Saved by the gods

After the seeker thrusted it's cold claws into his chest and extracted his soul core he dropped dead on the ground in a pool of his own blood.

After a while, Xavier woke up.

He found himself in a void, saturated with an eerie atmosphere of dense darkness.

He was falling –falling to his eternal doom– to the blazing pool of flame below hell.

'This must be hell.'

The light given off from the flames where the only salvation from complete darkness offered by the void.

He wasn't surprised of how he was going to spend his eternity.

After all the vices he commited when he was living, some of which were just inconceivable by any average-moraled person, why wouldn't he end up here?

Infact for him, giving him a place to stay with no rent, warmth and solitude was being mild with the punishment he deserved.

'So I'm finally here.'

Through out his lifetime, he had never felt any regret, but face-to-face with the consequence drew him to self reflection and sorrow.

'Why? Why me?'

But admist his sorrow and all his guilt, even in hell, his final scourging thoughts still rested on Millo.

'If I get to spend an eternity in hell, Millo deserved a million times worse. I hope the Grim reaper carves a turkey out of him.'

But still, if he had a chance to go back to the living – a chance to change things, he will grasp any opportunity that passes by.

He closed his eyes as a drop of tear escaped his eyes – a faint expression of his internal dampening.

Seconds away from impacting the flames, almost as if someone was listening to his plea, his prayers were answered.

A light appered just above him and expanded into a larger circle forming a portal.

An arm came out of the portal, grabbed him and pulled him out and through the portal milliseconds before another devastating death.

After passing through the portal, he felt a little dizzy. He wasn't use to teleportation, especially with such low mana affinity as his.

When he regained self- awareness, he noticed he was sitted on a throne in the center of a roofless structure.

He scanned the area around him. He was in an large enclosed space with walls covered with architectural patterns and design resembling that of a rotunda.

It seemed like the kind of structure that would have been adorned a million years ago but completely unappreciated in the present era.

Its walls were alternatively adorned with crystals of emerald, ruby and sapphire with totems round it's internal circumference.

He looked upwards and saw nothing, just an ominous void that stretched on till infinity.

The rotunda was segmented with pillars, stretching from the base to the apex of the building.

In each segment, along it's perimeter, there was a mage scintilling with their respective dim lights. Behind the mages were large beast - dragons with scales bearing similar colours toto that of the mages before them.

Each mage and dragon surrounded him on all sides.

'Wow, a real-life dragon. I thought they were all extinct.'

As he glanced through, he attempted counting their numbers but prioritized avoiding lasting stare at each one which left him with a biased figure.

Before him was a throne that mocked the size of his. Its height towered so high that it completely shielded the walls it's back was against.

Beside the throne was a goddess.

She was clothed in a white flowing apparel as her light skin tone complemented the dim radiance in her aura.

Her dark hair ran through her back's length and her lucid emerald eyes whispered serenity.

The descent appearance before him sent a stream of calmness through his agitating body as he could somewhat tell that she was the one that saved him.

'Welcome, my King,' the goddess spoke in Xavier's direction.

Xavier was confused, he turned back to check if there was any one behind him, but there was none, so he turned back.

He then deduced that she may actually be referring to him. "Are you referring to me?"

"Yes, my King."

"But I am no King."

"I am sorry Celestial Lord. Though it was a long time ago after the war, I regret to inform you that I was only able to revive your body, soul and a fraction of your power. I yet still struggle in restoring the greater fragment of your infinite power, as well as your memories."

'What is she talking about? Did I have amnesia or something? I don't think so. All my memories from my life are still there, so what the hell is she talking about?'

The goddess lowered her head almost as if she was begging and said, "I am sorry Lord but infinite properties are challenging to regenerate especially for Celestial beings."

Xavier raised up his arm to grab her attention as if he was in a classroom.

She raised here head up.

"Mam, …"

''My name is Aeloria, sir." she butted into his speech.

"Aeloria.., with all due respect. I have no idea what you are talking about and I feel very sorry for this Celestial King, I really do but please I would really appreciate it if you could send me back to earth where I can live my Millo-free life," Xavier said as he stressed on the final four words of his request.

"My Lord, I also regret to inform you that earth is no longer in existence at the moment. The greater fragment of your dimension is residual in a region I can no longer siphon –"

''So you can't send me back home?," his face dimmed slowly as she delivered the bad news as he cut in before she could conclude her statement.

"–nevertheless I will send you back to the land of the living –"

Xavier's face lit up after hearing those word.

"– but I do plead that you heed to these advise I will give –"

'Ya, or else what?'

"–for only my Lord's sake. As you will soon know, this is the era speculated long ago for the Reincarnation of the Celestial king. You are well adore by the residents of your realm, but not every one share in the same likeness. They are the demons and some bounty hunters that could sell you for money, extract your indispensable soul cores or do even worse to you for an even less justifiable reason."

The thought of all these horrible things happening to him traumatized him in sheer thought alone.

"So the best way around would be to keep your identity a secret until you get strong enough to overwhelm any foe."

"Ok. I understand. I won't disclose my identity to anyone. I promise," humbled my a mere thought.

After he assured the goddess, she stretched out her arm towards him and a magic circle appeared beneath his throne.

The mages and dragon by the walls stood up in synchrony.

The magic circle brightened and the dragons opened their mouth and breathe fire towards him, the flames burning with their different colours arising from different angles gave out a colourful spectrum to the void they were in.

[Reincarnation in progress…]

[Progressing….]

[Reincarnation complete]

[Welcome to the Alpha Realm]

[Welcome to Eldoria]

[System acquired]