Born Op
Copyright© 2025 by Traverse
Chapter 2: Arrived
In a tall building, big enough to be called a castle, a woman could be seen going through childbirth.
The midwives encouraged her to keep pushing, and as she did, a dazzling golden soul arrived in their world and went straight for the building.
As the woman gave birth, she looked at her baby, whom she had carried for 9 months.
“It’s a boy,” said one of the midwives who was carrying the child.
“Let me hold my son,” the woman said, carrying her child and smiling, with all sorts of emotions coursing through her.
But unknown to her, a golden soul arrived immediately after the child was born, entered the baby, and the baby started crying.
She smiled, thinking how her son had the hair color of his father.
She cast cleaning magic on the child, cleansing him of all dirt, then she said.
“His name shall be Anthony, Null Anthony, the first son and first child of the Null family.”
She smiled, then laid her baby next to her, and they slept together.
Anthony woke up the next day. He looked around his room, where his cradle was, and, seeing the design, aesthetics, and a wall literally made up of expensive ornaments.
He was happy that his family was well off, as he didn’t have to start off as an orphan this time around.
He was ecstatic, thinking of the adventure awaiting him, the dragon waiting for him to slay, but all that was cut short when he perceived a smell.
He soiled himself: “This couldn’t get any more embarrassing; looks like I have to grow first in order to even slay anything,” he thought and started crying. One of the maids arrived and changed his diapers.
His days revolved around eating, sleeping, and pooping.
Time passed, and he was already 5 years old.
He spent most of these years trying to draw mana into his body, which he failed at terribly, leaving him angry.
Then he grew older and learned how to read.
He spent most of his time in the library trying to find out why he failed to draw mana; he thought he was crippled, that the being had scammed him.
He wanted to cry but later found out that people could only use mana when they awakened at the age of ten.
He leaped for joy when he found out nothing was wrong with him and thanked the being.
He also found out that this world was called Blue Planet, and there had been mana in this world since it was formed, no one knows how long, and it is over 200 times the size of Earth, though he didn’t know how much bigger; it was just a guess.
The world was divided between races and into domains, each race occupying its own domain, each co-existing peacefully amongst themselves ... ehh, more like they tolerated each other and weren’t waging war frequently because of a common enemy: The demon.
It is said the demons invaded Blue Planet 7 million years ago.
They seemed endless; they kept killing, they kept coming, they only wanted to devour all life forms on the planet and swallow the planet itself along with its core.
It’s said they are invading worlds across the universe.
It’s been like this since the birth of their race, seeking destruction across all worlds, what their motive is, no one knows for sure.
The main races on Blue Planet were;
The Dragons, who were said to be unrivaled in magic.
The Phoenix, who were competing with the Dragons for the supreme magic title (by the way, which wasn’t even a thing).
The Titan race, who were unrivaled in brute strength and force; the Elves, who were unrivaled in wind and spirit magic.
The Dwarves, who were said to be unrivaled in blacksmithing but were still battle-hardened.
The Human race, who were called the jack-of-all-trades, good at everything but hardly better than other races at any particular concept.
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