Hero of Darkness

Chapter 7: The Selection

The moment of truth has come. After all the discussion & decisions, it was the most important part of this whole arrangement. Because it will decide exactly how Elric would be able to plan his path towards achieving his goals. Because these Divine Abilities were not just going to be his way to gain strength, rather they'd be his Cheat Codes.

Elric who had the knowledge of a majority of such scenarios where a reincarnated person in Mangas & Novels would be granted such abilities in these stories. But because of his experience, he had read a lot of these stories & knew where would any type of such so-called Divine Abilities lead him in the future. So he had to look through all of these carefully & choose the most suitable ones based on his situation when he'll be thrown in sooner in the world of Vantrea. Since he had to choose them beforehand, he naturally had to look for the most useful ones with the greatest potential. The ones which would not only help him become stronger but also become his trump card and save his life whenever he was in a situation where he could most definitely die again. Though it would have been most preferable by the Elric of the past but now that he was going to give his life another chance, he had to make it easier & convenient as much as he could. These abilities would not only enable him to accomplish the end game. But also shape his future.

"I'm ready. Show me" said Elric.

"You're allowed to choose only two Divine Abilities. Every God gives them to their heroes. And each God possesses their unique Divine Abilities related to their Law of Existence. However, you won't get to choose these powers again. So you must think about it very carefully."

G.O.D. said and waved his left hand, suddenly over 50 huge monoliths as big as a house appeared in front of Elric and started lining up in a queue. Some of them emitted Gold, some Silver and some Bronze light coming out of them as if they were classified in tiers based on their usefulness. However, there were also 3 dark ones that didn't emit any light at all. More like they were sucking in the nearby light in them.

Elric understood that these were the abilities he'd be granted after choosing and his future approach towards his goal will be dependent on them.

He looked at these portraits and the information about their use and how to use them started flowing in his mind.

Mind control, Summoning Undead, Teleportation, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Levitation, Integration, Mimic, Clairvoyance, Sage's Eye... Around 50 of such random abilities appeared on each of these monoliths and all of them were in their utmost peak grade. They were simply perfect without any flaws. Elric started touching each of these monoliths with his hand and somehow, he was feeling an innate connection towards them. He felt like each one of these Divine Abilities were calling out to him & asking him to accept them. But Elric didn't stop or fell for the temptation; he sternly kept browsing through all of them one by one. He could not afford to mess it up. After some time, he had browsed through all the Gold, Silver & Bronze monoliths. He curiously asked.

"What's with the bright lights? Why are they shining in different colors ?"

G.O.D. simply looked at Elric and said, "Golds ones are the most chosen ones by your Predecessors. Like at least 4 times for the 2 slots they were given. Silver ones 3 times & Bronze ones 2 times."

"What about those Black ones ?" Elric asked.

"Not even once." G.O.D. replied.

they can even help

bound to certain conditions. For example, Mind control. I will need to keep looking in a person's eyes for at least a minute & have a suggestive conversation to control their

through a certain time in the future but can't be used consequently, I'll need to wait for few hours to use it again. Great potential, it can also save me from being tricked by others & stop my possible death as well. But still, the conditions to use it lacks potential as it will only give me a head start but not actually help me change the

Eye only gives out information about everything as long as it's not of Divine Rank or the information is sealed by the Gods themselves. But what use could I make of it if I don't have enough skills or means to use such information to get an upper hand. Telepathy needs me to at least once touch the person I want to read minds of or establish a mind link. Will definitely

terms & conditions of these Divine Abilities which were subject to market

when he showed these abilities to Elric & expected a face of awe & worship was left speechless. These were

: See what I

had indirectly flipped a middle finger to G.O.D. himself who once presented all these abilities to all his Summons that came before Elric. G.O.D. for the first time in his billions of years of existence felt like crying. Elric was basically kicking him in the face over and over. And each time,

create your own Divine Abilities then ?] G.O.D. could only retort in his mind. Saying it out loud would only diminish his image as an almighty God

he was about to speak, Elric turned his gaze to the 3 dark monoliths and started

Ability Absorption.

Dimensional Law.

Synthesis.

Divine Abilities was fully processed by Elric's mind.. He was out of words. He read through

had details on them

Divine Ability: Ability Absorption

being without any complications or side effects to the owner. However, the owner

Absorption will be a failure. And the target must not have been dead for too long and the physical body must be in a shape enough to

he read the 2nd

Divine Ability: Dimensional Law

all the space & void around them. They can open the void & enter it without any harm to the physical body. Also allows a part of the body to be placed inside the void at the same time while the rest of the body exists in the