Asura was sitting on the ground cross-legged with his hand on his chin. He ignored the rumbling as he tried recall the familiar feel.

“Toothless, you say that you know a lot about mana, do you know of its properties and nature?”

Asura asked as he brought toothless to attention. Toothless, after raising his head, gave a devious grin as he read my mind.

This confirmed my suspicion. I delve in……..it took me a while, but I could feel a cool sensation running through my veins. A pitch black dot appeared on the center of my chest; then it rapidly spear to cover my body which is now the darkest of black. An empty void

Slow moving tendrils of black ink like smoke escapes my being. I noticed toothless’ surprised expression, before giving a satisfied smile.

“Amazing….to think dark matter can be used this way…”

I was astonished beyond belief. Humans have learned that Dark Matter moves along a certain frequency. Using this theory, they have established a way to communicate between colonies throughout the galaxy instantly. What’s more, it allowed you to communicate with thought alone. Normally, at a certain age, humans get an electronic implant. It amplifies and tunes the frequency of your thoughts to the vibration of dark matter. Because dark matter is directly linked to the sting field, you can communicate at virtually any distance almost instantly. This was insane to Asura. No one thought to use it this way…..Why would they? It would be like electrocuting themselves so that your body can harness electricity. It was a dumb, illogical idea.

What’s more, the familiar feeling I had…….If properties of dark matter is like the properties of mana, then nature of dark matter is the nature of Darkness element itself; their qualities mirror one another.

“My affinities is that of dark matter, which have the properties of mana…..”

Toothless had a priceless face too. His mouth was gaped open, and his eyes bulged wide.

It seems he didn’t know the truth to this extent.

The darkness element, because it is links to mana itself. It allows you to turn your power in any element and have an infinite supply. Everything resides in darkness. We reside in the darkness of our shadow, as the moon resides in the darkness of space.

I purged the dark ma- I mean mana, out of my body and revert to my original appearance. I didn’t have a mirror, but I could tell, I looked quite scary. Toothless quickly interjected

“I wouldn’t do that…The more you tap into the source, the more you get attuned to it. The more you become attuned to it, the easier it will be to use it.”

“So you’re saying that I should stay looking scary? I mean this is almost bad enough…” I said looking at my grey skin and my black fingernails, which oozed out dark energy.

“….Fine..” toothless sighed

Suddenly the ink like black smoke started oozing out of toothless as it began to condense in some sort of liquid. Now it really did look like ink.

I watched with concern as the liquid slowly began to make its way towards me, before it started to envelope me.

“Wh-Whats is this stuff…” I said with great concern

“Oh, stop being such a concernicus and relax..” I didn’t understand concern-what?

“…….” He stared at me blankly for a few seconds before finally saying

“It’s a joke alright. You know, humans like to name themselves after specific nature. You know, they use lots of us’s…..”

“…….” I wasn’t sure what to think…

Toothless looked a bit flustered, as he tried to break the awkward silence again. “You know, Romulus, Julius, Optimus…..Fabulous?..”

I-my brain cells couldn’t take anymore.

“So what now?” I quickly tried to get back on topic. Must have lost nearly half of my brain cells to that

Toothless quickly went back to his business like demeanor.

“Errerm.” Cleared his throat before starting.

“Yes, well, just imagine some cool armor you want. The black liquid will turn into any armor that you can imagine. Anyway, you should be grateful because I gave you a bit more of my power. If you dispel the suit, your mana pool will expand and you gain a greater affinity to darkness, and when you don your armor, that power will just act as a shield instead.

“Cool” I said with clear excitement “So, does this keep the functions of any armor I create”

“Heheh, clever aren’t you..?” toothless chuckled.

“No, we just learnt to cheat the system..”

I said as I began to shape my armor. After a while, I realized that it doesn’t matter how terrifying I look, I can change my appearance at will now. In in fact, in battle, the scarier I am, the better. I decided to make “dark themed” medieval armor with few technical features. First I had my helmet come with a computer integrated system or CIS, which linked an AI processor to my mind. I can now instantly process any incoming sensatory data. This should be good for now I thought as I finished the final details.

After all was said and done, I created an armor that was my own age’s version of Gut’s armor. It was pure black with violet glow emanating from his where his helmet joins at the eyes. The suit itself was made of the hardest composite material he could think of.

“I find it hard to believe that anything would scratch me” I said as I looked myself from head to toe. I heard toothless slightly chuckle in the background

“I quickly realized that I’ve missed something crucial.

“Ah, a condensed Gama ray blade that would come out of my gauntlets would be pretty cool”

Gamma rays are hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than photons that a standard laser can produce. Such a weapon would be unchallenged in this world.

I felt pretty damn confident. I had the most powerful weapon in the world and I was indestructible, or at least beyond this world’s means.

“Are you ready?” I heard toothless ask.

“Yeh” I answered with resolve

“You have absorbed enough mana, so you should be able to do this…” I heard toothless say.

“Enough mana?” I was confused. Do I not have a limitless supply?

“Oh, that? Hehehe..Dont worry about it. It’s not important……probably..” He hid his chuckling with his front le-, paws. It actually made his seem quite cute.

“hmmm….he’s definitely up to something” I felt like there was something wrong here. I just couldn’t put my finger to it. “Oh, well” I shrug my shoulders as I gave up after a while.

“Now, pour all the mana you have into this space. “ toothless instructed

I did as I was instructed. “This is pointless….” I thought to my self

Suddenly, the blank white nothingness faded and I was submerged in utter darkness.

[Capsule life support]Environmental equalization complete…..Please stand by…[Capsule life support]

……….I waited for…It’s hard to tell how long. Time seem to pass slow in this darkness.

[Capsule life support]System shut down prepared………….System shut down in 3…2…1…system shut down complete….Goodbye[Capsule life support]

Suddenly, a blinding beam of light split the darkness in two. Then I watched as the light spread engulfing the surrounding darkness. As the darkness receded, I stepped forward into the light. Toothless flew out soon after and landed on my shoulder

“Finally,…..I am here.”

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As the dust settled a figure emerged from within.

He seemed like a giant. He was 6ft. 8 of pure muscle and he had a handsome face that showed a hint of mischief. But now that face wore a grim expression now. He was the executioner, He was death itself.

Behind him, the surrounding soldiers notice Alexander’s twitching body in the center of a giant crater. His body was bent in crooked manner. And all of his limbs were broken in two

Everyone was left aghast. They couldn’t move or speak. They were too shocked at the turn of events.

“N-Don’t kill him” through the silence a weak voice was heard.

“Please,……let him live…”

Estok, who was the obvious the perpetrator, showed clear confusion but soon recover as he saw Aron’s feral gaze

“Anyone else…?” Estok asked. He didn’t want to make a mistake and accidently kill the wrong person

“Just those 10…..” Aron said as murder filled the air.

“And everyone else?......”

Everyone stood in silence, breathless, waiting for the answer

“…Don’t let a single one live”

His words cut through the still air like razors through flesh.

Estok instantly vanished as Aron was left by himself. Soon screams and explosions could be heard in the distance

“What a fool!” The 10 elite knights who were about to piss their pants, started to laugh hysterically.

“A-are you going to fight all by you self? Bwahaha”

“I…would break some of your legs…pft…If they weren’t broken already! Bwahahaha!

They all erupted into laughter.

But Aron just laid there, staring at sky with a pleasant smile on his face. He began to hum a happy yet sad melody.

“Oye, don’t you hear us? You’re fucked. A single one of use can heal the commander, and a single one of us can kill you. We have 8 more still…...This dude……I think the little lord is getting delirious!” He mocked as he slowly approached, pulling his sword out. He wore a face of ugly arrogance. “I shall cut you up the old fashioned way” He smiled as he licked his sword

A sudden yell broke the moment.

“What?” the knight who was approaching Aron, asked in annoyance

“Healing magic is not working…”

“Impossible” he rebuttaled “try regeneration magic”

“I already have”

“Now that I think about it, purge is not working either” One knight said

“What! How could this be! I can’t use Divine Blessing?” Said another

He tried some of his own magic. It’s as they’ve said. None of their magic was working. He then slowly looked at Aron who began to hum a happy, yet sad melody as he continued to stare at the sky, his slight smile grew wider as he began to hum more loudly.

The color of everything around was devoured by a grey monochrome that grew darker and darker as silence took over.

It was silence of isolation, the silence that builds tension when you know you are trapped with an unknown beast.

Shivers ran down their spines and the silence was soon broken with cries of pleas and apologies. Aron who took those sounds as music to his ears began to hum even louder.

This was Aron’s Ultimate attack called Death God’s Burden. It increased the mass in a given range up to 10,000 fold. You can make the duration of the effect longer by decreasing the rate of mass increased and the range.

Aron would utilize this to the fullest to get the most time out of it.

The elite holy knights who now had no defensive buffers began to be crushed. Very, very slowly.

Pleas and cries turned into yell and shrieks of the 10 holy knights.

“Such a beautiful melody” Aron looked like he was staring at something beyond his reach

Estok was a force of rage, a rampaging god of war. All 90 A rank magic knights attacked

Just before he used nearly half of his magic sealing the magic of 10 holy knights by overpowering and rupturing their mana circulatory system. He could do this because of his great affinity in light magic

He was using one of the top tier enhancing skill called “Heavens Wrath” It had 10 times more effect then divine blessing, which was two ranks below it. He was an unprecedented genius in body enhancement spells, which were his specialty. Despite all this, he was still having a hard time fighting the remaining 60 experts who started to work as a single team. Estok was getting tired

Estoc face flashed with fury as another wave of murderous intent filled the air.

He recalled the state that was in Aron. The Aron who he grew up looking up to. Aron who he considered his family. He always seen him as an older brother. Something to strive for and be more like. To see him in that broken, battered state,…..it twisted his heart in knots. His ferial gaze still vivid in his memory.

Rage consumed him once more as he charged at the nearest light. He smashed through the knight’s Purge and Divine Blessing, which coated his body before smashing through his head. A load pop and splatter could be heard

Estok seemed to teleport trough another knight. The others were slow to react. They turned aroujnd in startle as they saw the knight suddenly explode. The only thing that was left was just tiny bits mixed with some blood. Chucky salsa comes to mind

As he stood there, the rock behind him cracked and upturned beneath force of his an initial charge. Knights who filled in that space during the brief moment got blown away. One even lost his leg. This explosion was soon followed by another. The area directly in front of Estok was now a large V shaped gouge cutting through the terrain, going for about 300 yards. He instantly killed 5 knights. The knight that Estock “teleported” through was now a simple blood splatter on the dirt. As he would move so fast, the force, transfer was too slow for him. He would simply move and explosions and dying screams would follow in his wake. It looked as if there was a terrible lag. The whole weight of the mana dense atmosphere would collapse into the vacant space that was suddenly left by Estok’s freakishly fast movement. This created a vacuum which sucked thing in, before imploding on itself with a loud thunderclap.

The never ending sounds of battle went through the whole night and into the next morning. There was still 23 knights left and Estock was beyond tire. Now they combatted with great expertise and caution. They knew that Estok couldn’t last long

Estok’s bones ached and his joints creaked. The constant body enhancement took its toll on his body. He had to continue….Aron’s image was still burned in his head

“Not enough..” Estok said with a fierce face as he tried to push through and do one more charge