Chapter 2.
I set the note back down onto the pillar where I had found it. I hollered loudly in glee and joy; raising my hands high in the air, I yelled, “Fuck yeah!” I was going to a magic world. “Holy shit,” I thought. I needed to collect myself and think.
The platform I found myself on was resting just above a rolling sea of chaos, and the black, blank expanse of the void stretched above me. It was terrifying, but who cares. “Magic, right.” I thought.
My life back on earth was not especially good or bad. I was a welder and worked in the construction field. I was partially educated and, as such, was an oddity in the field. I found myself working more closely with the engineers on any project than I did with my fellows of the blue-collar. I had just turned thirty years old when I had driven through what I assumed to be a crack in reality.
I had fallen in love with RPGs of all sorts from a young age and spent a lot of my adult life playing computer and tabletop games. So, I had a tentative grasp on what was happening. Everyone daydreamed at one point or another about going into a story they love. Earth is filled with stories from history of peoples disappearing to magical worlds. The fact it happened to me, well, that was just a plus.
“Right enough about that,” I said.
‘Magic,’ I thought, forming my plan of action. It sounded to me like the more I could not freak out during my time in the sea of chaos, the more power I would be able to claim. I was going to grab as much of the power the note talked about as I could.
I thought about the vague outlines of a world I wanted to end up on. I wanted magic and, more to the point, sorcery. Sorcery was a wonderfully intuitive way of controlling magic and mana. Allowing for the wielder of such powers to become wonderfully overpowered, and I was going to gank the hell out of this opportunity if I could.
“Ok, first, what magics do I want to try and claim?” I thought. “First, I am going to need to understand the core principles of magic or mana. So, something like arcane mana sorcery.” I thought.
Then I began listing the elements I would focus on, listing them on my fingers as I went. Earth and the subsequent metals and crystalline structures. Fire or, to be more exact, energy. The addition or subtraction of that energy. A little bit of water and air magic for good measure. Can’t forget healing and last force or kinetic energy. If I had time, then I would go for life, death, and summoning. I needed to keep in mind languages and mental resistances as well.
With my hopeful list assembled and sorted in my mind, I looked out from the platform. It was terrifying, but jumping back into the sea of chaos was my only choice. I sorted my mind filling it with the forms of sorcery I wanted. I was thankful now that I had spent a great deal of time meditating on earth. Using some old tricks, I knew for clearing my mind; I did the inverse instead. Stuffing my mind to the brim with nothing else but the ideas of where I wanted to go and the magics I wanted to claim.
When my mind was set like the roots of the mountains, I did not hesitate. I ran with all my power to the edge of the platform and threw myself off. As I sailed out into the void and down into the sea of chaos. I tucked my knees to my chest and wrapped my hands around them, then I screamed, “CANNONBAAAAAALL!!!”
leroy jenkins ass mc jumps into primordial chaos in chapter 2 i have high hopes
HAHAHAH
cannonball... classic
At least his very energetic in the face of complete insanity.
@BookTycoon I would gladly run head first into insanity if it meant being OP in another world. I mean, I'm already half insane so why not go all the way?
CANNONBAAAAAALL!!! - This is my new war cry
Crazy, I like the thought behind it so far.
I was going to ganck
ganck -> game?
plat form
plat form -> platform
I did the invers
invers -> inverse
nothing ells but
ells -> else
chaos. I tucked
. -> ,
added, meant ganck as cheat/ over use.
@thepagemagus I think "game" is probably still better to use, but the way people spell the word you want to use would be spelled gank.
@bilinear probably right
in that situation, wouldn't it be smarter to hold onto the plattform, dunk into the chaos to learn something, pull out, collect yourself then rinse&repeat until you learned everythink you wanted?
Oh, dear. He didn't think too much on that.
Higher concepts of magic:
Spacetime, Gravity, Energy=matter, the inverse of energy and matter, Chaos itself, Void, Shadow, Soul, Fate/Karma, Entropy, Quantum, Aether, and many others.
Notice that there are no elements in that list because there are none. There is no water, just chemistry and subatomic particles. Control that instead. Way more powerful. Blast people with invisible gamma ray masers.
‘Chapter Titles’ should generally be capitalised whilst paragraphs should remain unindented.
On another note, I guess if that were me, I’d focus more getting increased comprehension and speed of learning as well reducing limitations on what can/can’t be learnt. But good shout on the mental defences. Not a terrible pick overall.
Did you get inspiration from the Daniel Black series? Mana Sorcery is too OP in that. I’m guessing you’re looking to get mana battery/reactors? They’re pretty much essential in the path to OPness.