Chapter 1

Being an ordinary person with a little power and living in one of the best institutes of mankind was really bad for a person with little power. I always carried a sword and practised it till my body ached. Apparently, it was not enough to be strong. Thanks to the world or to the fact that there were not many people with strategy in the teams. I always liked the things of the past, ranging from the history of mankind from the advent of the creation of fire to telephone, how many people fought for freedom and how wonderful society of people were established. I always read the novels and stories of the past, it might be why I always come up with strange tactics and always lead my team to victory.

Cecily Capet was not anything special to my eyes. She was strong and had a strong background, but when it comes to military, she was not the strongest family or the strongest one. And being one of the tops of the strategy making decisions, having real life practise having led a few wars my position in the military was quite high. Little did these people who made a mocking of me that I was above them already and if I wanted them dead it was really easy. Though I never thought that I would have to break out of the group because of Amelia and that egocentric pedantic Cecily. Amelia was a good girl but I was not into girls, I only like women.

I was walking into my house bought and paid by myself when space door was opened in front of me. As for how do I know it was not a natural spacial gate, because I had seen many of the previous and latter types too. I wanted to resist but I was thrown into a desolate land. Behind me was grasslands and in front of me was a huge forest. I remembered the days when I searched for alternatives to be powerful, I wanted to be powerful. I always wanted to be powerful just because I wanted to experience power and nothing more. And I hated things like these.

I suddenly heard a voice.

“System activated. Host bonded to the system. Super experience system activated. Anything the host does gets rewarded with appropriate experience and can be directed to a particular skill or profession. The attributes will not be visible and will be directly promoted for every skill necessary.”

I thought I was dreaming and I checked and found out it was the same. The system had visual screen but there was nothing special except skills and an experience bar. So I decided to use it with voice activation as I was a strategic expert. I also learned that I had accumulated a lot of experience points for all the things I had done since birth. Then I thought, what if there are others with system. I had read a lot of system related novels and knows that there are different types of systems and many stories. Maybe it was nothing more than imagination or maybe there used to be others with system. As much as I know the possibility of two people with system appearing in the same world or same multiverse is very less.

“System, analyse and say how I have been here.”

“The host, the host has been bound by the ultimate experience system. The host can also learn skills without applying experience and the system will announce every time there is a breakthrough. The host to gather as much skills and training as possible is send to another world and will be send to many world’s when necessary. After a passage of 16 worlds the host will be send to the exact time when host was taken away from his world.”

I laughed out loud. I am going to be powerful. But I am even better than those foolish protagonists. I am not a fool to expose myself or pretend to be forced. I know exactly what to do. As for multiple skills they are kind of bullshit. I knew how it had to be done. Extreme hard work. I am in a different world with time frozen and I will the only King in all the worlds. I just need to make sure that I am extremely powerful. But I cannot be overly reliant on the system neither should I not use it. The method is indeed clear. Use the system to become a particular profession to the highest in all the worlds experience by halving it. The rest half for when having found something good. Also, through the worlds train another profession through sweat and blood.

I decided to train swordsmanship myself and use it as much as possible. As for the specification with system I decided to use it on wizardry. As for why wizardry, different wizards no matter whatever the world will be have to focus on particular fields be it light or dark, or be it fire or water, but the wizardry of the system provides me all the attributes and all the spells and manipulations of that particular level. It is as if I will an encyclopaedia and I will be able to do many things from combat to curing to refining of artifacts.

“System, divide the experience pool into two with one being the bank and the other being the current accumulating one. Let the other accumulating one be filled with current existing ones. Le the accumulating experience pool be always used to fill for wizardry.”

“Commands processed. Wizardry rose from apprenticeànovice, noviceàlv 1 wizard….Lord wizardàKing level wizard, king level wizardàarchwizard.”

“Congratulation on the host for being promoted to the archwizard.”

Tons of knowledge fled into the mind of the James. James smiled wryly. Power, he had it now. James’ face became sober and he turned and looked around. He decided it was time for him to grow up. A perfect plan was in his mind.

“System, classify wizardry as a hidden class. All the promotions of wizardry should only be announced when broken through a whole realm and the qualitative change is high enough to be noticed.”

“Command accepted.”

James closed his mind and turned series. His mind was driving tons of simulations a method he had come up with to help him get used to warfare. He knew he was in a new world. By observing the aura of the heaven, he knew that he could be considered one of the top powerhouses. But he did not want to be too much dependent on wizardry. A perfect plan was ready. The kings method. Power is never too much. Destruction and creation is one of the ultimate acts.

On a certain day in the world of Jerumis, a certain man was standing at the edge of the forest. He made a slight gesture and his dress turned into flames. A naked person waved his hands and his body was filled with red clothes. A sword made of red was tied at the waste, a sword seemed weak for battle but it had much more power than imagined, the power of the King. That certain man showed an expression of tranquillity and smiled. His body rose into the air and thunder and lightning arched around him. He pointed his hand and said a word, ‘kill’, the grounds rumbled and flames sprouted from the ground and the trees were burned. The whole forest covering miles were in fire and the lightings were striking from the sky on all intelligent being of the forest. King level wizardry is said to be so because it has the power to face a whole kingdom head on and the archwizard was named archwizard because he had the same power as the arch bishop of the god to destroy kingdoms with a wave of his hand.

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The burning in the ground continued and there was a slight fluctuation in the forest. James after seeing his spell was being warded against flew over and saw trees surrounding a gem and people surrounding it singing. He smiled and stood above the barrier. He smiled and stomped on the barrier at a particular joint and the barrier broke.

The elves in the barrier looked at the man in red robes in anger. They stronger one had tremendous pain while resisting the pain of fire and the anguish of seeing the weaker ones being burned. A certain elf took a bow and sacrificed her life force to light up the arrow. She looked into the sky with hatred. She said,

“Flames thrower, leave us alive and we will not count yourself guilty. Otherwise, the arrow of the goddess of life will take your life.”

She wanted to take the life of the heinous villain, but the price was her life. She knew her people could not survive without her.

James looked at the bow and the arrow that had been lit up. He had a vague idea of how powerful that thing was. He could resist it but he had to give up some energy. The artifact blessed by the goddess of life was indeed strong and he as a perfect wizard knew how to refine it and make sure it was properly usable. Even the power of space could not stop the arrow. But the power of space with the accompaniment with life magic and necromancy could stop it and the rest could be done with regeneration magic and he could barely escape alive. But the price was not equivalent to the product. He smiled.

“Sure, you must be the matriarch of elves. I am James by the way and you can call me the red robed wizard, that shall be what the people shall address me in the future, at least in this world.”

He waved his hands and the flamed regressed. The flames got extinguished and the alive beings looked into the sky and dropped to the ground. He smiled.

“System, is this world real or is it just a prototype world.”

“This world and all the other worlds being send to will be real. The only difference is that the system will not provide direct access to this world after the host has left it. If the host wants he can use different methods of the world to come here as any other being would have come.”

“Nice to know.”

James smiled with a tinge of satisfaction at the elf. She looked at the red robed wizard with caution. She asked,

“Why this atrocity. Why destroy this forest? Do you want to be condemned by the goddess of life?”

“If she was half as pretty as you I might not want to condemned by her. But I do not know her and neither am interested in her worship. As why I destroyed this forest, let me ask you a question. Will you surrender to me?”

“Never in my life.”

James smiled at the cute face of the elf. It is really dangerous to find your enemy to be cute. But that is how romances are written. He coughed a bit and said,

“I want a foothold, the forest and its life shall be sacrificed, the forbidden magic of ever protection shall be cast, my castle shall be made here. Now I think of it, the idea of using the tree of life and the saplings of growth surrounding it with the artifact, the bow of life shall be a good supplement.”

The elf’s face stiffened. She was about to shoot the arrow when a sword was pulled through her chest. The figure in the air faded and a real person appeared behind with a sword in his hand. Illusion magic, that were the last thoughts of the matriarch of the elf tribe from one of the ancient forests in the world of Jerumis. He smiled and put the sword back in the sheath. He took the bow and looked at it. It was wonderful. He put it in the inventory space. The other elves were wailing in vain. A few elves were trying to hurt him but was killed by the passive defence of the red robed wizard. He smiled and rose to the air.

James took a huge puff of air. The smell of death and fear, resentment and anger, all were there. He rose to the air and spoke in the ancient language of the existence, the deepest part than the universe and multiverse, the reason for all conscious things and unconscious things.

“As life was born it was thwarted by me unto the very earth, burned to the very crisp, their anger and resentment harvested by me, their evil towards my soul a tonic for my health, I laugh at the plight of the world as I am the harbinger of death, today’s death shall be replenished by me by life, let the world heed my prayer, shield me from gods and devils, let the world answer my prayer and built my fortress, let my castle by built with the bones and blood of the very life and decorated with the barks and leaves of dead wood, let the divinity of this artifact be converted, let the perished souls be trapped and forced to sing my praises, I am the god of this fortress, demon to everyone else, heaven and hell are decided by me here, let the world be awaked and my fortress rise.”

Magic flooded from the darkness and went to the sky, the magic swept through the ground, golden lighting started to flow through the clouds and the black and red flames started burning on the ground destroying the forest and thee sky in seconds, the fire and lightning fought, the personification of heaven and hell, runes appeared on the sky, everything disappeared, the clouds had gone and only there was blue clear sky, the ground was barren, in front of James stood a ball of light, it touched the ground and the ground trembled, a castle was born from it with boundaries on all sides extending till the ends of what the forest was suppose to be. All made of white metal and decorated with dark wood.

James smiled and went to the centre of the throne and sat down. He smiled.

“Congratulations to the host for comprehending the way of the king. The kings aura has been promoted to the great kings aura.”

James smiled and thought.

“System, are there any gods in this world.”

“The host need not be worried. All the sixteen worlds will the highest planes and has been choses such that they do not have any gods or demons. In host’s original world is one with lower-level strength, there may be gods there.”

“System define gods.’

“Beings who have comprehended the way of the world and has attached themselves to the rules of the world. Their powers may or may not fall short in different world. They can only be killed when their rule is removed or converted. Beings above gods far in the rise is the celestial king of void, being travelling and destroying multiverses, their every thoughts, turn into reality, and reality into void, only a handful have appeared in history and most have committed suicide after reaching the level.”

James smiled and touched the thrones he was on. He said without any emotion,

“Gods or demons, I shall be above all, I shall enjoy my life. Power is needed and I shall get it eventually, but I shall live my life to the fullest. I always like strategy, but used strategy to just to survive to make myself alive and climb the levels of the society, just to get what I wanted which I had forgotten over the annuls over time and hard work, now I shall use it to the fullest. Power and strategy, I shall rise to be happy.”

Lady Rosina was riding the horse and fleeing into the south. She was surrounded by a few guards and rushing into the direction of the forest. She was chased by a battalion. Lady Rosina was really sad, her home taken over, she was really desperate. She had tears filled her eyes. Why? She cried to the heavens. Suddenly the temperature rose, the thunder and lightning were hitting the ground. The forest was being burned. The battalion following stopped. Lady Rosina and her few guards stopped. She was stuck in between fire and men. The fire stopped and sky was calm. Suddenly a man rose to the sky and spoke in different words unknown to her. She understood a few words, death, blood, life. Her body was shaking in fear. The forest was lit in black flames, the sky was covered in golden lightning, the forest was cleared, the sky receded, a new wonderful castle rose. New boundaries rose and before the boundaries were a paradise, extending miles, the castle being able to be seen from afar.

The battalion commander and the army chasing her was scared and fled back. She looked onto the walls standing hundreds of meters high, rising into the sky, it was as if the house of a giant, but she knew the delicate details fit for a man. She had a firm resolution. Death or life. Victory or death, power or death. She tugged her horse and went towards the gate.