Female Novel
Chapter 8
Chapter 8: True Identity
God of Darkness & Kravel kept staring at Elric as if they were looking at a madman.
They were out of wits on why would Elric choose these Divine Abilities which were most complicated,very time-consuming to develop & very difficult to gain mastery over.
There was a reason why these Divine Abilities were untouched & not even considered by all theprevious 8 Chosen Heroes who came before Elric. But not only did he want to choose these oddities,he also wanted all 3 of them. Which was against the rules set by the Gods.
"What's there to be surprised about? I have my reasons to choose these 3. You chose me out of thosemillions of souls because you needed someone different to complete the mission, right? Well, these 3are the ones I want. There aren't going to be alternatives & I won't change my mind." Elric said with afirm & resolved tone.
"Mortal, why must you choose these 3 abilities out of them all? There are many Divine Abilities that canmake you very strong in a short amount of time. Not only will they save you a lot of time, they'll alsohelp you create an influence in our world to the point where no Empire or Church will dare to declare anopen war with you when you reveal your identity to the world. So why must you waste this chance onthe most ignored Divine Abilities in the past 3 thousand years?" Kravel decided to ask out of his utmostcuriosity towards Elric's decision.
"As I said before, if it was anyone else who came before me, they'd definitely choose the other Divineabilities. But I'm not them & my circumstances are different from them. Because none of them weregoing to hunted down by the entire world. Unlike them, I can't walk around people openly & declare thatI'm the chosen Hero of God of Darkness. There's no one coming to my aid and no one is going to
provide for me or look after me. Unlike the other abilities, these 3 can help me hide, survive & becomestronger behind the shadows and no one will notice or try to uncover my identity." Elric explained.
His reasoning was right as none of his predecessors were in the same situation as him. And this madehim consider his options based on practicality than just becoming stronger in a short time.
"Besides, you still don't know the potential of these 3 Divine Abilities at all. Let me put it in simplewords. Though they're all complicated & hard to complete mastery over, the number of outcomes I canachieve are simply unimaginable. Not only they can help me get stronger bit by bit without raising thesuspicion of the others, but they will also ensure my survival to the most degree. Something I need themost after I enter your world. Trust me, I know what I'm doing." Elric replied, refusing to go into toomany details. Only he knew exactly what potential did these 3 Divine Abilities had.
Ability Absorption was one of the most Meta abilities he had seen in hundreds of Novels, Mangas &Animes. Of course, who didn't know about a 35 year old guy getting reincarnated as a Slime in anotherworld with a similar ability just like Ability Absorption which helped him get stronger by devouring hisenemies & monsters and reach to a level where even the Strongest beings in that new world had toacknowledge him & even slightly be wary of him. Of course, he was thinking about Rimuru Tempestfrom That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
So when he saw Ability Absorption, the first thing Elric thought was how lucky he was and he hadalready hit the Jackpot. But to put an icing on the cake, he saw the 2nd Divine Ability, Dimensional Law.
Any Anime fan who watched Naruto & had enough information about it knew of one guy who put theentire world at a war just by himself. And he possessed the same ability similar to Dimensional Lawwhich would allow him to have one part of his body exist in a separate Dimension so when his enemiesattacked him, he'd simply face them head-on and take hits even straight at his heart just to haveenemy's weapon pass right through him while he used that opportunity to kill his enemies by catchingthem off guard. Elric thought of none other than Obito Uchiha from Naruto Shippuden.
But the awesomeness of Dimensional Law didn't end here. This Divine Ability allowed him to open acrack in the void and hide in it for the time being. And with time as his mastery progressed, he couldalso travel inside the Void and exit out of it somewhere else.
So in simple words, there was no actual place that could completely trap him or a place he couldn'tenter with this Divine Ability.
For example, he could get out of prison whenever he wanted or get inside a highly protected Castle tokill someone and no one will ever find him.
Obviously, Elric won't be able to achieve such results with his non-existent mastery over Space & TimeLaw, but with time he could envision himself achieve that feat as well.
And to fill your stomach with delicious food, there was the 3rd Divine Ability, Synthesis.
Since Elric wasn't going to have an OP System like many Protagonists who get reincarnated in anotherworld which would guide them, help them become stronger and give them Rewards like Epic Swords orEquipment, create stuff out of nowhere and things that shouldn't belong in that world based on itssetting such as Culture, Technology & Scientific advancement, he needed a way to ensure his safetyand find a reliable way that won't just help him become stronger but rather way too OP.
And Synthesis was offering him just that. By using Ability Absorption, he could gain both physicalabilities and magical skills of his targets. But that's all there ever will be. He will naturally have to lookfor way too stronger enemies to learn badass abilities & skills. And they will vary from each other aswell.
But with Synthesis Divine Ability, not only could he merge the abilities he already learned, but he couldalso use it to merge different beings.
For example, he could simply kill a monster, gain their abilities and then later use that monster tomerge with another monster to create his own version. Which will not be any weaker than the Former,rather even more powerful. And Elric felt that these creations of his would naturally be loyal to him.Otherwise, Synthesis would not be called a Divine Ability if his own creations tried to kill him instead.
With this ability, not only he could create a small army of monsters or people for him, he could alsocreate new beings which he may need to do a specific task or job which required them to have aspecific type of skills and physical advantage.
In the future, he could just create an OP army of his creations with time which could becomecomparable to the army of shadow soldiers of a certain Korean Hunter.
All Elric needed was just time to get stronger and experiment with these Abilities. He naturally believedthat this wasn't the only use of these 3 Divine Abilities. This was more likely just the Cover of the book.And there would be far many more applications and different uses that remain to be explored.
Compared to the other Divine Abilities, These were not as easy or convenient as other Divine Abilitiesbut the potential was simply unimaginable. And if he were to fight someone like Demon God on eventerms, he needed not only just one form of power but everything he could find and make use of in theworld of Vantrea.
If he wanted to stay alive at the end of the fight that is. Because all the predecessor Chosen Heroes ofthe 12 Gods had already made it obvious that they all failed to kill him no matter how strong they hadbecome.
Elric didn't believe that all of them were stupid and ran into a fight to the death with the Demon Godwithout preparing beforehand about every single aspect of the battle & how they were going to emergevictorious.
At this time, G.O.D. finally decided to speak up.
"Even if I were to comply with your decision, I still need to remind you that you can only choose 2Divine Abilities. Not more than that."
To his reply, Elric gave him an expression of pity instead.
"Are you stupid ?"
G.O.D. was startled and then the next second, he was enraged.
"What did you just say? Do you think I won't torture you for the end of time just because I have nochoice but to choose you as my Chosen Hero?" G.O.D. spoke angrily.
To his spine-chilling voice, Elric replied. "Think about it. You said that this is probably going to be thelast chance the Gods have to kill the Demon God before he becomes a full-fledged God like you. So doyou really believe that the other Gods are going to keep their word and give only 2 divine abilities totheir heroes? For all I know, they'd be giving them at least 4 to 5 divine abilities just to increase theirwinning chances. After all, whichever God's hero kills the Demon God, He/She would become theentire world's saviour. And that would bring fame to that God's name. Fame big enough to have manyliving beings in the world to start worshipping that God. So obviously they won't be holding back. Don'ttell me you Gods are bound to keep your word for a verbal pact? Haha"
Elric explained his reasons for calling G.O.D. stupid. And even the God of Darkness was leftspeechless suddenly realized that Elric was right.
Given the fact that this was their last chance, no one was going to hold back no matter how much theywanted to honor their pact. And like Elric said, the winner would be literally worshipped by the entireworld and the God who brought them would become the entire world's most famous & worshippedGod. Even for someone like God of Darkness who was hated and now forgotten by the entire world,this could bring back his former glory overnight.
He too was tired & irritated by the constant mockery and banters of the other Gods because of theactions of his previous Chosen Hero. He could not kill them just as they could not kill him. So hewanted to say "Suck it!" to them as well.novelbin
This was also a great opportunity for having one up on all the other Gods. But he wasn't a fool. Helooked at Elric and said, "3 should be the maximum amount of Divine Abilities you should choose.Because these abilities will be embedded into your soul and need a fraction of your Soul Essence tokeep functioning. With time, your soul will get stronger in our world. But so will the consumption of SoulEssence. Any more than 3 Divine abilities and it'll adversely affect your soul & your future strength.Since the other Gods aren't any knowledgeable about Death & Souls like me, I'm sure those idiots willgive 4 to 5 Divine abilities to their Heroes." G.O.D. replied as a grin appeared on his face because ofthe fact that other Gods were going to suffer a huge misfortune. He liked the idea of it.
"Fine. I agree with you. You can have all 3 of these." G.O.D. said and the 3 house-size monolithsexploded into millions of pieces and 3 Orbs of pure energy came out of them. All 3 of these orbs quicklycame in contact with Elric's soul form and started merging with him.
In just a minute, they completely merged with his soul form and no traces of them were left. They allhad completely unified with Elric.
"Now, it is time for us to prepare your body. And then you can enter Vantrea." G.O.D. said with a littlebit of excitement. But just when he was about to speak again, Elric spoke again.
"Wait!" Elric looked towards Kravel this time and asked.
"Aren't you going give me something as well ?" Elric asked.
"What?! Why would I give you something, mortal? Hasn't my Liege already given you 3 Divine abilities?" Kravel asked in a puzzled tone.
"That's not enough. Given the dire situation we're in. It'll hardly help me out. Or is it that you don't wantto help me? Don't tell me all your grand display of loyalty & respect is just for the show. And you don'twant to help in your 'Liege' getting back to his glory days ?" Elric asked in a provocative tone. Hequestioned Kravel's loyalty with the purpose of riling him up.
"What did you say, mortal?!" Kravel was angered to his core. Even red fumes were coming out of hisglowing red eyes from inside of his helmet.
"I'm just saying. If it was anyone else in your position. They would've offered to provide extra help fortheir Master without a question. I'm just surprised that you didn't." Elric said as a look of disappointmentappeared in his eyes. He shook his head.
"You dare?! I'll show you my loyalty towards my Liege. Don't look down on me, mortal!" Kravel said ashe regained his composure. And in the next second, 6 different ancient symbols of different sizes &colors appeared in front of Kravel and started moving towards Elric who was in his soul form.
Quickly all these ancient symbols started entering inside him and one by one, they appeared arounddifferent parts of his soul form. As if they were some ancient runes engraved on his body.
The next second, Elric's mind received the information about what exactly were these ancient symbolsand what did he actually receive.
[Holy Fuck!] Elric said to himself. He looked at Kravel with the utmost respect for the first time. Becauseof the information he received also informed him about who Kravel was.
Elric only knew that Kravel was a Demigod, but nothing more than that. But after he received theinformation in his head, he finally found out the true title of Kravel. Elric now finally understood that thebeing wasn't just some lackey of God of Darkness. But a being who would be respected and fearedfrom no matter where he went.
The ancient symbols were actually blessings that were bestowed upon Elric. And through theirdescription, he saw the name..