Death and Rebirth

Kularb was ready for the final fight. She fired a Soul Cannon fireball at the metallic wall to get out of this dark door-less enclosed room. A large hole was formed in the wall, only to reveal clouds and a strong gust of wind that pulled her out.

She found herself falling outside what seems to be the side of a large airship. If she keeps falling, she would perish. Summoning the last bit of her strength, she used the power of wind to overpower the air currents and fly through the air freely to find out where she was. She dived upwards towards the top of the ship, only to realize that the top of the ship was actually the island of Sri Lakshmi itself.

Kularb saw this before while she was studying magic under Lilith Monamber. This ship was originally an abandoned artificial colony building project that was secretly initiated by the British Empire and it was supposed to house immigrants from India, Siam, Burma, and China. It was supposed to be the birth of a new Asian British colony to help people of different races blend in together so that new generations of people can return to their homeland to spread the idea of racial harmony so that the Indo China countries can be more united and not so divided. However, this experiment ended in failure and some people who were controlling the project turned it into an opportunity to experiment on live humans to make mutants. The project became a disaster and the inhabitants ended up killing each other, turning the island into a ghost town. However, many of the inhabitants could not die as a result of genetic mutation, so they became zombies who have lost their human senses, leading a meaningless existences without the joy of human existence. The island became isolated and a gigantic force-field was erected around the island so that the island can go underwater, causing it to be undetectable by satellite imaging equipment and also by the human eye.

However, since the top of the island was covered by a dome, there was no way back in. She had to go back through the hole she created at the side of the ship, so she went back in.

Using the power of water, she sealed up the opening with ice so that she won't get blown away by the air current again. She then used her mind powers to detect a hollow passageway on the other side of the wall so as to determine which wall to blast open.

Once she blast a hole through, zombies and other types of enemies of all shapes and sizes made of metal came to attack her. She just blasted her way through with fireballs, freeze rays, and lightning bolts.

Narrow corridors simply led to more narrow corridors, and more barren large rooms where she kept on fighting more enemies. She ran up staircases to go through only more staircases, and more staircases. There was no map for her to follow, so she was only following the available paths blindly, until she found a map and realized one thing…she was very far at the bottom, unless she followed a meandering path that led to the center, which was the generator room that enabled the island the fly into the air.

Once she went through that meandering path fraught with enemies, she arrived at this 'generator room', and that was when she saw this armored enemy standing right in front of her with the back facing a large sphere behind him.

He was wearing a full body golden armor with a lion motif on it and also a golden helmet with a pair of golden horns and a purplish 'Oni' mask, and was also holding a large golden sword.

"Where is Lilith?" asked Kularb.

"You're be fighting me instead", said the warrior in gold.

"Kularb! Quickly! Materialize me!" said Show's voice.

Kularb heard it in her head, and asked, "What?" She couldn't understand what he meant.

"Imagine a sword! Imagine me to be a sword and make it materialize! You'll need it to fight that dude!" he said.

Thus, Kularb used that magic to forge Show's non-physical entity into a sword, and embed the 10 gem slots and gem links into the sword. Kularb took that sword to fight A Bao A Qu.

Their swords clashed, sparks were generated, and these repetitive clashing of swords went on and on.

A Bao A Qu fought to protect the generator, but what was Kularb fighting to protect?

When that thought flashed in her mind, she was suddenly kicked in the stomach.

Kularb actually didn't have a reason to fight, but she just wanted to defeat evil and live a life of freedom. Therefore, she broke up with Show.

When she was about to fall down, Kularb eventually got up, stood up, and leapt forward to kick A Bao A Qu in the stomach.

"Not bad, young girl", said the golden armored opponent.

From the sound of that voice, Kularb was able to determine the spiritual structure inside the body of A Bao A Qu. That was one of Kularb's gifts.

A Bao A Qu was an evil spirit possessing the body of a young man called Setsuna Arunchana Wonghong.

When speaking with Lilith Monambre, she could not tell that she was possessed because the possession details was being masked by magic, but this mask would come off during battles.

When that happens, if exorcism magic is used well, it would be possible to defeat A Bao A Qu.

However, there was a question. Setsuna was already having 10 links to the 10 gems, so why didn't A Bao A Qu use those links instead? Why does he have to drain the links from Kularb?

There could only be one reason. Setsuna's own magical circuits were not so developed, so he would be unable to use those links. Therefore, Lilith wanted those.

Of course, Kularb didn't have very strong magical circuits, but they were better than nothing.

However, there was a way to break free from the possession. It would be troublesome to perform, and their eyes would have to meet.

When their swords clashed and one tries to exert his or her strength to strike off the sword of the opponent, this would be the time the eyes of both sides would meet the longest. At that moment, that would be the time to use the eyes to disarm the opponent's internal defense mechanism.

At that moment, that would be a test of strength of eye powers. If Kularb were to win, Setsuna would be free of his possession. However, if A Bao A Qu were to win, Kularb's 10 jewel links would be stolen and the 10 creation jewels will belong to A Bao A Qu and Lilith. A Bao A Qu's will activate the links with his own magical circuits, and he will be able to use that power to control the whole world.

"Not bad, Kularb! You actually read my mind. Alright then, let's test our might using our eyes instead of our swords."

The test of eye power began and Kularb and A Bao A Qu poured in every ounce of their strength into their stares in order to penetrate the hearts of the opponent. In order to do that, Avril and her partner in their spirit forms were lending their mind power to Kularb.

Firstly, based on the advice that Avril was telling Kularb in her mind, Kularb was searching for gaps in the hearts of A Bao A Qu and Setsuna to replay the scenes of their live stories to break free from the possession and complete those replays.

A Bao A Qu was a demon from hell, so trying to generate a replay of his mind would be never ending. Therefore, Kularb would never activate the memories of a demon. So she aimed for Setsuna.

After pumping some Renma Kiryu into her gaze, Kularb managed to establish a connection with Setsuna's soul to replay his life details. There was disturbance coming from A Bao A Qu, but she just blocked him using a barrier of Renma Kiryu.

Setsuna's full name was Arunchana Wonghong (อรุณชนะ วงศ์หงส์) and went by the nickname Setsuna (刹那), and he met this girl called Monambre Lamboley during his childhood to their pre-teens. Both of them were from prestigious sorcerer clans, and their families teamed up with other sorcerer families to protect the Earth from demon invasions and also other threats. Setsuna was Thai-Chinese, while Monambre was three-quarter Vietnamese and one-quarter French. One day, Monambre had to go back to France, so they bid farewell. Setsuna also had a rosy childhood and was quite popular, and Monambre was worried that he may fall in love with another girl and marry her. Of course, they were good friends but Setsuna didn't have any such feelings yet.

During his teenage years, Setsuna's life was more turbulent. He had difficulty understanding why he had difficulty getting girls he liked to like him, despite being relatively good looking. He was unaware that he was under some spell or curse that repelled destinies that would enable him to have relationships with other girls. He was also resentful and jealous of other guys who led an active sex life or could attract girls so easily.

That was when he thought about having revenge by getting weapons to go on a killing rampage to kill off such guys and the girls who went out with such guys and didn't choose him instead.

He eventually did so, and wanted to kill himself to end it all.

Just before he did so, time reversed back to the time before he decided to start his killing rampage.

That was when Monambre came back into his life.

He was so thankful that Monambre used a time spell to reverse the effect of his sin. After they caught up with each other's development in life, Monambre said to him, "Maybe the reason why nothing worked out between you and any other girl, was for the purpose of meeting me."

They got into a sexual relationship very fast. After many rounds of sex, unknowingly certain magic within them was activated. Setsuna was possessed by A Bao A Qu, and Monambre was possessed by Lilith.

Once Setsuna's life story was fully replayed, A Bao A Qu screamed and the Hannya mask cracked and shattered, and a handsome face emerged from it. Setsuna fell down and the golden armor also cracked and shattered into fragments.

Once Kularb tried to get near Setsuna, she suddenly heard Lilith's voice.

"Don't touch him with your dirty hands."

"He needs treatment", shouted Kularb.

"Just leave him there. It doesn't matter if he's dead or alive to me. Same for you. Even if you will die you will be reincarnated as the person whose body I'm possessing. However, the most important thing is that training for my magic circuits is incomplete. The magical circuit of your lover was necessary, but he had to die in a fight against a warlord in another galaxy and leave his essence for you to summon as your familiar. My ultimate goal is to make you my slave and make you surrender the gem links to me."

"Before that, you should defeat me", said Kularb.

"Just what I had in mine, my past life self," said Lilith.

Once Lilith said that, she started to use a lot of dark magic, since she wanted to avoid magic that would cause physical damage.

Lilith used the power of darkness to create spears and blades to attack Kularb. There was no limb-damaging effects but Kularb took a barrage of hits.

Kularb created a Rensenba and fired it at Lilith. Kularb also tried to avoid magic that would cause physical damage on her future self.

At the end of the battle, Kularb weakened and Lilith was worn out from the battle but Lilith still had more strength.

That was when Lilith grabbed Kularb's neck with one hand to strangle her.

"You will die, because you are a threat to me, but before that you shall give me your magical circuits!" said Lilith.

"No…way…" Kularb struggled to respond.

Kularb also added to emit some Renma Kiryu.

"That's right, I want that power. Let me have it!" said Lilith.

In the process, Kularb was able to access Monambre's memories and replay her story.

Monambre was a very beautiful and intelligent girl and led a very rosy life as the heir to a magical clan believed to have descended from the extinct elf race. There was a boy she admired during her childhood. During her childhood, she made a lot of dolls using magic and stuffing magical spiritual entities into them so that they can be her friends. One of them happened to be Lilith, inhabiting a doll she referred to as Nong Ploy. Nong Ploy also advised her about a spell to prevent Setsuna from getting together with another girl, explaining that his teens will be the time of his life where he can't resist other girls, and he may end up with another girl before they can meet again. Moreover, because of her age, there was no way for her to come back to Thailand to visit and there would be no way to control his movement even when they maintain contact by email or social media.

The spell involved a gift which contained the soul of A Bao A Qu, a partner spirit of Lilith, and A Bao A Qu would drive Setsuna down a negative spiral once something bad happens.

After she came back to Thailand, she met up with him and they immediately went into a relationship, and that was when Lilith and A Bao A Qu fully possessed.

Once Monambre's story was fully replayed, a lot of power welled up from within the body of Kularb and her body was unable to take it and started to disintegrate. Lilith eventually obtained the links to the jewels. Or so she thought…

However, even though she obtained the magical circuits and gem links, there was an overload of power which was beyond her control, causing Lilith to be unable to cling on to Monambre's body any longer, and left her body.

Monambre went back to normal. "What…what have I done?"

That was when Monambre drew a silver magical circle and grabbed 2 spheres that were the souls of Lilith and A Bao A Qu and tossed them in. All those who were killed or damaged by Lilith were restored to life or their pre-damage conditions.

At that moment, Monambre squatted down to heal Setsuna. After the healing and making the other preparations, both of them made Sri Lakshimi their base.

When Monambre was possessed, the location of the "power of revolution" was hidden and concealed in her own head, so Lilith could not access that information even though she possessed her body.

"So, my dear, what are your plans?" asked Monambre.

"Well, my love, we'll return this base to the sea and turn it into our new training base and head back to our home," said Setsuna.

With that said, the both of them returned to Hokkaido, and visited the Shirakaba Ninja Village, a place that they called home in their past life, though it was now a deserted place quarantined and fortified from the rest of the world using magic, taken care only by butler families employed by the Tennoushu Clan.

"Welcome back, young master, young mistress, are you both ready to resume the leadership of the Shirakaba Ninja Corps?"

Setsuna and Monambre smiled and only said one word. "Anytime."

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Both Setsuna and Monambre returned to Shirakaba village and both the companies they are heirs of entered a joint venture to form a holding company which has 100% share over the abandoned village and its resources to be used for training new heroes to fight against new types of evils. However, a few months after establishing academies and squads worldwide, the overwhelming power inside them was consuming them inside, and leadership committee of the clan had to decide to send them to Asgardia, a heavenly realm in another dimension, for them to reside in to nurse their bodies and powers back to health, otherwise the powers may either harm them from within or drive them mad and cause them to destroy the Earth.

The elder divine beings explained that the sickness they were suffering from was the karma of their previous incarnations being not resolved, so they had to find these previous incarnations scattered throughout the present time to get them to become heroes to improve their bad karma accumulated due to their wrong deeds. This is especially because Setsuna would have undergone a reincarnation cycle (with one's soul travelling through time into the past to reincarnate) where in each incarnation he would wield one of the 9 elements, where the element would equip his life for success. However, if he lives in a way that accumulates bad karma through abusing his gifts, he would have one incarnation without any of the elements where he would suffer the most, devoid of success and love, and he would undergo another cycle of 9 incarnations where he would wield each element where he would have to go through karma tests and pass them all over again. If he were to be reincarnated without affinity with every element, he would start out in life on a wrong footing fraught with barriers to success and love, and if he were to be able to live a life that can redeem his bad karma with better behavior, he would get another incarnation where he will be born with an affinity with all the elements and he would have a head-start in obtaining success and love. So far that has not happened and this was the first time he was born with the affinity with all elements. However, even with the affinity, his past life karma was preventing him from exercising the full capabilities of his power. Therefore, he has to reach out to his past lives selves scattered throughout the present time by granting them chances to become heroes.

However, Setsuna and Monambre decided to maintain contact with Earth through inter-dimensional communications. Setsuna donned a mask and gave himself the name Zoner, while Monambre remotely controlled a female humanoid secretary robot called Voneka Poco. With his mask on, Setsuna appeared to his Earth-based team as Zoner on the computer screen while the robot Voneka carried out all the admin and management duties in their newly developed command base. The team of the Shirakaba village helped to recruit and train hero teams and mentors so that they could be entrusted with the noble task of the defense of the Earth against evil forces in years to come.

Setsuna (Zoner) would create artifacts which the heroes can use to access a fraction of his power so that they can be used for their missions and battles, such as coins, jewels, wristwatches, hand-carried weapons etc.

A new age of heroes have dawned upon the Earth. However, this new age is not going to be without its challenges.