Small Time

After creating to mana skill, Cleanse. I used this ability on my mother. I did it slightly every day because I was only 1 years old, a one year old being at the start of inauguration realm was already unheard of, but one that could use the nature element was just insane to even think about. After about a week my mother was completely healed.

I then started to train my abilities more and more. My skills were improving fast, and so was my physique, but my mana core had absolutely no improvements. So I started to do things that didn't include cultivating. Every day I went to check on my sister in school, my brother around the and also went around the city to see what the environment was like there.

My sister had made some friends and was not in any trouble at all. The security around the school was surprisingly good. Inside though, there were a lot of textbook bullies. Though none of them seemed to bully my sister too much. Of course when they did though, I was not very happy. But I was just a toddler after all, what could I do in that situation.

My brother would play around with his friends in the city, they would go into dangerous looking alleyways and do all kinds of crazy stuff. It was very concerning. They would capture and tie down rats to throw rocks at them, they would try and steal wallets from people. And they would even break into places that were prohibited.

I thought that Azazel was the one being lead to to this, but he was the one to suggest such ideas in the first place. I thought of punishing the little brat, but I was an even more little brat. I could only think of how it would effect mother if she knew what was going on with Azazel.

The city was a horrendous place. Everything bad you could think of was on the side of the street. I estimated the city population to be about 30 million people. A fairly normal sized city. My father worked in the most common job, the blacksmith. A job that needed no education, these blacksmiths created weapons for warriors and mages that went out to battle with magic beasts and other cities. He seemed to be doing fine, he had friends to keep him company and he was always a smiling, happy man even at home.

I continued checking up on everyone and cultivating everyday until I was 3 years old. By this time my brother was in his 2nd grade class, he was 8 years old. My sister turned 10, she was in her 4th grade class. I unfortunately was still in the Inauguration realm. By body needed to develop faster in order for me to grow my mana core.

When I was 2 years old, my hunger started to grow rapidly, my family could not provide me with enough food to be able to completely sustain me. I tried to force myself to not try not to hunt for my own food because even normal animals are far in the forest, and only come out some times to near the mountain. But once I turned 3 my body couldn't take it anymore, so I decided to go and hunt some small game to sustain myself and so that I wouldn't need to eat up everything in my house.

I went around 5 miles away from the mountain before I started to see more wildlife. Squirrels, small birds, rabbits. I hadn't tried my mana skills on moving objects before, so this was a good test. I came up upon a dark furred rabbit, observed the perfect place to hit it to ensure a one shot kill, and prepared to attack. I first used Ice Rune to freeze the ground around the rabbit, also freezing the rabbits feet in place.

It startled up and looked around with its ears high up in the air, but it could not detect me. I then walked up to it and tried out my plasma pike right on its head. It was a clean kill. The plasma mana went straight through the head of the rabbit, melting and incinerating everything in its path. It hit a tree and immediately starting burning it before I used water magic to calm it down.

"huh, not bad at all." After a little while I grabbed the rabbit, a couple squirrels, and a couple small birds, skinned, gutted and cooked them up. The protein was great for the development of my muscles. It also made my body develop much faster and I was able to advance to the green mana core at age 6.

My next goal was the conjurer realm, the conjurer realm was the average realm of a cultivator in the new kingdom. Being a conjurer meant you could participate in different raids, fights, and other stuff. (Like having a office job in real life.)

My sisters opinion of me was just as a little brother. She thought me of simply as a small baby that she loved. But my brothers opinion of me was that I was an annoying hindrance. Mostly because he sometimes had to look after me instead of playing with his friends.

On the day I turned 8, I decided to head deeper into the forest. I needed to find a ruin. To be able to advance further I couldn't wait any longer. I needed something that would give me an advantage over everyone else. I left a mana message where I slept. I made it so that if I died or if I activated it, the message would appear. And so I left early in the morning. This ruin would determine if I would be able to defeat the 8 great families.

The forest was an expansive ginormous land. I traveled for 6 days in a row, only rested to, hunt, eat, and sleep. On the way I saw many beasts. even some great beasts. They were dangerous. In my past life, I was at the peak of the Legendary rank, but even I could only take on around 6 great beasts at the same time before I would tire out. Even if I used my life force, I don't know ill be able to take on one of those now.

On the 7th day I discovered some ruins. These ruins were the great Ruins of Azatoth. Azatoth was a minor god of hallucinations. He was known as a power demon that would use clock to hypnotise millions of people at once. But he was said to be banished into the human realm after many crimes.

The ruins were covered in overgrown vines and moss. There were old pillars around but most of the ruin was underground. I headed underground and wandered around for a little bit before the ground below me collapsed under my feet and I felt as though I was falling for hours. And that everything I did was extremely slow. I quickly used cleanse to see that I had fallen a couple meters below but I had no injuries. "It seems that the true ruins are actually on this bottom floor" I thought to myself.

It was like a long hallway made of eroded stones. the hallway was around 10 ft high and 10 ft wide. I kept walking, cleansing myself every now and then to make sure I hadn't fallen into any type of hallucination. And then I saw it. The hallway opened up after about an hour or so of walking. It was a ginormous room. Vines dangling from the roof, and even some stalactites.

The room looked like it could crumble any second. In the middle were stairs leading up to an old throne. It was dirty looking but perfectly intact. I walked up the stairs and saw what was on the throne. It was a crown that would be too big for a kid like me. It was made of bones, weirdly, the god of hallucinations was not known to wear anything like this or have anything to do with bones. I looked around the room and I found what I was originally looking for.

Each old ruin from the past had a powerful mana skill. Some had weak ones but a lot of them had mana skill that could allow one to possess great power. The writing in this ruin had a hallucination skill. It could make people fall asleep using vines. It wasn't that good of a skill but it grew in power as my power grew.

I picked up the crown and put it on my head, it was weird, I could sense that the power it had was immense, I couldn't measure it. I knew for sure it could rival my old power. I then realised a presence in the room. I originally thought that it was coming from the crown but the blood lust was deriving from another source. This blood lust was directed directly towards me. It was the most powerful aura I had ever sensed in my life. I almost threw up from the sheer overwhelming force. I quickly starting running out of the room, the stalactites started to fall and the room started to collapse.

I left that room full of aura with the bone crown dangling from my neck. I looked back, the room had been blocked off by stones, and it was still crumbling and crashing behind me. I made it out. After running away a few miles. I finally rested. That aura was too strong for me to let my guard down. I then tried to take off the crown to inspect it. It started to feel like it was trying to infuse its mana in me but it couldn't. It then automatically flew off of my neck and shrunk to the size of my finger and attached to my middle finger. A perfect ring. I felt dizzy. My vision blurry. "Hello there mortal.." As soon as I heard this I passed out. The bone ring was trying to take control of my mana body. But it failed and fused with it instead. I woke up what seemed to be days later.

"Wh-.. what happened." "Hello there mortal, I am Diablo the 666th. I am a primordial demon from the beginning of the universe. I tried to take your body due to your advanced mana core bu-" Diablo was cut off by Ren. "What the hell are you talking about, why did you just try to take over my body demon!" In reality Ren was in fear, it felt like the monstrous aura from this demon was engulfing the entire forest. "Survival of the fittest little one. You see, I have been waiting for many, many years to be resurrected. An amount of time that you cannot fathom. Let me take over your body, so that I may take over the Legendary Dragon Ascension Realm once again!"

"The Legendary Dragon Ascension Realm, there it is again. I heard the same thing from that old man. I wonder what it is." Ren thought to himself. "I can answer that for you mortal. For the price of your mind and body of course." The demon sounded extremely greedy but Ren realised that there was a bit of nervousness in the demons tone. "Why are you nervous of me? You could kill me in an instant if you wanted to." "Ho ho, so you noticed aye? As I was saying before. I tried to take over your body but it seems that instead my mana core has fused with yours. Now I cannot escape, unless you die of course. Your a human, how long could your life be. I guess I'll have to stick with you until then..." The demon then completely forged his mana core within Rens mana core. They could now see everything they were thinking if they so wanted.

"Who gave you permission to due such a thing you vile demon!" Ren had never seen a demon before. He only heard of them from ancient ruins. "Oh calm down now, Since we will be together for an amount of time, why not be friends. Let me introduce myself again. My name is Supreme Demon Lord Diablo, the ruler- the former ruler of the 12 worlds of the Nether Realm." Ren wanted to disagree but Diablos logic made sense, they would have to be together so why not cooperate.

"My name is Ren Gold, the former Supreme Commander of the Supreme Surya Family army." I tried to make my name as impressive as possible for the spite of it. "I can read all your thoughts you know" Diablo used mind communication. Ren was surprised but realized it was only normal if 2 mana cores had forged, mind communication was a given.

Ren tried to look into Diablo's mind but something stopped him, he could only see what Diablo allowed him to see, for now. Once Diablo realised what Ren was trying to do, he laughed. "How could a mere mortal like even think of accessing my mind? Haha. But now I know your back story, I will help you reach your goal mortal, your goal of killing these little families. So if I do that, how about you help me as well?" Ren was curious. He didn't want anyone's help for this but it was a good idea.

As long as he was the one to kill all that betrayed him and make a new kingdom far greater than the new one. He would do anything to get there. "What do you want me to do?" "Oh so your curious aye? Since your answer is yes, I will tell you what you have to do when the time comes. For now I will help you achieve your goal mortal." Ren was a little annoyed but then he found it funny that such a interesting person existed. "Cheh!, alright demon."