In year 2020 the first ever human with arcane power appeared. It wasn't any mind blowing power it was just simple E rank flying power. And soon people all around the world started gaining power and the world was plunged into Chaos, but in the next two years people started to unite together, not because their rationality came back, no they did it because other than arcane power there was another thing which started appearing on earth [ dungeon dwellers ] .
Different types of structure started coming out of earth and from those structure hordes of monsters spewed out. In nearly one year more than half of the human population perished. But it's said that
"difficult times create strong man."
When humanity was getting pushed back day by day , four heroes appeared, they defeated dungeon dwellers and managed to make Stronghold [ Midgard ] for humanity .
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200 years later
"Zzzz, Zzzz..."
"Young master you need to wake up now otherwise the master will be angry."
"Zzzz, Zzz.."
" Ha, I guess I have no choice. "
Splash!
"W-What! did someone attack the family."
"Good morning young master, and who in their right mind would attack the Alastair family."
"Oh, Maverick it's just you."
"Yes, young master it's just me."
"Argh! How often do I have to tell you to not wake me up like this."
"I'm sorry, but it's hard to wake you up with normal means."
"Whatever, what do you want."
Suddenly Maverick's face turned serious
"Young master it's day of your arcane power awakening , master is expecting you in the training ground in half an hour."
Noticing serious tone in Maverick's voice, I got rid of all the laziness and answered.
"Ok, tell my father that I'll be there."
"As you say young master."
After saying that Maverick left room.
After staring at the ceiling for a few movements I moved away from the bed and stood in front of the mirror, in the mirror was a boy with ocean blue eyes and medium length red hair , most prominent characteristic of Alastair. around 6 feet in height, lean muscle build. In total he appeared to be a handsome man who had just reached his twenties. This man was me, Eric Alastair, age 17 years old, second young master of the Alastair family, one of the four great families of the midgard.
After smirking at myself in the mirror , I turned around and faced the wall which was filled with posters, newspapers and fliers and in the middle of all these things was a photo of a man with the same eye and hair colour as me.
"Brother"
I said as I stared at the photo on the wall with a resolute look.
**
Step- step- sound of footsteps were echoing around the training grounds. As I entered the training which was as big as a football field, I could see the silhouette of man. As I got closer, the silhouette became more and more clear.
soon I was able to see who was standing there, he had the same hair colour as me but instead of blue eyes like me he had deep red eyes.
"Father"
I spoke as he stood in front of my father. 6.5 feet tall with long red hair like lion Mane he was Draven Alastair aka
Fire beast, he was an SS+ rank arcane power user. He earned his nick name while fighting against SS rank dungeon dweller [nightmare lion] who he ripped apart with his bare hands.
"Are you ready?"
Draven asked as he looked into Eric eyes.
"Yes, father"
I replied shortly as I didn't want to take too much of his time, since my father was the commander of the border force who protected [ Midgard ] from the monsters living outside I didn't wanted to waste too much of his time.
"Then say the word and I'll keep an eye on you"
"Hm"
nodding my head I sat in Lotus position and spelled the words.
"I request an audience with Akashic records"
These are the words used to awaken arcane power. When a person reaches their nineteenth birth year they are able to use these words to connect to the Akashic record.
In a way Akashic records are God. They are a combination of all the events, thought, word, intent and emotion ever occurred, whether in the past, present or future. That's why some people even call arcane powers "Gifts"
*
After saying those words I lost my consciousness, and when I again opened my eyes I was inside a black room with violet fire at the centre.
Seeing that fire I moved toward it, I felt strange familiarity with this fire.
'maybe that's my power?'
it was not totally baseless since most of Alastair family members had fire related abilities.
I was now standing in front of fire and then suddenly fire latched onto my body surprised I tried to put off fire with my hand.
But then I noticed that fire wasn't hurting me. I didn't burn either rather it felt warm. Just when I was getting familiar with this sensation my eyes started closing and I lost consciousness again.
*
I opened my eyes again and this time I had a headache and groaned escaped my mouth.
"argh!"
"So?"
"Huh?"
Just when I was busy in clenching my head in pain I heard his father's voice.
"So how did it go?"
I looked at my father in eyes and smiled
"I awakened my powers."
"Good"
my father smiled back in relief. 'He must have been worried' I knew what he was worried about, there were some cases of awakening failing and people going on rampages. although rare but they still existed.
"Ok now concentrate, the headache you are feeling right now is because information about your power is forcefully implanted in your mind. Try to calm your mind and you should be able to get details about your power"
I did as my father Said and took deep breath and then I saw some word forming inside my head.
{ Chaos Fire } : [ Other than having an extremely high temperature, this fire can disintegrate anything and absorb mana from any material living or non-living and provides their abilities and skills to its host. ]
"It's called { Chaos Fire } it can disintegrate any material and absorb mana from them."
"So does it grow stronger by absorbing mana?"
"I don't know, I just awakened recently, I'll have to check"
"Well yo-" just when father was about to answer back his phone started vibrating.
father looked at me apologetically. I understood what this was about and just nodded my head.
"It's okay I know you're busy"
"Thanks son. oh! yeah I appointed a new teacher for you he should be here in two
hours "
After saying that father's whole body was engulfed in fire and he dashed out of the training ground at super sonic speed.
I looked at this scene not at all surprised, while leaving the training ground I mumbled to myself
"I wonder when he will come back, this time it took him six months"
As I was leaving the training ground I saw a practice dummy at the corner.
'That dummy is for ability users right? Should I try my power? I have nothing to do anyway.'
After making up my mind I called out
"Maverick"
suddenly Maverick appeared out of thin air.
"Yes, young master"
"Set up those training dummies for me."
"But didn't you just awaken your powers?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Nothing I'll set those up right away"
After saying that Maverick vanished from his place and appeared next to dummy.
Now I was standing 30 meters away from the dummy , I closed my eyes and recalled what I knew about arcane power.
'Most awakeners say that arcane power is like another limb which is just harder to control, you just need focus.'
I opened my eyes and positioned my hand in dummy's direction and imagined the same purple fire as I saw in black room and slowly but surely a small purple fireball was forming in my hand. After a few minutes later the purple fireball was as big as football but I was sweating heavily. Looking at dummy I motioned my hand toward the dummy and fireball flew at high speed toward it, and then
"Boom!"
The fireball landed on the dummy's chest and its whole body caught fire but instead of burning, dummy started breaking in small pieces and soon it turned to ashes.
I looked at the scene in wonder but soon my eyes started closing and I fainted.
Just before I fainted some words appeared in my mind similar to information about my power.
[ You gained a small amount of mana ]