Chapter 3: Talent Awakening
Only a few minutes had passed since the plane's devastating crash.
In the mountainous region covered in ice, there seemed to be a mysterious ball shining in rainbow colors, and a few meters below it was a boy who appeared to be on the verge of dying.
Aiden felt his mom's weight on his body as his eyes threatened to close at any moment. With sheer willpower alone, Aiden opened his eyes and tried to move his hand, noticing that his right hand was missing.
He moved his left hand to gently push his mother to the side.
"Aghhh, Aghh…" A cry escaped Aiden's mouth as blood flowed out of it. He struggled to sit up, and after a minute of struggling, he finally managed to do so.
His eyes followed the direction where his mom was lying on the ground, and seeing her condition, Aiden started to cry as tears mixed with blood began falling from his eyes. The mysterious shining ball seemed to observe Aiden as if it had a mind of its own, moving closer to him.
"Mom! No, no, no, wake up!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, but deep down, he knew his mom wasn't going to wake up. There was a big hole in her chest and multiple cuts and burns all over her body.
As Aiden cried, he noticed the mysterious rainbow ball coming closer to him.
Seeing the mysterious shining ball, anger welled inside Aiden. He tried to move his left arm to destroy the shiny ball, yelling with blood dripping from his mouth.
"I'm going to destroy you if it's the last thing I do!" Aiden shouted, trying his best to punch the ball. But the ball seemed to dodge at the very last moment Aiden tried to touch it.
Desperation could be seen on his face as he tried to punch the ball but wasn't able to as the more he pushed more blood he lost.
Aiden didn't even notice that while trying to punch the ball, one of his legs had bent at an unnatural angle, and there were multiple large and small wounds on his body.
While punching, Aiden thought to himself, 'I'm so weak. If I had the power like those characters in fantasy novels, Mom wouldn't have died.'
In his desperate condition, not in the right state of mind, he started blaming himself.
'It's my fault for being weak in this cruel world. If I had the power to turn the world upside down with a wave of my hand, not only would Mom be alive right now, but I wouldn't be in this pitiful condition. If only I had the power to change my destiny and my mother's.'
His desire for revenge against the mysterious ball that he believed was responsible for his mother's death was buried deep inside his desperation to see his mother alive again as he lost consciousness.
Later, he found out that things were not as simple as they seemed, and what had happened to him had a deeper mystery.
If given the chance to live again, he might forget about revenge if it meant seeing his mother alive, but he would never forgive those responsible for causing so much pain to him and his mother. Tears of sadness fell from his deep black eyes one last time.
This was Aiden's last thought as his consciousness drifted into slumber.
While Aiden was on the verge of dying, the mysterious rainbow-shining ball entered through his chest and started to merge with his dying body His body started floating a few feet above the ground, and a mysterious light enveloped the surrounding area but nobody was present to see this mesmerizing sight.
The wounds on his body began to mend before their eyes, the skin knitting itself back together, while his severed arm slowly started to regenerate, rising anew with every passing moment.
A few minutes later...
Aiden eyes fluttered as he slowly opened his eyes, he blinked a few times as his body felt lighter than before he stood up while trying to make sense of the situation.
'What the hell is going on!'
He quickly started to check his body by moving his hands, patting his torso, and his legs as he was expecting pain but there was nothing, no pain, no reminiscence of the injuries he faced earlier as he could only the cold on his skin.
"How am I still alive? What is happening to me?" He questioned out loud in silence of cold expecting some answer but only silence followed his voice.
He still remembers the memories of losing his arm and feeling the agonizing pain all over his body, his body shivered just remembering those memories.
Yet even after feeling his body is stronger than before he couldn't believe those memories were face as the landscape around him was a nightmare. Mangled bodies lay scattered, broken plane parts strewn across the snow. Dark red stained the pristine white, some of it still fresh,andwarm.
The blood hadn't even frozen, despite the freezing temperature. Aiden's breath hitched as he turned, his pulse quickening, unsure whether to be relieved of being alive or horrified to see this scene in front of him.
He slowly remembers everything in his foggy mind.
"Mom, where's Mom?" Aiden said, frantically searching for his mom, hoping she would be alive just like him, but his hope didn't yield any results.
He found his mom's lifeless body a few feet away, and tears threatened to fall from his eyes again. As he was about to cry, a captivating feminine but monotonic voice echoed in his mind.
[Ding]
[Compatible host detected]
[Initializing the Cosmic System]
[Connecting the Cosmic System to the host's soul]
[Connection Completed]
"Cosmic system? Host soul? Connection completed? Have I finally lost my mind? No, this has to be real because I'm alive right now," Aiden said aloud, lost in his thoughts. Suddenly, a blue screen appeared in front of him.
Without saying a word, Aiden stared at the blue screen. 'This looks like the cheat the main character gets in web novels, and with it, he face-slaps every being on the planet. Not to that level, but whatever.' As Aiden thought this, the same monotonous, captivating feminine voice sounded in his mind.
[The system is created to assist the host.]
[For better understanding, it is created based on the host's memory.]
"Fuck, it can read my mind," Aiden said aloud.
[Yes]
[The system will assist the host in becoming the strongest power in the cosmos.]
"Then can I revive my mother by becoming powerful?" Aiden asked the question he most wanted to know.
[Yes, you can.]
[The system has stored your mother's soul. When you are powerful enough, you can find a new body for her to revive her.]
Aiden felt a little skeptical about this at first but considering how he revived back from an almost dead condition, he didn't know what was possible or not however this was also his only choice so he started to franntically laugh still shocked by his mother's death, believing in its word of hope.
"Hahahahahaha!" Aiden started laughing out loud as a heavy weight seemed to lift off his shoulders, and tears began to fall from his eyes.
Wiping away the tears, Aiden said in a resolute voice reminding himself, "Even if I have to become the strongest being in the universe, I'll do it to see my mom again."
Deep inside, he wanted to cause cruel suffering to whoever was responsible for his mother's death, but he wouldn't let petty revenge stop him from seeing her again.
After wiping his face, Aiden finally focused on the blue screen in front of his eyes.
[Character Information]
[Name: Aiden Cross]
[Age: 11]
[Race: Human]
[Talent: Unawakened]
[Potential: S-Grade]
[Mana Cultivation: Mortal Realm]
[Bloodline: None]
[Physique: None]
[Health: 60/60]
[Strength: 4.8]
[Agility: 4.5]
[Stamina: 7]
[Mana: 0]
[Vitality: 6]
[Intelligence: 9.2]
[Defence: 5]
[Skills: None]
"Oh, this is like a game," Aiden said with enthusiasm.
"Talent, bloodline, physique—this is some cultivation shit."
"But I have nothing at all. How am I going to be strong enough to revive my mom back to life?" Aiden said as his shoulders dropped, feeling sad for himself.
As Aiden thought about how he had become darker and darker, suddenly a captivating voice sounded in his mind.
[Talent Awakening begins in 5 min, 40 sec]
[Do not lose consciousness while talent is awakening.]
[Good luck, Child]
#A/N: The bold text is when the Goddess is the one who is talking to him.
"How does it feel like the system can feel emotions?" Aiden said this when he felt emotions in the system's voice, and also the voice called him a child, which is also different.
[Yes, I can feel emotion. I can talk normally to you for a few minutes until your talent awakens.]
"Then you are a real person; why are you helping me? What do you look like? Are you a demon who is trying to lure an innocent child into a trap?"
As the system (goddess) found him very amusing, she replied in her original female voice while controlling her voice to not affect his mind.
[For an 11-year-old child, your tongue is quite sharp.]
Aiden listened to the voice that seemed to be the most captivating divine voice he had ever listened to in his life. He had the urge to kneel and worship the voice.
While gritting his teeth, Aiden struggled to stand straight. After a few seconds, Aiden finally began to calm down. Then the same monotonous feminine voice sounded in Aiden's mind.
[As for how I look, I will grant you your wish now because you will not be able to talk directly to me until you are strong enough, and I will not have any energy left to be awake after your talent awakening.]
Suddenly Aiden's vision went black, and after Aiden opened his eyes, he seemed to be in front of a giant golden gate that had many mysterious patterns on it.
"Huh, where am I? One moment I was standing on the ice plain; another moment I was in front of a giant golden gate," Aiden said as he began to check his body, which felt almost the same, but he had the feeling that this was not his physical body.
Then suddenly the golden gate opened itself, and Aiden's body got pulled in by a mysterious force; he fell on his face. Aiden shamelessly got up as naturally as possible, not before doing five push-ups on the floor.
"Oh, it's good to be healthy, and the floor is quite nice as well." Aiden felt cringed by what he did as he realized how he failed to act cool.
While thinking to himself, 'This demon is trying to act all mysterious in front of me and for embarrassing me like that. In the future, I will be sure to spank her ass'
100 meters in front of where Aiden is currently standing, lost in his thoughts, there is a majestic white throne with a golden design on it, and sitting on it is a goddess-like beauty that can't be described in mere words.
She has angelic white hair, an extremely alluring yet enchanting face, and a body that can be described in one word: perfection, with long legs, elegant yet thin arms, and perfect breasts that can fit perfectly in hands with a perky ass.
She was sitting on the throne dressed in a mesmerizing white dress with golden designs, with one hand on her chin and the other on the throne armrest, and her eyes suddenly opened as she listened to Aiden's thoughts, which revealed her bewitching golden-colored eyes.
She then waved her hand, and Aiden teleported in front of her. Aiden had no idea that he was teleported in front of a majestic white throne and that a goddess was sitting on the throne she stared at the human in front of her, with wild thoughts about her, as she thought to herself, 'Never in a million years had someone talked to her like that. How dare this little one? I will be sure to teach him a lesson.'
Aiden, who has come out of his thoughts, moves his head to look in front of him, only to see the most beautiful woman he has seen in his whole life, who can only be described in one word: Goddess. Aiden, who is gawking at her openly, thinks, 'I don't believe I have fallen in love with the demon.'
But he rejects the ideas in his mind as he can feel something weird affecting his mind.
She had read his inner thoughts again, and a small blush appeared on her face, but it quickly went away, for him to call her goddess. Aiden, who was still in a daze, didn't notice it.
Then she looked him in the eyes, and as both eyes met, she released a tiny bit of her aura.
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