Chapter 4

Waking up the next morning was a funny thing, for one I was happy I had made a sword, summoning a sword or any type of weapon to my hands was a childhood dream come true. Also I was on fire when I woke up so there was that. It wasn't burning anything but I was till covered in fire, so I say again funny. It seems I should work on more control. Reigning in control of the wanton fire I went to the kitchen and made breakfast using magic, the appliances had not seen use in days.

Going to the living room with toast and eggs I sat down and checked the news, my morning happiness went away then, News can do that to you. Turns out more groups had appeared and not all of them were nice, as the letter from the ring stated they were pricks. They had actually enslaved a small african country already. Not cool. One upside though was that they were openly being referred to as pricks as in on the news, now that's some magic right there.

Though from what I could see on the articles and through videos they were all really weak. I mean this one guy was bragging about his speed, he barely keeps up with a car. Another guy with strength that one was pathetic. Holy shit am I just better than these guys, if so why.

Frowning I contemplated going out and doing shit to these guys, but what if they had a trump card and got the better of me? I had to make sure I was strong enough to fight them without breaking a sweat.

I pull out a few of the remaining unread books. Light, Darkness and soul. Scanning over the light and darkness books it was mostly the same as the others. Light was basically buffs and darkness curses, RPG kinda stuff. I didn't like them, to use them you had to believe in good or evil, when I tried to use them I found out something some magic have goddamn egos, they rebuffed me. Well whatever didn't need them anyways.  Soul however that was interesting.

Soul finally gave me clues on actual cultivation of power, the bigger soul the more control, this book had some riddle but was actually mostly straightforward. There was also little info in the back about soul elements, Using your soul you could make a custom element that represented you, apparently it what the old gods did to gain power they gave out their power and in return their followers cycled the power back. I would try this soon, I wanted to check out my soul first. I wanted to see how much power my soul held due to the fact that where I stored my mana.

Meditating again I delved inside myself, to see what I was truly. It took a few seconds then all feeling in my body melted away then returned by what I saw and felt was vastly different than my living room, the was mana and ki wantonly flying everywhere, was this my soul? Immediately trying to feel out the energies they came under my control. Sighing in relief I questioned myself, where did all this energy in my soul come from I hadn't seen a fraction of this when using my power before. Thinking back to the book's instructions I willed myself to veiw my soul from a birds eye and not be immersed in it. Immediately I see a sea of roiling energies. The books of mana and ki mentioned that within your core you are supposed to form different systems in your core and dantian to help manage the magic and ki, would I have to do the same in my soul due to the fact that's where I housed my power. Focusing in on my soul bringing it stability I begin forming my systems.

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I would form all my systems in a fairly simple way, I would create mini worlds of the element itself being feed by the mana and ki around it.

Starting with fire I create a planet of fire, fire was solid and liquid i was fire it was power. There were river and mountains all of bursting fire.

Water followed next, fast flowing river and even the oceans themselves all had the intensity of water, the ice mountain held fortitude and the storms of ice took all life.

Earth was earth, it held nature and strength, it was indomitable in its existence and fleeting in its life.

Air was a planet of hurricanes, lightning and thunder, It was swift and powerful it made its way when there was none.

At the core of each of these planets lay the core elements, my soul elements. Fire that could be any fire, earth that encompassed all, air that was dark and stormy and water that was cold and unforgiving.

I then realised I had created 4 soul elements that would grow with me, I would learn later the impact those 4 could make. I then thought why stop there and grabbed the very essence of my soul.

Pouring mana and ki into the essence the mana and ki adapted and birthed from this fusion was my own personal power and magic. It was like a plasmatic lightning. It shine celestial blue and silver often solid then misty, all with lightning flashing through it. It formed like a sun and the four element planets rotated around it as if recognizing the superior existence.

After doing all this each of the planets and the sun let out a blast of power that invigorates me and fills me with power. I exit my soul to explore the effects this has on me.

Opening my eyes back in my apartment I felt more power at my beck and call then ever before each of the four elements were at call, fire curled around my arm like a snake, I formed ice spears beside me, I felt the earth and I knew I could use it. Their parted and worked for me. Above all my soul element was anything I wanted it to be, One function I gave it immediately was flight. Coating my body with a thin layer of blue silver plasma like energy I raised myself off the ground. I could control myself easily, flying was like riding a bike. It was differnt from what I was trying do with the other magics jury rigging them to fly, this part of my magic was made for this purpose and it was good too.

Planning to go out and try out my new powers I check the new before hand. Im lucky I did because the first monster had just appeared. It was a gorilla, well it used to be. This thing was the size of a small house, bulging muscles hide underneath its thick hide and its eyes were bloodshot. It was in africa, coincidentally the same small african nation that had been taken over by one of the awakened groups. They were trying to fight it but it was pitiful, it straight up ignored them. On another live interview most of the other groups were saying they were insufficient to battle it, wow. I think I know where i'm flying to.