The frigid wind at high altitude slashed across my skin like invisible blades, a sharp, merciless cut that sent shivers deep into my bones. Above, the sky stretched out as a boundless black void, devouring the stars and merging seamlessly with the vast darkness below. The moon's faint, silvery glow barely grazed the golden feathers of Aurineth, the phoenix who soared through the clouds like a blazing wraith. Her wings sliced the air with a delicate whisper—almost a hushed secret—while their radiant pulse pushed back against the night's embrace.
I rode atop her, legs crossed, my body anchored against the warmth radiating from her plumage. My gaze drifted across the endless expanse of shadow, captivated by the living tapestry unfurling beneath us: a sea of dark forests and mist-wreathed mountains, alive with mystery and veiled promises. Beside me, Elowen sat in silence, though her stillness betrayed a quiet unrest. Her emerald eyes were locked on some distant point, her hands gripping her cloak tightly. Even without words, I could sense the burden she carried, heavy and unspoken.
The quiet between us pressed down like a noose around my chest, thick and stifling. Boredom crept in, a shadow I could no longer endure. So, I shattered the stillness with a rough murmur:
— "System, show my status."
In an instant, a soft light flared before me, as though the very air bent to my will. Streams of luminescence danced across my vision, weaving into words that pulsed with life, imbued with a power I hadn't yet fully grasped.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚜️ Updated Status of Nael Supremium ⚜️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ IDENTITY ✦
Name: Nael Supremium
Age: 15 years
Race: Supreme Nephilim
Lineages:
➤ Supreme Celestial (Sealed)
➤ Supreme Demonic (Sealed)
✦ TALENTS ✦
Soul: €^#&÷#€# (???)
Eyes of Everything and Nothing: (???)
Absolute Body of Everything and Nothing (Awakened)
✦ ELEMENTS ✦
Sealed: ✧ Forgetfulness, Chaos, Reality
Awakened: ✧ Creation, Destruction, Time, Space, Darkness, Light, Death, Life, Curse, Shadows, Illusions, Lightning, Fire, Water (Ice), Earth, Metal, Air, Wood, Blood, Poison
✦ DOMAINS ✦
Existential Sea Domain: ♒ Evolved from the Spiritual Sea
Realm: Purple Mansion (Peak)
Cultivation Technique: ✦ Nameless (Primordial)
✦ STATISTICS ✦
Strength: 30,000☆
Speed: 30,000☆
Agility: 30,000☆
Endurance: 30,000☆
Vitality: ∞ (Infinite)
Perception: Undetectable
Intelligence: Cosmic Level (Sealed)
Charm: Absolute (Sealed)
Luck: Child of Fortune (Sealed)
✦ SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES ✦
From the Soul:
➤ Passive: Absolute Immunity against Curses and Soul Attacks
➤ Active: Soul Obliteration (Completely destroys souls beyond return)
From the Eyes:
➤ Passives:
• Always See the Truth (Impossible to be deceived; analyze through everything and assimilate all)
• Create Absolute Illusions (Illusions become real in the mind of others)
➤ Actives:
• Eye of Nightmares (Induces nightmares that destroy sanity)
• Null Eye (Nullifies laws, abilities, or powers)
• ??? (Unlockable in the future)
From the Body:
➤ Passives:
• Aura of the Absolute: (Combination of three supreme auras)
• Body of the Absolute: (Eternal body, adapts and is immune to debuffs)
➤ Actives:
• Devour (Void)
• Absolute Destruction (Destruction)
• Materialization (Creation)
• Temporal Chaos (Time)
• Interdimensional Teleportation (Space)
• Slaves of the Shadows (Darkness)
• Divine Fury (Light)
• Perpetual Death (Death)
• Revive (Life)
• King of Curses (Curse)
• Displacement through Shadows (Shadows)
• Enter Dreams (Illusions)
• Judgment Lightning (Lightning)
• Celestial Divine and Infernal Demonic Fire (Fire)
• Purification (Water)
• Absolute Zero (Ice)
• Earthquakes (Earth)
• Magnetism (Metal)
• Fly (Wind)
• Blood Marks (Blood)
• Venom Extraction (Poison)
✦ DIVINE ABILITIES ✦
Absolute Control over Life: (Manipulates and recreates life at a supreme level)
Mirrored Domain:
✦ CONQUERED DOMAINS ✦
Primordial World: (Since the primordial eras)
Existential House:
➤ A land with rivers and waterfalls formed by the Waters of Life, filled with growing exotic beasts
➤ A luxurious mansion surrounded by forests and a garden of Primordial herbs
✦ SOUL WEAPON ✦
Nyx: A Soul Sword that can assume the form of any weapon, evolving due to the essence of its bearer
✦ CURRENT STATE ✦
Current Condition: Still weak compared to supreme entities
Recommendation: "Your true potential is only just beginning."
✦ SYSTEM INVENTORY ✦
Available Tickets:
Supreme:
➤ 2 for Updating
➤ 7 for Evolution
➤ 3 for Weapon Talents
➤ 3 for Updating Weapons and Techniques
➤ 5 for Awakening Talents
➤ 13 of Wishes
➤ 7 of Species Evolution
➤ 8 of Lineage Evolution
Others:
➤ 1,000 Congenital Evolution Tickets for Talents
➤ 10,000 Cosmic Tickets for Evolution
➤ 100,000 Chaos Level Evolution Tickets
➤ 100 Supreme Foundation Update Tickets (4 of 81 Turns; 96 of 9 Turns)
Various Items:
➤ Random Golden Finger
➤ 4 Primordial Beast Eggs
➤ Eternal Celestial Fire
➤ Dao Fruits of All Elements
➤ Rule Beads of All Elements
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The wind whipped harder now, and Aurineth dipped briefly, sending a jolt through my stomach. Elowen turned to me at last, her brown hair fluttering like a tattered curtain caught in the gale.
— "Are you okay?" — her voice emerged soft, nearly lost in the wind's howl.
— "Yeah. Just… thinking." — I answered, my eyes still tracing the glowing lines hovering in my sight.
She furrowed her brow but didn't push further. That was her way—watching me as if she could peel back layers I didn't even know existed. Sometimes, I wondered if she saw more than I meant to reveal.
Nael Supremium, 15 years old, Supreme Nephilim, I read to myself. The title struck me like a hammer blow, its weight unyielding. Sealed lineages—Celestial and Demonic—stirred faintly within me, forces locked away in the depths of my soul, just out of reach. It felt like carrying shattered wings, knowing flight was possible yet clueless how to take off.
— "Have you ever felt it?" — I asked abruptly, shifting to face her.
— "Felt what?" — Elowen tilted her head, curiosity laced with a thread of wariness.
— "The void. Inside." — I tapped my chest, the sound dull against the leather. — "Like there's something trapped, screaming to get out."
She fell silent for a heartbeat, her gaze dimming.
— "Every day," — she whispered, almost to herself. — "But I don't call it void. I call it fear."
Her words caught me off guard. Elowen, with all the strength I knew she possessed, admitting to fear? The air turned colder in that moment, and Aurineth let out a low, mournful note, as if echoing the gravity of her confession.
The system display still shimmered before me, a catalog of who I was—or might become. Strength, speed, endurance: each a staggering 30,000 stars. Vitality stretching into infinity. Perception beyond measure. Yet so much of it was locked away or only half-awakened, as if the cosmos itself dangled my potential just beyond my grasp, testing my resolve.
Child of Luck, it claimed. A bitter joke. Luck felt like a stranger as I soared through the dark, wrestling with an inner storm I couldn't name. My absolute body, my cryptic soul—it was a torrent of power for a boy of fifteen, yet a mere trickle against the tidal wave I sensed looming ahead.
— "Nael," — Elowen's voice sliced through my reverie. — "Why do you look at this all the time? This… status?"
I let out a dry chuckle, the sound snatched away by the wind.
— "Because it's the only thing that reminds me I'm not just a lost boy."
She held my gaze for a long moment, lips pressed into a thin line. Then she turned her eyes to the mountains below, as if they cradled a truth I couldn't yet see.
— "You're not lost," — she murmured, barely audible. — "You're just starting to find yourself."
Her words landed heavy, sinking into me like stone. Aurineth ascended sharply, piercing a thick cloud, and for a fleeting second, the world dissolved into blinding white—a cocoon of utter silence wrapping around us. I wanted to trust her conviction, to believe the chaos within me held meaning. But right then, all I could feel was the chill seeping through my skin, my chest, my very soul.
The system flickered one final time before fading: "Your true potential is just beginning."
I hope so, I thought, fists tightening. Because I don't know how long I have before the rest stirs awake.
Far below, the shadowed forests stretched on in quiet anticipation, watching.
What's missing? The question gnawed at me, teeth clenched, hands balled against the warm gusts rising from Aurineth's wings.
The phoenix plummeted earthward, a streak of fire and elegance, until her talons struck the ground with a muted thud. The earth quaked beneath me, and her piercing, untamed cry ripped through the air, a call that could rouse the dead. Her fiery wings folded in, unleashing a wave of heat that devoured the mist, unveiling what lay ahead: golden stone towers, kissed by the dying sun as it bled across the horizon, staining the sky with hues of orange and violet.
Elowen leapt down first, landing with a feather's grace, as if gravity bent to her whims. Her eyes blazed with hunger, drinking in the sacred vista towering before us.
— "Look, Nael. We've arrived." — Her voice shimmered with light, a smile breaking free as she glanced back at me.
I lingered atop Aurineth, my stare lost where the sun dipped low, yielding to the first stars. It was stunning, no doubt. But beauty couldn't fill the hollow within. I slid off with a quick hop, boots thudding against the soil, my face carved from unyielding stone.
— "Yeah. Seems like it." — My tone cut sharp, like a winter gale.
Elowen huffed, arms folding with that familiar eye-roll I knew too well.
— "Come on, cheer up a bit." — Her voice danced between tease and taunt, a flicker meant to spark something in me.
I raised a brow, meeting her stare.
— "And why would I do that?"
She cocked her head, her smile taking on a sly edge.
— "Because now you can go to the library. Read until you're tired. Wasn't that what was holding you back? Not knowing the next step?"
Her words struck true, piercing like a well-aimed dart. I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of admitting it. Elowen had a knack for seeing past my icy barriers—a trait as maddening as it was, at times, oddly comforting.
— "Fair enough." — I let the words drop, clipped and cool.
She narrowed her eyes, sizing me up like I was a riddle to unravel.
— "And now? What's the plan?"
— "Find answers. Figure out what's missing. Get what I need to keep going." — My voice held firm, though each word carried an unseen weight.
Elowen's laugh rang out, light and breezy, carried by the wind. She flicked her hair back and stepped forward.
— "If that's the case, I know what we're doing."
I crossed my arms, pinning her with a look.
— "And what would that be?"
She turned, her smile now a cryptic challenge.
— "You'll see. But trust me, it'll be good… for me, at least."
There was a hint of mischief in her tone, a familiar shadow of secrecy. Elowen thrived on these little games. And me? I always trailed after her, if only to uncover her schemes.
The sun had long sunk below the horizon when she halted again, arms crossed, her eyes glinting with that blend of wit and provocation that could make me want to lash out—or laugh, depending on the mood.
— "So, I know what we're doing now." — She spoke with a confidence that nearly drew an eye-roll from me.
— "Wow, you're actually sounding smart today." — Sarcasm laced my words, honed to a razor's edge.
She tilted her head with mock exaggeration, unruffled.
— "I am smart, Nael. And I'm going to organize everything for you. You know, like… your assistant."
— "Assistant?" — A dry laugh escaped me. — "Since when did I hire you?"
She brushed off the jab, as usual, barreling ahead.
— "Do you know where we're going now?"
— "Let's go." — I replied, hands relaxed at my sides, no rush in my step.
— "And this 'let's go' would be where?" — My voice dipped low, a quiet barb to test her.
Elowen stepped closer, her smile playing across her lips.
— "Sacred Heart Peak. The Divine Son's Courtyard."
The name reverberated in my skull. Divine Son. I'd heard it before but never cared to dwell on it. I folded my arms, the twilight's golden glow catching the frost in my eyes.
— "And why would I go there?"
She met my gaze, as if the answer were plain as day.
— "Because the Divine Son sees you as a brother. And because there you have what you need: information, resources…"
My face hardened, my voice dripping with venom.
— "Since when do I need anyone?"
Her smile shifted—no longer a taunt, but something deeper, elusive.
— "You don't need, Nael." — Her tone softened, tinged with a quiet sorrow. — "But you choose. There it's faster. Freer. No disciples bothering you. I know you'd do everything alone, and it wouldn't be hard. But I also know you value your time a lot."
Silence settled between us. She was right, damn her. The void within roared, but the ticking clock drowned it out. Time was a luxury I couldn't squander.
— "Fine." — I muttered, relenting, though the ice in me held firm. — "Let's go."
Elowen's smile returned, triumphant, and she set off, hair swaying in the breeze. I followed—not out of weakness, but choice. The sky had darkened to a deep blue, speckled with stars. Sacred Heart Peak loomed ahead, promising answers, perhaps.
What's missing? I wondered again, footsteps resounding on hallowed ground. The void gripped tighter, but I pressed on. I always did.