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Chapter 4 - The Falling Star

"So this is what it feels to be a Stargazer," Kael thought, looking at his hands and thinking about the monster that died with just a flick of his finger.

Power was surging through his body as if light itself wanted to get out and walk free from Kael's body.

"Hmm, I feel alive."

"Yes, I feel reborn," he scoffed, looking at his new body and power and what he did to his opponent.

He stayed for a while before the winds and cold started to get heavier.

"So even as a Stargazer, I could feel the cold. Hmm... Interesting," he thought.

As he got near the monster's shattered corpse, he saw a blue glowing crystal that was illuminating the ground as a light source in this world of light absence.

He picked it up and knew exactly what it was.

It was the lumen coin that the Craters people used for currency.

He pocketed the lumen crystal and looked around a bit to see where he was.

As he looked around, he wasn't where he was supposed to be.

He didn't see the gate or any dead trees covered with snow.

He had seen the gate previously, clearly stating it was a Deadland, and there was a large warning sign of absolute below zero temperature. He had also seen some dead trees before going on the treasure hunt.

But now he was surrounded by snow-covered mountains, and he was in the middle of a frozen lake.

He looked clearly below him and found that it was a frozen lake, which obviously used to be a lake before the sun was still a thing.

"Sigh... I am lost," he looked around, squeezing his eyes, thinking maybe he could get some information about this place, but no, there was absolutely nothing to see right now.

Just mist covering everything and mountains surrounding the lake, and him and the dead monster.

"Should I try using my power, then?" he thought.

"Also, the cold is getting heavy with the wind. I should go somewhere safe."

He thought of using his gravity and mass controlling power to make himself fly.

Kael did that. He thought of removing the gravity around him, which would make him relatively light, and he would use his mass control power to lift himself and control his direction.

A bright light of golden ray surged in his body from over the cosmos and bathed him in the golden light.

The mist around him slowly started to part way as he activated his power of both gravity and mass control, and Kael took his first flight.

At first, it was ragged and sloppy as he tried to take the flight.

He was going left and right, up and down, because he still didn't have the overall control of this newly found power.

Kael slowly got the hang of it and was flying as intended. After practicing for a bit and getting the hang of it, he landed on the same place he took his flight from and said,

"Okay, I am getting the hang of it now."

"Phew..." He breathed a long breath and said,

"Fuck it."

He tried to launch himself in the air after gaining perfect control of it.

As he was flying toward and over the mountains to see what was there,

the cold air was getting heavier, and the oxygen level was decreasing as he was high above, seeing the white background everywhere.

Or so he thought.

Suddenly, he was shaken mid-air, as if he never had the power of the star.

Suddenly, everything went blank.

The sky above was covered with thick clouds, covering the big and large stars of the sky.

Kael stopped mid-air.

"Wait, what? Why did I stop?"

Like an iron ball falling from the sky, he fell down from high above.

He hit the ground with the sound of the freezing ground cracking.

"Ahh, my back. It hurts like hell," this was the first thing that came to his mind.

"How did this happen?"

He lifted his hand and said,

"The clouds, maybe."

"My back... I think I cracked my ribs," he said, looking at his hand.

Kael was lying on the shattered ground. He survived the crash because he was awakened; otherwise, the fall from that height would have shattered every bone and organ of his.

"I should take a rest. Ahh, it's cold as well."

He closed his eyes for a second. Suddenly, his eyes opened abruptly as his vision was obscured again by the bright star from the sky.

It glowed again with the yellow light from the sky to his body.

His body began to reconstruct itself again: his ribs rejoined with a crunching sound, and his muscles knitted together.

He gasped, sitting up in the crater his body had made in the snow. He patted his chest. No pain. Just the lingering ache.

"I created a big crater, and it seems I am fine and fully healed from that fall. Is it because of the power?"

He thought, looking at his perfect body.

"So does that mean I can only get power from the stars, and if it's cloudy and the stars are covered, the power will be nonexistent?"

Kael tried to figure out the power that he got from the star and also tried to figure out where the hell he landed.

"It is so risky to use my flight power."

He sighed again as he figured out the power system he got.

"Hmm, I should only lift myself when I require it, or I should just fly at a medium distance from the ground."

He looked around, splashing the snow from his clothes that had covered him previously.

"I got over that mountain pretty fast." He looked to the mountain where he was previously.

He took his right hand above his eyes to see as far as he could.

The wind here was even stronger than it was previously.

He shivered again like he used to before getting the power.

"Ahh, the cold is back again."

He squeezed both of his hands into a folding position as he shivered.

"Wait, can't I just nullify the air around me using the gravity power, as I did with the flight?"

Kael thought hard about it and went for it.

He was having a hard time figuring out this new mechanism, as his mind was going black from the cold. His mind was having a seizure.

But he still tried hard to visualise it to create the null point where nothing could touch him, where he would nullify the gravity around him to not get distracted by the cold, and where not even the snow could touch him, as long as there was a star hanging in the sky.

Suddenly, the air got lighter and heavier at the same time, and he successfully created a field of his own.

Even the mist around him parted, and the snow was like hitting an umbrella, sliding over his head and shoulder without touching him.

"Haha, I finally did it! I will call it Event Horizon."

He finalised his thought and again looked at the surrounding area, activating his Event Horizon.

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