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Chapter 12 - Gaining power

Three days later, it was night time, Ren was leaning on his window, looking out at the glittering stars that sparkled in the sky like tiny glowing eyes winking at the earth.

He was muttering to himself as the cool night breeze blew by and ruffled up his dark hair.

Every now and then he would stand upright, clench his fists and swing them throughout the room, after, his eyes would sparkle as if they contained a portion of the universe and it's mysteries.

"Jane, if I absorbed the body of the dragon god, why don't I posses the power of the gods?"

Ren asked, as he looked at the veins squirming beneath his flesh like a bunch of agitated earthworms.

-You do posses the power of the gods

Replied Jane, seeing the confused look on Ren's face as he stared blankly into the stars, she laughed.

-Dumb*ss, it's just that you can't use the power just yet, think of it this way, if you pack wet clay into a pot, it'll be shaped like the pot, but if you try to put that clay into a cat figurine it won't work, you need to adjust the clay before you can pack it in.

Ren, who was looking at the stars in the sky jolted upwards as he started to understand something, but leaned back onto the window disappointed as the understanding vanished before he could grasp it.

Seeing this, Jane let out an exasperated sigh.

-Dumb*ss, it means that either you shape the dragon god's power into your form and put it in you, or you absorb the dragon gods power piece by piece as it takes your shape overtime, through hard work, or life and death situations. We have to choose the latter, one of my main functions is to hold power that my host can't handle, until they are able to handle it, so when your body meets certain conditions, I'll give you more and more of the dragon god's power, until you get what belongs to you.

Explained Jane, hearing this, Ren's disappointed look vanished as his eyes lit up with understanding. Looking at the sparkling stars in the sky and inhaling the cool night air, Ren, felt a feeling of strength that he hasn't felt in his whole life flow through him.

-Another thing, dumb*ss.

"What?"

-See those veins squirming underneath your skin?

"Yeah"

-Feel that power building in you?

"Yeah, why are you asking these questions?"

-It's because 10% of the dragon god's power is flowing through you dumb*ss.

With a smile on his face Ren jumped into the air in excitement, "Really!?"

Seeing his excitement, Jane sighed as she let out a wicked laugh.

-That ten percent is waaay more than your body can handle, if you don't hurry and train, your body will explode into a gruesome mist right here and now, the first sign is your veins squirming like they are now, as if they'll burst from your skin, then comes the pain, then after, huhuhu..

Dumbfounded, Ren was about to ask her to explain, when a pain, like a thousand knives and rivers of lava flowing through his insides, appeared.

-Hahaha! You better train dumb*ss~

Withstanding the pain as his face twisted in agony, Ren jumped out the window, and started dashing to the forest like a madman, as he shouted towards the heavens with a pained voice.

"F*CK!"

"F*CK!"

"F*CK!"

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Three hours later, in the depths of the outskirts of a dark forest, the sound of fists colliding with wood echoed outwards, disturbing the many animals hidden in the darkness.

Shua!

Shua!

In that darkness a shadow flitted back and forth, from tree to tree, as it struck it's fist onto the trees repeatedly, one after the other.

This shadow was Ren.

In a clearing, with the light of the moon falling down, Ren was hunched over trying to catch his breath, sweat mixed with blood rolled off of his skin and dripped onto the ground, leaving red flowers on the soil.

Looking at his skin, you could see the flesh on his arms torn with the bone visible, his upper body had flesh torn in huge gouges, as bone and some internal organs could be seen.

His clothes were soaked in blood..

Ren shivered, and with a pale face drenched in blood and sweat he collapsed onto the ground, and let out a muffled grunt of pain as his vision darkened slightly.

The pain he is feeling, is as if he suffered a thousand deaths, repeatedly, while each death was caused by varying forms of torture..

Seeing him suffer, Jane let out a satisfied sigh, and spoke in a worried tone.

-Looks like you made it dumb*ss, any longer and you'd be a cloud of blood scattering in the distance.

Ren didn't have even the strength to talk, he could hardly maintain consciousness as it was, he answered with a pained moan.

Seeing this Jane laughed.

-Dumb*ss, you won't die you know? When you're at the brink of death you can better adjust to the dragon god's power, right now you can't accept anymore, but when you recover I can give you the next 10% Anyways, I have the ability to jump start your heart if it stops, so you won't die that easy, hehe.

Hearing this, Ren's face showed a pained and fearful expression, as he was about to pass out he thought, 'I'm going to train my body ahead of time next time'

Then Ren welcomed the darkness as he fell asleep.

In the clearing, as the moonlight streamed from above and landed on Ren's body, his wounds started to twitch and squirm as they started to close at a visible rate, at this rate it'd only take him a few hours to recover from such severe injuries..

Morning soon arrived..