Saturday, July 18th, 2044. Mount Verdure Plateau. I watched as the end of the beam shrunk, quickly disappearing into nothing. I lowered my arm, not feeling the least bit winded from releasing so much energy at once. If I have to guess, I would say that I have only used about 10 percent in that attack. This crazy power; this so-called Legendary Mode. It is far too much… too much for a human to handle, and far too dangerous at that. I focused and tried to calm my energy and my shifty emotions. The flaming aura again reduced itself to a mere emerald glow of light. I turned to my friends. William and Tanaka’s faces were largely unreadable. But it seemed to me as if they were looking at me as if I were… a monster. At this point, after what I had just done, I probably was. I had taken up a vil

