On an unknown planet, Aurora was sitting on a huge throne in an even huger room, it was about a hundred meters long.
The walls and throne where made of pure gold. The only thing in this expansive room was the throne, and Aurora herself.
The mighty Celestial looked nervous as she twiddled around with her fingers while breathing heavily, which was strange as her body didn't even have lungs...or any organ for that matter.
"What is it Aurora ?" A voice suddenly said as a figure materialized out of thin air in front of Aurora. This figure looked like the average man with pale skin and a handsome face. His presence naturally exuded dominating confidence.
"Xander i need your help!, I don't know what to do" Aurora immediately pleaded.
Xander had known Aurora for billions of years and he had never seen her this nervous. He wondered what could be so wrong that would make a god feel actual fear, only other gods could scare them.
"Talk to me Aurora!" He commanded rather than consoled.
"Take a look into my universe, I will give you 5 seconds access" Aurora said.
Now Xander was really curious. No Celestial would allow for such a thing so he knew the gravity of the situation. Xander closed his eyes as he concentrated.
Just a second later his eyes shot open in surprise.
"How did this happen!?" He shouted as he paced around. "Does HE know?"
"Of course not! If he did I would be long dead!" Aurora snapped.
"Oh no if the Supreme Deity finds out about this he is going to skin me alive, and probably give my universe to someone else. He told me to supervise you but then this happens under my watch" Xander paced around the room.
After a few minutes of worrying he calmed down as he drank something from a flask which appeared out of nowhere.
"How did this happen Aurora!?" Xander firmly asked.
"I... I don't know" Aurora stammered.
Xander exploded into a fit of rage "What the fuck do you mean you don't know ? SOMEONE FROM YOUR UNIVERSE HAS STARTED BODY CULTIVATION and you claim to know nothing!?" he shouted.
"This can't happen, he would have had to have no other choice but to depend on his body. Why??" Xander continued to question Aurora.
Back to the forest outside Willow city.
Zane woke up to a splitting headache. He was however thankful that the headache was the only pain he could feel.
Zane could still remember the excruciating pain his whole body felt. His hand instinctively went to his bicep only to feel.....nothing.
"What the hell!!" Zane panicked as he focused his mana dust on his body. What he saw shocked him to his core. Zane's body had reverted back to that of a 16 year old boy.
From a height of 2 and a half meters, he went down to 1 and a half meter, losing an entire meter. All his hard work seemed to have completely disappeared, his body was as small as he was before he started training with his father back at the farm.
"AURORA !! is this your doing!?" he shouted even though he knew he wouldn't be answered, however...
Zane heard Aurora speak inside his head. She also sounded very upset at whatever was happening.
"What!? what are you talking about?" Zane shouted to no one in particular. He wasn't even surprised that Aurora could speak inside his head, she was a god after all.
However he didn't understand why she just stopped out of nowhere, it reminded Zane of his previous life when the Internet would suddenly shut down in the middle of a video call.
"Hey!! Hello ? Annoying Celestial!?" Zane shouted in frustration. He was really in need of answers ASAP, but no answer came from his godly counterpart.
"FUCK!!"
BANG! CRACK!
Zane had punched a boulder out of frustration. He instinctively pulled his hand back as he prepared to heal himself. However he saw that his hand was perfectly fine. There was only a tiny scratch on his middle finger knuckle.
'Then what was that sou.....' Zane's thought stopped mid sentence as his eyes (mana dust) fell to the boulder he had just punched. A noticeable crack was on the giant Boulder and in the middle of that crack was a fist impression.
"How !?" Zane asked himself in surprise. He wasn't shocked that he could crack boulders as he knew he could. However that was before his strong body mysteriously vanished.
Zane quickly put his fingers into the crack and tried to lift it, which he had no problem doing. One should note that this was the same boulder Zane would put on his back during his push ups.
'Intresting' He thought as he put it on his back and dropped down to do his pushups, Which made for a very awkward scene as his body was now on the smaller side. It was like an ant carrying something the size of a loaf of bread.
'Very very interesting' Zane thought as he did his boulder push ups. One thousand..... Fine thousand....Ten thousand... Only after Twelve thousand reps did Zane begin to feel the strain on his muscles.
BANG!
He threw the boulder to the side as he dusted off his hands. 'My large body reverted back to normal but I kept my strength. I even got slightly stronger' Zane thought.
"I guess it's a good thing though since it was getting uncomfortable to be that big" he said as he stretched his body, something he couldn't do last time.
'I wonder why Aurora said i shouldn't tell anyone. Could it be that other people don't do the same thing?. Now that i think of it i never actually heard anyone talk about working out or something similar back in the farm.' he thought
"Oh well i guess it's good if i am the only person in this world who works out. It will give me an advantage over the others, so i guess i will keep this to myself. I think I'll call it muscle upgrading" Zane thought with a smile, he was proud if how good he was at naming things...
"Scratch that I will call it Body Cultivation" He said with a smug smile.
Aurora just rolled her eyes as she sighed in relief "He won't tell anyone" she said to Xander, they where still in tbe golden room. This time however Xander was also seated on his own throne next to Aurora.
He narrowed his eyes "How can you be so sure ?" he asked.
"I heard his thoughts" she replied.
"How did you do that" Xander asked in curiosity.
Aurora chuckled "Well well well, it seems I know something the great and powerful Vampire Celestial doesn't " she mocked.
Xander looked annoyed as he closed his eyes before opening them a moment after. "That stupid system thing you put on him huh" Xander scratched his chin.
"Yah but it takes too much of my concentration I only use it for emergencies, like to stop him from naming your Body Cultivation method 'Muscle upgrading'" she said.
"On to serious matters Aurora, we might have stopped the Supreme Deity from finding your blunder but you do know what will happen eventually right" Xander said as he ignored Aurora's previous statement.
Aurora turned serious as he sighed "With two centers of power, Zane might actually ascend one day"