hours I come before a mirror.My mirror.My life.I touch it and mirror shimmers I am drawn into it.Now I wake...

        You have unlocked the skills:Wisdom Lord(Sealed),Wrath Form(Sealed),Nine Swords Asura(Sealed),Sword of Dark Heaven(Sealed),Dragon King(Sealed),Amargyr(Sealed)            

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This was a long chapter and some heavy stuff.It seems our MC comes from a crapsack world!Who knew?

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