Looking at the rather extensive status screen, awe built up in his eyes, before it died out, and he let out a sigh.
"I died… I died, and it was because of her… what now?" He fell to his knees as the memories were confronted in his mind, something he could not forget, even if he wanted to.
His extra skill, True Memory, a subskill of Unlimited Potential, would not allow him to forget, what he knew was his forever.
Every stab, the look on her face, his inability to react, the crazy rambling that followed as his mind broke down from the aftermath, and he became an animal, subservient to instinct.
"If anything I should be happy… because of her insanity, of her betrayal, I can live a better second life." Those words left his mouth, but the trembling as his hands dug into the dirt gripping almost as if to strangle it, could not lie.
He was mad, furious, even.
How could she?! After everything! The years of friendship and support throw him out of like that, kill him!
"But she said… Again? She won't come here, right?! To find me, to kill herself to meet here… No, it can't be, there's no way! Forget it, just mad talk, from an insane person… I can't see her, not again, I didn't forget, I want to, I won't... Never… Ever…" After his hands crushed dirt, he let go to cover his face, and a deep sigh escaped him.
It was painful, heavy even to suspect that she could be out there, what would he even do to her?
Kill her? Revenge…
That's what he should be fury, anger, and pure determination, yet…
"I don't know… What would I do if she stood before me now? No! No! No! No! Stop thinking!" He started scratching his own head aggressively as he shook it, multiple times.
[Report: While travel between worlds is possible, they exist in separate universes, in other words, different space-time continuums, though the Earth world is close, and similar in time, the likelihood of different souls anywhere from instants to months, and even years apart, ending up in here together is around 0.000001%, unless highly specialized means, inaccessible to entities below Special S rank are used, it is virtually impossible.]
The feminine voice cut through his thoughts, sounding just like the voice of the world earlier, it got his attention.
"This… TenSura?" He raised an eyebrow.
[Report: Affirmative. According to all accessible data, the central world is 99.99% likely to be, the world of Tensura from your past life memories.]
"So I got my own great sage… I was 16 volumes in. The 23rd volume was already out too, I would have read the rest, if it weren't for me dying…" He let go of his face, as he looked up at the sky.
There was a lot of green foliage around, trees, bushes, grass, and the fauna that inhabited it.
"Fictional cores, that's what that entity wanted. It seems to be why I'm here, or is it only why I'm powerful? Was Sasha telling the truth? If she were, she would likely come around." Those words tasted bitter to say, as many questions began to pile up in his mind, but few answers.
The clear truth, right now he just didn't know, to assume otherwise would be foolish.
"In that case, I'll just make the most of this life. I'll try to figure out what a fictional core is in the meantime." A sigh left him again, as he began getting up.
Standing like before, he looked at himself, to finally realize he was naked, and his endowment was on a league of its own now, fit for the breeder that a harem king is supposed to be.
"Makes me question if I'm a horse… Hmmm, it did say I'm an Osaphir? Never heard of such a race, a half-incubus? Interesting… Ot explains my new rod, well, I have a skill to always fit so it shouldn't matter." There was a pause as he kept looking at himself. "Nice body too… And purple hair? I bet my eyes are unusual too… Then the tattoos? Well, runes… Intrinsic? Looks pretty cool." Once he was done checking himself out, the surroundings became the focus again.
It was clearly a forest around him, which gave him an idea of where he was.
"Is this Jura?" The question was simple, as he looked around.
[Response: Yes, you are currently in the Great Jura Forest, which is found in the Magic Continent, one of 3 continents of the central world. Specifically, you are in the Northwest region of the forest, near the borders with the Blumund Kingdom, and the Falmuth Kingdom. Your magic sense is inactive, would you like to activate it? Y/N]
"Yes…" He nodded to himself, leaning his head to the side as some curiosity built up.
[Report: Activating Magic sense. Due to current capabilities, it has a range of 2,500,000 centimeters radius, or 5,000,000 centimeters across. Thanks to Unique Skill, Infinite Talent's, sub skill-Comprehend(Extra tier), which gives you a 1,000 times boost.]
As soon as it was made active, things changed drastically as his concept of awareness expanded, 360 degrees, all around him for such a wide area was now all within eyeshot of him.
'So, it's 100 centimeters of data per 1 magicule with the boost, and about 0.1 centimeters of data per 1 magicule without it. Interesting… Instead of 25 kilometers like me, they would only see 25 meters with their senses.' He concluded after hearing it.
The glass blades, the small insects buzzing, small water droplets, among other things were all now in range of his senses, easy to follow for him.
'It's so different, almost nauseating, it's almost like I'm a passenger of my own body, with multiple perspectives that are connected, however, don't overlap. It's safe… even if still alien to experience.' He looked at his hand, before a notification popped up.
Using this new experience, he was able to see that, his eyebrows, eyelashes, and irises, were all pink, contrasting his purple hair. Oddly alluring.
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[Notice: Within a 2,500,000 centimeters radius sense range, various life signals were found, would you like to include all responses in the report or summarize it to only the relevant ones?]
"Summarize it." He ordered.
[Response: The surrounding area is populated by monsters on the low to mid tier at most, Direwolf packs, and Giant Ants colonies have been found within your magic sense range.
This section of the Jura forest is particularly safe in comparison to the rest of it. Reason being the existence of the cave where True Dragon of Storm Vedora's magicules scared away most monsters, weak and strong, leaving only a few to congregate in this region.
Would you like precise coordinates to the Direwolves or Giant ants? Y/N]
"No need… Let's instead test what I can do, there is no reason to put myself out there, before I'm ready…. First, let's see if…" He then took a stance he copied from stories he read or watched, then began punching and kicking, shadow boxing with great focus.
For the first few moves, it was the expected, clumsy, and shaky, but each move improved on the last almost subconsciously, to the point he could see himself getting better at every step, an almost scary level of growth that still confused him even as he experienced it…
Far too easy.
Before he knew it, his moves were precise and purposeful, within maybe minutes? He had gone from a complete newbie to teaching himself how to best move his body.
[Extra skill: Martial Arts acquired.]
[Martial arts: An extra skill that makes it so the user is a adept in combat, capable of replicating and learning any Art or physical technique from seeing it once.]
[Art: Modelwill acquired.]
[Modelwill: Is an art, one of the fundamental aspects of the Battlewill school of Arts, allowing the user to materialize their fighting aura and acts as the basis for various techniques.]
[Art: Battlewill acquired.]
[Battlewill: Is a family of arts that makes use of the aura present in all living beings to perform powerful physical attacks and effects that resemble magic. Unlike magic, these techniques do not require any sort of chant and usually have little to no casting time.]
As his body began to move fluidly through the air, his movements efficient and powerful there was an understanding of Aura, a life force energy adjacent to Magicules, while those were the building blocks of magic and magical beings, Aura was the building block of living beings.
Two of the fundamental particles of the world, magical, and physical, are both necessary for anyone trying to reach the pinnacle of this verse.
'Two energies going around in my body… Around like a turning wheel, yin-yang in a cycle… If I compress then release… That would make for an amazing attack! I have to try!' His eyes widened as the idea crossed his mind, and a smile arose.
Having this power, he walked to a nearby tree and took a wide stance before cocking back his fist to let out a devastating blow, flaring up the aura in his body as he focused it in the thrown punch, compressing it into a spiral ready to spring out.
"Spiral Fist!" He chanted as the attack was released.
The moment his rotating hand made contact with the tree, the spiral compression was unleashed.
Boom! Crack!
A rotating gust of pressurezed wind and aura escaped his fist as the move cracked and took apart several trees, and even the dirt in front of him in a cone of damage.
Its expanded effect left in its wake a barren soil as even the trucks were ripped off the ground and blown to pieces.
The wind from it had pushed his hair back, and left his right arm shaking as he looked at the result with his chin to the ground and eyes more open than ever, a big smile present to top it all off.
"Spectacular! This is beautiful! Truly beautiful! Such is progress." Tears of happiness fell from his eyes as the elation of the elevation overcame him, such was bliss.
To become better than you were before, was something he deeply valued, to know you can look back at yourself and stand taller, words could not express the happiness and joy brimming from him.
"Thank you to this wonderful world of skills, magic, arts, and evolution! Thank you to my skills for being the overpowered carry, and thank you to past me, for getting me here! This is only the start… One day, I will stand beyond all else… Never again will I give up the pursuit of the pinnacle like in my first life. This time, I will become the best." He gripped his fists, blood boiling as his muscles ached, and his bones cracked.
He was alive.
Then came the world voice.
[Notice: A new Art has been created. Art: Spiral Fist acquired.]
[Spiral Fist: An offensive Art that consists of taking a square stance before pulling the fist back and focusing a compressed spiral pattern of fighting spirit(Aura) in the arm, before throwing the rotating punch. This creates a whirlwind shredder of aura and pressurezed wind that dismantles everything in its cone-shaped path.
Type: Active
Tier: Extra(Intermediate)]
"Having that in mind, I should also learn to control magicules." He sighed in relief before closing his eyes to focus on his magic sense.
Appearing to him as these colorless transparent and almost invisible small spheres all around him, in everything, there were magicules.
Isolating his own, he targeted them before pushing them to follow a path as he slowly but surely built himself a magicules circuit, a network that spanned his whole body.
Pulling from his past life and his understanding of human biology together with his magic sense now allowing him to see his current body, to make up for any physiological differences on the spot, while Harem System's sub skill-All of creation(Extra tier) gave him any answer he was missing.
[Extra Skill: Control Magic has been acquired.]
Quickly from there, pathways for both his Aura, and Magicules came to be as his new body was fully mapped with the help of his Harem System, guiding him, Infinite Talent allowing him to adapt in real time, and Unlimited Potential letting him push himself to keep progressing.
Multiple calculations took place at the same time due to the sub-skill parallel calculation(common tier) at a high speed due to the common tier accelerated thought's 1000 times boost to his thinking speed.
This left very little room for error and any mistakes that slipped through, were rapidly corrected and left to heal due to regeneration(common tier).
It wasn't quite perfect, due to his still lacking regenerative power, and even his processing skills aside from the Harem System itself left a bit to be desired for him, but that was not a problem, the path ahead would be conquered.
From head to toes, all his body became a well-oiled machine, even if a bit crude in its construction, now connected to his runes, there was what he called, the 'OC(optimal circulation)' system.
[Notice: A new Art has been created. Art: OC System-Runic Energy Network]
[OC System: A utility Art specialized in optimal circulation and output cost of energy. It is connected to body runes for better effects. It increases energy use efficiency by 25%.
Type: Passive(Toggle-On/Off)
Tier: Common(Basic or Rudamentary)
Currently Integrated Energy types: Aura, Magicules]
It was hours of work, yet in the end, it all paid off.
"Hahaha! Progress sweet growth. Love it! I feel great!… Though I am getting a little tired, and hungry…" He got up as the sky was already going dark.
That's when his senses focused outward again, and he immediately noticed, three humanoid signatures moving through the forest.
[Notice: Analysis concludes that it's a free people party of adventurers, a male fighter~ estimated EP: 4,500, a male thief~ estimated EP: 3,800, and a female sorcerer~ estimated EP: 5,200, all being pursued by a pack of 10 direwolves~ Individually around 3,500 EP, however together they hold 35,000 EP potential, they are all low on magicules and fighting spirit, signs in their tattered equipment point to a likely previous battle with giant ants. All three present human signatures, further analysis is needed to confirm. Nearby, 10 seconds until they cross paths with you. Would you like to eliminate, evade, or interact?]
"Huh? Yeah… I see them… It's those fools. A good opportunity to see what I can really do." He smirked as he stood ready with his arms crossed.
Just as warned, 10 seconds in, they came running.
"Ahhjh! Why?! I swear I told Ellen to set up a barrier around our camp! Those giant ants did a number on us! I'm so tired! Couldn't do it!" A young man seemingly in his late twenties with medium-length blonde-brown hair, green eyes wearing light adventurer clothes, came running as he yelled, tears almost escaping his eyes.
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"I keep telling you two to do it each time, but somehow we end up like this. If I weren't low on fighting spirit, I would use stealth… Hurgh! Can't we just take the rings off?" A man who looked older around his thirties, with short brown hair, a goatee, and strong depressions on his cheeks, also dressed in light equipment, ran in right after.
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"Ehhh! You're both making it out to be my fault?! I… I… I was out of magicules ok… Ot should have been Kaval, and I mean, how you thought of learning it, Gido?!" She blushed slightly while avoiding eye contact, she was clearly feeling guilty for messing up.
She was a young woman looking around 18, of fair stature with blonde hair and blue eyes. She has special markings under her eyes and wears a blue tie-on headband. Her attire consisted of clothes fit for travel as an adventurer.
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Just like the others she came running.
Behind them, a pack of grey wolves, bigger than the ones found on earth, and much more deadly, that was not the case for him.
"Show time!" Taking a leap the purple-haired young man took the sky, and without a second compressed fighting spirit into a spiral as he cocked his fist before unleashing it. "Aeriel Spiral fist!"
Boom! Splatter!
A whirlwind of fighting spirit tore to pieces all the direwolves as if they were made of paper, also damaging the ground below them, as a slight tremor spread due to the impact of this move.
To this the world voice said.
[Notice: A new school of Arts has been formed, the Spiral First School of Arts. Art: Aeriel Spiral Fist acquired.]
Tripping to the ground due to the rumbling, the trio fell as the at attack hit the monsters pursuing them. As dirt and dust passed, they were momentarily blinded to who did it.
"Hahaha! Amazing, I can grow so easily here, unlike back then, when I stagnated and gave up, here is a path forward for me. In a way, it's a good thing, huh?" He looked at his shaking right hand after performing, a wide smile on his face.
"Na! Na… Na- Naked man!" The blond girl, Ellen, as soon as she could see him, covered her eyes with her hands in a blushing fit, though she left a small space between her fingers to see. "Oh god! Is it usually that big?" She murmured to herself, as her face further reddened.
"Damn! That's some real damage…" Kaval the young man in his twenties, had his face twitch at the situation, that didn't stop him from getting up to stand in front of Ellen.
"Tell me about it. A naked powerhouse in the Jura forest, bad news for sure!" Gido moved to stand next to Ellen, his hand placed over the ring he had on.
"Hehehe, Oh, yeah… Naked. I forgot that, well more like lost focus on it, not that it matters anymore. Too late now." He scratched the back of his head as he turned to them. "Sorry about that, my clothes got destroyed while I was training, my bad." A weak smile formed with a slight blush, his mental resistance keeping him composed even now.
To those words, the trio looked at each other, unsure of what to make of this.
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While that was taking place, in the North of the Ingrassia Kingdom, there was a Baron's land of ice, even before the Ice continent at the extreme north.
A disturbance happened, one that to certain beings, could be felt through the magic continent, the northern ice continent, and even the third as well as final continent of the central world planet, El Dorado.
A another being had entered the central world universe.
A reincarnated otherworlder, one more.
"Hahaha! I did it! The ritual worked! That woman wasn't lying… Oh… Dear, Ozzymund Chrysalis, my beloved. I'll find you and make you mine for good, only mine… First though, I need to get things ready! Let's see what I can do. I was an unmatched prodigy after all." A wide deprived smile formed on her expression.
[Status screen]
[Name: Sasha(Named)]
[Species: Majin | Sub-Species: Infernal Succubus]
[Lifeform Type: Demi-Spiritual Lifeform]
[Age: 0(Physical)/18(Mental)]
[Sex: Female]
[Titles: Reincarnated Otherwolder]
[Rank: S]
[Blessing/Protection: Crest Of ????]
[EP: 666,000]
[Danger Level: Disaster-class]
[Magicules Count: 500,000/500,000]
[Intrinsic Skills:
-Shape Transformation
-Magic Sense
-Spirit Haki
-Thermal Nullification (Immunity to Fire/Heat)
-Soul Absorb (Energy drain via touch)]
[Common Skills:
Coercion: The ability to intimidate weaker beings with sheer willpower.
-Telepathy: Standard mental communication.
-Fly: This skill allows for high-speed aerial maneuvering without physical exertion.
-Poison Breath: She can exhale a paralyzing mist. It can be used to incapacitate targets.]
[Extra Skills:
-Ultraspeed Regeneration: This extra skill allows the user to heal physical wounds almost instantly as long as the core is intact.
-Multilayer Barrier: This extra skill creates a standard defense for high-ranking Majins, a barrier with multiple layers.
-Thought Acceleration: An extra skill they accelerates the perception of time by a factor of 10,000.
-Heat Haze: An extra skill that Instead of letting the user be overwhelmed by excess magicules damage the body, it vents the excess heat outwards to create optical illusions. It warps the light around the user, making the actual position difficult to pinpoint. It acts as a passive "Invisibility/Decoy" cloak.
- Magic Interference: An extra skill that can emit a jamming wave of chaotic magicules. This disrupts the casting of lower-level enemies, preventing them from forming spells at all.]
[Unique skills:
-Virtuoso: Allows the user to grasp the essence of all techniques and surpass the original creator.
Sub-skills:
Mirror Eye (Instant Mastery): The user can acquire any Skill (Magic, Sword Arts, Crafting) simply by witnessing it once. If the user sees a technique, their body instantly knows how to perform it. Cannot copy Unique or Ultimate Skills directly, but can copy the techniques used to wield them.
Refinement (Evolutionary Copy): The user does not just copy a skill; they perfect it. If an enemy casts a "Fireball" with 80% efficiency, the user copies it but casts it with 100% efficiency. Any skill acquired starts at a proficiency level higher than the individual it was copied from.
Parallel Synthesis (Talent Fusion): The ability to combine unrelated skills without needing a "fusion" ceremony.
Limit Break (Growth Acceleration): Removes the "Soft Cap" on growth. The user gains resistance and levels at 10x the standard rate. The concept of a "training plateau" does not exist for the user.
-Obsessor: Grants the user absolute surveillance over a designated target and the authority to segregate them from the laws of the world.
Sub Skills:
Soul Tether(Red String of Fate): The user establishes a permanent, unbreakable Soul Corridor with the "Beloved." The user instantly knows the Beloved's location, heart rate, emotional state, and magicule count, regardless of distance or dimension. Even Anti-Skill or concealment magic cannot hide the Beloved from the user.
Isolation Sanctuary(Sweet Cage): A specialized spatial barrier skill. It creates a pocket dimension that entraps the Beloved. Nothing from the outside can enter, and the Beloved cannot exit (teleportation is blocked). While inside, the Beloved is healed continuously and protected from all external harm, but they are effectively the user's prisoner.
Obstacle Elimination(Rival Purge): A passive damage modifier. The user deals massively increased damage (Critical Hits) to any entity that the user perceives as a "rival" or "threat" to their relationship. If a third party touches the Beloved, the user's next attack against that third party gains the effect of Space Severance, bypassing defenses to sever the offending limb.
Thought Filtration (Gaslight): A mental interference skill. The user can intercept "Thought Communication" directed at the Beloved, effectively blocking others from speaking to them telepathically. The user can also subtly alter the Beloved's memories, making them believe the user is the only one they can trust.
-Compiler: Allows the user to rewrite the laws of magic phenomena within a localized area.
Sub-skills:
Syntax Analysis (Magicule Reading): Allows the user to visually see the structure of any magic or Art being cast by an opponent. Instead of just sensing power, they see the "formula" behind it.
Debug (Flaw Exposure): Automatically highlights the weakest point in an enemy's barrier, skill, or physical stance. If a spell has an inefficient chant, this skill finds the exploit.
Optimization (Chant Shortening): The user can strip away unnecessary verses in their own chants, reducing casting time to near zero while maintaining 100% potency. Effectively grants Chant Annulment.
Variable Edit (Attribute Shift): The user can alter the properties of a spell mid-flight. For example, changing a "Fireball" to "Iceball" by rewriting the thermal attribute, or inverting a healing potion into a poison.
-Interceptor: Grants the authority to bypass magical verification and seize dominion over foreign magicules.
Sub skills:
Brute Force (Barrier Breaker): Applies a vibration frequency to magicules that shatters barriers (like Multilayer Barrier) by overloading a single point of the defense rather than attacking the whole.
Hijack (Control Seizure): The user can sever the connection between a summoner and their summon (Spirits/Demons) or wrest control of long-range magic attacks. Effectively, they steal the "Admin Rights" of a spell.
Spoofing (Presence Camouflage): The user can mimic the magicule signature of other beings. They can appear as a goblin, a human, or even inanimate nature to magical detection (Magic Sense), making them invisible to radar-type skills.
Packet Sniffing (Thought Peeking): Allows the user to intercept "Thought Communication" (Telepathy) occurring within a certain radius.
-Artificer: Allows for the manipulation of matter and the instantaneous creation of Magi-crafts.
Sub-skills:
Blueprint (Structural Appraisal): Instantly analyzes the composition, stress points, and creation method of any object or building. The user knows exactly how to build it—or how to bring it down with a single hit.
Material Transmutation: The user can fuse magicules into physical materials to upgrade them. For example, turning common iron into Magisteel or creating Orichalcum without a forge, purely through magicule infusion.
Assembly (Instant Fabrication): As long as the raw materials are present, the user can assemble complex devices or structures instantly without tools.
Fortification: The user can imbue structures or armor with magical resistance, vastly increasing the durability of castles, golems, or their own equipment.
-Automaton: Grants the user absolute command over autonomous constructs and the removal of emotional inhibition during combat.
Sub-Skills:
Parallel Processing: The user can control up to 100 distinct Golems or Drones simultaneously with perfect synchronization.
Auto-Pilot (Battle Mode): The user can surrender their body to the skill. The skill will execute the most efficient combat maneuvers possible, ignoring pain, fear, or hesitation, fighting with robotic precision.
Drone Creation: The ability to create small, semi-sentient scouts or combat units out of surrounding materials (earth, steel, bone) that act as extensions of the user's senses.
Overclock (Limit Break): Temporarily forces the body (or the user's golems) to perform at 200% capacity. This causes damage to the physical body afterward (overheating) but grants a massive burst of speed and power.]
[Arts: ??? Arts (??? Style)]
[Magic: Spatial Magic, Mental Interference Magic (Succubus Charm), Elemental Magic (Fire/Darkness)]
[Tolerances: Physical Attack Resistance, Pain Nullification, Thermal Fluctuation Nullification, Paralysis Resistance, Corrosion Resistance.]
"Hehehehe!" She laughed almost maniacally so, as she was ready to start preparing for her quest.