It really is shocking. What is it you ask? Well then that would be the fact that I reincarnated. There were a lot of controversies on the life after death. There were also many organizations, communities and religions that fought literally and figuratively on the topic of reincarnation.
Well anyway I have been reincarnated and not in the same way as in those fanfictions and isekai works where the MC experiences the childbirth, baby training, genius works of speaking early, walking early and whatnot. A man's imagination can reach anywhere and shudder even when I think about those events in the works thinking what it would be like if I experienced those things. Anyway, I did not meet any GOD, Celestial Clerk or anything. I did not gain any special quirks, abilities, cheats and the world I reincarnated is not even any of the works of my previous world which I would have wanted to be in.
I am born in a brand-new world, in the sense a world which is not known in any fictional works of Earth. I don't know the name of the world or to say I did not try to find out. That is not because I am not interested, but the fact that I regained my memories recently, strictly speaking, that is today. So, before I tell you how I regained my memories, I will tell you a little about my background.
My name or rather the personality or rather me… aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHhh I don't know. Sorry for the little outburst. I am still shocked and not in my right mind. Okay let's continue. My name or rather the name given to me is Alabert Azure. That right folks, you read it right. My last name really is 'Azure'. Which is literally a color name. My family is one of the four dominant hegemons of the world. Just like the last boss hegemon clans of CN novels. Yes, I am a young master of such a clan and due to the concept of strong power, bloodline and such shit, the potency of human reproduction decreases leading to me being the lone child of my parents who are centuries older than me, so have I heard. However, I don't know or even was told why our clan name was 'Azure'.
Anyway, that being the case, I don't have any competitors for the patriarch seat of my clan. This world runs on mana and is used to perform extraordinary feats. A literal fantasy world of many people. Its not like everyone who has is powerful and can do whatever he wants. This world has rules and regulations on how the power works. There is a ladder growth system by using which a person can cultivate his energy to higher levels while storing his mana in a special dimension called NATAL WORLD after his eight birthday. This natal world is just like Dantian in CN novels but, just that in this dimension, the mana is in the condensed form or so have I heard. All these inconsistencies in the information is due to lack of experience on my part.
To say the truth, today was the day when I was going to unlock my natal world and gain access to cultivation. This doesn't mean that if a person dies not open his natal world, he cannot use his mana. His ideology is completely wrong. Because, here in this world without a single speck of mana, a living being cannot survive. So, to say, a living being needs air, water, food and mana to survive. You may ask then why to waste such an important life energy. Well what can I say, form what I read, the mana is similar to the life force of a person. Infact, the energy used for daily body sustenance is called life force and the life force used in anything except than maintaining bodily functions is regarded as the 'Extra' and people use this 'Extra' to do extraordinary things by cultivating and thus to avoid confusion it is called 'Mana'.
As I was saying, today was the day I was going to open my natal world and begin my journey of cultivation. For that I had to delve within my self and get a strand of mana from by body cells and concentrate right on the area above the space of heart. There the natal world reacts to the concentration of mana present and opens. Due to the mana getting concentrated is directly form the body reserves, it is necessary for an experienced person to overview the process and take external help to replenish the body of its consumed mana.
Returning to the story, here, according to the amount of mana concentrated can be used to measure the initial capacity of the natal world. Though, it doesn't mean that the capacity of the natal world remains fixed as a person's cultivation increases, the size of the world also increases proportionally. But, if a person has large mana capacity in the beginning, while facing troubles in the initial stages, the advantages he can have in the later stages increases by a lot. This actually does not apply to me due to me being a successor to a hegemon clan and I can literally jump stages in cultivations in the beginning and then later consolidate my realm.
Thus, I just had to gain control on the strand of mana and concentrate the mana on the right spot which will further attract the mana in my body on the spot and thus the gaining increase in the volume of mana being concentrated which leads to the opening of the natal world. But here is where everything went wrong. I started the process under the guidance of my parents who made time for me despite their busy schedule. Everything was fine form the beginning and I started to concentrate my mana. The room where I was opening my world was encrypted with arrays which help in replenishment of mana. People also use demon core, energy core and anything which can be used during the process, but the mana form the direct sources most of the times is rough on the body organs. The array which I was seated on refines the mana to my body mana preference by using a sample of mana before the process and resonating with it.
So, as I started to concentrate mana on the location, something strange happened. At first it was okay and my mana concentration steadily improved. But the growing amount of mana didn't stop even after crossing the highest recorded mana concentrated in the top four clans of the world and I ended up opening my world with 2.5 times more than the highest record. This being a happy moment for everyone, I suddenly experienced a mental strain and immediately lost consciousness. This is when I regained my memories of the past life after being reincarnated for eight years. Thus, this confusion and shock about me and the ongoing identity crisis.