Void Mother

"Hey sooo what are you looking at human james?"

Nalee was looking at his system screen over his shoulder but as he had his information set to private she would not see what it said.

"Im reading some information i got from a quest reward, how long were you in this gate? I cant be the first human you met here right?"

James was trying to focus but at the end of the information he got on the first chapter he turned to focus on her.

"Welllll yeah but uh... humans are so interesting, you've been in the system for such a short time ckmpared to the rest of us so my species doesn't have a lot of information about you like the rest of the races."

She said it so casually like it was normal but he still felt odd about it.

The only reason humanity was even in the Universal Awakened Union or UAU was thanks to the malorians, the founders of the uau and the race that invited basically every member.

Humanity had only awakened with the system twenty years prior which did make them very new by the standards of some races who had been there for hundreds and maybe thousands of years, especially since many of those races could live just as long as that and remember the day they joined.

James continued to smile politely and listen as she rambled on and on about the different races and the knowledge that the domah had about them.

Eventually he turnes back to his status window to continue reading the information he had recieved.

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The Void.

This chapter is made so that i can teach you as much as i possibly can about myself my child.

I am The Void and i am half of everything that lies between existence where nothing resides.

I am the end and i am where existence begins.

My sister Aether and i are two of the most powerful beings that have ever existed, we used to compete for who was more powerful from the dawn of time but we eventually saw that our actions had harmful effects.

She would create life wigh no regard for a planets resources, i would bring death that had ended countless lives.

She would destroy my creations, i would tear hers to pieces.

Our legacy is one of pain so we have dedicated ourselves to helping others rather than harming.

Our only competition now is the battle of our aspects. You are my aspect.

My child i hope you will develop your power to the pinnacle of the elements and eventually become the second void elemental but first you must achieve perfecf affinity with each of my elements.

I am sure you have already learned that your shadows have more uses than simply being a tool of death but my legacy has forever marked that skill, to develop it you must destroy...

Remember that the only physical materials that can withstand the Darkfire are darkness and void attuned materials.

Your gloves are made from solidified void and your gear is made from void or darkness affinity beasts.

One final word of advice, the energy of your darkfire is not a bar showing how much you can use it.

The energy bar is how much your fire has consumed and how much it has left before it can be increased in rank.

Live well and grow my child, grow so that you may stand beside me one day.

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Shocked by the loving tone of the chapter james exited the almanac with the hopes of trying to open his upgrade.

'System can i upgrade my Darkfire like mother said i could?'

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Congratulations! You have unlocked a secret active skill of your passive ability "Lord of Darkness"

Name: James M'kesh

Age: 16

Race: Human (Aspect of Dark)

Awakened Level: 10

Awakened Rank: 0

Strength: 20 (+4)

Agility: 30 (+7)

Endurance: 23 (+4)

Energy: 20 (+2)

Health: 20 (recovers 1/minute)

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Skills-

Lord of Darkness: This skill allows the user to manipulate darkness with their body, as the user grows stronger the range of this darkness can extend from the body will increase.

(Active) Darkflame(F-): a form of fire made from the element of darkness.

(passive) One With the Dark: The dark will no longer hinder the user;

Perfect Night Vision lv. 1 (within 50ft of the user no darkness will hinder sight)

Dark Strength lv. 1 (after being hidden from all light for ten minutes the user will gain a 10% bonus to strength, agility and endurance)

(passive) Fueled by the Void: The darkness will feed its master, While 'Dark Strength' is active energy regeneration is increased based on the level of dark strength.

(passive) Loved by the Void: The darkness's love for its master is at the peak, while 'Dark Strength' is active the user is unaging, will not require food, drink or sleep.

Void Skin: While this skill is active you will take half damage from physical blows and reduced damage from energy attacks. While this skill is active, light affinity attacks and spells will be twice as effective against you.

When in the darkness this skill will use no energy otherwise the skill will consume 10 energy per second.

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As soon as the line of text appeared on his status window james began to feel pain.

A deep pain like the cold that creeps into your bones but the skin felt like fire was ready to blister it off at any moment.

He saw the Darkfire coating his body like he was a gasoline soaked log while the 100% energy bar began to deplete first slowly then rapidly.

As the bar got lower and lower the fire grew across his skin until finally he felt like something cracked inside of his body.

Power surged in his body, saturating every muscle fiber, bone, and blood vessel until he no longer felt pain from the Darkfire that had been tormenting him.

"Wowwww you kust got an affinity awakening didnt you?!"

The domah girl kalee was practically in his face now watching his reaction as well as studing the fire.

"How did you know?" His voice was hoarse but he had to find out, his curiosity was stronger than his aching body.

"We specialize in alchemy of course we know about affinities."

She giggled like he had just made a silly joke.

"Here lay down let me help you recover, my affinity may be poison but poison and medicine are not that different really..."

As he lay down she placed one hand on his chest and soon a sickly sweet smell was in the air.

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You are being affected by a poison. Long term exposure will have negative effects.

Pain reduced by 50%

Health recovery speed increased by 20%

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