I am off the continent in only two weeks and am uncertain how the reveal has gone but decide to steer clear of that continent for a while just to be safe, I land on this new continent after a two month travel by sword and the ice freezing the water and the small sprouts of life in the frozen dead lands is interesting but it is the energy around us that has me breathless as it is impossible for anyone below jindan to even stand in such energy much less survive.

Even I am being effected somewhat by this temperature and realize that I need to make a shelter from this cold as without it even I risk death, I find a cave that looks good enough and use the stone near me, but as I go to break the stone I need to use large amounts of force just to break off chunks and know that this will not be enough to keep the cold and wind out.

I leave hoping to find a town made by other immortals or something and as the sun sets rapidly but rarely rises the amount of time is hard to tell, but I can feel the heat leaving me at each second.

Reaching a village, I see a massive array set up around it and smoke rising from within the array that most likely wards off the penetrating cold, I walk up to this place and see guards set up all over the place and they are all at the immortal level despite some looking to only be in their mid-teens.

They see me and one comes to speak with me and I tell him I originate from far away and came here to advance myself as I have begun to stagnate due to the lack of challenges and stifling effect of the environment, smiling at the statement they ask if I am of the east or west continent and I reply I am from the south which freezes him for a second before he reacts by smiling and saying that they hadn't seen one from their in over two hundred years.

Well two hundred years to an immortal isn't that long but it seems to be considered a long time by them for no one to show up, he leads me into the camp and introduces me and where I am as people ask over the situation there and if it is really warm and super safe like they had heard.

I tell them of my stories of different beast and that although I spent a while there, I am actually from another continent to the east of their myself and this is my second time changing continents.

This seems to shock them as they ask if there is another continent, and I give an affirmative and explain that because the energy there is far weaker than even the one to their south few can even become body forging levels and reaching immortal is considered a rarity.

He asks me if I am considered a talent by my people, and I admit that by that perspective I could be but I really don't like crowds or fawning people so I keep away from any of the bigger sects and events when I can.

Questions are fired on the types of foods and how people live, I enjoy their reaction to the fact only few cultivate where I am from and although more cultivate on the southern continent not all of them do meaning that even normal children can run around outside without dying to the energy around them.

Sighs at my descriptions of the food and people but when they learn of the unfair treatment and horrific things done by demonic tribes, as they call it, they seem happier in knowing it isn't the perfect utopia it sounds like.

Knowing how long it would take them to reach the immortal state in my continent versus theirs makes their chest puffs and them challenge me to a duel, they can't even touch me as my barrier and force distribution capability is too good for them to break even the more powerful and experience ones are unable to destroy my shields though I use the more precise shield against them.

I get much respect for my martial arts and strength even if it isn't a conventional strength and many people in the village seem to use more than just swords as I have seen hammers and unique bow like contraptions in their hands.

Taking to the new things and culture like a fish in water it is simply so much more basic and easier to be in this village though the first time I saw a beast of this continent I was shocked as I could feel the core in its body meaning the beast here have cultivated to immortality as well.

I watch the kids eat the meat and the energy in their bodies grow as they process the meat in small bites while the youngest ones can only drink the blood due to the meat having to much energy, the scales are made into decorations and the horns into weapons but the core is used with the horn when making the weapons giving it almost life to the newly formed weapon in a way no newly formed weapon can on the other continents.

Entranced in this new place I learn and watch while embracing their culture by eating the meat and even hunting with them once or twice while they show me how to process the materials and make their weapons, they are completely open to me without a hint of fear or doubt that would come from the other continents people.

The all have similar features of pale skin and hair while most of their eyes are gray or blue, though I saw one person with pale purple eyes as well.

I learn here omegas are unheard of as the omega offspring can't survive such harsh conditions at birth and die to quickly, that is if they even make it to birth as many omega babes die in the womb and come out stillborn though some survive the hardships they are just as capable soldiers as the others and if one wishes to marry one they must both best them in battle and gain their approval as attempting to force them will see you thrown from a tribe.

I tell them of the less than stellar treatment of omegas elsewhere and they look horrified and disgusted at such things, I relax as they clearly have absolutely no bone of bad will in their bodies though they are far from weak, so they have the right to be this way.

Finally after learning all about their culture and being with them they talk to me of their cultivation style and how they can survive in this environment so easily comes from the unique feature of some of the creatures here that can form soul bonds with people, the bodies of the two things will merge breaking the cultivation limit of the human body and allowing them to survive such harsh conditions.

They said to head for the ice fort city even further north to them and I will find a place made for this specifically as all children in the area are transported their on their tenth year to find their permanent partner, thanking for their teachings and aid I give them the only item I can think of worth to them a array book specially made by me and they love it.

Smiling and waving to me as I leave, I set off from the tribe to the so-called ice fort to find my cultivation partner, I wonder if they will be a pacifist and protector like me or aggressive to counter my passive personality.

Trekking through the snow and over many frozen rivers I encounter two beasts in my journey, but I leave them be and they me as we pass each other without a single hint of aggressiveness, I smile at the creature a wooly large four-legged beast with a limb attached to its face and two large tusks on it.

I find the fort as the sun rises for the first time in a while and it glitters like a beautiful lake when the sun is rising, the glistening of the ice and sounds of water from the frozen water below.

Approaching the large place built of ice and stone I can tell why it is called a fortress aa even I am uncertain if I could withstand the same type of attacks that ahs left the scrapes on this wall that even after the thing that left them leaving or dying has energy still deeply imbedded.

As I approach the gates open for me and a guard comes to see the strange new visitor, my dark brown hair and eyes along with tanned skin are off for this place but it doesn't seem to surprise the man.

Entering behind the man I am led to a large place made of pure stone and ice acting like glass with some of the ice formed with colored water as when they froze, they made colored ice, the picture drawn out of it is a white wolf and its cub resting in the sun in a place that looks like a forest.

The man tells me to wait, and I do, then a woman enters and tells me to follow her to the testing room to find my partner.

I freeze as I had not said I am here for the partner but they seemed to already know this is what I am after, I ask her how she knew and she says that is what most foreigners came for and she can tell I didn't have one with the way I struggled to stand the cold outside and the feel of my energy.

Following I ask after the image and where they got it, why a forest, what type of creature was the wolf in the image as it clearly isn't a normal one but she simply ignores my inquires and keeps walking as I follow her into a new location with a massive array carved into the floor and enough energy here to nearly have me gasping, I freeze at the sight before my in awe at the sheer magnitude of brilliance an raw power this array had as it seemed to gather the energy on it's own without needing one to activate and feed it energy every now and then as all the energy in it was natural energy.

I stare at it but the woman tells me to go to the center of the array and stay still, I do as told and feel a sense of being squeezed before disappearing from there and appearing in place filled with trees and the sound of running water though the energy in the area is the same from the frozen land it doesn't have the same suppression effect the icy energy does.

No, it is instead calming and lulling making me sit down and rest under the large peach tree as I simply let the sounds of nature and calm come over me, it isn't normal, and I could fight it off easily but there is no need to.

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I simply lay there without any rush as whatever I am meant to do clearly will happen on its own as the woman gave no instruction, though the man said one will make a contract with a spirit beast and merge I am unsure how that happens and so will do as feels right and for me it is to lay and relax the peace and serenity that the natural safety and comfort this place brings.

I lay there as the sun remains in a perfect locations to leave a small warmth but not to direct and the water running nearby is slow and methodical not rushing like a rapid or still like a pond, the peach tree smells sweet and the breeze brings the smell near every now and then but it isn't the tempting sweet but rather the scent of a soft treat one would get as a child.

As I enjoy the peace, I hear loud thuds get close but there is no indication of any sort of violence from the loud creature approaching me, as I wait, I see a trunk like that of the wooly creature I passed by appear to reach for a peach.

It towers over me with a light blue fur and long tusk that clearly would normally indicate a violent nature, but it is peaceful and gentle as it seemed to be mindful of my small size, I look up at it as it laid its trunk on me and offered the peach it plucked from the tree to me.

I smile at it and eat the offered fruit and feel a change as my muscles seem to become thicker and my hair on my head grew longer, I look at the now dark blue hair going to my knees and well-muscled body I know a contract has been made.

I am unsure how much the change is as I walk to the creek to see and my eyes have become a dark blue like my hair which has gained a less tamed and wilder look to it, my two canine teeth have grown to become sharp and the muscles on my body have become extremely tight and tough like an iron plate.

My muscles look like only a small increased occurred but I can feel the rapid increase in power and defense they have given me, I look at myself and find that my features are still the slightly soft slightly feminine look of before but my skin is like a pale jade but not the weak and sickly like look most have but a more unnatural and powerful like effect making one doubt that even their hardest hit can even scrape it.

I feel the same squeezing effect and appear before the same woman who sees my new features and seems shocked, she sends an alert through a talisman on her.

A more powerful woman appears with purple eyes and dark purple hair and looking at the features I now have asked me the creature I partnered with; I hesitate to tell as I have never heard anyone in the village share this and think it may be considered personal information.

I refuse to answer, and she smiles asking me how long I spent in a village before coming here, I am uncertain and answer as such.

Nodding to the woman next to her who then leaves she then takes me to the door on the other end of the room and makes me sit on the mat there, she then sits on the other one in front of me and pours me a cup of warm tea and says she is surprised I could even partner with a spirit animal.

I stop as I go for my cup and ask why.

"Most outsiders are to untrusting to let them so close and even if they are trusting or willing to let a creature close they are to violent and blood thirsty to fit them, many like you resort to spirit consumption meaning you find one you like and eat it so gain the evolution but you seem to have formed it naturally as your features and it blended as it should not your features overpowering most of theirs."

I thought of the name those like me are called in the continent south of this one, master as though they control a slave and if what she speaks of is any indication they do.

Feeling ill as the implications set in I ask how many foreigners have done it like me and she says that most fail though she had one man come through looking for a match and found his like mine not too long ago, but it was still rare as about only 1 in 1000 of the ones that come find a partner rather then a slave.

Finally she asks me to tell her my animal so she may register it for their records but no one but her and the next priest of spirit beast may see it, I tell her of the creatures features and she freezes asking me the exact shade and I tell her it was more like the sky above blue she shifts in her seat and coughs into her hand and it is clear something about my animal is strange.

"What is wrong with the sky blue one of this kind, is it something bad?" Did I somehow out myself for a bad thing, but she quickly shakes her head at this question.

"No, they are known as the sky mammoths and are an extremely gentle and protective species known to only roam in packs with their family, they even mourn their dead and will die to protect their young. It is an incredible thing to have one as a partner and it speaks highly of you as a person, but it is the fact it was a female one that chose you not a male one as usually it is only the males that leave the sanctum. Their potential is nearly uninhibited so you have no need to worry on that but well, usually only bearers can bring such creatures out and you are clearly male so."

I am an omega she means to say, I see so the female sky mammoth is a great thing, but usually female creatures only leave with other bearer like people.

I nod my consent, and she relaxes as she clearly realized from my lack of scent, I had no intention of anyone knowing about my secondary gender and sense she deals with foreigners like me she probably knows how most continents view those like me, as little more than property and a means to make children.

I leave their happy though she did tell me to tell others it was an icy blue one that I met as that is the males, she also told me their tusk can touch the ground and to say the tusk where longer if asked.

Asking about the males she tells me they are also gentle in nature though less affectionate and usually remain alone unlike the female counterparts, though they will protect the young if they come across on in danger they can have bouts of aggression if during mating time or feeling threatened but are usually a calmer creature though they do get even as they are known to hunt down people if they discover the corpse of one of their kind and can track the killer.

There are even a few cases of them killing people because they smelled the blood of one of their kind on them, but because of my melding I will smell like one and be treated as such by them.

I smile at the knowledge of unconditional acceptance to a being I don't even know because of a them simply liking me and I ask her before I left why she chose me, "The place you enter reflects you as a person and the life you want to live the spirits can see the place and if they like it enough they will come to you, she must have found so much peace with you because she melded nearly perfectly leaving little animal features while still giving you the best pieces of her."

Walking into the once frigid air that now feels like a cool breeze on me, I realize why they said they knew I was not partnered yet; I could feel the difference in the acceptance of the energy here in the continent.

I hadn't realized but that attempt to freeze wasn't just the way the energy is but rather the land itself trying to get rid of a foreign thing it viewed as potentially hostile, I wonder how this place feels to the so-called master's as they did perform an act of violence.

I walk through the blizzard and feel nothing but soft flutter of snow as it lands on me for brief moment before being swept away by the wind, it is now a soft brush of my cheek then a biting sting.

I head in the direction of the village to let them know of my success and continue my studies under them now that I have advanced enough to be a proper warrior to them, coming near I see the smoke rising and the array shining and approach in joy before freezing as the bodies lying strewn over the village stares back at me.

I rush for the hiding spots for the kids but not a single one shows anyone in them and hope begins to dwindle when finally, I open the last one in the weapons maker hut.

A little boy with gray hair and purple eyes stares at me and I collapse on my knees and hold him as relief floods me at least one survived this horrific event, I take him out and look for food telling him to stay in the weapons maker place while I head to get some for him but when I come back from the food storage he is holding the body of a little girl with wide scared purple eyes and soft grey hair.

It is clear their relations as the boy sobs and cries over the girl, I sit next to him and hold him in comfort as I let him release the grief in him.

He only calms once he is to tired to even walk and so I bring him inside a home that was made for gusts to stay in as I am sure their is no bodies in here from when I searched earlier, putting him to bed I sit the blood on the night stand next to him and leave to arrange the bodies for the fire burning meant to return them to the earth.

I decide to wait for the boy to wake before burning them as I am sure he wishes to see to the ritual himself, and when he wakes I get him to drink half the cup before he walks out to see the bodies arranged in a show of respect with a hunted fur on each of them and their tooth jewelry placed upon them as I remember them showing them off to me and speaking of how they will be buried with it as show of their strength.

Then the bearers have a toothed crown resting on their heads and a tooth belt if they were married, he seems shocked at how well I did the right and asks how I knew who what belonged to.

I ask him if my partner really changed me to the point he couldn't recognize me cause I certainly did him from when he bit my hand when I patted his sisters head, he froze and stares at me in shock clearly not having expected such a thing as me returning after leaving but I had because they had accepted me unconditionally and so the respect and kindness should be returned.

And if I had felt like they could become a family too me with enough time it is already too late, ignoring the pain and wailing coming from within at the bodies of what could have been pack I help the boy light the fire and sit with him as the pyre burns them to ash.

Form ash they came and as ahs they go, I wait until the boy finally can't hold in the pain and anger as he breaks down screaming, kicking, and sobbing through tears as he gasps for breath.

He collapses and falls ill making me worry as I have never heard of this, but I remain with him giving him energy and even willing fur to come to me so as to warm the boy even more to help him fight whatever is doing this to him, I feel a burst of something from the boy and he changes before my eyes.

His lower and upper teeth extend, he gains claws, and his muscles become more explosive in nature though lacking in the same defense of my own they are far tougher than before.

Holding the boy through whatever has happened I wait for him to recover enough before I rush with him towards the ice fort hoping someone there can tell me what has happened and how to help the boy, I arrive, and they see the bright sky-blue fur and the boy grasped in my arms much too young for the animal features on him.

They go to take the boy but something in me snaps and when their hands get close, I push them with my energy and warn them if they get close, I will kill them, the priestess of the temple comes out and sees me.

She approaches me but leaves the boy in my arms as she tells me to come so they can check on the child and help him through these hard times, I follow her and when she places a hand on the boy I tense but let her as although I am not close to her, she is someone I trust enough to not hurt him.

She tells me the boy underwent natural bonding and that he will be fine with some time but the fastest way for him to recover is through the blood of an omega like me to give him softer and helping energy through the transition.

I slit my wrist and feed it to him not hesitating as although his fever has fallen it is still slightly there and I want him to recover from this as soon as possible, I feed him three times in roughly estimated day and after a while he wakes once the fever has fully died down and the last of his overly animalistic features fade.

Sitting and waiting for him to respond he looks around where we are and then stares at me in shock, I realize I am releasing soothing scents for him and cough before sealing my sent but the boy lets out a small barks of distress like cub separated from its mother.

I immediately let it back out and he calms but blushes as he realizes what he did, I rub his head to assure him it doesn't bother me.

Smiling I know despite the loss the boy can recover as long as I help him.