Chapter 82: Play Pretend Part 1

Nickaido's here. Sorry for the irregular update these days. I'm truly sorry. It's not totally my fault, so many things happened IRL lastly that I'm busy. For example, a few days ago, I lost my Aunt (died from a heart attack.) Only 39 years old, It quite sad. It is all these that make it impossible for me to write. Do not worry, everything will go back to normal soon.

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The sun rose, announcing the start of a new day and the end of my long night of meditation.

After packing my tent I left moving toward the core region. I have the feeling that something amazing awaits me there.

As for Daniela (the disguised Jasmine), I let her be. Even though she far from my current location, I knew she was keeping track of me, she may pretend to go elsewhere, however she was following secretly from a safe distance. She was using an ancient spell to know my general location, she could not clearly see what I'm doing. She can only know my location. I was surprised when I knew that she could use that kind of spell. Its something from my Era. I guess the Elves still have some ancient spells and techniques used by the Cultivators in my Era.

This proves that Jasmine was a genius to be able to use a spell mean to Cultivator from the Lost Era (our Era was called like this). Nowadays Cultivators are no more, they disappeared completely. Everything changed, the energy used by Cultivator in the ancient Era had disappeared (it became scarce) replaced by a new type of energy usable only by the mutant.

Yet she was able to learn that technique, even modifying it to be able to use it with the scarce energy left, albeit not perfectly. Still, it was something normal genius could not do. She has good potential.

The corner of my mouth curled up forming a devilish grin. ''I want you more and more, little Jasmine.'' I declared.

Ironically at the same time, elsewhere another person was thinking the same as me. It was Jasmine disguised in Daniela. She wants Kyle to be under her, she will keep this bag of mysteries for herself and slowly savor the secrets it contained. She thought.

A few hours later, I set foot on the inner region of the Ice world, after this region was the Core region. The Ice world was divided into three layers, namely the Outer region, the Inner region, and lastly the Core region.

The atmosphere here was different from the Outer region. After moving forward for two more hours, I did not encounter too many mutated beasts. As if they were afraid of coming out. After scanning the whole region I came to the conclusion that they were really afraid. And I know who the culprit was. It seemed to be aware of my presence and he is observing me like a hunter observing its prey.

''Interesting. Let's play shall we?.'' I mumbled while grinning.

I keep moving forward, acting as though I had not known that he had spotted me and was observing my every move.

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~3rd Pov

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He had known from the moment he was born, that he was special, different from it's other brethren.

This was because he also knew that he was far superior to all others.

Fate proved that he was right by sending him a gift one day. It was a purple stone the size of a baby first when that day he stumbled upon that stone, something whispered to him to swallow it, the temptation was too high, hence he swallowed it.

From that day onward he became more special, his cultivation soared, he makes several breakthroughs. In the span of hundred years, he went from Level 5 to Level 1. He became the strongest.

He looked down on all the monsters that lived in the vicinity including those that had lived for a long time or those that were much larger than him.

He eliminated everything that stood in his way, devouring them to become stronger. He even devoured some human and other species that came challenges him.

In the Inner region, he became the Overlord. Everybody fearing him, he advanced into the Half-Step Level 0 a few years later (akin to God Tier, in the human world).

There were no more challenges here, thus he set his sights on the Core region.

"I'm a Special being, even the supreme being acknowledged me. So, I'll conquer the Core region thereby I'll become the Overlord of this world. My next step would be to conquer the whole human world. These puny humans will tremble facing my majestic self. This King will reign supreme on the whole world. Maybe, there will so worlds out there, waiting to be conquered by this King. Let's go conquer the Core region. You are the first step towards this King's great dream." He declared before moving toward the Core region.

However, dreams were still dreams, reality was cruel.

After he entered the Core region, he fought a few beasts there and won. He became full of himself thinking that he was invincible until he encountered them.

On that day, they appeared while he was flying in the sky filled with confidence.

They didn't come here to have a conversation.

[Oh? What do we have here? You're different from the other of your species. That's rare. Well, it doesn't matter. You are too weak.]

Said one of them. He became enraged upon hearing that blatant humiliation. He has been looked down upon.

"Do not speak to this King like that. I'm a special being. Let me show you your place."

So he fought, and for the first time since his birth, he lost.

If he hadn't been a Special being different from it brethren, instead of being gravely injured, he would have died right then. So he fled, feeling afraid and threatened for the first time.

On that day he had learned that there were many beings with transcendental strength in this place. He was nothing special. He has been beaten with one punch. In just one punch he lost, gravely injured. His arrogance was shattered, he fled back to his domain. These beings with abnormal strengths did not even chase after him. As if he was not worth anything in their eyes. His pride was hurt even more.

"I was just a frog in the bottom of the well, too full of himself, thinking I'm the strongest here. Sigh! Let's train and devour some more." It was what he decided after safely coming back.

So, he continued to train, to kill and devour mutated beasts, humans, and the other species he encountered to strengthen himself. He needs to become the become stronger and one return the humiliation he suffered that day hundredfold he vowed.

The years went by, yet he was not able to step into Level 0 to have a human body like those beings. Still, he was patient, so continued to train, kill, and eat. He was sure that one thing that could help him advance would show up.

Suddenly one day, he sensed a human male who had stepped into his territory. This human seems to be in late teens, he had black hair and a pair of strange eyes. There were crimson, he had never seen that kind of eyes on a human. He had seen his fair share of human and other races until now, nobody among them had this kind of eyes except that being who had beaten him with one punch back then.

For an instant, he thought that maybe it was one of them. He shuddered just by remembering that day.

He observed the young human male until he was sure that he had no relation with those beings. His skin was too pale as if he was missing some blood.

This human male was interesting, he was not too powerful (at best comparable to Level 1), however, there was something different about him, something special. He was sure of it, he had the feeling that if he ate him it would change something. Something was whispered to him to go and devour this human, it was like a devil whisper saying that if he did he will step into the Level 0 this time, and maybe he would be able to face those beings once again.

So, he decided to kill the pale looking human male and devour him.

"You shall become this King meal. That's thy fate." He declared before moving forward.