210 Reason 2 (1/2)

Chapter 210: Reason 2

While he was chatting with Fenistine, he thought about the source of his special powers and had a vague feeling, as though his powers were sending him a signal.

The attribute and skill panes at the bottom of his field of vision had both started shimmering slightly. It was like countless ripples on the water surface.

At night, he sat cross-legged in his hotel room. On the surface, there weren’t any changes in his body, but his spirit kept trying to catch that little flash of inspiration in his heart.

It was just like a piece of paper flashing through his mind. He could see the words and pictures, but he just couldn’t recall them.

Garen tried his best to catch those traces, or rather, those memories.

As he kept concentrating, the ripples in his attribute pane kept getting larger and larger. Until finally.

Boom!!!

There was an ear-splitting noise, and Garen’s mind was a complete muddle as he descended into oblivion.

After some time, a series of mystifying images appeared in his heart.

In the middle of the endless starry sky.

A red shard sliced past the galaxies at high speed, eventually being pulled in by the Earth’s gravity and crashing into a certain place on Earth.

As the shard burst past the atmosphere, most of it was oxidized, and at the same time it turned into countless tinier pieces, scattering like rain across Earth’s sky.

The rain-like shards entered many living beings without a sound or trace, invisible to the eye. Most of these living beings self-combusted, and were burnt to ashes.

A few of them survived, but were greatly weakened. After contracting all sorts of diseases, they died an early death.

And then there were the ones amongst ten millions, those who were hit but continued with life as usual. The shards had no effect on these people.

Garen quickly noticed his past incarnation. He had also been one of those hit, and was one of the lucky few who were unscathed. At the time, he was a mere teenager.

In the blink of an eye, many years passed. He grew up, started working, all the way until he died of electrocution.

Just as he was electrocuted into a pile of charcoal, a translucent figure slowly rose from his body. It was about to be torn into shreds by the unseen rays radiating through the air, when suddenly the figure glowed with a faint red light from deep within. This light was the unique life of every individual, that little bit of sizable energy born from their bodies, memories, and souls.

It wrapped the figure’s head, blinking continuously, until the head slowly merged with the red light. Finally, both vanished without a trace, while the remaining body that was left behind was directly torn to pieces by the rays.

Strangely, Garen also saw the other people who had lived after being struck by the red shard at the same time.

Those people either died of illnesses, or ended their lives peacefully. Some of them were also killed.

But of all those who died, only three managed to awaken that dot of red light that lay dormant within them. The rest were torn to smithereens.

He was one of these three with the blinking lights. Although the other two managed to awaken the red light, the places they merged with the red light were different. And in the final process of merging, the red light had gradually faded, meaning the merging had failed.

Therefore, of all the countless Earth humans who had been awoken by the red shards, he was the only one who successfully merged with it, and he had merged his head as well.

The red shard was like a stimulant to the DNA of the soul. Some of the creatures succeeded and lived, while others failed and died.

The ones who lived were one in hundreds of millions. And of those who lived, there was another tiny, miniscule chance that they could successfully awaken the red shard.

Of the ones who were activated, they still needed to merge with red light. And the parts that merged were all different.

After Garen absorbed the red light, the soul in his head that was wrapped up in the red light floated slowly through the universe. It sporadically blinked into different unknown universes, before finally being swept up in a space tornado and ended up swept onto this planet. It was then that it was incorporated into a young man named Garen.

As he wandered through the starry sky, Garen gradually began to understand what this sort of red shard was for.

It was a natural mutagen for soul, and only worked on souls. The activated souls would present all sorts of different effects, some useful and others useless. Some were very powerful, while others were extremely weak.

And the difference in the part that was merged also manifested in different results. He was very lucky to have merged his head, and even more fortunately, he was able to find a planet with sentient life and a proper body before his consciousness was ultimately destroyed after aimlessly wandering the starry sky.

The starry universe was limitless. If he wandered for too long under those circumstances, even the strongest would end up grounded into nothing.

If it weren’t for this round of quiet reflection, and his natural-born power having merged with his head, he truly wouldn’t have been able to see so many of these memories.

He didn’t know how it was like for the other creatures awoken by the red shards, but it certainly wasn’t like his situation. After all, every creature’s experiences, lives, and memories were distinct. These differences decided that the red light they had nurtured would also be different, and the special powers developed as a result of the final merging would also be certainly different.

And his special powers, were this body’s attribution abilities. Perhaps his ability to transmigrate was part of that as well.

Sitting cross-legged on his bed, Garen slowly opened his eyes. There was a thin sheen of sweat on his brow.

”So this was the truth of my beginnings…”

He had always wondered where his special powers came from, even though there wasn’t any doubt deep within his memories. But he had never really seen the whole process.