Chapter 1
An angel renounced, the darkest wound.
Two days passed while Oni Shin rested; the stress of the events that had taken place paired with his own violent transformation left him mentally exhausted. He awoke by the annoying chatter of what he would find to be birds.
He stepped out into the bright afternoon sunlight and scowled as the light stung his eyes. He made the conjecture that light was more violent, more harsh here as it was physical light instead of the soft, spiritual light that
illuminated the heavens.
As he adjusted his vision, he looked around curiously at his new environment. He knew little of Earth as he was merely a Battle-Class angel, only participating in the wars and minor skirmishes between Heaven, Hell, and various
independent factions of lesser deities.
He was not involved in the relationships between heaven and humanity. However, he was taught of Earth and of it's workings;
biological sciences, physical sciences,
chemistry, mathematics, psychological sciences, everything. As an angel of heaven, he knew more of the Earth than humankind possibly ever would.
But having never been to Earth, it was all of a first-time experience to him.
His attention left the curiosity of his surrounding environment as the noise that had woken him pierced his thought like the screech of grinding metal. He turned his head in disdain, looking to see what it was. A small, multi-colored animal endowed with wings was skittering along the ground.
A moment later, several more joined the first, then several more. Oni Shin looked on in confusion and wondered what they were doing. Suddenly, a feeling shot through him that he knew was not his own. He was startled for a moment, then began to
analyze the feeling in attempt to learn of what was causing it.
The feeling was knowledge, in a sense, a type of knowing that was neither tangible nor defined, it was as if someone were speaking to him and no words were being said. After a moment, it all came together. His wonder of what the birds were doing triggered a newly developed
psychic node in his mind.
The feeling was in fact not his, it belonged to the birds that he stood watching. The birds were just as curious of him as he was of them. His mind snapped back into place when he realized that he was surrounded by birds. Shocked, he looked around him at the chattering birds that skittered around about him.
"What is this madness?" he thought, walking away from the group of animals. His footsteps startled the birds and the flock took flight in attempt to escape danger that wasn't present. Oni Shin turned back around, confused at their odd behavior, then continued wandering about.
After a while of observing various plant and animal forms, he wanted to see what he was capable of after his transmutation into the entity that he was now. He stood for a moment, with his eyes closed, head turned upward toward the sky, focusing within himself.
Suddenly, his eyes opened violently, now in a state of perfect mental balance and concentration. Focusing directly on the manifest world, his majick enabled him to manipulate reality on an atomic level, the missing link between the mind's will and reality itself.
He began to manipulate the world, summoning atoms to his hands and causing them to fuse, creating two perfect
spheres of bright energy. This would normally exert a significant amount of strain on his mind, but finding that there was none at all, he proceeded to test his skills further.
He intensified the two energy spheres in his hands, making them smaller and more concentrated; he summoned more atoms to the slew so that there would be even more energy in a smaller volume. The destructive potential of even one of these spheres was more power than he had ever been able to manifest before.
The fact that he had manifested two amazed him incredibly; even further, the fact that the strain on his mind that would have previously overwhelmed him by now was still
nonexistent. He was so elated that he couldn't help but laugh. Holding the spheres in place with so little effort that it seemed almost natural to him, he began
to ponder on the workings of chemistry, wondering what he could do from this point given his new, extreme power. He smiled as an idea came to him, a more efficient way of utilizing a given amount of atoms. He manipulated the atoms so that they fused and split in a synchronized pattern, using both fusion and fission so that he need not
summon more atoms to continue a steady pattern of fusion. The energy caused by this sent an explosion of light across the area. It became so hot that the ground below him began to glow, the sand turning to
liquid glass and the pebbles scattered about began to melt. Beams of electricity began to erupt from the spheres as the energy reached extreme levels
and the mass reached it's fourth phase: plasma. The electricity struck the ground and stung his flesh where it touched him. Oni Shin concentrated and contained the electricity, causing it to swirl about, within and around the spheres. His eyes widened with shock, almost frightened at the destructive potential of this form of energy.
He let the power dissipate into nothingness and slowed the quickened atoms of the environment, causing the ground to cool.
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