Chapter 12 Path to unknown

Name : Apollo

Race : Titan God

Age : 10

Str : 9005

Agi : 12075

End : 8500

Int : 1570

Divinity : Main : Sun, moon, stars

Minor : Sword and archery

Concept : Storm and destruction

Abilities : Mage sight, ki shaping, iron beast body, Status immunity, partial immortality, concealment, evolution,

Skills : grandmaster swordsmanship, Saint archery, peak karate mastery

Name : Nina

Race : High human

Age : 11

Str : 5008

Agi : 10085

End : 5078

Int : 1089

Law : Sword and bow

Concept : Storm and domination

Skills and Abilities : Same as Apollo

Through our own effort we grew. Our jump in strength was the result of the foundational training we did before the age of 5 and the excellent training techniques we were currently using. It has been a rough couple of years and during this time we managed to start on our path in the confusing world.

This year we had decided to rest in terms training ; and revise and solidify all we have done. I will be spending time with my mother, sister and quality time with Nina.

The focus will be on compiling and researching magic and ki. This will part of Step 3. The obvious choices for this is harry potter, Fate series and DBZ.

As such in 8 months we had completely read all the theory and compiled flawless books. I spend 4 hours with my mother and sister in addition had dinner with them daily. My sister seems to miss me a lot though she tries not to it, she seems to also be slowly developing archery divinity. She talked a lot, about her daily life, her lessons with my mother, it seems she is already curious about the world outside. She really has grown these years. She is beautiful and it is no question whether she is a goddess, with just one glance at her face you know. She is kind and very gentle but has the strength, decisiveness and heart of a warrior.

I learnt a lot from my mother during this time, apparently even gods have rules, duties and ways of conduct. It was interesting to say the least, basically all the rules could be summed up as minimum destruction to avoid the wrath of Gaia and don't break the toys of other gods.

After about 10 months we were already satisfied with our research and so at the end of the year we started getting back to practice. Thus I told my mother I will be going back to training a week before my 16th . 16 is an important year for Olympians. During this year the faith seed blooms and he is announced to the world, it is impossible to hide my divinity during this year. *sigh* it seems my mother knew I was a God not a demigod. I didn't even notice I gave it away but my mom says I'm too strong for a demigod both in physically and mana wise in addition abosea is poison to those without divinity . It seems she thinks maybe my divinity has something to do with stealth and shadows so no one can detect it .

Step 3 finally began.

Ki was awesome, empowering we could easily do ki blast, ki shaping and make amour and weapons with it. The difficult part was making ki aline with an element or aspect and trying to reach God ki seemed to be impossible. Like this months passed....we trained our body strengthening techniques from 6 am to 10 am. It was still as rough as the beginning. Torture!

Then weapons until 2 pm.... TLC till 3 pm... Finally ki training until 10... Followed by meditation then sleep.

After a year we stopped progressing with ki usage. We mastered ki manipulation and even shaping ki into weapons, using it for healing, strengthening the body and come up with new attacks. But we couldn't freely change ki to any element although I could change it to sunlight ; Nina couldn't . We still can't figure out this aspects and the books from dbz classify this as an inborn gift. It was a fastrating time... Eventually we gave up and also concluded that we were too weak for God ki....

After 2 years it we had done all we could with ki and only needed to continue to practice like what we have been doing. Finally it was time for magic!

So exciting! Ki is awesome but has more to do with the body and training it than anything else. It still seems in the realm of possibility but magic?! It's fantasy! Who hasn't dreamed of magic!

Alas what could be so good?!

This was also were we reached our first setbacks. Magic was to complex, without a teacher even more so . Mana... Mana is beautiful BUT chaotic, rebellious almost feels arrogant. Everything has to be precise even with the simplest spells, from were mana flows, how fast, how intense, how it specifically interact with the world, with atoms or subatoms. It is spiritual yet still within this plane, can pass through some matter yet can even interact with some dark matter and anti matter. Mana is too complex involved with too much yet even a child can use it. *sigh *. We came to the conclusion that this is due to to world itself, it sees as though the hp or even fate world has an almost preprogrammed / pre existing path of magic allowing it to be simpler and even more powerful but more fixed in its path, more limited for example the spell luminos. In harry potter it is basically a set of parameters or equation triggered by the vocalization of the Latin word, that guides mana in certain path and specific speed causing the atoms in the air to react in such a way to they essentially just glow, the intensity will be due to additional mana resulting in additional speed of the reactions thus a brighter glow. We are unsure how the atoms glow or why but this is the pre existing reaction to those actions . One does not need to understand or know the equation and the reaction because magic in that world will only react in such away if it follows that path. But here there are more factors the exact same spell could result in different colour light with slight radiation and additional mana results in increase heat but the light does not get brighter. Not forgetting that most of the mana is just lost in the process and most time nothing happens.

It was fascinating yet annoying and infuriating.

I know what you are thinking : But marvel world has magic and you have a library with the knowledge so what's the problem? Fool! Magician do not use mana, which they refer to as personal energy, humans have too little of it and seem to be failing in train it properly, they use universal and dimensional energy. I don't know about you but I'm more than a little uncomfortable contracting an unknown entity whose motive you don't know, whose being you don't understand and whole goal is even more unpredictable . The multiverse is vast, and how these so called magicians have the nerve to be careless is beyond me. They act like the dark dimension is the only source of danger, it is just stupid! Can you imagine how many prison dimensions and unknown evil dimensions exist, even holy creatures might be tempted by greed and try to enter our dimension . Then there is universal energy used for conjuration and teleportation purposes and are commonly used in battle to create shields and weapons of energy. The problem here is it is an underdeveloped limited art, energy weapons and shields are weak and can be shattered with a normal iron sword, well shattered as long as the owner of the sword is beyond human. Conjugation can only be done on minor simple things e.g a cup of tea. As for personal energy it is mana. Nonody can really use it properly, take the Olympians for example I asked my mother about magic and from what she told me nobody teaches you. What they do is they pour mana and manipulate whatever aspect in accordance to their Divinity. With my mother she can manipulate darkness and light from stars and with zues its thunder and storms. What they can do with these is practically limited only by the level of faith - which seems to determine level of control over the aspect and restricted by mana. This explains why the older gods are almost always stronger, as they have more followers and seems mana will be determined by talent and time. This fact seems to have led Olympians to be lazy as it is so hard to increase one's strength - which seems to be limited through improving their already powerful body.

Then you look at the asgardians, their use seems to be limited to powering their amours and weapons like a battery . They can be explained as highly advanced technological race. It is impressive but does not really have magic based on personal energy and seems to mostly be used with technology apart from universal and dimensional energy . The only other users of personal energy are basically martial artist such as k'unlan, where they seem to have mixed mana, life-force and will power to form chi.

We had a mana core so it was stupid not to use it. Thus we had to develop our own path in magic. So the plan was master all the universal magic and development of personal magic based hp and fate world.