Ascension Of The Elder - Chapter 3 You Can Call Me Kyle

“So my name is Kyle Powell”.

With this the man who now took the name of his new body, began to analyse and take apart the memories of the previous owner. When Kyle started inspecting the memories he found that the mind and soul of the previous owner became broken due to the pain and energy released from the overflowing energy in his spirit realm. This meant the child was in a vegetative state and with no intervention would live out his days without any change but with the new Kyle at the helm he could live again in a fashion.

Inspecting the memories the first thing Kyle realised that even though the previous owner was no longer present the memories had various emotions attached to them which may influence the new Kyle. While he didn’t want to fully erase these he knew that it may affect his interactions with people and colour his opinions with pre conceived notions which may in turn limit his interactions in this new world. So with some regret he began separating the emotions from the memories and dissipated them so he could review the memories with a dispassionate view. This may sound easy but it was only possible with his powerful will as memories are always intrinsically tied to the emotions of the one who experienced them.

As Kyle was clearing the emotions he began to view the memories as if he was playing a virtual reality game. He was present and saw what the other Kyle saw but was still removed from it so he could clearly see what was playing out. Starting with Kyle himself, he is now an 8 year old child of the Powell family and son of the current family head. His father is known as Landon Powell and as the head of the family is also their strongest warrior. His father had two brothers the oldest being Harris Powell who was three years younger and James Powell who was eight years younger.

Kyle’s father was currently in his early thirties and stood at an imposing 6’3″ tall. He had black hair but warm brown eyes. He was also well built and looked like he would have been a good MMA fighter in his previous life. Kyle’s mother who was known as Maria was very unlike his father she came in at a dainty 5’4″ with auburn hair and green eyes both of which Kyle inherited. Speaking of which I haven’t yet described Kyle, he measured in at roughly 4’8″ which for his age was rather tall, he had emerald green eyes which were quite a bit darker than his mother’s but the same auburn hair. His body was also rather muscular for his age due to the continuous training from his father.

The Powell family were the top noble family in their city which currently had six other noble families of various sizes and strengths vying for their place in the city. Some of these families were allies while some were antagonistic towards them, however there were currently no open fights and on the surface the city was peaceful.

The city that they currently resided in was called New Grange city and this city was on the western most edge of the Finek Empire. The size of New Grange city was really surprising in that it covered almost the same area as Los Angeles in his past life and the territory was about the same as the state of Alaska. The city itself was surrounded by an intimidating wall reaching close to 30 metres tall and closing in on 6 metres thick at the top with the base flaring out on the inner side by another 2 metres. The wall was made of a material which looked like marble but was much stronger. How this was mined and constructed was outside of Kyle’s knowledge so creating a list of things to look into, this would definitely be one of them.

Due to the area the city covered there was space for all farming that was needed for all the 1.5 million people currently living within the walls. The life of most of these people was pretty decent in comparison to some of the poorest countries in our world. They worked and lived as an extended part of the noble families that ruled the cities so they would always be housed and fed but this also bred a culture of elitism as it was very difficult if not almost impossible for a commoner to rise above his born status. This in turn seemed to have caused culture to stagnate in the cities.

Outside of the city the territory was largely wild and untamed. Within this one territory there were mountains and forests with an untapped wealth of resources. However this couldn’t be freely used as there was a problem, that being demonic beasts. In this world there are many wild animals, which are used for food, clothing and other miscellaneous projects but demonic beasts are different. A demonic beast is an animal which through one way or another has absorbed a certain amount of the energy in the atmosphere which is called mana in this world. The absorption of this mana has caused a change in the beasts, making them stronger, faster and smarter than their contemporaries. This is the reason for the wall around the city and also why the only people who explore and exploit the land are warriors who have the strength to fight against the beasts.

Speaking of warriors, this land has a system which allows humans to absorb mana which allows them to fight the beasts. The system for developing the humans of this land is split into three different branches these being the warrior, the mage and the sorcerer. The warrior is more concerned with physical combat and uses the mana they absorb to strengthen and evolve their physical body, what this in turn means is the lowest level warrior is as strong and as fast as our world’s best athlete. The mage instead concentrates on the mental aspect, they are smarter and have faster reflexes than other people and can use their mana to trigger a phenomena outside of themselves. Mages are also divided by elemental attribute as well but some are able to train in more than one school. Finally are the sorcerers who are considered the strangest as they focus on their spiritual power. While this world doesn’t focus on the spiritual realm, by trial and error they have made some progress in it. Sorcerers can have a wider range of skills than warriors or mages, such as being a dream walker or shape shifter which terrifies both warriors and mages as these abilities can give a sorcerer the means to fight them on equal footing in their own realm of expertise and defeat them.

Each of these paths is divided into great stages which are in turn divided into 10 levels per stage. For example Kyle’s father is a warrior at the second great stage fourth level which makes him currently stronger than anyone else in the city. But people fear Kyle’s mother more than his father as she is a dual mage/sorcerer at the second great stage first level. While her level may be lower than her husband the combination of paths makes her a fearsome opponent.

Kyle had started his path at the age of four and it is expected for the scion of a noble house to be between level 3-6 before the age of 10 but Kyle was still below the first level with no signs of breaking through which confused him as he definitely had enough talent and had absorbed enough mana to break through the first level but something was introduced to him which halted his progress and worse it for all intents and purposes killed him. Thinking along these lines the new Kyle realised how precarious his position currently was. He was protected by his parents but someone still managed to do something to him.

As he recalled various things from his memories he began to see condescension and pity in the view of the people who were around him and as time went on he began to see anger in some of the people like his first uncle Harris. This could not be ignored he needed to find out what was done to him and by whom, the why would reveal itself when he answered the first two questions. With this Kyle couldn’t help but think to his self.

‘Come on gang we’ve got a mystery to solve.’