Since my car was built for efficiency rather than looks, it is smaller but better in this kind of situations.
Different races, different ages, here in the boat you can see as if there is a festival on going from how lively everyone was. Merchants, adventurers, and tourists. All are having fun.
"Nunu come with me for a bit. Zel, please watch over the car while we are away. Even if they can't damage it, it would be troublesome if there were any to find out something like that here"
"Understood" (Zel)
Bringing Nunu in a private room, I started enchanting the walls so that no one can eavesdrop.
"I will be giving you the power to control souls. It is inferior to mine though. You okay with that?" I ask.
"Anything I receive from you master is special to me"
"Then I will begin then"
By any means to give a "skill" is impossible. However, since our souls are link, and the "blessing" I receive was directly engrave to my soul. I can share a portion of my power, the more I divide it the weaker it will get. Therefore I will only be sharing it with Nunu since his loyalty to me is absolute.
As of the moment only an inferior version of soul manipulation and heal are the ones I can give him. Considering the fact that his mana capacity is twenty times even bigger than mine, even if his power is the inferior version of mine he should be able to last even longer than I am in terms of a battle of endurance. Not to mention with his body which came from a dragon, controlling his new powers should be a little easier.
I started to to give him a watered-down version of my powers.
Mist-like light covered the whole room.
A white aurora.
The scene would be enough to cause anyone into tears.
After some time...
"I'm done! And give me the ring that can store souls"
When he handed it to me there were souls inside. Hmm, seven souls?
"The souls inside came from bandits who attack us back in the dungeon. They were extremely weak"
Come on don't be like that. Your body is that of a dragon. Your body is at least comparable to Alfred's.
"Then I will be using these souls to enhance you. So lie down in the bed again"
Upgrading my son is so hard. I feel like I am putting new parts on my own personal robot.
[Proficiency in
New title:
Soul wizard's apprentice
New skill:
Soul burst - The ability to make a soul core explode. If the soul core explode, resurrection will be impossible. Based on the level, the explosion will also differ]
Hooo. Another brutal skill. I have another skill to add onto my blacklist.
What the hell are the gods thinking?! Giving me an outrageous skill like this.
"You should go back to Zel. I will stay here a bit longer"
He nodded and left.
I better get a new soul. Something that can do the job done while being sociable as well. His silent demeanor is a bit awkward sometimes.
Now with my weapons. The wand for the fire, the staff for aura, and the metal ball for defense.
I pretty much have every weapon I need in the present.
The ship suddenly shook. Losing my balance I fall down. Again. The ship keep shaking savagely.
I'm going to get seasick from this!
I quickly went out to see what happened that can cause such a big ship to shake that much.
The clouds were dark. The calm water of the sea earlier have now became wild. Its like mother nature have shown its wrath to men.
People panicking and screaming. Which would be normal in this kind of situations.
Running through countless people, I saw Zel and Nunu.
Frightened.
That was the expression hanging on their faces.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
A continuous barrage of loud thunder claps.
"What are we going to do?!"
Zel ask while hugging the car to stay in place.
"Just stay there, you two" I replied nonchalantly.
Seriously you have got to be kidding with me now.
One after another. Another enormous thing appeared in front of me again. Destiny sure is putting salt on my wounds.
A huge waterspout.
The distance was less than one kilometre.
However, unlike back then, the time with Levi was even more ominous and terrifying. That time I was frustrated and was unable to even move. But it is different now. Back then I wasn't able to use this because only about 60% of my aura was left due to fighting the smaller sea serpents. But I can use it now, now that I am in my top condition.
"You guys, watch carefully and see why the gods chose me as the hero"
Something that can bend the laws of the world. Something that defies logic. No. It does not defy logic. Because it is the pinnacle of both logic and instinct.
...
"Phantom World"
As I stood still, right in front of me, cracks started to from. It grew bigger and bigger. Like a glass getting crack. First the waterspout, then the sea, then the sky.
In the next moment, the glass-like cracks shattered and both the water spout and dark clouds vanish. The sea have also calmed down.
"Are you two okay?"
"Wh-what did you just do?"
Hahaha. Zel's shock expression is sure is laughable.
"As expected of master!" Nunu said enthusiastically,
Losing my balance again, I desperately tried not to fall at the very least. The backlash of using it is already in effect I see.
Nunu quickly help me to stand.
"For now let's go back to our rooms. We can leave the car for now since no one would have the time to check it. Hehe"
Those who were panicking and screaming just now settled down. Some fainted while some are puking.
In the room I made sure that no one would be able to eavesdrop on us again. Since it is classified information.
"Okay, what I did earlier is the combination of logic and instinct. Well to be more precise I just made everything vanish into thin air"
"And how exactly did you do that?!"
"Phantom World. An imaginary world I created, a different dimension that overlaps the one I am in. It can affect the real world base on how I want it to. It requires a ridiculous amount of energy and unimaginable level of both concentration and control. It has the ability to bend the law of the world. And what I did earlier is simply making all of it vanish, as if it never existed from the beginning."
"That is..... Sigh. You know what, screw it! And yes I can now see why the gods have chosen you as the hero" (Zel)
"Will you please explain how you did it, Master"
"As I said earlier, it is the combination of both logic and instinct. First, using sense of space from instinct, I comprehend all kinds of information within my range using logic: Temperature, gravity, humidity, sound, light, vapor, etc. Second, I expand my consciousness by using my aura as fuel into my whole body. Enhancing my body so that it won't get destroyed and heightening my senses and my thinking process even more. Third, creating an artificial dimension that overlaps with the one I am in from the fluctuation of my own energy with me at the center. Fourth, maintaining it so that it would take shape. Fifth, based on the size of the created field, the effects are also change. If it is big then I can make only one or two moves at most. If it is smaller then I can make few or several command to bend the laws of the world on the space I am in.
Additionally, the effects will also change based on what law of the world I am trying to bend. Time is the hardest law to bend. At my current level, I can only rewind time about four seconds with a radius of two meters with my heart at the center."
The two were silent. Unable to make a comeback or a comment. But then...
"That makes you the most powerful in a one-on-one combat then" Zel said.
"Not really. To create 'Phantom World' I am not allowed to move for five seconds and an additional three seconds due to the side effects. Meaning, I am vulnerable to all kinds of attack for almost ten seconds."
That is the reason why I won't win against Levi. Since he would only need less than three seconds to kill me anyways.
I am basically dead already before I can even make a move.
"It is easier said than done. After all it took me fifteen hellish years just so that I can properly use it. Not to mention I already have an innate talent both control and aura already. Making me the only one to be able to do something like this"
Still, even if I use this, I still won't be able to reach the top ten rankings for my age in my world. Those monsters are just on an entirely other level.
"Other than Phantom World, I have two more. I can't use any of these simultaneously though"
I went back to my own room right after and pondered some things.
This incident is purely set up.
A storm would be visible from the horizon no matter which direction you choose since the sea is an open space. But the storm earlier was spiraling with the water spout at its center. When I was, upgrading Nunu nothing was wrong after all I kept looking at the window.
Knowing Levi won't try to kill me. It is impossible for him to do that. Otherwise, I would have known the moment he break his word.
Someone powerful enough to conjure that with no killing intent whatsoever means they were appraising me.
"We should at least see what the Hero can do, right?"
Those words are most likely to be the thoughts of the one who did all that earlier.
Words from Astel that the hero have arrived would most likely reach the central continent already. Meaning they waited at every ship that goes to the central continent. Inspecting everyone.
With this they should be in a turmoil. I could have just use aura to destroy both the water spout and remove the dark clouds with less effort. However, since Phantom World is not use by either aura or magic but purely by innate talent, they wouldn't be able to detect or trace how it was done. It is fueled by aura but it doesn't leave any traces of it
If they did suspect someone was the hero and did that they wouldn't be able to tell how it was done. Besides, when we were staying nearby there were no talks or any rumors of a storm this strong.
Knock, knock!
I open the door to see who it was and there was girl.
"It was you right, the one who made the storm vanish"