Chapter – 8 continuous breakthrough

In a half dark half colourful world a young boy was standing blanking staring into empty space.

“I...what is this?”

In front me was a semi holographic screen that actually looked like an old Egyptian papyrus with a few things on it.

Main system: Karmic shift

Sub system 1: ?????????????

Sub system 2: ??????????????

Sub system 3: ??????????????

Sub system 4: ??????????????

Sub system 5: ??????????????

“what the hell is this? Karmic shift? Wasn't that the thing when the system finished “fixing” the error in me? What about the other four? Sigh this is getting needlessly complicated.”

Shaking my head I touched the karmic shift option and the screen in front of me changed from a weird looking Egyptian papyrus into a sci fi looking blue screen.

Karmic shift: INFAMOUS I

On the sci fi looking screen a very familiar scene was in my sight.

“this is.....isn't this the interface of the first game from the infamous series?”

“no wait it looks similar but it has so much more options than the interface in the game whoa!”

I started browsing through the different options and I noticed a few things.

First off the different power usages in it were full of question marks.

However that wasn't the problem, the problem was that the sheer size of the question marks was immense.

I was like a tiny ant looking at a 100 meter tsunami.....one word......overwhelming.

I took a deep breath and continued browsing.

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A few hours later

“haah damn to think that my long awaited cheat is so useless.”

“There's nothing here for me........wait maybe I require another catalyst like just now when it absorbed the black and colourful energies.”

“well the cheat can wait, the most important task now is to reach the tenth stage as quickly as possible and leave this place.......speaking of which how long have i been here for i completely forgot”

“well thankfully the system has a time function that signifies the time since it was awakened so for now I can distinguish the time.”

With that i sat down and started breathing in according to the cosmic soul rhythm second stage.

Haa huu i breathed in and out, feeling the extremely pure energy entering my body & soul and nurturing them.

I quickly forgot about time and began to lose awareness of my surroundings.

A while later I lost awareness of body, and finally I entered a semi conscious state where my body absorbed energy according to its natural instincts.

Click a click sounded out from within my body but I completely didn't notice as my body automatically switched rhythms.

Deep within my consciousness a transparent foggy material was slowly becoming more and more solid, squirming about like it was trying to take shape and changing from transparent into half black half coloured pattern l would recognise as the meeting point between the two different energies if I saw it, only it was so much paler than the one in the power world that without careful observation it didn't look any different from its previous colour.

Inside my body though an even weirder transformation was occurring.

I was changing down to the cellular level and my bones and muscles were maturing even faster than before and were gaining a weird looking half black half coloured pattern, thankfully the change was very subtle and i didn't look any different from before on the outside.

After a day another click was heard and my body automatically switched rhythms again.

At this point the pattern in my consciousness and body looked much deeper and it was obviously still going strong.

A week later if reached the fourth stage and the foggy material in my consciousness became jellylike and was starting to look humanoid.

While my body stopped showing any obvious change from the inside but kept getting stronger and sturdier.

A month later another click was made signifying the fifth stage and my consciousness looked like it had a weird looking jellylike baby version of me.

Two months later I reached the sixth stage and the illusory baby was growing up a little but had no other obvious change other than its deepening colour and it growing more solid.

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One year later my body clicked for the ninth time and in my consciousness a half black half coloured version of me was floating naked while hugging its knees like a baby in it's mother's womb. While my body still didn't look any different outside, inside was a whole other mess.

The power world pattern was fusing with my bones and started to fade into it while the muscles and organs also automatically contracted slightly on their own to absorb what they can from the energy but they were also almost nearing their limit.

I suddenly stopped being able to absorb any further so I naturally began to wake up.

“huaaaaaah phew that was a nice dream, wonder how much time passed since started hmmm........” when I gazed at the system to check the its watch I completely froze....

“What? 15 months passed?????!!! why didn't I wake up??”

“Never mind I need to quickly leave this place first.....but how do I...” I once more felt dizzy and before I knew it my background changed again and I was back in the jade “tent” with grandpa staring at me.

“huh why did you open your eyes when you just closed them?”

What....don't tell me that was all a dream? No that can't be .......that pain I felt in there was most certainly real. Which leaves me with only one guess.

I calmed down and started thinking rationally before quickly coming to a conclusion.

“Time in that dimension was stopped.” I murmured.

“hah? what dimension, did you already enter your power world?”

I noticed grandpa was staring weirdly at me so I coughed and told him to go out so I can concentrate on breathing.

“hmm what about the sy...”I was suddenly in a dark green space again with the same annoying dizziness.

On the system interface was a different situation though .

System detected a variant earth power user: recommended for host to acquire the user's power.

Was the most obvious message after it came another volley of messages.

Initiated system main mission help the user become (in)FAMOUS throughout the multi omega verse

Time limit: infinite

Quest reward: complete control over the karmic shift main system( grants total control over all four subsystems)

Quest failure leads to complete destruction of host in body and soul

Initiated quest mission: save host's mother from imminent doom

Time limit: eighteen months

Quest reward: advanced section of cosmic soul manual

Quest failure will lead to eternal regret and damnation of host's soul

Initiated quest mission: save the people of empire city from the looming shadow hovering above them

Time limit: 1 month

Quest reward: karmic value becomes positive gaining extra abilities for the host.

Quest failure: karmic value becomes negative gaining extra abilities for the host.

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User reached stage 1 granted one power lottery chance

User reached stage 2 granted one power lottery chance

User reached stage 3 granted one power lottery chance

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User reached stage 10 granted one power lottery

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User reached first extremity and thus rewarded a golden lottery chance would you like to use it now?

Yes No

“Lottery??”

Just the thought of it got me shivering from excitement.

“accept of course!!” suddenly the system interface changed into another screen that had a machine which looked like a golden slot machine except was HUGE with 3 slots within it like a casino royal slot machine.

However other than its huge size it also had another big difference.

The rewards on it were much different than the usual municipal gifts and there where no opening under so i wondered where the rewards come from.

Breathing in I carefully pulled the small lever on the side and the golden slot machine began to glow and started spinning so fast it almost didn't seem to be moving.

“sigh guess I can't cheat here and have to rely on luck huh.” With that I closed my eyes and stayed still for a while.

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3 hours later...

I suddenly opened my eyes and carefully pulled the lever to stop the machine.

I stared intently at the transparent screen until the first slot stopped spinning at a majestic seven.

I took a deep breath to calm my tense body and again pulled the lever.

This time it just slowed down but didn't completely stop until it was almost about to leave the seven where it finally stopped.

Phew I released the deep breath i was holding and started at the lever for a long time and finally........I pulled it with shaking hands.

This last time it slowed more and more till it was moving on turtle speed but kept steadily rolling for a few more minutes. Before it finally stopped at the final seven.

Ding dong ding while the machine was letting out its jackpot sounds i was calmly assessing the situa....LIKE HELL I WAS!!!!!

“OH MH GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS YEEEEESSSS!!!!”

Seriously what are the odds?, I think I can now come out in a tv commercial saying ‘” I used to not believe in beginners luck but after trying this magnificent product I was able to let go of my prejudice, I implore everyone to try this truly epic product’” of course I would need to be paid enough for that though.

While if was basking in my daydreams the giant slot machine transformed into gold like light which shrunk down into a tiny golden dot that suddenly shot over and entered my head while poor me was unprepared for the painful impact so I was knocked out from the sudden headache.

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Opening my heavy eyelids I became aware of my surroundings.

“hmmm I am back in the tent now ahh..” all of a sudden I felt new information in my head like when i got the cosmic soul manual.

Cosmic origin arts(incomplete)

Since the beginning of the omega multiverse numerous living beings walked about and developed many new arts and ideas. Some were faulty while others were near perfect but all had a specific merit. Cosmic origin art is the compilation of all arts to ever exist since the beginning of time, and is the most perfect one of them all.

Requires one to have reached the first extremity to begin its practice.

Warning this art is supreme perfection so it is also the hardest art to exist, not recommended to practice without cosmic soul manual.

Chapter 1 the atom

The body itself is an infinite arrangement of atoms so complete control over it is nearly impossible without special circumstances. Reaching the first extremity allows one to have a certain control over a small part of his or her atoms. Using only that it is possible to dominate all beings made of the atoms that are less than your own however it is a double edged sword that can harm the practitioner much more than the opponent so careful use is required. This art can allow you also control general elemental power as easy as breathing.

Going through the information i was astonished on the idea of directly controlling the atom.

“hmm this is pretty interesting, to be able to dominate atoms while at extremity.......the system said i reached it but... what exactly is an extremity.”

While pondering on it I noticed other new information in my head.

“oh this is the part that was hidden before I reached the tenth stage...oh I can hide my exact stage from anyone? That's helpful since I don't want to be a beacon for mosquitos to gather around.”

First things first I can already feel my power seeping out of my body so I should seal it away until I need to use it

Let's just make it into the second stage.

“It also seems like tenth stage is the first extremity so if there's a first there's a second and maybe even a third.”

“Wait the first message i saw mentioned acquiring a nearby earth variant power, could it be grandpa's?”

“if so how exactly do I acquire it?.......” While I was thinking I heard the “tent” door open and said person was there carrying a bloodied deer.

“kessy, enough training already help me prepare breakfast.” “Okay grandpa.”