14 Enlightened

Alsezh opened his eyes and saw a a dark space with nothing present there.He could freely move in the space but still there was nothing to be seen here.

Alsezh finally concentrated on feeling his body and sighed in relief when he realised he could sense his body but the odd thing was that even if he could sense his body he came to know that all the functions of his body had stopped.

The heart beats ,the digestion, breathing every process.

After realising this he immediately tried to leave this space but could not even create a ripple. Alsezh panicked as he couldn't escape but just then he saw a small embryo in the dark space.

After looking at it carefully Alsezh realised that the embryo was growing at a visible rate. But just at that time alsezh was shocked to see that he himself was changing his shape and becoming smaller he didn't know what do. But the strange thing was that he did not panic. There was a feelng in his heart that all this was proceeding in the right direction.

Time passed by finally Alsezh saw a white rat in front of him having red eyes staring at him. Alsezh suddenly realised that this was the same rat he had killed but that was not all as alsezh came to know he himself had turned into a whie rat.

But there was no time to think what was going on as he saw the red eyed rat run towards him and started attacking him,alsezh wanted to dodge but couldn't as he was not familiar with this body.the rat didn't show any kind of hesitation and directly bit Alsezh rat form's neck.

Alsezh was shocked as he faced a similar feeling of dying once again but just at the last moment he felt a suction and again saw a red eyed rat looking at him from a certain distance.

Alsezh was shocked as he realised that he had died but was again reincarnated, "I have to defeat this rat or this process will go on forever"

The battle started Alsezh died and was reincarnated again.time passed by finally Alsezh's rat form was now biting the red eyed rat savagely in a desperate attempt to kill it.

The rat's eyes finally became lifeless and Alsezh whose body was filled with bloody scratches finally saw a helical stair appear in front of him.

Alsezh's injured rat form weakly started climbing the stairs and as he climbed he's body started to change again into his original form.

As Alsezh took the final stair the last white hair on his body turned black turning him into his previous being completely but even though there was no change in his physical body his mentality had changed a lot, "a mere rat I thought I could kill it but only after dying so many times did I realise that it was not a mere rat but a living being similar to Human hahaha so foolish of me to take it for granted that the rats value is nothing in my eyes, only after becoming a rat did i realise Life is same everywhere doesn't matter if it is a humans or a rats or even an insect's".

Alsezh mindset had started to change he felt a soothing calmness moving around his body this was a feeling of enlightenment, "why am I trying to become powerful, to be happy, to be invincible, to be immortal but I already achieved all these in my previous life then why am I trying so hard again."

After shaking his head Alsezh then saw a small Helical strand floating in air At the end of the stairs, he touched it and,

Crackle crackle

Alsezh could feel his body changing at the cellular level, "seems like my body is evolving by making upgrades taken from the rat's DNA.

After the light emited from the the floating DNA finally faded away he saw words floating in front of him,

Existence level : 1

1/10 lower level species harvested.

After the words faded everything became clear in Alsezh's mind, "now I get it it is not immortality I aspire it is the feeling of a progress that I love, the constant evolution"

"being immortal is perfection but perfection can also be described as A stale state with zero progress hahaha it was so easy to understand, I was so foolish hahaha but now I am starting anew and the path I will take wont be the same anymore"

A spark could be seen in his eyes.Alsezh didn't know why but his instincts told him to jump from the stairs down and he did so.

just as he was reaching the end of his jump he felt a suction force again.

Alsezh opened his eyes and realised he was back in the real world, he stood up smiling and then turned towards the remaining animals with a devilish smile

"one taken care of nine more to go".