In a faraway land ,not earth but other world called Eryndor a fantasy like world with mages, adventurers, ancient spirits, yokais , dragons and gods.
Two of ancient beings fought, not for power, just for pleasure, the immense magic power that came out from them was enough to destroy countries in minutes, instead it created a domain built with their raw mana and a pure spirit power enough to destroy towns without struggling.
The soul of death mark the most dangerous assassin entered the spirit core making them one.
I finally woke up surprised I was in a strange land inside of a forest, I tried to stay calm because I was sure that I had died , I scanned everywhere with my eyes and senses, there were no one there, my vision increased ,my hearing increased .
I knew something was wrong. I looked at my body, and i was greatly shocked, I was known for not being surprised at anything but that was beyond supernatural my body was pure black like an endless void and shadows stretching from me to the end of the forest. first I thought I had been use as a science experiment then I saw different lights in the forest and sky ,the light was like a living energy and the creatures I saw tried to avoid me like they knew I can kill them. I tried to move by I felt like nothingness the same energy in forest was pouring out of me but my was pitch black.
I kept on moving nonstop trying to investigate the strange land and find a way to heal my self , I saw some creatures or should I say monsters fighting ,one with the ability to control fire and the other can control earth as they noticed me they both froze in fear sweating bullets I moved closer and closer but the energy coming out of my body was powerful enough to kill them in the spot.
I tried to touch them but hands formed from the nothingness of my body, I touch them and it felt like power or energy was entering my body with incredible speed .
Nothing changed after that .I kept trying to change my form since hands grew that time I finally took the shape of a human child it wasn't perfect but it better than not having a shape at all.
I started to understand something's like the energy is mana I didn't know how I got that information but like I just knew and those creatures were lesser spirits or something like that, things I shouldn't know enter my head as if being told telepathically and the forest is called " CRADLE OF SPIRITS".
Apparently spirits live here like the ones from novels, I kept on looking for intel's the more I moved the more denser the mana got living creatures running in panic spirits were moving different directions like running for their life's but I knew that my existence in this forest was trouble.
I looked for shelter to stay I kept on moving were all the spirits and monsters were avoiding the mana was so dense I felt chills I just needed a place to stay to plan my next move.
I decided to live in the cave their as my base for a while before finding a way out, in the night as was sleeping my felt like it trying to adapt to something it was so painful it lasted 3 hours, I didn't know how to check the time but i know it was that long. In the morning the cave was destroyed due to overwhelming mana out. I learnt to control my mana output overnight I can make dense or light but I can't cancel it temporarily yet I knew if I needed intel I need to come close to the spirits, but I wasn't sure we speak the same language but I knew it was worth a shot.
Living the denser mana place in the forest, something tried to attack me, It was stealthy and I didn't sense it presence but I moved out of reflexes ,I attacked but my hands phrased through it. I knew it was dangerous i tried to retreat but it didn't let me. it kept attacking but no injuries , I released my mana I saw the shocked expression he had but it kept attacking like he was a paid assassin. Every attack I took it felt like my soul was taking damage or the core of my existence was being damaged bit by bit I tried all I could , I didn't know how but I was doing earth and fire magic like the spirits I killed but it still faded through him. I thought I was done for on till my eyes was Shimmering with black core that seems to swallow light, surrounded by glowing violet or deep crimson ring violet veins spread across the sclera, almost like tiny cracks in reality.
I could see every attack before it landed and I could see his core his very existence and as he stared into my eyes he saw nothing but endless void, blinding his vision and my eyes paralyzed him instantly.
I grabbed his very core absorbing his essence and memories.
I finally knew what was going the leader of the forest wants me dead and I am not dreaming this was really a fantasy world, and if I want to survive I need to get strong and mastering the skills I got will be essential for that, "if they are hunting me, I guess it time for the hunters to be the hunted".
I went back to my base I wanted to test a theory I came up with I slept through the night and I felt it again like something merging with my very soul, in the morning I tested the powers of the assassin and it actually worked every single skill he had became mine and as if overnight while sleeping i mastered it , I could do at will like its extension of my body.
I tried to use my own skills but it drained my mana faster than other skills , I could erase anything into an empty void, I made new skills merging different elements togethers i training for a week mastering my new skills and honing my fighting abilities . I learnt to use mana to detect and living creatures, and mastered my magic eyes in the forest against magic beasts and against an assassin they sent to kill me again.
Everyday I go to forest to map it out, shadow movement made it easy not to be detected I finally made it to the end of the forest after 2 weeks in hiding form the spirit, i saw 3 humans caging up a spirit fox I paid it no mind since it had nothing to do with me, as I was about leaving l looked in the eyes of the fox i remembered a similar look in my eyes, eyes of those who got betrayed and the look of giving up in live entirely.
I knew I had that saw look in my eyes when I was bullied and my friends left because they were sacred of replacing me, I used shadow movement to kill every single one of them so fast they didn't have time to react to my attacks, with my skill I took their abilities.
One of them had the ability to appraise an living thing stats
The other one can double his physical strength
The last one had assassin's based skill stealth
I already knew how to use their skills efficiently, I turned my back to leave but the eight tailed fox called out to " please wait " it said
Before I could tell her anything she fainted from the lack of mana.
I wanted to leave her their but she remained me of myself so I took her to the base , in no time at all she recovered some her mana turning into a small girl I analyzed her I found out she's 1000 years old fox and she's a kitsune and her name was himari and her title surprised me it was "the caused kitsune". that was her title.