{AN: Made a discord server with the help of my friend, here is the link:
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Non-linear.
Confusing.
Crazy.
Those are just one of the few adjectives we can use to describe a [Dragon Break]. But if I had to choose one word to describe it myself, it would be.
Painful.
Extremely Painful.
The moment the [Dragon Break] ended and all the timelines started being hammered into my head was the moment pain flooded me. Completely blinding and excruciating pain. All due to those timelines entering my mind at the same time, so much information...
In the instant, the [Dragon Break] ended I experienced too much, way too much. I fought innumerable and different enemies, I used and reused all my skills multiple times, I killed, I watch people die, I learned, I created... So much happened, that I have no doubt I am a very different person right now.
And I always like to think that even in the middle of misfortune I can find some little specks of fortune. This may be one of the most painful moments of my life, but it gave me something I was severely lacking: Experience.
Experience, was something that was sincerely holding me back a lot, I may have the cheat that is the [Sharingan], but even copying skills I still fell short a lot of times due to my lack of experience. But not anymore, now I have literally billions of different scenarios in my head.
The dragon break lasted at least five days, and I lot of things can happen in five days. trust me on this one, I would know.
And now... Now I've become something else... If before experience was a weakness of mine, something I didn't have, and clearly lacked. Now I have it in spades, now experience is one of my fortes.
Take the [Soul-Crushing Strike] for example, if my actual self were to compare the usage of the technique right now I would absolutely destroy my past self. The amount of times I use this technique, [Gungnir], [Thunder Fist Style], walking techniques is honestly staggering.
And thanks to the [Dragon Break] I have an extraordinary experience with all the skills inside of my repertoire. Yeah, that is the only thing I thought of pointing out, while I acquired an incredible amount of combat experience and skill usage experience, I am still fairly limited. I wasn't exactly simultaneously aware of those different timelines, so it means that I used the same skills, a lot. Yes, I did indeed used all my skills multiple times over, but my bread and butter were used significantly more... And all those mistakes... Man, it is really painful to know how many times your different timeline selves can make so many equal mistakes... The cringe factor almost killed me as a side effect, and I am an open JoJo fan.
Another thing, while I had gained a lot of experience with a lot of my skills, I didn't suddenly become a swordmaster that can split mountains with a wave of his sword, that is impossible no matter how I look at it. Yes, I have one of the studies and most impressive foundations with the sword you can possibly find in this world, but that is it, if I want to progress I will need to learn from a master. Meaning, that I didn't suddenly learn, new skills, abilities, or techniques, the crust of what happened is that I really just gained a lot of experience with my already existing skills, and learned a new trick or two. I am just kind of happy that my biggest weakness was taken care of.
Ah yes, I almost forgot, there are some new skills I created.
Well, there is a lot of timelines, some were bound to have a more creative course of action. Most of the new skills are [Ripple] related, it was due to everyone on the team practicing [Ripple] so usually creating a skill with the help of four other people is way easier than creating it alone, and the fact that most of them were preppy pumped up with the wonders of [Ripple] rendered some pretty cool skills.
But amongst all those skills the one who I think is the most useful is called: [Sense]. A simple skill that use the rippling proprieties of [Ripple] to detect the world around me, this skill works sort of like a sonar, a pulse of [Ripple] that ripples across the terrain giving me very superficial information about things around me, it can't compare to vision or some better detection techniques like [Haki]. But what made this new skill so good, is its room for improvement, so while it isn't strong and not even close at being that useful one day with lots of practice it can become something truly formidable. Principally due to the fact that I can easily use it with [Wave] instead of [Ripple] meaning that the skill is already better than it theoretically should be.
My first objective with [Sense] is reaching the point where I can "see" the like the Daredevil. Matt the Daredevil described that the way the sees the world is looking like "the world on fire". It's a fine objective to the star of my journey on practicing this technique. The alternative timeline I created this technique was one I became totally blind, due to some circumstances we encountered some "impossible enemies" and I had to use [Susanoo], and the consequence soon made themselves clear.
I had become blind, and oh boy, I fucking hated it. For someone with a [Sharingan] becoming blind is the worst curse you can impose on said person. It's excruciating, depreciating, depressing, I think the only worst feeling I ever felt was when my parents died. Yeah, it may sound strange but it is the truth, the [Sharingan] is something addictive principally when you know how the world is whiteout it. That timeline I was down, hard, but I had time, a lot of time to think now that I was blind. With all the time in my hands, I was able to create [Sense], and thus what would be one of my most-used skills has been born.
Another thing that came from all those timelines was something both positive and negative and that are emotions. Yes, all the emotions I felt in those multiple timelines came crashing down on me, the pain of losing one of my teammates, the pain of losing my sight completely, the rage, the sadness, the happiness, everything, I felt everything. But like a man who builds his poison resistance by ingesting poison multiple times in the course of a long time, I built a resistance. Meaning I finally got slightly used to it, yeah I can probably have some outbursts here and there depending on the circumstances, the memories also brought a lot of trauma with them, but now it shouldn't be as bad as previously.
Yeah, I discovered a lot of things about myself seeing all these timelines. There is definitely something very weird happening with my body that has been messing around with my emotions, repeatedly. I don't know what, but ever since I killed Kaiser it has been happening... Wait, Shuten said I have a Dragon smell right?... Don't fucking tell me I am the frigging Dragonborn?
Something from the depths of my soul stirred as if offended by such humiliating thoughts. But unfortunately for me, the pain was simply too high for me to notice it, it is easy to let my mind wander to try to "Forget" in how much pain I am in right now, it is an even more impressive fact that I didn't blackout, yet. But I doubt I could feel anything on my body right now, much less something so delicate.
Right now my thoughts were filled with cursing, cursing nonstop at the premature conclusion I reached of thinking I am the Dragonborn. Yeah, being one comes with a lot of perks, but now the fate of the entire world is on my back... Fuck you. Yeah, just fuck you. I don't even fucking have magic, and I am the goddammit Dragonborn, fuck you.
Blood gushed out of my eyes, of my mouth, and of my ears, it dripped and drenched my turban. A distinct acute sound filled my ears, almost as if a flashbang just exploded next to me. My finger sunk in the sand my body still slightly trembling due to the previous curling influx of memories. Thankfully it has ended.
Slowly my senses started to return, the first was my sight, followed by my taste buds that right now are filled with blood, *ugh* this metallic taste is pretty horrible. The last one was my hearing, I started hearing strange sounds, they were static and confusing, but slowly they grew more and more clear...
"... You okay?"(Shuten).
"Fuck! I don't know what to do he suddenly started screaming and... there is blood... and why the fuck no one came to check what the fuck just happen... Everything is so confusing... I don't understand what is happening... What should I-"(Shuten).
Hoarsely, a very dry, and worn out answered the question. I was visibly making a lot of effort to answer that it sounded almost pitiful.
"S-Stop. I am... okay now. It was just the recoil of the [Dragon Break]."(Jin).
She looked quite relieved seeing that I am relatively okay right now, my mind almost wandered towards that gains, but with my new experiences, I was able to somewhat squash it. Wait... Now that I think about it I should be one of the people who knows the Aliki'r Desert the most.
"Thanks, Kami. I almost died from worry you know? People suddenly started screaming and bleeding like they are just about to die is something I never had to deal with. And what the heck was that?"(Shuten).
"Thanks for the help by the way. And that was the recoil of me suddenly remembering all the alternative timelines that happen during the [Dragon Break]."(Jin).
"Yeah, I caught on into that part. But what the hell is a [Dragon Break]? Are dragons attacking?"(Shuten).
"No, none of that. A [Dragon Dreak] is the name of the phenomenon we give for when time itself breaks. We call it [Dragon Break] because the Dragon God of time is called Akatosh, he is an Aedra meaning that he is time itself, so when a [Dragon Break] happens, means that we literally broke Akatosh."(Jin).
"A dragon God??? But I... I still don't understand how that could have caused... this..."(Shuten).
"Indeed. A [Dragon Break] shatters time in multiple pieces, it also makes time non-linear, and inconsistent. Meaning it create multiple different non-linear timelines where a lot of things can happen differently or not at all. Normally people don't remember, or simply forget what happened during a [Dragon Break]. You saw my teammates right? Each one of them passed through different things and experiences. Heck, they didn't even notice my scream right now. Probably another side effect of the [Dragon Break]."(Jin).
"But... shouldn't you also forget about it?"(Shuten).
"Well, Dragons here are way different from the dragon of where you came from. First and foremost they have the appearance of wyverns, not dragons. Dragons here are also way too fucking overpowered, as they can warp reality with their voice."(Jin).
"Warp reality? The fuck?"(Shuten).
"Indeed. Another thing about dragons here is that all of them are spawns of Akatosh, the Dragon God of Time. Meaning that all Dragons here are atemporal creatures, time does not affect them the same way it affects other beings, and they are effectively immortal."(Jin).
"Wait... so Dragons here can warp reality with their voice, aren't affected by time, and are de facto immortal... What the fuck?"(Shuten).
"I had the same reaction when I discovered it don't worry. But they being overpowered is kind of expected as they are all fragments and children of a dragon God of Time. So being overpowered was pretty much expected. And before you ask, yes, there is indeed a way to permanently kill a dragon."(Jin).
"Seriously. That sounded pretty far-fetched considering what you just told me but... go on."(Shuten).
"Well, sometimes a human with the soul of a Dragon will be born, this human is called the Dragonborn and he or she is the only one capable of permanently slaying a dragon. You see, when the Dragonborn kills a Dragon he absorbs his soul, meaning that the Dragon is truly dead, even in soul and individuality."(Jin).
"Wouldn't Akatosh... You know... Become pissed with that? The Dragonborn is literally killing his children."(Shuten).
"Well, the Dragonborn is just a human with the soul of a Dragon. One day he will die. And remember that I said that Dragons are just fragments of Akatosh? So when the Dragonborn dies he is just essentially returning to his father Akatosh. And you need not worry, Dragons have been 'extinct' for a very long time, such a long time that most of the people think they are just legends. A Nord will tell you the exact opposite of that whatsoever."(Jin).
"Wow... But how does that-"(Shuten).
"Correlates with my current situation?"(Jin).
"Yeah."(Shuten).
"Well, remember the relations between a Dragon here and time? how they aren't atemporal and affected differently by it? And most importantly, remember the Dragonborn? How did you say I smelled like Dragon? And how I said that I am pretty sure my parents are 100% humans?"(Jin).
"Wait... so that means..."(Shuten).
"Yeah, I am not certain, and is till have to fact check some things. But I am possibly the Dragonborn. something that should've been impossible considering I am an outsider like you."(Jin).
And that Alt Jin was clearly enemies with the Dragonborn. How could this be possible? Can a [Dragon Break] really affect the reality that much?
"How is that possible? If you came from another world like me... Heck, this world even has different Gods and pantheons... I don't understand..."(Shuten)
"Well, if this serves as a consolation. Neither do I. I am almost as lost as you here. It has been just around a week since I arrived at this world, heck this is isn't even my first life."(Jin).
"But how do you know so much..."(Shuten).
"Book, my little Oni. Books."(Jin).
"That sounded like a shitty excuse of someone who doesn't want to explain shit."(Shuten).
"Oh, it appears that I've slightly underestimated you, madam. Your intelligence seems almost... staggering."(Jin).
"Bastard, stop messing around. And what is that talk about second life?"(Shuten).
"I am simply living my second life that is all."(Jin).
"You won't elaborate?"(Shuten).
"No."(Jin)
I could see shuten left eye twitching in annoyance at my response. I am quite proud of the way I handled things this time. This kind of thing is better you be completely honest with people about it, the reality is so absurd they won't believe you, but this is also a good way to stop the cliche plot of the overpowered entity revealing the secret in the most crucial fight and making everyone misunderstands the protagonist. Yeah, I passed through a lot of drama, and I am not keen on going through more. Let's just say I acquired quite the distaste for it.