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Devoran

The power to devour death and enhance yourself. That is the power that Alex Rune received. An apocalyptic event occurred several generations ago that forced humanity to retreat underground in order to avoid extinction. Now all that remains of the human race lives within a series of five cities, with each city being built deeper than the last. In these cities everyone was equal and your only value to society was dependant on what you provided towards the survival of humanity. Of course, as anyone could have guessed, equality didn't last long. people started to create a social hierarchy based on what they could provide and soon enough capitalism had been reinstated. A few generations went by and the surface had all but been forgotten. Nobody cared for it, nobody longed for it. The surface might as well have been a fairy tale. It was around this time that another shift occurred within society, something that tossed the hierarchy onto it's head. Abilities. People started to develop supernatural abilities that allowed them to defy the laws of nature. Flight, teleportation, super strength and many more. It didn't take long for a new hierarchy to be formed, one that put these ability 'Users' at the top of the food chain. This brings us to the present day, where a young man nearing adulthood discovers that he possesses one of these abilities during a rather stressful moment. The ability he received? The ability grow stronger with each life he takes. This alone was a surprise, as he should have been too old to receive an ability, but the surprise didn't end there. It turns out than when Alex kills someone who possesses an ability, he can take it for himself. Now that he has the means to achieve greatness, he throws away his old self and embraces his need to kill, to grow stronger by any means necessary. Money hungry corporations, power drunk ability Users, this story has it all. Now get reading ;)

MagusRex · Fantasia
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116 Chs

The Value Of Life

"Tonight? hmm..." Alex thought about it for a moment before smiling. "Yeah, why not. I needed to get some frustration out anyways."

"Are you sure? You don't have any injuries or things to do?" It was a bit surprising for Jacob to hear Alex agree so quickly, he had assumed there would at least be some hesitation in making his decision.

"I'm completely healed up and don't have anything else to do tonight. I have a lot of anger I need to vent so I might as well do it at the 'arena'. Why is it called the arena anyways?"

Jacob looked as though he was suffering from second hand embarrassment when replying. "Well, it's not like it's an actual arena or anything, I think they just wanted the name to be something cool..."

  "Oh... I see."

"Forget about that, how is your mom doing?" Jacob suddenly asked, clearly wanting to change the subject.