The Dreamer's POV

A lightbulb lit in my head, and I got excited. I remembered that I had gotten the energy manipulation skill since defeating Suphas, yet I had not gotten the opportunity to utilize the skill. But now, my prey was presented to me on a silver platter and I was going to relish in their destruction.

"Energy Manipulation." I called out, and a yellow burst of aura burst forth from my body, encapsulating my entire being. How I felt was such a contrast to how I expected I would feel.

My body felt incredibly light, so much so that I had to check if I wasn't in some sort of a psychedelic trance. I wasn't. The overflowing energy poured through my nerves. My mind and my pupils dilated from the relief and pleasure I felt. It was like nothing mattered, and that I had reached a place of true power. It was euphoric.

I was called back to reality as I saw a club overhead me, coming down to my head. I didn't do anything, if anything, I was extremely sure at that moment that a mere club from such a low level creature would do me no harm, and I was correct.

The club crumbled once it got to my energy field–the area of which my aura formed like a film around me, and of which was about fifteen inches. The orc exclaimed in shock and surprise, looking at its broken club and then back at my lost eyes.

It raised its right fist to punch me when a whip of energy curved from my right flank and struck it, bashing away its torso from the rest of its body.

The action had been just a thought, I didn't consciously choose to act on it, or did I? It didn't matter either way, and I very much wanted the demon orc dead.
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I heard battle cries as the hordes of demon orcs ran forth, clubs raised, maws open and flowing with spittle.

"I see now, this must be how Suphas and the Gorilla felt." I muttered to myself, I had reached a blissful epiphany. To be able to master and manipulate so much energy contained was incredible. I was incredible. My ways of utilizing energy previously weren't optimal in any form or shape, I realized there that I had been much too wasteful with it, now I had full control of all the energy that bathes my cells.

I was going to win.

I smirked, looking at the pitiful pawns. The poor things had no will to call theirs, they were simply chess pieces moved in a game. No, they were less, they were vermin, and they needed to be reminded of their place.

I was subjected to the whims of this low gravity/anti- gravity place. Grand Flight was locked and thus, I couldn't move, but with all the energy encapsulating me, bathing me and empowering me. Flight became another under my control, something that came from feeling free.

A loud snarl caught my attention and I loooked to the one who made it. I shot forward my right hand, palm opened, and with just a thought, a burst of yellow energy came from it like a powerful jet of water.

The demon orcs did not know what was happening with my hand raised, they were much too slow to see anything, much too slow to react, much too slow to be wise, and when my wave of faster than light blast came, it swept them and undid the molecules that formed their existence. They crumbled to nothing, hundreds of them in that direction.

The others came, crying in fervour. It was almost like they didn't witness the ease at which I disposed hundreds of their own. It truly seemed like they had no idea, for they came without reservations and fear.

I raised a palm and acted as I had. Another large blast of energy burst from my left palm this time around and rend hundreds of orcs to ashes.

Another group came and another and another. I kept lunging my arms, throwing condensed energy attacks and balls, disrupting their numbers, and yet, it seemed like I had done none of those. They were much too many.

I clicked my teeth in annoyance.

"What is this nonsense?"

Truly, what was going on? What special event was this? What purpose did it serve?

I looked up to the crevice above me and I caught a thin line of the sky. It was a thin line due to the distance where I stayed, but it reminded me of where I needed to be.

My place was at Lyma region, not with these ugly hellish creatures. No.

I curved into a ball, held myself in a fetal state, and charged up energy.

The energy field grew smaller by a few inches. The energy I held overlapped one another, and condensed as I willed it to do so.

I felt a surge of power and I felt a bit of pain. I was being intentional with the energy I held, very intentional about the harm I wanted to cause.

Energy built up within me like waves growing to become a tsunami, my enemies oblivious to what I had in store for them.

I released my pent up feelings and energy. I had charged up more than enough, maybe a little too much in a sense.

Light poured out of me in waves. It was omnidirectional, it was all-encompassing, it was bright, it was powerful, and it was destructive.

It spread from me like an explosion and it swept towards my enemies, and killed the whole lot of them. It was mercy for it was swift, they hadn't hurt.

After about two minutes of the blow, of the eruption, my light began to shrink, and after about five minutes, I was revealed in my fetal position, naked with a field of energy around me.

It was like a god had been born, and truly, I did feel like a god in that moment.