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THOU WHO BLASPHEMS GOD SHALL DIE
THOU WHO WISHES STOP THE WILL OF DIVINE SHALL DIE
THOU WHO BROUGHT CHAOS TO THE EARTH SHALL DIE
THOU WHO KILLED COUNTLESS SHALL DIE
REPENT IN DEATH THOU WHO DESCENDED INTO DARKNESS
JOHN DE IGNIS, CORRUPTED SAINT, THE DEMON KING OF SIN.
Amidst the ruins of a grand palace stood a mighty being. In his hand is the battered body of the supposed hero who is destined to slay him. John De Ignis, also known as the demon king of sin. Once a being of holyness and devout of gods in Aria continent.
But after the true nature and cruelty of these gods he turned against them, annihilating their religion, empire, murals and all. To fight against them, he seek the power of demonic realm, he killed countless demons and got their powers using them he again led a fight against the will of these false gods.
But even him, who collected the powers of countless demons is no match for these gods. They sent a hero to kill him, but John easily defeated the hero and broke all his limbs. He held the Hero, who is none other than his cousin, Nathan De Ignis.
This guy is only hero in name, but his behaviour is anything but good. He is an ambitious and power hungry fellow. He agreed to go against John in return for this power from gods. With the power of divinity, Nathan became a Demi-God, a being who can go against the overwhelming power of gods. But he is a fool who can't even use it properly.
Even with that power that can threaten John, he now lay battered in the demon king's hands. John looked at them with disdain as the Gods seeing their chosen going to murder him, finally decided to directly intervene. John crushed Nathan without heeding to their words.
After killing Nathan, he turned to the gods and charged at them with his demonic sword. Shockwaves are respunded throughout the continent, disasters appeared, the world itself trembled at the battle. When the sun is going to set, John is seen supporting himself with the demonic sword but his aura suddenly started surging. In front of him are gods who are hovering in air.
As blood dripped from his face and touched the ground, the Gods attacked him and Johb curled his lips as his power started going haywire. Then a blinding explosion appeared. The world itself held it's breath as the blinindg light made it impossible for them to see.
As the light cleared there is no sign of the demon king or the gods. They just vanished from there.
Hilton Square, Earth :
In the skyline apartments, in room number 15, a thud sound is heard but as it's midnight although the sound is enough to alert someone no one noticed it in their sleep. It's the sound of a bit kicking the stool beneath his feat. He gasped loudly for breath but as the rope around his neck tightened gradually his body lost it's movements and his sapphire like blue eyes gradually closed losing their life.
The sky above Hilton Square darkened and thundered as from a crack, a bright red fire shot into the room from window and merged into the hanging body.
As the red fire settled into the hanging body, a hand stretched out and yanked the rope. The rope broke and the body which is now alive landed on the floor. The boy opened his eyes and said," so the rebirth spell has been successful. Although it consumed almost everything I had. The treasure of space spirit really worked. No wonder the world almost flipped when I took it into possession even the gods became greedy for it ".
The boy spoke. He clenched his fists and frowned," this body is weak. Too weak to even contend against a soldier in the regime. Did he not exercise properly and what is this itchy sensation around my chest ".
He lifted his shirt and examined the dark purple rash, he sighed," his wounds are old and he has internal bleeding. Let's start from here. I don't know who you are boy. I also don't care about your affairs. But I hope you find peace ".
" It's time for me to get to work. First to heal internal wounds and stop the bleeding ", the boy tried to use mana but failed. He frowned and asked," I can feel mana in air, but why can't this boy use it? He has not even a strand of mana in him. It looks like this body need more work ".
The boy sat cross legged and exhaled air before making some kind of hand mudras. " Let's stimulate the body to breath in the air mixed with dense mana. Use the residual energy and stamina of this body to attract it. If I remember correctly next step is to absorb mana through the pores in skin and guide it inside the mana to it mine ".
This is the basic foundation for a mage or mana user in the continent he is from. As he did the process a tear sensation appeared in the body," ugh, this seems more harder. Damn, I miss the previous body. It only needed a few seconds to adapt to mana ".
" Ugh, guuuh. Come on surrender already ", as he is trying to calm the restless mana he absorbed, the mana is going haywire again. After a few seconds of trying to stimulating it again with the stamina from the body, the mana finally settled into his body. He can now use magic once again. Just then a blue rectangular transparent slate appeared in front of him with some letters.
[ Mana has been unlocked ]
[ Conditions fulfilled ]
[ You're now a player ]
[ You achieved a rare milestone : Getting stunned to mana ]
[ You have been awarded with Lesser Mana Affinity ]
[ Lesser Mana Affinity lv 1
Rank : D
Effects :
+1% mana regeneration speed
-1% mana cost
+1% spell damage
+1% mana reserves ]
He felt a deep sensation in his body and frowned. He didn't understand this, what is happening? What is blue slate and why is it giving me something that can make me stronger. As he is thinking, he hesitated for a while before diving deep into the mind of the body.
He inspected the fragments of memories of this body and found the answer. This world has something called an awakening which will awaken one's skill. This is system connected to them. There are dungeons and beasts in this wolrd. There are also the constellations and the so called trials they will give.
Anyway, this system granted him a shortcut, usually this something called ' Lesser Mana Affinity', takes weeks to months to attain for the beginners. Even for him it took couple of weeks in his previous world. This sensation of being close to mana is definitely that. But it's given immediately by system which made him suspicious about who is behind this.