Chapter 16: Take Me As Your Master

<Year 8: Everything was progressing as usual. Coolio and Fuze were training and improving every day.>

<Until something unexpected happened, you woke up that night from meditation and saw Fuze standing next to you with a Sword in his hand.>

<The sword was dark black in color, made of a substance you didn't know about. You asked Fuze why he entered your room at night? Did he need something?>

<He, in response, talked about how he heard a calling to him in the middle of the night and found a talking sword that wants to be his master.>

John - "Hmm, just as I thought, he really has the lucky aura of a protagonist."

<You ask him to hand over the sword to talk to it. Fuze hands you the sword, and you hear a voice in your head when you touch the blade.>

<The voice claims to be an ancient being from a forgotten Era. It tells you you should bow to it as it is your master.>

John - "What the f is wrong with the sword? Is it broken? Has being all alone broken the soul inside? You want to be everyone's master?"

<You question the sword why you should bow down, and the reply astonishes you. It says that the clone technique you learned was created by him.>

<You tell him not to lie, or you will break the sword in two. He says he would like to see you try.>

<You get frustrated and decide to bend the front part of the sword to teach it a lesson. You find yourself unable to bend the blade.>

<You choose to go Martian form but seeing your form, the sword starts trembling and gets scared.>

< Your bluff works and the sword is now willing to spit out its origins.>

<Seeing you stop the sword calms down. You urge it to start speaking the information that it has.>

<It tells you that he a relic of the past. An ancient soul trapped inside a sword out of his own delusion of wanting to be Immortal. He says his name is Alexander.>

<He says he has seen a lot of things in his time, including your unique red form. The only thing that could ever come close to threatening his existence.>

<He says he has also seen the fall of your species from an intergalactic empire to the stone age that you currently reside in.>

<You ask how the sword communicated with Fuze, and it replies that it can detect when his people are around and communicate with them. You ask, does that mean he also once had the same illusion arts, and you get a positive answer.>

<You, on the spot, grant him permission to train Fuze but warn him that if he does anything fishy, like trying to grab Fuze's body, his end would be far worse than being just stuck in a sword.>

<Seeing you suddenly clone yourself, the sword gets chills on its blades and replies that there is nothing to fear.>

<Year 8, Month 1: As the 10th anniversary gets closer and closer, you start thinking about what will come next in your life if you prevail from this Hail. You decide that once you have defeated Hail, you will leave this planet and start exploring the vast outerspace>

<You instruct your AI to start building a huge spacecraft similar to the one that Frieza uses. The AI asks for input as the name of this new project. You decide to call it SpaceX 1.0>

<Year 8, Month 7: It's been half a year since the time you started the construction of your spaceship, It is finally complete. Seeing the huge spaceship, you couldn't help but want to take it for a spin.>

<Coolio decides to take a space trip as a break from all the training. You bring along Fuze.>

\<Even though it's been half a year, you can't trust Alexander to the point where you can leave him unsupervised with Fuze.>

<Year 8, Month 7, Week 1: Within a week, your enthusiasm for space slowly starts dying out as, after all, space is, in a way, just an empty void.>

<As you are about to command the spaceship to turn back for your home planet, an alert catches your attention.>

<[Planet suitable for inhabitation detected] >

<Seeing this alert, you immediately decide to pay this planet a visit to see if there is any life on it.>

John – "Hmm, I go for short space exploration and find a life-suitable planet. Something feels sketchy. Like, what are the chances? Then again, I guess let's go and have a look."