And rebirth Answered

When Rapt appeared before Bados in his domain, a chrysalis formed around it and pulsed with power, yet, even with the blessing bestowed by Bados, which helped speed up the recovery process, it seemed it would take some time. The rebirthing process made integrating a strong soul into such a weak body difficult.

Significantly, since the density and potency of this soul surpassed what any ordinary mortal body could have, fortunately, Rapt's new body is a blank template that can be molded to properly contain his soul, albeit at the cost of an increased recovery time.

Another factor in the process was that the remnants of consciousness needed to be digested. His soul would then use the energy from the remnants to strengthen the body. Due to the vast number of souls absorbed, the time needed allowed the body to grow smoothly. Finally, after absorbing all the souls, the focus switched to strengthening the body.

With the body fortification underway, mana was drawn from the environment into the chrysalis. Mana entered his body and continued the process of fortification. What was once a small baby raptor had experienced rapid growth during its time in the chrysalis, and three weeks had passed before the Rapt began to wake up inside. The raptor instinctively treated the chrysalis as an egg and broke out, falling to the ground covered in fluid resembling embryonic tissue. Landing on the ground, Rapt took his first breath and began to stretch his new body for the first time. Quickly learning to stand, he gained his bearings and looked around, taking in his immediate environment. Now, the baby raptor stood at a height of 2 meters at the hip and a length of 3.5 meters.

The area surrounding the chrysalis was a grassy field filled with tall grass that towered over Rapt and the remnants of the chrysalis. Other than the slow gusts of wind and the grass brushing, there were no other sounds. Once he had finished acclimating to his surroundings, he began slowly walking around to familiarize himself with his new environment. He spent an hour slowly becoming accustomed to his body while further exploring his environment. A strange event occurred when Rapt returned to the chrysalis as he uneasily investigated his surroundings, sensing a surge of unknown energy before three animals suddenly appeared near his location.

The unusual event was the sudden appearance of various animals throughout the land. From where he stood, Rapt could sense everything occurring in a radius of 5 meters around him. Thanks to this, he could feel the strange energy building up before the animals appeared. The peculiar phenomena confused the young raptor and sparked his curiosity, leading him to rush to the closest anomalies.

Following his instincts, Rapt approached the nearest creature, which, upon sensing him, fled into the distance. Rapt's predatory instincts flared as the beast ran, pushing him to chase it.

Rapt quickly gained on the creature as more strange creatures appeared within the range of his senses. Finally, he saw the mystery animal, a pig-like creature with 6-inch tusks that quickly spun around, preparing to fight him. The beast squealed and grunted as it mock-charged at Rapt to scare him off. Rapt slowly circled the beast, analyzing it as he watched it. The beast saw that its attempts to scare him had failed and charged him. Rapt dodged the attack and counterattacked by pouching onto its back, raking his claws. Shrieks and squeals flooded the surrounding area as the beast endured Rapt's attacks. Finally, silence prevailed as Rapt brought down his first kill before tentatively nibbling at the beast.

Rapt lost focus on his surroundings as he tore into his kill. Once done, he turned his attention to the various groups of animals that began appearing randomly within the range of his senses. Still hungry, he instinctively started stealthily creeping towards one of the smaller groups. Upon his arrival, he gained a deeper understanding of the animals he was sensing. Looking at the group of creatures, he sensed that they weren't a threat but rather perfect for food.

Focusing on the animals in front of him began to stir his hunger. With his hunger stirred, the hunt started as his predatory instincts surged. Rapt's senses were finely tuned to his prey, relaying any information it could gather. Unbeknownst to Rapt, the extreme focus had triggered the fight-or-flight response in all the nearby animals, causing them to tense up as they sensed the presence of a predator. Stalking towards the group, silence had taken over his immediate surroundings as more animals noticed something was out hunting. Rapt followed his instincts to choose his prey as other nearby animals distanced themselves.

The raptor stalked through the grass, closing in before arriving 2 meters away from the group. Following its instincts, the raptor ensured it stayed downwind from the targets and kept its movements small and slow to avoid affecting its surroundings. Soon, it got close enough to see what it was hunting, which turned out to be a group of white-horned rabbit-like beasts eating the stalks of the tall grasses.

With his prey in sight, his muscles began to tense as he prepared to attack the rabbit farthest away from the group. Then, before any of the rabbits could react, Rapt closed his jaws around its neck, detaching its head from its body. After killing the rabbit, Rapt disemboweled it before consuming the body and organs, ignoring the other fleeing rabbits.

After Rapt finished the rabbit, he began to hunt for more prey. The events that followed were the death of a tiny deer, a hog, and a multitude of insects that crossed his path. Now that he was finally satisfied, he found the cave he had seen earlier as night arrived. Arriving at the cave, Rapt marked his territory before entering and falling asleep.

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While Bados had his personnel check on the chrysalis during the past three weeks. He received daily updates, like its condition, growth and whether the chrysalis had hatched from his attendants. Like all gods, his attendants were those who dedicated their lives to serving him in return for an extended life and other benefits.

In the throne room, Bados was observing the universe watching for imbalances in the natural order of planets before sending his Blessed to fix the discrepancy.

'Hmmm, Taz on Ambu has failed,' Bados thought as his attendant silently walked in the room and stood beside him.

"Sire", the Head Attendant said drawing Bados attention.

Bados stopped his observations and shifted his focus to the small humanoid in front of him.

"Alave, haven't I told you that addressing me as such in private is uncalled for."

"Yes, Sire. Yet this is the only command I shall disobey, my Lord. But on another note, my lord, this is today's report on Rapt." the Head Attendant, Alave, stated as he mentally sent the related information to Bados.

After witnessing a toothy smile on his lord's face, Alave bowed deeply before saying," I've already called the others, my lord".

Hearing Alave, Bados rose energetically before disappearing from his throne. Being used to his lord's machinations, Alave had preemptively prepared for his lord's absence from his Throne and patiently waited for the other attendant's arrival. During this time, Bados sped thru his realm enroute to the sub-realm that contained Rapt.

'Oh, finally the little one is awake. I guess there's no time like the present to test what he can do.' he thought.

Bados had been waiting for this moment as he was intrigued by what the possible outcome of his blunder could be. What had vastly increased his anticipation was the time Rapt spent in recovery. Something like that wasn't normal since with context, Rapt had spent an extra 2 and half weeks in his coma than the others in similar situations.

'He should be getting hungry soon.' Bados couldn't help but think as he reached the edges of the sub-realm. Taking in account how Rapt's growth would be heavily influenced by the time need for his recover. 'Now that he's awake let's see if there are any problems with him.'

With these thoughts, Bados began to tweak the core laws pertaining to the sub-realm that contained Rapt to slowly build an ecosystem that would be able to further and match his growth.

Instantly, changes were slowly implemented into the fabric of the sub-realm and along with came three distinct changes. Those changes were the appearance of herbivores known as the primary consumers. Followed by the secondary consumers, which were animals that were mostly carnivores as well as omnivores. Finally, the Tertiary consumers or the Apex predators of the food chain. Creating an ecosystem, fit for a small yet powerful raptor that would allow it to express its prowess.

'Let's see if your worth the wait.' Bados thought with a predatory grin on his face as he watched with anticipation from outside the Sub-realm. As he watched, Bados was shocked by the actions of Rapt as the little raptor seemed to have sensed what was taking place.

'That's strange. I'm sure that he shouldn't be able to sense mana.' Bados thought as he double-checked to make sure that Rapt didn't have a core. A core was usually what allowed animals to become beasts and be capable of sensing mana.

'How could this baby Raptor that's not even a month-old able to sense what I had done. What strong instincts you have' Bados thought with a grin on his face, his interest in Rapt increasing again. "Maybe his entire body acts as a core. That a crazy side effect from the rebirth?", Bados said excitedly as he talked to himself.

Bados watched the entire performance unfold and was entranced by the prowess that Rapt showed. 'How is this possible? Where's the awkward movements and failures. How could he be so success at hunting. Could it he be that he has such a high level of instinctive prowess?', Bados was thinking while he watched. He suddenly shivered while remembering the entire event of Rapt's resurrection,' did I use the wrong sigil to protect his soul?'.

With that thought, Bados rushed back to the throne room. Luckily, for the many attendants that were roaming the hallways, precautions were implemented to prevent them from being killed by Bados sprinting through the palace (Insert a certain scene from the show 'the boys'). Due to his speed, Bados arrived instantly just in time to be greeted by an envoy from purgatory.

"Greeting, lord Bados", said the envoy whilst giving a low bow.

Bados nodded at the envoy before turning his gaze to Alave.

Understanding what was being asked of him, Alave said," Apparently, there has been an incident in Lord Tetanus Realm, and he wishes to speak to you about the matter."

Walking to his throne, Bados sat down before motioning from the rest of his attendants to continue their work. Alave and the envoy continued to discuss the matter, while Bados simply listened on.

Standing to his right, Alave asked," What exactly has occurred in purgatory?"

The envoy looked at the two before answering," one billion souls were consumed by something that reportedly radiated your energy signature."

'I really did use the wrong sigil' Bados thought as Alave continued to ask questions about what had occurred in the purgatory realm.

After hearing all the details about the incident, Bados dismissed the envoy to which they envoy bowed again before stating," Lord Tetanus has ask that you bring the cause of this discrepancy. I shall return to inform you when it's time, Lord Bados." With that the envoy left, leaving Bados and Alave alone.

"Did he meet your expectations, my Lord?", Alave asked as if the envoy had neared been there, while Bados silently sat on his throne seemingly lose in thought.

"Let me ask you something, Alave. Does the archive speak of an such a baby animal with no experience being able to sense mana or being able to hunt perfectly without guidance." 

"Sire, no such thing has ever been recorded. What you have described is highly impossible for beast let alone animals. What does this line of thought pertain to, my lord?"

"What sigil is this?" Bados asked, holding up his hand and creating a lime-green sigil that looked like to three's touching backwards.

"That's...." Alave stared at the sigil and alternating between it and Bados. "Sire, that's the soul shield sigil. Did you use any other sigil?

"Yes, and what do you get by adding these two sigils." 

Alave stared at the combination before asking, "What have you done, My Lord? You added soul shielding with absorption and to soul. But you worded it wrong sire, it should have meant self-repairing shield of soul. What you wrote here says soul absorbing shield of soul."

Bados thought about how the phrasing changed the meaning of the shield before standing up from the throne, he locked eye with Alave, who promptly kneel before him. "Since when have we cared about the consequences, Alave? Never has one of the beast gods lived life fearful."

"Then we shall prepare for a fight, My lord."

"Of course. But for now, all we can do is see what Tetanus has to say and prepare Rapt for repercussions that might occur." Echoed out as Bados began to sprint.

During his journey back to the subspace, Bados was in deep though about how to make best the situation. ' Since I don't know what will take place during our meeting, I will have to push up our meeting before I leave. That would at least give me a chance to understand his strange disposition. So Alave can pick the best planet to send him to.' With that thought Bados, decided that Rapt needs two things that were mandatory for his Survival: The system and a mana immersion.

By the time Bados finish his thought, he had reached the subspace again and concealed his aura before entering. Appearing before Rapt, who was in a cave sleeping after hunting and exploring the subspace. Even though he had seen Rapt earlier, Bados surprised by how quickly Rapt was growing as he was 4 times the size, he should be at 4 weeks old. His growth was even slightly increasing now that he had eating and was resting in this mana-filled environment that was perfect for growth. Something that was already boosted by blessing Bados had given and the strength of his soul.

Upon his arrival, Rapt suddenly became alert and jumped up in an attempt to put as much distance between him and the intruder. Staring at the intruder Rapt felt like he was in front of death as his instincts screamed. In a blink of the eye the intruder appeared in front of him again with his hand on his head before the world went black.

After watching Rapt fall unconscious, Bados created a barrier around the cave to protect Rapt from the animals spawning in the environment before beginning his task. Bados decided to a gift Rapt a blank template system that would conform to him and complement his growth. He then returned to the throne room to complete some of his duties before departing for his meeting, while pondering,' How could he have sensed me?'.