Chapter 92. The Soul

The immortal king rose to power by defying the natural laws. He was the first to ascend to the Immortal Realm. His will became the will of the universe.

Even if the universe tried to reject his will, it was shaken and humbled. He learnt the secrets of the universe and created a system.

He had seen the future and no matter how hard he tried to change it, it ended up with his decline. It turned out the universe collaborated with his enemy to kill him.

But the universe forgot that it was supposed to bow down to him. In his last breath, he got into the reincarnation stream and got reincarnated against the heaven's will.

The heaven tried to get rid of him during his birth but had failed. It tried during his cultivation but had failed. It almost succeded once but still failed.

At the moment, it was having its fourth attempt which had a 100% chance of succeeding. But the will of the Immortal King it had forgotten resurficed.

The heavens were agitated. The desire to obey the Immortal King and the natural law was in a tug of war. The heavens were going to have the universe break the natural laws.

The skies darkened. A dark portal opened and Death was staring at the immortal king. This time, there was no way he was going to escape his grasp.

Death was drawing closer to him and had a 100% sure bet to capture him. But the moment the skies shook and the time stopped, it felt it was getting pushed away.

The moment time started going backwards. The moment it felt it was getting pushed away. But it was not willing to give up. It had to get him before his soul was out of its reach.

There was a sudden revolution in his Bloodline. Two orbs started growing. They revolved so fast. One orb was the space element and the other one was the time element. The orbs then shot towards the Bloodline [Origin Source] and gave it two new colours. [More will be explained later]

A space wall was created around him and death, no matter how far it tried to slash with its scythe, it failed to reach him. The cuts around him were were healing and all the lifespan that had left him was getting back.

There was then a sudden change around him as a new barrier behind his Bloodline opened. [The following information was skipped before but will be introduced now.]

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The SOUL. The Soul is a lost concept in the realms. The last time the soul was heard of during the reign of the Immortal King.

The Soul concept was destroyed and using a forbidden spell, it was erased from everyone's mind. The Soul was then sealed away behind the origin source. Bloodline in the immortals case.

The Soul was what enhanced the connection between the universe and someone. The Soul enabled one to easily manipulate universe laws and have intents.

Array and Alchemy used to be under one umbrella called Array Alchemy. Arrays were originally created using the Soul and mastery of intents depended on the Soul.

The intents became a fable. Array and Alchemy became separated and pills of more than 80% effectiveness were forgotten. Arrays became a difficult task to achieve.

Those who were lucky and could learn Array proved that some of their Soul energy crossed the seal. Though it was possible, it became difficult and to make wide range arrays they needed to supplement energy from energy stones.

Though some people had miraculously learnt about intents. They luckily even managed to form one and were usually one in a thousand. These were goated geniuses with bright futures.

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The barrier turned to mist and a certain different energy seeped from this area. His Soul! Since they had sealed his Bloodline, they did not know about the soul.

The Soul suddenly released so much pressure that even the space barrier around him got destroyed. The soul pressure shook the seals on his Bloodline and a whole 10% of the seal was destroyed.

Death upon seeing the sudden change suddenly stopped. A certain pressure engulfed it and a familiar feeling overwhelmed it. A feeling it had forgotten. Inferiority.

The Immortal king had faced off with death numerous times in his past and had learned the Death Intent. This was one of the reason death was unable to get him defore he entered the reincarnation stream.

And now, the familiar feeling of being under his palm was overwhelming it. If he learned the Death Intent, he would automatically have an undead body because death would never take him.

The skies which had turned dark turned darker and the entire aurrounding turned into night time. The manifestation of the lightning god appeared.

Lightning danced in the dark clouds and was striking everywhere. Death was suddenly trapped between the lightning and Black lightning struck right at it.

In order for one to learn Death intent, they needed to accept death. But the Immortal King would never accept to die and using his authority over the universe had forced death to bow to him.

The same feeling was very familiar as to the first time it had been learned by the same person. Death was now beeing pushed away from the floating boy or say the Immortal King.

Death who had come with darkness even after retracting the darkness it had brought with it, there was no difference as the darkness from the Immortal King's intent swallowed it up.

The universe which had had some of its laws forgotten instantly granted life into Alaric and the elements he had awakened were turned into First Grade!

The reason being he had awakened his soul. But the Soul of the Immortal King was powerful. The lightning god manifestation which usually appeared just like lines made from lighting was changing.

It was beginning to get a face. It was turning giant and human like. Looking at it, one could see the quite resemblance it had with Alaric.

It turned and looked at the entire world. Knowing that it had caused enough commotion to earn everyone's attention. It glanced from side to side and those who saw it had a feeling on inferiority.

But one thing everyone noticed was that it had its eyes closed. Like they were not worthy of it's eyes. It suddenly opened its eyes and looked at a particular direction.

Those who saw the direction it looked felt fear from it's eyes. Its anger was very much visible. But it then looked at another direction and it's eyes seemed warm.

It then closed it's eyes and folded its hands on his chest. One could feel its arrogance just by looking at it. The manifestation seemed to command respect despite all its arrogance.

It also had a relieved smile for it was finally complete. It then looked below it and opened its eyes. It then started shrinking and the clouds started disappearing.

It completely disappeared and the place it had appeared became anonynous. Now that they thought about it, it appeared like it was everywhere.

Everyone who had the thoughts of going to find the source discarded the thoughts and resumed their activities. But chancers saw a chance.

What was in the directions it looked? What if it was giving everyone a clue of some hidden treasure or its inheritance? Something that commanded fear must have left an inheritance that was worth a fortune.

Some locked their businesses and decided to try their luck. Adventures were all excited of their new adventure. Some were already packing and others who were always ready were leaving.

In the forest, Alaric's body had gone through very many changes such that he collapsed. It was like he had died after he was all fine. His body had a goldish glow emanating from him.

On his right face was a smile. The smile went halfway but the other half had an angry look on it. On the right half of his body was relaxed. But the left half was clenched.

The fist was clenched so tight that it was seeping with blood. Even the toes in the left sided were clenched. But if one looked at him from the right, he was relaxed.

His eyes kept twitching but he never opened them. He suddenly stopped and all went still. He was unconcious.

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Her eyes locked with the giant manifestation. She was sure that it was staring at her. She fluttered as its eyes turned warm and a strange feeling encroached her heart.

It felt like there was something she was supposed to do. Yes it was calling her. Also, why were tears falling from her eyes? Her friends were besides her. A group of five.

Three were girls including her and there were two more guys. They were both exceptionally handsome and they only lost slightly to Alaric.

But the girl who standing infront of them, her beauty reached that of transformed Aurora. The four looked at her with a worried look. Was she scared? Why was she crying with a smile on her lips?