The airship was set on autopilot moving at a high speed towards destination. Ohma was still staring at the oval shaped device in his hand not daring to open it.
Beep Beep
A notification came from autopilot. He reached his destination. The airship parked itself and ohma came out from inside. Looking all around he could only see barren field without any flora. This was the area near his town. It was a kilometer farther from LANE.
Ohma started flying at a fast speed and soon noticed a deep crater ahead. It was covering half the town and also the orphanage he used to live in. The other half was turned to dust due t aftermath only leaving some splinters. Looking at this devastation ohma lost all hope. Now he was sure there were no survivors. Ohma was standing at an altitude so he was easily able to observe everything. He took out the oval device and tapped on it, soon a video was shown.
Alisa the elite general from empire firing a concentrated plasma beam on Clause which caused a massive blast. Ohma repeated the video again and again, enough to memorize her face. He was like a predator scrutinizing his target. He was calm from outside despite bubbling inside.
Ohma proceeded to read the information compiled by Mike. Everything Ohma needed to know about Alisa Wake, Clause and Empire Verdanto. The info was extremely detailed giving ohma a picture of the situation. Ohma became calm from both inside and outside. He was too weak. Alisa alone was a elite who went through 3rd awakening. There were only 8 such individuals in Malar. But in Verdanto that no. turned to 37. More than 3times of Malar. That was the reason Verdanto was called a superpower. Even that no. was something revealed by the empire itself. No one in Malar had any idea about the hidden powers of this empire.
Ohma calmed down but he still had to kill this person who took the last belonging he had in this world. What awakened inside him was a thirst for power, a thirst for strength so overwhelming that the whole world should know his name. His name alone should be enough to instill fear in his enemies.
Ohma wasn't sure that again he will be able to find that unconditional love and sense of belonging he felt from EMA and other children from orphanage. Remembering that dream about his actual when he awakened he felt a sense of disgust from within. Ohma felt both angry and aggrieved. He felt lonely too lonely and that grief was followed by rage and thirst for strength.
This was first time ohma accepted his true nature. All this time he only fought when he was attacked. He wished to gain strength in order to survive. That was passive. Now he actively desired strength. He wanted to kill, destroy and return this glorious Empire to dust. The despair he felt, they will suffer through a 100 times more times than that.
The blood inside him bubbled and rejoiced. The golden blood which depicted Dignity, Solemnity and commanded respect, the black blood which only craved for Death, Destruction and madness. One which preserved countless civilizations with their gentle nature and despite being ridiculously strong they accepted lowly ones and sheltered them. Another one being completely opposite in nature, born in void with a indifferent heart and unimaginable hunger, without any bonds they roamed free in universe devouring countless stars and destroying uncountable civilizations. They have no bound to their growth.
Both these natures assimilated in a single being bringing forth a miracle. A miracle desired by many throughout the cosmos took place in this dilapidated starfield. While acceptance came but assimilation was miniscule. It would take time and a lot of energy. Ohma had to be that much stronger to complete the transformation in this new species. In present he couldn't even be considered a youngling let alone complete the assimilation.
As Ohma completed reading through the information he felt a barrier inside him break. He felt like a dam of energy was opened inside him all of a sudden. Extreme pressure radiated from him which made the ground sink all around him. The sky was covered in dark clouds and thunder constantly rumbled in them. His muscles, bones everything he felt like he was crushed and remodeled again. It hardly took 20 seconds and Ohma felt rejuvenated.
Now both his nails and hair were dark purple in color. His muscles were compacted to the extreme. His body was strengthened to no end. His height increased to 185 cm without any transformation. His skin was too fair and pale. He almost looked bloodless. Comparing him to a body-builder will be an underestimation. His built was crazy strong. Ohma felt he could crush his previous transformation with just his bodily strength and he wasn't wrong.
Ohma wanted to try using his transformation ability but he held himself back. He observed himself and noticed a dark purple aura was leaking from his body permeating in his surrounding. It was unintentional so he stopped it immediately but he saw something ridiculous. All the animals in the surrounding were coming closer to him. They surrounded him and stayed like that. Ohma observed them for a while but they did nothing so he caught one of the squirrel around him surprisingly it didn't resisted. He exerted some force the squirrel started resisting him but when he stopped the squirrel stayed like a statue.
Ohma was confused, was it due to the purple aura he unconciously released. He tried ordering the squirrel but nothing happened. Ohma thought for a while than released his aura again. A dense purple purple came out of his hands. It was beautiful and menacing. As soon as it came out it was sucked in by that squirrel. The aura covered all the pores of the squirrel and was immediately sucked. As more aura was sucked in Ohma felt it reached saturation. Ohma again tried ordering the animal and it worked. Squirrel started moving according to the commands it received. Ohma was also able to dictate it just by using mind. A telepathic connection was made between them.
Ohma was curious so he released his aura again. As the squirrel started absorbing it beyond the saturation point it started mutating. Its nails grew large, back was covered in dense scales, its eyes were dark purple and the small paws turned into claws. As its size increased the changes were even more ridiculous. The scales now covered even its stomach and there was no fluffy tail instead a dark scaled tail covered in thorns. The two front teeth also became sharper. Ohma was mesmerized by the scene but suddenly it exploded.
BAM
Did I used too much power?
Ohma thought for a while and soon got his answer. It was just a small animal that much mutation just from his aura was already too much for that weak life to sustain and when it exceeded the life force contained by that animal it died.
Than ohma looked at other animals just like the squirrel. He wanted to experiment more and get familiar with his newfound powers. Thinking that ohma got busy.
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Inside a airship Amara was sitting along with all the champions from his academy. These were the people who have surrendered to him and decided to support him. It wasn't easy while defeating someone only needs strength but to make others subservient you also need charisma along with leadership. He was proud of this achievement since all of them were best among their generation in Malar.
"Amara are we really just going to meet him and talk, I mean he is being compared to you so he must have strength to back that up. Do you mind if I go a round with him?" said a girl sitting beside Amara. She was 2nd in ranking of champions. Her name was Zara.
"I think you misheard. According to what John told us about that ohma guy its his potential that is being compared here. I doubt he will be able to defeat Delk let alone Amara. Any of us could easily defeat Laison" the one to answer was a guy tough in both built and appearance and had a wild air around him. He was 3rd in ranking. His name was Dev. He was older sibling of Delk who himself was 10th champion of the same academy.
"By the way aren't you going to console your mother." another one asked in a teasing voice
"I already did. Breaching that barrier was like child's play for me." Amara answered in a confident tone
" Yeah, only you could call it easy" some other guy said jokingly
"I have no intention of antagonizing him, the most is some small exchanges but if any of you want a go I can't deny that" Amara lied. If Ohma is a threat to him he will do everything to eliminate him. But that would be done by someone else, he absolutely had to stay his hands from this matter. As for these people challenging Ohma, it would give him some more insight about ohma's abilities.
All these people knew about Amara's nature but they did not dare to comment on him. They have already surrendered to him after all Amara is a Rank 31 warlock just 5 ranks away from 3rd awakening. Even Zara who is 2nd champion is just rank 27 and she is 2 year older than Amara. Amara is not just talented he is crazy strong, all of them knew this since he defeated them when his Rank was actually lower than them. He inherited complete abilities from both of his parents, along with a latent inborn power and two more when he went through 2nd awakening. They weren't sure if they all ganged up on Amara and they will be able to deal with him. He was that powerful.