*BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP*
A beeping sound could be heard in a room, Aster, who had been reprimanding M.Aster of what he did, woke up and went to take a cold shower.
It was the second day at school as he wanted to learn the new things they would teach this year, while Sophie had taught him about magic and its basics, he still had to learn the rifts, the variety of powers, the system and much more.
He was excited about it, thanks to that he could learn while waiting for the alchemy books he asked Sophie.
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But still, today he felt weird, he felt a bit different, even after cheking his whole body, mind and soul he felt an emptiness inside him.
But as he thought about that, he looked at the time “oh! I have to hurry or I’ll miss the train!”
He sped up, walking to the kitchen and making himself a simple breakfast, grabbing his things and going out to school, grabbing the train. He saw the trees planted carefully on the sidewalks, the cars passing by and even some birds chirping, but even after seeing that from the train he still felt empty.
After walking a bit from the train station, he found Zale wlking by.
“oh, hi Aster, how’s your morning been?” he asked smiling at him.
“well.... it hasn’t been the greatest, but what can I say, we went from summer vacation’s to school.... man, I forgot to go to the pool! But at least autumn is starting and the heat is going away” Aster said while showing a face of regret.
“heh, you are right, I don’t like summer just because of the heat, autumm is a lot better...” while talking about that, he felt something weird from Aster, he noticed that he was acting... less energetic “hey, are you really fine?”
“of course I am! It’s just... I feel like things are a bit repetitive, that’s all. Of course it will change now that we are going to study things we haven’t seen, I feel excited about it!”
Zale looked at his face, trying to see if he was lying.... “okay I’ll accept that, but if anything is wrong remember that I’m always here”
“thanks my friend, then, do you have some mone-”
“I forgot my wallet at home”
“YOU LIAR! You aren’t helping me now!”
“oh look at the time, we should get to class or we will be late”
“hey don’t change conversati- HEY! don’t run away!” Aster saw how Zale picked up some speed as he followed behind, while he still felt weird, at least Zale made it feel more tolerable.
...
After classes, Aster went back home, today they were introduced to their teachers as they explained what will they do the first semester. At the start everything will be theory and as time passes, little by little they will start working on more important matters such as dissecting a monster, bulding a simple mana circuit with mana powered tools, learning the three types of awakeners first hand and much more.
He was feeling excited for the things he would do, but still, even after hearing all that, he still felt.... empty.
‘this is weird, what is this feeling?’ he thought to himself, as he was sitting on the chair in his room at his desk working on the homework he got ‘I’ll investigate for a bit’
Relaxing himself, he entered his mind as he searched on his deeper parts of it. But even after an hour, he didn’t find anything. Even the other ones didn’t know about it, he was the only one that felt that way.
As such, the days passed, Sophie was still working on getting those books as he kept studying, day after day he studied different things, some days he studied mana mechanisms, other days he studied the types of rifts that could appear, the classes of system awakeners, variety of power awakeners, mana types, more and more and more and more....
But the emptiness didn’t go away, after a week passed Sophie had said to him that in a few more days she would be able to get some books of advanced alchemy that should be useful to him.
He felt good after hearing that, but it didn’t change much of what was happening to him ‘I... need help’ after a week he finally decided to do an important meeting with his other wills.
...
“we can’t find anything” M.Aster said “I already searched the entire mind and I can’t find any problem that should be affecting you, no psychological effects, thoughts, nothing”
“r-really? What about my body?” Aster said, looking at FABL.
“sorry, but I couldn’t feel any difference, your heart, lungs, veins, everything is perfectly fine so I don’t know what’s happening”
“oh.... what about you, SP.Aster?” this time, he was looking at the little kid.
“the same..... as the others....”
“.....” Aster felt bad, this was the first time that he was feeling like this and even with the powers he got he.... couldn’t do anything.
“but.... there’s something.... wrong...” SP.Aster said, brightening the face of Aster “I can’t...... see..... anything....after this....”
“...uh? What do you mean?” he asked SP.Aster, but sudenly, his emptiness started to grow “AGH!!!” he gripped his chest as it started hurting, it felt like his insides were becoming nothing.
“something important.... is going.... to happen....”
Aster felt everything becoming black, the last thing he saw was FABL’s and M.Aster’s preocupied faces.
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Empty.
Everything was empty.
He remembered this place.
He had been in this place.
But this time there wasn’t a light.
Only darkness.
He still felt empty.
He looked at his body.
Surprised to still see it in the darkness.
There was light.
Light coming from him.
Light coming from the emptiness in his chest.
As he heard a voice.
The voice that sounded like noise.
The voice that did not sound human.
But he still understood it.
“take...... everything.....”
The voice pulsated in his head.
“steal...... everything.......”
The voice pulsated in his body.
“make...... everything....... yours.....”
The voice pulsated, at the same time as the flames.
Flames coming out of his body.
The same flames he saw the first time.
The same flames that gave him what he now had.
As everything returned back to normal, not feeling empty anymore.
...
Aster woke up, not in his mind, but in his room. He didn’t understand what happened, but at the same time, he knew what he had to do.
He wasn’t feeling empty anymore, but he had a new feeling, one he didn’t have before, a feeling that kept telling him to have more, to have powers, to have everything....
synchronization with obtainment has increased
updating
1%... 3%...
He was shocked “what synchronization? Why with obtainment? Why....obtainment....” in that small moment he started putting the pieces together “obtainment, to take and make things mine, it’s description alredy made it sound strong as it is also the skill that gave me all those powers, but what is this synchronization? I never heard of something like this” he asked himself as he waited, untill it was complete.
update complete
synchronization with obtainment at 5%
new information has been unlocked
more skills can be obtained
T10 Essence of Obtainment 5%
The action of getting something, the essence to obtain, the power to make everything yours.
You are my vessel, I’m your power, survive from them.
Passive - obtainment
Effects of obtainment will be relative to synchronization %
Locked
...
Aster felt a chill go all over his body “it... talked to me.... it’s..... alive”
He fell backwards to the floor from the shock, lying down he could only think what happened “survive from what? Who are them? How did it increase like that? Why.... are there only questions?”
He felt like an idiot, he thought that he had become strong, but that was a lie, with powers reaching only tier 3, how could he defend himself from a power that a tier 10 feared?
Maybe it wasn’t that obtainment feared the enemies, it feared that he was too weak for it....
As he was spiraling into a storm of thoughts, he slapped his face.
“WAKE UP! What will fear do at this moment?! I just need to become stronger!” he shouted, eliminating all fear and anxiety from his body “I’ll trust you, but when I become stronger I want answers about what’s happening to me, so wait for me” he said looking at the mirror, more specifically, at ‘obtainment’.
Right now it seemed like obtainment needed him to live, so at least he had some freedom, but he still couldn’t trust it, there was a possibilitie that it was actually a parasite. But the only thing he could do right now was getting stronger, to make everything his power.
After thinking of that, he felt a tingling sensation on his body.
T10 Essence of Obtainment 6%
“oh, so that’s how it works.... to think the same and feel the same, the more I obtain the faster I will grow” finally understanding the basics of it, he had made another mission on his mind “to obtain even more skills”.
...
Another day passed and another day to school, but this time Aster was changed, there was no more of that empty feeling as he felt like he had been reborn!
Of course, yesterday he explained to his alternate minds about what happened and started studying over it.
As he went to school and met Zale once again, even he could feel how Aster was feeling better, geting his worries out of his mind.
But the most important part of that day was after school, because now he would go somewhere he had wanted to go on mid summer ‘to the pool!’ of course, it wasn’t something that he wanted to do on a whim, he wanted to obtain at least two more skills.
As he paid with his money to enter the public pool, he took his shirt and shoes off, left them on his backpack and dived right in! Because there weren’t that many people, he could swim all he wanted.
As he swam to the bottom and in circles, he finally got two skills.
skill swim has been obtained skill dive has been obtained
T1 swim Lv1
a normal swimming technique used by the mayority of people, it makes the user swim normaly.
Movement in water +0%
T1 dive Lv1
to go deeper underwater like a normal person, while the pressure would still kill you at least you can go a bit deeper.
Pressure resistance 0%
‘uh? There are now detailed descriptions on them.... well, somewhat detailed, but it seems like it’s getting livelier than before’ he thought while maintaining his breath underwater ‘it somewhat feels like awakening a monster inside my body, I just really hope that it isn’t a parasite that will kill me when fully awakening’
As he kept thinking about things he also kept swimming, sometimes swimming on the surface of the water to breath before diving again and again.
skill training has been obtained
T1 training Lv1 used to increase the growth through effort such as the body, mind, soul..... and skills, of course. Growth +0%
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‘oh wow! Isn’t this perfect for me!? it will help me a lot like my passive effect of obtainment!.... wait, I have been training all this time, why am I getting it now?’ he questioned himself once again under the water ‘...now that I think about it, after the synchronization got updated, it told me that I could get more skills after increasing my synchronization ... then, the more I increase my synchronization the more skills I can get, making it a repetitive cycle while also increasing my growth. Yep, that’s fine with me’
After 3 hours of constant swimming and diving, the three skills finally evolved to T3.
T1 swim T2 advanced swim T3 water movement T1 dive T2 enhanced dive T3 deep dive T1 training T2 harsh training T3 suffer for growth
T3 water movement Lv1
become one with the flow of the water and swim away to freedom.
Movement in water +150%
T3 deep dive Lv1
to dive even deeper than a normal human could ever do, what, you wanna become a fish?
pressure resistance +150%
T3 suffer for growth Lv1
some say that without a bit of blood you can’t get anything in life, same as sacrificing some breaks, now keep training!
Growth +150%
As he finally got out of the water, he could only be in shock seeing his last skill ‘damn! With this my growth speed will be doubled! This is like a blessing right now that I don’t usually have that much free time’ as he was drying himself with a towel and dressed himself.
His school ended at 15:00 and he has been training for three hours, so he still got some time to train on the way home as he jumped and ran at high speeds while also disguising himself to not be recognized.
...
After reaching his house, he went to his room and started some heavy training. Like he did a month ago, he would use as many skills as possible at once, but this time while also doing homework and studying. Everything. At. Once.
While also at it, he wanted even another skill, balancing his body with one leg as the other was up in the air.
After a few minutes he got what he wanted.
skill balance has been obtained
T1 balance Lv1
to mantain your body in a equilibrium to not fall.
Equilibrium +0%
After getting this skill, he went to his desk and grabbed two books, one was an empty book that Sophie gave him to write scrolls on it while the other was his workbook from class.
He took his shirt of and locked the door from his room.
He had planned what to do:
* He would use his multiple personalities to focus on each thing.
* He would be writing two different things at once, scriptures on his scroll book and studying while doing his homework.
* He would be controling his bones to mantain the two books in place while writing.
* He would make spikes of blood and bones on his back while producing even more unique blood.
* He would be balancing himself while jumping high on one leg, while also landing precisely in circles he made with clothing on the floor.
* He would blink whenever he failed while landing to start again.
* He would also be rapidly breathing to make his body take enough energy for all that.
With just that, he would be training around 13 skills at once, but including his training skill it would make it 14. But thats not all...
* He would also be cultivating his mana, increasing the storage for his mana heart.
* He would pour mana on his mana veins to enhance them even more.
* He would be using his mana control to not leak any mana out of his room.
* He would be casting his most simple spells to not alter too much the mana on his room while training his chanting and chantless skills.
Making it 7 more skills, not counting the low grade spells he would be training. Making it a total of around 21 skills, a bit more than half of his total wills. But it still didn’t end there, he planned on using almost all of his 30 wills:
* He would be training his soul, unifying it more with his body.
* He would examine his surroundings and the effect his training would bring, using his senses to their maximum.
* He would let M.Aster archive ALL thoughts that appeared while training.
* He would be using his stealth to try to erase his presence as much as possible.
5 more in, making it 26 skills he would be training at the same time, while also mantaining his calm, making it 27.
This would be his first time training so many skills at once, preparing himself, he started his new Hellish training.
And as he started, his mind was overflowed, normally all his wills thinked of similar things thus making it easier to organize their thoughts, but the moment that almost every single one of them started doing different things the thoughts had to go in different parts of the archive, transforming itself from a linear large river into a dozens of smaller streams, each one going a different way and bumping against each other, making a mess of thoughts.
But it was the job of M.Aster and the Extra Asters left to make order.
And as the training went on, while Aster pushed through the pain, hours passed as it became night.
As he slumped to the ground, he started relaxing himself while looking at his skills.
T3 pore breathing
Lv3>4
T3 unique blood
Lv2>3
T3 knowledge keeper
Lv3>4
T3 absolute senses
Lv3>4
T3 multi-will
Lv4>5
T3 mind archival
Lv3>4
T3 suffer for growth
Lv1>3
T3 soul unification
Lv1>2
T2>T3 precise aim->mark
Lv1
T3 scripture making
Lv1>2
T3 hyper thinking
Lv2>3
T3 examination
Lv3>4
T3 super jump
Lv3>4
T3 blood control
Lv3>4
T3 body control
Lv3>4
T3 blink
Lv2>3
T2>T3 stealth->high stealth
Lv1
T3 mana veins
Lv1>2
T3 chantless/keyword incantation
Lv1>2
T3 mana heart
Lv1>2
T2 chanting (max)
Lv1>50
T2>T3 cultivation>advanced cultivation
Lv40>1
T2 lighter (max)
Lv2>50
T2 light sphere (max)
Lv1>50
T1>T3 balance>total balance
Lv1
T3 calmness
Lv2>3
New skills
T3 unique bones
Lv1
T3 unique bones Lv1
after your bones reached their limits, instead of making you taller they decided to change, making themselves stronger.
Bone enhancement +150%
T3 mark Lv1
as long as anything is in your radius, you will mark the target and hit it, be it by long range or close range.
Precision +150%
T3 high stealth Lv1
your presence will be stored on your body, unless you are touched or attract attention you will not be found.
Presence erasure +150%
T3 advanced cultivation Lv1
a higher form of cultivating energy, while it doesn’t have a direct path in the universe it can still do the job.
Stamina, health and energy regeneration +150%
T3 total balance Lv1
even if you were to be pushed 90º you still wouldn’t fall, how!?
equilibrium +150%
“good, good! Before, a T3 leveled up after two days of using it, but now I just need a few hours for it! This training skill is truly the best! Also, the magic skills reached a limit? Do they not evolve?” he pondered “well, now that I think about it, magic is a different branch of skills, it doesn’t have anything to do with the other powers, maybe I should study more about those spells and their upgrades”
After cleaning a bit the room, he went to the kitchen and made himself some dinner “I’m hungry today, I’ll make a proper dinner today!”
Going to the fridge, he pulled out a raw steak, eggs, potatoes, some powdered black pepper and cooking oil. He grabbed two pans and left them on the induction cooktop powered with magic, he spilled a few drops of oil in them and left them to heat up.
He grabbed the steak and some condiments as he seasoned it, after that he threw it on the already hot pan with oil, he grabbed the two eggs amd cracked them on the second pan to let them cook.
As the two pans were full, he started peeling the potatoes and cut them in pieces, after the steak was cooked he grabbed it with some kitchen tongs and left it in his dinner plate as he added more oil on the pan and dropped the cut potatoes in.
The eggs were ready as he served it with his steak and waited for the potatoes.
Some minutes later they were ready as he filtered the oil and served it with the eggs and steak.
“muah! A perfect dinner!”
skill cooking has been obtained
T1 cooking Lv1
A basic human skill to cook food, very useful to satiate your hunger.
Cooked food quality +0%
“and a good skill, I’ll have to help mom more often on cooking after coming home and maybe cook them some dinner”
He was thinking to himself as he tasted his food ‘mmmh, delicious’ he ate all the food in ten minutes as he got ready to clean the dishes.
skill eat has been obtained
T1 eat Lv1
A basic action used to comsume food.
Bite strenght +0%
“.... okay? I don’t think I’ll use that on a battle. Well, it will help me eating food that’s gotten hard”
As he had been interrupted by a new skill, he once again went to clean the dishes.
...
skill wash has been obtained skill digestion has been obtained
T1 wash Lv1
to clean objects that are dirty, make sure to not leave any spot unwashed.
Cleaning enhancement +0%
T1 digestion Lv1
a basic function that everyone has after eating, it lets the food become nutrients to gain energy.
Energy absortion +0%
“well, another two more skill in the bag. Now, time to get some sleep”
He went to his bedroom to change into his pajamas while thinking how much he had to train, the invasion he saw in the future would occur in a minimum of a year, if the skills doubled their maximum level until they could evolve then from T3 to T4 would be at Lv100 and if he followed his training, he would need at least a 100 day untill they evolved, then for the next tier it would double again and it would be even harder to increase “maybe it will go from a day to three or four days untill they level up, and that’s just half of my skills.... it will take some time, but I will not stop”
As he said that he went to sleep, planning more ways to train in his mind with the others.
....
Everywhere I saw, I could only see a mediaval city, I could see merchants making stalls, warriors on Iron armor and even wizards with robes.
Every time someone passed by my side they would smile at me with kindness and happines, I couldn’t see myself as there weren’t any mirrors, but it felt like I was wearing an armor.
The armor was pure white with golden strands, it exuded a noble and warm aura that made me feel energetic, as if I could climb a montain without getting tired. And as I was looking around and aat my armor, I heard a voice calling me from behind.
“Mr ****, *** you alright?” it was the voice of a woman, her words felt like static as I couldn’t fully hear her, but my heart ached after hearing her.
“yeah, *** don’t **** very good” another voice came in the same direction, this time the voice of a man, a voice that sounded too familiar but still very static.
As I tried to turn around to look at them, my head started spinning, I couldn’t see their faces as they were too blurry.
I felt like the world started spinning as everything turned completely black.
...
At 7 AM, Zale woke up.
“.... again with this dream....”
He had been getting very weird dreams since a few months ago, he didn’t know why they were suddenly appearing, but he still couldn’t understand them, every time he woke up he would forget of almost everything that happened so he couldn’t write down what ocurred in them.
But this time, he could slightly remember the silhouette of two people, a man and a woman.
“.....” he put the thought of them in the back of his mind, as he had to prepare for school.
He walked towards the kitchen, his parents nowhere to be seen as they had to leave this city for a few months, every now and then they would deposit some money to Zale so he could buy food for himself.
They were always like that, leaving him alone and to fend for himself, as he was a genius and was able to do anything he tried for the first time. Always alone, as the only genius in their dying bloodline.
He ate a simple breakfast, changed and got on his way to school. Like every day, he got to the train after a few minutes of walking, waited for his destination and got off.
He walked the last part as it took only another few minutes, but this time there was an inconvenience, as he was walking in a corner, a girl bumped against him and as she was going to fall to the floor, Zale rapidly grabbed her by putting his arm behind her and holding her “are you alright?” he said, looking in her eyes.
She was blushing a lot as she straightened up, as she mumbled while trying to apologize for bumping into him and then she went away.
It was always like that, he has been always praised by his parents by how handsome he was, as he always shined brighter than the others. But he didn’t like that, as he would always be surrounded by people, not giving him any space nor air.
He kept going as he finally reached his school.
“yo Zale! How are you doing?” Aster asked his old friend.
Aster had always been a weird nutjob even when they were children, some days being full of energy while the others not wanting to do anything and just play games, a total oposite of him who felt like he had to do better, something that had been ingrained in him since a long time.
“I’m doing well, did you do your homework?”
“of course I did! I am a new man now, I have to do better for my future!”
Zale didn’t mind that, because a few days ago he had noticed that Aster had been feeling very weird. But it seems that he shouldn’t worry about it anymore.
“let’s go, class is about to start soon” Zale said, picking up speed as Aster followed behind.
...
After classes, Zale was sitting in his room, Aster seemed to be occupied as he said he had things to do, erasing the possibility of playing some games at his house. That made him remember something, he remembered that Aster was training with swords and weapons, picking his curiosity.
He had always been good with everything he did, but he never tried picking a sword, as he got up from his desk in his, he went to the basement.
He was always told that all his family heirlooms were stored safely in the basement, in the 100 years since the apocalypse occurred, his family was the one to make great achievements, as his grandparents and great-grandparents became great awakeners on the side of people, while still not reaching the heights of the three kings. They still saved tens of thousands of people. Because of their great powers, they were in the first wave of awakeners to explore the rifts and take the relics for themselves, as there was still not a law for it.
After searching the basement, he saw a long box with dust on top of it, separated from all other relics. As he opened it, he saw a sword, it was neither thin nor thick, it was neither large nor short, it was a simple looking sword..... but that couldn’t be true “what could a simple sword be doing here, secluded from all the other relics?”
He grabbed it, tightening his grip on the handle as it was light enough to lift it with one hand. Gripping it strongly he started slashing the air, he didn’t feel any problem as he was currently in an empty space in the basement.
At the start he felt a bit uncomfortable while doing so, but after a bit of practice, the slashes came out smoothly, the more he slashed, the more he felt at peace.
Then he stoped completely on his tracks. He felt a deja vu, the way he slashed, it provoked a large pain in his head as he tried to remember about it, dropping the sword and falling unconscious to the ground as he felt his head burning.
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skills Lv-:
skill silencing
skill library
skill sealing
T10 Essence of Obtainment
6%
passive skills
T3 pore breathing
Lv4
T3 unique blood
Lv3
T3 knowledge keeper
Lv4
T3 absolute senses
Lv4
T3 multi-will
Lv5
T3 mind archival
Lv4
T3 calmness
Lv3
T3 blood footwork
Lv2
T3 blood swordsmanship
Lv2
T3 lucid dream
Lv2
T3 water movement
Lv1
T3 deep dive
Lv1
T3 suffer for growth
Lv3
T3 soul unification
Lv2
T3 mark
Lv1
T3 unique bones
Lv1
T3 total balance
Lv1
T2 evolving hammermanship
Lv10
T2 evolving bowmanship
Lv7
T2 evolving daggermanship
Lv7
T2 evolving gunmanship
Lv1
T2 evolving spearmanship
Lv1
T1 simple programming
Lv14
T1 digest
Lv1
active skills
T3 scripture making
Lv2
T3 energy rush
Lv3
T3 hyper thinking
Lv3
T3 examination
Lv4
T3 super jump
Lv4
T3 hyper speed
Lv3
T3 blood control
Lv4
T3 body control
Lv4
T3 monster roar
Lv2
T3 energy punch
Lv2
T3 energy kick
Lv2
T3 energy slash
Lv2
T3 blink
Lv3
T3 future sight
Lv2
T3 ground control
Lv2
T3 earth destroyer
Lv2
T3 wood changer
Lv2
T3 high stealth
Lv1
T2 disguise
Lv20
T2 advanced throw
Lv1
T2 steal
Lv1
T1 simple AI production
Lv1
T1 eat
Lv1
T1 wash
Lv1
T1 cooking
Lv1
Mana passive skills
T3 mana veins
Lv2
T3 chantless/keyword incantation
Lv2
T3 mana heart
Lv2
T3 advanced cultivation
Lv1
T2 chanting (max)
Lv50
Mana active skills
T4 fire spear
Lv1
T4 freeze
Lv1
T4 mud
Lv1
T3 wind shield
Lv1
T3 fireball
Lv1
T3 mana control
Lv2
T3 wind arrow
Lv1
T3 mana shield
Lv1
T3 earth shield
Lv1
T3 ice spike
Lv1
T3 mist
Lv1
T3 heal
Lv1
T3 simple mana enhance
Lv1
T3 simple sharpen
Lv1
T2 lighter (max)
Lv50
T2 light sphere (max)
Lv50