Chapter 0

Two option buttons appeared before him. Next to the first option simply read "Live again?" The other option read " Refuse respawn and fade to nothing"

He should have listened to his intuition. His new coworker had been very dangerous. Detonated something from jealousy. Had he known he would have stayed at home with his wife and their grandchildren. His wife the love of his life. He sadly looked to his ring finger. The faint red ring of fate was still visible with a thread leading from it and disappeared into the darkness. He knew it would end on his wife's ring finger. They were still connected. Seeing that he recalled crawling over a mountain of blades and swimming a sea of fire just so he could marry her all those years ago. He chose to live again since he might meet her in his next life.

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The gold sun dragon looked proudly at its mate the black ice dragon after laying twelve bright gold eggs. The golden orbs were twice as large as regular gold sun dragon eggs. Each with its own internal shimmer. The thirteenth egg, however, was a dull jet black egg that seemed to absorb the golden glows closest to it. The dragons were inseparable forming a bond that few of their kind experience. Though it was not the usual custom to mate outside your tribe their union formed a balance and contract between the two most powerful dragon tribes.

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Hmm. It's very dark here the old man thought. He had chosen to live again. From all around him he could here crashing, cooing and boisterous laughter. Yet for some reason his six limbs couldn't move. Wait he thought six limbs? Two legs, two arms and another set of smaller arms behind the first? What did he reincarnate into?

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The laughter quieted as a few new dragons entered. They were smaller silver dragons. "Your majesties we are being invaded by snow demons and sand lobsters." As the silver said this sand lobsters erupted from the floor near the newly hatched dragons. Two sand lobsters began swallowing hatchlings and eggs while others surged forward attacking the dragons. From the gold sun dragon a cone of blue flames incinerated two sand lobsters. Lightning issued from the silver dragons while the black ice dragon rushed to rescue.

The black egg was swallowed and the sand lobster dived into the ground again leaving a jet of dirt behind it.