Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 14: Ch-14 This isn't how this usually goes

Once William woke up, he found that the library, contrary to what he expected, was still in pristine condition, as if the scene of pages flying all around the room before he went unconscious was just his delusion.

After taking a look at the clock, it turned out William was unconscious for barely a minute; however, what he saw in that minute drastically altered the course of his life.

"Reincarnation, I guess all those novels were onto something after all," William muttered under his breath, too quiet for anyone to hear.

'Wait, does this mean?' With great anticipation, he stretched his hand, and to his disbelief, a small fire appeared on his palms.

"Hahahahaha, magic is real, after all," William shouted with tears in his eyes.

Magic was the thing he wanted the most in his past life but failed to obtain till the very end.

A concept that nearly drove him crazy in his past life had finally been acquired by him.

In both of his lives, this is perhaps the most epic he has ever felt.

William could feel the mana inside him and in the atmosphere flowing; right now, he felt one with the world.

This feeling was addicting; he wanted more of it. He needed more of this.

In this moment, William had decided that he would reach the apex of magic and uncover all there is to discover about this fantasy concept.

It was a dream, which sounded childish and impossible to anyone who heard it.

However, for William, he knew what body he was in.

He was blessed by mana itself, and he also had a divine aspect; if anyone could make this impossible dream true, it was him.

With that thought in mind, William decided to revisit all the memories he had accumulated over the past eight years

After a few minutes, William couldn't help but laugh at what he saw.

"Hahahahaha, how peculiar! This is a bit different from what I expected, but this should be fine," William said, wiping off the small tear that formed near his eyes.

When William first came to learn that he had reincarnated, his first instinct was to assume he must have reincarnated into the world of [Mage, who reached infinity] or some other novel he had read.

However, as it turned out, that wasn't the case at all; he had instead reincarnated into some random world, and much to William's dismay, he didn't possess knowledge of the future.

On the bright side, though, his current body was overpowered by all senses of the word.

If he properly utilised his new body to realise his dream of reaching the apex of magic, he might be able to make it a reality.

However, instead of thinking about his new body, he decided to think about the world he was reborn into.

Astressa, the world, was basically the textbook definition of a fantasy world.

It was based in a mediaeval European setting with stuff like nobility, royalty, magic, swords, dragons, elves, and dwarves.

And all such elements one would expect from a typical fantasy world.

However, that was the case until a thousand years ago.When a massive portal to another world opened,The portal led to a world called Morgov, which was a post-apocalyptic world.

Morgov was similar to my previous world in both technology and culture.

However, people in that world were afflicted with a strange disease called Voidstruck.

Which allowed them to access a dimension called Voidworld.

It was a strange, perverse world filled with people called Voidfolk and monsters called Voidbeasts.

After some time, portals connecting Voidworld and Morgov formed, causing Voidbeasts to enter Morgov and wreak havoc on their world.

However, inside this Voidworld were divine trials that could be challenged by humans or Voidfolk to acquire an energy called mana and also awaken their aspect. Such people were called Voidwalkers.

Unfortunately, the mortality rate of this trial was far too drastic, as the trial had regular human beings fight off monsters. A rough estimate of the mortality rate would be that only 1 person out of 10,000 succeeds in becoming a Voidwalker.

But regardless, thanks to Voidwalkers, humanity managed to survive in Morgov, but unfortunately, even that wasn't enough, as after a few hundred years of struggle, humanity was pushed to be stuck on the brink of extinction, only having a single city to its name while the rest of the world was overrun by Voidbeasts.

However, just when all hope felt lost for humanity, a portal appeared connecting Astressa to Morgov.

At first, there was a lot of discourse among the people of both worlds, and the people of Astressa even considered eliminating the people of Morgov all together.

However, regardless of the world, the nature of humanity remains constant: greed.

The people of Astressa discovered just how abundant with resources both Margov and the Voidworld they had access to were.

However, the thing that really sealed the deal was the fact that the aspect people of Morgov obtained through divine trials and the aspect unlocked by people of Astressa through their mana cores were the same.

So after a lot of experimentation, the possibility of a human with two aspects was discovered if a person formed their mana core to unlock the aspect inside their soul and then got an aspect through a divine trial.

However, there was just one problem with this train of thought: people of Astressa didn't possess the disease Voidstruck, and people of Morgov didn't have high enough affinity with mana to form mana cores.

So with goals of mutual benefit, both the world's leaders signed a peace treaty in the form of a mana oath, and with the help of the people of Astressa, the people of Morgov were able to reclaim their world and were no longer on the verge of extinction.

Now, after a thousand years, both races had intermingled enough to the point that people of Astressa could possess the disease Voidstruck, whether naturally or through artificial means, and people of Morgov had enough affinity to form mana cores.

Thus making it possible for humans to have two aspects, as a result of all this, the relation between the two worlds was good enough that any discrimination against someone based on what world they were born in was highly frowned upon.

Remembering all that he was taught in history classes, William couldn't help but smile, thinking how interesting this world was.

The next thing William did was open his status screen.