3 Chapter 2 Tragic Love

In the outskirts of the forest, at a dark gloomy cave a faint green child-like figure could be seen sitting on the ground in cross-legged position.

This figure was none other than Raizel. He had just finished surveying the cave and determined it was safe to reside here for now.

'I should be safe here for now. I'll worry about food in the morning, besides it's already night time and according to the memories the real predators of the forest hunt in the night. I'll only become their hunt if I go out now.

Instead, I should stay here as it's relatively safe here for the time being.

I also need to inspect my soul to see if there are any changes and as for the body, I'll need to learn its anatomy first before I start cultivating.' Raizel thought.

Raizel was filled with excitement and joy as he felt the presence of flesh and blood in his new body.

How could he not be, as a being who had lived the life of a ghost for countless years the feeling of having flesh and blood was something he had forgotten and deeply yearned for yet couldn't have.

Back then, the Fate Seal prevented his soul from having any kind of interaction

Be it with the living or the non-living, to the point that even the Laws of the Universe ignored him.

Though he was excited, he knew that now is not the time to be happy as he needs to investigate his situation first.

Taking a deep breath, Raizel calmed his mind, clearing all unnecessary thoughts as his conscience dived into his soul realm.

The soul realm is an illusionary space existing within one's soul, where a being's main conscience and spiritual root resides.

The Soul is built on two components, Mind and Spirit.

The Mind represents conscience which contains a person's will, memories, and thoughts

While the Spirit represents the spiritual root responsible for connecting ones soul to the spiritual world and drawing power from it to sustain the soul.

The two are extremely similar even though they are fundamentally different from each other.

Upon entering his soul realm, Raizel's conscience arrived inside a dark illusionary space.

The space was like a void-- infinite darkness where nothing could be seen except for blankness and emptiness.

Raizel drifted here and there around the space which seemed to have no end as if it was boundless.

"You are finally here, Master" an ethereal voice drifted through the space as soon as Raizel entered.

"Who?" Raizel asked with vigilance and alertness in his voice.

Suddenly a dazzling bright light filled the once dark space before morphing into the figure of a beautiful woman.

The lady seemed around 5.5 feet in height, with beautiful creamy white skin, jet black hair, and mesmerizing sky blue eyes that could easily make a person lost in them.

She was wearing white sleeveless tops and gray jeans which highlighted her voluptuous figure and big sexy rack. Her every aspect seemed to complement her beauty further and further to the point of perfection.

"Master," the beautiful lady said with a sweet voice.

Intense love, guilt, loneliness, and longing were flashing in her eyes as she looked at Raizel pleadingly only to be met with Raizel's frosty gaze and emotionless face.

"Why are you here? Zena, were you the one who revived me?" Raizel's cold voice resounded through the space devoid of any emotion.

Tears fell down her cheeks and her heart cried of endless grief and regret as if it was unable to take Raizel's cold treatment yet she knew she deserved every bit of it. Without another word she swiftly walked in front of Raizel and kneeled down before him.

Her name was Zena Zelnar and she was once Raizel's beloved wife, his most precious.

During beginning Raizel's journey as a ghost, he faced the horrors of extreme loneliness that tortured him in every moment of his existence.

In his maddening desperation, he began his search for companionship and ways to break the seal...

After a long period of research, he was finally successful and found a way to end his loneliness once and for all.

With the intent of eternal love and everlasting companionship, Raizel severed his subconscious self and fused it with his spiritual root, creating a second soul before molding it into an extremely beautiful female figurine.

That second soul was Zena. As she was created from Raizel and is a part of him, yet the seal's restrictions didn't apply to her. On the other hand, being Raizel's subconscious made her eternally loyal to him. Being a separate entity as well at the same time allowed her to use Raizel's unused spiritual root to cultivate the God path making her an important weapon in his arsenal.

Raizel was happy to finally have a companion, someone he could talk to, share his feeling with, and love. Soon as she cultivated the spirit root, she began to develop her own mind which at first made Raizel very happy.

Just the thought that she would become a real person filled his heart with sweetness. He eagerly taught her everything he knew and nurtured her soul.

Slowly she developed her own sentient mind and persona breaking away from the bounds of being only the manifestation of Raizel's intent and became capable of having her own thoughts-- no longer a doll but a real person.

Raizel was happy for her and himself. She loved him, fought with him, nagged him even had sex with him, he was lost in his own happy world.

But his happy days didn't last long as the universe will found her when she became a Lesser Premise God and formed an Astral Spark.

It offered her a to become its envoy along with all the knowledge of the universe and a physical body of her own.

Back then these two were the only things that she craved the most. Not having a physical body was her greatest regret and knowledge was her passion so she had accepted the offer, betraying Raizel and severing his soul realm and leaving him injured.

This betrayal was also the main reason he rebelled against the universe and destroyed it.

Yet now that very woman was kneeling before her for forgiveness, the woman who was once his everything. When she left it was as if his entire world collapsed.