As soon as the voice finished speaking,the entire scenery changed again, VanKcrow now found himself in a dark hall,there was countless swords protruding from the ground, chains hanging from the ceiling, paintings depicting warfare on the walls and a black Coffin,VanKcrow could hear heartbeats constantly coming from the coffin, floating above the coffin was a normal sized black book, VanKcrow stared at the coffin for a while before the lid suddenly opened and an elderly voice echoed from inside the Coffin.

  "Now why don't you come closer?,Are you going to make an old man exert himself?"

  '.....'

  "Huhn,I can barely speak these days you know?"

  "Oh well,so be it then..."

  "Now,you must be confused about what's happening right?, trust me,I also was when I first got pulled into this world..."

  "That's right,we aren't in earth,but instead In a planet called Era,Era is about 10 times the size of Earth,it has 9 different continents,On the East lays Shi No Kuni,the people there resemble those from East Asia back on earth,or at least they did...

  On the north lay Nova Genesis,a place with very advanced technology where the people mostly resemble North Americans, although it also has quite a variety of other ethnicities.

  On the South is the continent of Uchawi,A continent similar to Africa.

  On the west is the continent of Salvation,you can think of it as this World's Europe..."

  "Now beyond those 4 continents that are mainly populated by humans,there are 5 others that aren't,The continent of Drachenschadel,a massive skull of a long dead Dragon, next to it is the continent of Terra,a land of green trees and beautiful flowers,It is in reality a shell of the World Bearer,a gigantic turtle like being that used to be an enemy of the Dragon.

  Just like the two beings,the inhabitants of each continent aren't very fond of each other...

  There is the continent of Babylon,a gigantic Tower in the middle of nowhere that pierces the sky,The continent of Aegis,a large meteor that sometimes comes down to Era and sometimes rises beyond the sky,and finally...

  There is the continent of Akash,where we currently are.

  Akash is a continent littered with abnormal zones, Abnormal zones are places were abnormal phenomenons occur.

  As you probably have realized,in this world,things such as supernatural abilities and monsters exist.

  Fated, Changeling, Abominations, beasts...

  Fated are those who connect themselves to the soul realm,they bring energy from the soul realm into their souls or if they have something known as Geistertore,they themselves go into the soul realm with just their soul,this increases their Aufstieg faster.

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  To increase their power,one way is to hunt Beasts or monsters and harvest their Animae,By doing this they would be able to form nodes which would be used to cast Spells.

  Spells are certain abilities that Humanity inherited from the sages,One could either be born with the capacity to become a fated or become one by absorbing the Soul of a fated.

  However practically all Fated were born with their powers, Finding and Absorbing the soul of a fated was simply far to difficult,To the point that only one person in the history of Akash managed to do so,That Person was the Heavenly Demon,Yaksha.

  There are different ranks given to fated according to Their Aufstieg, Aufstieg is decided by which level of Schicksal,The fate system they unlocked.

  The Ranks are, Enlightened, Light Seeker, Light Keeper, Light Bringer.

  There are higher levels,but information about them is mostly unknown.

  Enlightened can cast the different fate spells,

  Light Seekers can unlock 5 different traits,those being,

  Trap master which allows one to set the time their spells are activated.

  Ranger which allows the spells to be manifested far from where the caster is.

  Resilient which decreases the time period in which a fated can't cast Spells again after casting one.

  Space wizard which allows a fated to cast multiple spells at the same time.

  And Almighty, an extremely rare trait which allows one to always defeat the opponents spells.

  Light Keepers can manifest their soul Mundus onto the world.

  The soul Mundus is the representation of the fated's soul,It is located in the Soul Realm,There is the outer Soul Mundus which Is decided by the fated's inheritances and the inner soul Mundus which is decided by the Fated's personality and history.

  Light Bringers can control the soul Mundus of others and manifest them to use in battle.

  However, light Bringers must be careful to not have their souls mixed with that of the others who's souls Mundus they used.

  When fated engaged in a battle using spells,they would fight for strings of fate,there will always be three strings and the one who managed to receive more would have their spells be of higher rank.

  There are four ranks,Nulla,I,III,III.

  Nulla was the lowest while III Was the highest.

  A spell of higher rank will defeat one of lower rank.

  Because of how fate spells work,There can never be a fated who's spells will automatically be stronger than that of others,the strength of spells will always depend on whoever received more strings in that particular Altar.

  (Altar is the point in which fated connect their fates to battle for strings.)

  The only exception to this rule is someone who has the Almighty trait.

  Fate battles resemble a boardgame called Schach.

  The fated would be given different characters and they would have to get rid of the opponents characters.

  The characters are,

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  If one managed to get rid of the opponents ???, their spells would be of III rank while the opponents would be of Nulla rank.

  If one got rid of half of the opponents characters,their spells would be of II rank while the opponents would be of I.

  Another part of fated powers is inheritances,

  There are also ranks for inheritances,They were,1st Order,2nd Order,3rdOrder,4th Order.

  1st Order meant an inheritance comes directly from a Hemitheos or a Diabolos.

  While the rest meant it came from their descendants.

  1st Order is by far the most powerful inheritances, However they could only be gained by Absorbing the remnant soul of a Diabolos or Hemitheos,At least that was the case for humans.

  The Freiherr,were all born with 1st Order inheritances.

  Inheritances could be awakened by finding an Altar of the Hemitheos or Diabolos it came from and performing a ritual which required specific materials.

  However that meant that one would have to be careful to not get possessed by a Diabolos or Hemitheos.

  There are also the Changeling,those who found and absorbed fragments of the frozen river of the Hemitheos.

  They would all have their physical capabilities multiplied,Their bones,muscles, senses and hormones would become more suitable for warfare.

  Due the the fact that it was multiplication and not addition,most powerful Changeling were men since men were usually physically more suitable for combat than women,so the higher the level,the bigger the difference between men and women.

  Changeling could awaken a semi Hemitheos form which meant their bodies would turn into half a Hemitheos,These Changelings were called Heracles.

  They are Changelings equivalent in power to light Bringers."

  "Abominations are unique monsters, meaning only one of them exists, beasts are more like animals,there are many members of the same type of beast."

  As the old voice was talking, certain strange shapes started manifesting inside the hall, VanKcrow could not see them,but the old man could.

  'Tsk, Already?,Those cunts...'

  "Well, we'll have to speed things up..."

  Right after the old man said this, VanKcrow felt himself Levitating in direction of the coffin...