Chapter 3

'So I absorbed the meteorite, causing my strength to skyrocket.' he thought. It's not like I can't die right? Living this long sucks, living as an immortal seems like gonna suck more.

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How long has it been? He already lost count of the years passed by.

The meteorite made him immortal,but he could still die and will just rise up the year after.

First time it happened, he was running away from a group of snakes with killing gaze and fangs dripping of venoms. He tried to go up the mountains, because snakes are cold blooded right? They should slow down even though they're huge.

So he ran half way up the mountain when the snakes lunges at him with incredible speed. He jumped out of the way but it is still too late, took a bite out of his legs and when he looked back, its friends are eyeing him with predatory gaze.

'if I'm gonna die! You should come and join me!' he thought and with mind powers he honed for several years, he pulled the snows to come rushing at the snakes covering them and himself with it.

He was under heavy pressure from the weight of the snow, he suffocated from the lack of oxygen and with weight crushing his body he died from asphyxiation, next thing he knew he on top of the snow butt naked.

The first thing he thought when he came back 'I should not took the egg.'

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It was a long, long time after that shameful display, he almost hunted those snakes to extinction, eating their meat while bathing in their blood. He didn't even know that his body was already making anti pathogens for the snake venoms till years later.

He scoured the lands, from the mountain paths in the east to the vast deserts and green pasture in the west.

He found wonders from the land himself, saw flora, animals from flying lizards, flaming birds, or deep sea creature that will later be known as dragons, phoenix, and kraken.

What surprised him was that he saw a person! Following the guy to his tribe, he was longing for companionship tried to approach them, but there was one thing he had forgotten... that this people was illiterate savages just like him, the next thing he knew he was being offered to their god of sun in some kind of rituals he thought it was the ritual for letting outsiders in their community but when he probe their minds, he was shocked that they were gonna kill him, sacrifice his life and drink his blood to strengthen their connection to the land.

To his anger he killed their chief, he searched all of their heads for the knowledge and with the knowledge he plundered and his mind powers.

He cursed the survivors, that they will never be under the sun again or they will burn, they will have to spill blood from their community to satiate their hunger.

These people will be later be known as the forefather of vampires.

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He was investigating the knowledge he had, writing the rituals in the ground, checking what is so special about it, when he put his mental energy it just pushed a different kind of energy out of the ritual and nothing physical happened, he checks himself from inside out, he thought maybe something went wrong and rearrange the order a few more times, when nothing new happened. He shove it at the back of his mind, and continue his wandering.

He wandered from place to place, marking the place that has something interesting with it. He later came back to where the meteorite has fallen, and it was brimming with life. So filled with the energy he found.

He tried experimenting, his mind was churning ideas to ideas, he isolated what each letter he called runes means. Creating more different kinds of runes in the process, what the effect it did to its surroundings and with the abundance of energy in the place.

Everytime he failed, it exploded ranging from fire to ice, damaging the place around him.

Checking his body each time, and with his immortality, he has all the time in the world.

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Several years he lost count of how many times he killed himself. But finally his experimentation bore fruit, he made himself as the conduit or foci, and with the mind as the core.

He called this new power magic, magic seems familiar but foreign term to him.

Developing different branches other than the ritual magic he called.

He left the places trying to search for more different kinds of magic, looking for diversity.

For a thousand years, he roamed the land, looking for different people but with prudence, as he didn't want to curse people again.

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He joined a couple of civilization along the way, using his magic to age himself and die just to be reborn anew in the next couple of years.

He even found a joy of living a life while using the minimum amount of magic, if people found out, he would teach him his arts to propagate his knowledge along with them. He was surprised by some people's ingenuity.

He had lived multiple lifetimes now, experiencing different kinds of emotions from joy to sadness, even leaving behind some progeny multiple times.

Some of them had the talent for magic, some had the instinct for battle. What made it ironic when his brood was turned into vampires, for the first few times when he noticed a vampire with his blood, he killed them without mercy but now? He just let them be.

There was a time when he was in the called Sumeria, the ruler was a vampire with his blood, he rule pretty well aside from the blood sabbath he did indoors.

Turning people into a wolf into man and man into wolf, my interest was piqued with his magic, I searched his mind in was surprised of how fortified it was.

Tearing it down made me put a little effort but with the knowledge from his people under him. It was worth it as you will take characteristics from your inner animal .

It was a very tedious magic that will search for an animal that is compatible with your soul, or you could just force your will into people turning them of what you want while also cursing them along their transformation.

He didn't know if he would laugh or be dismayed when he tried the transformation 'I'm a cat?' checking himself out by summoning water in front of him. He was 300 pounds, long toothed cat.

He wondered did the first few encounter in his new life did a huge impact in his life.