Alex was sitting on a bench in the enormous library of the company owned resort of the Motsari cooperation. He was holding a large, chunky book, roughly 2000 pages long. Its heading glowed greenish gold, its letters shining with the mithril metal coating.
THE TALES OF PAST – BY DEUS ETERNA
Ketovan walked into the library, his eyes glowing a bright yellow color beneath the big chandelier, which illuminated the library with yellow light.
"Like it?" he asked
"Just read one of many tales this offered. Are these stories even true?" Alex asked
"Only the oldest people in this world know what really happened in the era of void," Ketovan said, sitting beside him.
"Era of Void?" Alex asked, looking at Kordofan
'a blank age in the history of this world. According to our history records, it is a blank paragraph spacing 1200 years. They say many wars happened then, and divine rankers fell like flies. The almighties feared death, the founding fathers ran off into a pocket dimension. "ketovan said
"Who are these almighties and founding fathers and whom did these beings feared and why? "Alex asked,
"The Almighties are 10 selected beings that are considered as powerful as conceptual beings, if not higher. They can only be 10 almighties in this existence. They are selected by the world and can destroy planets at a whim," Ketovan said
"Do you know who all these 10 people are?" Alex asked
"I know 1 personally, but the rest I know only their names and races, " Ketovan said
"Who are they, tell me?" Alex asked excitedly.
"Not now. "ketovan said.
"fine "Alex answered
"Now what about you ranking up? You did not decide to remain a normal ranker, did you?" ketovan said.
"Not really, but I am not sure what should I choose, "Alex said doubtfully.
"Well, my friend, you have consumed one of the strongest cores this magical existence can offer, and not ranking up is not an option anymore, "Ketovan said.
"The ring you gave says that I need to use my ability 36,500 times before I rank up and all of my 175 skills need to be unlocked." Alex said.
"Have you ever heard about a warped space?" ketovan asked
"No, "Alex said
His ring displayed a screen before him
WARPED SPACE: -
A REALITY THAT IS A BYPRODUCT OF HIGH MAGIC EXPLOSIONS THAT OCCURED DURING THE CREATION OF PLANETS. A WARPED SPACE CAN BE AS SMALL AS A BUILDING AND AS BIG AS AN ENTIRE PLANET. DUE TO THE HIGH MAGIC CONCENTRATION IN THESE SPACES CREATURES CALLED SOULESS ARE GIVEN BIRTH TO.
A WARPED SPACE CAN BE CLASSIFIED BY THE HIGHES RANK CREATURES IT CAN SPAWN. FOR EXAMPLE, IF A WARPED SPACE CAN GENERATE A MAXIMUN OF ROAYAL RAANK SOULESS BEAST THEN IT IS CLASSIFIED AS A ROYAL RANK WARPED SPACE.
THE SOULESS BEASTS HVAE A MANA CORE WHICH IS DIFFRENT FROM THE ORDINARY CORES. CONSUMING THEIR CORES CAN DECREASE THE NUMBER OF TIMES A PERSON NEEDS TO USE THEIR SKILL FOR A RANK UP.
"This ring is as good as my lost skill, 'Alex said
"What skill are you talking about?" Ketovan asked
"The divine rank skill that I got from using an item. It was called the voice of the world, "Alex said
"What happened to it?" Ketovan asked, clearly surprised.
"That cutlass I brought with. It ate it." Alex said, backing away from the shouting man.
"It ate it!!" Ketovan voice rang out from the library.
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Prince Ector Calman Dior was having his daily lessons with his mentor. Being the prince of a lank filled with mithril mines, royal ranking and noble ranking warped spaces provided him almost the best choices and opportunities a hum can get hands on. He used soulless cores to reach solder rank, but after that he decided to rank up by sheer hard work and a bit of help from his father. His core was the core of clouds, and his core ability was constructed. Some consider it the best possibility for a ruler and the worst possibility for a warrior. All he can do is generate small cloud ships and building. But he chose to fight his way up. His father insisted on him using soulless cores and rank up as fast as possible, as he himself had ranked up to royal rank by using them. It takes an unfathomable amount of wealth to buy enough soulless cores to make a man reach royal rank but after which they are basically crippled and cannot rank up anymore. They can't even reach the second level of the royal rank.
"Having hard day, your highness?" his instructor, a royal ranking woman with golden hair and light brown eyes, asked.
"Nothing mucks Madam Diva," the prince answered.
They were exchanging blows, the prince's moves were not so refined, but they were landing. On the other hand, his instructor was moving like water. Adapting to her surroundings. When she moved, no one could say where her hands ended, and her sword started. Ector lifted his left arm mid fight, and a cloud wall appeared between them. The rules for their lessons are simple: Ector can use his core abilities and skills, but his instructor can't. Even he was majorly overpowered, as the royal ranking instructor's strength alone can tear his strongest defenses like tissues. She simply cut through his cloud wall and continued. The attack kicked Ector into a defending position. After some time, he started to duck completely out of the instructor's strikes. Right, left, back, jump, left, left, jump, back, crouch and right. It seemed that his instructor had enough fun with him, with a single kick, she flew him all the way across the palace gardens, which were kilometers wide. The next second she appeared before him and slammed him into the ground using the know of her sword handle.
"I yield!" the prince declared his defeat.
"Next time we will be using actual weapons, not these metal scraps, "the instructor said, throwing the sword in her arms onto the ground.
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Alex was walking alongside Ketovan in the mansion garden. A small glow caught Alex's eye at the edge of their vision. When he turned, he saw Renald moving his hands strangely, and few lines started appearing out of them. Slowly they started to take the shape of a rune circle. It was intricate, I was a group of many circles, hexagons, runic letters and other symbols. The circle glowed deep red .
"What is he doing," Alex asked
"Using his ability." ketovan answered
"So that's how we use our abilities, "Alex said with a hint so realization in his voice.
"Not really, Renald is a ritual specialist. Most of his skills require him to produce these runic circles to manifest them." ketovan said
"He said his core ability was verdict. What does it do? I know that you creates a space where you reign supreme unless someone high ranking than you enters it. Mine I still need to discover, I could not find anything about my ability in that ability encyclopedia you suggested." Alex said
"The ability verdict allows the user to decide what happens to a person, thing or concept through their verdict. But there is one catch "
"What is it ?"
"You cant kill or harm a person who did not do the work for which you are passing your verdict."
"So if a murderer is charged for a robbery he did not do, then he is as safe as he will be even though he committed a more heinous crime"
"exactly ."
The ritual got completed, and Renald started chanting
"May the Goddess of Life and Death be pleased by my verdict. By the power the justice of this world that had been bestowed upon me, my verdict is imprisonment "
A great golem made up of gold and crimson red stone came out of the circle. It was nearly 60 feet in height and 6 feet in width. Every part of its body moved like regular flesh and bones. A portal appeared beside the golem, and it entered it .
"What was the name of that spell?" Alex asked
"It is a nameless skill. "ketovan said
"So, skills are both nameless and named."
"You are a fast learner, Alex," Ketovan said
"Will I now use soulless cores to advance?" Alex asked
"No, absolutely not. The use of the core of hegemon using soulless cores is a mark on the reputation of the Church of the hegemon." ketovan said
"Then what am I going to do in that warped space that you talked about?" Alex questioned him.
"train of course.' ketovan said
"But I don't even know how to hold a sword, ' Alex said
"You are looking at the son of the strongest royal ranking sword master in the world. And why be in a hurry?, my family owns few in the mountains, which I have access to anytime. Take your own time in preparing." ketovan said
"Yeah, yeah. Your family is rich ' Alex rolled his eyes
"fine. You gold on you? "ketovan asked
"Even better, I got mithril," Alex responded
"Good. With one mithril coin, you have enough funds to live in a mansion similar to this for an entire century and have some amount left." ketovan said .
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