"SSHH- SSHH"
*Boom Boom*
Vlitra Academy is an academy for people of all backgrounds to attend in the US, so it wasn't prestigious nor was it bad, it was just slightly above average.
With over 4000 students and 40 different fields of study outside general education, it was definitely a lot better then other high schools when it came to getting a good education.
It was currently lunch for the students, so a majority of them ate within the cafeteria that contained a lot of food that of course wasn't free. But within the bathrooms of this academy, there was a student who had other plans.
"SSHH-"
*BOOM!*
A student with slightly bruised knuckles standing above another student he just knocked out was Amihan. He was a 16 year old Junior at this Academy who had average grades that consisted mostly of C's and B's.
Rumors started to spread recently that there's a dangerous bully who steals from students. Of course the school tried to look into it but haven't found anything about who's responsible. They've questioned people who were victims that reported it, but they only can describe him as a masked assailant.
That's right, no one knew Amihan as a bully for he always wore a disguise during his 'outings'. People barely notice him at all in fact since he keeps to himself, except certain women who were curious about this man who isn't loud like the other guys.
Amihan took off his mask and jacket he wore and shoved them into his backpack. He then took the student's money and then put his hand on the person's head!
He closed his eyes and kept his hand there for a few seconds, before letting his hand go and walking away.
The reason he still hasn't been caught despite blatantly beating these students up was because he always scouted areas where there were no cameras around.
Vlitra Academy was a big 3 story building that had a garden in the center of the building and a track field in the back of the school with the workout gym and gymnasium next to the field.
There were a lot of cameras throughout the school, especially on the first floor where the bookstore and cafeteria was. However, the second and third floor was a different story.
On those floors there weren't many cameras at all so students didn't feel constantly watched going to class.
Although bullying has been an issue, it's not as bad at the school since the moment they're caught bullying they're expelled when enough proof is given.
On the second floor near the staircases were a couple of bathrooms and a student was currently entering it. Within the males bathroom laid a student unconscious on the ground! He woke the person up before calling security over and taking him to the nurses.
Amihan had already left the scene a couple minutes ago. That bathroom was convenient for him as the camera that was situated in front of the staircases didn't see all the way to the bathrooms.
He also changed into his disguise the moment he enters through the door rather then outside so the camera doesn't see where he came from.
'That man only had $70 dollars.. Hopefully I get a big fish soon.' As Amihan walked into the cafeteria in his uniform to pick out his food before the bell rang, he thought back to what made him start preparing for what's to come.
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2 months ago, on July 12th, 2024, a strange rock from space got pulled in by earths magnetic field. As it started speeding into earth, it began to slowly break away and lots of pieces of the rock were already burnt away before being engulfed by flames.
As the rock approached earth more and more, all that remained was a pure black orb no bigger then a baseball! However, this orb didn't burn. Instead all the flames around the used to be rock vanished, so people that saw the shooting star weren't too surprised at the outcome as this happens all the time.
Even scientists that were monitoring the rock didn't care too much as they predicted that was gonna happen.
But no one knew that the black orb had already landed in someones yard.
Within the backyard of Amihan's parent's house laid a black orb that didn't crash into the ground, but was instead floating a few inches off the grass!
Amihan heard some noise in the middle of the night and checked the yard to make sure no homeless person was snooping around.
When he saw the black little orb with his flashlight, he noticed no light reflected back at him at all which made him curious, so decided to approach it.
When he did so, he noticed orb was pure black, as if it was a void or even a black hole. With his curiosity peaked, he touched it.
"A-"
Before he could even scream, his body passed out, but when he awoke, he didn't have a body.
He was currently looking around into the void, he couldn't feel his body nor could he hear anything, he could only think.
'What the hell is this?!'
*Click*
He heard something like a click noise and all of a sudden, weirdly shaped yellow symbols started to swirl into existence in front of him.
At first he couldn't understand what they were or what they meant, but then they started to transform into english, as if being translated.
"Congratulations on being the first and the last fortunate human being to see this information, consider yourself lucky!"
After he finished reading it, they transformed and translated again.
"Your world is supposed to end within 489 years according to the current Deity who rules that planet and governs your solar system. However, I wish to make a deal with you."
"I'm going to give you the information to upgrade your soul through a meditation technique. This soul strengthening meditation technique will help you break the shackles of the human body made by your deity and allow you find the Garden of Eden."
"Within the Garden of Eden is a tree of life. Deity's that have a lot of power rely on these trees of life to fuel their own souls so they can further their divine kingdom and establish a strong foothold in this vast universe."
"Why am I telling you all of this? When your deity created your world and made a race called 'humans', he gave them a lot of intelligence and even free will, which not many deity's do!"
"This is because your deity made humans with divinity, so every human has a fragment of divine power in them that is restricted by your creator. But because of their free will, they ate a fruit from the tree of life, causing the tree of life to be damaged and with it the entire world and the deity's own divine kingdom! This is why your deity must now wait for another fruit to be fully ripe before starting over, which is 489 years."
"I want you to use this meditation technique to strengthen your soul so your soul gains the power to feel the divine elements within it, so when you focus on a map of this world you'll be able to sense where the Garden is."
"Once there, you must defeat the sword that guards the Garden and burn the tree. This will end the Deity's source of power and reign over this world for he has been weakened for the past thousands of years."
"After which, your soul will be saved and you will be given another chance in life. I'm offering this opportunity to you so I may take over this solar system. In return you will gain a second chance at life in another world with your soul."
"All of this information was be saved within your mind along with the meditation technique. Good luck."
After reading all of this, Amihan suddenly woke up and found it was still dark in his yard. He remembered everything and had so many questions, but he knew one thing for sure.
'Another chance at life..' He didn't know what sort of world he'd be transferred to after this, but he knew if it meant getting out of this shit hole, he'd risk everything he has.
He realized as he went back into his room that when he thought of mediation, he remembered some writings about meditation. He closed his eyes and tried to peer into his memories hard and he began to vividly see the writings.
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Soul Strengthening Meditation Technique
By Dr. Kassadin
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Sit or lay still and put your hands together, take a deep breath and hold it in. While you hold your breath, imagine your hands and fingers with your eyes closed.
Try to look at them while your eyes are closed, if you focus hard enough you'll feel your heartbeat in your hands! Then imagine your shoulder and with enough focus, you'll now feel your heartbeat in your shoulders.
This is a meditation technique that focuses on moving energy in your body to a certain area of your body you choose. If you choose your brain, you can absorb energy from the environment and purify it, strengthening your soul.
Choose your focus on your knees and legs, you'll slowly start to grow taller if you were still a growing teenager.
With this meditation technique, focus on your brain and strengthen the soul. As your soul gets stronger you'll find power that has always been possible within you.
But you can only absorb and purify so much energy everyday so as to not spill the energy from your cup. To increase how much you can store, you must place your hand on someone's head where their brain is and focus on your hand.
You'll begin to absorb soul fragments from their soul to strengthen your own. They must be unconscious or dead for this to take place.
May my knowledge seek the right audience so they may surpass their limits till the bottleneck point is reached.
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After reading all of this, Amihan stuck to this meditation technique everyday since till present day. He came up with the idea in August to begin stealing and saving money so when he does find the Garden of Eden he'll have the equipment and money to get there when the time comes.
This sort of lifestyle of his of stealing money from students and gathering soul fragments every couple of weeks or even few months continued until he was 18 and finally a senior.
It wasn't until 2026, March 3rd, that he found where the Garden of Eden was. Everyday he would put his hand on a map and focus his energy into it, but never did he sense anything until now. Within the Amazon rainforest, he could see and sense a tiny red dot within the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
Throughout his cultivation journey in the meditation technique given to him, he began to learn that the soul was capable of manifesting the energy that he gathered and purified into existence outside his body. He tested this and learned that he could change elements within the energy such as heat or cold elements.
He found one day he wrapped a line of energy with no elements in it around a doorknob and froze the energy. This allowed him to actually pull the door towards him! If he didn't freeze it and let the energy sit there, it would've slid off the doorknob despite being able to touch the surface.
Although he could only implement the elements of heat and cold into his purified energy, he believed it could still come in handy in the future. If he could use purified energy this way, who's to say whatever awaited him in the Garden couldn't.
Although the energy was used to strengthen his soul, that was within the limits of his soul. He started to gain less and less of an increase to the amount of energy his soul could absorb compared to when he first started absorbing soul fragments from others. He meditated everyday for 2 hours so his body had a lot of purified energy stored inside.
Despite this, when he found he could manifest the energy, manifesting used up a lot of his stored energy! So he began to meditate 4 hours a day so he could manifest this energy to make it easier when it came to getting people unconscious for him to absorb more soul fragments.
Amihan could long sense how much purified energy was stored in his body and his soul, so before he left for brazil, he made sure his reserves were plentiful in his body before flying out despite his parents questioning him.
Amihan currently had 42/42 purified energy within his soul. When he first started he believed he had 1/2 with an hour of meditation focused purely on his brain giving him only 1.
And within his body he had 380/380 purified energy. The body apparently could hold a lot of energy compared to the soul, but whenever he manifest even a small energy fireball the size of ping pong ball, it used up 20 purified energy! And a foot of energy that was as thin as a strand of hair would use 2, if he added ice or fire element, it would be 4. So whatever amount of energy he manifested, if he added an element it would double.
When he was ready, he departed on June 9th, 2026 for Manaus. When he arrived he rarely communicated with the people as he didn't know anything about the language here, having to look for a tour guide who spoke english to drive him to a gun shop so he could buy a gun, which he had to pay extra for as he was buying it illegally. He settled for an AK-47 with 2 magazines filled with bullets.
He then had the tour guide drive him close to the amazon rainforest, where he got out and entered the unknown to look for the Garden despite the tour guide's protesting.
Amihan came prepared with: boots, cargo pants, a white t shirt, black hoodie, tactical gloves, a face mask, sunglasses, backpack full of food, water and medical supplies, and of course the gun strapped across his body to his side with the magazines in one of his backpack pockets, he was ready to find the Garden. In fact, ever since he entered the forest, he actually could sense where it was, making it a lot easier!
...
*BANG BANG BANG BANG*
Amihan found there were a lot of dangerous wildlife he had to scare off by shooting or even shooting at them, and worst of all, there was even some tribe that tried to kill him out of nowhere!
When an arrow nearly grazed his nose, he immediately dove for cover behind a tree, taking out his gun and firing away at the painted prima civilization.
It wasn't until he had killed a least a dozen of them that they started to retreat. Although he wasn't trained for any of this, his strengthened soul allowed him to adapt to situations a lot faster, think clearly and focus on anything with clarity and great speed.
After 14 hours of walking through the Amazon rainforest, he came across something he didn't expect at all.
A 3 meter tall purple portal was swirling between 2 giant trees! It was surrounded by forest everywhere, but it didn't make sense why no one has found it.
After thinking for a moment, he realized it must be because of his strengthened soul that he could see it! If anyone else was looking at the 2 trees they'd just see ordinary trees, the only significance being 2 branches 3 meter above that were intertwined with each other, bringing the two trees together.
Seeing this, he dropped his gun and backpack, "This is it, the Garden of Eden.."
He formed a layer of energy around his entire body, which consumed 60 purified energy, leaving him with 320/380. Amihan didn't know much about any religion, so he had no clue what could be within the Garden of Eden. He was sure however that whatever it was, it must be strong if it's protecting a very important source for this world's deity.
Amihan never had any inspiration in life, just living and doing what he was told to do like going to school. He didn't see much reason to live except make money so he could find things to do. But ever since he learned he could move to another world and leave this boring place where people are taught to be walking dictionaries, he dedicated everything to this!
With an intense desire for a second chance at life, even if it meant he could be killed or this world would be destroyed and taken over by someone else, he took a step into the portal, ready to face what obstructs his path towards a new future.