Chapter 6: Chapter 6: The best skill
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'Chronicler of stories'
The greatest skill that was gifted to me out of the original six that I got.
Hold up Damian, How is it possible for something to be more broken than Alpha Human Physiology or Plot Convenience???
One makes you the finest specimen of the human race and gives you unparalleled base stats and an incomprehensible talent in pretty much everything that can be defined in a human existence.
The other makes destiny itself help me out, random events that have very low chances of happening, they just happen when I'm around. The issue is that the skill can make things convenient but it doesn't mean I'm blessed by the goddess of Luck or something like that. It is a passive ability that will just make me constantly involved with the main story, but it won't stop me from dying instantly if someone way out of my league like the Archon's or their direct minions try to obliterate me..
Another interesting fact of Alpha Human Physiology is that the initial transformation makes me one of the strongest humans of where I am and with the potential to become the strongest ever. The key words being where I am…
If I got this skill back on earth, I wouldn't nearly be as strong as I am right now. Wait a second.. The skill works by scanning the history of mankind. So in the entire two hundred thousand history of mankind, it would impart me a customized body that would enable me to become the best in every category of human existence.So if in the history of my past world, there was someone this strong then that would be very concerning.
The skill also warns me indirectly because if I am this strong then that means some human in history was this strong, fast, and smart or someone that might be alive right now….
Anyways at the end of the day, both skills relied on a set of rules and conformed to the world around me.
'Chronicler of Stories' didn't.
I remember it very well, 'Chronicler of Stories' was a degraded skill that was once an Ultimate level skill and honestly I would still put 'Chronicler of Stories' as an Ultimate level skill.
What are stories?
An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment.
Key word: Imaginary in this case.
The skill shatters the rules of the world because it brings in outside factors…
Any fictional story, biography, and real-life events can be brought to life using this skill.
'Chronicler of Stories' can access the Akashic Records, the same records that apparently holds infinite knowledge of infinite multiverses, which is pretty much impossible in nature.
Let's say a book existed and it had infinite knowledge, I mean if that knowledge is in the form of a book.Then, doesn't that mean infinite pages and if it means infinite pages then isn't that infinite mass present in the form of a small little book.
Infinite mass condensed into a tiny little book and even if it wasn't a book. If the size is less than infinity then it is impossible to contain infinity because how can you contain the infinite without being the infinite yourself.
However, for the sake of myths and the remaining common sense I have left, I'm going to ignore the infinite size part because apparently my skill represents the Akashic record as a "book".
An infinite mass contained in an impossibly small object for that infinite mass, there is only one possible outcome….
The mass collapsing on itself, such a collapse would rupture space and time.
The end creation?
A Black Hole.
A cosmic valley of death in which even light cannot escape it.
But I digress maybe some magical BS was involved in some type of way.
The skill works by letting me access these "stories" through the Akashic records as because there are infinite multiverses, then there is an infinitely high chance of these stories being real in at least one of them. I can choose a character in one of these stories and gain their memories, traits, powers, skill, abilities, everything that makes that character themselves.
Of course I can't do this at will, I can only access "stories" or worlds that are in my power scalability. For example, I can't access the Marvel Comics Multiverse and pick Galactus and gain all his powers immediately. That would be billions of years worth of memories in which a cosmic giant is devouring entire worlds… Yeah…. I'm not doing that just yet….
I can only pick characters that are in my "league". For example my skill tells me that I'm at 8C, which corresponds to being able to destroy medium-sized buildings like large factories or supermarkets. Of course this is only measuring my ability to attack at full power in a singular shot. If I were to use my full power and I were to punch straight, I could take out a large factory.
The scale is so relative and doesn't include much specifics, but I am very confident that if someone gives me half an hour, I could take out a whole city block of buildings.
I don't have to hurt my head about it because my skill understands me. It understands me on my most fundamental level, so if it says that I'm not able to handle a certain character then I'm not going to argue with it..
Another drawback is that unless I fully finish mastering a character, I can not pick another one. "Mastering" in this case means fully going through all their memories, being able to perform their skills, abilities, powers, as if they are performing it instead.
The final drawback is that I can only perform the skill to gain a new character after every one month. There is nothing I can do to change the limit and with each character, the time grows by 1.3 times. The skill also reaches the hard limit after 10 characters. It is just a unique skill after all and not an Ultimate.
The most dangerous part about this is the emotional baggage, this skill carries because these memories have their emotions. I can literally start experiencing an identity crisis, multiple personality disorder, which I am not looking forward to.
Another warning that the skill is granting me about is that these emotions can affect me badly… During the time I am going to be experiencing a character, it is going to happen at night. If the events in the memories shown are particularly excessive in positive or negative connotations, then they may affect my mood the next day. In the most severe cases if I am going through a certain event that is similar to an event that I experienced in my memories, the emotions of the character are going to "act up" in a way.
Tranquil state has me covered for that, but it is not omnipotent. Some of these characters that I have in mind, they definitely got the short end of the stick in life…
Also I can choose to withhold the emotions in certain events and experience them at a different time. However, they can build up and I have a feeling that if I avoid them for a long enough time then even the Tranquil State would be overwhelmed.
I honestly do not want to access it yet because I just went through such a huge transformation already and I kind of want to get much more used to my body right now without any significant changes.
I'm not prideful enough to say that I don't want any power that is not mine, but I genuinely want to take things as it is.
If I start to amass power and only think about power then I won't even be able to enjoy the small things.
But, Damian, why don't you relax after you attain an almighty status of power??
That is because everytime and I mean every time someone reaches that level of power, they get some sort of restriction on them.
Whether it be something like the universe itself refusing to let me take action and restricting my body to not being able to interfere and even if that doesn't happen. I don't know what kind of enemies I might have in the future, we might be talking about enemies that have been scheming to take over the universe since the beginning of time and I don't think they would let me have the peace of mind to take a nice stroll in a beautiful forest.
With great power comes great responsibility
One of my favorite quotes when you realize that it is so true
A good person with much more power is morally stronger in the concept of goodness than a good person without power.
A person with power has a much larger impact of good or evil than a weak person. A weak person does not need control over himself because even if he were to let loose and go wild, the impact they would have is minimal because they are weak. I mean this in all categories as high intelligence, large amounts of money,humongous physical strength are all examples of power.
Exercising that power is only good or actually restricting yourself from the use of that power against others in harmful ways is much more powerful than merely living. How can you put someone with such great responsibility on the same level as someone weak doing a small good deed.
It is a cold and callous logic that is simply unfair
However life is unfair and all one can do is adapt to it.
Cancer changes you and if this was before then I'm sure I would have gone to all lengths and carried out true munchkinry in the pursuit of power, but I don't want to anymore…
Sure this world is so dangerous and it has all these world ending events with these planetary level divine spirits that are sometimes murderous. Nevertheless, it is also so beautiful….
This body of mine lets me get lost in the beauty of this world so easily, think of seeing life through 8k. Like those 8k Tv's that gave such naturalistic views and were so full of clarity and detail.
My eyes naturally embody that clarity and I dare say go even further because of how far and close I can see.
I want to jump off the cliffs of Mt. Aozang in Liyue and skydive down while appreciating the sunset bathing Qingce village in a breathtaking fiery orange..
I want to climb to the peak of Dragonspine mountain and feel the awe-inspiring grandeur as I look down the legendary mountain entombed in ice…
I want to sleep on the evergreen grass of The Paradise of Eternal Peace and appreciate its eternal emerald tranquility.
There is so much I want to do and I won't let anything stop me..
Sadly, power dictates this world, I envisioned 'Chronicler of Stories' turning on and a holographic screen showed itself.
User: Damianos Herakles Iremia
Records accessed: 0
Characters synchronized: 0
Characters assimilating: 0
Wishes: 1 remaining
That's kind of ironic, I'm guessing the "wishes" is how many times I can access the records right now. In Genshin Impact, to gain a character, you would have to "wish" for them as well. This whole skill just seems like a different version of the wish function in Genshin…Weird..
I looked around and decided to press the button.
*Accessing Akashic Records
3…2…1…
*Access granted… randomly selecting record from Akashic Records…
*Record chosen… DC Comics..
*Randomly selecting….
*Richard Drakunovski… chosen…
*Verifying Power scaling…Character is extremely skilled at combat, but only narrowly possesses superhuman prowess from intense physical conditioning and willpower… Verified…
*Importing Abilities..Skills…Powers…Emotions…Memories…
*Shutting down record…
I am not going to lie… when I heard DC comics, my heart started pounding and when I heard that name… I love this skill.
I take it back, this is so much better than Alpha Human Physiology….
Also why does this skill keep capitalizing and emphasizing random letters for no reason???
It's so weird…
By the way I am extremely surprised that I haven't passed out yet..
For some reason my abilities love to make changes to my body when I'm asleep and I understand the reasoning behind it, but it gets annoying after the second time…
I could feel it though and I don't mean that metaphorically. If I just stopped and cleared my mind, Richard Dragon's essence was lying in my mind. I say essence because that is the only thing I could use to describe it…
Everything and I mean every unique thought that made Richard Drakunovski himself was just laying around in my mind waiting for me to access it.
I went back to that cave and this time, I dragged out a bunch of trees to cover the entrance. I uprooted them with one hand and stacked two on the floor horizontally and then behind them, I put two more trees horizontally. Keep in mind they had their leaves present and that alone provided enough camouflage…..If four trees randomly uprooted with their roots out and leaves covering a rock formation was natural….
To be honest I really don't care, I went through a transformation here already and I was fine. Also I'm much stronger back then as well.
Now, I sat down cross legged and tried to access that essence or basically a copy of Richard Dragon's soul.
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