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After telling Diablo to hide his immense aura, I started travelling back to the city. "Mortal, there is a Roaring Hog to your left, a great beast. Kill it for its meat, it helps with cultivating." Ren had already started to ignore Diablo. "You sure do talk a lot, by the way my names Ren, not mortal". Diablo was curious on why he didn't kill the boar. "You have sufficient strength to end the boars life, why not attack it?" Ren thought that Diablo was trying to end his life early.

"Why would I end my life early. I of course do not have the strength to kill such a beast. Also, I cannot carry any meat on me, so why should I care about it's meat?" Diablo insisted. "Now that your mana core has infused with my evil darkness, your power has increased tremendously even though your mana core is still the same realm. Also, I have a storing space called Boundless Void, it can store any non moving object." Ren thought that it could be a lie but when checking Diablos mind, he saw that it wasn't.

"Fine, lets see if my power has increased at all, if anything goes wrong I'll just use my light magic to boost my speed for a while." I approached the Hog, it immediately noticed me and caught me off guard. I immediately used Ice Rune but it didn't freeze the hog in place, my magic was too small. The hog was more than 10,000 pounds, as big as an elephant. I then used my Magma Wall on 3 sides of the hog so that it could only go one way, then I used multiple Plasma Pikes to pierce the hog, but it used Earth mana to make a stone wall from the ground to defend. I then remembered that why these beasts were so feared was because they could use mana elements.

"Be smarter than that mortal" Diablo was laughing. "Shut up demon!" I tried for another hour or so to attack it. Every Ice Rune was destroyed, every magma wall avoided, and every other attack would be either blocked or defended against. I even used my last light move to try and escape but I couldn't. It was too fast and couldn't damage it. I was on my last legs. "Diablo! I can't kill this thing! Tell me how to escape!"

"Oh but you can Ren, you can easily defeat it, you must be smarter" Diablo smirked. "Don't underestimate me, I am a cultivator that was a Legendary rank in my past life, I know when I can win fights and when I can't!" Ren was furious but couldn't exert any more strength. "A Legendary rank? Pu-hah! That is only the start of the true cultivation tree Ren, in my eyes, your knowledge is nothing more than a babies."

Ren wanted to say something back, but he wanted to survive even more, and since Diablo wasn't going to tell him how to run, he decided to ask him how to beat the hog. "Alright fine, I give up, tell me how I can beat this thing!" Ren didn't think that there was actually a way to beat it, but he had no other choice.

"Haha, extraordinary! You have finally succumbed to me. The only way to beat this hog is to use your dark energy" "Darkness mana? How can I possibly use that to beat this beast? Is Diablo trying to fool me again? No, he is too prideful to lie even after winning the argument. I can only exert a small amount of darkness magic on to my body, how can I possibly use such a little amount of darkness to win."

"Wait, when Diablo said that my mana power had increased, he said that my mana core infused with his "evil darkness." I overlooked it before, thinking that he was just talking about how evil he was or something, but maybe he meant to say that my darkness has grown tremendously.

Its an absolutely foolish conclusion but I must try it out." I ran around the beast, who seemed to have started to glow, and used my darkness to coat my body. The darkness that came out wasn't black, but dark purple, it was like looking into an infinite void. I was able to coat my entire body in darkness. "This.. this is amazing, i'm going to ram it head on! My darkness will definitely defend me against any attacks from this great hog." I ran up and rammed into the hog, it tried to head-but me back but it started to deteriorate at a fast rate.

"What is this power human cub! How are you able to wield such destructive power!" Those were the last words of the hog. "Did this hog just talk, I thought that only mana beasts were able to communicate." Ren was confused on how the great beast had talked but decided to move on. "Ren, stop he's dead. You might destroy that precious meat! Also, any great beast can talk, they simply decide not to." Ren was shocked by this, in his past life he had fought many great beasts but none of them had said a word to him.

"Go ahead, use your new mana skill on him." Diablo spoke. "What are you on about, I have to quickly cook up and eat this guy to cultivate and get back home." Ren ignored Diablo until it was too late. I cooked up the hog and stored most of it in Diablos "Boundless Void". It was actually very useful. After eating several pounds of hog meat, I began cultivating. I was still a very light green Conjurer Realm, but after cultivating I reached a normal green color. It was very good since I was stuck in light green mana core for a long time. My body had grown a little through this experience.

I arrived at home. My mother was gardening when she saw me, my clothes all battered and bruised. I had to think of an excuse on the spot. She came over to me sobbing. "Ren, what happened to you!?" I felt horrible but my new found power would also be able to protect her as well. "I don't know, but at least I'm back mother, don't worry, I'm not injured at all!" After this my entire family embraced me and were happy I was back, even Azazel showed some sympathy. My family didn't let me go anywhere out of sight after this, but it was okay.

I spent all day eating boar and cultivating for months. Time stops in Diablos Boundless realm, a very useful thing. After getting back home I created a new mana skill called Extreme Mend. It was a pure healing skill that could only heal injuries. It was a type of mana skill that's abilities grew as my power grew. "Right now I can heal a large deep cut. But in the future I'd most likely be able to heal even body parts like arms and legs."

After a couple of months, I was inspecting my mother going shopping for some vegetables when I saw some bandits coming from afar. I didn't know what to do. I looked over my family to protect them but what would I do if I actually had to do something. While I was thinking they approached my mother.

"Hey girly, you look like you have some good money on ya, how about you hand that over and we can get this over with huh?" My mother didn't know what to do, so she started to run. "Why did she run, she should have just handed them the money" Ren thought. My only choice was to make a new ability to make people fall asleep. While I was thinking I saw that my mother had run into a dead end in a cramped alley.

I rushed over. "heh heh, I might get more than just some money now" said one of the bandits. I used my lighting skill Lightning Step to quickly go over there and used my new skill "Sleep" to make my mother fall asleep. My mother fell asleep before she could see me. "You scum, it's not even going to be fun torturing the likes of you." "Haha did you hear what this kid just said, he is no older than 8 years old and he thinks he can torture us?" They quickly came at me all at once, I took a step back and decided what to do next. "I don't want to kill them because that will be too suspicious, But I won't let them go free." I thought.

I then created a new mana skill, Lighting Strike. Lighting is plasma, and lighting doesn't kill instantly but grants a crap ton of pain. I could use normal lightning on them but that wouldn't give enough pain. So I created a skill that makes lightning last in ones body even longer so the pain lasts and they don't get even a chance to breathe. I used Lighting Strike on them over and over again until they started to lose control of their bodily functions. "You disgust me, scum."

While they were begging for mercy my mother started to wake up. I stopped blasting them with lighting and got up close. "If you ever try to do anything like this again.. I will find you, and so help me god, I will kill you" My eyes burned red when saying that. "We will never do anything bad in our lives please spare us" "spare." Ren left with his mother. He then put her in the middle of the shopping hall and left quickly. "I would take her home but, she will be too confused, this way she will think she was just daydreaming." He thought to himself.

After this encounter, it happened a couple of different times, once with my mother again and twice with my sister. I could not believe how common it was. This place was not somewhere I could afford to keep my family much longer. Even though he knows of his old family, his memory of them as been less and less clear, but Ren started to develop deep feelings for his current family. He didn't want to have anything happen to them.

Just like this multiple years passed by. Ren had been planning and doing every he could to be able to reach the 8 great families. The only thing stopping him was simply his city alone. It was big enough to give him the opportunities to improve.

Ren turned 12 years old. His father carved him a statue of Ren Sato. Ren took it smiling. It was his first day of school. He had to walk half a kilometer to get to school. After turning 12 ren was at the peak of inauguration realm. His body had not grown much at all, and he pushed to the peak of inauguration realm almost exploding his small mana core.

His mother was now in her late 30s, his father in his early 40s, Asith and Azazel were both teenagers, Asith being 17 and Azazel being 16. Asith was studying healing and the medical school. Azazel was not studying anything specific. He messed around with his friends more than study.

It was the end of summer break and students were grouped up in front of the school for the first day. Ren was one of the shorter ones so he had to jump up to see past the crowd of thousands. In front of everyone was a large podium. There were 8 people that looked to have lavish clothes on looking down upon everyone.

In the middle of them was the 9th person. The person talking on the mana microphone. "Hello everyone, I'm sure you are confused right now, but rest assured, you will all be informed of what's going on shortly. My name is Ravelius Marcus. I am the supreme ruler from the Kingdom of Troyarakh.

Yes you heard me, A kingdom. In the east, around 200 million people have gathered up from various different small cities and have made a kingdom. Our "old lands" are poor no longer. There we have almost everything that the Kingdom of Sovereign as! Our forces have grown for many years and now we have come here to recruit people from different cities. We are looking to recruit students to join our new academy, The Academy of Zeus!