Collector: Blade Dance c1

Raynor was lying in bed while looking at the tattoo on the palm of his right hand.

After blasting those canines, he explored for another hour before he needed to return home.

As his gut feeling told him, he could leave the place and appear in his room.

The power he acquired stayed with him, and he could even cultivate in that unique method he created in the forest.

However, Raynor was afraid he would burn his bed, so the teen didn't try in; instead, he toyed with the wolf spirit he got.

His first ever Pokemon!

First, he made the beast manifest. The beast looked quite ghostly, with parts of it being like the wind itself.

The teen had this feeling that the beast was nothing special. It had less energy than him!

But then he tried to command it, and the being easily followed his commands, almost like a puppet. However, he had this feeling that there was something more to it. The abundance of the energy he had and the connection, having physical proof. Does that mean he can alter the beast in some way?

As he wondered, the wolf blurred and proceeded to form into a ball of energy and transform into a grey dagger with some green highlights.

‘So a wind-type wolf type Pokemon?’

He said to himself as he inspected the dagger. He could feel elemental power flowing through the dagger.

For a second, he changed his position to a sitting one and swirled the dagger. He realised he had a particular affinity for the weapon just from holding it.

Does that mean if he practises with the knife, he would rapidly advance in mastery if he has such a weapon?

Raynor made a couple of swings with the dagger, generating wind gusts. His cup spills and some of the stuff ends up ruffled.

“...Crap.”

He exclaimed with some worry as he quickly dismissed the knife.

“No indoor training for me.” The teen said with a strained smile as he quickly got up and cleaned up the spilt soft drink.

Once he finished cleaning, he proceeded to think about training methods. Now that he has superpowers, it won't be a drag! Hell, he wants to train! The energy in his body has an overall effect.

So he went to check the internet.

~~~~~~Next Day~~~~~~

“Yo. Whatcha doing?” A voice distracted Raynor. The teen stopped doodling and looked at the deskmate who just arrived.

“Making a list of some cultivation techniques,” Raynor replied to his deskmate, Arno. His deskmate is his close friend. He knows his fifth grade. So that's over three years now.

“Oh, which ones did you pick?” The blonde swiftly ended up sitting down and proceeded to inspect.

“Well, I selected some techniques for body, eyes, and energy circulation.”

Raynor proceeded to explain. But he didn't have much time as the bell rang and the classes started.

‘I should create a method for circulating that energy in classes. This way, I won't waste time.’

The teen pondered on that as he felt that he was wasting time!

With classes over without any sort of hitch, the teen was back at home.

He proceeded to make preparations for exploration. Like food and water! Raynor filled up his backpack for a whole day's worth of explanation.

On top of that, he put on a wristwatch, as having a phone in his pocket while in combat is quite detrimental.

‘Good! I am all ready!’

~~~

For a second, blinding light consumed him as he reappeared where he had left last time.

“Still night, huh.” The first thing he noticed was that it was still nighttime.

He looked around for a second and decided to reach ‘the 3rd stage’.

So he found a nice tree to lean against and proceeded to sit.

Once sitting, he started with the process. First, he gathered all the energy which was spread through his body. It was slower, and the process was longer than the first time. But once collected, he started with the rotation of the core.

It felt that the core was heavier and moved slower than before. But once it was spinning, it became easier. As the core was spinning faster and faster, the heat started to manifest. Raynor felt it spreading through his body. It thought that this was affecting him in some way.

It was not simply ‘burning’. It felt that this heat was refining the teen.

Sometime later, the energy filled his body from the rapid spinning. However, Raynor didn't stop. Instead, he gathered all the power back into one spot once more.

This time, it was much more complicated as it felt that he had to stuff big objects in a smaller space.

So, instead, he proceeded to expand. He rotated the core like a disc and added the energy as clay to the core. So, instead of a disc shape, the core slowly expanded and began to change, becoming similar to a sphere.

Raynor continued with this as he would rotate, create more energy, expand the core, rinse and repeat until the core became a sphere.

With sphere creation, he proceeded to try to compress the size of the core. He was able to do it a couple of times as he rotated around 20 times until it became tough to do.

By this point, he had no idea what ‘stage’ he was.

Most likely, Golden Core? Since it's a sphere which shrunk two times.

“Meh. It was far too easy to be called cultivation.”

When he opened his eyes, he realised a massive crater was around him! The tree which should have been behind him was gone.

Raynor looked around. He realised that he was sitting on something akin to a pillar. The hole was around him.

“Bruh. That's a big hole.”

As he said that, he stood up and stretched out.  He was feeling like he was full of energy and ready for action!

But then he realised that he was in a shitty situation. It was a deep hole in all directions!

“Well! Here goes nothing!”

The energy in his body roared to life as he ‘jumped’.

Before he realised what was happening, he was high in the air, around the clouds.

“...fuck.”

With a loud whistling sound like a meteorite, he slammed into the ground.

“...sheesh…” He complained as a cloud of dust surrounded him.

Slowly, he walked out from the crater and looked around. He realised that he was a long way away from the place where he trained.

“Well, shit. Forget about cultivating; I need to adapt to my power.”

He commented to himself as he proceeded to find another place to sit down.

~~~

For the next couple of weeks, Raynor trained his new power to keep it under control. The solution to his absurd power was another mental exercise.

He realised that the energy was spiritual by nature. So, it means it is easiest to control this energy with the mind and mental triggers.

On top of that, his starting Pokemon became much more solid and better looking. It grew in size by a few inches. It was more like a wolf than a dog now.

The dagger form became better as well.

One of the things he learned to do was to send energy to body parts. Since he was super strong now, he only focused on body parts for short and explosive power. Because when energy is on full release, it becomes literal chaos.

‘I never thought I would be One Punch Man in the spirit world.’

He complained to himself as he was finally back to exploring. Rapid gains in power can be annoying, so he decided only to train stage by stage. Not twenty at once!

However, the good part is that he can now augment his eyes with the energy and see many miles in his desired direction.

“Huh? What is that!!!”

He looked at the distance. He could see a massive flaming warrior descending somewhere! It has a flaming sword as big as a skyscraper! This being was lit!

It was an enormous fire-type spirit!

“A rare Pokemon!!!”

With the glee of a child seeing a Pokemon for the first time, Raynor kicked out and jumped at the fire spirit.

~~~

Volcanicus, the Fire Elemental Lord, is infected by outerwordly darkness, and the Fire God’s judgement is clouded. Even the smallest slights could make the living embodiment of fire fly into fits of rage.

As Astral Zero, the realm of Spirits, is linked directly to the real world, Volcanicus doesn't need to leave his throne, but since the being was mad, he decided to make the entire Empire’s crop into dust in person.

All he needed was to descend into the location where the empire was in Astral Zero and make flames descend into the real world.

But that was until someone just punched his face and sent him flying.

“Direct Hit!”

Volcanicus ended up snapping from his madness and was confused for a second. But then he felt someone land on him.

And start pouring extraordinarily dense and thick divine energy!

‘You got to be kidding me! A human trying to overwhelm me!?’

Fits of anger returned with force, and the literal God of Fire ignited its power.

But to the shock of the being of Fire, his power was not as dense as this human!

‘W-What!?’ Volcanicus was in complete disbelief!

And just like after struggling for quite a long time, the massive towering giant of fire. Shattered into millions of pieces and ended up reforming as the Contracted spirit of a human! An Elemental Lord became nothing more than a contract of a clueless teen.

~~~

“Phew, man! As I thought, rare Pokemon are OP!”

Raynor dusted himself as he inspected a new scorching tattoo spread through his right hand above the wolf’s tattoo.

It was much more intricate and more prominent—a flaming warrior with a sword surrounded by flames formed around his wrist area.

It was at least five times bigger than the wolf one.

“Never expected the second Pokemon to be a rare one. I thought I would get a Pidgey or Rattata.” He commented to himself as, with a hand motion, an exquisite red flaming sword appeared in his hand. The ground underneath his foot started to melt. Hell, everything around him began to burn and die as the air rippled away.

“Damn. We need to train again.”

“Of course you do! I am Volcanicus! Fire Elemental Lord!”

A flaming voice spoke directly in his mind.

“Cool, so you are like a legendary then. Sheesh, my luck is great!”

“Legendary? Kid! I am an embodiment of the very fire of this world!”

“Hmm? That's cool, I guess.”

“Cool? Without me, people can't light up a fire in their homes! In fact, with me becoming your spirit, no one can wield fire anymore!” The spirit explained to him.

“I guess that is bad.” He stopped challenging his energy, and the sword ceased to exist.

“It is! But since you overwhelmed me in contract-making, you are now the Elemental Lord just as much as I am.”

“...And that means?”

“Imagine this.”

At that moment, he saw a throne room just pop into his mind.

“Now imagine moving there.”

Without saying anything, he appeared there.

He saw four more thrones.

That made Raynor frown. Isn't this his throne room!? His flaming sword manifested, and he proceeded to blow up the thrones.

At the same time, some sort of black miasma started to descend from the ceiling of the throne room.

“Looks ugly as fuck…”

His aura surged, and flames roared into existence. A massive pillar of scorching fire slammed into a whirlpool of darkness. He burned the darkness away into cinders.

Once done, he burned away whatever darkness remained in the throne room. His thick energy and Volcanicus flames made him the most powerful being in the spirit world.

Not that Raynor knew that.

‘This kid… he just destroyed other thrones and erased the greatest enemy this world has ever seen. And on top of that, he became the sole ruler…’

Volcanicus has no idea what to say. Raynor just speed-runs everything!