Whilst learning how to fight I also started working on a unique ability since that was necessary 'to become a god in the eyes of the world' whatever that means. Athena had told me that I wouldn't get out of the mind space until I at least had the unique ability.
Remember how I said how I noticed the writing was made up of unique elemental particle patterns. I was trying to control the particles around me to do it. The problem was that each symbol had contradicting particles working in perfect harmony.
Like water particles were used as a foundation and fire was the building block, things like that.
In other news I had started fighting actual opponents, at first I kept losing to the same guy nut after a while … I think you've read enough to know how it went. I started fighting tougher and tougher opponents and had even fought 100 men and become the victor.
One thing that was messed up was that to win I had to kill them and since this world was extremely realistic, well let's just say that my mind got a few more vomit stains.
Back to the ability thing, I tried using proxies but it didn't work. The problem was that using proxies to make combinations easier added elements that didn't belong to the mix.
Then I started thinking, how can those contradicting elements work together? Well, the water fire combination made sense. Water was made up of oxygen and hydrogen, since hydrogen was highly flammable and fire is just a reaction between oxygen and anything that burns it made sense.
Wait a minute, I thought. I'm looking at this all wrong, the pen isn't creating the symbols by combining two contradicting elements but by making one out of another. The fire is made out of the water.
Another 'combination' I'd seen was earth and lightning with earth as the base. The earth contains massive amounts of negative charge. Harnessing it you could create something like lightning.
When I realized how it worked I started trying and sure enough, after three tries, it worked!
"Did I just see a symbol appear without you using the pen?" Athema asked, surprised that my crazy idea worked.
"Yes, I figured it out. I did it like this and then I did that. Why can't I explain it?" I had literally said that sentence. My explanation skill level reached 1,000,000.
"Because it is recognized by the world as your unique skill. It can only be passed down to your descendants, like how my mother passed me the ability to turn into pure thought."
(AN: Yes Athena can do that, look it up and you'll learn why she needed to do it.)
"Does that mean I can get out of here?" I had been in this place for 12 years and it was getting kind of boring.
"Yes, I think it's time you left this place and go kill the guy responsible for your family being killed." she said.
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It was another one of my visits to the kid. It'd been six months since he entered that cocoon and he hadn't shown any signs of exiting it. We hadn't gotten anything out of the case involving the slaughter of his family.
It was obvious the generals killed them all and they had died because of the retaliation of his father. Case closed.
Everybody knew The Whisperer was involved since his generals had acted but we didn't have concrete proof and didn't even know who he was so we got nothing.
Anyways, it was surprising to say the least when the cocoon started shining and cracking. It burst open with a blinding flash and … WHY DOES HE HAVE WINGS AN ABS AND IS HE HOT was the first thought that came to me.
I know, not really professional on my part but damn, the guy I'd been calling the kid was 2 years older than me, 26. I found out about it afterwards but since he looked younger than me when we found him and was kinda fat I didn't really care.
Now? He had a bronzed skin, his eyes which were an emerald green in the beginning showed streaks of black which was kind of alluring. His body was trained to the limit and now he looked about my age. His Black hair had turned a bit darker then what I remembered but that might have been me imagining things.
Most importantly, he had black wings that made him look like a dark angel or something.
When he burst out of the cocoon he floated for a second, then he landed on the ground after wich his wings retracted.
His first sentence startled me a bit. "Damn the gods, where am I now?!"