Greetings and felicitations, readers! I'm back with another chapter for y'all. Have I put this out too soon? Maybe, but I don't care. Enjoy the first chapter of The Immortal Sorcerer (the previous is meant to be the prologue). This chapter features a little more of Mido's powers. I'll be explaining my plans for his powers a little in the end notes. Word Count: ~1394(about twice as many as the previous chapter. Still short, but I hope to make these longer btw.) and just over 6 pages.
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"Whas happinin?" Midoriya sputtered out as he jolted awake to the sound of his alarm. As he lay wondering why he had set an alarm the events of yesterday came back to him and he remembered the decision he had come to. "Oh yeah," he said, finally getting up. "I need to start my training."
Brushing the remnants of sleep from his mind Midoriya wished, not for the first time, that being immortal made him immune to things tiredness and neck pain. He then decided to work on a training regime. That until he was interrupted by his growling stomach.
"Right. Food first, then training," he said with a sigh. This wasn't the first time he had forgotten breakfast. After rummaging through the fridge Midoriya decided on a simple american dish: eggs and bacon. Once he finished eating, he turned back to organizing a training regime.
"Alright, I need a place to train. Hmm, Takobah Municipal Beach?" he said as he stumbled across an article about how a once stunning beach was now covered in mounds of trash. "Hero work isn't all about crushing villains," Midoriya said as he decided to clean the beach for his training.
Then it hit him. He didn't exist. He had no birth certificate; no schooling records; no citizenship; nothing. Just because he's an immortal sorcerer that learned under Einstein himself doesn't mean he can say that and be believed. He learned his lesson after he went to that mental institution for "delusions of grandeur". This had to be fixed immediately if wanted to continue with his plans. He just hoped he won't have to do anything too drastic.
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"Dark, suspicious clothing? Check. Ski mask with visor? Check. Trojan Drive? Check. The energies of the world that assist me in sorcery? That's always around, so check. Lock picks and various other tools to explain how I got in if I get caught" -'I'd rather not reveal my true abilities just yet'- "Check. Assorted firearms and their respective ammos just incase? Check."
"I think that's everything," Midoriya said to himself, looking over the things for tonight's operation.
■□Flashback□■
An entire week of planning and researching had gone into these plans. He had accounted for all but the most unlikely of variables. Guard rotations,camera movements, the most efficient routes; all of it. He just prayed that Eraserhead wasn't patrolling the area tonight.
Despite 17 years of researching quirks he still wasn't sure how some affected his magic. He really hoped that Eraserhead's quirk didn't do what he thought it would.
"Tonight I will be infiltrating Japan's National Archives to officially become a person so I can become a hero," Midoriya said going over tonight's plans once more. "As I like my anonymity quite a bit I'll be using sorcery as little as possible. Getting in will be easy as the locks aren't all that complex. And by 'not all that complex' I mean they're the standard level 5 locks all government buildings have.
"Remaining undetected on the other hand will be a lot harder," Midoriya sighed as he thought of the swarms of guards and hordes of cameras the building has. "It makes sense seeing as how the JNA contains everything about everyone who's a citizen of Japan."
■□Flashback End□■
As he approached the JNA by rooftop Midoriya expanded his awareness looking for out of place energy signatures.
'Everything's going as planned and nothing is out of place,' he thought as he breathed a sigh of relief the Eraserhead was nowhere to be found.
With that thought he jumped down into an alley behind the Archive building, his forest green eyes flashing gold as he summoned some wind to cushion and silence his landing. Midoriya then walked to the Archive building's back entrance and got to work on picking the door's lock.
'Interesting; keypad lock along with a standard level 5 lock,' Midoriya noted. 'Luckily not much has changed in locking systems since I was last awake.'
'Why do buildings such as these have alley entrances?' he thought as he felt the first tumbler fall into place. 'Ah well, it makes my job a whole lot easier.'
As he struggled with the second tumbler, Midoriya once again expanded his awareness out to search for anything that might force him to stop. After half a minute of struggling with the lock, the second tumbler slotted into place.
'I'm getting slow,' he thought, moving onto the third tumbler. 'I'm usually a lot faster at this.'
After several agonizingly slow minutes the seventh and final tumbler fell into place and Midoriya was finally able to move onto the keypad. Pulling the cover off the keypad he was able to make short work of the keypad by using some simple heat manipulation to sense what keys had been recently used by bringing the residual heat in the keys to a higher temperature.
With the code entered and the lock picked the door popped open with an audible click that sounded like a gunshot in the quiet of the night. Midoriya prayed that no one heard the door open and entered the Nation Archive building closing the door behind him.
'A little strange for a keypad on the back door of a government building to have so much residual heat,' Midoriya thought, a little shocked that the heat manipulation trick worked at all. 'I guess corruption is a lot more rampant than I first thought. Ah well, that's one of the things I hope I can fix when I become a hero.'
Taking his time so he wouldn't get caught, Midoriya navigated the corridors of the building with unsettling ease. As he avoided cameras and guards Midoriya manipulated the air around his feet to create a small vacuum to prevent the sound of his feet from going far.
'This building is a lot bigger than I first thought,' Midoriya evaluated, dodging guards and looking for the proper room.
After searching for nearly a quarter of an hour, he found the room he was looking for: Archives N-M. As he pulled out his lock picks once more, Midoriya heard one of the guards approaching. Slightly panicking, he quickly picked the door's lock and slipped into the room, shutting the door right as the guard rounded the corner.
"That was close," Midoriya murmured over the sound of his thundering heart. Moving to the terminal in the center of the room, Midoriya took notice of a door on the other side of the room.
'Two doors. Use one to escape if someone comes from the other,' he thought, already planning possible escape routes. 'An eight-sequence passcode protecting the terminal.
"Getting around this will be a piece of cake with my Trojan Drive," Midoriya said as he inserted the Drive into the computer content to let it take care of adding all the digital copies of his falsified records to the archives. While his Drive took care of one set of records Midoriya moved to the filing cabinets to take care of the physical records.
"N… N… N… Ma… Mc… Me…" Midoriya mumbled, listing off the labels on the filing cabinets trying to find Mi. "Ah, here we are."
Midoriya then opened the appropriate drawer and put the fake physical records in the proper place as dictated by the universal filing system that is alphabetical order. As he closed the drawer, the Trojan Drive let out a soft ping indicating that it had finished copying the files and erasing all evidence that the system had been breached.
"I'm now officially a citizen of Japan,' Midoriya said to himself with a small smile, once again extending his awareness. "Time to scat, cat."
Then he felt it, someone was approaching the JNA building. Someone powerful and fast. Feeling this Midoriya gathered his remaining tools and made his way out of the building as fast and as stealthily as he could.
'Guess I wasn't as stealthy as I thought,' Midoriya silently cursed. 'Just a little farther. Come on come on come on.'
Midoriya burst through the back door and slammed it behind him not caring for stealth as who ever it was that was coming was almost on top of him. 'I'm in the clear,' he sighed in relief. Then a voice made him stop in his tracks.
"Just where do you think you're going?"
'Damn.'
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Yep; a cliffhanger. I was going to make the chapter longer, but this seemed like a good place to stop... Well, how'd y'all enjoy this chapter?
Time for the sorcery explanation as promised. I'm trying to aim for a broad-range energy manipulation for Midoriya's sorcery with him having a mastery in the conjuration and manipulation of the elements of nature. This would allow him to control things like Fire, Water, Earth, Air/Wind, Nature, Ice, Light, and Darkness. In this chapter we saw some heat and wind manipulation, and I'll be introducing abilities slowly in the next few chapters until we hit the entrance exam as Midori likes his anonymity.
Everything on our planet is comprised of the first four, or the classical elements- Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Various states and combinations of them make up the other four. We get Darkness and Light through Fire. Water gives us Ice, and Earth gives us Nature. These elements are vital for human survival; they make life possible. So a mastery of all eight would make you immortal, at least that's my interpretation of it.
Abilities seen so far(organized by chapt):
Energy sense(allows him to feel the energy around him and detect life within a 50m radius)(Prologue)
Heat & Wind manipulation(self-explanatory)(Chapt 1)
See you next chapter. And Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
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Welcome to Read & Reply(R&R), the part of the fic where I read your reviews and respond to them
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Me: Here's a longer chapter although it's not as long as I want it to be. And some new abilities as well as some basic ideas I have for Mido's magic