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Silence, numbness and all-encompassing nothingness
Unseen by anyone or anything, a solitary ball of pure white ethereal flas drifts along in a vast, vacant space...
The only thing going through Shane's mind? right now is 'BULLSHIT!'
Death didn't feel like going to sleep, it didn't feel like the start of an eternal rest, it wasn't terrifying nor was it painful. He didn't visit the yellow springs and he certainly didn't find himself in front of so pearly gates. One second he existed in the dream with the girl and the next he was in this vast expanse of nothing?
He had no body, no sense of vision nor feeling he just was. He now existed in this void as a scattered amalgamation of mories and thoughts interconnected through a vast weave of invisible threads. It took so ti but he found that he was able to 'pull' on these threads and experience his mories should he so choose it.
At the forefront were the mories of his last few weeks spent at ho and of course the most recent eting with Qingyue. He grabbed the mories of her like they were his lifeline as he desperately recalled them many tis, focusing solely on her and ignoring everything else. Hoping against hope for her to show any reaction to his rather well-spoken 'if you ask him' last speech.
He was rewarded not much later when he managed to pull upon a seemingly half-decayed fragnt of his last seconds and he saw her... holding his fading body close and...
'holy shit was she crying?! Uh oh now I actually feel bad huh my emotions seem to be returning, neat'
Shane's normal personality wasn't serious, sad, and somber but suffering for years and slowly dying kind of does that to a guy. Now that it was over with, a weight seed to have been removed from his taphorical chest and he felt freer than ever.
If he was anything more than a nebulous made from his own thoughts and mories right now, he would have nodded smugly to himself at being able to at least pull one emotion out of the Icy Qingyue... even if it wasn't the one he would have liked to have seen. 'There are definitely worse ways to go than in the arms of arguably one of the most beautiful woman in the Primal Chaos'
After experiencing more of his past mories, he noticed that a lot of them were either fuzzy or seed to be 'crumbling' and he guessed that these were affected by ti or were about things that he didn't really have an interest in. The only consistently clear mories were the ones of her and he grasped at the strings in an effort to pull them all closer to him and into whatever he now classified as.
As the mories ca closer to the core of his being, he experienced them again and felt that with each one, his sense of self was growing stronger. This continued in a snowballing process as the more mories he relived, the faster he could draw the stray ones into himself until he felt 'whole' again well relatively speaking that is. And then he heard it
The air thrumd with an imasurable and all-encompassing power as the very void itself bent to the voice's whims.
Everything that was Shane, froze in absolute trepidation at the voice and his thoughts beca an incoherent jumble.
The voice once again sounded out and Shane felt himself beco tranquil as the pond in Qingyue's garden
He looked inward and sohow managed to do exactly as the voice told him and with ten breaths of ti, he had ford into a semblance of himself. Well, more exactly he was now a human (ish) shaped mass of ethereal white flas.
Soway or sohow, Shane managed to form a coherent thought at that revelation 'Does she an the Ancestral Goddess of ATG!? It was real! What about Qingyue?? Is she actually real too? What ab'
Once again Shane found himself awash with tranquility
If Shane were able to muster up any semblance of self-control right now, he would probably be doing a very embarrassing and excited little dance. Mostly due to the fact that this sounded suspiciously like so spiel one would hear before being given a chance to reincarnate. 'Will I be able to go to so world with a cheat power and cultivate? Is this goddess here to reincarnate and watch over as I save the world!?'
Shane had probably a million different questions running through his mind right now but as he started to form them he realized that only one of them was actually important and it unstoppably bubbled into the forefront of his thoughts 'Will I be able to et her again?'
Well, that was really all he needed, he wasn't really a tutorial kind of guy and liked to find things out on his own so he decided to just push all the uncertainty aside and let his excitent build as he managed to get his ethereal form to do a small bow 'I always wanted to imitate those cultivators without looking like a weirdo oh wait she can hear , Shit!'
Did his incessant ramblings just make a goddess laugh? 'Gonna take a while to get over that ' *Gohon gohon* clearing his taphorical throat he projected his thoughts. 'I am ready'
The majority of the imasurable power the voice possessed when 'it?... No, when she first announced herself,' returned and the vast nothingness shook, thrumd, vibrated and finally began to contract at her whims.
Shane felt his consciousness compressed into an infinitesimally small point. Then ca an absolutely MASSIVE pull on his very being after which he underwent a terrifying event that he could only feasibly describe as warp travel.
What he experienced was a situation where all the lights in his (sohow restored) vision gradually turned into straight lines as he felt a constant acceleration. Fortunately, this extrely nauseating episode ended as suddenly as it began, and then there was only darkness.
[Initializing system]
[1%.. 5%.. 10%.. 25%... 40%... 60%... 85%... 100% *Ding*]
'No way! Did the Ancestral goddess screw over!? I really really really don't want one of those sentient Tsundere systems that are always giving out punishnts! Dammit dammit dammit!'
[Answer: The system is not sentient and exists solely to provide the host with a smooth transition into his new body and powers]
'Oh so it's more like an information hub or a... tutorial*groans*'
[Answer: Correct]
'So how long do I need to stay here, in fact, where even am I?'
[Answer: Host is currently awaiting Profound Vein creation]
[Countdown initiated: 3. 2. 1]
'Wait a minute, isn't that supposed to be incredibly painf Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Wow, Jasmine really wasn't lying' What followed was an hour of the most mind-numbing and crippling pain that Shane had ever experienced.
By the ti it was over, his mind was incredibly hazy and his thoughts were little more than a jumbled ss, in fact, he was pretty sure he ntally pissed himself at one point. Just as true unconsciousness was about to claim him, he saw a little window floating amidst the darkness.
[Profound Vein Creation successful]
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Shane awoke with a start but then he opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings in a daze he was inside what appeared to be a cave. 'So that was all real, and I died huh' He took a mont to offer up a small prayer to whoever may be listening for his family back on Earth to live a good life before he decided to scrutinize his new environnt.
The cave he found himself in was around three ters tall, five wide, and maybe ten deep. The stone walls were smooth and dry and the cave itself was free of any debris apart from the pile of Profound beast hides he awoke upon.
When he looked up, he could see so luminous lichen growing around the level of the ceiling and all across it allowing his eyesight to adjust rather well to what was probably his new ho for the foreseeable future. 'Maybe a little too well, I shouldn't be able to see so much in such dim lighting'
He raised his hand to brush a lock of hair out of his eyes which widened considerately at what they saw. He used, his? hand to brush against his naked torso and was shocked completely still. 'Okay ignoring the fact that I now have hair, When did the other get this ripped? And what is with that bronze adonis looking skin color!?'
One hand sneakily, as if by a mind of its own, made its way down his nether regions, and after a quick searching squeeze, his eyes lit up! 'Ahahaha! My man, you do not disappoint!'
Then like a freight train, the mories hit him His head felt like soone was trying to fuse two water balloons together with a pneumatic press and both water balloons were him and the only possible way that things could go was the breaking of both and that's what happened. Both taphorical balloons broke and after what seed like an eternity (which he spent on the floor as a drooling ss), reford into one larger balloon now containing everything inside it.
'So the other , or should I just say now? Well, he didn't really have it much better than Earth ' Shane 'or should he be called Shan Long now?' quickly scanned through seventeen years of his ATG counterpart's mories because truthfully there wasn't a lot to scan through.
From as far back as he could recall, Shan Long had lived in this cave and was taken care of by what he now recognized as a [Sky Profound] (or possibly greater) Panther type profound Beast. How did he know that? Well, the thing flew away when it left a couple of days ago.
It seed that both bodies housing Shane's incomplete soul had suffered. Where Shane had a weak body and an incurable illness, Shan Long was mute and crippled not in the general sense but in the profound sense. His only saving grace was that his body was strong enough to fight against a [Third of Elentary Profound] beast and was sowhat fit enough to keep up with the Panther on treks through the forest in which they lived.
He had also gained a few other survival abilities over the years such as hunting, tracking (quite a useful one to have as he often went hunting with the Panther Beast), Fishing (with both a yarn and a harpoon), and hide treating. The Panther Beast also seed to appreciate the fact that he had learned to cook their ga and craft certain things for them like the blanket and bed made of profound beast hides and the peculiar clothing he was wearing.
Shan Long's "surrogate mother",
'Wow, let's just take a minute to appreciate how he actually felt about her'
must have felt so affinity for him when they t at a very young age or else he surely would have been eaten or killed by her a long ti ago and she had ticulously taken care of and protected him until just a few days ago when she decided it was ti to leave
"My child, This Queen has lingered here for long enough and now I must return. Be well and may your hunt be fortuitous." And then she just got up and flew away...
In Shane's opinion, it was a bit of a crappy goodbye but that didn't stop him from tearing up a little at the thought of it. 'Damn, so I really am both of them. Welp with the best points of both, we are sure to do well out here. Also, which na should I use?'
As he was about to get into that moral dilemma, he saw sothing flashing in the corner of his vision.
[Na: Shan Long (Shane)]
'...Guess that settles it'
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