NOVEL NEXT Chapter 5: London Boyle
Name- London Boyle
Measurements- 164cm, 15 years old, 54kg.
Contracted Beast- [Dragon Of The Beginning]
Skills- [Between Realities], [There Shall Be Light!], [Eyes of Hypocrisy].
Passives- [Son Of The First God], [Outside The Real World].
Contract level- Newborn.
Beast level- God.
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I started at the screen, my eyes not moving an inch. I couldn't handle the happiness growing inside my body, warming it with its joy. Yet at the same time, a part of me was concerned, fear attaching itself like a small but deadly parasite. My first impression, these skills looked wonderful, quite overpowered. But if that proved to be true, what's going to happen for me to need this kind of ability?
Memories give you the minimum of what you require to survive your memory. The majority who chose the easier memories, don't even need all of their abilities. But that was definitely not the case here. Something was wrong, it felt too easy for me to be given these skills.
I can't say those beasts were weak, but at the same time, I won't even need to fight any of them. I could just stay in a safe spot and get it done. But I'm sure this trial doesn't want to bore its viewers to let me do that cheesy strategy.
Something was going to get bad, and soon.
I looked around, the air still frozen with everything else around it. 'How do I even breathe? Well, I've got nothing else to do, so let's see what some of these skills do.'
I moved my finger to press a skill, cuts could be seen everywhere around it.
[Between Realities] Description- There are many realms, all bound by the same laws of nature. But such a perfect world has to have a flaw. This skill allows you to stop the time of any realm your evil heart desires in exchange for Life Energy.
'Stopping time is always an awesome ability. But I don't know how much it lasts, and better, overusing it can cause my death. I need to be careful with it. Like a last resort!'
[There Shall Be Light!] Description- Darkness once covered the whole world, only the endless abyss could be seen. That was until a Great God came around, and with just his words, destroyed the darkness with a brilliant light. This skill allows you to summon that same light whenever saying the same words as the God. While in use, you will lose your shadow.
'So do I just say the name and that's it? I mean it's pretty decent, my powers were better, much better! But this will have to do. Oh and what could losing my shadow mean?
[Eyes of Hypocrisy] Description- Free will drives everyone differently, some choose to stay true, and some lie to prevail. This skill allows you to sense whenever someone is telling the truth. But meanwhile, in use, you can only lie.
'A lie detector! Oh, that's perfect! Not this is a great ability. But I wonder, what does it mean when it says I can only lie? Does every word that comes out of my mouth have to be a trick, or does it only activate in some situations? Well, see soon enough.'
The skills were... decent, I mean don't get me wrong they were very strong. But from a beast that is at the highest level? It's a little disappointing. They also all have side-backs, some that make them usable, some that just don't make sense, and some that aren't fully explained.
Hopefully, my passives are better. I took a deep breath, and praying for some over-the-world passives, I pressed the first one.
[Son Of The First God] Description- Many Gods have and are ruling over the infinite realms. Yet none compared to the first baker. He was the world itself, with him everything started to exist. This passive gives you an affinity to time and light.
'Well it makes sense, but it doesn't really do anything when the abilities I have for it are useless. Man how could someone have this much luck, but at the same time be so unlucky.'
[Outside The Real World] Description- Truly the real reason why the gods never achieve the greatness of the first, was because they were too, bound to the realms. The first God was something outside all known, something that is not comprehended by the human mind. This passive makes you immune to time and mind attacks.
A big grin curled up on my face. 'Finally, an actually useful power. Being immune to mind attacks could serve as a big advantage in a fight.'
I took a deep sight, as my finger tapped the wooden table. One after another, they went up and down in a hypnotic flow.
'Now about how I can win this match.'
It wasn't actually that hard, with time being frozen, there was no resistance when I slammed his hand on the table. Now it was just a waiting game, then I'll have to explain how I went from losing to winning. I let my eyelids relax and waited.
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A burst of cheers woke me up from my accidental slumber. I jumped from the chair with the thought of being attacked. But instead, I saw people cheer my name while the Machine of Michel ran away.
'Well, that went surprisingly well.'
This event continued until it was almost night. My arm was burning up, and my breathing was getting worse and worse. But I did it, I hadn't lost once.
"Good Job Landon! I made so much money today!"
The boy said with a menacing grin on his ugly face. He was counting the money he had made, not even making eye contact.
"You know, I also won a two-man capacity safe place. We can use it tonight if you want."
Meanwhile, I couldn't say it, I didn't have a chance to choose. This was the single safe place I owned, and meanwhile, it hurt to use, I had to.
'Yeah why not, we're friends now right?'
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Damn it! I knew this wasn't going to be as easy as I thought.
I said while being chased by memory beasts for the second time in a row.