I wouldn’t give up this moment to talk to someone who actually knew what was going on, even while we were walking I needed to know what exactly was going on.

“Who am I,” I asked, the question ringed in my head as long as I could remember. The need to know myself was of high importance so of course I would ask for it.

“You ask unimportant questions, child,” he stopped and turned back at me. He loomed over me by at least 2 heads and crouched down to my level “why do you not ask of what I am, or what you are,” I had not expected this response but it immediately felt as if it was the answer to my question but I wouldn’t let this ‘Grand being’ tell what I can and cannot ask.

“I asked you quite an important question, it is what makes me, does it not?” I asked in an even more questioning tone. He looked at me with an intensity in his eyes that made me want to hide from his gaze. I took a step back, then I heard a familiar sound. The space around us vibrated as he gave a loud laugh.

“Child, you are too amusing,” he took a few stops to laugh in his sentence. “Very well child, i will give you what information i can but we must walk, now follow.”

We began walking again, I hadn't realized how frozen I was when he had laughed, “you wanted to know ‘Who’ but I cannot answer that question, for I do not know it.” He paused in his words, it seemed like he was trying to find the words to say. “You are a being of old as you heard from me earlier, a being that had lived before the works of the realms were merged together violently, they had gave way the plane we exist in currently,” he once again took his time to figure out what he would say but even as he was, we were walking in a direction that was indistinguishable.

“The realms used to live away from each other and had no correlation even the highest levels of magic had a hard time traversing these lands,” the moment he said ‘Magic’ something had clicked in my brain something that i felt as a myth not real and yet everything around me didn't feel real.

“You were lost somewhere in the process of you soul being transferred to a higher state after death and were trapped in the land between, such realms,” the being looked longingly forward as he spoke up once more “these magics have shackled me to one purpose and that is to guide you before you lose yourself and become a ‘fiend of the void’ ultimately disrupting you to a point of no return but it seems that your soul is so old that it has been favored by magic itself, mana flows with you not within you, it is quite a sight, child,”

“What is this magic you speak of be- Grand being,” I said a little apprehensive as he seemed to almost trip over the nothingness of the void as he turned back to me as we walked.

“You mean to tell me you do not know? Of the magics that make up everything in the realms, this very fabric of reality is in coexistence with magic, and you mean to tell me you haven't even looked at your status?” The grand being sat there flabbergasted at my response. He looked at me expectantly

“Status?” I asked hoping to gain insight on something I knew little to none about. The being had come to a full stop at this point looked forward again and began walking saying one thing

“Look within, child, that is who you are.” He seemed to be lost in thought so I began to focus on myself peering into what I was. And then I was overcome with an overlay of so many things.

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Status: ———

Race: Child of void

Subspecies: Olden Manaborn lvl LOST

General Skills:

[inspect] lvl 1

[Peer Space] lvl 17

[Void Presence] lvl 2nd 8

[Prevalent] lvl 3

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[General Sense Resistance] lvl 11

Secondary General skills

(Temporary) [Void Walk] lvl 10 (maxed)

(Temporary) [Voice of Void] lvl 10 (maxed)

Class: none

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It was hard to comprehend what had filled my mind and vision but it was almost natural. A talent I had dormant within me finally arose, hard to look at. I sat there taking it all in as I walked with the being as I murmured to myself with my newfound knowledge. but that was not it, i had found a way to look into the general skills I had.

[Peer Space]: to know the very fundamentals as the lowest of levels is a feat one that garners respect, You are now able to freely peer into the space around you and partially sense disturbances in the realms if only slightly

[Void Presence]: you have lived and traveled in the void, whether it was against your will or not. you have come to be able to live in the void itself becoming masked in it and shielded by it against any attacks or ill will.

2nd tier: you leak void as you have become embodied by it. giving you minor control of how it behaves on you but it still lives on you and not to your will as if it has latched itself to you.

[Prevalent]: you have been through extremely strenuous and excruciating experiences and lived to tell the tale. you gain a resistance to damage done to the mind and body through strenuous experiences. if you are to ever experience them again.

[General Sense Resistance]: you have come into contact with a force working against your senses, whether it was masking senses or over overwhelming them you have fought through it and have sensed despite Magics’ working against. Your mind and body gain a resistance against such attacks.

I took a second to take in all of the information that I had just gained access to. Or did I always have access to this? We continued on the trail. I check through my status carefully. This was who I was. Was it? I just couldn’t believe it, I expected there to be an autobiography at least. Wait no that would have to be written by me right?

“You seem to be conflicted child-“

“I'm not a child I’m 22 I’ll have you know,” I yelled at him, I didn’t like being treated like a child. I don’t know where this anger came from but I have some sort of remembrance in my mind lost but lingering. “Wait? How do I know that,” we had come to a stop but the being didn’t look my way. He started laughing to himself but it eventually grew into a bellow that seemed to shake reality myself. I tried to crouch down to take cover but there was no cover in the void that surrounded me.

In that moment the void encompassing my body had moved as if it had a mind of its own and hardened stabilizing me as reality shook

‘Ting’ The general skill [Void Presence] has leveled from being hit with violent fluctuations within the plane of void: lvl 2nd 8 to lvl 2nd 10

It looked as if the ‘Grand being’ was throwing a fit on the ground but with further inspection, he was still locked in his laughing fit rolling on the ground. At this point I really didn’t understand what was so funny about me getting angry but I waited for him to stop his laughing fit.

“Chi- you… you are quite… oblivious aren’t you?” Between him taking breaths which is very weird there’s no air here, right? He spoke to me in an amused and authoritative tone.

“What do you mean oblivious, I know almost nothing except for whatever these memories in my mind are and the fact that you find me very amusing,” I said explaining the very situation I was in in hopes of sparking something within him.

“Even after you have seen your own status you still don’t see it do you? Why don’t you use the skill called [inspect] for me,” he said as the ‘skin’ of his face began to contort into something like a smile but only to be restricted to a grin because he had no mouth.

[(ascended) ——] lvl ?????

“All I see is ‘ascended’ and a lot of question marks, I don’t get it?” I was genuinely confused about what he thought would come from this.

“Huh” he said simply “well I thought you would cower at my greatness but it seems you lack the knowledge. I’m simply a being known as a god in many different realms if not all of them.” He paused to let that sink in, my eyes had widened as I realized that I had yelled at a being that could squish if not disintegrate me in mere seconds. “Worry not, I shall heed your wish but I am conflicted on your existence. For as long as I have walked these realms I have never heard of a being that has no understanding of magic because it lives everywhere.” The being seemed to have thought about this while we weren’t talking. “That could very well mean that you were a part of the realms before they were conflicted by magic but that would make you incredibly older than even I, tell me your level if you could,” we were still walking but he turned back to me with an inquisitive stare.

“I don’t actually know, my ‘subspecies’ seems to try to have a level but all it says is ‘lost’,” I explained honestly, there was no reason for me to lie to the God but even if I had no reason to lie I still wouldn’t for the very reason that he was a god.

There was a long silence one that lasted a little too long, it had made me think that he wanted to drop the subject but he spoke up after however long it, was hard to tell time here

“That… seems impossible, I’ve heard of some humans starting at level 0 rather than 1 but to have your level ‘lost’?” He looked at me inquisitively I felt a less intense wave of what I thought to be his way inspecting me “for me your level is 1 as is most lost souls I find, only souls that have been crazed and consumed by the void such as ‘void fiends’ get to higher levels,” he began murmuring to himself at this point but I needed to learn all I could so I listened carefully “I believe that your soul is so old that even it’s structure has been has been fractured much like the land between,” at this point we were stopped and he looked up at me with a sympathetic look “I am going to have to sense into your old soul, it will take a while and it will hurt, but if I am right I believe your soul may be able to be repaired, without a sound soul you cannot be reincarnated, as I am tasked with, will you allow me to to peer into your soul,”

I sat there in silence, I didn’t necessarily hate pain but I didn’t love it either. “Please be quick, if you of all people believe I am damaged, then I have no choice but to listen,” the being got closer to me even closer than he had ever been and picked me up as I lowered myself to him.

‘Ting’ you have lost the temporary secondary General skills [Void walk] and [Voice of Void], [(ascended) Charon] lvl 5781 has revoked them, with no hard feelings,

“These will I impede my search, I am sorry but I will have to begin now, it will hurt but that is the sacrifice that happens when an ‘unbound’ skill is used,” Charon said with a deep sorrow to his voice, I had know what must be done but I was still scared, it must have been apparent on my face.

“Thank you ‘Charon’,” I said even though my voice would not reach him as I felt a slight spark within me, a connection that I knew would bring me a hellish pain.