chapter 1

Chapter 1: Death

In a bustling city, tall buildings were standing everywhere.

In that city's tallest building, there were many men, clad in black clothes. They were aiming their gun at a man in his thirties.

The man was sitting on a chair behind the table, and behind the man were glass windows from where you could see the whole city.

The city was full of crowds, running here and there; the whole city was busy with work.

There, the man sat on his chair and said with a hint of surprise, "Why did all of you betray me?"

The man clad in black who was standing in front of the group, pointing his gun at the man's body.

"You don't need to know anything, just understand that you were a thorn in his way to ascend."

Listening to them, the man sitting in the chair began laughing "Hahaha.....ha. It is my uncle isn't it.?"

As the mention of his said uncle came, all the men that were clad in black tensed, and one of them tried to shoot at him.

Seeing their reaction and actions the man cursed under his breath, "Shit." as the words escaped his mouth. Another sound echoed in the room.

"Bang....Bang.....Bang."

Three bullets pierced the man's body, and a deep silence spread in the room.

They fired early and without engaging in any talk, that has only one reason, it was the fear of being killed by that man.

They all knew how terrifying the man was, He became the boss of the biggest company in the city without any tactics or whatnot.

He won it with strength, But the reason for his death was family problems.

As the man was on the brink of losing consciousness, a sudden glow came from his body.

His pendant, which he was wearing on his neck, was glowing with a bright light.

The pendant was given by his mom; she gave the pendant to him when she was on the brink of death.

After the death of his mother, he has always cared for this pendant more than anything.

He always wears them, even while taking a bath or in some private moments.

As the light faded slowly, a shocking scene came into their eyes. They all saw the pendant cracking slowly.

Eventually, it broke, and as the light glow dimmed, the shattered pendant disappeared into the void.

That was truly a sight to see. Some of the men were shivering with fear because they saw space tearing and things disappearing in the space.

As the pendant was fully erased from reality, a light glow emitted from the body of the deceased man.

At that time the soul of the said dead man was slipping towards the void.

The killers of the said dead man were all astonished at the strange things happening to them.

First, they saw a pendant breaking and disappearing in a void that had opened in the empty air.

And then they saw a sudden lit glow from the deceased; his body was now lying on the ground without any emotions on his face.

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Meanwhile, in the dark void, full of eerie silence, there was a sudden change.

A bright light appeared from nowhere in the void; the light was looking similar to a human being.

But its body parts were transparent. The light glow dimmed, and the eyes of the figure opened slowly.

"ARRGHHHH..."

"Where am I? Wait...didn't I die from my uncle's schemes? "

Thought the light human shape figure. He was trying to speak but words were not coming from his mouth.

It seems like he can think louder but can't speak from his mouth in this place.

He was amused at how his voice came from his body, without moving his mouth.

But suddenly, he was startled. "Hah.... if I'm dead, then how am I thinking? "

As the thought came, he started to look at the surroundings; there, he saw nothing, only darkness in the void.

He saw no hope there, so he started drifting in an unknown direction. He saw nothing but only darkness.

After travelling in the void for who knows how many aeons, He got bored and went mad.

As time ticked, another millennium passed, and he got bored of madness also and became sane, very sane.

As his personality changes were happening there for epochs and aeons, he hadn't spoken a word here in the void; he was silent there in the darkness, floating without any direction.

After becoming sane, he gained a peculiar trait: he began to like darkness, and he began to enjoy loneliness.

After travelling for unknown times, he saw a cluster of lights mixing and making a circular spinning figure.

And the figure was expanding every second; he got captivated by the lights; he wanted to go there and see what was there in that cluster of lights.

But he refrained from doing anything; as time ticked, he came to another cluster of spinning figures, but this time, it was taking the shape of neurons, and many clusters of spinning lights were mixing with each other.

As the dazzling spectacles, he could only smile and nothing more, he was used to all things happening in the void.

After encountering more than 10 clusters that were spinning and mixing, some were already in the form of circular nets.

He saw a different 'Universe'; yes, he named it Universe. After seeing all things, he concluded that universes were expanding.

This time the universe was, of course bright. But it has more darkness than any other universe that he saw in the void.

He was surprised by the new special universe. Nonetheless, he saw no harm going there; this harm was not about his existence; it was about the situation of the universe.

Despite all the things, he sped up for this dark universe; after reaching there, he expanded his hands; he appeared in the middle of many circular ball-like structures.

Some were big, some were small, and some were gaint.

There he saw a newly made circular ball. It was not even completed, but it was looking similar to a big ball, so he decided to check it.

As he got near the ball, he got sucked in that ball with an unknown vortex that appeared suddenly from nowhere.

As the absorbing force came, his consciousness drifted, but this eons-old monster had developed a sub-consciousness for this type of danger.

As the subconscious opened their eyes to see where he was going, there he saw a bright sky and houses that were like a Chinese monastery.

He saw their buildings clad in black paint, or they were woods, who knows.

His figure flew and flew for more than 20 minutes and then he landed in a forest.

With a new body.

[Chapter end ]