Ki

Of course, before anything else, Jack decided he would solve the issue with the code in his mind once and for all. Therefore, Jack took out his secured phone after a long time and downloaded a word unscrambler from the network, before cutting off his connection with the network completely, in order to prevent the content of what he would find out next from being leaked.

Next, Jack entered all the words and letters, clicked on the button to remove all grammatically incorrect sentences, and then let the program do its job.

Unfortunately, after about a minute or so, it was done, with an incredibly long list. Well, it was definitely better than the millions-long list he would otherwise have to go through. This list could be shortened down to just a few options if he connected it to the net and allowed the AI in the program to do its thing after the connection was established, but Jack did not want that, so, he sat down, reading each option one at a time.

Two hours later, all of a sudden, he found it. The last sentence of the long chant in his mind contains all sorts of differing instructions, descriptions, and sayings.

"To you who has read this message, may you be able to successfully sense and gather Ki, such that you can ascend to the peak of your universe, and beyond. After all, ruling your universe is just the first stepping stone in your never-ending journey…"

As the last sentence was completed in his mind, all the words shone together in bright white light as Jack felt like he was hit by a meteor, his mind turning to mush from the excruciating pain.

Every second felt like an eternity as the pain in Jack's mind increased two-fold with each passing moment. This pain was like no other Jack had gone through. Not the kind of pain he had to go through in the military. Especially considering he had been put through some anti-torture sessions as well, to prevent him from leaking secrets to the enemies.

But this pain did not originate from his body and instead stemmed from deep within him.

It was the kind of pain that he did not experience even when having his nails pulled out one at a time, and having his private parts electrocuted. He had not experienced this pain any other time in his life, except when he learned the news that he had lost his mother.

However, this was not an emotional pain, yet, it somehow gave him the same feeling. The same feeling of hopelessness and emptiness he had felt when he lost his loved ones.

This excruciating pain continued to grow stronger until Jack could not take it anymore and fainted. This was, after all, a defence mechanism by the human body to avoid something which was stressing you out too much, which included things like fear or even pain.

…

Only a few minutes later, Jack regained consciousness as he opened his eyes to a brand new world. A world with bright and multicoloured floating orbs the size of fireflies. Jack's eyes were currently glowing white with drops of blood falling from them as Jack observed the world around him without realising the blood.