World Seed

Author’s Corner: So, got another chapter for you guys! As I had hoped, venting the ideas for my other story has started to help get the creative juices flowing again, and I can(hopefully), write more for World Seed now. I won’t be stopping either story until they reach their natural conclusion, as I have no intention of dropping one half way through(hence going to such lengths to keep myself writing World Seed. We’re at 163 chapters now, this is WAY past the point of no return!)

For those that are interested, you can find my second story, World Keeper, in the link below. I hope you guys continue to enjoy my work, and please don’t throw sharp objects at author-sama!

http://NovelFirel.com/fiction/7509

It only took a couple of hours to get everyone back on board the Ariadne, and ready to leave. Talia and Maeve were both there to see us off with a smile, and wished us the best. Our next stop was going to be the Deus Ex homeworld, followed most likely by Hydra. Although there was not a signal from the New Human Empire leading to Hydra, I still felt the need to check the place out, if only to see what damage we caused by neglecting it for these last few years.

Thanks to our increase in speed since our last time making this journey, the travel time was only expected to take a few weeks. Still, that’s a few weeks of doing nothing except watching out for the potential space monster attack. Due to the rare experience of actually wanting to actively train, I decided to move towards the cargo bay with both Kismet and my mother. What I wanted to train this time was the Dark element, which the two of them could be considered experts in. Especially my mother, as she actually trained to her level of power, versus Kismet who was born into it.

Naturally, since I was pulling my mom away to train, my dad followed along as well. And, since Kismet was coming, Yo decided to join too. Somehow, Celeste and Yang ended up meeting us in the hallway and decided to watch as well. Doubt they’ll actually say anything to interrupt us, but they are still present. Must do my best not to forget them.

“So, what do you want to do to train? Isn’t your Dark element stronger than ours?” My mom asked me curiously after we got to the cargo bay. By now, her body had been upgraded enough times that she looked indistinguishable from a normal human, and I would never guess that she was a Deus Ex if I hadn’t been the one to make her that way.

“Ah… well, yes. My affinity should be higher than either of you, I think. But.. my understanding is still lacking. I had the knowledge from the Qu’Lopti world, but there was only so far that they could understand. And even less that I could understand from their writings.” I did my best to explain. I mean seriously, half of the Qu’Lopti’s explanations on magic contain written sound effects. Saying that it goes whoosh does not help! Without Celeste filtering through the information for whatever was usable, I doubt I would have been able to learn anything from them.

Kismet nodded his head, an amused smile on his face. “In other words, you let your cheat items build up your power, without ever actually figuring out the new ways in which you could use it.”

“...Pretty much, yeah.” I couldn’t help but nod, since that really was what had happened.

“Alright.” He chuckled, before a wicked smile came over his face. “Do you want to do a hands on lesson, or a boring lecture as we try to explain what we know of darkness?”

His smile made me really want to choose the boring lecture. But… I knew that I’d get the most out of actual combat experience. Since I already had the ability to manipulate the darkness as well as I needed to, I just needed to know what all it could do. Right now, it was like I could form a fist, but I didn’t know how to properly throw a punch. And they are the best in my crew for a specific element. After them, I would probably need to consult Sharon’s animals to learn some of the other elements. And some, I will have to rely on myself.

“I’ll go hands on.” I said after thinking about it for a few moments.

He nodded his head again. “Alright, do you have any duel tokens?”

“Ah, I have some!” My mom called out, surprising both of us. “What? I thought it would be nice to use for sparring sometime. Not my fault I never found anyone to really spar with that was at my level.”

“I don’t even know what your level is, mom…”

“97?” She smiled sweetly, before pulling a bronze token out of her inventory. Actually, her level could still be considered fairly high for the crew, regardless of the large distance between the two of us.

She held the token in her hand for a moment, before exerting enough strength to crush it. Closing her eyes, I could tell she was sending some kind of invisible command. A few moments later, a message appeared in front of me.