Laying comfortably on the living room couch in an extravagantly lavish mansion was a small family of three. The father was very tall, with dark chocolate-toned skin. His face held a slight smile as he looked down at the woman cuddled up in his arms. "Look at him, he's so caught up in the anime that he completely forgot about us," he said, chuckling quietly. "Let him be. He really likes to watch Zak Chronicles, plus isn't it amazing, he's just 2 years old, and yet instead of watching simple baby cartoons, he can understand the complexities within the storyline of such an anime. Thankfully it's rated G." she said with admiration flashing in her hazel eyes. "Yes, our son is a rare genius. So much so that normal schooling is beneath him. I plan to get some of the best private teachers to home-school him. What say you?." he asked. "Make sure you get the best teacher in the country for each subject area. And spare no expense."
"Naturally darling." he said warmly while running his hands up and down her silky smooth chocolate skin. "only the best is good enough,"
In front of them was a toddler sitting cross-legged, his dark brown almost black eyes were glued to the TV screen on the wall before him. "Zak is so cool and so powerful," he said, unknowingly voicing his thoughts out loud. He was fully engrossed in the latest episode of his favorite anime called Chronicles Of The Great Zak. With eyes shining like stars he turned to his parents and said "I know what I want to be when I grow up."
"Oh really, do tell then. What is our little star going to be in the future huh? Are you gonna change from a physicist?"
"I'm going to be strong just like Zak. I'm going to be the most powerful human ever. With fire superpowers too, just like Zak."
His parents looked at him for a few seconds in stunned silence, then burst out laughing. "Yes, yes our son is going to be the strongest and most powerful human ever. And when that time comes what name will you, the greatest human be called? Surely not Dontaé St Leo Charles right?"
"You're right, I'll be known by the great name Zakquazé." Dontaé's parents burst out laughing again and the atmosphere was very harmonious. They thought that this was just a phase and that Dontaé would eventually grow out of it, but what they did not know was that he was devoted, and that he would subsequently stir up major waves across the world on his path of pursuing the peak of humanity.
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Dontaé's heavy eyelids twitched slightly as he awoke from his slumber. He could hear the other lions around him, especially the cubs who were playing around still. "Why am I suddenly dreaming about that moment?" he thought while yawning "ahhhh-hhaaaaaarrrrr."
"It was a pleasant dream nonetheless. Open system" he commanded mentally. The system panel then appeared before him, his eyes scanning for any changes.
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Name: None
Race: Golden Lion (Normal Beast)
Elemental Affinity:
• Fire
• Light
Race Elemental Affinity:
• Fire
Cultivation Base:
• None (Continue absorbing solar aura)
Cultivation Techniques:
• None
Special Physique:
• None
Skills:
• Flame Lord (Unique, Locked),
• Swordsmanship (Basic III Tier)
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"Mhmm, the information is basically the same but it's presented differently. And still no name. But why though, I've been referring to myself as Zakquazé since crossing worlds so why in heaven's is the system still saying that I'm nameless? Zakquazé is the brainchild of my boundless creativity. Zak was inspired by Zak, my favorite anime character, and Quazé was inspired by Rayquaza the best legendary pokémon ever. However because my name is spelled with an accented "é" at the end, I swapped out the last "a" from Quaza and put the accented "é" from Dontaé to create the glorious name: ZAKQUAZÉ. It's definitely the coolest name in the history of names, so I truly can't fathom why this system won't register my name as Zakquazé and remove that stupid "none" shit. "Maybe there's more to this whole naming thing than what meets the eye. It might even be something like how names work for monsters in the TenSura verse. The crazy thing is that I was actually thinking of coming up with some cool names to call my siblings too. As a former human, it is too inconvenient for me to communicate without using names. But If it's really anything like in the TenSura verse then I'll need to be cautious and refrain from casually giving names to others, no matter how tedious it may be."
(From this moment forward, Dontaé will be referred to as Zakquazé.)
It was now dawn and Father Lion echoed a thunderous roar, instructing all the lions to gather for today's solar aura cultivation. Soon all of us gathered around him who was lying comfortably with the two injured cubs from last night resting against his side while whimpering in pain. Mother lion also came limping over, her front paw still broken. Everyone sat around him, and soon the sun's rays made it over the horizon shining brightly upon the pride who began cultivating in earnest. "Finally time to test the validity of my new training plan." Zakquazé thought.
Usually, absorbing solar aura would be a gradual and invisible process. Which Zak already knew from experience. However, now the solar aura was being absorbed into his body faster than before with a few sparse almost invisible red sparks floating around him. "Whoah, this is totally awesome." He thought. "Compared to before, my cultivation speed has increased by approximately three times. Three flipping times." Zakquazé was so excited that he broke out of his meditative state thus interrupting his aura absorption. "Calm down, calm down. I have to calm down. My guess was correct and this is indeed the right path but I can't be losing my composure like this or I won't be able to get any cultivation done today. I've experienced much success and glory in my past life, and I am sure my path in this life will be infinitely greater. My dominance is certain as long as I don't die prematurely. This success is just a minor step in my journey, no need to get overly agitated." He said, his natural arrogance slowly reappearing in his personality, successfully getting his excitement under control. He immediately restarted his solar aura cultivation.
***About an hour later***
"Huh, my cultivation speed abruptly dropped back to normal just now." Zakquaza opened his eyes and began to examine himself. "All my fatigue is gone as well as all of my muscle injuries. When muscles are stressed during exercise, they experience microscopic damage. The body then repairs this damage, and in the process, it adds new protein to the muscle fibers, making them larger. This process is called muscle hypertrophy. It seems something similar is going on here, but instead of adding new protein to the muscles, the solar aura is added instead, making the muscles stronger."
"Based on my PhD in bullshit anime & WebNovel science, I theories that if I continue with my new training plan, then my body will gradually get stronger much faster than normal. It would also increase the effectiveness and duration of the multiplied cultivation speed state which would also make me stronger and faster, forming a virtuous cycle. Hahahaha, damn, I think I found a bug. I really am too smart."
"Wait, if the solar aura can speed up healing maybe it can fix up my siblings and mother lion." As soon as that thought crossed his mind Zakquazé turned around to where father lion was. The two siblings were already perfectly fine and absorbing solar aura normally. He then looked over to Mother Lion and she also seemed much better, it was not fully healed but it was not far from it. "Brother and sister were given fire element particles by the lionesses last night which explains why they are fully healed before mother. That must also mean that the solar aura the system mentioned is just fire element particles like the ones I absorbed in the void. How else then could the adults release it from their bodies if they did not first absorb it?
He then went back to cultivating solar aura for the rest of the day. When night fell, his siblings now fully healed rushed towards him glad to see him again. They then started communicating in their squeaky growls and roars with Zakquazé saying to them " Last night you guys were way too reckless. Running out into danger like that while we are still weak is too dangerous. This time it ended ok, but you need to be more careful in the future. The other thing I want to mention to you is that I have come up with a new training plan that I want all of us to do together, however, It involves pushing your body to its absolute physical limit and then over the limit through intense physical training at night. Then by cultivating solar aura during the day the damage to the body will be healed making us stronger each time. I have already tried it and it sped up my cultivation by three times and that was just the first try. I guess that it can get even better up to tens even hundreds of times. So are you in or not?"
"As long as it can improve our strength then I'm in no doubt." Zak's brother said. "Yeah, big brother is always doing fun stuff, I'm in too." Zak's little sister added.
"Good, but keep what I said to you a secret. And we also need to find a place away from the rest of the pride to cultivate during the day. I'm sure you all noticed that the only adult male in the pride is father lion, why do you think that's the case?"
"Mhmm, maybe because Father ran out all of the other adult males." his brother speculated.
"Makes sense." sister added. "It's good to see that you're all at least a bit smart," Zakquazé commented smirking. "Hey, what's that supposed to mean huh?" sister growled, stamping her paws in mock anger. "So that means that once me and brother become adults then our father will fight us out to retain his dominant male position. Sis, you can escape this fate, however, I don't want our potential future enemy to know of a method to become stronger than they already are just to beat us up. So when that time comes if I'm strong enough then I will challenge Father and take over the pride, but if I'm not, then brother and I will leave to form a pride together outside."
"Hey, are you crazy, what do you mean you two are going to leave? If your your going to leave then I'm coming too." sister said, her face showing a hurt expression.
"Aawwww, my dear little sister can't bear seeing me go away huh? Luckily for you I was planning on asking you to come with us if that scenario indeed played out no need to worry." Zakquazé said.
"Alright get ready training starts tonight. I will not tolerate slacking, My goal is to cultivate to become a tremendous force in this world. And I want you both to join me on that journey to the top. Strength is a must for all of us. Ok?"
"Ok." "Ok." they both replied with anticipation.