In a place no one has seen, alone and dark. A shard floats around in darkness like an inanimate creature not moving, but it is by no means dead.

Ripples in space are seen around the shard, the unknown energy in the darkness coming closer and flowing through the shard, giving it the energy to function.

The shard like bacteria that has been in dormant state due to insufficient energy start to function as if it has found the sufficient environment to function.

Spiritual waves start to spread around the shard as it uses its senses to feel its environment.

"humm.. where is this " the shard speak out to no one, trying to feel the environment.

It doesn't baffle him to be alone in a dark environment, but feels like this place is its home. It feels the power flowing through him and feels the same in the outside environment.

On feeling it he knows that it is not harmful but useful to him, so he does what any organism does on instinct to survive and thrive in this environment. He starts actively absorbing the surrounding energy.

He can feel the energy doing something to him, same as what water does to a shrivelled plant, making it bigger and powerful.

With time, the shard loses its initial shape and now becomes a shape most convenient to absorb the surrounding energy, a circle of translucent glass radiating spiritual energy around it.

"What do I do now" the shard ask himself he knows what it is, he is a piece of a being with only 19 years of starting memory of the being.

The being is himself, he is the being, he is a part of a great being, albeit now only a shard of him.

He knows what he has to do he has to find his way his own way as some Chinese mythology says the heavens has 3000 ways I have my own way, one which leads to heaven.

The moment he comes to the conclusion he starts to actively absorb more and more energy around him and in free time he organizes his own memory feeling his emotions in different situations controlling them using them more efficiently to drive him forward , making conclusions of situations ,the ways to handle them more efficiently in better ways the more.

He does it the more and more. He realizes he is a fool, but at the same time he also realizes he is becoming faster and smarter in thinking things through.

As time passes he realizes he is floating in some direction he does not know where, but since there is a flow either it has a way out or something is eating the energy the same way he is doing.

"It is not a bad choice to follow the flow" after several months or years he sees the end of it.

"Well looks like my both guess are correct" there it is a hole with solid darkness surrounding it. But the other end looks like a forest but albeit a little different as if it is more clarity to it as compared to the forest in his memory.

"Oh! It's because of my continuous absorbing of energy, my soul has become more powerful with spiritual vision"

"Looks my time has come" he can feel that only spiritual improvement won't make him stronger with the meagre 19 years of experience, so he decides to go out.

"Let's make a body first, I don't think a god will make one for me like the novels I used to read"

On his will the surrounding energy start to concentrate and start to condense in solid shape due to sheer volume over time he then starts to merge himself with the body extending his spiritual to all parts of body like nerves in the body.

"Well it's the most I can do don't know if it can protect me from world's corrosion on souls like all worlds does in anime" he feels his body and moves to the portal and enters it.

"Let the dice roll shall we hehe.." with it, he passes through the portal.