***

John Edberg whose brain mutated to an extreme and his head was big so much he had to support it with raw magic was in his room and the excitement on his face was clear to see.

Ever since the mana came, he was closed in researching facility, he was testing how to reproduce fuels, gunpowder, electronics, the fuels, and electronics already succeeded to an extent but that wasn't the reason he was celebrating.

What he celebrated was the hidden project he didn't show to any of his coworkers, they were all scared of him and looked at him through fingers while he was almost the only one who could create a spell and repel the beasts, the soldiers that were supposed to protect them mostly run away and the few that stayed were more like thugs.

The only thing John wanted was to research in peace and climb the new highs that presented themselves before him, with his mutation it will be an easy task, John floated in the air while sitting on his chair, the quantity of raw mana he could control easily enabled him to control any object and manipulate it freely and thus he could even fly if he wished.

And what was the project? It was a communicator that connected him to anyone who had the same thought and abilities as him and the outcome? Success, he already contacted several scientists with the same mutations and thoughts, none of them wanted to work for corrupt or even non-corrupt government, they all wanted the freedom to research whatever they want and do it how they want, with the mutation come also obsessive feeling to acquire more knowledge, more devices, and more spells.

With several same-minded scientists, John planned to start their own country and the plan was already in motion.

***

Kevin was sitting on a chair in a glorious building that was made from white stones while he listened to a sweet old lady with long blond hairs blue eyes and two pairs of white wings on her back, the same wings as Kevin only that Kevin´s wings are much smaller.

It was already three weeks since he was brought from his home to the platform at the moon, where he was told about the great disaster that is happening on the Earth, the Angels told him about what is happening and how the demons are killing the humans to satisfy their wicked desires.

Kevin was only 14 years old so he got greatly shocked by all the information, he wanted to go back on Earth and help his family but he couldn't, the angels told him that he would only be kidnaped or killed by the demons without helping anyone, other angels are trying to help people but it won't last for eternity and that's why he is here.

He needs to learn from other angels how to control his abilities, how to form spells, and how to fight so that when he turns sixteen, he can go back on Earth and make a difference.

Kevin and the other kids from Earth were sorted into groups, angels, humans, and sadly even some demons, and then they formed groups that were sent to different worlds to study.

The angels had special training that was composed of studying and even fighting, Kevin still remember how he cried a bit when he killed the monster bunny, they fought a controlled fight in an arena where some angels monitored so that nothings happen and Kevin used a spell to kill the poor rabbit, he can still remember how the rabbit made "pop" and exploded, it was terrible but he will do everything he can so that he can return home and save his family and friends.

***

Emma was listening to the beautiful elf mage, more than on the mana handling she focused on the mage, he had green hairs green eyes, was tall and very handsome, also his ears were almost 20 cm long, his cloth was made from some strange leaves that perfectly formed mage robe.

Emma was one of the more lucky children, she awakened her brain which was the best thing that could happen to her, she didn't have to learn fighting techniques like those that awakened their hearts and had to even fight some small monsters in a nearby forest and she didn't have to go to the brutal special force for those that awakened both centers of power.

Those were the most prestigious here but after every training session they could hardly walk but the treatment they received was adequate, they got the best meal and didn't have to do any chores, also those that didn't awaken at all were not spared, those that didn't awaken had to train with a wooden sword, go to the forest in groups and fight the beast and also had to do all chores like sweeping and cleaning dishes.

Emma pitied those without an awakened center of power, those that worked hard could earn a potion that could make them as strong as her but they have to sweat every day just to get this chance, also those that will drink the potion will have to wait years just to stabilize their center of power while she can try awakening her second center of power.

Generally, one has only one center of power and focuses on that, having awakened to both brain and heart requires twice the time to advance them to another rank or circle, the techniques they have learned absorb the mana from air or mana rich materials and slowly store the mana in their center of power, when they absorb with and the center of power is already full they can very slowly increase the maximum capacity but if they increase too much they risk damaging their center of power and that goes without saying how dangerous it is to damage your brain.

Also, the centers of power generally pull mana from one to another and make the regeneration of mana quite problematic, that´s why most people settle on one center of power and compensate with party members.

Emma ended her thoughts and continued staring at the handsome elf.

***

William was sitting around the campfire with several other small demons, they all had various mutations red skin, horns, wings, teeth more like fangs, and as for why they were around the campfire?

They were forbidden to stay in their cottage for most of the day, they will be there in the morning and will be lectured about how evil they are and about how they must repent every day for what they are, that muscular angel would come and will "spar" with everyone, the spar was more of an excuse to beat up everyone, so they could "survive" in the forest that was located near the cottage.

Life was bad for those child demons before and now it was only bit worse, nothing new.

And yet the only thing on William's mind was the hate he felt for every angel that was supposed to bring peace but only made Williams's life even worse.

If the beating from the angels wasn't enough there was also the constant fight with the monsters and other demon kids, to make matters worse the angels gave everyone a bracelet that couldn't be taken off, the sole purpose of the bracelet was to block any handling of mana in their bodies so they couldn't activate any abilities or practice mana.

As for the other demons, some of them were even worse than the angels, they were going around the forest and hunted any monster just to torture it, they sometimes even beaten other demon kids to a near-death state and the angels only looked not doing anything against it.

William checked the position of the sun and calculated how long till dinner, the dinner was the only "meal" they were provided, it was most of the time hard bread with a bit of water, if they wanted to eat they had to hunt for any food in the forest but that was quite dangerous, many beasts roamed the forest and already killed few of the kids.

Normally they wouldn't need any food and could be sustained from mana, but the mana blocking bracelet they wore blocked off even this ability, everything to make the demons weaker.

William and his group slowly made their way to the cottage, their faces were terrible as they looked at the angels with anger.

Angel "COME HERE, you shits! Sadly I have a bad message for you, the higher up made their decision after discussing with the demon scum, you will be transported to their camp and then will be allocated to demons on Earth, the only thing positive about this is that I won't have to look at you any longer, YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO PACK YOUR STUFF"

***

Mason was walking the empty streets of the small city he grew up in, he felt nothing when seeing the familiar houses, it started when he was small when other children played he stood on the side, he didn't smile didn't cry, even before the mana came other made fun of him for being almost like dead.

When the mana came Mason was hiding at home but some time later he ran out of food so he needed some, he went out and that´s the story of how he died, he was run over by a group of people that was escaping from beasts, he didn't remember much after that only that he woke up and saw how the beasts were eating his insides.

Confused and very angry Mason fought the beasts, several times, every time the beasts would throw themself at him and eat him a bit more before he lost consciousness.

And yet a few minutes later Mason would rise again and would be forced to fight those beasts again and again.

With the fewer amount meat on his bones and progressively lower strength, Mason fought and fought and finally killed one beast, and things changed after that.

When he killed the beast, for the first time in his life mason felt genuine happiness as warm energy enveloped him and spread through his whole body, he could feel how the energy was flowing inside him only to get corrupted by the energy that kept him alive, the life energy was completely corrupted and then consumed by the cold energy inside Mason.

Mason regained a bit of strength but felt like he lost a part of his soul, he began to attack the beasts with newfound motivation and crazed screams.

Slowly he killed those beasts and consumed the warm sweet energy.

But strangely enough the beasts he killed slowly got up just like he did, and just like he was those beasts were undead monsters.

Mason wanted to observe them for a while to figure out why they raised or why they fought but they didn't give him a chance and attacked him.

With no other choice, Mason fought the beasts and after a short fight, he managed to kill them again. And yet when he killed one of the beasts again no warm feeling came, only the cold energy from the beasts was absorbed by Mason´s undead body, and like that Mason and the beasts continued to kill one another.

That went for a while until some humans approached them, when that happened all of them ran at the humans like a fly drawn to light.

Mason bathed in the warm energy of the killed humans and continued to run everywhere while killing more and more humans and unknowingly corrupting bigger and bigger areas where the undeads were born from corpses.

No one could stop him, a few of the angels that tried to stop him proved to be a nuisance but nothing serious, in few days the city was completely overrun, and all 4000 citizens were dead or turned to the undead.

Mason was standing on the plaza while a strange feeling was overcoming him, around him all the undead were fighting among themselves as when the life energy couldn't be acquired the second-best was killing other undead to increase their strength.

All the undead except Mason were only driven by their instincts and only Mason to some extend could still remember who he was and could think to himself although his thoughts were sluggish and slow.

Mason´s flesh collapsed and a tentacle emerged from him that caught the nearest undead, the tentacle ripped the undead´s brain and then went for another, Mason could feel that what was happening was his doing but he couldn't rein in the instincts to stop, slowly more and more brains were collected and some undead even came and offered theirs willingly as losing their brain didn't mean death for them anyway, they just temporally laid on the ground and after a while got up and continued in their business like usual.

It took half a day until a huge pile of brains was before Mason, Mason looked at it with his empty eyes, he couldn´t care less, the only thing he wanted was the sweet warm energy that made him feel like life has a meaning but the tentacle came and ripped Mason brain out and thrown it at the pile.

After that, he lost consciousness.

Another half day went by until Mason came to himself, he couldn't see anything but when he thought about it suddenly he was overcome with seeing everything around him all the 360°, his thought also stabilized and he could think even better than when he was human ´what is going on?´

Mason couldn't feel anything no legs arms head, only that he had dozens of eyes all over his body and also string-like limbs that were connected to him, he focused on one of those string as suddenly his view changed, he could see his arms and breasts and legs, wait he didn't have breasts.

Mason checked and he was controlling a woman that turned into a zombie ´that cant get stranger´ he looked around and saw a huge rotten brain from which many eyeballs were looking around, upon seeing it Mason connected everything and knew. ´fuck, did I turned into hive mind?´