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.

can be used for extremely favorable outcomes. No wonder my predecessors chose many of these. If used properly, they can even help me create an Empire of my own and reach at the strength enough to fight against the Demon God within a decade or two. Simply astounding."

will need to keep looking in a person's eyes for at least a minute & have a suggestive conversation to control their minds to work for me or do my bidding. At the time of fight for Life & Death, it won't be useful at all because the enemy obviously won't be interested 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

restrictions on distance or how far my reach is and also how much weight I can lift or exert through it. Would've been too OP if I could move a mountain with it. Sage's 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

bothersome terms & conditions of these Divine Abilities

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

: See what I did there.

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

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

about to speak, Elric turned his gaze to the 3 dark monoliths and started checking them

Ability Absorption.

Dimensional Law.

Synthesis.

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

Abilities had details on

Divine Ability: Ability Absorption

magical abilities of the targeted being without any complications or side effects to the owner. However, the owner will

must be in a shape enough to completely extract these abilities should they entail having something such as Blood requirements or body parts. There will be a failure if the target's body is destroyed

the 2nd

Divine Ability: Dimensional Law

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 real world without harming the original body. The distance of travel