Chapter 3: Chapter 03

 

I am now in front of a wooden house, my lock is just a simple knob and I have the key in my pocket.

My house is a simple studio types house, I have a restroom, a kitchen and an open area. In the open area, I can easily see the bed and small table and chair.

A smell dry fish, dry meat and rotten trash that are coming from the neighborhood rush inside when I open it. Cole is already familiar with this kind of smell and I am not in any way shape or form disgusted by it. However, compared to Jon’s lifestyle Cole’s lifestyle is really terrible.

“I will eventually leave this place I will endure it a little bit longer.”

I lock the door behind me and move towards the table.

“Let’s see.”

I put the ingredients on the table.

1 pc of human heart

4 spoon of grounded high quality monster core

3 bottles of small red potion.

“Hmmm…”

“I got everything.”

“Let’s begin.”

 

What I’m trying to do, is something that the villain Heart Reaper did in the story.

Heart Reaper is a ‘One Timer’ villain in Book 8, in Lionheart main story line.

He wanted to grow strong, he wanted power but he has no skill in releasing his Aura or Circles so instead he focuses on acquiring his Essence.

However, Essence is a very rare and very unique ability that a person can get. It’s is usually treated as a hidden card, a last resort or special skill. But not all Essence are for combat, some Essence are simple as providing a light or creating a breeze. Even so, having an Essence is already considered a gift from god.

They are only few people who have Essence, the number of people with Essence is comparable to the number of Aura Expert or 5- Circle mage.

People who have Essence are pretty rare but not impossible to find.

In the book, Essence is describing as the awakening of one’s self. Even if you are an Aura Master or 8-Circle mage there is a high chance that you will not acquire any Essence.

On the other hand, a 5-year-old can acquire his Essence if ‘he already found himself’.

 

Heart Reaper read a lot of books and made lot of research regarding Essence, but he didn’t encounter or learn any method on acquire his Essence. Due to his frustration he came up with an idea.

‘If I cannot acquire my own Essence I should just steal the Essence of others.’

This is where the killing spree began.

Heart Reaper didn’t care about the killing due to his thirst for power, he hunted both people that are suspected to have Essence and people who are known to have Essence and experimented on them. A lot of civilian were killed by his blade.

 

I begin the preparation.

I submerge the heart to a pot full of boiling red potion then I mix the ground high quality monster core into that pot.

This formula is not focus on consuming the human heart. Instead, I wanted to extract the Essence that is attach to the human heart and transfer to the potion, when the transfer is complete the potion color will change.

I waited for several minutes until the red potion change into a purple one.

 

Because of the killings, the Hero of Justice, Lionheart hunted down Heart Reaper.

Heart Reaper, traps and trickery didn’t work to the hero of justice.

In his final moment, when the Heart Reaper already receives the final blow, his body are now full of injuries and blood started to come out from his mouth. He slowly pulls himself towards the cauldron and tried to drink the final concoction he made one last time however, it still didn’t work.

His body fall down to the ground. He regrets his life, he regrets his failed experiment and finally he regretted his weak body.

 

But the author said.

<The blood that flows out from Heart Reaper mouth mix with the concoction.>

I then cut myself and I put a drops of my blood inside the pot. The blood mix with the purple potion in the pot.

<The concoction changes into a glistening clear color.>

The potion slowly changes into a clear liquid potion, the liquid look ‘fresh’, it looks… crystal.

<However, no one will ever know about this great discovery.>

I smiled.

“I hope it works.”

 

I remove the heart and slowly put it on a clean cloth and I drank the potion inside.

Dum!

Dum! Dum!

Dum! Dum! Dum! Dum!

My heart be so fast and I feel a sudden heart burn.

Intense pain run through my body, my arms cramp and then my legs followed. My body started to chill, I cannot stand anymore and my body drop down to the ground.

Bang!

I can’t even shout because of the pain.

Then… I pass out.

 

<Four adventurers travel to Siocas Plains.>

<The sunset shines to men and women who sacrifice themselves for their kingdom.>

<However, the four adventurers didn’t come here for the sake of their kingdom instead they came to this eerie place to look for Aldren, the Son of Count Winston.>

<”Hey are you sure this is the location?”>

<The average looking man wielding two swords ask his fellow adventurer that is caring a bow on his right hand.>

<”I’m sure Nate, this is the place. I ask the commander of the platoon about Winston’s son assignment.”>

<Nate detected something in front of them, he can hear the breath of this creature, the sound of gnawing and gulping.>

<Nate slowly crawl down, the party was surprise but they follow Nate’s movement.>

<”Tsk, There is monster in front of us… I’m asking you if you’re sure, because we don’t need an encounter in this kind of quest.”>

<The party were surprise but not shock, at the same time they feel proud about their member.>

<”Nate, your Essence is really cool.”>

<”Vicky you’re a 3-circle mage and Tang is already a basic, both of you has a chance to improve more. Just stay strong and keep training. I’m just lucky guy who receive this gift.”>

<Nate smiled.>

<”Laros is the only loser in our team.”>

<Nate made a joke and Vicky and Tang chuckled.>

<”Hey, not fair I made all the research and preparation for this mission.”>

<Laros smirked.>

<”I will have my own Essence some day and it will clear beat your… hmmm… what did you call that again? En.hance. Sense. for Losers. Hehehe”>

 

A story began to play in my head… no… it’s not a just a regular story more like a cartoonish dream.

My name is Nate…

My father is the best hunter in the village, he can hear the wild animals around him which gives him and advantage for a surprise attack, on top of that he can see better on a distance which really helpful in taking down monster using a bow and arrow.

My father is the hero of our village, he protects it and even support the village by providing food to everybody.

I wanted to be like him when I grow up.

…

But as I grow up I started to change, my dream started to change. Instead of being a hunter I once want, I’ve learn the kind of people I wanted to be.

Aura Users.

Special kind of group that unlock the mastery of their body and soul. Not just that, Aura User especially the one at peak the so called Aura Master have it all.

Power.

Money.

Fame.

That’s what I want.

I begin to train myself. I work so hard every day. I train my body and even duel everyone I know. I am not the best in this field but I still I tried my best.

But.

Even though I push myself so hard it’s not enough. I am just a regular swordsman nothing more and nothing less. When I understood it, I began to walk on a dark path.

Alcohol became my friend… each… and every day.

Until that fateful encounter.

I meet a friend of my father in a bar that I was drinking.

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Without asking him anything he began to talk. He talks about himself, about his job and it looks like he is just bragging about it, but soon he talks about my old man.

He told me that he is the hero of the village.

Once, when the village people cannot hunt in the forest and there are food shortages because of a monster that invaded the nearby forest, my father began to hunt it down using a hit and run tactics. It took days but because of his skill, that monster was killed eventually.

Story after story was being told about my father.

Finally, something clicks.

He helps so many people using that skill, isn’t that my dream.

My true dream.

I focus my hearing just like my father taught me and I began to hear the conversation in a distance.

I still got it.

Then I look at window and look at star, soon the star began to grow big little by little.

I smiled.

I close my eyes, I felt… relax and I feel at home.

I began to feel the presence of people around me, I knew their location even though I cannot see them.

Then I drink my beer.

I tried to focus on the taste…

This low quality beer that is being sold to commoners began to taste differently… it slightly become better.

The ambiance really makes the taste of a beer better.

I feel renewed that night.

After that day, I trained myself not as Aura User but as a Hunter.

I train all the skill that my father taught me and even better, I begin to learn new things.

Soon, I can even track down wounded monster just by the scent of their blood.

Days… months… years… goes by and I train this skill non-stop, not because I wanted fame, money and power but because I wanted to be someone that can inspire people, some one that can help people.

I accepted that this is my fate, that this is my skill and I will use it to the fullest of my ability.

 

I woke up.

Information suddenly came to me.

An Essence with the ability to increase your senses to it maximum capability.

Enhance Sense.

I immediately knew how this Essence work. I didn’t receive any experience about it but what I receive is like a manual on how to use this Essence. How to this? How to do that? Just like having a theoretical knowledge on how to drive a car.

A ringing sound suddenly came to me.

But…

I don’t have experience about it.

So what happen to a driver who doesn’t have any experience in driving a car and suddenly came to the freeway.

Collision and accident.

I heard a woman voice outside my house.

“Hey did you here, the Speared Skull is out it again?”

Then my sense travel to the alley way beside 4th house from here.

“Come on, I already paid you last week”

Some one punch the guy in his stomach.

Bang!

“ArghhhH!”

Next, I heard is a girl voice inside the second floor of the 7th house.

“Mom I already finish washing the dishes.”

And now, inside the 10th house basement I can hear a deep voice laughing around.

“Hahaha! I win you assholes I will take all your money!”

Suddenly.

“Argggg”

The smell assaulted me next.

The pungent smell double, triple…

No!

Not just triple.

I wanted to vomit.

It’s very disgusting.

Then I can now feel that disgusting smell in my taste buds.

I’m trying to hold it but.

I ran towards the toilet, kneel down in front of it.

“Aghhhh.”

I felt relieved.

I look above, my lamp isn’t turn on, but I can clearly see ceiling. I glance on the crack then my view immediately change.

My perspective zoomed it. My eyes now focus on the cracks on the ceiling and now this view is giving me such a strong head ache. It’s like wearing a binocular while moving around.

I immediately run towards my bed.

“Arggggg”

“Arghhhh”

Bang!

I drop myself on the bed then I started to twist and turn on the bed. The headache, the noise and the smell really makes me very uncomfortable. I continued my twist and turn and wait for it to disappear but it’s not stopping. I don’t know what time it is or how long I’m in this situation.

I though it will pass by, but it seems like it’s not going to happen anytime soon. So I decided to do something about it.

First, I focus my hearing…

I isolated the noise from the 10th house…. Then I isolated the noise up to the 4th house… now I isolated the noise on my own room and now I focus on my breathing.

Inhale… exhale… inhale… exhale…

It takes time… it takes patience… but now.

Now I can only hear my own breath.

I smile and decided to move on the next phase immediately.

l isolates the odor one by one, the first thing I remove is the smell of trash from the neighborhood, then the smell of dry meat and lastly the smell of salty dry fish. Then I focus on sniffing myself, sweat, dirt and that disgusting plant odor, those are the things I can smell right now, but to calm myself. I tried to focus more… I remove every odor that I can smell except for the ‘sweat’ smell.

I focus on smelling my own sweat.

I remind myself once again, focus on my sweat and focus on my breathing and lastly…

I open my eyes, they are in a ‘zoom in’ perspective and slow try to relax, I tried not to focus on a single part, slowly… slowly… my perspective started to change.

First, I can only see the cracks.

Zooming out.

Then now I can see part of the ceiling.

Zooming out.

Lastly, I can see the whole ceiling.

 

Now, I’m lying down on my bed while controlling everything at the same time.

Soon… everything was back to normal.

Sigh.

“Shit! The book didn’t say anything about that”

I chuckled.

I raise my open hand.

It looks like I’m reaching the ceiling then I slowly close it.

“Still, it was a success.”

After that, I sleep for the rest of the day.

 

Chapter End!

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