In the world where there are legendary swordsmen, legendary sorcerers, and many other legendary beings, they could be found everywhere you go. But sadly no one knows if they exist. If they do, why can anyone not see them? Well, isn't this obvious because they do not have television or internet?
Only some word of mouth or some written history here and there. That too—no one can verify if the story is true or not. No proof of whether they ever existed or not.
Frauds can make a story legendary. They can say dragons exist, and he can say that he has a lucky chance to see it once.
Well, why talk about frauds? Because currently the boy, Ray Walker, is currently seeing a fraud telling a story about a dragon.
Ray is a boy who is currently six years old with black hair and blue eyes like his mother. He has a handsome face like his father. He is currently wearing a white shirt and black pants. He is wearing black shoes.
Anyway, moving on, he has reincarnated in the new world. He was a professional gamer. He was quite a famous gamer. Everyone knows him by the nickname 'Kano.' One of his favorite anime characters' name was Kano. He died practicing three days straight with less food and water consumption. He was hospitalized too late, and one thing led to the other; he died.
He was reincarnated in this legendary world where magic is possible. Swordsmen are there. There are talents everywhere. He was born as a noble child. He has great talent in cultivation and fighting. But Ray finds it extremely boring. Ray finds everything is lacking because there is no internet.
Ray's father, Robert, has been married to four wives. His first wife, Roxanne, has given him five children. He had four children with his second wife, Barbara. Then three with the third wife, Selene. And finally, one child with the fourth wife, Diana.
Ray is the thirteenth child from Robert and his fourth wife, Diana.
Robert is a great swordsman and a cultivator. He is well known in the kingdom of Richard. Robert is a general in the army of the kingdom. Robert is a very handsome man, and he is surrounded by beautiful ladies. They always try to get on his good side. But only a few ladies met his eyes.
Robert has been offered to marry a lot of nobles' daughters. But he only chose the ladies who are daughters of alchemy, blacksmithing, talisman, and formation backgrounds.
So Roxanne is from alchemy, Barbara is from blacksmithing, Selene is from talisman, and Diana is from formation.
Ray got fascinated by the talisman and formations. He planned on learning them both and creating his own internet.
Every child of Robert has to choose martial arts first and another category second. But for Ray it is formation and talisman first and other categories second. He has to change this boring world as soon as possible.
He learned that there are many sources of power stones called crystal stones. There are five types of graded stones. They are early, mid, late, peak, and perfect grade stones. And he also found out that the talisman has the ability to boost energy.
He has so much to learn, but he is so behind. He wants to create an online system, but he has no power to protect it. He is thinking of alternative ways that could save him and protect his life from being hunted down.
When Ray was one year old, he could speak; when he was two years old, he could read and write. By the age of three, he knows how to sword fight. But the problem started there when he turned four years old. He stopped training and always stays at the library to read books.
This then turned into a problem; there were many debates between Robert and Diana. Finally coming to a decision that Ray has to train two hours in swordsmanship every day if he wants to read books in the library.
Ray thought he would cause trouble for his mother if he didn't train. So for his mother's sake he would train every day.
He mostly read and learned about formation and talismans when he started going to the library. It was like this for two whole years.
Now the worst thing came for him. He can't make runes, or he can't make formations or talismans without cultivation at the age of six. Now he has to wait until he turns eight. But he cannot wait that long.
He went to his mother, Diana, who is a beautiful lady with black hair and blue eyes. She looks like a very kind and gentle person. She has a beautiful round face. She is currently wearing a long blue dress. She is wearing blue earrings and a beautiful blue locket chain. She has worn a diamond ring, which is her wedding ring given by Robert. She is wearing blue shoes. Everything makes her look like a beautiful model.
He asked his mother if he can take the awakening exam by the age of six. The answer was a no. He tried to make a cute face and tried to convince his mother for it, but the answer still remained no.
Then his mother explains that it has been tested for countless years that eight or above is the best age to awaken. If he goes before that, his bone structure and foundations are not prepared to give him the optimum level of talent a genius should possess.
So to awaken from the age below eight is not allowed. If you do, you will become mediocre. After learning this, he could only wait. But Diana had to educate her son.
Diana then made her son listen to her lecture about what types of stages there are in cultivation.
First it's the stage of qi, which is when a mortal starts to gain qi energy. Then after reaching the peak of the qi stage, you will break through to the wood stage. And that is when you become a true cultivator. That is when you start cultivating spiritual energy.
Ray then became very excited to hear all these, but he heard there are more coming.
Diana smiled and explained, "After the wood stage there is the iron stage; after that is the bronze stage, then comes the silver stage, and finally the golden stage."
So in total there are six stages, and in each stage there are 9 levels.
Now if you want to become a formation master. Whether you are an alchemist, blacksmith, formation master, or talisman master. They follow the same stages as the cultivation stage. They follow the qi, wood, iron, bronze, silver, and golden stages. But they do not have 9 levels; they have four parts. They are early, mid, late, and peak.
Diana let Ray absorb all these things in his memories, which took some time for Ray to analyze and understand. Diana then gave him the greatest information that made him happy right away.
The information goes like this, he can learn formation if he can cultivate his soul cultivation. And he needs to learn soul runes to make formations. If he can, he doesn't need to awaken for it. So Diana, who knows formations like the back of her hand, gave Ray the soul runes book to read.
Ray read the whole book and reread the book again to understand. Then he would try to make a soul core for himself. He tried reading the book again and again. And he would understand a concept every single time; he fails every time. But he didn't give up.
It wasn't that easy for him in the first few tries. So he would try to find different concepts and then jot them down in a notebook. He would start to think that runes were easier to understand, but it wasn't that easy.
Then he found a thing after analyzing and reading the books. That the runes are laws. So what if he tries to absorb all kinds of laws together and make a formation soul core?
He has no idea that that would be a bad idea. But he became crazy and started to add all kinds of laws he had learned from the library. One after the other, he has absorbed them crazily. He started to take one rune after the other and started to bring them inside his core.
Diana, who was watching secretly from faraway, thought that Ray was finally making his soul core. So she was happy that Ray is doing a good job. She has no idea what Ray was doing was so dangerous.
Ray started to groan in pain but didn't try to stop because he was in a crucial situation, and he wants to have the best soul so that he can achieve his future goals. Diana, who was watching secretly from faraway, quickly ran to check on Ray. And she got astonished when she tried to use her soul to see what Ray is doing.
So she started creating concealing and soul cultivation formations in the surroundings so that no one bothers him. She also put a lot of soul crystal stones near Ray so that he can finish his cultivation much more easily. She also fed him a soul pill inside his mouth. Only then did Ray start to feel much at ease but still in pain.
Ray took one whole day to comprehend and make his own soul core, and then out of nowhere he fainted. Seeing her son only fainted and nothing happened to him in the process. Diana sighed in relief and then checked on Ray. She found out that Ray has managed to cultivate her soul up to the 9th Qi stage. One step away from the wood stage.
'I have taken one step closer to my dream.' He thought before he fainted with a smile.