Chapter 13: Living and dead

Twilight Initiator, Zed, Son of Shadows, Shadow

Imperial Calendar: Year 1596, Month 3, Day 22

City of Valenwood, North of the Imperial Territory

Death zones... areas of great danger scattered around the world, I knew nothing about this, not the slightest idea, until I received the memories of the true Zed... zones, places under the rule of a monster, not just any, they must be very strong to exert their dominance in a general area... they are classified into several power hierarchies.

- Ground Zero

- Infernal Zone

- Nightmare Zone

- Calamity Zone

- Chaos Zone

Five zones, zones of certain death, there are five of them... and they are classified from the weakest being the Ground Zero to the strongest being the Chaos Zone...

They are all unique, each one of them was under the dominion of a creature... as mentioned earlier, these beings have a range of power.

- Mundane

- Ascended

- Master

- Grand Master

- Guardian

- Venerable

- Legendary

Only those names of the power hierarchy I know... well, that was the only thing I found in the true Zed's memory... I asked if there were more names but he just shook his head.

- There are no records of the following names... from what I've studied, it's a complete secret that is closely guarded among the world powers. Others say that no one is capable of going beyond the legendary rank, a minority say that there are only 7 ranks... but that cannot be... after all, there are 10 gods in total... so according to them, there should also be 10 names in the power hierarchy, but that's a myth, after all, to this day only 7 gods are known... I'm not quite sure, but among the forgotten gods is also the god of shadows, the only reason why there was a god of shadows was the map I found in an ancient book...

- Mundane

It's basically an ordinary man, the only difference is that he has the ability to use mana... likewise, he also has the opportunity to enter his own sea of soul.

This is the rank in which I am right now... but the established worldwide name is different... Twilight Initiator, is the name of my rank... it's a completely different name, but at the same time, it's a greater advantage I have...

Twilight Initiator

Son of Shadows

Shadow

Manipulation of small shadows.

Pre-fusion of shadows...

I have two abilities that no normal person could obtain, likewise instead of saying I am human, it says shadow, so I am not human either, even though I look and appear as one, I am not... perhaps it's because of this detail that I am completely different from mundane people... likewise, it is because of this that I can, so to speak, abuse my Pre-fusion of shadows ability... I don't think at all that a mundane would have such a broken ability in their early steps, in fact, because I have this ability, it's why I enlisted in this expedition... it's my secret weapon, and what will keep me alive.

Considering that my power hierarchy is different, I reach some conclusions, the most obvious is because of my nickname. Son of Shadows

I'm still not sure what that means... Am I the son of a god? That can be quite terrifying. I don't know what consequences that may bring, but at the same time, it's the best opportunity to survive in this world, it's a double-edged sword, very dangerous, God of Shadows, I know nothing about him, I have to investigate the other gods that are "alive" Yes, that's right, there are living gods in this world, according to what the true Zed said, we are located at the other end of the world, far from the great empires of this world... far from the great churches... the headquarters, so to speak... far from the great world powers.

I'm quite curious about that, I'm even excited, but right now I'm an ant in front of great existences.

Great existences

- Venerable

- Legendary

Those are the names given to people who are in either of these two ranks... they can live for more than 1000 years... this makes me think that if there are many more ranks above, can a person become immortal? Immortality... in my world, that word was always sought after in laboratories... immortality, basically being a god.

Of the figures of Great existences, none are known, they remain in the shadows in the great empires... but most people agree that they are among the high-ranking nobles or even are the emperors of their empire, no one knows for sure.

By the way, of the gods who are recorded as still alive are...

- Sylphora, Mother of Nature

- Auroriel, Guardian of Light

- Valkur, God of War

- Magnar, Lord of the Forge

- Thalakar, Lord of the Elements

- Xaldrin, Creator of Dreams

- Elysia, Goddess of Wisdom

Seven gods, 7 names for the power hierarchy... If we add to that...

- God of Shadow

It would be eight of them in total...

- Hey kid.

- What's up?

- Want to have some fun?

- No.

- Damn rat, I'm being nice to you! You better not test my patience.

-...

What's wrong with these people, they're all like animals, inside the carriage there are a total of 30 people, most of them are middle-aged men, there's not a single young one... well, they would love their lives too much to come to an Infernal Zone. But there's a kid like me, no, it seems he's a bit older than me, I guess he's 17 years old.

But still, why won't he leave me alone, he's been bothering me for days... I know what he's thinking, it sickens me... I know the way he looks... it fills me with anger.

I have feelings, I can feel and express them on my face, I couldn't do this on Earth, it doesn't bother me, in fact, I love appearing normal... if it were on Earth, I always maintained a poker face...

I let out a sigh.

- He's approaching... Should I kill him? or just cut off his hand... I'm not sure, I don't know what consequences my actions will have here, all the other men's eyes are on me, like hungry beasts, they're judging me, I can feel it. I know how it feels to be judged... They're watching how I'm going to react. It's a test, if I let myself be abused, the others will do the same.

- How annoying.

Feeling a great shadow looming over my head.

- Die!

Throwing a big blow, his hand is huge... his fist is twice the size of both my arms together...

- Sigh...

My eyes sharpen.

- I'm going to break his arm...

I thought mentally...