Feeling the grass on his back, ants walking on his arm, and the sun shining on his face, Leo woke up feeling his whole body aching.
As he got up, his head went blank, his eyes turned dark, his leg soft, and he fell face first on the ground.
Some time later he got up again, but this time slowly. His head still hurts, but not so badly.
Looking around he noticed he was in the same place that he found the genie. Apparently after the genie vanished, he fainted.
Going back to the shore of the island, he got on his boat and made a beeline back to the continent.
The pure morning blue of the sky matched perfectly with the one from the sea, there was not a single cloud on the sky, nor a wave in the sea, it was like he's alone on a blue world.
Putting the boat on autopilot, he sat down, closed his eyes and tried to meditate like he saw on the internet.
Focusing his entire being on each part of his body, he tried to find something different.
After some hours of useless meditation, with no results, he tried something different.
Focusing his entire being on his hand, he willed his body to make his nails grow, imagining the whole process of his cells producing keratin, making his nails grow.
Feeling a burning pain on his fingers, he opened his eyes to find a grotesque sight. The skin beneath his nails was bleeding, his nails were growing so fast that in seconds it was more then ten centimeters long.
As the burning pain got unbearable, he willed his body to stop, and it did.
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"That's so cool." He said softly with a smile.
But soon after he fell to the ground.
His stomach ached so badly that even moving was hard. He'd never felt so much hunger as now.
Dragging his body through the deck, he opened the mini fridge, grabbed the first thing he found and stuffed it into his mouth like a beggar eating his first full meal in months.
After eating almost all the food in the fridge, his stomach finally stopped asking for food.
"Ok, I'm not doing that with an empty stomach anymore."
Five days later he finally arrived on the continent.
The first thing he did was go to the closest restaurant, order dozens of food, and eat like a mad man.
After filling his stomach, he looked at his fat belly, and willed his body to destroy all the fat.
After some minutes of concentration, his belly started to ache again, but this time it was for another reason.
Rushing to the bathroom, his body started to let loose, and he almost didn't make it to the bathroom in time.
After he got out, he was 10 kilos lighter, without any fat on his body, but everyone in the restaurant looked at him like he was an attraction at the zoo.
Realizing that they must have heard the sounds Leo quickly paid his bill and flew from there faster than the devil fled from the cross.
Driving back home, he started to ponder on what he should do with his powers.
"In a couple of days I'll be going to the tower, so I need to be prepared." Thought Leo as he created a plan for his future.
It did not take long, not even a day, for the tremor of the creation of the tower to arrive at earth, and the connection to be felt by every creature on earth.
In less than five minutes all social media was taken by people only talking about this strange connection.
Creating all types of theories. The majority said it was the presence of God, and some said it was aliens.
In no time people from all around the globe were reported missing. Some vanished while driving, which caused a lot of crashes, some vanished in front of their friends eyes. There were even some moms crying that their children vanished from their arms.
Looking at the news, Leo felt a pain in his heart. Thousands of children might die because of this wish he made.
"I have to do something!" He yelled.
Wishing to go to the tower, he felt his body being enveloped in a strange light, and saw the space around him changing.
In seconds he found himself knee deep in the waters of a river, near a waterfall.
"Welcome to the Tower of Ascension, now that you've entered, you shall fight your way up the ranks of your species, to become a God. You're from the human race, a rank one life form, but with a rank two mind, so you'll be put on the second rank of the tower.
Find the thousands of nexus hidden in this floor, improve yourself and climb the ranks!" Said a voice that seemed to come from everywhere.