DESTINY GAMES

The tower of destiny is everywhere. It is both a physical and mental location. It can be accessed from anywhere by anyone who has awakened.

According to the history that Kelvin knows, the tower of destiny didn't always exist. Apparently, it arrived almost a hundred years ago. Since then, the world has changed. People could awaken abilities; fighting in the destiny games became a thing; otherworlders could come from other worlds; and people could even love forever if they managed to reach the top floor of the tower.

He doesn't have a lofty goal like his father. He doesn't plan to destroy the world and remake it into an utopia. He would be content with eternal life. This and the fact he is not a stranger to danger make him unafraid of the deadly destiny games despite being just 17 years old.

He doesn't have to enter the tower yet, but he decided to give it a go and see what it is all about. So he pushed past the threshold of concentration and then found himself standing in a large white space.

There was no sky or ground. He was just standing in the air, surrounded by whiteness. But then he will end it for there to be changes. It made screens appear around him.

Events were showing on the screens. They were numerous and kept increasing in number. They became so many that he became dizzy. He had to give the command to stop the changes for fear of fainting.

He waved his hand and said, "Reduce."

The screens reduced in number until only one remained. He thought for some time before giving another command.

"Show me Patriarch's last fight."

The display on the screen changed to display an arena. A group of gladiators were fighting in what appeared to be an arena. He was able to pick out his father from the others despite the armor he was wearing.

His father was easily the tallest. He was about 2.5 meters tall. His skin that showed through the seams of the armor was obsidian black. All of these confirmed that it was indeed Patriarch.

He had heard tales of his father's great strength and even occasionally caught glimpses of his fights with heroes, but he had never been opportuned to see his father in all his glory.

He reached out to the screen, which caused it to expand. It filled the whole white world until he was standing as a giant over a three dimensional arena, looking down at the fight.

"This is great. I can learn all the moves he promised to teach us but didn't this way."

He became engrossed in the fight and didn't notice as time passed. His father won the game. He killed the other competitors or forced them to surrender. It was an end that Kelvin expected.

He wasn't worried much anyway. Death in the Destiny Games is not absolute. From what he has heard, unless someone loses too much Destiny, they won't die in real life when they die in the tower of Destiny. They will only become weakened.

"I guess I should find out more about the games. This is going to be my destiny now. I too must fight in the Destiny Games."

He doesn't know what the threshold of real death is or many other things about the tower of destiny. All he knows is that everyone that awakens must participate in it once every month for 100 fights. They have to survive all 100 fights and achieve eternal life, or they will die along the way.

He believes that if he is to survive until the end, he must gain more information. So he willed it to return to the real world. This caused whatever he was standing on to fall from underneath his feet. He fell and appeared back in the room he borrowed.

The abrupt changes to his environment made him stumble and swoon for a while. But he soon recovered. Then he got to work on getting the information he needed.

The usual methods of acquiring information he grew up with were lectures, books, and movies. He was aware of the internet, but father had banned them from using it. So he was a little excited to borrow a phone.

The phone was locked, so he had to return to the corpse of the previous owner of the room that he stashed in the fridge. He did so to copy their finger prints. It needed delicate work, but he managed it after 10 minutes. Then he granted access to the great and powerful internet.

"Show me your secrets," he said to the phone with bright eyes.

It did show him its secrets. But it might have been too much. He had too many options and links at his disposal. His curiosity made him get lost several times. That combined with his inexperience made it difficult to acquire the information he needed.

He eventually managed to narrow down the details of the Tower of Destiny, how the games work, necessary commands, tools, and most importantly, how the power system works.

That last part was enlightening. The whole article was, but that last part showed him the path to survival.

"There are two kinds of destiny in the Destiny Games. There is permanent destiny and temporary destiny. Temporary destiny is used to increase your attributes. It can only be acquired from your fans and flowers. The more fans you have that support you, the more temporary destiny you will have, the stronger you will become."

"Permanent destiny is also used to make your attributes more powerful. It is your kill count. It can only be acquired by killing other participants in the Destiny Games."

"Those are the two most important things to pay attention to if you want to survive the Destiny Games and grow stronger. Together they have a multiplicative effect on your attributes."

"But you shouldn't neglect game points, which you will have to use to expand the repertoire of the ability you have awakened. There's also win streaks and achievements."

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A/N: What do you think of the power system?