Blessing? Curse?

*Yun Long can control his blessing*

These words started to surface on the white pages of the book as I willed it. The mystery to the reason of why Yun Long contracted the devil was solved. It was because of his blessing's 2nd awakening.

Blessings were the innate-ability of humans powered by magic. It was the reason Humanity was surviving until now.

Yun long's blessing awakened at the age of seven. It was Enhanced Memory. The tragedy of his father's death caused his ability to go through 2nd awakening. His Enhanced Memory evolved into Panmnesia.

It was the power to remember absolutely everything one thinks, feels, encounters, and experiences. Sadly, he couldn't control it. The ability haunted him of his father's death. It caused him to fall for the devil's temptation resulting in getting killed by the protagonist.

If he could control that ability, it was one heck of an overpowered ability to have. There was a character later in the series who possessed the same ability and had even awakened it to 3rd stage. He was a powerhouse who wouldn't lose compared to the old monsters who survived the planetary disaster.

The book floating beside me was my blessing. A blessing was an ability directly carved into one's soul so I possessed two blessings.

My blessing was the Author. I roughly guessed how to use it.

As I injected mana into the words, it shone with light while endlessly absorbing my mana. It was like a never-ending well, sucking endlessly. My mana reserves were already empty while the words were still dimly glowing. I knew that my pitiful amount of mana wasn't enough to get the desired effect. But I had to control this ability or else I know I am gonna end up like the original Yun Long.

I looked ahead at the dogwood tree. I could remember my mother coaxing me in her arms when I was just one month old. I could remember the day she disappeared as well.

I rubbed my thigh with shaky arms trying to shake these thoughts away. Panmnesia was a blessing as well as a curse.

I could still remember the countless energy I felt when my "Author" blessing awakened. I could remember most of them clearly while some of them were vague and I couldn't remember some at all. I guess the energy was at a higher level than my ability.

I could only identify a few of them though and the ones at my disposal were only mana, soul energy, and lifeforce. Interfering in the soul domain without prior knowledge was just courting death. Without any choice, I opted to use my lifeforce. I knew the location of various life-extending treasures so no sweat I guess.

The words started to shine brighter as I injected my lifeforce into it. I felt my vitality rapidly declining and my whole body felt weak. Blinding light dispersed from the words and fell on my body. As the light gradually subsided, I felt no change at all. I tried to turn off my panmnesia and suddenly all of it stopped. The memory flashes I used to get seeing even just a small reminder. It stopped, all of it.

"HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA"

I threw my head back and laughed. Finally, I escaped that insanity. My weak body fell as I tried to jump from excessive excitement.

*My remaining lifespan.*

As the words surfaced on the books, I couldn't help but twitch my eyebrow at the answer.

My remaining lifespan was just...

6 Months...

-

"Chase those motherfuckers. Ima ice those fools." Said a man while firing an assault rifle filled with magical runes. He had a white mask on his face giving him a mysterious vibe.

"Fuck you... What do you think I'm doing." Ye Rong grunted while chasing a levitating train on a bike. He was quite angry, I mean Who wouldn't when there's a crazy guy with superiority complex shouting in your ear.

There were four people on the roof of the train. Their bare body was full of tattoo probably gangsters. They were standing still even though the train was at high speed.

"Damn, their firepower is crazy." The masked-man said while still firing. All the gangsters had a machine gun while the masked man only had an assault rifle. Still, the greater mobility of the small bike helped them escape the firepower. The high-speed chase with bullets flying all over was like a scene right out of an action movie.

"Talk less and fire more. You dumbass." Ye Rong shouted while desperately dodging the opponent's bullets. If it wasn't for his desperate maneuver in dodging the bullets, their body would have already been ridden of holes.

Suddenly, the four men on the train nodded at each other and concentrated their firepower at Ye Rong who was already sweating buckets with all the action.

"Shit..." Ye Rong cursed.

"Let me handle it." The masked man shouted while activating his ability. Time seemed to stop as he could see all the bullets heading towards Ye Rong in slow motion. Without wasting any time, he started firing at every one of those bullets precisely without missing a single one. The colliding bullets changed each there's trajectory. From others' perspective, the masked man's hand moved, leaving after images and all the bullets got deflected.

Even though the four men didn't know what happened they could still perceive the change in atmosphere, without wasting another second all of them activated a mana barrier in front of them.

Seeing the level of battle getting up a notch, the men accelerated the train without caring for the consequences.

Seeing the train getting farther and farther away, Ye Rong cursed again :

"Fuck it..."

Without waiting another second, Ye Rong's special ability bar rapidly decreased while the bike's tire burst in flame. The bike accelerated like an arrow released from a bow leaving a trail of fire behind.

The wind in the high-speed bike stabbed his eyes making Ye Rong close them.

"Are you fucking driving with your eyes closed?" The masked man shouted with an expression of are you crazy.

"Shut up... You're the one with googles, not me. Who told you to wear the goggles instead of giving it to me."

The masked man was truly a thick skin bastard even then he didn't admit defeat. "It's your ability. You should be able to control it."

Ye Rong knew that they would surely die if he kept driving with his eyes closed. He hit the break as the bike came to a stop.

"All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ." The masked man shouted while getting off the bike.

"Who's CJ?" Ye Rong questioned with a curious expression.

"AH... It's nothing." The masked man said with a gloating expression.

"Are you referencing something?"

"Kinda... It's a famous line by a fat man." The masked man said while chuckling.

"If its a famous line why don't I know about it." Ye Rong said with question marks all over his face.

"Cause it's out of this world." The masked man said in a mysterious tone.

"You crazy? Ima log out. Cya" A status window popped in front of him as Ye long pressed Log Out button hovering at the end. The silhouette of Ye Rong dispersed with light as he disappeared while the masked man roamed around while whistling.

-

Ye Rong stood up while taking out the VR helmet. It was a product of the state of the art soul and illusion magic.

"Asshole... The academy is starting soon and you're still playing games." Ling Yun said with a scowl on his face.

"Drop the act. I know we are the birds of the same feather." Ye Rong sneered while looking at Ling Yun with disdain.

"Fuck you, the great me couldn't be compared to you."

"Are we going on this again?" Annoyed, Ye Rong head locked Ling Yun.

"Okay... Okay... Stop it. The academy is starting tomorrow. We should head to the Shanghai portal soon." Ling Yun said while struggling to free himself.

Ye Rong released Ling Yun from his grip and said with a smile:

"Okay, let's go."