The Black Cube

It was the night following Amden's awakening. He was lying on his bed as he kept revisiting the events which had transpired during his awakening. And it was not that which everyone had witnessed but those which had happened inside his mind.

While Amden had been absorbing the spiritual energy, a sudden influx of memories had assaulted his mind. Those memories consisted of myriad of cultivation techniques, battle techniques, alchemy refining methods, rune formations, etc along with their experiences.

Those memories belonged to a certain ancient god.

However, the current him did not have access to all the memories or it could be said that his soul did not have the required strength to handle such a vast amount of information.

He needed to increase his soul strength and then only could he slowly access and organise all the memories.

From what Amden had been able to deduce, was the fact that this particular person, the ancient god was not a no name ordinary cultivators. He was one of those fellows who had stood at the apex of universe in his time.

And this also confirmed another theory, which had been wandering in his mind since he had been reborn in this world, especially after he had learned about his bloodline, physique and the cultivation method. That this world was not alone and their must be countless world out there and compared to them, this world was like a speck of dust.

But these memories were not only thing which was causing Amden a lot of bewilderment.

It was a pitch black cube floating in his mind scape. Previously, before his awakening Amden did not have any access to his consciousness but now that he was able to access his mind scape, he had discovered the presence of that cube.

Amden felt the connection with his cube and moment later the cube appeared in his hands. He had been staring the cube, inspecting it for a very long period of time but had been unable to get any reaction from it. The cube remained as it was.

There was this vision, whether from the ancient god or from the cube, Amden did not know which showed how did Amden get the cube.

In the vision, the cube was floating inside a chaotic space. The space was riddled with the presence of the powerful elements and the space was continuously destroyed and recreated.

Death and darkness were rampant in that space and it was probable one of those forbidden and dangerous zones of the universe.

But suddenly, a tear appeared in the chaotic space and from the tear entered an old looking man. The face was not clear but Amden believed that this old man was the ancient god.

The old man turned extremely delighted on finding the cube. He moved forward to pick the cube up but even before he could touch it, the body of the ancient god was crumbled into dust. The soul then tried to fled but in a moment was sucked inside the cube.

The cube remained in that space for an unknown amount of time but finally left the space. After leaving the space, it wandered in the universe for millions or billions of years.

All this while the soul of the ancient god inside the cube was conscious of the situation. After numerous years of efforts, he came to a conclusion that he can take over someone's else body and get a new life.

By this method he would also get control over the cube. The ancient god thought that losing all powers and going through a rebirth was all worth for the cube which obliterated him without giving time to react.

 But to his disappointment his soul and the cube were not compatible to any human body he came across. He searched for someone compatible for millions of years.

One day the cube floated out of the soul's control to a newly born baby. The ancient god was delighted finding that he was compatible with this baby. The baby was none other than Amden.

Delighted the god started to take control over baby's body and absorb its soul but to his horror as soon as he tried to absorb the baby's soul the cube acted on its own. The cube forcefully sealed the soul of the ancient god into Amden's consciousness and even before the ancient god could understand anything his consciousness was vanquished by the cube.

This had made it easy for Amden to absorb the memories without any retaliation or backlash.

The other notable fact- he now got to know was about his Physique and Bloodline. The Origin Immortal Physique and Ancient Primordial Bloodline along with the Universe Origin Scripture were provided to him by the cube.

But what disturbed Amden was the fact that no matter what method he tried, he had not been able to sense anything from the cube.

Amden was sure the cube was a powerful artifact but the question was why would it choose him?

He then let it go and the cube disappeared and returned to Amden's mindscape.

Although Amden received a lot of answers and some of his previous doubts were cleared but now new questions had arisen.

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Few days had passed since his awakening and Amden now was planning the path of his cultivation.

He needed to choose to suitable battle techniques and his battle style. Dramon and Rexon, both were sword specialist and Amden also was drawn towards the swords.

The Vantistart family had a legacy of very powerful sword manual which was considered top notch in the entire world.

But now after receiving the memories of the ancient god, the Vantistart sword manual was nothing compared to the techniques he had in his mind.

In these past few days, Amden had also experimented with the Universe Origin Scripture he had been practising. This cultivation manual was perfectly suited to him, someone who had affinity to all the elements.

The cube, was no doubt a great treasure but it had been proved to be an enigma which Amden had been unable to solve.