I found myself wondering these damp cave trying to find a way out but I haven't found any evidence of a opening to the surface
but I knew that if I want to get stronger I must get out of these tunnels as nothing live here in these empty cavern but some insects
'nothing will stop me from finding my purpose so if I must dig then I will if I must fight then I will fight with my life'
'because I exist for a purpose but I have yet to find my purpose so Intill I find my purpose I'm not worthy to exist'
'that's the reason I keep going forward no matter how dark and horrendous my future might be but till I find my purpose nothing I mean nothing will stop me'
get to a wall I start shoveling out small chunks of dirt and rock slowly digging at a angle upwards trying to get to the surface no matter what
after a long time of digging I finally found something different from the rock and dirt I have been shoveling aside but what I found troubled me
it was hardened ash and I have already dug more then a couple of centimeters of it and my cores shivered in fear as to where all of this ash came from but I found out very soon
as I finally breached the surface I found myself in the burned remains of a forest as sky was filled with embers an ash that almost blotted out the sun
most of the trees have been burnt to nothing but some were still standing even if not much of the tree was left except its shriveled up remains but none were living
as I aimlessly roamed this wasteland I found some evidence of the people that maybe responsible for this disaster
humans
I stood in front of the corpse of a clocked human that has been rotting for a number of days unknown to me
but something else I noticed is that the corpse was untouched by the ash as it seems as it bounced off a barrier that surrounded the body
so in my child like curiosity I reached out a arm to the body but once I reached the barrier felt a pressure but it didn't stop me from continuing to outstretch my arm
but as my hand got closer I felt the pressure slowly get stronger to the point I started to feel cracks form on my fingers
till my fingertips finally touched the corpse then the pressure suddenly disappeared and the barrier also disappeared with the pressure
so I started to look through what the body had on it and except from some clothes I found the source of the pressure
it was a elemental core and seeing it should have made me feel something but I felt indifference even after seeing my dead brethren
'this forest, this human, and my fellow elemental don't cause any emotions to appear so I now understand that they aren't connected to my purpose'
'but I do know that if a human sees me they most definitely will attack me as a elemental core is a very strong resource in this world'
'so I must disguise myself so humans attack me as i don't want to waste my time fighting someone if I can continue looking for my purpose'
taking the clothes off the body and putting on the clothes I found myself mostly covered with clothing to hide my identity
the exception was my face that had changed to look more like a flawless stone mask that had only two noticeable details
one of those details being a line that ran the inside the lips and kept going to the edge of the mask and the function of the line was actually the real lips of my mouth
and the other detail was my singular eye that covered most of the upper half of the mask even if it brought attention to me I still had to see through this ruby eye
once I was fully clothed I began my journey to get out of this dammed charred forest and to find land with so life in it as I need life to start my next plan to get stronger
after some time wandering through this scorched wasteland I was able to glimpse of a road or path through the ash filled sky
'good a road means that at the end of it maybe civilization and with civilization comes life and resources that I may need'
and so I once again started to walk but this time down a road instead of just mindlessly wandering through the waste
after a sum of time I don't know I found something I knew I was going to find if I followed this man made path
it was a barrier that kept the ash from leaving this wasteland I knew it was going to be here as not once has it rained on to this burning world
it made sense to trap all of the ash in a barrier so the ash doesn't go and cover farmland and block out the sky
once I finally crossed over the barrier a pressure that I didn't even know I had on me lifted off my body
then I finally noticed my surroundings and the only thing I can say is that it is very colorful compared to the wasteland I was just
'good now that I'm out of that lifeless place I just need to find a place for me to go back to cultivating my powers'
going off the road I started to walk into the woods to find a nice quiet place to use where I can stay till normal resources are useless
after some time I found a opening in the forest and in the middle of that opening was a calm shallow pond
'this is perfect I have excess to four resources use to use 100% of my cultivation technique' I start to release some spiritual pheromones to scare off any nearby animals
'at this moment it doesn't matter what knowledge I rank up as all won't have a large effect intill later stages so I will just start with my cultivation rank first'
'sadly I can't multi-task any of the other knowledge because I will need all of my attention to safely do them'
so once again just like in the cave I grabbed a handful of mineral rich soil and drop it next to a flower that was all by itself and started the process of giving it energy and taking some of the byproduct
'to begin the next stage of cultivation I must create my own muscular system as my body doesn't have one yet'
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SCROLL OF ORIGIN
name: none
soul year: 0
race: spiritual manifestation/elemental construct
bloodline: yakshi gnome beast
SCROLL OF KNOWLEDGE
magnus roots: earth/nature
magnus stage: 4th rank mortal
sage roots: deep spiritual forest
sage stage: 4th rank mind awakening
cultivation roots: gnome yakshi hybrid technique
cultivation stage: 2st stage: muscles condensing
SCROLL OF POWER
strength:G- fortitude:E-
agility:G- endurance:G-
vitality:E- dexterity:F-
wisdom:E- charisma:G-
morality:F-