I woke up in a bed sore and unable to understand what happened, my head was spinning and I have many bruises. I feel bad about myself. How could I have lost? I already had a strategy for victory in the palm of my hand and I still ended up on the floor bleeding. gushing I settled into bed and tried to sleep again I need to recover
A few hours passed. I knew the truth. I lost track of time. They deported me. My friends were fine, unlike me. Duncan and Ángel looked happy about their introduction to the subject. The others were half scared to see my face.
Rubén: What happened to you, okay?
Dario: a skeleton that became intangible broke my face, what did you do?
Angel: Ha, ha what an idiot, me and Duncan introduced us to dwarven smithing and control of matter and substances.
Rubén: They taught me a distance style and they are teaching me how to move, I feel like Spider-Man.
Carlos: You didn't mean to say Spider-Man.
Emmanuel: shut up so they don't sue us
We all look we are looking at the viewer to make you feel uncomfortable
Carlos: I am feeling the energy around me to strengthen the structure of my weapons
Emmanuel: They told me that I should feel my surroundings, see or try not to use my eyes.
Dario: well time to go I want to see how I'm going to train see you later
Duncan: ok, take care. One more thing, you can leave us your weapons. We want to make some adjustments. The teacher said he wants to see some of our creations.
I nodded, I left my weapons and left. I didn't know where to go, so I saw some goblins. They were two men who were talking. I just asked them where the dining room is. They gave me the instructions without any hassle and I said goodbye. I continued walking, lost in my mental misery.
Dario's thoughts: I have powers, but the problem is the massive consumption they require. I can only become intangible for 1.5 seconds and it feels like having done a marathon. I wouldn't use my shadows. Luckily, Xotob saved my skin.
When I entered, everyone stared at me like monsters, so I sat down in a remote place and a young lady in a servant's dress placed a plate for me. She told me to enjoy it and left. I ate alone and after finishing I feel strange. I ask the things that I They can tell where the king is, they told me and I had to go see it before I leave, I see how they eat, they laugh among themselves, the atmosphere feels good.
I arrived at a dark room and I saw my lover sleeping, I approached and sat next to the bed, I touched her hair and told her
Dario: sometimes I feel like everyone is two steps ahead of me
In a few hours
I was in a special training room, the shadow king was training me in a new technique.
King of shadows: ok today I will teach you a defensive technique I call it shadow armor, observe
She raised her arm and in her hand it became like a black armor and then on her whole body it was a super defensive heavy armor.
King of Shadows: You see, this is something difficult to master. I managed it in a month, but in my case it was because I didn't have a teacher to guide me, so it may take you half as long.
Dario: And how do I do it?
Shadow King: Sit down, relax your mind and then I will give you instructions.
I followed his instructions and cleared my mind
Shadow King: I want you to imagine a thin layer of metal and place it in your hand.
Imagine a very thin layer of metal like a sheet of steel, with this I tell you that I have it
King of shadows: good now channel energy into your hands and finally use your shadow mode to generate it
I try to do what he said, but there are a lot of things and I didn't achieve anything.
Dario: nothing happened
King of shadows: you are missing a lot, I see that you do not master the basics, I am surprised that they are still alive
The truth is I don't know how to take that comment, if it's a compliment or if it's telling me I'm useless, I shouldn't take it seriously.
King of shadows: I'll teach you the basics of shadow mode, do you think?
Dario: please
King of shadows: okay, take off your clothes
I didn't expect that, but I followed his instruction, I took off my shirt and with great shame I took off my pants, I was in my underwear and I was waiting expectantly for his next instruction.
Dario: That's all I'm going to take from you.
King of shadows: well I need you to sit down now let me explain, shadow mode is a mental state where you bond with your shadows you become one with the darkness you entered level 0 you have to increase that detail more
Dario: And what am I going to do?
King of shadows: I will surround you with my darkness we need a dark environment and do not get upset, you need to be calm
I only saw with a few small signs that darkness surrounded me, I couldn't see anything, not even my hands, I took a deep breath and with that I was imagining things as if I was blending in with the leftovers.
I was like this for a few hours and I didn't get very far, I was able to reach the base state.
Elsewhere in the mortal realm we can see Leo and his partner training in human style
Leo: Are you sure about this – he said with a lot of doubt in his words.
This boy was doing a ritual to be able to overcome some traumas, as you might ask, with a little desert plant that leaves you flying and with some mushrooms that grow in the lakes of purgatory. Starch are mushrooms that show you your darkest memories. They are used a lot to torture
Luna: If you don't fear, I will be here for you. That will help you be immune to Beelzebub gas and you will be able to overcome your traumas.
The ritual began and the callus in the unconsciousness that happened let us discover
Leo Mind
Leo: where am I?
I find myself in a dark place I don't feel anything it's like being dead, but I don't know I move towards the distance I walk in the dark for a while
???: I see that you are still a fucking coward
Leo: who said that?
???: I am always there I am your conscience your fears I am always there.
From all the darkness of my mind a mass of black smoke shaped like a woman who has bat wings on her arms has hair on her body deep yellow eyes her irises are like a connecting circle.
Leo: you are the representation of my fears
???: I am not your fears because we are not going to see your friends
I opened my eyes and at that moment I was younger I was on the battlefield of the second holy war I am in the vanguard and the only thing I see is my old friends being devoured by a big demon it was just a head with hands and feet
I remember I was standing there, I was very scared, in shock, and they begged me for help. I couldn't do anything. What made me wake up was the liters of blood that splashed on me. I ran out and barely. I came out to save myself. I hid in a hole created by some skill. I was crying, the screams echoed in my head and their look of hatred for not being able to help them, that still torments me to this day.
Moon View
Luna: I see that everything is going well
Some time passed and he began to convulse, clenching his teeth, his hands clinging to the floor and began to writhe as if he were fighting someone.
To counteract I used a concentration spell he calmed down and stopped moving, I don't know what he's seeing, but I hope he doesn't stay there for too long.
A few hours have passed and he is still there looking at his memories which torture him. He no longer moves abruptly, he just says incoherent words. He was there and I want to go in and see what's wrong with him. Help him sigh, but it's something he has to do alone and the only thing he can do is What I can do is wait for it and be patient.
leo mind
I see all the suffering in my mind, the memories that I try to erase, I see how I was called a coward, I lost what cost me so much to be a demon, a strong social position, but I reached the lowest point, I was hungry and I dreamed, life was hard until I met them, I I remember I was looking for food from the trash in a restaurant and I saw those who would become my future family, I exchanged glances with Duncan and Dario and they reacted in the strangest way, coming from the hierarchy of the strongest, they helped me, I admit that I hesitated and I threatened them, I was like a wounded and scared animal, they convinced me with genuine words of concern that I had never heard, high society life is like a nest of snakes that are ready to stab you in the back when you say goodbye, after a while they healed me. They fed me when I was at my worst and I met the rest of the others, the comedians Carlos and Ángel, the serious Rubén, and Brandon, the shy Emmanuel, and the two who saved me from certain death by exchanging glances.
I opened my eyes, I was looking to the sides and I looked at the moon, she was as beautiful as the day I saw her. I ran out to hug her and held on tight while my feelings overflowed from me. Tears came out of my eyes like waterfalls.
Luna: why are you crying, love, okay?
His concerned tone made me feel safe.
Leo: I COULD LEAVE MY LIFE NOTHING
Luna: why are you screaming?
Leo: BECAUSE NOW I KNOW THAT I HAVE A FAMILY THAT IS WAITING FOR ME AND NEEDS ME.
It has been a month since I trained with Luna. She helped me with some things that the beings of the kingdoms do not have survival. Heal wounds without spells or skills with whatever you have on hand. Also in this semi-peaceful time I have experienced what it is like to have a partner. and it feels good we do common couple things, but I think we need to talk seriously about what's coming and how we are going to face it, I wonder how the others will fare.
View of the boys
This month, Ángel and Duncan have made progress, managing to control matter better with greater ease and quantity. Rubén has mastered the basics of parkour, but he still cannot move quickly with his chains. Emmanuel can now visualize the world without his eyes for just a moment. diameter of 3 meters Carlos now his weapons are much more resistant and Dario reached level 3 of shadow mode his shadow is now autonomous from his body and he can now feel what they feel, see and hear his shadows, it is very good but there are many disadvantages too.
We are in the kingdom of shadows and with this there are 1 year and 5 months left for Beelzebub to finish his weapon
Duncan's View
I was studying the substances with this shadow, I realized that with a little more and I will be able to convert the liquid matter into a solid, the bad thing is that it is very difficult in practice. I found myself controlling a little water sitting on the floor trying to transfer it to solid.
75644: ara, ara boy I see that you are not yet able to solidify substances
Duncan: no teacher, could you explain again please?
75644: I like your effort ok you see the way to solidify substances is by altering the temperature through cooling it is the exothermic process, but if you control even the atoms you can do this
She took the water she was manipulating and waved her hands in a small dance that was hypnotic and with a little bit I saw how ice formed, but in small quantities like small imperfect crystals with no defined shape.
75644: You see, it's a little complicated, it took me a long time to do it, 3 months, but that's why this is the final part
Duncan: Got it?
My teacher was a shadow in the shape of a woman who seemed to be from the 1500s of the aristocracy because of the way she spoke and her clothing was superfluous as she was already a revived being. I don't know how it works well. Her body was black and looked like the flame of a candle. solid with autonomy.
75644: well my boy it's time to ask you another question, what do you think is the best cutting blade in the world?
Duncan: that's easy, that's easy, the weapons are made of neutral or demonic material, no.
75644: Water is not the substance to be more precise because if you apply enough pressure you can cut anything
Duncan: I thought I couldn't kill monsters with that.
75644: Naturally not with human pressures, but with the more powerful ones that we use you can cut even the wings of the archangels if you give it to them obviously.
Duncan's mind: that should be impossible as she did it without knowing physics
75644: well, surely you will think how we know science, well I will tell you a secret, our lady has more knowledge than you think, she appreciates knowledge and keeps us educated to have a better chance of winning.
Duncan: What do you know about the king, I'm curious.
75644: I'm sorry, but I can't tell you about my wife since it's a rule here if I tell you she'll kill me.
Duncan: I understand well how I make the water leaf.
75644: ho, ho, ho I need you to close your eyes and imagine how the water takes everything away, imagine a tsunami that takes everything in its path
I closed my eyes and imagined what he instructed me, but before that I thought so that no one can tell about the interesting king.
75644: Now raise your hands and put them together like a gun and then leave the water around
I placed my hands as if they were guns and put them together, the water I was controlling came back to me and with this I waited for the instructions.
75644: Now I need the tsunami you imagined, thin it out and throw it from your hands
I followed my instinct and the water began to flow with such force and speed that it went through the wall
Duncan: wow that was AMAZING
75644: ha, ha, ha that's my boy now you can use it in a basic way you made a bullet with the little water there was.
Duncan: Thank you very much, ma'am.
She approached me abruptly and grabbed my cheek and said in a very bad, threatening voice.
75644: miss, miss
Duncan: sorry, I wonder what I could do in the sea or a lake?
75644: you would be a weapon of mass destruction, well that's all for today you can go with the others.
I'm walking away to tell the others.
View of Carlos: I am with my teacher
Teacher: haha very good boy you are good good aim
Carlos: thanks to your teachings
Teacher: already teaching you how to shoot you were disgusting boy it seems like you never used a firearm in your life
Carlos: in fact, I never did it ok
Good teacher after strengthening your weapons you have to know how to use them understood
Charles: Yes.
Master: now you are more useful, not only are you an attack with your spear and shield, you can now be a support with your weapons.
Carlos: Thank you.
Teacher: stop thanking, now generate an anti-matter rifle, I'll teach you how to use it, damn it.
Carlos: sir yes sir
Teacher: generate yourself
He made stone dolls 100 meters away
Teacher: You won't leave here until you give it a try. First, try to feel the rifle and then I'll teach you the mathematical theory.
Carlos's mind: nooooo it's good that now I'm much stronger and more useful but I don't want to learn mathematics.
View of Emmanuel: I was training the sixth consciousness, my eyes were blindfolded so I could have more range
Delta: well Emmanuel, it's time for you to start moving, ok, I'll throw these stones at you and I want you to dodge them or take them, ready now.
I concentrated as much as possible on my senses my entire field of vision is blue and I saw them out of nowhere I see the shape of the stones I feel everything around me I move slightly and the stones pass me I just let myself go I flow in a way agile and fast step by step I move and I only feel the wind of the rocks that pass before the rocks run out I see in front of me the last one I took in my hands was something big about 20 x 10 centimeters
Delta: well done Emmanuel, I am surprised by your progress
He approached me and in 6 seconds he threw me a blow that I predicted.
Delta: well and how you do that it's like you know what I'm going to do.
Emmanuel's mind: if I knew that I could see the future and I saw how I threw stones and that they were projectiles, I was a radar with legs, well, that doesn't matter, he doesn't need to know that.
Angel's View
I have been with my teacher, he is a dwarf who helps me with the forge. Besides that, he knows a lot about materials and the more I know about the materials, I can shape them.
Angel: teacher I think it will break
Dwarf: nonsense black I know you will do well just temper it again
I did what he asked, I heated the sword that I was forging in the furnace and then I dipped it in oil. A queen is a type of giant beetle, which is the female. When it cooled, a unique pattern was seen in the steel. They were not waves like they normally do. They were. pictures and it was unique.
Dwarf: well done boy, I like your cleverness so I expect great results for the rest of the year, for now start with that
He pointed to a special piece of stone that shone purple with greenish blue.
I followed my teacher's intrusions, I touched the stone, understanding its composition, its life, its behavior, and with that, giving it shape was easier, it was easier to become one with matter, in the end, and in the end, we are all made of atoms and matter is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transforms
Angel: believe that this is the sword
Without saying anything, he hit the sword with a battle ax and that's it, it was almost intact with a dent in it.
Dwarf: Ready boy, maybe you're improving, let's keep it up.
Angel: of course dwarf
He smiled at me mockingly and concentrated on his own.
View of Ruben
I was outside the castle with this humanoid creature similar to a hunchback. I called him bou because I don't like telling him just a number. He spat out a kind of cloth that sticks. He teaches me how to move with my chains. He saw potential in me.
Bou: you see, boy, try again, but instead of just using the ones on your body, create them in the stalactites and use them as support
Ruben: Yes sir.
I was doing an improvised circuit that we did I can't make the tight turns the rocks are very hard and fragile they break easily and I always break them I swing like a man spider with the strength of a human to move without breaking the rocks and there comes the curve The closed cave where we are generates black obsidian rock but there is sun here and you know why because of the crystals on the ceiling that generate artificial light and that is what we are using to move the rock and the crystals I try to only use those of my body to win experience and now he tells me to also use the outside ones quickly I chained myself to the rock I didn't leave much space just 1 meter and when I was turning around I got loose making a turn and now I use the outside chain that is coming towards me and I intertwine them with my body chain and was able to make the turn faster and more agile when I landed screaming.
Rubén: I did it, teacher.
Bou: well done boy, let's go eat, I'll teach you how to propel yourself later so that it looks like you're flying.
Dario's View
I'm meditating with the king at my side I'm staying out of it
King: You have already reached level three of shadow mode, it is time for you to learn shadow armor.
Dario: ok and that's a big step forward, no?
Rey: It is not something basic, in fact you are late, normally in a month you reach the 5th
Dario's mind: don't be discouraged, she is a prodigy, you are someone normal who I deceive whenever I try to make something go well, she gives me a hard time, I think she is just measuring my mental resistance, she is a good partner, but not a teacher.
Dario: I understand so in half a month I can learn shadow armor
King: Maybe, but it's a bit difficult, and then it will take you time to learn the shadow rift. It will take you almost all your time here, but you'll get there, you'll see.
Dario: you'll see that I can
King: Well that's all for today, let's have dinner with your friends.
Sorry if it took me a while to upload it but since I don't make any money from this and almost all of my time and money goes to the university and social services, I'm afraid it might take me a while even though I try to upload two chapters a week, I could make them 5 pages long. to speed them up but I feel that it is not my style I am an author and I like to create things and places my dreams are stories about everyone is a scenario and a scenario is a world
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