A slim young man in his rain coat made it into his home as it rained cats and dogs. He hurriedly closed the door which shut out most of the sounds of the unrelenting rain drops.
Taking off his raincoat, he hung it on a rack just close to the door. He was now clothed in just a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Although he was quite slim, he was ripped. His muscle outlines were very much obvious and his dark toned skin made him glow.
"Brenna. I'm home", the young man rubbed his full curly hair as he placed himself on the couch. He swiped the remote from the stool beside him and turned on the TV.
"Your friend is here. He is in the bathroom", a feminine voice rang out from inside one of the rooms. She didn't sound too happy.
The young man could only smile bitterly. He had noticed that his friend was around even before entering the house. It was not hard for him to sense familiar energies even from miles away.
"I hope you didn't kill him.", he laughed. Although it sounded like a joke, part of him was actually serious. Brenna and Marcus, his friend, were completely opposite people. Marcus was a very cheerful person. He was very chatty and ridiculously optimistic. On the other hand, Brenna was introverted. She hated people and tried to avoid them as much as possible.
"Esauuuu!!! You are back!", a young man laughed as he strolled into the sitting room. He was tall and of the same physique as his friend, Esau. His brown hair was wet and he had Esau's clothes on as his were already wet thanks to the heavy downpour. Esau didn't actually mind. Marcus was his one and only true friend. They had met four years ago and since then been very tight. It was something even Esau hadn't seen coming. He always made sure to avoid forming connections with people.
Esau smiled back as he watched Marcus sit beside him.
"Why were you out in the rain?", he asked.
"My car broke down just down the street and the rain didn't look like it was going to stop anytime soon. So I ran till I got here. Fortunately, Brenna was home", Marcus stretched and yawned.
He was beginning to feel really drowsy. He sunk into the couch and made himself comfortable. Not too long after, he was already fast asleep.
Esau decided to go to the room since there was nothing fun on TV today. One of man's brilliant invention, he believed.
Making it to the room, he gently spoke.
" Adju! Show me my status". Adju was the name he had come up with for the system four thousand years ago after barely surviving death. He had come up with it after figuring out what the system does. He believed it was a kind of assistant programmed to help him grow in strength. And it had done just that until a century back when he finally reached his maximum strength as a human.
His eyes glowed green as a blue screen appeared in front of him.
Name: Esau Hunter
Age: 4025 years
Race: Human(paragon)
Level: 999(max)
[evolution required]
Strength: 100(max)[-60%]
Agility: 100(max)[-60%]
Defense: 100(max)[-60%]
Energy level: 10,000(max) [-60%]
[Ring of Avalon equipped: All physical stats are reduced by 60%]
Active abilities
Regeneration: Lv 100(max) [-60%]
The ability to regrow organs and tissues at unnatural speed.
Telekinesis: Lv 100(max)[-60%]
The ability to enforce your will against a physical body.
Flight: Lv 20(max)[-60%]
The ability to easily defy the law of gravity and soar.
Sensor: Level 20(max)[-60%]
The ability to register heat energies at a particular radius.
Fire manipulation: Level 100(max)[-60%]
The ability to create, shape and control fire.
Water manipulation: Level 100(max)[-60%]
The ability to create, shape and control water
Earth manipulation: Level 100(max)[-60%]
The ability to create, shape and control earth
Wind manipulation: Level 100(max)[-60%]
The ability to create, shape and control wind.
[Ring of Avalon equipped: All active abilities' levels are reduced by 60%]
Passive abilities
Immortality
Not bound by the passage of time
Special abilities
Endower
[click for more information]
Items equipped
[click for more information]
Esau's eyes landed upon the 'special abilities' . Honestly, that was his most valuable ability at the moment. Clicking on it, the screen flashed and changed.
Special abilities
Endower: Level 1
(no quest available)
An ability created by the high council of the gods. By granting a portion of your energy unto others, they undergo sanctification and become what this world know as Blesseds.
Blessed(s): [1/1]
Name: Brenna Hunter
Age: 20 years
Race: Human
Level: 120
Blessing: Necromancy(mutated)
[Necromancy is an ability created by death himself. Blinded by the red shade of love, he was easily convinced by his human lover to gift her with an ability that could make her travel through the realm of the underworld]
Rank:?
Abilities:?
Esau sighed as he stared at the screen. It's been twenty years since he gained this ability and yet he had not gotten any quest to upgrade it. He knew if he upgraded it, he'd be able to make more blesseds. There was a reason he wanted to upgrade it quick. Information.
That voice from four thousand years ago had told him that this blessing was also a curse. For the first few years, he had ignored the warning. Following the system's instructions, he performed quests and grew stronger. His initial goal had been to find his brother and get his revenge. He gradually unlocked his abilities as he kept looking for clues of Jacob's whereabouts but there was none. It was like he had vanished from the face of the earth . During this period Esau became well known for his might although he made sure to keep his rank a secret. He had many wives and made many kids, most of which had identical skin color as his. Soon he forgot all about revenge. It was all good until time started to show its fangs. He watched his loved ones grow old and die while he remained the same. He had thought about it before it happened but it was worse in reality. He decided to stay away from people. He became a loner and stayed in the wilderness alone. His generation grew larger as time went by but he gradually faded from their memories. For a couple of decades, he succeeded in severing connections with society but as the universe would have it, he fell in love again.
And as it was bound to happen, she died. She had been killed by bandits that had formed a large gang in the area. Blinded by rage, he went on a killing spree. He slaughtered almost a thousand of their men in one night. He was cut down severally and his blood was spilled but his curse was not easily beaten. His immortality and regeneration kept him going and his rage pushed him further.
After that event, he finally left the kingdom to start afresh but nothing changed. The cycle of losing his loved ones continued and soon made him mad. Out of nowhere, he would go on a killing spree just to calm his mind. Like they say, "humanity can only find joy in violence". After roughly two millenia, he finally found an undiscovered island. He stayed there alone for a thousand years only comforted by his system and its continuous quest. The island was finally discovered . Scared to go through his traumatizing experience again, he left his home in search for another. At first he thought of murdering the ones that had found it but he knew it could only delay and not solve his problem.
As he traveled in search of a suitable habitat, two problems surfaced. Humanity had changed and had grown dramatically since he had been away. He felt out of place and didn't even understand most of the languages and new cultures. They were now everywhere and had truly dominated the world. He was even almost conned and robbed severally by some unfortunate bastards. May their soul rest in peace.
The second problem were his abilities, he had become too powerful and would sometimes lose control. He once flooded a city accidentally just because he was a bit frustrated since he could still not find a suitable place to stay. Over four hundred thousand people were killed.
It was then he decided to find a way to seal his abilities. A part of him wondered if he could actually seal his immortality too. He'd definitely be happy with such results. For hundreds of years, he searched but was unsuccessful. He even had to slow down his leveling up. By the time he got to level 998, he got a new quest for him to find a 'Franz Ferd' and steal the 'Ring of Avalon'. The Quest explained that the ring of avalon was the key to keeping his abilities in check. It had even given him clues as to where he could find the ring.
He had immediately set out to solve the quest and level up. To him, the quest was too easy. He had effortlessly assasinated Franz Ferd, who happened to be an archduke and heir to the throne of the Hungarian empire. Such event had spiraled into a world war but an indifferent Esau had gotten his ring and it had reduced all of his abilities by 60%. He couldn't care less about what happened to society at this point. It was only unfortunate he didn't get to seal his immortality.
He was still a nomad and had to move from place to place until the year 2014. The year he had met baby Brenna. He recalled how he had stumbled on a dying baby in an alley in the middle of the night. He was bored and needed some action so he had decided to take a stroll hoping to get robbed by hoodlums. He had even taken a secluded alley just to raise the chances. Who would have known he was going to come across a dying baby?
He decided to ignore it since it was not his problem anyway. He wanted to walk past but he just couldn't. It was a baby. He couldn't just leave it. So he decided to at least go leave it in front of a random house. That way, he'd have a clear conscience.
He had walked and picked the child. It was a girl. Her body was so sickly that she looked like she could die at that moment . He was about to remove her from her dirty clothes and wrap her with his jacket when something extremely strange occurred. Immediately his hand had touched her head, he felt his energy deplete fast. He had never seen his energy drain so fast. Because of the 'ring of avalon', he only had access to forty percent of his energy and almost thirty percent was used up in an instant. It was at that moment a familiar voice rang in his head.
"You have acquired a special ability ; endower"
He was too shocked and confused to understand what was going on. He had to take the baby back home against his initial wish. On getting home, he noticed the child no longer looked as sickly as before. It was unbelievable. He had quickly checked his stats and had found details of his new special ability. After reading through and understanding, he decided to keep the child for a while. As years went by, he learned more about her abilities. She had truly become a blessed and had gained several abilities. A self healing ability. She could communicate with and control spirits of the dead, she could summon creatures from the underworld to do her bidding. She could even act as a medium between the living and the dead, and many other eerie skills.
Honestly, there was just a particular ability Esau wanted to see if she possessed. Immortality. At first, he had thought of stabbing her as a child but it was against his principles to deliberately kill children. So he had decided to teach her the way of the sword and 'accidentally' kill her during one of their sword sessions. He was desperate!
Due to absorbing Esau's energy, Brenna's was physically stronger and faster than an average human, she had easily attuned to the way of the sword. At the age of twelve, she had knocked out a perverted teacher who had tried to touch her intimately, with nothing but her little fist. Esau had been so proud of her. Although he hated to admit it to himself, he had grown to see her as his little sister. And till now, he had not been able to bring himself to perform his experiment.
He had watched her grow and till this moment had kept his fingers crossed that she'd stop growing at a point. The system never gave an upgrade quest for the 'endower' ability till this day neither did it show him any of her abilities. All he could do was wait and hope.