Chapter 2

The skeleton looked at the dawn for a few more minutes not fully appreciating or seeing as the magic didn't seem to fully blend with the corpse based off of the strangely flowing Mana currents. Knowledge filled the skeleton's brain (though it had none) and it fell over from pain. Its soul started to hurt as it realized with no brain the soul would have to endure this though this would result in better long-term results. Wondering where the knowledge came from the pain flared even more and the Mana seemed to suffer with it becoming erratic and constantly changing.

The skeleton felt that it must run fast for the people will find it. Curiosity made it want to find these people but gradually knowledge of their despicable ways filled its empty head. How some died from being stabbed in the back and some died from greed. It also learned of the seven deadly sins of which made many die as well. Suddenly knowledge of martial arts fell upon it too as everything came in bursts.

A few days later the skeleton laid down and panted heavily and not just clacks either. They were real pants conducted by the Mana as it flowed. It allowed the skeleton to make sounds. At this point, the skeleton realized it must name itself as all things are named at birth. Some later than others, but still a name. It did not come up with one at first but with a few more days of contemplating it decided on one. Xenon Merlyn.

For the first, it found the name of a great lich and for the second the name of a great wizard. It then decided, for now, it would be a male as they seemed to have more benefits but being a female could also be done if it was useful, after all, it was neither one nor the other. The people were considered sexist was that the word? Yes, that was the word so he decided to test and see the difference of both.

It, no, Xenon pondered about the knowledge it gained and why eventually after sitting down and sifting through billions of years of knowledge many too primal so they were directly sifted for a later date if needed. Being hundreds of thousands of every job after gaining their experience and knowledge but not their emotions for which many used to comprehend their techniques Xenon found it disconcerting but still easily finished his task.

He picked himself up and began practicing using the Mana it was extremely fluent and he enjoyed the feeling. The problem was that at certain times he tried to use more but he was restricted. He then thought for a moment and felt around for the Lich's experience. He felt that that was a dominant experience as it would always come back up quickly after being pushed aside from the other information. There were others like it but this one was the strongest.

Perpetual sifting caused it to realize there were martial arts and parts of it screamed in joy for only the soul was required to practice such things. Other parts were extremely calm facing this and it felt the joy must be suppressed. After some adjustments, he found the source otaku and suppressed it then continued with the technique creation. He wound up turning it into 50 stages of cultivation where he would gain strength on his bones and make them stronger. It would probably be different for fleshly beings he mused the 50 stages would probably remain the same for both.

He felt that perhaps getting all the way to stage 50 in both would not be the limit but it couldn't come up with more for now. At some point in creating the true method to get to the 50 stages by finding the best technique and fine-tuning, he found a strange character it felt was very cool. It paused and decided that it would be able to be like the character "Deadpool" who broke the fourth wall too. It would get strong enough so none could control it and it would find out if people were reading about or watching it

It settled.down to practice and began combing through information, finding flaws, adjusting, and feeling. A few weeks later she had combined them and created the techniques she believed was the strongest. She switched her gender as well to find out the difference but found none. It, of course, knew the difference but decided to feel if there was any that it could feel but she did find a word that described her. Gender-fluid it believed were the words.

A few weeks more of cultivation and he switched genders eventually deciding to stick with this one for a long time. Then a few years passed and the technique got better and the stages got higher. It even practiced the things within its soul so its soul merged better and was stronger than before. It resulted in the skeleton being able to use the magic that the dead had learned which was many and use most weapons and martial arts currently know except the new ones. It reached the peak 50 grades of each and decided to see the world for itself. Xenon also began working on a little project to benefit the people so he wouldn't have to worry. This wasted a little bit of his training time annoying him but the emotions some of the dead had made him do so. Besides Xenon knew this would benefit him. Xenon now had been born a few months after the End Times began and it decided that they were stupid for not attempting in all this time to close the rifts.

This, of course, was the greed for power and money which came with the monsters. The only people who didn't feel that were the naive, the monks, and the ones truly on top of the food chain. At this point it was a few years into the apocalypse society had stabilized and the Adventurers Guild continued to grow. Xenon chose this point in time to visit a nearby town as it believed no one could harm it and it was safe. There was nothing it did not know though with how talented some of the dead we're it could learn very quickly.