Another Stupid Isekai

My goals reached further than where I could get with the two nice crystals I got after the long search, so I kept looking for more until I had enough. It took me several weeks, to point that I noticed Tihana giving me those looks. She clearly was thinking about starting a new city, but I had different plans.

I didn’t think much of that back then, just focused on the task ahead of me, keeping up a nice facade, so nobody would notice what I was actually working towards.

I’ll spare you the numbers, just so you know that it did cost me a lot. I fully upgraded the ‘Void dweller’ class. It was actually quite cheap since I almost had the whole thing finished. It unlocked for me the further evolution, the ‘Void laird’.

This new class gave me access to the following skills: ‘Shadow walk IV’, ‘Hide presence IV’, ‘Shadow reach III’, ‘Void anchor III’, ‘Shadow permit III’, ‘Void vault II’, ‘Void prison’.

‘Void prison’ was quite an interesting skill, as it allowed me to keep people in ‘The Void’ without killing them. It was still a sick torture, to put it mildly, but at least they would stay alive, not getting eaten by the hungry space itself.

I ended up upgrading all of those skills to the maximum, unlocking the further evolution of the class, the ‘Voidling’.

Yep, the same name I used to call the shitty weak soldiers of mine, the minions, the servants. It awfully looked like I became one of them.

The class unlocked me access to the following skills:  ‘Shadow walk V’, ‘Hide presence V’, ‘Shadow reach IV’, ‘Void anchor IV’, ‘Shadow permit IV’, ‘Void vault III’, ‘Void prison II’, ‘Voidplication’, and by that point my favorite useless skill, the ‘Unknown Void skill’.

‘Voidplication’ was quite interesting though. It allowed me to create copies of myself, and use them as if they would be me. There was one small catch, though, those guys were as strong as the weakest shadows. I still could speak through them, walk with them, see with their eyes, and all of the fancy stuff, including the usage of magic.

The moment I understood how the skill worked, I had my mind filled with a lot of stupid shit I could do with the skill.

Obviously, I upgraded them all to the fullest. As I did that, something happened.

A chill went down my spine, and ominous thoughts filled my mind, like I just really, really fucked up. It was so terrible, that I immediately took my hand off the device, and looked around expecting to be attacked. I didn’t know what was going on.

At first, I thought it was just my instinct which reacted to incoming danger, but there was nobody around. Nothing was happening. Loistavadvaar looked like it always did when nobody was around, except me. Peaceful jade town, basking in the cold silver light coming from above.

– Weird – I told myself, thinking about the explanation of this situation.

I approached the sapling again, still looking around for the source of my reaction, but since I couldn’t see anything, and minutes were passing, I started to think that maybe it wasn’t something external, but rather internal.

This made me dig deeper, which actually took a while before I found the reason. Well… Back then I didn’t know that, so I didn’t link the two together.

I was the ‘Unknown Void skill’. It finally got ‘known’, and it changed everywhere, in all three classes. It turned into a skill called ‘King of the void’, and I already had it unlocked, despite not being able to buy it at all.

From what I understood about it, it made me not lose my mind if I were to go too far with ‘Shadow fusion’. There were still some limits to that. First of all the pain was still there, but I at least knew why. Above 70% of fusion, there was too little of me in me, and too much of my shadow. My shadow was basically too strong for my body to handle, which was starting a process of self-destruction.

To put it simply, ‘The void’ was consuming my body, pouring through to the world I was currently in, to basically destroy it too.

Fortunately, after passing through the 70% barrier of indescribable pain, the power surging through me was able to stop the process of self-destruction. Still, the 100% fusion meant death and opening a breach straight to ‘The Void’, so it could swallow everything.

Fun, right?

Previously all the thoughts trapped in ‘The Void’ took over my body, and wanted to go nuts out there. They killed Ixa, but that was not enough, so they went after my friends. Fortunately, my mind was strong, because of the psionic upgrades I got, so somehow I was able to torn it off in the last moment, but it was just luck.

Now I didn’t have to worry about it, I still would have to listen to the thoughts, but at least I could keep control.

Despite knowing all that, I decided to never, ever do that again. Unless there was absolutely no other choice. And it wasn’t even about the pain. It was more about fear. I wasn’t scared of anything with a very one, small exception. Exception which was somewhere out there, and it was called ‘The Void’.

In my mind, it was like hell on steroids. I would rather go cook myself in a giant cauldron than go through what I went back when I fought Ixa. That shit literally terrified me.

What was even worse, it made me question if I really should go to Aaraam’soturi, because what if I would find myself in a position where I would have to use that power? Even a mere thought about that made me tremble out of fear. And I fucking hated it!

To take my mind off what happened, I just went home, looking for something to do, and putting all my plans on hold, until I got my shit together.