TBATE: PRIMORDIAL ASCENSION

Chapter1: Awakening

ARTHUR LEYWIN'S POV:

About two years have passed since I made my difficult journey to the study room.

From then, I had been constantly trying to gather the little bits of mana spread out in my body and focus it in an attempt to form a mana core. Let me tell you, it was a slow and arduous task. I would find myself having an easier time trying to learn how to walk on my hands and eat with my feet in this damnable body than trying to will my mana core to condense.

The pace of my training was strenuous and slow, but I was getting a pretty big head start compared to everybody else so I wasn't complaining.

For the past two years, I have been concentrating on gathering and consolidating my mana into seven key points of my body. These points include each shoulder joint, each knee, the crown of my head, one above the pelvis region, and my sternum, just like how I had seven Ki centers in my previous life. I was in the process of condensing my energy into the cores when...

*BOOM*

*Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *Boom*

One major followed by six smaller-sized explosions occurred.

Wow, I feel great!

Feeling refreshed at my breakthrough, I closed my eyes to sense my newly formed mana cores. My sweet little mana cores!

"ART! OH MY BABY! Are you okay?"

I spotted my mother rushing towards me while my father was on the ground kneeling.

What did he do this time that caused him to get punished by my mother?

My mother lifted me up and hugged me, almost to the point where my underdeveloped ribs gave out.

I managed to squeak out a "Mom, no cry. What's wrong?"

She didn't answer me and continued sobbing while cradling me. My father arrived next to her, patting her back and patting my head as well, giving me a weak smile.

After a brief moment of confusion, I peeled my head away from my mother's bosom and I looked around to see that we were standing in the center of a giant crater, with most of our house, if not all of it gone.

...What the fuck?

Who did this? Who had the audacity to destroy the home of a King?! The perpetrators will rue this day! I will hunt them down day and night and not rest until...

"Congrats, Art honey. You awakened, Champ."

"..."

"..."

I did this?

In my old world on Earth, a similar phenomenon happened when a youth awakened. A clear barrier appeared around the awakened and a small pushing force would surround the barrier. I'm guessing, though, that the repelling force in this world was a lot stronger because of the mana in the atmosphere, something that wasn't present back on Earth.

As once a King of integrity, I decided to apologize for this... er.. situation.

"I'm sorry Mom, Dad. Am I in trouble?"

"Haha... No Art honey, you're not in trouble. We were just worried about you. I'm glad you're alright." My mother managed to chuckle through half-teary eyes.

My idiot father, on the other hand, was a lot more excited.

"My boy is a genius! Awakened at the age of less than three! This is unprecedented! I thought I was fast, but jeez!"

So a couple of moments of a picture-perfect atmosphere was broken when a neighbor passing by screamed, "What in the world?!"

"Haha, we better clean this mess up," my father said as he grinned, rubbing the back of his head.