(This chapter is an info dump, the story will start to progress in the next chapter towards their rising fame.)
And then there was light, I was still in the tub but the water now looked black and disgusting.
I immediately stood up and drained the tub, watching the water drain, I started the shower so I could clean up, at the same time I couldn't help but admire my body and how I felt.
I've always been fit and active, in my last life, one of the very few things I chose to do was MMA, despite the resistance from my company.
However, I've never felt this powerful before, even at four years old I felt much stronger than before, which was quite funny to think about.
I also felt a stream of power through my body, and I instinctively knew that besides my body granting me unparalleled talent in all aspects, I had three supplemental growth mechanisms.
The first was living, by simply living and breathing I felt myself subtly grow stronger, and if I were to create or give life to something I would experience a bigger growth burst.
The second was the polar opposite, it was much darker. If I put an end to someone's life or destroyed something, I would become stronger. The amount of strength that I would gain depended on how deserving of death or destruction said thing was. So if someone was suffering endlessly and I killed them the death would be considered necessary and grant more power; furthermore, it also seemed to align with my arbitrary morals, as 'evil' people were also deemed deserving of death.
Of course, this motivated me to kill and destroy those deserving, but it wasn't a restriction, even if I were to kill a totally innocent person, I would still gain power, just marginally. Not something I would consider doing, just understanding the nuance.
The third and final was more perverse, I would grow stronger the more I indulged in my desires, regardless of what they were. If I desired to rest at home and eat food then I would be rewarded for doing it.
Everything felt surreal, in my last life I never had the time to indulge, my company always forced me to practice, practice, and practice.
"But things are different now…I will rise to the top and become free." I muttered to myself as I turned off the shower and started drying my body.
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"Alright, Arosa, if we want to rise to the top, and conquer the main stage then we need to get you ready, we will start with singing, then move onto dancing and acting…"
Arosa's eyes shone with excitement, absorbing every word that Arisu said before Arisu began with some vocal drills and had Arosa do the same.
And so they began to practice, it became routine every day. Now and then Rina and Mito would join in practices, but they liked watching me and Arosa practice more.
During this time, I also didn't slack off. Aside from sharpening my skills, I've been steadily learning and adapting to my new body and magic power.
Although my body still appeared to be growing at the natural rate, I clearly felt a difference. With my pure strength alone I could obliterate a mountain with a simple punch!
Although this was impressive to me, according to Arosa this was nothing, and my physical strength would grow much, much faster as I grew older. My adolescent body was holding me back.
Of course, I was also subtly growing stronger by naturally living and indulging in my desires, which are to become stronger so I was constantly getting stronger, just the effect was very minimal currently as my physique is still being integrated.
According to Arosa, at age 10 my physique will be fully integrated and my strength will increase dramatically, automatically, 24/7. It honestly seems surreal to get stronger that easily, but I didn't mind it, not when I had to catch up to literal goddesses!
As for pure magic, not to be narcissistic, but I am a genius. Arosa said that because of my physique, I would have such an unnatural and substantial amount of pure mana that I wouldn't be able to harness and control it until I reached fifteen.
Well, after that first year of practicing my magic control, I mastered it. Now, for the last three years I have simply been refining my control to such an extent that even performing more advanced spells, I spent the bare-minimum amount of mana possible whilst still maintaining maximum spell effectiveness.
Whilst I was still technically an initiate mage, not having officially ranked up, Arosa said I should hold off on ranking up until I was able to perform a 9-star spell easily, with full control and the least mana expenditure.
This was something usually only Mage Kings could do, with extreme effort, but if I learned to do it earlier, after my rank up I would get an exponentially stronger boost.
What's a rank up? Well, according to Arosa, after her parents accidentally created the universe and its primordial laws(what?!) they implemented a hierarchy, asserting the rank-up system, which they wrote into reality's core.
Being such as Arosa's mothers are Rank-0, the only two rank ones in existence. Arosa is Rank-1, slightly behind her mother's. Apparently, she has to understood law if she wants to reach Rank-0, hence her wanting to learn from me. There are 73 Rank-1 individuals, the chasm between Rank-1 and 0 was nearly infinite.
As for me, I'm an initiate, a term used in this world meaning I wasn't even officially ranked yet. The first rank would be Rank-10, which doesn't seem that far from Rank-0, but within each rank are many smaller titles indicating progress within that rank.
The planet I am on now is a very low-level world, the max rank it has ever produced was a Rank-10 Grandmaster, essentially four small ranks ahead of me.
Rank-10 goes like this after initiation (technically not a rank-10 yet), mage, advanced mage, Master Mage, Grandmage, Archon, Mage King, and the final rank, Liquid mage, doesn't sound cool at all but it signifies that the mana has reached such a pure and heavy state that it is similar to a liquid.
Anyways, moving away from power levels, Arosa, has shown a lot of talent, since day one she has grasped almost everything instantly, if we truly wished to we could have started our rise to fame two years ago but I wanted some time to solidify my power as well as allow us to physically grow a bit more.
Speaking of Arosa, "Arisu~ Arisu~ Arisu~" yeah, she was next to me poking my cheeks while singing my name. "Is today the day? Will we finally release our first song? Hmmm?"
Honestly, Arosa never wanted to wait, she's been begging for us to release our first song, and I guess I can indulge her now, I'm at a point in my strength that despite being unranked, I'm more than comparable to a Rank-10 Grandmage.
"Yes, yes, I've spoken with mother and father, they said we can do what we want, and mother got one of her friends to let us borrow their studio for the day." I looked at Arosa and pinched her cheek, I know she's technically a goddess, but these past couple of years, we've gotten a lot closer, it was really easy to tell that Arosa was new to all this, she was clumsy and unaware of how to interact in social interactions, but it only added to her charm.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to resist her…