Prologue - Spirit
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Chaos and Order are two forces that are always at odds. On the border of the collision of these two primordial energies, a world was created where these two forces still continue their struggle, sometimes taking a slightly different form. Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, Ice and Flame - all this is a continuation of the same struggle. The victory of one of the forces, will break Harmony and bring the world to the brink of destruction.
In one of these worlds on the brink, a spirit arrived that bore the imprint of Chaos, Darkness and Cold, this spirit appeared in the south of the planet, and began to look for a receptacle, which was to be an unborn child, preferably only recently conceived, where only recently settled soul, with which the dark spirit wanted to merge.
Unfortunately for the dark spirit, the powerful Spirit of Light and Harmony, Raava, who had spent her entire life fighting the Spirit of Darkness and Chaos, Vaatu, was sleeping nearby. Twenty thousand years ago, Vaatu broke the boundary between the World of Spirits and the World of People, he himself penetrated into the World of People and released many different spirits that flooded the World of People. Also, the actions of this Spirit of Darkness and Chaos eventually brought Magic into the World of Men. Watu broke the harmony of the two worlds at once, so the Spirit of Light and Harmony set out to correct this imbalance, but could only lock his enemy with him, and kept Watu locked up for ten thousand years.
Ten thousand years later, the accidental intervention of a young firebender named Van separated the Spirits of Light and Dark, and Watu was freed after ten thousand years of captivity, and began to reignite the chaos that had subsided over the past millennia. Van realised that his actions had put the world in great danger and offered his help to Rava in the battle with Vatu. The light spirit refused to help the man, for he was the one responsible for the problems that had arisen, but after realising that she could not defeat Vatu alone, she began to work together with Van, preparing him for the upcoming battle. Rava, along with the lion turtles, trained Van in the magic of all four elements, and before the battle with Vatu, Rava merged with Van, becoming something more than just a spirit and making Van something more than just a human. Van became the first Avatar of the Spirit of Light and Harmony, and was able to overpower the Spirit of Darkness and Chaos and lock it away in the Spirit World.
Rava and Van merged at the moment of Harmonic Convergence, which occurs every ten thousand years during the parade of planets, when the energy fields of the World of Men and the World of Spirits intersect, it was during the last Harmonic Convergence that Vatu entered the World of Men, Rava, being a spirit, united with man during the Harmonic Convergence, and now only after ten thousand years will she be able to separate again. However, Van was still a human being and could not live for ten thousand years. After Van's death, Rava had to unite either with Van's rebirth or with his descendants, of whom Van had plenty. So began the Avatar Cycle, the Spirit of Light and Harmony Rava merged with different people, turning them into her Avatars, when one Avatar died, Rava chose a new Avatar, that like the past Avatars, had to keep Balance and Harmony in the world with the help of the power of Rava's Spirit.
Nearly ten thousand years had passed since Rava had defeated Vatu, and now Rava sensed the arrival in the Human World of Vatu, her eternal adversary... Vatu may have weakened greatly after thousands of years of imprisonment, but he was still the Spirit of Chaos and Darkness, and Rava needed to defeat him before he broke Harmony.
Rava's current owner did not want to be the Avatar of the Spirit of Light and Harmony, as a child he ran away from his duties and used his flying beast to fly into the sea where he was caught in a storm. Rava had to intervene and save the child Avatar who was drowning in the sea with his flying beast, Rava encased them both in an icy cocoon and put them in anabiosis so that they could survive the storm. But this happened over eighty years ago, the ice cocoon was carried south by a storm, and encased in an even greater layer of ice. Rava is a powerful spirit, but being imprisoned within the Avatar, she is limited by the power of the Avatar himself. The current Avatar would simply not survive the flow of power that could help Rava free him from the ice, so she has had to put up with the fact that the Avatar has been in anabiosis inside the iceberg for decades. But at this point, Rava could not delay, she needed to eliminate Vata before he could regain his powers, so Rava decided to sever her connection to the current Avatar and go after the spirit of Darkness and Chaos whose arrival she had recently sensed. Because of the effects of the merger with the first Avatar Van, Rava can't use a tenth of her true power without merging with a human, but now she may be able to overcome the dark spirit, as it appears to be weakened.
At this time the dark spirit had found a receptacle and began to take over the soul of the baby, who still had a twin sister... and it was in this twin sister that Rava's spirit took over and began to purify and expel the dark spirit. It turned out that Rava was wrong, it wasn't her eternal enemy Vatu, it was some other dark spirit that bore the marks of Chaos and Darkness, so Rava purified it and banished it to the Spirit World.
≪What kind of gopnik spirits inhabit this world? ≫ - thought the dark spirit, who had recently been purified, taking away more than half of his strength, and to save himself, the spirit had to move to the River of Souls, and cling to the first soul to survive. The spirit could choose its own lodestone, but now it had to rely on luck, who and where this chosen soul would be reborn by was unknown.
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I'm either being eaten again and digested in someone's stomach, or I'm dead and reborn. More importantly, it's still unclear which option is worse... something there was the last one... I was supposed to be fighting a huge monster while piloting a huge robot... did I really lose and die?
≪Yeah, you did. Told you to learn magic, and now our harem is mourning our death at the hands of a giant monster. ≫
Whoa, schizophrenia, don't give me that shit. I'm certainly no expert in magic, but I've studied myself well enough to know that this is not my soul. Am I a copy of a soul merged with some other soul?
≪How clever, and I was gonna make a drama to motivate you to learn magic. Yes, we're a copy of the original, while he's building his robots, we'll learn magic, that's our main task... the side tasks are the usual - to take over the world and gather a harem.≫
So I'm not even allowed to forge my own sword, just use magic?
≪You'll start making a giant robot when you get near an anvil, so, yes, you'll just have to use magic. ≫
Like you're not.
≪That's right, I am. But don't worry, if you delve into magic, it's just as interesting as artefacting, and with enough skill, you can create artefacts straight from magic. ≫
Okay, that's one thing sorted out, then there's one more question. What the hell is wrong with our soul? Why does it look like someone chewed it up and spit it out?
≪That's exactly what happened recently, it's our second attempt at body possession, during the first attempt some light spirit attacked us and cleaned us out of all our chakras and karma, good thing I escaped. We were a couple of times weaker than we should have been, but we managed to keep our memories, as well as the System, and we even managed to save some of the Ice Magic predisposition we'd developed from our friend Esdeath. That's pretty much it. The System's ties to the past soul had to be severed in an emergency, so it was a little damaged, but I'll have it fixed by the time we're born. ≫
And what was I supposed to be born as, the first time?
≪Prince of the Southern Tribe of Waterbenders. ≫
A prince? I don't like ruling, I got bored of it when I was Emperor.
≪Well, frankly speaking, that tribe consisted of a hundred and fifty people, among whom there were no water mages, but there would be no one to prevent us from developing Ice Magic. Now, I don't know what we're going to be born as.
Not some prince, I hope.
When I was born, after months of waiting, they gave me to some bloke the obstetrician called Prince Ozai.
- He's not very impressive. - said this Prince Ozai after examining me.
- Agu-agu. *I could say the same thing about you... although, wait, I can't yet... agoo-agoo,' I replied, looking at the black-haired man with a ponytail on his head, and the man was dressed in gorgeous red expensive robes, and the room we were in was also gorgeous and red.
- I don't feel any Fire Magic from him, and even on the contrary, he smells cold. I guess the first pancake was a failure, I'll have to start working on the second heir right away. - the man handed me over to the doctor.
- Prince Ozai, what do you want me to do with your son? - He must be given to Princess Ursa for feeding.
- No, get him a nurse, Ursa should not be attached to this weakling. If he doesn't prove himself as a strong Fire Mage soon, I'll send him out of the palace, I don't want a son who will disgrace me. - replied apparently my father... what an arsehole.
≪It's nothing new, our fathers are always arseholes. ≫
- Prince Ozai, it will be done. And what will you say to Fire Lord Azulon, he has a grandson, hasn't he? - The doctor asked, handing me over to the maid.
- I'll tell it like it is, it was my father who advised me to link our bloodline with Avatar Roku's granddaughter to make our bloodline stronger. It's not my fault that the first attempt failed. I need to have the child examined by the Fire Sages, if they don't see great Fire Power in him, then I will definitely send him out of the palace... to a colony somewhere in the Earth Kingdom. I'm so disappointed in him. - I was given one last look by the arsehole... oops, I mean father, before he went somewhere else, I was taken to some woman who started breastfeeding me. The woman was quite young and quite beautiful, and I didn't mind sucking her breasts, especially since I was very hungry.
So, I was born a prince, and my father was an arsehole, and I'm sure he inherited it from his father, so my grandfather was probably an arsehole no less. However, if I was sent away from the palace, it would be better than living under a roof with my parents. I've only seen a glimpse of my mother, she was too tired after giving birth, and now they don't want to show me to her, so she won't get attached to me.
I was born in the daytime, and in the evening some old farts in red clothes and with strange caps on their heads came to see me. They touched me, twisted me, spun me, poured Fire Energy into my chest, and made a verdict - that I am a Fire Mage, and I absorb Fire Energy very well, so I might even be a strong mage. The same farts gave me the name 'Hela', which meant 'Ice Flame', because I was cold for some reason, even though I was a Fire Mage.
In my previous life I was called 'Gin', here I was called 'Hela', I didn't even need to get used to my new name, and I liked it. I got Ice Magic from my favourite maniac Esdeath, and Fire Magic from my local parents. I had a predisposition to Ice Magic in my previous life, but I didn't have time to train it, or rather I did, but I preferred to spend it on other more interesting things. I tried to train in this magic a few times, but when you don't have the heart for it, it turns out to be disgusting. Now I have no choice but to learn to use magic or die. I'm a copy of a soul, so I'm not much of a pity.
≪As promised, the system is back online and we can now monitor our condition. ≫
≪Status≫
Life 10/10/0/0.5 per hour (State of physical shell.).
Qi 33/33/5.5 per hour (Total energy of the soul and body.)
Characteristics:
Strength 1 (Indicator of physical strength.)
Dexterity 1 (Indicates physical agility and speed.)
Stamina 1 (Indicates physical endurance.)
Intelligence 200 (Indicates intelligence.)
Soul 150 (Indicator of soul strength.)
≪Skills≫
'Thermokinetic'(You can control cold and heat.)
'Regeneration'(Allows you to speed up the body's regeneration using Qi.)
'Reborn'(If the physical body is destroyed, you will be reborn. If your soul is very strong, you will become a spirit and can live without a body, or you will be reincarnated in another dead body or in an artificial shell).
'Accelerated Language Learning' (You learn new languages faster.)
'Cardinal' (Additional thought stream controlling the system.)
'Avatar.' (You're the Avatar of yourself in another world, don't get angry and want to kill your original self.)
Now that's a great idea, by the way... although, somehow, I don't even have that urge, for some reason.
≪It's just stupid to go against yourself, that's why you don't have such a desire. The Universe is already full of all sorts of demons and gods that can and want to destroy us, it makes no sense to make an enemy of another self. So, now we have abilities in Ice and Fire Magic, in essence it is two sides of the same coin, both types of magic are aimed at energy management, Cold Magic takes it away, Fire Magic on the contrary adds to it. This is a good start for us to master the basics of all magic, then we can switch to other types of magic art, or we can bring these two areas to the conceptual level, and then to the abstract level, when with the help of Cold and Fire can freeze entire universes, or create a Big Bang, which will start the emergence of a new universe. In general, we have a lot of room for development. However, don't rely on me, my knowledge is mostly theoretical, as if I had read a book about the adventures of myself in past lives, I know roughly what we can achieve and in what way, but everything between us and the final goal has been lost in the Ocean of Chaos. ≫
Then maybe it's a good thing we were born a prince, at least we'll get proper magic teachers.
After the Sages told me I was a Fire Mage, my father was still very sceptical of me, and was ready to exile me at any moment, but he still let me see my mother... when she wasn't busy conceiving a new heir. After giving birth, it takes only three weeks before you can try to get pregnant again, so I saw my mother very rarely, and she breastfed me only a couple of times.
My mother's name was Ursa, and she was a pretty young black-haired girl who didn't like my father very much. It was clear to me at once that she had married him not for love, but because he was a prince of the country she lived in, and to refuse such a groom was fraught with danger for her family and herself. Given her father's bad character, and probably her grandfather's, they could have been imprisoned for refusing to marry him until they agreed to marry.
And, of course, when a woman has children not by the man she loves, she will obviously love those children a couple of times less than a child by the man she loves with all her heart. I didn't need my parents' love so much, I wasn't really a child, but if they treated me as their favourite son, I would reciprocate those feelings and be a good son to them, but for now, I had the feeling that I was unwanted by my mother, and I was a disappointment to my father, who probably expected me to breathe fire like a dragon from birth.
Soon my 'beloved' parents' attempts to conceive a new heir were successful, Ursa became pregnant again, and nine months later they had a daughter, which Ozai was immediately pleased with, he took her to his father Azulon, the Fire Lord, and eventually my sister was named after my grandfather - Azul.
I saw my grandfather for the first time, and he looked just like my father, only grey and wrinkled.
I'm sure Ozai will look the same in his eighties... if he lives long enough, of course. I've seen his training, he's a really impressive mage, and he's a master of fire, so I shouldn't go up against Ozai unless I'm sure I'll win.
Fire Master Azulon sat on a golden throne that stood in the middle of a red throne room decorated with columns and golden ornaments, mostly fire and dragon ornaments. I can't help but admit that the throne room, as well as the whole palace, is quite beautiful, but I won't be able to take the throne anyway.
My father has an older brother, Airo, who will take the throne after Azulon's death, but that brother has a six-year-old son, Lu Ten, and after Airo, it will be him, not my father, who will take the throne. Though nobody cancels assassinations to eliminate pretenders to the throne, if Airo and Lu Ten die, my father will take the throne, but if there is someone to choose from, the successor to the throne is chosen by the past ruler, that is, Ozai can make my younger sister Azula the ruler after him.
Anyway, I don't have to worry about ruling the Fire Nation. Becoming emperor without having a huge cyborg warrior in my pocket is pretty idiotic anyway. Without some kind of really overwhelming force, it's hard to rule, no one will listen to you.
I was born into the royal family of the Fire Nation, and in this world, people are proficient in four types of elemental magic. As is clear, the Fire Nation possesses Fire Magic, there is also the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, and the Air Nomads. Over eighty years ago, my great-grandfather Sozin started a war of conquest, starting with the complete destruction of all the Air Nomads, my grandfather Azulon almost destroyed the Southern Water Tribe, and now my uncle Airo is in charge of the conquest of the Earth Kingdom. To be precise, Sozin started the war eighty-four years ago, and for eighty-four years, the Fire Nation has been at war with the entire world, and quite successfully at that.
Each nation in this world has only one type of magic, but there is one exception - Avatar, the strongest mage that can master all four elements, but he remains mortal, and after his death, reborn in a representative of one of the four nations. The circle of rebirths of the Avatar is always as follows: the Fire Nation, then the Air Nomads, then the Water Tribe, then the Earth Kingdom, and then the Fire Nation again.
My great-grandfather on my mother's side was Avatar Roku, he was the Avatar that was born in the Fire Nation, he was also a close friend of my great-grandfather on my father's side, Sozin, who started the war immediately after Avatar Roku's death. And to prevent the Avatar from being reborn as an Airbender, Sozin exterminated absolutely all the Air Nomads. Considering the Avatar hadn't been seen in over eighty years, Sozin's plan worked. And it was because my mother was related to Avatar Roku that Azulon forced her to marry his youngest son Ozai.
What all this information means to me is that if I show any ability in any magic other than fire magic, I will be considered an Avatar, and most likely eliminated, there is a possibility that they will want to raise me to be an Avatar absolutely loyal to the Fire Nation, but more likely they would lock me in a dungeon somewhere, not allowing me to evolve or die, because when the Avatar dies he is reborn in another person and they would have to search for him, so they would know that the Avatar is in their prison.
Well, it looks like I'll have to get out of the palace soon, they won't let me do magic properly here, although I could study Fire Magic before I leave.
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