Mysterious Sack --- Chapter 1

In the cloak of night a youth is seen writing and contemplating theories. The youth with dark hair and black abyss like eyes standing tall at 5:11 is En; Right after the death of his father, En, still in school, juggles daily on getting to school and rushing back to his research.

"Damn it's already 3 A.M! So much for a good night's sleep. I might as well continue till school time" En, being used to such events, finished his daily trials on Combining Lizards with rats, then speeds off to school, just to doze off period to period due to him already knowing the knowledge taught. As the school day finished out: En fully energized started walking home: As he was walking he bumped into a rushing business man with a haggard face and tattered clothes, who dropped a sack. "Hey! Watch it! " he stated, and with the business man out of sight, he picked up the sack and by instinct kept it and returned home speedily.

When he got home he opened the sack and discovered a small book titled 'World - - Ertera' , 3 black marbles, an unreadable cover on a manual, a 1000 faced sphere, and a star shaped red stone."what a strange bag. " he said.

Curious about the book and its contents he picked up the book flipped to the first un-ripped page and read the title "Earthly Gems" and read down in shock"Earthly gems come in all known shapes and colors, with shapes dictating the quality, and color dictating the rarity and atribute: Spheres being top quality and black being the rarest with attributes that can be either mind, soul, or body types.

These gems can be used for establishing seeds for soul, mind, and body cultivation and is used as form of currency on the Main Realm Ertera.

WTF.. Cultivation, Main Realm??!? What a prank, but it sure is interesting" after he set the book down he picked up one of the marbles and started examining it. Staring at the dark marble got him no where, so he did many trials on super heating it and beating it with a hammer.

Through all of this he surmised that this must be a new material or compound. With the marbles dealt with he re picked up the book and started reading the next chapter:"Cultivation:3 aspects of humans, the mind, body and soul. For a standard mortal with no training the most they can lift is a quarter of a Bull, in strength which equates to 250 lbs, with proper training, half a bull of strength is achievable. The body can be separated into 3 armors and 3 levels: the realms are mortal, mortal master, and mortal grandmaster. The animal level of strength, levels from ferocious bull, to primitive bull, ancient bull with every increase in the Armor so a ferocious bull is weaker than a primitive bull by a factor of 128.(takes 4 ferocious whales to make 1 primitive bull.... The process repeats)

The levels of strength are bull(1 ferocious bull = half a ton) , elephant( ferocious elephant = 2 tons) and whale( ferocious whale = 8 tons) : it takes 4 bull's to make 1 elephant, and 4 elephant's for 1 whale of strength. The body isn't limited to just raw strength but instead uses the strength to manifest a phantom of animal of either your bloodline or refinement technique. The body is the protection for the soul and mind. The goal for the mind is to accumulate enough memories and aura in the accumulation stage of aura gathering 1-2-3: the next step is condencin it into a seed in the condensing stages 1-2-3. After the seed is condensed the aura is then manifested into a sprout in stages 1-2-3....".

The page was ripped off after that and the next chapter of soul cultivation had the bottom of the page removed and only revealed the soul gathering stages 1-2-3, condensation stages 1-2-3 and stream forming of the soul energy. "damn this is a lot to take in. I'm going to assume this is a part of a fiction book, but this is weird because I feel a connection and a longing to achieve these realms" after tossing the book aside he opened the tattered manual and the first words were "Realm Immortal" it"s main focus was the integration of the soul, mind and body to form a world in the user, the prerequisite is having a seed level mind, mortal level body with 2 ferocious elephants of strength, and a stream level soul.

When the three aspects are combined perfectly, cultivation of the 3 aspects triple effiency, with each stage completed, for a total of 3 stages in the manual. The manual also described ways to cultivate the three aspects, by memorizing strange symbols for the mind called 'World Tree True Thought' , wierd body stretches, and work outs for the body called 'Beast King Body' , and technique to absorb the natural energies for the soul called 'Universal Wave Circulation ' .

With all these in mind En started reading on to how to use the aspect marbles, but since the quality of these marbles are too high the book advised not to use them if your under the mortal master realm for the body and until your in the second realm for the other aspects. Having all of this information made him wonder on what if this was true and if this could help him reach immortality than his quest has changed from finding the path to treading it. He stopped dwelling on what ifs and went to sleep and digest today's events.