Ch.1 BIRTH

In a underground cavern, in a certain Cavity in the cavern.

He opened his eyes, it was darkness all around him. currently he was lying on the cold ground on his back facing the ceiling, he was simply lying there for who knows how long just staring at the ceiling without moving or doing anything.

Then, after a long time He thought?

'What is this place, it is dark, eerie and cold but ... how do I say this? It doesn't feel this way instead it feels warm'.

The ground he was lying on did feel cold but the darkness embracing him felt different. it was diffused with a warmth that felt soothing and present, like a mother cardeling and embracing her newborn child. The atmosphere was quiet serene and peaceful.

After some time had passed he set up using his hands. looking around, though the darkness enshrouded the whole area, he can still see clearly.

The uneven ceiling, the ragged walls, the cold and flat ground he was sitting on he could see and feel everything clearly, it all felt unnatural.

Then he turned to his right, there was a small opening in the cave and he saw something unusual in this ghostly and quiet atmosphere.

He just stared at it for a long time, lost in his own thoughts.

'I don't know who I am, Where I am, What I am doing in this dark alcove, well I do know what I'm doing here in this inky black darkness since It is the place of my origin.

'I was born here directly' He thought with an absent minded expression as not much time had passed since his birth.

How he was born, he don't know but he do know that he's been in this cave for a really long time, like really really long, and only just a few hours or maybe a few days ago did he became conscious of his surrounding before that he was just...

What he was he couldn't describe it as he had no recollection of that time. The situation could be best expressed as, he was a lifrform without a 'will' of it's own.

'I don't even know what I'm?'

'A magical beast, A humanoid lifeform, A sprit, or something else entirely' and how did he knew these things... well he just did.

He knew all these things because of the memory he had after his birth, but it was all jumbled or fragmented memory and It is quiet hard for him to understand or compherend them, but as long as he see something and he have a record of them in his memory, he will know what that particular thing is.

He knows about the major races like the humen, the magical beasts, the spirits and many other.

'Ahh.. yes, it is called inherited memory or something. The memory all the lifeforms birthed by some mysterious phenomenon caused by the magical energy in the environment are born with' He mused as with a calm expression on his face as he went through his jumbled mass of a memory.

After going through his fragmented memory he instantly knew what the unusual thing in the small Cavity in the corner of the cave was, It was a pond of light blue liquid.

"hmm...What do we call it " He mused as he got up from the cold ground he was sitting on and haded towards light-blue liquid in the small pond.

"Hmm...Yes, I know...it's water...right" He said to no one in particular as he reached the pond, he crouch down and scooped up a handful of the crystal-clear water in his hands from the small pond.

The pond reflecting the dim, ethereal glow of bioluminescent fungi clinging to the rocky cave walls and casting intricate shadows on the water's surface.

The scene was bathed in a soft and an otherworldly light thus creating an atmosphere of tranquility and hidden wondes.

As he stared at the crystal-clear water in his hands he knew that if he were to drink this water it would help him grow stronger because he could sense the high concentration of magical energy in it.

Since not much time has passed since his birth so the more nutrients he consumes or in this case the more energy he absorbs the better. As he was birthed by some mythical phenomenon that he could not understand.

He is highly sensitive to magical energy and dose not require to eat or drink but as he has not reached the level where he can directly absorbed the mana in the atmosphere, he has to use other medium to absorbe mana such as eating and drink.

So, that is what he did, he drank the water in one gulp that was in his hands and scooped up another handful of water to drink.

The good things was that the water was not poisoned or had nothing strong enough to harm him in it, he can only sense that the water has high magical energy density, but he can't tell if the water was harmful, poisoned or not.

"It's tastes so good" he spoke in bewilderment as he drink the water, it even had a slight taste of sweetness in it.

So he drank atleast one third of the amount of crystal-clear water from the pond.

Anyway the pond was quiet big like three to four meter in diameter and about a meter deep radiating with an ethereal and otherworldly glow.

After drinking the water, he stood up and he can feel the magical energy in it being absorbed in his body making him feel reinvigorated and stronger.

it was a unique and mysterious felling as if connecting him to something ethereal and profound, adding an air of mystery and tranquility to the scene.

So he just stood there staring at the crystal-clear water. realeshing the feeling of peace and becoming stronger.

The water itself shimmers with a subtle, otherworldly light, reflecting the warm ethereal glow of bioluminescent fungi clinging.

Then he turned around to see the opening leading out of the cave,but before leaving he took a last glance at the pond, and that was the first time he saw the reflection of himself in this serene pond of water as smooth as a mirror.

Previously he was so thrilled and stirred by finding something new that he didn't even notice his own reflecting in the smooth surface of the mirror water.

He was naked top to bottom, His hight, about 1.8 meter tall with skin as dark and smooth as an obsidian jade, exuding an aura of mystery.

His eyes were a captivating golden hue, reminiscent of a blazing sun, radiating a fierce intensity.

white hair cascading down to his shoulders like ethereal threads, shimmering softly in the eerie and abyssal Darkness.

"So this is... how I look " he mused as he stared at his own reflection in the spiritual ponds crystal-clear water for a good while......

...

The cave's entrance was about 3 meter high and 4 meters wide it was connected to a corridor of the cave system that was even higher and wider. When he had reached the cave's entrance, and looked outside, what he had expected to see was the eerie-warm darkness that he was born in but there was no darkness.

The darkness was there but it had receded back to the walls and the corridors ceiling. He turned to his right just in time to see a beast burning in flames casting warm and eerie shadows on the surrounding.

The sight of the sole light in the lightless space was both beautiful and threatening.

'There in the dark and eerie atmosphere of this underground cavern, this was the first time I saw something like this, just hundred meters ahead was a four legged beast burning in flames casting a soft and ethereal glow on the walls all around it. It is my first time seeing something other than darkness in this ghostly cavern' He thought as he was both left breathless by such a mesmerizing sight and thrilled.

So shocked was I by mesmerizing beauty of it's flames that I didn't even realize that the beast was looking at me with a predatory glint in it's eyes, only realizing that when I felt the heat of the otherworldly flames on my skin.

And, when I again looked at it .....