Alex was moving out of the temple as he eyed the cutlas in his hands . The second he left the temple the voice spoke.
" ITEM - EMPEROR;S WILL. RANK- NORMAL LV 1 . ABILITY - MORTAL HUNGER ."
" THE DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN THAT YOU CONQURED HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY YOUR SOUL . YOUR INVENTORY HAS BEEN EVAOLVED . "
His inventory screen appeared before him. He now had small icon slots for the currency that was used in this world . The currency was pretty simple , it started with stone coins which were mostly used by the non core users . 10 stone coins were equal to 1 iron coin, 100 iron to 1 bronze ,1000 bronze to 1 silver , 10,000 silver to 1 gold , 100,000 gold to 1 mithril and finally 1,000,000 mithril to 1 aslothium .
The slots showed the number of coins he had when he clicked them . At present he had a 1000 aslothium and 10,000 mithril . That was enough for him . Which this kind of wealth he could buy a metropolitan city call it his kingdom . But after having the experience of what wealth could do to ones life , Alex was half astonished and half happy .
The cutlass started glowing in flames that suited its magnificent blade . The voice spoke.
" THE SKILL - VOICE OF THE WORLD , IS BEING CONSUMED BY THE ITEM - EMPEROR'S WILL . 90984 MANA POINTS HAVE BEEN TRANSFERED TO THE ITEM - EMPEROR'S WILL . IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SKILL - VOICE OF THE WORLD , YOU ARE GIVEN AN EARLY ACCESS TO YOUR SOUL SPACE . "
The voice stopped as the cutlass pulled out a series of white , blue and silver threads out of his soul through his body. After the surprisingly painless process he looked up for the first time . The temple was gone . In its place was a deep hole that extended far below than the 10-15 floors that he encountered . He tried to close his eyes to enter his soul again after he understood what the voice said before it vanished . But a blue sphere blazed past the edge of his vision . As he turned towards the sphere a young man in purple and gold robes dropped down pinning him to the floor. Alex can feel his nerves on the neck being pressured and he started to loosing his conscience due to lack of air . His hand tightened on the cutlas as he closed his eyes .
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Ketovan Motsari was pining the man to the ground. He was no stronger than a soldier ranker pinning whom is not a big task of the commander ranking Ketovan . The young priest would certainly be surprised if he knew that the man who he was pinning down had not even crossed normal rank lv 3 . He began to close his eyes as his body started to give in , but at the end of the second before Ketovan could carry the unconscious man back into his domain ability, he was blasted of . The man was clearly not conscious but he stood holding the cutlass in his hands with such experience that even royal ranking sword masters with centuries of experience looked like rookies. The man spoke in a voice that resonated with forces of nature .
" Stay away from this man ." the man said.
The first word started a wild fire in the trees around them , after the first word each uttered word increased the fire .
" If the servants of hegemon again dare to hurt this individual they shall see fear that even their god fails to impose. " the mans voice boomed again .
Ketovan hurried into the blue sphere as a large man appeared . He was wearing plain purple and gold robes . He stood guard to the sphere protecting it from the man's voice and the ever growing wildfire .
" Calm down Emperor!!" the bigger man's deep voice pushed against the other.
" This is will be the last warning Hegemon , if i find your servants disturbing my friend again . It will be their end ." the man fell down to the floor his eyes closed and the cutlass in his hands dropped beside him . But the forest continued burning and the 3 men watched silently.
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The blue sphere moved in the air towards the snow capped mountains . Alex was lying to the side eyeing the plane ground with disbelief . He was holding the cutlas in his hands now .
" He did all of this by just speaking ?" Alex questioned.
" Yes . Aren't you bored of this question . If not then I am . " Ketovan sneered in irritation.
"So , you are still normal rank but able to manifest your aura beast in your body ?. " the bishop asked him.
" I am clearly not equipped enough to answer or even understand your question. "
" Well enough . What is your core ability?"
" Command. "
" You are a lucky man , Mr. Sobreviviente." the short priest tapped him oh his back.
" What are yours ?" Alex asked both of them.
" Core of domain , core ability - Minority Space " Ketovan answered.
" Core of judgement , core ability - Verdict " the bishop answered.
" We were not lucky enough to use a relic core for ours . " Ketovan said, in irritation. From the time he saw the man who stole the most important relic for his church he was as gloomy as a mother of a patient. The bishop was the complete opposite of his young companion , he looked at Alex with keen and caring eyes.
" Relic cores ? " Alex asked.
" this is gonna take a long time " Ketovan gowned as he saw the excited expression on the bishop's face .
" The magic or mana cores are like magical organs that get imbedded into the soul after their consumption . There are 7 ranks of these cores . the most easy to find ones are the common ,then uncommon ,then rare ,then epic ,then legendary ,then mythic and finally the relic . There are also many categories namely tools, hegemony ,rebirth , singularity ,end ,celestial ,organic ,elements and so on and so forth . But there are only 27 relic ranked cores , each of the relic rank cores stand at the pinnacle of their categories . Yours the core of hegemony is the relic of the hegemony category . " The bishop concluded his long lesson .
" It really fascinating isn't it ?" Alex said his eyes looking into the sky aimlessly thinking about the possible types of cores that can occur .
" You know what Mr. sobreviviente ? . I am going to love your company " The bishop said with a hysterical smile as they reached the entrance the city .
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The forest was burnt to crips , the trees started crumbling into ashes and lumps of burnt wood . Once a dense forest was now a waste land . The ground was as black as the starless night . The ground started to crack open at the only place that was still green and was not touched by the fires that burnt down trees that were older than most of the royal ranking ancient beings that roomed these vast lands of magic and technology . The patch contained a crest that was older than the gods of time and space . It was existing alongside equation, many unknown civilisations used this crest as a royal sign , knowingly or unknowingly. Uncountable number of rulers and conquers had it on their banners . It was big and intricate ,it had runes in a language that was coincidently created multiple times in the lifespan of this existence but was ultimately wiped off . the ground broke open as a gate moved up from the ground , the gate was a abomination of red and white crystals . it had the same runes that the crest had . The doors opened and a man walked out . He had 5 eyes , 2 on either side of the face and 1 on his fore head , they were crimson read with white pupils . His skin was pale red with some streaks of gold veins . He had white hair which was cropped short. He was dressed in what seemed to be a modern version of a armour from the renesonce era without the helmet , it was white with streaks of red, a complete opposite to the gate which was mostly red with streaks of white . As he looked around him his extra eyes disappeared and his amour vanished . An complete contrast to his battle ready gear was what he was wearing inside . All he wore was a sleeve less shirt and a boxer shorts . He took out a phone from his pocket and clicked on some buttons, after some time a woman's voice emerged from it .
' You ran away again!!" the voice came out.
" Chill sis , I am on a vacation to Terra . Make sure that dad will not be mad at me before you tell me return . " the man spoke in a lighthearted demeanor a complete non sync to his earlier look and features .
He started waking on the blackened ground continuing his conversation. As his feet touched the ground , plants started to sprout around him . These were deep greed unlike the pale plants that covered the forest before its inevitable demise . The man walked towards the mountains . The sun setting from his back as he strolled speaking, yelling and laughing while conversing with the woman.
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