In the middle of a forest, a person wearing black clothes and covered by black cloak was standing. He narrowed his eyes as he looked afar. He extended his hand forward.
"[Electrical Vortex]."
Then a vortex filled with electricity appeared 200 meters away from him. The vortex with a radius of 100 meters pulled everything around it, for instance, trees, bushes, rocks, and the earth. Everything that touched it even for just a tiny part of the vortex was instantly electrified and destroyed.
Seeing the damage done for just a few seconds, the man immediately dispelled the vortex. The area where the spell was deployed was devastated, the vortex ruined the landscape and left a giant crater.
"Amazing! Now that is a pretty good outcome."
The man smiled with satisfaction.
"But that crater is going to be a problem if I don't do something about it."
He flew to the crater to see more and then landed on the edge. Then he thought of what he should do.
"Hmmm, should I move some of the dirt from its sides to at least fill the crater? That could cover it up a little, also I must cover the area with vegetation. It would be unusual and strange that there would be a gap in the forest that has no trees or something."
After that, the man ascended in to the air again and spread his arms.
"[Earth Control]."
Brown magic circles appeared on both the man's hands. After that he slowly moved his arms in and the ground moved following his movements. When he judged that it was enough, he dispelled the spell.
The [Earth Control] spell temporarily grants the caster control over the earth around him in a limited amount of soil. This was a middle tier spell, and not pretty useful in offense but, everything sometimes has its uses.
When he doubled check if it filled all corners of the crater, he cast another spell.
"[Nature's Tranquility]."
A rain of green light came out of his body spreading all over the area below him. Then plants like, trees, vines, bushes, herbs and so on grew fast and in a several seconds the trees were already as tall as before.
Seeing the vegetation was now thick and trees that grew were now sturdy and tall, he stopped the spell.
"That should do it."
He nodded while contented.
"[Teleportation]."
He cast a spell and he disappeared in an instant like he was never there at all.
What he saw next was a flowing river. He looked around to make sure if this was the place he wanted to teleport to. He looked back and saw a cabin, it looked simple, but it was well made and sturdy.
He kneeled and reached for the flowing river. His hands filled with water, he drank the fresh water from the river. The river was so clean that someone can look through the flowing water. This was an absolutely rare sight that one would be considered lucky if he could see one.
After the repeated way of drinking, he splashed a handful of water on his face to freshen his feeling. He breathed deeply, and next looked at the reflection of the water.
It has been 3 years since I started my training, but my appearance did not change at all.
He thought to himself and sighed.
He stood up and walked to the cabin. As he stepped unto a wooden part of the structure, he peered to its details. After that he opened the door to the cabin and closed it. He walked over to the nearby chair and sat on it. There was a wooden table in front of him and another chair next to the table. That said, he was the only one living in the cabin.
I think my skills are fine now. I guess I should now finish this training. Yes, I think it is now time to set my plan in motion.
He smiled in excitement.
The man sitting had black hair and blue eyes, Xyn Draven Nightfall, the embodiment of pure darkness. He leaned his back on the chair and closed his eyes.
Mother once said that I can be whatever I want to be, and she will support me always. Now, I know what I want to be and what to do.
***
Three years of hard work, learning, training, and reading. He was now able to cast 812 spells, some were spells he learned, and some were his original spells. He traveled far north from his home and then when he was now out of his country, he first landed in a small town. The way of flying he used first expends a lot of mana and he had to land every time his mana is almost depleted.
Earlier he cast a flight spell called [Fly] on himself to fly towards the crater because that way he can only expend the mana on the mana cost of the spell rather than the one that continuously drains his mana, but the only difference was the speed. Flying with his Dark Incarnation's power was faster than the spell, but he only plans to use the one from his innate magic if he's in a hurry or if he has no choice but to use it.
When he walked around the town he landed to, he noticed something. He made sure and listened carefully to the people near him and there he was now certain. He could understand what the people were saying, he was in a foreign town and in a different country so naturally, he supposedly cannot understand their language, but he can. After thinking for a time, he came to a conclusion that the language may be translated because of his Dark Incarnation's power. In addition, he discovered that he still can't read foreign writing, perhaps the translation only works on his hearing. In contrast, he decided he can no longer call it an innate gift but now he calls it "Dark Incarnation." His other form was an odd one and not normal so it cannot be called a gift.
He was happy that he could understand the people around and they in return can understand him. That makes communication easy and that means he can get information from them easily.
After leaving the town, he then went to various libraries and there he learned many new magic. He also read many books of myths, where he read about many different items and creatures that may or may not exist. Of course, some of the books' writings were unfamiliar to Xyn but luckily most books were written in English, also he had to learn some words from dead languages in order to read some books that have a few unknown writings. It's not just that, he also went to other places to learn some new magic or spells.
While he was getting stronger, he also noticed a lot of changes to himself. As said earlier, his appearance never changed since the Dark Incarnation was unlocked. He was now 21 years old but his appearance stayed as what it was 3 years ago. Of course, he earned some muscles, it was just his face that didn't change as though his time was not moving at all, and also his height didn't change but luckily, he was already satisfied with his height.
Also, his passive skill [Dark Protection] had dramatically improved over the years, now he was completely immune to low-level attacks. He confirmed it when he beat up a group of guys because they were being a group of annoying bunch. To be specific, he is immune to physical attacks magic or non-magic below the level of 70(69 and below) and range attacks magic or non-magic below the level of 90(89 and below).
He knew this because he learned a spell that can analyze and assess a skill or spell, of course, he enhanced the spell so it can read his Dark Protection skill, because without the enhancement it cannot even read any magic that's from his Dark Incarnation.
Within three years he had learned many different kinds of magic spells and summoning spells, for instance Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Holy, Necromancy, Demon Summoning, Angel Summoning, and so on. Of course, he was not satisfied so he improved some of the spells he learned. He also created original spells to have more offensive spells and for other purposes.
The spell [Nature's Tranquility] was one of his original spells, combining Holy and Nature magic. The spell [Electrical Vortex] was also one of his original spells, combining Lightning and Gravity magic. The high tier spell [Teleportation] was one of the spells he learned, he can teleport to any place he can see, seen or where he had been. Also, the [Earth Control] spell was one of the spells he learned.
In addition, there were also magic he had to learn and made himself like the magic of Necromancy, Demonic spells, Angelic spells and so on, because some of these spells are forbidden, and some cannot be found in any books. He also came up with some techniques and spells for his Dark Incarnation. In contrast, most summoning spells he could cast were made by himself, that was because he could barely find any summoning spell to learn, and in the end, the ones he found were weak so that he could never be satisfied.
He sometimes went to uninhabited forest to unleash his new learned spells and also to exercise those. When he's done, he fixes the damages done by his spells, because people might see the aftermath and become suspicious to the forest and might send some bothersome people to take a look around.
He also noticed something different about his feelings to everything around him, or rather to living beings around him. He now seemed to look at them as though they were little animals or probably lower than animals, he could no longer feel any affinity to the people around him, but the ones he knows and has a relationship with seems to be an exemption because he could feel a little something for them, like he still cared for them.
He now seems to see the people around him as inferior beings, probably that was one of his dark form's side effects. In addition, he could no longer feel any fatigue, no matter how much he ran, move and so on, he never felt tired and Xyn was happy about it. Also, he doesn't feel hunger, thirst, and sleepiness anymore, but he still chose to eat because foods are delicious, he drinks water because it is refreshing and, he may be not able to feel sleepiness anymore, he could still sleep if he wanted to.
***
He stood up from the chair and walked to his bedroom.
When he entered the room, he smiled in satisfaction.
"I should say I did a pretty good job in making the cabin."
He sat on the bed and bounced on it. He was trying to feel the softness of the bed.
"This bed really is amazing! Creation magic is the best!"
He used his improved version of [Create Item] to create the cabin and everything inside it, he called the original spell he created as the [Ultimate Creation]. Depends on the item created by the spell [Create Item], some are only temporary and will only stay into existence if the caster is wielding, using or wearing it, and some are permanent but that is limited to small things like sugar, salt and more.
However, the spell [Ultimate Creation] can make things stay permanently and the item can be enchanted and make it into a magic item. He could easily create gold, silver, diamond, emerald, swords, daggers, armor, life forms and everything he could imagine, but the spell was not omnipotent because there were some that he could not create, and also there were some things that he would need to understand how something works, for instance if one wants to create a device, he would need to understand or at least familiarize how the mechanisms work. So creating something complex would be difficult, but Xyn studied a lot already so mostly it's going to be easy on him.
He lied down on the bed, rested his head on the soft pillow and closed his eyes.
Tomorrow, I will begin.
He wanted to sleep because he doesn't want to stay awake the whole night just to wait until morning.
Then for a few minutes, he fell asleep.