CHAPTER 21
The king of the school was born and all authority lay with him. The whole school was noticed of his coming to the power and he was announced to be the king without any bind. The whole school thought it was shady, but the facts that the well-informed ones did not oppose let them shut up. They knew that the one sitting at the top was a true king not limited by the world and they were the ones worthy of knowing this news unlike others who were looking up to them.
Luke found that there were two types of skills in his skill bar. The first was the skill that was used as a skill in terms of action like cooking and cleaning and level 8 was the highest. If he was a mortal with level 7 fighting skill, the techniques he knew will be only up to the level, but if he has some energy and become stronger, the more techniques will be automatically appeared in his mind. The other skill was the power kind of skill like bloodline level and that was not bound by the upper limit as there was no limit to power. The level of action skills was generalized and worked like a passive talent and would automatically expand encountering new situations or logic or when he became more powerful. Luke used the soul energy and kept injecting into his body to make it stronger. The fact that the skill soul energy body came into the skill bar was more than enough. It seemed that the power type skill took far lesser time to upgrade.
Luke started thinking in various possible situations to evolve the already reached skills to directly given him the answers so that he can become stronger. The power given by the skill bar in action type skills was that others are only relatively at the level due to accumulation of knowledge and experience while he was at the absolute level in any situation even without the knowledge.
Luke was sitting on the chair listening to the boring class. He was in the top position and could enjoy the games. He could easily be a spectator for the games of the characters and see them. He had to enjoy all the possible times as he did not know what would happen in the future.
CHAPTER 22
Luke sat on the throne chair looking at the documents. He was able to become stronger due to he refining the body using the soul energy. He had found that he had grown three times stronger. It seemed that the effect of varying skills had the multiplicate effect of growth rather than the auxiliary effect. He was happy to see that the city was under his control. No matter how much the technology develop and the human society develop, the reason is to make the humans happy. The law of the dark forest is feared due to insufficient strength and he himself can become stronger faster than developing this society. He never forgot that this world and its residents too were his enemy.
He sighed seeing that the twelve members were reinstated. They were powerful and had controlled many parts of the school. They had more than enough power to make some money and he let them so. He had decided to let this city be truly independent from the outside world and made sure that the laws were more perfect. His intentions were informed to the important ones and had decided to enforce the law.
There were many problems to be faced and he decided to make the things more interesting. He decided to make the whole city more powerful and to let the pass-outs to stay in the city. He had also decided to make the city more transparent and stronger. Either the city would develop in the direction of a criminal city or would develop in the direction of a performance city and he did not want to see the either choice. This could be stopped with enforcing some laws and removing the power of weapons and the right to commit crimes and making it more inline with the reality. The competitions could be made in different directions and the fights could be made in direction with inline with reality and inline with no weapon that could cause death.
The main problem remains that such development holds value when there is value in achieving success. The present situation is where the rich and powerful train them and keep the city in a semi-criminal manner so as to educate their heirs and to let them develop a disregard for life and death of those beneath them and those besides them. The cause cannot be too big and the rich and the strong should be attracted and this should also be a direction for the poor but talented to rise.
Luke looked at the soul energy core he had created. He found that the body was able to become younger and stronger thanks to absorbing the energy. He was able to make the soul energy in the form of a liquid easily absorbable by any living body and easily containable by anything he wanted. The idea of using such things was a good idea and he decided to do so.
He decided to use the main idea that the rich and the strong need a place to train as the core idea. The rest will stay the same except that he will use his powers more. He will make sure that some channels will be created and with the energy liquid as the price there are multiple methods to bring the people to participate. The soul energy, unlike life energy makes the soul younger too making the person's lifespan increase much longer.
Luke smiled and took the telephone and made a call. The other side was connected and a voice came, "What are your orders sir?"
Luke said, "Announce to the important people of the world and the ones at the top of the school at the level of the twelve student council members that I have an energy liquid in my hands. Each dose will increase a person lifespan by three years and it also strengthens the body."
There was silence at the other side before a reply came, "Yes sir."
Luke said, "Also announce that I will be arranging some positions besides me and the payment will be the energy liquid name the soul bottle. The positions are that of a secretary with five bottles per year, a councillor worth three per year, a fighter with the talent to command and fight worth five per year and a socialite who already has connection to various societies worth three per year. There is a special position of a personal assistant regardless of gender, selected based on the talent of coordination, multiple language skills, management and understanding and absolutely willing to follow all my orders with salary worth ten per year. They will provided with additional funds for their activity and personal fund of five million per month from my side. All the people selected should be the students of the school. Is it clear?"
The voice appeared, "It is clear."
Luke smiled and said, "Also announce to the people to send some different organizations to test the validity of this energy. I don't want some fools always questioning me. Send someone to collect it soon."
The voice was more respectful, "Yes sir."
Luke disconnected the line and put some energy liquid in the soul crystals he created. The soul crystals had unlimited possibilities as their strength and tenacity depended on the energy contained in them and can be made as non-absorbable. Soul energy manipulation was a good skill indeed. The door was knocked and four soldiers with live ammunitions came with a woman at the centre. She bowed to me and took the soul energy liquid and enclosed them is a safe and walked away. He just had to wait for them to come to him.
Luke found that he had the ability to manipulate space. The space he had was nothing more than an extension of the ability. He was able to increase the space inside the private space consuming the energy and his soul was becoming stronger. It seemed that the souls may awaken some special powers after reaching certain strength. He may be the fortunate one who was able to awaken the power of controlling the space due to having lived in two completely different space times.
He was not scared anymore as he was strong. All the plans began and ended with him. He had to find a way to at least have some fun. He called arranged for some fun. Let there be an elimination match. He called and informed the operators that four positions among the student council has to be vacated and the members are asked to make the decision themselves. There are no limitations from killing and removing them or making them leave on the initiative. No outside authority should be allowed to interfere. Let there be mayhem.
CHAPTER 23
Four groups had to leave the position as they were forced by the other groups. The only remaining ones were- karma gang, demon sword gang, female boxers' gang-Bella, animal tamer's, the engineering gang, the maxwell gang, lumina gang, Celestia gang. The trio that he had the meeting with had decided to form a group and had targeted the Elderglow gang on the fact that Luke was angry against them. Luke did not mind as they had indeed offended him by staying alongside Meera. He did not think much about them but was sad for the arcane team. They were the ones who had the most funds as they were able to make money by writing novels, making screenplays and making storylines for games at this stage. When a group has no chance but to remove someone, they remove the fattest pig in the group. The other two were the weakest and the ones to be removed.
Luke smiled and entered the section where the arcane ones were there. He smiled and entered. The ones at the look-out looked at him respectfully and informed the leaders. He smiled and entered the room and sat down after calling the wolf. None of the chairs here was worthy of him and only his wolf was the best. It did not take much time for the leaders and their co-leaders to arrive. They sat there looking at him expectantly. Luke smiled and took a pen drive and connected to the desk. The graphical wall was activated and the different ideas was shown on the screen. Luke smile and said, "I want a whole series of ideas about this city being mythicized and spread through the world. They should not be able to associate it with this city but once told explicitly, they should understand that his city was similar to the city in the story. You have to make it into novels, light-novels, fanfictions, games and screenplays. How much do you need?"
Sophia the head was not so happy while Cooper and Miles were happy. Luke asked them, "You have lost the seat and is vulnerable. You need more power and there is no way to get it. There are some methods but you cannot take those actions. So what can you do before you are beaten down and all the values you have is extracted."
Cooper said, "We are different from others. We are self-sufficient without the city."
Luke said, "That is true but you will lose the chance to stand up tall. You three may be strong enough to stand alone without the support of the city but that is not true about the other members. They believe in the city and work hard to come here; they work hard to stay here and they work hard to become successful. Is there something that you can do to help them? The answer is no."
Sophia, "I will take care of them."
Luke said, "Would they want to be taken care by the city or by you? Your father may have some resources but it is not strong enough as this city. If you were really brave you should have opened something like a mercenary guild or let the isolated strong ones come to form an association and let them get your help. You are really a fool thinking that money is everything."
Miles asked, "Is not money everything?"
Lukes said, "This world does not have robots and hence people are also necessary."
Miles asked, "What do you really want?"
Luke said, "Follow my plan. I will give you a single energy bottle as a reward. The information about the energy bottle should have reached here by now, right?"
Sofia said, "The renumeration is more than enough. Is there anything else to ask?"
Luke said, "hope you can keep the thing. if the task is not completed, I will be having you three blacklisted from the entertainment industry."
Luke said and walked away. Sofia asked suddenly," What is the goal?"
Luke turned and said, "Five novels, fifteen fanfictions, three scripts and a game. Bring your connections and let it be released faster."
Sophia asked, "What about the funds?"
Luke said, "There are many rich ones who are about to die. Sell the bottle to someone and get the funds and divide among yourselves. If you do not complete it, you will have to return the tenfold."
Luke walked away. They were really fools and it was no reason that they were removed. They could not even take the opportunity in front of them and made me their enemy. They will be punished more severely once they lose. Let them suffer.
CHAPTER 24
Luke looked at the people who had come to meet him. Nathan was the one who was sent by the people and he was the expert in negotiations. He smiled and sat in front of Luke. Luke smiled and said, "You are a good person to approach at the right time. What do you think about the soul drink? How about the name?"
Nathan smiled and said, "The name is indeed good. I know that you are one of those who do not like to lead the talk through a whirlpool, so they send me here."
Luke said, "I am more of a warrior than a talker, although I have come to enjoy the process of talking. It is something that can make the life more colourful."
Nathan, "Do you want me to make the talk longer?"
Luke said, "No need. Speak directly."
Nathan, "What is the cost of the soul drink or what is it for which you are willing to exchange the soul drink?"
Luke said, "I will only use it for bartering. Also inform them that the soul drink cannot be plundered or forcefully traded or I might be angry. I will be letting some competitions be held every once in a while, as this will be the price."
Nathan asked, "Some say that the price of the attendants is too low while others say it is too high."
Luke said, "The position itself is valuable on its own. Besides the money and convenience they are provided, working for a year for me let them live two or four years more. Inform the ones behind you that I intend to make this city more solid and stronger. I want to make this city a true city of study where the graduates are the strongest. There is no need to worry about anything else."
Nathan said, "there is no way to actually have a true city of steady as this city exists due to the need of the people and many of them are nothing more than greedy people. You can forcibly hold the city but how long will it last."
Luke said, "I only care that the city lasts for a few years till I leave the city. It can return to the formal form or be destroyed. I do not care for this city at all. What I care is the present state of the city."
Nathan smiled and said, "Sure. That is a good idea. My mother Nora has organized a fighting tournament that is based on martial arts. I would like to give you an invitation in regards to her."
Luke took the invitation and said, "I will be coming. If the personal assistant is a good one, I will let it work for me for some more years. After all I am a man who wants to be free."
Nathan, "Sure. May I leave."
Luke said, "Sure."
Nathan smiled and left the room and Luke looked at the invitation. He decided to go for the tournament and enjoy seeing some men fight. It would be boring but the ideas of martials arts and their whole systems can be mastered by him as long as he knows of their existence. It was a good choice for him.
Luke looked at the cars that had come to escort him. He smiled and sat inside the car and let it take him to the designated place. He walked out after reaching the airport and entered the plane that was arranged for him. His private plane was destroyed and hence he had no choice but to take the plane of the women who had invited him, Nora.
Luke walked out after reaching the place and looked out to see that the people were ready to invite him. He saw a beautiful woman waiting from him and he smiled and greeted her. She smiled and hugged him and said, "Never expected that I would be meeting the strongest man here. The tournament would be grander as you are joining."
Luke smiled and said, "That would be a good thing and I like to see some fights. Hope that they are able to make me see some new and powerful martial arts. At least they should have developed some new methods of applying their martial arts."
Nora smiled and said, "If the competition was all about showing who had the better muscles wouldn't it be better to see those simulation animations. Martial arts also needs to use the brains and only the ones who can keep evolving can win."
Luke smiled and said, "Ever-evolving is one method and another method is to be a constant being at the higher level of martial arts. It is just like a fish who swims in the water, different situation let the fishes swim however is the fittest. They do not think and they do not predict. They just do it, that is the higher stage than the ever evolving method."
Nora smiled and said, "Logan had broken through that level. He fights as though it is his instinct."
Luke smiled and said, "That would be interesting. Take me to the arena."
Nora asked, "We have arranged a villa for you to rest and enjoy the time. The competition begins after three days. The qualifiers going on now are not so interesting."
Luke said, "I have not eaten food for nearly a year except for those meetings where I was invited. It would be better to take me there. I have no need for mortal pleasure and the mortal needs. The only reason I have come here is to learn more martial arts and to get more inspiration. Even the newest ones should not be underestimated as the strong may not be dependent on inspiration but inspiration can be provided by anyone."
Nora bowed slightly and said, "Sorry for being impudent. How about we leave for the arena."
Luke smiled and said, "Sure."
The both of them had sat on the car. The car was moving fast and the road was cleared so that they could move. Nora smiled and asked, "Would it be impudent to ask why you are strong?"
Luke smiled and said, "It would indeed be impudent. But there is no problem to tell you the answer. I am a sage in martial arts and hence I am strong. There are levels in martial arts each corresponding to different levels of realm instead of having different levels of moves and powers. I have reached the sage realm where all martial arts are known to me and learnt to and perfected to the extreme with a thought. You should understand that not only my body has evolved to that level, all my cells, the internal organs, the nerves, the reflex, the brain, the state of mind, the very way my thought works and the consciousness has evolved to that level. The strength will naturally increase after reaching this level. After reaching the sage realm all the skills are nothing more than derivative of the sage. The other reason is that my bloodline is far higher than any being here. With my bloodline alone I can survive in the magma for a long period of time and fight against the tanks and armoured vehicles. My bloodline comes with poison immunity, temperature immunity, radiation immunity and absolute self-healing ability and the most important feature."
Nora decided to play with the tune of the speech and asked, "What important feature?"
Luke smiled and said, "Absolute immunity to anything that could change or affect my bloodline. My bloodline can only evolve based on my thought to the direction I want and can never degrade or be affected. How do you think that I have such bloodline?"
Nora asked, "Can your bloodline be passed?"
Luke smiled and said, "Yes. But I have no interest in women and I have no interest in having children." Looking at the smiled at the face of Nora he added, "My sexuality is oriented towards women and I like women sexually. I do not want to be involved in mundane things and decided to keep myself pure."
Nora said, "The strong should enjoy everything."
Luke said, "True. But believe me when I say, no women can survive under me, even if I want a woman. Enjoyment is nothing more than satisfying some desire. I do not need to emulate the other strong and follow their methods of enjoying their desire. I am the real strong and anything I do is the right thing that the strong should do."
Nora said, "You are right. Why are you different?"
Luke said with a smile, "Because I am strong and because I am a killer. I would have killed the whole nation if not to have more fun. I want them to work harder to become stronger and challenge me. Saying that life is boring because you are strong is foolishness but I would like to say that this world is indeed boring."
Nora asked with a smirk, "Do you need stronger opponents?"
Luke smiled and said," I have been learning ever since I have come to this world. The knowledge is learnt and so has the information. Inform others that as long as they are willing to provide me with all the information, I can give them some soul drinks."
Nora laughed and asked, "Why are you changing the name every now and then?"
Luke smiled and said, "Because I am the one who gave the name. That drink is nothing more than soul energy condensed into liquid form that can be absorbed by a biological body that has a soul. Usually, the energy would be absorbed by the soul, but I modified it to work like the manner it works. Each bottle is made by me. The energy of the soul is the most unique as they are a higher dimensional energy. The soul is the essence of life. The universe moves from being in the state of dead matter to living matter using the power of soul and consciousness."
Nora asked, "Why make it so?"
Luke smiled and said, "Microbes and some animals do not have soul. The soul is born on the body of conscious beings and is unique to it. The different parts of the body will not have souls. I wouldn't want the old men who take the drink to die due to the microbes in their body growing stronger due to energy. I don't want the cancer in their body to grow stronger. After all cancer cells are stronger than ordinary cells in terms of growth."
Nora said, "That is indeed a good method."
Luke said with a smile, "You have not said anything about you, fair lady."
Nora smiled and said, "I am the one who walked out of corpses like you. I just had to kill all my siblings, kill and swallow the family and power of my fiancée, cripple all my elders and take the Structural corporation under me. I am one of a kind. The only reason martial arts is respected in this country is because it is my hobby."
Luke smiled and said, "That is indeed a good thing."
Nora said, "I have some connections and there are a lot of women who would like to get married to you."
Luke smiled and said, "I have no interest in that. I would rather learn more and become stronger."
Nora asked, "Why? No one can even reach your level."
Luke smiled and said, "it is indeed true. But I cannot survive in the space alone and I cannot survive inside the sun. Not to mention the black holes or supernova explosions, what about the dangers outside the universe."
Nora said, "Those things are not possible."
Luke smiled and said, "For ordinary humans that is indeed not possible. The limitations of genetic technology is the need for a huge amount of resources and the technical support of a bigger civilization. It is not impossible for a single person to try to reach that level, but the person should be extremely lucky in the earlier stages and should have extreme comprehension and luck that the path he chose is the path that can be upgraded. But when it comes to energy that can be manipulated by the human body, all logic breaks, as the only thing needed is to accumulate higher energy and become stronger."
Nora asked, "I thought that the energy was a rarity."
Luke said, "It is indeed a rarity for the people of this world but not for me. Would you think too much before scattering some sugar cubes on the ant hill. You wouldn't. But a proper businessman would make the ants work for him."
Nora said, "We are not ants."
Luke said, "is there a better metaphor. To destroy this whole world is easy for me and you wouldn't even be able to touch me literally. I can go deep into the ocean and take a lot of water into my space and keep releasing into the city and destroy the cities. I can take the magma from the volcanos and do the same. I can take a huge piece of land into my space from a big plateau and fly to the sky and let it fall like a meteorite. Although I am not a perfect god, I am indeed invincible in this world and you all are ants. You many hide deep within the grounds hiding from me but I can destroy the whole ecology of the world. I do not need anything from this world as an intake and I am not tired and destroying this world will only takes some time. So the question is not whether you are ants, the question is whether you are willing to recognize it and be an obedient and or try to challenge me like the foolish stories where the mortals try to stand against the gods."
Nora smile and said, "That is true."
Luke asked, "Why are you not sad?"
Nora said with a smile, "There are many people who are above me and there are many things in the society that can affect me. Why should I be sad that there is one more danger. At least you are a man and I have my advantage with men."
Luke laughed and said, "You are indeed interesting. Don't announce my arrival. I want to see the competition of the rookies without giving them much pressure."
Luke jumped out of the car and flew to the arena.
CHAPTER 25
Luke sat at the side and saw the rookies pecking at each other. Some of the methods were indeed interesting while others were too foolish in his eyes. He has stood at the top and knew that the moves that appeared right and correct at the lower level were foolish at the higher levels. Too many moves are present at the lower levels and they never know the method to rise to higher level.
Luke was sitting and a man came and sat beside him. He offered the snacks he had and Luke did not take it. He smiled and watched the match. He though about condensing some cores on his body and he knew that his body was in a saved state and hence would not fall back no matter what and he did not have to manage the body at all. He smiled and started forming energy cores inside his body and let it protect his body. He liked the method of the novels where the Buddhist made their bodies strong as vajras and he wanted that. He did not know the method and he could only make the body stronger. He had thought about making some phantoms on his body but he wanted to be a pure human. He decided to create energy cores in the solidified forms so that the energy core will expand and let all his cells have an energy core of its own. He could only direct it himself and due to his higher level of consciousness he was able to manage the action and real-life interaction together.
The main core let all the cores of the different parts be strong and all the changes at the main core would be reflected at the body. Each higher form of the cell also have a core, such as tissues having a core made of cores of cells, and organs having the core made of cores of tissues, and the main core reflecting all the cores of the body. The evolutionary direction of the body was already decided.
Luke looked at the match more happily as he had made a path of movement. The method was named complete human body soul core forging and with each level the quality of the core would increase and so would the strength of the body. The strength of the body would increase regardless of the increase in level due to energy, but the increase in level is due to the quality and in the methods.
Luke smiled and looked at the matches. He smiled and called Nora and Nora answered the phone. Nora asked in a seductive tone, "What do you want my lord?"
Luke smiled and said, "Announce to the world that the winner of the competition will be given a martial art that will allow them to break through the limits of the human body and reach at least ten times the strength of the limits of the human body. I will also be giving them a special soul energy that is useless in improving the lifeforce of the person but would increase the strength of the human body."
Nora smiled and said, "Is there anything else."
Luke smiled and said, "Nothing more. I just want the ones who hide to come out. Let them perform for me and make me happy."
Nora asked, "Are you sure you don't want me to arrange some women besides you?"
Luke said, "Unnecessary. Make sure that the participants are able to arrive faster. Please postpend the competition for a week. "
Nora said, "Sure."
Luke stood up and walked to the other side. He walked and went to the VIP room. He really hated sitting among the populace.
Luke was walking alongside the sidewalk seeing the city. The city was beautiful and so was the customs. He saw a cat café and decided to enter there. He had played with wolves and bears but had not played with cats and tigers. He decided to see the cats. He entered and ordered a coffee and looked at the cats moving around. He caught the cat that was going to run away and looked at it. The cat tried to scratch his face as it was scared but Luke put him on his lap and kept patting him. He fed it with some soul energy and it lay down on his lap with a calm face. The car enjoyed the massage of energy and other cats who sensed the energy came to him and rubbed his legs. He went to the corner and sat on the ground and played with the cats.
Animals believed and lived by their instincts and followed him while the humans only felt something good and did not think much. Luke kept playing with the animals and he was happy. The cute and fiery one lay on his legs and others were around him. The waiters were surprised at the fact and did not do much.
Luke looked at the man who came into the café as he had some unruly temperament around him. Luke knew that his luck was extremely good as his strength would affect the world, but having some interactions with the people was something he did not think of. David was an unruly person in the novel who had fought till the end all alone. He fought against the gangs, he fought against capital and he fought against political people. He was powerful enough due to his family and his background. Luke decided to play with him. The reason he came to this world was to enjoy with the characters and he was going to enjoy. He smiled and took the cat and smirked at him.
David was angry at the fact that the cats were occupied. He took a catnip and a luxurious cat-food and tried to attract the cats. The cats looked at him for a moment and then turned to please Luke. Luke smiled and enjoyed with the cats. David was a cat idiot and he did not have much other hobbies. He had the hobby of playing with the guns, but he liked to kill real people instead of shooting some tin cans.
David could not fight as it was against his creed. He could only try to approach Luke and ask, "May I join you?"
Luke smiled and said, "yes."
David sat down and tried to take the cats but the cats were still attached to Luke. The waiters wanted to come and bring some cats to David, but they knew that David did not like to have the cats forced. David said to Luke, "My name is David. How do you get the cats to come to you?"
Luke knew that David would get to know him sooner or later and did not want to hide his identity. The real travesers would get the characters come to them and let them please the travesers instead of trying to please the travesers. Luke smiled and said, "I just fed it some soul energy. All the animals are attracted to soul energy."
David scoffed and said, "There is nothing like soul energy. People of your age should try to get out of the fantasies you read."
Luke smiled and used his energy to let some cats rise and stay there. David thought it was some kind od trick and checked to find that the cat was not attached. Luke seeing that the person did not believe it make David rise a few centimetres into the air to make sure that none of the others notice it. David said with a smile, "This kind of power is useless in a fight unless you can mobilize higher forces."
Luke smiled and said, "I can indeed mobilize higher forces. There are many methods to do so." Luke looked at him and asked, "So what do you want?"
David said, "Help me get the cats and I will repay you properly."
Luke said, "If you can take me to have some fun, I will. I am new to this city."
David said, "Okay."
Luke used soul energy to make a mark on the hands of David. Luke smiled and said, "This mark will make all the cats that are smaller than pure cats attracted to you. You can try."
David took and cat and the cat kept on licking the hands of David. David smiled and asked, "Why do say pure cats."
Luke smiled and said, "I don't want you to die, trying to attract some tiger to yourself."
David said, "I wouldn't do such foolish things. I will let the tiger be in a cage and then try to attract it."
Luke asked, "How are you going to let me enjoy the time here?"
David asked, "How long will the mark last?"
Luke said, "A year."
David said, "I can wait sometime before I play with the cats. Let's go and have some fun. I will take you to the craziest places."
Luke stood up and said, "Sure."