Transcendent Skill

I walked into the room with my new soul slaves. They were all talking to each other in hushed voices. There was a stone base further back behind the campfires and most of them had guns holstered on them. 

As I drew near to them, I yelled. "Everyone, stop talking. Look at me, listen, and sit down."

They all complied as I walked closer to them while the two women behind me followed. I looked at the blue numbers that hovered over their faces and I began to name them.

I looked at a man with blonde hair, brown eyes, light skin, and a muscular frame. He was 7568, so I named him Efx.

I turned my head to a cute woman with a more athletic frame, white hair, gold eyes, and snow white skin. Her designation was 3983 and she was the one who had resisted me the most. I named her Tie. 

I looked over to a man with black hair, brown eyes, black skin, and an extremely muscular frame. His designation was 3823, so I named him Hit. 

I looked over to a woman with brown eyes, black skin, black hair, and an athletic frame with decent muscles. Her numbers were 9827, so I named her Nit.

I turned to a man with black hair, gray eyes, white skin, and a toned body. His designation was 3903, so I named him Eno. 

I looked over at a man with brown hair, blue eyes, white skin, and a very small height. His designation was 3901, so I named him Tez. 

I looked over at a woman with white hair, blue eyes, snow white skin, and an extremely muscular build. She looked bigger than any bodybuilder I had ever seen, it was honestly kind of scary. A true beast. Her designation was 6838, so I named her Set. 

I looked at a man with red hair, blue eyes, white skin, and a decent build. His designation was 9034, so I named him Not. 

I turned to the last one. He had black hair, olive toned skin, a solid build, brown eyes, and he looked asian. His designation was 4765, so I named him Fex. 

After naming them all, I gave more commands to them all. "You will all answer me in a timely fashion. You will be helpful and go beyond what I ask of you. You will die before you let another have sex with you. Now, go and collect everything in your base and come to me afterwards at the mouth of the cave, you have ten minutes."

I turned away from them to the outside of the cave. I sat down at the entrance of the cave and pulled up information about the skill I had received.

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System Search/ Command:

{Input: Select the skill book Murder Maniac's Soul Almanac from inventory and read its description.}

{Response: Murder Maniac's Soul Almanac is a consumable item. This is a Transcendent skill book. Description → A skill developed by one who became a god. Death is merely an illusion. It is what breaks the connection between one's soul and body. A crazy man bent on revenge made this skill as he was on the verge of being killed by those he had trusted and loved. 

When you kill a being with another soul, you can completely consume their soul and gain an increase in random stats. Note, a soulstone will not drop from their corpse.

Alternatively, you can store a soul from one of your soul slaves when they die, or someone you kill. The stored soul's information will be compacted and stored within your own soulstone. You can use mana to recreate the subject's body perfectly if they die. Those you hold close will be with you as long as you are alive.

Also, this skill book allows you to keep consciousness while you are asleep. Your stamina will constantly increase when you are awake, if you are not engaging in a strenuous activity. 

This skill, once consumed, will provide you with extra stats. Mana capacity → +25. Mana control +25. Health → +250. Speed → +125. Combat sense → +125. Strength → + 250. Willpower of The Soul → +25. Weight → + 500. 

Note, if you consume this skill, you will have to face a god. Your existence may be destroyed. Don't let power blind you. The increase in stats could destroy your body.}

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My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. The increase in stats was ridiculous. With all the points together, it was the same as leveling up two hundred times. It also gave me the ability to receive even more stat points whenever I killed someone. If I wanted their soul, I could take it and reform their body. 

The skill was completely crazy. I disregarded the message about being blinded by stats, I definitely needed this if I was going to survive the ten thousand people who were going to be hunting me. 

I opened my inventory and removed the skill book. As it touched my hands, purple flames encircled my hand. I could feel the sheer power from it and it made me nauseous. 

A system popup appeared in front of me and asked whether or not I wanted to learn the skill book. I hit "YES" without any hesitation. I felt my body slump down against the side of the cave entrance as all of my senses quickly fled me.

My soul was instantly submerged in an ocean of black mana. Every strand of mana was focused on me and they all pressed me in until I could feel the presence of the god's very soul approaching me. A stand of mana, so concentrated that it could wipe away without even trying, wrapped around my soul.

The god sent a message through a wave of intent. "So, you are about to be hunted and betrayed by everyone around you. You have three skills that can help you now. Your stats are nearing that of a low tier god. You should be able to easily kill everyone in your simulation and then kill every boss that you meet. It may take time, but it is inevitable at this point.

What I ask of you is only one thing. Don't return to earth until you kill the one you said you aspired to kill. The god who set everything up. He is the god who conquers planets. He was not satisfied with dimensional territories.

He wanted to delve into the very worlds that the God of Creation spoke into existence and he wanted to conquer them all. His time is nearing its end. He wanted to see the capabilities of earth before sending his minions there. Go above his expectations and kill him. 

After you have conquered this territory, it will become your own and you will officially become a god when you receive the mythic artifact that holds the power of this place. From this island, you can open portals and conquer other dimensional spaces. 

There are many other dimensional territories where subjects such as yourself have already risen to the level of gods. Those have come from your own world among many others, but their greed for power has blinded them to the point that they have become followers of the god who conquers even to the point that they would destroy their own world.

You may be wondering why I am interfering, but it is simple really. I don't want the other gods to become more powerful. A whole world is the branch to taking the whole universe. The way we normally take worlds is by slowly adjusting the world to flows of our own mana. Each god's mana is different and when the mana is being used by every being on the planet, it is easy to take over.

The god who conquers wants war and death more than power, which I seek. I want to rule over all the gods. I want to become one who would rule the universe. To become one who no one could ever oppose. One who could never be betrayed."

I sent my own intent to him. "So, if I help you and kill this god who conquers, I would become a high tier god?"

"He is a medium tiered god. I am a high tier god. I could kill him if I wanted to, but doing so would weaken me and other gods would seek to take all of our combined power for themselves. If you kill him, you could flee to Earth. If they followed you, they would weaken themselves on a planet that has not become transformed by their own mana.

In fact, I started to send my own mana to Earth in the form of portal dungeons. Earth will change entirely, and I will ensure that if anyone follows you there, they will become extinct, and I will absorb their power. 

In order for everything to work out, this skill has been injected with a minute fraction of my mana and strength. Your body will adhere to my mana and the way it is controlled. Your system will not break until you are a god even though the mana is completely different from my own.

The system's mana is a flat base. It has every attribute and can be turned down the path of any god. These new dimensions are like farms for us. We absorb the strong souls that emerge. But in your case, you will be especially strong and I will make it known that you are mine.

You did not need to know all this information yet, but I wanted you to understand this world so that you would understand the path you need to go down and that I am a god who can help you. I am on your side, and I want you to succeed. Suffer through the sting of betrayal and bend the souls of the offenders to your own will.

Build a bloodline that you can control, but make sure that you make them into soul slaves. If you do not, they will always innately want to kill you. It is a sad truth and is why you should not always use mana to procreate."

With that, he injected a string of thick mana into me. My soul burned with power. So much power. I felt hot as though my soul was burning to oblivion. It was a power unlike anything I had ever felt before. Dark strings of mana corrupted all of my other mana and it became black. There were no more multicolored strings of mana, only black. 

In that blackness that burned like hell, an eternity seemed to pass.