New life [Ray's POV]

Ray lay there for a long period of time gathering his thoughts as he began making a plan of action to become as strong as humanly possible-, no, the strongest being to exist. He thought about stealing all the opportunities in the world however he knew now wasn't the time to think of cheat items that could give him quick strength increases. Those items were like drugs and without training would be pointless. Now he believed he had to increase his personal forces as he was still young many of the important characters were likely to still be children as well.

'I'll recruit all the main characters and make them as absurdly strong as possible, that way I'll have some allies to rely on. However, I can't trust them, since I'm a Valliant I'll use my wealth to get the highest grade of Mana contract to bind them to me. This will become useless by the mid stage but by then I'll have them all emotionally reliant on me.'

Ray began plotting all sorts of ideas in his head and started slowly making a map of all his actions and how he should go doing them.

'Power isn't just strength, I need money and Allies. Money is fine for now though.'

He thought to himself. In the novels setting there was a major setting of guild/family wars and despite the damn near end of the world, the greed of the intelligent beings couldn't be with held. At current times there were the 3 major families and the 5 major guilds, all of which would be constantly combating each other throughout the series until it's end. With the major families being...

Valliant - Paladins that heal and defend

Maelstorm - Uses spear arts

Chrome - Pursue's magic of time

Whilst the 5 major guilds were...

Adventures guild - Basic bread and butter of allowing people to join, take requests, and get rewards with no extreme attachments.

Magi-craft guild - A guild that focuses on the creation and selling of magical artifacts.

Alchemy guild - A guild that focuses on the creation and selling of potions.

Dark arts guild - Focuses on the development and creation of dark arts to pursue strength.

Holy arts guild - Focuses on the development and creation of holy arts to pursue enlightenment.

'I want no part in that childish game's

He concluded it would be better to not get involved in the wars but there was one thought that came to his mind when it entailed what to do in the future.

'the Chromes, those crazy bastards I have to kill them at all costs'

In the story setting it was the Chromes that made a major change to the world and made it on the verge of destruction. This happened near the late beginning part of the novel and at this point Vik was already A-rank with skills in weapon arts that exceeded S levels but he couldn't prevent this event from happening. As worlds could evolve and gain Mana what the Chromes did was the same but on the scale of the universe. It was already known that the universe was undergoing great changes and even without the Chromes actions, humanities survival was very unlikely. The Chromes sped up the process of the evolution using their secret art [Speed Time], the universe began to undergo quick changes at a rate in which nobody could handle, the survival of humanity was already uncertain but this only further put a wedge in it.

'Damn it... Is this world just naturally full of crazy bastards? Or am I even crazier for writing this setting?'

These thoughts constantly crossed his mind, he even thought he could let the Chromes do as they wish so he could then later beat them and gain the surviving, top percent of humanity on his side but... After the event of the time speeding up the Chromes died. Not just one or two of them, all of them died with no exceptions, children, adults, the elderly, no one was free from it. The time magic had cost all of them their remaining life span so when it came time to blame no one was left alive to be the world's punching bag. This left many who had lost their family and friends fuelled to go on now by revenge, break down some even killing themselves, it was a horrendous and unthinkable event in history that shook the world down to it's very core.

'I can remember imagining the scene so vividly as I write it as even I felt some strong levels of disgust at my own writing'

In this part whilst the discover the state of the Chromes in this part of the novel, it's said that after a long hard battle to reclaim the capital Vik and his companions all instantly rushed to the Chromes buildings but all the could see were lifeless, shriveled up corpses in area releasing a disgusting and pungent smell of rotting corpses. At that moment one of the most loved heroines at the time, Grace Fritz, ended her own life. It was tough as he loved her as a character as well, sweet but talented and caring however after what was called the 'Great Cataclysm' she was fueled entirely by revenge on the Chromes and after seeing the corpse she simply broke down and...

'This isn't really for her, though. She's an extremely talented beast tamer, which is rare in this world considering most become mages or swordsman... She'll be a useful pawn'

He sighs as he starts thinking once again in his head of the path he is planning to take and meticulously plans out all of his actions to do so. However his thoughts were interrupted by some system message that he was ignoring for some while now.

[Well done! User ('???') has discovered a new stat! All of your status windows have been updated, please check.]

[Congratulations User ('???') for being the first person to make a skill for the Stat ('Inner Qi')!]

As he saw this Ray scowled internally. He thought there was a high possibility that the other two had come with him to this world however he didn't want to think about the possibility. He swipes away the messages as he remained still for a moment.

'Scratch all the plans I have made off... The first thing I have to do is find out who they've become and kill both Han and that girl'

He couldn't let Han, who similarly had knowledge of the novel like him continue to exist and after Han appeared so late in the fight he now hated him with a sore passion. As soon as he thought of the girl all he could feel was pure rage and killing intent on his face, he wanted revenge, he wanted to chop up her body, he wanted to destroy her entirely, and...

'I want my fucking life back... '

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Hi author here, I couldn't make any posts yesterday due to valentines but I hope you all had a wonderful day. In exchange I'll give two extra chapters at some point this week for the one that I had failed to deliver. Also I hope you enjoyed seeing Islan change as he's no longer the 'calm older brother' and is starting to be a manipulative freak that wants everything In his control. Wonder if he'll stay like that forever but I guess we'll just have to continue reading and see.

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