**DAY 4**

The world ended nearly 4 days ago, The god (who we now know are actually multiple gods) decided that they should introduce what we would call mana back into the world. That sent everything to hell. The ability to wield mana isn’t based on skill or aptitude so much as the strength of character and will a person possesses. The greater the strength of will the more powerful the manifestation of mana. Do you know who has a lot of will? Prisoners, radical terrorists, and so on. That screwed up the world more than anything. Hopefully this journal will at least teach someone about the past. It’s the year 2016 new years was a week ago. God (gods?) this is awful.

**DAY 10**

Regular animals started turning into stronger monsters, I’m hiding with my school. Rats the size of dogs with sharp bone protruding from their backs have started walking on the streets. Some of the fish in the fish tank at our school have started changing too. I was a quiet and peaceful kid so I don’t have that much will. I’m so fucked aren’t I. I’ve been collecting books from all around the school. All kinds of them textbooks, notebooks, I told one of the teachers who has a large amount of will and is really nice that we should save as many as possible. She agreed and said it was smart thinking. I’ve been scouting around collecting books for now and cataloging them since I’m not good for much else.

**DAY 30**

Some of the people have started to change to, the nice teacher I told you about suddenly got really sick. She collapsed one day during a meeting and was quarantined, when she woke up she had wings. Everyone has been calling her our saving angel, or the Valkyrie of our school. I’ve been going on scouting missions they wanted only the faster kids to go. I told them I’m weak and expendable if they need to I will throw myself at whatever comes our way. The teachers were uncomfortable but didn’t stop me after that, they know I’m right. It’s strange people have started to come to me for help. I just tell them the truth however hard it is. This is no time for games (Plus future favours are nice).

**DAY 36**

Some kids tried to rebel and get rid of the teachers, they were all locked up when the Valkyrie came and stopped them. I need to get stronger they almost killed me. I noticed something though everyone is always on edge except for me. Everyone is afraid that they are gonna turn into monsters or something, but not me. Two kids turned into what I would call an Orc, and another girl grew scales all up her body. I was the only one who treated them the same after the change so they have been bringing back any books they could find. I have a small library now and it keeps growing. People call me the Lore master, I find it funny like I have some ancient knowledge. Some other kids have changed too, a girl became a kitsune and two more grew wings not like the Valkyrie however. They look like bat wings. Three boys also grew some crowned horns around their head I refer to them as demons since then, they were also the ones that tried to rebel.

**DAY 45**

The school is being attacked by some pretty powerful people, I’m dieing. I got shot in the chest by magical fire. I don’t feel any pain. I jumped in front of it so the others could get away. They said it would be bad luck to leave the lore keeper behind, I was going to tell them their was no such thing as luck, but magic is real so I stayed quiet. The Magic is slowly eating away at my body, I can feel it. I’ve been reading some medical books, and give myself maybe ten days, some more of the people that turned into the looked down upon monsters have been collecting books for me. I appointed the lizard girl to be the next lore master. Even though the title is kind of a joke, I think she likes me. She hasn’t left my side since I’ve been in my room, it’s just a janitor's closet next to where I keep all the books. I’m going to sleep now. Her name is Kathy by the way, I’m going to tell her to keep my journal going after I die. I think she’ll like that.

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**DAY 46**

Kathy has grown a tail in the night. I told her it looks cute on her and she smiled, she handed me a book she said she found while I was asleep. It’s in a weird language no one can read she said. I told her I’ll keep it safe until the day I die. I told her I have a few weeks left, I was wrong I only have maybe 4 days not ten like I thought. I didn’t tell her though, I think maybe I’ll kill myself so she won’t be as sad. I can read the book however, it has such wonderful knowledge. How to improve your magical skill how evolution works races species of all different types of monsters. It had my name written on the inside cover in between a bunch of garbled text. I think the gods have given me a gift, I’ll pray to them before I go to sleep.

**DAY 47**

I found an interesting passage about something called a phylactery, essentially you store part of your soul and become an undead who can live forever. I’m a little worried to try it to be honest if it doesn’t work I’m going to try anyway. Kathy is changing much more now. When I woke up she was a lot more like a lizard than before, but when she saw I was awake she shifted into a human form. She got a lot stronger, and she has become close friends with all the other Meta-Humans as their being called now (the ones no one wants to be around). When people found out she could change between and how much magic she could use everyone wanted to be her friend, she turned them all down and is only staying around the other Meta-Humans and me. They all really like me and I have a line out the door of people visiting me now. I heard some of the regular humans talking and they call me the Meta-Human King. I would nearly burst out laughing if it wasn’t so hard to breathe. I asked them to take me down to the Demons in the jail cells. Kathy was a little worried of me being up. I told her she could carry me around or put me in a wheelchair, I had something I wanted to ask them. Kathy scared off the people who were sieging us and everyone was grateful, if not a little jealous. I gave her a kiss on the cheek and she blushed so much it was really cute. When we got down to the Demons I asked if they could read a certain parts of the book. They said yes to some no to others, they could only read half the stuff about the phylactery, and something that wasn’t written for me about it driving you insane. I nodded and told them I owe them a favour now, they looked at me confused but I gave them a good a smile as I could (muster). I'm going to sleep now.

**DAY 49**

I started preparing for the spell. The list of ingredients was a little tricky to get, I keep fading in and out of consciousness. My “court” collected a lot of the ingredients for me.

- 2 Demons horns (courtesy of the demon brothers)

-30 lesser souls heart (Thank you rats)

-1lb of gold (I really like Kathy)

-Wolf's bane (The horticulture club is the best)

-A human's soul (we are getting this near the end, the Meta’s caught a scout from the siege party and have hid him away)

-The last ingredient is a Valkyrie's heart

I’m a realist the weak die and the strong live, the Valkyries weakness is the people she protects, I’m going to tell her that I have a powerful hidden magical book filled with curses and evil secrets. She will eat that right up.

**DAY 49 part II**

The body of the bandit is under my bed the Valkyrie has just walked in. Ta-ta for now.