John was in his room holding the vial of God's Blood.
"So, how do I use it, System?", he asked the System telepathically.
{Like all liquids are used} replied the System matter of factly.
"You mean rubbing on the body, using it to cook, or using it as fuel? Since you think you're wise", said John mischievously.
{No Dumbass, you drink it!}
"Ok! Ok! Chill"
He uncorked the vial, the vial suddenly got heavier and the room got hotter, John started sweating profusely.
{You're quite lucky. That vial is made out of Demigod's bones, normal vials can't hold a God's Blood, a drop of a God's Blood can pulverize a mountain}
'Pulverize a mountain? And you want me to drink it? Do you want to kill me?!'
{Didn't I say mention it before? If you can endure it, it's quite rewarding. And besides, you're the one who said "even to live for others, you need to have strength!}
'Do I really want to live for others?'
'Even at the cost of being pulverized?'
'Why can't I just live for myself?'
'Or why don't I just take the easy way out and take Demigod's Blood'
He laughed.
'Who am I kidding? Even I know I'm not the badass main character I think I am, I can't be heartless, I don't even want to be… I'm just scared of someone dear to me dying and not being able to do anything about it again. Even to live for myself in this world…
I NEED STRENGTH!!!'
In the moonlight, the golden blood glowed invitingly, John closed his eyes and gulped it down.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
Cough! Cough!!
He felt like he swallowed a pile of hot and heavy pile of coal.
The pictures in his room became twisted in his vision, the surroundings started spinning in a blur of colors.
Bang!
John fainted.
*****
John's dormant body lay writhing, covered in blood on the floor, a figure appeared next to him and lifted him gently and lay him on his bed.
Uncle Wang sat down on the chair next to the bed and smoothened the creases on John's face,
"Should I extract the blood from his body?", he muttered, "no, what if it works? I should wait even if he dies…
I know the way to the Underworld, fighting a Minor God of Death for his life should be easy".
He kissed John's forehead and disappeared leaving but a whisper,
"This marks the 5th year since I met you, that day in the forest, seeing a bloodied child with vacant eyes, an imbecile not knowing why he was running, just knowing that he had to run! Yeah! My heart was touched, not that way!~ I know you can hear me when you awaken, come see me tomorrow, I'll tell you a story, John… a story of how I met you".
*****
John felt like a strong man shackled by even stronger chains. As he was shackled from the neck down, he strained to see where he was.
He was in a dark, tight, and misty space.
Where am I?
Is this my soul?
My soul space?
Suddenly, the space shone with a golden light, the chains holding him down started disintegrating until finally, he was free.
He stood up, flexing his arms and legs and cracking his neck. He looked at his hands
(☉｡☉)! So souls really are blue!
He looked around again, the space had brightened up, he could see fourteen gigantic dams made of colours correlating to 14 elements.
Rumble!
The wall of the red dam collapsed, releasing a little bit of its content,
Liquid Fire!!
Damn! The fantasy genre really is the best.
Does that mean, every other element for Elementalists come in liquid form?
That's fucking crazy!!!
*****
"Why did you pull me out?!", John asked angrily, after being abruptly dragged out from his soul space by his system.
{Forget about that}
{Congrats on finally unlocking the soul space, Host}
{Host's Character Sheet has finally been unlocked, say or think the words "Character Sheet" to view your status}
'You never know when Uncle Wang might be listening in, he looked around carefully, he even checked under the bed,
'Character sheet'
A holographic screen appeared before his eyes.
[Character Sheet]
[Name: John Stone]
[Race: Human, ??]
[Training Level: Mortal]
[Elemental affinities: 14]
[Dams unlocked: 1]
[Elemental energy: BEGIN TRAINING FIRST!]
[Writing points: 10]
[Soul-awakened skills: Life Siphon(Evolvable), Inspect(exclusive skill), Greed(Active), My Words are the World's Will(Locked), How can the Thoughts of My Children be hidden from me? (incomplete) (bloodline skill) ]
[Natal Weapon: Locked]
[God of Writing Equipment: A notepad and pen]
"I'm human right? Why is there still a question mark in front?"
{That's for me to know and for you to find out}
A tick appeared on John's forehead.
"Why is my natal weapon locked? And what are writing points?"
{Writing points are what you will use to bring your writing into existence, temporarily requires less writing points and permanently requires more}
"What about my first question?"
{Not answering. Since it's locked, means it will eventually be opened, what more do you want?}
"Uuhh, it should be opened?"
{Your memories are being unlocked gradually, a memory fragment retrieved, do you want to view it?}
The previous John's?
"Yes, I do!"
{Retrieving… Transferring…}