Surprise God Attack

Unbeknownst to me out of surprise from the genetic decoder I had been carrying the dagger by the blade and a drop of blood began to descend down to my feet. As it fell a hand reached out of the altar and caught it. Only noticing a creepy black hand reaching out to me I panicked and turned to run only to fall unconcious before I even took my first step.

"Young one, I know you can not speak. Which is great because I only need you to listen. You may not know me, but your ancestors did. I am the great lord Shadowking. I as a god have been slain. You just happen to be awakening at the right time. Once I pass I need an inheritor of my domain. That shall be you. For now I shall bless you with partial control of my divine domain. Where you go from here is entirley up to you. I only ask that when push comes to shove you fight for your own beliefs. Do not be used by others like this foolish old man, live well young one." With that he vanished and I returned to the room gasping for air.

Did I just get kidnapped? I didn't even choose shadow. What is going on? All of a sudden a searing sensation could be felt from my left forearm as a tattoo of an owl appeared. Oh, how it burns. For god knows how long I stayed on the ground in pure agony. Then it finally calmed down.

Although it hurt like hell it did look kind of cool. Depending on how you look at it, it also changes to a skull at some angles which is a little worrying though. Now that I have been acknowledged I should be able to use certain energies so I try my hardest to manipulate my mental energy over it to see if it is harmful.

I quickly learned that manipulating energy is so extremely hard and taxxing. I could feel my body draining quickly. Father taught us that while their are some people who can manipulate multiple elements, it is very rare. But the only energy that everyone can manipulate is mental energy.

As I tried to drag my energy toward the owl it began to get sucked in like a mini-vortex was eating it up. Soon, I could see inside of the tattoo. It was like a mini-world. Is this the domain he was speaking of? As my consciousness began to wonder around the little world I could feel my mental energy still draining but a new lake of energy began to develop in an area behind my navel.

Is that shadow energy? Perfect, the energy lake means that I have fully awakened and it's still filling up. Maybe being in here is the best way to cultivate my energy at the cost of my mental energy. That is great.

As I search around I see shadows moving around the domain aimlessly. Of course I would try to communicate with one.

"Excuse me sir, do you know what I am supposed to do here?" The shadow began to turn towards me as if he just now heard me.

"SKKRRREEEEEE!!!" Without warning it began charging at me. I immediately reach for my dagger only to realize I don't have it so I quickly try to disperse my mental enrgy to leave, but it's taking too long and the shadow seems to be calling over other shadows. Finally, once it is upon me my mental energy erupts drawing me back to reality, gasping for air. Ughh, so tired. Too much stuff, too fast I am just gonna go to sleep. Right as my eyes were closing a notification popped up.

Some time later, I finally awoke. Yet, I was still so tired. I decided to lay there and check over myself before I would even think of leaving. Of course I wouldn't go back to that shadow realm just yet but I still wanted to check everything else.

I do a once over on my body to make sure I am ok. Then I check my energy lake which has grown. After that I finally opened the decoder to go over what I missed. Sure enough there were two messages sitting there waiting for me.

'Energy Lake established: LVL, 1 Novice fighter'

'Starter Pack received.'

'Shadow husk LVL. 2 killed'

'1 sp(stat point awarded)'

'1 lucky draw ticket awarded'

'Killed higher leveled enemy award + 1st kill reward: Runic dagger'

Woah, this is real? I immediately shoot to the inventory. I can't wait to open my rewards. Hmm, should I wait?.... Nah open for papa.

'Starter pack opened:'

'10 stat points awarded'

'For next award please choose your favorite weapon…'

Ooo 10 stat points will be good, but what is this about. Well let's see. As an agent back home I mastered every weapon I could find. Though I did like the bo staff alot I just could never use it as it was deemed as non-lethal. But here?

'Basic Staff arts awarded'

'Gentlemanly fists awarded'

'20 lucky draw tickets awarded'

'1 mission awarded'

Huh, mission? Why does it take up an inventory slot? I only have 20 Oh it says record 10 kills, but it doesn't say of what. I guess I can do that. So what is my next plan of action? I have 3 months before I need to go to school, a sect, or get a job. Hmm, how about I decide after training first. I will tell everyone that I will go into closed door training and go from there.

Right when I step out of the chamber I see my grandmother waiting for me. She then turns toward the rest of the great hall and announces, "He has awakened."

Everyone quickly congratulates my father handing him gifts before heading to the banquet hall. At first I was confused how they knew I was coming out today, since it is different for each person but then I remembered that my grandma has a skill called darkness sight. It isn't like visions or anything but like a divine sense. Although it can't be used for anything big, it has saved tha family many times.

I look towards my father, he merely nods in my direction and I walk over to stand next to my brother. My brother, Saar also of the Jin family which is our surname, is my father's son with his first wife and so has the strongest claim to the family. At first we had a toxic relationship, until he finally realized that I really don't want to be family head. Afterward we became best friends.

I mean it wasn't really his fault how our relationship started off as his mother was afraid for her and his position and was feeding endless thoughts into his head. But, as he got stronger and older he began to think more for himself. Also as the head disciple of the Ruthless Chain sect it would look bad for him to quarrel with a 12 year old.

"You did it brother how do you feel?" he said smiling.

"Eh, it was pretty scary. I am pretty sure none of what happened there was normal." I said exasperated.

"Indeed that is why it is normal. Everyone has a different experience when awakening. You go in to get acknowledged by a god so you can access powers that should already be yours only to pray to them for the rest of your lives for giving you access to your own birthright." My brother said with a solemn look. It is natural for him to feel upset with the gods though.

In fact, the only reason why his heirship has been called into question is due to the fact that he also did not bond with Luna who is our patron saint. Instead, he bonded with Sylvia, the goddess of darkness and wind.

There are many gods who lord over their respective elements. More often than not there are multiple gods to one element, but then there are the outliers. The gods who lord over multiple elements. Although they won't be the strongest in any single element, they are often strong because of their combination.

Since he felt rejected by the patron saint of our family he has always held a bit of a grudge towards gods, even his own.

"So did you bond with Luna? Grandmother said that you had succeeded in getting a response from all of the gods in our families pantheon so it was really your choice? Haha, here I was thinking you would end up like cousin Lee having to be taken to countless pantheons only to be acknowledged by a weakling." He said while laughing.