In the bowels of a city forgotten by the world, in the ruins of this city that has been in the sands of time, there was a young man with long spectral white hair, he was dancing with the breezes of the wind, his body was almost naked. his entirety except for shorts that reached mid-thigh, beads of sweat running down his leather while his muscles trembled but still he remained indifferent to everything.
Adolf was in the middle of some ruins he was sitting in a meditative position.
While nothing was happening on the surface, it was a totally different case on the inside.
In the world inside Adolf, more specifically in the world of mana origin, in this place where Adolf's mana resided was always in a calm state and even when using skills that used mana as a medium, the calm never left. was affected, but now that calm disappeared.
The mana within Adolf's mana origin was being compressed until it exploded and then compressed again, the ever-colorless mana had turned a purple hue, the mana surging more and more intensely as the times it exploded and compressed increased. increasingly.
Adolf felt his internal organs begin to suffer injury as both his mana source and his magic circuits began to injure, not being able to withstand the abuse they were being subjected to.
The mana within Adolf's mana source was starting to get more and more out of control as the violet color became deeper and deeper, and while it was increasing more and more in density it was also becoming more and more difficult to handle. for Adolf.
After some time, Adolf found it impossible to maintain control and it exploded inside his body, compared to what he would believe, Adolf's body did not explode or suffer injuries that would "attempt" against his life or something like that, no , but what actually happened was far more lethal than any injury, the worst and most macabre fate someone can receive, the destruction of both their mana source and their magic circuits.
What did this mean? it meant the inability to naturally regenerate mana and cast magic, although he could still use the mana within his body to use certain magic abilities now was impossible for him.
Adolf bled from his seven orifices thanks to him suffering both injuries and internal bleeding, but even when that happened he kept his indifferent expression, with his [Bloodbending] skill he wiped the blood from his hair and his face before returning it to his system.
Although Adolf had just lost magic ability he actually didn't seem to care, the reason was quite simple, his regenerative abilities, even though the chaos [Chaos Bugs] couldn't regenerate the mana source like magic circuits didn't mean it was the only option.
Adolf silently stared at the panel that contained the information for one of his main abilities.
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[Semi-Perfect Regeneration (Rank 2 - Level 10)]: A skill capable of regenerating almost any part of the user's body, and while it is able to help heal and restore the user's vital point to its maximum state, the skill is unable to of creating a new one, please keep this in mind. The ability uses mana to function and the amount required varies completely depending on the severity and size of the wound.
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While the skill wasn't as crazy as [Chaos Bugs] as far as strength, speed, and regeneration power were concerned it was better for different occasions, to regenerate things that [Chaos Bugs] couldn't like mana origin and magic circuits.
What did this mean? Here is an example of its meaning: if a normal person had such an ability and his heart or brain were damaged, he could heal thanks to the ability, but if it is destroyed, he would die since the ability would be unable to regenerate such damage.
Looking at his state, Adolf could see the great expense of his... Training?
[Health: 300/495]
[Mana: 09/720]
Looking at both his health and his mana Adolf realized that even though he was brutal this was an efficient way to train both his mana while increasing his health stat.
Stats didn't grow like in videogames where when you kill monsters they drop experience that raises your character's level and makes it stronger, no, that didn't happen and instead you had to train to exhaustion, of course, when you went up At level one he would get a few points in one or more certain stats but it wasn't much.
To raise the mana Adolf had three ways, the first would be to spend all his mana and then wait for it to fill up again before repeating the process several times, the second way would be to absorb the environmental mana and make it his own to increase his mana, the third and final way would be by eating mana stones and letting his [Mana Devourer] skill do all the work.
On the other hand, to raise the health statistic was quite simple, he just had to increase his vitality and there was really no clear way to do such a thing, although Adolf has a way to raise it, others might not use such a method and vice versa.
'At this rate it will take me approximately 5 to 6 years to raise my stats to over 1,000...' thought Adolf.
Although he did not mind taking 1, 10 or 100 years, other things seemed not to have the same train of thought as him.
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[End of the war]
-Mission range: ?
-Objective: Give rest to the Sovereign of War.
-Conditions: Win a one-on-one combat with the War Sovereign.
-Failure Conditions: Receive help from a third party during combat with the War Sovereign.
-Time limit: 11 months, 19 days, 20 hours, 19 minutes and 48 seconds.
-Rewards: Unknown.
-Sanction: Unknown.
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Seeing how time was getting closer and closer to its limit Adolf felt conflicted, although he really did not care about completing or failing the mission, a great incentive to complete it was not the unknown rewards but the penalty for failing, he did not I knew how serious this would be so for safety I wanted to avoid it at all costs.
'Well anyway I have to beat the three remaining ex-generals of the War Sovereign whether he wants it or not' thought Adolf as he walked back to his house.
Adolf thought that by opening a door he could get to where the War Sovereign resided, which was the inner ring, and while he wasn't wrong, he wasn't entirely right either.
But how was this?
Well, each of the four doors guarded by the ex-generals did lead to the inner ring of Rhyfel but not to the Sovereign of War, although he resided there he was at home and accessing him was quite tedious and complicated, to gain access to his residence one had to carry all four stamps in the possession of each of the four ex-generals.
Was there a reason for all this? Apparently yes, there was a reason for it but it is very long and tedious to explain so it remains in the imagination.
In the end, after arriving at his house, Adolf fell to the ground looking at the sky, the clouds moved slowly while the bluish color of the sky remained unchanged, the sun shone with great splendor in a place where his eyes did not they could see it.
Adolf stayed in that position for hours, he watched continuously as the clouds always moved to the same side, he observed how the blue sky gradually lost its characteristic color and turned into a warm orange color to later reveal the true color of the sky, the black color with hundreds of millions of bright spots.
The night sky was black and that was the true color of the sky, a black color that not even all the stars in the sky could illuminate, but now his attention was not focused on that night sky but on what was shining overhead with its dim and soft glow, the moon.
'Although I have more or less an idea of how to face Haakon, it is not the same case with Aínsley or Kósmo, I know that while against Aínsley I can improvise a plan on the fly or even withdraw after knowing his skills and abilities, it is not the same with Kósmo, I just don't know what to do against him, even before facing him I know it's a wall that seems insurmountable', thought Adolf.
Looking at the moon Adolf many thoughts arose in his mind in a short period of time.
"I want to leave this city..." .
He mumbled softly to himself.
"I want to eat something other than goblin meat..." .
Now his voice was no longer a soft murmur but he now he was speaking aloud.
"I want to drink something other than blood or poisoned water..." .
His voice began to tinge with anger.
"I WANT FREEDOM DAMN IT!"
His voice turned into a cry of anger as he looked up at the sky with bloodshot eyes, the feelings that he had kept all this time in the depths of his being came out with great aggressiveness and intensity.
"GOD DAMN YOU SONS OF BITCHES! I DAMN YOU BASTARDS! DID YOU HEARD?! I DAMN YOU!"
Adolf shouted with great force, his chest rose and fell irregularly as he gasped for air, sweat covered his body while his eyes were still bloodshot, this was strange since with his statistics and qualities it would be extremely difficult to be in such a situation, but his outburst of anger was so much that although he was not tired in the least, Adolf felt that his body was on edge.
At this moment his mind was a mess, he looked at the messages from the Gods that appeared in front of his eyes with a mixture of tiredness, anger and resignation.
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[The [Ruler of the Underworld] looks at you in surprise, as he believed that you did not possess such strong repressed emotions]
[The [Light of Eternal Glory] watches you with compassionate eyes wishing that your wish for freedom will ever come true]
[The [Heavenly Wolf, Sirius] smirks as he watches the anger in your eyes]
[The rest of the Gods look at you with complicated expressions]
With each message he read his expression became uglier, his breathing became heavier and more violent as the muscles in his body tensed more and more, his hands clenched so tightly that they turned whiter than they already were. As her nails dug into her palms, small lines of blood formed on her fingers before falling in an irregular but steady drip to the ground.
"Who would have thought that the great rabid beast of that dreaded organization would be on the verge of mental collapse, don't you think that's much fun, huh --?"
"BE QUIET!".
Adolf shouted furiously interrupting the words of the sentence, with furious eyes Adolf turned to look at Arthur who was watching him with mockery.
"Don't look at me like that, what would your beloved mother and sister say seeing her beloved son and her beloved brother in such a state," Arthur said with a smile as he watched with amusement as Adolf's expression distorted each time. further.
"!?" The expression on Adolf's face grew fiercer as he rasped, "Son of a bitch."
When Adolf was about to continue arguing with Arthur, he felt an immense terror assailed his entire existence, his soul yelled at him to escape but his body did not respond, that's when he saw it.
Arthur confused his terror with anger and was about to mock when he noticed something strange, Adolf was not seeing him, he was seeing something behind him but when he turned he saw nothing but without thinking twice he disappeared, although his eyes told him that there was nothing near him his senses screamed in terror so without thinking twice he escaped to Adolf's mind.
For his part, Adolf was completely petrified, although nothing was reflected in his eyes, he could see what was in front of him, with a spectral beauty she stood a few meters in front of him, although her whole body was covered in fog, preventing him from seeing. his features in their entirety still recognized that aura from beyond the grave, he recognized it to never forget it.
'I have to run... I can't die in this place!' thought Adolf.
After that, he nailed his hand into his chest to the amazement of the Gods and she, his hand tightly held his heart before tearing it out of his chest, Adolf immediately felt that his power suffered a serious drop but he did not pay attention to it, then with all his might he threw his heart as far as possible with all the strength he could muster before falling to the ground like a doll whose strings have been cut.
The woman approached him curiously, her actions were too strange to describe and seemed to have no meaning for any reason, when the woman got close enough something incredible happened, Adolf's body melted and formed a small pool of blood leaving behind a fragile skeleton.
The woman stared at the skeleton for a few moments before disappearing.
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In a part of the intermediate ring of Rhyfel within the ruins of what was once a house there was a heart, it lay motionless on the cold ground without any apparent purpose, after a few minutes inactive in total silence the heart began to beat violently but that was not the only thing that happened since innumerable bugs with grotesque aspects arose from it, quickly flesh, veins, arteries and bones formed around the heart, as time passed a human body was formed.
In a couple of minutes the body had formed in its entirety, trembling and with difficulty Adolf stood up and wondered the meaning of his weakness, at that precise moment a series of windows from the system came before his eyes answering his questions. questions and clarifying your doubts.
[Congratulations, due to your actions you have learned a skill]
[The [Aberration Escape] skill has been obtained]
[Due to the side effects of using the [Aberration Escape] skill, physical stats will decay by 90% for the next 72 hours]
'Although I already had an idea about it, I never imagined it would turn out so well, at least this will give me time to recover my strength.'
Although Adolf already had a rough idea of how to get skills without necessarily buying them from the system, he never thought of doing such a thing in the near future, the first and only reason for this was that he didn't want to let the Gods know that he already knew how to get them. abilities without buying them, it also had a lot to do with the fact that the only ability he had thought to obtain was an escape type.
In his quest to gain control of his soul, Adolf had managed to transfer sending his consciousness to different parts of his body, one being his heart, and while this only improved the range of his [Parallel Thinking] skill from rank 1 to 2, it also helped him with something else, with that seemingly useless skill Adolf thought. in the concept of [Aberration Escape].
The concept was quite simple, he would charge his heart with all his mana, flesh, blood (this includes [Chaos Bugs]) and then rip out his heart and throw it as far as possible and after some time it would rebuild his body from it. your heart.
But this left a doubt, if this Adolf possessed this ability he couldn't escape from Rhyfel?.
The answer was no, he couldn't do such a thing for one simple and unique reason, the archers stationed on the walls of Rhyfel, he too when he thought of this ability came up with the idea of using it to escape but he wasn't going to risk dying. , that is why instead of using his heart he threw a rock over the walls, with his strength stat and boosted by his mana it was not very difficult to throw the stone over the wall but that was when the problem happened.
When the stone reached the top of the walls, Rhyfel's archers stationed there fired point-blank into the stone without giving him the slightest chance to even fly over it, thanks to which Adolf had given up the idea of escaping.
As Adolf rested lying on a piece of rubble he set out to review the information on his ability just obtained from him.
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[Escape from Aberration (Rank 3 - Level 1)]: Concentrate all of yourself on your vital point, then make it escape to a safe place and then rebuild your body. The time in which the body is reconstructed is entirely at the preference of the user.
-Activation conditions: The part that contains everything must be at least 100 meters or more from the user.
-Side Effects: After activation the user will experience a state of weakness for 72 hours.
-Cost: 100% mana, 100% resistance.
-Cooling: 3 months.
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"It's an excellent skill," Adolf thought aloud.
"I think the same, it's amazing that a lesser existence like you possesses such an ability."
With those words, the hairs on Adolf's body stood on end while his pupils contracted while they trembled violently, very slowly he turned his head towards the origin of the voice and that's when he saw her and his heart gave a jump overturn.