Master of the Monsterverse: Complete Omnibus (1-6) by Jamie Hawke

Author:Jamie Hawke [Hawke, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Double Down Press
Published: 2024-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27

There was no time to hesitate, no time to even catch my breath and wonder what was to come. With one hand lifted, my surroundings transformed. I still stood on a dirt path, and the trees were still around me, but everyone else had faded; the forest looked nothing like it had moments before. Where it had been dark, it now glowed with golden light that filtered down to reflect off of the green. Specks of light reflected in the air on what I thought to be dust at first, but they were too large.

“Welcome to the world as I see it,” Vaper said. “This energy around you can be used and manipulated in ways that will take you years to understand. Even then, only after you’ve trained long and hard. You have great company, though, and I have no doubt you will succeed if you put your mind to it.”

“Thank you,” I muttered, looking around in awe.

“You have learned to work well as part of a team. You can rely on them, which is great. How well can you rely on yourself?”

“I…” Damn, he had me. My confidence had certainly grown lately, but only because I was surrounded by awesomeness. In nearly every situation, we’d persevered as a team. While I’d done my part, could I truly take credit for any of it?

“Confidence in oneself is not a part of the use of prana and ichor. But it is a starting point, and as long as you don’t know your own abilities and feel you have to rely on others, you can never fully advance. You will have paths blocked off, paths that are necessary for full deification.”

“Deification?” I asked, suddenly snapping to attention. “I’m not, I mean, I have no intention of being a god.” Maybe I wasn’t the strongest Christian, or didn’t even know if I believed in any of that stuff, but I’d at least been raised going to church. Maybe I did believe, on some level, because I was fully committed when I said, “That would be blasphemous.”

He laughed but held up his hands at my look of annoyance. “I’m not laughing at you, but at the idea that you can’t achieve this level of greatness without committing blasphemy. Maybe another word will help? You won’t become a god, but the amount of power that you could potentially become capable of accessing would make you god-like. In terms of not God—you won’t be able to create Adam and Eve, for example. No, what I mean is like the gods of old, some of which, you might know, still exist in one form or another. You can become as powerful as any of them.”

“Ah, I… see.”

In truth, what he was saying seemed far beyond my reach, let alone my comprehension. I wanted to learn from him, so I went along with it. Regardless of my ability to understand, I would do my best.

“Very well.” He motioned to the trees around me, glowing as if in a dream.

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