It was night time, In a faraway world,
Joe had a battered condition, He came out of woods while blood still dripping from his wounds, his blue robes were almost painted red, He still had a calm expression. He came close to a 11 year old girl and patted her head. She had black hairs, silver eyes and petite body. She looked extremely delicate as if she would melt away with just mere touch, like beautiful snow.
He had cold gaze, Right now he wanted to decide something but still he was contemplating about the repercussions it would bring. But when he saw her, his gaze had a tinge of worry?
Seeing the sadness in the little girls eyes his heart clenched. What happened to her was something that her age children shouldn't experience. Finally he had a firm expression on his face, As he had made an important decision.
He asked in gentle manner "What is your name?"
The little girl looked at him with her dead silver eyes, She didn't reacted at first but her mouth opened out of instinct to introduce. She said "I am Eira"
Joe nodded happily. He had just massacred whole sect, some days ago he got tip that a sect was into some shady buisness, But how could he know that the sect master, at his death's door would destroy all the slave seals. Only this girl without one was spared from other thousands.
Well it's not like Joe was there to rescue them anyway. He wanted the immense wealth the sect master was sitting on, The slaves just gave him proper justification to act.
He thought a little and said smilingly "Eira, Do you want to learn how to fight? Become my disciple, I will teach you" it wasn't just charity or he was kind enough for that. But when he patted her, he found that she had innate talent for Snow Arts.
The girl was surprised but suddenly her silver eyes glinted and she said "You are too soft for your own good, Joe" she paused and said mockingly "Indeed, I have talent in one of element. it doesn't mean I am some heavenly genius, No?"
Joe suddenly had an realisation, he looked around and back stepped from the girl. She had a serene smile on her face. Joe was furious and said "who are you? How long have I been here?" his deep blue eyes glowed as he inspected everything.
Eira's body exploded and turned in a thick purple fog. If anyone had observed Joe's departure from this world closely, they would find out that it's same purple fog from back then.
The fog talked now in a women's voice "Joe I have been trying to take over Travis' body for a while now. But you are subconsciously stopping me. It's impressive for a mere mortal soul to stop mine" She paused and said in little shaky voice "You, Joe.. I can't even peek in your memories, only able to seal our small talk in the void. What is your full name, Joe?"
Joe's blue eyes glinted again. It seemed he was trying to see through the fog. The voice in fog laughed "Haha, Do you think that technique you used on that lass Melantha would work on me?"
Joe's eyes widened. Yes, from past three years he hadn't cultivated but he still practiced some techniques. One of them was Spirit Truth Seeking Eyes. It had many phases, but in its first phase he could see through bodies of someone weaker then him. He checked Melantha and Victor Samara's bloodline and was shocked because it showed they were related.
And after adding two plus two of things he speculated, The eldest princess must be king's illegitimate child with victor's daughter. But that only made matters worse.
Because that meant that Melantha Samara and Heath Samara were closely blood related cousins. It must be pretty hard to convince the queen when she was alive to let the child live and this also explains why the king helped the Samara House from its doom.
Joe guessed that in a way Victor Samara must have thought of Melantha as his own and that's why all this farce of political marriage. The real reason behind all this was to elect her as the successor of the House Samara behind the scenes. And his guess was spot on when Melantha caught the bait he threw as fake patriarch.
Anyway Joe was shocked that whatever this fog was, it recognised his Spirit Truth Seeking Eyes. He said "I get it, okay? you are strong. But so what, you still had to take me in this world of illusion to take our my body right"
"Sadly.. you are just delusional, Because one thing that I have total confidence in is, ...." He conversed with the fog and at last the fog gave up.
The fog had now taken the look of Leviathan. But unlike his shy expression this one had a sly one. Joe seeing this smiled wryly 'I hope you are doing well Leviathan. Lucian must be protecting you, haha'
Then 'Leviathan' spoke mischievously "Let's cut to the chase. I am in my weakened state right now, the same as you"
Joe pointed his finger at him and said "Fu*k you, firstly change your appearance you cowardly purple ba*tard. And secondly I can take on your soul anytime and you know that"
Leviathan pouted and said "Okay okay I am too tired for this sh*t, You can refer to me as purple for now. I have to go in slumber now. Listen well, you have 6 months in this space. The outer world's time will not change in this months" he clapped his hands and the scenery changed.
It was a total white space. And only a huge city could be seen there. It gave of an ancient aura. The whole city had an unusually purple color used. Joe said "Fu*k!! Where the hell did I end up. And who made this sh*t city. Don't they know red, blue green. Unless they were color blind..?"
Purple again manifested and said enraged "Listen you little twerp. This is the ancient city of Immortality. Legends say that the one who enters it will gain power to rival heavens" Joe eyes glinted when this was mentioned but he didn't stopped it from speaking
Purple said "But all that is just half truth. What you now have to focus is.. are the arrays. There are Nine Bodhik Cycles in the technique which I am sharing, It will be hard endeavour but learn atleast first cycle in this 6 months"
A golden beam escaped from the fog and entered Joe's consciousness. It was all written in ancient language. Luckily he knew this one and started to understand it's introductory part.
Purple paused and let him understand all this and again spoke "This city has the aura which will help you to cultivate this technique more efficiently. Don't waste this opportunity, I have placed my hopes on you and wasted my energy quite a lot to reach this space"
Joe had many questions but only one of them he voiced "Give back my memories of the portal and tell me what's inside my body that I can't even reach or feel it clearly"
Purple was silent for a while but said laughingly "Kid, I tried to snatch your body in the portal but failed miserably that's why I.. I incinerated your body okay. happy now. As for the thing in your body.. Fu*k you!! why should I tell you"
Joe had black lines on his forehead because the memories of incineration came back to him, he thought 'This girl... I will take my revenge surely. Hah, It seems I have to make a list or I would forget their names. The first is Tatiana and now this purple thot'
He figured that the voice must belong to a tsundere girl or it would not throw a fit like this. anyway he turned towards the city gate and entered it.
Purple had a sad feeling inside it. It thought 'Let's see if he manages to learn it. But if he really does reach even Tier 1 rank in arrays... Should I even allow him?' It was feeling embarassed for some reason and vanished from the place.
[A/N: Normally all the paths in different world will be measured with Tier. It goes from Tier 1 to all the way Tier 10]
Joe reched a big hall in the city it was filled with weird drawings all around. He was really feeling worst. he thought 'This city is really gloomy, like a tragedy had befallen here before. And I am kidnapped by that thot and thrown here' he stopped in front of mattress and said "Well Joe, Let's suck it up and start the training shall we?"
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The six months were almost finished. Joe had diligently practiced the techniques bestowed by the hateful purple. But he realised something while comprehending the technique, that it specialized in one thing. That was space. After a month he was also provided with some manuals to learn from. It seemed to go in detail for some kind of ancient traveling thing?
At the last week of training, he had epiphany in the ways of array and instantly reached Tier 2. He was greatly surprised by it. But more than ever, purple was dumbfounded by his talent. Purple admitted that it provided with top tier material for practice and even the whole city. but still it was a great news for it. or was it?
The space changed once again... Joe was baffled and yelled "heyy! purple ba*tard at least warn me before doing your thing. what if I was having a sh*t?"
There was no reply in the darknes. Joe thought 'First the white space with purple city and now this black space. It's as if I am in some cliched novel with op powers popping out everywhere, haha'
Joe was about to walk and check out his surroundings but an ancient voice called out his name and he was shocked to hear his full name from someone else. The reason for it? he never mentioned it to anyone since long ago.
The voice said "Joe..., The chosen once are the once who are cursed. It seems that fate has chose you or you have chose to change it. But the result is here"
"You are hereby the successor of my technique and given the right to have my possessions"
"You are eligible to travel, THE INFINITUS"
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Travis woke up, Drenched in sweat. he observed the place and found that it was his room 'So it was true. Not much time has passed outside. Today I will head out for the army' he paused and remembered everything that happened.
He had a wry smile as he looked at his left wrist "Before coming in this world, it was poisoned and now it has weird symbol on it. I will pass it as it is some kind of injury if someone notices it. Is it really fate?"
He remembered the words spoken by that mysterious entity 'The chosen once are the one cursed huh, Well damn. Even if I get cursed, I will curse that fate back hundred times more'
He looked at his wrist and thought out loud "So, This is Infinitus"
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[A/N: Well damnnn, This chapter has almost 2k words, it is one of my most edited and time consuming one. But it was one of the most important chapter for the whole novel.
Good news guys, five days ago the novel was featured in
We are almost at 300 collections. Keep sending those powerful stones.. It helps ;) ]