Edited 04/28/2020
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Author's note - Hey i should be able to get a few chapters out this week so look forward to year one and summer coming out this week. Well unless something happens. I'm starting on year one right away and i'm planning to finish it in two very long chapters. So get ready for two chapters that could be anywhere from 5k to 10k each.
Harry loved reading especially in a thunderstorm. In his hands was an old tome about the evolution of man. Within the book there was a lesson.
In antiquity there were two types of men. Those who believed a rustle in the bushes was the wind and those who believed it was a predator. Those men who believed a malevolent force could be behind the rustle lived on and spread their genes. Those who believed it to be the wind were eaten by predators. From an evolutionary standpoint it made sense. Even if nine out of ten bushes only rustled because of the wind, there was always a chance that a predator laid in wait.
This storm was his rustling bush and odds were good there was a malefic intent behind it. Did that mean he should be warry of all storms from now on? Should he search them out for monsters?
There was a monster behind this storm. Harry watched the clouds above churned. Lightning struck a nearby house. The house lit up quickly and the rain did little to stop it.
Hours after the storm arrived, he'd written a letter to Dumbledore in hope of reinforcement. This was just the type of attack that could bring the wizarding world to war against the cult of the SS.
Another crash of lightning revealed a creature of great size and terror. It was large as a house with great bat wings, a face of tentacles, and eyes too intelligent. An insidious will flowed from the creature and the rain poured down harder than before. His sixth sense touched the monster and he felt an endless well of energy. Some outer force powered this creature. As he stared into the abyss, he felt something that was malignant. Harry jerked back his sixth sense and closed it from the creature.
As he was Harry knew he couldn't match the creature. Instead, he closed the blinds in his room and crossed his legs in meditation. He could never trust another storm not to hold some star spawn come to slay him.
Five of his sever all orbs floated around his meditating form. As lightning crashed against the ground Harry contemplated his next step in cultivation. He needed far more essence to reach the next stage in refinery.
Lightning smashed against his home, but it never caught fire. The creature outside refused to come closer. For now, they were safe.
Harry began to meditate about essence refinement. The current incarnation of his technique wasn't cutting it. Using only the qi in his body wasn't enough. Then there was the fact he didn't use his body as a filter anymore. Such a practice was damaging to the physical form. There were ways to mitigate the damage, but none were readily available.
There was no instruction for his current path, a mistake on his part could end his path here. He could taint his qi irreparably. That's why the path of reincarnation was so useful. There was a clear roadmap. There was also a black thread connected to that portion of qi.
What was the difference between his sever all orbs and his own inner qi? Harry opened his eyes after several hours had passed.
In their current state the sever all orbs were useless for qi refinement. They were too primal and incapable of differentiating from pure and impure essence.
A day passed as Harry crafted orb after orb, but none can take on more than a single order.
The house shook as a massive tentacle smashed into the side of it. Somehow number 4 private drive repelled the tentacle. A small red barrier appeared around the house before impact. Harry could sense the copper tang of blood from it.
The beast withdrew back into the dense cover of rain.
Another day passed, and Harry opened his eyes from meditation with the answer. It had been so obvious, but he couldn't see it before. Harry's internal qi was the refinery. He was the machine that purified the essence. There was no need for five extra refineries. What Harry needed was more essence to refine.
His five sever all glowed with life as they severed free the essence to fall into Harry's refinery. Now that his refinery didn't have to fight to pull, he could concentrate solely on refining.
Three days passed, and Harry's body was completely covered by a shell of filth. Five green orbs spun in place as the filth hardened around him.
He was pushing against the door. This was it he'd smash through the bottle neck and into qi refinery stage three. Vast amounts of essence rushed into him as he refined it so fast his spiritual sea boiled. Harry felt a shattering run through his body as the barrier of the 3rd stage broke. His qi expanded from a tiny puddle into the beginnings of a well. His body began to overflow with strength as his refinery speed increased further.
Hours passed and even five times his essence absorption rate wasn't enough for his refinery. To reach the next level, he'd need to hone his magic.
Harry stood up and the shell of filth shattered around him. His body glowed with a slight green sheen of qi. More power filled his body than ever before. He wasn't even halfway to the foundry level and already he felt incredible.
This time, he dared to stretch his sixth sense out. He reached out and touched the creature before him and saw the endless well of power. Harry was a speck compared to this creature. Its power was inevitable, its form malleable, and its mind alien. He spat out a mouthful of blood and fell down shaking.
Harry reasoned that perhaps an upstart mortal barely on the path to immortality couldn't win against a god. On the bright side it seemed that it couldn't get through the barrier.
After opening his window Harry made his way to the roof. The rain was sea water and something else mixed in. To be safe Harry formed a small green barrier around himself. A basic qi technique. Unfortunately, his barrier barely kept the rain out. He'd need a lot of practice before his barrier could take a punch.
The creature moved forward its body massive. Harry could see the bodies of all the denizens of private drive attached to the creature's flesh. They were used to fill some wound on the creature. Like living stitches their forms held the beast's flesh together. Tentacles from the wound stabbed through them. Harry could see some of them were withered away from the tentacles draining nutrients from their bodies.
It was disgusting. The people trapped in the wound didn't beg for help or try to escape. They moaned in some perverse pleasure. Whatever this was they didn't want to leave it. Their hands fought to acquire more tentacles to fit inside themselves. Even as their bodies turned into the creature's flesh and their faces were buried, they cried out in lust.
Ms. Fig was held in center place with the most tentacles jammed into her flesh. It seemed she was instrumental for the creature's recovery. Her eyes were gone replaced with green tentacles. Her naked body was the slowest to be consumed by the monster's slick green flesh.
Lightning struck the ground and the monster lumbered towards number 4 private drive.
The monster lashed out only for its tentacle to stop once more against the red barrier. Harry took an orb of sever all and flattened it into a disk. He tossed it aiming at the tentacle. The disk sliced halfway through the tentacle spilling blood everywhere.
Blood seeped from the wound quickly transforming into smaller tentacled monsters. The wound quickly closed and the monster lashed out again.
Harry created an sever orb and sent it down on one of the spawned creatures. The creature was absorbed into the sever all and the orb quickly grew. Harry pulled the orb to himself and senses a colossal amount of essence within the orb. Harry sent the other orbs down and soon had five orbs filled to the brim with essence. They were so full they threatened to crack open.
Immediately, Harry took this good fortune for what it was and quickly refined the essence. Afterwards, he sensed his power was roughly 15% closer to the next stage. Harry looked at the creature with undisguised greed.
Three days later
Harry opened his eyes and let out a yell. Qi glowed around his body and tiny sparks shot off him. He entered the fourth stage of refinery. Seven orbs of sever all appeared behind his back. The creature lumbered back over to him and slammed against the barrier. Harry was ready for it.
Before the tentacle could reach the barrier, Harry unleashed four desks of sever all. Together they sliced through the tentacle and it fell quickly forming into another much smaller star spawn. It turned just in time to be ripped into by seven orbs of sever all. The orbs grew to massive sizes as they dipped passed the barrier and back to Harry.
All of it happened in moments. Harry could sense the creature thoroughly now. Its power had dipped while Harry's rose. It had brain damage and that was why it needed worshipers to heal itself. Harry supposed he was selected as the final ingredient it needed to finish the process.
Harry couldn't sense any other star spawn in the area. This could have been a lone attack. The Star Spawn may not be unified, or this guy could be the boss. Its ability to react was drastically limited.
Five days later
An explosion shot through Harry's body as he reached the fifth stage of refinery. Ten orbs of sever all appeared around him and his body was much stronger than before. Most of the wound on the creature's head was healed it moved faster.
This time it didn't approach the barrier its tentacles moved, and lightning blasted off its tentacles and smashed into the barrier. Harry was blinded as the lightning continued to blast. When his vision returned there were cracks in the barrier. The creature lurched forward its body turning into a viscous like substance. The barrier reformed cutting the creature off.
Inside the barrier was roughly a tenth of the creature. Harry attacked it, but it became liquid shifting into multiple human sized versions of the monster outside.
The beast outside seemed smug beyond imagining. The star spawn within quickly became gas and traveled up to Harry. They surrounded him while he held his breath and kept his barrier up. The massive star spawn turned into lightning again and prepared to blast the barrier again.
The small star spawn wrapped around him pushing against his barrier. Harry's seven orbs lashed out cutting and absorbing to the point to bursting. With over a tenth of the star spawn broken down into essence he couldn't do a thing as the thing turned into lightning.
"Crucio," even as living lightning the creature shook in pain. Harry could sense a measure of fear from the creature.
A bird of flame smashed into the creature forcing it back into its original form. With the distraction happening Harry began refining the essence at an incredible rate. He'd developed a taste for processing this brand of divinity. In minutes, he processed the essence and broke into the sixth stage. Instead of a pond of internal qi he developed a river. Nine sever all orbs appeared around the young qi expert as he stood up.
He took a step off the roof leaping down and dashing through the mud. His feet barely touched the ground when he appeared next to the cavalry. Harry pointed his wand at the creature and three orbs shot forth eating holes through the monster. It was now Harry realized yet another Dao, consumption.
"Harry, dear boy, are you alright." An old man with a long beard asked. Harry pointed his wand at the monster again and fired another three shots. His other orbs returned, and he refined the energy within at an incredible speed.
Harry turned to the old man and hugged him.
"Thank you, sir, if you were a second later, I'd be dead. Is Hedwig alright?" Harry asked.
The man's eyes twinkled, and a small smile crept over his face. "Yes, my boy Hedwig is fine, and Fawkes is here to save the day."
The other three orbs returned, and Harry quickly refined their essence. After absorbing so much, he realized he was in another bottle neck. Harry's eyes glowed green as he lost a bit of control over his essence. He had enough sense to release his savior before he crushed him.
Even in the pouring rain Fawkes burned bright. The phoenix ripped through the star spawn tearing pieces away which quickly burned to ash. Each time it tried to change into something to take the advantage the black-haired man hit it with a crucio. The pain broke its concentration keeping it in its vulnerable solid form.
"Headmaster, I fear for the war effort. It requires a phoenix and constant application of the illegal pain curse just to take on one of these creatures. How did you survive Mr. Potter?" The dark-haired man questioned.
"My home has a blood shield and the beast was healing from a brain injury. If it had been at full power, I'd have died." Fawkes flew up in the air and glowed with more fire than before. The clouds opened revealing the sun.
Fawkes shot down blazing hotter than ever. He struck the star spawn and fire shot through the creature. In moments the monster burned to ash.
"Well my body with this matter behind us. How about you pack up and head to the train station? I'll take things from here." The headmaster said.
The young qi expert made his way inside and began to pack up. The two coffins underground still held two living mortals within. They would survive in the salve until he returned. Harry doubted that was the only star spawn in existence. What could they do against two, ten, or a hundred of them? That one had brain damage and wasn't fully healed even at the end.
He decided to push himself to reach foundry level. He would never know when the next rainstorm would hold an army of those creatures. Any storm could be the end.
Chapter end
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