The Villain's Story

My mind was in chaos.

What?How?Why?Who?...

Who am I?

I...hadn't lived at all?

...no...no....NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

...I...am...not a puppet.

Calm down...calm down.

calm down...

calm down...

Deep breaths.

Yeah, Deep breaths...

Calm down Al-...me.

'I need to calm down...I need to calm down...hooo.hooo.'

...Yeah.

I...need to get stronger.

I MUST get stronger.

I will not accept this.

My rage, my anger...

At the fact that they...he used me as a puppet, implanted memories that weren't mine.

... I will not let this slide.

But how can I be sure of that... he's gone?

Those voices...they told me that we were going to live separately...

but can I trust them?

'Ah! It's too much too much!'

...no matter how much I tried to think.

I only felt more rage.

Anger, Wrath, Rage, Hate.

...

...

and then it came.

[Evolution has been completed.]

I heard the system prompt inside my head.

[Congratulations on Evolving into a full Dragon.]

[Elements Detected:SPACE, Chaos, Ice]

[Adjustements are being made.]

[Warning:Host has been deemed too young to withstand Species Powers]

[Restricting power level]

[Error]

[Err-Erro-Eorr]

[System Shut down]

[Rebooting in process]

[0%...3%]

And while it was rebooting...I was feeling excruciating pain.

It's as if my eyes, my heart, and My soul itself were being ripped to shreds.

I prayed for the system to reboot earlier.

and after what felt like hours of pain.

It came, The system reboot came.

[Reboot successful.]

[Quest Completed:Successfully Evolve into a dragon.

Reward Acquired:Bloodline of the Godbeast Pheonix]

[Host is recommended to assimilate bloodline immediately to reduce aftereffects of Elemental Destruction]

USE IT!

I screamed.

[Command Accepted, Beginning Assimilation]

And then it all went to black again.

***

"So...that was the reason behind his strength."

Arken Muttered as he sat before the black egg.

It had already been seven days.

The shield was going to hold a banquet party as a celebration because of the shocking fact that no student died during the incident.

That banquet was just a front...or more rather say a convenient excuse for Shield to dodge all those 'nobles' and ten great families remarks.

It was just a front so that those idiots could enter Shields campus once again.

And Arken, who was alone on the training for seven straight days...was beginning to worry.

Not about the banquet, quite frankly...he gave zero fucks about it.

It was just that his student was worrying him.

There have been many cases of lucky awakened getting their hands on a bloodline and failing to assimilate it...or rather go through its evolution.

And in the case of Alan, Arken had concluded he was going through the evolution phase that occurred with some high-grade bloodlines.

And it had been seven whole days.

And Alan had still not woken up.

"Haaaaa...."

Arken sighed.

Alan bad Dante's to give the secret of his strength to him when they had first met...so he deemed it appropriate to send the other three so that he could keep his secret.

The problem was...he was bored.

He couldn't train his students due to the worry that maybe his best student was going to die.

"Since it takes the shape of an egg, it's probably related to a reptile or Bird."

Arken said as he examined the egg in front of him.

"... let's hope he does it."

And it was then...

*Crack.*

He heard the sound of a shell cracking.

And then saw with his very own eyes the black egg beginning to crack.

The cracks leaked out an astral blue light until...

*Shaaa!*

From the egg...or rather what remained from it...Emerged a bird of blue fire large enough to cover the ceiling of the large training.

It roared...and went back into the egg before the Bewildered Arken.

The place where the egg was originally was now covered with astral blue fire.

And from the Fire...he saw a silhouette walking towards him from the sea of fire.

And when the silhouette walked out.

All Arken could say was...

"...oh wow."

***

[Bloodline Assimilation successful.]

[The power of the Phoenix enhances your body.]

[Strenght has risen one minor subrank]

[Endurance has risen one minor subrank]

[Agility has risen one minor subrank.]

[The power of life enriches you, Your muscles, and your bones have been strengthened, your charm has risen one major rank](A/N:There! I raised his charm stat, Are Yall happy now?)

[You have gained a title:The Pheonix.]

[You have acquired bloodline-related skills.]

[Congratulations on assimilating your bloodline successfully]

[Some changes have been made to your user interface]

[The system welcomes the Pheonix again.]

I woke up because of the prompts.

And I woke up to a sea of astral blue flame...and strangely my mind was calm.

My rage, my anger was all gone.

And a sense of tranquility replaced it.

I walked...and walked until I was out of the sea of flames.

And I found the sword saint with his mouth open.

"...oh wow."

I heard his voice and looked at him with a confused gaze.

The astral blue sea of flames had disappeared, no more likely to say it was absorbed by my body.

I saw his eyes moving as he observed every corner of me.

Curious I looked down at my body...I was astonished.

Muscle.

Shredded.

Pure Muscle was what I saw.

My Chest, arms...quads...backs...calves, obliques, and most importantly the 8 pack abs were all...magnificent.

It seemed as if every muscle on the front of my body, from what I could see was trained to the point it was at its peak without restricting movement.

...and although I couldn't see my back...it was probably the same.

I was overflowing with strength.

And I noticed something else besides my muscles.

On my right arm was a magnificent tattoo of a bird of flame, covering it entirely.

It wasn't filled in...but it was still insanely beautiful too look at.

And then I noticed something else.

I was butt-naked.