Chapter 3: Cheat

In the middle of a forest, a young man could be seen lying down on his back asleep, the sunlight shone through the gaps of the tree crown hitting his face

Around him, a circular barrier is barely visible, it's objective is to protect him

'Ughhh'

Sitting up slowly Lorien looked around drowsily as he was disoriented, But even then he observed his surroundings silently trying not to make any noise, after all this is a new environment and god knows what may be there

Noticing the barrier arround him Lorien visibly relaxed as he released a sigh of relief

'So thoughtful, It appears arrangements were made, well that is to be expected after all if I were to die seconds after traveling all the effort would have gone to waste, but will such a barrier appear every time i travel, or is it only this time and more importantly how strong is it'

Standing up slowly Lorien walked 4 steps forward his eyes not leaving the barrier observing it closely

'Hmmm, so it's based on me, not on the location I just fell on, this is good, but more importantly how long will it last'

Shaking his head lightly he soon gave up as there is not enough information to make an educated guess

And so after making sure of his safety he walked towards a tree and sat down again with his back resting on it

He then turned his attention to his 'cheat' if it could even be called that, closing his eyes Lorien could clearly feel a connection with something inside his body as if connected with a rope

Following the connection, with a thought, a semi-transparent screen appeared in front of him in a 'swish' startling him a bit

Looking at the screen in front of him a feeling of speechlessness enveloped him

'Really? A windows XP style application'

As soon as this thought appeared the style of the 'window' in front of him changed to a more modern look

'Huh? does it follow my thoughts?'

Seeing this a feeling of novelty manifested, its like when you get a new game and start customizing your character, this feeling is a bit addictive

It didn't take long for him to finally finish customizing the looks of the screen, now it has a dark background with stars shining brightly illuminating it, 2 options enveloped by golden rectangular borders with transparent insides showing the stary background each enveloping one word

[Worlds]

[Talent]

Seeing those options Lorien started exploring as this is going to be his most important guide for a long time

He could guess what the [Talent] option does so he left it for last as he is pretty safe for now, and so he chose the other one [Worlds], and so he 'clicked' on it, this caused the other option to disappear as new ones appeared

[Coordinates]

[Travel]

Looking at them the [Travel] option is very obvious and he didn't dare to click on it for now as he didn't know if it will directly send him to another world without further confirmation, and so he 'Clicked' on [Coordinates] causing the other option to disappear with new ones appearing

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[Record Coordinates]

[List of Coordinates]

Without a second thought he 'clicked on [Record] which caused the option to light up with a golden light for a couple of moments and then disappearing leaving the other option alone, a bit curious he 'clicked' on it causing 2 new options to appear

[Eternal World]

[Nameless World]

"The Eternal world should be my home world, as for the Nameless world its the world I am currently in"

With a thought the options disappeared as it returned to the 'home screen' with the 2 options shining, Lorien already understood the [Worlds] option so he turned his attention to the last option and the one that will define his Road in the future [Talent]

'Clicking' on it, the same this as earlier happened as the [Worlds] option disappeared but this time only 1 new option appeared

[Awaken]

Pausing for a second, Lorien took a deep breath as a look of expectation appeared on his face

'I Wonder what it is, I should be extraordinary for that woman to choose me'

After calming himself a bit Lorien finally 'clicked' on [Awaken], and as soon as he 'clicked' on it the 'screen' in front of him disappeared as a message appeared in his mind telling him to choose a target to awaken, seeing this he choose himself without a second thought

As soon as the choice was taken a golden light burst forward from the depths of his body, more precisely it came from the Orb shaped treasure hidden inside of him

This golden light shot forward towards Loriens's Core of Existence, also called his origin, as to awaken it

This origin is the starting point that defines one's existence and directs one's actions throughout life

It is a force that comes from within the World itself and managed to stream out of It and took on a material form through the creation of life as it gave birth to a body and soul, and this form may be anything that is living; be it, humans, animals…etc

Each person has a different Origin, it may rage from simple tools or weapons such as 'sword', 'spear', 'spoon'…, it may be an element such as 'fire', 'water'… or it may even be an abstract concept such as 'chaos', 'time'…

The Awakening of this Origin is very dangerous if not done right it may cause the awakened person to lose themselves and become nothing but a puppet to said Origin

For example, if someone were to awaken the origin 'evil' and lose himself in it, Even if before awakening he was the kindest and gentlest man you could meet, he will transform into someone who only seeks evil and does anything to reach it spreading chaos and carnage in his wake, losing his past self in the process

Of course, Danger is accompanied by opportunity, if this awakening were to succeed a terrifying ability will be born (if you were lucky enough to have a good origin, Imagining surviving just to awaken the Origin 'Chair')

This Ability whatever it may be is very different from other abilities or talents awakened from the soul or body, it's much 'purer', and it gives its owner near-infinite possibilities

Of course, Lorien didn't have any idea about this or the nature of this 'Talent awakening', moreover he has already lost consciousness the moment the golden light appeared

When this golden light touched Lorien's origin a chain reaction instantly occurred, a multicolored energy appeared out of nowhere from the depths of Lorien's existence

it seems that the golden light was nothing but a key to unlock the gates, unleashing something from within it

When this multicolored light appeared, the golden light instantly retracted to Lorien's soul as it transformed into a sphere protecting Lorien's consciousness and memories inside of it so they don't get affected by the upcoming transformation

As if on que the multicolored energy instantly envelopped Lorien's soul and body transforming them, the first to get transformed was the soul

The originally transparent soul that looked like it's about to disappate on its own was getting torn and reformed over and over again as waves of multicolored energy got absorbed by it in the process as to strenghen it

And like that, it didn't take long for the originally 'normal' soul to get completely transformed, the weak and transparent soul is nowhere to be seen now, and a new and strong multicolored one appeared instead, different from before it now gave off a very 'solid' feeling

This transformation didn't stop there as after finishing with the soul the multicolored light set its new target on the body

With the energy appearing in it changes instantly began to happen, useless cells got discarded, other cells got transformed and perfected while new ones appeared, this transformation is perfecting this body and making it more compatible with the origin as to be able to use it

And so like that, the transformation continued…

—Author—

This Origin is similar to the one in Type-Moon (of course not identical)