Your true colors

The park was hot, several children were running along the grass, but still a couple was peacefully having a picnic.

"You know Alice I think I've already decided what I'm going to do in the future"

"What?"

"I'm going to revolutionize the world with..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the nearby lake starts bubbling and flooding the park and amidst all the water he looks at his wife and she says only one word.

"Wake up"

He closes his eyes and when he opens them again he realizes that he is in a humid room illuminated by candles.

His eyes soon become accustomed to the ambient light and he begins to look around, only to realize that he is not alone, there are in this room, two men in iron armor, one man in a purple robe and the other with his back to him.

The man in the robe who appears to be an old man spoke to the man with his back.

"He's awake sir."

The man slowly turns around, a thick mustache is the first thing Adam notices, followed by a pair of thick arms, and lastly a sword at his waist.

"Look into my eyes, you bastard"

The man did not take a single step, yet his resounding voice echoed throughout the room and Adam shrank back in his chair, a muscle memory.

The young man slowly lifted his head and looked into the man's eyes, fury was hidden there, he knew the man would kill him immediately and without mercy.

"Tell me bastard, why were your clothes soiled with blood if your body doesn't possess a single wound"

He crossed his arms and raised his chin, making his imposing figure even more menacing.

"The wolf did indeed bite me sir, but the person who killed him also healed me before he left."

The man clenched his fists even tighter.

"And, why would he help a bastard like you and not my firstborn?"

Adam knew what he meant and he was also sure that if he answered in a bad way he would end up dying.

"It was because I was alive"

The man opened his eyes wide, his left hand quickly came to touch the hilt of the sword, he squeezed it hard, but in the end he gave up.

"Tell me bastard, who was your savior?"

"I don't know my lord, he wore a mask, so I couldn't see his face"

Surely he knew who it was, but he decided not to answer.

The man turned and from his back asked a question.

"Tell me my brother's son, did you have anything to do with this attack?"

"No"

It was a lie, since Adam was the one who contacted the demons from the east to attack the carriage and kill Count Writt's son.

"Release him"

The boy was quickly untied and led away by one of the guards. As he walked, Adam was thinking.

~Damn, Adam why the fuck did you put me in such a jam, all right you were in pain, but killing a baby is too cruel, and because of your trait he is also here.

[Soul]

[Trait given to those chosen by the God of death]

[Effect: all those who die around you become attached to your body]

~And because of the awakening of the trait I can now see all the dead from a day ago.

[Otherworldly vision - dead]

[Effect: Ability to see the souls you have absorbed and interact with them]

~Hello baby.

A baby about five months old floats next to Adam, equally a wolf big enough to barely fit in the hallway and several soldiers follow him.

"We have arrived bastard, stay in your room until your uncle tells you what to do"

Adam locks the door and sits on the bed, all the ghosts barely fit in the room and doing a quick count there were 6 horses, 2 handmaids, 2 coachmen, 6 riders and 1 wolf all in the room.

"Activate skill [Invasion of the other world - dead]"

[Invasion of the other world - dead]

[Effect: You can enter a world of your own, where the souls acquired from the 'Soul' trait dwell]

The whole world turned ghostly green, the ghosts that before seemed ethereal became tangible and Adam stood in front of everyone and spoke.

"Now you will kneel and declare your allegiance or you will go to a place worse than hell, you will go to non-existence and never return."

The six soldiers drew their swords and swung them in the man's direction, but their swords stopped before they reached his body.

The giant wolf ran straight up and ran over everyone else, it opened its mouth wide and tried to swallow the young man with a single bite, but its jaws stopped before it didn't even cover his body.

"Don't do that, this is my world and if I say kneel do it"

Immediately everyone fell on their foreheads to the ground.

"You know in my old world, I dedicated my life to my project, I always helped when I was asked and I always believed when I was apologized to, and what did I get in the end? A stab in the back."

He put his hands behind his back and began to walk slowly.

"Everyone betrayed me and I saw no choice but to come here, hoping it would be different, but seeing the way they treat me.... I have decided to rule this world and you will be my pawns in this new 'project', so make up your minds."

He stopped in front of a servant girl and asked her.

"Do you swear allegiance to me?"

The woman looked him in the eye and spat.

"I would never serve a bastard."

Now with a spittle stain on his shoulder, he replied.

"I understand."

Then he turned and spoke in a cold tone.

"Goodbye"

The woman then began to slowly fall apart, although it was a painless process the woman cried out in fear, for at that moment she realized that she had already died once, so where would she go?

The man ignored her cries and went to the next maid.

"Do you swear allegiance to me?"