Chapter 3:

It has been 4 years since I was born. I can finally train with this weak body of mine. Ever since I started walking at 9 months old, I was able to explore outside my house. I Wasn't allowed to explore the village since I was not even a 1 year old at that time. One time when I was exploring the outside of the house, I stayed outside to long and my mom got worried. When she found me, I got hit and told never to worry again while she was crying. At the age of 1 I started learning how to speak and write the language of this world, Ligrum. My parents thought a was a child prodigy. Also at this time I didn't need to lie down to meditate and train my qi and magic so I took a stance. It increased my training speed my many folds.

At the age of 2, I was allowed to explore the village we lived in. The houses in the surrounding looked like everyone living here were all poor. Now I was confused as I didn't know if this was how all standard houses were like or if this village was just poor. While exploring, I met a child named Vigrel Goldstein. He had a peach skin tone, with Blonde hair and Gold eyes with white horns. He became my best friend and I later found out he was part of the royal family of the country we live in, Amerist, but was banished because he didn't inherit the bloodline. His mother, a concubine of the king, was also banished alongside with him, shortly after arriving here she feel in love with another man marrying him. He is also a Dragunir like me but was had no wings and was a ground Dragunir like my parents. As for what type we don't know until the test for what species and bloodline for Dragunir's at the age 6. The color of his tail is grey. Amerist is a country in the Empire I live in, Kalise Empire.

The royal family of Amerist country had a long history. The royal family are descents of the dive beast, Angelic Golden Diamond Five Clawed Void Dragon God. They also have its bloodline. It has absolute affinity for void magic, diamond magic and . They scales as strong as golden diamonds. They are angelic looking and also have absolute affinity for light magic. It has good strength, speed and regeneration. It has eyes with the clairvoyant ability as well as the treasure finding ability. As for the innate ability, it is classified information. They were on par with Phoenix's also known as vermillion bird but the Dragunir blood and bloodline lost purity and became weak. Which is why they are a royal family for a country only.

At the age 3 I had many more friends which I played with everyday. I tried to act like a normal child and hide my magic and qi. Two of my good friends were Bane Vijra and Sofia Celestine. Bane, a werewolf who had Black hair, olive skin and beautiful emerald green eyes. Sofia Celestine, a nature elf who has Blue hair, pale skin and Azure Blue eyes . We are all 3 years old and we play sports I "invented" like soccer and tag. After half a year passed I reached 2nd rank in both magic and qi. I was 92 cms tall with a rather lean body for my age, Vigrel was 90 cms tall and had a pretty good body for his age. Bane was 94 cms tall and had a body as lean as mine. Sofia was 86 cms tall and had a body little mature for her age.

My birthday was yesterday, since my family was poor it wasn't extravagant but it was satisfactory enough for me since It was a party my family threw. My parents did it for my other birthdays as well. My friends came and we went out to play.

Now that I'm 4 years old, I'm mature enough to train my body and not only my qi and magic. Since I was going to train my body I thought why not my soul as well, so I searched up a book on the path of Body/Soul the next day. The body part was easier since I can just to exercises and use weights. The only problem would be my wings and tail. I got a minor solution though, I would fly with my wings since my body was strong enough now and use my tail to attack with the rest of my body. I will also use it with both my hands to train in the path of swords.

I still read the body section in a book I found after a few hours. It gave me training methods like continuously jabbing my fingers in to sand to strengthen my fingers. For soul portion I found a different type of meditation technique as well as different ways of using the soul. I never knew souls had so many purposes, It was the most important part of a person because even if the body gets destroyed you can keep living because of the soul but if the souls gets destroyed you will die for sure and never be reborn or made. I can attack with soul attacks and soul shields. The meditation requires me to tap into my soul and absorb energy from the outside world in to it. My soul is relatively strong compared to others. I also learned that the soul can send out a sense like sealing power, but it's not as strong or as effective. It also increases your 5 senses like some other paths. It can also be infused into your attacks to be stronger and also do soul damage along with the body damage.

The meditation technique can also be sustained while sleeping since I can lie down and do this. The body training will start tomorrow. When the night arrived and I finished training my magic and qi, I tried the meditation technique. I had to envision my soul as everyone's soul is different and only I would know or feel what it is. At first I got nothing, but after a while I felt this sudden urge like it wanted me to follow it. I let this urge take over and guide me through the process of imagining my soul. When it finished, I looked at its product. It didn't look hard to imagine or anything special, it was a black hole which looked like it can devour anything and everything.

I sent my consciousness in a tiny strand to it in hopes of connecting with it. It worked and I got control of it. I started absorbing the energy in my surroundings. The energy suddenly flew towards my soul at a speed many times faster than my magic and qi and probably the most talented people in the world. I then remembered what I was, the Mystic Devourer and my affinity. I knew I can absorb all energies at speeds more than 100 times faster than the fastest absorber when I can control my affinity, and this is only if I didn't train anything and only tried to control my affinity. As of now I absorb energiy 2 times faster than normal people if I use the devour affinity since I never used it before. I forgot to use it when I was absorbing my magic and qi.

The good thing about my affinity is that it will instantly filter out all the impurities in the energy and turn it into its purest form. There are side affects though. The affinity has no attacking properties other than I absorb the energy sent at me and send it back at them with my own power. Also it is extremely hard to control and exhausts me thoroughly when I use it. After using it other for purposes other than training like absorbing an attack coming at me I lose all my power for a day as it strains me a lot. It also puts me in a very weakened state. I also can't absorbing a lot of energy at a time or else my body can't take all the energy and will explode.

After a hour of absorbing I felt exhausted and stopped training and using my affinity. I went into the lying meditation form and fell asleep. In the morning I woke up earlier than usual to find out I'm at a bottleneck at my soul. After using my special method of breaking through which I used for magic and qi I went to wash myself then start my training.

At first I stretched my body so I won't be stiff and will be flexible in the future. I then strapped rocks on to my body as weights and started running. I ran a mile without rest before falling down from exhaustion. After resting and drinking a little water I did 20 push-ups, 40 sit-ups, 20 pull-ups and 20 chin-ups since I just started training my body. Training the body is a little different than other paths, though the other paths which strengthen the body helping it break through faster. When the body is strong enough or can't absorb anymore or both It will break through strengthening the whole body including bones tremendously as well as the 5 senses. It will also develop a 6 sense which will further improve through battles. I then, after doing a few more body training, started training in the swords with both hands, practicing martial arts of my old world. My body was not the usual one and not strong enough so the movements were awkward. It was better than an amateur and showed years of experience but was lacking something. If someone was looking at me practice they would think I had chains bound on my hands and legs affecting my movements. After 20 minutes of dual handed sword training , I added in my tail. I did variety of attacks with my tail adding in surprises which can work in my favor. I wanted to develop a new style which included my tail. After another 20 minutes I used my tail to use a sword instead of attacking. At first it was extremely hard and I couldn't even hold it. After a while I got used to it and got better at using it. I wanted to also make a new style for tri wielding swords with my tail.

After another 20 minutes I finished that training regimen. Now comes the hard part, doing the exact same thing while flying. I tried flapping my wings to lift me off the ground, at first I had little to no wind with my wings. It took a little time but I was flying in no time. I had no control at first but gradually got the hand of it flapping my wings at the right frequency to catch enough wind to fly and have control. I tried flying at different speeds and directions to familiarize myself with it, which means flapping at different frequencies to get different amounts of wind to fly at different speeds.. It was a nice feeling of the air hitting against my face cooling down my body and looking down on the earth feeling like the god of these lands. Once I calmed down, I started my air training. It was the exact same thing I did on the ground but on the air.

When I finished my training a hour later my mother called me in to eat. It was bread and omelette. Something I didn't mind having since we were poor. My parents were happy, proud and at ease that I never complained about our conditions but always tried to help. I would go into the forest with my friends so we can find herbs which can help each of our families respectively. Once I finished eating my breakfast my friends Vigrel, Bane and Sofia came out so we can find more herbs in the forest.

Vigrel said excitedly " Come on Astin you slowpoke, all of us are already ready. Let's go collect herbs."

I reply " Wait a sec Vigrel, I just finished eating my food. I come in a minute."

I then leave with my friends when I hear my mother say " Be care everyone. Don't wander in to far or else you might encounter a beast!"

I say " Ok mom, we'll be careful."

Then we started walking down the road. We talking when Sophia suddenly asked me " Why did you eat breakfast so late today? Normally you would be the first one to be ready."

I just say " Since my body got strong enough, I wanted to try flying which worked."

Her eyes started to sparkle and she yelled " Show me show me, then let me piggy back ride you pleaseeeeee!"

I sigh and give in knowing full well she will throw a tantrum if I didn't. For the rest of the path I just let her piggy back on me and flew her there. We then searched for a while before Bane said " Guys lets go in deeper, there's nothing of value here and I want to help my family as much as possible." I said "Ok." because I think I can protect them. So we ventured in deeper. We then split in directions to look for more herbs.

I then hear a scream from Sophia. I then go into a full on sprint dropping my herbs. When I arrive at the scene I see Sophia, Bane and Vigrel knocked out and a magical beast called the Blood Slime attacking them. I know it's a blood slime since it's red and I read a book on beasts and magical beasts.

I shoot fire magic at it then reinforce myself with qi and charge at it. I grab a stick on the way and try attacking it. It was damaged little by the fire but it did nothing as it healed. The only way to kill a slime is to destroy its core. Soul attacks won't affect it as it can't destroy the core. The blood slime the shoots out a blood sphere at me. I slash at with my sword cutting it in half. I then reinforce my sword with wind and strike down on the blood slime. It moves its core to the side as a last minute move.

Because of my strike the slime splits into two slimes. They both rush at me. I create a wooden stick with my wood magic, but it takes a portion of my mana pool. I then shoot two gravity balls at the slimes to slow them down. I combine my fire qi and wind qi into one and send it into my sticks. I then swing down on both the slimes with all my strength.

But the blood sphere which I cut into two halves turn into miniature spheres and latch onto both my arms stopping my movement. I then use my tail to grab both my sticks with my fire-wind qi in it and throw them at the two slimes. It manages to slow them down enough for me to freeze the blood spheres off my hands. I then use half my magic to create a gravity field to stop the slimes in their movements. I then use rest of my magic to use the my strongest and only actual spell I know, Lightning Shot. I throw 2 pieces of lightning at it electrocuting them. I then rush at them using all my qi to burn them.

Finally after a while their core broke and the slime died. Its remains seeped into the ground leaving only its broken cores left. I took one broken core and put it in my pocket. I then picked up my friends and took them home with my last remaining strength.

When I reached home my mom scream and I fell on the ground unconscious from over exerting my magic and qi.

When I woke up I went to the living room to check on my friends if they are there. But they weren't and my mom rushed me crying and hugged me saying " Are you ok my angel, tell me did you get hurt anywhere. Does it hurt anywhere? What happened?"

I replied to her to calm her down "Mom I'm ok, I'm not hurt. While we were searching for herbs a blood slime attacked us. It made the others unconscious by hitting them or faint from fear. A passing by cultivator killed it for me saving our lives. I then took them home but collapsed from fatigue. Where are the others? Are they ok?" I lied to make sure no one would trouble us trying to know how I did it or my secret. Also to make mom not worry.

She then said in a relieved but angry tone " They are ok, minor injuries only. Their parents came and picked them up telling me to thank you for bringing them back here to safety. Now tell why did you go so deep in? Didn't I tell not to go in so deep and get hurt!"

I quickly say with tears in my eyes " Mom, I only wanted to help you and dad. I know we are a poor family and don't want to make it hard for you so I wanted to help make money. The herbs on the outskirts aren't expense so I went in deeper for the more rare ones."

She then says while crying again " Astin know this, I'm happy with the way we are living right now. To both me and your dad your life is more important than any amount of money."

I then cry and say "Ok"

At that moment I hear the door slam and my dad rushing in saying " Are you ok Astin! Tell me your ok!"

I sigh and say " I'm ok dad. Please don't worry."

He then hugs me and lets out a sigh of relief saying " I'm so glad your ok."

I then say " Mom, dad, I'm tired so I'm going rest in my room don't disturb me please."

The both nod and I go back to my room. I then take out the core and place it on the bed. I then think about the ability once more. I then decide to absorb it and say " Devour" with my hand clenching the core. The core then shines before I choose for it to enter me. After a few minutes the glow disappears and I feel tired. I then gain all the information on the blood slime my new form. Before I go out cold I fuse my Dragunir form and my blood slime form to create the variant Blood Dragunir. The information on it also floods into my mind. I fall into a deep slumber for a day. When I awake I think about the information. The blood slime has the affinity to blood. It can create clones, absorb blood out of its target to grow bigger and stronger and use blood magic. It also has other things it can do. As I get stronger the more abilities I get from it. The Blood Dragunir basically the has all the abilities of my Dragunir form and Blood Slime form.

After confirming this I check my dantian and mana pool. Its sealed for a week like I thought. I can't train or use my power for this week, so I'll just as a normal child for now.

For the next 2 years I continue training and acting like a normal prodigy child. When I became 6 is when everything changed for the better or for the worse.

To be Continued.

Author: Sorry I couldn't give the chapter yesterday. Today's chapter is longer than usual and next chapter is another time skip and hopefully the last for a while. Remember to give me tips, comments and reviews. Tell me if your offended. I think I might change the title of the series. Tell me if I should and names of what I can change it to.