25: The Thousand-Year-Old Man
Fanfic
A man gets a wish, a world, and booster, and wishes for a System, Marvel, and to be an Adept, which grants him quick growth and adaptability to any skill. As punishment for stretching the booster, he gets sent to Marvel… to be born two years before Selena Gallo (20,000+ BCE). Worse, the quests from his system are over-the-top. For example, he gets a quest to gain one power per week for a year, but the quests involve ripping out his own bones and making them into weapons multiple times a day for a week for the ability to manipulate his skeleton at will (Spyke) and licking one hundred new rocks a day for a week for a heightened sense of taste. Still, he puts himself through it and comes out stronger, smarter, and more skilled. Naturally, he ended up joining Conan and Red Sonya in pursuing the Snake Sorcerer, only for the MC to sacrifice himself in a crystal entombment trap for his allies to make their way through. He survives being trapped, and finds the crystal works as an excellent resistance trainer for his physical stats, and he uses astral projection and meditation to explore the world and improve his mental stats.
Around 20,000 years later (which only works out to 4000 personal years, due to meditation, the crystal, and astral projection meddling with his personal time), Cain Marko, a decent-ish man and an adventurer, finds himself, with female assistant, in the cave that the MC is trapped in. In an attempt to gain the Red Gem of Cyttorak, Marko accidentally weakens the Crystal enough that the MC's physical stats, that had stagnated in growth recently, were finally enough to break his prison. The MC then helps prevent the stealing of the Gem and the creation of the evil Juggernaut (devastated by killing his 'assistant' and driven mad by Cyttorak), instead giving both of them mystical enhancements and activating their X-genes, creating Indomitable and Adept, an ever-strengthening man who cannot be moved unless he wants to and cannot be stopped unless he chooses to, and a woman who is skilled enough to learn anything at top speed and adaptable enough to reach the peak of whatever she studies. After six months of learning about the current time (he had been meditating for 50 years), and teaching them both how to use, control, and conceal their powers (and a healthy amount of regular teaching and relationship advice) the MC ventures into the world to start his REAL adventures.
Resource packet: Magic Spreadsheet, 4000-Y-O Man spreadsheet.
