Knowledge flooded my brain. Not just any knowledge. Knowledge about innate abilities, my innate abilities.
Titan physique, classified as S-Rank physical ability,
The Titan physique made me immune to all poisons or illnesses, while boosting my already hilarious strength, speed and endurance into even more unimaginable levels. It also gave me natural armor that I could control with my mind.
Elemental Manifestation: Chaos, classified as A-Rank mental ability,
Chaos is the genesis element. Every element separated itself from Chaos at the beginning of time. Now I gained the power to manifest it by will. Chaos is superior to any other element and manifestation is superior to invocation.
Soul Contract, classified as General Rank special ability,
Soul Contract gave me the ability to form a contract between a living being and myself or between two living beings where I just act like a middleman. Another part of the ability is that I can temporarily take forceful control over a Soul that is weaker than me. I need to concentrate on that and in a fight it is really hard to do that.
Soul Eater, classified as Emperor Rank special ability,
Soul Eater allows me to feed on the souls of my enemies. Consuming them makes me stronger.
For those that are knowledgeable about our past, there was a Hero in the ancient times that was famous for these abilities. I am talking about King Chaos.
I woke up covered in cold sweat, I was panting and shivering. I looked around the room panicking. Athena was laying on my desk looking at me with curious eyes. It seemed that she knew something was seriously wrong.
Out of nowhere a chain of bluish white light shot from my forehead towards Athena and entered her head. After it connected us Athena's eyes started to emit blue light and a telepathic connection was established between the two of us.
The first thing I felt was her confusion and her fear. The connection transmitted everything Athena felt in a distinct clarity to me as if I was sitting inside her head.
It wasn't that she was able to talk to me the instant the link formed nor was I able to understand what she transmitted to me, that is also due to the fact that I got everything unfiltered.
After getting the hang of what was happening I stood up and headed for breakfast. Athena followed me. Because her legs were short and her walking speed slow she flew silently behind me, barely keeping up with me.
On my way to breakfast I noticed that I was moving differently. My steps were silent and I took note of every detail around me. It was crazy how I literally changed overnight. I became a Predator.
As I entered the room with Athena in tow everyone else was already present. They looked at me in shock. Esy stared at me with a wide open mouth. Hilda jumped up from her seat while Jasmine and the twins were frozen in place like unmoving statues.
I returned their shocked looks with a confused one: "What is going on? Why are you staring at me like that?"
The air in front of me solidified into a smooth mirror of ice, the reflecting surface showed me why everyone was staring at me like I was a monster.
The mirror showed me that I had indeed transformed into a monster, my body was covered in fine black scales. A spiked tail grew at the end of my spine and my Wings were at full display, their natural silver color and golden sun were covered by the same fine black scales. I was hovering above the ground instead of walking on it.
Instinctively I hid my wings, the scales on my body vanished as well as they were retracted below my skin. Only my new tail was still present. Now I stood in front of my family naked with nothing to cover myself.
I fled the room at full speed and returned dressed in proper clothing.
"I am sorry for that. It is as surprising to me as it was for you."
I narrated the dream to them in a similar way I wrote it down above. I omitted the Elemental manifestation of the Chaos Element. I still had the chance to inform them about that after I found out what my unreadable affinities were.
I did the same with my Soul Eater ability because I could blame my dominating Death affinity once I understood what was going on. Or make something up.
Revealing to them that I had the same powers as King Chaos, a legendary and mythic Hero was too much to burden them with.
I could blame my unknown race for the changes in my physiques and the same goes for the telepathic connection to Athena. But the other two things would be problematic and would even make the story unbelievable.
After I finished explaining, Hilda and Jasmine pelted me with questions, while the twins spectated everything. Esy tried to ask some questions but none of them made sense, everything she said was gibberish. Which made the questions unanswerable.
If not for the severity of the situation I would have joked if she had been too distracted by certain parts that I accidentally revealed but I had the feeling that this would have backfired to the point that she would have ignored me.
After hours a loud knock disrupted our conversation. A young knight entered the room after Jasmine allowed him to enter. He bowed deeply to the people in the room.
"I apologize Guardians, The Headmaster of the Academy is here to speak with the young Master and the young Mistress."
"You can send him…" Jasmine stopped looking around the room. As our personal dining room it wasn't suitable to entertain guests here. "Please lead him to my private Tea room and serve him a refreshment or whatever he needs. We will join him shortly."
"As you command, Spirit Guardian." The knight bowed once again and left.
Jasmine looked at everyone in the room: "Mick, Rocky I don't think you are needed for this conversation. You should go and attend to your duties. I guess that Master will speak about their affinities and as you have heard yesterday they are classified as state secrets. We will see eachother later and if something important comes up I will tell you if possible."
After Jasmine shushed away their toys we made my way to her tea room. I was uncomfortably aware of the attractiveness of the women around me. Especially Hilda's attractiveness that I ignored for all my life because I saw her as my mother.
I was ashamed of these thoughts, so I concentrated on something else until we reached the tea room.
We entered and found the Headmaster drinking tea and appreciating the garden flowers.
Jasmine bowed to her Master while Hilda extended her hand in greeting.
After the useless greetings and unnecessary chatting the Headmaster talked about the reason he came.
"I spoke with the King about dominating Affinities. The matter is a lot more complicated than I had imagined. Especially for you, Thorus. A dominating Death affinity is really problematic. You are bound to become famous. The errors the Crystal of Knowledge gave regarding you are even more concerning."
The headmaster fell silent for a few seconds as if contemplating what to say.
"In comparison to you the results of Esmeralda seem lackluster."
Esy would have complained in indignation if not for the absurdity of this situation. She was a mage with 8 affinities, one rarer as the other. 3 normal affinities one of them absolute while the other two are mid level, 3 special affinities one low level one mid level and one high level, 2 peak affinities one absolute and the last one was dominating. How could that be lackluster?
Another silence formed in the room.
"So what is going to happen now?" I asked after the silence grew too depressing.
"I will teach you the basics of magic before we will send you both to the Academy of the Necron Empire." The Headmaster paused and swallowed a mouthful of salvia.
"To tell you the truth. The Hesmaton Kingdom is only a vassal state of the Necron Empire. We are forced to hand over everyone with a dominating affinity to them. Don't look at me like that. I was as shocked as you are now. The good thing is that you will learn more about magic than any of us know. and your education will last longer…"
"After you are done with your education you will be forced into 2 years of compulsory military service where you have to repay the Necron Empire for your education. before you are allowed to leave." The headmaster stopped talking to let everything sink in.
"What if we refuse?" I asked
"You can't" was the Headmaster's answer.
"I asked, WHAT IF I REFUSE!" My voice was a deep growling sound. It had nothing familiar with a human's voice and my eyes blinked in golden light.