About a hundred and fifty years ago humanity ushered in one of their most glorious historical periods ; the age of space colonization.
Keep clear in mind that we had already gained full control over every aspect of the solar system but the age of space colonization was different, thanks to the development of the SEM drive allowing humanity to step out of our solar system.
The SEM drive was the crystallization of the efforts of humanity's greatest minds , it solved the essential problem in cosmic travel; distance. The Subspace Entanglement Module or SEM for short was based on the concept of quantum entanglement .
Basically , it worked by locating quantum nodes in space then folding the two nodes forming a subspace channel which drastically reduced the distance between both points .
The SEM allowed humanity to step into the greater cosmos faster than we could have ever anticipated. Soon the different countries of the Earth federation organiser expedition groups towards the galaxy closest to ours ; Alpha centauri . The sheer amount of resources discovered in their explorations whetted the appetite of the upper echelons of the Earth federation.
Following that was a period of fast paced technological breakthroughs, everything was smooth sailing and it seemed that nothing could probably go wrong .
But then something did go wrong ,our presence did not go unnoticed by the natives of the new galaxy . Yes ! we had our first encounter with another lifeform. We were astonished as we were lulled into the fallacy that we were the only species in the vastness of space ,the fervor that followed was palpable , this was another form life.
Now , rationality intoned that we approached them with caution , however our recent technological advances emboldened us . We were fearless and we paid dearly for it.
Our first physical contact could be summed up in one word 'tragic' . With a fleet consisting of nearly a thousand battle ships an an envoy we were overflowing with confidence as the aliens on the other hand only had a single behemoth of a mothership .
Now you see we couldn't be really be blamed , the Varkens as we later called them were purposely playing pig while being a ferocious tiger. While our weapons were powerful they were not any less accomplished than humanity , to complicate matters they were not as fragile as humans , they possed abilities akin to superpowers we were thrashed without mercy. For every hundred humans perishing in battle only a very small fraction of Varkens died , the scale was not in favour of humanity , we needed a way to raise the capability of the federation soldiers else humanity would be history.
Rallying the greatest scientific minds of humanity various power systems were developed but they just didn't make the cut until project primordial origin.
Based on the stories of human beings who possed the power to destroy mountains and cleave seas with their mortal bodies , though some of these stories were ridiculous beyond compare at this point we were open to any way out , and it worked , project primordial origin was a success , by studying Varken biology we were able to decipher what made them pervertedly strong . By exposing humans to a concentrated solution of origin energy fluid the first batch of origin ability users were born and boy were they overpowered they decimated the Varkens like they were chopping up grass , from then on the the outcome of the war started to tilt in favour of humanity till we eventually won the war . As the facilitators of our success origin ability users became an unshakeable pillar of hope among humans .
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" Hugh , my head hurts like f*ck , the last thing I remember was being smacked in the face by that mysterious bolt of black lightning , wait a sec am I in heaven , the hell , I haven't even fully awoken my origin ability talk less of enjoying life ".
"But wait a minute, is there supposed to be sunlight in heaven ? and I thought there are angels in heaven why does this place suspiciously look like my room or .. I didn't even die in the first place".
" Haha death , go screw yourself am heavens chosen."
Standing up from his bed Dongfan Yue was finally able to truly ascertain that he was really in his room and not in heaven though how he got there eluded him , but hey , who cares at least he was still alive .
"Hmm ..., why do I feel that my body is somewhat different from yesterday , I feel like I could punch through the hull plating of a battle cruiser , this feeling is amazing , could I have already awoken my origin ability ? "
Right at this moment his personal comms gave off beeping sounds notifying him of an incoming call request .
" That's definitely got to be Pang Pengyou.
And was he right , immediately after accepting the call request Pang Pengyou's fat face showed up on the screen.
" Holy shit , Dongfan Yue guess what my origin ability manifested as ?
"A pair of giant chopsticks ?"
" What the hell do you mean ,are you implying that this Pang's whole life is based on food ?"
"Yes ."
(=_=)
" Humph this great master Pang will forgive you on the accounts that we are friends and generously tell you . My origin ability is a nine storied pagoda ! Haha bet you were never expecting that right . "
" Woah , that's great , but what can it do ?"
" Hehe about that I don't really have any idea right now but I really believe it's definitely powerful . "
Scratching the back of his head embarrassedly Pang Pengyou gave a not so confident reply .
" So you have no Idea about what your ability can do ? Tsk tsk tsk ,typical of fatty Pang ."
" Looking down on this young master I'll show you how heaven defying my pagoda is . You just wait , soon, I tell you ."
" Blah "
Mocking Pang Pengyou till his face became as red as a pig's liver , Dongfan Yue ended the call while laughing till tears came out of his eyes .
" Hmm ... ,even Pang Pengyou has fully awakened his origin ability what will mine be ?"
Closing his eyes to concentrate Dongfan Yue peered inwards towards his soul sea ,the very next moment he was shocked beyond anything he could have ever imagined.