The One Who Collects

Chapter 11

Haaa, that fight was good. It was the last one standing match, and you all were mostly coming for me. You guys also told me to fight with only my air-bending and my body. If I went all out, I could have beat all of you still as short as when he was 15.

"Yeah, you are the strongest, so we have to get you out first, at least you still won," Adan said while laying at the right side of Adam, facing upward. He is now 53 and now has some silver hair.

"That not fair, I wish I had all the bending," Agate said, laying at the left side of Adam, who is now 21. His hair grew longer, which made him look more like a girl, but he is still a man.

"He will have to work many times harder than us since he has all the elements. It will be hard Adam but don't worry, we will help you, we are brothers after all." Aerin said. He laid on the left side of Agate. He is 22 years old and became more handsome. Now there is no doubt that any girl will throw themselves at him.

"It will be easy. I won't need you guys to help me." Adam said, arrogantly.

"What if we train so hard, that if someone trains two times harder than us, they will die. You will die two times for training four times harder than us." Agate said while grinning.

"HAHA. That true. Adam, you will die. At least I only need to train my body. I will become stronger easily." Aaron said. He laid on the right side of Adan. He is now 22 years old and grew taller to be 7'1". He is more fit than five years ago and has more muscle than before.

"That won't happen." Adam said then thought 'I have a god at my side.'

"Training in the desert as a water-bender really helped a lot. I could now draw water from the atmosphere like I am breathing." Agate said.

"My strength increased a lot. My muscle also got stronger." Aaron sai. He stood up and flexed and the clothes he wore, except his u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r, ripped.

"You are wasting cloth, Aaron. Now, what should we do now? Adam, you are the leader, so tell us." Aerin said.

"We have all reached a bottleneck in our training. There is a limit to how much power we can gain by just training by ourselves, so I think we should all go to our respective nations to learn more. I will go to one of the Air Temple to learn more about air-bending. Adan will go to the Fire Nation to learn more about fire-bending. Oh, and Adan, hide your red fire." Adam said, facing Adan's direction.

"Huh? How do I do that?" Adan asked, confused.

"You are our team fire-bender and you don't know that? You need to learn more about fire-bending not only getting stronger. Knowledge is power sometimes. You do that by reducing the heat of the flame. It's hard when you start doing it, so don't be mad if you can't do it in a week..."

"Like this?" Adan said while demonstrating. And to Adam's surprise, he saw six orange flames start floating around Adan.

"..."

"That was easy, why couldn't I think of that," Adam said while moving six oranges in a circle, on top of him.

[Prodigy, truly a prodigy. I could have chosen him as my collector, sadly I can only have one. You are lucky Adam.]

'That not fair. I wish I was a prodigy.' Adam thought then said "Ahem, ok Agate, you will go to the Northern water tribe, Southern water tribe, and Foggy Swamp Tribe to learn more about their water-bending. Adan will stay in the Earth kingdom and learn more about Earth-bending." Adan said.

"I always wanted to see a dragon, and I heard that if you dance with a dragon you get an insight on fire-bending. Imagine if you dance with two dragons, no five dragons. I will be able to become way better in fire-bending than now." Adan said happily.

"Yeah, I also heard that if you get a Badgermole to teach you earth-bending, you will learn it easily and gain a strong connection with the earth." Adan said happily, "I can't wait."

"Oh yes, while you are at it, can you find any information about an Ancient Sacred Dragon and an Ancient Badgermole for me. It will really help." Adam said thoughtfully.

"What are those? Why do you need them?" Agate asked, pushing his glasses up.

"I read it in a book and wanted to know if it is real, so check it out for me, will ya," Adam said.

[You lie without blinking. I like that. But you need to get better, look, your heart is beating faster. If a person that can hear well was here, they will know you are lying. I added lying skills to the statue. This will help you know if you can lie undetected in this world.]

'Ok. Thanks.'

"Don't worry, we will check." Adan said before Aerin could reject.

"Aaron, you are a martial artist, so you can move around to learn new martial arts and improve your current martial art. It fit you. The rest of you, don't forget to keep practicing your martial art. Try adding your bending to your martial art. Also, while you are at your kingdom, find out about their military strength, don't ask why. In three year, we will all meet in this exact spot. Have fun but don't neglect your training." Adam said. He stood up and smiled. "Adam, you are getting old so we will have to speed up being a legend and going down in history."

"Don't worry about me. The youngest that someone in my family ever died naturally is 130 years old while the oldest was 203, so I have a long time." Adam said arrogantly.

"What about the library. We can't leave it here." Aaron said, pointing at the humongous castle.

'Z what do I do with the library, no castle?'

[You just have to put it underground or up in the sky. I prefer you to put it underground since it is harder to see it. You can put it fully under the ground but it will become stuffy and sand will go through the central tower top window since it doesn't have a window. Maybe this is why Wan Shi Tong left the top part showing.]

'I can put it underground? How?'

[You can put it underground or up in the sky, but you can't move it underground or 30 meters above the ground. Oh, it could also float on top of the water. If you can cover the library with water or air bubble, you can move it underwater.]

'You could have told me. It will be easier to practice water-bending with the cloud and it will also be easy to practice air-bending in a high place.'

[Don't blame me, you didn't ask, that is why I thought you already know.]

'Can't you read my mind? You could have known.'

[I don't want to read your mind because I find it interesting without knowing everything that you are going to do.]

"... ADAM! CAN YOU HEAR ME!?" Agate screamed in Adam's left ear.

"YES, yes. I can hear you." Adam screamed, moving his head from Agate. "You really look like a girl close up. Just cut off that d.i.c.k of yours, your voice will become squeaky, then you will become a perfect girl. Men will gladly ravage your butthole."

"YOU! I thought I will stop calling you little d.i.c.k nick since we have grown up, but you want to keep calling me a girl!? Ok, little d.i.c.k nick, two can play this game." Agate said, punching Adam on his stomach.

He flew 4 meters back and cough up spit. "I haven't recovered from that 1 VS 4 and now you are punching me. Com at me Lady Agate." Adam shouted, standing up, running toward Agate trying to punch him.

"Woah, hold on guys. You guys are grown up now don't act like little kids." Aaron said while helping Aerin to hold back Adam. Adan himself hold back Agate. After Adam calmed down, which took five minutes, they let him go.

"Really Adam, you got to stop spacing out like that. If this was a battlefield, you could have already died multiple times." Adan said, trying to sound like a sage.

"Don't try to sound smart. Have you ever been to a battlefield? And if this was a battlefield, I wouldn't space out like this." Adam said, sitting back on the sand.

"We are going inside to sleep. When you want to sleep, come in. Tomorrow we will set out." Adan said while walking toward the castle. Everyone, except Adam, followed him in.

'Z show me their statue.'

[Here you go.]

{

Name: Adan

PL: 1286 [Physical: 774{Body: 327}{Martial art: 447} | Galdura: 512{{Fire-bending: 512(Master)}]

Abilities: Stealing(MAX), Pain tolerance(93/100), Manipulation(89/100), silent movement(MAX), Planning(57/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}

Age: 53 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: N/A

}

{

Name: Aaron

PL: 1279 [ Physical: 1279{Body:542}{Martial art:737} | Galdura: 0]

Abilities: Flexing(98/100), Stealing(77/100) silent movement(98/100), Pain tolerance(87/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}, Shock absorption(84/100)

Age: 22 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Rest-less{Flex or Sleep}

}

{

Name: Aerin

PL: 1255 [ Physical: 754 {Body:377}{Martial art: 377} | Galdura: 501{Earth-bending: 501(Master}]

Abilities: flirting(MAX), Stealing(83/100), Pain tolerance(72/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}, Poker face(77/100)

Age: 22 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Exhausted{need sleep}, Hungry{Eat}, Horny{Jerk off}

}

{

Name: Agate

PL: 1230. [ Physical: 728{Body: 272}{Martial art: 456} | Galdura: 502{{Water-bending: 502(Master)}]

Abilities: Researching(85/100), Engineering(81/100), Stealing(43/100) Pain tolerance(61/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}, Cooking(76/100)

Age: 21 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Exhausted{need sleep}

}

"So the levels are Normal(no bending) 0-0, Novice 1-30, Student 31-50, Trainee 51-99, Pro 100-150, Master 151- ???, Grandmaster, Great-master, King, and Saint. When will someone get past the master rank? Can you tell me, please? Help your helper.

[Ok. You reach grandmaster rank at 1000.]

"The f.u.c.k? That difference is f.u.c.k.i.n.g big. Damn, it will take a long time. So the Master rank is 151- 999. Now that all their power levels are in the thousands, is that strong?"

[Yes, but compared to some of the past avatars, like the first avatar, and some sprite in the sprite realm, they are weak, even you.]

"Ok. What is shock absorption?"

[He can absorb shocks so it will be hard to knock him back.]

"Aerin is horny? What made him horny?"

[I don't know. Forget that, do you want to see your stats?]

"Yes."

{

Name: Adam

PL: 3046 [ Physical: 1123 {Body:301}{Martial art: 822} | Galdura: 1923{Earth-bending: 488(Master}{Air-bending: 517(Master)}{Water-bending: 432(Master)}{Fire-bending: 486(Master)}]

Abilities: Researching(MAX), Medicine(MAX), Stealing(87/100) Pain tolerance(84/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}, Cooking(MAX)

Age: 1,917,868 Years(20 Years)

AMT: 490 years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: N/A

Point: 198,159

}

"I am way stronger than them. You added my cooking skill. I was always proud of my cooking." Adam said.

[I added the skill because I saw that you use it more often than I thought. I thought you will let that boy-girl cook.]

"What is a boy-girl."

[A boy that looks like a girl. A girl-boy is a girl that looks like a boy. I made it up.]

"HAHA. I will now start calling him a boy-girl." Adam said, laughing maniacally. "Tomorrow will be the day I will officially start doing the rest of my mission... Wait, haven't I completed the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th mission? Where are my rewards?" Adam asked fiercely.

[I didn't think you will finish the missions so quickly, so I haven't prepared the reward. Wait about... 100 years? Yes, 100 years. By then, I will make the reward for all the mission and I will give you. The 8th mission hasn't been completed. It will only be completed when you collect a certain knowledge in the library that I want you to collect.]

"You are one lazy God," Adam said signing. "Then can you add three years to my life span so I can wait that long?"

[Hmm... Wait a second.]

*Three hours later*

[There is something in the store that will enhance your body and allow you to live that long. Here is the store.]

{

Increase life span +100 (198,159 point)

Increase air-bending +1 (12,894 point)

Increase fire-bending +1 (9,871 point)

Increase earth-bending +1 (9,81 point)

Increase water-bending +1 (8,971 point)

}

"You greedy bastard. It cost all my points." Adam said.

[You think it will be easy to increase your lifespan by 100. At least I am not asking for you 10,000 PL.]

"Ok, but this is supposed to be a gift for me waiting 100 years for my reward." Adam said.

[You have a point. Ok, I reduced it. See.]

{

Increase life span +100 (198,158 point)

Increase air-bending +1 (12,894 point)

Increase fire-bending +1 (9,871 point)

Increase earth-bending +1 (9,81 point)

Increase water-bending +1 (8,971 point)

}

"Only by one point!" Adam shouted.

[At least I reduced It.]

"Haaa, forget it. Buy Increase life span +100." Adam said signing with sorrow.

[Bought. You will now feel a comfortable feeling coursing through your body.]

He felt a warm sensation coursing through his body. "What a nice feeling... Wait... Pain? AHHHH! THE AGONY. I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 'WARM'. MAKE IT STOP!AHHHHHH..."

*Three seconds later*

"What the f.u.c.k Z, I thought it was supposed to a 'warm sensation'?" Adam asked angrily.

[Oh, I forgot you feel more pain because you now have a body. If it was your soul that the so-called 'pain' attacked, you would had felt a warm sensation. I mean your soul has experienced more pain than that. Even if your mind is stronger than others, your nerve cell is not. Oh, your Pain tolerance skill follows your body pain tolerance, not your soul.]

[The amount of point needed to increase your bending point by one is based on your current bending point and your average earned points.]

"You make everything hard for me."

"Hey Adam, you ok. I heard you screaming so I came out to see what is happening." Agate said while walking toward Adam.

"I am ok. I tried to punch myself as hard as I could on my stomach. It hurt like hell." Adam said, rubbing his stomach. "Why aren't you asleep?"

"I was reading. Ok, I am going back. I thought something was attacking you." Agate said walking back inside.

After he entered the library, Adam said "Damn, I forgot to call him a boy-girl. HEHE, he will regret calling me little d.i.c.k nick. Z, don't disturb me, I am going to sleep out here. I like the sand feeling." Adam said, laying back down on the desert floor.

[You adapted well. Good for you.]

As he was about to sleep. Z said. [Yo bro, I am bored.]

"Please, can you shut up?"

[Can speak to me like that?]

"Pleas Great God Z, Can you please not talk?"

[Ok.]

...

[Fun fact: You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. Amazing isn't it.]

"Great God Z, Can you please not talk? I am trying to sleep."

[Ok.]

...

[Fun fact: Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia. Can you pronounce it?]