The Rise Of Calamity

Looking at the spears moving towards me with snail like speeds, I couldn't help but marvel at how much better it was to see through my own eyes. While looking towards the spears, I could now see the mana within the spear, the mana channels within the armour and sword of the boy, and the mana veins and arteries within his body, not to mention his mana heart too.

They all had a kind of murky brownish colour, representing his affinity to the earth element. I could even see his soul to a much higher degree to even before I had awakened my affinity to divine mana, which made me wonder what kind of overpowered ability did I have before which would have caused me all those headaches and pain.

Watching as the spears grew closer very slowly, I supressed my Divine calculation and thought acceleration to a point where everything would return to half of the normal speed. Flicking my wrist to the right, I watched as multiple fire orbs were constructed out of nowhere in a split second and shot right through the spear in an instant. This not only surprised the boy and the adults coming to save me from the spears, but it even surprised me as I had no idea that my eyes could have affected my casting speed and my comprehension of an element.

I found it much easier to cast spells now than I did before, and this was only the start. Looking at the eyes of the boy, I activated the 'skill' "eyes of vanity". While nothing seemed to happen to me, to him, a indescribable amount of fear surged out of the deepest parts of his soul. He felt as if there were hands choking him as they wrapped around his neck. Multiple hands would grab his legs and ankles, while more and more hands would appear and grab a part of his body, going all the way from his ankles all the way up to his shoulders.

The indescribable fear only increased as it felt like there was nowhere to run, as these hands were coming from his shadow itself. Realising there was no way to escape, a surge of desperation hit the boy like a truck, but then, everything disappeared as the real world appeared in front of him like a flash of light.

He had found himself on the ground, pale as a ghost, sweating and panting as if he had been suffocated for several minutes.

'Maybe I overdone it' I thought to myself while looing at the traumatized child on the floor. The boy was only 10 years old after all. Even though he might act mature, he was still quite young for his age, and compared to Ambrose and the other idiot I had fought, I didn't really want to hurt this kid but rather make friends with him. He was bound to become strong in the future therefore it wouldn't hurt to have connections, while it was also quite nice to be around someone normal and respectful for once.

I hadn't really made friends in my previous life, and in this life all the friends I've made were either not human or way too old for it to not look creepy. I honestly didn't like the party itself as I had to stand in front of so many people and speak. Yes, I might have though of them as no more than dogs so I didn't really care, but now that I was bound to make some friends, I kind of felt the awkwardness.

However, now looking at the state of the 'friend' I wanted to make, I wondered if he was to even want be my friend after the display I just showed.

Looking at him for a bit, I decided to use one of the 'skills' I had gotten due to the evolution on my eyes, and tat skills was Analysis. It seemed to use my mana eyes, soul eyes, divine calculation, thought acceleration of my affinity to pride to create a whole new skill which allows me to find out about someone or something I look at. I already knew exactly how to activate it, as if I had done it all my life.

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Name: ???

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Age: 10

Power Level: (Restricted)

Title: None

Affinity: Earth

Status: Immense fear, distraught and weakness. Cannot recognize surrounding nor does he have any environmental awareness.

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'Damn... Even with this skill I don't get people's names!? Maybe it's because the skill is still weak? Maybe I'll get to see more things if it improves too.'

Looking at the distraught boy on the floor, I went next to him to comfort him just to be stopped by three of the adults with their swords drawn in front me to stop me from advancing.

Making eye contact with one of the men, he looked deep within my eyes which made him feel a shiver down his spine while also feeling a small amount of fear, however, this was nothing like the fear they used to feel when they looked into my eyes before the evolution.

I activated the analysis skill, however, something I did not realize since I did not have a mirror was what it looked like to other people when I activated the skill. While the golden Iris's looked like a golden cosmos, my pupils that had no turned white fractures apart and turned into a 3d version of the star of David, constantly rotating and halting, before rotating in another direction. While my pupils had become permanently white, my Iris still carried the golden cosmos feel as they felt like they were made out of millions of fine threats that never touches, yet constructed something so magnificent.

Looking into the eyes alone made the man go into a daze for a second before snapping out of it, before looking back at the eyes just to a see a rotating 3 dimensional star of David

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Name: ???

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Age: 32

Power level: (Restricted)

Title: None

Affinity: Water

Status: Minute fear. Intimidated.

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Looking at the analysis, I deactivated the skill and looked back the boy who now had his status as "Mentally recovering: Recovery time estimated as 2 days."

'At least it isn't permanent' I thought with a sigh' before deciding to walk away. It was probably for the best I do so.

Looking towards my family, I saw most of the people who met my eyes flinch and subconsciously step back.

'If there was only a way to be stealthy. Now not only does my aura send intimidation signals to everyone, but eye contact makes them flinch to this degree' I chuckles at my own misery as I couldn't help but wonder how the hell I am going to live in the future if I don't find a way to be stealthy. Maybe I could change my intimidating aura into something like a stealthy cloak that surrounds me and stops anyone from being able to feel my presence.

Shutting my eyes so I don't scare everyone by accident this time, I walked toward my parents while I shed a tear inwardly after losing my advanced vision that showed me everything. Even though it was for a short time, it felt like losing a finger and having to deal with it by using 4 fingers instead of 5.

Going back to the main hall, we spent the rest of the evening either eating cake or spending time with the women who I had talked to earlier. I had found out her name and engraved it deep into my brain so I don't forget it. Her name was apparently Yerone Flaxburg. She kept thanking me for saving her earlier even though I told her it was fine. While her continues thanking of me had gotten some of her friend's attention, they did not ask as if they knew it was something they shouldn't ask about.

I did not delve deeper nor did I expose anything about what she was thanking me for, just to make sure the others and her friends don't learn from me what had happened nor allow the to connect the dots. You cannot connect the dots if there are no dots.

I spent most of the time just eating a lot of cake. Many of the guests and people in my family looked ta me in reverence looking at how many cakes I could eat in a single sitting. This was however, just due to the fact that I had just went through an evolution of my eyes while I had used quite a bit of mana in the fight. Even thought it was nowhere near the amount the boy had used, it was quite high considering my mana is divine energy, something around 5 times more powerful than normal mana.

One cast of 'the eyes of vanity' had taken half of my mana in an instant, while analysis would take 1% of my mana per cast. Of course, this might decrease in the future, however, at this point, the analysis skill is can only be used a 100 times in a row. Sadly, my mana regeneration was no where as fast as my bodily regeneration, as my bodily regeneration uses a small amount of the nutrients i have while using some of the mana and elemental particles in my body to finally create such a monstrous regeneration.

Using that regeneration makes me really hungry though, and so does using mana in general, but regeneration makes me the hungriest.

After a few more hours, a series of me and my family apologizing to the boy I had sparred with and his family, and a few cakes later, we finally took a carriage home. No one was able to beat me which made my mother pout for the whole journey home. She had hoped she would get a son in law today, however all she had gotten was a bunch of complaints about me.

Finally getting back home, the constant speaking to random people was quite exhausting, therefore the moment my head had touched the pillow, my consciousness had fluttered away.