The Ancient Ones were alarmed

The ORIGIN watched as Erste ate the essence of death. The ORIGIN had given Erste enough knowledge to understand what the essence of death was, but he did not give him too much information since the other party did not seem to like it when he gave guidance.

The powerful body of Erste's ceased to function as the essence of death corroded it. What Erste needed to do was almost an impossible task for a being defined as alive. Not only did the essence of death require an absurd amount of willpower to overcome it also required an immense amount of luck, enough luck that could defy destiny itself, if that wasn't enough one must be able to surpass death while still alive.