(We’ve been traveling for ten days now and we haven’t even begun to see the end of the forest. We’ve all agreed that our first priority is to leave the forest. What’s beyond is still unknown and is surely virgin ground.I don’t plan to start kingdom building as that requires lot’s of work and it goes against my goal. I want to become a god by removing all the obstacles in my way and the very first one in the way is my father.)
Those were the thoughts of Xenados as he rode on his pet pluto. His mother has always like riding with him or maybe she like riding on pluto. Well he can’t blame her…
“Ahhh~ Pluto’s back is so soft and comfy, Xenados you can’t let pluto dirty his beautiful body!”
Those were the words of his mother, this kind of declaration from the demoness is not that weird as even the elves have gotten used to it.
In the past ten days the group of twelves people and three beast have been steamrolling their way through the forest. The didn’t make a path or knock down trees but they did knock down all the beast that came attacking them.
Xenados looked at the gigantic Ironback Demon Bear, when Xenados explained how he got his Kuro and Pluto to become so powerful the elves, his mother and even Kuma himself wanted an evolution.
But to their puppy eyes and pleading Xenados had one answer, “No”. When he answered no his mother gave up the elves sighed in regret kuma became depressed and the two beast that have evolved into legendary and mythical beast puffed their chest to show how proud they were of themselves.
But the atmosphere changed when they heard the words that followed.
“I will not make him evolve now, not yet. Pluto is based of void elemental mana and Kuro is a mixture of darkness and shadow mana if I were to evolve Kuma I want him to be of a different attribute. It may take long but I want kuma to have a different more unique element”
Hearing his words the elves eyes shone with desire, they wanted to see an amazing creature be born. They wanted to see another void or evil beast to be born in front of their eyes but hearing that Xenados wanted to do it but use a completely different attribute for Kuma’s evolution made the elves desire to help the young dhampir learn more magics.
Kuro and Pluto put down their pride as they realized that the bear, kuma would be a frightening adversary when he becomes more powerful.
They didn’t fear that he would become stronger than themselves but instead fear of the coming days where their master would take care of the common class bear. They knew that they would have equal treatment when Kuma evolves but before that their master would he allow his weak pet to be bullied?
The answer is no! The two beast understood at that moment that their master would care more for the bear than themselves so they began thinking of ways to help their master learn other attribute magics faster.
On the other hand Antonia looked at her son with a face full of smiles, of course the reason is apparent. Bearskin is comfy but when evolved, what would it feel like to lay down one's body on such a comfy surface.
Xenados felt like he really has a tragedy befall him already, the tragedy of having no normal people around him. He thought that his mother would be the normal mother but being overprotective and lax she has two contrasting personalities.
Before when they were in constant danger Antonia looked like the perfect virtuous mother to him but when they escaped the problem and they were able to relax she was like a spoiled child.
More than that she never acted like this in Sabien’s mansion so Xenados knows how much stress his mother had to endure but, he also thought.
(Isn’t this what you would call gap moe!)
His mother had two contrasting sides and they were both sides of the same coin. At this moment Xenados had a thought.
(Mom is cute- Noooooooo! I’m not a pervert who lust after their own mother!)
Thinking that he might lose his mind and become like them he looked at it in a different way.
(The elves are just respecting the strong since it’s their culture[though I’m not sure but let’s put it at that way yeah a sufficient reason] my pets are just wanting to have a go at the powerful bears evolved powers, truly the muscle brained bunch but I don’t dislike this types of comrades. Then mom… after suffering for so long she was finally able to relax and with her son being so reliable she became like so…. Uhuhmm.. This is good yeah…. This is reality.)
And with such thoughts he travelled through the forest easily, all the monsters and beast that comes their way would either be squashed by Kuma or devoured by Pluto, Kuro on the other hand would always be the support and uses his changes of evil to bind enemies.
“I forgot I haven’t checked their statuses for a while now
With that three screens appeared before Xenados…
Name: Pluto Race: Void Beast Class: Legendary Rank: E Level: 7 Unique Skills:
Name: Kuro Race: Absolute Evil Walker Class: Mythical Rank: E Level: 10 Unique Skills:
Name: Kuma Race: Ironback Demon Bear Class: Common Rank: A Level: 40 Skills:
The three beast have undoubtedly leveled up but Xenados realized something.
(The higher the class the harder it is to level up...)
THe three beast were not equal in strength and the powerup they got after leveling up was evident only Kuma, had to level up 2 no maybe 3 times more to achieve the same strength gain that the other two high class beast gained with a few level ups.
The world is fair after all so the two high class beast had a harder time to level up and increase in rank compared to Kuma but that is all in the the equality of the world.
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But if the two beast were to suddenly get stronger at the same pace as Kuma with their awesome strength gain, Xenados then would have no choice but to evolve kuma into either a void elemental beast or an evil element.
(Well anyway thanks to my previous lives knowledge, I have a pretty solid grasp on magic)
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Name: Xenados Void Age:3 Race: Dhampir Title:[Void Master][Dark Soul][Ruined Man] Strength: 69 Agility: 55 Intelligence: 120 Dexterity: 150 Mana: ------- Unique Skills:
Enhanced Senses(smell,touch,taste,hearing ,sight, vestibular,proprioception)Lv.1
Enhanced strength Lv.1
Mental Fortitude Lv.10
Pain Resistance Lv.10
Status Effect Resistance Lv.10
Mana Control Lv.5
Mana Perception Lv.7
Elemental Magic[Electric, Ice, Fire Lv.1, Water Lv.1, Earth Lv.1, Nature Lv.1, Metal Lv.1] Curses:
(There are three new skills and also my intelligence has increased so did my agility. This increase in level in just a few weeks could be considered cheating or unfair even to the geniuses but it’s actually not.)
Xenados has lived for a hundred years travelling from one world to another, sometimes living only for an hour in another world. His aim is to kill a certain person as such he will need power.
To do this he takes a suitable body and absorbs the previous owner assimilating the memories, knowledge and identity of the soul into himself.
One could say that Xenados in all the worlds he’s been through has been a thief stealing the identities of countless geniuses and individuals but everything he did, he had to.
Remembering what he’s done he looked at himself again and saw a monster, but there were words he could never forget.
“You’re not a monster, you did your best to escape the curse that has befallen you. Also take a look at all the lives that you have absorbed, see what sins you’ve actually committed, then try reevaluating yourself”
These words that echoed deep in his heart came not from a beautiful goddess or a kind god but instead the place where he always goes to. An empty space he passess through so often that he felt warmth whenever he goes through that space.
“The Void, the voices of the void”
The void, yes for countless times Xenados has passed through the pitch darkness of the void. The darkness and loneliness could suffocate even the gods. The void is the fastest road that the gods have and yet it rarely has anyone walking through.
The fact is the void is the space of origin, before anything else only the void existed, here the two gods were born, one of creation and one of destruction. The two gods used their power to make the countless worlds that are all inside the void.
Xenados remembered all the past memories he had, again the feelings of anger, regret and all sorts of negative feelings that would explode out any moment surfaced. But just as they were about to change Xenados into a mindless monster a light shone.
The light showed the countless killings that Xenados has done, yes the souls that he absorbed and assimilated with all had grievances with his targets.
From the killer of his family to the one who caused the downfall of his kingdom, the countless varying lives he had taken over all had one similarity. They wanted to take the life of Xenados’ targets.
(So am I the villain or the hero?)
He changed his way of thought but he had another question, what is a villain and what is a hero? And which is he from the two?
The voice of the void didn’t answer and Xenados knew that he had to find out himself, thousands of lives thousands of memories. The knowledge accumulated by these lives all showed it’s uses.
The souls that those came from all accepted being a part of Xenados and all their knowledge has been imprinted into their saviors soul.
Xenados knows that the knowledge of this lives are all in his soul and he has free will to use them however he desires. But little did he know that the souls he assimilated with are all floating in the void waiting for their savior, master, king and hero to call for them.
(Our only wish is to be useful to our lord)
The voice of the void then resounded once again, Xenados silently nods his head as he comes to an understanding.
(The stat of intelligence and skills relating to magic is a knowledge based power, the more one learns the stronger he becomes, experience and knowledge having both of these brings me to a stage where I can continuously increase my power in these fields but there is exceptions even here)
Xenados looks at his own three year old body and sighs.
(Magic is dependent on what one understands so it doesn’t matter if one is an old hermit or a young lad, as long as he can grasp the laws he could increase his power but when it comes to swordsmanship and the like)
Xenados looks towards the elves who are training their swords. Whenever the group takes a rest to stop the elves would prepare the foodstuff than before and after the meal they would practice their swordsmanship.
Be it by sparring or just practice swings they would devote their time and energy to practice their skills. Looking at the hard working elves Xenados had the desire to go there and ask them if he could join but…
“We don’t have training swords for kids”
“Wait for a few more years then we will help you in your sword training”
That is not the only words he would hear most of the time when he looks at the elves, no even when he thinks of trying to hold a sword…
“What do you think you're doing young man? I thought I told to never touch a sword before you’re at least ten!”
“But mo-”
“No buts young man, I will allow you to practice magic and experiment on various plants and animals but swordsmanship and other things related to close quarters combat is forbidden! But only before you reach the age of ten”
He was forbidden from learning the swordsmanship that he desires, the reason he wants to train his body already is so he could ingrain the skills of swordsmanship to his new body.
Of course his mother forbade him so he could only silently watch and be envious of the elves whose already old enough.
“I have a feeling someone is insulting me”
The oldest of the group of elves, Eliana said as a cold chill ran through Xenados’ back.
(Frightening her instincts are spot on, no maybe this is the legendary woman’s intuition?)
Shaking his head to remove the thoughts of swordsmanship from his head Xenados looked at the seed on his hand.
(Focus, supply mana, then control it to move around the seed fast forwarding it’s growth… then ensure the distribution is equal before...)
“Bloom”
With Xenados’ words the small seed grew vines and like watching a fast forwarded clip the plant grew until it became a vine on then at the very tip a flower bloomed, the flower had not a shred of shadow, dark or void element. It filled with purely the nature type mana.
The next thing Xenados did was use pull out every bit of mana from the flower to make it wilt, the wilted plant was now dry as bone. Using his control of mana he changed the movement of energy and made it focus on a single spot on the dried up flower.
Moving the air so that more oxygen would gather around the fire, being careful Xenados made the oxygen that surrounds the wilted flower to be enough to cause a yellow flame. He fears that a blue flame could very well cause a forest fire if not handled properly.
Then again he could just cut out the oxygen using magic but… he won’t take risk. The yellow flame burns the wilted flower turning it into ashes.
The ashes on the ground then were once again infused with mana to become fertilizer for the soil. The ashes turned into nourishment that made the ground grow grass.
With that Xenados ended his training, using mana to create phenomena is the only thing that a mage needs to know. That is the basic if the basics but most mages misunderstand, well that is due to them having limited knowledge about the world.
The laws of physics and other scientific concepts, this were all named as is by mortals, these laws explain how the universe works but these laws could take any kind of form, but what Xenados knows the scientific knowledge he gained far outstrips that of his very first life.
Using this and mana as a catalyst he started practicing magi, his mana pool is indeed huge but that is only if he uses shadow, dark and void magic. If he uses other magics he would expend more mana.
But unlike mages who base their knowledge from books written by archmages he used science as a basis to create the phenomena. With the support of science his magic uses less mana and also is much more versatile than the imagination type of magic that the mages who grew up in this kinds of worlds use.
(How about I create guns and the like?)
Xenados had the thought but he shakes it off as he remembers how magic works, as long as one is able to learn the concept of science and integrate the laws with magic the flying planes would instead fall and the bullets would be easily deflected.
Well bullets could also be strengthened by speeding it up or using magic to create stuff like adamantite or orichalcum but Xenados didn’t think about doing such.
The reason?
(Guns and modern weaponry are powerful when integrated with magic but… the concept of these weapons is easy to replicate. All one needs is to study the mechanisms and they could easily produce better magic based advance weaponry)
Seeing your own weapon and aces used against you, something like that is not a laughing matter. Especially that Xenados knows close to nothing about the world he currently is in.
(If magic guns were indeed invented mass production of it is something that is very likely as such, seeing that the monsters are still ruling over some places this is a sign that technology has not advanced that much… right?)
With still a heavy feeling in his chest for not being able to create guns Xenados instead thinks of ways to make spells and hasten his leveling up.
(Maybe I could even create a spell to fast forward the growth of my body… I hope...)