The big reveal

"AAAAAHHHHH"

What.

The.

Fuck.

"AAAAAHHHH MAKE IT STOP HELP ME MAKE IT STOP IT HUUUUURTS"

The king did NOT tell us it would be painfull.

All of us are staring in horror at what is happening.

Until it just stopped.

It took about 2 minutes.

When Kent got up, he was still shaking.

But the king only looked at the orb, smiling.

What could be so good that he would still smile after seeing something so gruesome.

So I looked too.

[Kent Poldrum

Ability: Purifying sword

Description: Ultimate rank ability. Grants the owner purifying essence, making him able to completely withstand corruption abilities that the owner deems as 'evil' as long as the corruption is of a level equal or below the owner. Otherwise, the corruption affects the owner only 40%, 70% and 100% for each higher level respectfully. Also makes any damage dealt by a sword by the owner able to purify the thoughts of the opponent temporarily. Lenght of time depends on the strenght of the opponents soul.]

That ability is unreasonably good. One slash of his sword can basically incapacitate his opponent temporarily depending on how pure 'purified thoughts' are.

But ultimate rank? What does that mean?

"Seems like we have our leading hero! And with a righteous and good ability as well! The church is going to love this!"

Ah. That is what that means. So my good friend Kent is the real hero. Well, not like I was really meant to lead anyway. Doesn't matter.

If my guess is right everyone in the 'hero party' should boast a high reputation so being the leading hero and the center of attention, no matter how loving that attention is, might not even be that good of a thing.

But anyway, now we know the pain we have to go through and everyone is scared. Of course I am scared as well, but this is an even better opportunity to show that I am at least as trustworthy as our 'leading hero'.

"Alright guys. I will go next."

Everybody looks at me in shock. This is good. But I hate the fact that Kent is looking at me with those approving eyes of his. And the king, he is looking at me weird. But no matter. Let's get this over with.

And so I walk up to the orb, not knowing the absolute horror I will have to go through to just obtain my ability.

I touch the orb.

Letters appear on the orb and I only feel light physical pain at this point.

For some reason I cant really comprehend the letters while they are clearly English.

What I can comprehend is expression now resting on the face of the king.

It is one of pure shock.

Also, mild elation?

Weird,and I'm starting to feel something weird happening in my head as well.

Little whispers.

Containing some kind of... knowledge?

What...

What is this.

What is this!

WHAT IS THIS STOP IT HURTS WHAT IS THIS I DONT WANT TO HEAR THIS

And thus started the most excruciating 2 minutes of my life.

But the pain was not physical.

It was mental.

I felt like my entire worldview was broken down and an entirely new world was shown to me.

But that was only the start.

That was only the comprehension of what my ability did, and I will get to that later.

Then came the ability itself.

The first truth to my arsenal.

It was violently imprinted into my head.

But luckily also locked away, for me only to remember when I wish to remember.

And that is good. Because even if I currently don't remember that first truth, I know that my soul cannot handle that truth for more than 1 minute before collapsing.

I don't even know how I survived 2 minutes of it.

I will explain in detail what I know about my own ability and how it works.

But first, let's see what the orb has to say about it.