Author's note : Hello everyone and thanks for reading this chapter but I want to say that if after you read this chapter you think the mc is op well I can only say that he is op but only compared to humans, he is weak against an army of monsters. Also don't worry on the next chapter I will make a time skip after his training and a new character might come in this next chapter.... probably. Enjoy !
“So how do I modify my mana pool ?”
In the next second an old man wearing a white robe appeared before me, he had white hair, a long white beard, thick white eyebrows and a muscular body.
“First, you will have to sit cross legged in front of me.”
'Is it possible that this old man is actually the dragon ?'
“Are you.... Xavash ?”
“Indeed, I am.”
“Is it only you or the others can also turn into a human body and appear before me ?”
“Our entire race can turn into any form they understand, however this matter is not important so sit down like me.”
I sat cross legged in front of him and waited for him to explain what I have to do, I was obviously eager to gain more power.
“First, close your eyes, concentrate on your mana pool, search it in your soul, when you find it then expands all your mana around you like an armour. ”
I did what I was told to and tried to concentrate on my mana pool, one hour, two hours, three hours.... After some time passed I began to think that I did it wrong but I was told to search so I continued.
It has already been a day since I began to search but I couldn't find it, I couldn't even enter my soul.
[ Try to use magic and follow the path toward your soul, little one.]
'Use magic ? Hmm... I'll try then.'
I now concentrated on my mana and tried to create a ball of mana and it really was created, then, hundreds of blue threads flowed everywhere in my body, but all of them were from one point, it was my soul.
As I entered my soul, the darkness of before was replaced by a dark white flame, surrounded by an infinity of red lights. Before I could take a step forward, a dragon spoke to me.
[If you walk toward this white flame, all these red lights will fly toward you, if you fail to absorb all of them then you will die. After absorbing all of them, all you have to do is to sit inside the flame and use all your mana to make an armour, the more mana you have the more painful it will be.]
[When you have finished it then you will have to condense your mana into a second flame, if you fail not only you but everyone will suffer and die.]
I started to walk into the flame and a red light came toward me, as it began to touch my body, it was absorbed so I sat cross legged inside the flame and waited.
One, two, three, ten, twenty... More and more were absorbed in my body, in one hour a hundred of them were absorbed and it was getting faster and faster.
After a day, hundreds of red lights touched my body in seconds, it was all absorbed. After a week, millions of them were absorbed in my body but something began to feel painful, it was as if I was completely filled and one more thing being absorbed would make me explode.
After another week, my skin turned red and I couldn't feel my limbs any more.
[If you don't do anything, you'll die, well normally I don't have the right to help but I think I'll let you owe me one for saving your life.]
As he said that, Xavash poured a part of his power into me and my skin returned to normal and I continued to absorb those lights.
After one month all of them were absorbed so I sat cross legged and began to create an armour around me with my mana, but as I used all my mana it already began to regenerate.
“Hmm... How can I use all my mana when my regeneration of it is so strong ?”
[Continue like that, the more mana you pour for your armour, the strongest your flame will be so the strongest you can become.]
“Then I'll try....”
One day, my armour made out of mana is now dark blue and I used around 200.000 MP, at the end of the second day my armour was now purple and I used 400.000 MP, but my regeneration is increasing. At the end of the week I already used more than 3.000.000 MP and my regen is increasing by the minute, the armour is now black, it's as if it will absorb everything in seconds.
It has now been one month and no dragons talked to me but my regeneration is completely absurd now, a sphere of white mana is surrounding me and it's thanks to that that my regen is so crazy, my armour is darker than before but I can see one white light on my heart.
After two months I think I used broke through the 100.000.000.000 but I'm not sure about it. I don't know why but I have now three lights, one on my heart, one on my head and one on my hand. I'm getting excited to see how strong I can become after some training, but I'm worrying about the fact that there is no end in sight.
'Aaaah... I don't want to stay here for a hundred years or more but well what can I do in front of this power of mine ?'
Xavash's POV :
'What is this child ? First he can bind his soul to all of us, then he pours mana with no end in his armour... what is this monster ? If it's him maybe.... just maybe.... I can have my revenge on them... I have to take protect him, I'll train him harsher than I first though... I think that his armour will give birth to a flame stronger than mine, just what is this child ?'
Kayne's POV :
Six months already, I have dozens of lights on my armour now, but today something strange happened, when I closed my eyes I saw a door next to the flame and it was not a common door.
It was a gate of around one hundred meter tall, surrounded by skulls, the door was made out of something dark, there was writings engraved on it, “Those who seek the path to battle, be aware that when you open this door, your fight will never end.”
This was the first line, the second one was “Those who seek the path to absolute power, be aware that when you open this door, you will lose everything.” The next one was “Those who seek the path to revenge, be aware that when you open this door, you will be welcomed in hell.”
And the last one was “However, those who seek their own path and open this door will receive what they wish for.”
The most frightening thing was that after I finished reading those lines, two giants skeletal hands covered the top of the door and a skull as big as the hands appeared, these hands began to move and touched the door, engraving something on it, “End has come.”.
Before something bad happened I opened my eyes and decided to open this door only after six other months of training, when I'll be stronger.
Six months passed and now there are even weapons made out of mana appearing around me, an axe, a sword and a dagger. Moreover, threads of mana started leaking out from my body towards the sky but couldn't touch the crystals on the walls.
The density of mana around me is so powerful that I'm floating in the air, the mana is heavier than me and it has been around two months that my devil's right eye started to act strange, it began to absorb mana as well.
However, it doesn't matter for now since I am in front of the door, I walked toward it and put my hands on it, then I tried to open it but I couldn't.
'What's that ? I'll try to hit it with all my strength then.'
I punched it dozens of times but nothing happened, I just harmed my hands and blood flowed onto the door. When this blood touched the writings “End has come.” it began to glow red.
*Dong**Dong**Dong*
There was the sound of a bell reasoning all around me and the door opened, what was welcoming me on the other side was an infinity of souls, billions of souls, all of them screaming and trying to escape from this side, they were flying toward me.
The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
But when one soul reached me it was destroyed by the skeleton on the door and all the other souls were sucked inside once again. After that, it was my turn being sucked toward the door.
'What's going on ?! Fuck !'
I opened my eyes once again to be welcomed by the strangest thing I saw since the beginning of my training, some kind of whirlpool formed in front of me, drawing all the mana toward me.
'What the fuck is that thing ?!'
It not any more on the mere level of using my own mana to form my armour, I was absorbing all the mana in the air, all of it with no exception.
“Xavash what's that ? What's happening ?!”
[.... Human, how can I say this...? I don't know what is happening to you right now but I'm sure that you will become stronger thanks to that, only if you survive that is.]
“What ?! Why would I die ?!”
[Well you see, since you are absorbing more and more mana at such a speed, it seems that you are going to absorb our dragon's mana in a few minutes.
[And without the second flame, it will be impossible for you to survive, for a human that is, since you are something else we don't know what will happen. You are very interesting human, it sure is not boring to watch you ! Ahahahah ! Try not to die, I have hope for you.]
Dragon's POV :
[I never thought this kid would have one inside his soul.]
[It's sure is surprising to see one the hell's gate in his soul, how can this even be possible ?]
[Well having a hell's gate is something but having the death gate with the tormented souls inside is something else.]
[Well there is no point talking about it for now, because if he dies we will die, but if he survives it will become interesting.... truly interesting.]
[I don't think we have to worry about it, even if we can't help him, the door will close itself when he will be about to die.]
[Yes, if I remember correctly the death's door will open we the user use his blood and it will close only when it's satisfied. Hope it will be satisfied before he dies because if he absorbs all the dragon's mana then, his body will explode.... or not since he isn't human any more, well we'll see.]
[[[We will watch this interesting child.]]]
Kayne's POV :
'How can this be ?! Fuck ! Fuck ! Fuck ! I don't want to die now !'
As I thought of almost anything to save my life I didn't found it, in the first place I don't know what's going on so I have to keep my calm.
However, when I was thinking about that, the mana crystals turned into water and began to enter my body at a fast speed.
Two hours passed and the cave was completely filled with the white water which was absorbed by the whirlpool but my mana pool will explode if I absorb any more.
'Think ! Think ! Think !'
“That's it ! If my mana pool isn't enough to absorb all this mana then I have to make it enter my skin, blood and bones !”
I closed my eyes and tried to find my mana pool, when I found it I redirected all the mana toward my body and surprisingly it was absorbed in a few seconds, I could feel it, my body was changing with the mana it absorbed.
It seems that the more mana I make enter my body, the more he wants it.
After a few hours all this water was absorbed into my body and when I looked at my armour there was also drastic changes. On this dark armour there was now countless stars radiating my body.
“Xavash, I want to turn this armour into a flame, how can I do it ?”
[ Ahahahahahahahahah ! Sorry young human but there is no need to do it any more, by absorbing the mana into your body you already created this flame. However, you can use this armour to increase your power, make your flame absorb it like you did earlier.]
After absorbing the armour I looked at my flame and discovered that it was the same colour as my armour, it was black with an infinity of stars inside.
I stood up and tried my new strength by punching the wall and with this single punch I broke the wall into pieces.
“I got so strong in one year.... open status window !”
NameKayne AlfordPrimary ClassN/AHealth310Mana100(3200)TitlesRaging beast – Bloody murderer – Experimental Human – Without pityLevel33Experience251/1200Health Regen/Sec31Mana Regen/Sec??Strength543Agility725Wisdom10Intelligence10Stamina454Vitality31Dexterity283
“What are those insane stats ?! I'm so strong !”
[You can say that you are strong compared to a normal human but what can you do against thousands of monsters ? I have to warn you that your strength is nothing compared to most of the monsters. For example in my world you would have died in a few seconds, however it's why we will train you, we will train you to survive, not to be stronger than humans but stronger than your enemy.]
'What Xavash said is true, I can do nothing against thousands of monsters even if my stats are strong... well I think I have a long way to go.'
[First we will explain what is our mana, so dragon's mana is also called qi, it's the form of mana which is directly absorbed by your body to strengthen it but it's also the form of mana to create your own way of fighting. Qi can be used to increase your strength but also to create, for example I can use qi to create a sword or ice, it's not very useful if you don't know how to fight with it. Your level in qi is now Concentrating qi first layer, it's the first stage of those who use qi, Concentrating qi level is divided in fifteen layer after that it's master, great master, emperor, king, soul king which are all divided in three stages, low, mid and high. After reaching the peak of soul king you can ascend through divine tribulation and become an immortal, you will live without worrying about the time since you can't die by age but immortal is not the strongest however I will tell you of the other ranks later. For you it seems that even if you are at the first stage you are at least as strong as a Concentrating qi fifth layer. Now let me explain how we will train you, first you will have to meditate to absorb qi for four hours a day, then, we will all train you in our own fighting style, I will teach you the way of the sword, Warish will teach you how to fight without weapons, Sarali will teach you how to create with your qi, Terra will teach you how to defend yourself, Klirit will teach you how to control fire since it's one of the most important things in controlling qi. Qiorn will teach you how to use everything you can while fighting....hmm, Derios will teach you how to manipulate light and Azelos will teach you how to fight like an assassin, using poison and other things. So you can rest a little and we will begin.]
“O-okay...”
'It was too many informations, I don't think I will go out of this cave soon.... well I hope my parents and my sister are alive... I want to see them....'