Hero of Darkness

The future Kahn just revealed the unexpected fact that he, in fact, did not choose the 3 Divine Abilities that current Kahn chose in this timeline.

"What do you mean that you did not choose these 3? And why?" asked Kahn with a bewildered and shocked countenance. "In the original timeline, I chose different divine abilities after the God of Darkness told me why no other Hero or Heroine before me chose them." "Because choosing those 3 together would have been no different than committing suicide." iterated future Kahn sternly.

"What?! How can they be so lethal to even a chosen Hero?" asked Kahn, puzzled to his core.

"Since you still haven't noticed the dangers of having these 3 divine abilities together. So let me explain to you…" spoke future Kahn and his face turned serious.

"Ability Absorption doesn't have any drawbacks on its own but the problem is that more different abilities and bloodlines you absorb to gain their skills, powers, and bloodline effects…

The more imbalance it would cause in your body as well as your mana circulation even before you become a Saint.

After becoming a Saint, the prominent and the strongest bloodline will take over the others or try to destroy them by either expelling them from your body or by causing mutations that would nullify them.

However, as a result, your own body will suffer in the long term and some of your organs might get permanently damaged." he stated.

"What?! Doesn't that mean I could have died long ago with some sort of severe illness?" asked Kahn, dumbfounded.

The future Kahn raised his right palm and stopped Kahn from speaking again…

"Obviously, if you had an entire empire providing you with the best resources, monsters to absorb abilities, and powerful beings such as someone with the Primordial Titan bloodline… then it would be an amazing divine ability.

But that wasn't the case for me since I was going to be hunted since the day of my arrival. And neither was there anyone who could create a catalog of monsters, their abilities, and bloodlines for me.

Also, even if no one was hunting me… no Empire would willingly sacrifice the lives of their Semi-Saints and Saints just so the summoned Hero or Heroine could absorb their abilities.

Not only because these saints were obviously better fighters and masters of their skills, but the battle experience and the standing they had in the empire was far more powerful to make them a sacrificial lamb for a Hero.

So considering the growth factor and potential alone, it would be limited later unless the Hero somehow miraculously learned and perfected those powerful skills,abilities and bloodlines on their own in mere years; the kind that took decades for these saints to master themselves.

Even in my case, this was not worth the risk. So I too rejected them just like all the other Heroes before me." explained future Kahn.

"As for Synthesis divine ability… It shines a lot with the ability to merge different skills and even create new subordinates from the corpses in the description. But the demerit is that it also relies on the bloodlines and also physical stats, and elemental affinities of the user.

For example, you remember that there was a restriction about you being unable to create subordinates based on levels right?

Unless the original subjects you killed were already of higher level and rank, the resultant won't be stronger than you." he asked.

Kahn nodded as the future him continued…

"As time goes by, the subordinates you create would also affect you, the user because all of them would need different levels of control based on things such as your mana supply, your physical stats, your mastery of spells in a particular element, and your own elemental affinity.

In our case, I was the Hero of Darkness… so not a single one of my subordinates would have any other element than Darkness and all their skills would be related to that particular element.

On paper, it doesn't sound alarming but in practicality… it's like cutting off your own feet with your own hands.

The effects would be extremely limiting and even the classes you choose would have to be related to the Darkness element…. Like a Necromancer or a Dark Crusader class.

Based on the god you represented, Synthesis would have chained you down to that particular element for your entire life.

And that is why it was left untouched by all the Heroes that came before us." he explained why no hero including himself chose the Synthesis divine ability.

"And lastly, the Dimensional Law divine ability… You yourself know how hard it was to unlock and how many others would have failed to even gain the 2nd enlightenment in the Space Law.

It's not like I even need to go deep and explain why it wouldn't work in 99 out of 100 cases." spoke Future Kahn casually.

"But then why did you say that it would be no different than committing suicide by choosing them?" asked current Kahn suspiciously.

"Because when you combine all 3 of them… you're most likely to die by imbalance of many factors.

Ability Absorption would force different bloodlines into your body, many of which will keep fighting them inside and would end up raising your blood toxicity… consider it like Blood Cancer, an incurable one for certain.

On top of it, among all the prominent species in Vantrea... Humans stand at the bottom when it comes to innate abilities and bloodline effects or powers.

Out of a billion people, hardly 30 to 40 can become Saints in their lifetime.

Do you think a human like you would have been able to absorb and survive from the effects of those monster bloodlines just because you were from another world?" asked future Kahn mockingly.

"Then Synthesis would restrict your path with subordinate's compatibility and the abilities you would merge. In simple terms, not only do you get a thin thread to move forward as a warrior, but you also can't use your legs.

So you won't have any other choice but to use your hands to crawl like a snail, limiting your growth rate even if you were a hero.

Finally, you have achieved the 3rd enlightenment in Dimensional Law and created a Cosmic body of your own using the Linchip of the Multiverse as a source.

Do you think that form can be achieved by any normal human even if they were Saints in this world?

That's not possible even for a chosen hero because even if their soul might be many times stronger than the living beings of vantrea… the body aka the vessel is simply too weak and lacks bloodline effects to sustain such forms of energy such as the Cosmic Aether.

You might have simply exploded after containing it in your body even if you were a chosen hero or a powerful saint." explained future Kahn why this was a deadly combination to choose these 3 divine abilities together.

"Then how come I'm still alive?" asked Kahn, astonished by his foolishness but also curious about his survival until now.

"Hey, give me some credit. Did you think I would return to the past without a plan?" asked future Kahn with a prideful tone.

"As contradicting as it may sound… the lethal combination of these 3 were the only ones with the advantage of increasing chances to kill the Demon God in the end.

But this time… Knowing how my mind worked in the past and the memories of the original timeline, I planned everything." he stated.

"Do you mean?..." asked Kahn with a baffled countenance as a sense of realization washed over him. "Yes. You did not choose your divine abilities on your own accord. And neither did you trick anyone. After I returned to the past through the Rune of Reminiscence…

I told God of Darkness to hide the divine abilities I chose in the original timeline because we as Elric would have still chosen those in this timeline as well if the option was available.

Although they made me incredibly stronger in the end… they were not the ones I needed to win this war." explained future Kahn and continued with a smirk.

"I and this Dragon beside me chose them for you." he spoke in a stoic voice. "Also, as Elric… you didn't trick God of Darkness and Kravel at all. He didn't give you those 3 divine abilities as a desperate move and neither did Kravel gave you his Blessings and Gifts because you questioned his loyalty as a way to piss him off.

That was already planned by us since the very beginning.

Otherwise, how could you, a normal accountant and a buffoon who was played by a petty girl on Earth could trick a God who lived for billions of years, along with a Deity who once nearly achieved world domination?" he asked with a disappointed gaze.

"I remember vividly how my mind worked as Elric, thinking that I was too much of a smart-ass and knew the potential of these 3 Divine abilities better than God of Darkness himself." he iterated with discontent.

"No one was an oblivious idiot who couldn't see the potential of these divine abilities.

As a matter of fact, God of Darkness and Kravel were intentionally acting like fools, making you think that you somehow tricked them into getting the best Divine abilities, Blessings, and Gifts.

And just because you read plenty of those novels, mangas, played games, watched TV shows and movies… you thought everything was happening as per your wish." said future Kahn sarcastically.

At this moment, Kahn realized how stupid and naive he was to think that he literally scammed God of Darkness and Kravel into giving him the best start after being reincarnated into Vantrea.

It was just a simple plan created by the future Kahn, acted by God of Darkness and Kravel as the fools who fell for Kahn's scam.

But in reality… the biggest fool and the obvious clown… Was Kahn himself.

"Wait?! Then how come I'm still alive even now?" asked Kahn.

"The answer to that lies in something I and God of Darkness created.

And what you call as…" replied future Kahn majestically as he revealed the main reason current Kahn was still alive...

"The System."