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Chapter 2 - 2. The Sky Island

At the Island of Eternity the word peace was a foreign concept

When the island was first discovered floating in the sky the people believed it

to be a cursed island

No one dared to venture into the floating Island of eternity

Well that was until a figure came crashing onto that island from the sky

*Boom* A Shockwave emanated from the area that the figure landed on and

created quite a huge crater

"Owww wtf was that for"

Jeff got up and immediately noticed how light he felt but more amazing than

that he felt so ... Powerful

Then he realized he was naked in a forest where the air felt unnaturally dense

"Is this what mana feels like?"

"I should probably try to find something to cover myself up"

As he was looking around he noticed a huge stone ruin

"Well that would do"

As Jeff started his walk towards the ruin

Elsewhere...

In the clearing of a forest right below the cursed island a small camp could be

seen with various people moving around doing work

These people are part of the "Hunting squad" their main job is to kill level 3

Beasts and collect their carcass for various reasons.

"PLEASE BELIEVE ME, I SAW IT WITH MY OWN EYES, A FIGURE CAME

CRASHING DOWN ON THE CURSED ISLAND

A man was seen frantically shouting something at the group of people

"Miguel you know how stupid that sounds Right?" "no one on in this world can

just appear out of nowhere" Said the oldest looking person in the group

"but I did see it, I really did please just come with me, we can go check the

place out, we could maybe help the person out aswell" Miguel started

pleading

"I don't know about this one Chief" "the island has been a dead zone to all the

hunters" said the most bulkiest person out of the group

"Exactly and we don't know if this "figure" was a person or a beast" said the

Chief

Everyone in the group visibly shuddered at the word

"Or what if it was the result of a failed warp spell?" Everyone turned to look at

the source of this new voice "for all we know someone might be dying up there

right now" came the sound of a newbie hunter

"who the hell are you?" asked hank the bulky dude from earlier

"I joined last week in the expedition, the name's Tomura I'm a grade 1 fire

Mage"

"ohh so you must be the new recruit, I've heard a lot about you lil guy , my

names hank I'm a rank 1 Fighter"

"Nice to meet you sir" said Tomura with a blank expression

"If your here to make friends you might aswell jump into a pool of lava" A Stern

and assertive voice drawled out

Everyone immediately tensed up and got into a line

"Listen up squad, we'll be heading somewhere special today" the guy said

with a grimace

He pointed his finger upwards and sighed

"HUH, SIR DONT LISTEN TO MIGUEL"

"surely this is a joke right"

"Is he nuts?"

Shouts and whispers started to arise from the group

"ENOUGH"

Everyone immediately stood straight again

"It's not because of Miguel's whining earlier"

"We got a report from our recon team, apparently they noticed a huge spike in

mana on the island earlier

"See I told u guys" Miguel said with an angry expression

"Pack your gear, and get your weapons" "we got orders to go up there and

check it out"

The entire group immediately understood what this meant

"w..what was the amount of Ma..Mana registered sir?"

The leader turned around with a frown

"Well that's the thing, our sensors were fried the second the spike happened"

"WHAT" The group shouted together

"you can't be serious?" and now you're sending us up there, sir this is a

suicide mission"

The Chief turned to look at the guy who just shouted

The guy immediately went silent

"The reason you are part of this squad is because of your duty to our legion,

quit being a pussy and get a move on, GO GO GO"

Everyone immediately started gathering supplies and weapon

Inside the control room

"The mana signatures we got from the sensors before they burned up showed

a level of around a S tier beast"

Came a voice from a glowing prism

"that was before it burnt out?" The Chief asked

"Yes sir" the voice rang out

"What are the chances the beast is more powerful than that" The Chief now

getting up asked

"Very likely sir"

"All right then" the Chief said as he walked out

Back to Jeff

Inside the ruin a teenager could be seen walking around with a black cloth

around his waist

"Who knew I would find this gem Inside this ruin, feels so comfy"

"Now back to the matter at hand"

While Jeff was busy trying to find something to wear he discovered something

strange about himself

Since he has a read a lot of stories he figured this must be his 'gift'

He had powers, 5 of them to be exact

And he knew how to use them all

It was like muscle memory

Back to the present

"So how do I do this, let's see"

Jeff held out his hands and started concentrating

Nothing happened

"maybe it needs a trigger?"

Something immediately struck his mind

Oh wait

The wind around Jeff immediately started picking up

It started blowing around very violently

"So this is how it is, I don't even need to concentrate that hard , this power is

like an extra organ of mine, I'm already loving this"

"Well what about my soul power then"

He reached out and placed his hands on a nearby plant

"Oh wow I can sense the soul of the plant,

Oh it's dying"

Jeff could sense a green ball inside the plant , but the green ball was small,

too small and it was slowly dying down

He slowly started reaching out to the soul and started moulding it, he

stretched the green light out and made it bigger

After he was done when he opened his eyes he was dumbfounded

The small plant earlier was gone, in its place stood a gigantic behemoth of a

tree

And the soul inside it started thrumming almost like it was happy

"wow well that's fun , I have the power to manipulate souls, I just helped this

plant become so happy"

Jeff reached out and touched the now ginormous tree, he could sense it's soul

very clearly now , he reached out and cupped it in his hand

And immediately crushed it

Outside the tall tree immediately started crumbling away ,the leaves turned

yellow and died away , and the soul of the tree slowly died out

"Too bad I'm not that into charity ,HAH HAHA"

"I'm hungry, ooo look berries"

As Jeff made his way to the berries he immediately sensed something strike

out at him

As the creature came closer it was immediately send flying backwards with so

much force that it made a small dent in the tree it landed on

"what the fuck are you" Jeff spat out

"IWGEIEHDIEHDIHDBX" The creature started gargling out blood and gargles

"Welp too bad shouldn't tried attacking me u little shit"

As the creature died out black smoke started coming out of it

"oh this must be my death ability, let's try it out then"

"Wakey Wakey"

Black and red smoke started coming out of it and the creature now an undead

mob came out of it

And knelt infront of Jeff

"Go find me something edible to eat"

The creature immediately dashed away with great speed

"that guy will be good to keep"

"ahhhh I'm gonna rest for a bit"

Jeff reached out to a tree and made it grow him a shady area right under it

"Time for some relaxment"

As he slept his body instinctively covered him with a barrier of air