**MC POV**
Friday passed faster than I could blink, figuratively of course. It was pretty boring—really. We had the Alien races class today. To be honest, it probably should be called 'swooning over the instructor class'. All most of the girls do, is gossip about how handsome the instructor was, much to the charging of the boys. Excluding me of course. I couldn't care less about that.
What I cared most about was my impending breakthrough. I could feel it... as well as see the gigantic almost completed star in my bloodline plane. "Well here's where I bid you guys a goodbye. I'll probably not be seeing you guys again today!" I said turning to the two idiots emerge from the portal station. "I thought you were done with whatever you were doing!" Owen said. "Yeah I'm done with that, this is more of a personal thing!" I replied. "Okay then we'll see you around!" Tokito said.
I walked back to my dorm room in a hurry and changed my clothes. "I should probably call Aurora and tell her I won't be coming today!" I mused. But then changed my mind, "I'll just send her a message!" I muttered. When I got everything ready, –displace– I muttered. Before I could even finish saying the word, I was already somewhere else. It was the mountain range I had come to before. Usually it would take a second before I teleport. "Hmmm, it seems I'm getting better at utilizing my intent!" I hummed.
I found a suitable spot near the edge of the mountain which was to say–a cliff. "This place would do!" I muttered. It was in this place that I was planning to have my breakthrough. Why come all the way here you ask? Well I teleported kinda, but still why come here? It's actually because I don't know how my 'Beholder of Reality' bloodline would react to my breakthrough. This was the first time I'm breaking through after it's revelation, I didn't know why, but something was telling me to be careful. That's the reason why I chose to come all the way here.
Alright enough boring you with my useless talks, –Shroud– I waved a hand to the side. The intent behind it was to shroud everything in a 10 meters radius around me for the next six hours or so. I was trying to breakthrough after all, and I could tell there were beasts in the area. It wouldn't do for me to die just because my Consciousness was in my bloodline plane now would it? So the barrier not only shrouds everything in a ten meters radius around me, but also subtly redirects beasts away. Pretty cool huh?
Well you're wrong, it's not that cool if it takes eighty percent of my essence. The more changes I impose on the world around me, the more essence it costs. Thankfully my reserves will take both a qualitative and quantitative leap after my breakthrough. "Sigh, I think I monologue a lot these days!" I muttered, before sitting crosslegged. With a thought, my Consciousness escaped my body and entered my bloodline plane.
Gazing at the eight gigantic abstract stars above me, "Beautiful!" I couldn't help but mutter. "Alright time to complete this one!" I said–my translucent body taking a crosslegged stance. I closed my eyes, and with a thought, drew upon the boundless energy of the realm, and guided it towards the eight star. Visually, no one can really tell when a star would be completed. Like how my eighth star was the same size as the other seven, but still isn't complete. It's more like one feels when it'll be completed. Like I was feeling currently, how it was greedily absorbing the energy I was guiding towards it.
Each condensation of a star, takes vastly more energy than the one before it. For example, the energy it was taking to complete the eighth one, was more than twice what it took to create the sixth one. Anyway, I focused on my condensation, and soon, perhaps whether due to the difference in time between the bloodline plane, I felt the star cease absorbing the energy I was guiding to it. Then with a subtle pulse, it glowed just as bright as the other stars, or perhaps even more.
I felt my body strengthening, undergoing changes I couldn't fathom. I had broken through, a month after my last. 'If I keep going like this, in the next six months or less, I'll be able to break through to rank 2!' I thought in awe. "Alright time to go back outside, and see how much time actually passed, and test my new prowess of course!" I mused. With a thought, I willed myself back to the material world, but it seems I was destined to be knocked off course.
'The fuck?!' was the first thing that came to my mind when I came to. I was in a completely different environment. My surroundings was a mountain range no more, but instead what one would call medieval–An era that was thousands of years before the emergence. It was what looked like a city sprawled before me, a maze of narrow cobbled streets and towering timber buildings that jutted into the sky, their upper floors seemingly defying gravity, all static, as if frozen in time. "The fuck is this place?!" I muttered, or at least tried to mutter.
And the worst thing, I couldn't move a nerve. It felt like I was a prisoner in my own body, fueling my already present despair. The only thing that could move was my mind. So I panicked–in my mind. 'What the hell is happening?!' I thought, but then the frozen city suddenly started to move, merchants shouted their wares—fabrics, spices, fruits—while the clink of hammers and the rhythmic whirr of spinning wheels filled the air as craftsmen toiled in their shops. Children darted between the crowd, laughing and playing, while peasants and traders hustled about, their faces a mix of fatigue and something else.
The streets were crowded with life—noblemen riding through on horseback, their cloaks billowing behind them, beggars sitting at the gates with their hands outstretched, and townsfolk going about their daily duties. In short the city was bustling with life, but I couldn't care less. I was panicking inwardly, because one, I couldn't fucking move, and two, I didn't know where the hell I was. 'Okay first calm down, cease panicking, and think'! I tried to calm myself.
But those thoughts were thrown out of the window when I felt my body suddenly started moving without my control. I could feel myself walking, smell the soft scent of fruits, and feel the slightly chill breeze caress my body. It fueled my panic even more, but there was nothing I could do, so I stayed silent observing the streets as my body passed through the streets.
But then I came across a puddle of water, and saw something bizzare. My reflection didn't have a face, but it had long silver hair dripping to it's chest. Was about 6'3 ft tall. Then realization hit me, this wasn't me, it wasn't my body. Questions began to ring in my mind harder than ever. Where the fuck is this place?!, why am I here?!, in a body that's not even my own no less. And most importantly, how do I go back?!'.
As I was lost in the sanctuary of my thoughts, suddenly the body stopped in front of a shagged building. A moment later, a stout man emerged from the building. "Why are you late?, if you can't be coming on time just tell me so I can go find another help!" the man all but ranted. Then I felt my mouth moving, "I apologize!" the emotionless voice came from my mouth... or more precisely from the body I was inhabiting, but I wasn't the one who said it. "Hmmph" the man snorted. "Get to work!" he ordered.
The body started moving again, and entered the shagged building. Turns out it was a smithy, I recognized it was a smithy almost instantly. I had worked in one before after all. Even though this one was way way way less advanced than old man Jin's. My body, or rather the body moved towards the forge, took out a molten metal, and with the skills that would put old man Jin to shame, he began forging, and hammering. Around half an hour later, he held a delicate amulet in his hand. It had a sapphire blue gem entombed on it.
–Space–, it came out of my mouth, but I hadn't said it, It was said in the origin language. Then came another realization, this man, who ever he was, he knew the origin language. 'What does this mean?, does it mean that there are others who can also use the origin language?!' I thought in panic.
But the man wasn't done, –Storage– he continued. Even if I had fish for brains at this moment, I would realize what he was trying to do. He was trying to make a storage space. But weren't storage space. I didn't know I could do that, the storage space on our smart bracelet was created either using science, a bloodline ability, or a combination of bloodline abilities. But this... this is entirely different.
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