The king was sitting in the council room with his advisors discussing the rankings of all the families in service to the kingdom. When sudden he felt the presence of another blessed entering his domain. While his advisor Vista Hyper was in the middle of speaking," Sir, the Barq family is requesting to challenge the Scott family for the Fifth...". "The Beast God has finally sent another after 10 years", King halyard announced cutting off Advisor Vista. Widespread rage and contempt was felt as the Advisors remembered the battle that occurred against the last Blessed beast. What was lost due to both the beast and the greed of other families in the ranking lead to the changes that the king brought forth to running the kingdom and the handling of the Ranked families. "Prepare for the Ferda Family to mobilize before this Blessed can grow and become a problem. As for the other families have them assist the citizens".
On the outside, the storm weather intensified causing most of the population to run and seek cover. Lightning strikes hit buildings causing some to catch flame with the research building's oils catch fire spreading the damage. Thunder roared overhead causing disorientation and even Fainting in some of the weaker citizen. Drizzles turned into a heavy rain putting out some of the fires and causing water damage to unlucky citizens. Everything would soon hit its crescendo and everyone froze as their focus was glued to the epicenter of the storm. Many did not know what exactly was happening, but they instinctively knew that something was forcing them to pay homage. It the event reached its peak with a single wicked, vicious, and massive lightning bolt crashing down on the planet. In that moment the world seemed to slow down to a standstill. Everyone was still frozen with no one having moved an inch even with the frightening flash. Until thunder slowly rumbled in with the same intensity as the bolt of lightning. Announcing the event had been conclude and that the world could carry on with its mundane existence.
—————————————————————————Before the storm, Rapt was woken up by Lord Bados. As he stood up, he saw the others stand around him too. He instantly noticed differences about his body compared to before. He felt lighter, sturdier, and stronger than before. In addition, he felt as if he gained a new limb that he couldn't see.
"What your feel currently is your element" Bados said, seeing the confused look on Rapt's face.
"My element..." Rapt didn't know how to feel about it.
"Yes, check your status to see the changes that have occurred."
STATUS
Name: Rapt
Level: 2
Element: Lightning
Experience: 75/200
Health: 68/68Condition: healthy
Mana: 42/42
Strength: 7 (0/10)
Speed: 11 (0/10)
Stamina: 9 (0/10)
Agility: 10 (0/10)
Intelligence: 9 (0/10)
Physical Resistance: 12 (0/15)
Mental Resistance: 12 (0/15)
Skills: Discharge lv.1 (0/10) (active)., shock lv.1 (0/10) (active), Mana sense lv.2
Blessings: Blessings of the Beast God
Rapt noticed that all his stats had increased by two points and that the empty space for skills contained three skills. Looking at his status, he saw two new tabs: element and mana.
"Focus on the tab you want to know more about" Vanessa said.
He focused on his element first, which brought up a simple description about it:
[Lightning Users] are being that can create and bend all forms of Lightning to their will. Lightning is the most difficult element to control and can dangerous if wielded by one that lacks a strong mind.
[Mana]: evolutionary energy that flows through the universe. A energy that allows those that contain it to evolve and wield the elements.
[Discharge] is the release and transmission of lightning through skin-to-skin contact. The electrical charge is weak and can only effect weak or disadvantage beings. (Cost 1M/s)
[Shock] is gathering of the static in the air to create a weak ball of lightning to strike enemies within the range of 2 meters. (Cost 5M)
[Mana sense] is the ability to sense the differences in mana within the range 10 meters. Allows one to sense other being that contain mana and their element.
After going through the descriptions, Rapt noticed that his orientation of his surroundings had shifted. The ground seemed further away and the other things didn't seem as massive as before. His senses also seemed to have improved significantly along with his mental capabilities.
He then felt the urge to walk to the nearby lake to see if his appearance had any visible changes. He quickly started to run toward the lake getting there faster than usual. Looking in to the lake he saw that his normal pale greyish scales had become more of a sky-blue/grey with white highlights along his arms, legs, and sides. His feathers had elongated with the afterfeather partly matching his sky-blue/grey scales and the vane part being pure white. Looking closely he could that even his scales had changed as well becoming densely packed together and thicker than usual.
After settling that urge, he remembered that he left everyone behind and turned around to go back. Only to see that they were already here, bring attention to the fact that his [mana sense] couldn't sense them.
"You're ready to go, but first I will explain your role as one of my blessed. You must show your strength by bringing your territory under your sole rule, show your compassion by protecting those in under your rule, and your beastly aggression towards your enemies, whether beast or not. It won't be easy since you'll always have a target on your back, so be careful. Life your life to your fullest because you won't get a third chance." Bados said with a serious look on his face.
Rapt was excited hearing his role and the experiences that awaited him. 'I wonder what the other beasts are like' he thought before focusing on what Bados said at the end.
After their talk, they turned to the other and seeing Vanessa and Trench standing in front of their respective Gods, Rapt followed along. The three Gods placed their hand on their blessed and gather their mana to send them to ambu. They surrounded them in their respective elements in a cocoon-like shape before opening a wormhole to take them to the planet.
Going through the wormhole was a extremely fast and could sometimes be mistaken for teleportation. Even though wormhole travel was fast because of the distance between the Realm of the Gods, where their domains would reside, it still took him 30 mins to get to the planet. Arriving at the outer atmosphere, he was greeted with a beautiful sight of the planet. His new home-world, Ambu.
In front of Rapt was a massive world four times the size of earth filled with vast jungles, forest and other different terrains. 'So many places to experience' Rapt thought as the cocoon started to move south. The cocoon slowly descended as it moved south and with its descent Rapt could see the landscape more clearly. He flew over a vast forest with both beast and animals flying threw the sky and a desert with sparse trees and water source before reaching a forest landscape.
When the cocoon crossed from the desert to the forest he began to sense a strong change in the ambient mana. That change increased as the cocoon traveled through the forest. The clouds began to move in, a drizzle began to fall, wind blew harder as time went by. The cocoon started to slow down as its descent started to level out in the clouds. Rapt's attention was soon drawn to dark clouds that were rapidly moving in with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling as they blocked his view of the landmass. The cocoon of lightning had become the epicenter of the storm and Rapt felt a surge of lightning mana clinging to his body before he was catapulted towards the ground and landing in a massive crater created by a massive bolt of lightning.
Standing in the crater, Rapt felt overwhelmed by the new environment that was similar to the forest in the Gods domain. Those similarities were overshadowed by the various new sensations. Many first were captivating Rapt as he experienced rain, lightning, and thunder for the first time. Walking out of the crater, Rapt was constantly constantly looking around as the sounds, feels, sights, and even the quality of mana intrigued him. Slowly, Rapt immersed himself into the new environment.
Once he became a little familiar with his general area, Rapt felt an instinctual need to announce his presence as the new blessed of this territory. Swept up by his instincts, he manipulated his ki as he bent his head back and unleashed a mighty roar that echoed through the entire territory. 5 powerful roars followed after Rapt's with each one being more powerful than the last. The five elders of the territory had acknowledged Rapt's arrival. "Prove your strength" followed after the last roar causing major commotion in the the territory.