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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 · 奇幻
分數不夠
116 Chs

Acquiring Fire (1)

- The previous day, after dropping Jacob off on the couch-

Alex pulled out his phone and called James as he closed the front door behind him. James answered almost immediately, as he usually did whenever he received a call from Alex.

"What can I do for you, Alex?"

"I need to find a User with a fire ability so I can take it for myself. While I consider this to be urgent I don't want to go out and kill some random person just because I can, is there any way you can point me in the direction of a gangster or something?"

James didn't reply immediately, which made Alex slightly nervous that he might be overstepping by asking for something like this.

"Hmm, I think I have a better way to help." James finally said, relieving Alex's concerns. "I'll come by and pick you up as soon as I can but I'm in city two right now so it might take a while. Are you alright with waiting an hour or two or is it really that urgent?"