I opened my eyes and saw nothing but darkness.....I can still feel the spears on how it pierced my body, but to my surprise right now is how am I alive? or I am dead....and this place is limbo, hell or a dream?
I touched my face and body, I realized the chains are gone it seems they don't want to waste a magic item.
"The special binding chains were removed when they sent me here huh."
The only thing that comes to my mind is the
It was known in legends that it was once a beautiful place called Eden and the first kingdom of the gods were established here. No one knows about the specific but a great catastrophe appeared out of nowhere and darkness devoured this land.
I tried using magic and was surprised because its possible. I casted illumination magic but it can't light the entire area. Its maximum is only around 10 meters.
I can see holes in my body but no blood, I put my finger inside one of the holes and it feels weird I stopped thinking on why I didn't die and thought probably blessing in disguise. I casted healing magic on myself.
Now....That I survive....my goal for now is figure out on how to get out of here then revenge...
*sighs*
I looked at my trembling hands hoping everything that happened to me was just a dream...but hours passed and I finally accepted that this was reality.
"All I know and love are dead....wait a minute....since magic exist in this world....then obviously I can resurrect them....yup that's it! I'll find a way to bring them back!!! By any means....I'll bring them all back.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"First things first all I know about magic that it is omnipresent by air or like this..." I stared infront of me and began my meditation.
By absorbing the mana around I can recover to tip top shape but something is amiss, This darkness feels like.....a living form of energy. I tried absorbing mana again but this time the darkness are ones getting absorbed. I stopped immediately because of this discovery.
Feels like this place is somewhat alive....that's dangerous isn't it?, I started my meditation once again and try to absorb not mana but this darkness around me.
*kuhhhhhh*
I stopped because the darkness is actually doing what I'm doing.....It's slowly absorbing me....
"Now this explains why no trace was ever found in this place."
"Also if I don't do anything I might get devoured by this darkness."
I just remembered earlier that I managed to absorb the darkness though its dangerous this might be my only chance.
I began to sat down again and slowly focus on absorbing the darkness.
I have been absorbing mana since the day I was taught magic, Miss Freya.....she was the one who introduced me to magic. I thought magic was similar to ki that is why at first I tried but failed indeed it was similar to ki but the problem was I was only focused on meditating on my body trying to find or sense the center or flow of magic. But in the end I haven't found it. Until she came.
She told me every living creature can absorb mana the limit is there own bodies but there are ones who are gifted with immense mana since birth but those people neglected their basics and in the end they became mediocre at best but those who didn't slack off and train they became high ranking mages.
Thanks to this brief explanation I began to think my body is a mana bar, if you absorb mana beyond your body's capacity you'll explode but I was a special case. The answer was so simple but they didn't think about it.
The answer was just compressing it...Compress mana with mana thanks to this discovery of mine I absorb mana and place that mana in my heart where it is compressed, now thanks to that mana now flows within my body like blood after 20+ years my body adapted until I can absorb mana like it was nothing, all of my capabilities like strength, speed, sense and hearing was improved. But there was a flaw about this and that is Rune magic since rune magic abosrb mana and technically I became a pseudo mana incarnate that is why those chains that binded me back then worked like a charm.....I kinda regret it I taught them about Rune magic...that was my thesis during my time in magic academy that is why I got discovered.
"I remember that one of the four great sages would come and test me to become the fifth great sage....that is why those people kept calling me great sage despite not being not official yet....The sage was supposed to come to Magnolia two months later after I defeated the demon lords....."
"I wonder what was his or her reaction when they found out I was executed for the kingdom's stupid reason."
*Gruuugh*
"Damnit....The darkness does operate same as mana but it can't be compressed...Fuck..."
"Then how about I let it flow freely in my body? Master Freya told me once letting it flow freely would alter my appearance in a small degree, worst case scenario I'll gain a horn or demon crystal."
Rather than being devoured by this darkness I will devour it instead, Like before I sat down and started to meditate I absorbed the darkness and let it flow through my body.
........
I don't know how long have I been doing this....but I'm happy that I wasn't devoured by the darkness actually its doing quite great except the part where my human appearance is gone now though I'm still humanoid and I can see in the abyss now. I can see countless structures and statues resembling the gods of old.
The result on letting the dark mana flow freely in my body was.....well I gained tentacles...with mouths a lot of tentacles with mouths.... My body isn't human now it seems the darkness corrupted my body and soul...I can feel it as if my body and soul have ascended to a higher form....
The thoughts and memories of all living creatures who were absorbed by this darkness is now becoming one with me. Amidst of myriad of emotions, memories and even experiences of countless lives came together to me.
The amount of information given to me is too much and its causing me excruciating pain, No human could handle this information this massive, in order for me to carry all of these info I tried using magic infused with the abyss to create nine brains differentiating them from mortals, beasts, monsters, gods, titans, giants and demon memories etc. and slowly fusing them into my own.
"I guess I'm not human now.....or what defines a human?............Hehehehee.....I think I'm losing myself."
I began to sleep.....and dream but this time my dream wasn't empty what I saw was my own body floating absorbing the darkness. I'm sleeping or meditating? yet I can move my body? what a weird feeling.
I can see nine brains floating and expanding and its connected to my head slowly the information is being fused into me, giving info on what transpired on this forsaken place.
I saw in the memories of gods that humans were the cause of the darkness enveloping the lands, they thought that the greatest threat were the titans, giants and demons working together to bring down the gods. Thus resulted on them neglecting humans that screamed and pleaded for their help, but none of them ever cared for them.
They never think that amidst the chaos a group of humans appeared...one man wore a star shaped mask with a single eye the other one wears a octopus like mask, the others with them have different masks. I don't understand their words but later on countless cracks appeared in the sky as countless faceless demon like monsters appeared. A giant humanoid figure with an octopus head burst out from the sea, a colossal yellow figure with tentacles has appeared in the sky, also the sun was devoured by a living ball of flesh like flames, a towering abomination walks slowly but out of its body legions of three legged monsters with tentacle like appendages appeared, different monstrosities appeared amidst between the ongoing war between the gods and the united group of titans, demons and giants.
The battle between these faction ended up becoming crazy the once majestic view now ended up looking a scene from hell. Death and gore is littered everywhere. An angel who looks like a robot is fighting the yellow monster from the sky, an old man with an eyepatch is fighting the fiery ball of flesh, and lastly another old man with a fierce demeanor is fighting the humanoid octopus giant.
Actually this image is quite epic.....A man wielding a hammer accompanied by thunder and lightning riding a giant serpent and with him is a man in a green armor with horns riding a wolf, these two are heading towards the towering monstrosity.
But in the end all of these divine beings ended being cornered...The angelic figure stand side by side with the eye patched old man and the fierce looking old man. They began to chant and a giant barrier engulfed the entirety of Eden.
The man with a star shaped masked began to float and began to chant after that the sky turned dark the monstrosities that were wrecking havoc began to back down and kneeled. Slowly every living creature looks at the sky as a single floating eyeball with a large mouth the breathes darkness and mist appeared.
The three figures began to chant and slowly the entirety of Eden began to tremble and below the earth rose a humanoid figure with seven heads and nine crowns, It flew directly towards the giant eyeball the clash between the two is destroying their world and countless black like mist is slowly surrounding Eden.
Those gods, titans, giants, demons and all other beings who were once enemies are now trying to contain the darkness. The two monsters ended up dying together but Eden lost its once brilliant light.
The corpses of countless beings are now littered here in Eden....
"That was overwhelming info..."
"Feels like its too random..." I look at my body once again and saw that the darkness is slowly disappearing. I started to look at what's infront of me and its corpses....corpses of those beings that fought in the war...
I stopped absorbing the darkness and flew towards the corpses and gathered them all. I'm quite surprised that these bodies were not absorbed by the darkness.....
Corpses piling to billions from different races it seems the corpses of these beings weren't absorbed because it was tainted by blood of that giant eyeball.
I extended my tentacles until it could cover them all, and with that I cut them off and let the corpses bathe on my blood.
I don't know why I'm doing this but my instincts told me this was necessary. Slowly the corpses began to move like it was reborn from I can see the monsters that appeared in the war, all of them except for those three leader of the gods.
Countless titan and giant corpses began to stand kneeled before me and also those faceless winged demons, slowly a colossal yellow figure appeared, a ball of flames made of flesh, an giant humanoid octopus and a towering monstrosity, all of them began to kneel and bow down to me.
"Well I got my army.....I don't know why and how did I do it...."
I can absorb them with my tentacles and bring them back once again..... kinda weird feeling, feels like I'm taking a dump....alright I'll call these titans as dread titans.....and these faceless demons as night-gaunts.
"Once the darkness in the abyss disappears this will gather attention to all factions in the world.....Let see how will they react to this."
"Well then I better finish absorbing these darkness and go burn that kingdom that took everything from me to the ground....none shall be spared....."